Fiona, the book cover I was talking about is NOT the Katz book - it is Lost Recipe for Happiness

Oh sorry JoAnn, read wrong (oops).

Gave up on A Home for Rose - Jon Katz, just couldn't get into it this time. So I am going back to read The Brutal Art - Jesse Kellerman

This afternoon, I sat and listened to Jamica Inn - Daphne Du Maurier (audio).

My next novel.

deborah

Next on my list to read are:


The Four Corners of the Sky by Michael Malone

Heavenly by Jennifer Laurens (this is the free book I won here on Goodreads so I hope to start it next).

Becky

madrano wrote: "

My next novel.

deborah"

I loved "The Reserve" Deborah, but think I was in the minority.

I didn't know Michael Malone had a new book out. I think he is a hoot.

I was one who thought The Reserve was just OK and I think I listened to it on audio. It was good enough to keep me from falling asleep at the wheel.

I'm currently reading Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell. This was recommended here long ago by our Connie and everyone who's read it has loved it. Add me to that group! The language is beautiful and the characters and setting are far from usual. I find the idea of a quest by a young girl very intriguing and wonder where it will lead. I'm at the 40% mark.

After about 33%, I put down one of my determination reads Living by Fiction by Annie Dillard. The book was written over 20 years ago and I found Dillard's comments about the "newness" of fragmenting time and point of view to be dated. It seems to me that jumping back and forth in time and from pov to pov is almost usual now. I'd guess that at least half of the books I read have those elements, to a greater or lesser extent.

The datedness, plus the fact that nearly all of Dillard's references are to books I haven't read finally discouraged me. She makes some good points, but I wasn't enthralled and finally gave up.

So, I created a "Did Not Finish" shelf on Goodreads and Living By Fiction was going to be my first entry. But it seems that all books in one's lists here must fall into one of the default categories of "read," "currently reading," or "to be read." Of course a "did not (and don't intend to) finish" book doesn't fit in any of those, so I finally just deleted the book.

Jan O'Cat

Jan
So, I created a "Did Not Finish" shelf on Goodreads and Living By Fiction was going to be my first entry. But it seems that all books in one's lists here must fall into one of the default categories of "read," "currently reading," or "to be read." Of course a "did not (and don't intend to) finish" book doesn't fit in any of those, so I finally just deleted the book.
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You should suggest that on the Feedback board.

JoAnn & Leslie, thank you for sharing your comments on The Reserve. It'll be fun to see where i end up on that spectrum.

deborah

JanOMalleycat wrote: "But it seems that all books in one's lists here must fall into one of the default categories of "read," "currently reading," or "to be read." ..."

Jan, I don't think this is true. Isn't that what "exclusive" versus "nonexclusive" shelves are all about? I have a Determination List shelf, and it appears to stand on its own, equal to the Read, To-Be-Read and Currently Reading shelves. When I created it it was nonexclusive by default, which meant that my books appeared two places, on the TBR shelf and the DL shelf. But once I made it exclusive, it only appeared on the DL shelf.

Carol suggested: "Isn't that what "exclusive" versus "nonexclusive" shelves are all about? I have a Determination List shelf, and it appears to stand on its own, equal to the Read, To-Be-Read and Currently Reading shelves. When I created it it was nonexclusive by default, which meant that my books appeared two places, on the TBR shelf and the DL shelf. But once I made it exclusive, it only appeared on the DL shelf."

Thanks, Carol. I thought we'd discussed this somewhere and was hoping that someone would remind me. Now. . .remind me of how you do the "exclusive" and "non-exclusive" thing. Thanks!

Jan O'Cat

I begged: "Now. . .remind me of how you do the "exclusive" and "non-exclusive" thing. "

Never mind, Carol. I found it! Not so sure I could find it again, but that's my story on Goodreads. I tend to go to someplace that's a likely start and then start clicking everything in sight. Most of the time it works!

Jan O'Cat, not has a "did not finish" shelf and sees that others have them as well.

I have the "did not finish" shelf too but then the books still appear/ get listed under "currently reading". Do you mean there is a way to change this? HOW?

JoAnn/QuAppelle wrote: "I have the "did not finish" shelf too but then the books still appear/ get listed under "currently reading". Do you mean there is a way to change this? HOW?"

JoAnn,
I've tried to duplicate my path and I hope it will help you.

First go to My Books above.

Click on Did Not Finish shelf on the left.

If you have books listed there, there is a column with the shelf names of the various books. The shelf name Did Not Finish should appear in that column. Under the shelf name is a tiny "edit." Click on "edit."

You'll get a pull-down with all of your shelves listed. At the very bottom there is "edit shelves." Click on that.

From there you get a list of your shelves and what you can do with them. Click to make Did Not Finish "exclusive." There's a paragraph at the right that explains this. This means that books can appear on your DNF list WITHOUT also being on any of the other lists.

After this I would think that you'd have to go back to all your books on your DNF shelf and unclick them from the "read" or "to be read" shelves. I don't think it will do this all by itself, but I don't know.

Hope this helps. This is NOT the path I followed this morning, so obviously there are various ways of getting there.

Jan O'Cat

Jan, I just made "did not finish" shelves exclusive and did not have to go back and unclick them from READ or TO BE READ.

Thanks again. Your directions were very clear.

J

Jan, I see you are reading: Great Artists: The Lives of 50 Painters Explored Through Their Work by Robert Cumming.



I know we discussed Robert Cumming when I recommended his book Art: the world's greatest paintings explored and explained.


I just checked and my library has Great Artists, so I requested it.

I like the bookshelf feature on GR.

Alias said: "I like the bookshelf feature on GR. "

I do too, Alias. The bookshelves definitely make the move from AOL worth it. That and the lack of craziness about able to post, not able, able to see all posts, etc. ;-)

We discussed Cummings' Art: The World's Greatest Paintings Explored and Explained when we read The Luncheon of the Boating Party. I liked that one so much that I also got his Great Artists: The Lives of 50 Painters Explored Through Their Work.

I'm reading it in tiny increments, sort of whenever I think of it. I put it in my Currently Reading shelf to try to push myself along a little. It's a huge book and I'm kind of tired of having it out and taking up so much space.

Jan O'Cat, never satisfied

JanOMalleycat wrote: "I begged: "Now. . .remind me of how you do the "exclusive" and "non-exclusive" thing. "

Never mind, Carol. I found it! Not so sure I could find it again, but that's my story on Goodreads. I tend to go to someplace that's a likely start and then start clicking everything in sight. Most of the time it works!
..."

It's a good thing you did, because I would have had to tell you that before responding I clicked around and couldn't find how to do it, but I knew I had done it and my shelves reflected that. Now I see that Alias has helpfully posted your instructions in the GR help folder.

Decided to listen to Blind Eye - Stuart MacBride (audio).

Just Finished

Will start


Meredith