You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion
Challenges: Year Long Main 2021
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Annerlee's Interstellar 2018 ⭐️
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CANCER ♋️ x xx x(view spoiler)
Actor - Meryl Streep starred in Artificial Intelligence, adapted from Brian W. Aldiss's short story Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time. Read book by Brian Aldiss
ReportingReport each book in an individual message in your personal thread.
1. Challenge Progress: e.g.Badge 1, book 1 (2, 3, 4, etc.)
2. Task: List Zodiac Sign and Category
3. Link to book read and cover if part of the task
4. If not obvious, state how the book fits the criteria.
5. Specifications required in the task. Some tasks require that you report specific thing
Example
Badge 1, Book 5
Task – Aries, Month
Link – The Violets of March
March in the title.
When you finish a badge requirement, post in the Year Long Reporting Thread:
# Badge Requested
1. Aries, Category, Title
2. Taurus, Category, Title
3.
4…… to 12
Summary of Round 3:✔ARIES
Symbol - Ram: (Dodge) truck is on the cover The Gabriel Hounds
Superhero - Ares: mythology, or has “God” in the title. Plurals ok. Iron Gods
✔TAURUS
Month: April - Elegy for April
N American Zodiac - Beaver. Set in Canada or Canadian author. Hag-Seed: The Tempest Retold
✔GEMINI
Element - Air. Cover is white Imperium
Month May - The President Is Missing
CANCER
Month June Niedertracht
Actor Meryl Streep : book by Brian W. AldissGalaxies Like Grains of Sand
✔LEO
Element Fire on Cover
Fahrenheit 451
Symbol - Lion. Set entirely in Africa The Sleeping Pool
✔VIRGO
Element - Earth. Earth-like planet on the cover. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Stone Amethyst. Main character is a princess Mort
✔LIBRA
Month - September
Zwetschgendatschikomplott
N American Zodiac- Raven. New Zealand author Artists in Crime
✔SCORPIO
Scorpion. “Poison” in title
The Arsenic Labyrinth
N American Zodiac - Snake. In Australia, or Australian author The Watchmaker's Daughter
✔SAGITTARIUS
Stone - Obsidian. Set in Hawaii. Torch Ginger
Superhero - New Release 2018 The Day Guard
✔CAPRICORN
Month - December Stille Nacht allerseits
Stone - Quartz. Time-travel book Paradox Bound
✔AQUARIUS
Month - January Hochsaison
Stone - Turquoise. Main theme is magic A Darker Shade of Magic
✔PISCES
Month - February Marly's Ghost
Actor - Glenn Close starred in Crooked House by Agatha Christie. Read Elephants Can Remember by same author.
Reserved
Sandra wrote: "Looks... intriguing... :)"Haha
Just reserving space for later (sorry for the pun)
I'm adding to my thread at break times...
LAUNCH SCHEDULE 1Well here goes - first launch schedule of the year, ETAs are some time in January 2018, destinations and other minor details are subject to change with little prior notice
Launch date: 2 January
Spacecraft name: Homegoing
Target Constellation: GEMINI
Mission patch: Stone agate / Face in profile
Medium: Audiobook
Updates: 20 Feb - half way through
Updates: 11 April - Finished! Gave up on the audiobook and borrowed a hardback from the library. Nice to hold a good solid book in my hands and read at a better pace.
Launch date: 3 January
Spacecraft name: Carrie
Target Constellation: VIRGO
Mission patch: Symbol / Maiden
Medium: Ebook
Updates: 20 Feb - launch well and truly postponed until at least March
Updates: 11 April - still outstanding (sigh)
Launch date: January tbc
Spacecraft name: The Dragon's Den
Target Constellation: SAGITTARIUS
Mission patch: Superhero Hawkeye / New release 2018
Medium: Ebook
Updates: 20 Feb - half way through (on hold for toppler)
Updates: 11 April - outstanding (need to relaunch - it's been a while)
Launch date: January tbc
Spacecraft name: The Gunslinger
Target Constellation: TAURUS
Mission patch: Bull / Western genre
Medium: Ebook
Updates: 20 Feb - complete!!
Launch date: January tbc
Spacecraft name: 2017 bestseller
Target Constellation: tbc
Mission patch: tbc
Medium: tbc
Updates: 20 Feb - launch cancelled : (
Mission reports to follow
Posting at 6am ... Can't sleep so thought I'd do something useful. First day back at work today. Alone in the office. I'm going to be soooooo tired! If you hear me snoring at my desk, please poke me...
Annerlee wrote: "Posting at 6am ... Can't sleep so thought I'd do something useful. First day back at work today. Alone in the office. I'm going to be soooooo tired! If you hear me snoring at my desk, please poke..."
I was the same yesterday (and today) good luck :)
Hahaha. Here, I am counting the hours until my kids come back to school tomorrow!
Ugh! I hate knowing I'm going to be tired like that on a work day.
Janice wrote: "Ugh! I hate knowing I'm going to be tired like that on a work day."Its rotten isn't it, the storm knocked my bins over last night a 2.30 and it is bin day tomorrow so I was up getting my rubbish back in and then wedging them so they didn't blow away again in a storm lol
You're brave putting the bins out in that storm. I would have just sucked it up for another week!
Rusalka wrote: "You're brave putting the bins out in that storm. I would have just sucked it up for another week!"Lol I cant ! last year the council replaced our one big bin with 4 approximately half the size (1 normal 3 recycling) I don't mind recycling obviously (although I am dubious about paper) but I think having 1 bin with more people picking through it afterwards (like they do anyway) would be better than having 4 bin wagons driving around my medium sized city (10 square miles I think) instead of 1 bin wagon.
also the new bins are so small you cant fit full bin liners in without cutting the bottom of the bin off and them getting stuck in the bin on bin day!
We should move this to the Watcha Doin' thread, poor Annerlee!But I have opinions on this, particularly as my brother did a tour of our recycling facilities here in Canberra.
lol I think I just replied in someone elses thread unless I replied to you in the watcha doin thread that you created. keeping my fingers crossed!
Cody wrote: "lol I think I just replied in someone elses thread unless I replied to you in the watcha doin thread that you created. keeping my fingers crossed!"I think you got your wires crossed... however wheelie bins + wind is a hot local topic where I live.
We don't have individual bins in the Shetland Isles at the moment (too windy), however the local council (SIC) is trying to introduce them, complete with suggestions on how to keep them anchored. The first suggestion was to put a few heavy rocks in the bottom... Locals aren't convinced.
See http://www.shetnews.co.uk/news/15436-...
*snort* I love it. The rocks wouldn't work as when the bin tips, it'd end up in the truck. But I love the occy strap idea.You Scots are a practical bunch! Who would have thought this would have posed so much of an issue? But completely makes sense when you think about the weather in the Shetlands!
Rusalka wrote: "*snort* I love it. The rocks wouldn't work as when the bin tips, it'd end up in the truck. But I love the occy strap idea.You Scots are a practical bunch! Who would have thought this would have p..."
Just saw your post Rusalka. Yes, we're very practical up here and quite vocal with our opinions (lol).
Badge 1, book 2GEMINI
Symbol - Twins. more than one title. Link both titles with the edition you read first. After the Funeral is also known as Funerals Are Fatal
Badge 1, Book 4AQUARIUS
N American Zodiac - Otter. Set primarily in Switzerland or the Netherlands, or by Swiss or Dutch authors. Frankenstein Unbound
Set mainly in Switzerland
Were these all Toppler related?
Janice wrote: "Were these all Toppler related?"Yes... is it that obvious?
Considering that I've been kept quite busy since the toppler.... LOL!
Annerlee wrote: "Badge 1, Book 5 The last one from the February toppler. Quite a productive week ; )
Cherie wrote: "Annerlee wrote: "The Colorado Kid"I thought it was terrible!"
I noticed that Cherie, but only after I'd finished. I think it was just the right book at the right time for me, being the only short Stephen King I had to hand. I read it despite the cover and without any expectations at all. I just wanted a storyteller to tell me a tale in one sitting. It was perfect for that.
If I had read the blurb, or expected a full blown whodunnit, or believed the cover I might have hated it too.
As it was, I loved the 'old codger' characters and it was set on an island - which definitely went in its favour. And it was lucky number 13 for the challenge too ; )
(I gave it 5 stars... really sorry)
UPDATE:Making progress. If I'd got my act together and read books for round 1 first, I could request my first badge now. As it is, my reading's all over the place - I already have a book finished for badge 3. What a scatter brain!
Oh well. Why change a habit of a lifetime...?
You'll love this one...!! A book club & more
Books mentioned in this topic
Galaxies Like Grains of Sand (other topics)Galaxies Like Grains of Sand (other topics)
Paradox Bound (other topics)
The Sleeping Pool (other topics)
The Sleeping Pool (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Brian W. Aldiss (other topics)Brian W. Aldiss (other topics)
Ngaio Marsh (other topics)
C.J. Archer (other topics)
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The challenge is to read 12 books throughout the year. You must select and read one book from each zodiac sign to complete the challenge. You may select from any of the seven categories, as long as you remember that you need to have each zodiac sign represented. If you wish, you may restrict yourself to one category. For example, you may choose to read all twelve tasks assigned to the superheroes.
Full description here
Badges
Badge One: 12 books
Badge Two: +24 books
An additional 2 rounds of the zodiac signs (24 additional books).
(36 in total)
Badge Three: +24 books
An additional 2 rounds of the zodiac signs (24 additional books).
(60 in total - YIKES!)
Badge Four: +24 books
Will be awarded when the remaining 2 rounds have been read
(84 in total - DOUBLE YIKES!!)
Months:
Book is set at least 50% during the specified month, OR the specified month is in the title.
Cover:
At least 70% has required colour
Go to - http://labs.tineye.com/color/
Movie titles:
Read the book the movie was adapted from / based on or a book with exactly the same title. Extraneous words are not allowed.
Notes:
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