Pick-a-Shelf discussion

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

2005
fun
humor
friendship
science
parenting
nonfiction
non-fiction
language
education
psychology
reference

2 and 3. It’s Our Birthday: For 30 points per book - spell read PICK-A-SHELF (10 letters = 10 books)

4. Halloween: For 20 points, read books (one each of the following):
• With black / orange cover
• Which has witch/es or monster/s or ghost/s (by monsters: will accept vampires / weres etc)
• Classified as ‘horror’ / ‘gothic’ (ie. on the GR book page, ‘horror’ must be shown as one of the top shelves)
• Which has turnip / pumpkin / jack-o’-lanterns on cover OR the word ‘turnip’, ‘pumpkin’ or ‘jack’ on title
• Which has the word ‘trick’ or ‘treat’ in title (plurals, variables etc accepted, eg. The Treatment and the Cure; Trickster’s Choice, etc)


5. Children’s Book Week (UK) & International World Teacher’s Day: for 25 points, read books (one each of the following):
a. Have child/ren as main character/s
b. Have teacher / any other educator as main character (eg. Piano teacher, etc)
c. Mostly set at a school or similar setting
d. Have child/ren on cover
e. Have an apple on cover

Happy Long Weekend :)

Continuing our birthday celebration, here are 3 options for mid-month:

A. Read a book originally published in October 2008; OR
B. Read a book from our October 2008's shelf: mystery; OR
C. Read a book which has the word 'pick' or 'shelf' in title. Plurals (eg. shelves) or variables (eg. picker) acceptable. Further examples: The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle; Handpicked; The Pea Pickers; The Book on the Bookshelf; etc.

Earn 100 points for reading a book from one of the above options BUT a bountiful 1,000 points if you do all 3 options. Remember, you only have to start reading the book/s within the next 7 days.

If you can combine options (ie. a book which met both a & b or any other combination), you are allowed to claim points for both options with that 1 book. You can still claim the 1,000 points even if you only read 1 or 2 books (noting book/s must meet a, b, & c).

The Question:
"My question is about task 5. For items d and e, do we need to have illustrations of children and apples, respectively, on the covers or will the words in the titles work? I ask because I'm reading "There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children" for other tasks, which has the word "children" in the title, but no children on the cover."

Amy,
5d & e are specifically for cover only. Sorry.

For a book that has witches would the Salem witch trials count? If not then can I assume demons and other under-world creatures would count as monsters??

"Trick" or "treat" must be in the title and not the author's name (ie: Patrick) correct? This is a toughie!

yes, yes, yes, and yes... ha haha...

Lahni, I didn't think it should be that tricky since I found 2 on my tbr...

Natasha, I amended task description to be more specific. Thanks! :)

Kazza wrote: Lahni, I didn't think it should be that tricky since I found 2 on my tbr...

The only ones I have on my tbr are author names Patrick and Fitspatrick. I must not read the right sort of books! ;)

How do tasks 4 & 5 work with Anthology as our shelf of the month? If one story in an anthology has a teacher as a main character, or a witch/monster/ghost/pumpkin/etc. in it, does the book count for the appropriate task or not?

Also, please clarify singular/plural:
Task 4: "witches / monsters / ghosts (by monsters: will accept vampires / weres etc)" -- does there need to be more than one to qualify for this task? Or would Wicked, which I believe is about a single witch, be ok?
Task 5: "Have children on cover" -- I assume this means 2 or more. Correct?

Susan wrote: "How do tasks 4 & 5 work with Anthology as our shelf of the month? If one story in an anthology has a teacher as a main character, or a witch/monster/ghost/pumpkin/etc. in it, does the book count for the appropriate task or not?"

Yes, will accept anthology book with one qualified story

please clarify singular/plural

Tasks amended to reflect acceptance of both singular / plural ;)

Mid Month challege is up!!

I can't believe it's mid-October and the year will end in 2.5 months!

Regarding the mid-month challenge, would the reference to the main character ("A Joe Pickett Novel") at the top of the below cover meet the requirement for part C?

series name / subtitles are acceptable

Would the following cover work for task 5.d (picture of child)?

I cannot tell the age of the person in the picture, but the book is about bullying in schools, so it is obviously someone still in school (high school or younger).

Thanks!

Amy wrote: "Would the following cover work for task 5.d (picture of child)?

I cannot tell the age of the person in the picture, but the book ..."

yep, ok ;)

Kazza wrote: "Amy wrote: "Would the following cover work for task 5.d (picture of child)?

I cannot tell the age of the person in the picture, b..."

YAY! Thanks!

This is yet another example of why I love this group. I discovered the book Picking Bones from Ash only because I was looking for something with "pick" in it for the mid-month challenge. I would never have stumbled across it otherwise. And it looks like not many people have even read it -- you can tell when a book only has a few shelves in GR that no-one's discovered it yet. But I thought it was wonderful! We don't really have a place for reviews of things we've read because of the ROAR challenge that aren't on the shelf of the month, so I wanted to at least post a link here. My review here .

Susan wrote: "This is yet another example of why I love this group. I discovered the book Picking Bones from Ash only because I was looking for something with "pick" in it for the mid-month challe..."

Thanks, Susan! & I'm glad you "stumbled" upon something interesting through the challenge :)
I've added it to my tbr (looks great) though I'll have to see if I can get my hands on it :)