2024: (Impossible) Disney Challenge

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

I'm showing you the April Bonus a few days early, since I may be busy over the weekend!

Mary Poppins

Must be completed between 1-Apr-2024 and 30-Apr-2024
Read a book with an umbrella on the cover

[Sammy]

Gonna need the extra time to find something! lol.

[Lexi]

I found a yellow cover with an umbrella but the hold wait is well into June. Maybe the library will buy a second copy.

[Erin *Proud Book Hoarder*]

Hm, will go umbrella hunting soon

[Sammy]

I've found one, but it's a teeeeeny tiny umbrella! lol.

[Erin *Proud Book Hoarder*]

It IS but it's a cute one

[Danielle Gypsy Soul]

There's this one:

[Catsalive]

Is this enough of the umbrella to count?




Here's one if someone needs it

Of course, I read it last month 😂

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

Danielle Gypsy Soul wrote: "There's this one:

"

One of my favorites!!!

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

Catsalive wrote: "Is this enough of the umbrella to count?




Here's one if someone needs it

Of course, I read it last month 😂"

Absolutely enough!

[Catsalive]

Ashley wrote: "Catsalive wrote: "Is this enough of the umbrella to count?



Absolutely enough!"

Yay!

[Nanci]

Here's a few I found








And perhaps the best one!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

I'm choosing as it's only 158 pages and sounds like fun.

[Vicki]

I read Banyan Moon and it's tagged asia-southeast-and-china. Does that work for tagged China or Chinese?

[Erin *Proud Book Hoarder*]

I can't use this one since read recently, but for umbrella, the first Mr Mercedes works



Also Paper Magician, not in mood for these right now, but if others want to try

[Erin *Proud Book Hoarder*]

Going to do this Perry Mason

[MN Lisa, Mistress of Mayhem with a Method]

For Tagged New Orleans, what if the book happens in New Orleans?

In Precis: New Orleans felt like the right place for me to disappear.

The book isn't out yet, so it won't have tags.
Relic

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CWB68HHD

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

it has to at least have a tag that can work for "New Orleans"

[Ivelisse]

Hi Ashley! Would you consider this a castle?

[Maria]

Hi! Anyone have any recommendations for Moana retellings?

[Ivelisse]

Maria wrote: "Hi! Anyone have any recommendations for Moana retellings?"

Daughter of the Reef this one is a retelling for Moana

[MN Lisa, Mistress of Mayhem with a Method]

Not sure if this has been asked, but for Read a book with an amphibian or reptile on the cover...do Dragon's count?

[Erin *Proud Book Hoarder*]

Yeah I havent read it yet but I planned on Daughter of the Reef for this one

[Lexi]

I took the retelling in a different direction. I am reading a YA Coming of Age book from a Samoan author - Where We Once Belonged. (The above one is by a UK white author).

[Erin *Proud Book Hoarder*]

If I cant get into Daughter of the Reef will try that one

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

Ivelisse wrote: "

Hi Ashley! Would you consider this a castle?"

Looks castley to me!

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

Other than the retelling mentioned above... I will accept any of these for a Moana retelling (though they are not strictly retellings), since this one is much harder:

Telesa: The Covenant Keeper (first in a series) by Lani Wendt Young
Where We Once Belonged by Sia Figiel
We Are the Ocean: Selected Works by Epeli Hau’ofa
Wildefire by Karsten Knight (trilogy)
The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera

[Bernadette]

This wasn't on the Retellings list - can I use it for Sleeping Beauty?

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

Bernadette wrote: "This wasn't on the Retellings list - can I use it for Sleeping Beauty?

"

Of course. You don't have to use my retellings list (or any other), it's just a jumping off point if you're struggling

[Maria]

Ashley wrote: "Other than the retelling mentioned above... I will accept any of these for a Moana retelling (though they are not strictly retellings), since this one is much harder:


Moloka'i by Alan Brennert. Would this work?

[Anastasia]

Bernadette wrote: "This wasn't on the Retellings list - can I use it for Sleeping Beauty?

"
Thanks Bernadette, this looks a lot more interesting than the others. I'm struggling with the retellings.

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

Maria wrote: "Ashley wrote: "Other than the retelling mentioned above... I will accept any of these for a Moana retelling (though they are not strictly retellings), since this one is much harder:


[book:Moloka..."

Yes!

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

Anastasia wrote: "Bernadette wrote: "This wasn't on the Retellings list - can I use it for Sleeping Beauty?

"
Thanks Bernadette, this looks a lot m..."

If you're struggling, don't forget you an be exceptionally creative! It doesn't have to be a classic retelling! Find a unique way to link it to the main story.

[MN Lisa, Mistress of Mayhem with a Method]

Not sure if this has been asked, but for Read a book with an amphibian or reptile on the cover...do Dragon's count?

[Sammy]

I went in a different direction with the Moana retelling. I read a book which was set on an island, a fact that was important to the plot.

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

MN Lisa wrote: "Not sure if this has been asked, but for Read a book with an amphibian or reptile on the cover...do Dragon's count?"

I say yes

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

Sammy wrote: "I went in a different direction with the Moana retelling. I read a book which was set on an island, a fact that was important to the plot."

Excellent direction!

[Lisa]

Are we supposed to get a bonus task today?

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

Lisa wrote: "Are we supposed to get a bonus task today?"

Thank you Lisa!

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

The 2023 (Impossible) Zodiac Challenge Winner was Sammy, and as the winner, she got to create a Bonus Task!

"When my daughter was little, she was, of course, Disney Princess mad and her favourite (then and now) was Ariel. When she was 4 years old, she packed her Disney Princess suitcase and demanded we open the front door for her, as she was off to find her handsome prince.

Last summer, 20 years later almost to the day, she finally married her handsome prince (Cameron, rather than Eric, but they have the same hair!)"

The task:
Read a book that has a character, author, or audio narrator named Eric Or Cameron (alternative spellings ok).
Book must be completed between 15-Apr-2025 and 15-May-2024

[Sammy]

And you'd think that with all these months to think about it, I would have a book lined up for it already...

Clearly I didn't think this through, lol.

*off to scour tbr*

[Jazzy]

I would liked to have done this challenge, but every time i use a spreadsheet it gets all messed up. Also the spreadsheet is far too tiny to make out what it says. Could I just make a new thread under this title? Or just give it a miss.

[Erin *Proud Book Hoarder*]

Sammy wrote: "And you'd think that will all these months to think about it, I would have a book lined up for it already...

Clearly I didn't think this through, lol.

*off to scour tbr*"

Clever bonus though, love it!

[Lexi]

Would you take translator named Eric or Cameron? I’m still looking but that’s what I found so far.

[Sammy]

If you can't find anything else I'm good with it if Ashley is 😁

[Sammy]

I've decided to finally finish my re-read of Feist's Serpent War saga. I knew there was a reason I'd been putting it off for a couple of years now 😆

Yay for the perfectly named Erik von Darkmoor.

[Lisa]

Or how about using Cameron as a last name? Does that work?
P.S. I'm loving this challenge!

[Sammy]

Yep, last name is fine!

[Sammy]

As an aside, my son-in-law Cameron has in fact narrated an audiobook!

Unfortunately it's not long enough for the challenge, and not the greatest book out there, but he did a brilliant job with the narration. I hope he'll be convinced to do more in future, because I think he could do very well with it!

[Erin *Proud Book Hoarder*]

Oh nice, just realized I had a book this month already with a Cameron author that I already had borrowed from KU and wanted to read :)

[Sammy]

Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "Oh nice, just realized I had a book this month already with a Cameron author that I already had borrowed from KU and wanted to read :)"

Score! I love it when the books just magically fall into place like that 😁