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Reading Challenges: prologue - chapter 16
Introduce yourself! Who are you, how many times have you read The Scorpio Race?
Any favourite quotes from this section? Favourite scenes?
What initial impressions do you have of our main characters? The world?
Any favourite worldbuilding features?
Week 4
Character Challenges
Training Challenge #1: Killing sands, that was what my father called a day like today. Today the riders would die because they didn’t know or because they were desperate or because they were foolishly brave.
Post about the day before the race.
Training Challenge #2: It’s the surf in your face, the deadly magic of November on your skin, the Scorpio drums in the place of your heartbeat.
Post about the races!
Tourist Challenge #1
Cliff shopping. Visit the vendor stands between races. What do you buy?
Tourist Challenge #2
The ferry. Does the island have its hooks in you? Will you take the ferry home or are you here to stay? What were your takeaways from this year’s races?
Reading Challenges: chapter 56 - chapter 66
The final build-up and the much-awaited race! This is another peak into tradition on Thisby and Puck’s clashes with it. How has Puck’s relationship with tradition (and specifically Thisby’s traditions) changed over the course of the story?
Did the goals of the characters shift? Did they achieve their goals?
Final thoughts? Any favorite quotes from this section? Favorite scenes?
If there was an opportunity to learn more about one thing in the book, what would you choose?
Creative Challenges
Charms! Post pictures of the items you would use to protect yourself on Thisby during Scorpio season.
Week 3
Character Challenges
Training Challenge #1: Everything about me is exactly the same as it was five hundred years ago, when Thisby priests would stand in the frigid, dark sea and give themselves over to the island.
Do you have any rituals, beliefs, or good luck charms?
Training Challenge #2: Threes. Sevens. Iron across my palm.
Describe your capall’s relationship with the ocean
Training Challenge #3: “Its strategy,” I add crossly. “I’m devising strategy. Not all of racing is riding you know.”
What is your strategy for the race to come? How is training and how is planning?
Tourist Challenge #1: “I believe in the same thing they believe in,” I saw, with a jerk of my chin toward town and St. Columba’s. “I just don’t believe you can find it in a building.”
Do you spend Sunday at St. Columba’? If so, describe your experience. If not, what do you spend your Sunday getting up to?
Tourist Challenge #2: The road from Skarmouth clear on the to the cliffs is lined with tents and tables of ever sort.
Have you picked up any souvenirs, and for whom? Where did you get them, why?
Reading Challenges: chapter 33 - chapter 55
The first two chapters in this section touch a little on Puck and Sean’s respective relationships with spirituality & faith, did you notice any defined similarities or differences between them?
Training starts in earnest! Our main characters are committed to their paths now, how does this impact how the story progresses?
Any favorite quotes from this section? Favorite scenes?
This section has a lot of shifts in character relationships. What are some of your favorite character relationships in The Scorpio Races?
Creative Challenges
Recreate something from your favorite place on Thisby. Compile pictures of your ideal training location or the best place you visited on the island this week, make a soundtrack for that location, try out Malvern’s butter tea, anything you can imagine!
Reading Challenges: chapter 33 - chapter 55
The first two chapters in this section touch a little on Puck and Sean’s respective relationships with spirituality & faith, did you notice any defined similarities or differences between them?
Training starts in earnest! Our main characters are committed to their paths now, how does this impact how the story progresses?
Any favourite quotes from this section? Favourite scenes?
This section has a lot of shifts in character relationships. What are some of your favourite character relationships in The Scorpio Races?
Reading Challenges: chapter 17 - chapter 32
the festival sets up a lot of Thisby’s deep history and traditions. What’s your favourite tradition in the book, and why?
who do you think the Mare Goddess was? Does it matter who was behind the mask?
any favourite quotes from this section? Favourite scenes?
talk a little about the conflict in the story. What kinds of conflict are there in the story? What are our character’s goals, and what stands in the way?
