Lyn (Readinghearts)’s Comments (group member since Apr 07, 2009)

Lyn (Readinghearts)’s comments from the Pick-a-Shelf group.

LynnB wrote: "Lyn M wrote: "Susan wrote: "LynnB wrote: "I'm not sure my partner is still in the game. I've heard from her once, a couple of weeks ago. I finished my 3 books a while ago. Maybe she'll show up a..."

Let me know how it goes, by PM if you want. We will be making some changes to the game for the next cycle, one of which will hopefully make this less of an issue.

Susan wrote: "LynnB wrote: "I'm not sure my partner is still in the game. I've heard from her once, a couple of weeks ago. I finished my 3 books a while ago. Maybe she'll show up again at the end of the month..."

I agree with Susan, Lynn. The only other thing I can think of is, have you tried sending her a PM and just asking how she is doing?

I use Adblock, too, D.G. and it works really well.

LynnB - I will miss your reviews. I enjoyed reading them. :(

LynnB wrote: "I'm waiting to see what happens for the most part, though I have been removing my reviews bit-by-bit because I have no doubt that Amazon will be doing something with those. I'm sure that down the ..."

Yes, I have, and that is what I am most scared about. Nothing has changed so far, and already people are jumping ship, which is their right, but it is sad to me. I am already missing people and discussions.

D.G. wrote: "LynnB wrote: "maybe a fee? rules on reviews? merging our reviews with Amazon? lots of pop-up ads suggesting books? and definitely mining our data!"

Here's my take on this:

Fee - Definitely not. T..."

Great points D.G. I agree that they are not likely to institute a fee. They haven't made Shelfari a fee site, so I would imagine this would be the same. As for Pop up adds for books, Goodreads already does that on your home page and that probably will not change.

As for the data mining, that is a hard one for me. On the one hand, I do not like the idea of data mining. On the other hand, there is so much data mining going on now days, banks, grocery stores, department stores, FB, on line radio sites, Cable TV companies. I guess I have just given up worrying about it. I guess I just figure that they can stalk me all I want, but in the end they can't make me spend the money. But I do agree that is the scariest thing about this, though.

I must be the only person around that really isn't that worried about this. I understand about the complaints that people do not like the way that Amazon handles reviews, and if you are using GRs mainly as a review site, that could be a problem. And I freely admit that I tend to look at things in a very simplistic way. But for me, I am in this for the social aspect of it and the people that I get to talk and commune with. As long as I still have my groups, I can still talk books with people, and I still have my shelves and a way to catalog all my books, I am good. My fear is that enough members are upset enough and looking at other sites, that my book discussions and friend groups are going to be adversely affected whether Amazon changes anything or not. :( That would be really sad to me.

I get to be the first one to post a quote this month. This one is from page 46 of Now You See Me by S.J. Bolton:

"I said Goodbye to Rona and walked back to the station, knowing I was probably as powerless to protect Tia as Rona was.
The official line from Scotland Yard is that all reported rapes and sexual crimes are taken seriously. Spokesmen point to millions of taxpayers' money invested in the Sapphire Units. The truth is they are failing and all over London young women and girls are being let down. Because those is a position to address the problem simply dare not confront its true nature."

I am so excited. I am getting back on track with my reading and actually got one book from our shelf this month read already. :) It is:

Now You See Me by S.J. Bolton

What a great thriller this book was. At 75% through I still could not decide who the perp was. There were several possibilities and I kept changing my mind. I also really like all of the Jack the Ripper lore that this one included. Great beginning to a series. In fact, I just went and got the novella that comes between the first two books and ordered the second book from the library. A solid 4 star read.

Tien wrote: "Lyn M wrote: "Fairlee wrote: "Finished Too Close to Home4/5 gave it 5 stars"

Fairlee - Did you partner also finish their book?"

Ah, that's me... and yes, I did. I finished The Way I was Made on 0..."

Thanks Tien. :)

Fairlee wrote: "Finished Too Close to Home4/5 gave it 5 stars"

Fairlee - Did you partner also finish their book?

Heather wrote: "Completed

Partner never showed, so I picked my own book :)"

Wish I would have known that, Heather, I could have paired with you. We are making some rule changes for Cycle #2 and I will be sure to include something for when a team member doesn't show.

Hey all, don't forget to post quotes here

CassieV wrote: "Finished up Gone Girl this weekend. Definitely deserves to be on the Dark shelf :).

I want to start off by saying I have a low tolerance for profanity, so this was a tough one for me to read. Be..."

Cassie - I know what you mean about the language in this one. If that is a problem for you, it really would be a huge thing to surmount. That sort of thing doesn't bother me, though. I gave this one 4.5 stars myself.

That is disappointing, Karen.

YAY - Good Job all! One down, 3 to go. :)

Muireann wrote: "i'm really lost... have all of the planning towers been deleted?
is anyone currently reading a book for the 'childrens' shelf? because if it's free i'll read one for it c:"

The planning towers are in a separate thread called Book-a-fort(Planning). Here is the link:

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_...

As for the Shelves Tower, all of the shelves have already been reserved. I believe that the children shelf has been reserved by Dee. As for childrens that shelf has already been completed by Jo-Ann

I thought I had posted this, but I don't see it. March was a hectic month for me, lol. At any rate, I finished my recovery task quite a while ago, (I'm pretty sure that I posted that in the Pages Tower thread.)

Anyway - I am shooting The Romanov Cross at the historical fiction shelf.

Shed some light on that Dark book that you are reading and post a quote here for all of us.

I might have to check it out. I am not much for zombie books, either, although I generally enjoy urban fantasy books.