Reading with Style discussion

Ask your general questions about the Fall 2015 challenge here.

I have a question about page count for the MPE of Animal Farm by George Orwell. Goodreads has it listed at 102 pages. I have learned the hard way that when a book is that close to 100 pages, it is best to do some checking. Both Worldcat and BPL have that ISBN at 97 pages. I see that Animal Farm was accepted for points as recently as January of this year. I was wanting to read it for 20.3-Difficult. So which page count will be accepted, and does anyone have a physical copy for verification? I'd hate to see this title become ineligible on RWS.

D wrote: "I have a question about page count for the MPE of Animal Farm by George Orwell. Goodreads has it listed at 102 pages. I have learned the hard way that when a book is tha..."

D, we use what is in GR for page counts. I don't go looking around to check them. They get changed only when someone reports in the librarian group that there is an error in the GR record. I also don't go changing our RwS record unless someone makes a claim with a different number of pages than we have already entered.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "D wrote: "I have a question about page count for the MPE of Animal Farm by George Orwell. Goodreads has it listed at 102 pages. I have learned the hard way that when a b..."

Thanks, Elizabeth. I read Animal Farm in high school (over 50 years ago!), and after the Orwell binge I went on during the summer challenge, I'm interested in re-reading it from a new perspective.

Following up on the Charles Osborne/Agatha Christie questions that have come up.

Three plays by Agatha Christie were adapted into novel form by Charles Osborne. If you read the novel rather than the play, please post with Charles Osborne as the author. He appears first on the book record here at Goodreads. The three are:

The Unexpected Guest
Black Coffee
Spider's Web

Will, you have been most affected by this already this season, and I believe you said you had not read any by Osborne previously, so one book would qualify for a 10.1 slot. But we would appreciate it if you would repost, including your review. Even though we will be accepting Osborne as the author, a link can easily be made to this through Christie, so a combo for 10.9 will be accepted.

It would appear that the other two qualify for 10.3 Dictionary and will earn the same 10.9 combo.

This is late in the day, I know but did we ever get a Group Reads selection from Tuyen? Also The Club Dumas does not appear on our book shelf page.

Thanks, Rebekah. This oversight has been fixed. No, we have no selection from Tuyen.

I have a question on Librivox...I am currently reading a book that has been tagged as "audiobook," "audiobooks" and "listened to"...but didnt see librivox. Does this get to the heart of librivox? or is it that term that is all that applies?

Gabriel wrote: "I have a question on Librivox...I am currently reading a book that has been tagged as "audiobook," "audiobooks" and "listened to"...but didnt see librivox. Does this get to the heart of librivox? o..."

Librivox is the name of the shelf people have used. You need to look at that shelf and make sure it has been shelved at least 5 times.

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

I am sorry, Don, I missed this earlier. Unfortunately, if a book cannot earn style points, it also does not count toward the Group Read totals.

A couple of questions...

1. What is the rule on books that fulfil the requirements of a task AFTER you have already posted them? When I posted for The Moonstone in post 306, it didn't meet the requirements for combi points on Task 10.7 Librivox. But I've just noticed that now it does. Can I claim combi points retrospectively?

2. What is the rule on attending live perfomances of plays? I know they are not "read", as such, but it just seems like listening to an audiobook....but with real live "narrators".

Many thanks

Lagullande wrote: "A couple of questions...

1. What is the rule on books that fulfil the requirements of a task AFTER you have already posted them? When I posted for The Moonstone in post 306, it didn't ..."

Please make a post about The Moonstone in the completed tasks thread and we'll catch it there. Sometimes this happens that a title that didn't make the cut originally becomes eligible.

Sorry, the seeing a play is similar to - though not exactly like - watching a movie and we won't allow it to count as if you'd read it.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Lagullande wrote: "A couple of questions...

Thanks, Elizabeth. I will repost for The Moonstone as you suggest. And thanks too for the clarification re plays.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Lagullande wrote: "A couple of questions..."

Elizabeth, I have to apologise for wasting your time. My post for The Moonstone actually used the Librivox task for its main points! Complete brain-freeze, obviously.

Lagullande wrote: "Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Lagullande wrote: "A couple of questions..."

Elizabeth, I have to apologise for wasting your time. My post for The Moonstone actually used the Librivox task for its main..."

Not a problem - the reason stands for any book!