Play Book Tag discussion

Some of us are doing the Poll Tally-and doing a lot of searching for tags to match. I have run across some real "winners" while tag searching and some really funny ones. If you find a good one-post it here-let us all have a chuckle. Name the book and tag

Searching for a tag for King's Dragon -someone tagged it
3 popcorn....I am thinking a 3 bowls (of popcorn) read? LOL

"3" popcorn? Specifically 3? LOL!

Joanne wrote: "Some of us are doing the Poll Tally-and doing a lot of searching for tags to match. I have run across some real "winners" while tag searching and some really funny ones. If you find a good one-post..."

It would be interesting to follow through and see how many books that user has on that shelf :) !

Today's quirky find...

helmet drama Umm, do I need to wear protective head gear when reading The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club?

Theresa wrote: "Today's quirky find...

helmet drama Umm, do I need to wear protective head gear when reading The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club?"

ROTFL!

I hope everyone is sitting down...

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Has been shelved Extraterrestrials by 1 person. I kid you not! Here is proof:

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

Oh wow, these are great :P

Okay, here is the genre page for the 3 popcorn shelf
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... which has over 2700 books shelved there! I wonder if it's a personal shelf for someone.

Helmet Drama has over 900 books https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

Because my inquiring mind wanted to know...

I have a personal shelf but have never put all my books there, so it has a paltry 411 right now. I searched for it on the genre search page as well.

Karin wrote: "Okay, here is the genre page for the 3 popcorn shelf
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... which has over 2700 books shelved there! I wonder if it's a personal shelf for someone.

Helmet D..."

LOL-inquiring minds need to know I guess

Karin wrote: "Okay, here is the genre page for the 3 popcorn shelf
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... which has over 2700 books shelved there! I wonder if it's a personal shelf for someone.

Helmet D..."

I actually checked the Helmet Drama shelver too and discovered that there are a huge number, shelver is in Finland, and has other similar shelves like Helmet-Fiction - I suspect Helmet is someone's first name (I knew a German named Helmut once upon a time).

Still, just when scanning how a book is shelved, it's pretty funny.

Someone in that challenge found The Widows of Malabar Hill shelved as DISNEY.

umm, not really?!

We all decided that whoever shelved it that way did so because they read it or were going to read it at Disney.

Theresa wrote: "Someone in that challenge found The Widows of Malabar Hill shelved as DISNEY. "

🙋‍♀️

That was my 'Disney' book lol

Good find, eh!

Joanne wrote: "3 popcorn....I am thinking a 3 bowls (of popcorn) read? LOL"

Reckon it's probably their 'star rating' so instead of using stars, they're using 'popcorn'?

Tien wrote: "Reckon it's probably their 'star rating' so instead of using stars, they're using 'popcorn'?"

Ohhhhh, that might make sense!

I am still waiting for someone to explain why Jane Eyre is hanging out with Extraterrestrials.

I am puzzled by the amount of people who tag with names like Gilmore Girls or Rory Gilmore. A whole lotta people do that.
What's up with that??????

DianeMP wrote: "I am puzzled by the amount of people who tag with names like Gilmore Girls or Rory Gilmore. A whole lotta people do that.
What's up with that??????"

Books that were mentioned in the series because Rory is a big reader. There is a an actual list out there.

Theresa wrote: "I am still waiting for someone to explain why Jane Eyre is hanging out with Extraterrestrials."

I Googled "Jane Eyre Extraterrestrials" and... could be related to passages where she's referred to as 'alien'?

"Mrs. Reed probably considered she had kept this promise; and so she had, I dare say, as well as her nature would permit her; but how could she really like an interloper not of her race, and unconnected with her, after her husband’s death, by any tie? It must have been most irksome to find herself bound by a hard-wrung pledge to stand in the stead of a parent to a strange child she could not love, and to see an uncongenial alien permanently intruded on her own family group."

🤷‍♀️

That's quite a stretch...but great effort!

DianeMP wrote: "I am puzzled by the amount of people who tag with names like Gilmore Girls or Rory Gilmore. A whole lotta people do that.
What's up with that??????"

Or how about the number of variations for DNF or abandonned, not finished, etc. I guess i could see keeping track so you don't pick it up again, but every book I have looked up has numerous variations of such shelvings. Seems excessive to me.

Tien wrote: "Joanne wrote: "3 popcorn....I am thinking a 3 bowls (of popcorn) read? LOL"

Reckon it's probably their 'star rating' so instead of using stars, they're using 'popcorn'?"

🥓-
that emjoi is bacon-I may use bacon for stars from now on😄

I found one that made me giggle because I know a lot of people who would share the sentiment:

why-the-dog-though

Checking on tags for a team member:

The Family Upstairs- tagged: men-are-pigs

also tagged: of-course-the-man-is-an-asshole

Joanne wrote: "Checking on tags for a team member:

The Family Upstairs- tagged: men-are-pigs

also tagged: of-course-the-man-is-an-asshole"

These are great tags! I may have to adopt one of these. men-are-pigs is short and to the point, but...... of-course-the-man-is-an-asshole is more of a statement.

Shelly wrote: "Joanne wrote: "Checking on tags for a team member:

The Family Upstairs- tagged: men-are-pigs

also tagged: of-course-the-man-is-an-asshole"

These are great tags! I may have to ado..."

And we women do love to make a statement😂🤣

Joanne wrote: "Checking on tags for a team member:

The Family Upstairs- tagged: men-are-pigs

also tagged: of-course-the-man-is-an-asshole"

This entire thread is cracking me up, but this one wins!

Just found one I cannot resist:

afterworkcrack

Oh can I relate!

Someone shelved Razor Girl by Carl Hiaasen that. Seems to fit too!

Theresa wrote: "Just found one I cannot resist:

afterworkcrack!"

LOL!

Theresa wrote: "Just found one I cannot resist:

afterworkcrack"

😂

Anita wrote: "Joanne wrote: "Checking on tags for a team member:

The Family Upstairs- tagged: men-are-pigs

also tagged: of-course-the-man-is-an-asshole"

This entire thread is cracking me up, b..."

Keep checking in Anita-there is a long haul to go-LoL

Theresa wrote: "Karin wrote: "Okay, here is the genre page for the 3 popcorn shelf
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... which has over 2700 books shelved there! I wonder if it's a personal shelf for some..."

Yes, I wondered about it being someone's name, but only knew of the Helmut spelling.

Theresa wrote: "I am still waiting for someone to explain why Jane Eyre is hanging out with Extraterrestrials."

My only guess would be--and this still doesn't make much sense--when she (view spoiler)[heard the voice those many miles away the night of the fire. (hide spoiler)]

I ran across "Finished-Out-Of-Spite" recently. I haven't used that tag myself, but I've thought about something similar.

And I had one recently tagged "Rhine-River-Cruise", clearly an indication of books this person planned to bring on vacay, since that book had nothing to do with cruising on the Rhine!

When a book has dozens of tags that were left by one person, you know you're going to be wading into some random territory.

This one gave me a belly laugh

Night Boat to Tangier
-tagged Winner-Winner-Chicken Dinner

I've found a tag that made me smile:
"Missing a lil sumpin sumpin"

Joy D wrote: "I've found a tag that made me smile:
"Missing a lil sumpin sumpin""

LOL!

Joy D wrote: "I've found a tag that made me smile:
"Missing a lil sumpin sumpin""

Belly laugh again!

Today's finds include:

navel gazing, vaginal fantasy book club, potato, for a trump presidency, ketchup, and almost chicken scribbles - all different tags for a book of poetry/prose Milk and Honey - and there were a lot more!
wantsobad- Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve: What the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing shelved under that.

A few I found today--not quite as colourful as some of the others, though

Im the itty bitty

abc jlm mommy survival

owned tbr pile of shame

Sometimes I wonder if taggers are reading the same book. These two tags were both on a book I was scanning recently:

creepy-rapey-hero
male-leads-that-inspire-respect

Cora wrote: "Sometimes I wonder if taggers are reading the same book. These two tags were both on a book I was scanning recently:

creepy-rapey-hero
male-leads-that-inspire-respect"

Yes, some books are like that!

tortoise plot

rofl Theresa! I'm guessing that the plot line is slow!

🤔old-loves-die-hard🤔

Oh Tien, that is a good find!

still on the same book... super-frog-and-earthquake

LOL love this one!

and narnia-coming-down-from-the-heroin

Tien wrote: "still on the same book... super-frog-and-earthquake

LOL love this one!

and narnia-coming-down-from-the-heroin"

🤣

"what-a-convenient-plot-twist"; "a-muddle-in-the-middle"; "exhilarating" with immediately below that "dragged"; "eyeballs-rolling-out" all for the same book :-)

Rachel N. wrote: ""what-a-convenient-plot-twist"; "a-muddle-in-the-middle"; "exhilarating" with immediately below that "dragged"; "eyeballs-rolling-out" all for the same book :-)"

love "muddle-in-the- middle"!

I like some of the more obscure tags on the last few pages of Flowers In the Attic:
addicting-embarrassing-smut
tween-books-of-angst
crap-i-read-as-a-teenager
- & almost forgot:
confused-or-informed-my-sexuality
&
if-you-ask-i-wont-admit-it