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I've already voted! The choices are good and I like them. It has a book that I currently reading. Thanks for the early post of this Anita!:D
Great choices! Now I have to decide which to vote for.
Every month when I see this post, it is a reminder to read my book for the current month. Lol
Nicole, its going to be great for you to have some points again to motivate you! Off to to my research, but I'm pretty sure where my vote is going already.
Ironically, I have never had participation points! I was an admin before we started that particular feature.
Soon, your vote will count!So, I don't often announce so powerfully, but all of my possible points are going towards books! That was obvious for me. Plus, the end of year is tough with challenges, so its helpful if a book matches up. I am Flying Back to Boston from South Korea with Writers and Lovers. My at home Book Club is doing it in December as well. I have over 15 or books to read for this tag. Would really really love to get to the Plot. So my votes are going there...
Karin, what are you reading to get back to Boston. Want to join me? Nicole, I have no idea where you landed in your travails. I was going to use the Beantown Girls, but turns out that's not about Boston at all and didn't even have enough tags to qualify. Go figure.
Anita ... I haven't looked at my points in ages, but it seems that you are missing the Fly the Skies bonus for the June mini challenge (about describing sites we'd see in our destination). My challenge entry HERE
Book Concierge, I do the scoring for the challenges. Would you mind just sending me that in a PM and I will pick it up when I do scoring next?
Amy, I did not participate in Fly the PBT Skies but Writers & Lovers is an EXCELLENT selection! It will make my top 10 this year for sure.
Nicole R wrote: "Every month when I see this post, it is a reminder to read my book for the current month. Lol"Every month I see this post and think "already!?"
My how the time flies.
I am going to be so deep into Christmas mode, I am not sure any of these tags will fit :(
No desire to read anything heavy in December, but I could go either way with the other 2. Going to hold off on my vote for a bit though and see what the group is thinking
Another month of really interesting choices and yet again, I can find something for every tag.
Meli wrote: "Nicole R wrote: "Every month when I see this post, it is a reminder to read my book for the current month. Lol"Every month I see this post and think "already!?"
My how the time flies.
I am goin..."
I am with you, Meli, on Christmas mode!
For both Books about Books and Diversity, I own at least 4 on just the first couple pages of the lists. So either of those will work for me. Criticism looks very dry, and I spent 3 years with it in grad school that I wish I could get back!
I definitely have a favorite but there is a 2nd that is close behind!! Decisions, decisions... :)I agree that I'm moving into Christmas mode and I have my fall flurry/book to get home already picked out (thank goodness for Kristen Hannah lol)
I'm also finishing the last book of the Popsugar challenge that I've been doing, so I plan to "relax" and do a lot of for fun reads next month so definitely want a prompt to support that.
Robin P wrote: "For both Books about Books and Diversity, I own at least 4 on just the first couple pages of the lists. So either of those will work for me. Criticism looks very dry, and I spent 3 years with it in..."There are a ton of classics on the "criticism" tag.
Frankenstein, Lolita, Lord of the Flies, 1984, To Kill A Mockingbird, a bunch of Stephen King and Shakespeare...
Maybe you were an English major?
A bunch of books in the criticism tag I didn't expect to see that I would like to read but, again, no Christmas :(
Voted. One obvious one for me as a librarian - Books! The choice for the next two was hard as they both have some that I can read from my TBR.
I just happened to download a book with "Christmas Bookshop" in the title. Seriously, just before I logged in here. It might be too sweet for any other time of the year, but I like sweet in December. I'll look at all the lists in case there are some big surprises.
There is one I'm really not interested in... but I'd be happy with either of the other two. :-)
Meli wrote: "Robin P wrote: "For both Books about Books and Diversity, I own at least 4 on just the first couple pages of the lists. So either of those will work for me. Criticism looks very dry, and I spent 3 ..."I was a French and English lit major, so actually I have read a lot of classics. They are fine, but at the time I was in grad school, the point of the classes and the professional criticism seemed to be to ruin the experience of reading! It took me a while to read for pleasure again.
NEWER books. The tag lists cut out at 25 pages, so we often only see the books with the most tags. For some tags you can also find new releases and the most popular tag books this week. https://www.goodreads.com/genres/book...
I couldn't get this format to work for diversity, but gr is glitchy tonight, so try it anyway. Here is the format (erase the spaces).
https://www.goodreads. com /genres / diversity
https://www.goodreads. com /genres / books-about-books
Robin P wrote: "I was a French and English lit major, so actually I have read a lot of classics. They are fine, but at the time I was in grad school, the point of the classes and the professional criticism seemed to be to ruin the experience of reading! It took me a while to read for pleasure again."That makes total sense, Robin!
I like literature analysis but maybe not 3 straight years of it :P
Diversity has the most choices for me - and also matches where my reading interests are right now. Easy vote!
I voted. Interesting list to pick from but I do have a favorite.
Robin P wrote: "Meli wrote: "Robin P wrote: "For both Books about Books and Diversity, I own at least 4 on just the first couple pages of the lists. So either of those will work for me. Criticism looks very dry, a..."I totally understand, when I was working on my BA in History I had a lot of reading and writing to do. I wasn't able to fit any reading for pleasure, even in the summer breaks because I was often taking extra courses. It took a long time to pick up fiction and read it in the way I always had, by just letting go and developing the pictures in my mind. With fiction, I kept finding myself looking back for the facts!
Amy wrote: "Soon, your vote will count!So, I don't often announce so powerfully, but all of my possible points are going towards books! That was obvious for me. Plus, the end of year is tough with challenges..."
I am not flying to Boston, so am not sure what I am reading yet :) Obviously in Massachusetts somewhere and not Nantucket since that's where I set out from. I will keep this in mind, though.
Voted! That was an easy choice! I love reading books about books.
Karin wrote: "...and not Nantucket since that's where I set out from. I will keep this in mind, though...."I believe you CAN fly back to the exact place you started from.
Yes, from the original description - • Your final book of the year in December must be set in your home town/state/province/etc. so that you can safely return home after a year of adventures!
You can fly back to exactly where you started from! In fact, ideally, that is how it would work out—you start from your hometown and end at your hometown!Karin, I sent you a PM about your starting and ending locations, so we can chat about your options there!
There are at least a few books I've already read that feature my hometown just outside Boston. But none of them would have five tags. Plus, I have already read them.
Book Concierge wrote: "Karin wrote: "...and not Nantucket since that's where I set out from. I will keep this in mind, though...."I believe you CAN fly back to the exact place you started from."
Right, but I thought I had to fly to and from different places, and I am closer to Boston, so that's where I'll be flying to (and from--adjustments coming). I signed up for far too many challenges--mor than normal in January due to Covid closures, etc, and will never do that again! So may challenges, so many rules, so easy to get confused.
Boston is the closest in state major metropolitan area in this state with enough tags as per the latest clarification.
In case this question hasn't been addressed yet --- your starting point and final destination can be exactly the same, but they don't have to be. If you can't find a local book with enough tags, you can use the closest city or your state as the tag for your final destination. Another suggestion was for us to help one another to tag books (that we read of course) that fit your location. So if you have a local book you want to read, but it only has 3 or 4 tags, please speak up in case some of us already read it.
Also, there is nothing in the rules that requires there to be an airport in your final destination.
Karin wrote: "Book Concierge wrote: "Karin wrote: "...and not Nantucket since that's where I set out from. I will keep this in mind, though...."I believe you CAN fly back to the exact place you started from."..."
Actually, Karin, looking at the rules again, players were to start in their actual location. So even if your tiny village has no airport, that was still your starting location (because we were reading and counting tags for each DESTINATION).
When coming home in December, players should use the closest metro area, or if there are still no books with sufficient tags, the state (for players located in the USA), or the country.
Thanks, Book Concierge! Karin and I have worked out her starting and ending destinations behind the scenes, so she’s all set!
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Here are the lists of books for each tag:
books about books: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
criticism: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
diversity: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Remember, you may cast up to a total of 10 participation points for your choice. Every PBT member gets one vote for free so please vote even if you don't have any participation points!
You can see how many participation points you currently have in the spreadsheet below.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Happy voting! Please cast your votes by 12 noon EST on 11/22.