Summer Reading Competition

[cartermia]

Some books should be banned.  And burned.


But I was kidding in this case.  This is a competition for adults so no point in forbidding Harry Potter.  QED

for adults? :O

[ChristinaTherese]

for adults? :o

Oh, you're fine. It's just for whoever is on Phatmass and wants to participate, I don't think Byz made any age requirements. (Byz, correct me if I'm wrong.)

 

Although I would recommend that you try a thicker book or two.... The books made for your age are so much easier and faster to read, that you're leaving us behind in the dust! :hehe2: (JK, but if you want book suggestions ever I'm sure we'd be glad to oblige.... Said the girl/woman who just went upstairs to look around at books and came back down with three by Dr. Seuss.)

 

AL, how should we count pages for Dr. Seuss? Do the pictures even count? I think I'll read a few of them today, just for fun.... (No worries if you get around to updating before I post. They'll always be able to be in the next one.)

[Chrysophylax]

Time to write your own, improved Mermaid book, Chrys....

 

Haha! Actually when I mentioned that I was reading them as research for a project, that was exactly what I was talking about. Cute Picture, by the way!

 

Ok, I read

Before Midnight by Cameron Dokey (193 pgs)

Beauty Sleep   by Cameron Dokey (186 pgs)

Winter's Child  by Cameron Dokey (173 pgs)

All three are absolutely excelent fairy tales! :love:

 

I also read Hiding in the Shadows by Kay Hooper (368 pgs)

I was very dissapointed. Ugh.

[BG45]

Cartermia's page count is something I'm never going to match either. :P

[AnneLine]

This has proven to be half the fun of the summer reading competition, hasn't it!!!!

 

Yeah, I think you qualify for our purposes as an 'adult' on this thread, Cartermia!

 

But yes, that is why I suggested page counts as well as numbers of books... I could see what you were/are planning to do...

 

Cartermia, you have to break down the page count on those books by NAME if you want those pages counted.... fair is fair, that I what I told Doc Bomb as well... even Jesus was called by NAME. 

 

Hoping to get the update done later today or tonight.... and if there are updates after that, well, they'll go on the next update.

 

And yes, we ARE having fun -- Byz, thank you so much for suggesting this, and of course I was teasing about not counting Cartermia's VERY IMPRESSIVE book count.... and yes, you CAN give me page number counts... but by name....

 

AnneLine has finished some more books, too:

 

Sister Clare by Loretta Burrough  (276 pages)  (Ok enough, but probably not for most readers unless interested in Carmelite nuns; pretty obviously based off A Few Words to Tell You by Sr. Marie (that I read a few weeks back).... )

 

Finding Sanctuary: Monastic Steps for Everyday Life by Fr. Christopher Jamison, OSB   (192 Pages) 

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!!  VERY well done, and I recommend this for anyone trying to deepen their spiritual life as a lay person... or as a religious.  Something here for almost everyone.....

 

And I continue to read Christy and Out of the Silent Planet and Pains of Glass

 

(LT and the rest of you -- I also tend to stop and start on books and have one going on each floor and one in a carry-bag.... ;)  )

 

:)  Love you all... and back to reading books for me!

[ChristinaTherese]

AnneLine, how should we count pages for Dr. Seuss? Or does it not even count? I just read it once in a while, and figured it would raise my book count as well as being just plain fun. (No, I do not intend to make a steady diet of such things. But once in a while....)

[AnneLine]

Sure you can add an occasional Dr. Suess... pages are pages.   At least so I think. 

 

My criteria has always been, look it up on Amazon and see how many pages they say it is.....  but they're probably what, 20 or 30 pages?  I may have to go track down Yertle the Turtle and other stories... I loved that book as a kid.....

 

 

AND... I think we should recommend some adult books for Cartermia. 

 

You need a challenge to break into some good adult books!   

 

I would think you might like Christy by Catherine Marshall.... it's about a 19 year old going to teach school in a one room school in Tennessee in about 1907.  They based a TV series off it, but the book is SO MUCH better!

 

I also LOVED Lone Woman, which is a biography of the first Woman Doctor, Elizabeth Blackwell....

 

Gotta go fix my lunch and then do some READING!!!!!!

 

[AnneLine]

OH... and if you like kids books... check out the Commander Toad series by Jane Yolen.  Oh my... VERY FUN!!!!!

 

http://www.amazon.com/Commander-Toad-Space-Jane-Yolen/dp/0698113551/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1374784012&sr=8-1&keywords=Commander+Toad

 

[AnneLine]

Do you know... one of the BEST college classes I had (and I was a literature major!) was a class called 'Visionary Child in Literature' where we read kids books (from Wind in the Willows on down the line....) and then journaled about what we thought of when we read them.  Now THAT was a wonderful semester!!!!   SO  MANY WONDERFUL BOOKS!!!!!

[ChristinaTherese]

One more question. You and Byz were talking about ending this at midnight on August 31, but we need to know which time zone you mean. I know that PM shows times on PST (or PDT, whichever one it is, I never remember) for me because I live in that time zone, but if I had to guess I would assume that it was on EST/EDT for Byz. That would mean that Byz would close the competition three hours earlier than you and Australians and Europeans would be left who knows how. If I had to recommend a time zone to choose I'd choose whichever one Byz is in, just to make it easy. And then I might state it as GMT+X just to make it clear to everyone around the globe.

Sure you can add an occasional Dr. Suess... pages are pages.   At least so I think. 

 

My criteria has always been, look it up on Amazon and see how many pages they say it is.....  but they're probably what, 20 or 30 pages?  I may have to go track down Yertle the Turtle and other stories... I loved that book as a kid.....

 

 

AND... I think we should recommend some adult books for Cartermia. 

 

You need a challenge to break into some good adult books!   

 

I would think you might like Christy by Catherine Marshall.... it's about a 19 year old going to teach school in a one room school in Tennessee in about 1907.  They based a TV series off it, but the book is SO MUCH better!

 

I also LOVED Lone Woman, which is a biography of the first Woman Doctor, Elizabeth Blackwell....

 

Gotta go fix my lunch and then do some READING!!!!!!

 

I think I've read/heard Christy sometime.... Maybe I should go find it and read it after I finish LOTR and the other random books I have lying around wanting to be read.

 

Hm... book recommendations. First, finishing The Lost Years of Merlin, since it's a good series. And I could always come up with more if asked. It would be very fun.

 

Do you know... one of the BEST college classes I had (and I was a literature major!) was a class called 'Visionary Child in Literature' where we read kids books (from Wind in the Willows on down the line....) and then journaled about what we thought of when we read them.  Now THAT was a wonderful semester!!!!   SO  MANY WONDERFUL BOOKS!!!!!

That sounds so awesome!

[AnneLine]

My thoughts in blue for clarity:

 

 

One more question. You and Byz were talking about ending this at midnight on August 31, but we need to know which time zone you mean. I know that PM shows times on PST (or PDT, whichever one it is, I never remember) for me because I live in that time zone, but if I had to guess I would assume that it was on EST/EDT for Byz. That would mean that Byz would close the competition three hours earlier than you and Australians and Europeans would be left who knows how. If I had to recommend a time zone to choose I'd choose whichever one Byz is in, just to make it easy. And then I might state it as GMT+X just to make it clear to everyone around the globe.

 

I think Byz gets to call this one.   My only logic was that at least if we use dUSt's timestamp, we see when it stops saying August and starts to say September.   But I would think  Byz' Eastern zone would work.. or my Western one.  Or maybe we just select the last possible moment in any timezone!!!

 

BYZ, executive decision needed!!!!

 

I think I've read/heard Christy sometime.... Maybe I should go find it and read it after I finish LOTR and the other random books I have lying around wanting to be read.

 

Yup, it is a well-done book.   Fluffy in a few places, but appropriately so... a few hard themes, but they get you thinking & praying...  and it is semi-autobiographical novelization about Catherine Marshall's grandmother (I believe)....

 

Hm... book recommendations. First, finishing The Lost Years of Merlin, since it's a good series. And I could always come up with more if asked. It would be very fun.

 

Go for it!!!

 

That sounds so amesome!

 

It was an awesome class -- and might be an interesting Phatmass Thread, too..... maybe after the summer is over we could read some kids/YA books together.... that's when I read Wind in the Willows and Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle for the first time.... and I still have the reading list around here somewhere....

 

 

[ChristinaTherese]

Two books today:

Hunches in Bunches by Dr. Seuss: 48 pages, it could easily fit in 2 but Dr. Seuss didn't want it to.

Oh, the Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss: 56 pages.

 

By the way, have you read You're Only Old Once, by Dr. Seuss? It's wonderful. http://www.amazon.com/Youre-Only-Old-Once-Obsolete/dp/0394551907/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1374790410&sr=1-1&keywords=you%27re+only+old+once

[Byzantine]

Thank you AnneLine for all you've been doing in this thread. I think using dUSt's timestamp is probably the way to go.

 

 

Oh, you're fine. It's just for whoever is on Phatmass and wants to participate, I don't think Byz made any age requirements. (Byz, correct me if I'm wrong.)

I do not recall making age requirements and if I did, I hereby abolish them.

 

Cartermia, 163

Chrysophylax, 43

Catholicterp, 39

Byz, 23

Arfink, 13

AnneLine, 12

Ardil, 9

Doc Bomb, 8

LT, 8

Ampax, 7

Ploomf, 6

BG45, 7

Christina T, 6

LWS, 5

FP, 4

Spem, 4

Crusader, 2

Trisha, 1

[ChristinaTherese]

Thank you AnneLine for all you've been doing in this thread. I think using dUSt's timestamp is probably the way to go.

But that's exactly the problem. What do you mean by "dUSt's timestamp"? Because as far as I can see, the times listed on here are in my time zone when I look at them while logged in but when I am not logged in the times listed are different. This is because there was a menu, probably while I was setting up my profile, where I was given the chance to choose my time zone so that it would give me reasonable times and I wouldn't have to do arithmetic all the time. Because of this, any of us who have set out time zone to something other than the automatic one do not know what you mean when you say "dUSt's timestamp". So I ask you again: Can you state a time zone in which you mean midnight?

[Chrysophylax]

Ok, more books!

The Dreamgivers by Jim Walker (217 pgs)

The Nightriders by Jim Walker (271 pgs)

Both are very good, but not as good as the third one in the series!