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  The Crossroads Olympics

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  Come one, come all and join in the fun of the Summer Olympics. We are holding our own here at the Crossroads and we encourage you to participate. You can enter as many categories as you like. To post please put a brief note of what you are planning on participating in and then when you complete a book, reply, name book, category and one sentence description( a longer review can be put elsewhere.) here are the sports we will be competing in:
  
  1. Most books read
  2. Most pages read
  3. Most sport biographies
  4. Longest book read
  5. Most poems read
  6. Most award books
  7. Most sports biographies
  8. Most travel by bike books
  9. Most travel by boat books
  10. Most hiking books.
  11.Most greek myths read
  12. Most inventive category (That means you invent your category and accomplish it)
  13. Most different country settings.
  14. Most books read set in the same country

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  BooknBlues 

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  I am hoping to participate in Most Books Read, Most pages read and Most different country settings.

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    BooknBlues (edited)

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    Most Books Read
    1. The Overlook by Michael Connelly ~ Mystery featuring Harry Bosch set in LA.

    Most pages read
    1. The Overlook by Michael Connelly ~pp.262

    Most different country settings
    1. The Overlook by Michael Connelly ~ USA

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    BooknBlues (edited)

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    Most Books Read
    1. The Overlook by Michael Connelly ~ Mystery featuring Harry Bosch set in LA.
    2. The Witch Doctor's Wife by Tamar Meyers

    Most pages read
    1. The Overlook by Michael Connelly ~pp.262
    2. The Witch Doctor's Wife by Tamar Meyers ~ pp. 320

    
    

    Most different country settings
    1. The Overlook by Michael Connelly ~ USA
    2. The Witch Doctor's Wife by Tamar Meyers ~ Congo

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    BooknBlues (edited)

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    Most Books Read
    1. The Overlook by Michael Connelly ~ Mystery featuring Harry Bosch set in LA.
    2. The Witch Doctor's Wife by Tamar Meyers
    3. City of Veils by Zoe Ferraris

    Most pages read
    1. The Overlook by Michael Connelly ~pp.262
    2. The Witch Doctor's Wife by Tamar Meyers ~ pp. 320
    3. City of Veils by Zoe Ferraris ~ pp. 400

    
    

    Most different country settings
    1. The Overlook by Michael Connelly ~ USA
    2. The Witch Doctor's Wife by Tamar Meyers ~ Congo
    3. City of Veils by Zoe Ferraris ~ Saudi Arabia

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    BooknBlues (edited)

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    Most Books Read
    1. The Overlook by Michael Connelly ~ Mystery featuring Harry Bosch set in LA.
    2. The Witch Doctor's Wife by Tamar Meyers
    3. City of Veils by Zoe Ferraris
    4. Catfish and Mandala By Andrew Pham
    5. The Crowded Grave By Martin Walker
    6. Don't Look Back by Karin Fossum
    7. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

    Most pages read
    1. The Overlook by Michael Connelly ~pp.262
    2. The Witch Doctor's Wife by Tamar Meyers ~ pp. 320
    3. City of Veils by Zoe Ferraris ~ pp. 400
    4. Catfish and Mandala By Andrew Pham pp. 344
    5. The Crowded Grave By Martin Walker pp. 314
    6. Don't Look Back by Karin Fossum pp 324
    7. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce pp. 320

    total ~ pp. 2,284

    
    

    Most different country settings
    1. The Overlook by Michael Connelly ~ USA
    2. The Witch Doctor's Wife by Tamar Meyers ~ Congo
    3. City of Veils by Zoe Ferraris ~ Saudi Arabia
    4. Catfish and Mandala By Andrew Pham ~ Vietnam
    5. The Crowded Grave By Martin Walker ~ France
    6. Don't Look Back by Karin Fossum ~ Norway
    7. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce ~ England

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  StoryHeart 

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  How long will our Olympics last, BnB?

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    BooknBlues 

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    I think as long as the Olympics.

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    StoryHeart 

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    And do the books need to be read during that period or is it a lifetime count?
    (sorry if I'm being thick here...just not sure I fully get it...)

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    BooknBlues 

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    During this period. I'm sorry for not making it clear.

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  StoryHeart 

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  Most inventive category: mine will be, Most books started and put down as I'm in another period of reader's block.

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    Pigletto 

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    Ooh, I hate those periods when nothing you pick up can hold your attention or nothing seems to satisfy.

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    Laurie G (edited)

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    I've had 7 books this year,started and dropped.I think it is a record.
    Sounds like fun guys! But I am in my Summer Library Club and have 2 weeks to go for that.

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    StoryHeart 

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    Hey Pigletto...nice to see you here. Yes, those periods of reading dissatisfaction are annoying. Hope you're not in one too.

    Laurie, is this club at your public library or part of Shelfari?

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    BookBum 

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    I might win that one, it takes me 3 to 4 books to settle on one each time I finish a book.

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    BooknBlues 

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    Laurie, I think that whatever you read for Summer Library will work for this as well.

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    Laurie G 

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    I can easily join this category!

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    Pigletto 

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    I've picked a few up lately and put them down again. Not because I don't want to read them at all but I just wasn't in the mood for them. Wuthering Heights, The Big Over Easy and Lord of the Flies.

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    BooknBlues 

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    Pigletto, I don't know The Big Over Easy , but I do know you need to be in the right mood for either Wuthering Heights or Lord of the Flies.

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  Deborah B 

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  Most books read

  Most pages read

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    BooknBlues 

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    Yay! I'm hoping for more contestants.

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    Deborah B (edited)

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    Updated 31 July:
    Most Books Read:

    1) The Sixteen Pleasures
    2) The Blood of Flowers

    Most Pages Read:

    753(thus far!)

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    Deborah B 

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    Updated 6 August:

    Most Books Read:

    1) The Sixteen Pleasures
    2) The Blood of Flowers
    3) Empress Orchid

    Most Pages Read:

    1121

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    Deborah B (edited)

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    Updated 11 August:

    Most Books Read:

    1) The Sixteen Pleasures
    2) The Blood of Flowers
    3) Empress Orchid
    4) The Septembers of Shiraz

    Most Pages Read:

    1459

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    Deborah B 

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    Updated 13 August:

    Most Books Read:

    1) The Sixteen Pleasures
    2) The Blood of Flowers
    3) Empress Orchid
    4) The Septembers of Shiraz
    5) The Daughter of Time

    Most Pages Read:

    1665

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  Pigletto (edited)

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  1. Most books read

  Velocity by Dean Koontz
  The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch

  2. Most pages read

  460+403+400 = 1263

  14. Most books read set in the same country

  The Return of Sherlock Holmes - UK
  Rivers of London - UK

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    Pigletto 

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    Sadly, I didn't get in as nearly as much reading as I would have liked.

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    StoryHeart 

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    Did you enjoy Rivers of London? I thought it was lots of fun.

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    Deborah B 

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    Story, it's still on my TBR from the first Egress Challenge!! I really want to read it.

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    Pigletto 

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    I did enjoy it. I loved the historical tidbits.

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    StoryHeart 

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    I loved the River gods & goddesses

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  WordsArtMusic (edited)

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  1. Most books read:

  1. Suspense and Sensibility by Carrie Bebris - This is a take-off of Jane Austen, with supernatural elements.
  2. Indigo's Star by Hilary McKay - This is a book in a series about a family that works, despite a dysfunctional mom and a mostly absent dad. It is a YA book about the power of friendship and of resiliency.
  3. A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel H. Pink - Talks about the importance of Design, Story, Symphony, Empathy, Play and Meaning in today's world.
  4. The Summer Book by Tove Jansson - I enjoyed this gentle book of the love between a grandmother and granddaughter. Beautifully written.
  5. A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter by William Deresiewicz - This memoir provided an interesting perspective of Jane Austen's writing.
  6. Glamorous Illusions by Lisa Bergren - a historical fiction story of a family taking the Grand Tour. It was o.k., but I will not read the rest of the series.
  7. Sixty Lights by Gail Jones - Victorian woman photographer - great story!

  2. Most pages read:
  304 + 256 + 247 + 170 + 255 +416 + 250 (1900)

  
  

  13. Most different country settings:
  England
  USA
  Finland
  France
  Italy
  Australia
  India

  14. Most books read set in the same country:
  England - 4

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  Michael E 

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  Can't I just read and apply them to categories as I go. Or do you need declarations?
  Will post along for most books, most pages, most countries, I guess.

  Just hard to get excited over volumes. The countries is stimulating, and relates to Olympics a bit. Might get more players if you could sell it to Play Book Tag. (Or maybe promoting it there, we could grow Crossroads membership). It's just that I was thinking of being more active on Canada site and exploring writers from vaious provinces (i.e. all in one country) obviously not enough membership there to get a lot of action like the 50 state challenge at Play Book Tag.

  Seems unlikely you guys could get excited about books covering various sports, but inclusion in a book wouldn't require it to dominate (e.g. characters might play golf or tennis as part of plot).

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    BooknBlues 

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    Sure, Michael, I'm okay with you doing that. This was conceived a little too close to the fact, so however you can work it out, I'm happy with.

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  Jill M 

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  I just listened to a news story about how poetry competitions used to be part of the Olympics. Perhaps there's something we could do with that.

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  Patsy (edited)

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  As some of you know, I am embarked on a retail adventure--renting a shop space and starting an arts & crafts collective with a group of friends. This will, I'm sorry to say, drastically cut into my reading time, so I need to aim for Most Poems. I'm going to kick off with Garrison Keillor's wonderful anthology--GOOD POEMS, a book I've meandered around in from time to time, but never read cover to cover.

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    WordsArtMusic 

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    That sounds like an exciting adventure - best of luck with it!

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    BookBum 

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    Oh! Good luck, Patsy!

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    StoryHeart 

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    Doesn't it sound like a swell adventure!?

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  StoryHeart (edited)

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  Okay, I'll do:
  Most different country settings
  and my own category Travel Marathon: Most miles traveled within a book

  So far:
  Most Different Country Settings
  America, Malawi, Mozambique (The Lower River)
  Italy, England, Scotland, US (Beautiful Ruins; Lady Oracle)
  India (Plain Tales from the Hills)
  France (The Most Beautiful Book in the World)
  Guyana (Three Singles to Adventure)
  Canada (Alice McLeod, Realist at Last; Lady Oracle)

  Most miles traveled within a book:
  (this involves a little guess work)
  Lower River: US to Malawi + 200 or so miles traveled within Malawi & to Mozambique: 8400 miles
  Beautiful Ruins Italy to LA to London to Edinburgh; LA to Seattle: approx 13,000 miles
  Three Singles to Adventure: approx 500 miles
  Lady Oracle: Toronto to Rome: 4400 miles; Toronto to London return: 7,120 miles

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    WordsArtMusic 

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    I like your category. Very clever!

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  Bev (edited)

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  Most books read set in the same country

  1. Sins Of The Father (Jeffrey Archer) USA (and Britain)
  2. Kane And Abel (Jeffrey Archer) USA
  3. The Chaperone(Laura Moriarity) USA
  4. Caleb's Crossing(Geraldine Brooks) USA
  5. Dick Clark And The History Of Rock And Roll (LIFE) USA
  6. Searching for the Sound ..My Life with the Grateful Dead(Phil Lesh) USA

  
  

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  Most Books Read

  1. Sins Of The Father
  2. Kane And Abel
  3. The Chaperone
  4. Caleb's Crossing
  5. Witch Of Portobello
  6. Dick Clark And The History Of Rock And Roll
  7. Searching for the Sound .. My Life with the Grateful Dead
  8. Dracula

  as of 8/12 pm

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  JudithG (edited)

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  Most Books Read
  1. The Sixteen Pleasures - Robert Hellenga
  2. A Hundred Flowers – Gail Tsukiyama

  
  

  Most different country settings
  1. The Sixteen Pleasures -Helenga
  USA, France, Italy, Switzerland, England (5)
  2. A Hundred Flowers – Gail Tsukiyama
  China

  updated 8/6

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  Patsy 

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  Most poems: I've read 300 poems from GOOD POEMS, plus 3 from Writer's Almanac, and 15 in Mary Oliver's RED BIRD. So far: 318.

  I expect to be speaking in iambic pentameter any moment now ...

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    JudithG 

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    Good for you, Patsy. I thought about giving you some competition in the poetry race, but I learned long ago that I can't read poetry that way. I'd like to because my poetry tbr is as large as the rest of my library. But poems just don't go down the way fiction does with me. I need to take them one at a time and reread and contemplate and look at the structure. That's why I like Writer's Almanac and poets.org. They send me one poem a day. If it speaks to me, I can keep going back to it and keep it like a shell found on the beach.

    Maybe I should create an individual catagory; Fewest Poems Read Obsessively

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    Patsy 

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    I agree with you, Judith (and I love your shell analogy). I like to read poems at intervals and slowly "digest" them--rather than scarfing them down like potato chips ;-)! But because of time constraints right now, if I wanted to compete here, I had to choose some short stuff that I could read in snatches here and there.

    But I am bookmarking poems as I go--planning to revisit them later and give them their due attention.

    One thing that amused me in GOOD POEMS was GK's introduction--in which he praises poets one might expect him to admire, but also pokes fun at some sacred figures like T. S. Eliot, whom he calls "the great stuffed owl whose glassy eyes mesmerized the English profs of my day."

    Also--I am (still) reading MOBY DICK ... enjoying it, but moving s-l-o-w-l-y on the voyage.

    I like your FPRO category and think that you should post poems that are "keepers" and share them with us all.

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    Patsy (edited)

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    Summary for Most Poems:

    300 from GOOD POEMS
    15 from WRITER'S ALMANAC
    61 from Mary Oliver's RED BIRD
    32 from Nikky Finney's RICE
    48 from Wendell Berry's GIVEN

    Total: 456

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  Laurie G (edited)

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  MOST BOOKS STARTED AND PUT DOWN:

  Let's Pretend this Never Happened by J. Lawson

  
  

  BEACH TOPIC:

  The Defintiion of Wind by Ellen Block

  CLASSICS

  The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (also a Pulitzer Prize winner)

  MOST PAGES READ:

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    StoryHeart 

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    Oh, I love the idea of getting medals for lying on the beach and reading. At last, a sport I can dedicate my life to.

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    Laurie G 

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    Me too! You mean to tell me it is NOT an officially sanctioned sport?????????????

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    StoryHeart 

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    It is now!

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    Patsy 

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    Wow--turns out I've been in training for that sport for decades ...

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    JudithG 

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    And I have all the necessary equipment. :)

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    Laurie G 

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    Me too.Thankfully all my training is not wasted!

    I should clarify, that my Beach read above is a book that I tag as BEACH.I did not read any of that book at the actual beach.Don't want to confuse this.

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  Michael E (edited)

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  Quest for gold

  Books read
  Special Topics in Calamity Physics--M. Pessl (548 pp.)
  The Skeleton Knee--Archer Mayor (320 pp.)
  Mayflower--Nathaniel Philbrick (480 pp.)
  Cloud Atlas--David Mitchell (528 pp)

  Longest book
  Special Topics in Calamity Physics--548 pp.

  Total pages
  1876 pp.

  Most countries
  1 U.S.--all 4 books
  2 Mayflower:Holland--Mayflower departure; England--Pilgrim sojourn before move to Leiden
  3 Tasmania, Belgium, Korea
  Total 6 countries

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  Rina (edited)

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  Books read with animals in the title: My own invention
  OF CATS AND MEN

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  Jill M 

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  Going for reading the most books reminds me of a reading contest the library had when my son was young. He could get a token for prizes for each book he read. He quickly realized that he'd get a lot more tokens if he continued to read picture books instead of the chapter books he had been reading. I was delighted that he was able to spot the loophole but not thrilled that he was "regressing" in his reading.

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    Patsy 

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    Jill-- As a former librarian, I can attest to the ease with which kids figure out the shortcuts. We eventually switched to a rule that required Summer Reading participants to keep track of total TIME spent reading, rather than the number of books. Of course, this figure, too, could have been bogus, since no proof was required. But at least we tried to send a message that the reading experience was more important than "bagging" a certain number of titles. Still, there is something to be said for your son's competitive spirit!

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    Bev 

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    Our library still does time spent reading for both adult and child.

    I never participate in summer reading because I've really no clue about time spent.
    15 minutes here....longer there....and usually it's stolen time.
    I don't want to be tense trying to remember the number of minutes.

    I guess my methods are my own and most people there don't read in that manner

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    Rina (edited)

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    If you had asked me as a child to track anything let alone time -forget it

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    Pigletto 

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    My local library had challenges when I was young but they were pretty strict on the no cheating though.

    They used to pick a selection of books and you would get a star for every book you read. You had to answer questions on the book correctly first though.

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  BooknBlues 

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  Make sure you have everything posted that you read today and we will check for winners and announce Tuesday.

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  BooknBlues 

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  Most Books Read
  Gold http://www.wowowow.com/lifestyle/julie-morgenstern-brings-us-theres-gold-in-them-there-piles/attachment/book-stack/
  Bev ~ 8
  Silver http://lh3.ggpht.com/-Sg4LPmcubrg/T9deKuO9mVI/AAAAAAAAFio/LDe6Dv5cobE/s1600-h/book%252520stack.jpg
  WAM ~ 7 : Bnb ~ 7
  Bronze http://lj.libraryjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/ljx120502webwhBronzeStackBooks.jpg
  Michael ~ 6
  Deborah ~ 5
  Michael ~ 4
  Pigletto ~ 3
  Judith ~ 2

  Most pages read
  Gold http://www.123rf.com/photo_9158609_old-ancient-book-with-gold-pages-on-the-abstract-background.html
  Bnb pp. 2,284
  Silver http://www.thaisilverjewelry.net/product_detail.php?p_id=3886&qs=cat%3D36%26itemcode%3D%26sprice%3D%26page_size%3D80
  WAM ~ 1900
  Bronze http://maryknott.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/bronze-book-2.jpg
  Michael ~ 1876
  Deborah ~ 1665
  Pigletto ~ 1263

  Most different country settings
  Gold http://www.promo-wholesale.com/china/Book-Ends/1/5-1-4-x4-3-4-x6--New-Century-Globe-Gold-Plated-Brass---Oak-Bookends-Award-4241.htm
  StoryHeart ~ 11
  Silver http://www.tempthomewaresandjewellery.com.au/silver-globe-book-ends/
  WAM ~ 7 , Bnb ~7
  Bronze http://workofthepoet.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
  Judith ~ 6 (I think you will like your medal, it's the best)

  Most books read set in the same country
  Gold http://i.usatoday.net/communitymanager/_photos/lifeline-live/2012/08/06/gabbyx-large.jpg
  Bev ~ 6
  Silver http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/equestrianism/9441051/Zara-Phillips-Mary-King-and-Tina-Cook-secure-Great-Britains-eventing-team-silver-at-London-2012.html
  WAM ~ 4

  Most miles traveled within a book
  Gold http://www.chains-and-charms.com/charms/world-travel.html
  StoryHeart ~ grand total 33,420 miles

  Most poems
  Gold http://www.flickr.com/photos/hooverspix/2719732591/
  Patsy ~ 456 poems

  BEACH TOPIC
  Gold http://www.thebookladysblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/beach_reading1.jpg
  Laurie ~ 1

  Classics
  Gold http://netlab.e2k.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=96590
  Laurie ~ 1

  Longest book
  Gold http://www.rubylane.com/item/605466-0001560/Vintage-Gold-Tone-Ornate-Etch
  Michael ~ 548 pp.

  Books read with animals in the title
  Gold http://goreydetails.net/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=41_63&products_id=285
  Serpentina ~ 1

  MOST BOOKS STARTED AND PUT DOWN
  Gold http://lh6.ggpht.com/_HeAZI_Ym1xM/S-WT69tBS-I/AAAAAAAAERA/KfpwRfk-p_c/s1600-h/IMG_5814%5B2%5D.jpg
  Laurie ~ 1

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    StoryHeart 

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    Wow, BnB...you made it really special! I love my prizes....thank you so much ;-)

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    Bev 

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    thank you BnB..........nice job..........

    I have some money in there....think I'll buy some books!

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    BooknBlues 

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    I had fun doing the prizes and trying to make them match the category.

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    Patsy 

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    A big standing O for BnB and the great prizes! I love my poetry medal :D !! And a hint for those who plan to participate in any form of the Olympics in 2014: just sign on for a category in which you are the sole competitor ... pretty much guarantees gold.

    Congratulations to all for a good, clean, foul-free game!

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    Michael E 

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    Delightful to see the range of events. Most mile for Story was outrageous--]33K!

    I only read 4 books, so Deborah would have bronze with 5.

    Appreciate the effort you must have had tracking down stuff for verification.

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    punxsygal 

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    Congratulations to all the winners!

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    Rina (edited)

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    This is fantastic. Yeah to us

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    BooknBlues 

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    Michael, I was surprised that I read more books than you but look at the books you were reading while I was in mystery mode.

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    Deborah B 

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    Thanks BnB, you made that really special!

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    BooknBlues 

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    Deb, I had fun doing it.

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    JudithG 

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    Loved my prize, thank you. The fun part is that I get to enjoy everyone else's prizes despite my lame effort.

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    BooknBlues 

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    Judith, I thought it was perfect that I googled bronze book world and got a child reading a book on the globe. I'd actually love that sculpture ~ a perfect teacher one.

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    WordsArtMusic 

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    Wow! Thank you for the prizes - how fun!

    And we really are all winners, because we got to find great new books from everyone's efforts.

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    BookBum 

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    I'm proud to know all you world class readers and applaud Story and BnB for competeing, winning medals and being able to run the olympics. If I could I would give you trips to any site of Olympic competitions for your efforts.

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