20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Aprilleigh’s task: Staying Out of Trouble

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20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Aprilleigh’s task: Staying Out of Trouble

I’ve been a bookworm my entire life, having taught myself to read before I started school. This and my various other hobbies kept me too busy to get into much trouble. Let’s take a look at some of my other favorite hobbies.

Books with main page genre children or kids are excluded from this task. Select one of the options below and read one book.
Required: State the option chosen when you post.

Option 1: Roll for Initiative
I discovered Dungeons & Dragons with the 1981 revised edition. The box contained a rule book, a module (adventure), six polyhedral dice, and a crayon (to fill in the dice numerals). The first step was to use the dice to create a character, after you decided what race and class you wanted to play.

Read a book with one of the words RACE, CLASS, DICE, or ROLL intact in the title (ignore subtitles).

Option 2: Worth a Thousand Words
I’ve never met an art form I didn’t like and I’ve tried my hand at most of them - drawing, painting (acrylic, oil, and watercolor), mixed-media, sculpture, and photography. My aunt even offered to pay my way through art school if I chose that career. Drawing is my favorite because it’s versatile and is a prerequisite for painting, which is my second favorite because it challenges me. I love studying the sketches of some of my favorite artists.

Read a book by an author whose initials are found in one of the following: MATISSE, PICASSO, or REMBRANDT. All initials count (defined by spaces), and you can only use a letter as often as it appears in the name.
Required: State the name chosen when you post.

Option 3: Swim with the Fish
I love my freshwater aquarium (so do my cats, for different reasons). As a biologist, planning and maintaining my aquariums is a big part of the fun. I have four display tanks - for each, I get to design a layout with live plants and other items, select compatible fish and invertebrates, and keep the nitrogen-cycle balanced to maintain the water quality.

Read a book with one or more fish on the cover. Fish are limbless cold-blooded vertebrate animals with gills and fins. They live wholly in the water and do not breathe air. Sharks, rays, and eels are fish. Whales, dolphins, and other aquatic creatures that are not fish will not work. The animal on the cover must clearly be a fish (as opposed to scales, bones, fins, eyes, etc. that might be assumed to be a fish based on the book's title). For example:

Required: Include the book's cover when you post.

Option 4: Teaching an Old Dog
I’m an educator and polymath. I love sharing knowledge, helping people understand elusive concepts, and watching them make connections between new and old information to better understand the world around us. I like it even better when I learn as much or more from them as they do from me.

Read a non-fiction book with a main page genre of Biology or Mathematics.

[Aprilleigh]

Books that work

OPTION 1
Alias Grace

OPTION 3

[Aprilleigh]

Reserved

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This thread is now open!

[Meagan]

For option 1 could I read Alias Grace the word "race" is intact in the title as part of the word "grace" or does it have to be a standalone word?

[Aprilleigh]

Meagan wrote: "For option 1 could I read Alias Grace the word "race" is intact in the title as part of the word "grace" or does it have to be a standalone word?"

Alias Grace definitely works.

[Nicole]

Aprilleigh wrote: "Meagan wrote: "For option 1 could I read Alias Grace the word "race" is intact in the title as part of the word "grace" or does it have to be a standalone word?"

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Oh awesome! I thought the word needed to be standalone. So I could use one of my teaching books that has the word classroom in the title?

[Aprilleigh]

Nicole wrote: "Aprilleigh wrote: "Meagan wrote: "For option 1 could I read Alias Grace the word "race" is intact in the title as part of the word "grace" or does it have to be a standalone word?"

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Yes, a book with "Classroom" in the title would work.

[Book Concierge]

Just came across this one for Option 3 - Fish on COVER


But there is also THIS edition ... Fish head in upper left corner


(not sure yet which will arrive from the library ... although they show the FIRST cover above in the on-line catalogue)

[Aprilleigh]

The second cover would be pushing right up against the limit of identifiable as a fish, but I agree it's a fish.

I've had similar problems with our library system. Some have no cover image, others have one image for several different editions that have been combined together (in some cases, not even the same translator - I always report those because they need to be corrected).

If you end up with neither cover, the book also works for option 2.

[Book Concierge]

Aprilleigh wrote: "The second cover would be pushing right up against the limit of identifiable as a fish, but I agree it's a fish.

If you end up with neither cover, the book also works for option 2..."

Oh, I hadn't even noticed that Camilleri's initials were in PICASSO!

Thanks