50.1 - Trishhartuk's Task: The Spirits of the Past, the Present and the Future

[Andy]

Do these book work
For Present day:Northwoods
For Past ; The Curse of Penryth Hall
Thanks,
Andy

[Apple]

Will these work:

Book 1 The Pull of the Stars

Book 2 Yellowface

Book 3 Babel Fantasy, with the contemporary pairing with Yellowface above

[Apple]

Apple wrote: "Will these work:

Book 1 The Pull of the Stars

Book 2 Yellowface

Book 3 Babel Fantasy, with the contemporary pairing with Yellowface above"

Apologies, I just saw that these are mostly approve already!

[Kim, Moderator]

For book 3 - would Absolution (with a Fantasy MPG) work, paired with At Weddings and Wakes - with a Contemporary MPG?

[Trish]

Andy wrote: "Do these book work
For Present day:Northwoods
For Past ; The Curse of Penryth Hall
Thanks,
Andy"

Those two look fine.

[Trish]

Apple wrote: "Will these work:

Book 1 The Pull of the Stars

The Pull of the Stars looks fine for historical. I wondered if anyone would use the contemporary book of the Option 3 pair for the contemporary prompt. That's fine too - just link to this post when you claim the task.

[Trish]

Kim wrote: "For book 3 - would Absolution (with a Fantasy MPG) work, paired with At Weddings and Wakes - with a Contemporary MPG?"

I see nothing in the description of Absolution that suggests it's a Fantasy book, despite it having the Fantasy MPG, and I'm not seeing fantasy elements mentioned in the first few reviews, which seem to pretty soundly have it as Historical Fiction. Where do the Fantasy elements come into it?

[Andy]

Trish wrote: "Andy wrote: "Do these book work
For Present day:Northwoods
For Past ; The Curse of Penryth Hall
Thanks,
Andy"

Those two look fine."
Thank You!

Kim wrote: "For book 3 - would Absolution (with a Fantasy MPG) work, paired with At Weddings and Wakes - with a Contemporary MPG?"

[Mary]

Hello 👋

Can a get a check on Book 3 options.

I thinking Elevation for the fantasy MPG, and Misery for the "present day" non-fantasy.

To confirm, I only have to read one of the two and just list the other?

Thank you!

[Trish]

Mary wrote: "Hello 👋

Can a get a check on Book 3 options.

I thinking Elevation for the fantasy MPG, and Misery for the "present day" non-fantasy.

To confirm, I only have to rea..."

That combination looks fine. Yes, you only have to read one and link to the other.

[Trish]

Trish wrote: "Kim wrote: "For book 3 - would Absolution (with a Fantasy MPG) work, paired with At Weddings and Wakes - with a Contemporary MPG?"

I see nothing in the description of Absolution that suggests it's a Fantasy book, despite it having the Fantasy MPG, and I'm not seeing fantasy elements mentioned in the first few reviews, which seem to pretty soundly have it as Historical Fiction. Where do the Fantasy elements come into it?"

I'm going to check with the mods on this one.

[Kim, Moderator]

Trish wrote: "Trish wrote: "Kim wrote: "For book 3 - would Absolution (with a Fantasy MPG) work, paired with At Weddings and Wakes - with a Contemporary MPG?"

I see nothing in the..."

Thanks!

[Trish]

Kim wrote: "Trish wrote: "Trish wrote: "Kim wrote: "For book 3 - would Absolution (with a Fantasy MPG) work, paired with At Weddings and Wakes - with a Contemporary MPG?"

Thanks!"

Absolution is approved for the Fantasy side.

Looking closely at At Weddings and Wakes, that one is more of a problem, as "three generations of an Irish-American family through the eyes of its youngest members", and the presence of the Historical Fiction MPG doesn't seem to tie up with "For the "present day" book, there should be nothing in the GR description or setting metadata to indicate that it is set other than around the date at which it was published".

So, it depends which one is your "reading" book and which is the reference to the other genre. If you're reading Absolution, then just find a different book by Alice McDermott for the other one, which is more obviously set around when it as published - there look to be a few.

If you're reading At Weddings and Wakes, then it wouldn't work for this task, unless the whole book is set around 1992.

[Kim, Moderator]

Trish wrote: "Kim wrote: "Trish wrote: "Trish wrote: "Kim wrote: "For book 3 - would Absolution (with a Fantasy MPG) work, paired with At Weddings and Wakes - with a Contemporary M..."
Thank you for checking. Absolution was my reading book, I'll see if I can find a different contemporary one.

[Cindie]

Does The Lost Bookshop work for option 2?

[Trish]

Cindie wrote: "Does The Lost Bookshop work for option 2?"

It looks like an interesting book, but I'm afraid not. I'm seeing Historical Fiction as an MPG, which implies that it isn't set in the present day.

[Robin P]

For the Future, I am looking at Shine Shine Shine, which has MPG of Science Fiction and a story involving space travel and robots. The author Lydia Netzer has also written a book called Everybody's Baby, which has only the MPG Fiction but is about current concerns:

Jenna and Billy are in love. He's an app developer, a hyper-plugged-in citizen of the internet . . She is a yoga teacher . .when they can't get pregnant, Billy devises a plan: they would raise funds for their in vitro fertilization on Kickstarter, offering donor perks like cutting the cord, naming the baby, and catching the baby when it takes its first steps. These are certainly contemporary issues and there doesn't seem to be any supernatural element.

Do these work?

[Melanie]

Just checking on the following for Book 3:

Margaret Atwood wrote:
The Handmaid’s Tale : MPG Science Fiction and Fantasy
AND
The Edible Woman : MPG Contemporary, and appears to be set in the mid-20th century (published 1969)

So, would The Handmaid's Tale count for Book 3?

[Robin P]

Melanie wrote: "Just checking on the following for Book 3:

Margaret Atwood wrote:
The Handmaid’s Tale : MPG Science Fiction and Fantasy
AND
The Edible Woman : MPG Contemporary, and appe..."

That's my other option if my query above isn't approved, but I was doing it the other way around, reading The Edible Woman.

[Trish]

Robin P wrote: "For the Future, I am looking at Shine Shine Shine, which has MPG of Science Fiction and a story involving space travel and robots. The author Lydia Netzer has also ..."

That combination looks like it works

Apologies for the delay - I've been out of town since Thursday.

[Trish]

Melanie wrote: "Just checking on the following for Book 3:

Margaret Atwood wrote:
The Handmaid’s Tale : MPG Science Fiction and Fantasy
AND
The Edible Woman : MPG Contemporary, and appe..."

That combo works either way around for Option 3.

[Robin P]

Trish wrote: "Robin P wrote: "For the Future, I am looking at Shine Shine Shine, which has MPG of Science Fiction and a story involving space travel and robots. The author [author:Lydia Netzer|48..."

Thanks so much, I know we can't always stay on top of every inquiry.

[Kristen]

Would The Postcard work for Option 1? It looks like part of it is 2003 and 2018, but is about a time before 1950.

[Trish]

I'm afraid not. The whole book needs to be set before 1950 for option 1.

[Marie-Anne]

For Book 3, can you please approve author Scott William Carter

Present day: The Gray and Guilty Sea, set in Pacific Northwest in "present day" of publication 2010. This is the book I intend to use for the challenge.
Fantasy: has in this genre authored many short stories, as well as some adult books and some children's books. For example: The Dragon Lottery and Drawing a Dark Way: Rymadoon

Will this work? Thank you.

[Trish]

Marie-Anne wrote: "For Book 3, can you please approve author Scott William Carter"

Hmm. Tricky one. The present day side is fine, but while the GR descriptions of the other two indicate fantasy, neither of them have either Science Fiction or Fantasy as an MPG, so they wouldn't work.

If you can find one of his novels which does list either of those genres, then he's okay.

I might look into reading something by author myself - I love Portland and the Pacific Northwest!

[Florence]

how close in dates to books need to be to be set 'around publication date'? would set in 2000 published in 2018 be ok? hoping to use My Year of Rest and Relaxation, and she also wrote lapvona which is fantasy

[Marie-Anne]

Trish wrote: "Marie-Anne wrote: "For Book 3, can you please approve author Scott William Carter"

Hmm. Tricky one. The present day side is fine, but while the GR descriptions of the other two in..."

I found a few that say either science fiction, fantasy or science fiction fantasy:


I really liked the one book I read from this author, The Gray and Guilty Sea, and am looking forward to the next in the series.

[Trish]

The Dinosaur Diaries and Other Tales Across Space and Time definitely works - it clearly has Science Fiction - it also has the benefit of not just being a single short story.

I don't know if you noticed, but the Myron Vale books are also showing Fantasy and Urban Fantasy.

[Trish]

Florence wrote: "how close in dates to books need to be to be set 'around publication date'? would set in 2000 published in 2018 be ok? hoping to use My Year of Rest and Relaxation, and she also wro..."

That's too much of a gap, I'm afraid. The task wording is "for the "present day" book, there should be nothing in the GR description or setting metadata to indicate that it is set other than around the date at which it was published" - and specifying 2000 in the GR description for a 2018 book contradicts that.

[Trish]

Trish wrote: "The Dinosaur Diaries and Other Tales Across Space and Time definitely works - it clearly has Science Fiction - it also has the benefit of not just being a single short story."

Sorry, I realised that I specified novel in the task, and Dinosaur Diaries is a collection of short stories, so you're safer to use something like Ghost Detective as the non-reading book, which has Fantasy. I've given the mods the heads up that I gave you the wrong information.

[Marie-Anne]

Thank you so much for your help.

[Keli]

I would like to use The White Road for"present day". It does have a supernatural mpg, so would that still work? It is not set in the future and there is a reference to something that happened in 2000, so it's definitely set in the present day relative to its 2003 pub date. He also writes straight up fantasy too.

[Trish]

Keli wrote: "I would like to use The White Road for"present day". It does have a supernatural mpg, so would that still work? It is not set in the future and there is a reference to something that ..."

If you mean for Option 3, then that's fine, as long as you've got the fantasy/SF one to link to with it.

It wouldn't work for Option 2 as it was published too early.

[Keli]

Trish wrote: "Keli wrote: "I would like to use The White Road for"present day". It does have a supernatural mpg, so would that still work? It is not set in the future and there is a reference to so..."

Sorry, yes for option 3. I have a 2021 book for 2. Thanks