The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

30.11 - Peebee’s Task: Summer Smashes Not Fall Forgotten
Each summer has those smash hit songs that you hear everywhere you turn, especially if you’re at the beach or pool, and the summer of 2012 is no exception. Here’s a way to keep remembering six of summer 2012’s most popular hits and singers long after you return home from your vacation.

Pick two (2) options from the following list: one “singer” and one “song.” The two options can be from the same or different songs.

Required: Please state the options you selected when you post. If using cover options, please include the book’s cover in your post. If your choices aren’t obvious, please explain the connection.

#1: P!nk: Blow Me (One Last Kiss) (Video)

A. Singer: Select a book with a title in which a symbol has been substituted for a letter or a word or one that includes a punctuation mark (colons (:) and commas (,) are excluded).
Examples:
Required: Include the cover when you post.
B. Song: Select a book where people are kissing on the cover or where a romantic relationship breaking up is a significant part of the plot and included in the summary. If using the kissing option, there must be lip to lip contact or very close and it should be clear that the kiss is meant in a romantic way; no parent/child or platonic kisses to the cheek or forehead.


#2: Rihanna: Where Have You Been (Video)

A. Singer: Select a book featuring an author or primary character (fiction or non-fiction) known by only one name. (Examples: Madonna, Cher, Prince, Single-Name Authors)
B. Song: Where Have You Been? Select a book that is set in a location you’ve previously visited outside your home country. If you do not currently live in your home country, you may use a location in your current country of residence, as long as it is a place that you have visited, and not lived (temporarily or permanently). Required: Please state your home country and, if not contained in the book’s description, the location of the book’s setting that you’ve previously visited. Optional: Tell us how the book’s description of the location compares to your experience.


#3: Carly Rae Jepsen: Call Me Maybe (Video)

A. Singer: Select a book whose author uses three full names (no initials or hyphenated names) or is a Canadian author (by birth or residence). (Carly Rae Jepsen is Canadian.) Required: If the author's Canadian connection is not referenced in their Goodreads bio, please provide a link for verification.
B. Song: Select a book with a phone on the cover (cell phone, public pay phone, telephone box, etc.) or one with the words "phone", "telephone", "call", or "maybe" in the title. Plurals and possessives will work, but no other variations. Examples:
Required: If using the cover option, include the cover in your post.


#4: Flo Rida: Whistle (Video)

A. Singer: Select a book set in Florida for a significant portion of the book or written by a Florida author (by birth or residence). Required: If the Florida setting or the author's Florida connection is not referenced in the Goodreads book description/author's bio, please provide a source or explanation.
B. Song: Select a book with a bird or someone blowing a whistle on the cover.


#5: Pitbull: Back In Time (featured in Men In Black III) (Video)

A. Singer: Armando Cristian Pérez, better known by his stage name Pitbull, is an American rapper, songwriter, actor and record producer. Select a book written by an author who is also an actor or who has had something he or she has written turned into a movie. (It does not have to be the book you choose for this task.) Required: Please include a Goodreads link to the author and identify at least one of the author's acting or movie credits when you post. Include an offsite reference such as IMDb if the acting or movie credit is not included in the author's Goodreads biography.
B. Song: Select a book with an author named Smith (Will Smith) or Jones (Tommy Lee Jones).


#6: Gotye: Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra) (Video)

A. Singer: Gotye is Belgian-Australian, while Kimbra is from New Zealand. Read a book set in Belgium, Australia or New Zealand for a significant portion of the book or written by an author from one of these three countries (by birth or residence). Required: If the setting or the author's connection to these countries is not referenced in the Goodreads book description/author's bio, please provide a source or explanation.
B. Song: Select a book with the word "somebody" in the title. Plurals and possessives work, but no other variations.

Approved for 1A (symbol):


Approved for 1B (kissing):


(showing wrong book cover -- the correct one is below in the thread)

Approved for 2A (single name):
My Boyfriend Merlin (character Merlin)
Push (Sapphire)

Approved for 3A (three names):
Dashing Through The Snow by Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark

Approved for 4B (bird):

These are NOT approved for 1B:


(no actual lip contact; too much white space in between)

This thread is now open!

ohhh good task!!

WOW! Some great options! (And great songs!)

It's so sad that I know none of these songs. My kids are 8 and 5 1/2 years old, so we are listening to radio disney or kids place live on satellite radio all the time. I'm so out of touch. LMAO, but this is a great task!

oh and I guess I should ask a question too. Are these people kissing enough?

I don't see Sapphire on the list of single-name authors, but will you accept Push for 2A?

Great task!

I was curious about the kissing one, too. Do the people have to be actually kissing or just about to kiss. Many of my books make it clear that the people are going to kiss but they're not quite there yet! Or he's kissing her......
So would any of these count as kissing?

Will this work for 2A

oh and 1B

Sassafrass wrote: "oh and I guess I should ask a question too. Are these people kissing enough?
"

Yes!

Riona wrote: "I don't see Sapphire on the list of single-name authors, but will you accept Push for 2A?"

Yes!

On 1B (kissing), let's go with: there has to be some lip-face contact; no white space between the parties involved. So the following are approved:



And these are not:

JennRenee wrote: "oh and 1B"

See above: My Boyfriend Merlin is approved for 2A; Meant to Be is NOT approved for 1B (too much white space).

this work for 1b or

JennRenee wrote: "this work for 1b or "

It looks like both have white space and no actual lip contact, so not approved.

For 2B, must it be a precise location we have visited? I was thinking of using Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children since I've visited Wales, but wasn't sure whether that counted.

Would this count for a symbol replacing a letter or does it have to be a punctuation symbol?

Same country is fine, Randi.

Jana, I'll approve it, because the Paul Krugman book listed as an example isn't precisely a punctuation symbol either.

Thanks!

For 5A, should it be movies or can it be TV shows too? I'm looking at George R. R. Martin mainly.

For this one, I'd like to keep it to movies only for the "work has been turned into a movie" portion of the task.

However, "actor" can include someone who has appeared on either a movie or television. According to IMDb, George R.R. Martin has an acting credit...appearing as an actor on the TV series "Beauty and the Beast" back in 1988. So he counts that way.

Peebee, my home country is India. But, I've been living in the US from quite a while now. Would a book set in, say, New York City count for 2B or is US ruled out?

For 1A, would this count? Alys, Always. Comma in the title.

Wow! I didn't know that about GRRM. Thanks, Peebe!

Chaitra -- New York City counts if the US is not your home country and not where you live now.

I had meant to add commas to the excluded items...I'm looking for unusual punctuation marks, not usual ones like commas and colons. So I'm going to say no and have the moderator edit the task. Sorry about that.

Will do Peebee! I still live in the US. I'll fit Alys, Always into some other task. Hopefully one of the 20/25 pointers. Off I go to plan some more. My favorite part of the challenge! :)

Kissing???
???

Peebee, is this OK for #4 - the bird option? (There are three.)

Will this work for 1B?

Would these work:
3A-Canadian Author
5B- by Cheryl Ann Smith

Sara ♥ wrote: "Kissing???
???"

Sara, none of those involve lips in close proximity to one another, so I'm going to say no.

mstan wrote: "Peebee, is this OK for #4 - the bird option? (There are three.)
"

mstan, Goodreads is not letting me look at the cover -- I'm getting "unexpected error" pages when I try to click on it -- but if it has three birds, it's almost certainly fine.

TeresaFL wrote: "Will this work for 1B? "

I'm going to say yes, because it appears their heads are faced the right direction and in the right proximity, even if you can't actually see their lips.

Midu wrote: "Would these work:
3A-Canadian Author
5B- by Cheryl Ann Smith"

Tigana's author's bio says: "Guy Gavriel Kay is a Canadian author..." so that definitely counts.

And so does Cheryl Ann Smith...all three names are used on the cover and on Goodreads.

Thanks,Peebee!

Try 2: For 4b, does a dead bird work? Like this one?

Dead or living, it works, Chaitra...

Oh yaay! Thanks Peebee!

Peebee wrote: "Sara ♥ wrote: "Kissing???
???"

Sara, none of those involve lips in close proximity to one another, so I'm going to say no. "

Darn! But just FYI, the task description does specifically say "...there must be lip to lip or lip to face contact..." so you might want to have the mods update that if that wasn't your intention.

By the way, considering the number of romance novels I read, this kissing option is REALLY HARD to find!!!! Perhaps covers with people ALMOST kissing sell better than ones with people ACTUALLY kissing??? ;)

Yeah, I'm working on updating with the mods....basically we're working on language that will make clear that it needs to be mutual/reciprocal in a romantic way, not one person's lips not in close proximity to or without direct contact with another person's lips....or the kind of kissing that platonic friends or parent/child can do. Lip to face works if the parties are turned towards each other and aiming for lips, but not if they're on another part of the face. That's why something like this works:




and the others don't.

You might be right about the pictures...antici....pation (to channel the other RHPS tasks) might be better than reality...but I want to make it a little challenging!

Gotcha—makes sense! I'll keep looking! :)

Can I use by Mary Higgins Clark for 3A as a author who uses 3 names? I wanted to make sure since it is co-written with her daughter that it's ok.

It looks like both Mary and her daughter Carol both use all three names, but even if only one author used three names, that would be fine.

OK thanks! :)

Will you accept The Wilderness for a cover with a bird on it?

SilverRaindrops wrote: "Will you accept The Wilderness for a cover with a bird on it?

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Looks like lots of birds to me -- all good.