Take It or Leave It Challenge - July 2021 - Page 1
Talk 75 Books Challenge for 2021
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1SqueakyChu
For those new to this challenge: More info and monthly index can be found in post #1 of this thread or this TIOLI FAQS wiki.
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Your challenge for July 2021 is to...
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Read a book with a "military" tag.
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Rules:
(1) The word "military" may be a stand-alone tag or part of a multi-word tag, such as "military fiction". Please indicate all the words of the tag you choose.
You might want to start your book search here:
https://www.librarything.com/search.php?search=military&searchtype=tags&...
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Other Fun Stuff (not part of the TIOLI challenge):
1. The July 2021 TIOLI Meter - Optional page on which you may track your TIOLI reading. FYI: This is not meant to be competitive - only fun!
2. Morphidae's List of Previous TIOLI Challenges - You may use this reference (Do a control-F scan) to avoid repeating a previous challenge. If your idea is similar to a previous challenge, just make it unique by adding a new "twist" to it.
3. @FAMeulstee's 2021 TIOLI Sweeplette Meter
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Supplementary thread --- In the past, this thread was used to talk about the pandemic which had been weighing heavily on each of us. Going forward, this thread is open to all supplementary talk. Should you think you are too far off topic for the main thread, well, just skip over there for a group conversation about almost anything!
Link to our SUPPLEMENTARY THREAD
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Your challenge for July 2021 is to...
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Read a book with a "military" tag.
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Rules:
(1) The word "military" may be a stand-alone tag or part of a multi-word tag, such as "military fiction". Please indicate all the words of the tag you choose.
You might want to start your book search here:
https://www.librarything.com/search.php?search=military&searchtype=tags&...
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Other Fun Stuff (not part of the TIOLI challenge):
1. The July 2021 TIOLI Meter - Optional page on which you may track your TIOLI reading. FYI: This is not meant to be competitive - only fun!
2. Morphidae's List of Previous TIOLI Challenges - You may use this reference (Do a control-F scan) to avoid repeating a previous challenge. If your idea is similar to a previous challenge, just make it unique by adding a new "twist" to it.
3. @FAMeulstee's 2021 TIOLI Sweeplette Meter
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Supplementary thread --- In the past, this thread was used to talk about the pandemic which had been weighing heavily on each of us. Going forward, this thread is open to all supplementary talk. Should you think you are too far off topic for the main thread, well, just skip over there for a group conversation about almost anything!
Link to our SUPPLEMENTARY THREAD
2SqueakyChu
Index of Challenges:
Challenges #1-6
1. Read a book with a "military" tag. - msg #1
2. Read a book whose title contains a place you could visit - msg #3
3. Read a book with at least two characters in its title - msg #4
4. Read a book about a vacation or with the word vacation in the title or a word indicating a vacation - msg #7
5. Read a book that has been long/shortlisted for or won a translation prize - msg #8
6. Read a book with a title with 3 words or less - msg #9
Challenges #7-12
7. Read a book where the main title’s initials can be used for an acronym that can be found in a search engine - msg #11
8. Read a book with a connection to the Tokyo summer Olympics - msg #12
9. Read a book for the "Samesies" challenge - msg #14
10. Read a book whose title gives advice or an order - msg #22
11. Read a book with an adjective in the title - msg #27
12. Read a book which has a word in the title considered a dwelling place - msg #28
Challenges #13-16
13. Read a book available on Project Gutenberg - msg #38
14. Read a book that triggers an ear worm - msg #39
15. Read a book by or about a U.S. President or by an author with the same initials - msg #54
16. Help me sort out my birthday gifts by reading the appropriate books - msg #55
Please hold your challenge until the August 2021 TIOLI challenges are posted. Thank you!
Challenges #1-6
1. Read a book with a "military" tag. - msg #1
2. Read a book whose title contains a place you could visit - msg #3
3. Read a book with at least two characters in its title - msg #4
4. Read a book about a vacation or with the word vacation in the title or a word indicating a vacation - msg #7
5. Read a book that has been long/shortlisted for or won a translation prize - msg #8
6. Read a book with a title with 3 words or less - msg #9
Challenges #7-12
7. Read a book where the main title’s initials can be used for an acronym that can be found in a search engine - msg #11
8. Read a book with a connection to the Tokyo summer Olympics - msg #12
9. Read a book for the "Samesies" challenge - msg #14
10. Read a book whose title gives advice or an order - msg #22
11. Read a book with an adjective in the title - msg #27
12. Read a book which has a word in the title considered a dwelling place - msg #28
Challenges #13-16
13. Read a book available on Project Gutenberg - msg #38
14. Read a book that triggers an ear worm - msg #39
15. Read a book by or about a U.S. President or by an author with the same initials - msg #54
16. Help me sort out my birthday gifts by reading the appropriate books - msg #55
Please hold your challenge until the August 2021 TIOLI challenges are posted. Thank you!
3DeltaQueen50
Whoo-hoo! Look what I found!
Challenge #2: Read a book whose title contains a place you could visit.
As more and more of us are getting vaccinated, travel restrictions are loosening and many of us are yearning to go somewhere. I am still going to stick with armchair traveling a little longer so my challenge for July is to read a book whose title contains a place you could visit. This can be a real place or it can just sound like a location that you could see yourself going to.
Challenge #2: Read a book whose title contains a place you could visit.
As more and more of us are getting vaccinated, travel restrictions are loosening and many of us are yearning to go somewhere. I am still going to stick with armchair traveling a little longer so my challenge for July is to read a book whose title contains a place you could visit. This can be a real place or it can just sound like a location that you could see yourself going to.
4lyzard
Challenge #3: Read a book with at least two characters in its title
Straightforward, I hope. The names can be in full or just either first or surname.
The only restriction is that the characters must appear in the book in person, not just be talked about.
Straightforward, I hope. The names can be in full or just either first or surname.
The only restriction is that the characters must appear in the book in person, not just be talked about.
5lyzard
>1 SqueakyChu:
D'oh! I have two military-ish books for next month and neither is tagged 'military'. :(
ETA: Three! :D
D'oh! I have two military-ish books for next month and neither is tagged 'military'. :(
ETA: Three! :D
6SqueakyChu
>5 lyzard: LOL! I can’t believe that EVERY challenge I create is a problem for you! At least you know, I don’t do that on purpose. :)
7Citizenjoyce
Yahoo, caught you early. You always get me when I'm on my way to bed.
Challenge #4: Read a book about a vacation or with the word vacation in the title or a word indicating a vacation. Highlight the word.
So the words travel or boat or voyage don't necessarily indicate a vacation but cruise does. A cabin doesn't necessarily indicate a vacation, but a dude ranch does.
I'll be reading People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry.
Challenge #4: Read a book about a vacation or with the word vacation in the title or a word indicating a vacation. Highlight the word.
So the words travel or boat or voyage don't necessarily indicate a vacation but cruise does. A cabin doesn't necessarily indicate a vacation, but a dude ranch does.
I'll be reading People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry.
8wandering_star
Challenge #5: Read a book that has been long/shortlisted for or won a translation prize - started by wandering_star
For example:
PEN translation prize
Scott Moncrieff Prize
National Book Award for Translation
International Booker Prize
If you aren't sure whether a prize fits the category, check if any of the prize money goes to the translator. If it does, the award can fit in this category.
For example:
PEN translation prize
Scott Moncrieff Prize
National Book Award for Translation
International Booker Prize
If you aren't sure whether a prize fits the category, check if any of the prize money goes to the translator. If it does, the award can fit in this category.
9FAMeulstee
Challenge #6: Read a book with a title with 3 words or less
Any book with one, two, or three words in the title.
Any book with one, two, or three words in the title.
10lyzard
>6 SqueakyChu:
I don't think it's quite right to say *you* create the problem, when once the problem was I just didn't read the challenge right! :D
I don't think it's quite right to say *you* create the problem, when once the problem was I just didn't read the challenge right! :D
11dallenbaugh
Challenge #7: Read a book where the main title’s initials can be used for an acronym that can be found in a search engine. What do the initials stand for?
Troubled Blood (Tuberculosis)
You can omit a preposition only if it is at the front of the title. In other words The Bridge of Sighs could be BOS but not TBS. You do not have to omit the first preposition if you can make it fit - TBOS
Troubled Blood (Tuberculosis)
You can omit a preposition only if it is at the front of the title. In other words The Bridge of Sighs could be BOS but not TBS. You do not have to omit the first preposition if you can make it fit - TBOS
12lindapanzo
Challenge #8: Read a book with a connection to the Tokyo summer Olympics
This can be about an earlier Olympics or Olympian or a sport at this year's summer Olympics (see list of sports at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Summer_Olympics#Sports). Please indicate the sport or connection.
It can be as simple as a character going out for a run to relieve stress. The character doesn't have to be of Olympics-level ability at the sport.
This can be about an earlier Olympics or Olympian or a sport at this year's summer Olympics (see list of sports at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Summer_Olympics#Sports). Please indicate the sport or connection.
It can be as simple as a character going out for a run to relieve stress. The character doesn't have to be of Olympics-level ability at the sport.
13elkiedee
>3 DeltaQueen50: Does challenge 2 have to be a place that I'm allowed to visit now, or can it be a place that I could visit (or revisit) in a few months time?
AT the moment, not having a passport or much money for fares is as much of an obstacle as anything. I have quite a few books in my TBR with London place names in the title so a very restrictive definition isn't a problem.
While I'm at it, are shared reads allowed even if it's not a place I could feasibly travel to right now?
AT the moment, not having a passport or much money for fares is as much of an obstacle as anything. I have quite a few books in my TBR with London place names in the title so a very restrictive definition isn't a problem.
While I'm at it, are shared reads allowed even if it's not a place I could feasibly travel to right now?
14Morphidae
Challenge #9: Read a book for the "Samesies" challenge
Read a book that is the "same" in some fashion to the book before it. Acceptable ways that it can be the "same" are listed below.
- Same Title or close
(*One word* different, excluding articles, i.e. An American Family and American Gods) would be acceptable.
- Author First, Middle or Last Name
- Main Color of Cover
- Year Published
- Series (in same, i.e. In Death, or the same number in, i.e. 8th)
- Subgenre
(Genre is too general. No-no's: Children's, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Thriller, Western, YA, Nonfiction; Yes-yes's: Coming-of-Age or YA, Sword and Sorcery, Satire or Family Saga or Literary, Gothic, Police Procedural, Paranormal Romance, Space Opera, Medical Thriller, Western Romance or Weird West, LGBTQ+ YA graphic novel)
- Setting
- Main focus/theme of cover, i.e. classic painting, body/legs with no head/face, collage, illustrated people, hand lettering, etc.
- MC's profession, lifestyle, hobby, BIPOC (must be SAME, i.e. if Hispanic, must be Hispanic), LGBTQ+ (must be SAME, i.e. if trans, must be trans), etc.
- Proper noun in first paragraph, i.e. Scott, Petunia, New York, Grand Canyon, Tokyo, Seoul, Maori, University of Cape Town, Quechua, Machu Picchu, Saturn
- Awards
(Won same)
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The book must match one of the above to qualify. If you have a different idea, let me know. If I like it, I'll add it to the list.
Please be sure to add how your book qualifies to the wiki.
Read a book that is the "same" in some fashion to the book before it. Acceptable ways that it can be the "same" are listed below.
- Same Title or close
(*One word* different, excluding articles, i.e. An American Family and American Gods) would be acceptable.
- Author First, Middle or Last Name
- Main Color of Cover
- Year Published
- Series (in same, i.e. In Death, or the same number in, i.e. 8th)
- Subgenre
(Genre is too general. No-no's: Children's, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Thriller, Western, YA, Nonfiction; Yes-yes's: Coming-of-Age or YA, Sword and Sorcery, Satire or Family Saga or Literary, Gothic, Police Procedural, Paranormal Romance, Space Opera, Medical Thriller, Western Romance or Weird West, LGBTQ+ YA graphic novel)
- Setting
- Main focus/theme of cover, i.e. classic painting, body/legs with no head/face, collage, illustrated people, hand lettering, etc.
- MC's profession, lifestyle, hobby, BIPOC (must be SAME, i.e. if Hispanic, must be Hispanic), LGBTQ+ (must be SAME, i.e. if trans, must be trans), etc.
- Proper noun in first paragraph, i.e. Scott, Petunia, New York, Grand Canyon, Tokyo, Seoul, Maori, University of Cape Town, Quechua, Machu Picchu, Saturn
- Awards
(Won same)
*****
The book must match one of the above to qualify. If you have a different idea, let me know. If I like it, I'll add it to the list.
Please be sure to add how your book qualifies to the wiki.
15Helenliz
>14 Morphidae: nice!
Your listed book is 8th in the series, would the 8th book in another series be samesies enough?
Your listed book is 8th in the series, would the 8th book in another series be samesies enough?
16jeanned
>11 dallenbaugh: Can we omit prepositions in the title when forming the acronym? For example, CDC is Centers for Disease Control, but there is no F in the acronym. So if I have a title like The Bridge of Sighs, can I use the acronym TBS (Turner Broadcasting System)?
17DeltaQueen50
>13 elkiedee: It can be a real place that you could visit at a later date. It could also be an imaginary place that you would like to visit. Shared reads are always welcome!
18elkiedee
>14 Morphidae: For challenge 9, is historical mystery or historical crime ok? What about PI (private investigator) or amateur sleuth as subgenres of crime/mystery, like police procedural?
19Morphidae
>15 Helenliz: Yes! I'll add that.
>18 elkiedee: Yep. Those I'd all consider narrow enough to be subgenres. I'm just trying to avoid "samsies" of very broad terms of "historical" or "mystery."
>18 elkiedee: Yep. Those I'd all consider narrow enough to be subgenres. I'm just trying to avoid "samsies" of very broad terms of "historical" or "mystery."
20dallenbaugh
>16 jeanned: You can omit the preposition only if it is at the front of the title. In other words The Bridge of Sighs could be BOS but not TBS. You do not have to omit the first preposition if you can make it fit - TBOS. I will amend my challenge >11 dallenbaugh: with this addition.
21jeanned
>20 dallenbaugh: No worries. I'd like to go to Venice, so the book will fit there.
22susanna.fraser
Challenge #10: Read a book whose title gives advice or an order
Examples:
Take a Hint, Dani Brown
Save the Cat!
Keep Going
Sweep in Peace
Examples:
Take a Hint, Dani Brown
Save the Cat!
Keep Going
Sweep in Peace
24susanna.fraser
>23 lyzard: I picked it because I realized it fit two of the library holds I picked up this morning, but it's definitely tougher than I usually make my challenges!
25lyzard
>24 susanna.fraser:
I think it's a newish phenomenon: most of my older books go with the 'short descriptive statement' approach. :)
I think it's a newish phenomenon: most of my older books go with the 'short descriptive statement' approach. :)
26Citizenjoyce
The challenges are a little more difficult this month. My planned reads
Challenge #1: Read a book with a "military" tag (List the full tag) - started by SqueakyChu
✔For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway (2.5)
Challenge #2: Read a book whose title contains a place you could visit - started by DeltaQueen
✔The Gods of Gotham- Lyndsay Faye (4½)
✔The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba - Chanel Cleeton (4)
Challenge #3: Read a book with at least two characters in its title - started by lyzard
✔The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson (4)
The Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters by Laura Thompson ABANDONED
Challenge #4: Read a book about a vacation or with the word vacation in the title or a word indicating a vacation, highlight the word. - started by Citizenjoyce
✔People We Meet on Vacation - Emily Henry (3)
Challenge #5: Read a book that has been long/shortlisted for or won a translation prize - started by wandering_star
*✔Little Eyes- Samanta Schweblin (4)
Challenge #6: Read a book with a title with 3 words or less - started by FAMeulstee
✔The Alchemyst by Michael Scott (2.5)
✔Ariadne - Jennifer Saint (3.5)
✔Madam -Phoebe Wynne (4)
✔Sorrowland - Rivers Solomon (3.5)
✔The Tenant by Katrine Engberg (3.5)
Challenge #7: Read a book where the main title’s initials can be used for an acronym that can be found in a search engine. What do the initials stand for? - started by dallenbaugh
✔City of Girls - Elizabeth Gilbert (4)
That Way Madness Lies - Dahlia Adler ABANDONED
The Secret to Superhuman Strength - Alison Bechdel
Challenge #8: Read a book with a connection to the Tokyo summer Olympics - started by lindapanzo
✔The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America by Adam Serwer (4)
✔What Is a Girl Worth? My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics - Rachael Denhollander (5)
Challenge #9: Read a book for the "Samesies" challenge - started by Morphidae
*✔The Bride Test - Helen Hoang (3½)
✔The Nature of Fragile Things - Susan Meissner (4)
*✔The Night Watchman - Louise Erdrich (4)
Challenge #10: Read a book whose title gives advice or an order - started by susanna.fraser
*✔Consider the Fork - Bee Wilson (4)
Leave the World Behind - Rumaan Alam
Challenge #11: Read a book with an adjective in the title - started by helenliz
✔The Other Black Girl - Zakiya Dalila Harris (5)
Challenge #12: Read a book which has a word in the title considered a dwelling place - started by Carmenere
✔The Butterfly House - Katrine Engberg (4)
Challenge #13: Read a book available on Project Gutenberg - started by swynn
*✔Hedda Gabler - Henrik Ibsen (4)
Challenge 14: Read a book that triggers an ear worm - started by humouress
✔A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J. Maas (3½)
Challenge #15: Read a book by or about a U.S. President or by an author with the same initials - started by quondame
✔Black Sun - Rebecca Roanhorse (4.5)
The Devil May Dance - Jake Tapper
✔Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency - Michael Wolff (4)
Challenge 16: Help me sort out my birthday gifts by reading the appropriate books - started by paulstalder
The Lost Apothecary - Sarah Penner
✔Seven For A Secret - Lyndsay Faye (3.5)
Challenge #1: Read a book with a "military" tag (List the full tag) - started by SqueakyChu
✔For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway (2.5)
Challenge #2: Read a book whose title contains a place you could visit - started by DeltaQueen
✔The Gods of Gotham- Lyndsay Faye (4½)
✔The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba - Chanel Cleeton (4)
Challenge #3: Read a book with at least two characters in its title - started by lyzard
✔The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson (4)
The Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters by Laura Thompson ABANDONED
Challenge #4: Read a book about a vacation or with the word vacation in the title or a word indicating a vacation, highlight the word. - started by Citizenjoyce
✔People We Meet on Vacation - Emily Henry (3)
Challenge #5: Read a book that has been long/shortlisted for or won a translation prize - started by wandering_star
*✔Little Eyes- Samanta Schweblin (4)
Challenge #6: Read a book with a title with 3 words or less - started by FAMeulstee
✔The Alchemyst by Michael Scott (2.5)
✔Ariadne - Jennifer Saint (3.5)
✔Madam -Phoebe Wynne (4)
✔Sorrowland - Rivers Solomon (3.5)
✔The Tenant by Katrine Engberg (3.5)
Challenge #7: Read a book where the main title’s initials can be used for an acronym that can be found in a search engine. What do the initials stand for? - started by dallenbaugh
✔City of Girls - Elizabeth Gilbert (4)
That Way Madness Lies - Dahlia Adler ABANDONED
The Secret to Superhuman Strength - Alison Bechdel
Challenge #8: Read a book with a connection to the Tokyo summer Olympics - started by lindapanzo
✔The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America by Adam Serwer (4)
✔What Is a Girl Worth? My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics - Rachael Denhollander (5)
Challenge #9: Read a book for the "Samesies" challenge - started by Morphidae
*✔The Bride Test - Helen Hoang (3½)
✔The Nature of Fragile Things - Susan Meissner (4)
*✔The Night Watchman - Louise Erdrich (4)
Challenge #10: Read a book whose title gives advice or an order - started by susanna.fraser
*✔Consider the Fork - Bee Wilson (4)
Leave the World Behind - Rumaan Alam
Challenge #11: Read a book with an adjective in the title - started by helenliz
✔The Other Black Girl - Zakiya Dalila Harris (5)
Challenge #12: Read a book which has a word in the title considered a dwelling place - started by Carmenere
✔The Butterfly House - Katrine Engberg (4)
Challenge #13: Read a book available on Project Gutenberg - started by swynn
*✔Hedda Gabler - Henrik Ibsen (4)
Challenge 14: Read a book that triggers an ear worm - started by humouress
✔A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J. Maas (3½)
Challenge #15: Read a book by or about a U.S. President or by an author with the same initials - started by quondame
✔Black Sun - Rebecca Roanhorse (4.5)
The Devil May Dance - Jake Tapper
✔Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency - Michael Wolff (4)
Challenge 16: Help me sort out my birthday gifts by reading the appropriate books - started by paulstalder
The Lost Apothecary - Sarah Penner
✔Seven For A Secret - Lyndsay Faye (3.5)
27Helenliz
====Challenge #11: Read a book with an adjective in the title====
Should you need reminding, adjectives are words that describe the noun (or pronoun). There can be more than one, but it must be being used as an adjective in the title.
Should you need reminding, adjectives are words that describe the noun (or pronoun). There can be more than one, but it must be being used as an adjective in the title.
28Carmenere
Challenge #12: Read a book which has a word in the title considered a dwelling place
Embedded words are acceptable.
Embedded words are acceptable.
29humouress
Gosh, I haven't done a TIOLI challenge for a while. Part of the reason was that my reading numbers for the first two months of the year were atrocious - but I'm back now!
I think. I'm just checking in before I lose track again.
I think. I'm just checking in before I lose track again.
31FAMeulstee
>30 lyzard: Yes, Liz, it is allowed to use just the title, and ignore subtitles.
33bell7
>11 dallenbaugh: Soo.... my entry looks like a joke, but when I typed "What does TLA stand for" in a search engine, the first result really is "Three Letter Abbreviation" in computing/technology. I can use an alternate meaning if you want, but wanted to mention to make sure it was okay :)
34Citizenjoyce
>33 bell7: Looks like the perfect entry.
35dallenbaugh
>33 bell7: >34 Citizenjoyce: I agree
36elkiedee
>>33 bell7: Seems very apt!
37bell7
>34 Citizenjoyce: >35 dallenbaugh: >36 elkiedee: Excellent! I cracked up when that turned out to be the actual acronym.
38swynn
Challenge #13: Read a book available at Project Gutenberg
On July 4, 1971, back when "Internet" was not even a word yet, Michael Hart posted a digital copy of the Declaration of Independence on the mainframe server at the University of Illinois, thus making it available on ARPANET. Such is the origin of Project Gutenberg, making July 4, 2021 the 50th anniversary of its founding. (Yes, also the two hundred somethingth anniversary of PG's first text, but that one gets plenty of press.)
Celebrate by reading one of the 65,000 titles freely available on Project Gutenberg. (Read a bound copy if you prefer, of course.)
On July 4, 1971, back when "Internet" was not even a word yet, Michael Hart posted a digital copy of the Declaration of Independence on the mainframe server at the University of Illinois, thus making it available on ARPANET. Such is the origin of Project Gutenberg, making July 4, 2021 the 50th anniversary of its founding. (Yes, also the two hundred somethingth anniversary of PG's first text, but that one gets plenty of press.)
Celebrate by reading one of the 65,000 titles freely available on Project Gutenberg. (Read a bound copy if you prefer, of course.)
39humouress
Challenge 14: Read a book that triggers an ear worm
Maybe I'm just weird (no comments, please) but a phrase will often get me singing a song in my head which has similar words or even a similar rhythm. For example, I read The Candle and the Flame in June which sets off Elton John's Candle in the Wind in my head. So please read a book that does something similar for you.
I'd like to know what the song is, so could you please list that too? It might get a bit cumbersome to put it in with the book so I've created a sub-heading for that. Please keep the same order so it doesn't get confusing; if it's just because it's a shared read, just say that (unless you have a different song, which would be interesting).
Madeline, is that alright?
ETA: she said 'Okay' :0)
Maybe I'm just weird (no comments, please) but a phrase will often get me singing a song in my head which has similar words or even a similar rhythm. For example, I read The Candle and the Flame in June which sets off Elton John's Candle in the Wind in my head. So please read a book that does something similar for you.
I'd like to know what the song is, so could you please list that too? It might get a bit cumbersome to put it in with the book so I've created a sub-heading for that. Please keep the same order so it doesn't get confusing; if it's just because it's a shared read, just say that (unless you have a different song, which would be interesting).
Madeline, is that alright?
ETA: she said 'Okay' :0)
40humouress
>38 swynn: Yes, also the two hundred somethingth anniversary of Project Gutenberg's first text, but that one gets plenty of press.
Ha ha :0)
>39 humouress: I'll try and think of a nicer phrase than 'ear worm'.
Ha ha :0)
>39 humouress: I'll try and think of a nicer phrase than 'ear worm'.
41Carmenere
>39 humouress: I love your challenge because I drive people crazy by blurting out a tune, for them, apparently no reason. My latest has to do with Cleveland Indians pitcher, Eli Morgan. "Eli's coming, hide your heart girl" by Three Dog Night.
I hope I can find a book that fits but even if I don't, it will be fun to see what readers come up with.
I hope I can find a book that fits but even if I don't, it will be fun to see what readers come up with.
42Helenliz
>39 humouress: I soooo do that too. Sometimes with only the vaguest of connections between the trigger and the song. #notatallweird
43PawsforThought
>38 swynn: Oooh, nice one.
Alright, I'm off to scour through the entire (okay, not the *entire*) library at Project Gutenberg.
Alright, I'm off to scour through the entire (okay, not the *entire*) library at Project Gutenberg.
44DeltaQueen50
>39 humouress: This is a great challenge! I've made an entry and I hope I did everything right.
45humouress
>41 Carmenere: >42 Helenliz: Oh, thank goodness :0)
>44 DeltaQueen50: That looks fine for me. I’ve just added in (shared read) for Linda so that the numbering matches.
I hope Madeline is alright with my tweaking the format of the wiki.
>44 DeltaQueen50: That looks fine for me. I’ve just added in (shared read) for Linda so that the numbering matches.
I hope Madeline is alright with my tweaking the format of the wiki.
46Morphidae
>40 humouress:
From Wiki, "An earworm, sometimes referred to as a brainworm, sticky music, stuck song syndrome, or, most commonly after earworms, Involuntary Musical Imagery (INMI)..."
Personally, I've always used ear worm and would recognize brain worm but nothing else.
From Wiki, "An earworm, sometimes referred to as a brainworm, sticky music, stuck song syndrome, or, most commonly after earworms, Involuntary Musical Imagery (INMI)..."
Personally, I've always used ear worm and would recognize brain worm but nothing else.
47FAMeulstee
>45 humouress: Wouldn't it be easier to put the song between brackets after the title, and add "Note what song does your book trigger?" to your challenge?
48Morphidae
>45 humouress: >46 Morphidae: We've put in longer things than song titles between parentheses after the title (I wouldn't use brackets as it would probably mess up the formatting.)
49FAMeulstee
>48 Morphidae: Thanks Morphy, that is what I ment, I didn't know the word parentheses :-)
# Title (Song) - Author
# Title (Song) - Author
50SqueakyChu
>39 humouress: It's fine to list them the way you want. Alternatively, the song could be in the parentheses following the book name. You decide which you like the best. I'll go with your choice,
51quondame
>14 Morphidae: I have a book on queue that is also the second book of a fantasy series as is the current last entry so I put it in, just to hold the place you know...
52AnneDC
>12 lindapanzo: For Challenge 8, can the connection be that the setting is Tokyo? Or does it have to be an Olympics connection?
53lindapanzo
>52 AnneDC: Tokyo connection is just fine.
54quondame
Challenge #15: Read a book by or about a U.S. President or by an author with the same initials
By includes any thing written by a holder of the office, about, fiction or non-fiction, must cover the term as president, so a book about Lincoln as a young man would not qualify.
For the initials, only the first and last initials are to be considered.
This list gives the US. Presidents.
Here is a condensed list of initials with the #(s) of the president(s) they represent:
CA 21
JA 2, 6
JB 15, 46
CC 30
GB 41, 43
GC 22, 23
JC 39
WC 42
DE 34
GF 38
MF 13
JG 20
UG 18
BH 23
HH 31
RH 19
WH 9, 29
JK 35
AJ 7, 17
TJ 3
LJ 36
AL 16
JM 4, 5
WM 25
RN 37
BO 44
FP 14
JP 11
FR 32
RR 40
TR 26
DT 45
HT 33
JT 10
WT 27
ZT 12
MV 08
GW 1
WW 28
By includes any thing written by a holder of the office, about, fiction or non-fiction, must cover the term as president, so a book about Lincoln as a young man would not qualify.
For the initials, only the first and last initials are to be considered.
This list gives the US. Presidents.
Here is a condensed list of initials with the #(s) of the president(s) they represent:
CA 21
JA 2, 6
JB 15, 46
CC 30
GB 41, 43
GC 22, 23
JC 39
WC 42
DE 34
GF 38
MF 13
JG 20
UG 18
BH 23
HH 31
RH 19
WH 9, 29
JK 35
AJ 7, 17
TJ 3
LJ 36
AL 16
JM 4, 5
WM 25
RN 37
BO 44
FP 14
JP 11
FR 32
RR 40
TR 26
DT 45
HT 33
JT 10
WT 27
ZT 12
MV 08
GW 1
WW 28
55paulstalder
Challenge 16: Help me sort out my birthday gifts by reading the appropriate books
Thanks for celebrating my birthday last month. Now it is time to sort out my birthday gifts (I don't like the word 'Gift' here since it means poison in German....). I got three sorts of presents (a journey, something to collect and something to drink, and then I want to know who has given me these things.
Holidays: Read a book with a with a place name in the title (no embedded words, adjectives are fine), highlight the place in the wiki, specify when necessary
Collectables: Read a book with a collectable item/brand name mentioned in the First Sentence; but no generic words please: 'car' or 'mystery' is not specific enough, look for 'vintage car', 'Ssangyong', 'leporello', 'Nobel prize' etc.
Drinkables: Anything you want me to drink, please be nice, which is mentioned among the First Words; could be 'beer' or 'Chardonnay', 'Gin Fizz' or 'squash'
Giver: Read a book with a dedication to a person or a group of persons (no companies, no animals, no initials. Please write the dedication oin the wiki
# holidays (title): Der Kabbalist vom '''East Broadway''' - Isaac Bashevis Singer
# collectables (first words): .... (Suddenly he saw this '''Gutenberg Bible''' among all that junk in the yard.)
# drinkables (first words): ... (She ordered a glas of '''Chardonnay''', when entering the bar.)
# giver (dedication): ... For Paul (-> so Paul has given me all these gifts 😊 )
Any clarifications needed? Otherwise have fun reading books
Thanks for celebrating my birthday last month. Now it is time to sort out my birthday gifts (I don't like the word 'Gift' here since it means poison in German....). I got three sorts of presents (a journey, something to collect and something to drink, and then I want to know who has given me these things.
Holidays: Read a book with a with a place name in the title (no embedded words, adjectives are fine), highlight the place in the wiki, specify when necessary
Collectables: Read a book with a collectable item/brand name mentioned in the First Sentence; but no generic words please: 'car' or 'mystery' is not specific enough, look for 'vintage car', 'Ssangyong', 'leporello', 'Nobel prize' etc.
Drinkables: Anything you want me to drink, please be nice, which is mentioned among the First Words; could be 'beer' or 'Chardonnay', 'Gin Fizz' or 'squash'
Giver: Read a book with a dedication to a person or a group of persons (no companies, no animals, no initials. Please write the dedication oin the wiki
# holidays (title): Der Kabbalist vom '''East Broadway''' - Isaac Bashevis Singer
# collectables (first words): .... (Suddenly he saw this '''Gutenberg Bible''' among all that junk in the yard.)
# drinkables (first words): ... (She ordered a glas of '''Chardonnay''', when entering the bar.)
# giver (dedication): ... For Paul (-> so Paul has given me all these gifts 😊 )
Any clarifications needed? Otherwise have fun reading books
56humouress
>47 FAMeulstee: >48 Morphidae: >49 FAMeulstee: True, but I also meant to say 'include the artiste'. I see everyone has filled in the second list (by the time I've managed to come back) and they have included the singers' names, so I'll leave it as it is, since Madeline is alright with it too.
>48 Morphidae: I've always thought that parentheses are (round) brackets. Googling tells me that a parenthesis is an explanatory phrase and may be within parentheses. So what is the difference from brackets?
>48 Morphidae: I've always thought that parentheses are (round) brackets. Googling tells me that a parenthesis is an explanatory phrase and may be within parentheses. So what is the difference from brackets?
57Morphidae
>56 humouress:
(This is within parentheses.)
[This is within brackets. And unless you use HTML code, LT will treat it like a title.]
(This is within parentheses.)
[This is within brackets. And unless you use HTML code, LT will treat it like a title.]
58humouress
>57 Morphidae: Ah, I see. I use the highly technical terms of round brackets and square brackets. (And since round brackets are usually more prevalent, that’s the default I’m thinking of when just ‘brackets’ are being talked about.)
59Morphidae
>58 humouress: Perhaps it's an international thing. I've never heard of parentheses refered to as brackets here in the U.S.
ETA: Aha! I found this...
"In British English, parentheses are called round brackets."
ETA: Aha! I found this...
"In British English, parentheses are called round brackets."
60humouress
>59 Morphidae: Ha! So I was right ;0)
Well, it’s not a discussion I see myself having IRL (I’m lucky if my kids use fullstops; their punctuation drives me batty) so I’ll go with whatever is prevalent in my current LT conversation.
Well, it’s not a discussion I see myself having IRL (I’m lucky if my kids use fullstops; their punctuation drives me batty) so I’ll go with whatever is prevalent in my current LT conversation.
61elkiedee
It didn't work last month but just in case anyone is looking for possible shared reads:
A list of my only completed book so far this month and my current reading - hoping to finish all these books some time this month
Finished:
Helen Cox, Murder by the Minster I was attracted by the York setting. Should carry a warning for being stuffed with amateur sleuth clichés and a clunky romance subplot. Challenge #2 The Minster is a 15th century cathedral in York, and somewhere many people visit on holiday or day trips to the town.
Current:
Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman - listed in the samesies challenge - Published 2020
Also a Pulitzer prize for fiction winner, set in the US in the 1950s, Native American author and characters, story and title inspired by author's grandfather, themes about campaigning for rights etc
Peter Robinson, Not Dark Yet
Carol Shields, Collected Stories
Natalie Haynes, The Children of Jocasta
Ellen Wilkson, The Division Bell Mystery
Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars
Francesca Wade, Square Haunting
Lyndsay Faye, Seven for a Secret
Elizabeth McCracken, Thunderstruck and other stories
Michelle Magorian, Goodnight Mister Tom
A list of my only completed book so far this month and my current reading - hoping to finish all these books some time this month
Finished:
Helen Cox, Murder by the Minster I was attracted by the York setting. Should carry a warning for being stuffed with amateur sleuth clichés and a clunky romance subplot. Challenge #2 The Minster is a 15th century cathedral in York, and somewhere many people visit on holiday or day trips to the town.
Current:
Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman - listed in the samesies challenge - Published 2020
Also a Pulitzer prize for fiction winner, set in the US in the 1950s, Native American author and characters, story and title inspired by author's grandfather, themes about campaigning for rights etc
Peter Robinson, Not Dark Yet
Carol Shields, Collected Stories
Natalie Haynes, The Children of Jocasta
Ellen Wilkson, The Division Bell Mystery
Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars
Francesca Wade, Square Haunting
Lyndsay Faye, Seven for a Secret
Elizabeth McCracken, Thunderstruck and other stories
Michelle Magorian, Goodnight Mister Tom
64Citizenjoyce
>61 elkiedee: Seven For A Secret looks good. Do you have to read the first in the series first? Where are you putting it?
65elkiedee
>64 Citizenjoyce: It is quite good so far, but I would recommend reading #1, The Gods of Gotham, first. And I haven't decided where I'm putting it if I do actually get to finish it this month. Thanks for asking though. I will look through at possibilities probably later this week and update my list, but today I've mostly been trying to actually read a bit rather than just plan reading that I then don't get to! And I also need to do a couple of other things this evening or tomorrow morning (already 9 pm here).
66SqueakyChu
TIOLI Stats for June, 2021
For June, 2021, we read a total of 268 books, the smallest monthly number for this year so far. We had 23 shared reads. That is the smallest monthly number since February, 2010. That comes to 9% shared reads, the smallest number since July, 2020. We accumulated 12 TIOLI points, which is the smallest monthly number since February, 2020. We accumulated 143 YTD TIOLI points for June, 2021. That's the lowest June YTD total ever. :(
Our most popular book was Fallen Women by Sandra Dallas which was read by three challengers.
Our most popular challenge was the one by @susanna.fraser to read a book that completes a square in Seattle Public Library's 2021 Book Bingo card. There were 34 books read for this challenge.
The challenge with the most TIOLI points (four) was the one by @countrylife to read a book which has a tag from the previous book.
Ever onward...
For June, 2021, we read a total of 268 books, the smallest monthly number for this year so far. We had 23 shared reads. That is the smallest monthly number since February, 2010. That comes to 9% shared reads, the smallest number since July, 2020. We accumulated 12 TIOLI points, which is the smallest monthly number since February, 2020. We accumulated 143 YTD TIOLI points for June, 2021. That's the lowest June YTD total ever. :(
Our most popular book was Fallen Women by Sandra Dallas which was read by three challengers.
Our most popular challenge was the one by @susanna.fraser to read a book that completes a square in Seattle Public Library's 2021 Book Bingo card. There were 34 books read for this challenge.
The challenge with the most TIOLI points (four) was the one by @countrylife to read a book which has a tag from the previous book.
Ever onward...
67Citizenjoyce
>66 SqueakyChu: Too hot to read?
68elkiedee
More real life, or something, getting in the way? June wasn't hot here but I read a lot less than in the spring.
69FAMeulstee
>66 SqueakyChu: With some really big tomes I read less books at the moment. And some not translated/hard to find Dutch books, so no shared reads there.
On the positive side: already 13 sweeps made this year, against 6 last year.
On the positive side: already 13 sweeps made this year, against 6 last year.
70humouress
See, now she's just showing off ;0)
ETA: I think I may have managed a sweeplette once, when there was just one challenge on the page.
ETA: I think I may have managed a sweeplette once, when there was just one challenge on the page.
71SqueakyChu
>67 Citizenjoyce: That never stopped anyone before. The only thing that stopped people from reading was inability to focus due to anxiety related to the pandemic.
72SqueakyChu
>68 elkiedee: I read a lot less now than I did pre-pandemic, but more than during the pandemic. I’m spending more time on my phone and desktop. My vision has deteriorated to the point that not all reading is easy for me, but I hope that will eventually be corrected with cataract surgery. I’m doing things other than reading although I still like to read at bedtime.
>69 FAMeulstee: Wow! That’s a great statistic!
>70 humouress: Good job on your one book sweeplette!! :D
>69 FAMeulstee: Wow! That’s a great statistic!
>70 humouress: Good job on your one book sweeplette!! :D
73humouress
>72 SqueakyChu: Thank you, thank you. (Although I'm not entirely sure if it actually happened.)
I'm loving all the ear worms and the reasons for them.
I'm loving all the ear worms and the reasons for them.
74lindapanzo
>66 SqueakyChu: If I see anything that grabs my interest, I try to add a shared read. Last month, with Mom and Dad both in the hospital (thankfully not at the same time, though close), I'm lucky I read anything at all. Even the books I did read were mainly Net Galley books and so unlikely candidates for shares. The Net Galley I'm currently reading isn't due out til the end of August, for instance. Otherwise, July reading is looking better.
75SqueakyChu
>74 lindapanzo: I hope this month is better for your whole family. I’m now trying to read while attached to a 24 hour blood pressure machine! I’m trying to read while lying down so, of course, instead of reading, I’m napping. I know. Excuses, excuses! :D
76Morphidae
I haven't been able to read much this last month or so because of pain. I'm hoping to get back into it this month. I don't know though. I saw a pain specialist who upped my pain medication. It's a fine thing but it makes me drowsy.
77SqueakyChu
>76 Morphidae: Yep. You definitely need to control your pain before you can even begin to enjoy reading. Keep on healin’, Morphy! We want you back in better health.
78lindapanzo
>75 SqueakyChu: Feel better soon!! I'm just guessing but it seems like, if they'd put Mom on a 24-hour BP machine, they would've figured out sooner that her BP is high when lying down/sitting and low when standing.
79SqueakyChu
>78 lindapanzo: I'm actually fine! The doctor ordered this test because my blood pressure goes through the roof when I go to medical appointments. I have been watching this machine check my blood pressure about every thirty minutes all day, and my blood pressure has been running even lower than it does when I check it at home regularly. My doctor is trying to diagnose white coat hypertension. What I really need to work on is decreasing anxiety because that is what's causing white coat syndrome. A friend of mine who is a retired psychotherapist gave me a very old book with some good suggestions. I'm reading that book now for the ear worm challenge! :D This is really funny because the book is called Hope and Help for Your Nerves, and it reminds me of the Beatles' song "Help" which is just what I need. Anyway, the machine is an amazing piece of technology (valued at $3,500...I know because I had to sign a paper saying I'd pay that if I lost or damaged this machine in any way). Doing this test is kind of fun really. At least my doctor and I will know for sure what my blood pressure range really is.
80DeltaQueen50
>79 SqueakyChu: I am the same, Madeline. When they check my blood pressure at the doctor's office it is always high. But when I wear the BP machine for 24 hours, it is mostly low to normal. I don't feel like I am anxious when I go to the doctor's but I guess I am!
81lindapanzo
>80 DeltaQueen50: Mine is always higher at the doctor's office. During my last appointment in March, though, I told the nurse about my vaccine hunting and we chatted about that for 10 minutes plus and it was perfectly normal. I just need someone to take my mind off of why I'm there, I guess.
82SqueakyChu
>80 DeltaQueen50: >81 lindapanzo: I am anxious, but it makes no sense to be anxious about a blood pressure check. That's why I am going to try to work on my anxiety which I can feel in my body although I can't control it...yet!
83AnneDC
My June reading was in line with the overall statistics--not a single shared read, for the first time in a long while.
I have a very full lineup this month, partly because I started many books in June that I didn't finish, and partly because this month's challenges are enticing.
1. Read a book with a "military" tag.
The March - E. L. Doctorow
2. Read a book whose title contains a place you could visit
A Month in the Country - J. L. Farrell
3. Read a book with at least two characters in its title
Flora and Ulysses - Kate DiCamillo
Henry and Clara - Thomas Mallon
4. Read a book about a vacation or with the word vacation in the title or a word indicating a vacation
Assassination Vacation - Sarah Vowell - COMPLETED
5. Read a book that has been long/shortlisted for or won a translation prize
EEG Dasa Drndic
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk
6. Read a book with a title with 3 words or less
Jitney - August Wilson
The Group - Mary McCarthy
Winter - Ali Smith
7. Read a book where the main title’s initials can be used for an acronym that can be found in a search engine
The Invention of Nature - Andrea Wulf
The Enigma of Arrival V.S. Naipaul
8. Read a book with a connection to the Tokyo summer Olympics
Moshi Moshi - Banana Yoshimoto
9. Read a book for the "Samesies" challenge
The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman
The Night Watchman - Louise Erdrich
10. Read a book whose title gives advice or an order
God Help the Child - Toni Morrison
11. Read a book with an adjective in the title
Red Summer - Cameron McWhirter
Good Behaviour - Molly Keane
12. Read a book which has a word in the title considered a dwelling place
House Made of Dawn - Scott Momaday
The House of the Southern Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House - Cherie Jones
13. Read a book available on Project Gutenberg
Hedda Gabler - Henrik Ibsen
14. Read a book that triggers an ear worm
Reveille in Washington - Margaret Leech
15. Read a book by or about a U.S. President or by an author with the same initials
The Jeffersonian Transformation - Henry Adams
16. Help me sort out my birthday gifts by reading the appropriate books
Thirteen Ways of Looking - Colum McCann
I have a very full lineup this month, partly because I started many books in June that I didn't finish, and partly because this month's challenges are enticing.
1. Read a book with a "military" tag.
The March - E. L. Doctorow
2. Read a book whose title contains a place you could visit
A Month in the Country - J. L. Farrell
3. Read a book with at least two characters in its title
Flora and Ulysses - Kate DiCamillo
Henry and Clara - Thomas Mallon
4. Read a book about a vacation or with the word vacation in the title or a word indicating a vacation
Assassination Vacation - Sarah Vowell - COMPLETED
5. Read a book that has been long/shortlisted for or won a translation prize
EEG Dasa Drndic
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk
6. Read a book with a title with 3 words or less
Jitney - August Wilson
The Group - Mary McCarthy
Winter - Ali Smith
7. Read a book where the main title’s initials can be used for an acronym that can be found in a search engine
The Invention of Nature - Andrea Wulf
The Enigma of Arrival V.S. Naipaul
8. Read a book with a connection to the Tokyo summer Olympics
Moshi Moshi - Banana Yoshimoto
9. Read a book for the "Samesies" challenge
The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman
The Night Watchman - Louise Erdrich
10. Read a book whose title gives advice or an order
God Help the Child - Toni Morrison
11. Read a book with an adjective in the title
Red Summer - Cameron McWhirter
Good Behaviour - Molly Keane
12. Read a book which has a word in the title considered a dwelling place
House Made of Dawn - Scott Momaday
The House of the Southern Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House - Cherie Jones
13. Read a book available on Project Gutenberg
Hedda Gabler - Henrik Ibsen
14. Read a book that triggers an ear worm
Reveille in Washington - Margaret Leech
15. Read a book by or about a U.S. President or by an author with the same initials
The Jeffersonian Transformation - Henry Adams
16. Help me sort out my birthday gifts by reading the appropriate books
Thirteen Ways of Looking - Colum McCann
84humouress
>79 SqueakyChu: Get everyone around you to wear white coats until you’re acclimatised ;0)
But I know what you mean. My blood pressure is traditionally a bit low but when I’m sitting in the doctor’s office with nothing to do and that cuff is on my arm cutting off circulation, it draws attention to itself. And when it does that, I notice my heartbeat which possibly beats faster because I’m focusing on it. And so my bp reads higher. Or so I surmise, since it’s been slightly elevated lately.
But I know what you mean. My blood pressure is traditionally a bit low but when I’m sitting in the doctor’s office with nothing to do and that cuff is on my arm cutting off circulation, it draws attention to itself. And when it does that, I notice my heartbeat which possibly beats faster because I’m focusing on it. And so my bp reads higher. Or so I surmise, since it’s been slightly elevated lately.
86Citizenjoyce
>83 AnneDC: I plan to join you on Hedda Gabler
>79 SqueakyChu: Having been a nurse for 20 years, I think my white coat hypertension is justified.
>79 SqueakyChu: Having been a nurse for 20 years, I think my white coat hypertension is justified.
87SqueakyChu
>86 Citizenjoyce: I'd been a nurse for 45 years! That makes mine justified as well. Right?!
88lindapanzo
>86 Citizenjoyce: >87 SqueakyChu: Nurses are my heroes. What kind of nursing did you do? Talking to Dad's home health nurse, it sounds like she, and many others, have worked in a variety of settings over the course of her career. An old school friend who is a nurse is now the head of a transplant team.
89Helenliz
>87 SqueakyChu: if this is true Having been a nurse for 20 years, I think my white coat hypertension is justified. then yours is more than doubly true, having done it fore more than twice as long.
Nursing is one of those jobs that I know, 1,000,000%, that I could never ever do and I admire anyone who does it for any length of time. After the husband was kept sedated in ITU a few years ago, I coped for about 30 minutes before the whole thing freaked me out. His nurse was talking to him the entire time she was with him, telling him what she was doing, being comforting and reassuring. I just know that takes a "something" I simply do not have.
Nursing is one of those jobs that I know, 1,000,000%, that I could never ever do and I admire anyone who does it for any length of time. After the husband was kept sedated in ITU a few years ago, I coped for about 30 minutes before the whole thing freaked me out. His nurse was talking to him the entire time she was with him, telling him what she was doing, being comforting and reassuring. I just know that takes a "something" I simply do not have.
90SqueakyChu
>88 lindapanzo: It really all went by in a blur as time flew over these years. I worked as a staff nurse at the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, on a Medical and Surgical Oncology unit for four and a half years. I then worked as a volunteer nurse in Israel in 1972-1973. There I worked in a hospital in Beer Sheva and later as a home care nurse in Jerusalem for Hadassah Hospital. Following that, I spent almost forty years as a home health nurse with the Visiting Nurse Assocation in the Maryland/DC/Virginia area where I did home visits, after hour triage, intake, and finally auditing.
My daughter-in-law is a labor and delivery nurse! :D
>89 Helenliz: I think the hardest part of nursing for me was the stress. The best part of nursing for me was the relationship I had with patients.
My daughter-in-law is a labor and delivery nurse! :D
>89 Helenliz: I think the hardest part of nursing for me was the stress. The best part of nursing for me was the relationship I had with patients.
91PawsforThought
Just chiming in to say nurses are the absolute best. When I was in hospital to remove an ovarian cyst, the nurses and midwives really made my stay. The nurses in charge of the operation prep and wake up (same room) made jokes that made me relax even though I was nervous about being pricked with needles and go me a phone so I could call my mum when I woke up (my phone was in a locked cabinet), the nurse anesthetist explained everything that was happening and what everyone’s role was in the operating room (until I fell asleep) and the midwife and ward nurse checked in me every 5-10 minutes when I was back in my room. (Was I feeling okay? Did I want something to drink? Did I need to go to the bathroom?) They we’re the best, and I mentioned that multiple times in the patient evaluation survey I did afterwards.
Sorry about the long and personal post.
Nurses rock.
Sorry about the long and personal post.
Nurses rock.
92SqueakyChu
>91 PawsforThought: Thanks for sharing your thoughts about nurses. They've not had an easy time over the past year and a half.
93Citizenjoyce
>87 SqueakyChu: doubly justified in my opinion. We know how a doctor can fixate on one thing and blow it out of proportion.
>88 lindapanzo: I was a labor and delivery nurse. I loved working with women and helping them find the strength to bring their babies into the world.
>88 lindapanzo: I was a labor and delivery nurse. I loved working with women and helping them find the strength to bring their babies into the world.
94dallenbaugh
I was an EMT (Emergency Medical Technician) on the fire department for 17years. Lots of us readers in the medical fields
95lindapanzo
>93 Citizenjoyce: In the past day or two, I saw a quote to the effect that doctors help you live and nurses help you want to live.
I've had numerous surgeries over the years, most recently that neck/chest surgery 3 years ago. Loved the nurses I encountered. I was amazed that a pair of ICU nurses could come in and chat with me and change my gown and my bed sheets without me even knowing it (I guessed they quickly realized they could distract me with talk about baseball and books).
During my many times as a patient, I really appreciated my nurses but, more recently, appreciated them even more when it was my parents who were the patients. Especially with Dad who couldn't tell us how his day went or what the doctors said or what tests were performed, but the nurses could.
I've had numerous surgeries over the years, most recently that neck/chest surgery 3 years ago. Loved the nurses I encountered. I was amazed that a pair of ICU nurses could come in and chat with me and change my gown and my bed sheets without me even knowing it (I guessed they quickly realized they could distract me with talk about baseball and books).
During my many times as a patient, I really appreciated my nurses but, more recently, appreciated them even more when it was my parents who were the patients. Especially with Dad who couldn't tell us how his day went or what the doctors said or what tests were performed, but the nurses could.
96SqueakyChu
The June 2021 TIOLI Awards?
The Multi-Liquid Award goes to @wandering_star and @quondame for reading A Pond in the Rain for my (SqueakyChu's) challenge to read a book with a liquid on the front cover. These challengers read a book with not one, but two, different liquids in the title. Cool! How refreshing!
The Around tthe Alphabet Award goes to @lyzard for reading X Y Z: A Detective Story for this challeger's own challenge to read a book with a standalone capital letter in the title. What's special about this is that there are not only four stand-alone letter, but they are in alphabetical order and start the alphabet all over again!
The Most Advanced Horticulturist Award goes to @humouress for reading The Candle and the Flame for Carmenere's challenge to read a book with a flower in the title or author's name. There really is such a thing as a candleflower! Who knew?
Yhe Happy Day Award goes to @Morphidae for the challenge to read a book in honor of my 56th birthday. Hope your birthday was oodles of fun! Best wishes!
The Profound Answers Award goes to @citizenjoyce for reading Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive for wandering_star's challenge to read a non-fiction book about some aspect of nature. We are all here waiting to know what you learned from that book. Why are we alive?!
The List Seeker Award goes to @paulstalder for the challenge to read a book that shares a common word with a book title or author’s name that is #65 on any LT list AND that you read in the past. That's quite a challenge. I'm always amazed at the complexity and fun involved in challenges such as this one.
Congrats to our award winners! Feel free to add awards of your own at this time.
The Multi-Liquid Award goes to @wandering_star and @quondame for reading A Pond in the Rain for my (SqueakyChu's) challenge to read a book with a liquid on the front cover. These challengers read a book with not one, but two, different liquids in the title. Cool! How refreshing!
The Around tthe Alphabet Award goes to @lyzard for reading X Y Z: A Detective Story for this challeger's own challenge to read a book with a standalone capital letter in the title. What's special about this is that there are not only four stand-alone letter, but they are in alphabetical order and start the alphabet all over again!
The Most Advanced Horticulturist Award goes to @humouress for reading The Candle and the Flame for Carmenere's challenge to read a book with a flower in the title or author's name. There really is such a thing as a candleflower! Who knew?
Yhe Happy Day Award goes to @Morphidae for the challenge to read a book in honor of my 56th birthday. Hope your birthday was oodles of fun! Best wishes!
The Profound Answers Award goes to @citizenjoyce for reading Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive for wandering_star's challenge to read a non-fiction book about some aspect of nature. We are all here waiting to know what you learned from that book. Why are we alive?!
The List Seeker Award goes to @paulstalder for the challenge to read a book that shares a common word with a book title or author’s name that is #65 on any LT list AND that you read in the past. That's quite a challenge. I'm always amazed at the complexity and fun involved in challenges such as this one.
Congrats to our award winners! Feel free to add awards of your own at this time.
97Citizenjoyce
>96 SqueakyChu: Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive is about distinguishing between life and not life, so I know I'm alive but neither he nor I am concerned with why. Science makes sense, philosophy makes less and less sense the older I get.
98lyzard
>96 SqueakyChu:
Thank you, Madeline! I'd had that book on the TBR - and that thought of a TIOLI challenge regarding it - for what feels like forever, so 'Hurrah!' all around! :D
Thank you, Madeline! I'd had that book on the TBR - and that thought of a TIOLI challenge regarding it - for what feels like forever, so 'Hurrah!' all around! :D
99quondame
>96 SqueakyChu: Thank you for the award.
100Morphidae
>96 SqueakyChu: Thank you!
101susanna.fraser
I just discovered there's a new Phryne Fisher mystery out, Death in Daylesford, if anyone wants to join me for a shared read in Challenge #6.
102lindapanzo
>101 susanna.fraser: I read the new Phryne Fisher book last month and really enjoyed it. Seemed like years since the last one.
103susanna.fraser
>102 lindapanzo: I think this is the first in seven years or so. I just finished it and really enjoyed it too.
104humouress
>96 SqueakyChu: Ooh, I got an award! Thank you!
There are flowers named for many varieties of things, based often on what they (seem to) look like. You looked at candleflowers:
while I looked at candle flowers:
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(ad infinitum)
These two are also known as ‘golden shrimp’ (not quite so romantic) and red button ginger.
There are flowers named for many varieties of things, based often on what they (seem to) look like. You looked at candleflowers:
while I looked at candle flowers:
/red-button-ginger-plant-profile-5070527-hero-f486579816b74edb9730e0fc58a71bd8.jpg)
(ad infinitum)These two are also known as ‘golden shrimp’ (not quite so romantic) and red button ginger.
105SqueakyChu
>104 humouress: Those are very cool!! I didn’t even know there was a difference between candle flowers and candleflowers! See? You rightly deserved that award. :)
106Citizenjoyce
>104 humouress: Those are prettier than any shrimp I've seen.
107humouress
>105 SqueakyChu: Shh - (neither did I until I noticed that you didn't leave a gap between the words) / (it's called Google)
But I'll still take the award, thanks :0)
>106 Citizenjoyce: They are, aren't they?
But I'll still take the award, thanks :0)
>106 Citizenjoyce: They are, aren't they?
108SqueakyChu
>107 humouress: LOL! I admit to looking up candleflower to be SURE that such a thing even exists! You simply enlarged my new knowledge.
109Citizenjoyce
>12 lindapanzo: What do you think of my reading The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America by Adam Serwer for your challenge? Without the subtitle, it seems to apply very well to some disgraceful decisions made to bar Black women athletes from these Olympics. I can always put it in Challenge 15 if you don't think so.
110lindapanzo
>109 Citizenjoyce: Yes, I think that would be fine.
111SqueakyChu
TIOLI Question of the Month
Of those books you've read so far this month, which one(s) did you find most helpful? Which books were they? In what ways did those books help you out?
Of those books you've read so far this month, which one(s) did you find most helpful? Which books were they? In what ways did those books help you out?
112Morphidae
Last Guard by Nalini Singh is coming out Tuesday, July 20th. I have it pre-ordered and can't wait to get it!
Anyone willing to do a shared read with me? I'd want to put it in challenge #6 (title/three words or less), #7 (title letters acronym)*, #8 (Tokyo Olympics - motto "United by Emotion" - romance), or #9 (Samsies (if possible at that point))*.
* Preferred challenges
Unless military shows up as a tag (#1), someone knows of a place called Last Guard (#2), or there is a vacation in it (#4).
Anyone willing to do a shared read with me? I'd want to put it in challenge #6 (title/three words or less), #7 (title letters acronym)*, #8 (Tokyo Olympics - motto "United by Emotion" - romance), or #9 (Samsies (if possible at that point))*.
* Preferred challenges
Unless military shows up as a tag (#1), someone knows of a place called Last Guard (#2), or there is a vacation in it (#4).
113Citizenjoyce
>111 SqueakyChu: I guess I'd say The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba by Chanel Cleeton was the most helpful this month because it taught me so much about the Cuban war for independence from Spain. I knew nothing about this except that William Randolph Hearst was a warmonger. I gave the book 4 stars which I never would normally have done to a novel with so much romance because I learned so much.
114humouress
>111 SqueakyChu: My books are all fiction so I just read them for enjoyment.
>101 susanna.fraser: >112 Morphidae: You’re too far along in all your series for me to join you.
>101 susanna.fraser: >112 Morphidae: You’re too far along in all your series for me to join you.
115quondame
>111 SqueakyChu: Beyond got me through yesterday's hospital and doctor visit waits.
116AnneDC
>111 SqueakyChu: I guess I would say the most helpful book I've read so far this month is Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America because I learned so much about a period of history that I didn't know very much about.
A book that I'm still reading, and probably won't finish this month, but which falls more into the category of "helpful" is Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well even when it is off-base, unfair, poorly delivered, and, frankly, you're not in the mood by Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen. My director required our whole staff to read this book and it's been pretty interesting--helpful for work situations but also for relationship situations. And humorous.
A book that I'm still reading, and probably won't finish this month, but which falls more into the category of "helpful" is Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well even when it is off-base, unfair, poorly delivered, and, frankly, you're not in the mood by Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen. My director required our whole staff to read this book and it's been pretty interesting--helpful for work situations but also for relationship situations. And humorous.
117Morphidae
>115 quondame: I finished Beyond yesterday.
As soon as I closed the book, I was saying aloud, " Okay, Mercedes, when are we going to get the next one?"
I want it NOW. And it's a good feeling. Her books have been pretty poor the last decade or more except for the Hunter series. I was worried for the first hundred pages but then it was... oh yeah, now we're talking. LOL.
As soon as I closed the book, I was saying aloud, " Okay, Mercedes, when are we going to get the next one?"
I want it NOW. And it's a good feeling. Her books have been pretty poor the last decade or more except for the Hunter series. I was worried for the first hundred pages but then it was... oh yeah, now we're talking. LOL.
118quondame
>117 Morphidae: Beyond mostly lacked any real tension, since we had a fair idea that the plan was going to work, but there was a good amount of fun goings on. I'm about done with the good person in a corrupt regime wins over the non-human (robot, android, smart ship, AI, aliens) work class by basic good manners thereby getting a huge advantage in the inevitable overthrow. It's become ever so common in SF, but it's been around fantasy a good long time as well.
The Hunter series was a nice step out of the same-same, but didn't make a particular impression on me. What I wrote seems to indicate I thought it fit exactly into YA tropes.
The Hunter series was a nice step out of the same-same, but didn't make a particular impression on me. What I wrote seems to indicate I thought it fit exactly into YA tropes.
119susanna.fraser
>111 SqueakyChu: Most helpful would have to be Keep Sharp by Sanjay Gupta, even if reading it triggered my tendency to medical anxiety more than anything since the very beginning of the pandemic.
120lyzard
>111 SqueakyChu:
Most of my reading so far this month has been about people trying to get away with murder, so it's probably for the best that it's not helpful. :)
Most of my reading so far this month has been about people trying to get away with murder, so it's probably for the best that it's not helpful. :)
121SqueakyChu
>119 susanna.fraser: You now have piqued my curiosity. I’m going to have to look for that book, but maybe after I can better control my medical anxiety, a big problem during the pandemic.
122Morphidae
I've never read Trollope. Is The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson a decent entry book?
123Citizenjoyce
>61 elkiedee: Thanks for suggesting Seven for a Secret. I've just started Gods of Gotham and am loving it, so I might be able to get to the next one this month.
124Helenliz
>120 lyzard: *snort*
125lyzard
>124 Helenliz:
:)
>122 Morphidae:
Probably not, Morphy. As an introduction it has the virtue of being shorter than most of Trollope's other works, but it's very atypical---an attempted satire set amongst (what we would call today) small business owners, so not his usual type of story or his usual characters.
I can make some other suggestions if you would like?
:)
>122 Morphidae:
Probably not, Morphy. As an introduction it has the virtue of being shorter than most of Trollope's other works, but it's very atypical---an attempted satire set amongst (what we would call today) small business owners, so not his usual type of story or his usual characters.
I can make some other suggestions if you would like?
126Morphidae
>122 Morphidae: Perhaps later. I was looking for a shared read.
127quondame
>126 Morphidae: Speaking of shared reads, didn't you read Beyond? It isn't marked COMPLETED in Challenge #14.
128Morphidae
>127 quondame: Haven't gotten a round tuit.
130Morphidae
>129 humouress: >127 quondame: Whoo hoodoo!
Now that I've got a round tuit of my very own, I can get it done!
Now that I've got a round tuit of my very own, I can get it done!
131lyzard
>126 Morphidae:
Figured as much. As I say, it's relatively short so if you're just looking for a share that could still work.
Figured as much. As I say, it's relatively short so if you're just looking for a share that could still work.
132Citizenjoyce
>61 elkiedee: i’ve started Seven for a Secret, where do you think you want to put it?
133elkiedee
>132 Citizenjoyce: Looking through the challenges, I've realised I'm not quite sure that I can fit it anywhere at the moment . I don't know whether I'll finish it in Jiuly, because I have quite a lot on the go and this one might not make it to the top of the pile because I'm prioritising library books.
I've borrowed far too many and they all look really good - a number are overdue or soon will be. If I do, I'll probably look at the earworm challenge (I've now got Do You Want to Know a Secret? playing in my head, really (#15), at Paul's challenge (#16) - do the hothouse flowers mentioned in the opening sentence count as collectables or are they too perishable?).
I already have books listed for the acronym challenge - does SFAS bring anything to mind? - and for Samesies - does anyone have a historical crime novel set in 1840s New York, one with a pair of brothers at the centre, second in a trilogy that could bridge the current listing and this book?
I'm sorry if that's not too helpful but hope you are enjoying Lyndsay Faye's books - sadly none of my libraries stock anything but Jene Steele, a bizarre twist on the Jane Eyre story (which I really enjoyed too).
ETA: It's apparently a line from a nursery rhyme, starting One for sorrow..... then Seven for a secret, never to be told, so maybe if I get towards the end I'll listen to it and see if it gets ttuck in my head?
Or I will just stick with
Do you want to know a secret?
Let me whisper in your ear.....
I've borrowed far too many and they all look really good - a number are overdue or soon will be. If I do, I'll probably look at the earworm challenge (I've now got Do You Want to Know a Secret? playing in my head, really (#15), at Paul's challenge (#16) - do the hothouse flowers mentioned in the opening sentence count as collectables or are they too perishable?).
I already have books listed for the acronym challenge - does SFAS bring anything to mind? - and for Samesies - does anyone have a historical crime novel set in 1840s New York, one with a pair of brothers at the centre, second in a trilogy that could bridge the current listing and this book?
I'm sorry if that's not too helpful but hope you are enjoying Lyndsay Faye's books - sadly none of my libraries stock anything but Jene Steele, a bizarre twist on the Jane Eyre story (which I really enjoyed too).
ETA: It's apparently a line from a nursery rhyme, starting One for sorrow..... then Seven for a secret, never to be told, so maybe if I get towards the end I'll listen to it and see if it gets ttuck in my head?
Or I will just stick with
Do you want to know a secret?
Let me whisper in your ear.....
134humouress
>133 elkiedee: Ah; 'one for sorrow, two for joy ...' I have a vague idea it's for the number of ravens you happen to spot. Or is it crows?
135Helenliz
>134 humouress: I know if for magpies. Seeing 1 magpie is considered unlucky.
One for sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three for a girl,
Four for a boy,
Five for silver,
Six for gold,
Seven for a secret,
Never to be told.
There are multiple variations.
The one I grew up with is
one for sorrow,
two for mirth
three for a wedding
four for a birth
five for a girl
six for a boy
seven for sadness
eight for joy.
One for sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three for a girl,
Four for a boy,
Five for silver,
Six for gold,
Seven for a secret,
Never to be told.
There are multiple variations.
The one I grew up with is
one for sorrow,
two for mirth
three for a wedding
four for a birth
five for a girl
six for a boy
seven for sadness
eight for joy.
136humouress
>135 Helenliz: Yeah. That ;0)
I usually leave listing my TIOLI books until the end of the month because planning my reading doesn't work well for me but in the interest of shared reads (and because I've read more, and more widely, than I usually do), these are the books I've read so far, in case anyone wants to join me:
A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèli Clark (2016)
Cast in Shadow by Michelle Sagara (2005)
Esme's Gift by Elizabeth Foster (2019)
The Letter for the King by Tonke Dragt (1962)
Balance of Trade by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
Raisins and Almonds by Kerry Greenwood (1997)
The President's Hat by Antoine Lauraine (2013)
A Winter Kiss on Rochester Mews by Annie Darling (2018)
Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief by Maurice Leblanc (this collection 2007)
I usually leave listing my TIOLI books until the end of the month because planning my reading doesn't work well for me but in the interest of shared reads (and because I've read more, and more widely, than I usually do), these are the books I've read so far, in case anyone wants to join me:
A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèli Clark (2016)
Cast in Shadow by Michelle Sagara (2005)
Esme's Gift by Elizabeth Foster (2019)
The Letter for the King by Tonke Dragt (1962)
Balance of Trade by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
Raisins and Almonds by Kerry Greenwood (1997)
The President's Hat by Antoine Lauraine (2013)
A Winter Kiss on Rochester Mews by Annie Darling (2018)
Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief by Maurice Leblanc (this collection 2007)
137SqueakyChu
136 planning my reading doesn't work well for me
Ha! Me, too!! Listing what I plan to read almost for sure means I won't want to read it or complete it if anything more interesting comes along.
Ha! Me, too!! Listing what I plan to read almost for sure means I won't want to read it or complete it if anything more interesting comes along.
138Citizenjoyce
>55 paulstalder: elkiedee poses the question of whether yellow and orange hot house flowers would work as collectibles? Do they?
139Citizenjoyce
>133 elkiedee: I got the audio of Jane Steele through Libby and loved it as much as I'm loving the Timothy Wilde books. Thanks for bringing them to my attention.
140lindapanzo
>136 humouress: >137 SqueakyChu: At the start, I list everything I might read. Then I slowly pull some of them back as reality sets in.
141humouress
>137 SqueakyChu: >140 lindapanzo: I’m like Madeline; I’ll want to read something other than what I’ve planned 🤗
142SqueakyChu
>140 lindapanzo: Sometimes I list my planned reads. Sometimes I don't. There is no consistency to what I do! :D
143lyzard
>140 lindapanzo:
I like to go fifty-fifty: I do list the books I've committed to - challenge reads, shared reads - at the beginning, partly to keep myself committed - I hate removing books from the wiki! - and then add the others as I go.
I like to go fifty-fifty: I do list the books I've committed to - challenge reads, shared reads - at the beginning, partly to keep myself committed - I hate removing books from the wiki! - and then add the others as I go.
144Citizenjoyce
>136 humouress: I love planning my reads for the month because I don't read my own books, and I don't buy books so I have to plan to get everything from the library.
145paulstalder
>138 Citizenjoyce: what are 'hot house flowers'? sorry, I am not sure if these are flowers or music or the novel or cushions? I would say yes, but I'd like to know if these are memorabilia about the band or the novel's author or are they self made pillow covers or what
146Citizenjoyce
>145 paulstalder: they are literally flowers grown in a hot house (greenhouse).
147paulstalder
>146 Citizenjoyce: oh, literally ... so like a collection of orchids or cacti. yes, that looks like a nice collection, would give a nice color to one's flat.
148humouress
>145 paulstalder: Yes, they're self-made pillow covers. Good guess! ;0)
149lyzard
...and I am in under the wire with A SWEEP!!
Despite nearly stuffing it up twice---whoo!! :D
Despite nearly stuffing it up twice---whoo!! :D
150SqueakyChu
>149 lyzard:. Wow!! I’m impressed. Congratulations, Liz!!
152Citizenjoyce
>149 lyzard: wahoo, down to the wire.
153humouress
I'm going to do my usual retrofit of my books to the challenges. I've (or will have) read 12 books this month, so enough for a double mini-sweep if I can shoe horn them in.
>8 wandering_star: Would 100 best books by women writers in translation work, for The Letter for the King?
>8 wandering_star: Would 100 best books by women writers in translation work, for The Letter for the King?
154quondame
>149 lyzard: Yay!
156Helenliz
>149 lyzard: Never in doubt >;-)
157wandering_star
>153 humouress: oh go on then!
158SqueakyChu
>155 FAMeulstee: That is TOTALLY amazing. So many!
I'm still reading two to three books a month. That's up from my one to two books a month during the pandemic. I REALLY did once read 75 books a month. I guess that was before I got my smart phone. Oopsies!
I am so proud of all of you sweepers and sweepletters! Great job, everyone!
Thanks, Anita, for doing all the behind-the-scenes stats.
I'm still reading two to three books a month. That's up from my one to two books a month during the pandemic. I REALLY did once read 75 books a month. I guess that was before I got my smart phone. Oopsies!
I am so proud of all of you sweepers and sweepletters! Great job, everyone!
Thanks, Anita, for doing all the behind-the-scenes stats.
159SqueakyChu
Housekeeping Day!
After all of this sweeping, don't forget to remove from the wiki any book you do not finish by midnight tonight (except for rolling challenges which can simply be marked DNF). Thanks!
After all of this sweeping, don't forget to remove from the wiki any book you do not finish by midnight tonight (except for rolling challenges which can simply be marked DNF). Thanks!
161lyzard
>150 SqueakyChu:, >151 susanna.fraser:, >152 Citizenjoyce:, >154 quondame:, >156 Helenliz:
Thank you, everyone, much appreciated!
>155 FAMeulstee:
I'm very sure I don't deserve that particular honour but wow, thank you for letting us know that (and keeping the stats!).
>156 Helenliz:
SO much doubt! :D
Thank you, everyone, much appreciated!
>155 FAMeulstee:
I'm very sure I don't deserve that particular honour but wow, thank you for letting us know that (and keeping the stats!).
>156 Helenliz:
SO much doubt! :D
163lyzard
>162 SqueakyChu:
As someone who once claimed to read at 60 pages per minute rather than per hour, I wasn't going to say anything... :D
As someone who once claimed to read at 60 pages per minute rather than per hour, I wasn't going to say anything... :D
164AnneDC
>149 lyzard: Congratulations Liz.
I am very close to an under the wire sweep--Kindle says I have 2 hours to go in my current book. Read, read, read!
I am very close to an under the wire sweep--Kindle says I have 2 hours to go in my current book. Read, read, read!
166susanna.fraser
I’m at a wedding this weekend and won’t be back at a computer with a proper keyboard till sometime tomorrow. Is it OK if I do my housekeeping (and add any book I finish before midnight) tomorrow?
167AnneDC
Finished! Just got done with Drive Your Plows Over the Bones of the Dead for Challenge 5--and a shared read!
169Citizenjoyce
>167 AnneDC: Whew, well done.
170humouress
work in progress ...
1. (military & wars) The Siege of Macindaw by John Flanagan (2007)
3. Midlife Bounty Hunter by Shannon Mayer
2./ 11. A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèli Clark (2016)
Cast in Shadow by Michelle Sagara (2005)
7. Esme's Gift by Elizabeth Foster (2019)
Challenge 14 (When a Knight Won his Spurs/ Jerusalem) The Letter for the King by Tonke Dragt (1962)
3. Balance of Trade by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
3. Raisins and Almonds by Kerry Greenwood (1997)
Challenge 15: president's initials The President's Hat by Antoine Lauraine (2013)
11./ 14. (Winter's Tale) A Winter Kiss on Rochester Mews by Annie Darling (2018)
Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief by Maurice Leblanc (this collection 2007)
1. Read a book with a "military" tag. - msg #1
2. Read a book whose title contains a place you could visit - msg #3
3. Read a book with at least two characters in its title - msg #4
4. Read a book about a vacation or with the word vacation in the title or a word indicating a vacation - msg #7
5. Read a book that has been long/shortlisted for or won a translation prize - msg #8
6. Read a book with a title with 3 words or less - msg #9
Challenges #7-12
7. Read a book where the main title’s initials can be used for an acronym that can be found in a search engine - msg #11
8. Read a book with a connection to the Tokyo summer Olympics - msg #12
9. Read a book for the "Samesies" challenge - msg #14
10. Read a book whose title gives advice or an order - msg #22
11. Read a book with an adjective in the title - msg #27
12. Read a book which has a word in the title considered a dwelling place - msg #28
Challenges #13-16
13. Read a book available on Project Gutenberg - msg #38
14. Read a book that triggers an ear worm - msg #39
15. Read a book by or about a U.S. President or by an author with the same initials - msg #54
16. Help me sort out my birthday gifts by reading the appropriate books - msg #55
1. (military & wars) The Siege of Macindaw by John Flanagan (2007)
3. Midlife Bounty Hunter by Shannon Mayer
2./ 11. A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèli Clark (2016)
Cast in Shadow by Michelle Sagara (2005)
7. Esme's Gift by Elizabeth Foster (2019)
Challenge 14 (When a Knight Won his Spurs/ Jerusalem) The Letter for the King by Tonke Dragt (1962)
3. Balance of Trade by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
3. Raisins and Almonds by Kerry Greenwood (1997)
Challenge 15: president's initials The President's Hat by Antoine Lauraine (2013)
11./ 14. (Winter's Tale) A Winter Kiss on Rochester Mews by Annie Darling (2018)
Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief by Maurice Leblanc (this collection 2007)
1. Read a book with a "military" tag. - msg #1
2. Read a book whose title contains a place you could visit - msg #3
3. Read a book with at least two characters in its title - msg #4
4. Read a book about a vacation or with the word vacation in the title or a word indicating a vacation - msg #7
5. Read a book that has been long/shortlisted for or won a translation prize - msg #8
6. Read a book with a title with 3 words or less - msg #9
Challenges #7-12
7. Read a book where the main title’s initials can be used for an acronym that can be found in a search engine - msg #11
8. Read a book with a connection to the Tokyo summer Olympics - msg #12
9. Read a book for the "Samesies" challenge - msg #14
10. Read a book whose title gives advice or an order - msg #22
11. Read a book with an adjective in the title - msg #27
12. Read a book which has a word in the title considered a dwelling place - msg #28
Challenges #13-16
13. Read a book available on Project Gutenberg - msg #38
14. Read a book that triggers an ear worm - msg #39
15. Read a book by or about a U.S. President or by an author with the same initials - msg #54
16. Help me sort out my birthday gifts by reading the appropriate books - msg #55
172elkiedee
>167 AnneDC: Congratulations, Anne!
