Spring/Summer 2011: Questions, Task Help, and General Discussion

[Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner), The Founding Bookworm]

All questions about specific tasks and also general discussion. I'm also adding some lists for books that could fit some of the harder to find tasks for and updating it when people make suggestions.


TASK HELP!

All of the 5 point tasks are easy so I'm not posting a list for any of those.

10.1 -- Poetry is pretty easy to find. Some novels in verse -- Crank, Purple Daze I Heart You, You Haunt Me Here's a list (make sure you confirm the novel actually is in verse..sometimes ppl just put random stuff on these lists) http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/20...

10.2 -- extended to all movies in 2011 (not just Spring/Summer) -- I started putting together a list for our use. Please add to it as I haven't finished it. http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/92...

Still making lists..

[Anna]

just read through the task list and it looks like fun. I really fell off the wagon for the fall/winter challenge because going back to school sucked up so much of my time. Finally getting used to it and should get able to read a little more for fun now, plus when the weather is nicer there should be lots of park reading in my future.

Long way of saying really excited for the new challenge. I'll be making a list soon...

[Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner), The Founding Bookworm]

Annashu--I really sucked it up on the last challenge...I'm hoping to come out better this season! :)

[Daisy]

Yay :) I had so much fun making a first draft of my list! It's a very nice set of tasks :)

[Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner), The Founding Bookworm]

Thank you! I didn't have time to do the whole getting ideas from people and sifting through them process..so I wasn't sure how this was going to turn out! lol

[Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner), The Founding Bookworm]

I created a list on Goodreads for 2011 book to movies releases. The only one that fits right now is Water for Elephants..but since I am Number four and Beastly JUST came out and the challenge SHOULD have started last week..I'll take either of those. Feel free to add to the list.

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/92...

[Rachel]

This is just a number question, so I know how many books I need in total. Is task # 25.8, one books or two?

It really doesn't say for sure and I wanted to double check that first.

Thanks

[Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner), The Founding Bookworm]

2 books for that one. I'll tweak it to make sure I clarify and include that it is 2 books. Made sense in my head :)

[Rachel]

Ok, I thought that you had to choose the book with the subject matter set on the continent that you got. Which would have been really hard. Thanks for clarifying for me.

[Daisy]

For 10.7: I don't know many Canadian authors, so for those of you like me, here's a Wikipedia list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_...

25.3 Alphabetical list of utopian fiction:
http://www.utopianfiction.com/alpha.html

25.2 List of Southern Gothic fiction:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern...

[Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner), The Founding Bookworm]

I'll be posting lists of dystopian and utopian books at some point. just have to find the time! :)

And feel free to add that movie tie in to the list. Anybody can add books to it.

[Jules]

Does the general rule regarding page count extend to the National Poetry Month task? The TS Eliot I'd like to read has only 128 :/ And I imagine that with poetry collections quite a few will have less than 150 pages.

[Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner), The Founding Bookworm]

That's fine. With the poetry task, I'm find if it's over 100.

[Samantha]

For 15.3 Couch Potato could I read Naked Pictures of Famous People by Jon Stewart? The Daily Show is one of my favorite TV Shows and he hosts plus both are humor, I just don't know how similar they are otherwise.

Also, anyone have recommendations for books with humanitarian work in a foreign country (what I got for 25.8)? I know Things Fall Apart has some of that but I read it fairly recently. Thanks!

[Jules]

Jamie wrote: "That's fine. With the poetry task, I'm find if it's over 100."

Wonderful, thank you! :D

[Caitlin]

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I don't know any debut authors. All the authors I really like are... well, classic authors or it's been over 5 years since their debut. Who are some good ones?

<3

[Daisy]

From your shelves:
- Gail Carriger (saw you read the first book in the series)

A list of YA debuts of 2011:
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/61...

And 2010:
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/37...

What kind of books do you like?

[Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner), The Founding Bookworm]

Samantha -- That works for Coach Potato!


I'm still working on these lists. I went away for the weekend so I haven't had time! :/

[Tahleen]

Can I use this for Sights of the Seasons? It looks like she's been running, and I like running when it's warm out.

[Alicia]

Does anyone have any suggestions for 10.5 - Two Sides to Every Story?

[Samantha]

Alicia wrote: "Does anyone have any suggestions for 10.5 - Two Sides to Every Story?"

I was planning to read As I Lay Dying. My friend suggested Ragtime as well. Maybe The Shining would count. It's not told in first-person but it does follow different characters and what they're thinking, feeling, etc.

[Tahleen]

Almost anything by Jodi Picoult. She often has books with multiple points of view.

[Daisy]

Shiver has multiple points of view, as do These Things Hidden, Dracula, A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Blade Itself, The Curse of the Mistwraith, Tender Morsels, The Pillars of the Earth and practically any romance novel :)

[Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner), The Founding Bookworm]

I'll get to these questions tonight when I get home.

[Tami]

not really a question, help or discussion, but something I found very funny. On the This Day in History. On my birthday in 1689: Russia started taxing men's beards.

[Lauren]

I just wanted to make sure these are ok..

For 15.7 Justice League, is Matched ok?

For 15.8 This Day in History is The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust ok? When I looked up my birthday, this is one I found.. in 1648 - 10,000 Jews of Polannoe murdered in Chmielnick Massacre.

For 5.1 Luck of the Irish, is The Maze Runner ok? It has green on the cover, but the whole book isn't green.

For 15.2 Iconic Images, is The Unidentified ok? The image is a barcode.

Thanks!

[Ashley]

Tami wrote: "not really a question, help or discussion, but something I found very funny. On the This Day in History. On my birthday in 1689: Russia started taxing men's beards."

Haha - I love that. If you find a book about that, I vote you get double points!

[Jessica]

Does anyone have a suggestion for a good Utopian book? I checked out the list that was posted, but most of them are dystopian, and when I search around online for Utopian literature, most of what I get it dystopian. Any ideas?

[Jessica]

Oh, actually I just noticed that if you click on a specific book in the list that was posted by Daisy above, the descriptions of the individual books have smiley faces or frown faces depending on if it's utopian or dystopian. Just wanted to point that out in case someone else had missed it as well.

[A.]

Just to clarify, is challenge 25.7 supposed to involve one book containing both a mother-child and father-child relationship, or is it supposed to be two books, one with a mother-child relationship, the other with a father-child relationship?

[Tahleen]

I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be 2 books, one with each. The 25-pointers usually are.

[Tahleen]

For the last challenge, the one with the dice, are we supposed to read one book or two? I was under the impression that it was one, but now I'm not so sure.

[Daisy]

It's 2 books, Jamie answered that one in message 8 a while back.

[Tahleen]

Oh okay, thanks!

[Jessica]

Does anybody have any suggestions for books w/ a father-child relationship? I was going to read Inkheart but kind of want to find another option and was having some trouble finding a good one that I haven't read yet.

[A.]

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold has a pretty big father-children relationship as one of the many big relationships in the book.

Behind the Moon also has a bunch of different relationships, both father-child, mother-child, and between friends.

If you don't mind reading YA, Alice Rose and Sam by Kathryn Lasky describes the relationship between a father and daughter during the Gold/Silver Rush in Nevada.

[Jessica]

Oh, I hadn't even thought of The Lovely Bones, but that's a good one. I'll check out the others too. Thanks!!

[Tami]

The Silver Boat: A Novel by Luanne Rice is a good one. It is about sisters coming together after their mother died to settle the estate, but the main points of the story are actually about their relationships with their father.

[A.]

I am having a bit of difficulty finding books for challenge 25.6, Past and Present Reading. The closest I could find was The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth for present tense, because I thought just going by the word "inherit" itself, it's present tense, but as a whole, the title is simple future tense. How closely should I be sticking to the word/title rule? Thanks.

[Ashley]

Two questions:

For the Arts & Crafts category - would Chocolat work? I would definitely consider it an "art" I would love to learn, but I don't know if that's quite what we were going for.

Then, for the Earth Day category - would a book from the Redwall series by Brian Jacques count? It definitely takes places in the wilderness as all the characters are woodland creatures, but I wasn't sure if that was stretching the category.

[Tami]

A. I understood it as the verb tense not the title tense so I think that would work for present tense.

Ashley, I would say yes on Chocolat. I am not familiar with the Redwall Series so what does everyone else think?

[David]

Question about New Authors, question 5.2:

I read Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show. This is a collection of short stories from his website of short stories, written by new and aspiring authors. Many of these stories are the author's first time being published and some are turning them into novels. Interspersed are Ender's Game series short stories by Orson Scott Card.

Any objections to me using this collection (it's like 400 pages) for this category?

[Tami]

I think that would be fine David.