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2021 Book Buying Plans
24 Festive Tasks: Door 16 – Melbourne Cup Day, Task 2: The odds-on favorite to win this year is Anthony van Dyck, with a betting amount of $8.50. If given that amount of money, what anticipated book(s) coming out in 2021 would you spend it on? (Note: Pony name(s) and betting amount(s) to be added once the […]
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Oh, look! Matching Spines!
One of the results of this week’s Big Decluttering Project was that rearranging my Golden Age mystery shelves finally allowed me to put up my Margaret Millar omnibus volumes in the upright position and right next to each other. And look what I found! I love it when that happens … Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/2112374/oh-look-matching-spines
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More Favorite / Essential Historical Fiction: Towards the 200!
OK, so I did get to another full list after all. Here goes, without any further ado: Virginia Woolf: Orlando I’m happy I’m getting another shot for this book alone — could have kicked myself for leaving it off my first list. I’m not a big fan of either time travel or main character sex […]
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My Historical Fiction Essentials
Finally getting around to this — as per Chris’s invitation, here’s my list (in no particular order, and with major reliance on Chris’s dictum that it’s “fine to list a whole author’s work or series and have it count as one entry”): Hillary Mantel’s historical fiction I’ve yet to try her contemporary writing, but both […]
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Calling all historical fiction readers
Reblogged from Chris’ Fish Place Moonlight Reader has unleashed something.(and we forgot Sharon Kay Penman) And with her permission, I am asking for your best historical fiction lists. Post your top 25 and we’ll see how much we have, and then go from there. First call is good from today until the 8th. So that’s a […]
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Link to the downloadable Crowdsourced! list
Reblogged from: Moonlight Reader Themis-Athena has been working extremely hard on the google sheet, which now has 665 books on it. I believe that it is up to date except for Elentarri’s list posted today. You can view the google document here. I am also hard at work on the BL list, […]
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Crowdsourced: State of the List — WE DID IT!!!
Reblogged from Themis-Athena’s Garden of Books UPDATE 2 We did it!!! Here’s the list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qYl32e0L3R3X_82XldWaCOt2naBFtvoJsaQY8zzUU3E/edit#gid=0 Thanks to the final submissions by Jennifer, Ani and Lora, we’re up to 1001 exactly! How cool is that?? _______________________________________________ UPDATE 1 Including all submissions up to right now, we have room for another 27 books. Romance and horror […]
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Crowdsourced: State of the List — CALL FOR A MORATORIUM ON SUBMISSIONS
Guys, we totally rock — once I’ll have added today’s most recent submissions, we’ll be in spitting distance of our 1001 goal! So I’m going to ask for a moratorium on submissions, with two exceptions: 1) We need more romance novels (and also a bit more horror) — the list is currently lopsided in favor […]
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Crowdsourced BookList: A Shorthand Quickie Towards the 1001 (Part 2: Mysteries / Crime Writing)
Patricia Wentworth: Miss Silver series (The Clock Struck Twelve, Latter End) Sharyn McCrumb: The Ballad of Frankie Silver Georgette Heyer: Envious Casca Martha Grimes: Man With a Load of Mischief, Old Fox Deceiv’d, Jerusalem Inn, Old Silent (Inspector Jury) Elizabeth George: A Great Deliverance, For the Sake of Elena (Inspector Lynley) John Grisham: A Time […]
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Crowdsourced BookList: A Shorthand Quickie Towards the 1001 (Part 1)
While I’m working on completing the spreadsheet, for the time being I’m going to do a quickie and just list my “towards the 1001” additions — I’ll come back and comment on the individual books later; but there’s only so much I can accomplish at any given time. So here goes: Part 1, General Fiction […]
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Crowdsourced Book List: Just Saying
I’ve just updated the Google spreadsheet, and we haven’t just cracked the 500 book threshold, we’ve cracked 600 … and we’re on a good way to get to 700. Do we rock, or what??? Triple hooray for Moonlight Reader’s brainwave and for everyone who responded! And it’s not too late yet in case anybody else […]
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Crowdsourced: More Books with a Difference – Fiction
You asked, Moonlight Reader? To quote from one of my additional entries below: “As you wish …” Without any further ado: Hilary Mantel: Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies When Lillelara added A Place of Greater Safety to her list, I could have kicked myself — because Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell books were definitely among […]
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Listen up – again!
Reblogged from Moonlight Reader I am still working on getting everyone’s contributions added to the Crowdsourced! list. Do me a favor, and scroll aaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllllllllllllllll the way down to the bottom of the list and check the comments. Make sure that there is a link to your list pasted into one of the comments. This is […]
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Responding to Moonlight Reader’s “call for papers (= titles / authors)” — there are quite a number of excellent lists out there already; anyway, here’s my contribution … or a first draft, at least. Links go to my reviews (or status updates / summary blog posts / author pages) to the extent I’ve posted any. […]
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This is a call for your essential titles/authors?
Reblogged from Moonlight Reader This is a call – over the next week or so, spend some time putting together a short list of your personal essential titles that are maybe a little bit out of the mainstream. Say, your top 25 or so that you think are representative or transformative of their era or […]
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Oh Horrors! Fictfact closed. Please do reblog so everyone using knows to download their data.
Reblogged from: Debbie’s Spurts Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! Just went to update my series read to see this from fictfact: “FictFact is closed. We recently lost our primary source of income, Amazon Associate sales. Due to a minor error on our part, we unknowingly had in infraction of their terms. We tried to appeal after we […]
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My Favourite Trilogy
24 Festive Tasks: Door 24 – Epiphany, Task 1: Tell us: What’s your favorite trilogy? I know Tolkien didn’t actually intend this to be a trilogy, but that is how it has come to be published — and it’s occupied the spot that says “favorite trilogy” to me ever since I first read it in […]
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