The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Jen K's Task: Egyptian Spring

My first day of March was spent arriving in Cairo where I will be working for the next month. It is my first time to visit and while it will be mostly work, I do hope to do a bit of exploring.

This is a one book task. Read a book of at least 200 pages that satisfies one of the following three options.

Required: State the option you used.

Option 1: The Nile. The river is beautiful and central to the city and I’m excited to watch the sunset on a felucca tomorrow. Read a book were all the letters in “NILE” can be found in the title. The letters do not need to be intact or consecutive. Subtitles are excluded.

Option 2: The Pyramids. I cannot leave without visiting the pyramids. As a math teacher, I’ve often used the pyramids as a real-life example of a 3 dimensional shape. The base is a polygon (flat with straight edges) and all other faces are triangles which means no curves!
Read a book written by a single author whose initials (all initials) are made of letters without curves. Letters may be reused, as in LL, Laura Lippman

Letters without curves for this task include: A, E, F, H, I, K, L, M, N, T, V, W, X, Y and Z.

Option 3: Religion. Ramadan will start at the end of my trip and next month will celebrate both Coptic Easter and Eid al-Fitr which are the major two holidays in Egypt. The market is already full of colorful lanterns to ready for Ramadan.
Read a book with a word in the title or subtitle of at least 4 letters/characters that can be made using only the letters found in either "Coptic Easter" or "Eid al-Fitr".
ex. Eid al-Fitr, fire: Heir of Fire
Coptic Easter, escape: The Escape Room

Required: State the holiday chosen and the word.

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This help thread is open.

I want to read The Dharma Bum's Guide to Western Literature: Finding Nirvana in the Classics for this task. I read the Kindle edition. Neither that nor the paperback edition have listed the page count on the Goodreads listing. Help!

Cindie wrote: "I want to read The Dharma Bum's Guide to Western Literature: Finding Nirvana in the Classics for this task. I read the Kindle edition. Neither that nor the paperback edition have li..."

Cindie, try this link. If that’s not the right place, I’m sure a mod will direct you.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Sorry for delay, I'm still in Egypt. @Cindie, please use the ebook verification thread to sort out the page count.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

You could also check the Librarian Help thread to get page numbers and a print copy added to the Goodreads data.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Jen K wrote: "Sorry for delay, I'm still in Egypt. @Cindie, please use the ebook verification thread to sort out the page count.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/......"

Egypt sounds fabulous! Thank you for response. I am trying the ebook verification thread first! Have fun

Thanks Cindie and good luck! Thanks NancyJ for the back up support!

I hope you’re having a great time on Egypt!