Holly, Chelsea and Sarah will be happy that Copeland Cane just won the play-in round in the official #ToB22!
However, in our Litsy tournament a huge majority voted for The Sentence (17 out of 21 votes!). So we‘ll see Erdrich‘s book return in the 1st round against The Echo Wife. We say goodbye to Copeland Cane and Our Country Friends because both don‘t have enough Zombie votes for a comeback.
And with that, the ToB22 has started with a bang!
BkClubCare, Flaneurette, Megabooks, Hooked_on_books, Cinfhen, Mindyrecycles, cariashley, Well-ReadNeck, Suet624, merelybookish, Readerann, Sophronisba, Chelsea.Poole, alisiakae, kwmg40, squirrelbrain, thebluestocking, Addison_Reads, Ruthiella, sarahbarnes, ImperfectCJmerelybookish Well at least The Sentence can stay in our TOB. As soon as I saw it came second in today's judgement, I knew it was getting the boot. 🙁 3y
Addison_Reads Although I voted for The Sentence, and I'm happy it won on Litsy, I'm still okay with Copeland being picked because it was a tough decision between it and The Sentence for my play-in choice. I'm so happy to be participating in the #tob2022 with everyone this year. 3y
sarahbarnes This just makes me even more excited to have The Sentence finally come in at the library! And yes happy for Copeland Cane too. 😊 3y
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squirrelbrain Copeland was still good, so I‘m happy! 3y
Addison_Reads @squirrelbrain I'm just happy it wasn't My Country Friends. 3y
Megabooks I liked Copeland Cane as well, so I‘m not mad about this. And same @Addison_Reads !! 3y
Ruthiella Interesting! I definitely preferred The Sentence but am OK with Copeland Cane moving forward. Always nice to see a debut get some attention! 3y
Cinfhen I love the drama already!! Fun to see our Litsy tournament take a swerve 😜 3y
BkClubCare @Cinfhen - I suspect this tourney will be very SWERVY! 😁 3y
BkClubCare YAY! I woke up feeling rather puny, fighting a bug I hope to heck isn‘t #thevirusthatshallnotbenamed, and so I can nap and read commentary all day 🥴😴🤓 Love that I live in two worlds for this to play out. I am just happy to get this going.👏👏👏📚📚📚 3y
BkClubCare Big shout out to @BarbaraBB for hosting these 🎉 3y
BarbaraBB @Addison_Reads @sarahbarnes @squirrelbrain @Megabooks @Ruthiella I voted for The Sentence and am glad it continues in our tournament but I haven‘t read Copeland Cane and keep hearing good things about it. I am curious to see where it‘ll end up in the official ToB! 3y
BarbaraBB @Cinfhen Yes the drama of the TOB is the best! In both worlds of course @BkClubCare 😊💛 3y
Cinfhen Hahaha @BkClubCare keep well xx 3y
Hooked_on_books I really liked The Sentence, but was blown away by Copeland, so I‘m glad to see it move forward in the TOB. Really glad Country Friends is gone from both. I found it lacking. 3y
ImperfectCJ I'm cool with either of these winning Play-In, even though I liked The Sentence more. Because I listened to Copeland Cane on audio, I didn't realize until I read the commentary today that there were footnotes. Makes me wonder how different my experience of the book would have been if I'd read it with my eyes instead of my ears. 3y
BarbaraBB @Hooked_on_books @Addison_Reads I kept wondering what was the point of Our Country Friends. It brought me nothing, even though I read it fairly quick and was kind of interested in where it would go. 3y
BarbaraBB @ImperfectCJ I always think that when I listen to an audiobook. I‘m much more focused when I read a book! 3y
ImperfectCJ @BarbaraBB I think I focus better on non-audio, too, but lately I can't sit still well when I'm reading a book-book, so it's a limited focus. I blame the pandemic, but it's possible it would have happened anyway. 3y
Suet624 I thought I kept reading that folks didn‘t like Copeland so I bypassed it. I guess I‘ll have to check it out. I was so surprised by the decision to choose that over The Sentence! 3y
Chelsea.Poole I‘m happy to see Country Friends is out! And the universe sent me a copy of The Sentence today which I started and like already! (edited) 3y
kwmg40 Copeland is one of the 4 ToB books I've not read yet. Glad to see that The Sentence will at least continue in our tournament! 3y
Sophronisba It wouldn't have been my pick, but honestly I love starting the tournament out with an upset. Anything can happen! (And I bet we see The Sentence rise again.) 3y
thebluestocking I would have preferred The Sentence (and I‘m glad it‘s moving on here!), but I‘m fine with Copeland winning too. But I didn‘t know about the footnotes either! I wonder if the audio omitted them or just read them in at semi- appropriate places. Thanks for putting this together, Barbara! I hope you feel better soon, @BkClubCare 💙 3y
cariashley I‘m disappointed to see my number one pick to win knocked out so early, bah!! At least it lives on in our parallel TOB. @ImperfectCJ I also totally missed the footnotes in the Copeland audiobook, had no idea. I think I might have liked that book better in print, the audio was really tough for me to follow. It felt overwhelming. (edited) 3y
Mindyrecycles Barbara, thank you thank you for this! I love our own little tournament. I didn't like Copeland Cane very much but Sentence was my zombie so hoping to see it again both “there“ and here. :-) 3y
BarbaraBB @Suet624 I thought so too and bypassed it for that same reason. And then raving reviews started coming in! 3y
BarbaraBB @Sophronisba It may very well be a zombie in de TOB indeed. And I love the upset too! 3y
BarbaraBB @Mindyrecycles My pleasure. It somehow is a nice idea we can keep books moving onwards in our own tournament 😃 3y
BkClubCare @cariashley @BarbaraBB - apparently, the narrator changed when the footnotes were read. I just didn‘t realize they were footnotes! I had no idea. If I were to reread or if anyone asks, I will suggest a read/listen experience. I am super glad I experienced this via audio. I was impressed with it. 3y
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