HOL

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 pledge and read books, this time around, you'll be placed on one of two teams. Through reading books and posting about them around the Book Club (and participating in extra discussions and other fun prompts) you'll be able to earn points for your team. You'll also be able to earn beans for any books read and individual awards are also up for grabs!

We'll be announcing a theme and more details for Book Bout on Monday, 6 July, which officially kicks off the event. The competition will run until Sunday, 23 August.

Interested in joining the bout? Post here to be sorted into a team!

The last day to sign up is Monday, 17 August, though posting before the competition starts will help us balance the teams more evenly.

I volunteer as tribute!

This sounds as great fun.

Mostly Void, Partially Stars: Welcome to Night Vale Episodes, Volume 1 by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
Adventure: Yes, every episode has an adventure or mystery to it.
Prompt: A book written in a style or format that is unfamiliar to you (such as verse or a play script) --- Podcast format.

Count me in!

Sounds like a lot of fun, I'm in

1. Wonder
2. Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Oooh, a twist! I'm up for some motivation

1. Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring
2. Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers Fits the prompt 'has a forest in it'.

I'd love to participate!

Fits the prompt: A book featuring time travel
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Eeeeexcellent >:)
*Muahahahahahaha!!*

(I’m down to clown)

1. [prompt.] — A book featuring a non-human perspective
"We, The Arcturians" viewtopic.php?f=391&t=32385

2. [prompt.] — A book with many different settings or locations
"The Starless Sea" viewtopic.php?f=391&t=32409

I'm in and ready to book!

The Woman in White is a wonderful classic Victorian mystery/Gothic horror novel. Prompt: A book with many different settings or locations The locations include a cemetery, an insane asylum, 2 large manor houses, and a boat house.

Wuthering Heights is a melodramatic Gothic Classic with a Byronic Hero as the main character (think Severus Snape. Prompt: A book set in a different time period. The 1700's sound romantic....

The Witch of Blackbird Pond is a Newberry Medal winning book about moving to a new culture and gain a new view of life, and sharing new views with others. Prompt: A book about a character moving to a new place. Kit grew up in the Caribbean but became an orphan and moved to New England to join Puritan relatives she'd never met.

Count me in!

The Serpent's Shadow - Battling monsters and demons, traveling to sites of Egyptian history... Quite the adventure! [Prompt] A book where language, translation and/or interpretation are important - hieroglyphics!

Silent Pantheon - Preventing the end of humanity is a both a physical and spiritual adventure. [Prompt] A book featuring a non-human perspective - the gods of the pantheon tell the story

The Lost Hero - A quest to rescue the queen of the gods is no easy feat. [Prompt] A book involving an unusual mode of transportation - Festus! The mechanical bronze dragon.

Your Move: What Board Games Teach Us About Life - [Prompt] A book with a map anywhere in it - Board game maps count, right? There were pictures of Pandemic Legacy, Rising Sun, and [the Settlers of] Catan.

The Son of Neptune - It featured a quest to rescue the god of death from a glacier in Alaska. [Prompt] A book featuring a ship - Pax, a Roman "ship" was used for quite a bit of the journey. The book ended with the entrance of the warship Argo II.

Please count me in too.

1.Blithe Sprit

Prompt: set in a different time period
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2. Fair Stood the Wind to France.

Promt: Set in a place I would like to visit. Much of the novel is set in France.

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3. The Adventures of Robin Hood.

Prompt: Most of this book is set in a forest.

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4. The Landlord
Prompt: Character moving to a new place.

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I'm in! This sounds like so much fun

I want to take part too!


Books matching the prompt and the theme

- A book with a direction in the title
I read 'East, West' (viewtopic.php?f=467&t=32384). It fits the theme as it's about adventure. It also fits the prompt 'book with a direction in the title' because it's called East, West.

- A book set in a different time period
I read The Fever Code (viewtopic.php?f=391&t=32418). It fits the theme as it's about adventure. It also fits the prompt 'book set in a different time period' because the year in the book is 221.

- A book set on another planet
I read The Martian (viewtopic.php?f=391&t=32456). It fits the theme as it's about adventure. It also fits the prompt 'book set on another planet' because it's set on Mars.

- A book featuring a ship
I read The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (viewtopic.php?f=391&t=32457&p=292785#p292785). It fits the theme as it's about adventure. It also fits the prompt 'a book featuring a ship' because there is a ship called Dawn Treader.

- A book with a map anywhere in it
I read A Dog's Way Home (viewtopic.php?f=467&t=32387). It fits the theme as it's about adventure. It also fits the prompt 'A book with a map anywhere in it' because the edition I have (the Polish edition) has a map of Harmony Gap and Wild Cat Cove (fictional names of cities in North Carolina) at the front page.

- A book with many different settings or locations

- A book set in a country you'd like to visit

-A book about a scientific discovery
I read The Kill Order (viewtopic.php?f=391&t=32397). It fits the theme as it's about adventure. It also fits the prompt 'A book about a scientific discovery' because it tells a story of how the Flare was created and exposed to the world.

- A book featuring a navigator or mapmaker
I read The maze runner (viewtopic.php?f=391&t=31580). It fits the theme as it's about adventure. It also first the prompt 'book featuring a map maker' because the runners (such as Mihno or Thomas) have created the replica and a map of the Maze to find a way around it better.

- A book featuring the first contact with aliens

- A book where the protagonist must retrieve something
I read The Death Cure (viewtopic.php?f=391&t=32396&p=292394#p292394). It fits the theme as it's about adventure. It also fits the prompt ' A book where the protagonist must retrieve something' because Thomas and his friends have to find a way to retrieve their freedom.

- A book where language, translation and/or interpretation are important

- A book about a character moving to a new place
I read Trick (viewtopic.php?f=391&t=32453). It fits the theme as it's about adventure. It also fits the prompt 'book about a character moving to a new place' because Daniele has to go to his daughter's flat to take care of his grandson.

- A book featuring a station of some kind


- A book featuring time travel
I read All our wrong todays (viewtopic.php?f=391&t=32452). It fits the theme as it's about adventure. It also fits the prompt 'a book about time travel' because the main character has to use a time machine to get to our universe.

- A book with a journey in the title
I read The Incredible Journey (viewtopic.php?f=391&t=32495). It fits the theme as it's about adventure. It also fits the prompt 'A book with a journey in the title' because its called 'The Incredible Journey'.

- A book featuring a forest/jungle
I read Twilight (viewtopic.php?f=391&t=30819&p=292952#p292952). It fits the theme as it is about adventure (it is also a romance). It fits the prompt ' A book featuring a forest/jungle' because there is a forest where Bella is quite often due to Jacob and Edward.

- A book featuring pirates/bandits
I read Peter Pan in Kensington Gradens (viewtopic.php?f=391&t=32496). It fits the theme as it's about adventure. It also fits the prompt 'A book featuring pirates/bandits' because one of the major characters in the book is Captain Hook.

- A book about a culture other than your own
I read Norse Mythology (viewtopic.php?f=391&t=29794&p=292953#p292953). It fits the theme as it's about adventure. It also fits the prompt 'a book about a culture other than your own' because it features stories about Vikings.

- A book featuring a non-human perspective
I read A dog's purpose (viewtopic.php?f=391&t=29334&p=292926#p292926). It fits the theme as it's about adventure. It also fits the prompt 'A book featuring a non-human perspective' because the story is told by a dog.

- A book involving a story within a story
I read Sandman (viewtopic.php?f=391&t=32487). It fits the theme as it's about adventure. It also fits the prompt 'A book involving a story within a story' because some of the book's features contain narration of their characters’ real-world dreams, and these narrations are stories within the main plot.

- A book featuring a long journey
I read The Scorch Trials (viewtopic.php?f=391&t=32395&p=292386&hi ... ls#p292386). It fits the theme as it's about adventure. It also fits the prompt 'A book featuring a long journey' because Thomas and his friends have to travel around their world to find The Red Arm to stop WICKED. This is a long and dangerous journey to the mountains and even further.

- A book involving an unusual mode of transportation
I read Around the World in Eighty Days (viewtopic.php?f=391&t=32486). It fits the theme as it's about adventure. It also fits the prompt 'A book involving an unusual mode of transportation' because the main character uses a hot air balloon to travel around the world.

- A book in a genre you don't usually read
I read It (viewtopic.php?f=391&t=30677&p=292916#p292916). It fits the theme as it's about adventure. It also fits the prompt 'A book written in a genre you don't usually read' because I rarely read horror books.

- A book written in a style or format that is unfamiliar to you (such as verse or a play script)
I read Fantastic Beasts and where to find them (viewtopic.php?f=391&t=29437&p=292786#p292786). It fits the theme as it is about adventure. It also fits the prompt 'A book written in a style or format that is unfamiliar to you (such as verse or a play script)' because it's written in the form of a script.

Other books
I read The Graveyard Book viewtopic.php?f=391&t=31762. It fits the theme of adventure but there's not much which actually fits the prompts.

YAAAS! I'm IN

1. The Green Mile
2. A Court of Thorns and Roses A book with many different settings or locations (is a world divided between humans and non-humans and the non-human world has like 5 different locations within *mind blown*)
3. Charlie and The Chocolate Factory A book about a scientific discovery (I attribute this book to be of an adventure because for the kids it is and with a scientific discovery - more like many - because Charlie was indeed brilliant and invented so many food and chocolate related creations that no one ever imagined possible)

I would like to participate


A book with many different settings or locations(all the 7 books come in this category)
Throne of Glass (all the books of the series)

A book set in a country you'd like to visit
2)Jane Eyre

A book in a different time period(all the three books come under this category)
3)Infernal devices (all the three books)(in the shadowhunter universe)
4) Inferno
A book where the protagonist must retrieve something
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It
A book in genre I don't usually read
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Sounds fun! I’m in!

1) The Poisoner’s Handbook (fits the theme of scientific discovery)
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Ooo, sounds fun! Count me in

Sounds awesome! I'd love to participate.

1. Took (viewtopic.php?f=391&t=32393)

This book fits the prompt that the character is moving to a new place because the main characters and their family move to another state due to their parent's job loss.

This book fits the overall theme of adventure because when the little girl is "took" her family sets out to find her in the woods.

2. Greetings From Witness Protection! (viewtopic.php?f=391&t=32419)

Well, I’m trying to make more time/balance more equally all of my hobbies, which includes HOL and reading, so this knocks out both with one punch.

Sign me up!

I could do some more reading, and this sounds fun. I'd like to participate.

1. I am number four- A book featuring a first contact with aliens

This meets the theme of adventure because the people in the story have travelled from one planet to another. This meets the theme 'A book featuring a first contact with aliens', because the main characters are an alien race and they meet many humans.

2. The Maze Runner- A book with a map anywhere in it

There is a group of people in the story make maps of the maze everyday and compare them to try to figure out a pattern.

3. Big Water- A book featuring a ship

This book features people being on a ship and a lifeboat. This book meets the overall adventure theme because people are travelling on a boat to go from one place to another.

4. A Time to Dance- A book about a culture other than your own

This books takes place in Chennai, India, and the main character and her family as well as many other characters in the book practice Hinduism. The main character as well as other characters in the book practice a traditional Indian dance called Bharatanatyam.

5. The First Test-A book about a character moving to a new place

The main character has moved from her hometown of Mindelan to the Court of King Jonathan of Tortall, where she takes part in training to become a page.

This sounds fun and I'm excited! I'm in!