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Trim 2024 - Welcome and Challenge Planning
I have done 21 of the final papers and I have another 18 left. And only five days or four days left to do them. So the nesting doll has suffered. Then it’s my wicked 11 book. I will not share TAR spoilers!
@Amy - Please add me to the list of participants! And also put me down for buddy read of #8 Women Talking and #13 Heaven and Earth Grocery Store :)
I will get my list posted soon.
All the buddy read updates are in there! Plus Meli! Welcome Meli.
does anyone have any advice for how to get goodreads to go back to normal on my laptop. I've checked it is on desktop version but it has suddenly (overnight a couple of weeks ago it happened) turned into a list all crammed in down the left of the page. needless to say it is impossible to use as is and I'm trying to do everything on the phone (which I've now activated gr on because the laptop was so bad) which is much harder.
and I'm not on the list but did say a while ago that I will be doing TRIM again. It is the only challenge I've finished the last couple of years while life has sucked, and probably the only one I'll complete next year too because it is so flexible.
I have SEE What I Have Done on my list too which I have moved to 23 in case Book Concierge would like to do a buddy read? it is one of the options I had on the 22/23 list but didn't get to so a bit of motivation to get it done would be good.
Jen wrote: "does anyone have any advice for how to get goodreads to go back to normal on my laptop. I've checked it is on desktop version but it has suddenly (overnight a couple of weeks ago it happened) turne..."Wow, that is terrible! I have no idea what could be causing that. Only thing I would try is opening GR in a different browser than you are currently using. If GR opens normally then it is probably a browser glitch.
thanks....I tried that.Fixed by disabling some weird netskope thing school put on my laptop when they "fixed" it. Have to turn it back on for work and work email but turn it off for goodreads apparently.
Heather Reads Books wrote: "I'm in! Here's my list; I'm sticking with two possibilities for each number as it often gives me wiggle room to decide which I'm more in the mood for:Trim List 2024!
1. The Sleeping Dragon by Jo..."
I was also gifted Lessons in Chemistry from the other chemistry teacher at school yesterday (along with some kraft beer in a paper gift bag, then promptly got caught in a storm on the way to the car with a carton of beer on my shoulder my bag on my other shoulder and the gift bag in my hand. The bag disintegrated and the bottom fell out and smashed in a puddle while I was left holding just the handles.......my book now smells of beer but is still readable) so if you would like to share a buddy read I can have a stinky read with you.
I also do a couple of options for each number so we can confirm nearer the time if you prefer?
I have finalized my list (buddy read for Valley Forge is still there) Post # 5, I have added another book for each number so that I have a choice
Not sure if I'll have my list done until after Christmas (which is likely when I'll do most of my 2024 challenge planning). Though this one will probably be easier, as I'll likely just use titles I didn't read from my Subdue list. I really do want to get longer-term books from the tbr read, so I don't think I've ever done any of the buddy reads.
Jen wrote: "I have SEE What I Have Done on my list too which I have moved to 23 in case Book Concierge would like to do a buddy read? it is one of the options I had on the 22/23 list but didn't get to so a bit..."I don't usually plan on buddy reads since I have six in-person book clubs to read for, but I'm not opposed. So this might work.
I tentatively signed up for one with you as well.
Jen M., Unless you do not want to be, Ursula (our Charm name for the Randomizer or Spinner) has picked you to be our first Trim Picker for January. Should you choose to accept, once the monthly tag for January is announced, (usually on the 22nd), you can either choose which number is the number for everyone to read, or to just randomize, or randomly pick. By that time, we will have an official thread to announce. Sometimes, a person will make a choice that's on their list that matches the monthly tag. People pick however they like, if there is something they are in the mood for. Are you up for the challenge?
@Amy - not sure you saw, between grading papers, reining in Sparkles, speed reading Subdue, and Hannukah/Holiday activities, the fact that KTLovestoListen has diasappeared from GR entirely, just as Katelovestoread did earlier in year. Been some discussuion at the oddness of such erasure of presence on GR, and similarity of personalities and names.You will want to remove her from list of participants.
Amy wrote: "Jen M., Unless you do not want to be, Ursula (our Charm name for the Randomizer or Spinner) has picked you to be our first Trim Picker for January. Should you choose to accept, once the monthly tag..."I'm still not on the list either.....Not sure if you are just getting confused with so many Jens or if you haven't noticed my 4 attempts to say I'd like to be?
Yes Jen I really did mean to put you on the list. It’s been a rather crazy time, so please forgive the slip. I’m really glad you are joining us.I did not include our missing Kate when I put all the names in to randomize them for the next cycle, although I do have Purple Jen in there on the trim picker list. I’m not gonna include Kate when it’s time to post the new thread, but I will leave her buddy Red in case she returns.
Although I am only in one official buddy read, there are books I want to read or have read and hopefully I can join in the conversation. I am especially looking forward to joining the conversation on Women Talking. I read it by myself and wished I had someone to talk about it with. It is a stellar read
Joanne wrote: "Although I am only in one official buddy read, there are books I want to read or have read and hopefully I can join in the conversation. I am especially looking forward to joining the conversation ..."I do the same thing, actually, both for books I have read that end up a buddy read, or just join one when it sets up because I have the book and can fit it in. I particularly like revisiting in discussion a book the levt we with opinions or questions or even just sent me downa rabbit hole on google.
Amy wrote: "Jen M., Unless you do not want to be, Ursula (our Charm name for the Randomizer or Spinner) has picked you to be our first Trim Picker for January. Should you choose to accept, once the monthly tag..."Sounds like fun! I accept the gauntlet.
Amy wrote: "Yes Jen I really did mean to put you on the list. It’s been a rather crazy time, so please forgive the slip. I’m really glad you are joining us.I did not include our missing Kate when I put all t..."
Am I purple Jen then?.......quite like it been called a lot worse.
I haven't set up my word doc with all my challenges yet, but it's easy to get this going based on what I didn't read for Subdue. When I set up my word document, I'll come back and copy/paste this (and make any changes I'd like to at that time). 1. Sea of Slaughter / Farley Mowat
2. Still Life / Joy Fielding
3. Finding Frankie / Maeve Binchy
4. Everything She Ever Wanted / Ann Rule
5. Bet Me / Jennifer Crusie
6. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox / Maggie O’Farrell
7. Deliverance From Evil / Frances Hill
8. Runaway / Alice Munro
9. The Lost Girls of Paris / Pam Jenoff
10. Born Bad / Heather Burnside
11. The Taster / V. S. Alexander
12. We Bought a Zoo / Benjamin Mee
13. The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter / Hazel Gaynor
14. Garment of Shadows / Laurie R. King
15. A Newfoundlander in Canada / Alan Doyle
16. Seal Wars / Paul Watson
17. On This Day / Nathaniel Bellows
18. Arbella / Sarah Gristwood
19. Anne Neville: Queen to Richard III / Michael Hicks
20. Cry Rape / Bill Lueders (openlib)
21. Calligraphy of the Witch / Alicia Gaspar de Alba
22. Nobody's Mother: Life Without Kids / Lynne van Luven
23. Fostering Sustainable Behavior / Doug McKenzie-Mohr
24. The Autobiography of an Execution / David R. Dow
FYI - There are Conductor rewards posted on the December SUBDUE thread for many of you. If you're still playing check it out, and if you're definitely done playing Subdue, can you let me know? Cindy? Joanne? 2 roll bonus
Theresa - a new random one to add to your roll.
Amy - a new random
Sorry Nancy, I thought I told you I was done-you can gift my present to someone else
NancyJ wrote: "Cindy? Joanne? 2 roll bonus..."Hi, Nancy. I answered over in the Subdue thread. I am planning to read one more, but by the end of this year, not necessarily by the 20th, so - for the game itself, I am done.... but for myself, I want to get to that last book. So, with the timeline, no more rolls will be happening for me. But thank you!
OK - taking an hour for GR catch up. I think I am caught up with Trim. Let me know if I have missed anything. I am going to post the 2024 Announcement and Community Thread by Wednesday the 20th so that Jen M is good to go, when the tag is announced. I will link this one to that one, and they will likely only compete for a short time, as soon after we get into 2024, this thread will be less useful, unless new folks wish to join us and they want to peruse all our lists and post their own in addition to the buddy reads. But we are looking good to go.
Here is my 2024 list: 1 King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes
2 Giovani's Room by James Baldwin
3 Beloved by Toni Morrison
4 Dead Astronauts by Jeff Vandermeer
5 Hag-seed by Margaret Atwood
6 Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix
7 You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott
8 Women Talking by Miriam Toews
9 Children of the Dark by Jonathan Janz
10 The Thicket by Joe R. Lansdale
11 The Entity by Frank De Felitta
12 The Sentinel by Jeffrey Konvitz
13 Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
14 Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite
15 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
16 Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson
17 Coyote Songs by Gabino Iglesias
18 The Good House by Tananarive Due
19 In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
20 The Left Hand of Darnkess by Ursula K. Le Guin
21 I let You Go by Clare Mackintosh
22 The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
23 Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
24 My Heart Is A Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
Ok, I finally filled in the rest of my slots (Message 33)Sally, I'm going to join you for Watership Down at #8
I've gone with multiple options again.....could have had about 10 per slot tbh but left the options not chosen in 22/23 and filled the slots left by ones I had read with whatever I have that I saw first. Not sure who it was on here who suggested the Amish Vampires and Zombies but they sound very silly so I had to get them on the list. Ditto the rest of the Merde series is really silly.Trim 2024
1) Breathless/God’s Grace/Amish Vampires In Space
2) The Single Ladies of The Jacaranda Retirement Village/Exiles/Elsewhere
3) The Last Climb/The Secret Garden/ The Boy Who was Raised As a Dog
4) The Collide/King Solomon’s Mines/The Everest Years
5) The Unclimbed Ridge/Against all Odds/The Other Emily
6) A Keeper/ The Eyes Of The Dragon/The Last Dive
7) Lessons in Chemistry/ The Red Queen /Spiral
8) The Last Migration/ Life on the Leash/Merde in Europe
9) Oryx and Crake /Trojan Odyssey/The Merde Factor
10) The Last Ship/Merde Actually/Amish Zombies from Space
11) Shackled /V is for Vengeance/1000 Years of Annoying the French
12) Mr Mercedes/The Shipwreck Hunter/ The Night Eternal
13) The Box in the Woods/Good Behaviour/Dawn of the Dreadfuls
14) You’ll be the Death of Me/Carpathia /Darwin Elevator
15) The Starless Sea/Mercy Point/A Map of Days
16) Playing Nice/Big Dark Sky/Riverdale
17)Apeirogon /Elephants on Acid/And the Mountains Echoed
18) Ready Player Two/Quicksilver /Sea of Tranquility
19) Helter Skelter/How to Tame a Fox/Quicksand
20) The Sword of Summer/Sorcery/A Brief History of Time
21) Where They Found Her/Trial by Fire/The Bookshop of Yesterdays
22) Nemesis/The Secret History/How Animals Saved My Life
23) The Ruin/ The Girl in the Spider’s Web/ See What I Have Done
24) Sand/The First Days/Labrador
Purple Jen, I think Sally is reading Apeirogon as well. Maybe you want to connect to get it up at the same number. I didn’t recognize anything else, but maybe there were other matches that I didn’t catch? But thought you might wanna know about that one. We are all anxiously awaiting the tag, followed by the trim!!!
Amy wrote: "Purple Jen, I think Sally is reading Apeirogon as well. Maybe you want to connect to get it up at the same number. I didn’t recognize anything else, but maybe there were other matches that I didn’t..."It is a rather rushed list. I think Lessons in Chemistry could be moved too and See What I Have Done. Just need to get my big girl pants on and go mow the lawns and whipper snip (which I truly hate doing, but last time I paid a gardening service they cut through the irrigation so I ended up paying for new parts and having to replace the irrigation as well as paying for the mowing, so as usual better off just doing it myself).
Kate NZ has Apeirogon at number 8 and Sallys has it at number 17 I had it at number 1 so I've moved it to number 17 for now since Sallys list was first. I could go with either number.
See what I have Done is at 23 for both Book Concierge and myself.
Lessons in Chemistry I have moved to number 7 where Heather Reads Books has it.
I think that is all of them but none of these are confirmed buddy reads so it is just an option if any of the others want to do a buddy read? And if work allows at the point they get picked (hence every month having the option for something short and easy to read).
I was going to say that I knew Lessons in Chemistry was somewhere. I will add all these into the new list. The whole thing is optional anywyay.
I got them all in there!!! Now all we need is for Jen M to announce the number. (On the other thread).
Amy wrote: "I got them all in there!!! Now all we need is for Jen M to announce the number. (On the other thread)."Yep. I'm excited to try to get back into reading and diving for 2024. Try to get life back on track and to have things to look forward to instead of bouncing from one disaster to the next and constantly being in survival mode. We shall see.
After noticing how many books I have unread I've made a second trim list of 3 options for this year and will try to pick one from each since it is flexible. Time to have a proper TRIM.
Finally added my list in message #14. I added a bunch of Buddy Reads so apologies for getting it in so late.
Amy wrote: "Now all we need is for Jen M to announce the number.."Is it ok for me to go ahead and post it, or do I/should I wait for Jan 1?
Any time now, Jen - the monthly tag has been announced so we are all go!
Jen wrote: "Amy wrote: "Now all we need is for Jen M to announce the number.."Is it ok for me to go ahead and post it, or do I/should I wait for Jan 1?"
We normally post straight after the tag is announced so unless the organisers have changed the plans.....
Hey Purple Jen! Looking forward to reading Apeirogon with you. I've been putting it off., so a Buddy Read should be the push I need!
Sallys wrote: "Hey Purple Jen! Looking forward to reading Apeirogon with you. I've been putting it off., so a Buddy Read should be the push I need!"Sounds good. I had it as an option for 22/23 and didn't do it so also need a push. Very apt for the world right now too sadly.
TRIM 20241. Fairy Tale - Stephen King
2. Sword Catcher - Cassandra Clare
3. Sparring Partners - John Grisham
4. Death Below Stairs - Jennifer Ashley
5. Gentleman's Guide to Murder - Victoria Hamilton
6. Extinction Parade - Max Brooks
7. 22 Murders - Max Barry
8. Christie Affair - Nina DeGramont
9. On a Night of 1, 000 stars - Yaryure Clark
10. Lioness of Boston - Emily Franklin
11. Goodbye Earl - Leesa Cross-Smith
12. Her Country - Marissa Moss
13. Ladyparts - Deborah Copaken
14. Hello Molly - Molly Shannon
15. Ejaculate Responsibly - Gabrielle Blair
16. Myth America - Kruse + Zeiler
17. Muppets in Moscow - Rogoff...
18. The Good Life - Robert Waldinger
19. Cursed Bunny - Bora Chung
20. Embrace Fearlessly - Barry Lopez
21. Don't Sit on My Bed - Phoebe Robinson
22. Prey - Jeanan Verlee
23. American Treasure - Jill McDonough
24. The Parting Gift - Evan Fallberg
Annaressa, Welcome! I loved the Christie Affair! I also plan to read Lioness of Boston. The author is a parent in our former elementary school so she has a child just a couple of years younger than my youngest. I hear she’s very willing to do book groups around the Boston area. I happen to be stopped last Tuesday in Newton Center looking for Sympathy cards at the CVS. I stopped in front of a teeny bookstore and record store that I had never seen before. Apparently they opened up six months earlier. The owner was an old man with a boot on his foot. So I marvel at his store and talked with him and actually helped him bring all of the books from the sidewalk into the store and then I bought the lioness of Boston because I wanted to buy something in the store and I got a signed copy. Anyway, have been meaning to read it. I hear local books groups, read the book together and then discuss it and then go to see the Isabel Stewart Gardner museum together. And I think that sounds like a summer plan.
Trim 2024:1. The Irish Princess - Karen Harper
2. Captive Queen - Alison Weir
3. That’s Not in My American History Book - Thomas Ayers
4. Into the Silence - Wade Davis
5. Final Voyage - Peter Nichols
6. A Little History of the World - E. H. Gombrich
7. Far Bright Star - Robert Olmstead
8. Far North - Will Hobbs
9. You Can Buy Happiness - Tammy Strobel
10. 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel - Jane Smiley
11. The Spartans - Paul Cartledge
12. Don’t Know Much About Mythology - Kenneth C. Davis
13. The Stoning of Sorayam - Freidoune Sahebjam
14. Escape from Camp 14 - Blaine Harden
15. The Slave Across the Street - Theresa Flores
16. Lost in Shangri-La - Mitchell Zuckoff
17. The Tender Bar - J. R. Moehringer
18. All Roads Lead to Austen - Amy Smith
19. Tide, Feather, Snow - Miranda Weiss
20. The Face Behind the Veil - Donna Gehrke
21. House of Prayer No. 2 - Mark Richard
22. Four Against the Arctic - David Roberts
23. The Faithful Spy - Alex Berenson
24. Lipstick Jihad - Azadeh Moaveni
I changed my # 15 ... as I just finished the book I had originally put there!
Even though it's January 10, can I still join Trim? If so, here's my list:1. Hell Bent
2. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow*
3. The Soulmate
4. Love on the Brain
5. When I'm Dead
6. The Stranger Upstairs
7. The Stardust Thief
8. The Last Party
9. The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi
10. Someone Else's Shoes
11. Hang the Moon
12. The Last Thing He Told Me
13. This Spells Love
14. Dating Dr. Dil
15. Ink Blood Sister Scribe*
16. The Last Word
17. Darling Girl
18. Like a Sister
19. Things We Do in the Dark
20. Dark Corners
21. Cross Her Heart
22. Daisy Darker
23. Ariadne
24. The Circus Train
Of course, Jenny! I’ll get you on the new list. But I think a bunch of these match ours. I can see a ton of these that are potential buddy Red matches. Did you want to look through the whole thread and see if you can find them? I saw at least five titles that I’m pretty sure match other ones I’ve seen. And welcome back.
Sure. I can look through the thread and find buddy matches. :D I'll post what I find.
Here's what I found. I updated my list to show the buddy reads.2. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Heather Reads Books)
15. Ink Blood Sister Scribe (Amy)
I'm also willing to move things around if anyone else decides they want to read any of the same books I listed.
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I haven't watched yet - had my Subdue 2nd 6+5 book to finish and review. You can do yours, Amy! I did mine despite an insance work schedule!