Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Carol wrote: "#8 should be clergy person, not clergyman"

Thank you Carol. That reminds me of a mystery with a female minister.

2. A vacation book - downvote: meh.

3. A book that relates to a river - upvote: always yes! I love rivers and anything related to rivers. My choir is doing three songs about rivers this weekend. :)

5. A book that has been made into a movie - upvote: fun!

8. A book featuring a lawyer, politician or clergyman - downvote: really not interested

9. A book with a character list or family tree. - downvote: not interested at all. If this one gets in, I will either accidentally find one or use a wild card.

11. A history or historical fiction book - upvote: always a yes as it is one of my very favorite genres.

13. A book set in an Olympics host city - downvote: too limiting

15. A biography, memoir, or autofiction - upvote: love this genre

I have books that could work for all 3 of these prompts: vacation, westerns and water. I hope one of these gets in. I like history and/or 1700s. I also like lawyer/politician, Obama, and biography, but would have to leave off river or something else.

Neutral or downvote - movies, family trees, numerals, cats. My dogs would get jealous if I had cat pictures laying around. 🐶

Marie wrote: "Robin P wrote: "I like all of these (though a little tired of book made into movie, as it gets used a lot)."

That seems to be the perception every time we get this type of prompt, but I can't find..."

I think it's a problem for people who do PopSugar as well as ATY. PopSugar has used a movie/tv related prompt in 2018,2019, 2022 and 2023, so with the 2019 ATY prompt that makes 5 times that it's been used in 8 years

LeahS wrote: "Marie wrote: "Robin P wrote: "I like all of these (though a little tired of book made into movie, as it gets used a lot)."

That seems to be the perception every time we get this type of prompt, bu..."

Exactly- we've not used it for years! I love it cause I like to read books before I see the movie.

I wonder if it was widened if people might like it more. Maybe a book related to a movie or tv show? So you could read Project Hail Mary before it comes out, but you can also read Edith Wharton for the Gilded Age

Robin P wrote: "I like all of these (though a little tired of book made into movie, as it gets used a lot)."

Me too! As well as ATY and PopSugar, I think the SRC has had at least two "movie and TV" prompts this last two seasons, and frequently before that.

At least I have a good selection of novels in series that have been made into TV - Shetland, Vera, Midsomer Murders, Longmire, Leaphorn and Chee, Three Pines, Will Trent, Harry Bosch and oldies like Maigret and Lord Peter Wimsey etc. Fewer movies, though.

Dixie wrote: "TFYI mods The link to the river listopia is broken. I mentioned this and put the correct link in Message 20, but it hasn't been corrected yet."

Sorry. Done now.

Trish wrote: "Dixie wrote: "TFYI mods The link to the river listopia is broken. I mentioned this and put the correct link in Message 20, but it hasn't been corrected yet."

Sorry. Done now."

Thanks!

Tracy wrote: "Yesica wrote: "Tracy wrote: "6 Up, 2 Down

Up:
1. Van Gogh: love the creativity of this and how many places it can go. I have 3 excellent choices. ."

Would love to know the titles of these books r..."

Thank you Tracy! :)

Mods- I didn’t get a reply when I voted, so I tried again. It worked the second time. You might still get two.

Judy wrote: "Mods- I didn’t get a reply when I voted, so I tried again. It worked the second time. You might still get two."

Yeah, you did! I deleted one! Thank you- I would have caught it but I only run the names duplicate check once or twice!

Also, I had to remove 3 other votes because people voted 9 times. They've all been contacted to revote, but a reminder to other people-- you get 8 votes total!!