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Can I use A Long Way Home: A Memoir for Jan Task #4, or is it not Australian enough?"
sorry I missed this. I think there is a significant portion in India, so I don't think it works for that task
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I think id the task just wanted opposite words in the title it would work, but because it says "opposite pairings" I think you need the two words together
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#62 says "read a book with the word 'bingle' in the text" - when I look this work up it seems like it's an insurance company in australia - is this correct? Is that what you're looking for?"
Interesting. It is actually another word for a minor crash (usually a car)
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/...
Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Alysa wrote: "So... Re message #342... Can I use A Long Way Home: A Memoir for Jan Task #4, or is it not Australian enough?"
sorry I missed this. I think there is a significant po..."
(not meaning to argue, just thinking about this some more — I don’t even have the book from th library yet ;D)
Regardless of how much the book is set in Australia VS India, the task doesn’t actually say “takes place in Australia or NZ”, it says *based* in Australia or NZ — which Saroo Brierly definitely is, having been raised there since Age 5, and still living there, i.e., this book is about a guy based in Australia, and covers his life there as well as his journey to the India of his origins.
And the movie was *produced* in Australia, even if what’s on screen is only partially taking place there...
Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "SandyL wrote: "Hi!#62 says "read a book with the word 'bingle' in the text" - when I look this work up it seems like it's an insurance company in australia - is this correct? Is that what you're l..."
🤪 I thought (was hoping?) you were going to say you misspelled it and it should have been 'binge'.
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oh, I thought you were asking as the movie wasn't produced in Australia? (I didn't go and check where it was produced)
But I don't really understand the difference you are saying between "takes place in" or "based in". To me they mean the same. If a book is "based in" Australia, that means it is taking place here. Maybe that word difference is cultural, but that was the meaning of the task
Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "oh, I thought you were asking as the movie wasn't produced in Australia? (I didn't go and check where it was produced)Lol, I was asking specifically about the *book* being Australian enough.
The movie was produced in Australia. I did a lot of research online about it. Australian writers/directors/producers, though they did have some money from international companies (like most movies these days). Filmed in Australia and India (presumably; I haven’t seen it so I don’t know the ratio) but it is considered an Australian film according to Wikipedia for one, which calls it “one of the highest-grossing Australian films of all time.”
I had never heard of either this book or the movie until the other day when I quite literally Googled “Australian book film adaptations” and found this article:
https://theconversation.com/do-film-a...
But I don't really understand the difference you are saying between "takes place in" or "based in". To me they mean the same. If a book is "based in" Australia, that means it is taking place here. Maybe that word difference is cultural, but that was the meaning of the task"
There is no cultural word difference; most people would interpret “based in” and “takes place in” as the same. Although I think “set in” is closer to “taking place in”, due to its reference to “setting”; “based in” has more of a reference to “base”, implying the ability to move around elsewhere at will.
I was therefore suggesting an alternate interpretation, on the grounds that this is a non-fiction memoir by a person based in Australia who is legally and who considers himself to be Australian (Wikipedia calls him “an Indian-born Australian”), whose experience/story is based in Australia even as at some point in the book he also travels to India. Like, if I wrote a memoir I would say my personal story is “based in” New York, even though significant parts of it might take place elsewhere. The need for this alternate interpretation would only even be relevant if it turns out that more than half of the book takes place outside of Australia.
Re their being a “significant portion in India”, well, yes, that is what I said in my original question. That’s why I was asking if it (the book) seems Australian enough. Not having read it, I can only guess as to what percentage of the book actually takes place there. It could very well turn out that like 90% of this book does in fact take place in Australia, and my question is a moot point! I just like to try to be sure of task fit in advance, especially before I go tracking down books I don’t already own. Perhaps this is still Cutthroat Withdrawal 🙂
But if none of this is okay with you, then I will still possibly read it for the bonus task instead (i.e., Indian orphan gets taken to live permanently in Australia), if my other book for the bonus ends up being unavailable/DNF/whatever :)
There are plenty of other books that fit Task #4 — just none that I am really interested in.
(Too bad I recently reread Hating Allison Ashley w/my daughter! I hadn’t read it in decades, and didn’t even know that it had since been turned into a movie!)
I was planning on reading Lion/The Long Way Home for the bonus task of moving to Australia so I'm hoping it's okay for this task.
I"m having problems pasting the food photo. I have the image uploaded into Google photos and am copying the link into the image formatting, but i'm just getting image errors. Any advice would be much appreciated!
I added my photos to my GR profile, then copied the img link from the browser. When I pasted it into the tag in the message I added a width=“50%” so the picture shows up smaller than the original.
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Yes, for moving to Australia it is fine
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Lol, I was asking specifically about the *book* being Austra..."
I think because the task is "Read a book based in Australia or New Zealand that was turned into a movie produced in Aus/NZ"
It is not saying "read a book where the person is based in...."
It is the BOOK that is based in, set in, whatever you want to call it ;)
I haven't read the book, but the movie has quite a lot in India which is why I don't think it would not fit that part of the criteria. Someone else here who has read the book may be able to jump in though
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Even if you can't get the image to work, but can post the link to the photo that is ok
For #54, read a book originally published with a different titleIs it enough for a book to have originally been published in a different language?
I read The Alchemist by Coelho. The original Spanish title is O Alquimista.
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Is it enough for a book to have originally been published in a different language?
I read The Alchemist by Coelho. The original Sp..."
No, because that is really just a translation. it is more something like Northern Lights which has now been published as The Golden Compass or The House at Riverton and The Shifting Fog. You will see it marked as "original title" on the main book page on GR
Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Lucy wrote: "I was planning on reading Lion/The Long Way Home for the bonus task of moving to Australia so I'm hoping it's okay for this task."Yes, for moving to Australia it is fine"
Thanks! I've done the January bonus task now but the spreadsheet seems to have doubled up on my points so it's given me 500 rather than 250. I don't mind the extra points but I would prefer to get them for actually reading the books :D
I thought someone already asked this but I cannot find it, sorry. Can celebrating New Years Eve be in a flashback (more than just we used to celebrate)?
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Hi Lucy - the January bonus task only requires one book ;)
So you should be using your second book for a different task
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Provided they are celebrating in the flashback and it's not just "remember than NYE when..."
Somehow I missed that it was only one book and I put two there LOL. I'll use the other one for something else
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teehee
December was 2 books, but for January I made it slightly easier. Maybe I should have put read ONLY ONE book where.... lol
I just assumed without actually reading it closely ;).
Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "December was 2 books, but for January I made it slightly easier..."
Not so much easier when the one book you choose is really not working for you, like mine was, lol. Forced myself to read more than usual just so I could move on to something better quickly!
(Could have looked for another book instead really, but no guarantees they'd be any better, I guess, haha...)
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well done Sammy. Sometimes it is easier just to push through ;)
Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Lexi wrote: "I thought someone already asked this but I cannot find it, sorry. Can celebrating New Years Eve be in a flashback (more than just we used to celebrate)?"Provided they are celebrating..."
Thank you
If I read the BOM and volunteered for DQs but wasn't selected do I still get the 100 or do I use it for something else? Thank you!
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Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Lucy wrote: "Thanks! I've done the January bonus task now but the spreadsheet seems to have doubled up on my points so it's given me 500 rather than 250. ..."Hi Lucy - the January bonus task only..."
I must have just assumed it was like the December task! That explains it, I'll change it.
The book I use for Jan Bonus is The Light Between Oceans which is set in Australia from the beginning, but later it was explained that the main character was transported from Australia after WW2 finished. Is this allowed?And for task #4 can I use The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty? The movie adaptation hasn’t been released yet but it’ll be set in Australia.
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If you check the FAQ at the start of this thread (copied below)
◈Q: For the January bonus, do they have to move during the course of the book or can it be talked about? Example from the text: Tex had moved to Australia when he was 5 after his parents died.
◈A: Yes they need to move during the book. It is worth lots of points so is meant to be a bit difficult 😉
So if the transportation is just mentioned and doesn't happen in the book it won't count for that task, but we have said that The Light Between Oceans is ok for task 4
In terms of The Husband’s Secret I can't see anything suggesting it is produced in Australia. IMDB has it listed as USA
Does anyone know how to use AR bookfinder I cant seem to make it work I have read Snowglobe at 271 pages i feel it must meet the word count
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I have read Snowglobe at 271 pages i feel it must meet the word count"
I suspect the problem is that it's too recently published to be added there :(
and no audio version either :(
For task 64 'Read a book where a character does not leave their house', does that mean the character can't leave their house throughout the entire book? The main character of the book I'm reading (A Notorious Vow) is a recluse and doesn't leave his home until about 60% into the book and then doesn't leave again of his own free will. Would this still count?
Cat wrote: "Marie (UK) wrote: "Does anyone know how to use AR bookfinder I cant seem to make it work I have read Snowglobe at 271 pages i feel it must meet the word count"
I suspect the probl..."
thanks Cat not to worry
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I guess you could interpret the task either way. One is literally - they never leave the house in the book - and the other being that they are a person who does not leave their house... but during the book there may be a time they are forced to
I'm ok with it being a person who doesn't leave their house, even if they are forced to at some point in the story, and then they come back in again (I'm thinking woman in the window, for example).
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I have read Snowglobe at 271 pages i feel it must meet the word count"
I suspe..."
sorry I can't find anything either :(
Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Marie (UK) wrote: "Cat wrote: "Marie (UK) wrote: "Does anyone know how to use AR bookfinder I cant seem to make it work I have read Snowglobe at 271 pages i feel it must meet the w..."
thanks for trying
Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Lucy wrote: "For task 64 'Read a book where a character does not leave their house', does that mean the character can't leave their house throughout the entire book? The main character of the book ..."Yeah, quite a lot of books have people who are recluses/have agoraphobia leave the house at some point in the book, even if it's by force. I'll take it, thank you!
At the time I looked at someone's list for the read the highest rated on another player's to read list, this book was the highest so I read it. When I went today to get the rating, that book was no longer the highest rating, it's now the 2nd highest. Can I still use it or no? Thanks!
Stacie wrote: "At the time I looked at someone's list for the read the highest rated on another player's to read list, this book was the highest so I read it. When I went today to get the rating, that book was no..."Same has happened to mine! since I read it, it has dropped to #3!
Stacie wrote: "At the time I looked at someone's list for the read the highest rated on another player's to read list, this book was the highest so I read it. When I went today to get the rating, that book was no..."Yes you can as lists are changing :)
When I try to look at highest rated books on someone's shelf, I'm noticing that some shelves aren't actually sorting correctly. Some shelves have books rated like 4.75, 5.00, 4.86, 4.63.So I have to scan the list to actually find the highest rated books. Is anyone else having this issue?
It's happening when I look too. Usually the first 5 books so I scanned the first 5 to 10 to see but it wasn't going past that.
Is it too late to write DQs for Sadie? I’m going to read it soon & on the task it says you need to volunteer for DQs but then I saw they were already done reading the book and I’ve already read Where the Crawdads Sing on December.
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Yes, it is too late to volunteer to write DQ's for the book Sadie.
Brooklyn wrote: "When I try to look at highest rated books on someone's shelf, I'm noticing that some shelves aren't actually sorting correctly. Some shelves have books rated like 4.75, 5.00, 4.86, 4.63.So I have..."
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#62 says "read a book with the word 'bingle' in the text" - when I look this work up it seems like it's an insurance company in australia - is this correct? Is that what you're looking for?