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Thanks for making me happy that they're on my TBR, Joy! LOL
The colors for October 2024 are deep orange or black. Looking forward to seeing your picks!
Hi, everyone!For anyone unfamiliar, this is a monthly challenge where you post a link to a shelf you created. It can be named "PIFM" or "Pick It For Me" etc, if you want one dedicated only to this challenge, or you can use an existing shelf you already have, as long as it has 100 or fewer books on it. The link must be to the specific shelf, or you will not be partnered.. Indicate how many books you would like to have picked for you from that shelf for the month in question. There is no lower limit as to how many books you can have on your shelf, but, of course, they should be books you are interested in reading during the next month and have ready access to.
On or about the 25th of each month, I will post who picks for whom. In order to accommodate an uneven number of participants, pairs will not be reciprocal -- in other words, it won't be Joanne picking for Jennifer and Jennifer picking for Joanne. It may be Joanne picks for Jennifer, Jennifer picks for Herman, and Herman picks for Suzanne, and someone else entirely picks for Joanne.
If anyone has not been "picked for" by the 30th, I will pick for them if the designated picker can't be contacted by PM.
When you are assigned someone to pick for, note the number of books in parentheses after that person's name in the pick list, go to the link for their shelf, and pick that number of books for them. Post the books in a new message here. That person has the entire following month to read his/her picks. Someone will be picking for you the same way. We all like to see what people think about their picks, so we hope you will keep us posted in this thread!
Example: "In for five, please!
PIFM"
The HTML template for linking your shelf can be found HERE and if you have trouble, PM me and I will help you.
Your designated shelf must be set so that others can see it. To set up a PIFM shelf for those who would like to, go to the "MY BOOKS" link in the GOODREADS toolbar, scroll down below your shelves on the left until you see the "add shelf" button, and click that. Name it PIFM or Pick It For Me. Add books to it, and post the link to it in this challenge as described above. Again, if you need help, please don't hesitate to PM me!
If you are in for September, post your shelf and the number of picks you'd like to have below. See you on picking day!
October pairs:
Jackie picks 3 for Joy
Denise picks 5 for Jennifer
Jennifer picks 1 for Jackie
Joy picks 1 for Denise
Hi, everyone! This is the thread for the "Commit to one book monthly" challenge. In this thread, post one book you intend to read in May, so everyone else can see your pick. When you finish reading it, we'd love for you to come back and post your opinion. I expect everyone's TBRs to suffer because of this monthly reading challenge, but I'm prepared to make that sacrifice. Are you? :-D
Sounds definitive!
Poll winner for 4Q24 NF Group Read -- 10/1/2024--12/31/2024Sociopath: A Memoir
Patric Gagne
A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own sociopathy and shed light on the often maligned and misunderstood mental disorder.
Patric Gagne realized she made others uncomfortable before she started kindergarten. Something about her caused people to react in a way she didn’t understand. She suspected it was because she didn’t feel things the way other kids did. Emotions like fear, guilt, and empathy eluded her. For the most part, she felt nothing. And she didn’t like the way that “nothing” felt.
She did her best to pretend she was like everyone else, but the constant pressure to conform to a society she knew rejected anyone like her was unbearable. So Patric stole. She lied. She was occasionally violent. She became an expert lock-picker and home-invader. All with the goal of replacing the nothingness with...something.
In college, Patric finally confirmed what she’d long suspected. She was a sociopath. But even though it was the very first personality disorder identified—well over 200 years ago—sociopathy had been neglected by mental health professionals for decades. She was told there was no treatment, no hope for a normal life. She found herself haunted by sociopaths in pop culture, madmen and evil villains who are considered monsters. Her future looked grim.
But when Patric reconnects with an old flame, she gets a glimpse of a future beyond her diagnosis. If she’s capable of love, it must mean that she isn’t a monster. With the help of her sweetheart (and some curious characters she meets along the way) she embarks on a mission to prove that the millions of Americans who share her diagnosis aren’t all monsters either.
This is the inspiring story of her journey to change her fate and how she managed to build a life full of love and hope.
Oh, Diana, I really liked that book. I hope you do too!@Eileen, I bought that because of your reaction. I'm looking forward to it!
OK, well, I'm inclined to ask what the heck is cozy horror.... those would seem to be a contradiction in terms.
I listened to
today and have to say I was very pleasantly surprised. I expected it to be more dated but other than the fact that the technology is obviously 1970s-era, it held up very well, and I have added the others to my TBR.
I'll nominate Sports! :)
Please nominate a genre for September 2024 in this thread, if you would like to. The only rule for genre nominations is that you cannot nominate a genre that we've already read this calendar year. Not planning to be a huge stickler on the "genre vs subgenre" thing. If it's a recognized book category (i.e. you can reasonably expect the average Goodreads reader to know what it is), post it.
Nominations open until 8/14, poll to follow.
If you want to see examples of genres and subgenres that Goodreads has some lists for, or figure out where a book/style of book you like happens to fit, try this link:
Goodreads Genres
Genres already chosen this year:
January - Science Fiction
February - Romance
March - Mystery
April - Historical Fiction
May -- Nonfiction
June -- Thriller
July -- Fantasy
August -- Humor/Comedy
September -- Young Adult
I saw you were reading that. I attended a wedding about oh, 16 years ago for a coworker who used to work at the UAA at UF, and Albert and Alberta (the "Gators"), who were friends of his, made an appearance. All I could think was the same thing I think every time I go to Disney and see the characters walking around -- they'll never be hydrated enough!
I ended up reading my September book yesterday, so I'll commit to a different book:I'm trying to choose books for these challenges that I otherwise might not get to. So the new pick is:
Snuck it in under the wire, Bill! Me too: I finally finished my pick,
Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles today. I hadn't realized that the original broadway ultimately connected (and I guess still does) all the way from the Canadian line (via highway 9) to the familiar length of it in NYC.
The focus genre for September 2024 is Young Adult. Looking forward to seeing everyone's picks!
Ward D
Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward.
Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital’s inpatient mental health unit. There are very specific reasons why she never wanted to do this required overnight rotation. Reasons nobody can ever find out.
And as the hours tick by, Amy grows increasingly convinced something terrible is happening within these tightly secured walls. When patients and staff start to vanish without a trace, it becomes clear that everyone on the unit is in grave danger.
Amy’s worst nightmare was spending the night on Ward D.
And now she might never escape.
On my phone I can sneak in episodes at work. I spend a lot of time waiting on data to process etc as I'm writing reports, so I usually have an audiobook, or, lately, an ER episode, on tap.
