Play Book Tag discussion

A lot has already been posted about this book, so I'll keep my review short.

Wade Watts is a great new age hero. For me, he was a mix of Encyclopedia Brown and Holden Caulfield. I enjoyed the walk down memory lane with all the 80's references as I was born in 1972.

I'm not a big science fiction fan but I have to say this is a favorite book for me. A great, fun read all around. I'm excited to see what Spielberg does with the movie.

Note: I've read 4 books this month for the "Quirky" tag and so far 3 out of the 4 books I've read are 5 star Favorites. I've not had this much back to back to back luck reading books I've loved in a long, long time. Not sure if it's just me getting soft or maybe it's <3 February <3 that's put me in the mood.

Yay! So glad you liked it! I also loved this one thought I was born a few years into the 80s -- I was going to say a decade after you, but that sounded harsh ;)

Have you seen The Impossible Fortress that came out this month? The blurb brought to mind Ready Player One so I instantly put it on my TBR. Sounds like it might be a fun one to listen to.

Nicole R wrote: "Yay! So glad you liked it! I also loved this one thought I was born a few years into the 80s -- I was going to say a decade after you, but that sounded harsh ;)

Have you seen [book:The Impossible ..."

Hahahahahah!!!! Thanks for sparing my ego although I am becoming an older man and understand about decades being a harsh albeit legitimate time yard stick.

No, I haven't seen The Impossible Fortress, but I'll check it out. Thanks.

I'm glad you love it too. I thought it was great fun.

Nicole R wrote: "Yay! So glad you liked it! I also loved this one thought I was born a few years into the 80s -- I was going to say a decade after you, but that sounded harsh ;)

Have you seen [book:The Impossible ..."

I have this book on my wishlist for a while now - I see it came out this month.

Nicole R wrote: "Have you seen The Impossible Fortress that came out this month? The blurb brought to mind Ready Player One so I instantly put it on my TBR. "

This sounds adorable. Added to my tbr!

I'm glad you enjoyed this! I really want to read this. My IRL book club is voting on our reads for June 2017 - May 2018 and Ready Player One might be one of the books. If it's not, I'm going to make it a priority to read this sooner than later. I think I'll love the nostalgia as I was born in 1978 and I love video games.

Maybe you should keep choosing your books from the "quirky" tag for the rest of the year. 3 out of 4 books with 5 stars is quite something.

The book I mentioned above is currently a giveaway on GR! Timely.

Charlie wrote: "A lot has already been posted about this book, so I'll keep my review short.

Wade Watts is a great new age hero. For me, he was a mix of Encyclopedia Brown and Holden Caulfield. I enjoyed the wal..."

I have a brother who was born in 1972, a year before 10 cent chocolate bars went up to 15 cents.

Y'all make me feel old - I loved this book too, I was born in 1964 and graduated from high school in 81 so it was very nostalgic for me too.

Karin wrote: "I have a brother who was born in 1972, a year before 10 cent chocolate bars went up to 15 cents...."

I was also born in '72. The best price I remember for chocolate bars was 40 cents. A small bag of chips, at the same time, was 25 cents. I preferred chocolate, but chips were cheaper!

Just to be throw my 2 cents in there, so we know who we all are... I was born in 68.

'66 here! So you would think I would love a book about the eighties.

'77 here! I remember Mars Bars (Do you guys have them?) being 35c, and 1c lollies.

Omg I'm like a child here lol. ('91!)

Flo wrote: "Omg I'm like a child here lol. ('91!)"

You are one year older than my youngest child.

I'm one of the old ladies around here - I will be 65 this summer

Flo wrote: "Omg I'm like a child here lol. ('91!)"


LOL, I never would have guessed!! I wonder if you are our youngest member. I am thinking Linda is not our oldest member . . .that would be fun data to know . . .

Anita wrote: "Flo wrote: "Omg I'm like a child here lol. ('91!)"


LOL, I never would have guessed!! I wonder if you are our youngest member. I am thinking Linda is not our oldest member . . .that would be fun d..."

lol how old did you think I was?!

Flo wrote: "Anita wrote: "Flo wrote: "Omg I'm like a child here lol. ('91!)"


LOL, I never would have guessed!! I wonder if you are our youngest member. I am thinking Linda is not our oldest member . . .that ..."

From the maturity of your writing, 35-40 . . .but for a long time you didn't have an avatar picture so I wasn't going by the visual at all!!

From your picture (once I click on it and can actually see it lol), it is clear you are much younger than I thought . . .

From the maturity of your writing, 35-40 . . .but for a long time you didn't have an avatar picture so I wasn't going by the visual at all!!

From your picture (once I click on it and can actually see it lol), it is clear you are much younger than I thought . . .


Aww that's so sweet! <3

I look younger than I am tbh. I was carded for an R-rated movie in 2016. My roommate, who was also there, was not. :P

Flo wrote: "From the maturity of your writing, 35-40 . . .but for a long time you didn't have an avatar picture so I wasn't going by the visual at all!!

From your picture (once I click on it and can actually ..."

Ha ha ha! Hey, enjoy it while you can!! My mother was one of those people who looked super young, and there's something great about having those genes. Annoyingly, I did not inherit them and look totally my age in every way.

Not true, Anita! You are gorgeously young. Flo, your Slytherin Scarf gave you away.

I never give the year of my birth, but let's just say that I am the eldest of five children and the brother born in 1972 is the baby of the family. The second youngest brother, born in 1966, doesn't remember the price of chocolate bars changing, even though it wa the year he turned 7. Now those two have a much larger age difference than any of the rest of us do. The baby was a "surprise."

I also have a Very Good memory for anything I was interested in buying as a young child. That would be chips and chocolate bars as well as other candy (shocking, I know). Also, once in a while a bottle of grape pop, which I let go half flat since I don't care for highly carbonated beverages. At 10 I discovered rootbeer, at 15 Mountain Dew, but I am not a soda drinker (where I grew up it's pop, where I live now it's soda) and have never been large consumer of it.

Flo wrote: "Omg I'm like a child here lol. ('91!)"

Flo, we're the same age. Which is exactly how old I thought you were, lol.

Joi wrote: "Flo wrote: "Omg I'm like a child here lol. ('91!)"

Flo, we're the same age. Which is exactly how old I thought you were, lol."

Ok, I clearly am very poor at ascertaining ages . . . I guess you can't judge a reader by her books, or her reviews, or how sympatico your reading is . . .

Anita wrote: "Ok, I clearly am very poor at ascertaining ages . . . I guess you can't judge a reader by her books, or her reviews, or how sympatico your reading is . . . "

Now I'm curious, Anita. How old did you think I was?

I think I'm a similar reader to many of you folks when you were my age. A lot of people here have expressed how they liked true crime around my age, and the darker stuff- which are all things I'm loving now.

Anita wrote: "I wonder if you are our youngest member. ..."

I think Justin's back (though maybe not often?). Once upon a time at shelfari, he was probably our youngest member. Of course, he's a few years older now, but he's probably be in his early 20s?

Joi wrote: "Anita wrote: "A lot of people here have expressed how they liked true crime around my age ..."

Hey! At 44, I still like reading true crime!

I think I agree with so many of your thoughts on books, Joi, that I, with no basis whatsoever, assumed we were around the same age. Intellectually, I realize this is ridiculous. Now that I am actually thinking about it, lol.

Joi wrote: "Flo wrote: "Omg I'm like a child here lol. ('91!)"

Flo, we're the same age. Which is exactly how old I thought you were, lol."

Yes, you are like a child for many of us but (although you are older than AJ) only because we either could or do have grown children your age or older :) My eldest was born in 1995, but I started on the later side. Friends of mine from high school have children born in the early 1980s.

I love having various ages.

Joi wrote: "Anita wrote: "Ok, I clearly am very poor at ascertaining ages . . . I guess you can't judge a reader by her books, or her reviews, or how sympatico your reading is . . . "

Now I'm curious, Anita. ..."

I liked darker stuff when I was in high school. I didn't read a lot of true crime, but that is when I read Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders.

Anita wrote: "I think I agree with so many of your thoughts on books, Joi, that I, with no basis whatsoever, assumed we were around the same age. Intellectually, I realize this is ridiculous. Now that I am actua..."

I do think we definitely are on the same page about a lot of books! Maybe I'll find another picture for my profile soon that actually shows me/my age, haha.

That's actually one of the reasons I like this group so much. I feel like most people my age (maybe Flo can attest to this also) either aren't reading at all, or are not reading the same types of books as me. I have a few friends that are 'heavy readers' that we keep tabs on each other on goodreads more than anywhere else. But the people I hang out with on a day-to-day basis aren't much readers. If they do reads it's mostly the "trendy" books. PBTers are much more on the same reading taste level as me.

Joi wrote: "Anita wrote: "I think I agree with so many of your thoughts on books, Joi, that I, with no basis whatsoever, assumed we were around the same age. Intellectually, I realize this is ridiculous. Now t..."

I think people on Goodreads and PBT take reading to a whole other level that is just hard to find in the real world. But I agree especially with younger people who are so busy with college, careers, grad school, relationships, etc. Books have really filled in the gaps as my children have grown older . . .reading much more now! Happily!!

So glad we have younger people here on PBT though because it's great to have different and varying demographics and to get different perspectives on our shared love of books!

LibraryCin wrote: "Anita wrote: "I wonder if you are our youngest member. ..."

I think Justin's back (though maybe not often?). Once upon a time at shelfari, he was probably our youngest member. Of course, he's a fe..."

Yes, Justin and AJ are definitely some of our younger, if not our youngest, members!

Anita wrote: "LibraryCin wrote: "Anita wrote: "I wonder if you are our youngest member. ..."

I think Justin's back (though maybe not often?). Once upon a time at shelfari, he was probably our youngest member. O..."

AJ joined us while still a teen, back on Shelfari (homeschooled, as i recall), but I've lost track of all that now.

I have to admit, I never thought my review would generate so many posts and I've never had so many woman freely disclose their age to me (which I assure you was not my intention).

Ha ha ha, Charlie! You crack me up. And now you know all our secrets. Shhhhhhh.

Charlie wrote: "I have to admit, I never thought my review would generate so many posts and I've never had so many woman freely disclose their age to me (which I assure you was not my intention)."

LOL!

Charlie wrote: "I have to admit, I never thought my review would generate so many posts and I've never had so many woman freely disclose their age to me (which I assure you was not my intention)."

:) I don't care if people know my age IRL, but I'm a bit more cagey online and stick the the general decade of my age. My mother, who looks very young, has never made her age a secret, so I guess it rubbed off on my sister and I.

I don't mind, either. Like Karin's family, my mother never really cared either, so I always assumed it rubbed off on me, as well.

Charlie wrote: "I have to admit, I never thought my review would generate so many posts and I've never had so many woman freely disclose their age to me (which I assure you was not my intention)."

LOL! You are so funny.

I'm at the upper end of the scale as well. I've decided to stick with 39 + however many 1/1th life is adding. Age is a very relative thing anyway.

I'm also in the 60's group. Old enough to not remember diddly squat beyond the title of many of the books I read in my teens and 20's.

My mom always said add 5-10 years to your actual age and then everyone thinks you look great.

Denizen wrote: "I'm also in the 60's group. Old enough to not remember diddly squat beyond the title of many of the books I read in my teens and 20's.

My mom always said add 5-10 years to your actual age and then..."

Too funny! My husband is turning 60 later this year. His hair is very grey, nearly snow white, but he has NO wrinkles thanks to the fact that he had oily skin most of his life, so he looks younger than he is despite that.

I loved this book because I was in high school and college in the 80's!! (Same age as Anita :-D).

JoLene wrote: "I loved this book because I was in high school and college in the 80's!! (Same age as Anita :-D)."

You and Anita are born the same year as one of my brothers and his wife (1966). Not my youngest brother, though, who was born in 1972.

1972 was the year I got married

Linda C wrote: "1972 was the year I got married"

Three years before my youngest aunt tied the knot :). She was a hippie for a number of years, first, though.