20.5 - Bigger is Better - Julia103's Task: The Name is Important

[SRC Moderator, Moderator]

20.5 - Bigger is Better - Julia103's Task: The Name is Important

This is a one book task. Choose one of the options below:
Required: Indicate the option.
Required: For all options, include the award name in your post and state the page of Book Awards | Goodreads where the award is found.

Option 1: Read a book by an author who has an award named for them
Examples:
The Agatha Award is named for Agatha Christie, page 1
The Hugo Award is named for Hugo Gernsback, page 1
The Edgar Award is named for Edgar Allan Poe, page 1
The Philip K. Dick Award is named for Philip K. Dick, page 4


Option 2: Read a book by an author who shares a first or last name with the name of a book award or with the person that an award was named for. The name must match exactly.
Examples:
Les Misérables by author Victor Hugo shares name with Hugo Award, page 1
11/22/63 by author Stephen King shares name with Coretta Scott King Award, page 3
United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good by author Cory Booker shares name with Booker Prize, page 1
Catch-22 by author Joseph Heller - the Pulitzer Prize is named for Joseph Pulitzer, page 1
Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown - the RITA Award by Romance Writers of America is named for Rita Clay Estrada, page 1
Required: State the name of the award or who the award was named for.

Option 3: Read a book with a word in the title (not subtitle) of at least 3 letters that is in an award name. The matching word must NOT be a person's name. The words "the", "and", "book", "award", and "prize" are EXCLUDED. The word must match exactly.
Examples:
Sophie's Choice - the word Choice is in Goodreads Choice Awards, page 1
National Security - the word National is in National Book Award, page 1
Circle of Friends - the word Circle is in National Book Critics Circle Award, page 1

[Julia]

These work:

Option 2:
author John Green
author John Scalzi
Cold Hearted by Toni Anderson

Option 3:
A Choice of Nightmares (Goodreads Choice Award)
The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection (Commonwealth Short Story Prize)

[Julia]

Not a good match:

Option 3: Blithe Spirit (Spirit Award not on GR list)

[SRC Moderator, Moderator]

This help thread is open.

[Brooke]

For option 2: What if the author shares a first name with the person an award is named for, but only that person's last name is part of the award name? For example, the Newbery Medal is named after John Newbery - would a book by John Green or John Scalzi?

[Julia]

Yes, that would work for Option 2.

It would help the moderators if you follow the format in the Option 2 examples (see the one for Catch-22).

[Brooke]

Julia wrote: "Yes, that would work for Option 2.

It would help the moderators if you follow the format in the Option 2 examples (see the one for Catch-22)."

Thanks, somehow I managed to completely miss that example.

[Ed]

Option 3 does not require that the award be a literary award as Option 2 does. Was a literary award to be understood.... or would the Spirit Awards work for Blithe Spirit?

[Julia]

Ed wrote: "Option 3 does not require that the award be a literary award as Option 2 does. Was a literary award to be understood.... or would the Spirit Awards work for Blithe Spirit?"

The task says "Required: For all options, include the award name in your post and state the page of Book Awards | Goodreads where the award is found." That means that the award must be listed on the linked Goodreads pages.

[Ed]

Julia wrote: "Ed wrote: "Option 3 does not require that the award be a literary award as Option 2 does. Was a literary award to be understood.... or would the Spirit Awards work for Blithe Spirit?"..."

ok....thanks...I missed that.

[Fiona (Titch)]

Option 3: Can I read A Choice of Nightmares - Lynn Kostoff (the word Choice is in Goodreads Choice Awards, page 1)?

[Julia]

Fiona (Titch) wrote: "Option 3: Can I read A Choice of Nightmares - Lynn Kostoff (the word Choice is in Goodreads Choice Awards, page 1)?"

Yes, that works.

[Ed]

For Option 3...would this work?....

The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize? see-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonw...

[Julia]

Ed wrote: "For Option 3...would this work?....

The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize? see-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwea..."

The task requires including the page on the Book Awards | Goodreads when you post.

So if the Commonwealth Short Story Prize is listed on Book Awards | Goodreads then this would work because "short" and "story" are both in the book title and the award name.

[Lauren]

Please confirm for option 2:

Cold Hearted by Toni Anderson
Award - Lane Anderson Award for Best Canadian Science Writing http://laneandersonaward.ca/

Thanks!

[Julia]

Lauren wrote: "Please confirm for option 2:

Cold Hearted by Toni Anderson
Award - Lane Anderson Award for Best Canadian Science Writing http://laneandersonaward.ca/

Thanks!"

Yes, this award appears to be named for a person and the name matches. And there are some books on Goodreads that are listed as winning it.

Please note that the task requires posting what page of Book Awards | Goodreads the award is found on. (I did check that it was listed, but not what page it's on.)

[Lauren]

Thanks. I will find the page :)