APRIL PICNIC CHALLENGE: Emma's Picnic

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APRIL PICNIC CHALLENGE



Goal: Complete as many prompts as you can

Rules: 1. No cheating: only log the books you've started (even if you started it in any other month) and finished [in April] entirely.
2. Have fun! This isn't meant to “taunt” your reading any way, but to, rather, add up to the fun!

Instruction: Now that we are properly in spring, this challenge will be all about picnics! This challenge will be storyline based. For those who have never done a challenge like that, what it means is that you will receive prompts as you complete them. Once you complete the first set of prompts, you will be given the next set. This challenge is also crossword puzzle style: your prompts will be a list of words and you job is when you're reading, to look for a word from your list, and record them in your topics.

For this challenge, there will be a points system. You’ll get 1 point for each book you read, 1 point for each prompt you complete, plus points for the page count of the book chosen and 2 bonus points if you’ve never read the book you chose. For each picnic section you complete, you get five points.

Page count point system:

0-99 pages: 0.5 points
100-199 pages: 1 point
200-299 pages: 2 points
300-399 pages: 3 points
400-499 pages: 4 points
500-599 pages: 5 points
600-699 pages: 6 points
700+ pages: 7 points

HOW TO LOG YOUR BOOKS

Name: [sign-up name]
Book: [book title]
Author: [book's writer]
Page Count: [number of pages of your copy]
Section: [picnic name]
Prompt: [number prompt]
Quote: [sentence where the word is found]
Section Completed: [whether you completed a section or not]
Read Before: [yes/no]
Points: [how many points you have for logging specific book]
Total Points: [how many points you have in total]

EXAMPLE

Name: Lexi
Book: The Fault in Our Stars (+1)
Author: John Green
Page Count: 313 (+3)
Section: Park Picnic
Prompt: 1. Basket (+1)
Quote: What's that?" "The laundry basket?"
Section Completed: No
Read Before: No
Points: 5

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Picnic 1: Park Picnic

You and your good friends, Jacob and Claire, decide to get together for a picnic in the gorgeous spring weather. After much deliberation you decide to meet up at the your local park. The night before, you receive a text from Claire:

"Hey! for the picnic tomorrow, do you mind bringing these items?"

Collect all items to move on

1. Basket
2. Tablecloth
3. Sandwich
4. Blanket
5. Fruit

[emma]

Name: Emma
Book: The House in the Cerulean Sea (+1)
Author: TJ Klune
Page Count: 394 (+3)
Section: Park Picnic
Prompt: 3. Sandwich (+1)
Quote: “‘Good!’ Chauncey said, swallowing an entire sandwich in one bite.”
Section Completed: No
Read Before: No (+2)
Points: 7
Total Points: 7

[emma]

Name: Emma
Book: The Bell Jar *With Insights and Interviews* (+1)
Author: Sylvia Plath
Page Count: 244 (+2)
Section: Park Picnic
Prompt: 1. Basket (+1)
Quote: “The front of the card showed a poodle in a flowered bedjacket sitting in a poodle
basket with a sad face, and the inside of the card showed the poodle lying down in the basket with a little smile, sound
asleep under an embroidered sampler that said, 'You'll get well best with lots and lots of rest.’“
Section Completed: No
Read Before: No (+2)
Points: 6
Total Points: 13

[emma]

Name: Emma
Book: Pandora's Jar (+1)
Author: Natalie Haynes
Page Count: 320 (+3)
Section: Park Picnic
Prompt: 5. Fruit (+1)
Quote: "Eve shares the fruit with Adam, who was with her, as the book of Genesis tells us."
Section Completed: No
Read Before: No (+2)
Points: 7
Total Points: 20

[emma]

Name: Emma
Book: Reminders of Him (+1)
Author: Colleen Hoover
Page Count: 335 (+3)
Section: Park Picnic
Prompt: 4. Blanket (+1)
Quote: “He smiles when he reaches me, and I feel that smile slip over me with the warmth of a weighted blanket.”
Section Completed: No
Read Before: No (+2)
Points: 7
Total: 27

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Challenge has ended! Thanks for participating!