Pick-a-Shelf discussion

8.1. Mini SAT: 50 points when you have read off the following 12 shelves (with 5 books or less):

2004
chick-lit
chicklit
adventure
political
politics
academic
art
adult
adult-fiction
biography
autobiography

8.2. Read around the world: 30 points:

Read a book written by an author from or where it is mostly set in a country of your choosing but... your choice for this month is limited to a country where the first initial starts with the letters u, v, w, x, y, z

Use only this List of Countries for this challenge

8.3. Back to School (30 points): Choose your 5 subjects (books) for this month:
a. Ancient History: read a book set in / written before 16th century
b. Modern History: read a book set in / written after 16th century or after
c. English: read book set in Great Britain
d. Mathematics: read a book of minimum pages of "your age with a 0 at the end" (ie. if you're 30, min of 300 pages)
e. Personal Development, Health and Physical Education: read a book in connection with sports
f. Science: read book which has forensic science, lab work or experimentation in the story
g. Geography: read a book set in a country you have never visited
h. The Arts: Biography about a Musician, Actor, Photographer, designer

8.4. Proverbial sayings: Choose a proverb your parents / grandparents use a lot of the time, or just choose one and read words in title (exact match of words). 20 points per book for up to 5 books, 100 points bonus if completed with 5 books or less. No points applicable for any books over the 5 books limit (no penalty applicable either).

For example:

"Those who lose dreaming are lost" - Australian Aboriginal proverb
Those Who Save Us
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Are You There God It’s me Margaret
The Lost Symbol

"Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men" – Chinese proverb
Beauty and the Beast
She Walks in Beauty
On Account of Conspicuous Women: A Novel
The Children of Men
Sometimes Madness is Wisdom: Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald: A Marriage
The Goddess is in the Details: Wisdom for the Everyday Witch

8.5.Common Sense (20 points): Read book/s with words in title that relates to our senses (ie. sight, hearing, smell, taste, & touch). Synonyms / variables are acceptable, for example: see, listen, touching, etc.
edited to include author's names for this task

Mid-Month:

Read a book written by a Goodreads Author --> 25 pts

Read a book written by a Goodreads Author that is already on your to-read list prior to 15 August 2011 ---> 25 pts + 20 pts

Read a book written by a Goodreads Authors whose birthday is in August --> 25 pts + 30 pts

Read a book written by a Goodreads Author that is already on your to-read list prior to 15 August 2011 and whose birthday is in August --> 25 pts + 20 pts + 30 pts

Just a quick announcement:

We didn't say anything on what the 'prize' will be for the winner/s of ROAR. Of course, all participants are winners for having stretch their wings beyond their comfort zones.

It seems to be the norm that the 'prize' be related to the next game so... now, that we have some sort of rough draft of a game for 2012 (I know, how terribly organised!), those who place 1-3 by the end of ROAR will have a head start (slight advantages) for this next game.

Don't worry, in our next game, if Lady Luck is on your side, you can still win!! ;)

Amy was kind enough to ask me a question via msg as I, conveniently, forgot to place a reservation for Mid-month. Amy was asking if we could use author's name for the last task, 8.5 (eg. Lisa See, etc) and I've said 'yes'.

Another question on task 8.5 - can the word "hands" be used for touch, or am I taking the concept of variables too far?

When choosing winners, are you going strictly by points even if all tasks weren't completed by at least one book?

I used the thesaurus on word and come up with the following tenative list of words that might work...I was able to find a book for each scent, so far

See – look, observe,
Feel – touch; stroke, handle, caress
Hear – listen; sound
Smell – aroma, sense; scent; odor
Taste – savor; flavor; try; sample; eat; test

the country list posted doesn't seem to be working for me - I keep getting the webpage cannot be found msg...

does this one work ok as an alternative?

http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld...

For task 8.5: How about antonyms? E.g., "blindness" for sight, "deaf" for hearing?

for "taste" can it be the taste categories (bitter, salty, sweet, sour)?

Yes to Amy (#5), Susan (#9) & Lahni (#10)... this task is a very flexible one ;)

Dee - I can't open your link! lol- the list I had got 257 countries, I'm hoping yours have the same number? Otherwise, I can always cut & paste the countries list and msg them to you?

Lahni, I was going strictly by points.

But... I may be looking at different categories for which I have things in store - to be disclosed at a later stage ;)

Kazza wrote: "Lahni, I was going strictly by points.

But... I may be looking at different categories for which I have things in store - to be disclosed at a later stage ;)"

Please be kind in November and December for those of us that are trying to read all the books for each task x 5 and can't physically read 20 books in a month. ;)

Ha ha ha, Lahni, don't worry. I have realised that it might be a close call for the December challenges, most especially, noting the holiday season and all.

Dee - I can't open your link! lol- the list I had got 257 countries, I'm hoping yours have the same number? Othe..."

link worked for me at home...weird - no worries, i got my countries picked out - i actually needed several of this for my around the world challenge - I got urugary; uganda; uzbekistan; vatican city all lined up... ;)

Sorry, I am on the mend (got a cold!). It hasn't been a very good year for me, is it? Especially not the last few months!? It's a combination of being a cold winter & commuting on train for work :p

Plus I was stressed out at work yesterday so I'm really sorry... and I'm making it so very easy this mid-month to make it up :)

ohhh me likely the mid-point and one of my groups has a birthday tracker and authors part of the group are included - made it easy for me to find someone with a book on my shelf

Dee- I'm jealous! I was just going to ask if anyone has a slick way of finding the author's birth month. I notice many don't list it on their author profiles. And I'm really hoping to avoid google searching all of them.

i would offer you this list, but they are lgbt romances and some are rather explicit - but if you want let me know

Thanks, Dee, but I'll pass. They wouldn't do me any good since I'm sure none of the books are on my TBR list.

probably not ;)

this link might help: http://www.librarything.com/topic/121282 - it seems to be a topic about authors birthdays in august

So for 8.5 I have chosen books with these words: hand (touch), eyes (sight), sweetness (taste) and scent (smell). Those words clearly relate to the sense, but can I use the word voice for hearing? The actual book is The Voice of the Night, which conjures up a spoken sound. That picture leads me to hearing which is necessary to know that the sound is a voice. So will it work?

Yes to voice, Bea

Along the same lines, would dark or darkness work as they pertain to sight?

Kazza wrote: "Yes to voice, Bea"

Thanks, Kazza

Amy wrote: "Along the same lines, would dark or darkness work as they pertain to sight?"

Yes - this task is a very flexible one ;)

What was the August shelf of the month? Does anyone remember or have it recorded somewhere?

August was sociology

Thank you :) Cleaning up my stats...what a mess :-P

for the country in the ROAR...what if it originally was a letter in the month - Z, but now isnt? I just finished up The Ponds of Kalambayi which was set in Zaire when it was written, but Zaire is now the Democratic Republic of the congo

I believe it has to be on the list of countries to count.
List of Countries

Dee wrote: "for the country in the ROAR...what if it originally was a letter in the month - Z, but now isnt? I just finished up The Ponds of Kalambayi which was set in Zaire when it was written,..."

Sorry, Dee, I'm afraid I'll have to say no. You can claim it for C but not for Z as Christina said it'll have to be on the list of countries - did you say before that you couldn't open this list? Was that you?

If they changed their name this year, I would have accepted it but they didn't so... no ;p

oh well...I counted as DRC in my other group with a note about it being Zaire previously...silly African countries changing names!!