Green Room - Week 2 - Day 3

[clauderainsrm]

The New York Times released their full list of Best Books of the 21st Century list   www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/books/best-books-21st-century.html

and I'm honored to say that 99 of them were my Idol posts!! I'm not sure how these qualify as "books", but I'm just grateful for the acknowledgement. I'm sure they are busy with all of the editorials about advocating for both Trump AND Biden to drop out of the Presidential race.  I'm glad they haven't asked ME to drop out yet.  Probably because I haven't officially thrown my hat in.... because I only have a couple hats and can't really afford to just be throwing them into rings to get stomped on or lost. 

Perhaps they are busy writing an editorial to advocate for getting me a new hat that I can then throw in... or maybe a used one that's already beaten up so I wouldn't care if it got damaged. That might be better. 

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I've substituted the Idol posts originally listed with other books in the above link, with other books by up-and-comers that I felt deserved some attention. How many of the 100 have you read? Which ones are now on your "I should check that out!" list based on the descriptions? 

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Remember that your own deadline is coming up soon - Sunday at noon ET. Still a LOT of people haven't posted yet, so this is going to be a busy couple of days!  therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1143356.html

(or, I guess a massive bye-fest... I guess we will see how that shakes out...) 

Comments

[aggienaut]

Booo you need to subscribe to see the list! I guess there's no way for us to find out WHICH 99 of Gary's idol posts made it. And what the one that isn't his is!

[alycewilson]

I happen to be a subscriber of [INSERT SERVICE HERE], and I can tell you, it's every single one of his last 100 posts, EXCEPT for this one. He was robbed!

[aggienaut]

O: O: O:

[clauderainsrm]

I'm not saying people need to storm the NYT Book Review office and set up a gallows to deal with anyone who isn't willing to disregard the votes in install me to my rightful place. I'm just saying that if anyone did that I would wish them luck. I'm sure there are plenty of good people involved.

[murielle]

LOLOLOLOL!

[roina_arwen]

I got as far as number 96 before I gave up trying. Kept getting that stupid pop up. Argh.

[clauderainsrm]

Our friends at Reddit made an archive file for it. https://archive.is/EtN68#selection-4197.0-4212.0

[mollywheezy]

You only need to do a free subscription to see the list, basically give them your email. They try to get you to subscribe to the paid one, but it isn't required.