25.7 - Nick KY's Task: To Choose or Not To Choose

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25.7 - Nick KY’s task: To Choose or Not To Choose

I have a friend who comments that he loves choosing books from lists, finding new recommended books in his areas of interest. I have another friend who hates choosing from lists; she feels she is being told which books to read.

So for this task, you have two options: you may opt “To Choose” or you may opt “Not to Choose.”

Required: Indicate option A or B.

Option A. To Choose: For this option, visit GR’s Good Minds Suggest and read two books:

Book 1.

Go to “Browse” – “News and Interviews” -- “Good Minds Suggest”: At present, over 250 authors have made suggestions (though some are counted twice for two different suggestion lists). Read any book written by one of these Good Minds authors. Your choice does not have to be their featured book on the suggestions page. The book must have been first published under the same name as the interviewed author.



Book 2.

Usually the author makes 5 or 6 suggestions (linked in the list) and they might include an Honorable Mentions list, read any one of the suggested books by that author.
If a series or omnibus is suggested, please select one book from the series or omnibus. Your choices do not include any other book or author mentioned in the interview. As you can tell, your choice is very limited, but that’s the fun of “Choosing.”

Example: Good Minds Suggest by Chris Bohjalian
Book 1: The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian
Book 2, from the Five Picks on Air Travel Gone Awry list: Before the Fall

Required: Post a link to the Good Minds Suggest page which you use for your picks.


Option B. Not to Choose. – Relax! For this option, read two books by the same author. (See, you do not have to choose a second author. Relax!) The books must have only one author, and the books must have been first published using the same author name, so two books by Stephen King or two books first published using his pseudonym Richard Bachman, but NOT one of each. In addition, your two books should meet these requirements.

Book 1. Read a FICTION book with one of these Spring color words in the title (title only -- not subtitle): Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet, or Purple. Plurals and Possessives are the only exceptions allowed.

[Why add Purple to the rainbow colors? “…it pisses God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don’t stop to notice it.” Alice Walker ……. ‘nuf said]

Book 2. Read a fiction or nonfiction book by the same author as Book 1.

Example:
Book 1, Fiction with "Green" title: The Green Road by Anne Enright
Book 2, another book by the author: The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright

[Nick]

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[Nick]

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[SRC Moderator, Moderator]

This help thread is open!

To link to the Option A Good Minds Suggest page, just copy the url at the author's suggestion page
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/...

or add the link - instructions are above the post box in (some html is ok)

[Dee]

Nice task!

[Book Concierge]

For OPTION A: GR Good Minds Suggest:
Let's say I choose the author Mary Kay Andrews

May I read a book written under her real name ... for example:
Strange Brew (actually her pseudonym of Mary Kay Andrews is also listed on this book)

[Cathy]

For Option B: Can the color be hyphenated?

Blue-Blooded Vamp

[Pam]

I love the “Not to choose option”! But, now I have to choose between the 6 authors I came up with! Very creative task.

[Nick]

Cathy wrote: "For Option B: Can the color be hyphenated?

Blue-Blooded Vamp"

According to the mods, hyphenated words count as one word, so a part of a hyphenated word cannot be used. Sorry.

[Nick]

Book Concierge wrote: "For OPTION A: GR Good Minds Suggest:
Let's say I choose the author Mary Kay Andrews

May I read a book written under her real name ... for example:
Strange Brew (act..."

I will have to check with the mods on this. I think the GR metadata is what we go by, even if the pseudonym is displayed prominently on the book cover. So for now I will have to say no to Strange Brew if your first book was written by Mary Kay Andrews. I will double-check.

[Tawallah]

Does the color have to be separate. For instance would The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo work?

[Nick]

June wrote: "Does the color have to be separate. For instance would The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo work?"

Sorry, but plurals and possessives are the only exceptions allowed.

[Kim]

For option B, is a book of poetry allowed?

I'm looking at Blue Nude for Book 1 and Gravity for Book 2.

Thank you.

[Nick]

Kim wrote: "For option B, is a book of poetry allowed?

I'm looking at Blue Nude for Book 1 and Gravity for Book 2.

Thank you."

Those look like good choices to me. The first is a novel and the second qualifies for nonfiction "Memoir" even though it is poetry -- but basically, by saying the second book can be fiction or nonfiction, that means pretty much anything is allowed as long as it meets SRC requirements.

[Kim]

Nick wrote: "Kim wrote: "For option B, is a book of poetry allowed?

I'm looking at Blue Nude for Book 1 and Gravity for Book 2.

Thank you."

Those look like good choices to me. ..."

Wonderful. Thank you.