30.5 - Mazza1's Task: Find The Right Spell

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30.5 - Mazza1's Task: Find The Right Spell

This is a 2 book task. Read 1 book 1 and 1 book 2.
Your books must total at least 600 pages.
No books with the genre Childrens maybe used.

This is inspired by a book I read for a Summer task Seveneves

Book 1
As you can see the title word Seveneves is a Palindrome, a word that reads the same backward as forward.
Read a book which has a palindrome of 4 or more letters in the title or subtitle.
As with "Seveneves" The word does NOT need to be found in a dictionary
e.g. Josh & Hannah or Dead Level

Book 2
Maintaining the theme of letters being important
Read a book with only one occurrence of each letter in the title: NO repeated letters. The title must have at least 4 letters. Ignore subtitles.
e.g. Skin Game or Why Not Me?

[Marie (UK)]

Some names are Palindromic e.g. Anna, Hannah and would work

[Marie (UK)]

mine

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This help thread is open!

[Aprilleigh]

Can the palindrome for Book 1 span two or more words in the title? For example, a title like "The Image Game" with MAGEGAM crossing two words?

[Marie (UK)]

Aprilleigh wrote: "Can the palindrome for Book 1 span two or more words in the title? For example, a title like "The Image Game" with MAGEGAM crossing two words?"

I am going to say no to this as it is only using partial words - Sorry

[Aprilleigh]

Then I guess you need to explain this one a little better, or give some examples, because I haven't got a clue how to approach that one.

[Sandy, Moderator Emeritus]

Aprilleigh wrote: "Then I guess you need to explain this one a little better, or give some examples, because I haven't got a clue how to approach that one."

There are two examples given - Murdrum and Level. Some others I thought of are Civic, Deed, Noon, Madam......................

[Dee]

Aprilleigh wrote: "Then I guess you need to explain this one a little better, or give some examples, because I haven't got a clue how to approach that one."

i'm reading High Noon - noon being the palindrome for my first book

[Marie (UK)]

Aprilleigh wrote: "Then I guess you need to explain this one a little better, or give some examples, because I haven't got a clue how to approach that one."

Kayak, Civic, madam, are all palindromes

this site gives other examples
https://examples.yourdictionary.com/p...

If you found a complete title that spelt the same backwards as forwards that would work ( I think this would be extremely difficult to do) but I don't feel you can take letters out of two different words merging them to create something that works

[Kim]

Are palindromes with possessives allowed? Hannah's War

Thank you.

[Aprilleigh]

Sandy wrote: "Aprilleigh wrote: "Then I guess you need to explain this one a little better, or give some examples, because I haven't got a clue how to approach that one."

There are two examples given - Murdrum ..."

Thanks, I'm not sure how I missed those...now I feel like a blind idiot! LOL

[Marie (UK)]

Kim wrote: "Are palindromes with possessives allowed? Hannah's War

Thank you."

Again i would have to say no Kim the apostrophe makes it one word to me, as such it isn't then a palindrome. However i never thought of Hannah as a palindrome and it does open up some other books that sound interesting such as Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence

[Marie (UK)]

Aprilleigh wrote: "Sandy wrote: "Aprilleigh wrote: "Then I guess you need to explain this one a little better, or give some examples, because I haven't got a clue how to approach that one."

There are two examples gi..."

Aprilleigh we all get mistaken at times

[Simone]

Just making sure I understood correctly. Book 2 is only 4 letters in the title. So Scythe would count, right?

[Marie (UK)]

Simone wrote: "Just making sure I understood correctly. Book 2 is only 4 letters in the title. So Scythe would count, right?"

Book 2 has to have at least 4 letters in the title, all of them different and Scythe works. I really enjoyed that one hope you do too

[Chris]

For others struggling with the palindrome task, I had looked at David Baldacci's One Good Deed several times for other tasks before I realized "deed" is a palindrome.

[Marie (UK)]

Chris wrote: "For others struggling with the palindrome task, I had looked at David Baldacci's One Good Deed several times for other tasks before I realized "deed" is a palindrome."

thanks Chris that often happens with me

[Brooke]

I was planning to read No Good Deed for book 1. It is on my kindle, but when I went to check the page count in the mmpb edition, I saw that in paperback it is published under another title (Don’t You Cry) without a palindrome. Can I still use No Good Deed for this task?

[Brooke]

Just checking that you saw my above message. :-)

[Dlmrose, Moderator Emeritus]

Brooke wrote: "I was planning to read No Good Deed for book 1. It is on my kindle, but when I went to check the page count in the mmpb edition, I saw that in paperback it is published under anothe..."

Mod Note:
Any task requiring a specific title (number of letters, number of words, specific word in title, etc.) should apply to the edition that you read.

[Brooke]

Dlmrose wrote: "Brooke wrote: "I was planning to read No Good Deed for book 1. It is on my kindle, but when I went to check the page count in the mmpb edition, I saw that in paperback it is publish..."

Thank you, Dlmrose! I just wanted to make sure before I started reading since it was a situation I hadn't previously encountered.

[Marie (UK)]

I am sorry I didnt see these posts and thanks Dimrose for answering I probably would have had to ask you anyway