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Thanks to a seed planted by BookConcierge I now know exactly what I will read if Fun wins: lots and lots of fluffy, silly, sexy romances, with a cozy mystery or two chaser!Now, if only it were set in December, I'd rock the Flurries with my endless addiction to Christmas-themed romances and cozies! {Never fear - if fun wins November, I'll read them anyway, just not count them for Flurries}.
Sue wrote: "After looking at books tagged as "High Fantasy", I realized I'm more of a "Low Fantasy" girl. LOL"Yeah, for me, it's children's, some YA, and urban fantasy that I do much better with.
Voted. I can't believe we're voting for November! Interesting choices this month. One of the three I read with regularity. Read a lot of these when I was in a face to face fantasy book club with friends- one of my reading phases. I'd actually be okay with any of the choices.
annapi wrote: "NancyJ wrote: "If high fantasy wins, I will need some strong recommendations for a good adult stand alone book. I don’t want to be tempted to finish a trilogy...."It took some doing to find a few..."
I've got Uprooted on my list too. Planning on it if the High Fantasy tag wins.
I just read The Way of Kings so would love for an excuse to read the next book. I feel Fun is one of those too broad and too subjective categories - I rather something more defined - that we can all know which books fit. My fun is not someone else’s fun and our fun is clearly not the same as whoever added ‘1984’ to the list. Unless their fun is putting inappropriate books in lists.
If American history wins... I can hope my Willa Cather Trim gets selected
annapi wrote: "NancyJ wrote: "If high fantasy wins, I will need some strong recommendations for a good adult stand alone book. I don’t want to be tempted to finish a trilogy...."It took some doing to find a few..."
Thanks Annapi! Uprooted sounds great, and Forgotten Beasts and a couple others. I loved the film Stardust, even though I don't consider myself a huge Gaiman fan.
Barbara and Joanne - Thanks also for mentioning Uprooted.
Regarding Harry Potter... With all due respect to Wikipedia, 150-200 people tagged the Harry Potter books as high fantasy. The London muggles weren't much like normal Londoners to me, and I think it was all fantastic world building.
If Fun or High fantasy wins, it might be nice to read something like this with my niece when she visits for Thanksgiving.
Yes the HP books are probably tagged as high fantasy. I was simply giving a definition of high fantasy and I agreed with the Wikipedia one. I have studied the subject and oeople always disagree about these things, but the main pointer about high fantasy is the closed secondary world. The level of worldbuilding naturally follows with that, but there can and is still worldbuilding in low fantasy, it's just different because it has to co-exist with the rules of our world. I still feel like pointing out that high fantasy is not 'better' than low fantasy, it's just another subgenre.If you are not in the mood for the large tomes, a lot of children's fantasy is high fantasy.
I can see I sound like a strict teacher, sorry about that. It's just this subject means something to me if you couldn't tell ;)
Oh yes and I am pretty new to pbt, but as I understand you can use HP if it's tagged high fantasy in spite of my rant... And they're really good books I read for fun as well :)
Johanne wrote: "I can see I sound like a strict teacher, sorry about that. It's just this subject means something to me if you couldn't tell ;)"I had no idea Johanne! There is a new group on GR's called Epic Fantasy Books-I joined last week, check it out
Again, a lot of good feedback for high fantasy yet I am suspicious >:-)
Joanne wrote: "Johanne wrote: "I can see I sound like a strict teacher, sorry about that. It's just this subject means something to me if you couldn't tell ;)"I had no idea Johanne! There is a new group on GR's..."
I just requested to join. Great group reads. I also "accidentally" joined a SFF group called Dragons and Jetpacks, whilst searching for the other one, sounded too cool not to join!. Seems like a good way to explode your TBR :)
Johanne wrote: "Joanne wrote: "Johanne wrote: "I can see I sound like a strict teacher, sorry about that. It's just this subject means something to me if you couldn't tell ;)"I had no idea Johanne! There is a ne..."
Oh yes-exploding TBR -every day I seem to find something in that group that I "just have to add!" -LoL
Voted. I'm good with any of these. Although most of the books that are on my TBR for American History are quite chunky. I'm in the mood for less serious things right now though.
Can someone post the links for the lists, please~! I voted and now cannot get to them!
Joanne wrote: "Can someone post the links for the lists, please~! I voted and now cannot get to them!"To access the shelves for any tag, go to
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf
and then type in the tag.
NancyJ wrote: "Regarding Harry Potter... With all due respect to Wikipedia, 150-200 people tagged the Harry Potter books as high fantasy. The London muggles weren't much like normal Londoners to me, and I think..."
you are fine as it is tagged High Fantasy whether or not if fits the Wikipedia description. Once they are outside of London, it does feel more High than regular or urban fantasy. Reading for the tag is a bit more loosely defined than reading for challenges. Some folks like to read more tightly to the tag!
Oh yes-exploding TBR -every day I seem to find something in that group that I "just have to add!" -LoLMy TBR explodes constantly just in this group!
Anita wrote: "Joanne wrote: "Can someone post the links for the lists, please~! I voted and now cannot get to them!"To access the shelves for any tag, go to
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf
and then type in t..."
Thanks!
Wow, what a set! Naturally I'm not likely to vote for anything fantasy but for a moment contemplated it since I could read the next City Watch book from Discworld. BUT what on earth does FUN mean to people? When I see books like Slaughterhouse Five and Catcher in the Rye there, I have to wonder what is meant!As for American History, that's my husband's shtick--he belongs to more than one historical society plus an antique bottle club collecting group and reads about American History, so I used that correctly :). He's even preparing a talk about area dairies along with pictures of their old bottles etc (yes, there are people into that sort of thing, I kid you not. My eyes glaze over after a while, pun intended)
In the end, I went with ones I saw books I have in my want to read shelf somewhere on the first two or three pages.
Johanne wrote: "If you are not in the mood for the large tomes, a lot of children's fantasy is high fantasy. ..."If high fantasy wins (sigh...), I think I'll have to go with a kids' book. Someone mentioned "The Hobbit" fit, so something like that might work for me.
Karin wrote: "Wow, what a set! Naturally I'm not likely to vote for anything fantasy but for a moment contemplated it since I could read the next City Watch book from Discworld. BUT what on earth does FUN mean t..."My husband has a huge collection of antique bottles (which he left at his mother's house). Some of them are really beautiful. He has a coca-cola bottle back from when it contained cocaine! I think it was spelled Cocoaine. I don't think he knows that there are groups of people who talk about them.
I think many people used the tag fun to mean "reading for fun" as opposed to reading for work/school. There were many years in my life when I didn't read any fiction at all, so that made sense to me. If that tag wins, I plan to read something that "I" consider fun.
Nancy, (and everyone), you deserve a little fun no matter what tag wins. I love how Theresa reads Proust and cozy Christmas mysteries. I have often joked that I am a mid brow reader. Neither Anna Karennina, nor Fangirl. But there is something to be said for fluffier fun reads. Has its place to take ourselves out of the heavy. I actually didn't vote for it, but i am fine if it wins. I am with you. I am sure I can come up with a book that feels like its undeniably matched whether its on the first few pages or not. It would be fun to discuss the merits of beach reads, and general public raves.... I truly do think though that the fantasy folks are finally going to have their day....
Amy wrote: "Funny how we know our immediate TBR’s so incredibly well, that the title is just spring to mind without any obstacle."Amy, so true! Sometimes I feel like my brain is nothing more than a rolling index of books and recipes - I can pull up half a dozen books on most genres without very much effort, and may even be able to provide a rough description of what they're about. The same goes for recipes, except my internal library is probably at least twice as expansive on that front ...
I never knew we had so many fantasy fans in our group! I would prefer American History (which would include both non-fiction and historical fiction IMO), but have a few fantasy books on my TBR that I could make work if it wins. And if Fun wins then I guess pretty much anything works LOL.
Karin wrote: "Wow, what a set! Naturally I'm not likely to vote for anything fantasy but for a moment contemplated it since I could read the next City Watch book from Discworld. BUT what on earth does FUN mean t..."I definitely believe you Karin, about the bottle history-Let me tell you about our Historical Society (I do not belong, but they house a museum in the Library): The theme right now, in the museum, is "The Outhouse"-they actually dug up areas where known outhouses once were......besides finding the obvious, they did find a lot of other things from the looks of it. I have not walked through yet.
Amy wrote: "Nancy, (and everyone), you deserve a little fun no matter what tag wins. I love how Theresa reads Proust and cozy Christmas mysteries. I have often joked that I am a mid brow reader. Neither Anna K..."I am coming up with that list of fantasy you might enjoy, just in case Amy and Nancy! But it seems around here, when a genre is talked about too much, it does not win. I threw my votes at it-but I am thinking A. History is going to get the win-which I am fine with. And fun...well I can still read fantasy!
NancyJ wrote: "Karin wrote: "Wow, what a set! Naturally I'm not likely to vote for anything fantasy but for a moment contemplated it since I could read the next City Watch book from Discworld. BUT what on earth d..."My mother collected antique bottles. They can be very beautiful. I kept one of the very small blue handblown ones.
Joanne wrote: "Amy wrote: "Nancy, (and everyone), you deserve a little fun no matter what tag wins. I love how Theresa reads Proust and cozy Christmas mysteries. I have often joked that I am a mid brow reader. Ne..."Thanks Joanne! No hurry, as we're never sure until the voting is ended.
In looking at my five star books, I found two high fantasy books that I really loved. They were also very romantic and poetic. It seems that I am more accepting of unrealistic romance plot lines when the book is fantasy. (I also liked Twilight, but don't tell anyone.)
This Is How You Lose the Time War.
The Bird and the Sword
If high fantasy wins, I'll look for the sequel to The Bird and the Sword.
NancyJ wrote: "Karin wrote: "Wow, what a set! Naturally I'm not likely to vote for anything fantasy but for a moment contemplated it since I could read the next City Watch book from Discworld. BUT what on earth d..."I was very happy when we were renting and most of my husband's then smaller collection was still in his mother's finished basement. Coca-cola bottles from when they still had cocaine are old. My favourite old pop (or soda as it's called here) bottles are the ones with the marble, but Coca-cola never used those (I just asked my husband so I didn't show my ignorance).
Joanne wrote: "Karin wrote: "Wow, what a set! Naturally I'm not likely to vote for anything fantasy but for a moment contemplated it since I could read the next City Watch book from Discworld. BUT what on earth d..."Old outhouses are common places to find old bottles and many other things! I personally think it's gross, no matter how old the filled outhouse pit is. It is not unusual for bottle collectors to get excited to find an old outhouse that has never been dug before.
Theresa wrote: "NancyJ wrote: "Karin wrote: "Wow, what a set! Naturally I'm not likely to vote for anything fantasy but for a moment contemplated it since I could read the next City Watch book from Discworld. BUT ..."Yes, a tiny fraction of old bottles are very beautiful. Most are the kind where you have to say the beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Apparently women are more likely to want the ones that are pretty--there are so many other factors involved (books and books have been written about it, websites, at least two big online auction places--before I got married I had no idea and, to be frank, I was thrilled when he found this club because I don't care much about them).
Karin wrote: "Joanne wrote: "Karin wrote: "Wow, what a set! Naturally I'm not likely to vote for anything fantasy but for a moment contemplated it since I could read the next City Watch book from Discworld. BUT ..."I can empathize! Fortunately he did all his digging before I met him, so I'm happy to be ignorant about the details. All I know is it was a very old site that few people knew about.
I don't feel overly passionate in any direction this month, so I'm going to leave it up to the gods.
AJ wrote: "I'm still alive! And considering I'm about to finish my job in three weeks time and get some time off school, I will actually have time to read in November. So I have cast my vote."Been wondering where you have been AJ- good to "see" you again
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LOL my husband asks, "Who is the closet serial killer who tags these fun?"..."
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