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March 2024Mini Challenge – NATIONAL CRAYON DAY
Begins: 01Mar24 / Ends: 31Mar24

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March 31st is National Crayon Day. So, I've taken inspiration from the original box of eight crayons I (and every other kindergartener) had in my pencil box.

Your challenge is to read books with a COVER that is at least 50% the color of one of the crayons in the original box of eight. Please be sure to check TIN EYE to verify color percentage: https://labs.tineye.com/color/

You can PICK ANY FIVE of the colors listed below. You do NOT need to pick the colors in advance; you can complete the challenge as books come your way. One book per color. A completed challenge will have five books with five different color covers.

The colors
Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Purple / violet
Brown
Black



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Unless a variation is specified above, words must match exactly, with the following exceptions: I will accept a plural/singular version, or differences in spelling between British and American English (e.g. honor or honour). But those are the ONLY deviations allowed. So if you are looking for "gold" - I will NOT allow "golden."

All books used must be a minimum of 100 pages long - Page length determined by HARDCOVER 1st edition. If there is no Hardcover, then the most popular paperback governs page #.

You may read in any format - text, audio or e-book. If using audio or e-book I suggest using Amazon.com's "read a sample" feature to get a page number for your quote.

You MUST finish the book before you can claim credit for finding the word/phrase.

EXAMPLE of a successful post:
Red - ✔ - 12Nov23
Tin eye:
47.9 % #c81615 - Red
3.4 % #a8211d - Red
2.6 % #8a1b1c - Red

TOTAL: 53.9% Red



If you'd like to be recognized as finishing, the challenge, please post a new comment alerting me to your finish. I do not get notifications when you edit your original post.

Have Fun!

List of Participants:

CLICK on your name to go directly to your challenge post.

Beverly ✔ – DONE

Jana

JennH ✔ – DONE

Koren

Sheila ✔ – DONE

Teri-K ✔ – DONE

Terri S✔ – DONE

Tessa ✔ – DONE
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To use TIn EYE
Go to the website: https://labs.tineye.com/color/

From the book's Good Reads page,
RIGHT click on the image of the cover and select copy image link
Paste that into the Tin Eye box where it says "Enter image URL" and then click EXTRACT COLORS.

You can click "exclude background colors" to see if that makes a difference in the % that you get. !!!

You can count ALL the different colors that have your target color it in.
See example I gave above for

March 2024Mini Challenge – NATIONAL CRAYON DAY
Begins: 01Mar24 / Ends: 31Mar24

5/5

1. RED Thirty-One Short Stories by Robert R. Railey by Robert Railey FINISHED March 9

65.7 %#cb3234Red
15.7 %#a03337Red
4.8 %#b33434Red

TOTAL 86.2

2. ORANGE The 9th Fortress by J.P. Jackson FINISHED 3/20

36.8 %#fb5e18Orange
31.6 %#f98d07Orange
1.1 %#d07137Orange

TOTAL: 69.5

3. BLUE Catering to Nobody by Diane Mott Davidson FINISHED 3/19

57.0 %#341b89Blue

TOTAL 57.0

4. VIOLET Circus of Wonders by Elizabeth Macneal FINISHED 3/6

65.6 %#290943Violet
2.8 %#653158Violet
0.6 %#453a4dViolet

TOTAL: 69%

5. BROWN A Jar of Fingers by C.L. Hernandez FINISHED 3/23

52.9 %#c39976Brown
30.2 %#90674dBrown

TOTAL: 83.1

March 2024Mini Challenge – NATIONAL CRAYON DAY
Begins: 01Mar24 / Ends: 31Mar24


5 / 5 completed

You can PICK ANY FIVE of the colors listed below. One book per color. A completed challenge will have five books with five different color covers.


Blue - ✔ – 01Mar24
67.8% #56b3ce Blue

Purple / Violet - ✔ – 06Mar24
51.2% #52113f Violet

Red - ✔ – 12Mar24
74.3% - #b11e4a Red

Black - ✔ – 21Mar24
59.3% #0d0d0d black

Green - ✔ – 06Apr24
48% #528841
5.7% #23351e
Total: 53.7%

Beverly wrote: "March 2024Mini Challenge – NATIONAL CRAYON DAY
Begins: 01Mar24 / Ends: 31Mar24

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I'll be back to pick my colors."

You do NOT need to pick the colors in advance. You can do it as you go along throughout the month.

Oh, this is so fun and different!

March 2024Mini Challenge – NATIONAL CRAYON DAY
Begins: 01Mar24 / Ends: 31Mar24

The colors
Red
🖍️Orange - Rebound by Kwame Alexander 3/4/24 - 78.7%

🖍️Yellow - Lightseekers by Femi Kayode 3/23/24 - 60.8% (phone)

Green
🖍️Blue - Jade Legacy by Fonda Lee 3/12/24 - 87.6%

🖍️Purple / violet - You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson - 59%

🖍️Brown - Esrever Doom by Piers Anthony 3/24/24 - 55.3% (phone)

🖍️Black - Private Gold by James Patterson 3/26/24 - 59.6%

Book Concierge wrote: "Beverly wrote: "March 2024Mini Challenge – NATIONAL CRAYON DAY
Begins: 01Mar24 / Ends: 31Mar24

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I'll be back to pick my colors."

You do NOT need to pick the colors in advance. You can do it a..."

Thanks for clarifying that!!

The colors
Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Purple / violet
Brown
Black

This should be interesting!

March 2024Mini Challenge – NATIONAL CRAYON DAY

5/5

The Colors:

✔Red -

The One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood, 4*****s, 3-23-24, 77.1%

Orange

Yellow

✔Green -

The Writer's Garden: How Gardens Inspired our Best-loved Authors by Jackie Bennett, 5*****s, 3-11-24, 72.4%

✔Blue -

Ferris by Kate DiCamillo, 5*****s, 3-13-24, 56.6%


Purple /Violet

✔Brown -

An Unsuitable Attachment by Barbara Pym, 4****s, 3-22-24, 60.2%

✔Black -

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, 5*****s, 3-4-24, 85.5%

Checking book covers on TIN EYE is my new favorite thing to do! But I am going to have a hard time finding book covers that are over 50% :-o

BC, you have outdone yourself this time! This is going to be an exciting challenge! ;)

I'm in.

7/5

The colors

Red-- by Brendan Slocumb
36%--851613
19.4%--b3261e
54.4% Red

Orange--
79%--fe8560
2.2%--e8a50c
81.2% Orange

Yellow

Green-- by Cassie Cole--
36%--5ed431
23.9%--4c992f
12.4%--225112
0.7%--b4b950
73% green

Blue-- by Angela M. Sanders
31.9%--496088
31.6%--acced7
20.3%--4d810b
2.2%--5dbfbb
86% blue

Purple / violet-- by India Holton
58%--9e88b7
58% Violet

Brown-- by Vicki Tharp
18.5%--c5a691
18.4%--a77b5f
14.6%--633e2a
51.5% brown

Black-- by Kate Oliver
75.4%--111917 black

Oh, pretty colors; I'll play. Thanks to Terris for making sure I didn't miss this one!

Mini Challenge – NATIONAL CRAYON DAY
March 2024

Completed: 5/5

You can PICK ANY FIVE of the colors listed below. One book per color. A completed challenge will have five books with five different color covers.

Violet Unlocking the Air and Other Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin 3/8
30.8 %#413447 Violet
29.7 %#a38171 Brown
19.9 %#563b35 Violet
6.1 %#71312d Brown
4.8 %#c3722e Orange
3.0 %#9e3d28 Brown
2.5 %#734c29 Brown
1.7 %#d29737 Orange
1.5 %#8f5428 Brown
Total Violet - 50.7%

Brown Mojave Crossing by Louis L'Amour 3/12
98.8 %#352124Brown
1.2 %#5f4a3eBrown
Total Brown = 100%

Green The Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green 3/14
38.3 %#bdce68 Green
12.2 %#88a84c Green
11.2 %#5c803d Green
Total Green = 61.7%

Black Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power by Leah Redmond Chang 3/29
88.5 %#0a0600 Black
2.4 %#cd9c57 Brown
1.8 %#786a4e Brown
1.8 %#b1916e Brown
1.6 %#634927Brown
1.4 %#956e3b Brown
0.9 %#97948a Grey
0.6 %#5d5a53 Grey
0.5 %#d1c7bb Grey
0.4 %#dfc594 Brown
Total Black: 88.5%

Yellow The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg 3/30
81.7 %#fce43a Yellow
8.6 %#d1374c Red
5.8 %#ebcb3b Yellow
2.3 %#e78f43 Orange
0.9 %#57522a Brown
0.5 %#80762e Brown
0.3 %#3c3827 Grey
Total Yellow: 87.5

Red
Orange
Blue

It's going to be fun, Teri-K!

Ooh, this is going to be harder than I thought it would be. I'm reading a book that I would have totally said was orange - to me, 75% of the cover is orange. And it came in at 49%! And another book I have coming up, has a black and red cover - the percentages for them came in so low! Seemed so simple but definitely a challenging challenge! Rather exciting!

JennH wrote: "Ooh, this is going to be harder than I thought it would be. I'm reading a book that I would have totally said was orange - to me, 75% of the cover is orange. And it came in at 49%! And another book..."

You're right, Jenn. It is fun to see the percentages. Many of the results have surprised me! I put in all the books I had planned for this month and finally came up with five that qualified. Whew! I was starting to get worried. But I loved looking up each book to check on its colors :)

Yes, I had one that I would call lavender ... but TinEye called it grey.

As for the one that said 49% orange, Jenn .... did you check to see if farther down the list there was another "orange" that might give you that extra 0.1% you need to hit 50%?

Book Concierge wrote: "Yes, I had one that I would call lavender ... but TinEye called it grey.

As for the one that said 49% orange, Jenn .... did you check to see if farther down the list there was another "orange" tha..."

I did! I had to add it to even get it to 49%!

Bummer!

Wow...I'm glad to hear that everyone else found the same thing that I did...it was hard to find a cover that qualified. There's a lot more grey than I would have ever imagined!!! But I agree that it was fun and eye opening to use TinEye!

Me too! Thought it was predominantly blue but tineye says it is gray.

I had one that almost the whole cover was black & tineye called it "brown!" :P

Terris wrote: "I had one that almost the whole cover was black & tineye called it "brown!" :P"

🤯

Sorry, but I havent found one book that Tineye says is over 50% of any color. I had one that was almost all blue and they said it was only 10% blue. I thought this would be a fun challenge but so far I havent found any book to read, let alone 5.

This is the book that Tineye says is only 10% blue:

Koren wrote: "Sorry, but I havent found one book that Tineye says is over 50% of any color. I had one that was almost all blue and they said it was only 10% blue. I thought this would be a fun challenge but so f..."

I just figured something out! Under the list of colors there are two boxes checked that say 'exclude background color' and 'exclude interior background color'. Uncheck those boxes and now it says my book is 68.9 % blue.

I was just looking that up, Koren. I think you just solved your own problem! Woohoo! ;)

Koren wrote: "I just figured something out! Under the list of colors there are two boxes checked that say 'exclude background color' and 'exclude interior background color'. Uncheck those boxes and now it says my book is 68.9 % blue...."

YES ... be sure to UNCHECK the boxes that say "exclude background color" and "exclude interior background color" !!

March 2024Mini Challenge – NATIONAL CRAYON DAY
Begins: 01Mar24 / Ends: 31Mar24

The colors

Red-Sleeping With the Devil finished 3/18
58.0 %#f30003Red
12.1 %#92231eRed
10.1 %#c11a14Red
6.3 %#c5a388Brown
4.0 %#4ec609Green
3.2 %#030c02Black
2.2 %#163d0aGreen
2.1 %#317c0eGreen
1.6 %#461b19Brown
0.4 %#57420cBrown

Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Purple / violet
Brown
Black-Blake Shelton: Happy Anywhere by Carol Cash Large finished 3/24
51.2 %#1d282fBlack
26.7 %#0b0d10Black
8.0 %#979b9eGrey
7.2 %#c51f27Red
1.8 %#6e6048Brown
1.5 %#b98f8aBrown
1.2 %#c98028Orange
1.1 %#cead7fBrown
1.0 %#551f25Brown
0.3 %#88481fBrown

Terris wrote: "This should be interesting!

March 2024Mini Challenge – NATIONAL CRAYON DAY
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I LOVE Frankl's Man’s Search for Meaning!

Book Concierge wrote: "Terris wrote: "This should be interesting!

March 2024Mini Challenge – NATIONAL CRAYON DAY
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I LOVE Frankl's Man’s Search for Meaning!"

I know!!! Wasn’t it good??!! I liked it a lot, and told my book club about it too :)

This is harder than I thought it would be. I cannot believe how much gray is in my covers. Here it is almost the end of the month and I only have one book that had over 50% of a color on the list. Truly the eyes deceive one.

Sheila wrote: "This is harder than I thought it would be. I cannot believe how much gray is in my covers. Here it is almost the end of the month and I only have one book that had over 50% of a color on the list. ..."

Sheila, did you make sure to "UNcheck" the box about the background colors?

Book Concierge wrote: "Sheila wrote: "This is harder than I thought it would be. I cannot believe how much gray is in my covers. Here it is almost the end of the month and I only have one book that had over 50% of a colo..."

I didn't but the ones I did today I just checked and they are the same with or without the exclusion of the background colors. I'll have to check on the earlier ones from this month. Thanks.

I did it!!! I just finished! This was a very challenging Challenge, but I loved it! Thanks, BC ;)

Updated comment #4: Challenge completed. This was such a fun and different challenge. I really enjoyed it although I can't say that about all of the books I read for it!!!

Well, I'm glad my effort to "shake things up" a bit was successful.

Great challenge work, Terri & Beverly/

Finished. Rereading Power of Habit was worth it, to remember the ideas in the book and to get that fifth color. lol

Mini Challenge – NATIONAL CRAYON DAY
March 2024
Completed: 5/5

You can PICK ANY FIVE of the colors listed below. One book per color. A completed challenge will have five books with five different color covers.

Violet Unlocking the Air and Other Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin 3/8
30.8 %#413447 Violet
29.7 %#a38171 Brown
19.9 %#563b35 Violet
6.1 %#71312d Brown
4.8 %#c3722e Orange
3.0 %#9e3d28 Brown
2.5 %#734c29 Brown
1.7 %#d29737 Orange
1.5 %#8f5428 Brown
Total Violet - 50.7%

Brown Mojave Crossing by Louis L'Amour 3/12
98.8 %#352124Brown
1.2 %#5f4a3eBrown
Total Brown = 100%

Green The Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green 3/14
38.3 %#bdce68 Green
12.2 %#88a84c Green
11.2 %#5c803d Green
Total Green = 61.7%

Black Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power by Leah Redmond Chang 3/29
88.5 %#0a0600 Black
2.4 %#cd9c57 Brown
1.8 %#786a4e Brown
1.8 %#b1916e Brown
1.6 %#634927Brown
1.4 %#956e3b Brown
0.9 %#97948a Grey
0.6 %#5d5a53 Grey
0.5 %#d1c7bb Grey
0.4 %#dfc594 Brown
Total Black: 88.5%

Yellow The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg 3/30
81.7 %#fce43a Yellow
8.6 %#d1374c Red
5.8 %#ebcb3b Yellow
2.3 %#e78f43 Orange
0.9 %#57522a Brown
0.5 %#80762e Brown
0.3 %#3c3827 Grey
Total Yellow: 87.5

Technically, I've finished with this one as I have found seven of the eight colors, but I am still looking for yellow

You will find that yellow when you least expect it, Sheila!

Great job!