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A character really needs to have some dialogue and meaning to the story.
So, for example, in The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie the main character sees her bike, Gladys, as a person and talks to her as a person. But that would not count that as a character as it is an inanimate object that has no dialogue and doesn't have meaning to the story (it is just a bike!). But a book told from an animals POV, then the animal may well be a character.
By that definition, Bob the talking skull would be a character in the Dresden Files, or Seraphina the talking dragon is a character in Eragon. Use your judgments, but remember that a reference to a person or animal in a book doesn't mean that it counts as a "character".
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If it is a History of WWII, for example, it wouldn't have "characters" per-se, so the people mentioned (Churchill, Hitler, the Queen for example) can't be used for the spell it out. But books that are memoirs generally have people as "characters" (e.g. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness) and so the normal character rules would apply
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Nothing But Reading Challenges
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (other topics)The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (other topics)
About this Challenge
â—� Starts on March 22, 2015 and runs for 8 weeks
â—� The team with the highest points at the end of the 8 weeks wins!
� Each week the mods will “spin the wheel" and assign each team a colour name
â—� The team's task is to read books to spell out the colour name for 10 points per letter for books of less than 500 pages and 20 points per letter for books of 500 pages or more
â—� The team will get an extra 15 completion points if all the letters in the colour name are part of their spell-it-out
â—� The team will get an additional 30 bonus points if at least one person in the group reads a book of that colour (the book cover must be about 50% of that colour)
â—� Once teams have read their colour name for the week they can "re-read" the colour name to gain more points (10 points per letter for books of less than 500 pages and 20 points per letter for books of 500 pages or more , but no additional completion points).
â—� BOM bonus: Have a team member write discussion questions for a day of a Book of the Month (BOM) and receive 20 points (limit one BOM bonus per book per team ; that is, if two of your teamies write DQs for the same BOM, you still only get 20 points). NOTE: You can volunteer on the BOM thread to write DQs. If we have more volunteers than days available 3 days prior to the BOM start, then the volunteers will be chosen using a randomizer. If you volunteer and do not write your allocated DQs without notice then you will not be eligible to nominate yourself again for the duration of this challenge
â—� Books must be more than 160 pages in length. Children's books, Graphic Novels, Cookbooks and Poetry books cannot be used unless by word count they can be verified as more than 160 pages
◈Only books read during the specified week can be used (“read date� is what counts, not the day you start.) Books cannot be “banked� from previous weeks to use later in the challenge
How a "spell it out" works
Spell out the word(s) using the first letter in the book's title, the first letter in the author's first or last name, or the first letter of a character's first, last, or nick-name, or the first letter of the series name. As always, if the first letter of a title starts with an indefinite or definite article ('A', 'An', 'The', etc.), you may use the first letter of the second word in the title to spell out your chosen word. If you are listening to an audiobook, the first letter in the narrator's first or last name also can be used
Colours
We are using crayola colours for the wheel, and the “base� colour this responds to are listed under the spoiler
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Blue Violet (blue cover)
Cerulean (blue cover)
Dandelion (yellow cover)
Goldenrod (yellow cover)
Mulberry (purple cover)
Fuchsia (purple cover)
Maize (brown cover)
Almond (brown cover)
Pink Flamingo (pink cover)
Wild strawberry (pink cover)
Shamrock (green cover)
Inchworm (green cover)
Neon Carrot (orange cover)
Apricot (orange cover)
Licorice (black cover)
Black coral (black cover)
Cultured (white cover)
Baby powder (white cover)
Sonic Silver (grey cover)
Granite gray (grey cover)
Brick Red (red cover)
Scarlet (red cover)
Changeables (any colour you choose)
Heads 'n tails (any colour you choose)
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Challenge requirements
IMPORTANT: To be a part of this challenge you need to be able to:
â—� Read at least one book per week
â—� Create a special shelf for the challenge for the books you are reading
â—� Check-in on your team's discussion thread at least once per week
â—� Have fun!
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To join, we are using a Google Form to collect the below data. Click to complete the form:
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★ŷ±¦ÓéÀ� User ID (see under spoiler for how to find this)
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★Approximate number of books read per month
★Your continent (so we can try and match time zones)
★Your shelf name (for books read during the challenge)
� Do you prefer a "chatty" team? (NOTE: If yes, it would be expected that you will check in to your team thread daily)
� Your favourite genre (up to 3)
★If you are willing to be a team captain
About Team Captains
There will be no "special twists" for this challenge so your role is pretty easy for this challenge and you just need to:
* help motivate your team to complete the spell-it-out each week
* check that the books are posted within the right time frame and submit each week by posting to the captains group (Posts will be due each week by Sunday at noon, Australian Eastern Standard Time - convert this to your timezone )