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- Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:29 am
- Forum: Ink Splatters
- Topic: January Prompt-New Beginnings
- Replies: 3
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Re: January Prompt-New Beginnings
https://i.imgur.com/yIwrfhD.png I’m hoping to read Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracey Kidder this year, which is about doctor and anthropologist Paul Farmer. I’ve always be been interested in the medical field, though only recently started reading related books. I also studied anthropology in uni...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:27 am
- Forum: Ink Splatters
- Topic: April Prompt-Mistakes & Misrepresentations
- Replies: 4
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Re: April Prompt-Mistakes & Misrepresentations
https://i.imgur.com/PjbTia1.png I took Nnedi Okorafor’s Home , which is science fiction, and transformed it into a non-fiction book. I used a medium blue background with white floral decorations, which is somewhat reminiscent of a wallpaper found in a house or similar. In the center is a white bloc...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:22 am
- Forum: Ink Splatters
- Topic: April Prompt-Say It With Flowers!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8134
Re: April Prompt-Say It With Flowers!
https://i.imgur.com/1fXP3HT.png I chose The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. Taking up most of the pale pink cover is a close-up of a red rose done in a water colour style (with some parts darker than others). The title runs over two lines and sits above the illustration in a large dark red font th...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:20 am
- Forum: Ink Splatters
- Topic: February Prompt-Books Within Books
- Replies: 2
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Re: February Prompt-Books Within Books
https://i.imgur.com/dgNXWb9.png I chose the encyclopaedia that Emily Wilde is busy working on in Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett. The book cover is ‘made of’ deep blue blue canvas with some stars and space gasses showing through to give it a slight otherworldly feel. There...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:18 am
- Forum: Ink Splatters
- Topic: December Prompt-True Colors
- Replies: 5
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Re: December Prompt-True Colors
https://i.imgur.com/gwRKAnw.png I’ve chosen Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson. The foreground consists of stylised dunes in varying shades of red, pink and peach, and each outlined in white. A moon is tucked between the last two dunes and sits off-centre. Above is the title in a large serif font wit...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:12 am
- Forum: Ink Splatters
- Topic: Prompt: Make a Mark
- Replies: 2
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Re: Prompt: Make a Mark
https://i.imgur.com/sbUyhAH.png This is a bookmark that Zoe Faust, from The Accidental Alchemist by Gigi Pandian, would likely use. She runs an online store called Elixir, which sells alchemical texts and apparatus. Though bookmarks don’t form part of her online orders, I’ve pretended as if they do...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:10 am
- Forum: Ink Splatters
- Topic: Prompt: Ink-redible Destinations
- Replies: 3
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Re: Prompt: Ink-redible Destinations
https://i.imgur.com/3WPEpSD.png I picked Galazon, which is a city featured in A College of Magics by Caroline Stevermer. I chose a green upside-down triangle for the shape, to reference the many trees in Galazon (which the protagonist frequently longs for). There are two triangles, one inner and on...
- Tue Aug 25, 2020 12:34 pm
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: Book Bout - Epilogue
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4551
Book Bout - Epilogue
Thank you to everyone who joined us as part of this literary adventure. We thoroughly enjoyed exploring various books with you and reading your well-thought out responses – it was a pleasure to have you all as our tour guides through so much new wordy terrain. Of course, this was a bout so we need t...
- Sun Aug 23, 2020 5:12 pm
- Forum: Bulletin Board
- Topic: Farewell for now
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6155
Farewell for now
Hi everyone, This has been a hard post to write for a variety of reasons. As some of you no doubt would have noticed, I've been gradually stepping down from a number of positions around HOL as I've increasingly tried to find a balance between work and my health. It is with a heavy heart that I annou...
- Fri Aug 21, 2020 2:50 pm
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: Book Bout - Overview
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3095
Re: Book Bout - Overview
Our literary adventure will be coming to an end on Sunday, 23 August - the last day to submit any reviews or tasks. If you'd like to check your progress towards any of the awards, an 'Awards' tab has been added to the spreadsheet.
- Fri Jul 24, 2020 4:35 am
- Forum: Bulletin Board
- Topic: Happy Birthday, Tarma!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5818
Re: Happy Birthday, Tarma!
Happy Birthday! Hope you had a lovely day.
- Mon Jul 06, 2020 11:22 am
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: Book Bout - Overview
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3095
Book Bout - Overview
Pack your bags, we're going on a literary adventure! Our theme for Book Bout is.... Adventure/Exploration That being said, not every book you read has to fit the theme - but you'll be able to earn more points for your team if you do. Team Points Books Each book you read for the challenge (and post a...
- Mon Jul 06, 2020 11:18 am
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: Book Bout - Prompts
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1996
Book Bout - Prompts
Each prompt can only be used once and you can't use more than one prompt for a single book. Please keep in mind the posting guidelines from the Overview thread and remember to update your sign up post with details . This should include a brief justification about why you think a prompt fits your par...
- Mon Jul 06, 2020 11:16 am
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: Book Bout - Teams
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1997
Book Bout - Teams
The Voyagers and Wanderers are going head to head in their quest to explore far-flung lands, wild ideas and shortcuts to other time periods. If you want to join these literary adventurers, remember that team signups are open until 17 August. Teams are as follows: Voyagers Adaleine Shuster Amy Smith ...
- Mon Jul 06, 2020 11:15 am
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: Book Bout - Questions
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3525
Book Bout - Questions
If you have any questions relating to Book Bout, please post below and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.
- Thu Jul 02, 2020 10:11 am
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: Book Bout - Sign Ups
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13990
Book Bout - Sign Ups
With summer upon us and classwork a distant memory, the opportunity to travel by means of the written word has well and truly arrived. This year, we're putting a competitive twist on our usual summer reading challenge. Introducing... Book Bout! Unlike past reading challenges where you individually p...
- Fri Jun 19, 2020 2:29 pm
- Forum: Bulletin Board
- Topic: Happy Birthday, Isa!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5207
Re: Happy Birthday, Isa!
Happy Birthday, Isa! Hope you had a lovely day
- Tue Mar 17, 2020 4:45 am
- Forum: Bulletin Board
- Topic: Happy Birthday, Amy!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6338
Re: Happy Birthday, Amy!
Thank you!
- Sat Mar 14, 2020 11:14 am
- Forum: Bulletin Board
- Topic: Happy Birthday, Amy!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6338
Re: Happy Birthday, Amy!
Thank you all for the birthday wishes!
Happy Birthday for your gran, Gail
Happy Birthday for your gran, Gail
- Mon Jan 27, 2020 7:43 pm
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: Flash Fiction
- Replies: 86
- Views: 41906
Re: Flash Fiction
The words for the last Flash Fiction for the school year (we'll be back next term with something different ^_^) are: puzzle, flash, abacus The Book Club heads gathered around the table, discussing plans for the coming term. Tarma had several flashes of inspiration for ideas that could be used. Amy f...