This group has been designated for adults age 18 or older. Please sign in and confirm your date of birth in your profile so we can verify your eligibility. You may opt to make your date of birth private.
You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion
Challenges: Monthly
>
November 2019 Reporting - Vexillologist Tendencies Embraced
date
newest »
newest »
WoF: KatrisaTunisian flag
flag of tunisia
I went with the moon on the flag - moon in the title - my book is
Scoring:
Pages: 4 points I listened to audio and hardcover pages=431
Link: 5 points I used the moon
Random: 2 points Lexx's criteria - Chardonnay!!!! Parish Lantern drinks Chardonnay in the book and I had some the night before! Mmmm.
Total: 11 points
WoF Almeta
The flag of Portugal is red and green; the Portuguese coat of arms is pictured where the two colors meet. The green symbolizes hope for the future; the red symbolizes the blood of the nation. ... The five blue small shields represent the five Moorish kings who were defeated by the first King of Portugal.
☊Blindness
How many pages? (following the rules above) :
3 pts - 326 pages
How did you come up with your link
José Saramago is from Golegã, Azinhaga, Portugal (view spoiler)
2 pts – written by an author from that country
• Lexx's random criteria – Something you have drunk in the last day is drunk in the book. It has to be explicitly mentioned, not implied. And it's in the past 24 hours from when you read it in the text.
2 points – I bet Lexx had something alcoholic in mind...but the characters and I did drink water,
7 points total
Almeta wrote: "I bet Lexx had something alcoholic in mind..."Nope, he didn't :)
Rusalka wrote: "Almeta wrote: "I bet Lexx had something alcoholic in mind..."Nope, he didn't :)"
Oh, I thought I was being so clever!☻
WoF - LynnMalaysian Flag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of...
Book read: Twice in a Blue Moon
Link: Moon on the flag, and moon on the cover
How many pages?: 3 pts - 301-400
How did you come up with your link: 5 pts – related to an icon on the flag
Cover: 0 pts
Random November Points!: 0 pts
Total Points: 8
WoF Name - LanelleOne of the flags the randomizer gave me was Norfolk Island
. I decided to read a book with one large tree on the cover.
has been on my TBR list for a while now. Now seemed the time to read it :)Here's my scoring -
How many pages?:
2 pts – 201-300 (listened to the audio book, hardcover has 224 pages.)
How did you come up with your link?
5 pts – related to an icon on the flag (one large tree)
3 pts – main colour of the flag is 75% of the cover (tineye says it's 86.4% green)
Cover
1 pt – There is a tree on the cover
2 points for Lexx's random criteria – Something you have drunk in the last day is drunk in the book: characters and I both drank water (I do wish that I had had orange juice for breakfast though :)
Total points: 13
Rusalka, I wasn't sure about "How did you come up with your link". 4 pts – all the colours of the flag are easily identifiable on the cover
There's obviously enough green, but I wasn't sure if the white was easily identifiable enough to claim these points. There's only a few scattered white clouds under the tree. Can you give me a ruling?
WoF - JaniceI went with the flag of Coromos, using the crescent moon and stars:
The book I chose was The Wicked Deep because of the crescent moon and stars on the cover.
Scoring:
3 pts - Pages (HC 310 pgs)
5 pts - Selection was based on the crescent moon and stars on the flag
0 pts - Cover
2 pts - a woman owns a business herself. Rose's mother owned and ran a specialty cake called "Alba's Forgetful Cakes", guaranteed to help you forget your woes.
2 pts - Lexx's task. I was drinking a glass of wine, while the girls were drinking wine snatched from their parents liquor cabinets.
Total points - 12 points
WoF Anna MThe flag of Lebanon
i read
as it has trees on the coverpages: 4 pts
cover: 1 pt (There is a tree on the cover)
Random November Points! - 2 pts each
A character in the book has a noticeable hat
A character in the book is a teacher
total: 9
WoF - Jayme
Flag of ArgentinaI read The Great Passage
and chose this book because there is a sun on the flag of Argentina and a rising sun on the cover of my book.Scoring:
2 pts - 222 pages
5 pts - related to an icon on the flag (the icon is the sun)
2 pts - Women's Entrepreneurship Day - Kaguya, Mitsuya's wife, opens her own restaurant Back of the Moon
2 pts - Lexx's random criteria - Professor Matsumoto drank several glasses of Shaoxing wine and I also drank several glasses of wine last night at a birthday celebration and a good time was had by all.
11 Total Points
HoF - Lucy
by Ralph EllisonConnection - American Flag on the Cover
POINTS:
Pages:
* 439 (Hardcover) - 4pts
Links:
* All flag colors present on the cover - 4pts
* Written by an author from your flag's country - 2pts
* Set in the flag's country - 1pt
Cover:
* There is a flag on the cover - 5pts
Random Points:
* Your flag is on the cover - 2pts
* A character is mentioned wearing a Panama Hat - 2pts
* Several minor characters are teachers as some of the story takes place at school - 2pts
* Lexx's Criteria - coffee and water are both consumed and I drink both of those every day - 2pts
Total: 24pts
Lucy wrote: "HoF - Lucy by Ralph EllisonConnection - American Flag on the Cover..........
Total: 24pts -..."
Holy Cow!
Thanks Peggy & Lanelle!LOL Almeta, that's what I thought! All of those bonus points added up fast!
And the book itself, wow, heavy read, but it was good.
WOF: JanneneMy choices:
I picked Japan but really 3 of the flags were red and white. One had blue.
I picked
because the cover is white and red to match the flag of Japan. Scoring:
How many pages? (following the rules above) :
4 pts - 432 pages
How did you come up with your link
4 pts – all the colours of the flag are easily identifiable on the cover (cover is red and white)
Random November Points! - 2 pts each
2 points - The author is Swedish
2 points - A female character in the book owns a business herself - she is a true crime writer
Total points 12 points
WofF TrudyAnOne of the flags the randomizer gave me was Greenland:
There are only two colours on the flag: red and white. I readDoppler
for the challenge, which has an entirely red and white cover. The colour looks a bit red/orange on my monitor, but the physical book cover is very definitely red.Pages
1 pt - 200 or less (183 pages)
How did you come up with your link?
4 pts - the colours of the flag are easily identifiable on the cover (both the flag and the book cover are entirely red and white)
Cover
0 pts
Random November Points
2 pts Lexx's random criteria – Something you have drunk in the last day is drunk in the book. - Doppler and I both drink milk daily, including the day that I read that he first mentioned drinking milk daily.
Total points: 7 points
Cherie wrote: "Here is her book link. I was just curious. :*)Doppler
."Thanks, Cherie! I was so frustrated by trying to post an image, when I finally did get it right, I forgot to add the book links! Cherie to the rescue. (Edited above)
TrudyAn wrote: "Thanks, Cherie! I was so frustrated by trying to post an image, when I finally did get it right, I forgot to add the book links! Cherie to the rescue. (Edited above)..."That is part of why I am not doing the challenge this month. I get enough stress trying to figure out new things at work. After I figured out your book link, I could not help but post it for you.
TrudyAn wrote: "Cherie wrote: "Here is her book link. I was just curious. :*)Doppler
."Thanks, Cherie! I was so frustrated by trying to post an image, when I finally d..."
Oh man, so many complications. Bloody Rusalka!
TrudyAn wrote: "The colour looks a bit red/orange on my monitor, but the physical book cover is very definitely red."I totally get this. I believe you.
WoF margoI based this challenge on the flag of Turkey. I read
based on the colour of the cover.
Scoring:
3 pts - 384
3 pts – main colour of the flag is 75% of the cover
total: 6pts
WoF Fiona I got the following countries: Sudan, French Guiana, Sweden, South Africa, Belarus, Liechtenstein, American Samoa and Bahrain and I chose
Sweden
and I read Ein Mann namens Ove by Fredrik Backman.
Points:
368 pages - 3 points
written by an author from Sweden - 2 points
set in Sweden - 1 point
one of the characters is a teacher (Ove's wife is/was a teacher) - 2 points
a character drank coffee and I did too - 2 points
Total: 10
WoF PeggyI chose the Australian flag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of...
The book I chose is
I chose this one because the Australian flag looks like stars against a night sky, and this cover resembles that.
Scoring:
How many pages? (following the rules above) :
4 pts - 401-500
How did you come up with your link
5 pts – related to an icon on the flag, eg. the crane in the middle of the Ugandan flag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of...
Cover
-
Random November Points! - 2 pts each
• Some one mentions they are a vegan - World Vegan Day
• A character in the book is a teacher - Teacher's Day (Spain)
• The author is Swedish or Finnish - Finnish Swedish Heritage Day
• A female character in the book owns a business herself - Women's Entrepreneurship Day
• A character in the book gets a sore throat - St Andrew's day, the patron saint for protection against sore throat
• Lexx's random criteria – Something you have drunk in the last day is drunk in the book. It has to be explicitly mentioned, not implied. And it's in the past 24 hours from when you read it in the text
Total points: 21
(I can't believe this one had so many of the random points!)
Wow, that's a lot of bonus points! Great score!
WoF SuzanneThe Flag: Panama Flag
Book I chose: Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl
3 pts. - 334 pages
4 pts. - Red, white and blue easily identifiable on the cover
2 pts. - a character in the book has a noticeable hat (Ruth goes undercover as a restaurant critic. One of her "characters" wears a ghastly hat!)
2 pts - Ruth drinks wine quite a bit while dining out for her work. As luck would have it, I drink wine quite a bit, too, and met the criteria for drinking wine on the same day;)
Can you believe it - a book about restaurants and food, and not one vegan in the bunch!
Total points: 11 pts
WoF VickiI used the flag of Denmark
Read
for the white cross on the red background.Points:
Pages
3 pts - 341 pages
How did you come up with your link
5 pts – related to an icon on the flag
Random
2 pts - A female character in the book owns a business herself - Women's Entrepreneurship Day- MC's boss Penny owns the business.
2 pts - Lexx's random criteria – Something you have drunk in the last day is drunk in the book. Wine was drunk in the book and also by me.
Total
12 pts
WoF AyaFlag I used: UK
Book I read: The Railway Children
Scoring:
Pages
2 pts － 288 pages
Link
4 pts – all the colours of the flag are easily identifiable on the cover (the dress and the flag)
2 pts – written by an author from that country
1 pt – set in that country (I don't know if I should count these as well, so I don't)
Cover
5 pts – There is a flag on the cover
Random November Points
2 pts － A character in the book has a noticeable hat (almost all the characters wore hats)
2 pts － A character in the book is a teacher (Aunt Emma is a governess, if it counts)
2 pts － A character in the book gets a sore throat (Mother got a sore throat)
2 pts － Lexx's random criteria – Something you have drunk in the last day is drunk in the book. It has to be explicitly mentioned, not implied. And it's in the past 24 hours from when you read it in the text (We had tea)
Total score: 19 pts
Wow, lots of high scores! Looks like I might be a candidate for the glue stick 😁
WOF Tasha
292 pages - 2 points
main color of flag is 75% of cover (white) - 3 point
tree on cover - 1 point
6 points
WOF ShirleyThe flag of Isle of Man
I read
Points:
2 pts for 288 pages
3 pts for the main colour (red) being 75% of the cover
Total: 5 points.
But I did learn a lot about the flag of Isle of Man. It seems it's a mystery as to why the triskelion, which dates back to the 13th century, was originally adopted as the icon for the flag. The three legs are known in Manx as ny tree cassyn ("the three legs"). Unfortunately I couldn't find a book with 3 legs on the cover. lol
WoF - JennI picked the flag of the Holy See, which has a pair of keys crossed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of...
So, I read The Key to Justice
Pages: Paperback - 374 pages - 3 points
Link: Key on flag, key in title - 5 points
Random: Women's Entrepreneurship Day - Connie is both a landlord and has her own lawyer practice, Margaret is a judge, and Maddy has her own private investigation agency - 2 points
Total - 10 points
WOF: GrainneFlag: Swaziland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eswatini
Link: In the center of the Swaziland flag are some spears and on the cover of the book the diver is holding a spear for fishing and gathering abalone from rocks.
Score:
3 points: 374 pages
Cover:
5 points:
There is a spear on the flag and a spear on the cover of
the book. The diver uses the spear for fishing in the story.
4 points:
all colors of the flag are on the book. Blue is the ocean, black is the rock, white is the costume, red is the seaweed, yellow is the fern or sea plant of some sort.
Random:
2 points:
St Catherine's Day: the characters wear a swim hat as part of their costume
2 points:
A character is a teacher: her husband is a teacher
2 points:
Women's Entrepreneurship Day: the main character has her own diving business and sells the abalone she catches.
Total: 18 points
WoF name: Kristie
I read Midnight at the Blackbird Café
. I chose it because there is an outline of a bird on the cover (pie cutout) and an outline of a bird on the Kazakhstan flag (below the sun). I thought they looked similar - round sun, round pie, outline of bird, background blue, details yellowish...Scoring:
How many pages?: 3
3 pts - 301-400 (336 pages)
How did you come up with your link: 12
5 pts – related to an icon on the flag
4 pts – all the colours of the flag are easily identifiable on the cover (explain) - flag is blue with yellow details, so is cover - they seem similar to me.
3 pts – main colour of the flag is 75% of the cover
Cover: 0
Random November Points! 2 pts each: 8
• A character in the book has a noticeable hat
• A character in the book is a teacher (Does retired count?)
• A female character in the book owns a business herself
• Something you have drunk in the last day is drunk in the book.
Total: 23
WoF name - Amanda(Lily)Flag: USA
I read Recovered: How an Accident, Alcohol, and Addiction Led Me to God. The author is from the US and the book is set in the southern US. I ran out of time to read something that fit a more interesting flag. :)
I really liked this book. I love spiritual memoirs, and this one was well written and engaging.
Scoring:
How many pages?
2 pts – 201-300 (272)
How did you come up with your link?
2 pts – written by an author from that country
1 pt – set in that country
Total: 5 points
WoF Annerlee
I read Ship of Magic for the challenge, which I linked to the Iranian flag.
My link: (view spoiler)
Points (presuming you like my links...)
Pages: read on ebook. Hardbook edition has 685 pages.
5 pts
Link is related to content on the flag (takbir / religious text)
5 pts
Cover has a flag
5 pts
Amber, a female character in the book owns a business selling wooden beads and carvings.
2 pts
A character in the book has a noticeable hat
Kennit the pirate wears a hat with his getup when he wants to make a good impression
2 pts
Something you have drunk in the last day is drunk in the book.
drinks - tea, coffee, water, wine, rum. I drank the first four...
2 pts
Total points: 21
WoF - RusalkaI read The Devil's Star
for Curacao (the star on the flag matches the star in the title and the star on the cover). [image error]
How many pages?
5 pts – 501+
How did you come up with your link
5 pts – related to an icon on the flag
Random November Points! - 2 pts each
• Lexx's random criteria – Something you have drunk in the last day is drunk in the book. It has to be explicitly mentioned, not implied. And it's in the past 24 hours from when you read it in the text. - so much beer and coffee consumed, less by me but still enough to meet the criteria.
Total - 12 points
Lanelle wrote: "Rusalka, I wasn't sure about "How did you come up with your link". 4 pts – all the colours of the flag are easily identifiable on the coverThere's obviously enough green, but I wasn't sure if the white was easily identifiable enough to claim these points. There's only a few scattered white clouds under the tree. Can you give me a ruling?"
I swear I answered this last month... I remember writing it and looking at your cover...
That's all good Lanelle :)
Rusalka wrote: "I swear I answered this last month... I remember writing it and looking at your cover...That's all good Lanelle :)"
No worries, Rusalka. It's amazing how some posts tend to disappear.
You'll love this one...!! A book club & more
Books mentioned in this topic
The Devil's Star (other topics)Ship of Magic (other topics)
Recovered: How an Accident, Alcohol, and Addiction Led Me to God (other topics)
Midnight at the Blackbird Café (other topics)
The Key to Justice (other topics)
More...
Authors mentioned in this topic
Fredrik Backman (other topics)Isabel Allende (other topics)
Of course you know what I am talking about. Any self respecting adult would have some interest in the field, and unleash the vexillologist within in them every now and then. Walk down the street and chuckle to themselves passing by a government building, satisfying the vexillophile that dwells within.
...
no?
... *cough*
According to wikipedia, which makes me an instant expert on everything, "Vexillology is the study of the history, symbolism and usage of flags or, by extension, any interest in flags in general."
So this month, we are raising multiple flags and letting them wave in the wind! I would like you to head to this website: https://www.randomlists.com/random-co...
This will pull up eight random flags from around the world. I would like you to read a book that ties into ONE of them.
(I apologise if anyone's flag is wonky or clipped on this website. The Aussie flag is very weird. This is indicative only.)
How it does is up to you.
Flag of Curaçao? Read a book set on a beach with that line of sand between the sea and the sky on the flag.
Flag of Japan? Read a book with a rising sun on the cover.
Flag of Sri Lanka? Read a book with lions in it (with or without swords).
Flag of Sweden? Read a book with a cover that is mostly blue with a bit of yellow.
Flag of Chile? Read a book by Chilean author Isabel Allende
IN THE REPORTING THREAD:
Tell me your Wall of Fame name.
Tell me the flag you are using.
Post a picture of/link to the flag.
Explain the link like I am 5.
Score.
We would appreciate your thinklings and your options in the convo thread below as we are all noisy (edit: this should have read nosey, but noisy works too) and interested, but you must have those things in your reporting thread for me to score you.
Hoping some interesting reads pop out, see if there are some more figurative links you can tease out. Or travel somewhere new. All are good options and open you to the world of Vexillology, which I had no idea was a thing until 30 mins ago!
General Rules:
1. The book may be in any format - paperback, ebook, audiobook.
2. The book may be in any genre.
3. The book may NOT be combined with the Year Long Challenge.
4. The book must be read between November 1 – November 31, 2019 (based on your local time zone).
5. The challenge is for one book. You may read more books if you chose.
6. The book must be 175 pages or more determined by the issue you read. If reading an audiobook or ebook, page numbers will be determined by the hardcover issue. If there is no hardcover, then paperback issue. Where there are more than one editions, the one with the highest number of ratings will be used.
Scoring:
How many pages? (following the rules above) :
5 pts – 501+
4 pts - 401-500
3 pts - 301-400
2 pts – 201-300
1 pt - 200 or less
How did you come up with your link
5 pts – related to an icon on the flag, eg. the crane in the middle of the Ugandan flag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of...
4 pts – all the colours of the flag are easily identifiable on the cover (explain)
3 pts – main colour of the flag is 75% of the cover (check http://labs.tineye.com/color/ if unsure)
2 pts – written by an author from that country
1 pt – set in that country
Cover
5 pts – There is a flag on the cover (very meta)
4 pts – There is a moth on the cover (I keep misreading month)
3 pts – There is a skull on the cover - Day of the Dead
2 pts – The cover is over 75% orange (check http://labs.tineye.com/color/ if unsure)
1 pt – There is a tree on the cover - multiple Arbor Days around the world
Random November Points! - 2 pts each
• The flag on the cover of the book is the same flag as the country you are linking too - Meta Squared.
• Some one mentions they are a vegan - World Vegan Day
• Feminism is listed on top genres on the book page- National Men Make Dinner Day (United States) (why is this a thing?!?!)
• A character in the book has a noticeable hat - St Catherine's Day, patron saint of milliners
• A character in the book is a teacher - Teacher's Day (Spain)
• The author is Swedish or Finnish - Finnish Swedish Heritage Day
• A female character in the book owns a business herself - Women's Entrepreneurship Day
• A character in the book gets a sore throat - St Andrew's day, the patron saint for protection against sore throat
• Lexx's random criteria – Something you have drunk in the last day is drunk in the book. It has to be explicitly mentioned, not implied. And it's in the past 24 hours from when you read it in the text.