25.3 - Diane Whitney's Task: First Time for Everything

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25.3 - Diane Whitney's Task: First Time for Everything

I have been participating in the Seasonal Reading Challenge since the Winter 2011/12 Challenge and for the first time, I’ve finally completed it! Yeah Me! This task is based on that accomplishment.

This is a 1 OR 2 book task.

1 Book - Read one book that fulfills all the requirements for two different options and is at least 500 pages in length.
OR
2 Books - Choose two different options and read one book for each, books must have a combined total of at least 500 pages.

No book with the genre "Children's" or "Kid's" on the book's GoodReads main page may be used for this task.
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The Total Number of pages read for this task MUST be at least 500 pages.

REQUIRED: State which options you chose

Option 1 - Read a debut book or the first book published by an author who is New-To-You. If it isn’t clear in the GoodReads metadata, on the book’s main page or author page, that it is the author’s first published or debut book, please provide a reference link.
Required: Include in your post that the author is New-To-You.

Option 2 - Read the first book in a New-To-You series. The book must be identified as #1 in the GoodReads metadata, “Title” (Series Name, #1).
Required: Include in your post that the series is New-To-You.

Option 3 - Read a book that fulfills the task requirements for my favorite task from the first time I participated in SRC. A “Big Shout Out” to its creator - Chris MD!

From Winter Challenge 2011/12:
Best Review - Chris MD's task: Words Among Friends (revised)
When I'm not reading (or trying to earn a living), I love to play word games like Scrabble, Lexulous, and Words with Friends. So for this task, we're going to combine my two favorite things.

Read a book that has at least four words in the title/subtitle. You must be able to take the first letter from each word and use those letters to anagram a word that is at least four letters long. Hyphenated words may be used as separate words. You do NOT have to use all the letters. The anagram word does NOT need to appear in the title. Here are some examples:
A Game of Thrones ---- A G O T = GOAT
Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives ---- S L O H A W = WASH, SLOW, LASH, SHOAL, SHAWL, or HOWLS
How to Be an American Housewife = H T B A A H = BATH

Required: Post your anagram when claiming points.
If you're not sure of your word, you can check it against the official Scrabble word lists posted at http://www.scrabble.com/. You may use either the North American or International lists. If it's not an obvious word, please state which list you found it on.

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[Chris]

Glad you enjoyed it. It was a fun one. Congratulations on finishing. You've designed a fun task!
Chris MD

[Dee]

Nice task - I remember that challenge ;)

[KSMary]

How fun! I found a one book option on my TBR list.
Opt 1: Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng was her debut book and she is a new to me author and it fulfills
Opt 3 - E-I-N-T-Y can spell tine, tiny or yeti

[Bea]

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

fits options 2 & 3 for me for the One Book Option. My anagram word is TOWN.

[Dee]

Bea wrote: "The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

fits options 2 & 3 for me for the One Book Option. My anagram word is TOWN."

See Bea - this means you have to join us for buddy read!!

[Bea]

Dee wrote: "Bea wrote: "The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

fits options 2 & 3 for me for the One Book Option. My anagram word is TOWN."

See Bea - this means you have to jo..."

HeHeHe!

[Emily]

As far as I can determine, Killing Floor is Lee Child's debut novel. Can I get this confirmed that it would work for Options 1 and 2? (new to me author/series).

Wikipedia refers to it as his first novel, and the author bio on Goodreads implies it, but just says it's his first "Jack Reacher" novel.

[KSMary]

Diane Whitney wrote: "KSMary wrote: "How fun! I found a one book option on my TBR list.
Opt 1: Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng was her debut book and she is a new to me author a..."

Thanks for catching that. I'll keep looking or find 2 books.

[Trish]

Thanks. This looks like it could be the perfect task for fitting one of the Hugo nominees to: Leviathan Wakes.

I've not read the author before and this seems to be his first book as far as I can tell from the GR dates (author link is here https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...), it's #1 in a series, and it's 561pg. I think that means it works for the one-book option?

[Trish]

Diane Whitney wrote: "Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey is a pen name for the collaborative works of two authors, one is Daniel Abraham. Unfortunately, this is not his first published book.."

Rats. I hadn't even spotted that. Never mind - just as well you spotted that BEFORE I tried to do the task! :-)

[Candy]

Option 2: A Taste Of Blood Wine by Freda Warrington

Option 3: Boat

[Sandra]

For the 1 book option wanted to check if The Lost Army Of Cambyses would work?

Fulfills:
option #2 - first book in new to me series
option #3 - TLAOC - COAT, TALC, COAL, COLT

And it has 592 pages

[Deedee]

To make sure I understand: for this book (by a new-to-me author), Option #3

Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 – A World on the Edge

Letters I can use for the anagram:

C I T R P R A W O T E

Words included:

write, price, power

[Julia]

For option 3, if a book title has "&" on the cover but the GR page uses "and" can the A from "and" be used in the anagram?

The Rules of Love and Grammar

[Deedee]

In Option #2, New-To-You series, can that be written by an author that is NOT new-to-me? Thanks