Tag Thread #7: Not A Novel

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Welcome to our All-ATY Read-A-Thon! If you need a reminder of the rules (or if you have a question), check out our Introduction and FAQs thread.

We will have five genres of books, and shelf tags that go along with each genre (plus a few freebies, for those of us finishing up monthly challenges). Our goal, as a group, is to cross off as many of these shelf tags as possible by the end of the day next Sunday (April 26th).

For this thread, we have NOT A NOVEL.

THE TAGS

1. poetry
2. short-stories - Ana: Sweep with Me by Ilona Andrews
3. graphic-novels - Amy: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: Occult Edition by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
4. cookbooks - Steve: Grand Forks: A History of American Dining in 128 Reviews by Marilyn Hagerty
5. picture-books - Kathy: A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Philip C. Stead
6. comic - Amy: The Jetsons by Jimmy Palmiotti
7. illustrated - Tracy: El Deafo by Cece Bell
8. manga - Rachel: Fence, Vol. 2 by C.S. Pacat
9. speculative-fiction - Sarah: All Systems Red by Martha Wells
10. anthology
11. re-reads - Hilde: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
12. giveaway - Robin: In Our Prime: How Older Women Are Reinventing the Road Ahead by Susan J. Douglas
13. middle-grade - Rachel: Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom by Louis Sachar
14. on-hold - Traci: Dry by Neal Shusterman
15. 2014 - Traci: Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

As you complete your books, post them here with the title and author, which tag you are choosing to complete (please only choose one), and a brief note about your book (so we can all get recommendations!).

No, you do not have to read a book in each genre for it to count! It only has to have the tag on the book. (For example, you can read any book tagged 2014 to complete that tag... it doesn't have to be not a novel.)

If you need help finding books, Goodreads has an easy way to see the most popular books on each shelf. Just head to www.goodreads.com/shelf and search for the shelf you're looking for.

[Johanne]

For the tag 'picture-books' will the rule of 100+ pages still apply?

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

No, we can eliminate that rule for tags 1-10 on this list!

[Johanne]

Thanks!

[°~Amy~°]

I finished Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: Occult Edition (288 pgs) which is tagged 10x as Graphic Novels

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Got it, Amy!

[Traci]

I finished Thirteen Reasons Why. The top tag still open is 2014.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Got it down, Traci. What did you think?

[Traci]

Emily wrote: "Got it down, Traci. What did you think?"

I'm still processing. I thought it was powerful, and I just spent 2 hours not working to listen to the the end because I just had to know what happened next. The juxtaposition of the 2 characters worked really well for me. Then I saw all the one star reviews and that's getting me thinking even more.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

I read it back at the beginning of college when I was an English education major with a library science minor, in an attempt to read contemporary books I could possible teach. I definitely wouldn't be teaching it, and I feel like a lot of the one-star reviews also are directed to the TV show. I did think it was a powerful book when I read it (and I loved the format and plot structure of it), but I can also see why some people had trouble with it.

[°~Amy~°]

I read The Jetsons (168 pgs) which is tagged as a comic 6x

[Sarah]

I've read All Systems Red for speculative fiction

[Tracy]

Finished El Deafo

Tag: Illustrated

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Updated!

[Kathy]

I read the Caldecott Medal winning book A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Philip C. Stead, Illustrated by Erin E. Stead.
It fits the tag "picture-books."

[Rachel]

I read Fence, Vol. 2 which has been tagged as manga 15 times.

Edited to add: I also just finished Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom, which works for middle grade (44 people)

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Got these down, Rachel and Kathy!

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

I finished In Our Prime: How Older Women Are Reinventing the Road Ahead. It's a very new book so there aren't as many people tagging it but several have it as Giveaway, #12

[Bana AZ]

18 people tagged Sweep with Me by Ilona Andrews as "short-stories". I just finished reading it and really enjoyed it.

It's an in-between book (book 4.5) of The Innkeeper Chronicles, an urban fantasy/sci-fi with my kind of humor.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Got them down!

[Hilde]

I had a blast re-reading the first book of Harry Potter again, pure magic!:) This time on audio, look forward to the rest! Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone checks off tag #11, re-reads.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

I love that, Hilde! I've been following along with a podcast (Harry Potter and the Sacred Text), and they are about to start book 7. I'm really excited to finish the series with them.

[Hilde]

Thanks for the tip, Emily! I’ll check out that podcast:)

[Traci]

I finished Dry, which has "on-hold" shelved 10 times.

This was interesting to read right now. Sometimes I found myself comparing it to the current public health crisis, just in how people react to things out of their control. (and a bit about how scary things could be if people went to extremes, but, I don't actually think that will happen). I would have enjoyed it more at a different time, but I wanted a climate fiction for the spring reading challenge!

[Steve]

I read Grand Forks: A History of American Dining in 128 Reviews which is tagged twice as a cookbook (though it's a book of restaurant reviews).

[°~Amy~°]

I thought I would finish this book of poetry Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soullast night but got a wee bit distracted.....by a new sci fi book. Oops!

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Great job, folks!

Traci, that book was our library's readalong book this year, and Neal Schusterman visited our library back in February. I have a free copy of the book, but cli-fi is NOT my genre, so I've been putting it off.