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Mar 04, 2012 02:00PM
In regards to the 10.1 Square Peg task, it appears to me that The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann works and I just wanted to see if I could get confirmation.
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Kelly wrote: "In regards to the 10.1 Square Peg task, it appears to me that The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann works and I just wanted to ..."I can't find any other tasks it qualifies for, as long as you didn't read another of his books during the Winter challenge.
Liz M wrote: "Kelly wrote: "In regards to the 10.1 Square Peg task, it appears to me that The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann works and I j..."I haven't read any of his books. Thanks!
You can add some more books to the National Book Critic's Circle Award list. The new ones were announced yesterday.Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories by Edith Pearlman -fiction
Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World by Maya Jasanoff - non-fiction
George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis -biography
Space, In Chains by Laura Kasischke - poetry
The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok - autobiography
Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews by Geoff Dyer - critIcism
Do we have to wait for this year's Orange Prize shortlist to be announced or can we use a book if it's on the longlist right now?
I have more candidates for the Square Peg task this time and I can't see any other place they can fit. I want to read them all! Does anyone see a fit I'm missing?11/22/63 by Stephen King
Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult
Damned by Chuck Palahniuk
The Vanishers by Heidi Julavits
I also have The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern on this list, but it was just longlisted for the Orange Prize, so I may be able to move it there if it makes the short list or the longlist is ok.
A few resources for banned book info:http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/...
http://www.thefileroom.org/documents/...
http://www.beaconforfreedom.org/
@KarenHave you read a Jodi Picoult book for Winter challenge? If you have, you can use 10.9 for Lone Wolf. I have that book on my list too.
Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "@KarenHave you read a Jodi Picoult book for Winter challenge? If you have, you can use 10.9 for Lone Wolf. I have that book on my list too."
I was thinking the same thing. I can read a Stephen King because I read one of his for the winter challenge.
It looks like any one of the books would qualify for the US in the AtW challenge. Can you circle the globe more than once in that part of the challenge? I don't see anything that says one way or the other.
You can only visit a country once, touching each continent twice. So you can only use US once.
Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "@KarenHave you read a Jodi Picoult book for Winter challenge? If you have, you can use 10.9 for Lone Wolf. I have that book on my list too."
No I always read the picoults when they come out- my "candy" books! I thought I'd read king but that was fall! I also can't move my US book out of my travels, so I guess I'll just have to choose!
Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "You can only visit a country once, touching each continent twice. So you can only use US once."So if you complete the AtW challenge, you can't start again? Not that I am planning to do that! LOL
I think it can only be completed once.
Ok I have a quick question concerning combo points. I'm currently reading an anthology of short fiction, Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing, for the 20.8 challenge. Some of the authors included are in academia and some of the stories cover some other challenges. Is it ok to claim combo points for those then?
Do you have to read every one of the group reads to complete RwS and get the bonus points? Or can you just pick one of them?
You only have to read one book per task, so you can pick any one of the group reads to satisfy that requirement. There are some good ones this time - choosing is a challenge in itself!
Christin wrote: "Ok I have a quick question concerning combo points. I'm currently reading an anthology of short fiction, Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing, for the 20.8 challenge. Some of the authors included are in academia and some of the stories cover some other challenges. Is it ok to claim combo points for those then?..."Unless stated otherwise, books qualify for tasks on an all-or-nothing basis. So, all the authors must be professors for an anthology to qualify for 20.10 and all of the stories/essays in an anthology must be about epidemics to qualify for 20.9. For tasks that are title based, such as 10.4 or 10.7, the book listed must be included in its entirety for the anthology to qualify for the task -- for example, A Christmas Carol/The Chimes/The Cricket on the Hearth qualifies for 10.4 because the anthology includes "A Christmas Carol" in its entirety.
itpdx wrote: "Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "You can only visit a country once, touching each continent twice. So you can only use US once."So if you complete the AtW challenge, you can't start again? Not that..."
After some discussion, we've decided that AtW can be completed as many times as you like, with one catch: you can't repeat a country.
I will edit the rules post to reflect the change.
Hi guys :)Might be a trivial question, but it's my first challenge in this group... Is it fine to repeat the tasks and claim points from the same category with a different book?
I'm specifically considering task 20.06. I'm currently reading a proper non-fiction The Baha'i Faith: The Emerging Global Religion and Creating A New Mind: Reflections On The Individual, The Institutions &Amp; The Community (more like a collection of essays) so these should both count, right? Unless I could fit the second book in some other category... Please help!
Welcome Aqueda!Yes, all of the 10- and 20-point tasks can be completed as many times as you wish.
Ok, so I'm good. Thanks for the help Elizabeth :) I'm off to plan my TBR list for the challenge then!
Remember, you can claim credit for any book read since March 1!
Liz M wrote: "Christin wrote: "Ok I have a quick question concerning combo points. I'm currently reading an anthology of short fiction, Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing, for the ..."cool, thanks! Just wanted to double-check before I posted for it ^_^
Liz M wrote: "After some discussion, we've decided that AtW can be completed as many times as you like, with one catch: you can't repeat a country."How Exciting! I'm on my 5th book of AtW but I have a few chunksters set for RwS so we'll see if I can finish RwS first before setting off on another AtW!!
For the Girls' Names Task, is the name supposed to apply to a character in the book? I'm asking because "Lone" comes up in a Google Search as a girl's name, so I don't know if Lone Wolf will count as my square peg. There is not a girl named Lone in the book.
Karen GHHS wrote: "For the Girls' Names Task, is the name supposed to apply to a character in the book? I'm asking because "Lone" comes up in a Google Search as a girl's name, so I don't know if Lone Wolf I was wondering that myself. Lily, Dale and Grace are all names in my family but would that make Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy and Connecting work?
I apologize because I know you are all busy, but I'm still wondering whether the Orange prize long list for this year counts or just the short list announced in April and whether a girl's name counts even if there is not a female character with that name in the book.Thanks!
For the Orange Prize, it is only the winner and short-listed titles.I believe we were thinking the girl's name in the title should refer to an actual person in the book.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "For the Orange Prize, it is only the winner and short-listed titles.I believe we were thinking the girl's name in the title should refer to an actual person in the book."
Thanks, Elizabeth. The task read that way to me, but I didn't want to put up my square peg without checking. For the Orange Prize, I'll wait until the short list is announced and see if the Night Circus is still in. I just got the audio after a long wait list at the library, so the timing should be about right!
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "I believe we were thinking the girl's name in the title should refer to an actual person in the book..."D'oh! At least one person received points for "Alexandria" when it referred to the city, rather than a person. I'd hate to retroactively take points away from participants.
How about this compromise: for books started after 3/25, the girl name must refer to a person?
Karen GHHS wrote: "I apologize because I know you are all busy, but I'm still wondering whether the Orange prize long list for this year counts or just the short list announced in April and whether a girl's name coun..."Karen, thanks for the reminder about the unanswered questions! For the record, I am more likely to have the time (and remember to) answer questions posted on the weekend. (I have a bad habit or reading posts at work & then getting called away from my desk before I've had time to research/post an answer :-/ )
So, y'all should please remind us if we've overlooked a question!
I just wanted to double check: would Mistress of the Art of Death work for the square peg task or does the word "mistress" make it fall under 10.8?
Christin wrote: "I just wanted to double check: would Mistress of the Art of Death work for the square peg task or does the word "mistress" make it fall under 10.8?"I don't know what kind of family you come from, but... ;)
Only the specific family words listed in the task (and their approved variations) are eligible for 10.8.
Liz M wrote: "Christin wrote: "I just wanted to double check: would Mistress of the Art of Death work for the square peg task or does the word "mistress" make it fall under 10.8?"I don't know what..."
lol, I was thinking of it in terms as the "Mistress of the house" (i.e. the old term Domina in Latin) ^_~ I have been looking forward to reading this book so I hope that in the process of reading it it continues to fit the square peg role!
I am wondering if The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer can count for 10.6 The music of the soul, as all but two of the chapters are written in verse.
I know it might be a stretch but do you guys think I can include Gone for task 20.9 It's epidemic? Technically gaining super powers by a group of teen agers is not epidemic, but I totally forgot to ask before I started reading and now I got so into it that I just NEED to know what happens in the end :)
No, I'm sorry that doesn't fit 20.9. I don't see where else it might work either.
I read Going Bovine and I really want to include it for this challenge. I was going to use it for It's epidemic because the main character had Mad Cow disease but when I asked on that thread, the person said no so is there anywhere else I can fit it?
Ceraphina wrote: "I am wondering if The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer can count for 10.6 The music of the soul, as all but two of the chapters are written in verse."I'll take it.
Aqueda wrote: "I know it might be a stretch but do you guys think I can include Gone for task 20.9 It's epidemic? Technically gaining super powers by a group of teen agers is not epidemic, but I to..."This looks like a 10.1 - Square Peg book, if you haven't already claimed a bok for that task.
If anyone is looking for a book to fulfill 20.2 True Colors, I suggest you take a look at The White Woman on the Green Bicycle. I'm reading it as my Trinidad stop on the Around the World, and I haven't yet finished it. But I'm sorry it didn't win the Orange Prize over The Lacuna, which I think is inferior to Roffey's short-list.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "If anyone is looking for a book to fulfill 20.2 True Colors, I suggest you take a look at The White Woman on the Green Bicycle. I'm reading it as my Trinidad stop on the Around the W..."Thanks for the recommendation. I have it planned for an extra True Colors pick. I'm close to finishing Grace Williams Says It Loud for True Colors which is also excellent.
Sounds good, Karen. I'm a sucker for debut novels, too. So many good books on these two True Colors lists.
I'm perplexed. On the cover of Kate Vaiden by Reynolds Price
, the top says it won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Goodreads bio of Reynolds Price also say he won that award as well Goodreads description of that book. Wikipedia claims it on the author's article, the book's artice and the article for NBCC Awards article all say KAte Vaiden won in 1986. Amazon also says it. However at their web page, they have
won. I have a list of the winners that I made a few years ago that I copied from the webpage and I have Kate Vaiden was the winner. What's going on?
But perhaps they changed their minds - here is a contemporaneous article in the NY Times announcing winners:http://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/14/boo...
I emailed one of the board directors to ask which book did they consider the winner. I know A Summons to Memphis won the Pulitzer. Maybe it was a typo?Well I have already read half of Kate Vaiden so I'm glad the consensus is it is a winner.
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