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

Help/Discussion: Site 22, Big Banana, Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia


1. Location: Coffs Harbour, NSW
Read a book with Harbour (Harbor) in the title.

2. About: Built in 1964, it was one of Australia's first Big Things.
Read a book that it first in a series.

3. Souvenir: Banana Split - When I was a kid there were only 3 flavours of ice cream - Vanilla, Chocolate, or Strawberry.
Read a book with Vanilla, Chocolate, or Strawberry in the title.

For the About task, can I use a book that is the first of two currently but has a third book coming out in 2023?
Or would that not count as a series right now?

Rachel wrote: "For the About task, can I use a book that is the first of two currently but has a third book coming out in 2023?
Or would that not count as a series right now?"

We haven't historically counted duologies as series in this group, and we don't count books as part of a series until they are published, so that would kibosh your choice.

Ah, well thanks for the clarification. :)

Sorry, Rachel. My problem with this task is going to be which 1st in series will be picked. I own so many of them. Argh!

Ahahaha I get what you mean. But honestly, I’m more anxious about actually finishing the series. I always start them, never finish, and then end up hating myself for it. xD

Rachel,

I currently have 603 books listed on my shelf "1st-in-series-to-read" if you want/need something to choose from. :o)
Here is the link.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

That leads me to think you may need an intervention Cherie!! 603!!

Rachel wrote: "Ahahaha I get what you mean. But honestly, I’m more anxious about actually finishing the series. I always start them, never finish, and then end up hating myself for it. xD"

I completely understand that.

Dawn wrote: "That leads me to think you may need an intervention Cherie!! 603!!"

Too funny, Dawn. ;o) I just added another one to the list.
I found it for one of my side trip tasks when I was looking for a location. What's another series on my list? I also added the 25th book of the same series, because it had the word that I was looking for in the title. Interesting coincidence anyway. I could have chosen the 2nd book in the series for the third task, but I own another that fits.

As a suggestion, I just started reading Crazy as Chocolate for my souvenir. I picked it up at a charity shop for pennies so I could read something in the (unexpected) spring sunshine. Am pleasantly surprised so far.

Does this book meet the criteria for 1st in series:
The Torrent by Dinuka McKenzie (Detective Kate Miles #1)
It is the first book in a series, only published this year, but so far no other books.

When we did the annual challenge based on series, we didn't count them unless there were 3 published books. I think we'll use that as a guideline since its already been established in the group.

Thanks, Janice. Thought it may be the case, but Idid not know about the 3 published books being a guideline,

Hey Janice, for the souvenir task - Vanilla, Strawberry, or Chocolate in the title, might you accept Chocolat, or would it have to be spelled with the e at the end?

I'll accept it since it's a direct translation of chocolate in French and we allow that.

Excellent, thank you Janice :) It will be good to finally be getting around to this one.