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Also, I don't tend to have too many questions for authors anyway... Laura got Carol Berg to pop around while we were reading Rai-Kiraj, and I asked 1-2 questions mostly because it was a small BR and I didn't want the Q&A to feel wasted... and I DID see some similarities to werewolf lore in a book written pre-UF craze...
Found it... I DID notice an author in my notification feed... but honestly, this group gets so many author pop-ins, I'm immune to them these days if I'm not in the BRTbf, there was a chat thread with him when we started reading the first book of the trilogy, so he was aware, but yeah like you said, there's not much really to ask when you're just getting into it especially.
Probably the only time you would have questions is when things are left unanswered after the last book or you wanna know more about certain aspects. (Unless it's someone like Brando Sando and then you just need everything explaining to you lol :p)
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Only time I've ever reached out to an author was Seanan McGuire and the October Daye series... and I'm not sure she really answered my question... I'm also unsure if she HAD an answer at the time, or I forced her to think about it and make it make sense...
The question had to do with Fae bloodlines, Dochas Sidhe and Hope Chests, when basically everyone is genetically a mixed blood or changeling at birth and mixed bloods are prone to insanity from conflicting bloodlines... (that probably didn't make much sense without series context with how Dochas Sidhe and Hope Chests can clean bloodlines to make them pure, like their mother or father's species)...
Anyway, I think it got her thinking, and she did a Q&A on similar topics in her blog a month later, so I wasn't dissatisfied...
I'll just leave this here.... lol, ok goodreadsBecause you enjoyed Dawnshard (The Stormlight Archive, #3.5):
It Takes Two (Bridesmaids Behaving Badly #2)
by Jenny Holiday
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Because you enjoyed Dawnshard (The Stormlight Archive, #3.5):
It Takes Two (Bridesmaids Behaving Badly #2)
by Jenny Holiday"
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That seems like a bad featured book ad, lol...
Beena wrote: "I'll just leave this here.... lol, ok goodreadsBecause you enjoyed Dawnshard (The Stormlight Archive, #3.5):
It Takes Two (Bridesmaids Behaving Badly #2)
by Jenny Holiday"
That's too funny!
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I think what makes my eye twitch the most about that is that they'd recommend you start Bridesmaids Behaving Badly with #2.
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Cos you know, we'd be lost without their recommendations, hahaha!Timelord Iain wrote: "Should send that to Brandon Sanderson, if you took a screenshot, lol..."
Lol, I'm sure he'd appreciate the comparison!
Ladies (and possibly gents if this is your thing), I came across a dragon ring on my facebook feed- I was trying to add the link but Goodreads blocked me, the site is called Dovelux if anyone's interested. I don't really wear rings but it's really freaking cute!
The computer is blocking the site, but I'm at work. So, I'll look when I'm home, but dragon rings can be really beautiful.
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Timelord Iain wrote: "It's funny how dead my notifications can be around here, some/most days... but others it seems like we're firing on all cylinders, responding in minutes instead of hours..."Yes it's funny how that happens.
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But this is a new one: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
I didn't read the whole thing, but I had a laugh at what I did read at work, earlier today... so weird...
Timelord Iain wrote: "I know people like showing up and promoting their books/etc, incorrectly...But this is a new one: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/......"
Hahaha well this person is committed to spreading the "great news". That's the only comment on her account over various groups 😆
Timelord Iain wrote: "I know people like showing up and promoting their books/etc, incorrectly...But this is a new one: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/......"
Lol, there's always these sorts of trolls/spammers about, when I was on a previous forum you'd get loads pop up ranting on about spells and shit. Lately, I seem to be getting a fair few replies to my comments on youtube, from people with a pick of half naked girl with her boobs/bum out and a name like "ready to fuck" but strangely enough are writing lucid enough comments lol.
Goodreads seem to have another beta for the main book page layouts?? But since they don't listen to anyone anyway (apart from the global outcry over the case of the potty coloured trim) I exited this immediately....
So, I know it's all a farce anyway, but can I just take a moment to bitch that Goodreads took away the write-in option for the Choice Awards? It was the most interesting part for me, when you got to see which books (then book) got chosen from the ground up, so to speak.
I didn't even notice that when I was looking at the nominees! So sad, I loved seeing the write in choices too
Does anyone know how they goodreads even decide on the nominees?
Melissa wrote: "So, I know it's all a farce anyway, but can I just take a moment to bitch that Goodreads took away the write-in option for the Choice Awards? It was the most interesting part for me, when you got t..."I noticed. Absolutely annoyed by it. They missed out on things and I think they are too focused on the number of times read as an indicator over actual quality.
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Youtube got rid of the dislike button a few weeks ago (or at least started hiding the number of dislikes to everyone except the video creator, making it kinda useless)...
With GR, the Nominees are chosen based on how people shelve them... and they trend towards YA because more people read YA books... young users do, and older users do, as well...
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I got time outs earlier this morning. Maybe they are having issues in general?
Does anyone else ever get in a massive book slump? My reading's been down all year, but right now I don't seem able to focus on any one story for too long, and the urge to pick up a book and continue reading is practically non-existent. I'm falling back on anthologies for short fiction bursts for now; hopefully a short break for the rest of the year will recharge my reading batteries.
Yeah, I get what you're saying. I never had a huge slump like this before. I'm getting out bit by bit now. I hope it will get better for you too.
Shaitarn wrote: "Does anyone else ever get in a massive book slump? My reading's been down all year, but right now I don't seem able to focus on any one story for too long, and the urge to pick up a book and contin..."Yes. I've been suffering one this year too. I'm hoping reading Cytonic will do the trick.
Yeah, I hear you on slumps. I find my Spring reading tends to be pretty slumpish. They can happen for different reasons - sometimes because real-life stress is keeping me too preoccupied, and I can't string two minutes together, other times I'll sit down and my brain refuses to lock into the story.Rereads are the classic slump-buster. But also... sometimes I give myself permission to lean into it. If my eyes are glazing over the page, I eventually just allow myself to put the book down, and binge watch a TV show instead.
I've also found novella-length books to be great for slumps. Just personally, I find short stories to be more frustrating, especially when I feel like I'm having to work harder to read, and not getting much anything of substance for my effort. A novella is a surmountable length, but I have a complete story under my belt by the end of it.
Massive slump all year here too. My overall count is ok, but that's because I read a bunch of comic issues and such things. Lately even short books are a slog. I've got a whole bunch of (good) books that I've started and not finished...
Audio is a little better. I go through ebb and flow some, but it tends to move a little more along than print/ebook.
On the No Choice Awards, ugh. I haven't read a single book in the entire ballot. Not ONE. Write In would have been my voting option, but I don't have that now.
And no, I'm not voting for books that I think "might" be good.
There's no need to force yourself when you're in a slump.. sometimes you do just need to watch a series or do something else to unwind. It happens more if the book I'm currently reading is really boring, or you have a string of shit reads back to back and then just give up for a while... but yeah re-reads are great to get you back into it.
I too haven't read a single book in the Choice Awards.
I only read one book nominated (which is crazy in itself) and I can't even vote for it cuz I hated it :(
I had read one book in the YA Fantasy section, which I gave 5 stars so I voted for it. Two books in the romance section. But none in any of the others. There were quite a few in the romance category that are in my TBR and a few in the adult fantasy category but yeah a pretty poor year for the awards.
Shaitarn wrote: "Does anyone else ever get in a massive book slump? My reading's been down all year, but right now I don't seem able to focus on any one story for too long, and the urge to pick up a book and contin..."Me! These last two years have been especially bad. This year I've read quite a few books but almost exclusively short ones, comparatively few fantasy and about ⅓ of them were rereads of favourites. Fingers crossed next year is better for all of us.
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I've slumped off an on over the years... I have a hard time measuring it sometimes, since there's usually still something I'm interested in reading, just less open to trying random stuff...
I really seem to struggle to read fantasy, since the worldbuilding is more work than mysteries / Urban Fantasy / etc... I, too, have done alot of TV watching this year... read 250 books instead of 500 ;)
I've only read one of the books that was nominated in the GR choice awards. It was Fugitive Telemetry. I voted for it, but I don't really pay much attention to the awards anymore since it seems like the best books never win.
Yeah its a shame about that. I saw some post on twitter how the goodreads choice awards is more about marketing strategy and how much something is shelved rather than rating or how people have even enjoyed it?If you were to choose books to win for 2021 what would you choose?
The books I read published in 2021 were
Across the Green Grass Fields
Calculated Risks
The Echo Wife
The Fall of KoliSorrowland
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
Remote Control
Fugitive Telemetry
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Angel of the Overpass
A History of What Comes Next
Klara and the Sun
Sorrowland
Under the Whispering Door
The Witness for the Dead
When Sorrows Come
The Last Graduate
Comfort Me With Apples
Project Hail Mary
(wow I read a lot more of stuff published this year than I thought). But if I were to choose my favorite I'd have to choose The Galaxy, and the Ground Within for sci/fi and Under the Whispering Door for fantasy.
I've just read that An Rice died. I loved her books.
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Thanks for the reply Iain. Well, in a stroke of luck he actually found the BR thread here and I got to ask him there! It did happen to be spoiler-ish but he very kindly answered me without giving too much away. :)