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reviews_and_ramblings ([personal profile] reviews_and_ramblings) wrote2012-11-23 10:21 am

My blog's 6th anniversary and Rainbow Awards pre-party

So another year is gone, and my Journal is now 6 years old :-) Since end of November is also really near the time when the Rainbow Awards will wrap up nicely (on December 8th) this year I want to have a joint party! So I asked to many of the authors in this year contest to be generous and donate a book or two... and the answer was overwhelming: 243 among print and ebooks!

But this time you have to "earn" your prize and so there is a "little" treasure hunt: nothing complicated but you need to complete a chain made of Title-Word-Definition-Cover-Number. How? I will try to explain LOL

We have 243 book titles, you can find them here:

The Books: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/1805679.html (mirrored here if you don't have a LJ account to comment and you are not friend on LJ: http://reviews-and-ramblings.dreamwidth.org/3359348.html)

from each title I extracted a word, but be careful, same word can match more titles, BUT there is an unique matching (example, if I have two titles, Love Story and Story of Me, "story" match both titles, but probably, from the first title I took "Love" and from the second I took "Story". Your job to discover the right matching ;-)). You can find the words here:

The Words: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/1805826.html (mirrored here if you don't have a LJ account to comment and you are not friend on LJ: http://reviews-and-ramblings.dreamwidth.org/3359509.html)

to each word corresponds a definition. The definition refers to single word (even if the word is plural) or not conjugated verb (even if the word is a conjugated verb). You can find the definitions here:

The Definitions: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/1806109.html (mirrored here if you don't have a LJ account to comment and you are not friend on LJ: http://reviews-and-ramblings.dreamwidth.org/3359969.html)

Once you have the matching Book-Word-Definition, you need to go and search for the Cover here:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.446587205375367.103212.100000722741394&type=1&l=1a717d4880 (if you don't have a Facebook account, you can try and find the Cover browsing this tag: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/tag/rainbow%20awards%202012 but you have to scroll down a lot of entries ;-))

view the right cover, on the comment section there is a comment by me (Elisa Reviews) with a link to a post on LJ (Rainbow Awards: Current Submissions). Open the link and see what number was assigned to that book in that post.

Comment on THIS post (not on THAT post with the Current Submissions), sending me: Book Title-Word-Definition-Number. You can pick one book per day, if tomorrow there will be still available book, I will assign them. So you can send me more matching but first in-first out, you will win the first right matching still available book.

Exception, for the Book marked as New () there is no Cover/Number, so once you have the matching Book Title-Word-Definition, you can leave the comment.

And now, lets the party start! Enjoy and good luck with your hunt!
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[personal profile] whitestar 2012-11-25 10:31 am (UTC)(link)
Oh I had no idea! I wish I knew because two of the books I wanted were chosen :( But anyway, can I pick two more for today? and one more for yesterday since I only picked one yesterday? If so here are my guesses for today:

Andrew Grey - Unconditional Love – LOVE - a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person – 476

Aleksandr Voinov – Incursion – INCURSION – a hostile entrance into or invasion of a place or territory, especially a sudden one - 470

And here is my other guess for yesterday:

Gene Gant - The Thunder in His Head – THUNDER - a loud, explosive, resounding noise produced by the explosive expansion of air heated by a lightning discharge - 371

Oh, and thank you so much for running this contest! :)




Edited 2012-11-25 10:34 (UTC)

Re: 6th Anniversary Party - Aisling Mancy here

(Anonymous) 2012-11-25 10:38 am (UTC)(link)
OK, here's my re-do. Xing fingers... and maybe a few other body parts...

Don't Let Me Go - GO - to move or proceed, especially to or from something - #106

Aisling Mancy

Scrunchy face: wondering if this counts towards my Sunday 3...

Re: 6th Anniversary Party - Aisling Mancy here

(Anonymous) 2012-11-25 10:52 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, no! it posted the wrong thing!...

Okay, here we go. Deep breath. I can do this. It's only a post. It's not a like it's a public appearance or anything... Okay... Whew... *wipes sweat from brow* Here we go...

Don't Let Me Go - GO - to approach or move toward a particular person or place - #106

Yes! I cheer! And pray that I did it right this time.

Wow. Tough game. No, that's okay. I can handle it. I'm in for the next round.

Aisling Mancy.

The Starving Years

(Anonymous) 2012-11-25 10:57 am (UTC)(link)
The Starving Years - YEARS - - a period of 365 or 366 days, in the Gregorian calendar, divided into 12 calendar months - 220

Erica Pike
eripike at gmail dot com

(Anonymous) 2012-11-25 11:00 am (UTC)(link)
Day 3 guesses:

Tinnean - Houseboat on the Nile – HOUSEBOAT - a flat-bottomed, bargelike boat fitted for use as a floating dwelling but not for rough water - # 263

J.L. Merrow - Hard Tail - TAIL - the hindmost part of an animal, especially that forming a distinct, flexible appendage to the trunk – # 321

Jordan Castillo Price - The Starving Years – YEARS - a period of 365 or 366 days, in the Gregorian calendar, divided into 12 calendar months - # 220

jet119(AT)yahoo(DOT)com

3 sumissions for Sunday... 6th Anniversary!

(Anonymous) 2012-11-25 11:01 am (UTC)(link)
Okay... here we go. My 3 sumissions for Sunday are: (Can I do them all at once?)

Finders Keepers - KEEPERS - selected from several; preferred - #413

Chase of a Lifetime - LIFETIME - the time that the life of someone or something continues; the term of a life - #253

Unconditional Love - LOVE - a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person - #476

Errors and Omissions - ERROR(S) - a deviation from accuracy or correctness; a mistake, as in action or speech - #144

Er, okay, that's four, but, well, see, I WANT these and in the event that I screw up again, I'm, well, trying to be prepared in advance. These books are flying off the shelves!

Aisling Mancy.

The other two

(Anonymous) 2012-11-25 11:19 am (UTC)(link)
The other two:

Rentboy - RENTBOY - a person who hustles - (no number)

Enduring Instincts - ENDURING - lasting; permanent - 82

Erica

eripike at gmail dot com

Re: The other two

(Anonymous) 2012-11-25 11:22 am (UTC)(link)
*Gasp* And there were two yesterday? Any chance I can be super greedy and ask for another since I only did one yesterday?

Red + Blue - RED - - any of various colors resembling the color of blood; the primary color at one extreme end of the visible spectrum - 384

(Yes, I have a bunch of these prepared, hehe).

Eripike at gmail dot com

book contest

(Anonymous) 2012-11-25 11:25 am (UTC)(link)
Wow! three more:

Neil Plakcy - Mahu Blood- Blood the fluid that circulates in the principal vascular system of human beings and other vertebrates #169

L.J. LaBarthe - No Surrender, No Retreat SURRENDER - to yield (something) to the possession or power of another; deliver up possession of on demand or under duress, # 348

D.H. Starr - Premonition- a feeling of anticipation of or anxiety over a future event; presentiment,

# 162

Jibriel.O at web dot de

Thank you!
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Re: The other two

[personal profile] whitestar 2012-11-25 11:26 am (UTC)(link)
You are doing the same as me, lol. And drats! You chose the book I had on my list, lolol ^_^

Re: 6th Anniversary Party - Aisling Mancy here

(Anonymous) 2012-11-25 11:29 am (UTC)(link)
Ohhhhh. The verb. No one ever told me I'd have to deal with components of grammar as an author. I mean, really...

*shakes head* Worse than the "misread" test in law school. Just plain evil.

Scrunching face, knitting brow, deliberating, gnawing lip again... thinking... reviewing data...

Don't Let Me Go - LET - to allow or permit - #106

Aisling Mancy (not feeling very brave at the moment)

Re: The other two

(Anonymous) 2012-11-25 11:30 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I already moved a couple that were claimed yesterday ^.^

(Anonymous) 2012-11-25 11:49 am (UTC)(link)
Zahra Owens - Floods and Drought

FLOODS - a great flowing or overflowing of water, especially over land not usually submerged
No. 227


Dorien Grey - The Peripheral Son,

SON - a male child or person in relation to his parents
54


Fyn Alexander - Sins of the Father - SIN - transgression of divine law 119


moonsurfer123@gmail.com

(Anonymous) 2012-11-25 01:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Hal Bodner - The Trouble With Hairy
HAIRY- covered with hair; having much hair
(145)

Storm Grant - Few Are Chosen
CHOSEN- selected from several; preferred
(193e)


anas-karina@mail.ru

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