25.12 - Shelby's Task - A Birdish Year

[SRC Moderator, Moderator]

A group of my girlfriends and I have a monthly women’s book club that we call the Renaissance Women’s Book Club. I always love this group as frankly my reading preferences tend to be the oddball one in the group and thus I end up reading a bunch of things that I wouldn’t normally read. Our one rule for the group is that the book always has to be a female author. Last month our BOM for our nature theme was The Comfort of Crows and the author starts things off with the idea that the tone of your year is set by the first bird you see that year. In discussion, the question was asked if you had a bird to represent your year this year, what would it be.

I said, for me it’d be the Robin. Robin’s are often associated with hope, good luck, happiness, and new beginnings or rebirth. That just feels like how I’m looking at this 2024.
So in honor of my this idea and my book club for this task, read two books, one from two different options. Also, all books chosen for this task must have a female author.

Option 1: Hope – This is the first year in a long time where I look towards the year and feel like I’ve got a lot of potential coming down the line. It leaves me with a lot of hope that this could be the year I finally take that next step in film. Someday I hope that I’m in a position to make the kinds of movies that I really want to make, and a lot of those are adaptations of some of my favorite books.
Read a book from the first 25 pages of the List: Books that Should be Made Into Movies
Required: State the page that your book is found on

Option 2: Good Luck – My year started off with a big boon. I had a friend who was cast in a movie and friends with the director. He asked her if she had any recommendations for a few of the roles he had yet to cast. She recommended me and this led to me being offered one of the roles in the film. The film was all about women’s fertility issues.
Read a book where a leading character is/becomes pregnant.
Required: If it is not evident on the Goodreads page, provide a reference to support this

Option 3: Happiness – So far this year has been a good one and the potential keeps that smile on my face.
Read a book that has a cover that’s at least 75% according to Tineye of any combination of the colors associated with happiness…yellow, orange, pink, or red. It can be all of one color or a combination of any of those colors to reach the 75%.
A guide to using TinEye can be found here
Required: Post the Cover

Option 4: New Beginnings – I have been in Los Angeles for a long time at this point, working to get to the point where I can support myself solely from my work in film. I’m an actor/producer and unfortunately, especially with the struggles of the last couple of years from the pandemic to the strikes this last year, that’s meant that I’ve had to rely on my day job as a bartender more than I would like. Right now I have a few potential projects on the horizon that would give me a new start within the industry.
Read a book where the author’s first & last initials can be found in the job titles I might be holding here soon…ACTOR, WRITER, and/or PRODUCER. Letters can only be used as many times as they appear, but can split across the words (eg Ann Patchett AP - A in Actor, P in producer).

[Marie (UK)]

I love your task and I hope 2024 turns out all you are hoping for
But despite knowing how to use tineye my computer will not give me results only compare the cover to 60 other exact replicas of the cover which is of no use whatsoever.

For option 3 I have
and


will any of these fit the 75% thanks for your help

[Robin P]

I think you might be using the wrong part of TinEye. I had that issue for a while till I figured it out. You want not the image search but the Color Extraction Lab. If you just type TinEye color extraction into your search engine, it should take you to

https://labs.tineye.com/color/

Here's how The Women shows up
https://labs.tineye.com/color/d9bb194...

It actually shows a lot of brown, and less than 50% red & pink. The other ones are probably better, but I didn't check them.

**Note - You have to uncheck Exclude Background Color and Exclude Interior Background Color

[Marie (UK)]

Robin P wrote: "I think you might be using the wrong part of TinEye. I had that issue for a while till I figured it out. You want not the image search but the Color Extraction Lab. If you just type TinEye color ex..."

thank you so much that worked

so the only one that fits I already have in against my task but I can look for more now

[Shelby]

Approved

[Shelby]

Not Approved

[Kathy KS]

I was just going to send the same info, Robin! You beat me to it. Glad it worked, Marie!

[Dee]

thank you for options 4 - I have an Ann Pratchett book next month for my traveling book club and was trying to figure out where to fit it :)

[Shelby]

Dee wrote: "thank you for options 4 - I have an Ann Pratchett book next month for my traveling book club and was trying to figure out where to fit it :)"

Yay! Love when that works out. :) I always try to keep at least a part of my task ideas pretty open, I know how it is trying to fit planned reading in. ;D

[Apple]

The Life to Come has a MPG of short stories, but it is short stories in the same way that Olive Kitteridge is, all stories are connected, and there is one character who is at least mentioned, and often has a major role, in all of the stories, whose name is Pippa. Pippa falls pregnant twice throughout the stories, the first is a miscarriage, the later results in a birth. Would this be acceptable for option 2?

(This was a RL book club read, I was not going to return to this author after my last experience, even though I own this book.)

[Shelby]

Apple wrote: "The Life to Come has a MPG of short stories, but it is short stories in the same way that Olive Kitteridge is, all stories are connected, and there is one character w..."

It works for me. :)