Play Harder Third Quarter Prompt Swap

[NancyJ]

Robin P wrote: "Wow, this is the 4th day of the swap! I think the others were much faster."

I think most people were online around the same time last time and made quick decisions. We seem more reluctant this time to open the last prompt. I might open it if I get another turn.

[Lyn]

NancyJ wrote: "Robin P wrote: "Wow, this is the 4th day of the swap! I think the others were much faster."

I think most people were online around the same time last time and made quick decisions. We seem more re..."

It's really not a bad prompt, I promise. I liked my entire list when I got it, but wanted to participate in the swap, so I just picked one to swap. I am glad I joined in on the fun. This has been a blast!

[NancyJ]

Lyn wrote: "NancyJ wrote: "Robin P wrote: "Wow, this is the 4th day of the swap! I think the others were much faster."

I think most people were online around the same time last time and made quick decisions. ..."

A few of them look like they could be very time consuming. The one that looked the hardest, has one book that I’m eager to read soon. Fran and I both like the author.

[Pam]

NancyJ wrote: "I think most people were online around the same time last time and made quick decisions. We seem more reluctant this time to open the last prompt. I might open it if I get another turn."

You're getting your chance! I would like to steal:

9. Read a book with a tag that starts with "social" (Sociology, society, social psychology, social sciences, social, social- justice, sociable, sociopath, social engineering, social commentary, etc.) (Nancy)

Will she be brave enough???

[Booknblues]

Nancy, you are up! What will she do? The suspense is killing me.

[NancyJ]

Pam, I hope you love what you pick for the SOC prompt. If you need suggestions let me know.

I will take a chance and open prompt #6. I hope everyone is happy with what they have because I think we’re done! It’s been fun! Fingers crossed …🤞


Lyn if you’re still here, can you send me a message with the prompt, just in case Anita is busy.

[Lyn]

NancyJ wrote: "Pam, I hope you love what you pick for the SOC prompt. If you need suggestions let me know.

I will take a chance and open prompt #6. I hope everyone is happy with what they have because I think we..."

I hope you don't hate it Nancy. Your prompt is:

6. A book with less than 1,000 ratings on GoodReads

[Robin P]

I have absolutely no memory of which prompts I submitted, but I'm pretty sure it was none of these. All mine were rather general. I was trying to make it easy for everyone!

[NancyJ]

Lyn wrote: "NancyJ wrote: "Pam, I hope you love what you pick for the SOC prompt. If you need suggestions let me know.

I will take a chance and open prompt #6. I hope everyone is happy with what they have bec..."

Awesome, that’s the one I hoped it was. I will be reading The Original by Nell Stevens. It’s new so it still has few ratings. Thanks!

[Lyn]

I am on my third list and have participated in two swaps. I have yet to get a prompt I submitted. I have gotten a couple that are similar, but not exact.

[Booknblues]

Lyn wrote: "NancyJ wrote: "Pam, I hope you love what you pick for the SOC prompt. If you need suggestions let me know.

I will take a chance and open prompt #6. I hope everyone is happy with what they have bec..."

Woo! I'm actually reading one of those right now! Strong Roots: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Ukraine

[NancyJ]

Robin P wrote: "I have absolutely no memory of which prompts I submitted, but I'm pretty sure it was none of these. All mine were rather general. I was trying to make it easy for everyone!"

Theresa and I each wrote prompts that the other found difficult, and we put them into this game. Too bad we couldn’t just switch. Im happy with these results.

[Lyn]

NancyJ wrote: "Lyn wrote: "NancyJ wrote: "Pam, I hope you love what you pick for the SOC prompt. If you need suggestions let me know.

I will take a chance and open prompt #6. I hope everyone is happy with what t..."

That sounds like a good book Nancy. I look forward to your review.

[Rachel N.]

This was fun. Though I like the rest of my list I might join if we have one more of these just for the fun of it. I just realized Robin and I ended up exchanging prompts. I hope you like the year you were born prompt Robin, I assume so since you stole it from someone else. I'm quite happy to exhcange it for Stephen King.

[Anita]

I am at the salon getting my hair colored, but I see the swap is completed!! It was entertaining to watch. I will publish the final result when I get home for posterity 😉

[Robin P]

Rachel N. wrote: "This was fun. Though I like the rest of my list I might join if we have one more of these just for the fun of it. I just realized Robin and I ended up exchanging prompts. I hope you like the year y..."

Yes, I have several options, thanks!

[Booknblues]

Well, that was so much fun! I hope everyone ended with something they are happy with.
I put in something which I thought might work for somebody, but was surprised by how often it was stolen (The military one.)
I ended up with something which I can read right away so it works for me, whereas the military one, I was going to wait until November to read.

[Anita]

Final Prompt List

Thank you everyone for making this a very successful swap!! Hope you had fun doing it. I appreciate everyone's careful assistance with helping one another keep things moving.

Here's where things ended!

1. Read a fiction bestseller from the year you were born. If already read it, read the fiction bestseller from the year and immediate family member was born. (Robin)
2. Read a collection of any year's best short fiction or stories edited by a favorite author (Theresa)
3. Read a book by Stephen King (Rachel N)
4. Read a book with a title where all the words begin with the same letter (3 word minimum) (Amy)
5. Read a book whose title includes a cardinal number (must be expressed in digital format, i.e. 2 not two). (Lyn)
6. A book with less than 1,000 ratings on Goodreads (Nancy)
7. Read a book about the closest sports franchise to where you live. Sport of your choice. (Joy)
8. A book whose title is a pun, i.e. Assault and Pepper. (BooknBlues)
9. Read a book with a tag that starts with "social" (Sociology, society, social psychology, social sciences, social, social- justice, sociable, sociopath, social engineering, social commentary, etc.) (Pam)
10. Read a book where one of the main characters is in the military (Joanne)

[Lyn]

Thanks Anita! And everyone else. This was so much fun!!!

[Joanne]

I loved all the stealing! For me, that is the best kind of swap game.

[Theresa]

I am so sorry I missed the final excitement but also glad that being swallowed up by my legal practice today didn't stop it dead!

This was a heck of a lot of fun. I ended up with a prompt I have a book for right by the couch - and in fact might take with me to Santa Fe - collection of short crime fiction for 2024 edited by S.A. Cosby. In fact, it was when I happened to be browsing the best short fiction shelves at my local indie and decided to buy this one that I thought what a great prompt it was to submit and submitted it to Anita! I think it hilarious it popped up in the swap. A couple other prompts were ones I submitted earlier in the year as possible prompts. It did amuse me to no end to see them in the swap.

Nancy - I knew the minute I saw that prompt on my list that it was perfect for you, Joy, or JoAnne, and would take time for me to identify a book (none in my currently reading and soon to read pile had tags that worked) to read for it so it went right into the swap!

Thanks all for keeping this moving - and that final time when Anita did the earlier in the day administering, and BnB who is 3 hours behind the east coast dealt with the late night action.

[Amy]

Theresa, if I had exhausted puns and alliteration, my next move would have been for short stories by a beloved editor... That was a great prompt.

On the alliteration front, I just have the two that fit, Today, Tonight, Tomorrow, and Oona out of Order. Probably doesn't qualify, but I found a double alliteration as well on my list, under December Fall Flurries: New York, New Year, New You! A double! But I will be on List Four by then...

[Book Concierge]

The cardinal number was one of the prompts I submitted to the game initially. (Not for the swap, but for the game as a whole.)

[Joanne]

And I was the one who got rid of it 😂

[NancyJ]

Book Concierge wrote: "The cardinal number was one of the prompts I submitted to the game initially. (Not for the swap, but for the game as a whole.)"

I stole it but it got taken away.
It seemed annoying at first because i could not just search my tbr for small numbers. I got 43 pages of books in series. But then I found a listopia and it was fairly easy to find decent options. My son helped search in different ways, and he is the one who found a cover with 13 reasons why, and 12 years a slave. We had to discuss whether a date was ordinal or cardinal or something else. That was sort of fun.

[NancyJ]

Amy wrote: "Theresa, if I had exhausted puns and alliteration, my next move would have been for short stories by a beloved editor... That was a great prompt.

On the alliteration front, I just have the two tha..."

Talk to Anita about tweaking that prompt to allow articles or tiny words. Nearly All the books on the alliteration lists have them. To, the, or, of, and, on.