Nyssa’s Comments (group member since Jan 07, 2011)

Nyssa’s comments from the MobileRead Book Challenges group.

1 book a month is not a very record for a 100, or 50, or 25 books in a year challenge, but at least its a start.

I finished, a not-yet-published Juvenile Fiction book, yesterday; which was written by my MIL. It is very good. I'm quite proud of her.

The other two books are:

Practical Demonkeeping

A Room With a View

Very good! Sounds both honest and to the point.

If I were the author I would probably be compelled to ask you which points (facts and foreshadowing) fell flat, in the hopes of improving.

50 sounds like a lot, but I have 70 tags in Calibre so I can see myself having as many shelves here. I've already combined a couple of them (like mystery/detective with thriller/suspense, and juvenile fiction with young adult) to keep the number of shelves down.
I wish we could add a description or note the shelves so that I could shorten some of the names.

Edit: I changed my mind on combing the mystery, and suspense genres. Even though my of the books share both genre sets, I like having them apart.

1. Is there such a thing as having too many shelves? If yes, how many are too many?

2. Do you look at your friend's/group mate's book shelves?

3. Does having genre specific shelves help you to recommend books to others, or help you to choose a book to read?

4. As far as genre, does seeing how others shelve their books help you to shelve your own?



My answers:

1. Possibly, depending on how minimalistic one wants to be. I have not quite found that limit as yet.

2. I do look at others shelves occasionally - see question 4.

3. I find it does help with recommendations to others, but not with finding a book for myself.

4. Yes! Sometimes I'm not quite sure how to categorize a book, especially if I have not read it as yet. I will therefore look to find a common placement.

I like the idea about dedicated threads for specific genres. Not only will it help with easy access, but could also help to introduce people to genres they haven't tried before.

Christa wrote:
I'll take a look at my lists and books and come up with a few suggestions and message them to you soon. :)
"

Thanks Christa! :)

Hi, I'm Nyssa!

I'm a 37 year old, Stay At Home Mom of 3/School Volunteer. I've loved reading for as long as I can remember, although I have allowed myself to be distracted by other hobbies over the years.

I do not have a favorite author, but my favorite genres are fantasy and then scifi.

Overall, I am a sucker for happy endings.

Christa wrote: "Hi! I'm Christa, CWatkinsNash on MobileRead. I read a lot of horror, romance (prefer historical and paranormal), but I don't limit myself too much - I'll give most things a shot if they look intere..."

I've never heard of paranormal romance (mainly because I rarely read romances, I'm sure) but it sounds interesting. Would appreciate a suggestion or two.