[2025] Poll 2 Voting

[NancyJ]

Pamela wrote: "NancyJ wrote: "Rachel wrote: "Pamela wrote: "Rachel wrote: "10. A book where the word “ten” is in the author’s name or title - Not really a fan of prompts where you have to find a word hidden in na..."

If someone has a small tbr that would work, but mine is ridiculously large. (I add and add, but I rarely delete…. Just in case.) Using the listopia literally took seconds to search, but I still had to look through many the pages to click the priorities.

[Rachel]

I get the process of doing the search, but it still doesn't interest me. I know I would end up defaulting to a book with the word (or number) ten in the title on its own since nothing else really clicks in my brain as fitting. For example, "listen" should work because it contains the word "ten" but my brain tends not to accept is as a fit since it's a whole separate word, if that makes sense.

[Tracy]

Do you mean you wouldn’t see “ten” in “listen”when scanning your TBR, or you can’t accept “listen” as a valid option?

[Sibylle]

I get it. It's the same (for me) with prompts like "colour xy on the title". It's easy to find one, but it somehow isn't very satisfying.

I don't mind prompts like that, they are just not fun for me.

[Pamela, Arciform Mod]

NancyJ wrote: "Pamela wrote: "NancyJ wrote: "Rachel wrote: "Pamela wrote: "Rachel wrote: "10. A book where the word “ten” is in the author’s name or title - Not really a fan of prompts where you have to find a wo..."

I wish you could filter listopias or search in them- I only want to see what books are on this list that are in my TBR list! On these long ones, doing ctrl-f on every page is annoying!

[NancyJ]

Pamela wrote: "NancyJ wrote: "Pamela wrote: "NancyJ wrote: "Rachel wrote: "Pamela wrote: "Rachel wrote: "10. A book where the word “ten” is in the author’s name or title - Not really a fan of prompts where you ha..."

It’s even harder to search for keywords on an iPad, because you have to keep retyping the search term on each page. (On an iPad you use “find in page” instead of the control F.)

I’m really happy I discovered the listopia search technique to search my tbr. I could create my own listopia for any word in a title or author name. I could search once and have them all listed.

I have to find the person who posted it to say thank you.

[NancyJ]

Sibylle wrote: "NancyJ wrote: When I looked at the long list of common noun authors, none of them jumped out at me right away."

I took a little peek at your to-read shelf... three of the last six books you added..."

@sibylle
Thanks for that note. I didn’t even remember adding them. I already own at least one book by Hill, so it’s nice to know I have the prompt covered - unless I read it this year. But what is the common noun for Pierce Brown?

[Sibylle]

NancyJ wrote: " But what is the common noun for Pierce Brown?"

I would have thought the colour brown counts as a noun? In German it would. I think. Not sure... I think it could be a noun or an adjective, both.

Maybe next time I suggest verb or adjektive as a name. Then Pierce (verb) and Brown (adj.) would definitely count.

Glad that Hill works!

[Tracy]

Or maybe Brown could work if you are considering word within a word, so “brow”?

In English, as far as I know, brown is only an adjective (“a brown house”), or a verb (“brown that roast”, which really may just be a shortening of a verb/adjective phrase — “cook that roast until it is brown”?)

[Sibylle]

In a sentence like "brown is my favorite colour" would brown be the noun - or wouldn't it?

I really don't know. But we had some interesting grammar discussions before, maybe someone will shed some light on this soon!

PS: I asked AI: "Yes, "brown" can be used as both a noun and an adjective. As a noun, it refers to a color that is a dark shade of orange."

But do we believe everything an AI says... well...

[Tracy]

Hmmm, I always thought colors were adjectives, but now you have me wondering that if they aren’t being used to describe something (a brown crayon), and are just being used as a stand-alone concept, maybe they CAN be a noun…

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

Yes, colors can be nouns as in the example Sibylle gave - "Brown is a good neutral color for a coat". If you said, "the color brown is good for a coat", it would be an adjective in that sentence.

[Tracy]

Thanks for the explanation. I was more of a math student than an English student.

[Dixie]

According to the Oxford Language Dictionary, brown can be a noun:
brown color or pigment.
"the brown of his eyes"

[Dixie]

Pamela wrote: "I wish you could filter listopias or search in them- I only want to see what books are on this list that are in my TBR list! On these long ones, doing ctrl-f on every page is annoying!..."

You can - I do - the books from my Want to Read list appear as white rectangles instead of the usual green as I skim down Listopias. It's easy to see very quickly what I have already read or want to read.

[NancyJ]

Robin P wrote: "Yes, colors can be nouns as in the example Sibylle gave - "Brown is a good neutral color for a coat". If you said, "the color brown is good for a coat", it would be an adjective in that sentence."

Sigh. I’m still learning ( or relearning) new things all the time, even at my age. I found lists of hundreds of common nouns. Since we aren’t using the words in a sentence, I think I’ll skip colors or other adjectives that only sometimes count. Didn’t we have a suggestion last week with colors? If I read a book by Brown, maybe I can use it in my rejects challenge.

[Nike]

The good thing with Swedish surnames are that most of them consist of nouns. Im not only talking about all our "-son-names" like Andersson (Ander's son or the son of Anders) and Karlsson and Svensson and so on, no - we have a vast amount of names made of nature words like mountain, hill, slope, creek, lake, valley, twig, branch, flower, forest and so on. They mostly consist of two such words like Bäckström (Creek + stream), Dalberg (Valley + mountain), Lövgren (Leaf + branch). So I will most certainly read a Swedish writer for this one.

[Rachel]

Tracy wrote: "Do you mean you wouldn’t see “ten” in “listen”when scanning your TBR, or you can’t accept “listen” as a valid option?"

A little of both. I tried the search just to see what came up, and found myself automatically skipping over things like "listen" or names like "Kristen." There were many times where it took me a minute to figure out how the book showing up even fit.

I could eventually come around to accept those words as valid options since I know that they do fit the prompt, but it's still not my preference

[Tracy]

Thanks for explaining Rachel.