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FALL CHALLENGE 2019
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Questions/Problems in Completed Tasks
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Task 25.3 requires a minimum combined page count of 500. Your two books total 498 - They Do It with Mirrors has 224 pages, and The Child Finder has 274 pages.
Also, FYI, books must be published in 1950 or earlier for a Golden Oldies ticket - a book published in 1952 doesn't work.
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Please check your totals. In your 9/27 post, you should have added 30 points, for a total of 150. In this post, you should have started with 150, then added 30, for a total of 180.
No need to repost - just correct your records, so that we can keep our totals synched.
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The reference in the song is "Mafia organizations are the center of attention for the FBI and public attention builds to this organized crime society with a historically Italian-American origin." Collateral, from the reviews, appears to take place in Italy, so would not relate to FBI investigations or to the mafia in the US. If it does take place in the US and/or involves FBI investigation of the Mafia, please repost with additional information.
Also, the edition you cited does not give any information about format, and the only other edition is an ebook. If you are using a paper edition, you should ask a librarian to correct the GR record.
Sandy wrote: "Midu post 971Please check your totals. In your 9/27 post, you should have added 30 points, for a total of 150. In this post, you should have started with 150, then added 30, for a total of 180.
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Ack! And i was being so good! Thank you.
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The initials for Anna Burns are AB, and those initials must be found consecutively in the target phrase.
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The Goodreads record for Marianne Williams, to which you linked, does not include a subtitle. We go by the GR record, not by anything on the book cover.
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For task 30.2, book 2 requires:
"Book 2 - Using the OTHER group not used in Book 1: Read a book with ALL of the letters of ONE of that group’s Readerboard names in the title and/or subtitle."
You need to find all of the letters in one of the group's readerboard name in the title, not find the initials letters of the title in a readerboard name.
Sandy wrote: "Laurah30 post 957Task 25.3 requires a minimum combined page count of 500. Your two books total 498 - They Do It with Mirrors has 224 pages, and The Child Finder has 2..."
Yes - I really messed that one up. Sorry about that!
Sandy wrote: "Helen A post 1043The Goodreads record for Marianne Williams, to which you linked, does not include a subtitle. We go by the GR record, not by anything on the book cover."
Librarian here. Since the original title (and there's only the one edition) included the subtitle, I restored it (as well as the last two letters of the title since whoever changed it truncated it to Williams instead of Williamson). Go ahead and repost.
Hello,Regarding message 57 for HELEN A post 1043:
Hi, when I double click on that link I get a Goodreads page with a very long title + subtitle.
Can you try clicking on that link again?
If not, try this link for the same book:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
Thanks!
Helen A.
Helen A (to make sure you see it this time)Helen wrote: "Hello,
Regarding message 57 for HELEN A post 1043:
Hi, when I double click on that link I get a Goodreads page with a very long title + subtitle.
Can you try clicking on that link again?"
That would be because I corrected it after Sandy processed your post (as detailed in message 61 above) - you'll need to resubmit the task because it did, in fact, show no subtitle when she looked at your link and the moderators don't go back to a post once they've processed it.
Aprilleigh wrote: "Helen A (to make sure you see it this time)Helen wrote: "Hello,
Regarding message 57 for HELEN A post 1043:
Hi, when I double click on that link I get a Goodreads page with a very long title + ..."
THANK YOU BOTH!
Helen A.
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Please check your totals. You had 120 in your previous post, so this should be 125. No need to repost.
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I was unable to find A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: Complete Short Stories on page 5 (or page 4) of the Silhouettes list - it was not #494. Please double check, and if it is somewhere else on the list, please repost with the correct page number.
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Please note that a point total must be included in your post. See the posting requirements.
"16. Include an up to date total of points in your post. (For purposes of Moderators' Pet, math errors will be forgiven!)"
No need to repost this time, but you must include this info in future postings.
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Task 30.2 requires that one of your books use your "above" neighbors and that the other one uses your "below" neighbors. Both of your books use your above neighbors.
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Please review the Rules of the Challenge:
"d) Books that have an IL designation of MG MUST ALSO have a BL of 5.0 (or higher) AND AR Pts of 7.0 (or higher). "
Sandy wrote: "TraceyL post 1166Please review the Rules of the Challenge:
"d) Books that have an IL designation of MG MUST ALSO have a BL of 5.0 (or higher) AND AR Pts of 7.0 (or higher). ""
Dope! Brain fart! Sorry!
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Task 20.6, option 3, requires that you include in your post the publication date of book 2 in the series.
My score is showing as 39, did I get 9 bonus points?! Haha.
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sorry, sometimes the finger hits a 9 instead of 0
Sandy wrote: "Giovanna post 1023The initials for Anna Burns are AB, and those initials must be found consecutively in the target phrase."
Ok, I thought the letters needed to be found consecutively either in the author's surname or name, and not on both
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The initials for Anna Burns are AB, and those initials must be found consecutively in the target phrase."
Ok, I thought the letters needed to be found consecutive..."
The task doesn't call for just finding the letters somewhere in the name - it calls for finding the author's initials.
I just noticed that my posting in post no. 1351 for 20.5 was only 192 pages, and the task called for a minimum of 299. I will change it,...meaning that until I repost the book elsewhere, I now have 370 points.
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...meaning that until I repost the book elsewhere, I now ha..."
whoops! Thanks, Nick.
ETA - I wondered how I missed that, then realized that I've only gone through #1350! You've saved me some trouble, by posting this pre-emptively.
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None of the editions for the book you posted, The Island of Dr. Moreau, include a first publication date. While there may well be other entries on GR for this book, I'm not going to be able to do the research for you.
You have received points for the task. If you want to claim a GO ticket, I suggest reposting with a link to a different GR entry or asking a librarian to fix this book's information.
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Please check your link. The link you posted leads to a totally different book - Hosting the Monster
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I assume that you are using option 1 of task 20.3. Please remember to post all of the required info for a task - including the option chosen.
Plague Ship does not fit the requirements of option 1, because it was first published in 1940, earlier than the dates specified.
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Task 30.2 includes the requirement to include the readerboard names in your post:
"Required: State your 3 “above” and “3 below” neighbors."
Sandy wrote: "Shanna Redwind post 1392I assume that you are using option 1 of task 20.3. Please remember to post all of the required info for a task - including the option chosen.
Plague Ship do..."
Sorry about that. I swear it said 1949 when I checked. I better start wearing my glasses
Sandy wrote: "TraceyL post 1372Please check your link. The link you posted leads to a totally different book - Hosting the Monster"
Sorry, I must have copied the wrong link. I will repost.
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You already posted this task (same book) on October 5. Please adjust your totals.
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Task 20.6 requires that you include in your post the date of publication of the 2nd book in the series.
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The Dark Prophecy includes Childrens as one of its main page genres. Genres at review:
Fantasy 1479 users
Fantasy>Mythology 800 users
Young Adult 654 users
Childrens>Middle Grade 340 users
Please review the rules for the use of children's books in the SRC:
Rules of the Challenge.
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Task 25.5 states
"Read two books each of which has a title (subtitles are excluded) which contains a word of four or more letters which can be combined to form one compound word. "
You have used 2 3 letter words to create your compound word.
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The link you provided for the book you read goes to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which does not fit the task and does not appear to be the book you want to link to.
You might have better luck if you use the standard method of linking to a book. See Add Book/Author and Add Cover.
You will need to use this for any task requiring a cover - a link to a book will not be sufficient for a task requiring that the cover be included in your post.
Also, please remember to include an up to date point total in your posts.
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Task 20.6, option 1, requires that you find the necessary letters in the title. "Read a book with all the letters in ONE of the words DUCKLING or GOSLING in its title. Subtitles or series titles cannot be used."
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Please check your totals - 80 in post 1619, plus 25 in this post, adds up to 105, not 125.
No need to repost - just correct your records.
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Please correct your records - "All Hail Flavia" is task 30.5 and after this post you have 130 points. No need to repost, just correct your records.
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Task 15.10 requires that you include in your post the month in which the book is listed.
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Please check your totals. I show you with
5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.10 - 20
10.7, 10.8 - 20
15.8 - 15
20.9 - 20
for a total of 75
No need to repost, but it's best if we have the totals synched.
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Task 30.3 option 2 requires an author "who has also written a children’s picture book that is on Goodreads and has a MPG of Picture Books alone or imbedded."
The only MPG showing for Maya's World: Izak of Lapland is Childrens.
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All posts must include a link to the book(s) claimed in the post.
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Please check your totals. 65 after your previous post, on Sept. 29, plus 10 this post equals 75.
No need to repost - just want to keep our totals synched.
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Task 30.2, book 1, requires " Read a book written by a single author." Gwendy's Button Box is written by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar, so will not work for this task..
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Please see the Rules of the Challenge:
"Collections of syndicated, periodical or internet comic strips, single or short-format panels, or cartoons must be at least 200 pages to be used for SRC tasks."
Best Bear Ever!: A Little Year of Liz Climo is a collection of internet comics, 111 pages, so does not work for SRC tasks.
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The Halloween Tree includes Childrens as a MPG. Genres at review:
Fantasy 746 users
Horror 555 users
Fiction 375 users
Holiday>Halloween 258 users
Classics 251 users
Young Adult 201 users
Science Fiction 117 users
Audiobook 107 users
Childrens 66 users
Childrens>Middle Grade 59 users
Please review the Rules of the Challenge for the use of childrens book in the SRC.
Hello,I am confused. I had my points at 405 before posting # 1807 for 20 points. You didn't mention post #1807 above. Would I have 425, now?
Thank you!
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I am confused. I had my points at 405 before posting # 1807 for 20 points. You didn't mention post #1807 above. Would I have 425, now?
Thank you!"
Found and fixed, Helen. Thanks for the heads up.
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The Goodreads record for Ladies Who Punch, to which you linked, does not include a subtitle. We go by the GR record, not by anything on the book cover..."
thank you!!