The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

10.3 - Wicked
Wicked, a Broadway musical based on the 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire is retelling of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Nominated for the 2004 Best Book, Best Musical, and Best Original Score it ultimately lost to Avenue Q. The show is currently (sort of) running at the Apollo Victoria Theatre in London's West End and at the Gershwin Theatre on Broadway.

Read a book with a title of 3 or more words in which the initial letter of each word can be found in APOLLO VICTORIA and/or GERSHWIN. Letters may only be used as many times as they appear in the theatre names. Subtitles should be ignored.

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Would this book work for this task?

No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention

Thanks,
Steve

Steve wrote: "Would this book work for this task?

No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention

Thanks,
Steve"

Yes. NR in GERSHWIN; R in VICTORIA.

Does this work:

Tell No One / Gone For Good?

Tell No One would work for APOLLO VICTORIA and/or GERSHWIN

apOllo vicToria and geshwiN

But it is a book with both stories in it (Kindle actually) so I was not sure if that counted.

Also, the page count as Kindle counts it is 670 but GR does not list it as having a page count. Can I still use it as a big book?

Thanks!

Cindie wrote: "Does this work:

Tell No One / Gone For Good?

Tell No One would work for APOLLO VICTORIA and/or GERSHWIN

apOllo vicToria and geshwiN

But it is a book with both stories in it (Kind..."

Rule #2.11 covers omnibus bundles like this:

11. Books identified as an "omnibus" (a volume of reprinted works of a single author or of related works), as a "bundle" (a digital collection of works of a single author or of related works) or as collected works (The Complete .... , anthologies, etc.) may be isolated into component parts and read separately as long as the isolated work has been published separately and meets the minimum page requirements.
The Harry Bosch Novels, Volume 1: The Black Echo / The Black Ice / The Concrete Blonde contains 3 independently published titles: The Black Echo, The Black Ice, The Concrete Blonde. These titles in this omnibus may be read as separate books.

If you choose to read an element isolated from an aggregate work, you MUST include a link to the book (isbn/asin) that you read AND provide a link to a separately published work that relates to the isolated title. The use of particular title words, cover colors, or cover images to fulfill tasks applies to the actual book that you read. That means:
>tasks involving elements in the title/subtitle are determined by the isolated work
>tasks involving the author/author name are determined by the isolated work
>tasks involving the book's cover are determined by the book that you read. If an omnibus includes individual covers for the isolated works use the cover for the individual title. If the only cover image is the cover of the aggregate work use that cover.

Page numbers should be determined by the copy you read. If a component part has 200 pages in the print edition you read, record those numbers. For digital or audio formats follow the page number guidelines in item 7 above for the isolated title.

Reading the complete omnibus (Tell No One / Gone For Good) wont' work for this task because all the letters TNOGFG would need to be in the target word(s). However, you can choose to read only Tell No One for this task if you wish and that would work. You could use Gone For Good for another task this Season or use it later.

If you choose to read separate elements of the omnibus, the page number for the isolated title would need to be above the Big Book threshold in order to obtain a Big Book ticket.

Kristina Simon wrote: "Cindie wrote: "Does this work:

Tell No One / Gone For Good?

Tell No One would work for APOLLO VICTORIA and/or GERSHWIN

apOllo vicToria and geshwiN

But it is a book with both stor..."

Thank you!! That makes perfect sense!!