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25.14 - Cat's Task: Celebrating Trafalgar Square
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To be clear: defaults apply unless otherwise stipulated. Check out the FAQs to double-check the default
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When determining words in the title, does a hyphenated word count as one or two words?Look Alive Twenty-Five is the title, which works when twenty-five is one work, but doesn't work if it is two words.
Thanks!
Teresa Jo wrote: "When determining words in the title, does a hyphenated word count as one or two words?Look Alive Twenty-Five is the title, which works when twenty-five is one work, but doesn't work if it is two ..."
This is covered in the standard rules for SRC,which you should check out first!
FWIW spaces determine words
How do you feel about books with more than one author? For example, Carol Higgins Clark and Mary Higgins Clark (the first author works for A).
Aprilleigh wrote: "How do you feel about books with more than one author? For example, Carol Higgins Clark and Mary Higgins Clark (the first author works for A)."Again, the FAQ are your friend. Default convention applies: I didn't specify multiple authors therefore must be a single author
Just want to verify ... the 500-page minimum applies ONLY if we are using 1-book-meets-two-options? So if I'm using two books from two different options the total page count does NOT need to meet 500 pages....Thanks for clarifying.
Book Concierge wrote: "Just want to verify ... the 500-page minimum applies ONLY if we are using 1-book-meets-two-options? So if I'm using two books from two different options the total page count does NOT need to meet 500pages..."That's what it says (compare the wording to, say, 30.2 or 30.6. Our tireless & brilliant mods draft this stuff with care)
Cat wrote: This is covered in the standard rules for SRC,which you should check out first!FWIW spaces determine words
No sure what FWIW means, but I had checked the Rules before posting my question. I finally did a search on the entire forum and found it in the FAQ.
Thanks for the help.
Cat wrote: "Aprilleigh wrote: "How do you feel about books with more than one author? For example, Carol Higgins Clark and Mary Higgins Clark (the first author works for A)."Again, the FAQ are your friend. D..."
I'm aware, just asking if excluding multiple authors was intentional. We're still in the review and edit phase.
Since Option C doesn't say "letters can be used only as often as they appear in the target phrase" does that mean we can use the same letter to start more than one word in the title?(Comparing this task with the wording in Task 25.6 Option 4 and Task 25.8 Option 2)
I'm looking at The Winds of War or Winter of the World for the one book option.
Yes, we went low-key with spelling out the SRC defaults for mine, relying on people to read the FAQs to establish the default. FAQ I/Authors 4 refers - once only.
OK, I'll look for something else. Thanks!
Cat wrote: "They are straight forward yes."Thanks x
Looking for suggestions - has anyone found a book that works for the 1 book option yet?
Florence wrote: "Looking for suggestions - has anyone found a book that works for the 1 book option yet?"I used The Dovekeepers - Jewish list & AH & 505ish pages.
It's a slow-paced multi-POV (four women in four segments) imagining of life during the Jewish rebellion in AD70ish.
A quick trawl of reported posts also turned up:
The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley (title letters & author initials)
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein (Jewish list p5 & author initials)
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Trafalgar Square in London, which I cross every day to get to work has a slightly confused set of priorities during December: art, retail and religion - covering Christian and Jewish holidays.
Option 1: Choose two options and read a book for each.
Option 2: Read one book that meets the requirements of 2 options. The book must be at least 500 pages.
Required: Indicate the options.
A - Christian holiday
Each year Norway sends a huge tree to be erected in Trafalgar Square and various community choirs will sing in front of it each evening to generate funds for charity. The church on Trafalgar Square, St Martin in the Fields, works to provide food, shelter and support to the homeless rough sleepers in the area, and this time of year is particularly hard.
Read a book by an author whose first and last name initials are found in CHARITY CAROLS
B - Jewish holiday
The Mayor of London has a large Hannukah menorah put up in Trafalgar Square, with a lamp lit during each of the eight days of Hannukah.
Read a book from the list Jewish Fiction and Literature
Required: State which page you found the book on.
C - Retail
This year there is a small winter market in front of the National Gallery, selling food, drink and various knick-nacks, from Alpine chalet style huts. The look is frankly incongruous, but the scents of churros and mulled wine go a long way to generate seasonal warmth!
Read a book with a TITLE of at least 3 words, where the beginning letter of each word is found in SEASONAL WARMTH.
Subtitles should be ignored.
D - Art
The National Gallery presides splendidly over Trafalgar Square, with it's impressive collection of Western art, from the Impressionist all the way back to 13th Century works. Inevitably the older works are very heavy on themes of the Virgin and Child.
Read a book from the list Novels about Motherhood
Required: State which page you found the book on.