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Challenges: Year Long Main 2021
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Cherie's Museum Chronicles
My list of owned books (print and Nook/Kindle and Audible) for the tasks.✔️🔗The House of Unexpected Sisters M1, Location
✔️🔗To the Land of Long Lost Friends M1, About
✔️🔗Best Kept Secret M1. Collection
✔️ 🔗Miss Buncle's Book M1. Interactive
🔗The Inexplicables M2, Collection - N
What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins M2, Interactive - p
✔️#1🔗The Coroner's Lunch M3, About
✔️🔗How to Raise an Elephant M3, Collection
✔️🔗Murder at Kensington Palace M3, Interactive
✔️Kafka on the Shore M4, Location
✔️🔗Ayesha: The Return of She M4, About
✔️🔗Winterkeep M, Collection
✔️Snow Falling on Cedars M4, Interactive
At the Edge of the Orchard M5, Collection - p
🔗Catalyst of Sorrows M5, Interactive - p
✔️#1🔗Blood Safari M6, Location
#2🔗The Subtle Knife M6, Collection - N
✔️🔗A Fatal Grace M7, Location
✔️Saint Christopher and the Gravedigger M7, Interactive
✔️🔗The City of Mirrors M8, Collection
✔️An Object of Beauty M9, Location
✔️#1🔗 The Iron Raven M9, Collection
✔️Thomas Jefferson: Author of America M9, Interactive
✔️#1🔗The Friday Night Knitting Club M11, Location
✔️#1🔗Perdido Street Station M11. About
✔️Wet Desert: Tracking Down a Terrorist on the Colorado River M12, About - K
✔️#1🔗The Golden Compass M12, Collection
✔️The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes M13, About
Nights in Rodanthe M13, Collection - p
✔️🔗Murder at Queen's Landing M13, Interactive
The Clockmaker's Daughter M14, Collection - N
The Long Way Home or Johannes Cabal the Necromancer M14, Interactive - p
The Last Goodnight: A World War II Story of Espionage, Adventure & Betrayal M15, About - N
John Wayne: The Life and Legend M15, Collection - p
Moon River and Me: A Memoir M15, Interactive - N
✔️The Murmur of Bees M16, Location
Circle of Friends M16, About - p
✔️Murder on Black Swan Lane Lib/E M16, Interactive
The Girl From the Train M17, About - p
✔️#1🔗Seeing Red M18, About
The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music M18, Collection - p
✔️#1🔗Beartown M19, Location - p
✔️How Green Was My Valley M19, About - K
✔️🔗Death and the Maiden M19, Collection
✔️The Witch's Boy M20, Collection
🔗The Pyramid: The First Wallander Cases M21, About - p
✔️#1🔗Child 44 M22,Location - N
✔️Jane Austen: A Life Revealed M22, About - N
✔️ Murder at Half Moon Gate M22, Collection
✔️#1🔗Charming M22, Interactive
✔️🔗The Labyrinth of the Spirits M23, Location
✔️🔗The Colors of All the Cattle M23, About
✔️🔗The Devil’s Due M23, Collection
✔️Raft of Stars M23, Interactive
✔️A Spot of Bother M24, Location
✔️🔗The Sins of the Father M24, About
✔️Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World M24, Interactive
The Mill River Recluse M25, Location - N
✔️The Last Green Valley M25, Interactive
The Art of Racing in the Rain M27, Collection - p
The Physician M29, About - N
✔️ Idaho M29, Interactive - N
✔️#7🔗The Sorrows of Empire M28, About - p
✔️#1🔗In the Woods M30, Collection
✔️Project Hail Mary M30, Interactive
#1🔗Prodigal Son M31, Location - p
Code Name Verity M31, Collection - p
✔️All Quiet on the Western Front M32, Location
✔️Ready Player Two M32 About
✔️#1🔗Gilead M33, Collection
✔️East of the Mountains M34, Location - p
✔️🔗The Consuming Fire M34, About
#1🔗The Monogram Murders M35, Collection - N
Kate Remembered M36, About - p
The Book of Longings M36, Interactive - N
✔️North To The Night: A Spiritual Odyssey In The Arctic M37, About - p
✔️The Johnstown Flood M38. Location
✔️Mudbound M38, About
✔️🔗The Horse and His Boy M38, Collection
✔️The Light Fantastic M38, Interactive
Burning Bright M39, About - p
✔️Pirate Latitudes M40, About
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✔️ completed
🔗 series book
Library Books✔️A Long Petal of the Sea M2, Location 🎧
✔️🔗The Throne of Fire M3, Location 📚
✔️ #1🔗 Love Me to Death M5, Location 🎧
✔️ The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic That Shaped Our History M6, About 🎧
✔️🔗Within the Sanctuary of Wings M7, About 🎧
✔️ Pony on the Twelfth Floor M7, Collection 📖
✔️🔗The Last Passenger, M8, Location 🎧
✔️🔗The Whispering Room M8, Interactive 🎧
✔️🔗 An Echo in the Bone M9, About 🎧
✔️ The Mercies M10, About 📚
✔️ #1🔗 A Natural History of Dragons M11, Collection 🎧
✔️ Where the Mountain Meets the Moon M11, Interactive 🎧
✔️ #1🔗Ink and Bone M12, Location 📚
✔️ Written in My Own Heart's Blood M12, Interactive 🎧
✔️ The Grapes of Wrath M15, Location 🎧
✔️ Little M17, Location 🎧
✔️🔗The Burning M19, Interactive 🎧
✔️ #1🔗 Bridge of Birds M20, Location 📖
✔️🔗The Voyage of the Basilisk M20, About 🎧
✔️ Butcher's Crossing M20, Interactive 🎧
✔️🔗Be Careful What You Wish For M21, Interactive 🎧
✔️ The Thin Man M24, Collection 🎧
✔️🔗 Firewall M26, Location 🎧
✔️ #1🔗The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax M26, Interactive 📚
✔️ A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court M28, Location 📖
✔️ Song of Solomon M28, Collection 📚/🎧
✔️🔗 The Quiet Game M28, Interactive 🎧
✔️🔗The Shadow of What Was Lost M29, Collection 📚
✔️Home to Italy M30, Location 📖
✔️ The One-in-a-Million Boy M30, About 📚
✔️ Feast of Sorrow M32, Collection 🎧
✔️🔗The Alexandria Link M32, Interactive 📚
✔️ No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Short Stories M33, Location - 🎧
✔️🔗In the Labyrinth of Drakes M33, About 🎧
✔️ Three Wishes M34, Collection 🎧
✔️ The Toll M35, About 🎧
✔️🔗 The Fall of Koli M34, Interactive 🎧
Just Kids M36, Collection 📖
✔️ Vinegar Girl M37, Location 🎧
✔️ In This House of Brede M37, Collection 📚
✔️ Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants M37, Interactive 🎧
Dancer M39, Collection 📖
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✔️ completed
🔗 series book
🎧 audiobook
📚 ebook book
📖 physical text book
Badge 1 completed May 10Museums reported 1, 4, 7, and 24.
Interactive tasks.
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Books completed in reporting order.
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Badge 2 completed Sept 13Museums reported 9, 11, 22, 23, 32, and 38.
Interactive tasks.
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Books in reporting order.
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Badge 3/4 - Interactive tasksInteractive tasks.
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Badge 3 completed Nov 30
Museums reported 3, 12, 19, 20, 28, 30, 33, and 37.
Books in reporting order.
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Report Format.1. Badge 4, Book x
2. Museum #, Location, About, Collection, Interactive
3. Book link -
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4. I read a text. I read an ebook. I listened to an audiobook. The hc is xxx pages.
5. Task: Read a book - .
6. State how the book fits the criteria:
And your flood book we were talking about fits! Not sure if it's climate disaster or natural disaster. Or both, maybe.
Yes, I already have it slotted into my spreadsheet. I don’t think it was a climate disaster. I just remember that the dam breaks, but I don’t know why. I WILL find out this year though! I cracked up at the list of Kick-Ass Military Science Fiction books! Of course I have already read the Old Man’s War books (I’m reading the last one now), but I had several other titles on my TBR list to pick from.
I am having fun setting up my spreadsheet and looking at the tasks. You are amazing! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I don’t think I got to the museum task in my challenge for 2020. I will have to check out the book and see if I can fit it in somewhere.
I'm glad you're having fun. You'll have to link your spreadsheet. :)
I’m still having trouble figuring out how to link things like that, Janice. I think it is the security settings and the firewall in my work laptop. It is not so much a spreadsheet as it is a Word document that I copied and pasted all of the tasks into, one museum per page. The active links are lost but I can always get on-line to check them. I add the book titles under each task and color code them for what I own and if it is a text book or ebook or audiobook. When I can, I will look up the titles on my library website and note if they have them, and in what format. I am still gophering for titles.
At the top right hand corner of either a Word or Excell page, there's a link called "Share". Click on it, remove the check mark from "anyone with link can edit", then click on "Copy Link". Then you can either post your link as it, or hide it under an a href=" html coding.
I don't know. I have filled all of the tasks on my spread sheet with book titles for all of the museums and enough interactive tasks to get me through the first 4 to 6 museums. I have 30 hard copies and paperbacks lined up on my real life book shelves to read. I have 32 books on my Nook e-reader chosen, and I have no idea what I museum task I want to do first. I feel like I am under water trying to swim up and all I can do is look up at how far the surface is away. It has been a strange last couple of weeks. I have been getting a Sherlock Holmes fix, which has kept me happy reading, but I do not want to DO anything.
I hear you! I've already made changes on the first badge.
Janice - I know you said we can read books in any order.For the reporting, do we keep saying Badge 1, book X, until we have all 16 books completed to apply for badge 1, and then move all of them over to Badge 2, book X, etc. So, potentially, I could report 24 books for Badge 1 before I get all 16 needed for the first four museums completed.
I have all 16 books planned for the first badge, but I need to read a book from another museum before I can read one of the ones for my first four museums, because they are series books. Are you setting up a tracking sheet for all of us, like you did last year?
Too funny - I am looking at my spread sheet. I have a book chosen for the Interactive task on museum 8 that says "create a task to use this book".
Cherie wrote: "Janice - this is a test.spreadsheet"
It sort of worked. It's asking me for a password.
Cherie wrote: "Janice - I know you said we can read books in any order.For the reporting, do we keep saying Badge 1, book X, until we have all 16 books completed to apply for badge 1, and then move all of them o..."
You can report the books according to whatever badge it applies. One of my first books will be for Badge 2.
Janice wrote: "Cherie wrote: "Janice - this is a test.spreadsheet"
It sort of worked. It's asking me for a password."
Interesting. I wonder what that would be? hmmmm.
Janice wrote: "Shall I guess? Museum2021?"hahaha (but it is a good one)!
I suspect that it is looking for my password for my log-in behind the Intel firewall and I don't think I can give you that. ;o)
The spreadsheet is not password protected.
I may have to copy it to my gmail account.
I have been trying to figure out how I am going to tackle the challenge this year. I read all over the place last year and kicked off so many of my owned books. I want to read my books first, but they do not all line up to museums that I can tick off of the list. I also had an issue last year, with how I could see what books needed to be read without booting my laptop and opening my spread sheet. I think the Goodreads folks have limited the mobile apps to what can be seen in messages. If there is a bookcover listed or a picture shown in the message in the thread, I cannot see the text content below. I want to be able to see my list of books to pick which one to read next, from my iPod mobile app. So, I am going to test it with a few lists.
I know what you mean about being all over the place when it came to deciding which book to read next. Last year I had a bit done on one card, a bit more on another but nothing that lead to completion in a logical way. This year has to be more logical. I have a spreadsheet that I play with, rearranging, moving books to a better spot. Once I had 4 museums set, they became the ones I'm starting with and I plan to "not deviate". The problem was often that the books wouldn't be available when I wanted to read them. So I also joined Kindle Unlimited (I found over 100 that were on my tbr so it became worth it) and I'm using those -- they're always available.
Yes, it's difficult to know - I had good intentions of not deviating last year, but it all comes undone when a book becomes available at the library, and it just HAS to be read whether it fits a task or not. Thankfully Janice allows us to read out of order, so we can read books as they become available. This year, I have decided to "go with the flow", having books earmarked for tasks, but also being flexible with reading books for no other reason but for enjoyment... and to read some books that have been on my TBR for a looong time. And Cherie, I also find the app very limiting.
I completed the list of all of the books that I own, and I can see them all on my iPod. That is good! I am starting with The House of Unexpected Sisters to read and The Thin Man to listen to.
Cool emojis! I'm curious about the 🔗. Series?
I like your stars better than mine. Big fat ones.
Ayacchi - series books icon is a chain link (two links joined together). It is from the list of pictures on my iPod. I made a comment in my thread from my iPod in the mobile app, and picked them from the list and posted it in my thread. Then, I edited the comment on the on-line app and copied and pasted (edited) them into my lists. I thought it “fit” the series thought. I just wanted to track which books belonged to series that I was either currently reading, or in the case of the #1🔗 - this means that they are “the first book in a series that I am not currently reading”. Many of them are ones that I picked up at ebook sale prices from Barnes & Nobel, the Nook distributor.
Roz - I liked the big fat gold stars too. I saw them on Janice’s reports last year. They are from my iPod (Apple). They look terrible in the on-line view, but really nice on the Apple mobile app.
I took the liberty of copying and pasting your big fat stars into my thread. Hope you don't mind. They say imitation is the highest form of flattery. 😉
Roz wrote: "I took the liberty of copying and pasting your big fat stars into my thread. Hope you don't mind. They say imitation is the highest form of flattery. 😉"No problem. Actually, in my original attempt to respond to you, I had included all of the stars in my iPod app, but the response was lost and ended up on the wrong thread, and did not have all of the content included.
On another note, I cannot figure out where to include my interactive tasks. I did not copy and paste everything into my thread. I have it on my spread sheet, but, when we post the books we read for it, Janice has to look at the content somewhere. I think I will make a separate thread and post them there, with a link to my challenge. I cannot decide.
Did you save the interactive task pictures to Photobucket? That way you could have 1 (or 2 or more) messages and just have the interactives in them. I included the Interactive task pictures with each museum. Then when I did my first book (an interactive) I could copy and paste the link into the reporting message. I have to say it took me a while to set up the Museums in my thread, and a while to figure out the whole picture-Photobucket thing. But Janice will want to see them.
Roz - I haven't used photobucket in a long, long time. I am not even sure that I have an account. I will have to check.I have created a few tasks. I decided to use the messages that I originally started and I have redone them today. For the first badge information in message 3, I have added my Interactive tasks and a format for reporting the books to apply for the badge. I have done the same for badge 2 in message 5. Janice said we could use her pictures, and until I figured out a couple more, I did. I have links to my others. Would you see if they work for you? Do they make sense?
Janice - please check the ones that I used the pictures from task 3. Are they okay as is?
I am brain dead from work and updating all of this stuff today. I found a book to go with a picture I found for museum 7 and created the task for it. I have a book that I want to read for the interactive task for museum 8, but I cannot stay on any longer.
I want to finish my monthly challenge book tonight.
Cherie wrote: "Ayacchi - series books icon is a chain link (two links joined together). It is from the list of pictures on my iPod. I made a comment in my thread from my iPod in the mobile app, and picked them fr..."I didn't know that emoji is exist (on my keyboard) until I saw yours. And that big star as well 😂
I checked out the links you have for Museums 1, 7, and 22 and they brought me to the pictures you wanted. The one for the swords (#22) had some other pictures (armor, horse) on the page so I think it was good that you clarified which picture you were referring to. I don't think Janice will have a problem with them. I know what you mean about Photobucket. I hadn't used it in a couple of years so remembering my password was tricky and then figuring out how to negotiate the site was a pain. I would have been better off using Janice's pictures but I always seem to make things more difficult for myself. If you want to use any of my pictures let me know and I'll send you the links.
Cherie wrote: "Roz - I haven't used photobucket in a long, long time. I am not even sure that I have an account. I will have to check. ..."I gave up on Photobucket a couple of years ago. If it gives you trouble you may want to try https://imgbb.com.
imgbb uploading is very very easy.
Cherie wrote: "Janice - please check the ones that I used the pictures from task 3. Are they okay as is? ..."I must be brain dead as well because I'm not sure what you are asking me. Are you asking me to confirm your use of pictures from task 3, and the tasks you assigned to them for your task 4? If so, yes, they would work.
I use Imgur.com. Their upload is easy. Copying the link is easy too but you have to add the extension .jpeg. If you like, I can send you the html coding to post the pictures to your reports.
So, let me see if I can recap the responses.Almeta and Roz - photobucket is not worth it!
Almeta and Janice - is Imgbb.com and imgur.com the same?
I can save the pictures in my spreadsheet (and the links) but getting them to show in goodreads is the other issue. I have been having more fun looking at other folks’ tasks than trying to look up the pictures on-line. I copied a link from someone the other day and I could look at other pictures in the same link. That was enlightening. Copying pictures is another story, but I think the goodreads link should work too., right?
Janice - I think you answered my question, but I just want to be sure. I do not intend to use your task 3 pictures for any more of my Interactive tasks (at least not yet). What I wanted to know was IF the way I used them and my wording was ok for the three tasks I created? I think I may have one more task on my spreadsheet that I used the Andy Warhall picture for though. (Mostly because I had a book that I could use it for.). It just tickles me that I can immediately “see” something else to use them for. In other cases, it is a bust!
1. Badge 1, Book 12. Museum 24, Collection
3. The Thin Man
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4. I listened to an audiobook from my library. The pb is 201 is pages.
5. Task: Read a book that is a mystery, solved by a man & woman duo.
6. State how the book fits the criteria: Mystery is listed on the MBP. The man and woman duo are Nick and Nora Charles.
I had wanted to read this book for a long time. I think I would have enjoyed it a little more in print, but the audiobook, narrated by William Dufris was what was available. I enjoyed the story, but there were so many characters with similar names that it was hard to keep them straight. I am currently listening to Return of the Thin Man - just because it was available too.
Well done, Cherie. I've been looking for a book for that task so ... thanks!
Yay for getting the first book done! That's a task I still have open, so I'll have to look at that one.
Thanks ladies. I really like Dasheell Hammett's old time characters. They are always a fun read.
I love the way you have organized the books for the challenge. I hope to simulate that at least for the Badge parts. Could you pl. teach me as to how to mark the books with the icons like you have done for currently reading, series, completed etc? Also got ideas about books for reading.
Thanks.
✔️ First one on the board! :)
Cherie wrote: "Almeta and Janice - is Imgbb.com and imgur.com the same?..."I don't think so.
Viji wrote: "I love the way you have organized the books for the challenge. I hope to simulate that at least for the Badge parts. Could you pl. teach me as to how to mark the books with the icons like you have ..."Viji - I think you should be able to copy the icons I used off my page and paste them onto your page. Mine are generated with my iPod, which is an Apple device. I created a comment on the mobile app on my iPod and then copied them from my comment to the page where you see them. Then, I deleted the comment in the on-line app. I know that there is a table of asci characters that can be used to create specific icons too. I think Almeta has posted them somewhere in the How Do I thread, but it might take some looking. I commented on your thread and sent you some emojis. Hope you like them.
Though I primarily look on Emojipedia now, I also "steal" some pictures from other posters by the "copy and paste" method!I posted these ACSIi codes (from a great big ASCii table) at some point:
How do I get those shiny characters?
Here is an ALT key/numeric combo encodings
chart to insert some symbols in your Goodreads writings.
Be sure to use your numeric pad, since the numbers on the top row of your keyboard won’t work; and turn your num lock on and your caps lock off!
Notice, the symbol won't appear until after you release the ALT key.
ALT +1 for ☺
ALT +2 for ☻
ALT +3 for ♥
ALT +4 for ♦
ALT +5 for ♣
ALT +6 for ♠
ALT +11 for ♂
ALT +12 for ♀
ALT +14 for ♫
ALT +15 for ☼
ALT +16 for ►
ALT +17 for ◄
ALT +21 for §
ALT +22 for ▬
ALT +23 for ↨
ALT +24 for ↑
ALT +25 for ↓
ALT +26 for →
ALT +27 for ←
ALT +29 for ↔
ALT +30 for ▲
ALT +31 for ▼
ALT +1004 for ∞
ALT +155 for ¢
ALT +156 for £
ALT +168 for ¿
ALT +171 for ½
ALT +172 for ¼
ALT +174 for «
ALT +175 for »
ALT +234 for Ω
ALT +236 for ∞
ALT +247 for ≈
ALT +0153 for ™
ALT +0169 for ©
ALT +0174 for ®
ALT +253 for ²
ALT +251 for √
Yay, Cherie! One book down! I've never read one of the Dashiell Hammett books. I've seen all the Thin Man movies on Turner Classic Movies and always enjoyed them. I'll have to read them one of these days.I think we all copy emojis from each other. I like the 🔗, Cherie. I've copied it, just letting you know. Thank you.
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