Kenya’s Comments (group member since Sep 10, 2023)

Kenya’s comments from the The Robot Librarian's Reading Challenge group.

Georgann wrote: "Got it. Thank you. I'll have fun with this."

I hope you do! The point of this group is to have fun. :)

Georgann wrote: "OK! Great! Thank you! I see the google doc. Where are they posted in the group?"

Look under Challenge Prompts. They're divided between Regular, Advanced, and Non-Fiction prompts.

Georgann wrote: "Kenya, I wonder if you would please explain how this works for us newbies. I see a #1 prompt as a book published in 2024. So do you just periodically put out a challenge or...?"

Hi Georgann! This challenge is simply to encourage people to read new things. The prompts should be listed here on this Goodreads group, and there is also a complete list of prompts here -- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q...

Mary wrote: "and biographies right?"

Yes, biographies fall under the 900s! I had to look it up, since the library I work at uses the Dewey Decimal System but also has a separate section for biographies.

Barbara wrote: "I'm Barb. I currently live in Caldwell, New Jersey but by the time 2024, I should be living elsewhere in the state; my house is going on the market in October. For the past 25 years, I have been a ..."

No way... I live in Caldwell, Idaho! We're city twins, haha.

Many of us like to do reading challenges -- which ones aside from the Robot Librarian challenge are you doing? PopSugar? All Through the Year? Your own personal challenge? Share with us!

The 900s section of the Dewey Decimal System covers History, including:

*World history
*Genealogy
*Geography

The 800s section of the Dewey Decimal System covers Literature, including:

*Plays
*Poetry
*Humor
*Essay collections
*Classic fiction
*Literary criticism

The 700s of the Dewey Decimal System covers Arts and Recreation. Some of the topics that fall under this heading include:

*Arts and crafts
*Great artists
*Architecture
*Film and TV
*Music
*Comics
*Sports
*Outdoor recreation

The 600s section of the Dewey Decimal System covers Applied Science. Confused by the term? Here's a few topics to help:

*Technology
*Health and the human body
*Cookbooks
*Domestic animals
*Parenting books
*Sewing
*Home repair
*Gardening

The 500s section of the Dewey Decimal System covers Earth and Natural Sciences. This includes:

*Mathematics
*Geology
*Astronomy
*Chemistry
*Fossils and prehistoric creatures
*Plants
*Wild animals

The 400s section of the Dewey Decimal System covers language books. Whether it's learning a new language or learning more about a particular language, you can find it here!

The 300s section of the Dewey Decimal System is labeled as Social Science, which includes (but isn't necessarily limited to) the following topics:

*Families and other social groups
*Government and law
*Finance
*Legal aid books
*Military
*True Crime
*Education
*Commerce
*Etiquette and customs
*Mythology and folklore

The 200s section of the Dewey Decimal System is labeled as Religion. This seems pretty self-explanatory, but a few topics include:

*Christianity and its various sects and offshoots
*Judaism
*Islam
*Hinduism
*Miscellaneous religions, such as Zoroastrianism and Scientology
*Bible versions and other scriptural books
*World mythology

The 200s section of the Dewey Decimal System is classified as Philosophy and Psychology, which can include the following topics:

*Philosophy (of course)
*Psychology (of course)
*Self-help
*Metaphysics
*Cosmology/astrology
*Ghost stories

In the Dewey Decimal System -- a library system used to classify non-fiction -- books in the 000s are classified as General Works or Computer Science. These include:

*computer science
*new media
*library information
*general information
*books about books
*encyclopedias and almanacs

It seems a lot of books with a romantic plot or subplot focus on characters who are teenagers or in their 20s. But love isn't just something that happens when you're young! Let's find a read where people in their 30s and beyond still find love... and/or something spicier.

You've probably read books that have been turned into movies before... let's turn it around and read something where the movie came first! What movie-turned-novel will you read?

It's easy to read a biography or memoir of someone you like... it's another thing entirely to read a biography or memoir of someone you DON'T like or just aren't a fan of. Good luck!

Unfortunately, authors sometimes don't survive to see their books published. Or their family finds an unfinished manuscript and elects to have someone else polish it up for publication. Which final book will you read?