Mineola Library's 2012 FALL Reading Challenge discussion
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FALL 2011 TASKS
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10.6. Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" pages 474. I love reading Sherlock Holmes. These tales are all so intriguing as Watson relays the shrew mind of Sherlock as he solves the unsolvable. One of my favorite is the black mailer tale and its surprised ending.
10.10 Joanne Fluke, "Carrot Cake Murder"-pages 334-A Hannah Swensen mystery with recipes. Hannah is busy cooking up her favorite recipes for family reunion. Everyone is delighted when Lisa's long lost uncle Gus shows up. However, someone is not so happy to see Gus as he is found dead on the floor by the bar with a couple of slices of carrot cake. Her salmon cake recipe sounds like something I would like to make.
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I read "Pinky and Rex and the Perfect Pumpkin" by James Howe. Really cute story about family traditions and friends.
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10.1 Janet Evanovich "Wicked Appetite". pages 346. A new series with a magical twist. A paranormal spoof that starts nowhere and ends nowhere with plenty of action, craziness and nonsense in between. Definitely funny but not one of my favorites.
10.7 "Situations Matter-Understanding How Context Tramsforms Your World." By Sam Sommers-pages 304. This was a book I won from Goodread and will come out this December. At first I had difficulty understanding exactly what Sommers was trying to point out with WYSIWYG,"what you see is what you get". However, half way through the book I became fascinated with his illustrations, insight and humor, especially his wit. It gave new insight to some of the inhumane tragedies of our times because of our "human tendencies for conformity, compliance, and obedience." I also liked the book jacket of a big fish with little fish and the little fish in the big fish pond. Very apropo.
10.4 Readerboard name,Kathy,5 and author's last name Russo,5. I finished reading "That Old Cape Magic" By Richard Russo-Pages 261. Jack Griffin has several psychological issues to deal with as he travels to Cape Cod to bury his father's ashes. I found the book amusing as Griffin's mind is filled with various memories of summer vacations, his choice of careers, parents, wife and daughter. Written in first person we really get into Griffin's head. He is so much a product of his snobbish parents which he realizes but resents it especially when he has chosen the same profession as his parents. It is an emotional roller coaster as Griffin grapples with his negative, depressing, unhappy parents, his insecurities and his break-up with his wife. The whole novel could be exhausting if not for the humor and sympathetic feeling one has for the characters.
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Looking forward to the discussion on this book next week!
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Mineola Library's 2012 FALL Reading Challenge
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (other topics)Blue Bloods (other topics)
Insatiable (other topics)
The Other Boleyn Girl (other topics)
10.2 - Queen of Denial: Read a book with the word “no” “not” or “never” in the title/subtitle or a word beginning with a negative prefix: no-, non-, il-, im-, in-,ir-, dis-, un- For the purposes of this task, the prefix must make the root word into a negative, ex. unbroken= not broken, illegal= not legal, impossible= not possible, irresponsible= not responsible, incorrect= not correct, dishonest=not honest. Be careful, not every word beginning with those letters will work, you should be able to substitute "not 'word'" for the select word in the title.
10.3 - Headless Horseman: Read a book with an image of a headless torso on the cover. The image should not depict any facial features above the nose. These lists may help, but be careful not everything on these lists may work for this task.
Headless Women
Dude, Where's My Forehead
10.4 - Moniker Math: Read a book by an author whose LAST name has the same number of letters as your Readerboard name. Include all symbols and punctuation in the count, but not spaces. If your Readerboard name is 12 characters or longer, you have the option of adding the digits together to produce a single digit number- 12 characters = 1+2 = 3 letter last name
10.5 - Blood Moon: The full moon nearest the autumnal equinox is called the Blood Moon. Read a book with the word “Blood” or a variation/compound word (bled, bleeding, bloody, bloodhound etc) in the title/subtitle.
10.6 - Big Game Hunter: Bag (book bag, that is) the elusive big book. Read a book 400 pages or longer.
10.7 - Hot Off The Presses: Read a book first published in 2011. The 2011 publication date MUST appear on the Goodreads main book page or please provide a link to a book retailer/publisher to accompany a missing Goodreads publication date.
10.8 - Readers Also Enjoyed: Select a book that you recently enjoyed and navigate to the Goodreads feature “Readers Also Enjoyed”. The feature appears below the Genre listing on the right side of the main book page. Read a book from the list.
In general, books need to have more than 75 ratings to have this Goodreads feature.
10.9 - Words of Wisdom: September 13 is National Fortune Cookie Day. Go to Virtual Fortune Cookie Read a book with a word other than an article or conjunction (The, An, A, And, etc.) from your fortune in the title/subtitle. Variations are okay, as are accommodations for any misspellings. Required: Please include your fortune cookie saying when you post.
10.10 Just Desserts!
National Dessert Day is October 14 as well as National Angel Food Cake Day (10/10), Cherries Jubilee Day (9/24), National Pumpkin Cheesecake Day (10/21), National Date Nut Bread Day (9/8), and National Parfait Day (11/25)—Read a book with one of the following words in the title: Dessert, Cherry, Jubilee, Pumpkin, Cheesecake, Date, Nut, Parfait, Cake, Food (only plurals are allowed as alternatives.)