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Please post any questions about our Winter Sub-challenge, Choose Your Own Adventure-Author Edition, in this thread.

We filled this sub-challenge with some of your favorite author tasks of the last 10 years.

Here are some sheets for your perusal. Please note there is more than one sheet. On the Characteristics sheet, these are authors that members claimed when we had the task previously. You are not limited to the authors on these lists. However, if you *do* use an author not on the list and their GR author profile isn't clear how they qualify, please post the name and a link in this thread.

The War Years Births, Victoria's Lifetime, and Oktoberfest lists are from the current database. Again, you are not limited to the authors on these sheets.

The winter births task was last winter. Below is a link to the help thread, with links for a list. Members posted additional names in that thread.

Winter 18-19

Please explain "Octoberfest Country"?

Not sure if you mean Germany and only Germany?

I will copy/paste those countries in a bit. Lots more than Germany.

Tien wrote: "Please explain "Octoberfest Country"?

Not sure if you mean Germany and only Germany?"

I don't have all of Elizabeth's lists on hand, but I do have this list of countries:

Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Columbia, Chile, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Mexico, Palestinian Territories, Romania, United States and Vietnam

Thanks, Kate!

For B1-1. Author lived during Queen Victoria's lifetime (1819-1901)- Does the author we read need to have lived their entire life within 1819-1901...or just part of it?

Ed wrote: "For B1-1. Author lived during Queen Victoria's lifetime (1819-1901)- Does the author we read need to have lived their entire life within 1819-1901...or just part of it?"

They need to have been alive during her lifetime, but not lived entirely within it.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Ed wrote: "For B1-1. Author lived during Queen Victoria's lifetime (1819-1901)- Does the author we read need to have lived their entire life within 1819-1901...or just part of it?"

They need to ha..."

Thanks..... another question...for the literature map....I assume it is ok to read any of the named author's as they appear on their own literature maps?

Ed wrote: "for the literature map....I assume it is ok to read any of the named author's as they appear on their own literature maps?"

Yes, the authors listed will be accepted for the literature map task.

Another comment on the Lit Maps. I noticed that some authors may have misspellings, but you're good with the obvious intentions. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky is spelled in numerous ways, for example.)

Would John Steinbeck qualify under C4? I see that he adapted his own novella Of Mice and Men into a play.

Yes, he is on the list on the spreadsheet.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Yes, he is on the list on the spreadsheet."

oh...great...I hadn't noticed the link to the spreadsheets.

Am I correct that there are no women on the canon that publish using initials and a surname? A5

Do we have to read books from all three categories?

Mary wrote: "Am I correct that there are no women on the canon that publish using initials and a surname? A5"

To be honest, Mary, I didn’t look at the Canon that way. It may be true.

Rebekah wrote: "Do we have to read books from all three categories?"

No, if you can make your list using only two categories, you are free to do so.

If no author may be repeated, could I read both Ruth Rendell and Barbara Vine?

For A3 - Author uses (at least) 3 Names

Is this Laura Ingalls Wilder?

Or are we looking for someone with 3 different pen names?

Joanna wrote: "For A3 - Author uses (at least) 3 Names

Is this Laura Ingalls Wilder?

Or are we looking for someone with 3 different pen names?"

The first - Laura Ingalls Wilder

Denise wrote: "If no author may be repeated, could I read both Ruth Rendell and Barbara Vine?"

:-) Yes.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Denise wrote: "If no author may be repeated, could I read both Ruth Rendell and Barbara Vine?"

:-) Yes."

Thank you!

For C4: I plan to read a book by Ellis Peters, a pseudonym of Edith Pargeter. Edith has written short stories, fiction and non-fiction - only some of the fiction as Ellis Peters as she has several pseudonyms. Would this work?

Please confirm Susan Hill for having published at least 3 forms noting . Thanks :)

And if anyone is interested, she can fit also into
A1 - 4 letters in last name
A4 - double letters in last name
B2 & B3 - born in February 1942
C3 - 20+ years

Tien wrote: "Please confirm Susan Hill for having published at least 3 forms noting her bibliography on Wikipedia. Thanks :)

And if anyone is interested, she can fit also into
A1 - 4 letters in ..."

Yes, for Susan Hill for C4.

Bea wrote: "For C4: I plan to read a book by Ellis Peters, a pseudonym of Edith Pargeter. Edith has written short stories, fiction and non-fiction - only some of the fiction as Ellis Peters as she has several ..."

Yes, we will accept her for C4.

Please also confirm Meg Keneally for C5 (journalist)

"... she joined the Daily Telegraph as a general news reporter, covering everything from courts to crime to animals�� birthday parties at the zoo." -GR profile

Tien wrote: "Please also confirm Meg Keneally for C5 (journalist)

"... she joined the Daily Telegraph as a general news reporter, covering everything from courts to crime to animals�� birthday..."

Yes!

Thanks, Elizabeth

Do we need to lock in authors on the literature maps? I would like to claim Barbara Vine on Iris Murdoch's map. Thanks.

I don’t think those change, but it’s fine to mention them in this thread, if you’re jittery.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "I don’t think those change, but it’s fine to mention them in this thread, if you’re jittery."

Okay, I wasn't sure how it worked. I really enjoyed spending today putting my two plans together. Can't wait!

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Bea wrote: "For C4: I plan to read a book by Ellis Peters, a pseudonym of Edith Pargeter. Edith has written short stories, fiction and non-fiction - only some of the fiction as Ellis Peters as she has several ..."

Yes, we will accept her for C4."

Thanks. I appreciate that ruling.

Would an author who was born 1901-2000 and is still alive would count for
4. Author was born in one century died the next (xx01-xx00).

Thanks

Deedee wrote: "Would an author who was born 1901-2000 and is still alive would count for
4. Author was born in one century died the next (xx01-xx00).

Thanks"

Keeping with the original use of this task:

"Authors still living do not qualify. Authors who die during the [winter] spring challenge will qualify."

(We have borrowed this task from Spring 2014)

In keeping with the request to post here when matching criteria wasn't obvious on the GR profile, or on the above lists.

Willa Cather published in multiple forms according to her entry.

In that same Willa Cather wikipedia entry, it says this:

In 1896, Cather moved to Pittsburgh after being hired to write for the Home Monthly,[13] a women's magazine patterned after the successful Ladies' Home Journal.[2]:114 A year later, she became a telegraph editor and drama critic for the Pittsburgh Leader

Does that qualify her as working at as a journalist?

Joanna wrote: "In that same Willa Cather wikipedia entry, it says this:

In 1896, Cather moved to Pittsburgh after being hired to write for the Home Monthly,[13] a women's magazine patterned after the successful ..."

The drama critic will qualify her.

I did not review the lists until now.

I have George Orwell as journalist. Per GR profile, "He was a prolific polemical journalist, article writer, literary critic, reviewer, poet, and writer of fiction, and, considered perhaps the twentieth century's best chronicler of English culture".

I have Edith Pargeter (AKA Ellis Peters) as a writer of short stories and novels as well as ( lists a non-fiction she wrote (The Coast of Bohemia and a couple of other non-fiction written with Roy Morgan).

Bea wrote: "I did not review the lists until now.

I have George Orwell as journalist. Per GR profile, "He was a prolific polemical journalist, article writer, literary critic, reviewer, poet, an..."

Yes to both of these.

For A1, A2 & A3....would Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story by Sue Monk Kidd work since Ann Kidd Taylor is also a co-author and meets the criteria for all three categories?

I know that CYOA means Choose Your Own Adventure. I do know that, but the first thing that pops into my head when I see the acronym is Cover Your Own A$$. Need more coffee, I think. :)

Bea wrote: "I know that CYOA means Choose Your Own Adventure. I do know that, but the first thing that pops into my head when I see the acronym is Cover Your Own A$$. Need more coffee, I think. :)"

Same here Bea. I think the exact thing. (snickering)

Lynn wrote: "Same here Bea. I think the exact thing. (snickering)"

LOL. Thanks, Lynn, for letting me know I am not alone!

Bea wrote: "Lynn wrote: "Same here Bea. I think the exact thing. (snickering)"

LOL. Thanks, Lynn, for letting me know I am not alone!"

Lynn and Bea, you aren't alone, there are at least three of us...thanks for the laugh to start the day!

I always saw it as CYA, without the O.

Ed wrote: "For A1, A2 & A3....would Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story by Sue Monk Kidd work since Ann Kidd Taylor is also a co-author and meets the criteria for..."

We go with the first named author.

Kate S wrote: "Tien wrote: "Please explain "Octoberfest Country"?

Not sure if you mean Germany and only Germany?"

I don't have all of Elizabeth's lists on hand, but I do have this list of countries:

Argentina,..."

Is the finalized list?

Ed wrote: "Is the finalized list?��

Not sure what you mean here, Ed.