Time to Vote for the April Tag

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I went with rural but am completely fine with all three. I just happen to have a few more books under rural.

[Anita]

NancyJ wrote: "Can you do that here?

I tried to use "select multiple" but that only combined books I already tagged. I have a shelf called tbr-shorter-list that seems to be unique to me.

Can you search for mor..."

Unfortunately, there's no good way to search for books with more than one tag here.

[Meli]

Anita wrote: "Hoping so hard for rural so I can read Where The Crawdads Sing and double count it for my f2f book club. I'm a little desperate here, lol.

And of course, I'm halfway through a Netgalley book that ..."

I think my f2f bookclub will also read Where the Crawdads Sing, but I voted for LGBT. I have Anger is a Gift on my want to read.

But still OK with whatever gets picked.

Be nice if trim matches tag, still waiting for those to align :)

[Karin]

Correct, one of the weaknesses of Goodreads is how difficult they make it to search by shelves. ALSO, even when you search by shelves it is very literal. I find more shelves by doing a google search for goodreads than any other way, but that doesn't fix the combining shelves search problem).

So if I want Canadian books, I can get a variety of shelves on a google engine search, but if I go to GR shelf check and I only put in Canadian, I just get Canadian, and not all of the other shelves with Canadian in it--it might be when I use two words I have that trouble, but I resort to googling now to find shelves here many times.

[NancyJ]

Karin wrote: "Correct, one of the weaknesses of Goodreads is how difficult they make it to search by shelves. ALSO, even when you search by shelves it is very literal. I find more shelves by doing a google searc..."

I see what you mean by literal. Today I noticed a tag called Oh-Canada, as well as Canadiana, Canadian and Canada. But a search for canada wouldn't pick up any of the others. America is worse with US, USA, United States, etc.

I don't know why it's so hard to set it up to search multiple words, Even back in the 90's (or maybe even 80's) you could search a database for multiple words with "and" "or" "not" or an asterisk (e.g. Canada*) to get variations. (Boolian search)

[Amy]

Funny how rural appears popular. I admit I didn’t expect that.

[NancyJ]

Amy wrote: "Funny how rural appears popular. I admit I didn’t expect that."

Is it? It could be because there are a lot of books set in small towns, which are often considered rural. (Though I live in a small hamlet that no longer feels rural at all.)

I voted for history because it has more potential to match Horizons and Trim books, but I have books in all categories that I'd be happy to read.

[Amy]

And I voted for rural (although I’d be fine for any of them) because I had a feeling it might match Trim.

[Barbara M]

NancyJ wrote: "The perfect March-April book - Debut, History, LGBTQ, and Rural.

The Song of AchillesThe Song of Achilles fits all three tags, plus Debut, so it will be my crossover book. I'll st..."

That's on my list to read and I picked it up at the library but haven't cracked the cover yet! We may be reading it at the same time.

[NancyJ]

Barbara wrote: "NancyJ wrote: "The perfect March-April book - Debut, History, LGBTQ, and Rural.

The Song of AchillesThe Song of Achilles fits all three tags, plus Debut, so it will be my crossove..."

I found out yesterday that it's now free to read on Amazon Prime. So I can keep it as long as I want. I'm trying to finish Pachinko now.

[Barbara M]

NancyJ wrote: "Barbara wrote: "NancyJ wrote: "The perfect March-April book - Debut, History, LGBTQ, and Rural.

The Song of AchillesThe Song of Achilles fits all three tags, plus Debut, so it wil..."

I'd better go get it because the book will be due in a week or so!

[Becky]

I'm SO relieved to see I'm not the only one behind in my reading. I'm still reading my TRIM book from January!!! *sigh*

I'm torn between voting for history and rural. So many of my TRIM books are history, but we bought a farm in rural TN not long ago so rural seems very applicable to where we are in life right now.

Choices, choices...

[Doughgirl5562]

I'll be happy with any of the three choices, but I might have thrown the max points towards my favorite :-)

[Regina Lindsey]

Ladyslott wrote: "I've been out of the loop (again) - moving and settling into a new lifestyle has been challenging but I'm just about at the end of getting it all together. I haven't been that active here for the p..."
I've been in the same boat. Life changes really interfered last year. I'm a bit better this year but not anything back to my "normal"

[Regina Lindsey]

It's no secret where my votes went.

[Joni]

Anxiously waiting the announcements of all three books (tag, culture and trim) so I can plan for April!!!! Now to go finish my March culture book.

[Anita]

So sorry, Joni, but you are going to have to wait a little longer. It went down to the wire, but those who voted for LGBTQ need to recast their votes.

[Meli]

Can I decide to NOT recast my vote?
Simply because I do not have a preference with rural or history.

[Anita]

Meli wrote: "Can I decide to NOT recast my vote?
Simply because I do not have a preference with rural or history."

Yes, it is totally optional.

[Meli]

Roger that.

[Joi]

Dang it! I was rooting for LGBTQ, and thought it had a good chance of winning.

I'm thinking In Cold Blood if history wins.
Educated if rural wins.

[Hebah]

Anita wrote: "So sorry, Joni, but you are going to have to wait a little longer. It went down to the wire, but those who voted for LGBTQ need to recast their votes."

Aww man :(. I'll just not recast my vote then.

[Meli]

Joi wrote: "....
Educated if rural wins."

Oh, good one!