[2021] The Wild Discussion Showing 2,151-2,200 of 2,279

[Aimee]

If it's coming up "nearly" you might want to try again with all the 'thes' and 'ands' in - I used an ampersand in one answer because that's how the title appears on the cover but it wouldn't accept it until wrote it out properly.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Yep that was it. Left out a "the"

[Aimee]

I'm on 18 / 20 (thanks to some helpful hints from Twitter) and I am not going to get any work done until I get the last two.

[Stacey]

I’ve got 4 so far! Really hard, but so fun! I never knew this existed. I’ll keep chipping away at it.

[Nicole]

I left out a “the” also. I’ve got three so far, but again, I’ve got to put it down and work. I’m definitely going to be checking it out in more detail tonight!

[Sam]

I got 7 but am really pushing my creative abilities/understanding now...

[Ellie]

I just finished it but had to look for a clue on Twitter for the sunflowers.

[Alicia]

I can only get one. =( funny thing is it’s a book I’ve never read but have seen advertised so much. There must be one I’ve read in there!

But yes this will ruin all productivity for the day!

[Nadine in NY]

Aimee wrote: "Slightly off topic (well, it's the wild discussion so that's okay right?!) but is anyone here playing the Caboodle Hidden Books game this year? I say this every year but I think this is the toughes..."



I have never heard of this!!! So far I've gotten ... TWO! It's really hard!!!!

[Sam]

Ellie wrote: "I just finished it but had to look for a clue on Twitter for the sunflowers."

THE DANG SUNFLOWERS! What in the world could this be???

I am at 10 and I feel accomplished yet frustrated and need to walk away for a bit.

[Aimee]

I got the last two with a bit of help from bookish friends, so if anyone would like a nudge in the right direction then feel free to message me.

[Milena]

The sunflowers one is one of only 3 I got. I guess it's just lucky I read that book.

[Ellie]

Sam wrote: "Ellie wrote: "I just finished it but had to look for a clue on Twitter for the sunflowers."

THE DANG SUNFLOWERS! What in the world could this be???."

I'll put a clue, not the answer, in spoiler tags:
(view spoiler)[The signature is a clue in French (hide spoiler)]

[Nadine in NY]

Aimee wrote: "I got the last two with a bit of help from bookish friends, so if anyone would like a nudge in the right direction then feel free to message me."


I'm up to three. Are these all 2019 & 2020 publications?

[Milena]

Nadine wrote: "Aimee wrote: "I got the last two with a bit of help from bookish friends, so if anyone would like a nudge in the right direction then feel free to message me."


I'm up to three. Are these all 2019..."

No.

[Johanne]

Thanks for the hint Ellie! I got 3 now.

[Aimee]

Nadine wrote: "Aimee wrote: "I got the last two with a bit of help from bookish friends, so if anyone would like a nudge in the right direction then feel free to message me."


I'm up to three. Are these all 2019..."

No, there are some recent ones and some modern classics.

[Johanne]

Have to go interact with family, I just got home from work ...

[Traci]

I've guessed 4. I only got one the first time I looked, so I'm curious where I'll end up.

[Nancy]

Thanks to the clue on the sunflowers I now have 6. These are fricking hard!

[Mari]

Is there a place we can find a list of prompts that didn't make the final cut for prompt #7? TIA

[Kelly Sj]

Suggestions that didn't make it:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Kat]

I hadn't heard of Caboodle before but this is so much fun. I do find it funny that a years supply of books is worth £250. If I bought all the books I read instead of using the library I would spend an awful lot more than that.

[Ellie]

Kat wrote: "I hadn't heard of Caboodle before but this is so much fun. I do find it funny that a years supply of books is worth £250. If I bought all the books I read instead of using the library I would spend..."

I definitely think they're going for a more casual reader, like one or two books a month. I've spent around £700 on books so far this year. I have happily just realised my money saved by not commuting since March has now paid for all my books! I even have some to spare, I should go get ordering. 🤣

[Thomas]

Next year I am prioritising books I already own

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Mari, the link for that list is also on #7's weekly thread, for easy reference later!

[Pam]

Thomas wrote: "Next year I am prioritising books I already own"

Good for you Thomas! I say that every year and will try again in 2021! I did pretty good this year. I haven't bought any new books in several years but went crazy at B&N last week and bought 12 (mostly classics)! I'm tired of waiting for library books, reading ebooks on my phone, and only having 3 weeks to finish them. Also, with COVID, I would rather have brand new clean books! I donated 100 books this summer so I felt like it was OK to have a 12% acquisition rate. My goal is to prioritize them and read all of them in 2021!

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

In 2019, I made it a goal to read (or donate) every book I owned up to that point. By the end of the year, if it was a book I had put off reading all year, I donated it to our Friends of the Library book sale. I've started accruing unread books again (through 2020 and 2021), but my shelves are much more manageable now!

[Nicole]

Emily wrote: "In 2019, I made it a goal to read (or donate) every book I owned up to that point. By the end of the year, if it was a book I had put off reading all year, I donated it to our Friends of the Librar..."

That is such a great idea! I just went through all my physical books a couple weeks ago and made a list of every book I owned. I was surprised to have two, and sometimes three copies of multiple books in bags from our library’s semi-annual books sales. I guess I just knew I wanted that book, and got it, not remembering that I had gotten it the last time and it was still sitting in a bag, unread. I was able to box up a lot of those books, as well as others that had me wondering, “why did I think I wanted to read that?” Now I have a list, and they are my priority for this challenge and the other challenges I’m looking at for next year, so hopefully I’ll make good progress on them. But I think it’s a good idea to go through them again at the end of next year and see if there were any that would have filled a prompt, but I avoided reading it for some reason anyway, then add those to the donate pile as well. I fall into a bad habit of thinking, “I’ll read that someday,” and I really just need to let go of those books.

[Kathy Jo]

I'm trying to read through all the books I own as well. I've read 42 this year and 2 more to finish ATY. Last year I bought a bunch of books at the library sale, but they didn't have it this year. I have a box of books to get rid of. I think I will see about donating for the next library sale.

[Nicole]

Kathy Jo wrote: "I'm trying to read through all the books I own as well. I've read 42 this year and 2 more to finish ATY. Last year I bought a bunch of books at the library sale, but they didn't have it this year. ..."

Way to go! I am hoping to be able to say that for my challenge next year. Between books I already own and books on my Kindle, there is no reason for me to need to buy/borrow more than about 5 books to complete the 2021 challenge.
Yes, not having a book sale this year definitely helped my book buying addiction! It was sad, but I definitely don’t need anymore books until I get through some of the ones I have. It is also a problem, because the library isn’t taking donations right now, so I have boxes of books (my son purged a lot of books he’s outgrown) sitting around that we can’t do anything with at the moment.

[Alicia]

I’m similar with my friends of the library sale. I of course understood why, but was so sad not to have it this year.

So many times I’m convinced I’m going to read a book or I love a book so much I buy multiple copies forgetting. The library sale is my main point of donation. Many times books I got from the sale the previous year.

I like the idea of I read it in 2021 or it gets donated. Would definitely help as I’m starting to run out of shelf space!!

[Rachel]

I started the year with an "own books only" goal for just the winter, but by the end of winter, I was in lockdown and didn't have library access. Safe to say I accomplished my goal of reading mostly books I own this year, although to be fair, I cheated and bought a ton more books too.

I have a really hard time letting go of books, but I'm slowly coming around to the idea of getting rid of (as in donating or giving away to friends) some of the books I've had for ages and really have no interest or only a very mild interest in trying. Like The Da Vinci Code, for example. I kept it mostly because I felt like I "should" read it at some point, but I really don't care to even try it so there's no need to keep it.

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

I thought I was the only person in the world who didn't read The Da Vinci Code. I heard it was badly written and I saw the movie so that was plenty for me.

I tend to get rid of most books after I read them, and I also did really well recently at giving away several hundred that I thought I would read "someday". I figured if I ever want them, I can get them from the library. I still have at least a couple hundred though. I did go through some of them during lockdown, as well as some ebooks I forgot I had. But I got a lot more active on GR, which led me to read some other books the groups selected.

[Johanne]

I only just read the Da Vinci Code earlier this year; the youth book club I run had chosen it. If it wasn't for them I wouldn't have finished it. But they loved it.

[Thomas]

Alicia wrote: "I’m similar with my friends of the library sale. I of course understood why, but was so sad not to have it this year.

So many times I’m convinced I’m going to read a book or I love a book so much..."

Unfortunately my books are kindle and therefore cannot be donated

[Nicole]

Thomas wrote: "Unfortunately my books are kindle and therefore cannot be donated.”

I feel your pain! I have close to 600 books on my Kindle, and while there are some that I may return to and read again, many of them are one-time reads, or books that I will never get around to reading, but there’s nothing I can do about them. That’s definitely a downside to having an e-reader.

[Nancy]

I am not a big buyer of books but I do have a lot on my Kindle or that I got from a friend or our Little Free Library. So I'm making a concerted to read the books I already have in next year's challenge.

I also don't really keep books so either give them away or donate to either the LFL or the Friends of the Library for their sales.

[Alicia]

I just got a Kindle this summer as (1) the library was closed for a long period and (2) now they are open I'm not as comfortable borrowing physical books. So I've been borrowing a lot of ebooks instead.

I've received some free books via Amazon, but even when they are terrible (as I'm starting to find many of my First Read picks are), I still delete them from the Kindle. No use keeping books I didn't like on my Kindle or in physical form.

That said, I'm not quite to the point where I want to buy books I really love on Kindle. Something about physical books, beautiful covers, and turning pages will always get me.

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

Nicole wrote: "Thomas wrote: "Unfortunately my books are kindle and therefore cannot be donated.”

I feel your pain! I have close to 600 books on my Kindle, and while there are some that I may return to and read ..."

The good thing is that they don't take up room. I have maybe 30 ebooks but hundreds of audiobooks in my Audible library. I wish there was an easy way to pass them on. Someone has to either download them from my computer or I have to share my account password with them.

[Ellie]

I've recently bought a second hand kindle to give to my mum. I just connected it to my account, turned off whispersync and downloaded all the books I think she'd be interested in. I could have set her up on a kids account but I trust her not to go on a buying spree, and now she has access to mine and my partner's libraries. Though will have to wait and see if she gets on with it, she's been resistant previously but this way I don't have to keep posting her books.

I have a "depths of kindle" unique shelf on Goodreads where I list the ebooks I own but have removed off my TBR. I might need them one day.

[Johanne]

Lol, I like that shelf name, Ellie. 'The void' could work as well.

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

Ellie wrote: "I've recently bought a second hand kindle to give to my mum. I just connected it to my account, turned off whispersync and downloaded all the books I think she'd be interested in. I could have set ..."

When kindles were newer and more expensive, several of us chipped in to get one for my mother-in-law. Her eyesight was getting worse so we thought it would help her to be able to enlarge the print. We set it all up for her and got a book from an author she liked. She literally never used it, and eventually my sister-in-law took the kindle and started using it herself. My mother-in-law just couldn't accept reading off a screen.

For myself, I don't prefer it, but it's great on trips (remember those?) and during the time the library was closed, it was an easy way to get books.

[Nadine in NY]

Robin P wrote: "Ellie wrote: "I've recently bought a second hand kindle to give to my mum. I just connected it to my account, turned off whispersync and downloaded all the books I think she'd be interested in. I c..."



My mother keeps thinking she wants one, but every time she tries ours, she can't handle the tap/swipe/whatever to turn the pages. It just doesn't come naturally to her. She keeps trying, though. She's always loved modern gadgets - we were one of the first families in town with a VCR player, back when video rental places were half full of pornos!!

[Jillian]

A few years ago, I got a kindle fire for my mom so she could have access to all my audible and kindle purchases. Even though she already owned a kindle, she started accidentally buying books. She had trouble telling what I owned just on kindle and what I owned on both kindle and audible. I had to put a password on the store so she could not buy stuff. It has worked out great. I think, one of the worst things about digital purchases is the lack of being able to share.

[Alicia]

I just bought my mom a kindle for her birthday last week! She is also hooked up to my Amazon prime account. I feel I’m going to have the same stories shortly. I did meticulously go through what is free, what costs money, and splurging on $1.99 and $2.99 books is fine. That will likely bite me in the butt.

[Ali]

Aimee wrote: "I got the last two with a bit of help from bookish friends, so if anyone would like a nudge in the right direction then feel free to message me."

OMG haha this thing is torture.... The butcher shop (not the hanging meat) and the Bennett Supplies has been driving me crazy for days now. Any hints appreciated!!!

[Nancy]

Hint for the Bennett Supplies: (view spoiler)[the author's name is in the picture. (hide spoiler)]

I still only have 8! The heart-shaped bees and Funiculi, Funicula are ones that are driving me crazy.

[Aimee]

Ali wrote: "Aimee wrote: "I got the last two with a bit of help from bookish friends, so if anyone would like a nudge in the right direction then feel free to message me."

OMG haha this thing is torture.... T..."

(view spoiler)[Butcher's shop is a twist on the name of the shop - YA contemporary, published within the last couple of years. (hide spoiler)]

[Aimee]

Nancy wrote: "Hint for the Bennett Supplies: [spoilers removed]

I still only have 8! The heart-shaped bees and Funiculi, Funicula are ones that are driving me crazy."

(view spoiler)[The coffee shop one was the last one I got! I hadn't heard of the book before so it was really hard. Focus on the table outside the shop.

The heart-shaped bees - it's one of those where you get it when you say the name of the book out loud. Think of what the heart represents. (hide spoiler)]