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Team Bee Gets Pollinated (reporting)
Laura's message to the team:"When reporting a book as read, please include the task that was being read for, whether that was one of the optional tasks in the hive, a top 30 task that was being repeated, or a created task.
If the book was a cover task, please include the cover link in the reporting thread.
For clarity, it's important to delineate a Hive read vs Top 30 (1st time through), and, if an optional task is being used, then a brief description of the thought process behind the created task, and how the book fits would be great."
Buzzworthy BonusFestooning (view spoiler)
All 11 members of the Team Bees qualified 110 points.
Gathering Nectar
Drone tasks: 50 POINTS
Worker tasks: 80 points
Queen tasks: 120 points
Hierarchy Bonus
Naughty Drones (view spoiler) 10 POINTS
Busy Worker Bees (view spoiler) earning 20 points
(Once all Drone and Worker Bee tasks have been completed)
Mother Queen (view spoiler) earning 30 points
(Once all Drone, Worker Bee and Queen Bee tasks have been accomplished)
Hive Swarming
In The Hive, each book is worth 5 points.
Reserved for Hive Reads/Pending Scoring
Repeated Top 30 Task but read in the Hive
Laura Task 1. Worker: RAB with an author having three full names
Marnie Task 1-Queen: RAB author has published 3 or fewer books
Almeta Task 2. Worker: Read a book with a bat on the cover.
Marnie Task 3 Worker: RAB Neonic ban (1st)
Marnie Task 3 Worker: RAB Neonic ban (2nd)
Lynn Task 4 Drone: RAB rated 212,000+ times on GR.
Almeta Task 4 Drone: RAB rated 212,000+ times on GR.
Roz Task 5 Drone: RAB with 1 or more bees on the cover
Lynn Task 6 Worker: RAB where a character lives in an apartment
Marnie Task 9 Drone: RAB water on the cover
From the Optional Tasks for the Hive
RAB where one bird is the focal image of the cover.
Special Designed Task for the Hive
Almeta RAB with the word “sunflowers” in the title.
Almeta RAB with the word “butterfly” in the title.
Almeta RAB with a wandering character.
WoF MarnieI read Hot Girl Murder Club by Ashley Winstead 336 pages
Task 1 Drone Read a book with a GR rating between 3-3.99
Fits- It’s 3.71 as I’m reporting this.
WoF Alexandra I read The Café With No Name
289 pages
Task 3. 🐝 Worker Bee: Neonic bans
Read a book 50%+ set anywhere with a full or partial ban:
The setting is in Vienna. Neonicotinoids are banned in the European Union, Austria being part of it.
WoF Name: Lynn Book Read: The Play
Pages: 422
Task Description: Task 3 Drone Bee - Read a book that has been rated from 80,000 to 211,999 times on GR
Top 30 Tasks
How it fits: 190,759 ratings at time of posting
Y’all are doing great!Making a note for myself here that all of these are Top 30 so far, no Hive.
I know it’s not what we’re used to but it’ll make scoring easier to confirm at the end if we all report ‘Top 30’ for any task being read up top (since Hive allows repeats).
WoF: London LoriBook: The Death of Grass
Pages: 194
Task: Top 30 Tasks
3. Queen Bee: Read a book with dystopia as main page genre.
How it fits: Dystopia is a MPG
**We also need to get page numbers / audio lengths in here **WoF Name: Laura apenandzen
Book Read: Big Stone Gap
Length: 269pp
Top 30 Tasks
Task Description: 4. 🐝 Worker Bee: Read a book first published between 2000 and 2021, inclusive.
How it fits: First published 2000
WoF Name: RozBook Read: The Good Neighbor
Kindle pages: 206
Task Description: Task 5: Worker Bee: Read a book published in 2015 or 2016
For Top 30 Tasks
How It Fits: Published in 2015
WoF MarnieI read A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings
256 pages/ 7 hours audiobook
Top 30 task 4 Queen also my BUZZWORTHY BONUS (recommended by Laura)
Read a book about a beekeeper
This nonfiction memoir is about a novice beekeeper who gets her first hive.
Moved this down in order to make room for HIVE pending scoresWoF Name: Almeta
Book Read: The Empty Chair Jeffrey Deaver
Audio Hours: 14.1 hrs
Task Description: Drone: Read a book with an insect on the cover.
For Top 30 Tasks
How It Fits:
Wof Anna MBook read: Triad Blood
Ebook, 291
Task: 2 Worker Bee: Read a book featuring a vampire or with a bat on the cover.
Vampire is one of the triad.
Top 30 tasks
WoF Name: AlmetaBook Read: A Stranger in Mayfair Charles Finch
Length: Hardcover 320 pages
Task Description: 8. Drone: Read a book whose cover is 75%+ purple
For Top 30 Tasks?
How It Fits:
WoF Name: AlmetaBook Read: The Silence at Mystery Bay D.D. Black
Length: paperback 254 pages
Task Description: 9.Drone: Read a book with water on the cover.
For Top 30 Tasks?
How It Fits:
WoF Name: Lynn Book Read: The Dare
Pages: 338
Task Description: Task 6 Worker Bee - Read a book where a main or important character lives in a condominium, apartment, or other type of group housing.
Top 30 Tasks
How it fits: FMC lives in an apartment, MMC lives in a campus shared housing
WoF MarnieBook:Promise Me Never
288 pages
**HIVE TASK**
Task 3 Worker bee. Neonic ban
This book is set in New York which is on the list.
WoF: ArianeBook: Milk and honey
Pages: 204
Task: Top 30 Tasks
2. Queen Bee: Read a book whose cover is 75%+ black and white
How it fits:
WoF Name: Almeta Book Read: So Far Gone Jess Walter
Audio 8.3 hrs
Task Description: 10. Worker Bee: Read a book with a prominent tree or trees on the cover.
For Top 30 Tasks?
How It Fits:
WoF Name: Laura apenandzenBook Read: New Girl in Little Cove
Length: 312pp
Top 30 Tasks
Task Description: 1. 🐝 Queen: Read a book whose author has published 3 or fewer full-length novels as of our July 11 start date.
How it fits: Author Damhnait Monaghan has written flash fiction and a novella, but this book is her only full-length novel (so far). I hope she writes more!
WoF Name: Almeta Book Read: The Good Girl Mary Kubica
Audio 10.6 hrs
Task: 5. Queen Bee: Read a book whose page numbers are evenly divisible by 44
For Top 30 Tasks
How It Fits: 352 pages is divisible by 44
WoF: London LoriBook: Dead in the Water
Pages: 260
Task: Top 30 Tasks
9. 🐝 Worker Bee: Read a book with 'water' in the title or author's name.
WoF Name: LynnBook Read: The Graham Effect
Pages: 498
Task Description: Task 4 Drone Bee - Read a book that has been rated 212,000+ times on GR.
Hive Task
How it fits: 274,178 ratings at the time of posting
WoF Name: Kristi NBook read:
Length: E-book, 212 pages
Task: #6 Drone - Read a book with potted plants on the cover.
How it fits: There is a potted plant on either side of the closest bench on the cover.
Top 30 Tasks
WoF Name: LanelleBook Read:
Length: 226 pages
Task Description: Read a book where flower(s) take up a significant portion of the cover or are the focal point
Top 30 Tasks: #7 Drone
How It Fits: Flowers take up a significant portion of the cover.
Kristi wrote: "WoF Name: Kristi NBook read:
Length: E-book, 212 pages
Task: #6 Drone - Read a book with potted plants on the cover.
How it fits: There is a potted plant ..."
AND There is a potted plant in the two urns along the wall.
WoF Name: RozBook Read:
Kindle pages: 201
Task Description: Task 10: Drone: Read a book with leaves on the cover
For Top 30 Task 10 Drone
How It Fits: There are leaves on the cover,
WoF Alexandra Book read: Rivers of London
Task: 9. 🐝 Queen Bee: Read a book where water plays an important role.
392 pages
Water plays an important role in the book
WoF Name: AlmetaBook Read: Speaking in Tungs Karla M. Jay
Audio 10.7 hrs
Task: 5. 6. Queen Bee: Read a book that has a forest on the cover.
For Top 30 Tasks
How It Fits:
WoF Name: AlmetaBook Read: The Secret Life of Sunflowers Marta Molnar
Audio 9.9 hrs
Specially Designed for the Hive: Sunflowers are exceptional pollinator magnets.
Task: Read a book with “sunflowers” in the title
How It Fits: There are sunflowers on the cover and in the title.
WoF Name: LanelleBook Read:
Length: 219 pages
Task Description: Read a book with dandelion(s) or clover in the title or on the cover
Top 30 Tasks: #7 Worker Bee
How It Fits: There is clover on the cover.
Wof Anna M Book read The History of Bees
Ebook, 352
Task. 5.🐝 Drone: Read a book with a bee or bees on the cover
Top 30 Tasks
WoF Name: Laura apenandzenBook Read: Tea Time for the Traditionally Built Libby audio
Length: 8 hr 27min (sped up 1.75 speed)
***The Hive ***
Repeat of Top 30 Worker 1
Task Description: 1. 🐝 Worker : Read a book with an author having three full names
How it fits: Author Alexander McCall Smith has three names
WoF Name: RozBook Read:
Kindle pages: 245
Task Description: Task 5 Drone: Read a book with 1 or more bees on the cover
HIVE task
How It Fits: There are 2 bees on the cover
WoF Name: AlmetaBook Read: Death by Chocolate Malted Milkshake
Audio 9.3 hrs
Task: 10. Queen Bee: Read a book where a hollow object(s) is/are featured on the cover
How It Fits: There is a hollow straw on the cover
WoF MarnieBook read: Bark of Night
269 pages/ 7 hours audio
**HIVE TASK**
Task 3 Worker Bee- neonic ban
Set in New Jersey which is on the list
WoF Name: LynnBook Read: The Dixon Rule
Pages: 498
Task Description: Task 6 Worker Bee - Read a book where a main or important character lives in a condominium, apartment, or other type of group housing.
Hive Task
How it fits: MCs live in apartments next to each other
WoF Alexandra I read Deep End
446 pages
Task: 4. Drone: Read a book that has been rated 212,000+ times on GR.
The current rating is 505.121 ratings.
WoF Name: AlmetaBook Read: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Audio 15.8 hrs
Repeat Top 30 for the Hive
Task: 4. 🐝 Drone: Read a book that has been rated 212,000+ times on GR.
How It Fits: 614,016 ratings
WoF Name: AlmetaBook Read: Tinfoil Butterfly: A Novel Rachel Eve Moulton
Audio 6.4 hrs
Specially Designed Hive: Butterflies are pollinators. Read a book with the word "Butterfly" in the title
How It Fits: the word "Butterfly" is in the title
Wof Anna MBook read The Sunflower Boys
Hardback, 340
Repeat top 10 for the HIVE
3
🐝Queen Bee: Read a book featuring or written by an environmentalist, organic gardener, or other pollinator-friendly character/activist.
The main character helps his grandfather on the sunflower farm.
WoF Name: AlmetaBook Read: The Chinese Maze Murders: A Judge Dee Mystery Robert Hans van Gulik
Audio 9.5 hrs
Repeated Task 2. Worker Bee: Read a book with a bat on the cover.
How It Fits: the cover shows a bat in the upper left corner.
WoF Name: AlmetaBook Read: Dead Things Steve Ruthenbeck
Audio 6.8hrs
Optional Hive task suggestions Read a book where one bird is the focal image of the cover.
How It Fits:
WoF MarnieBook Into the Blue
448 pages/15 hours audio
** Hive Task**
Repeated task 1-Queen a book whose author has published 3 or fewer books.
Emma Brodie has published 2 books
WoF AlmetaBook Read: Vagabond: A Memoir Tim Curry
Audio 10.7 hrs
Specially Designed Hive “Monarch butterflies do not settle in just one place. Instead, they engage in one of the most remarkable multi-generational migrations on earth, traveling up to 3,000 miles between summer breeding grounds and warm overwintering sites.” ~ Monarch Watch
Read a book with a wandering character.
How It Fits: Tim Curry moved to multiple places to live as a military brat and during his career. Not settling in any one place for any length of time.
Almeta wrote: "WoF AlmetaBook Read: Vagabond: A Memoir Tim Curry
Audio 10.7 hrs
Specially Designed Hive “Monarch butterflies do not settle in just one place. Instead, they engage in one of the ..."
I like your tasks Almeta 😄 🦋
Laura wrote: "I like your tasks Almeta 😄 🦋..."***circles toe in sand*** Oh Gosh! Thank you!
WoF: ArianeBook: The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss
Pages: 320
Task: Top 30 Tasks
8. Worker Bee: Read a book with a rainbow in the title.
How it fits: Rainbow is in the title
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Do the Waggle Dance (view spoiler)[A figure-eight dance used by foragers (gophers) to communicate the exact direction (task) and distance of a food (book) or water source. (hide spoiler)] Please report each task you have completed in a separate message so that we can keep track easily.