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30.7 Delicious Dee's Task - I Love My Library!

As a book-lover some of my earliest recollections as a child were going to the library on Saturday mornings. I loved just dragging my fingers along the books on the shelves and randomly selecting a book. To an extent I still do the same thing today. I may visit the library to pick up a book for an SRC task (or for some other reason) and then I start looking at other books around it on the shelves, trying to find a new author to try. And so, a task is born.

For this task you will read TWO BOOKS by TWO AUTHORS WHO ARE NEW TO YOU

1. Select 2 authors you read for the first time last season during SRC (if you didn’t participate in SRC, then select 2 authors that were new-to-you in December/January/February). The books may have been fiction or non-fiction.

2. For each author, select a work of FICTION by a single new-to-you author whose last name falls within the range of the provided library shelves.



See the shelves larger click

For the purposes of this task, the last name will be the author's name in the last position preceded by a space.

EX. if new-to-you last season:
Daphne du Maurier's last name is Maurier and you would use the LOG-MCC shelf to find your book's author. Your book could be by Elizabeth Lowell or Peter May
Alexander McCall Smith's last name is Smith and you would use the SKI-SSZ shelf to find your book's author. Your book could be by Maria V. Snyder or Robin Sloan

Required: State the following when you post:
> the authors that inspired your choices, and that those authors were new-to-you in December-February;
> the shelves where those author's names would be shelved; and
> that the 2 authors you found on those shelves are also new-to-you.

Examples

O'Malley (no space between the ' and M) - OMA
O' Malley (space between) - MAL (use the du Maurier example)

Ã…keson (names with diacretics) treat as English letters so AKE

Reserved

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This help thread is open!

Neat task!

Thanks Dee and mods!

Good one!

I love your task!

I read my first book by Elizabeth Wein for the group read last season. Even though I am planning on reading her second book this season, can I use her as inspiration for this task?

Yep

Great reason to sneak out and go to the library this evening. What fun!

i was going to recommend that! if you have a library close by you, take a trip and explore that way ;) (I'm planning on doing it with DLMRose's task)

Phew, read two books by two new authors between Dec-Feb (though I am currently reading a third one). Just got my book bug back after a couple of years of study and am ready to participate again. Those two books will work well for the challenge as they're in different sections of the library shelf.

Kindred Spirit-
My fantasy was to be locked in the library so I could read book after book without those pesky 6-book-checkout limits.
The Tennessee governor and Nashville mayor have begged me to stay off our ice and snow covered roads (who knew they'd seen me drive?) Since they also scared the library staff, I'd like to take my chances on alphabetized OverDrive shelves. I'm hoping AnnA will pat a book spine for me.

they closed my library because of weather today as well

6 book limit, Jonquil?!?! How do you survive??? My library has a 50 item limit, thank goodness, or I'd be way backed up trying to get SRC books checked out.

you have a 6 book checkout limit? yikes! I'd never survive

i think my library has about 50 as well Cait - in print; then 6 in the downloadable ebooks/audiobooks

Cait wrote: "6 book limit, Jonquil?!?! How do you survive??? My library has a 50 item limit, thank goodness, or I'd be way backed up trying to get SRC books checked out."

I have an arrangement with my brother and niece; they turned over their library cards to me and I keep them supplied with books that I select. Fortunately they average a book every 10 days, and hate to have to decide what to read, so (greedy rubbing of hands) it's a win-win.

So How do we find the new authors? My new to me authors were Lauren Oliver and Greame Simson. When I clicked on the chart, I wasn't sure how to find the new authors.

Jayme - however, you want - you can browse your GR shelves to see if you have any authors that fit; look at listopia's; books others are reading - its up to you - the chart is just to show you the letter brackets to work in

so for Lauren Oliver - OLI would be the shelving - you would need a book what the authors first three letters of their last name falls between OCO-PAQ

okay thanks

Jonquil wrote: "My fantasy was to be locked in the library so I could read book after book without those pesky 6-book-checkout limits."

Oh my, a 6-book limit! What nuisance! Our library used to have a 50-book limit, but they've removed even that. I always have something between 20 and 40 library books at home. For ebooks we have a 4-book limit for OverDrive books, none for Ellibs.

Just checking. If you went from Daniel O'Malley, would it be LOG-MCC or OCO-PAQ?

Hmm. So far I have been able to take out of my local library as many books as I have wanted, which is usually defined as "as many as I can carry". I know that Overdrive has a limit of 4.

Trish - I'm double checking - I need to verify how my library does it (because there are a variety of ways)

Bea wrote: "Hmm. So far I have been able to take out of my local library as many books as I have wanted, which is usually defined as "as many as I can carry". I know that Overdrive has a limit of 4."

That depends on the specific library as well. I can check out 50 physical books at a time, 24 ebooks via Overdrive.

Trish wrote: "Just checking. If you went from Daniel O'Malley, would it be LOG-MCC or OCO-PAQ?"

Trish - i checked with the mods and put 2 examples up - it depends on if there is a space between the ' and M or not

Dee wrote: "Trish wrote: "Just checking. If you went from Daniel O'Malley, would it be LOG-MCC or OCO-PAQ?"

Trish - i checked with the mods and put 2 examples up - it depends on if there is a space between th..."

Cool. Thank you.

Id like to check if I understood everything.
My new authors from Winter challenge are: Kaitlin Bevis and Nadia Hashimi.
Kaitlin Bevis - BEV and I can read BEL-BNZ , BELlingham Lynda There's Something I've Been Dying to Tell You (new author)

Nadia Hashimi - GRE-IAE and I can read any author whom surname begins with H ?

yep

Hope I've got this right...

Michael Connelly > Cassandra Clare

Catherine Ryan Hyde > John Grisham

yes - just make sure you post the shelves as well

Rhys Bowen > Gerri Brightwell Shelf BOA - BRN

Megan Shepherd > Priscille Sibley Shelf SHE-SKH

Rhys Bowen and Megan Shepherd were both new to me in the Winter Challenge and Gerri Brightwell and Priscille Sibley will be new to me authors for Spring

Yep

Good task, Dee. I've haven't done the challenge this season, but have read some new authors in the last month. Now to go browse the library shelves to find MORE new authors.

Welcome back - we've missed you

Yes - your 2 most recent new to you authors - make sure to include that in your post

Dee, my library just got me a book through inter-library loan from ALASKA!

whoa! that is insane! I've never gotten one from so far - I think my furtherest is like Rhode Island (to DC) for some random book of African myths and legends

I thought that inter-library loans were from in-state libraries (SC). I did not know, until I got this book, that they borrowed from other states' libraries.

they can - they try to do in state first; then I have the option when I put a request in, if I want them to look outside the state for books (it may cost me, may not, just depends)

Dee, from what I was participating, I never really read much for Winter Challenge.

I have read some new authors to me. S.J. Watson & Mel Sherratt.

WAI-WHH = Watson Love, Lies and Lemon Cake - Sue Watson

SHE-SKH = Sherratt Between the Lives - Jessica Shirvington

Yep both work

Dee, Did I do this right?


Book 1: Trisha Ashley was a new to me author in the Winter Challenge which leads me to ANG-BAK. So now I can read The Nanny Proposition by Rachel Bailey who is also a new to me author.

Book 2: Diana Palmer was a new to me author in the winter challenge >> OCO-PAQ. So now I can read Marriage at the Millionaire's Command by Anne Oliver who is a new to me author.

Hey Dee,

The last two new-to-me-authors that I read were in September and October 2014, respectively. Can I use them or do I have to skip this task?

yes you can - just make sure to point that out when you claim the points (BTW - how do you do it?)

Hina wrote: "Dee, Did I do this right?


Book 1: Trisha Ashley was a new to me author in the Winter Challenge which leads me to ANG-BAK. So now I can read The Nanny Proposition ..."

hi Hina - could have sworn I responded to this - yep those works

Dee wrote: "Hina wrote: "Dee, Did I do this right?


Book 1: Trisha Ashley was a new to me author in the Winter Challenge which leads me to ANG-BAK. So now I can read [book:The Nanny Propositi..."


LOL...to tell you the truth..I forgot about it myself, I have already read the books, just have to get around to posting it for points.

lol!