The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

25.2 - Coralie's Task - Q & A
For this task you will need to select one of the following options...
A. Read a book with the word WHERE in the title AND a book with a place name in the title.
B. Read a book with the word WHEN in the title AND a book with a time or date in the title.
C. Read a book with the word WHO in the title AND a book with a person's name in the title.
D. Read a book with the word HOW in the title AND a book with an adverb in the title.
E. Read a book with the word WHY in the title AND a book with the word BECAUSE in the title.

EXAMPLES
A. Where the Heart Is & The Good Thief's Guide to Amsterdam
B. When You Are Engulfed in Flames & 1984
C. The Girl Who Played with Fire & Jane Eyre
D. How to Be Good & Quietly in Their Sleep
E. Thirteen Reasons Why & Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart

If you need suggestions OR have suggestions for books to read for this task post them here.

So clever!

I think I'm going with Part C - The Girl Who Played with Fire by Steig Larsson OR Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum AND The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly

NICE task! :)

Ohhh! I like this task!
What do you consider time/date? Is it only years? Like 1984, 1776, 2666? Or will you take numbers, that could be a time? Like 13, or "ten"? Or how about words denoting time? For example "forever"?
Thanks!

This is a cool task, but what happened to "what"? Although, on second thought, that'd almost be too easy...

Time to go rummage through my bookcase for books that'll work ^_^

This one is proving harder than I thought!! I can't believe I have nothing on my shelf!

It's a lot easier to do the question word first, then find a book that fits the second half. At least, that's what I found when I was book-hunting.

My TBR books have questions with no answers OR Answers with no Questions. Story of my life. LOL

If you use option (c), does it have to be a persons full name or is a first name enough? I was thinking about using: Alice I Have Been

From my shelves:

Where:
Where Angels Fear to Tread
This Is Where I Leave You
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman

When:
When Will There Be Good News?
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
When You Reach Me
Dream When You're Feeling Blue
Say When
If Not Now, When?
When We Were Orphans
When the Emperor Was Divine
When I Forgot
When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery

Who - lots of options

How:
How to Talk to a Widower
How Late It Was, How Late
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
How to Be Lost: A Novel
The Town That Forgot How to Breathe: A Novel
How the Dead Live
How I Live Now

Why:
The River Why, Twentieth-Anniversary Edition
Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why it Often Sucks in the City, or Who are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me?
Bitter is the New Black : Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office
Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest to Discover if Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, or Why Pie is Not the Answer
Why I'm Like This: True Stories
A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen
Thirteen Reasons Why

I'd like to use

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and
Amy and Isabelle: A Novel

Time:
Four Past Midnight
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Midnight's Children

Date:
The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956

Adverb:
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
In a Glass Darkly
Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously

LOVE THIS!!! So many options too!

I am guessing these can be fiction or nonfiction since the task does not specify...correct?

:) I love new tasks!!! But I really should be reading my last 3.75 books for Spring!

Nicole wrote: "I am guessing these can be fiction or nonfiction since the task does not specify...correct?

:) I love new tasks!!! But I really should be reading my last 3.75 books for Spring!"

*puts her teacher face on and points at the pile of 3.75 books* Off the comp! Go read! Now! *_~

Ms. Anderson...I am a teacher too and I am giving you about a decade's worth of teacher face right back! lol

Well that was quick and easy- found two off the TBR that I am DYING to read:

The Girl Who Chased the Moon
and
Loving Frank

Nicole wrote: "Ms. Anderson...I am a teacher too and I am giving you about a decade's worth of teacher face right back! lol

Well that was quick and easy- found two off the TBR that I am DYING to read:

[book:The..."

So, your teacher face just kicked my teacher face into the mud and danced on it. But now that you've picked your books, you can go finish so we can see your task~

Ms Anderson wrote: "Nicole wrote: "Ms. Anderson...I am a teacher too and I am giving you about a decade's worth of teacher face right back! lol

Well that was quick and easy- found two off the TBR that I am DYING to r..."
AHHH. That's what this is about!!! LOL.

I know my task already. :)

You will probably need to wait until the weekend. I have a lot of paperwork and classroom cleaning to do and it is slowing my reading down!

Nicole wrote: "Ms Anderson wrote: "Nicole wrote: "Ms. Anderson...I am a teacher too and I am giving you about a decade's worth of teacher face right back! lol

Well that was quick and easy- found two off the TBR ..."

Well, of course that's what it's about...I'm antsy to start the new challenge and see what all the "pending" tasks are! Everyone is always so creative!

Get the kidlings to clean your room! Offer them extra credit or a chance to sit in your spinny chair! I'm sure there'd be SOMEONE to take you up on it *_~ As for paperwork...well, um...hmm. Well, read really fast and do it all Monday night!

PS: Sorry for hijacking your thread, Coralie ^_^;

Would an address count as a place name? Like would the Cedar Cove books by Debbie Macomber (311 Pelican Court, 44 Cranberry Point, 50 Harbor Street, etc.) work, for example?

I will try to answer and clarify as much as possible.
I am happy with fiction or nonfiction.
Who - just one name is sufficient.
Where - an address is fine.
When - it must be specifically a time or date, not just a number. A time of day, a day of the week or a month of the year is fine. Forever is too vague.
What - was left out deliberately as it would be too hard to define limits.

Coralie wrote: "I will try to answer and clarify as much as possible.

My big problem on this task is that I have too many choices, LOL! As soon as I read it, I got excited because it gave me places to fit a couple books that I really wanted to include - then another pair, then another pair.................. Great task!

Coralie, for When, is the name of a season such as summer okay, or is that too vague?
I am having way too much fun with this one--I may spend the whole challenge looking up book title questions and answers. To heck with reading books, I will become a Titlist.

Does Midnight for Charlie Bones work for a time?
Thanks.

Would titles like The Island Beneath the Sea or The Invisible Bridge work for where or are you looking for more specific places. Also, does the word season count for when as in The Whistling Season? Very nice task!

Would "before" or "after" work for time?

A few questions:

Labor Day: A Novel would count for a date, right?

You also said that books with a month in the title. Do books like April & Oliver: A Novel and What Dreams May Come work, or does it need to be referring to the actual month?

Thanks!

From my shelves:

Days of the week:
The Wednesday Wars
The Wednesday Sisters
Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
Saturday
Palm Sunday

I'm going to read Write it When I'm Gone and Four Past Midnight.

My plan: Why Did I Ever and
Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart

Yes, really great task, Coralie!

I'm planning on reading Those Who Save Us and either Jane Eyre or The Story of Lucy Gault. Very exited.

Great task, Coralie!

I think I'm going to read Those Who Save Us & either My Name is Mary Sutter or Major Pettigrew's Last Stand.

Let me see if I can catch up with these questions.
Where - needs to be a specific place name.
When - not a season, month names must refer to the month, before and after only when they are attached to a specific time or date, 'midnight' is fine and 'labor day' is fine.

Can the word in part one be in the subtitle of the book? For example:
Twinkie, Deconstructed: My Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods Are Grown, Mined (Yes, Mined), and Manipulated Into What America Eats, with HOW being the keyword?

Thanks in advance. Awesome task.

Amanda R. in Louisville

I saw this book listed in previous challenges and now it fits here! This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

Ok, I have HOW I Live Now ... but no book with an adverb in the title that I can see ...

I have a 'time' - The Book of Tomorrow - but no 'when'

I have several books with names in the title, but none with 'who'

Would some kind soul like to volunteer to check my TBR list for any matching books I've missed?!

http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/...

SuzieR wrote: "Would some kind soul like to volunteer to check my TBR list for any matching books I've missed?!"

Hi Suzie...I did a quick once through of your TBR and found:

Definitely Dead for ADVERB (definitely)
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon for WHO

Other options to consider, though I don't know if they would be acceptable or not:

Night Train to Lisbon
The Tea House on Mulberry Street

Hope this helps.

Yes to a subtitle.
Night Train to Lisbon works for where but not for when (night is being used as an adjective and is not specific enough in this case).
The Tea House on Mulberry Street is fine.
A collection of short stories is fine.

Jennifer, you are a STAR and I love you! Definitely Dead it will be (I have it in for another task at the moment, but I can swap that for a different one). Thank you so much :)

SuzieR wrote: "Thank you so much :)" You're welcome, Suzie. :D

Coralie, would The Hour I First Believed work as a book with time or date in the title?

Christinab wrote: "Coralie, would The Hour I First Believed work as a book with time or date in the title?"

No, sorry, it's not specific enough.

Ok, thank you.

is Midnight For Charlie Bones okay for time?

Kathy wrote: "is Midnight For Charlie Bones okay for time?"

In message 33, Coralie approved 'midnight' for a time word.

thanks--- sorry

For Part A, do the following work:
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, Hugo Winner (1977) by Kate Wilhelm
and
The House on Tradd Street by Karen White

Helen wrote: "For Part A, do the following work:
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, Hugo Winner (1977) by Kate Wilhelm
and
The House on Tradd Street by Karen White"

Yes, they will. I am using
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang myself.

Coralie wrote: "Helen wrote: "For Part A, do the following work:
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, Hugo Winner (1977) by Kate Wilhelm
and
The House on Tradd Street by Karen White"

Yes,..."

Coralie, I guess Cynthia is right in her task about reading what authors read - great minds think alike and read the same things. I am really looking forward to reading this Kate Wilhelm classic. Let me know what you think.

would The Restaurant at the End of the Universe work for where?

If so i'm going to read Where Are You Now? and restaurant at the end of the universe