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1DeltaQueen50
Modificato: Ott 9, 2018, 11:26 am

As we are entering the final quarter of 2017, I think it is time to start to think about 2018.

Is everyone happy with our current format of having a member set the theme for each month and letting us know that theme a couple of months in advance so that we can plan our reading?

If your answer is yes, this is also your chance to volunteer to set up a thread for the month of your choice.

If we decide to continue with our current setup, then I will edit this post so that we can list each month and it's host here.

2018 Reading Through Time

January: tess_schoolmarm - "Baby, It's Cold Out There!" http://www.librarything.com/topic/275766
February: CurrierBell - "Going Hollywood" http://www.librarything.com/topic/277031
March: Roro8 - "Something Sporty" http://www.librarything.com/topic/286130
April: Majkia - "Clash of Cultures" http://www.librarything.com/topic/284489
May: DeltaQueen - "The Exotic Lands of Southeast Asia" http://www.librarything.com/topic/286326
June: Familyhistorian - "Digging Up the Past" http://www.librarything.com/topic/288722
July: cmbohn - "Nautical" http://www.librarything.com/topic/290510#
August: cindydavid4 - "Europe Between the Wars, 1918 - 1939" http://www.librarything.com/topic/292478
September: Countrylife - "Let's Have A Drink" http://www.librarything.com/topic/288701#
October: cbfiske - "Old MacDonald Had A Farm" http://www.librarything.com/topic/295422
November: LibraryCin - "She Blinded Me With Science"
December: Ikernaugh - "It's All About the Music"

2Tess_W
Ott 2, 2017, 10:54 am

I love the format; it so varies my reading! I would like to volunteer for January 2018!

3DeltaQueen50
Modificato: Ott 2, 2017, 5:54 pm

Thanks Tess, I have started a list for next year. I will take a month as well but am waiting to see which month others prefer.

4CurrerBell
Ott 3, 2017, 12:55 am

>3 DeltaQueen50: I'm good with things as they are too, but like you I'll wait and give others a shot at the months they prefer.

5Roro8
Ott 3, 2017, 5:06 am

I am happy with the current set-up, but I'm also willing to consider new ideas. If we stay with the same format I am happy to take a month. Like Judy and CurrerBell, I will wait and see what moths are left. I have no major commitments next year that I am aware of at the moment so any month will do for me.

6Tess_W
Ott 3, 2017, 6:00 pm

Is there a list somewhere that tells us what time periods we will be reading in next year....will be getting gift cards for birthday from Amazon and B&N and will want to make purchases that I can use for this group.

7CurrerBell
Ott 3, 2017, 6:46 pm

>6 Tess_W: Using the Quarterly Wiki, we're currently (Q4 2017) in the Napoleonic Era. If we follow the past (2012 through 2015), we'll be doing
  1. 19th Century Europe (& rest of the world, excluding Northern America)
  2. 19th Century Northern America (includes Civil War; excluding the Old West)
  3. The Old West
  4. 20th Century: Before WW1 (1900-1913)
for the corresponding Q1 through Q4 of 2018. I think? Tell me, folks, if I'm wrong.

8DeltaQueen50
Ott 3, 2017, 11:44 pm

>7 CurrerBell: That sounds right to me.

9majkia
Ott 4, 2017, 3:50 pm

>7 CurrerBell: >8 DeltaQueen50: Yup, that's what I've got.

11CurrerBell
Ott 13, 2017, 12:34 pm

Is there something wrong with me? I can't find an October 2017 thread (Gothic). But I'm sure I posted to that thread already!

12CurrerBell
Ott 13, 2017, 1:34 pm

>11 CurrerBell: My stoopid! I must have accidentally clicked on the "ignore" button.

13majkia
Ott 13, 2017, 7:48 pm

>12 CurrerBell: LOL Been there, done that...

14Roro8
Nov 19, 2017, 9:39 pm

Hi everybody. I'm just doing some planning for next year and I noticed we hadn't progressed much with our plan for 2018. If we are still proceeding I will volunteer for March please.

15CurrerBell
Nov 20, 2017, 1:41 am

I'll sign up for February. And >14 Roro8: is right, if we're going to do this next year, we need some more sign-ups pretty soon. At least we've got the first three months of 2018 laid out now.

16majkia
Nov 20, 2017, 7:07 am

I'll volunteer for April

17DeltaQueen50
Nov 20, 2017, 5:12 pm

Thank you everyone, I thought I was going to come begging, but this will really give us a good start for next year.

I will add myself in for May.

18DeltaQueen50
Nov 20, 2017, 5:14 pm

Anybody else ready to grab a month?

19Familyhistorian
Modificato: Nov 21, 2017, 2:22 am

I'll take June. Maybe this time I will actually stay put for the month that I host or maybe not.

20CurrerBell
Nov 21, 2017, 8:07 am

I'm going to get my page set up a little early, considering February's early in the year! Before I do....

Two topics.

"Going Hollywood" -- movies and related subjects, which I'll spell out more clearly in the intro to the thread. I think we did something along this line a few years ago (but I can't find anything in the Wiki) and if folks aren't up for a rerun, tell me now. Picked it because I have a couple TBRs on this subject (Gore Vidal's Hollywood and The Complete Works of Nathanael West (including Day of the Locust).

"Philosophy" -- where I've got a good bit of TBR, including a biography of Spinoza and some as yet unread books by Simone Weil, but this may be heavier than a lot of folks want.

I suspect most folks on here would prefer "Going Hollywood" even if we've done something similar sometime in the past, but I want to give everyone an opportunity to tell me otherwise.

21Tess_W
Nov 22, 2017, 3:09 am

>20 CurrerBell: I'm good with either theme!

22majkia
Nov 22, 2017, 7:05 am

Theme: Going Hollywood whilst Thinking Deeply About It

23Familyhistorian
Nov 22, 2017, 2:40 pm

"Going Hollywood" would work for me. I have American Blonde on the shelves that would fit this theme, I think.

24CurrerBell
Nov 22, 2017, 7:04 pm

>23 Familyhistorian: That reminds me, I've got Joyce Carol Oates's Blonde, her Marilyn Monroe novel, around somewhere (I think). I haven't read any Oates in a while. Not sure I can put my fingers right on it, though.

25Familyhistorian
Nov 22, 2017, 7:54 pm

>24 CurrerBell: I am sure there are lots of Hollywood related novels out there. The one that was immediately brought to mind was The Englishman's Boy which I read recently.

26cmbohn
Nov 22, 2017, 10:00 pm

Can I take a quarterly wiki or does somebody already have those?

27Tess_W
Nov 22, 2017, 10:39 pm

>26 cmbohn: from what I understand, the quarterly reads are set up for a specific era years in advance on a rotation. But I could be wrong!

28CurrerBell
Modificato: Nov 22, 2017, 10:53 pm

>26 cmbohn: >27 Tess_W: Yes, Tess is right; and these are next year's four quarters.

29countrylife
Nov 29, 2017, 11:55 am

Gack! TWO months since I've been on RTT? Glad to see the 2018 plans going strong. I'll take September.

30CurrerBell
Nov 29, 2017, 1:01 pm

Am in hospital. May take a few days yet to get February posted

31Familyhistorian
Modificato: Nov 29, 2017, 5:07 pm

>30 CurrerBell: Hope you are doing OK.

32Tess_W
Nov 29, 2017, 3:36 pm

>30 CurrerBell: Oh no, hoping for a quick recovery. Not to worry about February!

33DeltaQueen50
Nov 29, 2017, 6:38 pm

>30 CurrerBell: Take care of yourself, first and foremost!

34DeltaQueen50
Nov 29, 2017, 6:42 pm

>29 countrylife: Thanks, Cindy, I've added you to the schedule for September.

35CurrerBell
Nov 29, 2017, 6:44 pm

Hope to be home tomorrow. Bad case congestive heart failure with some COPD complications.

36lkernagh
Nov 29, 2017, 9:04 pm

I have been absent from the group for the last couple of years. 2018 is looking to be a flexible reading year and I am hoping to get in some RTT reading. I will forgo raising my hand for a month right now. If you don't find enough takers, I can be tagged for a month.

37LibraryCin
Nov 30, 2017, 3:20 pm

I have been thinking I'd like to make this group and the monthly challenge a priority for next year. That is, I'll keep closer track and of what's happening each month and plan to find a book that will fit each month.

I think I'd like to follow along for a while before volunteering to host a month, though.

38LibraryCin
Nov 30, 2017, 3:21 pm

I have a question, though. Are the themes not usually tied to history or historical fiction, necessarily? Or, do people just take whatever the theme is and tie it to a history or historical fiction read?

Thanks.

39majkia
Nov 30, 2017, 3:42 pm

I try to find something that is vaguely historical to use for a monthly theme. Some months I manage that better than others!

40LibraryCin
Nov 30, 2017, 3:54 pm

>39 majkia: Thank you! That's what I'll be aiming for, as well!

41DeltaQueen50
Dic 1, 2017, 10:50 pm

>38 LibraryCin: Glad to see both >36 lkernagh: and >37 LibraryCin: are going to be joining us in 2018! :)

42cmbohn
Dic 2, 2017, 1:51 am

I kind of want a month but I have no idea what to pick for a theme!

43countrylife
Dic 3, 2017, 4:26 pm

>42 cmbohn:: With the current open slots, you'd have plenty of time to work out a theme! Go for it!

44Tess_W
Dic 4, 2017, 3:16 pm

>42 cmbohn: The sky's the limit!

45cmbohn
Dic 4, 2017, 11:33 pm

I'll take July then. Have we done a naval theme?

46MissWatson
Dic 5, 2017, 4:05 am

>45 cmbohn: Navy? As in Jack Aubrey, Hornblower et. al.? I don't think so, but I haven't been in the group very long.

47cmbohn
Dic 5, 2017, 5:11 pm

Exactly, but nautical in general could work too.

48DeltaQueen50
Dic 6, 2017, 1:20 am

Thanks for taking a month, Cindy. I don't recall doing a nautical theme yet, sounds interesting! I'll add you to July in the opening list.

49CurrerBell
Modificato: Dic 6, 2017, 2:42 am

The February theme page is up. It dawned on me that this is a particularly appropriate theme for February, considering the Oscars will be coming up March 4.

ETA: I'm still a little tired from my hospitalization, so please, folks, post lots of Hollywood-related suggestions that I'm sure I've missed.

50cmbohn
Dic 6, 2017, 10:16 pm

I hope you're back to strength soon, CB.

51Familyhistorian
Dic 16, 2017, 1:38 am

I would like to do "Digging Up the Past" for June's theme - anything from archeology to stumbling across buried bodies or treasure. Is everybody ok with that?

52Roro8
Dic 16, 2017, 2:23 am

>51 Familyhistorian:, that sounds good. I don't think we've done that one before

53majkia
Dic 16, 2017, 6:53 am

>51 Familyhistorian: Sounds good!

And for April I'd like to do 'Clash of Cultures'

54Tess_W
Dic 16, 2017, 8:29 am

You all have such great ideas!

55LibraryCin
Dic 16, 2017, 1:15 pm

>51 Familyhistorian: That sounds fun!

56LibraryCin
Dic 16, 2017, 1:16 pm

>53 majkia: Interesting... will have to figure out how to mesh that with history...

57CurrerBell
Modificato: Dic 16, 2017, 2:07 pm

>53 majkia: Plenty there that I've not yet read in Henry James – and also Constance Fenimore Woolson. Chinua Acebe's "African Trilogy" I've read, and Heart of Darkness also, but there should be plenty of other "culture clash" in Joseph Conrad (and also, I've just gotten that new book The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World).

>51 Familyhistorian: I've got a book that's a couple or three years old on the Parthenon that theorizes as to ... well, I'm not quite sure, but perhaps as to a very "Dionysian" origin of Athenian civilization. It's around the house somewhere and I'll have to try to find it.

58DeltaQueen50
Dic 16, 2017, 3:49 pm

I've added the themes of "Digging Up the Past" and "Clash of Cultures" to the list in the first message. Now I am going to have to get busy and come up a theme for my month of May!

59Familyhistorian
Dic 16, 2017, 10:22 pm

Thanks, Judy. I was sitting next to my bookcases at the time so the theme just came to me. (I was beside the archaeology section LOL). Maybe something will come to you while you are perusing the book shelves in your new place.

60Roro8
Modificato: Dic 23, 2017, 10:33 pm

Next year Australia is hosting the Commonwealth Games at the Gold Coast, about a 2 hour drive from my home. In fact, one of my workmates that is retiring next month is excited to be working at the games as a volunteer helping at the squash, boxing and something else I can't remember right now. For this reason I have decided to have a sporty theme for March.

March - Something Sporty

61CurrerBell
Dic 24, 2017, 3:28 am

>60 Roro8: Tough one for me, considering I want to go ROOTing and read something I've already got (which rules out a reread of Malamud's The Natural, which I may have around somewhere but I can't put my hands on it). But I figure The Old Man and the Sea will qualify, and surprisingly I've never read it.

62Tess_W
Modificato: Dic 24, 2017, 4:53 am

>60 Roro8: What a great theme! I have a couple of books that will work: The Boys in the Boat which is about the 1936 Berlin Olympics, The Brothers K (baseball} and Girl Runner, a work of Canadian fiction about female athletes.

63Roro8
Modificato: Dic 24, 2017, 8:10 am

>62 Tess_W:, I've read Girl Runner. It's a very good read. That is exactly the type of thing I was thinking of. There is another one with female boxers. I can't remember what it is called. I might try and track it down. I know I have seen it at my local library.

ETA: I just looked back, I gave Girl Runner 4.5 stars!

64Familyhistorian
Dic 25, 2017, 1:57 am

I have Girl Runner on my shelves. Amazing what is on there, now to find it.

65cmbohn
Dic 25, 2017, 5:16 pm

I'm doing July and the theme is Nautical.

66Tess_W
Dic 25, 2017, 5:39 pm

>65 cmbohn: you can make a July 2018 page and post your suggestions!

67cmbohn
Dic 25, 2017, 10:04 pm

Ok! I'll do it when I've got the computer. My tablet is tricky.

68DeltaQueen50
Gen 4, 2018, 3:10 pm

I have decided that my theme for May's Reading Thru Time is going to be Southeast Asia. I will set up a thread in a day or so for this.

69DeltaQueen50
Gen 4, 2018, 3:12 pm

If anyone is thinking of hosting a month, we still have August, October, November and December free.

70cindydavid4
Gen 5, 2018, 6:34 am

Wow how did I miss this thread? I can do August, theme tba

I am confused between Reading Through Time, which I had assumed focused on specific periods, and Global reading, which was more about regions around the world. Anyone help me keep these straight?

71cindydavid4
Gen 5, 2018, 6:37 am

>51 Familyhistorian: oh my yes! If things had gone differently I woul have been an archaelogist, but as it is I can be a armchair one whild not getting dusty. Have tons of books for this.

72majkia
Gen 5, 2018, 6:53 am

>70 cindydavid4: Cindy, Reading through Time also has a quarterly thread that does focus on particular periods. We've only recently been doing the monthly topic options which let us hop around through Time more freely.

73cbfiske
Gen 5, 2018, 7:26 am

I can do October. I will let you know when I know the theme.

74Familyhistorian
Gen 5, 2018, 1:56 pm

>71 cindydavid4: Ha, me too Cindy. I was sitting next to my bookcases when I was trying to think up a theme and there they were, all of those archeology books. I have yet to start a thread and should do that soon.

75cindydavid4
Gen 5, 2018, 6:09 pm

>35 CurrerBell: !!!!!!! oh my please take care of yourself...

76cindydavid4
Modificato: Gen 6, 2018, 11:15 am

>74 Familyhistorian: Yeah I have a bunch of memories of early travelers, lots of histories about different events and places, Lots of different things. Mmmm nothing is striking my fancy yet, but I will indeed do August!

BTW there are at least 2 cindy's here (I think 3) so when you are responding to a post please include the post number. I was doing some headscratching at post I thought was directed to me when I realized what was happening ;)

77cindydavid4
Gen 5, 2018, 6:18 pm

August 2018 is the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Amiens. This is also the year that the war to end all wars ceased. Has this topic been done to death, or would 'reads in the aftermath of WWI' work?

78cindydavid4
Modificato: Gen 5, 2018, 6:41 pm

Its also the 100th Anniversary of the writing of Frankenstien!!! mmm

“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”

79LibraryCin
Modificato: Gen 5, 2018, 9:10 pm

>76 cindydavid4: Ha! I'm not sure if I'm the 2nd or 3rd Cindy or if I might be #4! I'm not sure how many people here know my name (many who migrated here from shelfari do know, but I'm not sure how many "native" LTers know that). I'm also a Cindy! :-) I am a librarian, so that's where "LibraryCin" came from.

80LibraryCin
Gen 5, 2018, 9:11 pm

>77 cindydavid4: I'd like that theme, but I don't know what themes have been done in the past. :-)

81Tess_W
Gen 5, 2018, 9:51 pm

>77 cindydavid4: probably if you narrow it down a bit, that would work! (cause post WWI could be 1918-today!) We are reading Pre WWI (1900-1913) as our quarter read the 4th quarter.

82cmbohn
Gen 5, 2018, 10:19 pm

Yeah, it's kind of funny how popular Cindys are on here given how uncommon the name is! --Also a Cindy.

83LibraryCin
Gen 5, 2018, 11:02 pm

>82 cmbohn: It may depend on our age(s)? I was born in 1972. Through some of my school years, there was another Cindy in my grade, in my small town of only about 1300 people. My class usually had about 20-25 students.

When I went to university, I had one friend who knew about 5 "Cindys"! I was about Cindy #4 or so - the other 3 she knew before me.

84cindydavid4
Gen 6, 2018, 11:01 am

>83 LibraryCin: Yes depends on age - I was born in 1957, the year of the Grinch and Cindy Loo Who. Plus Cindy was common anyway as a nickname for Cynthia so by the time I was in school there were usually 2-3 cindys in my class (After HS (late 70s) I rarely heard the name. Then maybe 20 years ago it came back, coz all of a sudden I had students with the name! But now there are all the crazy spellings - Im always having to spell my name out, coz someone wants to write Cyndi, Cyndee, Syndee.......sigh.

Actually I was named after my grandmother who was Celia and I always thought the name was so much more sophisticated, but here I still am with Cindy :)

85cindydavid4
Gen 6, 2018, 11:04 am

>81 Tess_W: Oh I have a ton and a half of books on pre WWI - that will be fun. So for mine, what about Europe 'between the wars' from 1918-1939?

86Tess_W
Gen 6, 2018, 12:13 pm

>85 cindydavid4: I'm not an admin here, so you will have to check with them! Anything is good with me!

87LibraryCin
Modificato: Gen 6, 2018, 2:41 pm

>84 cindydavid4: Yes, technically, I am a Cynthia. :-) But, the only time that name ever refers to me is when I'm in a waiting room, or somewhere where I'm registered using my legal name!

Cindy, I think, is still the most common spelling, but yes, certainly people have gotten "creative" with the spelling of it. Though, really, as a nickname for Cynthia, I do wonder why the common spelling isn't Cyndi or Cyndy. :) My ex-boyfriend's mother is Croatian, so English is not her first language. She used to often spell my name starting with an S.

I work in a small academic library and there is at least one Lucinda, which I also thought was a variation on Cindy. In fact, I would think "Cindy" would be a better shortening of "Lucinda" than of "Cynthia"!

88DeltaQueen50
Gen 6, 2018, 2:54 pm

>70 cindydavid4: Got you down for August, Cindy.

>73 cbfiske: Also have cbfiske for October

Please remember as hosts of the month that it is entirely your choice as to the theme, bearing in mind that we are reading about the past. Just let us know here and I will add it to the top post beside your chosen month.

>85 cindydavid4: "Europe Between the Wars (1918 - 1939)" sounds like a fun theme, let me know if that's the one you want for sure and I will add it to the top post.

89cindydavid4
Gen 6, 2018, 4:47 pm

I like the idea - so much to consider!

90DeltaQueen50
Gen 6, 2018, 10:35 pm

>89 cindydavid4: Is that a commitment? Should I add it to the top post?

91cindydavid4
Gen 6, 2018, 10:47 pm

Yes!

92DeltaQueen50
Gen 7, 2018, 2:44 pm

>91 cindydavid4: Excellent and done! :)

93LibraryCin
Gen 12, 2018, 10:38 pm

I had a couple of ideas, but I'm not sure if they are too close to other themes already chosen:

"I Will Survive!" - survival (which is similar to some stuff we are reading this month

"She Blinded Me With Science!" - science (we're already doing an archaeology theme, I think - Digging)

I also tried to come up with catchy names! :-)

Not sure if either of these would be ok, or if I should come up with something else...

I could probably plan to host November, even if neither of those work. I'm sure I could come up with something else, if those are too close to others.

Thoughts?

94CurrerBell
Modificato: Gen 13, 2018, 12:23 am

>93 LibraryCin: For survival I could do a reread of Robinson Crusoe but using Robinson Crusoe (Norton Critical Edition) since I've never read the NCE supplementary materials. (Hey, nothing wrong with survival in a "warm" climate.) And I've got Swiss Family Robinson (never read) in some pile or other somewhere. And I really should get around to The Book Thief sometime.

I must have oodles of science that I could get to. One of these lifetimes I've been meaning to read Roger Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind. Plus, I've got the Charles Darwin (Norton Critical Edition) somewhere around the house. And I've got a good bit of mathematics history in TBR, and that should aslo qualify for "science."

I wouldn't worry about overlap between archaeology and "science" if it's "science" that you want to do for November. Archaeology is awfully specialized and "science" will give us a broader topic to explore. Frankly, I'm going to have a little bit of trouble finding something on archaeology around the house. I'd really like to get around to The Parthenon Enigma but I'm not positive where it is. I have some other archaeology I can do, a couple books from the Pennsylvania Trail of History series on state historic sites. But your "science" topic would be easier to find material in.

So I'd be happy with either survival or science if you want to do one of them for November.

95cmbohn
Gen 13, 2018, 1:16 am

I'd be On board for either one!

96majkia
Gen 13, 2018, 7:09 am

I'd prefer science, regardless of also doing archaeology since I love both subjects, but survival would be fine too.

97LibraryCin
Gen 13, 2018, 2:20 pm

I might do one this year and the other next year (unless how we decide the topics changes for next year). Thanks for your input. I'll see if anyone else has any thoughts before I commit one way or the other.

98Tess_W
Gen 13, 2018, 4:07 pm

Either one!

99cindydavid4
Gen 13, 2018, 5:05 pm

would love a science theme - I don't get as much of a chance to delve into that as I do other non fiction. Plus I have two books (Glass Universe and Swerve) that have been sitting on my tbr shelf for over a year and really need to read soon!

100cbfiske
Gen 14, 2018, 5:05 am

I'd be happy with either one, but survival grabs my attention more right now.

101cbfiske
Gen 14, 2018, 5:29 am

For October, I'd like to propose the topic "Old MacDonald had a Farm". The books for this month would have something to do with farms and farming. Included could be a children's classic like Charlotte's Web or a book like Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres. It could even include a book like All Creatures Great and Small where the main character works as a vet in a farm community.

102CurrerBell
Modificato: Gen 14, 2018, 6:27 am

>101 cbfiske: I can....ETA: ....and they'll all be ROOTs.

103Tess_W
Gen 14, 2018, 7:26 am

>101 cbfiske: great topic!

104LibraryCin
Gen 14, 2018, 12:07 pm

>101 cbfiske: Ooooooh, I love that idea!

105DeltaQueen50
Gen 14, 2018, 1:56 pm

>93 LibraryCin: Either of your topic proposals sound good, Cindy. I'll go ahead and put you in for November. Let me know when you decide and I'll add it to the first post. I tried to come up with a catchy title for "Southeast Asia" in May, but I couldn't think of one.

>101 cbfiske: I love the idea of "Old MacDonald Had A Farm"! I'll add it to the list above.

106LibraryCin
Gen 14, 2018, 3:04 pm

I think, for those who mentioned a preference one way or the other, there were more "votes" for science. I was initially leaning that way, then was leaning the other way, but I think we'll go with:
"She Blinded Me With Science" for November.

Maybe I'll get to use survival next year.

107cmbohn
Gen 14, 2018, 7:58 pm

What does Root stand for?

108DeltaQueen50
Gen 14, 2018, 8:43 pm

>106 LibraryCin: I have added your theme of "She Blinded Me With Science" to the top post.

>107 cmbohn: Cindy, I believe a "Root" stands for a book that has been on someones TBR for a long time, there is a challenge on LT to help people weed out these Roots.

109cindydavid4
Gen 14, 2018, 10:26 pm

>101 cbfiske:, and perhaps the animals themselves (not a fan of talking animals but thinking of allegories such as the brilliant Animal Farm)

110cindydavid4
Gen 14, 2018, 10:28 pm

>106 LibraryCin: "She Blinded Me With Science" for November.

Ha, love it! I'll for sure get those two books read and off my tbr shelf (tho november is a loooong way off)

112cmbohn
Gen 15, 2018, 2:27 am

Cool, thanks! I've been marking my books 📚 with an asterisk for the ones I own.

113cbfiske
Gen 16, 2018, 2:46 pm

>109 cindydavid4: An allegory like Animal Farm would work for October as far as I'm concerned.

114Roro8
Gen 31, 2018, 2:36 pm

Sorry everybody. I meant to have the March thread up by now. Hopefully on the weekend I'll get it done. At least you all know the theme though.

115DeltaQueen50
Gen 31, 2018, 4:07 pm

>114 Roro8: Perfect timing, Ro. I was just going to send you a reminder about your March thread. :)

116DeltaQueen50
Feb 6, 2018, 5:25 pm

I have set up May's Reading Through Time Thread, "The Exotic Lands of Southeast Asia". The link to the thread is in post #1.

117Familyhistorian
Feb 6, 2018, 7:31 pm

>116 DeltaQueen50: I guess I better work on the thread for June, soon.

118DeltaQueen50
Feb 7, 2018, 6:03 pm

>117 Familyhistorian: No hurry, Meg, I had some extra time yesterday so I set up the thread.

119countrylife
Mar 19, 2018, 6:27 pm

Finally got my September challenge up. It's here.

120Familyhistorian
Mar 19, 2018, 10:39 pm

>119 countrylife: What do you mean "finally got my September challenge up"? You are making me look bad. I don't have the June thread up yet.

121Familyhistorian
Mar 20, 2018, 12:52 am

The June thread is now up: June thread

122countrylife
Mar 20, 2018, 1:07 pm

>120 Familyhistorian: : Sorry, Meg! I didn't even notice that your thread wasn't up yet. I just saw that my slot in the OP was still without a title, so I decided to do it all at once.

123DeltaQueen50
Mar 20, 2018, 1:16 pm

Thanks Cindy and Meg, I have updated the list in the first post of this thread. Now I am off to search for books that will fit these themes!

124Familyhistorian
Mar 20, 2018, 1:35 pm

>122 countrylife: No problem, Cindy. I had been meaning to put up the thread for a while so you gave me a push to do it!

125LibraryCin
Modificato: Mar 20, 2018, 7:23 pm

>120 Familyhistorian: LOL! Well, I'm impressed you got yours up so quickly after that!

I'm doing October. I'm not sure when my reminder will come up in my calendar for that, but it may be a couple of months yet!

ETA: My mistake - I'm doing November. I'm thinking I gave myself a reminder to work on my thread sometime in the summer... :-)

126Familyhistorian
Mar 20, 2018, 8:03 pm

>125 LibraryCin: I had already thought it out I just had to get it done! LOL

127DeltaQueen50
Mar 22, 2018, 12:08 am

Just a reminder to everyone - December is still available if anyone wants to host a month.

128CurrerBell
Mar 23, 2018, 6:04 pm

>125 LibraryCin: Science. I've already got my pick, the just published Library of America Rachel Carson: Silent Spring & Other Writings on the Environment, which is selling at 20%-off from LoA through April 11.

Got other science books around I could read as ROOTs, but I really do want to get this LoA at such an excellent price.

129LibraryCin
Mar 23, 2018, 10:57 pm

>128 CurrerBell: True. At least I've posted the topic, so people can plan, anyway, even if I haven't posted the thread yet! :-)

130cindydavid4
Mar 25, 2018, 10:20 am

>128 CurrerBell: This week's New Yorker has an article about her writings; a number of them are about the sea. Excerpts from those are just beautiful. Very interesting article about her life and work.

131lkernagh
Apr 9, 2018, 8:50 pm

>127 DeltaQueen50: - I am happy to take on hosting duties for December if it is still up for grabs.

132DeltaQueen50
Apr 19, 2018, 1:09 pm

>131 lkernagh: Sorry it took me so long to reply, Lori. I was actually in your neck of the wood visiting family. I will add you to the top for December and thanks for volunteering. :)

133lkernagh
Modificato: Apr 20, 2018, 11:37 pm

>132 DeltaQueen50: - Thanks Judy! I have been pondering a possible theme idea and now seems to be a good time to check the group to see if there will be uptake.

I skimmed the previous monthly themes and noticed "music" has not shown up as a theme, to date. For me, December is very much about music - yes, I am one of those individuals that loves to play Christmas carols around the clock - so the idea of a general music theme appeals to me. Canvassing the group to see if this appeals. Idea is to keep the theme open so any books where music is a strong underlying theme would fit, as would biographies of musical composers and some very focused music themes would qualify (thinking American Big Band era, Jazz, Baroque and Vienna Waltz dominated eras).

Let me know if this sounds appealing to the group or if I need to go back to the drawing board.

ETA: This would be for the December theme.

134Familyhistorian
Apr 21, 2018, 12:53 am

>133 lkernagh: Music as a theme sounds good for December, Lori.

135CurrerBell
Modificato: Apr 21, 2018, 1:07 am

>133 lkernagh: Sounds good to me, Lori. Not too long ago I bought the fairly new biographies of Lou Reed: A Life and Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks. Lou Reed was on the "last chance" table at B&N real cheap, and I had a 20% coupon I used on Stevie Nicks. And I've had Janis Ian's Society's Child: My Autobiography (ETA: autographed) around the house for ages, likewise for Laura Love's You Ain't Got No Easter Clothes: A Memoir, if I can find them (and I think I can pretty easily).

Lou Reed and Stevie Nicks are quite recent acquisitions, but Janis Ian and Laura Love are ancients that I ought to get ROOTing into. And I've also got another ROOTing oldie by Judy Collins sitting around that I ought to look for, Morning, Noon, and Night: Living the Creative Life.

========== ETA:

Oooh, yeah, and that reminds me, I've also got another autographed one around, Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian. It's a collection of sci-fi stories commissioned and edited by Janis, each one based on a title of one of her songs. I've read some but not all of them.

And I've also got an old-old-old (over half-a-century) of a biography of the Trapp Family Singers that's also autographed. In fact, I got it as a Christmas present, personally inscribed to me, when I was in my very early teens.

136Tess_W
Apr 21, 2018, 8:45 am

Great idea!

137cindydavid4
Apr 21, 2018, 12:49 pm

>133 lkernagh: Love the idea - you might include Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sachs, fascinating look at his work in the field!

>135 CurrerBell: Oh my I have been a fan of Janis Ian since I was 17 and wearing out her At Seventeen album. Loved Stars as well, and since I also love sci fi, this looks right up my alley - thanks!

138cindydavid4
Apr 21, 2018, 12:54 pm

Oh there is another one I read that might be interesting here just cant remember title or author - its about the bands who broke up in the 70s, and how they all linked - Beatles, CSNY, Simon and Garfunkle, Who...as well as the rise of James Taylor and Carole King who were influenced by the above. Anyone know what this was?

139LibraryCin
Apr 21, 2018, 2:00 pm

>133 lkernagh: Ooooooh, I like that idea!

140DeltaQueen50
Modificato: Apr 21, 2018, 2:09 pm

Sounds like you have chosen a winner, Lori. Music sounds like a great theme for December! :)

Let me know if you are going to go with this and I will add it to the top of this thread.

141lkernagh
Apr 21, 2018, 4:27 pm

Thanks for chiming in everyone! Music will be the theme for December.