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APRIL PICNIC CHALLENGE



Goal: Complete as many prompts as you can

Rules: 1. No cheating: only log the books you've started (even if you started it in any other month) and finished [in April] entirely.
2. Have fun! This isn't meant to “taunt” your reading any way, but to, rather, add up to the fun!

Instruction: Now that we are properly in spring, this challenge will be all about picnics! This challenge will be storyline based. For those who have never done a challenge like that, what it means is that you will receive prompts as you complete them. Once you complete the first set of prompts, you will be given the next set. This challenge is also crossword puzzle style: your prompts will be a list of words and you job is when you're reading, to look for a word from your list, and record them in your topics.

For this challenge, there will be a points system. You’ll get 1 point for each book you read, 1 point for each prompt you complete, plus points for the page count of the book chosen and 2 bonus points if you’ve never read the book you chose. For each picnic section you complete, you get five points.

Page count point system:

0-99 pages: 0.5 points
100-199 pages: 1 point
200-299 pages: 2 points
300-399 pages: 3 points
400-499 pages: 4 points
500-599 pages: 5 points
600-699 pages: 6 points
700+ pages: 7 points

HOW TO LOG YOUR BOOKS

Name: [sign-up name]
Book: [book title]
Author: [book's writer]
Page Count: [number of pages of your copy]
Section: [picnic name]
Prompt: [number prompt]
Quote: [sentence where the word is found]
Section Completed: [whether you completed a section or not]
Read Before: [yes/no]
Points: [how many points you have for logging specific book]
Total Points: [how many points you have in total]

EXAMPLE

Name: Scoodles
Book: The Fault in Our Stars (+1)
Author: John Green
Page Count: 313 (+3)
Section: Park Picnic
Prompt: 1. Basket (+1)
Quote: What's that?" "The laundry basket?"
Section Completed: No
Read Before: No (+2)
Points: 7

Picnic 1: Park Picnic

You and your good friends, Jacob and Claire, decide to get together for a picnic in the gorgeous spring weather. After much deliberation you decide to meet up at the your local park. The night before, you receive a text from Claire:

"Hey! for the picnic tomorrow, do you mind bringing these items?"

Collect all items to move on

1. Basket
2. Tablecloth
3. Sandwich
4. Blanket
5. Fruit

Name: Lisandra
Book: The Drowned Girls (+1)
Author: Loreth Anne White
Page Count: 492 (+4)
Section: Park Picnic
Prompt: 1. Basket (+1)
Quote: "I brought you a small turkey and fixings and stuff." She jerked her chin to the basket.
Section Completed: No
Read Before: No (2 bonus pts?)
Points: 8

Lisandra wrote: "Name: Lisandra
Book: The Drowned Girls (+1)
Author: Loreth Anne White
Page Count: 492 (+4)
Section: Park Picnic
Prompt: 1. Basket (+1)
Quote: "I brought you a small turkey and fixings and stuff." S..."

Perfect!

Scooooooodles wrote: "Lisandra wrote: "Name: Lisandra
Book: The Drowned Girls (+1)
Author: Loreth Anne White
Page Count: 492 (+4)
Section: Park Picnic
Prompt: 1. Basket (+1)
Quote: "I brought you a small turkey and fixi..."

Can I use one book for multiple words?

Lisandra wrote: "Scooooooodles wrote: "Lisandra wrote: "Name: Lisandra
Book: The Drowned Girls (+1)
Author: Loreth Anne White
Page Count: 492 (+4)
Section: Park Picnic
Prompt: 1. Basket (+1)
Quote: "I brought you a..."

Sadly, no. It's one book per prompt

Name: Lisandra
Book: Gods of Jade and Shadow (+1)
Author: Moreno-Garcia, Silvia
Page Count: 318 (+3)
Section: Park Picnic
Prompt: 5. Fruit (+1)
Quote: The land kept its riches in the dark, sprouting no trees with fruit.
Section Completed: No
Read Before: No (+2)
Points: 7
Total points: 15

Name: Lisandra
Book: Circe(+1)
Author: Madeline Miller
Page Count: 309 (+3)
Section: Park picnic
Prompt: fruit (+1)
Quote: On the third day he cut new oars, and I transformed water skins and filled them, then gathered up fruit.
Section completed: no
Read before: No (+2)
Points: 7
Total points: 22

Oh man. I already did that word.

Think I did it right this time.

Name: Lisandra
Book: Circe(+1)
Author: Madeline Miller
Page count: 248 (+2)
Section: Park picnic
Prompt: Blanket (+1)
Quote: I lowered him gently onto the pillow, pulling up the blanket and spinning a spell over the room to dull noise, to douse light.
Section completed: no
Read before: no (+2)
Points: 6
Total points: 21

Lisandra wrote: "Think I did it right this time.

Name: Lisandra
Book: Circe(+1)
Author: Madeline Miller
Page count: 248 (+2)
Section: Park picnic
Prompt: Blanket (+1)
Quote: I lowered him gently onto the pillow, ..."

Yep 😄

Name: Lisandra
Book: Haunting of Hill House (+1)
Author: Shirley Jackson
Page count: 130 (+1)
Section: Park Picnic
Prompt: Tablecloth (+1)
Quote: Eleanor thought that she would catch her foot in the checked tablecloth;
Section completed: no
Read before: no (+2)
Points: 5
Total points: 26

Challenge has ended! Thanks for participating!