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Lynn wrote: "Lilith wrote: "Good morning all,
What an exhausting week! My anxiety is through the rafters. Well, I have PTSD, so there’s that��.but Life outdoes itself.

Finished:
I finished the Fall Challenge!"..."

Thank you, Lynn!

Anxiety is finally ebbing. I'm so thrilled for Joe and Kamala, and so delighted for all of the firsts that Kamala represents! Can our new FLOTUS also be our new Secretary of Education? Asking for a friend lol.

I think a lot of people feel the same way you do about Shakespeare, Lynn!
I think he appeals to my love of poetry. The rhythm, the rhyme, the slant rhyme, the wordplay - I've been hooked for a long time. Like @Teri, I've been reading a play frequently....Not quite up to Teri"s monthly!
He never disappoints.

Ohhh, I am enjoying savoring every word, every passage :) What a gift!

Nadine wrote: "No word yet on the 2021 list. We are all waiting with excitement. I keep checking the FB page for updates.
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So now that we've made it through the US election, this is my next eagerly awaited outcome! I'm not on FB, so keep us in the loop!! :)

They're posting the list on December 1st. I don't know if they're holding it up because they're going to do prompts on their new book poll? Maybe? Not sure.

Katy wrote: "They're posting the list on December 1st. I don't know if they're holding it up because they're going to do prompts on their new book poll? Maybe? Not sure."



Oh did they say that today? I wonder if they're doing the "sneak peeks" again this year ...


They've never told us the date in advance before!!!

Nadine wrote: "Katy wrote: "They're posting the list on December 1st. I don't know if they're holding it up because they're going to do prompts on their new book poll? Maybe? Not sure."



Oh did they say that to..."

They announced it on FB. They did not say anything about sneak peeks so I don't think they're doing that.

That’s such a long time to wait!!!

I'm actually glad they are waiting a bit. I need a couple of weeks to breathe before I dive into the planning phase.

Teri wrote: "I'm actually glad they are waiting a bit. I need a couple of weeks to breathe before I dive into the planning phase."

I'm glad they posted the Dec. 1st date because it gets frustrating seeing constant questions and complaints about the list being posted for three or four weeks leading up to it. I actually sent Tara a message earlier this year suggesting that setting a date might minimize the grumbling. ;)

I don't need to look at Facebook for another 3 weeks then 😁 I'm on my last book and I thought it might be a squeeze to finish before the list comes out but this gives me plenty of time.

But I wanna know noooooww

I literally was just told in my annual review that I "have the patience of a saint", so I guess we'll be testing that theory for the next 3 weeks! ;)

I'm glad they posted the date so we know. I got really tired of all the bickering in the FB group last year.

The only thing I don't like about the Dec. 1st date is that Christmas lists are due on Thanksgiving in my family. So if there are books I want to read for the challenge that aren't at my library, I won't be getting them for Christmas this year.

Is it bad that I already have a book picked out to fill a prompt in the 2021 challenge? XD Seeing as they've had a "book published this year" prompt every year, I figured Across the Green Grass Fields would work, especially since it's scheduled to come out in January and I don't have to wait too long to read it.

Though watch, now that I've picked that book, that prompt won't show up next year. Lol.

Katy wrote: "They announced it on FB. They did not say anything about sneak peeks so I don't think they're doing that."

Boo! I like sneak peeks! :)

Teri wrote: "I'm actually glad they are waiting a bit. I need a couple of weeks to breathe before I dive into the planning phase."

Wha--? What? I'm unfamiliar with that sensation! Says the woman who has already posted her 2021 ATY plan and is working to fill it with suggested books... ;)

I don’t actually plan much more that a couple books ahead. I always end up seeing books people post here that look interesting or decide I’m not feeling something. So really it’s more “I hope some of my holds that are likely not going to come up until the new year end up filling a prompt��

Lynn wrote: "Katy wrote: "They announced it on FB. They did not say anything about sneak peeks so I don't think they're doing that."

Boo! I like sneak peeks! :)"


I liked the sneak peeks too! A huge part of my joy is searching for books to fit a category, and that let me have a few dribblets of joy each day.

Lynn wrote: "Teri wrote: "I'm actually glad they are waiting a bit. I need a couple of weeks to breathe before I dive into the planning phase."

Wha--? What? I'm unfamiliar with that sensation! Says the woman w..."

I just checked the ATY prompts and there are some great ones in there! I skipped it this year, but might do it again in 2021.

Lauren wrote: "I just checked the ATY prompts and there are some great ones in there! I skipped it this year, but might do it again in 2021.."

Thank you. I always make up a shorten list of Popsugar prompts to guide my reading in a year. This year I ended up with two prompts:
A book related to one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
A book based on We Didn't Start the Fire

that when I went back to Popsugar, I couldn't find these on the list. I thought I was crazy. They came from ATY.

Dubhease wrote: "Lauren wrote: "I just checked the ATY prompts and there are some great ones in there! I skipped it this year, but might do it again in 2021.."

that when I went back to Popsugar, I couldn't find these on the list. I thought I was crazy. They came from ATY.."

I cannot begin to tell you how many times I have misidentified (in my mind) the reading challenge from which specific prompts came... :) Glad to know I am not alone in that.

Dubhease wrote: "Lauren wrote: "I just checked the ATY prompts and there are some great ones in there! I skipped it this year, but might do it again in 2021.."

Thank you. I always make up a shorten list of Popsuga..."

Ooh, another challenge I did years ago had us pick a book about an event or person from We Didn't Start the Fire! That was such a fun prompt, there's so many!! (I went with Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock for "Little Rock")

I started looking through the ATY prompts but had to stop myself--considering I'll only barely finish PopSugar this year, there's NO way I'd be able to do more than one challenge next year! :(

I haven't done a second challenge before, but since I've finished 193 books so far this year, maybe I should look into it. I'm assuming I'm going to lean hermity again next year.

poshpenny wrote: "I haven't done a second challenge before, but since I've finished 193 books so far this year, maybe I should look into it. I'm assuming I'm going to lean hermity again next year."

I would say if you read that much, it wouldn't be too much of a stretch for those books to fill additional challenges. I ended up trying eight challenges this year. I'm at 152 books read for the year, and my notes say 18 more will finish all the challenges (5 will finish the big ones). I found all of the challenges in the summer, and I'm only regretting one of them for getting too specific. (There are not that many adult books with titles that rhyme!) I've found most of the books I read this year count across multiple challenges, or the challenges have similar prompts. That said, I'm probably only trying 2-3 initially next year, and may add 1-2 mid-year depending on how hermity I'm being. (I like that term.)

I’ve done multiple challenges several years. My rule for myself is it’s ok to count one book for multiple prompts across challenges, but not within the same. That way I don’t get too stressed about making sure EVERY book counts, and it takes care of overlap between challenges. One year I think both pop sugar and read harder had true crime as a prompt. I don’t like the genre, was no way I was reading two.

poshpenny wrote: "I haven't done a second challenge before, but since I've finished 193 books so far this year, maybe I should look into it. I'm assuming I'm going to lean hermity again next year."

I'm with Poshpenny, I also like the term "hermity"!