Book Quest Q&A

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

Ruth wrote: "We're getting the cell reference error #REF! in a couple of fields on the Fable Finders Book Quest Team Dashboard SS, but I can't figure out what the problem is. Will you please take a look? Thanks..."

Fixed!

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

Shaw wrote: "Ok- here is my creative post for The Seventh Veil of Salome read by the Book Thief group:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/..."

Very cute! Points awarded!

[Jessica]

Hi Ashley ^_^, just wondering when we'll get August's categories

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

Jessica wrote: "Hi Ashley ^_^, just wondering when we'll get August's categories"

Hopefully today!

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

📣 August Challenge Tasks are up! 🌍✈️

Theme: Passport Pages: A Celebration of Global Stories
Bonus Genre: Travel / Adventure

This month, we’re collecting stamps in our literary passports and setting out on a journey across cultures, cuisines, customs, and continents. Whether you're trekking across distant lands, savoring a story rich in heritage, or following a character as they explore a new world (real or imagined), August is about embracing stories that reflect the beautiful variety of human experience.

Tasks:
✈️ Read a book set in a country you’ve never visited before.
✈️ Read a book that features food as an important part of the story or culture.
✈️ Read a book about characters on a journey across cultures, borders, or identities.
✈️ Read a translated book or one originally written in another language.
✈️ Read a book that weaves in traditional folklore, myth, or storytelling styles.
✈️ Read a book that includes festivals, dances, or cultural celebrations.
✈️ Read a book by an author who was born in a country you’ve never visited/lived in.
✈️ Read a book where someone has to use their passport (or mentions one).
✈️ Read a book that shows how people celebrate joy.
✈️ Read a book with a character who is from a different ethnic background than you.

[Jenny]

For this task-
✈️ Read a book set in a country you’ve never visited before.
Can it be a fictionalized or fantasy version of a country?

[Trisha]

For : ✈️ Read a book that features food as an important part of the story or culture.

would work?

it takes place in a pub - and is a mystery based around the pub's trivia night

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

Jenny wrote: "For this task-
✈️ Read a book set in a country you’ve never visited before.
Can it be a fictionalized or fantasy version of a country?"

As long as it's meant to be an actual country, it's fine if it's a fictional version... but don't use.. say, Middle Earth or Velaris, :)

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

Trisha wrote: "For : ✈️ Read a book that features food as an important part of the story or culture.

would work?

it takes place in a pub - and is a mystery based around..."

Mmmm... is the mystery involving a murder by nachos, yes. If it's just set in a pub, no.

[Jenny]

Ashley wrote: "Jenny wrote: "For this task-
✈️ Read a book set in a country you’ve never visited before.
Can it be a fictionalized or fantasy version of a country?"

As long as it's meant to be an actual country,..."

Egypt with djinns, yes, Narnia, no. Got it!

Thank you.

[Trisha]

For: Bonus Genre: Travel / Adventure

Will "Time Travel" work for Travel or does it need to just be Travel?

example:

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

Just Travel OR Adventure

[Trisha]

okay, Thank you for all your quick answers!! 😊😊

[Benedicte, Bookmark First, Ask Later]

Here is for my creative post 😊

[Ruth]

Here's a link to my creative post for The Seventh Veil of Salome that's the group read by the Book Thief group.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Skye Blue ☆*~ﾟლ(´ڡ`ლ)~*☆]

Would talking about a festivals, such as comparing the festivals they had in the past, and what is allowed now be acceptable for Read a book that includes festivals, dances, or cultural celebrations.

The fae celebrations of the change of seasons and how detailed and grand they were in the past. And some discussion where the Fae high court has to make rulings on what each seasons ruling body are allowed to do or not do.

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

It sounds close enough especially if they are discussing it in terms of the culture.

[Skye Blue ☆*~ﾟლ(´ڡ`ლ)~*☆]

Thank you

[Skye Blue ☆*~ﾟლ(´ڡ`ლ)~*☆]

Sorry, one more question.
Read a translated book or one originally written in another language.

Is the only option a book that was written in a llanguage other than our own.
Or does translated book, mean a book that is published in multiple languages?

If I read a book oringinally published in english (my language), but it's also published in 2 other languages, does that count?

sorry, it's the OR that's tripping me up.
my other thought is read a book that's not translated, and not in my language? Just want to make sure I do it right.

[Bernadette]

Here is my creative post for Under a Gilded Moon

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

Skye Blue ☆*~ﾟლ(´ڡ`ლ)~*☆ wrote: "Sorry, one more question.
Read a translated book or one originally written in another language.

Is the only option a book that was written in a llanguage other than our own.
Or does translated boo..."

Sorry, I guess that OR is confusing. The spirit of the task is to read a book that was originally written in a language other than your first (or only), and was translated.

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

Benedicte wrote: "Here is for my creative post 😊"

Awarded!

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

Ruth wrote: "Here's a link to my creative post for The Seventh Veil of Salome that's the group read by the Book Thief group.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/......"

Awarded!

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

Bernadette wrote: "Here is my creative post for Under a Gilded Moon

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/..."

Awarded!

[Jenny]

Here is my creative post for Ulysses (Raiders of the Lost Archive)

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

Jenny wrote: "Here is my creative post for Ulysses (Raiders of the Lost Archive)

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/..."

Awarded!

[Alyana]

I don't know if this counts as creative post, but I just can't think of something that is likable on the book. It wasn't for me.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

Alyana wrote: "I don't know if this counts as creative post, but I just can't think of something that is likable on the book. It wasn't for me.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/......"

Alyana, I would consider this a review, so do please link to that for the Review Bonus Points. However, I wouldn't consider this a creative post. Perhaps if you added some silly images or gifs to emphasis your confusion or dislike?

You can use the image html, just remove the spaces I added:
< img src= " https://www.goodreads.com/image... " / >

Jenny wrote an "ode" to her BR book, maybe you could write a Haiku about how much you disliked yours!!

[Alyana]

Ashley wrote: "Alyana wrote: "I don't know if this counts as creative post, but I just can't think of something that is likable on the book. It wasn't for me.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/......"

Okay, let me try to revise mine. Thanks Ashley!

[Alyana]

Ashley wrote: "Alyana wrote: "I don't know if this counts as creative post, but I just can't think of something that is likable on the book. It wasn't for me.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/......"

Followed your advice. Hope this would work...

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

Alyana wrote: "Ashley wrote: "Alyana wrote: "I don't know if this counts as creative post, but I just can't think of something that is likable on the book. It wasn't for me.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/..."

Awarded!

[Alyana]

Ashley wrote: "Alyana wrote: "Ashley wrote: "Alyana wrote: "I don't know if this counts as creative post, but I just can't think of something that is likable on the book. It wasn't for me.

https://www.goodreads...."

Thank you!

[Jill]

The Seventh Veil of Salome Creative Post link.

[Vicki]

Does the MPG Road Trip work for Travel or does it have to specifically say Travel? Also, does Time Travel work?

Would a fantasy world/place be okay for country I've never visited or characters on a journey across cultures, borders, or identities?

[Sammy]

Sammy's creative post for Ulysses with the Raiders of the Lost Archive:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

Jill wrote: "The Seventh Veil of Salome Creative Post link."

Awarded!

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

Vicki wrote: "Does the MPG Road Trip work for Travel or does it have to specifically say Travel? Also, does Time Travel work?

Would a fantasy world/place be okay for country I've never visited or characters on ..."

MPG Travel only

[Erin *Proud Book Hoarder*]

Erin's creative post with team Storyscape Seekers in the thread The Silence of the Librarians

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Benedicte, Bookmark First, Ask Later]

For this task:
✈️ Read a book where someone has to use their passport (or mentions one).

Does it have to be said in the text that they show their passport or does it count as long as they travel to another country?

[Sammy]

I have a weird question about a specific book...

I know we normally use the default edition of a book we read if we're listening to the audio, but mine is a little funny. I just finished Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table, the default of which is 512 pages.
However, that is for a different "translation" of the book by Keith Baines. I'm listening to the original Caxton version, which is twice as long (the Baines is a simplified version for modern audiences).

Do I still use the default for this, or can I use page count for a Caxton version instead (the audio is 37.5 hours long)?

Thanks!

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

Benedict - it doesn't have to be explicitly mentioned, it can be implied, e.g. international travel through an airport. Now, teleporting or illegal, clandestine travel, no, 😂

Sammy, you can use the correct edition for your translation.

[Sammy]

Thanks Ashley.

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

If everyone can please make sure their Team sheet is up to date (to July) by August 5th, that would be great! Add in your reviews, BR links, if you have a creative post, you have until then to do it and let me know! Thank you!

[Heather]

Hi Ashley! It looks like I need to let you know that I posted a haiku for The Golden Gate. It's here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Vicki]

Would this book work for visiting a country I've never visited? The Spy Coast I live in the U.S. and the MPG says
Setting Maine (United States), Bangkok (Thailand), Istanbul (Turkey)

I planned to buddy read it for passport but I have had a difficult time finding V books, so I'd rather use my V book but still get points for this one if you approve the setting for the prompt.

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

If you've never visited Thailand or Turkey and they spend some time there, then yes!

[Vicki]

YAY! Thanks, Ashley! ;)

[Vicki]

Last question for August (I think). lol Does Time Travel work for MPG Travel?

[Amanda]

For, "Read a book with a character who is from a different ethnic background than you." would you accept "a nearly eight-foot-tall purple half-giant"?

(LOL)

[Richard]

Amanda wrote: "different ethnic background"

I suppose that depends if you're not also a purple half-giant 😆