Alicia’s Comments (group member since Dec 25, 2019)

Alicia’s comments from the Around the Year in 52 Books group.

Love the traditional moon prompts, but I'll be honest I had no idea what it meant until I clicked the link. I originally thought it meant the moon phases (crescent, gibbous (spelling that wrong)).

Where’s the beef made me think of Arby’s slogan “we have the meats!” Lol.

They even had a Dallas remake, which I also watched, and someone shot JR again!! It was great.

Polarizing just means there were a lot of strong opinion both ways (upvotes and downvotes).

It can definitely be submitted again and it’s status as polarizing may change based on the other prompts up that week.

Thomas, I think we should be clear, people downvoting prompts they aren’t totally interested in doesn’t make them completely selfish. I would assume most people downvote prompts that do not interest them, because we want a list that is interesting to us.

And also, I think it’s ok to be “selfish” with how we vote. I’m going to vote for what I like or don’t, what I think works and what doesn’t, what is easy or hard for me. I can’t think about everyone that does the challenge because I’m not them, don’t have their interests and don’t know what works for them. I can only go off myself.

I never remember how I vote, but I think I upvoted the tops and bottoms, but downvoted the polarizing.

But overall, I’m happy! I agree this has been a fun year of prompts so far.

As a note, because I did downvote hidden object, I do really like cover prompts. But usually “hidden” objects are harder to see and since I mainly use the app and have glasses, small details like that can be really hard to see. I don’t hate any prompts I downvote, but just wanted to share a different perspective.

Oh I didn’t think of summertime blues as a song. I actually don’t know the song. I think you could just try it as the phrase. I like the prompt too.

I like x-files prompt and going for the gold.

Not sure if others have heard, but in the US our government has been having UFO sessions and may or may not have confirmed aliens exist.

I had originally suggested the x=ex prompt and the x marks the spot with someone else in the early early days. So I definitely like both, but I don’t think the ex prompt fits in x marks the spot.

I do think x marks the spot is broader than pirates and treasure, but I don’t think it automatically includes everything x-related. My interpretation was it centering around finding something, x’s on the cover, being in a specific location and something else I’ve now forgotten.

Ex- prompt was just to be a fun play on x being the 24th letter of the alphabet and I was reading an ex-lovers book at the time. But agree that expands to ex-partners/friends/family/job/past life/and more.

Oh I do too! And I still think that’s clear for those of us that do randomly sort for fun. 🙃

Velvet, you could just do “one of the top 24 books on your TBR”. I think people will understand they can sort how they want and that helps people where sorting isn’t an option (too many books) or people who don’t keep their TBRs on Goodreads. Also makes the wording less clunky.

As for metafiction, I don't think I really understand what it means. Are we just saying books that know they are books? Or books that have books within them? Or both?

I'm kind of confused on why Northanger Abbey is metafiction. Is it because Katherine has dreams like she is in one of her books? Because she doesn't actually think she's a literary character outside of those dreams. Same with Wuthering Heights

Pearl wrote: "Dubhease wrote: "Rae wrote: "An idea that was proposed in the past that I thought sounded fun is

-a book with a touch of magic

It could be a book with the word magic in the title; books from the ..."

For non-fiction a touch of magic you could read books...

with magic in the title: The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

about Salem Witch Trials or non-fiction on witches: Royal Witches: Witchcraft and the Nobility in Fifteenth-Century England
A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials

also, I'm sure this is controversial and some would disagree, but i think books telling myths as they are (not the modern narrative versions) would count as non-fiction. Like Mythology: Greek, Roman and Nordic Mythology and Heroic Legends or Celtic Mythology: The Nature and Influence of Celtic Myth from Druidism to Arthurian Legend

Whatever happened to the related to the Kentucky derby prompt? I really liked that one. Could be a book in Kentucky, something with horses, gambling, horse racing specifically, hats, a mint julep book lol

It is a glitch. There’s no weighting. It should be fixed in the next couple days (at least it usually is). It’s just a common glitch.

I think what Amy is saying (Amy correct me if I’m wrong) is that there’s a difference between the collective of ATY members voting (a few thousand people) v the hundreds of thousands on Goodreads as a whole. And there isn’t a way to narrow ratings to only members of a group.

I think that’s why we see prompts like ATY Best of the Month get in over the broader Goodreads prompts.

Haha Mandy, I’m with you!!

I always sort by avg rating to choose my next book and it’s a glitchy feature. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn’t. But I agree 4+ stars on its own is a lot of my books. I’m picky about adding anything less than 4 stars to my TBR.

Also it will initially only show 30 but if you scroll to the bottom and stay there for a few seconds it will show the next 30 and so on.

Oh I didn’t even know about BookTube. I thought that meant BookTok. 🤦🏽‍♀️ Sorry.

Tracy, you could say “genderless”.

I named my daughter Charlotte, but call her Charlie because when when she gets older I think Charlie will still get her in a door faster than a Charlotte! Unless I’m advertising her books on Goodreads!!