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FALL CHALLENGE 2010
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Sandy wrote: "BRIDGIT post 1924You've already posted these books for task 15.10 - please don't include previous posts in with the new posts.
I'm assuming that the two extra books you listed with task 15.8..."
YES. Sorry. I hadnt realized I already posted 15.10.
The Replacement and THink of a number were supposed to be for 15.4 - Sorry. Do you need me to repost?
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Task 30.4 requires that both books be mysteries, defined as
"Mysteries have a detective protagonist (amateur or professional) who investigates and solves a crime"
The books you listed for this task don't seem to involve detectives or investigation/solving a crime.
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Task 10.9 requires that you specify the list your book was on.
For part A of Task 30.6, the book must involve "a life threatening situation." A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail was specifically discussed in the help thread as not meeting the requirements of part A.
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No, I've got it. Thanks!
Sandy wrote: " MRS SOULE post 2285Task 30.4 requires that both books be mysteries, defined as
"Mysteries..."
Both books were approved by the task creator. I didn't know they'd qualify either until after I'd read them as they're marketed as other genres - they both have to do with the main character working as a slueth following/finding clues to solve a crime. In Code Name: Princess the crime is a kidnapped research koala; in Dragons Prefer Blondes the crime is humans apparently murdered by dragons. Do I still need to repost this to get the points credited?
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Task 30.4 requires that both books be mysteries, defined as
"Mysteries..."
Both books were approved by the task creator. I didn't know they'd qualify eit..."
I went back through the help thread and found where Code Name: Princess was approved - couldn't find anywhere that Dragons Prefer blondes was approved, and from the GR description it doesn't sound like a mystery. could you point me to where it was pre-approved?
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Task 25.3 is a 2 book task. You've only listed 1 book.
Sandy wrote: "JORDAN post 2315Task 25.3 is a 2 book task. You've only listed 1 book."
My bad, I did actually complete the task properly. I just had a lot of completed tasks and mistakenly left out my other book. I have edited the post to reflect my second book. Is this acceptable or must I make a whole new post?
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Task 25.3 is a 2 book task. You've only listed 1 book."
My bad, I did actually complete the task properly. I just had a lot of completed tasks and mistakenly ..."
Please do a new post for that task - there are too many posts for me to have to go back and deal with edited old posts.
Thanks!
Sandy wrote: "Mrs.soule wrote: "Sandy wrote: " MRS SOULE post 2285Both books were approved by the task creator. I didn't know ..."
Hmmm, just looked over the help thread myself - Dragons Prefer Blondes wasn't specifically approved, but it did fit the what Dlmrose repeated: main character is sleuthing, following clues as to who committed the murders and why. But if you don't want to approve this one, that's fine - I can find another.
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I've looked up a bunch of reviews of this book, and I can't find anything that seems to make it a mystery. The fact that she is supposed to protect humankind from dragons doesn't make it a mystery that she has to solve. It seems to be routinely classed as "paranormal romance" or "urban fantasy."
If you can explain what the "mystery" was that she had to figure out (not just stopping dragons), then it's okay. Otherwise, I don't see that it works.
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Task 15.1 requires "pick a book from a shelf that involves a genre or subject matter that is outside or on the edge of your comfort zone. Shelves like "borrowed" or "abandoned" don't work for this task."
A book from the abandoned book shelf doesn't work.
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Task 10.10 requires that you specify what GR group was reading the book you selected.
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Please include your readerboard name on your posts. There is no "Jackie" on the readerboard - there's a "Jackie NM" and a "Hawkeye Jackie."
Please repost with the readerboard name.
Thanks!
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there is more than one Terri on the readerboard. Please repost these tasks including your readerboard name.
Thanks.
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Task 15.4 - You listed one book with 12 characters and one with 16 characters (disregarding the subtitle). You can't ignore the actual title and just use the subtitle.
Hello! I am missing 10 points. I had 720 before my most recent post, which included two 10 point tasks (city name & job), however I do not see a post here for needing to fix something.
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Fixed. I missed the second task in your post.
Sandy wrote: " WENDY MA 2370Task 15.1 requires "pick a book from a shelf that involves a genre or subject matter that is outside or on the edge of your comfort zone. Shelves like "borrowed" or "abandoned" d..."
Abandoning books is outside of my comfort zone as I said in my post- it fits. There was no such exclusion in the task. in post 13 of 15.1 task help abandoned books is specifically mentioned and not rebuffed. it is my last task and it is wrong to exclude it now with no prior notice.
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Task 15.1 requires "pick a book from a shelf that involves a genre or subject matter that is outside or on the edge of your comfort zone. Shelves like "borrowed" or "..."
The challenge calendar clearly stated that the tasks were not final until September 12. On September 12, the following message was posted in Moderator announcements, clearly telling everyone that tasks had been refined based on issues that had come up, and that they should re-check task descriptions.
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/4...
There was one post using that shelf, before the tasks were finalized - since that post fell within the letter but not the spirit of the task, the task description was refined, on September 11, before the finalized date of the task, to specifically exclude shelves such as abandoned.
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Please re-check your total points. There seems to be a discrepancy between your total points listed in your 10/14 post and the total points in your next post. Perhaps you meant to post more tasks?
Sandy wrote: " NICOLE VA post 2460Task 15.4 - You listed one book with 12 characters and one with 16 characters (disregarding the subtitle). You can't ignore the actual title and just use the subtitle."
Hi Sandy, I was hoping since Diary of a Wimpy Kid is the series title and not the book title it would work. The book title is The Ugly Truth. I'm not sure why it comes up with both parts on goodreads. In our library catalog it is just listed with The Ugly Truth as the title. http://library.chesterfield.gov/searc...
If it won't work that's okay, just thought I'd put that out there since I've already read it!
Thanks,
Nicole VA
Sorry Sandy,I didn't format my excel right. I was counting each book in the 30 point tasks instead of each task. Sorry!
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I didn't format my excel right. I was counting each book in the 30 point tasks instead of each task. Sorry!"
No problem - I just wanted to post here in case you wondered why the totals weren't the same
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there is more than one Terri on the readerboard. Please repost, including your readerboard name.
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Task 20.7 requires
Read a novel about an immigrant experience from another country into the US (or if you live in another country about an immigrant into your country).
It is not sufficient for one of the characters to be an immigrant – the main subject of the book has to be the experience in a new country.
From the descriptions I can find, the main subject of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn isn't the immigrant experience. If it is, please give an explanation of how the main subject of the book is the immigrant experience.
Thanks.
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I'm sorry, Nicole, but we have to go by the title listed on goodreads unless there's clearly something wrong there. FWIW, I looked it up several other places as well, including the author's website, and the title seems to be uniformly referred to as Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth.
Sandy wrote: " EMILY IN post 2521Task 20.7 requires
Read a novel about an immigrant experience from another country into the US (or if you live in another country about an immigrant into your country).
It i..."
Hi Sandy,
The book was listed in the examples in the task. It is set in an immigrant neighborhood in NY. The main charachter's (Francie Nolan) parents are second generation immigrants from Ireland and Austria.
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Task 20.7 requires
Read a novel about an immigrant experience from another country into the US (or if you live in another country about an immigrant into your co..."
Thanks, Emily. Sorry I missed that - at this point, all the fall and winter tasks are starting to run together in my brain!
Congratulations on finishing the challenge!
Sandy wrote: "Emily IN wrote: "Sandy wrote: " EMILY IN post 2521Task 20.7 requires
Read a novel about an immigrant experience from another country into the US (or if you live in another country about an immig..."
No problem - thanks!
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Your post for task 10.10 is
10.10 Group Hug - The Ultimate Teen Book Guide
Something's missing! If this is the name of the group, you need an author and title. If this is the title of the book, you need an author and the name of the group.
thanks.
Hi Sandy, I think my points may be inaccurate.My last posts were 2506 and 2507, I finished tasks 10-3 and 30-1. These are 40 points and rior to that I had 360. That should bring me to 400 but I am only at 390 on the board. Please let me know if I messed up! Thanks!
Sandy wrote: "Nicole wrote: "I was hoping since Diary of a Wimpy Kid is the series title and not the book title it would work...I'm sorry, Nicole, but we have to go by the title listed on goodreads unless th..."
That's okay, thank you for checking around though- I appreciate it! :-)
Hi there, sorry this is so late, but it looks like I am missing 2 of my goodreads authors. It was from post 702 and the authors were Chris Cleave and Margaret Atwood. I did get credit for both of my Alexander McCall Smith books, so I should have a total of 4.Thanks!
Terri
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My last posts were 2506 and 2507, I finished tasks 10-3 and 30-1. These are 40 points and rior to that I had 360. That should bring me to 400 but..."
thanks for noting the problem, Leora - I found it and fixed it and it will be correct in the next update (tonight).
Terri Fl wrote: "Hi there, sorry this is so late, but it looks like I am missing 2 of my goodreads authors. It was from post 702 and the authors were Chris Cleave and Margaret Atwood. I did get credit for both of..."The number of GRA tickets credited to you up to the midpoint of the challenge (post #1510) are in message #2 of the Readerboard thread. I have you down for 2 before the midpoint and 2 after the midpoint (the Alexander McCall Smith books). So we're good, we both have 4 ;o).
Sandy wrote: " RACH post 1983Your totals show 190 points, 14 tasks. You posted 180 points and 12 tasks in this post, and I can only find one other post you've done in this challenge, 1 task, 5 points. That..."
You are right, Sandy, sorry for the confusion! I had checked one off on my list but forgotten to post it, will do that next time I have a chance to post tasks. Thanks!
Kristi (Passion for the Page) wrote: "Terri Fl wrote: "Hi there, sorry this is so late, but it looks like I am missing 2 of my goodreads authors. It was from post 702 and the authors were Chris Cleave and Margaret Atwood. I did get c..."Ah, thanks! Sorry I didn't notice that! :)
Sandy, I noticed I couldn't do math... I'm not sure this really affects anything, but I just wanted to give you a heads up that my points total is correct on my most recent post. I missed a post in my personal record of my points and was off by 5 points. Again, just wanted to give you a heads up that I fixed it, and my last post is correct. I didn't edit any other posts.
Jenny Chicago
Sandy wrote: "I've looked up a bunch of reviews of this book, and I can't find anything that seems to make it a m..."The Dragons Prefer Blondes Plot: at the beginning the heroine (Alex) "beams" herself to a potential trouble spot and lands in the middle of humanoids (that are clearly "something other" due to their psychic aura) murdering a couple of tourists. Due to this psychic thumbprint, Alex determines they are dragons (who can apparently appear human when they're not mad and are actually aliens from another plain...sigh, yes, I should have put the book down at this point but the cover was so darn cute) and goes back to her super-duper-paranormal-police headquarters to report and heads off to the dragon world to find the dragons that did the murder. She does this by going back to the original crime scene and following the psychic trails to where the dragons beamed back to their world. Once she gets there, she runs into the King of Dragons who appears to be innocent per more psychic clues and she spends the rest of the book trying to figure out who among his people did it, why, and how to convince their king they're guilty. This is mostly done with psychic aura-type clues but with a few real clues as well, like footprints, people looking scruffy while claiming they hadn’t been doing anything messy, etc. She also has to connect the dots from various interviews around the paranormal community - all while drooling over a co-worker and being completely blind to his rather obvious "I-dig-you" signals and then totally shocked when he makes it impossible to miss. This book was seriously annoying and one of those I wish I hadn't bothered to finish - I kept thinking, well, it's got to get better from here, right? One star, and that’s for the cover.
Mrs.soule wrote: "Sandy wrote: "I've looked up a bunch of reviews of this book, and I can't find anything that seems to make it a m..."The Dragons Prefer Blondes Plot: at the beginning the heroine..."
Mrs. soule, I agree with you--the cover was the best part of the book. Serious annoyance factor at work. And I like dragons, so I'm open to lots of stuff, but this wasn't it.
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I noticed I couldn't do math... I'm not sure this really affects anything, but I just wanted to give you a heads up that my points total is correct on my most recent post. I missed a po..."
Thanks, Jenny. I frequently find that my math skills are....um....less than perfect! Thank you, Excel!
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The Dragons Prefer Blondes Plot: at the beginning the heroine..."
Thanks for this plot summary, Mrs. Soule! This works as a mystery (and is probably a useful warning to anyone else who's thinking about reading the book, LOL!)
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Task 15.10 is a 2 book task - one book that would fit for a different task, AND, a nominee for group reads that was not chosen.
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Task 25.1 only requires 2 books, not three. You may want to check to see if one of the books will fit another task.
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There is another person named Jill who is active on the readerboard this challenge. You will need to use a readerboard name with a unique identifier, not just "Jill," such as Jill with your state initials or a last initial or some other word/name that appeals to you.
Please repost, and let us know what readerboard name you want to use for the challenge, and be sure to indicate that readerboard name in your future posts as well, so that we can give you credit for the tasks you complete.
Thanks!
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There is more than one Karen on the readerboard. Please repost, including your readerboard name.
Hi Sandy,The last readerboard update didn't reflect my latest posting in message #2602. I completed 15.1-New Horizons and my new total should be 240.
Thanks, Joanie
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The last readerboard update didn't reflect my latest posting in message #2602. I completed 15.1-New Horizons and my new total should be 240.
Thanks, Joanie"
I'm sorry, Joanie, you're right, somehow I missed that. It's fixed now, so it should be good in the next update. thanks for checking.
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Task 30.1 requires that you specify the best seller list that the books were on. Please repost this task with this information.
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