Bobbing for Apples (Sep-Oct 2021)

[laurel [the suspected bibliophile]]

Happy Fall, All!

This fall Bobbing for Apples is back, and a little different!

I'm a huge fan of instant gratification, and I know that having you select a prompt and then wait minutes, hours, days (hopefully not weeks) for me to turn around and give you an answer is not ideal.

So I made a quiz for you!

Simply go to the link (https://forms.gle/A7TL54KEDKQaGH6z6), choose one of the three categories that ~speaks~ to you, select a number from 1-6, scroll to the bottom of the page and select Next. Your prompt will appear!

Although the form will *technically* allow you to pick one from each category, it's only going to give you one prompt. However, you can take this quiz as much as you like—there are 18 prompts and they do not repeat.

This quiz runs from now until October 31st

Share your books (not the prompts) below, if you want to!

[Bopeep]

I asked for Freaky Fall Leaves 2 and I think I'll read Six Crimson Cranes!

Also, I love a form for this, so I'm not awkward to say if I don't like some prompt haha <3 It was the second prompt I chose, so I'm not cheating much (yet) :P

[laurel [the suspected bibliophile]]

Bopeep wrote: "I asked for Freaky Fall Leaves 2 and I think I'll read Six Crimson Cranes!

Also, I love a form for this, so I'm not awkward to say if I don't like some prompt haha <3 It was the se..."

haha yeah I have no idea why I didn't do the form sooner!

[Tawallah]

Okay - Bobbing for Apples

No set goal - read as much as I can


Prompt 1 : Falling Leaves - Prompt 4
Book chosen : The Forever War - Read September 25

Prompt 2: Sunflowers 2
Book: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents or The Nickel Boys

Prompt 3 : Pushy Pumpkin Spices 1
Book : Truly Devious - Read September 12

Prompt 4: Sunflower Seeds 5
Book: The Waste Lands

Prompt 5: Falling Leaves 6
Book: No Telephone to Heaven

Prompt 6: Pushy Pumpkins 4
Book: The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

[Jen K]

laurel [the suspected bibliophile] wrote: "Happy Fall, All!

This fall Bobbing for Apples is back, and a little different!

I'm a huge fan of instant gratification, and I know that having you select a prompt and then wait minutes, hours, da..."

Such a clever idea and great use of quiz! Thanks for putting it together!

[laurel [the suspected bibliophile]]

Jen K wrote: "laurel [the suspected bibliophile] wrote: "Happy Fall, All!

This fall Bobbing for Apples is back, and a little different!

I'm a huge fan of instant gratification, and I know that having you selec..."

Thanks, and of course! I can't believe I didn't think of a google form sooner, because this makes things so much easier (the only downside is that I don't really know if people are participating unless they hit submit on the quiz after getting the results or if they post in here/on discord).

[Isabella]

Update, October 11th:
FINISHED!

Pushy Pumpkin Spices 1 & 2:
Read a book with a paranormal creature: Dance of Thieves ☑
Read a book you keep putting off: The Darkest Road ☑

Sunflowers 1 & 5:
Read a book with a mostly red cover: Namesake ☑
Finish the third book in a trilogy: Wings of Shadow ☑

Falling Leaves 1 & 3:
Read a book published before 2019: The Last Magician ☑
Read a book with a mostly orange or yellow cover: She Who Became the Sun ☑

[Bopeep]

I almost finished the book for my first prompt, so I went for another one...

Sunny Sunflowers 5 with Darkdawn

[Jen K]

Pushy Pumpkin Spices 2: The Heart's Invisible Furies

Sunny Sunflower Seeds 2: Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

Freaky Fall Leaves 2: Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement

[laurel [the suspected bibliophile]]

Oh hey this is ending in almost a week!

Let me know if you want me to keep this up (or move the link to the reading slump folder) or archive it.