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2017 The "All Your Book Are Belong to Us" Challenge
87 HomeInMyShoes (Mar-22)83 Dazrin (Mar-17)
64 MrsJoseph (Mar-21)
48 DoodlePanda (Mar-19)
46 Stephanie (Mar-12)
18 Orlok (Mar-7)
3 Nyssa (Feb-2)
Looks like my days at the top of the leaderboard are numbered.
Not by me, lol. I'm double digits behind!
I don't know. 23 points is only six good selections behind. I'm finding it difficult to find any more than a single extra challenge point with anything I want to read. But who knows, I might find some good ones to fill in. All my reading planning puts me in line to end up around 170 to 180 at best. I'll need to replan my reading if I'm going to do any better than that.
I am to the same point as you now though; the easy points are behind me and I am starting to just get 1 point/book. With a bonus alphabet point sometimes.Although, I considered counting Dresden Files #5 as a baseball book since it has a significant scene at Wrigley Field. :) Absolutely nothing to do with baseball other than location though.
HomeInMyShoes wrote: "I don't know. 23 points is only six good selections behind. I'm finding it difficult to find any more than a single extra challenge point with anything I want to read. But who knows, I might find s..."See, I'm horrible at reading planning.
Trying to avoid the whole US and UK thing really makes the planning tough.It's part of the fun. It can help me narrow reading choices sometimes and I've managed to pick up an author I've been meaning to read for Z which is awesome.
I'm fairly confident I can get to about 160 points, but anymore than that is going to be a serious struggle.
The best way for me NOT to read something is to put it on a planned out list, lol. I'm such a moody reader.
^Or buy it. Hahaha.Haha.
Ha.
Why am I the only one laughing?
o_O
LOLNo. I totally resemble that. I have a terrible FILO policy (for the most part).
What is a microhistory?
Also, for Recommendations : 31. a book from the GoodReads recommendations page
32. a book recommended by a librarian
33. a book recommended by your spouse, sibling, bff
Do GR Friends count?
MrsJoseph wrote: "Interesting survey about book/reader habits here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FA..."
Wish that had some e-book options. I don't like either hardback or softback books anymore, I guess that means "equal". And I organize my library with a spreadsheet, not by size/color/etc. I can sort it in a bunch of ways though. At least it made the "traveling with a book" question easy. "I have no problem traveling without a paper book" but that doesn't mean I don't travel without lots of books!
MrsJoseph wrote: "What is a microhistory?"
Basically anything written by Mary Roach. :)
Here is a link that describes it better than I ever could.
http://bookriot.com/2013/08/12/microh...
And Bustle needs an editor. This was hard to read: "Library verses book store verses e-reader..."
The Last Kids on Earth by Max Brallier.A Book
Alphabet - Z
2 for 89.
I think GR friends could count. I was looking for something that was pulled from a Otters Enjoyed list, or from the ever-so-accurate you shelved this book so we suggested this randomness.
Dazrin wrote: "MrsJoseph wrote: "Interesting survey about book/reader habits here:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FA..."
Wish that had some e-book options. I don't like either hardback or softback books anymore, I guess that means "equal". And I organize my library with a spreadsheet, not by size/color/etc. I can sort it in a bunch of ways though. At least it made the "traveling with a book" question easy. "I have no problem traveling without a paper book" but that doesn't mean I don't travel without lots of books!"
Oooh! I agree about ebooks - I bitched to the survey creator about that one.
Dazrin wrote: "MrsJoseph wrote: "What is a microhistory?"Basically anything written by Mary Roach. :)
Here is a link that describes it better than I ever could.
http://bookriot.com/2013/08/12/microh...
oooooh! I know exactly what I want to look into!
I don't care about format much and I don't collect books so organization is strictly tracking what I've read in a spreadsheet and website. My computer screen now has a kicking portal to show me all the stats. Some days I love working in technology and getting paid to show people what they can do with it.
As far as my microhistory, I'm trying to decide betweenThe Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary and The Element Encyclopedia of Magical Creatures.
Are either of these eligible for microhistory?
I'd say no to the magical creatures and yes to Oxford English Dictionary. Although I like the stretching involved in rationalizing the magical creatures one. If only there were a book on the history of skirt flattening or braid tugging...
HomeInMyShoes wrote: "I'd say no to the magical creatures and yes to Oxford English Dictionary. Although I like the stretching involved in rationalizing the magical creatures one. If only there were a book on the histor..."lol! IKR? That's be a great book.
I already decided on the OED one.
In reading further reviews on the magical creatures, it seems the authors didn't research as well as I'd thought. They appear to have made several really incorrect entries and thus I want to avoid it now. I like those kinds of books as readable reference materials - and I don't want to question everything. I'd need to read a LOT more references before I can tackle something like that.
I agree with HIMS on the microhistories. Yes to OED, no to magical creatures. According to one of the reviews for the magical creatures one it is "an overview of mythological creatures from around the world" and "it is a great quick reference book." Of course it is a broad overview of a very tiny field, one could say microscopic, so in that case it might still be a "micro" history.
The Cloud RoadsBook
New Category: Recommendations
Recommendations: a book from the GoodReads recommendations
(is from a GR Friend)
Question:For Genre: 18. a pulp/noir book
Will this work? It's original publication date is 1935.
Wind-Gone-Mad
The L. Ron Hubbard books from that era I have read certainly fit in the "pulp" category, so I would say yes.
Cool! I'm trying to find books I already own. :-D
Certainly there for the cover.I think I'm going with the classics for that one, although I think I'll wait and see if I can buy a haul of pulp from a garage sale this Spring. It is almost time for those to start popping up every week.
Today I bought 1954: The Year Willie Mays and the First Generation of Black Superstars Changed Major League Baseball ForeverJUST for this challenge (and a haul) but challenge!
I was going to read Shoeless Joe and I've actually been researching books on the Grey Cup and the Roughriders.I am a diehard.
I might even read East of Eden just for this challenge. It's 600 pages of Steinbeck. I like Steinbeck, but 600 pages of him might end up being the return of Ahab.
I think I'd put myself out of my misery. O_O
The baseball book will be hard enough, lol. I had to combine it with some history to make it even remotely palatable. There were some other baseball books + sports books there but I just..my eyes...totally glazed over.
I'm a little short on books that fit my first name.This is my list of books (extra category besides name):
East of Eden (alphabet - E)
Shatter Me (genre - urban fantasy)
Hank Aaron and the Home Run That Changed America (sports - baseball)
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version ()
It's a pretty short list.
I was considering abandoning the book I am reading but I was caught completely off guard when a minor character had my name, so I have to finish it now. I didn't expect to get that point. :)
The book I'm currently reading had a hurricane for a few pages, does that count?
HomeInMyShoes wrote: "The book I'm currently reading had a hurricane for a few pages, does that count?"I think it counts!
Dazrin wrote: "I was considering abandoning the book I am reading but I was caught completely off guard when a minor character had my name, so I have to finish it now. I didn't expect to get that point. :)"lol. That's a good deal, though. I know I won't find any with my first name so not even looking.
Aseneth?If anyone gets that allusion they win this thread today. I had to look it up to get it right and I'm pretty sure that's not your name.
I've decided that a book with a character named Maggie would be ok, which is what everyone called me in England due to my extremely Norwegian name :)
Looking for N books for aliens. Desperately trying to get the 36 books I think I still need to read for the challenge down below 30. This is really tough and that's still a lot of reading to do.How can Neville & Bob not be a rational choice? A five-star average rating with 9 ratings!
I really think I should have done the haul of books first.
HomeInMyShoes wrote: "Looking for N books for aliens. Desperately trying to get the 36 books I think I still need to read for the challenge down below 30. This is really tough and that's still a lot of reading to do.H..."
hmmmm...
Maybe you still should do a haul. You did say yardsale season was almost upon us.
Yeah, the haul could definitely help me out. I could hit a few garage sales armed with the list of what is left and try to nab five categories out of three books. But that's a weekend thing and it's going to be a few weeks before they really fire up. I need things to read now as I'm closing in on a couple more books finished. I don't want to lose momentum reading things that don't count against the categories.Would Cassandra Claire's The Original Pervy Hobbit Fancier's Journal count as FanFict for the based on a book category? I read it over the last couple of days. Hilarious.
HomeInMyShoes wrote: "Yeah, the haul might be me there. I could hit a few garage sales armed with the list of what is left and try to nab five categories out of three books.Yep, but I'm getting ansy. My potential list..."
I would vote "yes" it counts.
HomeInMyShoes wrote: "Would Cassandra Claire's The Original Pervy Hobbit Fancier's Journal count as FanFict for the based on a book category? I read it over the last couple of days. Hilarious. "If you are going to count it in your reading, I would say yes. That category was intentionally left open knowing that not everyone cares for fanfic and I wanted to make sure it was a category that could be completed by someone who will not read "indie authors" or traditional "fanfic".
I used Redshirts by John Scalzi as my selection. It's not exactly fanfic but certainly never would have been written if it weren't for Star Trek, so it fit as far as I am concerned.
Did you know that the terms "Mary Sue" and "Marty Sue" come from Star Trek Fanfic? I did not!
I am no Marty Sue.I'll think about counting the read, but if I can find an actual book on Goodreads that is fanfict and written by an author outside of the US-UK_CA triangle then I shall read another. And don't think I'm not looking.
Have you read Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, etc.)? If so, there is a 4th book in that series by a different Swedish author, The Girl in the Spider's Web, that would count."This next installment, titled “The Girl in the Spider’s Web,” will be the first book in the series not written by Larsson, who died in 2004. Instead, the novel will be penned by the Swedish writer and former crime journalist David Lagercrantz. Lagercrantz is best known for co-authoring the 2014 memoir of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, a Swedish soccer player."
I haven't. It's been on the potential list a few times, although seriess don't inspire me much anymore.Sweden is doing fairly well representation-wise with me with 4 quite varied titles so far.
Here are a couple more options:Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard, born in the Czech Republic, well, Czechoslovakia at the time.
Drown by Esther Dalseno, an Australian born author
Both from this list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/5...
Thanks for pointing me to that list. It has the winner on it with Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. Been on my author list for a while. Dominica is not an easy country to check off the list. :P
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