On recording book lists: Have I sung the praises of librarything to you yet? My understanding is that it is similar to goodreads (which I've never used, so grain of salt) but a little less social media oriented and a little more library catalogue oriented. You can tag your books for genre, but I also tag for format (borrowed, paper, kindle) and year, and I mark things that are rereads. And you can win free books. They have an early reviewer program where you can enter a lottery for the various books and if you win one you review it. I have gotten some very cool books that way. I signed up in february or march and this is the first month that I haven't won a book.
Yes, you have mentioned librarything to me before!
I do have a goodreads account; I signed up mostly so it would generate suggestions for m, less for keeping track of things read and not at all for the social aspect. I'm loathe to set up a new account on a new site, especially since I don't own most of these books so don't have them to scan in :)
I've made a googledoc for this year's books, which has been working pretty well so far (maybe I'll do a mid-year recommendations post before summer vacations are over for everyone?).
Googledoc seems like a reasonable solution, though I do love waxing poetic about librarything. I appreciate the recommendations - In particular I was amused by how succinctly you summed up my (and obviously yours, and likely so many others') feelings about the divergent trilogy.
Yeeeeeeeeeeah... I have many (many) more thoughts on exactly why I thought the last book was just not good, but that is the best short version :) Because of that, I'm at least super curious to see what's going to happen in the movies: are they going to keep to the same ridiculousness and plot holes and characterization whiplash and deus ex machina serums, or are they going to really change things? (Guess we'll find out in 2-3 years!)
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And you can win free books. They have an early reviewer program where you can enter a lottery for the various books and if you win one you review it. I have gotten some very cool books that way. I signed up in february or march and this is the first month that I haven't won a book.
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I do have a goodreads account; I signed up mostly so it would generate suggestions for m, less for keeping track of things read and not at all for the social aspect. I'm loathe to set up a new account on a new site, especially since I don't own most of these books so don't have them to scan in :)
I've made a googledoc for this year's books, which has been working pretty well so far (maybe I'll do a mid-year recommendations post before summer vacations are over for everyone?).
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I have many (many) more thoughts on exactly why I thought the last book was just not good, but that is the best short version :)
Because of that, I'm at least super curious to see what's going to happen in the movies: are they going to keep to the same ridiculousness and plot holes and characterization whiplash and deus ex machina serums, or are they going to really change things? (Guess we'll find out in 2-3 years!)
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