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Trim 2022 - Invitation, Planning, and Organization Thread
Amy - sounds like an excellent plan! Have a wonderful trip and a joyous holiday with your family!
TRIM 2022 - Revised 1. One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus
2. Die Trying by Lee Child
3. The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom
4. Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan
5. Survival Lessons by by Alice Hoffman
6. The Cactus by Sarah Haywood
7. After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid
8. Mrs. Hemmingway by Naomi Wood
9. The Wish by Nicholas Sparks
10. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
11. All Adults Here by Emma Straub
12. Always in December by Emily Stone
13. Lightning Strike by William Kent Krueger
14. Eight Perfect Hours by Lia Louis
15. Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid
16. Forever, Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid
17. The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
18. The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
19. We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz
20 The Booksellers Secret by Michelle Gable
21. The Rosie Effect by GraemeSimsion
22. Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
23. Golden Girl by Elin Hilderbrand
24. And Now She's Gone by Rachel Howzell Hall
Kelly wrote: "TRIM 20221. Better off Dead by Lee Child
2. One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus
3. The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom
4. Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan
5. Survival Less..."
Kelly, I'd like to have a buddy read of One of Us Is Lying with you. But I have another buddy read at number 2. Would you mind switching it to number 1 if you want to read this book together?:)
I would like to join the Buddy Read of Euphoria
*ANNOUNCING THE JANUARY NUMBER*So everyone can plan (and we are a fastidious group of planners-LoL)
The 1st book for 2022 is #10
Happy Happy Holidays to one and all may 2022 be a very special reading year for you!
Amy ... it would be helpful if you could create a direct link to each participant's posted list. Some of us are on page one, others on page 2 or page 3 of this thread. Directions for creating a link are in the (some html is ok) menu, on the far right, just above the comment box where you type a new comment.
Oh, I'd even add a suggestion that you do this in the NEW thread, so we have a handy reference in the place we're supposed to be announcing the # of the month and posting our progress / reviews.
Kelly wrote: "TRIM 20221. Better off Dead by Lee Child
2. One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus
3. The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom
4. Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan
5. Survival Less..."
I add some books to do buddy reads with you...
1. Not a buddy read but I added Die Trying #2 in the series
11. All Adults Here
22. Firefly Lane
Finally figured out my list!I really am trying to clean off my in real live shelves/Kindle this year, so everything I already own:
1. Die Trying by Lee Child
2. On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
3. The Sleeping Doll by Jeffery Deaver
4. Writers & Lovers by Lily King
5. Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty (Saw Booknblues has it as a buddy read)
6. The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
7. Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok
8. Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
9. The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
Jan: 10. Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
11. All Adults Here by Emma Straub
12. The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton
13. Kiss the Girls by James Patterson
14. The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave (may read this at a different time since I think it is going to be a IRL book club pick)
15. The Tear Collector by Shawn Burgess
16. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
17. The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King
18. I'm Fine and Neither Are You by Camille Pagán
19. Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline
20. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
21. Cut to the Bone by Jefferson Bass
22. Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
23. Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
24. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
Yay for #10!Artemis by Andy Weir - fits the monthly tag and we get to have an Andy Weir buddy read-a-thon!
I've already read The Martian, but may add Project Hail Mary to read as well.
My #10 is The Last Collection: A Novel of Elsa Schiaparelli and Coco Chanel-hoping it is a light read as I have 3 chunksters going into January
Thank you, JoAnne! Gives me a science for monthly tag! My #10 is The Martian and yes, we have an Andy Weir buddy read! If I like The Martian I might add Project Hail Mary. I already read Artemis. I will open the buddy read thread.
I think I have all of those changes ready to upload. And I will do that when I get to my destination later since I’m now moved from plane to car. But the important thing to note is for Kellie, who I might just message on one form or another. Because she has project Hail Mary on her list at 16, and should know there is this Project Hail Mary Trim thing happening at 10 this very month like right now!
I’m also going to join her for stranger in the lifeboat number three. The only thing left that was confusing is that if Diana has Kelly move One of Us is Lying to number one, then Charlotte and Kelly just need to figure out a different match up for Lee Child’s.
On the issue of creating links to our posts, it is absolutely not a close conversation by any means, but I’m inclined to wonder about the utility of that for this thread, as it will probably only be really in use for another week or so. Anyone creating or moving around their lists are either comparing it to their own, or to the buddy list in message one. Yes it might take a lot of work to re-read the thread and make sure you haven’t missed anything, but it’s a probably a lot more work for me to post up individual links peoples lists. Especially since I don’t know how. I’m willing to learn it for the official thread, but I’m also curious about the utility of that? I’d love to hear what you have in mind.So for the official thread we will be using, let’s think about what kind of links might be useful. Message one will have the entire list of buddy reeds plus the wheel of rotating trim pickers. And we are now 19 out of 22 participants with Kelly. To be clear, if more than 22 people sign up, that’s not a problem in terms of participating, it just means that you didn’t sign up in time to get to be a trim picker. So I imagine the important pages of the official thread will be the very first message, and the last few of any month that will be the announcement of the number. I saw it less for reviews, and certainly no lists but more of a community building thread. What and which links were you hoping the official thread might post? I am curious to hear more.
My #10 is Anxious People. It’s a buddy read, I think. Cool.
I Messaged Kelly on FB. Thought that was my best shot. We shall see!
I would like to join all of you for the Trim this year. I’ve got a few books on my list that other people also want to read, so I’ve tried to put those ones in the same numbers. Hopefully I didn’t miss any. This is my list:1. Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict
2. The Girls in the Picture by Melanie Benjamin
3. March by Geraldine Brooks
4. Halsey Street by Naima Coster
5. The Address by Fiona Davis
6. The Cactus by Sarah Haywood
7. The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore
8. Here to Stay by Sara Farizan
9. The Ghost by Robert Harris
10. The Island by Victoria Hislop
11. A Tangled Mercy by Joy Jordan-Lake
12. The Things We Left Unsaid by Emma Kennedy
13. I Was Anastasia by Ariel Lawhon
14. Small Island by Andrea Levy
15. Sugar Run by Mesha Maren
16. Mouths Don't Speak by Katia D. Ulysse
17. Stanley and Elsie by Nicola Upson
18. Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.
19. So wie ich will - Mein Leben zwischen Moschee und Minirock by Melda Akbaş
20. The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure
21. This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins
22. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
23. The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton
24. The Tuscan Child by Rhys Bowen
You are more than on time! This is the kind of challenge folks can get in on whenever they please, but you are right at the start! I only caught the buddy read with Joanne at 24, and I added myself for Lady Clementine with you at #1. Were there others I didn’t catch? Uploading the whole list in a few hours with yours, Charlotte, and Kelly…. Still in the car driving over a snowy mountain pass!
Wait -also Paris Architect at 20. Let me know if there were others I missed.
Amy wrote: "Wait -also Paris Architect at 20. Let me know if there were others I missed."I’ve just quickly skimmed through all the lists, and I think there is also The Cactus at 6 with Kelly, and The Song of Achilles at 22 with Joanne.
Driving over a snowy mountain pass sounds amazing - I hope you stay safe and warm!
AMy, Hannah and I both have The Song of Achilles at # 22-Hannah! Great will surely enjoy all three reads with you!
Came into Wi-Fi again, 47 minutes to home! Adding those two for the big upload later!
Those two are added in to the master list for the later upload. I just had a thought about the links again. Maybe it makes sense on our real next thread, right there in message one, to have a link to this thread, so anybody who either wants to reference back, or to join in and create a list of their own, and see if it matches up with anyone, or what have you. So you don’t have to go searching and footnotes for it, because this thread is going to become quite inactive.
Friends, we are up to Forty or so amazing Buddy Reads!
I participate in a LOT of challenges.In virtually all of them, the basic rules / tasks / instructions for the challenge are outlined in thread # 1 (and sometimes # 2).
The next thread is reserved for a list of participants, typically listed in alphabetical order ... and the challenge coordinator creates a link for each participant so that they can go directly to their challenge posts without having to search through three or four pages of posts to find where they put their list and update it.
In our case ... having each participant's list as a created link in an early thread would allow any of us to check each other's lists that much more easily without worrying that we missed "Jughead's" post on page 4.
Here's a sample of what I mean For this particular challenge you can click on my name and see that it takes you to page 9, post # 436.
Amy wrote: "Come see the list in message one!"Amy don't half kill yourself trying to figure out IT stuff for an unofficial challenge and miss out on family time or reading time.
Thank you for taking on extra so the rest of us can do the challenge!
Jen wrote: "Amy wrote: "Come see the list in message one!"Amy don't half kill yourself trying to figure out IT stuff for an unofficial challenge and miss out on family time or reading time.
Thank you for ta..."
Ditto!
My #10 is either Imposter Syndrome by Kathy Wang or The Once and Future King by T.H. White. I thiiink I'm going to give The Once and Future King a shot, as I think it will be paired nicely with the beginning of our ASOIAF reread. We'll see how ambitious I'm feeling after the holidays...
I thought I'd posted my list here already but wasn't able to find it when I looked yesterday. Anyway, I have it in a Word document, so my #10 is The Only Alien on the Planet
Cin ... your list is posted HERE, pg 1, post # 7I also keep my list in an excel spreadsheet for easy reference.
Book Concierge wrote: "Cin ... your list is posted HERE, pg 1, post # 7"Thank you! I'm sure I looked through twice, but I had company (until this morning), so was probably easy to overlook.
Heather Reads Books wrote: "My #10 is either Imposter Syndrome by Kathy Wang or The Once and Future King by T.H. White. I thiiink I'm going to give The Once and Future King a shot, as I think it will be paired nicely with the..."I have 3 choices The Last Ship, Extreme South or Atlantis Found They are all longish but I think I'll start with The Last Ship (I saw the TV series and liked that so we'll see if the book follows the usual rule of being better) which is the longest one.
Might do them all since it is the quiet month for work but will also still be finishing ATY due to having too many 700pg+ ones this year and not enough hours to read them all. 2021trim is the only unofficial one I did and the only challenge I might finish.
Heather Reads Books wrote: "My #10 is either Imposter Syndrome by Kathy Wang or The Once and Future King by T.H. White. I thiiink I'm going to give The Once and Future King a shot, as I think it will be paired nicely with the..."If you do Imposter Syndrome, let me know, it's sitting on my shelf and depending on my other reading, I could pick it up this month.
Amy wrote: "Maybe it makes sense on our real next thread ..."So, Amy, there will be a completely new thread when the unofficial challenge officially begins? Good idea.
Amy wrote: "I think I have all of those changes ready to upload. And I will do that when I get to my destination later since I’m now moved from plane to car. But the important thing to note is for Kellie, wh..."
I will do all that! Thanks!
Diana H. wrote: "Kelly wrote: "TRIM 20221. Better off Dead by Lee Child
2. One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus
3. The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom
4. Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan
5...."
I made the change. Thanks.
Charlotte wrote: "Kelly wrote: "TRIM 20221. Better off Dead by Lee Child
2. One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus
3. The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom
4. Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan
5...."
Great! I switched my Lee Child book and order to match yours.
Amy wrote: "I think I have all of those changes ready to upload. And I will do that when I get to my destination later since I’m now moved from plane to car. But the important thing to note is for Kellie, wh..."
Amy my revised list is there. If I missed any of the changes you mentioned let me know. Have a good trip!
I want to join. And here is my list of physical books scattered about my house.1. The Mango Season - Malladi
2. The House of Spirits - Allende
3. Shelter in Place - Roberts
4. The Lightning Thief - Riordan
5. The Sky Fisherman - Lesley
6. Shotgun Lovesongs - Butler
7. The Loop - Coomer
8. Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker - Chiaverini
9. Baker Towers - Haugh
*1* 10. The Circle - Eggers
11. Born to Run - McDougall
12. The Book of Lost Names - Harmel
13. Show Business Kills - Dart
14. Keeping Faith - Picoult
15. The Innocent - Coben
16. The Lion's Game - Demille
17. Radio Shangri-La - Napoli
*2*18. Tourist Season - Hiaasen
19. Ellis Island - Stewart
20. Quality of Care - Letts
21. Terminal Freeze - Child
22. Scales of Justice - Marsh
23. Lady - McCaffrey
24. The Tie That Binds - Haruf
Amy, please add me to the list! I just need to review what I want on my 24 :)
Amy, can you please add me to the Buddy read lists for: #1- Apeirogon
#10- Weir book if I can get it in time
#21 The Forty Rules of Love
#21The Giver of Stars - I just read it, and I'd love to join the discussion.
I might also add to the discussions of 1-Lady Clementine, 2-Euphoria, 15- Klara and the sun, 24- Once there were wolves, and perhaps others.
Is anyone else planning to read Louise Erdrich books this year? If so I'd love to set up buddy reads. She's the author of the year in the diversity group, so I plan to read several:
The Round House
The Sentence - I just read it, and would love to discuss it. It's in the 2022 Book Tournament too.
The Night Watchman
Many of her earlier books too.
I don't have a formal list yet.
What a list! Glad to see you Nancy! All updates are in there, (I think).
My list1)Apeirogon
2)Euphoria
3)Bombay Time
4)Not Me
5)Family Matters
6)Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
7)Gone So Long
8)Swimming Home
9)Autobiography of a face
19)The Plot
11)Hamnet
12) The Home at the End of the World
13)The Candy House
14) The Invisible Life of Addie Larue
15)Violeta
16)Klara and the Sun
17)Project Hail Mary
18)Three Daughters of Eve
19)The Book of Lost Names
20)Tell Me an Ending
21)State of Wonder
22)If We had Known
23)And They Called It Camelot
24)Truth and Beauty
Amy- I'm also joining the Buddy Read of Klara and the Sun #15
Okay, I'm back home and I have a list. It was super helpful to have so many buddy reads set up already so I started there on my list.** denotes Buddy Read
1. Apeirogon by Colum McCann **
2. The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra
3. Dear Mrs. Bird by A.J. Pearce **
4. Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
5. The Next Always by Nora Roberts\
6. Inland by Téa Obreht
7. Wow, No Thank You.: Essays by Samantha Irby
8. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
9. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones **
10. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir **
11. The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
12. The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker
13. The Salt Line by Holly Goddard Jones
14. Little Bee by Chris Cleave
15. Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
16. A Man by Keiichirō Hirano
17. The Death of Bees by Lisa O'Donnell
18. Last Train to Istanbul by Ayşe Kulin
19. Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline **
20. All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg
21. The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak **
22. Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne
23. The Girl in the Tree by Şebnem İşigüzel
24. Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy **
NancyJ wrote: "Amy, can you please add me to the Buddy read lists for: #1- Apeirogon
#10- Weir book if I can get it in time
#21 The Forty Rules of Love
#21[book:The Giver of Stars..."
@NancyJ, I would be interested in reading some Louise Erdrich in 2022. Haven't read much and happy to start anywhere.
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But for this month only, Joanne, (who gets to pick twice) is going to randomly select our January number, and post it right here on this thread, so that those who are eager to get started with their planning or library ordering, do not have to wait for the official thread to begin. She can post it anytime after Anita posts the January tag. Thinking ahead, I will be on a plane tomorrow heading West, so I thought it was best to think this one through in advance. Hope everybody feels comfortable with that plan. Love to all, and Merry Christmas to those who celebrate. A beautiful Shabbat and Weekend for all.