You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion

There's going to be a bit of preparation for the August challenge, so I thought I'd let you get a start.

Below are 15 pairings. Chose 5 of them. Write the full pairing and then your preference.

Eg. IF Black or White was a pairing (it's not) and you chose black, you'd write:
Black or White - Black

You must state your choices before gophering. Late comers to the party will need to do this step first.

Be careful, it could be tricksy!

Sugar or Spice
Plane or Boat
Rose or Lily
Sun or Moon
Hawk or Owl
Country or City
Dress or Jeans
Beer or Wine
Flowers or Chocolate
Leather or Cotton
Cat or Dog
Ocean or Lake
Apple or Orange
Blue or Pink
King or Jack

Let the chosing begin. In a week or so, I'll post the rest of the challenge.

THE CHALLENGE:

The challenge is to read a book that contains the words you chose in the "this or that" selection. The goal is to use all five. It's acceptable to use as many of them as you can, but the score will reflect the number used. No, you may not go back and change it now. You were warned.

How do I use the words I selected?
- It may be in the title or subtitle (must be full word eg Sun, not Sunflower)
- It may be author's first or last name (must be full word eg King, not Kingston)
- It may be a character's name, or it and the character may share the first letter (eg Sun may be paired with Samuel.)
- It may be an item in the book.
- It may be a location, or it and the location may share the first letter (eg Apple may be paired with Atlanta
- It could be on the cover of the issue you read (either colour or item)

Just as an example, I used 5 this or that pairings that are not included in the choices for the challenge:

Black/White - Black
Day/Night - Night
Rain/Snow - Rain
Happy/Sad - Happy
Sweet/Tart - Sweet

Black could be Title (Black Beauty)
Black could be Name of Author (Written by Holly Black)
Black could be Name of Character (Joe Black)
Black could be an item in the book (Black box)
Black could be a location (Boston)
Black could be main colour of cover
Black could be item on cover (Black dog)

Using all five words from the example, I was able to find this book:

Red Rain (Night #4) by R.S. Black
Black - Author name
Night - Title word
Rain - Title word
Happy - First letters in location Heaven and Hell
Sweet - First letter of character name Scarlet Woman

General Rules:
1. The book may be in any format - paperback, ebook, audiobook.
2. The book may be in any genre.
3. The book may NOT be combined with the Year Long Serial Killer Challenge.
4. The book must be read between August 1 to August 31 (based on your own time zone).
5. The challenge is for one book. You may read more books if you chose, but only the highest scoring book will apply.
6. The book must be 175 pages or more determined by the issue you read. If reading eBook or audiobook page numbers will be determined by the issue that comes up on a Goodreads search.
7. Points are based on the issue you read.

Scoring:

10 pts - all 5 words
8 pts - 4 words
6 pts - 3 words
4 pts - 2 words
2 -pts - 1 word

Genre:
5 pts - non-fiction
4 pts - Paranormal Romance
3 pts - Chick Lit
2 pts - Mystery
1 pts - Steampunk

Pages:

5 pts -500+ pages long
4 pts - 400-499 pages long
3 pts - 300-399 pages long
2 pts - 200-299 pages long

August Observances:

3 pts - there is an infant under the age of 1, in honour of National Breastfeeding Month.
3 pts - there is a clown in the story, in honour of National Clown Week
3 pts - red on the cover, in honour of Stop on Red Week (whatever that is)
3 pts - if the main character has a sister, in honour of Sister's Day (Aug 2)
3 pts - if a character quotes poetry, in honour of Bad Poetry Day (Aug 18)

Have fun!

reserved

Sun or Moon - Sun
Beer or Wine - Wine
Flowers or Chocolate - Chocolate
Cat or Dog - Cat
Ocean or Lake - Ocean

This sounds so interesting


Plane or Boat - Boat
Sun or Moon - Moon
Hawk or Owl - Owl
Ocean or Lake - Ocean
Blue or Pink - Blue

The Light Between Oceans

blue - on cover
ocean- title
moon- on cover
boat- in story
owl-

Oh boy, this has gotta be good!☻

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Emily of New Moon
Cat or Dog ~ Cat on the cover
Ocean or Lake ~ Atlantic Ocean
Sugar or Spice ~ Spice and the St. Lawrence River
Sun or Moon ~ Moon in the title
Flowers or Chocolate ~ Flowers on the cover

I feel as if I am answering one of those magazine quizzes..."If you like cats you are aloof; if you like dogs you are loyal, if you like the moon you are a daydreamer; if you like the sun you like volleyball!"☻

Is Miss Tutti Fruity about to predict more about our personalities?

Wow, that was fast Camilla!

I may have to use the fruit machine so as to not unduly influence my choices.

Almeta wrote: "Oh boy, this has gotta be good!☻"

*evil laugh*

Heheheheheheehe!

Janice wrote: "Wow, that was fast Camilla!"

Just happened to be around when you posted. And now I want chocolate.

Soooooo intriguing!

Rose or Lily - Lily
Country or City - Country
Dress or Jeans - Jeans
Apple or Orange - Orange
Blue or Pink - Blue

Cat or Dog - Cat
Hawk or Owl - Owl
Sun or Moon - Moon
King or Jack - King
Blue or Pink - Pink

I can't wait to find out what you have got planned for us Janice!

I should mention that you can change your choices up until the remainder of the challenge is posted. Once that happens, you're married to your choices.

Sounds fun!

County or City-Country
Dress or Jeans-Jeans
Flowers or Chocolate-Chocolate
Cat or Dog-Dog
Ocean or Lake-Lake

Reading: A Three Dog Life
Country: main character moves to small country town
Jeans:
Chocolate:
Dog: Dog in title
Lake:

Should we answer all of the pairings? Or just choose the ones that appeal to us the most?

I have the feeling I am painting myself into a corner....

Sugar or Spice - spice
Sun or Moon - Moon
Country or City - city
Flowers or Chocolate - Chocolate
Cat or Dog - cat

Edit: a coworker should lend me: Bad Moon Rising
Spice: S for Sherrilyn (author first name)
Moon: title
City : set in new Orleans
Chocolate: Carlson (book character)
Cat: Cherise (book character)

Kristie wrote: "Should we answer all of the pairings? Or just choose the ones that appeal to us the most?"

I think the instructions were to choose five.

Plane or Boat - Boat
Country or City - City
Flowers or Chocolate - Chocolate
Leather or Cotton - Cotton
Cat or Dog - Cat

This sounds great! :)
Let's see what I'll pick...

Rose or Lily - Lily
Sun or Moon - Moon
Hawk or Owl - Owl
Flowers or Chocolate - Flowers
Ocean or Lake - Lake

Married to them? Mmm, a marriage with Lilies and other Flowers near a Lake in the Moonshine with an Owl in a tree nearby...
;)

Rose or Lily - rose
Country or City - country
Beer or Wine - wine
Flowers or Chocolate - chocolate
Blue or Pink - pink

Thank you, Almeta! I completely missed that.

Flowers or Chocolate - Flowers
Dog or Cat - Dog
Ocean or Lake - Ocean
Country or City - City
Beer or Wine - Beer

Now it's time for that beer...

Hawk or Owl - Hawk
Country or City - Country
Dress or Jeans - Jeans
Cat or Dog - Dog
Ocean or Lake - Lake

Plane or Boat - Plane
Country or City - City
Leather or Cotton - Cotton
Apple or Orange - Apple
King or Jack - Jack

Sun or Moon- Moon
Country or City- City
Dress or Jeans- Dress (I haven't owned a pair of jeans since I was a teenager.)
Hawk or Owl- Hawk
Cat or Dog- Dog

Elspeth, I love the picture you have created. Why do I have a feeling that whatever the actual challenge is, it will not produce a book anything like that?

Casceil wrote: "Elspeth, I love the picture you have created. Why do I have a feeling that whatever the actual challenge is, it will not produce a book anything like that?"

No, it will probably be something so totally different, we didn't even think about it... ;)

Ocean or lake: Ocean
Country or city: Country
Dress or jeans: Jeans
Cat or Dog: Dog
Leather or Cotton: Cotton

This sounds like fun until more rules show up...then trouble, right?
My choices:

Breaking Dawn
Plane or Boat - Boat "The boat plunged through the waves..." p. 77
Sun or Moon - Sun "...the sun eventually set." p. 100
Dress or Jeans - Dress "...the shimmering white dress..." p. 57
Leather or Cotton - Cotton "...dirty t-shirt and cotton shorts..." p.500
Apple or Orange - Orange "...a dull reddish orange..." p. 632

Loving the mystery.

Here are mine:
Plane or Boat - Boat (it had to be really)
Hawk or Owl - Owl
Sun or Moon - Moon
Ocean or Lake - Ocean
Country or City - Country

Can't wait to see what this is all about, very intriguing.
Hawk or owl
Country or city - Country
Ocean or lake - ocean
Dress or jeans - jeans
Blue or pink - blue

Plane or Boat - Plane
Sun or Moon - Moon
Country or City - City
Dress or Jeans - Jeans
Beer or Wine - Wine

Plane or Boat --Boat

Country or City--Country

Flowers or Chocolate--Chocolate

Leather or Cotton--Cotton

Ocean or Lake--Ocean

Beer or wine - Beer
Blue or pink- blue
King or Jack- Jack
Ocean or lake - ocean
Sun or moon- Moon

Just for fun I decided to chose my five pairings by random drawing. Then each option was selected by a flip of the coin : )

Plane/Boat - Boat
Rose/Lily - Lily
Beer/Wine - Beer
Leather/Cotton - Leather
Cat/Dog - Dog

Ocean or Lake: Ocean
Country or City: City
Hawk or Owl: Hawk
Flowers or Chocolate: Flowers
Dress or Jeans: Dress

Rose or lily: lily
Dress or jeans: dress
Ocean or lake: ocean
Blue or pink: Blue
Sun or moon: moon

I could read:

Sugar or Spice: Spice / The heroine's name is Stanley
Dress or Jeans: Dress / There is a dress in the cover
Leather or Cotton: Cotton/ A cotton shirt is mentioned and also a cotton ball
Ocean or Lake: Lake / There is a lake in the story
Apple or Orange: Orange /The cover is orange

Plus there is a infant in the story too

Esther wrote: "I have the feeling I am painting myself into a corner....

LoL, true, so very true

Ok, here goes...

Country or City - country
Cat or Dog - dog
Ocean or Lake - ocean
Blue or Pink - blue
King or Jack - jack

It was so difficult to pick, not knowing what the challenges are!

Without even knowing what the challenge is, I know these picks will be tough. Can't wait!

Sugar or Spice -Spice
Plane or Boat -Plane
Hawk or Owl -Hawk
Beer or Wine -Wine
Cat or Dog -Dog

I am super intrigued by this set-up.

Sugar or Spice - Spice
Rose or Lily - Lily
Sun or Moon - Moon
Beer or Wine - Wine
Cat or Dog - Cat

Plane or Boat--Boat
Country or City--City
Dress or Jeans--Jeans
Flowers or Chocolate--Chocolate
Cat or Dog--Dog

Thanks to the fruit machine, my choices are:

Sugar or Spice - Spice
Rose or Lily - Rose
Cat or Dog - Cat
Leather or Cotton - Cotton (what quilter would pick anything else?)
King or Jack - King

Sugar or Spice - Spice
Hawk or Owl - Owl
Dress or Jeans - Jeans
Beer or Wine - Wine... just...
Cat or Dog - Dog.

Hawk or Owl - Owl
Sun or Moon - Moon
Beer or Wine - Wine
Cat or Dog - Cat
Plane or Boat - Boat

Intriguing!

Sugar or Spice - Spice
Rose or Lily - Lily
Sun or Moon - Moon
Flowers or Chocolate - Chocolate
Ocean or Lake - Lake

How can I resist?!


Hawk or Owl - Owl
Dress or Jeans - Jeans
Beer or Wine - Wine
Cat or Dog - Dog
Ocean or Lake - Ocean

I'm so intrigued!



Rose or Lily: Rose
Sun or Moon: Moon
Flowers or Chocolate: Chocolate
Cat or Dog: Dog
Ocean or Lake: Ocean

Great challenge - I'm in!

Plane or boat - boat
Rose or lily - rose
Hawk or owl - owl
Beer or wine - wine
Leather or cotton - cotton

Sugar or spice - spice
Sun or moon - moon
Hawk or owl - owl
Dress or jeans - jeans
Beer or wine - beer