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2017 The "All Your Book Are Belong to Us" Challenge
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Mar 30, 2017 12:26AM
How is Norway doing on your reading list HIMS?
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DoodlePanda wrote: "How is Norway doing on your reading list HIMS?"I need to read more. So far just three titles, which isn't bad, but considering how much I enjoyed the books I've read it could use some more attention:
A Doll's House
The Transformation
The Ice Palace
Considering I've worked with someone from Norway this is quite tragic.
HomeInMyShoes wrote: "DoodlePanda wrote: "How is Norway doing on your reading list HIMS?"I need to read more. So far just three titles, which isn't bad, but considering how much I enjoyed the books I've read it could ..."
Hey, that is better than most non-Norwegians :D
Lol. It's better than a lot of countries for myself. Tied for nineteenth place with Denmark, Pakistan, Syria, Afghanistan, Albania, Argentina, Czech Republic, and Dominican Republic. Doing some math, if I read 3 books from every country, that would be about seven years of reading. So 3 is very good.
This new dashboard I have is ridiculously fun. Two clicks and I'm looking at a map of the books from Northern European countries.
Is your dashboard what feeds the map in post 6 of your thread?I started playing around with Google Maps a while back for another hobby; haven't figured out how to make it automatically pull from a spreadsheet yet though. Not a hurry for what I used it for though.
No that is just manual points. Its easy to update now which I do once a month. You can pump out kml to feed into google. I also use QGIS at home a bit which is free. It works quite well for maps. ArcGIS online is free and it is pretty nice too but more limited in only working with one map file so no linking datasets together.The dashboard tool i've been using is Information Builders which I'm learning so i can do a few projects for clients. It is crazy powerful. Just took the export out of goodreads and within a few hours had some crazy stuff.
Alrighty.Running the Riders: My Decade as Ceo of Canada's Team by Jim Hopson
Book
Alphabet - R
Sports - Roughriders
Category Started - Sports
99 points now and I've started every category. I missed a point for "A Land without Jasmine" for the cover.
What do you mean "missed a point"?
I mean I had a point in my spreadsheet against the category but failed to translate it into Dazrin's sheet, and failed to mark it in a separate subchallenge total area so my calculation would work correctly. Now that I'm sort of on the home stretch I'm trying to lay out what books I need to read to finish all the subchallenges, but I couldn't figure out why I only had four books for miscellaneous until I looked more carefully.My sheet is really poorly laid out, but I still use it to write potential books against the categories so I can figure out what I need to request from the library and when.
Upcoming requests:
The Piano
All Quiet on the Western Front
Needle
Xtabentum: A Novel of Yucatan
:P
I'm hoping to lay this challenge to rest in July.
OOooh.That makes...sense. In a very complicated way, lol.
Do I Count manga books as part of the challenge or is that cheating? What do you guys think?
I figure go for it. Lots of people have graphic on their genre lists for the year.The challenge is really whatever you want it to be. I've been meaning to read The Complete Persepolis and I would definitely count it.
I read Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel: A Graphic Novel and counted it in a previous year.
You are Here: From the Compass to GPS, the History and Future of How We Find Ourselves by Hiawatha BrayBook
Alphabet - Y
Genre - Non-fiction Science
3 points for 102.
United States...some big number
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English DictionaryBook
Time Traveler: A book I should have read in school (it would have helped!)
ABC: "M"
Genre: Microhistory
ALSO
-The Mt. TBR Struggle is Real at 4 years, 10 Months
Review Challenge (review to come!)
So much activity.Is 4 years 10 months good or bad in comparison to the start of the year?
DoodlePanda wrote: "Well done :D":-D
HomeInMyShoes wrote: "So much activity.Is 4 years 10 months good or bad in comparison to the start of the year?"
Ummm, IDK? lol!
4 years, 10 months is the length of time it was on Mt. TBR.
The only other book from Mt. TBR that I've read this year was at 5 years, 6 months. So... IDK?
Ah, I've got a few that are in the three year range, but then my purchased and not read pile totals about ten books so I'm nor really in danger of being crushed by the pile. It's more of a TBR dust bunny.
HomeInMyShoes wrote: "Ah, I've got a few that are in the three year range, but then my purchased and not read pile totals about ten books so I'm nor really in danger of being crushed by the pile. It's more of a TBR dust..."lol
Now you're just showing off. ;-)
My TBR list grows by leaps and bounds on a yearly basis. My only goal is to curtail my spending...and hopefully slow the in tide.
Thirty-third book of the year. That seems ridiculous.Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella
Book
Sports - Baseball
2 points for 104.
Canada (61)
Another of those books that has been sitting on the list to read for a long time. I even picked it off the shelf at the library one day and read the first couple of pages. Not sure why it didn't have me hooked then because it had me hooked this time.
At some point I need to try to finish some of the remaining sub-categories.
HomeInMyShoes wrote: "Thirty-third book of the year. That seems ridiculous.Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella"
That's the book I am hoping to read for this category too. I doubt I will read any others in this group though. Maybe the celeb one, but doubtful.
^Yeah, I was thinking the sports category was going to be a complete bust and I live in Canada and Saskatchewan to boot, so a couple of these should be easier for me, but it is still hard to find something compelling to read.Easy and Crayons were the two easy sub challenges. All the rest have at least one and usually two irksome titles for me. I'm surprised I've done so well with the Alphabet.
I am going to attempt to finish the entire challenge. The only books I don't have penciled in for a possibility are Guilty, Home, the Book Haul ones, Garage Sale and Librarian Recommendation. So seven books left to find plus a bunch of reading. I'm estimating another 7,000 pages to finish the entire challenge. Unless I can find some double counts for the book haul and garage sale.
HomeInMyShoes wrote: "^Yeah, I was thinking the sports category was going to be a complete bust and I live in Canada and Saskatchewan to boot, so a couple of these should be easier for me, but it is still hard to find s..."See, this is why its hard(er?) for me. I don't do will with pre-established lists - I have to let my mood take me where it will. Otherwise I end up rereading a book I've read a million times.
This is the first time in quite some years where I even have some slight idea what I plan to read and then actually read it. O_O
^I'm contagious. Haha.A couple more book knocked off this weekend so I'm at 110 points. More importantly I knocked off
Grey Cup for Canada's Own: A Celebration of 100 Grey Cups
Misc - Number in the Title
Sports - Grey Cup
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Alphabet - G
Genre - Microhistory
HomeInMyShoes wrote: "^I'm contagious. Haha.A couple more book knocked off this weekend so I'm at 110 points. More importantly I knocked off
Grey Cup for Canada's Own: A Celebration of 100 Grey Cups
M..."
Good job! I didn't finish anything this weekend. :-(
Not sure if there's a slight glitch in the spreadsheet (which is a work of art!), or in my understanding of the challenge. I'm trying to add the "<24 Hrs" option in the Time Traveller column to a book that only has one other category selection, and it turns the cell red. If I add something else from the drop-down list, say "season" it's fine and doesn't highlight. I haven't already used the <24 Hrs option. Is it me?
Orlok wrote: "Not sure if there's a slight glitch in the spreadsheet (which is a work of art!), or in my understanding of the challenge. I'm trying to add the "<24 Hrs" option in the Time Traveller column to a b..."Weird. I must not have tested that item. It apparently has an issue with the "<" symbol in that item and I must not have used that one when testing. I have changed the category to "Under 24 Hours" and it appears to be working now.
I updated the selection for those who had already selected it too. In some cases it worked w/o having the red background in others it didn't so I am not sure what was going on but I will check into it.
Edit: I suspect that the way I implemented the conditional format meant that it tried to use the "<" symbol in the calculation but I can't figure out what I did wrong. It is saying there are 2 cells in column L that match "<24 Hours", apparently "2016" matches "<24 Hours" for some reason. So it only returns the error if "2016" is already in use which is why I didn't notice it before. I am still not sure why it is returning this result but either way the correction to "Under 24 hours" works so I probably won't change the conditional formatting since that will take more work.
Oh the joys of numbers versus characters and sorting and such.
Dazrin wrote: "Orlok wrote: "Not sure if there's a slight glitch in the spreadsheet (which is a work of art!), or in my understanding of the challenge. I'm trying to add the "Weird. I must not have tested that ..."
Thanks. I love Excel's conditional formatting...I always have problems getting it to work how I want it to, and usually have to resort to Google to find out how to fix it. Very clever spreadsheet though, well done.
Belgarath the SorcererBook
Time Traveller: 42. a book first published in the year you graduated from high school
ABC: "B"
I might need some help... any suggestions for a micro history? Preferably to do with science or maybe gaming? I really dont want to read something that will bore me :P
WOuld this be considered a micro-history?Half-Real: Video Games Between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds
MrsJoseph wrote: "WOuld this be considered a micro-history?Half-Real: Video Games Between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds"
I dont know? Judges, what say you? :P
Oh also i need to be able to get it on the Kindle for less than a fortune :P
I'm difficult, I know...
DoodlePanda wrote: "I might need some help... any suggestions for a micro history? Preferably to do with science or maybe gaming? I really dont want to read something that will bore me :P"I know I have mentioned her several times but her books do meet your science category so... have you read anything by Mary Roach? All of her books (that I have seen) are science based. I have only read Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War but it was very good and definitely not boring (although you probably shouldn't read some chapters during lunch.) Several laugh out loud moments and weird looks on the train. They have decent library availability too.
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DoodlePanda wrote: "MrsJoseph wrote: "WOuld this be considered a micro-history?
Half-Real: Video Games Between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds"
I dont know? Judges, what say you? :P"
We have judges? As far as I am concerned, if you think it fits, it fits.
My perspective from the blurb is that it probably does anyway though.
By judges I just meant the rest of the group really :D
MrsJoseph wrote: "WOuld this be considered a micro-history?Half-Real: Video Games Between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds"
I don't even really know exactly what micro-history is, but this seems like an in-depth examination of a narrow part of out history, so it sounds like it fits the bill.
I vote it works.Microhistories: 11 Books About Very Specific Things
Quite the range, I'm actually kind of interested in the sushi one.
I read Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal. It was pretty good and had me laughing a lot to start, but as you can imagine with the alimentary canal, it just got grosser and grosser as one moved through the book.
Thanks muchly for the list - my microhistory book is going to be the Bill Bryson one, as I like everything of his I've read (and he also once wrote a letter to my Mother...)
...aaaand, I've just purchased the audio book :)
Orlok wrote: "Thanks muchly for the list - my microhistory book is going to be the Bill Bryson one, as I like everything of his I've read (and he also once wrote a letter to my Mother...)"You are welcome.
Cool. I once received a postcard from Brent Bambury. I know, Canadians and their folk heroes that no one knows about.
Q & A for Q. My library has it but published with the title Slumdog Millionaire. Does it count as Q?
HomeInMyShoes wrote: "Q & A for Q. My library has it but published with the title Slumdog Millionaire. Does it count as Q?"I'd count it! The title didn't change until the movie which was 4+ years later.
We'll see. I'd still like to find an eBook from the library for Q, but there's not much if anything. Might have to be a paper book in this case. I need to find more countries in eBooks.Couple more books clearing off X, P, and Pulp. Altlhough I might switch pulp to aliens and read something else for pulp. Probably a good idea, but we'll see what the garage sales yield.
126 points. 22 categories left.
I'm kinda stalled with my current readings... Thinking about a DNF for Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove (my music book). I'm just not into music enough but I know people who'd love it.
Rat Girl by Kristin Hersh was my celebrity one for last year.I'm thinking of How Music Works by David Byrne for this year, or maybe Songs That Saved Your Life (Revised Edition): The Art of The Smiths 1982-87 by Simon Goddard.
I read This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin which was pretty good. I had to read it when I found out he was the bass player in The Mortals. I love that band.
What is it with bass players and science? My wife went to school with the bassist from a local band that is a medical physicist now.
HomeInMyShoes wrote: "Rat Girl by Kristin Hersh was my celebrity one for last year.I'm thinking of How Music Works by David Byrne for this year, or maybe [book:Songs That Saved Your Life..."
Maybe its the math?
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