30.7 - Catherine t's Task: Down the Rabbit Hole

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30.7 -Catherine T's Task: Down the Rabbit Hole

Animals are a huge source of entertainment / procrastination on the internet, with you-tube videos of our pets being their natural selves, and the wealth of snark generated by internet memes. I'm going to focus on two: cats & dogs.

Read one book from each option. Books with the genres "Sequential Art," "Comics," "Comic Book," and "Manga" are allowed.

Book 1
Lolcats: one of the oldest memes - cats commenting on our and their lives. Lolcat was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2014.

Read a book where all the letters in the title (not subtitle) can be found in the definition:
"lolcat (NOUN) (on the Internet) a photograph of a cat accompanied by a humorous caption written typically in a misspelled and grammatically incorrect version of English."

Only letters should be used, not numerals, punctuation marks, symbols, etc. Letters can only be used as often as they appear in the definition.

Book 2
Dogs: one of the main memes is the Doge meme, with a Shiba Inu dog contemplating existence. The text will include modifers (somewhat abused!)

Read a book with one of the modifiers: so / much / very / such / many in the title (not subtitle).

[Cat]

Option One:
1 word title fine
you can use the whole quote - including the phrases in brackets

Option Two:
the words must be exact - no variations or finding intact in another word (no "every" for instance)

[Cat]

mine

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[Dee]

lol - nice task! i love the shiba inu memes (I used to have 2 shiba's)

[Book Concierge]

Question re option 1: can we use any letter inside the quotation marks, including (NOUN) and (on the internet)?

[Cat]

Book Concierge wrote: "Question re option 1: can we use any letter inside the quotation marks, including (NOUN) and (on the internet)?"

Yes

[Tien]

For #1, 1 word title ok?

For #2, I'm assuming word/s to be found exact or can it be variation / found intact like 'everything'?

[Marie (UK)]

I am not sure i understand option 1 at all - do all the letters of the title simply have to be in this phrase

a photograph of a cat accompanied by a humorous caption written typically in a misspelled and grammatically incorrect version of English."

AND if this is it - if a letter appears twice in your book title does it have to appear twice in the phrase

[Cat]

Marie (UK) wrote: "I am not sure i understand option 1 at all - do all the letters of the title simply have to be in this phrase

a photograph of a cat accompanied by a humorous caption written typically in a misspel..."

Hi Marie!

Yes, all letters from the title must be found in the quote - including the phrases in brackets & LOLCAT itself.
Yes, you can only use the letter as often as it appears in the quote. If you need 4 Gs, for instance, then the book won't work as there are only 3 Gs in the quote.

[Cat]

Tien wrote: "For #1, 1 word title ok?

For #2, I'm assuming word/s to be found exact or can it be variation / found intact like 'everything'?"

One word title is fine!

And for #2 - it has to be the exact work, not a variant or embedding

[Marie (UK)]

Cat wrote: "Marie (UK) wrote: "I am not sure i understand option 1 at all - do all the letters of the title simply have to be in this phrase

a photograph of a cat accompanied by a humorous caption written typ..."

thanks Cat I think i have found a fit but its a long title LOL

[Terri FL]

Crumbs, every search I perform brings up words with 'every' in them (everyone, everything, etc.) and all my searches for 'many' brings up books about Germany! This will be tricky.

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Terri FL wrote: "Crumbs, every search I perform brings up words with 'every' in them (everyone, everything, etc.) and all my searches for 'many' brings up books about Germany! This will be tricky."

Terri, I had the same problem when I searched on GR. Instead, I searched my library website with very, many, etc. in the title field, and got titles with those exact words. Added bonus, of course, was that I then knew that I could get the books from the library!

[Rosemary]

Try putting a space before the words when you search.

[Terri FL]

Rosemary wrote: "Try putting a space before the words when you search."

Thanks. I tried it and it doesn’t see, to work in Goodreads. I’ll figure it out somehow!

[Terri FL]

Sandy wrote: "Terri FL wrote: "Crumbs, every search I perform brings up words with 'every' in them (everyone, everything, etc.) and all my searches for 'many' brings up books about Germany! This will be tricky."..."

I’ll have to check that. I keep trying to read books in my own collection, which is larger than my husband would like! But, there’s nothing like supporting the library!

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Terri FL wrote: "I’ll have to check that. I keep trying to read books in my own collection, which is larger than my husband would like! But, there’s nothing like supporting the library!
..."

And, just because it's at the library, doesn't mean you don't have it in your own collection as well! I just find it often a better search mechanism.

[Jenifer]

Will The Devil's Star work for option 1?

[Cat]

Jenifer wrote: "Will The Devil's Star work for option 1?"

Yes, all letters are there (it'll be helpful to the mods if you point them out)

[Nicola]

Does this -"Only letters should be used, not numerals, punctuation marks, symbols, etc. " mean i can't use a title with these things in or that i just ignore them? Thanks

[Cat]

Nicola wrote: "Does this -"Only letters should be used, not numerals, punctuation marks, symbols, etc. " mean i can't use a title with these things in or that i just ignore them? Thanks"

Ignore them

[Jessica]

Just checking, for Ms. Marvel, Vol. 3: Crushed, would I need two Vs, for the one in Marvel and the one in Vol? I'm not trying to be dense, but I'm not sure what technically constitutes the title in this case!

[Cat]

Two Vs. Standard rules apply - anything before the colon is title; after is subtitle

[Jessica]

Cat wrote: "Two Vs. Standard rules apply - anything before the colon is title; after is subtitle"

I figured, but thought I would check, thanks :)

[Nicole]

Okay so for this book, Paper Girls: Book One, I would not need to include the Book One since it is after the colon? Thanks!