SA Book & Challenge Lovers discussion

Oh cool!
I love it when someone goes to so much effort for a book... I once saw a book and the pages were like old paper? Like when you dye it with tea...

Lol I just bought that yesterday and decided to make it my colour task :P

Hehe nice!

Oh crap, I just realised task no.3 is for a surname only. I guess that rules out The End of Mr Y :(

I was findint it difficult to read something with an unusual narrator, as wel the books that I thought if I already read this year, well before July.

But I thought other people might like to read them if they are struggling:

THE LOVELY BONES - BY ALICE SEBOLD- NARRATED BY A DEAD GIRL.

THE AMULET OF SAMARKAND IS NARRATED BY BARTIMAEUS WHO IS A DJINN.(Think that counts)

PEONY IN LOVE - NARRATED BY A GHOST- I recently read this so thankgoodness.

I did find a book with 3 animals on the cover!! Fantastic Mr Fox By Roald Dahl, but its quite a short book.

Jane Austen was born in December so Im quite happy to read something of hers.

There are plenty of Award winning books, and some you wouldnt think of.

One thing Im not sure of is number 13?

The double Title book. Does this mean we have to read 2 books, or we just have to find a book that another writer has wrote with the same title?

Quite enjoying the challenge, as I dont normally liekd to be tied down to reading something I dont normally read, hence the challenge part. But this way you get to expereience different books.

Oh and a book not written orginally in English, you could read THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO BY STIEG LARSSON.

Written originally in Swedish.

Thanks for the unusual narrator suggestions Emma! Those all count :)

I actually found a few books with two animals on the cover as well:
A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong (there are little cave drawings of a deer and a horse)
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
Zoo City by Lauren Beukes (lots of animals)

13 does in fact involve two books.

I don't like being tied down to something I'm not interested in either, but I think what's nice about this challenge is that it's open-ended enough for you to make it suit your tastes :)

Just a few questions again:

Set in a City- The story is set and revolves around 1 major city
- can this be a fictional city? eg. Ankh-Morpork in the Discworld novels
- does the city have to be important to the plot somehow (eg. Sex and the City could not take place in Pretoria), or does it not matter if the city is unimportant (ie. any other city with its skyscrapers, traffic, crime, shops, restaurants could be host to the plot).

20. Read a book with a Country name in the title.
- I'm guessing that adjectives like French, Italian, Spanish don't count, but what about adjectives like 'American', 'Russian' or 'Brazilian'? Technically the actual names of the countries (America, Russia Brazil) are still within those words.

It can be a fictional city :) Any city that is important to the story.

I think we can let 'American', 'Russian' or 'Brazilian' slide as there are not a lot of books with country titles :)

Hi does Kresley Cole fall under a woman writing for women? She writes paranoraml romance which I think we can all agree is a female oriented genre, but I just want to be sure if it counts.

Yeah, I'd say paranormal romance (and the romance genre as a whole) is written for a female audience.

Lu wrote: "ANNOUNCEMENT: Nr 28: As long as the book has a animal on the cover its fine :) Its really hard finding one that has 2 on it. I searched and only find 2 in total."

Does count as a animal?

Is that a bird? I'd count it as an animal. One of the books I was going to use has cave drawings of a horse and some deer on it - no one said it has to be a realistic animal.

Yip its a bird :)

Does a dragon tattoo count then, would you say? Or are we going off the path?

Yup I'd count it as an animal. I read Shelters of Stone/The Stone Dwellings by Jean Auel for that one and it has sort of a cave drawing of a horse and fox on it.

Hmm, I think dragons might be pushing it.

Hehe, seems there are quite a few books with two animals on the cover. Not easy to search for though...

Lol its hard to draw the line :(

Ok so are we saying animals that do exist? (shame poor dragon hiding out there that we don't believe in :P)

Perhaps we should ask the Heather, as she nominated it?

Definitely. Heather are you reading this? Or should we message her asking what is classified as an animal?

Question.. Is Quidditch classified as a valid sport?

Had to Google that one :)
I'd say yes, but on the other hand we ruled out mythological creatures for animals, which makes it seem wrong to accept fictional sports.

This was also Heather's nomination. I'll message her about it.

Quidditch is awesome!!! But yea lets see what Heather says :)

The official word from Heather is that fictional sports and mythological creatures are fine, so go ahead :)

Yay :)

Ok Lauren please help

10. Read a book with an unusual narrator - a young child, an animal, an AI, a group narrator, etc. Vampires, werewolves, fairies, etc. DO NOT count.

Now... A Mermaid... Its not your normal narrator, and there aren't too many mermaid books out there.

Do they count?

Hmm, I guess, as long as the mermaid is a first-person narrator.

Sweet thanks!!

For those who plan to read this month's group read, Swan Song, I notice that there are many other books with the same name, so you could use them for challenge 13: Double Title.

Good idea!

I hope i get time to read the book!

Hi im sick in bed my computer has died so I have lost all my E-books and I've read all the books on my bookshelf. I am very happy however to re-read books. Is it ok to read books that we have read before for this challenge? Im assuming yes but just wanted to check.

yip re-reads count :)
as long as you don't read a book twice for the challenge :)

Does anyone have any suggestions for authors born in May? So far I've only found Angela Carter, Bertrand Russell and Niccolo Machiavelli. Angela Carter might be good, but I want more options. I like Russell and Machiavelli, but I don't know if I'll actually finish any of their books in the near future.

No romance (paranormal or otherwise) or chick-lit though.

If you're reading the Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare, you can read the third book City of Glass for no.13, along with City of Glass by Paul Auster.

Søren Kierkegaard
Sigmund Freud
Max Brooks
Arthur Conan Doyle
all born in May

Awesome, thanks Naz! I've got some Kierkegaard and Freud, and Max Brooks is on my wishlist :)