Reading with Style discussion

Here is a place for questions about the Choose Your Own Adventure subchallenge for Spring 2025.

15.4 on the Mystery trail:

Let's grab one: will you take a book from your IRL bookshelf or your virtual TBR shelf?

Is my IRL bookshelf the physical books I own and my virtual TBR shelf the digital books I own?

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "15.4 on the Mystery trail:

Let's grab one: will you take a book from your IRL bookshelf or your virtual TBR shelf?

Is my IRL bookshelf the physical books I own and my virtual TBR shelf the digita..."

IRL = books you own physically
TBR = digital list of books you want to read (such as your Goodreads “Want to Read” list or your Libby Wish List) but do not yet have (so something you’d get from the library or acquire after the start of the challenge)

Joanna, did you design CYOA yourself? It looks so professional!

Thanks!

Connie (on semi-hiatus) wrote: "Joanna, did you design CYOA yourself? It looks so professional!"

Anika did!

Anika, I'm so impressed with your great CYOA! Thanks for all your effort. I love the international photos. It looks fun to plan the books we will read!

Connie (on semi-hiatus) wrote: "Anika, I'm so impressed with your great CYOA! Thanks for all your effort. I love the international photos. It looks fun to plan the books we will read!"

Yay!! I hope it proves to be a fun challenge—it was a lot of fun to create 🤗

I had a sneak peek in advance. It is truly amazing!

Wow - what fun and so creative - thank you!

Thank you Anika! It is a marvelous challenge

So fun !! I just checked the 2 first categories but i'm keeping the surprise for later :) Thanks Anika !

Is it enough to post the paths or do you also need the books that go with it in advance?

Hi Claire - I did see your question in the planning thread but didn’t jump since I’m not a mod. However, I do know the answer 😆. You don’t need to post a plan if you don’t want to or you can post a whole plan (or if you like me you can post a plan and then not follow it - ha, ha). I hope this helps.

Thanks Valerie 😊, this is correct

Thank you. I know what to do then…

Only your first book has to be either of those genres, after that, you are free to choose whatever you like 😊

For "far future" - would 2058 be far enough?

Holiday in Death (In Death #7) was published 1998 so 2058 would have seemed to be the far future lol

Tien wrote: "For "far future" - would 2058 be far enough?

Holiday in Death (In Death #7) was published 1998 so 2058 would have seemed to be the far future lol"

That works 🤗

great, thanks! :D

15.2 in the mystery path, it asks for a book whose title includes all the letters in “HOLMES” or “POIROT”. Does that include subtitles?

Kathleen (itpdx) wrote: "15.2 in the mystery path, it asks for a book whose title includes all the letters in “HOLMES” or “POIROT”. Does that include subtitles?"

Yes, you can use subtitles 😊

I need some clarification on my second Fantasy prompt. It wants you to choose between past and future. The prompt mentions Pern, which is, in fact is the series/book I am reading. From the text, it appears they are placing Pern in the past, while I am thinking future. Any idea which one I should use?

Joanne wrote: "I need some clarification on my second Fantasy prompt. It wants you to choose between past and future. The prompt mentions Pern, which is, in fact is the series/book I am reading. From the text, it..."

Granted, I've only read the first three books of the "Pern" series, but to my recollection it lacked the technological innovations that are normally hallmarks of a "far future" society/world. Since you're further along in the series and have a better understanding of where in the series' timeline you are, I think you can best answer this and we defer to your decision on which path, far future or ancient world, it belongs to. :-)

Thanks Anika. I am going to have to go with the far future, even though the technology is not there. the year is somewhere in 2600's