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Time to Vote for the December tag
At first glance I would pick ghosts, but when similar topics have been up it is always well talked about and never picked. However when I looked at each one I have several under all them and one book is on two of them. So I going to just let the votes fall may.
BooknBlues, I believe you may have been one of the first 5 because I do not see your name. Please send Anita a PM and let her know how many participation points you cast and for which tag. She’ll get you added in!
Already???Man, I get sucked into insane work for a few days and suddenly it is time to pick December! I haven't even cracked my trim yet...and i still have 125 pages of Proust to read by Thursday...and no time!
Nicole R wrote: "Meli wrote: "Not strange at all, like I said ghosts are freaking everywhere in literature. I hope to pick up The Ninth House, but not sure I could get to it in December."Okay, I am backpedaling....."
I have a really really good ghost Christmas romance to suggest if Ghost wins, but it isn't cheesy really🙄.
There are lots of cozy Christmas or December Flurries appropriate paranormal with ghosties mysteries that are fun and usually cheesy.
So don't despair.
I really don’t mind if it’s ghosts or gothic.Another thought re why people do a ‘reading year’ shelve: sometime you create shelve to count towards a challenge (so I have ‘women 2018’ and ‘women 2019’ and they count how many female authors I read that year.
Merry, Merry Ghost by Carolyn G. Hart features a Christmas loving sleuth ghost...and there is at least one more to the series. Author wrote the Death on Demand series which I adored.
Many of the books on the Gothic list are ones on my mental someday read list...all classics. I definitely own copies of most.Ghosts is a breeze..I have lots of charming ghost inhabited mysteries and a few like The Sherwood Ring to recommend.
2005...while I am sure to have loads in my TBR Towers to fit, too much effort to find.
Nicole R wrote: "I feel like I should be neutral because I am an admin, but....I truly am not a fan of any of these. *sigh* I am sure that I will find something that will fit, but bleh on all of them."
There are plenty of love stories with ghosts! :-)
Rachel N. wrote: "I really, really, REALLLY dislike the year tags (sorry to anyone who likes them). They are too broad for me in general and the way they are used on goodreads is even worse, I do tag my books "read ..."So do I, Rachel!
Nicole R wrote: "BooknBlues, I believe you may have been one of the first 5 because I do not see your name. Please send Anita a PM and let her know how many participation points you cast and for which tag. She’ll g..."Done
So for me, I’m not so much of a Christmas reader. Although I must admit I do love the music and the harmony. Carols are more my thing. Fall flurries for me tends to be winter or holiday season. So I never feel at such a compromise with the December tag. As always, for me it’s about rounding out the year and clearing out that damn TBR. My problem with 2005, although I can generally find something for the year tags, isn’t that I don’t have a great book. I do. And just one. It’s a book I have actually been really wanting to read, and I really appreciate it want to tag allows me to pick something up that has been on my TBR for forever. This could be a Sunday conversation, or a Monday Musing, but the 2005 book is actually a tome. That is a mixed bag for me, because if it weren’t for PT I never would have read the long books. It is for this reason that I put the invisible thread on my trim list, and when the number got called I read all close to 800 pages of it. The American tag last year, finally got me to read gone with the wind, and for some god-unknown reason, some tag or other got me to read outlander. So I’m grateful to the tax for letting me get to something that’s long. But in December when I’m trying to make my goal of 100, and start the year off fresh? It’s always a pressure for me to read the tomes. And yet I welcome the opportunity, because otherwise I would probably never get to it unless forced to. So what is the mystery 2005 book just in case any of you are curious? It’s the Hummingbirds Daughter. And did I vote for it, 2005? Or did I vote for Gothic? You guys are starting to get to know me. I’ll let you guess…
Nicole R wrote: "Rachel N. wrote: "I really, really, REALLLY dislike the year tags (sorry to anyone who likes them). They are too broad for me in general and the way they are used on goodreads is even worse, I do t..."One thing that drives me crazy in goodreads is that I can't reliably search or sort my lists by publication date. Most books (especially older books) have many editions, some with newer publication dates. It seems that every month I need to delete duplicates from my to reads lists. So if 2005 wins, I'll use the Listopia list to find something.
I think I'll wait a week (I mean it this time!) before I start searching for books for each tag.
Hebah wrote: "Anita wrote: "NancyJ wrote: "..Anita, I noticed that you linked a Listopia list for the best books of 2005 (published in 2005), rather than the tag list (which also includes books that were read in..."Hebah, I do that too. I’ve been rereading some books, and I like to use the lists to jog my memory. I have tags like “read in 2018”
Ok Meli, You convinced me. But I will be counting on you and others to help me find some great ghost stories. I could go for something beautiful, romantic, dreamy, or uplifting. I also like orphan stories. I’m not familiar with romance and ghost fiction writers, so it’s hard to sort through long lists. My favorite holiday film is It’s a Wonderful Life, so I can deal with high sentimentality if a story hits the mark in other ways. I also loved the British film Truly Madly Deeply. For some reason I can’t think of ghost books I liked, just movies.
NancyJ wrote: "Ok Meli, You convinced me. But I will be counting on you and others to help me find some great ghost stories. I could go for something beautiful, romantic, dreamy, or uplifting. I also like orphan ..."Try The Christmas Spirit by Elisabeth Fairchild - far more than an historical romance...it is romantic, beautiful, heartrending, and just special.
Theresa wrote: "NancyJ wrote: "Ok Meli, You convinced me. But I will be counting on you and others to help me find some great ghost stories. I could go for something beautiful, romantic, dreamy, or uplifting. I al..."Thanks Theresa, that sounds great. One of the reviewers likened it to the Ghost and Mrs Muir, which I loved.
NancyJ wrote: "Theresa wrote: "NancyJ wrote: "Ok Meli, You convinced me. But I will be counting on you and others to help me find some great ghost stories. I could go for something beautiful, romantic, dreamy, or..."I read and reviewed it for our unofficial Christmas in July. It is a keeper I am likely to reread at Christmastime year after year.
NancyJ wrote: "Nicole R wrote: "Rachel N. wrote: "I really, really, REALLLY dislike the year tags (sorry to anyone who likes them). They are too broad for me in general and the way they are used on goodreads is e..."Nancy, I am not sure you are aware: When you sort your books by Pub. Date-if you need to double check a date, click on the book-after the Pub date blurb, if the book was published before that date there will be a note in ( ) saying ..Originally published 19XX.
I am in the same boat as Nicole, not really feeling the love for any of these choices. But I could make any of them work. For ghosts I would probably choose The Muse of Nightmares which is the sequel to Strange the Dreamer (which was a 5 star read for me!). Gothic would be an opportunity to read a classic, maybe Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. And 2005, well, I am sure I can find something published in that year that I have not yet read. So I voted but didn't throw any extra votes at any of them.
Joanne wrote: "Nancy, I am not sure you are aware: When you sort your books by Pub. Date-if you need to double check a date, click on the book-after the Pub date blurb, if the book was published before that date there will be a note in ( ) saying ..Originally published 19XX."To add to what Joanne has said, if you don't see the publication date on your book lists, you can go to Settings and check the "Date Pub" to get the actual date of publication to appear on your lists (and if you want to see the date the particular edition was published, that box is available as well). You have to do this for each list you want to see it on.
Joy D wrote: "Joanne wrote: "Nancy, I am not sure you are aware: When you sort your books by Pub. Date-if you need to double check a date, click on the book-after the Pub date blurb, if the book was published be..."Thanks everyone. Sorting by Pub date should be easy for 2005. Some might be off only a year.
The time it really frustrated me was when I was trying to sort my books (I have more than 2000) by publication date. I wanted to see the oldest books on my read and to-read lists. It missed most of them, because classics have many newer editions. I had to double check a lot of books. [Some books seemed a lot older to me than they were. Pride and Prejudice seemed newer than some 20th century books.
Well, I'm definitely not a fan of any of these choices so I just cast one vote. Surprisingly, it was for the one I thought would be least likely to pick, but after reviewing the other lists, if had the most options for me.
Voted. Not in love with any of the choices, but I can find something to read from any of them.
Voted Ghosts-Happy Early Holidays Meli-
Nicole R wrote: "I truly am not a fan of any of these. *sigh* I am sure that I will find something that will fit, but bleh on all of them."Ditto
Just for clarification… the "Date Pub" box in Settings is the actual first date of publication not the date the edition was published....If 2005 wins, I plan to read a book published in 2005 (rather than something someone read in 2005, which is not meaningful to my particular way of categorizing books).
Joy D wrote: "Just for clarification… the "Date Pub" box in Settings is the actual first date of publication not the date the edition was published....If 2005 wins, I plan to read a book published in 2005 (rat..."
I feel the same Joy-why would I care what anyone else read in 2005?
Joy D wrote: "Just for clarification… the "Date Pub" box in Settings is the actual first date of publication not the date the edition was published....If 2005 wins, I plan to read a book published in 2005 (rat..."
Thanks Joy. I'll double check that I used the right item in my settings.
1776 would be a good overlap book for American History and 2005. I also just noticed that the sequel to my Trim book this month was published in 2005, so that might be my first choice is 2005 wins. The Bookthief is also published in 2005 and it's on my trim list. Are there any ghosts in this book, or a gothic vibe?
NancyJ wrote: "The Bookthief is also published in 2005 and it's on my trim list. Are there any ghosts in this book, or a gothic vibe?"Sorry Nancy, The Book Thief is a WWII story, no ghosts or goths.
NancyJ wrote: "1776 would be a good overlap book for American History and 2005. I also just noticed that the sequel to my Trim book this month was published in 2005, so that might be my first choice is 2005 wins...."I was thinking the same Nancy!
Jenny wrote: "Voted for ghosts, as that stretches me a bit, but if Gothic wins I can give PLENTY of recommendations (my MA dissertation is on this genre!)"What in the world did you get your MA in?!
18th Century literature - i focused on the novels of Ann Radcliffe and the role of female baddies in them!
annapi wrote: "NancyJ wrote: "The Bookthief is also published in 2005 and it's on my trim list. Are there any ghosts in this book, or a gothic vibe?"Sorry Nancy, The Book Thief is a WWII story, no ghosts or goths."
Oh well, I figured the character of Death might give it a dark gothic feel.
Jenny wrote: "18th Century literature - i focused on the novels of Ann Radcliffe and the role of female baddies in them!"Oooh, nice! I ended up doing an independent study in gothic novels as part of my MA. Had a ton of fun with it.
Nancy and Anna, the Book Thief is narrated by Death! So Is that gothic? I don’t think Death counts as a ghost....
Amy wrote: "Nancy and Anna, the Book Thief is narrated by Death! So Is that gothic? I don’t think Death counts as a ghost...."Here is a link to a definition of gothic literature:
https://www.thoughtco.com/gothic-lite...
I don't know - if someone has tagged it as such, then go for it. But to me, the Death character just didn't give off a goth vibe.
You can find very fun contemporary and modern treatments that are very gothic. Mary Stewart's Nine Coaches Waiting is a sublime treatment from the 1950s. For ghost story I can recommend a debut...Dark Rooms - a pschological murder mystery.
I am on pins and needles waiting for December's tag >:-)
Meli wrote: "I am on pins and needles waiting for December's tag >:-)"Hahahaha! You still have 3 days to wait for the announcement!
Nicole R wrote: "Meli wrote: "I am on pins and needles waiting for December's tag >:-)"Hahahaha! You still have 3 days to wait for the announcement!"
I know, just hoping for once my campaign has worked in my favor >:-) Come on lil ghosts!
Meli wrote: "I am on pins and needles waiting for December's tag >:-)"and then the final Horizons and Trim-Wow!
Joanne wrote: "Meli wrote: "I am on pins and needles waiting for December's tag >:-)"and then the final Horizons and Trim-Wow!"
I just want to know the trim so I don't forget to order it on time. I have family coming in this weekend. It's easy to ignore the state of my house while I'm reading, and there is so much to do.
Hey all, I'm back from vacation- and got absolutely 0 reading done! I'm thinking about just forgetting about all the challenges for the rest of 2019, lol. I left almost on track for all my reading goals. Now, I'm 8 books behind my main goal- and haven't even picked up a copy of my trim, tag, or horizons.Maybe December will be better- or maybe I'll just forget it, and read whatever I want because why not, lol. I need to get back into the swing of reading, and I'm not sure challenges will help me do that.
Welcome back Joi! I hope you had a great time
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you should try one of her YA adult series with your son