Mineola Library's 2012 FALL Reading Challenge discussion

Going to the Ball Park

It's summer time, let's go see America's past-time. Pick two** options from the following list. You can't do the same option twice, but you can do two different options from the same category. **If you do option E- Doubleheader-this option counts as both books

A. Home or Away-When heading to a game, we must decide if we are rooting for the home team or the visiting team (it will help us decide which colors to wear!)

1. Home-Choose a book written by an author who is a "local". (Born in or lives in the same city/state/ province you do.)

2. Away-Choose a book written by an author from a different COUNTRY (by birth or residence) than where you currently live.

Required: Please identify your Home/Away location when you post.

B. Hit the Concession Stand

1. Food-Gotta grab a hot dog while you are at the stadium! Read a book originally written in German, set in Germany or by a German author (by birth or residence).

2. Drink-Beer is the drink of the ball park. (Root Beer for those under-age) Read a book about beer brewing or a book with one of the following words in the title: ale, amber, lager, draft, brew, craft, light, dark, or beer. Plurals and possessives are fine, but no other variations or compound words.

C. The restrooms: one of the great inequities at the ball park!

1. The Women's Room: Read a LONG (over 400 pages) book written by a woman.

2. The Men's Room: Read a short book (100-200 pages) written by a man.

D. Go watch the game (or at least the players)

1. Read a biography/autobiography/memoir about a current or past professional baseball player.

2. Read a non-fiction account of baseball. This book should NOT be a biography, but rather a book about the game, ex. Moneyball The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, Eight Men Out The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series, The Baseball Codes Beanballs Sign Stealing and Bench-Clearing Brawls The Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime

E. Doubleheader- Sometimes, we are lucky enough to watch two games in one trip. The team match-up may look the same, but there are frequently different players involved in each game!

1. Read two books with the same title written by different authors. Subtitles may be ignored. ex. The Reef by Nora RobertsAND The Reef by Edith Wharton

Required: Please identify the options when you post.

I chose option A for this challenge. I listened to local author Michelle Musser (Mineola) read her new book Sleepy Do at the library for our "Home" author.

For the "Away" author, I read Tale of Jemima Puddle Duck by Beatrix Potter, who is from the UK.

I can't find any information on Sleepy Do to find the page number, and I forgot to count the pages in Jemima Puddle-Duck. I'll add them after our next trip to the library.

Crystal wrote: "I chose option A for this challenge. I listened to local author Michelle Musser (Mineola) read her new book Sleepy Do at the library for our "Home" author.

For the "Away" author, I read Tale of Je..."

I found your book on Tate Publishing ... Sleepy Do (24 pages)

Crystal wrote: "I chose option A for this challenge. I listened to local author Michelle Musser (Mineola) read her new book Sleepy Do at the library for our "Home" author.

For the "Away" author, I read Tale of Je..."


I looked up the Potter book online and found out the pages were not numbered. When you find it, you'll have to hand count them. Send me the page count and I'll add it into your total.

Tale of Jemima Puddle Duck is 10 pages.

The restrooms:
1. Women's Room: LONG (over 400 pages) book written by a woman.

Standing in the Rainbow
Flagg, Fannie 560 pages



The last in the trilogy which includes Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Café. As in all of her books, Fannie Flagg takes readers on a nostalgic trip through a small town in the last half of the twentieth century.

B. Hit the Concession Stand
2. Drink- one of the following words in the title: dark


Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1
Harris, Charlaine 336 pages


After picking up The Sookie Stackhouse Compaion for the novella task, I realized you needed to have read the series to follow the stories. Sookie Stackhouse is a waitress in Bon Temps, a small town in Louisianna.
The vampires of the world have recently “come out” and are trying to become accepted by the general public. Soookie finds heself attracted to Bill, a local vampire. As their relationship grows, Sookie’s special ability to read minds gets her involved in the politics of the vampire community

For this one I chose Home Team option a and read "One Wintery Night" by Pamela Griffin from Central Texas. It was an 87 page novella, and I chose option b part 2 drink and read "Amber Moon" by C.L. Bevill it was 250 pages and was a fantasy fiction about werewolves.