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message 1: by Kate S (new)

Kate S | 6459 comments If you would like to share your reading plans with the group, this is the place to do so.


message 2: by Elizabeth (Alaska) (last edited Aug 10, 2019 06:05PM) (new)

Elizabeth (Alaska) | 14224 comments EDITED: Please note that the categories, but not sub-categories have been changed from my original posting.

I don't usually post my plan, but this is such a puzzle solving challenge ...

A3 - The Engagement by Georges Simenon
A5 - The Tremor of Forgery by Patricia Highsmith
B3 - Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
F1 - Death In Disguise by Caroline Graham
C1 - Eventide by Kent Haruf
C4 - I have options!
E2 - 1906 by James Dalessandro
E6 - The Exploits of Juve by Marcel Allain
D5 - To Serve Them All My Days by R.F. Delderfield
D6 - Embers by Sándor Márai


message 3: by Valerie (last edited Sep 01, 2019 08:19AM) (new)

Valerie Brown | 3263 comments Thanks for posting your plan, Elizabeth. It will help me understand the game. -> still got confused...! Should be correct now.

my choices (at the moment!):

A1 The Hummingbird's Daughter Mexico
A3 The Chalk Pit England
B1 Drop City 2003
B2 Mrs. Pollifax Unveiled 2000
C5 A Scanner Darkly unreliable
D3 Origami Dove poetry
D5 The Trail to Seven Pines western
E2 The Thirty-Nine Steps 39
F4 The Deadly Dance M.C Beaton
F6 One Good Horse Tom

I want to read the group read for the GR mystery group I belong to.... so, am going to substitute in:

E5 Knock, Murderer, Knock! for C5


message 4: by Connie (last edited Nov 22, 2019 06:47AM) (new)

Connie  G (connie_g) | 1894 comments My plan for the moment, including some alternates, although I'm sure it will be changed:

A1 Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope by Gabrielle Giffords USA DONE
A4 The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson North Korea, Asia DONE
B2 A Garden Beyond Paradise by Rumi 1992 DONE
B3 Up at the Villa by W. Somerset Maugham 1941
C6 Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelly multiple points of view DONE
D1 The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain time travel DONE
D5 The Long Flight Home by Alan Hlad historical fiction DONE
E3 Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares by Aarti Namdev Shahani title is sentence DONE
E4 Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick non-generic subtitle DONE
F2 Wish You Were Here by Graham Swift or Ashenden by Elizabeth Wilhide or Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout or Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout or A Killer's Christmas in Wales by Elizabeth J. Duncan E-H
D2 The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel Mystery
F5 The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware Author name starts with R DONE


message 5: by Rebekah (last edited Nov 13, 2019 11:43AM) (new)

Rebekah (bekalynn) I think I have a tentative plan
✔️ A4 Setting- Asia- The Crazed by Ha Jin
✔️ A6 Setting- Australia- Bliss by Peter Carey
✔️ B3 Published- 1901 - 1950- The Bradshaws of Harniss by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
✔️ C1 Narrator- >60- Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII by Chester Nez
✔️ C5 Narrator-Unreliable - I'm Thinking of Ending Things
✔️ D4 Genre- Nonfiction- On Palestine
✔️ E2 Title Number- 12 21 12
✔️ E3 Title Complete Sentence- The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands
✔️ F1 Author Name- A to D- Amaryllis Fox
✔️ F2 Author NameE to H My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman

Ax2, Bx1, Cx2, Dx1, Ex2, Fx2
1x2, 2x2, 3x2, 4x2, 5x1, 6x1

Lightly penciled 2nd round
A1 - Spying on the South: Travels with Frederick Law Olmsted in a Fractured Land
A3 - Leaving Everything Most Loved or A2 - The Purple Land
B1 - King's Mountain
C2 - Where'd You Go, Bernadette or The Trouble with Goats and Sheep Or C4 - Arbella
D2 - The Inner Circle
D5 - Hiwassee: A Novel of the Civil War
E4 - Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why or American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
E6 - A Quaker Book of Wisdom: Life Lessons In Simplicity, Service, And Common Sense or The Lost Quilter or An Unexpected Afterlife
F5 - Susan Wittig Albert or Peter Cozzens
F6 - Wilkie Collins or Zadie Smith

Ax2, Bx1, Cx1, Dx2, Ex2, Fx2
1x2, 2x2,3x1,4x1, 5x2, 6x2

A-Setting
1. No. Am - Many to choose from Spying on the South: Travels with Frederick Law Olmsted in a Fractured Land
The Life of Buffalo Bill: Or, the Life and Adventures of William F. Cody, As Told by Himself
2. Su & Cen. Am Far Away and Long Ago: A Childhood in Argentina
The Purple Land
3. Europe - Many to choose from Leaving Everything Most Loved
The Girl in the Spider's Web
4. Asia - The Crazed
5. Africa - Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak
You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town
The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café
Petals of Blood
Half of a Yellow Sun
We Need New Names
Palace Walk
Nervous Conditions
Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide
The Constant Gardener
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
6. Oz, Oceania - Bliss

B Pub Date
1.2001 or later-Caleb's Crossing or Salvage the Bones or The Female Persuasion
2. 1951-2000 - Snow Falling on Cedars
3. 1901-1950 - The Bradshaws of Harniss
4. 1851-1900 - The House Behind the Cedars
5. 1801-1850 -
6. 1800 or earlier - Caleb Williams

C- Narrator
1. Over 60- Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
2. Under 13- The Education of Little Tree (also C3, E1)
The Death of Bees (also C3)
Peace Like a River
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
Where'd You Go, Bernadette (also E1,E3)
3. First person-Decision Points (also C1,D4)
Roughing It (also D4)
Life on the Mississippi (also D4)
4. Third Person-Lots
5. Unreliable-I’m Thinking of Ending Things
6. Multi -Darling Dahlias and the Confederate Rose (also D2)
The Quilt That Walked to Golden: Women and Quilts in the Mountain West - From the Overland Trail to Contemporary Colorado (also E6)
The Sound and the Fury

D- Genre
1. Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Paranormal etc -Mastiff
2. Mystery, Crime, Suspense, Horror etc
Mourning Gloria
The Inner Circle
Lots more
3. Short Stories, Poetry - Curious, If True: Strange Tales
The Woman Who Was Changed and Other Stories
4. Non Fiction - On Palestine
5. Hist. Fic., Adventure, Western - Where the Crawdads Sing
The Twentieth Wife
A Black Englishman
6. Contemp. Literary, Classics -Lots

E - Title
1-Person Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners (also works for F4 & D)
Mildred Pierce
Blood of Abraham: Insights Into the Middle East
Stoner
Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
2 - Number 12 21 12
3 - Complete SentenceThe Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands
4 - non-generic sub-title Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (Also for F1,D4)
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (also D4)
5- repeated big word How Late it Was, How Late
The City & the City
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
6- Contains Q, X or Z A Quaker Book of Wisdom: Life Lessons In Simplicity, Service, And Common Sense (also D4,E5)
Quakers and the American Family: British Settlement in the Delaware Valley (also D4)
The Zahir
Timequake
Swallows and Amazons
The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest
The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern Mind
Infinite Quest: Develop Your Psychic Intuition to Take Charge of Your Life
Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World
An Unexpected Afterlife
Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom (also A4)

F- Author First Name
1 A-D- Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA
2 E-H -My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
3 I-K Jeff Shaara, Jimmy Carter
4 L-O Mitchell Zuckoff
5 P-S Sharyn McCrumb, Susan Wittig Albert
6 T-Z Walter Rauschenbusch, Wilkie Collins, Tony Horwitz


Jayme(theghostreader) (jaymetheghostreader) | 2594 comments Is it required to pre plan for this challenge?


Elizabeth (Alaska) | 14224 comments Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "Is it required to pre plan for this challenge?"

No it isn't. But because there are restrictions about how many times you can use a letter and a sub-category, it's possible that you might have overlaps that are against the rules if you don't plan ahead.


Jayme(theghostreader) (jaymetheghostreader) | 2594 comments okay, I will post something closer to the fall challenge.


message 9: by Lynn (last edited Aug 11, 2019 11:49AM) (new)

Lynn (lynnsreads) Lynn - I will post a plan here. I will pretend that these are the books that I will read. Then I will willy-nilly disregard all the planning at my own peril.


1. D1 Dune by Frank Herbert Science fiction
2. B1 The Widows of Eastwick by John Updike published 2008
3. C3 A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle first person C3
4. B5 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)

5. D5 Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson historical fiction
6. A4 Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata or The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa set in Japan

I will not even pretend to plan any others, because I know I will get interested in something else new before Christmas.


message 10: by Elizabeth (Alaska) (last edited Aug 10, 2019 06:01PM) (new)

Elizabeth (Alaska) | 14224 comments Lynn- see my note in the PnMix2 Questions thread. But you also have some category letters switched, so you might want to recheck your plan. Nevermind. I see that Kate changed some categories after I made my plan, and it is *my* plan that needs fixing!


message 11: by Lynn (new)

Lynn (lynnsreads) Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Lynn- see my note in the PnMix2 Questions thread. But you also have some category letters switched, so you might want to recheck your plan. Nevermind. I see that Kate changed some categories after ..."

Ha! It's all good. In the Classics Group we have a thread for books to be read in the current month. I can't even stick to plans for one month! It's all just a guess.


message 12: by Connie (new)

Connie  G (connie_g) | 1894 comments Lynn wrote: "Lynn - I will post a plan here. I will pretend that these are the books that I will read. Then I will willy-nilly disregard all the planning at my own peril.


1. D1 Dune by [author..."


Lynn, I've read [book:The Alchemist|18144590], and it's set in Spain and Africa. Oh well, I guess we knew our plans would be changing!


message 13: by Ed (last edited Sep 02, 2019 08:40PM) (new)

Ed Lehman | 2651 comments A. Setting (must be set at least 75% in one of the following locations):

1. Canada, USA, Mexico, and the Caribbean
2. South and Central America
3. Europe
4. Asia
5. Africa
6. Australia/Oceania

B. Publication Date (original publication date):

1. 2001 or later
2. 1951-2000
3 1901-1950
4. 1851-1900
5. 1801-1850
6. 1800 or earlier

C. Narrator (see help thread for additional information):

1. Point of View Narrator over 60 years old
2. Point of View Narrator under 13 years old
3. First Person Narrator-perhaps They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
4. Third Person Narrator
5. Unreliable Narrator
6. Multiple Point of View Narrators

D. Genre (GR Main Page Genre section, which members can lock in at any time.)

1. sci-fi, fantasy, steampunk, time travel, paranormal
2. mystery, thriller, crime, horror, suspense
3. short stories, poetry
4. non-fiction, biography, autobiography, memoir
5. historical fiction, romance, adventure, western
6. contemporary, realism, literary fiction, classics

E. Title

1. Title contains the name of a person
2. Title contains a number
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy
3. Title consists of a full sentence
4. Title has a non-generic sub-title
5. Title has a repeated word (excluding articles a/an/the)- probably There There by Tommy Orange
6. Title contains a Q, X, or Z

F. Author Name

Author's Name (as published) Begins With...

1. A-D
2. E-H
3. I-K
4. L-O
5. P-S
6. T-Z

Scoring

15.1-4 - 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th books = 15 points
15.5-8 - 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th books = 20 points
15.9-10 - 9th, 10th books = 30 points

Completion bonus: 100 points


message 14: by Ed (last edited Sep 21, 2019 04:19PM) (new)

Ed Lehman | 2651 comments There There by Tommy Orange: A1; B1;C?;D6; E5*****; F6
Saturday by Ian McEwan:A3; B1; C?; D6;F3
Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History by John Steinbeck:A1; B3; C?; D5 or D6; E4;F3
Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo by Eric Hansen:A4; B2; C3; D4 or D5; E4; F2
Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener by M.C. Beaton: A3; B2; C4; D2; E1; F4
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley: A?; B2; C?; D3; F2
The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky: A3; B5; C?; D6; F2
The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard: A3; B2; C?; D1; F3
The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie:A3; B3; C?; D2; F1
Cruel Shoes by Steve Martin: A?; B2; C?; D3; F5
A House at the Edge of Tears by Vénus Khoury-Ghata: A5; B2; C?; D4; F6;
They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera: A1; B1; *****C3*****; D6; E3; F1
The Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie: A3; B3; C?; D2 and D3; E2; F1
Women Of Messina by Elio Vittorini: A3; B3; C4?; F2
The Complete Tilling Tales: Mapp and Lucia Short Stories by Geoff Martin: A3; B1; C?; D3; F2
Goodbye Mr Chips by James Hilton: A3; B3; C?; D6; E3; F3
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque: A3; B3; C?; D5; E6; F2
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer-LOW Lexile 600
The Bitter Glass by Eilís Dillon: A3; B2; C?; F2
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson: A3; B1; C?; D4; E1; F2
The Moon and the Bonfire by Cesare Pavese: A3; B3; C3; D6; F1
Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography by Neil Patrick Harris: A1; B1; C3; D4; E1 and E4; F4
The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope: A3; B4; C4?: D6; F1
Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: A3; B5; C4?; D5 and D6; E2; F1
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy: A1; B3; C?; D2; E3; F2
San Diego's Mission Trails Regional Park : Official Guidebook by Pamela Crooks- Does it qualify?
The Mueller Report by Robert S. Mueller III: A1; B1; C4; D2 and D4; E1; F5
The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket (Lexile 1010): A?; B2; C?; D1; F4;
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt: A1 or 3?; B1;C?; D6; F1
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire: A?; B1; C?; D1 or D2; F5
Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals by Hal Herzog: A1?; B1; C4?; D4; E5; F2


10.1-probably Saturday by Ian McEwan OR Glengary Glen Ross by David Mamet (Summer 2019)-112p. or maybe Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (Elizabeth Sp.2019) OR Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens if not used for 20.5
10.2-probably- I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life by Anne Bogel
10.3- The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
10.4- Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley- qualifies for Summer 10.3
10.5-perhaps Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson Lexile 810 - 128p.
10.6-perhaps Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford 290p.
10.7- perhaps A House at the Edge of Tears by Vénus Khoury-Ghata
10.8 The Roots of Heaven by Romain Gary
10.9-perhaps- The Map That Changed the World
10.10

20.1-maybe The Sea by John Banville 195p-1001 list
or- Amsterdam by Ian McEwan 208p. 1001list
20.2-perhaps The Maid's Tragedy by Francis Beaumont play-112p. pub. 1612
20.3-perhaps Gin & Daggers by Jessica Fletcher-261p.
20.4-perhaps Saturday by Ian McEwan-289p.
20.5- perhaps Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (If this doesn't work here...use it for 10.1 or The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat (Iran) 135p.
20.6- maybe A Devil Comes to Town by Paolo Maurensig-120p.
or *****The White Devil-NAN-play-128p. 1612!
or-The Devil in the Flesh-127p. 1001 list
20.7-perhaps They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera OR
Librivox version of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne-maybe "assignment"- but 930 Lexile
20.8- Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire- -Samarium
20.9-perhaps - Shipwrecks by Akira Yoshimura 180p.
20.10- perhaps Librivox version of The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf


message 15: by Lynn (new)

Lynn (lynnsreads) Connie wrote: "Lynn wrote: "Lynn - I will post a plan here. I will pretend that these are the books that I will read. Then I will willy-nilly disregard all the planning at my own peril.


1. D1 [book:Dune|3977617..."


Ah shoot.... Well, I am really not that excited about the Alchemist. Thanks for telling me.


message 16: by Bea (last edited Aug 14, 2019 03:27AM) (new)

Bea My Spot.

D1 (Genre: Fantasy) - The Hollow Hills
D2 (Genre: Mystery) - Aiding and Abetting
B1 (Pub Date: 2001+ [2005]) - Long Time Gone
B2 (Pub Date: 1951-2000 [1991]) - Xenocide
F1 (Author name: A-D) - Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
F5 (Author name: P-S) - Silent House by Orhan Pamuk
A1 (Setting: Canada) - The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay
A3 (Setting: Europe [Norway]) - The Redbreast
E1 (Title: Title contains the name of a person) - Maud's Line
E6 (Title: Title contains a Q, X, or Z) - To Be Queen: A Novel of the Early Life of Eleanor of Aquitaine


message 17: by Penny (new)

Penny (Literary Hoarders) (pennyliteraryhoarders) | 123 comments This was tricky! And I'll admit it took me a little bit to understand the game...but now I have the idea!? :-) (Of course all subject to change because I never stick fully to the plan!)

My Plan:
A.1. Crow Canada
A.4 Aria Iran
C.5 Gillespie and I
C.6 Many options!
D.2 To the Lions
D. 4 Yale Needs Women
E.1 A few options here too
E.3 Lots of options here too
F.3 Kate Atkinson Big Sky
F.6 Téa Obreht Inland


message 18: by Bea (new)

Bea I just checked my book against BPL and found that nearly each title had electronic editions also available. Either I chose particularly popular books or, well, the thought occurred to me that BPL is moving more toward electronic material. Did anyone else note this?


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message 25: by Anika (last edited Sep 17, 2019 02:05PM) (new)

Anika | 2793 comments A6: (set in Australia or Oceania) Brotherhood of Heroes: The Marines at Peleliu, 1944--The Bloodiest Battle of the Pacific War by Bill Sloan, set 100% in Palau (also: Project, Palau)
B3: (1901-1950) Pitcairn's Island by Charles Bernard Nordhoff (also: Project, Pitcairn)
E1: (title contains a person's name) Hippolytus by Euripides (also: Personal Reading Goal 2019)
E4: (non-generic subtitle) The Black Room at Longwood: Napoleon's Exile on Saint Helena by Jean-Paul Kauffmann (also: Project, Saint Helena)
F6: (author T-Z) Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Completed: C 3, F 1

C3: (first person narrator) Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
F1: (author A-D) Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin



(just want to remember these...will flesh out the rest of the list shortly)


message 26: by Mary (last edited Nov 22, 2019 06:03AM) (new)

Mary | 1398 comments Planning

Round 1: A1 A5 B1 B2 C4 D2 D4 E3 F3 F5
Round 2:A3 B3 C5 D5 D6 E2 E6 F2 F4
A B C D D E E F F
2 2 3 3 4 5 5 6 6

A4 B4 C1
A2 A6 B5 B6 C2 C3 C6 D1 D3 E1 E4 E5 F1 F6

A. Setting (must be set at least 75% in one of the following locations):

2. South and Central America
4. Asia
6. Australia/Oceania

B. Publication Date (original publication date):
4. 1851-1900
5. 1801-1850
6. 1800 or earlier

C. Narrator (see help thread for additional information):

1. Point of View Narrator over 60 years old
2. Point of View Narrator under 13 years old
3. First Person Narrator
6. Multiple Point of View Narrators

D. Genre (GR Main Page Genre section, which members can lock in at any time.)

1. sci-fi, fantasy, steampunk, time travel, paranormal
3. short stories, poetry

E. Title

1. Title contains the name of a person
4. Title has a subtitle
5. Title has a repeated word (excluding articles a/an/the)

F. Author Name

Author's Name (as published) Begins With...

1. A-D
6. T-

F1 The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
C3 The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson


message 27: by Rosemary (last edited Sep 05, 2019 06:14AM) (new)

Rosemary | 4275 comments My plan:

A 3 - Despised And Rejected (Setting Europe)
A 5 - Diamond Boy (Lexile 820, Setting Africa)
B 1 - Coffee, Tea, the Gypsy & Me (Pub 2012)
B 2 - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Pub 1979)
C 3 - Miss Julia Stirs Up Trouble (First person)
D 4 - The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Nonfiction/Biog/Autobiog/Memoir)
D 6 - Hostages to Fortune (Literary fiction)
E 6 - The Squire (Q in title)
F 1 - The L-Shaped Room (B author)
F 5 - Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock (Q author)


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