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This is Andrea's "To Be Read" List (2021) for the 50 Books Read in 2021. This list will be added to as Andrea sets up the thread.

Whatever books are not completed on the list can be carried over to the 2022 Personal Reading List thread.

Sample Format Choices:

Sample Format for initial set up before completing books:

��1. The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations Hardcover �� May 22, 2018 by John McCain

by John McCain

2. The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson

by Rick Atkinson

3. Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky

by Mark Kurlansky

Note: See the sample checkmark in number one that would show that I completed that book.

And if you like to see the strikethrough example that the book has been completed - see number 2.

On the Personal Reading Lists - you have a choice of either using checkmarks or strikethroughs.

For comprehensive assistance - we always have the "how to" thread.

See link: /topic/show/...

You can always check Bentley's Thread for the Personal Reading List Thread.

See Bentley's Sample Thread for the Personal Reading List Thread.

Link:

/topic/show/...

Basic Information to help you get started:



For 2021, we are going to set up for all participants two threads - the first will be each participant's Personal Reading List thread where they can create lists of books that they want to read for the 50 Books Read challenge.

And as they read them - they can check them off or do a strikethrough.

It is your working thread.

You can check off each book as you read it by adding & # 10003 ; (with no spaces in between) right before the title of the book with additionally no spaces after the semicolon and before the title of the book.

If you would like to bold the title of the book and author - and number them - in addition to adding a checkmark - you would then add & # 10003 ;(with no spaces) and then < b >1. The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson< /b > with no spaces. You can easily preview what you have done to see if your code works.

��1. The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson

or without a number

��The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson

You can also do strikethroughs if you like - that is the same as bolding but using an s instead of b.

For example: < s > The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson < / s>
You would use this code without the spaces within the brackets or in front of the book title or after the name of the author.

It would look like this:

The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson

If you want it bolded as well:

< s >< b >The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson < / b >< / s >
You would use this code without the spaces within the brackets or in front of the book title or after the name of the author.

It would end up looking like this:

The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson

The second thread is just like it has always been.

If you want to also number the books as well as bold them using a strike through:

< s > < b >1. The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson < / b > < / s>
You would use this code without the spaces within the brackets or in front of the book title number or after the name of the author.

It would end up looking like this:

1. The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson

The second thread is the formatted reading thread for 50 Books that we always have done and includes your reviews using the designated format.

You must sign up for 50 Books Read in 2020 to get both threads - the Personal Reading List thread just for you and your own 2020 Books Read in 2020 thread. You must use the format on the Books Read in 2020 thread. If you would like to participate - then please add your name here and I will set up both threads. Active participants in the 2020 50 Books Read in 2020 get their own two threads as we move forward.

The format for the Personal Lists when setting them up is easy:

Just number or list and skip one line in between.
After skipping one line - just add the citation.

bookcover, the word by, the author's photo and then the author's link

Then skip another line before adding your next book. As you read and complete them - either use a strikethrough or a checkmark - that means that you have added your review according to the standard format on your review thread (same as every other year).

Check the how to thread for additional directions and assistance. We will always be there to assist.

And even if you do not finish all of the books on your list or many on your list - remember whatever books are not completed on the list can be carried over to the 2021 Personal Reading List thread. All you have to do is to do an edit, copy and then a paste on next year's thread. So the sky is the limit.

Have fun with your list thread - you are ready to go!

Hello Andrea,

There are now two threads set up for you in the 50 Books Read in 2020.

The first is the normal 50 Books Read in 2020 thread which you are readily familiar with and you can just jump into that quickly.

And the second thread is your Personal Reading List/Tracker thread for the books that are on your to be read list for 2020. You can add to the list during the year, checkmark off the books that you have completed or you have a choice to do a strikethrough. You make a list for the books that you are planning to read for the year - order is not important - you can skip around. You can number them or not; you can checkmark them when done or you can do strikethroughs to show the ones that you have completed before adding the reviews to your normal 50 Books Read in 2020 thread.

I have provided the sample format with choices. You list the book with numbers or not - but you must skip one line after listing the title of book and the author and you then must add just the citation with bookcover, author's photo and author's link but the other choices are up to you. That helps the goodreads software create a linkable list of books and authors on the right hand white space of your tracker thread.

Your Personal Reading List - To Be Read thread is here:
/topic/show/...

Your new 50 Books Read in 2020 thread is here:
/topic/show/...

The Introduction Thread is here:
/topic/show/...

The 50 Books Read in 2020 - How To's Thread is here:
/topic/show/...

The thread with the special instructions and explanations for the 50 Books Read in 2020 Personal Reading Lists is here:
/topic/show/...

Hope you enjoy!
Bentley

1. ��Iran: A Modern History by Abbas Amanat

by Abbas Amanat (no photo)

2. ��England in the Age of Shakespeare by Jeremy Black

by Jeremy Black

Andrea, you are off to a good start on this thread

Thank you, Bentley, especially for your patience.
Regards,
Andrea

No worries Andrea - it may appear that I am harder on a newbie learning the ropes - but of course that is not true. I would rather spend a lot of time with the new member working and getting things right at the beginning rather than for the member to struggle on their own. This way you learn more about the html and how it works as well as how to maintain the group's standards and get the hang of it all early on. It will become effortless as you gain more experiences here.

Bentley, I’ve learned so much today! Eventually, I may even become tech-savvy. Thank you!
Regards,
Andrea

3. ��The British Are Coming by Rick Atkinson

by Rick Atkinson

Andrea, you did tremendously well today and I think did better than 85% of anybody on the site for their first time on 50 Books, citations, standards. Great job.

4. ��Heretics by G. K. Chesterton

by G.K. Chesterton

5. ��Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict

by Marie Benedict

6. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens

by Charles Dickens

7. �� Degas at the Opera by Henri Loyette

. by Henri Loyrette (no photo)

8. ��Britain’s War, 1937-1941, Into Battle by Daniel Todman

by Daniel Todman (no photo)

9. Britain’s War, 1942-1947, A New World by Daniel Todman

by Daniel Todman (no photo)

10. ��Lincoln on the Verge by Ted Widmer

by Ted Widmer (no photo)

11. ��Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation by Don Meachem & Tim McGraw

by Jon Meacham

12. ��A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 by James Shapiro

by James Shapiro (no photo)

13. ��Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation by Alfred F. Young, Gary B. Nash, and Ray Raphael, eds.

by Alfred F. Young

14. ��All Things Made New: The Reformation and Its Legacy by Diarmaid MacCulloch

by Diarmaid MacCulloch (no photo)

15. ��Author In Chief by Craig Fehman

by Craig Fehrman

You are doing a great job adding to your list. You can always list a group of books in one comment box but starting out it probably is easier for you to edit any citation that way. But I thought I would mention that. But the way you are doing it is fine. Great group of books.

16. ��Gresham’s Law: The Life and World of Queen Elizabeth I’s Banker by John Guy

by John Guy

17. ��Lamentation by C. J. Sansom

by C.J. Sansom

18. ��The Course of History: Ten Meals That Changed the World by Straun Stevenson

by Struan Stevenson (no photo)

19. ��Great Cities Through Travelers�� Eyes by Peter Furtado

by Peter Furtado (no photo)

20. ��Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy, A Lost Generation Love Story by Amanda Vaill

by Amanda Vaill

21. ��The Mistresses of Cliveden: Three Centuries of Scandal, Power, and Intrigue in an English Stately Home by Natalie Livingstone

by Natalie Livingstone

22. The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams by William J. Cooper

by William J. Cooper Jr.

��23. The Queen Mother: The Official Biography by William Shawcross

William Shawcross (no photo)

24. -��Bad Days in History: A Gleefully Grim Chronicle of Misfortune, Mayhem, and Misery for Every Day of the Year by Michael Farquhar

by Michael Farquhar

25. ��Coolidge by Amity Shlaes

by Amity Shlaes

26. ��Speeches That Made History: Over 100 of the Most Influential Speeches Ever Made ... by Sarah Vaughan, ed.

by Various (no photo)

27. ��The Hymnal: A Reading History by Christopher N. Phillips

by Christopher N. Phillips (no photo)

28. ��When Paris Sizzled by Mary McAuliffe

by Mary McAuliffe

29. ��Paris On the Brink by Mary McAuliffe

by Mary McAuliffe

30. ��Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents by Pete Souza

by Pete Souza (no photo)

Thanks, Bentley, for keeping me on the straight and narrow!
Regards,
Andrea

Great.

The book I’m reading, England in the Age of Shakespeare by Jeremy Black, is so exciting. The great thing is that it reminds me of seeing the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Shakespeare’s History Plays three million years ago. Bentley, how do you cite a television series, or do you? Anyway, this is a great read!
Regards,
Andrea

by Jeremy Black
William Shakespeare

Television Series: Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Shakespeare's History Plays - Name of Play - Where and when (approximate month and year is fine that you saw it.

There is no formal mechanism for doing that - we do have a movie and presentation thread - television too - if you would like to try your hand at that. - it would be to movies and media what the 50 Books Read is to books.

There is a standardized format for that thread if you want one.

Up to you.

Bentley, thanks for the quick response! I think I’d better pass �� it was just too long ago. What I do remember was a very young Sean Connery playing Hotspur in “Henry IV,�� with a very young Judi Densch playing Princess Katherine in Shakespeare’s “Henry V.�� It was to-die-for!
Regards,
Andrea

by William Shakespeare
by William Shakespeare

Andrea, the 100 movies threads are not about the past but the movies, tv presentations and media that you are watching now. About the present and the future.

Not sure I guess what you meant.

Bentley, Forgive me, I tend to grow nostalgic when I discuss Shakespeare!
Regards,
Andrea