The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

30.4. Donna Jo's Task: Elementary Art
When I was in elementary school my art teacher Miss Lee stressed many things about art (seeing shapes, light, and shadow, use of perspective, padding the table with paper before using paint or paste). I never became much of an artist, but I do enjoy acting like I know something about art. So today’s lesson will be on The Color Wheel. Don’t read Wikipedia which will confuse you with Cyan and Magenta, just remember Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet (or Purple, for us philistines who can't tell the difference).


You will read two books, one from The Primary Colors of Red, Yellow, Blue and one from the Secondary Colors of Orange, Green, and Violet or Purple. You may read either fiction or nonfiction. Each book must be at least 300 pages.
NOTE: ebooks without print versions cannot be used for tasks requiring a specific number of pages. If you read an ebook or audiobook use the page count for the mass market paperback if one exists. If there is no mass market paperback edition, use the paperback edition and if no paperback is available use the hardcover edition.
REQUIRED: When posting be sure to indicate the color you used to chose each book.

A. The Primary Colors: (Choose one)
1. Red: Choose a book you’ve red/read before and reread it. When posting give a clue about when you read the first time, such as, I read this when I was in high school years ago or I read this two years ago for f2f book club.

2. Yellow: Read a book by an author with a "y" in his/her name. The y may be anywhere within the name. Examples: Cathy Marie Buchanan, Kathleen Y'Barbo, Jojo Moyes. You must use the name that appears on the author’s GR page.

3. Blue: Since we use the word blue to mean sad, read a book on a sad or tearjerker GR list. Here are two examples:
Cry, Tear Jerker Romances and Not So Happily-Ever-After
REQUIRED: Link to the list you used, and indicate the place number of the book on that list when you post.

B. The Secondary Colors: (Choose one)
1. Orange: Read a book with a picture of a fruit or the name of a fruit in the title . For purposes of this task please use Choose My Plate, excluding the fruit juice. Mention name of fruit when you post.

For the title option, "kiwi," "fruit," and "cocktail" may appear in the title as isolated words. Plural/singular forms and possessives are allowed, but no other variations.
REQUIRED:if you use the picture option, include the cover in your post.

2. Green: In the United States paper money is sometimes referred to as “green” or “The long green . Read a book with a green cover (at least 1/3). This list may give you some ideas: Greenest Books Ever As with all Listopia lists, not every book on this list will necessarily work.

REQUIRD: Include the cover in your post.

3. Violet or Purple: Since the color purple is associated with royalty, read a book with one of the following royal titles in the title of the book or in the GR plot description on the book's main GR page: Emperor, Empress, Tsar, Tsarina, King, Queen, Prince, Princess. Plurals and possessives allowed, but no other variations.

Books that work for A.2-Yellow
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Books that work for Green.

Books that don't work.

Because of length:



Not enough green:

This thread is now open!

- enough green?

Is this one enough green?

Bea wrote: " - enough green?"



Bea, it is green enough, but there are not enough pages. If you can find a copy with that picture and, 300 pages, it'll work.

Kathy G. wrote: "Is this one enough green?

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Kathy, it is green enough, but there are not enough pages. If you can find a copy with that picture and, 300 pages, it'll work.

Oops--- I forgot that part! :-)

How about this one for green?

Kathy G. wrote: "How about this one for green?

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Looks good for color and length.

Thank you!

Donna Jo wrote: "Bea, it is green enough, but there are not enough pages. If you can find a copy with that picture and, 300 pages, it'll work."

I checked my copy, and it is only 290 pages. How about this one?



My copy has 371 pages.

enough green -

Nice task Donna Jo.

Bea wrote: " Donna Jo wrote: "Bea, it is green enough, but there are not enough pages. If you can find a copy with that picture and, 300 pages, it'll work."

I checked my copy, and it is only 290 pages. How ab..."

Bea, looks good.

Dee wrote: "enough green - "

Once I got a big enough picture to see that it was very dark green trees at the top, the answer is yes.

Bea wrote: " Donna Jo wrote: "Bea, it is green enough, but there are not enough pages. If you can find a copy with that picture and, 300 pages, it'll work."

I checked my copy, and it is only 290 pages. How ab..."

Looks good to me, Bea.

Sheila wrote: "Nice task Donna Jo."

Thanks, Sheila.

Donna Jo wrote: "Bea wrote: " Donna Jo wrote: "Bea, it is green enough, but there are not enough pages. If you can find a copy with that picture and, 300 pages, it'll work."

I checked my copy, and it is only 290 p..."

Thanks, Donna Jo.

Is this green enough?

Hey, just wondering if is green enough?

Sandy wrote: "Is this green enough?
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Sandy, I can't get a good enough image--it looks more brown and not enough to me, even with an enlarged picture.

Bec, Sorry, I can't quite smoosh all the lettering into enough green to fit around that gun.

Donna Jo wrote: "Sandy wrote: "Is this green enough?
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Sandy, I can't get a good enough image--it looks more brown and not enough to me, even with an enlarged picture."

yeah, it's a problem with computers. I got this is a used book store on vacation so I'm looking at the actual book, and it's all a dark olive green. To avoid issues, I'll put it somewhere else, though.

thanks!

Sandy wrote: "Donna Jo wrote: "Sandy wrote: "Is this green enough?
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Sandy, I can't get a good enough image--it looks more brown and not enough to me, even with an enlarged ..."

I wondered about that--with the title, my brain was thinking green, but I just wasn't seeing it. I was even going to go check the library's copy later this morning, but the catalog shows a different cover (also not green enough). I do hope you can use it somewhere else because it looks good.

Donna Jo wrote: " I do hope you can use it somewhere else because it looks good.
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oh, it will fit somewhere - or - gasp - I can even read it without using it for SRC purposes!

Sandy wrote: "Donna Jo wrote: " I do hope you can use it somewhere else because it looks good.
..."

oh, it will fit somewhere - or - gasp - I can even read it without using it for SRC purposes!"

What a concept! Do you suppose just reading random books for FUN with no connection to a challenge will ever catch on?
I'm doing some rereading of books to decide whether to keep them or no--I need to really weed my collection. (You know anyone who wants a collection of about 90% of Andre Norton titles?)

Does this one work? A Kiss in Time

♥Robin ♥ wrote: "Does this one work? A Kiss in Time

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Yes.

A2: Long Lankin by Lindsey Barraclough
B2:

are these good?

Is there enough en on this cover?

The green extends from the beginning of the sky to the top of the letters of the title.

Delmy =^.^= wrote: "A2: Long Lankin by Lindsey Barraclough
B2:

are these good?"

Delmy, both of these work well.

Andy wrote: "Is there enough en on this cover?

The green extends from the beginning of the sky to the top of the letters of the title."

Andy, I'm only seeing a little green on the left side. Most of it looks grey, so I'm going to say no on this one. I hope you'll be able to use it on another task.

Would this book work for option B3 ? Royal Assassin

I am planning on reading:

Option 1: Beans of Egypt, Maine - my first name is Carolyn

Option 2: Rain - set in Germany where it is thought both sides of my family probably originated.

Skandia wrote: "Would this book work for option B3 ? Royal Assassin"

Yes, that'll do.

Bea, I think this needs to go under 30.6 Beth NC's task.

Is this green enough?

green enough/ On my TBR for a while!

Donna Jo wrote: "Bea, I think this needs to go under 30.6 Beth NC's task."

OOPS!

For this task, I have planned:

A3: My Sister's Keeper - #18 on the Not So Happily-Ever-After List

B2: - already approved for green cover

Susan wrote: "Is this green enough?

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Looks good to me.

Cindy wrote: " green enough/ On my TBR for a while!"

Cindy, I'm going to say no on this, since so much of what is in the green is black or grey sketches.

Bea wrote: "Donna Jo wrote: "Bea, I think this needs to go under 30.6 Beth NC's task."

OOPS!

For this task, I have planned:

A3: My Sister's Keeper - #18 on the Not So Happily-Ever-After List

B2: [bookcove..."

Bea, your picks for this task look good.
I can't believe the number of times I've put posts in the wrong thread. At least I could figure out what you were aiming at.

Susan wrote: "Is this green enough?

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Susan, this looks good.

A. The Primary Colors:

Yellow - Night Music by Jojo Moyes

B. The Secondary Colors:

Green - The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

Claire wrote: "A. The Primary Colors:

Yellow - Night Music by Jojo Moyes

B. The Secondary Colors:

Green - The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

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Claire,
These are fine, but you will probably want to have a librarian update the Night Music so that it reflects the ISBN and number of pages in the edition you read.

These are the books that I would like to read:
Red: Twilight &
Green: Relic (If you enlarge the picture, I think it looks like more than 1/3 green. What do you think?)

How about this one for either orange or green?
It has plum and peach in the title and the background is pretty green. It is over 300 pages, but it is an anthology. Is that ok?

Lacy wrote: "These are the books that I would like to read:
Red: Twilight &
Green: Relic (If you enlarge the picture, I think it looks like more than 1/3 green. What do you think?)"

Lscy, it sure looks like if you rake all those leaves together there's more than 1/3 a cover.

Go for it!