The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

30.5 -Susan A's task: Summer Swimming
Summer is the busiest time of year for my family, mostly due to the frantic pace of my kids’ summer swim team. Summer swimming is a 2 month season that takes place outdoors and features dual meets with shorter races, whereas winter swimming is 9 months long, indoors and features open meets with a greater range of races.

This is a two book task. Please choose two options and read one book for each.

Required: State which options you chose when you post.

Option 1: I can’t believe we have to say this over and over again, but yes, swimming is a sport. Read a book that features the main page genre Sports or Sports and Games. The genre may be embedded.
Examples:


Option 2: Read a book with all of the letters SWIM in the book’s title/subtitle.
Ex: The Swimmer; Before She Knew Him – Before She KneW HIM

Option 3: Summer swimming is all about sprinting. Choose a book that you can read FAST, a book between 100 and 150 pages.

Option 4: The summer swim team colors are red and black. Read a book with ONLY black and/or red letters on the cover. All letters count.
Examples:

Will NOT work:
Required: Include the cover when you post.

Option 5: Read a book with the word swimmer(s), swimming, swim, swam or swum found in the text. Required: Post the sentence and page number, location or time (audiobooks) at which at the word was found when you post.
Example: Out in the Deep ~ "I popped back up when I realized I wasn’t going to get the call and retaliated by kicking Gabe in the stomach, then swimming partially over him before getting into position on defense." ~ loc. 9/241

These work

Option 1: MGP Sports or Sports and Games
Lord of Misrule
Squeeze Play
Vi mot er

Option 4: Red and or black letters only

These do not work

Option 4: Red and or black letters only

This thread is now open!

I think this works for Option 4, but just double-checking:

Ann A wrote: "I think this works for Option 4, but just double-checking:
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It works and looks interesting.

Could I get genre Sports/Games verified for Lord of Misrule?

KSMary wrote: "Could I get genre Sports/Games verified for Lord of Misrule?"

Noted

Could I get Sports/Baseball verified for Squeeze Play?

Ellen R-S wrote: "Could I get Sports/Baseball verified for Squeeze Play?"

Noted

Morning.

Could you give me a yay or nay on whether this counts as red and black letters for option 4?



Thanks.

Trish wrote: "Morning.

Could you give me a yay or nay on whether this counts as red and black letters for option 4?



Thanks."

No, I don't think so. The letters on the bottom half do not look red.


However, according to google books, this book does have the word swim in it so it works for option 5.

Can I have Vi mot er verified for mpg Sports?

Paula wrote: "Can I have Vi mot er verified for mpg Sports?"

genre noted

Susan A wrote: "Paula wrote: "Can I have Vi mot er verified for mpg Sports?"

genre noted"

Thank you!

Susan A wrote: "However, according to google books, this book does have the word swim in it so it works for option 5. "

Aha! Thank you.

Can I get a Sports and Games genre verification for Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing: Life, Death and the Thrill of the Catch please?

It's a brand new release with no genres showing on the main page, but it's clearly about fishing which would fall under Sports or Sports and Games. Here is a link to the amazon page which does have a bestsellers ranking under Sports Fishing. It's even based on the two author's fishing tv show:

https://www.amazon.com/Mortimer-White...

I have a backup read which definitely works for the challenge, I would just love to read this and have it count!

Tracey wrote: "Can I get a Sports and Games genre verification for Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing: Life, Death and the Thrill of the Catch please?

It's a brand new release with no genres sho..."

According to the rules of the challenge, it has to have the MPG listed on the page. I'm not allowed to make exceptions.

You can:
1. keep checking to see if the genre shows up
2. this book does work for option 2
3. seems likely that the word swim might come up in which case option 5 would work.

Susan A wrote: "Tracey wrote: "Can I get a Sports and Games genre verification for Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing: Life, Death and the Thrill of the Catch please?

It's a brand new release wit..."

Thank you so much for answering my newbie question!

Would this work for Option 4 ?

(The title letters have red and black in the same letter. I wasn't sure from the task wording whether each letter had to be only red/only black, or whether the combination would be acceptable.)

Julia wrote: "Would this work for Option 4 ?"

Yes, that would work.

Abigail wrote: "does this work for option 4? "

No, sorry. The title appears to be blue, not black.

just double checking that the letters of swim can be found in a mix of both title and subtitle. I overthink!

Nicole wrote: "just double checking that the letters of swim can be found in a mix of both title and subtitle. I overthink!"

Correct. A combination of letters in the title and letters in the subtitle will work.

For option 1, can you please verify Evvie Drake Starts Over for sports?

Brooke wrote: "For option 1, can you please verify Evvie Drake Starts Over for sports?"

Noted

Kristina Simon wrote: "Brooke wrote: "For option 1, can you please verify Evvie Drake Starts Over for sports?"

Noted"

Thank you, Kristina!!

I just wanted to make sure this would work for red/black letters on the cover - my eyes aren't what they used to be!

Jessica wrote: "I just wanted to make sure this would work for red/black letters on the cover - my eyes aren't what they used to be!

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Yes, that works.

Can you please confirm Sports and Games for Match Point? Thanks.

Brooklyn wrote: "Can you please confirm Sports and Games for Match Point? Thanks."

Noted