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ANNOUNCEMENT
In Task Set 3 - Task 12 the wording has been slightly changed:
12. a book where the publication date AND/OR the page number contains at least three from these numbers: 1,3,7,9
It's been also updated under the Task List and on Tab 3 of the Master Sheet
ANNOUNCEMENT
In Task Set 3 - Task 12 the wording has been slightly changed:
12. a book where the publication date AND/OR the page number contains at least three from these numbers: 1,3,7,9
It's been also updated under the Task List of the thread
All about the Tolkien Reading Challenge
and on Tab 3 of the Master Sheet
Nominations updated to here
It's time to nominate books for our BotM in March 2025. Please nominate books that you would like to read and discuss with the group here.Rules:
➙ Please nominate only ONE book.
➙ Books do not need to be seconded.
➙ Do not nominate books that have not been published at the time of nomination.
➙ Do not nominate books that have been read as a BOTM in the past 2 years. Book list can be found on the bookshelf
➙ If a book has already been a BotM two times, it is no longer eligible to be nominated again. Ineligible books: (view spoiler)
➙ Do not nominate books that are the second or later in a series.
➙ Do not use this thread for author/book-promotion.
Any attempts perceived as promotion will be removed without notice.
➙ No erotica.
Additional tips -
Please use a book link, if possible. If it's not possible, please include the author's name. We want to make sure to include the correct books! You can add a synopsis from the books Goodread's page, if you like, but it is not necessary.
Directions to add a book link:
This can only be done when online and not when using an app.
When typing in the text box, on top of the box there is a link that says "add book/author". Click on that and a new box will appear. Type your book name in the space provided and click on "search". When you see your book, click the "add" button to the right of it.
To add a link that just has the book name, you can click "link" at the bottom of the "add book/author" box. The link is the automatic setting. To add a book cover, click on "cover" at the bottom left.
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1. The One Man
2. Forgotten Country
3. All Creatures Great and Small
4. Britt-Marie Was Here
5. The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus
6. Once There Were Wolves
7. The Spear Cuts Through Water
8. The Three Lives of Cate Kay
9. Margo's Got Money Troubles
📔 Master Sheet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
‼️PLEASE USE THE LINK ABOVE TO MAKE A COPY FOR YOURSELF.‼️It is set to "VIEW" for all with the link.
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@ALL who'd like to use a tracker spreadsheet:
- Click on the link, it will open, it is set to "view only".
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
It has 3 tabs with 3 different options.
To copy:
- open the link
- click on the arrow next to the tab name you'd like to use (January 1/ J 2 / J3)
- from the small window that opens select the option "Copy To"
- select option "New Spreadhseet"
- when you see the message "sheet copied successfully" click on the link "open spreadsheet".
- you have your own copy now. The only thing you need to do is in the top row to click onto "untitled spreadhseet" and change the name to your own choice.
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Also, if you have any questions, you are welcome to post them here.
THE PERKS OF BEING A BOOK ADDICT - HOLIDAYS and JANUARY NEWSLETTER
Hello Everyone,
Wishing You All Happy Holidays & New Year! 🎉🎆🎇
📈 Looking back to 2024, what were your favourite/most memorable reads? You can share them with us here: Top of the Books - your Bookchart for 2024
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You can vote for the February Books of the Month here:
❎ February 2025 Poll: vote here
📑📖If you want to join the discussions, the January Books of the Month will be We'll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida and A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
🔖 We'll Prescribe You a Cat - discussion here
🔖 A Little Life - discussion here
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♑💫WHAT'S NEW?💫♑
🗓️📚The 2025 Monthly Reading Tracker Challenge
If you'd like to record your books either in the thread or on a sheet, please check out the details here: January
💍💍On 1 January 2025 The Tolkien Reading Challenge starts. You can join any time as an individual player or as part of a self-organised team. All details can be found here: A Long Expected Party
🃏🃏 our annual UNO Team Challenge will start on 1 Feb 2025. More information will follow towards the end of December.
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📘 Challenges Links
POPSUGAR 2025 Reading Challenge
Baby, it's cold outside or Winter is coming...
Hello January Challenge
General Challenges
UNO Mini Challenges for individual players
📙If you have any questions concerning the challenges or proposals/requests for new challenges, you can post them here.
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📕 2025 BUDDY READS can be requested and followed under this folder.
If you choose to request a buddy read in the buddy read requests thread, please be sure to come back to see if anyone has responded to your request. Please note that this folder is not for promotional purposes.
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Housekeeping
📒 If you are new to our Group, please drop by to say hello here: introduce yourself or if you'd like to connect to other members, pop into this thread: Goodreads Friends.
Please do not create separate threads for these purposes! Also, no author self-promotion or book promotion outside the dedicated folders, please!
📗Our folders for Promotions are here Promote Anything
Any activity perceived as promotional outside these folders will be removed without notice.
Happy Reading! 📚
Melinda
Nominations updated to here
One of our January 2025 Book of the Month is A Little Life
by Hanya YanagiharaWhen four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of gravity.
Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he’ll not only be unable to overcome—but that will define his life forever.
One of our January 2025 Book of the Month is We'll Prescribe You a Cat
by Syou IshidaA cat a day keeps the doctor away….
Discover this utterly charming, vibrant celebration of the healing power of cats in the award-winning, bestselling Japanese novel that has become an international sensation.
Tucked away on the fifth floor of an old building at the end of a narrow alley in Kyoto, the Nakagyō Kokoro Clinic for the Soul can be found only by people who are struggling in their lives and who genuinely need help. The mysterious clinic offers a unique treatment to those who find their way there: it prescribes cats as medication. Patients are often puzzled by this unconventional prescription, but when they “take” their cat for the recommended duration, they witness profound transformations in their lives, guided by the playful, empathetic, and occasionally challenging yet endearing cats.
Throughout these pages, the power of the human-animal bond is revealed as a disheartened businessman finds unexpected joy in physical labor, a middle-aged man struggles to stay relevant at work and home, a young girl navigates the complexities of elementary school cliques, a hardened handbag designer seeks emotional balance, and a geisha learns to move on from the memory of her lost cat. As the clinic’s patients grapple with their inner turmoil and seek resolution, their feline companions lead them toward healing, self-discovery, and newfound hope.
hello All,just to alert you that the 2025 Buddy Reads folder has been created. You can post requests for the next year here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Hello All,Just to alert you that the 2025 folder for this chat has been created: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Looking forward to reading about you plans for 2025, your current reads and your opinions/reviews on books read. 😊
It's time to nominate books for our BotM in February 2025. Please nominate books that you would like to read and discuss with the group here.Rules:
➙ Please nominate only ONE book.
➙ Books do not need to be seconded.
➙ Do not nominate books that have not been published at the time of nomination.
➙ Do not nominate books that have been read as a BOTM in the past 2 years. Book list can be found on the bookshelf
➙ If a book has already been a BotM two times, it is no longer eligible to be nominated again. Ineligible books: (view spoiler)
➙ Do not nominate books that are the second or later in a series.
➙ Do not use this thread for author/book-promotion.
Any attempts perceived as promotion will be removed without notice.
➙ No erotica.
Additional tips -
Please use a book link, if possible. If it's not possible, please include the author's name. We want to make sure to include the correct books! You can add a synopsis from the books Goodread's page, if you like, but it is not necessary.
Directions to add a book link:
This can only be done when online and not when using an app.
When typing in the text box, on top of the box there is a link that says "add book/author". Click on that and a new box will appear. Type your book name in the space provided and click on "search". When you see your book, click the "add" button to the right of it.
To add a link that just has the book name, you can click "link" at the bottom of the "add book/author" box. The link is the automatic setting. To add a book cover, click on "cover" at the bottom left.
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NOMINATIONS
1. Crying in H Mart
2. Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
3. The Ten Thousand Doors of January
4. The Jasad Heir
5. The Wedding People
6. Good Gifts: A Christian small-town romance Series: Brenner Falls
7. City of Jasmine
This folder is for Buddy Read requests!
The way this works is that if someone wants to read a book, you suggest it in this thread.
Then, if other members want to read with you they can agree to a buddy read.
You choose a date, start a new thread in this Buddy Reads folder for the book and discuss.
Make sure you add the title of your book and a date to your thread so others that want to join the discussion know when you're reading.
At the end of 2024, looking back, what were your Top 5 or Top 10 ... books of the Year? Care to Share?
2025 Monthly Reading Tracker Challenge - JANUARY
📔 Master Sheet
PLEASE MAKE A COPY OF THE MASTER SHEET via this LINK. It is set to "VIEW".
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
📕 In 2025 a monthly Reading Tracker Challenge will be started.
📘 If you want to participate, you can simply reserve a a spot in this thread and list the books you want to read/will be reading/have finished in January 2025.
📗It is up to you to decide what info you'll be listing: whether it's title & author only or you'd like add some more details, like rating, date of completion, etc.
📒 If you like sheets, you can have a look at the options on the Master Sheet and copy any of those or adapt it to your needs.
📙Looking forward to see what books you'll be reading in January.
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@ALL who'd like to use a tracker spreadsheet:
PLEASE MAKE A COPY OF THE MASTER SHEET IN this POST.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
It has 3 tabs with 3 different options.
To copy:
- open the link
- click on the arrow next to the tab name you'd like to use (January 1/ J 2 / J3)
- from the small window that opens select the option "Copy To"
- select option "New Spreadhseet"
- when you see the message "sheet copied successfully" click on the link "open spreadsheet".
- you have your own copy now. The only thing you need to do is in the top row to click onto "untitled spreadhseet" and change the name to your own choice.
🐉🍻🐉🍻🐉🍻🐉🍻🐉🍻🐉🍻🐉🍻🐉🍻🐉🍻🐉🍻🐉
A place for all participants -whether Team or Individual Ring Bearers- to drop by, relax with a beverage of their choice and share/spread the love for Middle Earth. 😊
ANNOUNCEMENT
Link to Master Sheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
This is for viewing only. Please make your own copies!!
It's been also added to the 1st posts of the threads
The Fellowship of the Tolkien Reading Challenge
and
All about the Tolkien Reading Challenge
ANNOUNCEMENT
- Task 4 under Set 2 - Professor Tolkien has been updated to
MPG English or British Literature
- Task 11 under Set 4 - Middle Earth on screen has been updated to A book tagged movie(s) or film or cinema min 5x
(the number of tags was missing before)
Task List has been updated in the All about the Tolkien Reading Challenge thread.
ANNOUNCEMENT
- Task 4 under Set 2 - Professor Tolkien has been updated to
MPG English or British Literature
- Task 11 under Set 4 - Middle Earth on screen has been updated to A book tagged movie(s) or film or cinema min 5x
(the number of tags was missing before)
