WINTER CHALLENGE TASK SUGGESTIONS

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

Kathryn - you might try the Internet Movie Database (IMDB), they have Oscar and other award-winners listed by year.

For example, to fulfil that one I see I'd have to read a play, A Man for All Seasons.

[Kate]

Okay! Thank you so much for the tip. So I think that means that I have to read Dangerous Liasons... or the Rainmain. Not really sure which.

[Charity]

This should help:

Best Adapted Screenplay

[Angela]

Charity... you are so resourceful!! :)

[Charity]

Thanks! It all falls in with my dream of becoming a Research Librarian one day. :-)

[Laura]

Do it, Charity! We'll all write letters of recommendation for you :)

[Heather]

Scary, Weird Moment. I just read the new posts. Used google to find which screen play I'd have to read. Returned here and Charity posts the site I was looking at while I was looking at it. (Twilight Zone music in the background).

Oh, and I just check my local library for the book and they have it.....in large print only. I need glasses, but not that badly.

[Heather]

Oh, Charity I'd write a letter of recommendation for you too. Not because of your awesome research abilities, but because you're just cool.

[Charity]

Ha! Thanks Laura and Heather!

I think if we were to implement that task, we might want to make it include the nominees from that year, not just the winner, to give people more options.

[Charity]

Or...it could be: Read ANY book that became a Best Adapted Screenplay Winner (not just for the year you were born)

[Cynthia]

If I use that task this go around (or for future challenges) I will probably include nominees and winners from any year.

[Heather]

I like that plan too. I wouldn't mind reading the book-adaptedintoascreenplay-academyawardwinningmovie-ofmybirthyear, but there are others I'd rather read instead.

[Kate]

I like the idea, though I personally want to read one that won. There are some that look really good. I can't wait to see what the challenges are. I am so excited! I haven't ever done one before and I think it will be great!

[Andrew]

Oh I like the adapted screenplay Idea...from my birth year I would get to read Schindlers List...Yay!

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

Same here, Heather.

[Angela]

I was also going to throw the idea out there to maybe calculate the point total according to the number of pages for 5-15 points instead of the actual task.
5 points for a book with 250 pages and under
10 points for a book with 250-400
15 points for 400+

I am currently reading a book for the fall challenge that has almost 600 pages with the word November in it, but it is only going to be 5 points.

Just thought I would throw it out there...

[Kate]

That is an interesting idea. I can't wait to start this challenge. It goes from Dec. 1st till when?

[Melody]

February 28th

[Elizabeth (NC)]

I love the idea of the adapted screenplays, but all of the discussion about which one you will read is making me feel a little old--I would read MASH, which sounds very interesting. Also, I read Forest Gump years ago (which won), but I thought the book was horrible. I wonder if there will be others that made a good movie, but a really bad book.

[Kate]

Hmmm... normally people talk about great books being turned into horrible, movies, I have never really heard the opposite. Though, I do have to admit that I like the BBC version of Pride & Prejudice (with Colin Firth) a little bit better then the book.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

I like To Kill a Mockingbird maybe even better than the book - and I like the book a great deal.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

The Oscars are in late February this year.

Read a book about the movies.

[Amber]

I may have missed this but when does the winter challenge start?

[Jaime]

Amber-The Winter Challenge has not started yet...It goes from Dec 1st-Feb 28th...This thread is just for the suggestions of what tasks people would like to see on the challenge. The tasks will be posted @ the end of the month...

[Joanie]

These might have already been suggested but how about

Read a book and read it's sequel.

Read a book that you've started but never finished.

I had more ideas but I forget and my family is begging me to get off the computer so we can get dinner!

[Tricia]

This is a little different but how about listen to 1 audio book in the challenge time?

[Kate]

Read a book you read as a child (growing up).

Read a book about cupid or with cupid in the title or something like that.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

Read a book with the name of a day of the week (MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, etc.) in the title.

[Fallon]

When do we find out what the challenges are going to be? I can't wait!

[Cynthia]

ONE WEEK TILL I POST THE FINAL WINTER CHALLENGE TASKS...I've got a rough idea of what the challenges are going to be but I'll still accept more ideas - if they don't get used this go around I have a running list for future challenges.

[Heather]

I can't wait either....it's almost like waiting for Christmas morning!

[Alyssa]

well i went on the Academy Award website to get a link for ya'll and what happens? everyone else was more on top of it than me :) thanks for the links!!

one more idea: Read a book by an author you've already read, but don't re-read a book you've already read by them

totally wordy i know, but since you managed to figure out my last one i think you'll get this one too :D

p.s i'm getting excited! haha

[Laura]

Here's one:

Tell someone on TNBBC to pick a book from your TBR and then you MUST read what they pick.

I think this should be worth at least 15-20 pts!

[Fenixbird]

Read poetry by someone famous for their screenplays (like Leonard Nimoy, for example)

Read poetry by someone NOT famous in HIS/HER lifetime

Read a junior (teen) book by a fantastic author (saw Lois Lowry, Jack London or Gloria Wheelan, Stephen King--The Talisman, an early amazing work)

Read a social consciousness book (as opposed to a self-help book) say perhaps: Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls

Read a legal precedent-based book (such as To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee Harper)

Read a legal case law book (nonfiction) For example, We the Students: Supreme Court Decisions for and About Students
by Jamin B. Raskin

Thanks Susana for the link www.imdb.com (Internet Movie Database) and Charity for adapted screenplays http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_... (I'm gonna read Quentin Tarentino's)

[Laura]

cute one, Fiona!

[Fenixbird]

I think anything hard to search should be at least 10 or 15 points

Could legal books be worth 15+ points (NOT light reading)?

Read a political history book!! (worth 20 pts!)

I like this idea.

[Liz M]

Read a debut book by a young author (under 35)

[Cynthia]

Thanks everyone for your great ideas...I'm officially not taking any more task suggestions and will post the official challenge (minus the 25 pointers) tonight when I get home from work (sometime after 9pm EST)!!!