The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

30.5 - Diana K’s Task - Word Play on a Few of My Favorite Things

I love to read but reading is just one of many activities I enjoy. I’ve built my task around a few of the things I like to do.

This is a 2 book challenge. Select one of the options from below. REQUIRED: State which option you chose when you post. No books with the main page genre Children’s or Kids may be used for this task.
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Option 1: Kayak. Every weekend from late May to early November you’ll find me kayaking one of the many rivers or creeks near me.

Book 1: The word kayak is a palindrome; a palindrome is a word or phrase that reads the same way backward or forwards such as “kayak”, “madam”, or “Amore Roma” You can find a list at palindrome list.

Read a book with a palindrome of at least 4 letters in the title/subtitle or author's name.

Book 2: The word kayak contains the name of an animal, the yak. Read a book where the name of a type of animal is contained intact within a word of the title and/or subtitle. The animal name must be part of a larger word that is not a plural or possessive of the animal’s name. Dogwood would work but not dogs or dog’s.
Examples:
Dogwood Hill (dog)
The Fisherman (fish)
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (ant)

Option 2: Garden. I enjoy working in my garden. I will happily pull weeds over cleaning house.

Book 1: The word garden can be anagrammed into the word danger. Choose a word of at least 5 letters and read a book with that word in the title/subtitle.

Book 2: Read a book with an anagram of the word you chose in Book 1 in the title or subtitle.

REQUIRED: State the word from book 1 and its anagram from book 2.

This site may help: Everyday Vocabulary Anagrams

Option 3: Travel. I love to travel, see the sights, experience new cultures, and sample the food .

I can take the word travel and by adding a letter or changing a letter or dropping a letter I can make a new word such as travels, gravel or ravel.

Book 1: Read a book that includes a word of at least 4 letters in the title/subtitle.

Book 2: Take that word and add one letter, change one letter or drop one letter to create a new word. Read a book with that new word in the title/subtitle.

REQUIRED: State the word you used for book 1 and the changed word used for book 2.

Reserved.

Reserved.

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making sure i understand - pick 1 option and read a book a and book b?

Dee wrote: "making sure i understand - pick 1 option and read a book a and book b?"

Yes.

Can the palindrome be a name: such as OTTO in
Etta and Otto and Russell and James

Book Concierge wrote: "Can the palindrome be a name: such as OTTO in
Etta and Otto and Russell and James"

Yes, it can.

Does the palindrome have to be just a word or can it be the entire title such as God's Dog?

It can be a phrase too so that works

For option one, book two, would a hyphenated word be ok?

Example: The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts

"ass" is the animal taken from bad-ass.

Thanks.

For Option 2, does the anagram (of the word from book 1) also need to be a single word of 5 letters or more?

Kim wrote: "For option one, book two, would a hyphenated word be ok?

Example: The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts

"ass" is the an..."

Yes, I've checked and a hyphenated word is treated as one word so that's fine.

Stephanie (Librarianish) wrote: "For Option 2, does the anagram (of the word from book 1) also need to be a single word of 5 letters or more?"

Can you give me an example? If it's two words together that are an anagram of at least 5 letters, that should be okay but an example would be helpful.

Does the anagram for option 2 book 2 have to include all the letters of the chosen word from book 1? Or can it be a subset?

It has to be the whole word so all the letters.

Righty ho. Thanks for clarifying.

Would a hen be OK for an animal? E. G. Trouble with Lichen

Yes, that's fine.

And checking that tern (seabird) would be OK

Yes, that works

Under Option 3, if a letter is dropped, do the remaining letters used for Book 2 have to be in the same order as they were in Book 1?

And if not, would Kit work for an animal under Option 1 ?

For option 1 the remaining letters have to be in the same order.

And sorry, kit is too vague since it doesn't refer to a specific type of animal but a young one from several different kinds.

For option 3, if the initial word is 4 letters (date), I can do the drop-one-letter option and have the second title contain a 3-letter word (ate), correct?

Correct.