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The 2015 IL Book Lovers Readathon Contest

Discussion in 'Book Lovers' started by PriyaSrini, Jan 14, 2015.

Pick the Contest Books

Poll closed Jan 24, 2015.
  1. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

    21 vote(s)
    67.7%
  2. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

    9 vote(s)
    29.0%
  3. Sidharatha by Hermann Hesse

    15 vote(s)
    48.4%
  4. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

    7 vote(s)
    22.6%
  5. The Innocent Man by John Grisham

    26 vote(s)
    83.9%
  6. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

    14 vote(s)
    45.2%
  7. The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee

    22 vote(s)
    71.0%
  8. The 39 steps by John Buchan

    17 vote(s)
    54.8%
  9. Animal farm by George Orwell

    7 vote(s)
    22.6%
  10. Angela's Ashes by Frankk McCourt

    5 vote(s)
    16.1%
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  1. PriyaSrini

    PriyaSrini Moderator Staff Member Platinum IL'ite

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    Happy New Year ILites, we hope 2014 had been a great experience for you all at the Book Lovers Forum. We had read some amazing books at our clubs, had a contest, won gifts and eventually made friends too.

    Now 2015 is here with new aspirations and zealous enthusiasm. Look forward to new book clubs, challenges and contests with freebies all guaranteed to make your reading amazing.


    Lets waste no time and dive right into a............... contest. Yes a contest with all the bells and whistles, books, quizzes and gifts for the winner.


    The 2015 IL Book Lovers Readathon


    A contest to show the passion and skills of a true blue book lover in you. Five books for five weeks. From the 25th of January to 28th of February, the contestants have to read five books, one for each week in the course, answer some simple questions and we have a Champion. Of course time is a parameter, read the books and participate in the quiz and you can be the Winner.


    As always you my dear ILites will pick the five books that will be featured in the contest. I have set up a poll with a choice of 10 books. Vote for the five books that you wish to read.


    Here's how this works:-


    1.Vote for the 5 books


    From a choice of 10 books, vote and pick the 5 books. These top 5 books will be the books the participants will read during the contest. The book titles will be announced before the contest begins on January 25th. There is a sequence in which these books will be read in, this I will share with you during the contest period.


    2. To Participate:-


    Simple. Just leave a post in the thread and you are in.

    3. Readathon :-


    One book for each week, which means,


    Week 1 - Jan 25 to Jan 31 - Book 1
    Week 2 - Feb 1 to Feb 7 - Book 2
    Week 3 - Feb 8 to Feb 14 - Book 3
    Week 4 - Feb 15 to Feb 21- Book 4
    Week 5 - Feb 22 to Feb 28- Book 5


    As I have mentioned, I will announce the book of the week on the first day of every week. I will PM the links for the books to all participants to download and read. To give everyone a fair chance, I will share just one book (link) a week, so even you finish ahead you will have to wait till Sunday for the next book. Of course you can tell me when you are done reading so I can note your timing.


    4. Quiz :-


    Based on the book of the week, a quiz will be held on every Friday. These questions will be posted on the thread but answers have to be replied as Private messages sent to me or Deepa ( lampdeepa ). They should be sent within 24 hours i.e, by Saturday Night (Indian Time). Any answer posted on the thread during the contest time will not be accepted.


    5. Winner :-


    One winner, only one person who reads all 5 books and answers the quiz correctly will be crowned " The 2015 Readathon Champion". The IL team will pick a winner based on the number of books read and the answers to the questions posted in the quiz.

    That's it, read and be called a champion...................................... Oh wait almost forgot..................... the winner will also receive a Rs.500 Flipkart gift voucher.



    Watch out for the book blurbs in my next post. Lets get started. "
     
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  2. SRK

    SRK Bronze IL'ite

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    Wow!! Great contest...Am in..Wish me good luck :)
    Happy Reading All!!


    "There comes a time when you have to choose between turning the page and closing the book."
     
  3. chillbreeze

    chillbreeze Moderator Staff Member IL Hall of Fame

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    Hey Priya, I am so excited about the contest after reading your post. Count me in.
     
  4. naliniravi

    naliniravi Gold IL'ite

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    @PriyaSrini

    Count me in
     
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    BavyaDinesh New IL'ite

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    Count me in
     
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  6. madhuprabha

    madhuprabha Gold IL'ite

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    Hi Priay, :clap: :clap:
    Good way to encourage reading books.
    I loooooove books, so need i say ......'Count me in'
     
  7. PriyaSrini

    PriyaSrini Moderator Staff Member Platinum IL'ite

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    Book Blurbs*, read and pick your choice.

    1. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

    In the village of King's Abbot, a widow's sudden suicide sparks rumors that she murdered her first husband, was being blackmailed, and was carrying on a secret affair with the wealthy Roger Ackroyd. The following evening, Ackroyd is murdered in his locked study--but not before receiving a letter identifying the widow's blackmailer. King's Abbot is crawling with suspects, including a nervous butler, Ackroyd's wayward stepson, and his sister-in-law, Mrs. Cecil Ackroyd, who has taken up residence in the victim's home. It's now up to the famous detective Hercule Poirot, who has retired to King's Abbot to garden, to solve the case of who killed Roger Ackroyd--a task in which he is aided by the village doctor and narrator, James Sheppard, and by Sheppard's ingenious sister, Caroline.

    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is the book that made Agatha Christie a household name and launched her career as a perennial bestseller. Originally published in 1926, it is a landmark in the mystery genre. It was in the vanguard of a new class of popular detective fiction that ushered in the modern era of mystery novels.

    2. The Metamorphosis By Franz Kafka

    "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes."

    With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first opening, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis.
    It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing -- though absurdly comic -- meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction.

    3. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

    In the novel, Siddhartha, a young man, leaves his family for a contemplative life, then, restless, discards it for one of the flesh. He conceives a son, but bored and sickened by lust and greed, moves on again. Near despair, Siddhartha comes to a river where he hears a unique sound. This sound signals the true beginning of his life -- the beginning of suffering, rejection, peace, and, finally, wisdom.


    4. To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

    The novel that established Virginia Woolf as a leading writer of the twentieth century, To the Lighthouse is made up of three powerfully charged visions into the life of one family living in a summer house off the rocky coast of Scotland. As time winds its way through their lives, the Ramsays face loneliness and simultaneously, the greatest of human challenges and it greatest triumph--the human capacity for change. A moving portrait in miniature of family life, it also has profoundly universal implications, giving language to the silent space that separates people and the space that they transgress to reach each other.


    5. The Innocent Man : Murder and Injustice in a Small Town by John Grisham

    In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the big leagues, Ron stumbled, his dream broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron's home, a young cocktail waitress named Debra Sue Carter was savagely murdered. The investigation led nowhere. Until, on the flimsiest evidence, it led to Ron Williamson. The washed-up small-town hero was charged, tried, and sentenced to death--in a trial littered with lying witnesses and tainted evidence that would shatter a man's already broken life...and let a true killer go free.

    Impeccably researched, grippingly told, filled with eleventh-hour drama, John Grisham's first work of non-fiction reads like a page-turning legal thriller. It is a book that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence.


    6. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

    Sylvia Plath's shocking, realistic, and intensely emotional novel about a woman falling into the grip of insanity

    Esther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under—maybe for the last time. In her acclaimed and enduring masterwork, Sylvia Plath brilliantly draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that her insanity becomes palpably real, even rational—as accessible an experience as going to the movies. A deep penetration into the darkest and most harrowing corners of the human psyche, The Bell Jar is an extraordinary accomplishment and a haunting classic.


    7. The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

    A reimagining of the world-famous Indian epic, the Mahabharat—told from the point of view of an amazing woman.

    Relevant to today’s war-torn world, The Palace of Illusions takes us back to a time that is half history, half myth, and wholly magical. Narrated by Panchaali, the wife of the legendary Pandavas brothers in the Mahabharat, the novel gives us a new interpretation of this ancient tale.

    The novel traces the princess Panchaali's life, beginning with her birth in fire and following her spirited balancing act as a woman with five husbands who have been cheated out of their father’s kingdom. Panchaali is swept into their quest to reclaim their birthright, remaining at their side through years of exile and a terrible civil war involving all the important kings of India. Meanwhile, we never lose sight of her strategic duels with her mother-in-law, her complicated friendship with the enigmatic Krishna, or her secret attraction to the mysterious man who is her husbands' most dangerous enemy. Panchaali is a fiery female redefining for us a world of warriors, gods, and the ever-manipulating hands of fate.


    8. The 39 Steps by John Buchan

    Richard Hannay’s boredom with London society is soon relieved when the resourceful engineer from South Africa is caught up in a web of secret codes, spies, and murder on the eve of WWI. When a neighbor is killed in his flat, Richard, suspected, decodes the journal, runs to the wilds of his native Scotland in disguises and local dialects, to evade Germans and officials.


    9. Animal Farm by George Orwell

    Tired of their servitude to man, a group of farm animals revolt and establish their own society, only to be betrayed into worse servitude by their leaders, the pigs, whose slogan becomes: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." This 1945 satire addresses the socialist/ communist philosophy of Stalin in the Soviet Union.


    10. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

    This book is a luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank’s mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank’s father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy — exasperating, irresponsible, and beguiling — does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. Frank lives for his father’s tales of Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh Step, who brings his mother babies.

    It is story that accounts for Frank’s survival. Wearing rags for diapers, begging a pig’s head for Christmas dinner and gathering coal from the roadside to light a fire, Frank endures poverty, near-starvation and the casual cruelty of relatives and neighbors—yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance, and remarkable forgiveness.

    ( * sourced from Goodreads)
     
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  8. lampdeepa

    lampdeepa Silver IL'ite

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    I am so thrilled and excited for the contest... and I am happy to see the enthusiasm from all of you

    Remember to VOTE for 5 books that you want to read.

    Here's something, on one of the books in the poll "The Innocent Man" is a true story.


    Happy Reading.... (Readathon)

    I have Voted.. Have you?
     
  9. Indhradhanu

    Indhradhanu Silver IL'ite

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    wow....i am so excited to participate...count me in.....
     
  10. helpmeangel

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    Of course am IN ladies!!!
     

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