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25.1 - Nick KY’s Task: Suddenly, Last Summer.

The options for this task relate to Summer 2022. Read two books from 2 different options.

Required: State which Options you choose.


Opt. 1. Last Summer’s Banff Mountain Book Awards
Here are the 2022 winners of the Banff Mountain Book Awards. [Not included are winners of photography books (including special jury mentions), guidebooks, and articles as they do not meet SRC guidelines.]

Mountain Literature (non-fiction) � The Jon Whyte Award
The Fox of Glencoe by Hamish MacInnes, Scottish Mountaineering Press (UK, 2021)

Environmental Literature
Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water by Kazim Ali,
Milkweed Editions (U.S., 2022), Goose Lane Editions (Canada, 2022)

Climbing Literature
Valley of Giants: Stories from Women at the Heart of Yosemite Climbing by Lauren DeLaunay Miller,
Mountaineers Books (U.S., 2022)

Mountain Fiction & Poetry
Native Air by Jonathan Howland,
Green Writers Press (U.S., 2022)

Adventure Travel
A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys into Nature by Torbjørn Ekelund, Greystone Books (Canada, 2021)

> Read a book with a title/subtitle word from the above books. Only the following words and their singulars, plurals, and possessives are accepted:
Fox, Glencoe, Northern, Light, Power, Land, Memory, Water, Valley, Giants, Stories, Women, Heart, Yosemite, Climbing, Native, Air, Year, Woods, Twelve, Small, Journeys, Into, Nature.

Your choice does not have to be any of the Award winners listed above—but it can be.

Required: State the word


Opt. 2. Last Summer’s Interviews:
A. Read a book featured with a picture in any of the following GR Interviews from Last Summer . The Book must be pictured in the interview and not simply mentioned:

Kali Fajardo-Anstine Interview

Blake Crouch Interview

Ali Hazelwood Interview

R.F. Kuang Interview

Taylor Jenkins Reid Interview

OR

B. Read any single author book by any of the five authors interviewed.
Required: State the interview used


Opt. 3. Suddenly, Last Summer
The words “Suddenly� and “Summer� from the title of a Tennessee Williams play have consecutive double consonants in the their spellings.
Read a book with at least two sets of consecutive double consonants in the title/subtitle/author’s name. Two or more sets of consecutive double consonants in one word, such as “Tennessee� (NN SS), is acceptable.

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Option 2.

For clarity, these are the acceptable books for this task.

From the Kali Fajardo-Anstine interview:
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Invisible Things by Mat Johnson
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

From the Blake Crouch Interview:
Come Closer: A Novel by Sara Gran
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Aurora by David Koepp
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

From the Ali Hazelwood interview:
The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
Pride and Protest by Nikki Payne
The Hookup Plan by Farrah Rochon
Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match by Sally Thorne

From the R.F. Kuang interview:
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History by Donna Tartt

From the Taylor Jenkins Reid interview:
Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
Open by Andre Agassi
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
[Reid also had Klara and the Sun on the list, just as Blake Crouch did.]

OR:

Any single author book by one of the authors interviewed: Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Blake Crouch
Ali Hazelwood
R.F. Kuang
Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Clarifying for Option 1, Does the word need to be in the title of the book you read, or is the subtitle ok?

Looking at Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Heather(Gibby) wrote: "Clarifying for Option 1, Does the word need to be in the title of the book you read, or is the subtitle ok?

Looking at [book:Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland|4016..."

Subtitle is OK. (Instructions say title/subtitle -- sorry if that was not clear.)

For the Double letters option Can one set be in title and the second set in authors name ? I always think of the backslash as meaning "OR"

e.g. Summer Reading Jenn McKinlay

For Option #3 can the double consonants be the same letter?

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Marie (UK) wrote: "For the Double letters option Can one set be in title and the second set in authors name ? I always think of the backslash as meaning "OR"

e.g. Summer Reading [author:Jenn McKinlay..."

Yes, one set can be in the title and another in the author's name.

I think of the forward slash as meaning "and/or."

Wanda wrote: "For Option #3 can the double consonants be the same letter?

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You"

Yes, the two sets of consonants can be the same letter.

Nick wrote: "Wanda wrote: "For Option #3 can the double consonants be the same letter?

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You"

Yes, the two sets of consonants can be the same let..."

Thank You

Nick wrote: "Marie (UK) wrote: "For the Double letters option Can one set be in title and the second set in authors name ? I always think of the backslash as meaning "OR"

e.g. Summer Reading [a..."

thanks Nick

nice task Nick and some of those award winners look interesting - def. going to try and read one of them for this task

For the double consecutive letter task can I use Mind Your Mindset: The Science That Shows Success Starts with Your Thinking?
The reason I ask is that the book does have two authors, but I have the double consonants without using the authors' names because of the word "success".

Katrisa wrote: "For the double consecutive letter task can I use Mind Your Mindset: The Science That Shows Success Starts with Your Thinking?
The reason I ask is that the book does have two author..."

Hi Katrisa,

For Option 3, two or more authors is fine.

The one word "Success" in the subtitle fulfills the requirements for this option (CC, SS).

Enjoy!

thanks Nick!

Option 3: The Last Witness - John Matthews is this ok?

Fiona (Titch) wrote: "Option 3: The Last Witness - John Matthews is this ok?"

Yes. (SS, TT)

For the word "year", can I use I'm Still a 10-Year-Old Boy, or do the hyphens disqualify it?

Robin P wrote: "For the word "year", can I use I'm Still a 10-Year-Old Boy, or do the hyphens disqualify it?"

My understanding of the rules is that words occur with a space before the word and after the word. Hyphenated words count as one word. I got caught on this once when I re-read my favorite book, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, and it got disqualified because it is technically a one word title.

So I am afraid hyphens indeed disqualify any portion of the word they create from acting as a separate word.

That's what I thought, I looked at the general rules and wasn't quite sure, thanks.