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Trim 2020 Continuation - (Optional/Unofficial; Planning and Organizational Thread
I'm thrilled to be joining you all with my own Trim list this year as I wanted to last year but other commitments prevented it!1. Olive Kitteridge
2. The Last Book Party
3. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
4. The Scribe of Siena
5. The Giver of Stars
6. Frenchman's Creek
7. Seabiscuit: An American Legend *
8. When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
9. The Court Dancer
10. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared *
11. To Kill a Mockingbird
12. Paris by the Book
13. The Weight of a Piano
14. Jepp, Who Defied the Stars
15. The Silver Music Box
16. West with the Night
17. Harry's Trees
18. Once Upon a River *
19. The Paris Seamstress
20. Britt-Marie Was Here
21. The Beast's Heart
22. Murder on the Orient Express
23. The Library Book *
24. The Clockmaker's Daughter *
* Buddy Reads
Books listed which are not buddy reads can be moved around if someone wants to join me in reading it.
I love your list! A few of my favorites are on there, and a few from my TBR. And one or two that looked interesting. I hope you get a Buddy Read. Not sure that I put Giver of Stars on my trim List, but I will check. I added just a few.
Hayjay315 wrote: "I'm thrilled to be joining you all with my own Trim list this year as I wanted to last year but other commitments prevented it!1. Olive Kitteridge
2. [book:The Beast's Heart|404092..."
Hayjay - I loved both Scribe of Sienna and Olive Kitteridge!
Jen K - Black Leopard Red Wolf is quite an ambitious one for trim. I think it took me like 2 months to finish. I am one of the few in the PBT group who loved it. I hope you do too!
Hayjay315 wrote: "I'm thrilled to be joining you all with my own Trim list this year as I wanted to last year but other commitments prevented it!1. Olive Kitteridge
2. [book:The Beast's Heart|404092..."
I have Sea Biscuit and would love an excuse to read it, but can't fit it at 8, I could do it at 7.
Fantastic Booknblues I will move Seabiscuit to 7 and designate as a buddy read!
Idit, about Frankisstein, I am on my phone now, so can't quote you, but I am open to changing the number!
I will be trimming my TBR mountain in other ways this year. However, if #13 News of the World is drawn, I would love to participate in the buddy read :-)
Doughgirl5562 wrote: "I will be trimming my TBR mountain in other ways this year. However, if #13 News of the World is drawn, I would love to participate in the buddy read :-)"I think I am the only one with News on their list, but I put your name next to it and I will let you know if the # is pulled. Would love a BR!
When will we pick the number for January? With all the holiday stuff going on I need to set a reminder so I am not late... I don't want to start a mutiny right off the bat >:-)
Meli wrote: "When will we pick the number for January? With all the holiday stuff going on I need to set a reminder so I am not late... I don't want to start a mutiny right off the bat >:-)"Have you and Amy talked in messenger? -I think it your call with her-however everything else is out there (ie: Tag, Polls, Bingo) so I can see no reason to wait, but we need to make sure everyone's lists are complete-I think we told everyone the 26th was the deadline? I cannot remember.....
Was just thinking to write you both. Can you write to two people at once through Goodreads? Seems people are still joining us with their lists and there has been no slowdown. Maybe we give people a few more days? Maybe if both threads crossover, people could still create lists and buddy reads together, and we can always edit the opening of the real streamlined thread to add things that are new. I was thinking the to post the new thread (simultaneously with Meli’s surprise number) on the 27th or the 29th - simply because I didn’t want to do any work in my birthday.... (happy almost birthday Joi, Book Concierge, and AJ too... and a Merry Christmas to all). I do know that when we post it, Meli and I should do it within a minute, so that the number is post number two. So so the first part is how much longer do we wait? The second is, when can I go through and make the new edits to the buddy reads given our scourge of activity, and create the thread, and three at what time on which day is the simul-launch? But that is where we are at... I’m still in the business of going through the states list. I’m embarrassed to say that I am bad with google docs, and therefore cannot yet access the bingo card. So I am a bit of research away. Good thing Christmas is a lazy day off (lol). I welcome yours and everyone’s thoughts. But rest assured it is indeed happening. The Wonder Three are on it!
It doesn't look like we can have a group message in the Goodreads messanger :P How silly... I am OK to wait to pick the number, although like you said everything else is published. I am sure people are anxious, but I am good either way. We could go ahead and pick the number and people can still join later, like they did this year.
I think you could compile the buddy reads list later (not sure how you are doing that though... an excel doc like the trim this year??).
And as for the time, I think by noon is good. Or by whatever time they normally announce things around here.
Another question from me... do I announce the number in the new thread you will make? I think you already clarified, but I forgot.
And also, is there anything else I am supposed to do? :P
Amy wrote: "Was just thinking to write you both. Can you write to two people at once through Goodreads? Seems people are still joining us with their lists and there has been no slowdown. Maybe we give people a..."Amy to get to to the Bingo card-just click on the link Nicole set up-in the Official Challenge Thread for 2020 here..I will post it here, so you don't have to go looking
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Now look down on the very bottom, you will see names-After the # 6 you will see an < > click the one on the right until you see your name-then click on your name-Wa-La! there's your card
Yes - Its going to be in the new thread. You are going to be post number two. So we are going to do this pretty much at the same time, at the time of our mutual choosing. I do want the new thread to feel streamlined and organized, so I will compile the buddy reads with all the new switches and editions by then. And I do think we should move the planning and organization thread too, to keep both separate, but so that its easy for people to join in late. I can always edit the opening entry as new things occur on the sidelines. How about I shoot for the 27th, and we will organically figure out you and I how and when to press go. did you already figure out what its going to be? Or are you going to do it day of, as we are figuring out our exact time?
Joanne wrote: "Amy wrote: "Was just thinking to write you both. Can you write to two people at once through Goodreads? Seems people are still joining us with their lists and there has been no slowdown. Maybe we g..."
Amy wrote: "Was just thinking to write you both. Can you write to two people at once through Goodreads? Seems people are still joining us with their lists and there has been no slowdown. Maybe we give people a..."I am going to do a shout out for people to get their list finalized by noon of the 27th-I think that's fair-Number could be drawn that evening-fair? I think so.
I did click on my name. Do you mean lower than the list of names? it didn't open for me and I thought it was because I need my kids google accounts, (which I thought were saved on my computer anyway.) I had the secret hope it would be easy for me, but I will try again. I am down to like 12 states now. Not skiing today, so maybe can get some stuff done.We good Meli?
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:Please finalize your lists before noon on the 27th-and move your list, if you have not already to the 2020 Member's Thread. Amy and Meli will coordinate the drawing of the number shortly there after-
Merry Christmas to all!
Amy wrote: "I did click on my name. Do you mean lower than the list of names? it didn't open for me and I thought it was because I need my kids google accounts, (which I thought were saved on my computer anywa..."At the bottom of the spreadsheet
Sounds good to me.... Get it all lined up for a four way birthday treat!
Amy wrote: "Sounds good to me.... Get it all lined up for a four way birthday treat!"Did you find your name?
Got it! Copied them into Microsoft Word right underneath my poll tally list of books for the states. Thanks Joanne. How am I going to do States Challenge without you? I will figure out the reporting later....
Amy wrote: "I did click on my name. Do you mean lower than the list of names? it didn't open for me and I thought it was because I need my kids google accounts, (which I thought were saved on my computer anywa..."Yes, I am good.... the 27th works for me.
Just let me know the time, so I am ready.
I did not pull the number yet, was going to wait day of.
Meli wrote: "Amy wrote: "I did click on my name. Do you mean lower than the list of names? it didn't open for me and I thought it was because I need my kids google accounts, (which I thought were saved on my co..."Yes please do wait-no cheating now-LoL
I've decided that my only challenge in 2020 will be to read only books from my TBR, so this is perfect, obviously I'm in! My list is only the 36 from this year minus the twelve called/read already.1. Bridge of Clay
2. The End of the Day
3. The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
4. Umami
5. The Travelling Cat Chronicles
6. The Quantum Thief
7. Dissolution
8. The Reminders
9. Mischling
10. The Heart's Invisible Furies
11. Salt to the Sea
12. The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
13. The Philosopher's Flight
14. Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
15. A Darker Shade of Magic
16. The Zookeeper's Wife
17. The Child's Child
18. The Room on Rue Amélie
19. Fifteen Dogs
20. The Lake of Dead Languages
21. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
22. Promised to the Crown
23. Natchez Burning
24. Dread Nation
Here is my list:1. All The Ways We Said Goodbye - Beatriz Williams
2. Every Breath - Nicholas Sparks
3. The Other Woman - Sandie Jones
4. The Handmaids Tail - Margaret Atwood
5. Circling the Sun - Paula McLean
6. Less - Andrew Sean Greer
7. Faithful - Alice Hoffman
8. The Heretic Queen -Michelle Moran
9. Then She was Gone - Lisa Jewell
10. How to Read Literature Like a Professor - Thomas C Foster
11. From Sand and Ash - Amy Harmon
12. The Marriage of Opposites - Alice Hoffman
13. Evicted - Matthew Desmnon
14. The Man Who Saw Everything - Deborah Levy
15. The Only Plane in the Sky - Garret Graf
16. Inside the O'Briens - Lisa Genova
17. The Dutch House - Ann Patchett
18. Once Upon a River - Diane Setterfield
19. This is How it Always Is - Laurie Frankel
20. Franny & Zooey - J.D. Salinger
21. The Testaments - Margaret Atwood
22. Darling Rose Gold - Stephanie Wrobel
23. The Night Tiger - Yangsze Choo
24. The Silent Patient - Alex Mucgaekudes
Amy wrote: "You are going to be post number two. So we are going to do this pretty much at the same time, at the time of our mutual choosing...."I haven't finished reading through the conversation, but so that you don't have to be exactly timed right, you could just have Meli message you the number and you can include the number in your post #1. Then, you also don't have to coordinate timing.
Booknblues wrote: "Jen K wrote: "Excited to join the unofficial trim as well. This was difficult to choose books I really wanted to read but would also be willing to wait to read until the number is called. I fear th..."Sounds great!! Excited to get started! I can also change around a number if that helps.
Kelly!!! Love your list! You have like 12 or more of my favorites and another three I am about to read in the next couple of months. You are ever my twin. Plus a few buddy reads with me! Ellie - so glad this worked out for you! You have quite a few of my favorites too...
Cindy - we could take the easier way out for sure, but in the future Meli and Joanne will just post it straight on the thread, and this way I get to be surprised too. Slightly more complicated, but a little more fun I think.
Jen K wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "Jen K wrote: "Excited to join the unofficial trim as well. This was difficult to choose books I really wanted to read but would also be willing to wait to read until the number i..."I've already switched the numbers so we are good.
You know there is more than one Red at the Bone... I am tempted to gather us into a Number together..... And add it to mine as well. Stay posted.
Here is my list. I tried to mark buddy reads with **1. An American Marriage **
2. Ninth House **
3. Becoming
4. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
5. Circling the Sun **
6. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin **
7. The Great Believers
8. Red at the Bone **
9. These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
10 The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared **
11. From Sand and Ash **
12. Lab Girl
13. The Hate U Give **
14. Dawn
15. The Monk of Mokha **
16. The Road
17. American Wolf
18. Once Upon a River **
19. Next Year in Havana **
20. Salt to the Sea **
21. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows **
22. Darling Rose Gold **
23. The Library Book **
24. Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE
Looks like people are picking 8 for Read at the Bone. I will too somehow.... I will switch things to make it happen. I also see a Buddy Read for Darling Rose Gold at 22, but I was planning to read it next for Thrillers in January. If for some reason I don't get to it, or it doesn't come in from the library, I will join you for 22.
Shelley, thank you (and others) for making the compilation super easy. As you all have gathered the new thread and launch are coming! I'm excited to read with you this year.
Ok, I'm not promising to read every month, but I HAD to join you guys :)Jenny- We are now buddies for #1, I had on my personal spreadsheet we already were, lol.
Meli- I added Lolita to my list at #17 to match yours
Trim the TBR List 2020
1 )And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
2) Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
3) The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
4)Four to Score by Janet Evanovich
5)Atonement - Ian McEwan
6)The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
7)Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
8)The Lying Game - Ruth Ware - Kelly
9)A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard
10)The Perfect Couple- Erin Hilderbrand
11)Finding Nouf- Zoe Ferraris
13)The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan
14)The Perfect Nanny by Leïla Slimani
15)A River in Darkness: One Man’s Escape from North Korea- Ishikawa, Masaji
16) Fresh off the Boat- Eddie Huang
17) Lolita by Vladamir Nobakov
18) The Dinner- Herman Kich
20)The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving - Jonathan Evision
21)The Virgin Suicides - Jeffery Eugenides
23) The Library Book by Susan Orlean
24) One of us is Lying- Karen McManus
Amy wrote: "Cindy - we could take the easier way out for sure, but in the future Meli and Joanne will just post it straight on the thread, and this way I get to be surprised too. ..."Ahhh, that makes sense!
Elise wrote: "I've decided that my only challenge in 2020 will be to read only books from my TBR, so this is perfect, obviously I'm in! My list is only the 36 from this year minus the twelve called/read already...."I loved The Travelling Cat Chronicles and gifted it to many people after.
Kelly wrote: "Here is my list:1. A Certain Age - Beatriz Williams
2. Every Breath - Nicholas Sparks
3. The Other Woman - Sandie Jones
4. The Handmaids Tail - Margaret Atwood
5. Circling the Sun - Paula McLean ..."
Another for the Circling tbe Sun buddy read!
Shelly wrote: "Here is my list. I tried to mark buddy reads with **1. An American Marriage **
2. Ninth House **
3. Becoming
4. [book:The Seven Husbands of Evelyn ..."
Ooh, Shelly is joining the buddy read for Circling tbe Sun too!
I loved Circling the Sun! I have some work to do on the 26th to compile all of this. But in the meantime, I need to research Darling Rose Gold. Someone said it wasn't out until March, but I am on hold for it at the library. Let me do a little research there....
Amy wrote: "I loved Circling the Sun! I have some work to do on the 26th to compile all of this. But in the meantime, I need to research Darling Rose Gold. Someone said it wasn't out until March, but I am on h..."Acc/t Publishers Weekly, not out until March...and looks to be hugely anticipated.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/b...
NYPL does not even have audio or ebook listed as on order with a hold list. This could be one of those that publishers are blocking ebooks to libraries to maximize sales.
I would not put it on a random draw Trim list at this point.
Oh why not.... If 22 gets picked before March, all of us Darling Rose Golds will move it together to another mutually agreed upon number and read that one instead. This is unofficial and a free for all. I'm calling it now, Darling Rose Gold at #22, and if its picked I will fix it for all of us so it works and we will clear something off the TBR. I have a few superpowers left, and one of them was GRE analytical. I always knew if Mary had to be in Car three, was wearing a blue dress, and needed to be with an odd number of people, what kind of flower she was carrying...... I'm great at Table seating and Rummy Q. We are going with it - and it will all work out. Now what shall I do with Modern Girls (my previous 22)? I stuck Red at the Bone at number 8, where it is likely going to live for everyone, as long as that works. This is happening..... Meli, we need your randomizing luck to help us through, so we don't have to call on my analytical skills just yet....
Amy's New 24:New 2020 Trim List:
1) A Pidgeon and A Boy
2) Modern Girls
3) Rain of Gold
4) The Book of Lost Things
5) Caspian Rain
6) China Rich Girlfriend
7) Cold Sassy Tree
8) Red at the Bone
9) Correlli’s Mandolin
10) The Devil in Jerusalem
11) From Sand and Ash
12) The Secret Keeper
13) The Ghostwriter
14) If the Creek Don’t Rise
15) Incantation
16) The Flight Attendant
17) Something Beautiful Happened
18) The Kitchen House
19) Strange the Dreamer
20) The Dream Daughter
21) Where the Forest Meets the Stars
22) Darling Rose Gold
23) Park Avenue Summer
24) Wicked
I will start compiling tomorrow and make sure it works for all of us to do Red at the Bone at #8. That it doesn't conflict with anyone for anything. If it does, I will let you guys know....
Not sure I've done this right, but here's my list! I'm not 100% how buddy reads work, but I've tried to pair up my list with people reading some of the same books. I had a few conflicts, so I tossed in notes to a couple people in case anyone wants to revise and sync up. Heather’s 2020 Trim List
* = Existing Buddy Reads
** = Noticed others were doing these books, possibly coordinate?
Joi - I noted the Virgin Suicides and Finding Nouf is on your list, but I was really intrigued by “Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows” at #21 and a Gentleman in Moscow for #11, so I put mine elsewhere (#2 and #14). Not sure how buddy reads work exactly, but if you want to pair up we can maybe coordinate?
Meli - I noticed The Left Hand of Darkness on your list, but my #3 is currently occupied. Not sure if you want to coordinate? I’ve currently listed it at #15.
1. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones *
2. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
3. Becoming by Michelle Obama ** (Noticed Shelly doing this book, buddy read?)
4. I Am Malala by Malala Youzafsai
5. Without You, There is No Us by Suki Kim
6. In the Woods by Tana French
7. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak *
8. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
9. The Dead Mountaineer’s Inn by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
10. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
11. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles *
12. The Terror by Dan Simmons
13. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas *
14. Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris
15. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
16. Children of God by Mary Doria Russell
17. War on Peace by Ronan Farrow
18. Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
19. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou ** (Noticed Charlotte doing this book, buddy read?)
20. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
21. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal *
22. A Place For Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
23. The Hired Man by Aminatta Forna ** (Noticed Booknblues doing this book, buddy read?)
24. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Joanne wrote: "IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:Please finalize your lists before noon on the 27th-and move your list, if you have not already to the 2020 Member's Thread. Amy and Meli will coordinate the drawing of the ..."
Also, I'm a dummy and can't find this thread for the life of me. Can someone link me?
Happy holidays!
Heather wrote: "Not sure I've done this right, but here's my list! I'm not 100% how buddy reads work, but I've tried to pair up my list with people reading some of the same books. I had a few conflicts, so I tosse..."Heather, glad to see I am not the only one who has not yet read Becoming!
Here you go Heather-right now you have to click on " more discussions " below the 2019 Thread-The Mod will move it Jan 1 so it is visiblehttps://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...
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