Welcome to New Friends

Welcome to the 13th year of the challenge! We get lots of new people each year, and we know it can be difficult to "catch up". This thread is just the place for you! The info below will help you get started and make your experience here a good one.

First, where did we come from? Well, back in 2008, Cariola decided to start a group for folks who wanted to challenge themselves to read 75 books in a year. We were a small group, but loved our experience, so decided to do it again! Since then, I've made the yearly groups.

We're at bit of an amorphous organization. Members have jumped in to add features since. SqueakyChu runs the TIOLI challenge. Monthly themes are proposed by many of us - and some have carried over from year to year, like the Halloween read in October. If you've got an idea to try, propose it!

Librarian 1204 is back for another year.

Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz is #1.

1)Mornings on Horseback, by David McCullough is the first book of 2021. I so enjoyed this book.
2)The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead - This book will stay with me while.
3)The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Just started - looking for an audible guide to the pronunciation of characters.

pdxlaura joining
2021 - here for the 75 book challenge!

1. Dear Edward – Ann Napolitano
2. The Bookshop – Penelope Fitzgerald
3. Asymmetry – Lisa Halliday
4. American Primitive – Mary Oliver
5. House of Light – Mary Oliver
6. Einstein’s Dreams – Alan Lightman
7. A is For Alibi – Sue Grafton
8. The Tradition - Jericho Brown
10. The Best American Poetry of 2016 - edited by Edward Hirsch
11. Atomic Habits – James Clear
12. Silver Sparrow – Tayari Jones
13. Big Friendship - Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman - Jan 18
14. When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi

Welcome!

Hi! My name is Momgoth and I’m here for the 75 Book Challenge!

Welcome!

Hi! I'm new and I don't know what to do if anyone can please give me an answer?

Welcome to LT and the 75ers! Our group gives each of us to create a message chain called a thread to track our reading. In between reporting on our reading, many threads also have discussion and banter on many different subjects. I suggest you take a look at some threads and decide how you’d like to use a thread you might make.

Once you decide to jump in, go to the group page and look for the “Create a New Thread” link. Click it, fill in a title and first message, save, and you’re done!

We’re happy to have anyone participate, even if they choose not to have a personal thread. There are group reads and challenges on various topics, as a well as regular read-a-thons too. Links to all these can be found on the group wiki, which is posted on the group home page.

My name is Jeanne Knapp. I’m a new author, new to this group, and new to librarything. 😊

Welcome! Let me know if you have any LT questions - happy to help as I can.

Just read The Revenant by Michael Punke and Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons by Keith Rosson.

Apparently, I ruffled someone's feathers by not replying personally to their post. And then those posts were deleted. Trust me it wasn't personal or intentional. I actually thought I had replied to all messages.

Perhaps if there was a PINNED POST giving us all the RULES and Etiquette we are supposed to adhere to so NEW members can make sure not to ruffle sensitive people's feathers and hurt their feelings.

I was also unaware I had to go to everyone's thread (who has posted on my thread) and post something. Again not intentional or personal.

I thought this was going to be fun but it is starting to be too much work and too many rules to follow.

I've deleted my thread and am leaving the group.

Way to make a new person feel welcome...

Hi. I'm new here. I would like to join the challenge.
Other than read, what do I do now?

>16 S.J.GIBBS: Welcome! I just sent you an answer by private message. I hope you'll join in this you ear with a thread!

>17 drneutron: Thank you I will.

Nice to meet you all!

Morning!

I'm new to this platform.

Welcome! I'm glad you've joined us.

I'm new to this but would really like to read many more books in 2021. Currently working on CASTE.

Welcome! I hope you’ll start a thread and let us know what you’re reading!

Welcome to all the new people! I've been a member since 2008.

I look forward to visiting your threads.

Greetings, Good people! I’m new to LT, and I am considering accepting the 75 book challenge. My wife told me that she has read 21 books in the past 5 months or so, and I was impressed. Also, I have this awful habit or ordering interesting reads and never getting to them. Does anyone have a stack by his or her bedside?🤔

So.....I took a quick look at recording what you read, but couldn’t make sense of the need to register weight and book dimensions. Am I looking in the wrong area? Of course, Amazon readily supplies all of that, but what purpose does it serve? Anybody know?

In any case, I need to get started reading and commenting! Any suggestions for a newbie?

Thanks,

Spike

>25 Anne_Hi:

Hi, Anne!

That’s a book I am going to tackle! I luved her comparison with the toxins that emerged from the permafrost and the current political situation. Jan 6 showcased people with Confederate flags, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and other white militia groups. What was interesting was that military members, police men, politicians, a lawyer etc stormed the Capitol in the spirit of 1776.
So, in 1776, I think most Americans are clear about who the Patriots were? But what about the Civil War? Which side would be deemed patriotic?

>28 SpikeAdams: Hi SpikeAdams.

Welcom here!

Some people just like to have all the specifics of their books so they can say "I've read 40 pounds of books this year."

You are free to enter which specifics you like to enter. I use the book editing page and the common knowledge page and like to enter as many things I can like title, author, number of pages, first sentence and last sentence, that kind of things. And I enter a description for which I use the back-cover text of a book.

The way to start is reading some threads (and starring them if you want to follow someone). You can look in someone's library to see what they have entered.

>28 SpikeAdams: Bedside stack? Nope, sorry, no one here has such a thing. *stands in front of TBR mountain in vain attempt to hide it*

>17 drneutron: eh? ;0)

>31 humouress: Some really bad autocorrect, that one.. 😂

The Instructions told me to start here???

... and here- does not permit me to put my username into the heading-???

So, I am already in violation of instructions.

I am wanting ( sort of ) to join this group ??? But I don't wish to be yelled at if I do it wrong. I have read 21 books, so far this year; admittedly, most of them have been children's books. My goals are to complete all the Newbery Medalists; and am attempting to read Classical Literature in historical order. Additionally, I have to stop to read to the grandchildren, so I threw some of that in the list, too.

Feel free to let me know that I do not belong in this group. I have hemmed & hawed for a few weeks now between this and a few other similar groups- but always found the instructions, a bit daunting. Thank you

>33 EGBERTINA: Welcome EGBERTINA. Everybody can join this group and I think there is not much you can do wrong. And I've never experienced any yelling at all. So start your own thread if you want to. You can also just read the threads of other people. You can see how other people use their threads. When you give them a star you can keep track of the ones you find interesting enough to follow.

>34 connie53: Thank You

Welcome! Sorry for the confusion. As Connie says, we don’t have much in the way of rules, and we don’t yell. Some folks start a thread of their own to track reading, others just comment on other people’s reading. Either way is perfectly fine with us!

If you decide to start a thread, the easiest way to do that is to go to the group home page and look for the “Post A New Topic” button. Click this, put in a title and first message, then click “Post Topic”. That’ll get you started!

>36 drneutron: Thank you

Well, doc, it does say 'New folks, start here' with a link to this thread on the group page ;0) I can see that it could be ambiguous for folks who are new.

Yeah, I think what happened is I didn’t copy over all the info from last year’s thread. Ah well, I’m gonna retool this one next year.

AnaRobinson1897

Cruel Crown
Red Queen
Glass Sword
Love, Lucy
Acts
Romans
Job
1 Corinthians
2 Corinthians
Matthew
Mark
Ezra
Nehemiah

>40 AnaRobinson1897: Welcome!

>36 drneutron: Reading through these posts, I had a question about start a new thread. Now, I got my answer. Thank you :)

Welcome! My pleasure!

>I'm a bit late to the party, starting in March, but I am to read as many books about plants as I can this year.
American Eden by Victoria Johnson is up there on my list!

Welcome! Never too late to start.

>1 drneutron: How do I join?

>46 Jeffrey_Kwitny: Left you a message -I hope you’ll join in!

Does type of book matter? I adore poetry and want to try to read it more. I am also new to site.

>48 vegetarianveggie: Absolutely doesn't matter what type of book. And you'll find we have a number of poetry fans in the group.

awesome

how to start?

>51 RODNEYP:
If you decide to start a thread, the easiest way to do that is to go to the group home page and look for the “Post A New Topic” button. Click this, put in a title and first message, then click “Post Topic”. That’ll get you started!

Good morning!

I joined LibraryThing yesterday and imported my entire Goodreads book list.

I'm Jim, 57, married, living in New Jersey outside of Philadelphia. I work as a customer service representative in the US government.

This is the first LT group I've joined. There will be others. I am looking forward to participating.

Great! I’m glad you’ve joined us.

>5 pdxlaura: it is a good recomadation.

Good to see you here, Jim.

I set myself a challenge to do this at the start of the year, without realising there was a group here on LT with the same goal! So, only into the second half of the year, but have belatedly joined up! Will start a thread in the next day or so.

Welcome!

I'm new to the thread. Hope I'm doing this right. I read primarily Mathematics History, Mathematics Biographies, and Recreational Mathematics. I have over one thousand math books in my library, and adding daily! I'm doing my darndest to get them all listed in my library here in LibraryThing.

I see you made a thread that didn't have a title, and the first message was deleted. That was the right track, but I think you may have gotten caught up in a spam-prevention mechanism that allows threads to be deleted if the first message is deleted.

Here's how to make your own thread:

1. Go to the group page here - https://www.librarything.com/ngroups/23215/75-Books-Challenge-for-2021
2. Click "Post a New Topic"
3. Type in a Subject and a Message. Note the Subject is hard to change once you save, but the first message can be edited at any time.
4. Click "Post Message" when you're done. You've made your thread!

Folks use their threads in many different way. Some just list books as they read them, others post reviews. Some threads are very chatty and conversation can wander all over the place. Take a look at some to see some examples.

Feel free to send me a private message or post on my thread if you have more questions. I'm at https://www.librarything.com/topic/332452

Hey, long-time LTer, first time poster here. Will go launch a thread.

Welcome!

If I join now that means I will read 75 books in 5 months??

Anything you've read this year can count. It's up to you!

Fortunately, we aren't so hung up on the numbers. Many of our members never make 75, others read several times that. Mostly we just want to talk about books. 😀

Hi folks! I stumbled upon this site by "chance". I like the retro looks of it very much and I just discovered this talk and it looks fun and motivating so I've decided to join! Looking forward to make friends and discovered hidden gems.

>66 jonathanm35: Welcome!

A whole bunch of us! I hope you can join us.

>15 genealogy_nana: I love reading and one of my favourite authors is CS Lewis. So far, I have read "Out of the Silent Planet", "Hideous Strength," "Screwtape Letters," and many more. I also love "Lilith" by George MacDonald. Furthermore, I love classic literatures like "Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain and "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens. For suspense novels or what they call "whodunits," I collect Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh and more contemporary authors like PD James. I also love Jane Austen, and more contemporary but neoclassic Betty Neels. I also admire the (spiritual/supernatural) fiction of Frank Perretti and have read his "In This Present Darkness," "Piercing the Darkness," and "The Oath." I want to challenge myself to reading more books this year and try other authors too.

Hi!

>73 aangeles: Welcome! Glad you're joining us.

Can't quite make the 75 book mark. Work stops me cold with that. But during the last half of this year I have went through some HEAVY titles that require more than the average attention to the page. I review everything I read so please feel free to comment and criticize me. Some of these titles left me wiping blood from my eyes by the time I was done.

The Last of the Amazons.. Steven Pressfield
Song of Kali.. Dan Simmons
Cold Skin.. Albert Sanchez Pinol
The Fifth Heart.. Dan Simmons
The Satanic Verses.. Salman Rushdie
The Prague Cemetery.. Umberto Eco
Walpurgisnact.. Gustav Meyrink
Trejo.. Danny Trejo
The Bronze Axe (Richard Blade) Jeffery Lord
The Jade Warrior (Richard Blade) Jeffery Lord
Slave of Sarma (Richard Blade) Jeffery Lord
Death and the Maiden.. Ariana Franklin
The Collected Works of Jim Morrison.. Jim Morrison
The Darkening Age.. Catherin Nixey
Egypt, Greece and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean.. Charles Freeman
Shogun.. James Clavell
The Goldfinch.. Donna Tartt
The Devils of Loudon.. Aldous Huxely
Labyrinth.. Kate Mosse
The Crook Factory.. Dan Simmons
Swords of the Horseclans.. Robert Adams
Mad Moon of Dreams.. Brian Lumley
Iced On Aran.. Brian Lumley
Ship Of Dreams.. Brian Lumley
Hero of Dreams.. Brian Lumley
Wishful Drinking.. Carrie Fisher
The Swan Thieves.. Elizabeth Kostova
The Stanfield Chronicles.. David Tory

>75 Joligula: Did you put touchstones (a single pair of square brackets) on your titles? I suppose I could type them into the search bar ... but it's all the way at the top of the page ...

>76 humouress: Fixed it.

>77 Joligula: Thanks.

Hello, I am Paris Myers and new to this group,
I Just post my book,
The family that got abused instead of justice after reporting incest

Welcome to LibraryThing and the 75ers. I hope you'll share your reading with us - LT is a great community for that. One thing that often comes up is the role of authors in the community. I encourage you to take a look at LT's assistance for authors: https://www.librarything.com/about/authors

Hi Are you doing one for 2022? I have only just discovered Library Thing and it is a bit late to start this year.

Yes, we'll forge ahead next year! Watch for the new group just before the new year.

>82 drneutron: I guess it isn't late enough in the old year yet, being only December 21. Either that, or LibraryThing search doesn't like me.

I’ll be making the new group tomorrow…

>84 drneutron: Great

Happy New Year everyone, and Happy Reading! I got 3 new books for Christmas, so that's a great start. QUIET, Susan Cain, CRAZY LOVE, by Francis Chan, and an Art book I have been wanting called JOHN CONSTABLE, 226 Plates. Off to a great start! Thanks for allowing me to join the group.

I’m a bit late discovering this group but hopefully I’ll be more involved next year. I’m Scottish but lived in Adelaide South Australia since February 1982. I only managed to read 54 books this year but I’m on my 55th which I may not finish until next year. Highlight for the year was two very different books “Klara and the Sun” and “The personal librarian” all my readings are on Goodreads as I haven’t managed to figure out how to get them in here! Name on there is Margaret Galbraith. Merry Christmas all from a 37C day here in SA 🎄

>87 MBMG: Welcome to the 75ers! In case you haven't found it, here's a link to the 2022 group where folks are getting set up for next year. If you have found it, I'll see you there!