Unofficial Trim 2021 – The Fun Keeps Going

[Meli]

The January tag was already announce, when and who shall call our first number of 2021 trim?

[Jen]

Linda C wrote: "Just putting together my goals and challenges for next year and finally saw this thread, sorry to be so late to the game.

PBT Unofficial Trim Challenge Continuation -last of original reading list
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The road is fantastic. Read it years ago but it has really stayed with me.

[Amy]

I found Linda, yay!!!!

I think my plan is to look for Heather, and try to find her in quite the way I accidentally found Linda, and then since its the day after Christmas, let this planning thread open a little. People can still use it even they are joining in or on or want to switch things around, but maybe Launch it tomorrow on the real thread? I think people are anxious for Joy to pick the number, and a whole lot of people are banking on number five. Nine Perfect Strangers....

I think Aperigon just got on my list in a major way, and I am noting it. I think it will probably happen sometime this year for me. But its not on my Trim or my travel itinerary which is interesting.... So I think that one is going to evolve for me.

[Amy]

Meli, Joy is going to announce the number tomorrow - after I post the official thread.... I found heather and left her a note. I will add Sally to Eva Luna, and see if anyone else trickles in.

Love to all,

Amy

[Hayjay315]

I'm attempting a Trim list again this year because I evaluated my reading life and what I am missing is robust discussion of books. I have not been an active participant in this group, but what I have observed is a group of well-read individuals who are passionate about discussing what they are reading!

Here's my list:
1.Beartown- Backman*
2. Olive Kitteridge- Strout
3. Midnight at the Blackbird Café- Webber
4. The Masterpiece- Davis*
5. Cold Sassy Tree- Burns*
6. The Heirloom Garden- Shipman
7. Seabiscuit: An American Legend- Hillenbrand*
8. Every Note Played- Genova*
9. The Lions of Fifth Avenue- Davis
10. Cartier's Hope- Rose
11. The Library Book- Orlean*
12. The Clockmaker's Daughter- Morton*

* denotes buddy read

[Heather Reads Books]

Hello friends!! I have been found! Sorry I vanished lately... the holidays really engulfed me.

Here is my 12 (altered a bit since I really fell down on this year's challenge at the end there... eh, what can you do, it's 2020).

1. Dune by Frank Herbert
2. Without You, There is No Us by Suki Kim
3. Becoming by Michelle Obama
4. War on Peace by Ronan Farrow
5. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
6. Priest by Matthew Colville
7. The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
8. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
9. The Ministry of Guidance Invites You to Not Stay: An American Family in Iran by Hooman Majd
10. The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan by Jenny Nordberg
11. The Hired Man by Animatta Forna
12. A Promised Land by Barack Obama

Really kinda iffy on that last one. I think it would be wonderfully informative but I just checked the GR page and it's 768(!!) pages. Last time I had a chonker on here I gave up on it almost immediately. Thanks, Obama...

[Theresa]

Hayjay315 wrote: "I'm attempting a Trim list again this year because I evaluated my reading life and what I am missing is robust discussion of books. I have not been an active participant in this group, but what I h..."

Oooh HayJay! We are buddy reading The Masterpiece! Just found my copy coincidentally while searching the TBR Towers - the physical ones - for another book. So excited!

[Joy D]

Amy wrote: "Meli, Joy is going to announce the number tomorrow - after I post the official thread.... I found heather and left her a note. I will add Sally to Eva Luna, and see if anyone else trickles in."
OK, will announce it tomorrow on the new thread. I am probably going to use a random number generator for the selection.

[Jenni Elyse]

Heather, Dune is my all-time favorite book. I <3 it so much! I hope you like it when you read it next year.

[Amy]

Up to you Joy - or you could just do a straight out pick. I did think however, that I should announce the names of the ten other pickers, but not assign months and let that be a random feeling surprise. So people aren't planning so far in advance..... Hayjay, so glad you turned up! I was looking for you. And you have a bunch of buddy reads and one or two of them with me!

[Jenni Elyse]

Joy D wrote: "OK, will announce it tomorrow on the new thread. I am probably going to use a random number generator for the selection."

*crosses fingers for 5* (not killing birds but swatting flies)

[Amy]

Found Kelly! I didn't want to launch this challenge without her. Just in time.

I think there are a bunch of people reading Beartown, I have to pull that one together. There is possibly more than one for Lions of Fifth Avenue, and more than one for Promised Land at 12? I think I may need your eagle eyes, Friends....

[Amy]

Kate and HayJay have Clock Makers Daughter at #10. But a bunch of other people have it at #12.

Looks like there are 3 people for beartown at 1? Is the third Diana or Charlotte? I may get that one wrong.

Diana and Meli both have the Kiss Quotient, but in different places....

Hope some of that is helpful. I'm hoping to launch the new thread tomorrow, so we'll get started with what we've got....

[Amy]

And the Virgin Suicides. Heather has it at 2 - and BC has it at 5. If you want to match that one up....

[Heather Reads Books]

Amy wrote: "And the Virgin Suicides. Heather has it at 2 - and BC has it at 5. If you want to match that one up...."

Thanks for catching that! I could switch my #2 with #5 so that they match up?

[Amy]

OK - I will edit that in. Just working on the real thing now....

[Diana]

Amy wrote: "Kate and HayJay have Clock Makers Daughter at #10. But a bunch of other people have it at #12.

Looks like there are 3 people for beartown at 1? Is the third Diana or Charlotte? I may get that one..."

I want to join buddy reads for Beartown and Kiss Quotient!
But I am somewhat confused... Could you please help me with switching their numbers?

[Theresa]

HayJay and I have The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis at #4.

[Jenni Elyse]

I’m going to switch up my list a little bit so I can join The Ninth House buddy read. Here's my list:

1. Mistborn: The Final Empire
2. The Ninth House*
3. Eleanor and the Iron King
4. The Lovely Bones
5. Nine Perfect Strangers*
6. Worth the Wrestle
7. Sean Griswold's Head
8. Water for Elephants*
9. I am the Messenger
10. Salt to the Sea*
11. Eleanor & Park
12. Soul of Smoke

*=buddy read

[Diana]

I changed my list a little to join the buddy reads:

1 - An American Marriage / Beartown*
2 - The Silkworm / All Your Perfects
3 - Five Quarters of the Orange / Vox
4 - Манюня / Sadie
5 - The Elegance of the Hedgehog / Nine Perfect Strangers*
6 - North and South / The Girls
7 - The Kiss Quotient /Loneliness on the Net*
8 - Into the Water /The Painted Veil
9 - Come Sundown /Someone I Loved
10 - The Time Traveller's Wife /Delirium
11 - All the Ugly and Wonderful Things /Truly Madly Guilty
12 - The Great Alone /Breakfast at tiffanys

* - buddy read

[Hayjay315]

Amy wrote: "Kate and HayJay have Clock Makers Daughter at #10. But a bunch of other people have it at #12.

For Clock Makers Daughter I can put this at either #10 or #12. It would be great to get this buddy read lined up! Where can everyone else place it?

[Sallys]

This is my updatedlist:
1) Eva Luna
2) Anxious People
3) Apeirogon
4) Pachinko
5)The Museum of Extraordinary Things
6) The Immortalists
7) Rebecca

8) Migrations
9)the Storytellers Secret
10) The Fruit of the Drunken Tree
11) What we owe
12) The Most Fun We ever had

[Joy D]

Posting it here for now. Will also post in the new thread when it is setup.

I looked up how to use a random number generator, and the January # is..... 2.

[Amy]

The official launch will be on a new thread posted today, and Joy will announce the number there. I was just waiting sort of to see if Kelly showed up first. She's coming.... But I am posting today or tonight, one way or another.....

I'm heading to the bookstore, to get out of the house today, and to buy Anxious People and the Exiles. Good to support a bookstore in these troubled times.

[Amy]

OK - I will do it now, so we can all switch over to the new thread. Unless anyone hops in and wants to do more planning with seeing all the lists.... Joy - post again, and we will all migrate. Kelly will follow and find us there.

[Amy]

Hayjay - clockmakers at 12

[Theresa]

Amy - you might want to lock this thread so no one posts here accidentally.

[Amy]

I definitely don't know how to lock a thread, but I'm not sure that I should. There may be newcomers who want to look at the lists and post their own. Last year the planning thread just sort of eventually drifted away to oblivion. There may be people who want to look back at these lists. Are you saying they should post a new ten on the other thread? How would I lock it if we thought that was best?

[Theresa]

Amy wrote: "I definitely don't know how to lock a thread, but I'm not sure that I should. There may be newcomers who want to look at the lists and post their own. Last year the planning thread just sort of eve..."

Locking the thread just means no new posts here. It stays visible and readable just like Anita and Nicole's Directions on posting a review. It is not deleteing or archiving. You don't have to move anything.

[Amy]

How do I do it?

[Booknblues]

Amy wrote: "How do I do it?"
I'm wondering if you need to be an administrator to do that, but what do I know?

Seems like the choices are just keep going on this thread with choices and planning or start a new thread for that and don't worry about this one.

[Book Concierge]

You DO have to be an admin to lock a thread. I double checked by trying to lock one of the threads I created for a review ... the option doesn't even show up for me.

But Library Cin or any of the other moderators could lock the thread for you if you wanted it locked.

Before you do that just post a final message .... "LOCKED TO FUTURE POSTS" (or some such) -and- include a link to the new thread.

It's a little more difficult to coordinate this when you aren't the moderator who is actually locking the thread.

[Kelly]

I have my list ready now! I added in some buddy reads and am willing to change some numbers around to match up better with others.

1. Faithful - Alice Hoffman
2. Ninth House - Leigh Bardugo
3. The Man Who Saw Everything - Deborah Levy
4. Leave the World Behind - Rumann Alam
5. Circling the Sun - Paula McLain
6. Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett
7. A Promised Land - Barack Obama
8. Lions of Fifth Avenue - Fiona Davis
9. The Queen's Gambit - Walter Tevis
10. The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides
11. Time After Time - Lisa Grumwald
12. The Clockmaker's Daughter - Kate Morton