WORD / SENTENCE Challenge!
The prize for this challenge is from the Read-A-Thon prize box… and it will be TWO BOOKS! other than that, I think Hannah is in charge. YOU HAVE TWO HOURS. and I think Dewey is randomly picking from the entries.
Leave a comment OR blog yourself (you’re all doing both anyway, right?!) for one or both (or neither?) of the following:
A – strangest new vocabulary word found during entire read-a-thon
B – most interesting / annoying / favorite RUN ON sentence encountered.
Have fun! Look alive PEOPLE!
A – strangest new vocabulary word found during entire read-a-thon:
Unterscharführer from The i Tetralogy by Mathias B. Freese
New word: “organism” in The Mammy
Conversation between Agnes Browne and her friend, Marion:
“You can’t say you never enjoyed it?”
“Marion, will you get a grip! Enjoy what?”
“You know…the organism!”
“I never done one,” said Agnes defiantly. “I don’t think they exist.”
“They do, I swear, Aggie. I done two.”
Longest run-on sentence: From Five Litle Pepper and How They Grew
“I told her ‘twould just stop Polly from ever being a musician if she broke off now–and so ‘twould, you know, yourself, Marian, for we should never get the child here again, if we let her go now; and I talked—well, I had to talk some; but, well—the upshot is I did get her, and I did bring her—and here she is!”
Ok, I completed this challenge. I also wanted to thank you so much for all the cheering me on you have done through this read-a-thon!
My strangest new vocabulary word and interesting sentence all go together and they were in Monday Mourning by Kathy Reichs:
Vocab: adipocere
[AKA] “Grave wax…fatty acids and calcium soaps from muscle or fat undergoing chemical changes, usually after long burial or immersion in water.”
Segobrigae: a Celtic people group
Ooh, that’s a good one, gautami!
Here’s my post about mine — not nearly as interesting a word as gautami, rest assured! (Or maybe don’t rest … we are trying to stay awake all night, aren’t we?)
This was a most interesting challenge and one that I was waiting for once I started Rosewater and Soda Bread. Here’s my post at http://persianpicklers.edublogs.org
You are still awfully perky this late in the game! What’s your secret?
Two hours from when??? I’m getting so confused with this. Can you let me know what time this challenge will end so I don’t miss it (unforutunately I’ve missed a few others already). Thanks!!
Look alive? Surely you jest!
I have posted my response to the WORD / SENTENCE CHALLENGE, here:
http://bonniesbooks.blogspot.com/2008/06/eighteenth-hour-500-600-am-edt-report.html
I found both the WORD and the SENTENCE in my reading of Faulkner, so can you guess why I put that book aside?
Here’s mine. My word? Asafoetida.
Here’s my post about this topic – glad I was up for it.
http://www.andilit.com/?p=198
I wanted to do this but I didn’t find anything
Probably because I haven’t done much reading at all. Anyway, seeing what everyone else has come up with has been great!
“laaf, that Afghan tendency to exaggerate– sadly, almost a national affliction”
from The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Mine is up!
Neat challenge. Here’s mine.
Thanks Care for getting back to me about the times!!
Word: schlemiel – an unlucky bungler. Which leads me to bungle – to act or work clumsily and awkwardly
**from Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! by Fannie Flagg
My sentence is kind of lame because I’m reading a YA book and haven’t been able to find anything:
“I dollar and six cents buys a whole Italian dinner in NOrth Beach plus a double feature at the movies or a month of swimming at Fleishhaker’s Pool or a bunch of rides on the streetcars–the dinkies, as Annie calls them.”
***from Al Capone Does my Shirts by Ginnifer Choldenko
I’ve got mine here: http://casual-dread.blogspot.com/2008/06/24-hour-read-thon-hour-19-mini.html. It’s not really a run-on, but I found it funny.
My post here! (I almost forgot to leave a comment)
Woohoo! You won! Check out Dewey’s post http://deweymonster.com/?p=834 for what to do next.