25.7 - Lora - St Patrick's Day

[SRC Moderator, Moderator]

Despite religious and political significance behind the day, St. Patrick's Day (March 17) is celebrated in many countries, especially those formerly or currently associated with the British Empire.

This is a two book task. Choose two options, and read one book for each. Book choices must follow standard SRC book rules. Total pages must be 500 or more pages.
Required: state the chosen options.

Option 1: Wearin' of the Green
It's popular to wear green in any shade on St. Patrick's Day. Some wear green from head to toe, while others wear a green accessory or apply a mark on the skin with green highlighter. Read a book with a cover that is at least 50% green AND has minimum 317 pages.
Required: post the cover.
This list may be helpful: Greenest Books Ever

Option 2: Ireland
Read a book written by an author born in Ireland. If there are multiple authors, all must be born in Ireland.
Required: if not obvious from the book's GR page, provide a reference.
OR
Read a book that is on the first 15 pages of the Ireland Books list
Required: state the page.

Option 3: Emblems
Read a book that contains one of the following on the cover:
Beer (must be a beer stein, tankard or traditional pint glass/pint pot with a foam head showing - a bottle or keg will not count), Harp, Clover (3 or 4 leaf will count), Pot of Gold, Leprechaun
Required: post the cover

[C]

Option 3:

Approved for clover:


Approved for beer glass with foam head:

[C]

Option 2:
Catriona Lally verified as born in Ireland

[Jen B]

Is this a visible enough clover?

[Fiona (Titch)]

is this green enough?

[C]

Jen B wrote: "Is this a visible enough clover?
"

Yes, that is clearly a four leaf clover; no size requirement. :)

[C]

Fiona (Titch) wrote: " is this green enough?"

I checked this cover in Tineye, and unfortunately this will not work as the color is being read as blue and not green.

[Marie (UK)]

can I have this approved for green please

[C]

Marie (UK) wrote: " can I have this approved for green please"

This has more than 50% green according to Tineye, for this edition, so it is acceptable and approved for green.

[Fiona (Titch)]

40.4 %#9bcb4bGreen
40.1 %#33aa4cGreen
8.0 %#8eae69Green
5.2 %#0a1109Black
2.3 %#3e4d2cGreen
1.7 %#dfd4caGrey
0.9 %#5a97c9Blue
0.6 %#e01e2fRed
0.4 %#c84a4dRed
0.3 %#e1e051Yellow

[C]

Fiona (Titch) wrote: "



40.4 %#9bcb4bGreen
40.1 %#33aa4cGreen
8.0 %#8eae69Green
5.2 %#0a1109Black
2.3 %#3e4d2cGreen
1.7 %#dfd4caGrey
0.9 %#5a97c9Blue
0.6 %#e..."

Those numbers are well over 50% green; however I did notice on the book page that the page requirement wasn't met. I know you weren't asking about page count, but I didn't want you to read and then have it rejected at completion.

[Fiona (Titch)]

C wrote: "Fiona (Titch) wrote: " is this green enough?"

I checked this cover in Tineye, and unfortunately this will not work as the color is being..."

Not to worry x

[Fiona (Titch)]

C wrote: "Fiona (Titch) wrote: "



40.4 %#9bcb4bGreen
40.1 %#33aa4cGreen
8.0 %#8eae69Green
5.2 %#0a1109Black
2.3 %#3e4d2cGreen
1.7 %#dfd4caGrey
0...."

LOL, I Never thought about the page count at the time lol x

[C]

Fiona (Titch) wrote: "C wrote: "Fiona (Titch) wrote: "



40.4 %#9bcb4bGreen
40.1 %#33aa4cGreen
8.0 %#8eae69Green
5.2 %#0a1109Black
2.3 %#3e4d2cGreen
1.7 %#dfd..."

No worries, wanted to make sure I wasn't giving you false hope. ;) Yeah, I wanted to go easy on the % since I regularly argue with Tineye lol, and thought this would be a good opportunity to pay homage to the holiday date as well. 😁

[Fiona (Titch)]

Would - Lilly Bartlett

58.7 %#0ccc8aGreen
29.7 %#a1d0d6Blue
6.8 %#67c5a4Green
1.7 %#654e3fBrown
1.5 %#58775bGreen
0.6 %#ed8a5bOrange
0.5 %#f5c09cPink
0.3 %#5379beBlue
0.2 %#569c4aGreen

[C]

Fiona (Titch) wrote: "Would - Lilly Bartlett

58.7 %#0ccc8aGreen
29.7 %#a1d0d6Blue
6.8 %#67c5a4Green
1.7 %#654e3fBrown
1.5 %#58775bGreen
0.6 %#ed8a5bO..."

Yes, the %s and page count both work. :) (Fyi, I got slightly different %s when I put it in Tineye, but it was still over 50%, so I would assume when checked at completion that it should pass.)

[Fiona (Titch)]

C wrote: "Fiona (Titch) wrote: "Would - Lilly Bartlett

58.7 %#0ccc8aGreen
29.7 %#a1d0d6Blue
6.8 %#67c5a4Green
1.7 %#654e3fBrown
1.5 %#587..."

Wahooooo xx

[Fiona (Titch)]

C wrote: "Fiona (Titch) wrote: "Would - Lilly Bartlett

58.7 %#0ccc8aGreen
29.7 %#a1d0d6Blue
6.8 %#67c5a4Green
1.7 %#654e3fBrown
1.5 %#587..."

I clicked off the bottom 2 that it says to delete. x

[Kristina Simon]

Question about Option 2: author born in Ireland

The task doesn't specify single author vs. multiple. I'd like to read Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt by Irish author Lucinda Riley. She was born in Ireland but she died before completing this book, the last in her Seven Sisters series. Her son, Harry Whittaker, completed the book after her death. He was also born in Ireland. Can the book have multiple authors if they were all born in Ireland?

No worries if not. Plenty of other places to put it but I thought I'd ask. ;-)

[C]

Kristina Simon wrote: "Question about Option 2: author born in Ireland

The task doesn't specify single author vs. multiple. I'd like to read Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt by Irish author [author:Lucinda R..."

Since both authors are born in Ireland, I'm going to say it's okay, but I will ask mods to assist in clarifying for everyone else.

[Trish]

Morning.

As I don't see a proscription on Children's for this task, I was wondering if this is okay for a harp for Option 3.
.

Thanks.

[C]

Hi Trish, Children's MPG is fine, but the book will have to meet the standard requirements. Unfortunately though, I believe that instrument is a lyre (based on shape), so I don't think it would be acceptable as a harp. A lyre is considered different from a harp, even though it could be a concept ancestor, but then if a lyre were allowed, technically a guitar could also be allowed as a stringed fingered instrument, and that's an obvious bridge too far.

I did preview this book's content on Google and realized they use the term "harp" instead of "lyre" in the text, so I understand that argument, but I'm guessing they made that more understandable for children. I did do image searches on Google for "Welsh harp" and "ancient Welsh harp" as those terms were used in the text, but could not find a shape match.

Sorry if I'm overexplaining this ruling, but it's a close technical call, so I wanted to make you privy to the thought process.

[Trish]

No worries. I'll use it somewhere else. I was just trying to find something which fitted Option 3, as I always have trouble with cover colour tasks like Option 1.

[C]

Hi Trish, I hear you on color. That's why I left it a little lower and included a page requirement. I've noticed with Tineye that if a green is more in the lime shade than teal shade, it will read as green. And remember that it's a cumulative color total: Tineye might list green a few times because of different shades. ;)

[Fly]

what's your ruling on a pilsner glass?

[C]

Hi Fly, I'm fine with a pilsner glass. Some beers are served in those, and a foam head is visible. :)

[Fly]

cool, thanks :) I love that cover... so wonderfully disproportional lol

[Deedee]

Option 2:
Read a book written by an author born in Ireland.

Caitriona Lally birth location is not listed on goodreads. However, this link states that she was born in Dublin, Ireland:

https://suejleonard.com/articles/begi...
(look under the section:
Who is Caitriona Lally )

So .... is Caitriona Lally verified as being born in Ireland?? Thanks

[C]

Hi Dee, yes, Catriona Lally verified as born in Ireland. Please provide the link in your completion post to help the mods out, and I'll also post as approved above. :)

[Deedee]

thanks :)