Year Two Signup

[Petrik]

Jenna wrote: "Kathrine wrote: "Petrik wrote: "I have Facebook but I now use it only as a platform for me to talk to authors and vice versa. As good as Goodreads as a social media, if we want to interact with aut..."

Same here. Though for me the reviews are long but yeah, I totally agree. It takes a certain courage and mentality for authors to brave themselves to interact with people on Goodreads. They get notifications daily! "someone rated 1 star" " someone rated 2 star" and so on, can you imagine that!?

[Kathrine]

Petrik wrote: "Same here. Though for me the reviews are long but yeah, I totally agree. It takes a certain courage and mentality for authors to brave themselves to interact with people on Goodreads. They get notifications daily! "someone rated 1 star" " someone rated 2 star" and so on, can you imagine that!?"

Do they get notifications? Wow, that must be hard to deal with. I'd turn it off immediately. But then again, imagine famous people on places like Twitter. Their notifications must be blowing up all the time if they don't turn it off

[Anni]

Siobhan wrote: "We do indeed love being put into teams! The notifications are going crazy! :D
I love talking to you lot on here, best book friends a girl could ask for!"

Totally agreed! I'm so happy that I've found this group and that I signed up for the challenge last year, before that I only participate in a few buddy reads, but was rather quiet because I was a little scared to make mistakes writing in english 😅 Well, I guess I'm past that now...

[Anni]

Jenna wrote: "Kathrine wrote: "Petrik wrote: "I have Facebook but I now use it only as a platform for me to talk to authors and vice versa. As good as Goodreads as a social media, if we want to interact with aut..."

That's true! Also seing authors being active on goodreads, especially when they even take their time to join Q&A's made me want to reads their books even more, because it made them seem so really sympathetic!

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Kathrine wrote: "I wish I could avoid Facebook, but sadly it's used a lot in my age group to coordinate events.. even events related to school. So I can't really be rid of it, unless I want to miss out on a lot of ..."

I graduated college in 2009... that's basically when I stopped using Facebook... because it's exactly like you said, it's used for school stuff... especially back then... I'm kinda glad it was more localized, back then... towards the end of my time, I think high schools were on there, but it wasn't quite EVERYONE yet... so I wouldn't be using it for school and have to deal with family...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Kathrine wrote: "Also re: Facebook and Messenger

I hate how it's expected that you're available always to answer messages. Like, Facebook shows if I'm active and if someone messages me, it's expected that I answer..."

I downloaded Messenger once, earlier this year, because I couldn't get a message to load in the browser correctly, and I needed the info... I deleted that app within 24hrs, once I got what I needed... NOPE...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Jenna wrote: "Kathrine wrote: "Also re: Facebook and Messenger

I hate how it's expected that you're available always to answer messages. Like, Facebook shows if I'm active and if someone messages me, it's expec..."

Sorry, I can't make it to that party... last week :)

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Jenna wrote: "Kathrine wrote: "Petrik wrote: "I have Facebook but I now use it only as a platform for me to talk to authors and vice versa. As good as Goodreads as a social media, if we want to interact with aut..."

I can't believe how much Janny Wurts interacts with us... kinda wish I had the time to physically read all the War of Light and Shadow books this year, but it didn't work out... and here she is, still doing Q&As 9 months later...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Petrik wrote: "Jenna wrote: "Kathrine wrote: "Petrik wrote: "I have Facebook but I now use it only as a platform for me to talk to authors and vice versa. As good as Goodreads as a social media, if we want to int..."

They've gotta be able to disable that, like we can disable other things, right?

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Sir Anni wrote: "Siobhan wrote: "We do indeed love being put into teams! The notifications are going crazy! :D
I love talking to you lot on here, best book friends a girl could ask for!"

Totally agreed! I'm so hap..."

Don't worry, you have the Grammar Police keeping an eye out ;)

WEEEOOO WEEEOOO

[Petrik]

Timelord Iain (Eeyawn) wrote: "Petrik wrote: "Jenna wrote: "Kathrine wrote: "Petrik wrote: "I have Facebook but I now use it only as a platform for me to talk to authors and vice versa. As good as Goodreads as a social media, if..."

I think so... maybe??? I'm not an author so I have no idea xD

[Scott , Karsa Orlong]

Timelord Iain (Eeyawn) wrote: "I can't believe how much Janny Wurts interacts with us... kinda wish I had the time to physically read all the War of Light and Shadow books this year, but it didn't work out... and here she is, still doing Q&As 9 months later...."

I'd be up for scheduling it next year. We could do a conservative schedule like Malazan.

[Anni]

Scott wrote: "Timelord Iain (Eeyawn) wrote: "I can't believe how much Janny Wurts interacts with us... kinda wish I had the time to physically read all the War of Light and Shadow books this year, but it didn't ..."

Isn't there a Buddy Read already planned? Because I saw it on Bea's tracker and thought about joining as well... But maybe I messed things up in my head 😅

[Anni]

Timelord Iain (Eeyawn) wrote: "Sir Anni wrote: "Siobhan wrote: "We do indeed love being put into teams! The notifications are going crazy! :D
I love talking to you lot on here, best book friends a girl could ask for!"

Totally a..."

Haha right! I remember my last lesson, that it's heard and not heared 😂

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Sir Anni wrote: "Timelord Iain (Eeyawn) wrote: "Sir Anni wrote: "Siobhan wrote: "We do indeed love being put into teams! The notifications are going crazy! :D
I love talking to you lot on here, best book friends a ..."

Lesson #1: English is weird... rules are meant to be broken...

I saw an old article yesterday that explained the vowel rules for phrases like ding dong, King Kong, chit chat, etc... "ablaut reduplication"

Another is the implicit order of noun descriptors:

And the third is how phrases tend to use the vowels I-A-O in that order, over other orders, in the English language... like Big Bad Wolf...

[Jenna, I'd be free if not for Temper & Edgewalker]

Janny Wurts BR is starting in February with one book every two months! You should all join us! :)

[Jenna, I'd be free if not for Temper & Edgewalker]

Timelord Iain (Eeyawn) wrote: "Sorry, I can't make it to that party... last week :) "

Haha exactly!

[Siobhan]

Timelord Iain (Eeyawn) wrote: "Sir Anni wrote: "Timelord Iain (Eeyawn) wrote: "Sir Anni wrote: "Siobhan wrote: "We do indeed love being put into teams! The notifications are going crazy! :D
I love talking to you lot on here, bes..."

I love stuff like that about English. There's so much that we just know without knowing we know!

[Anni]

Timelord Iain (Eeyawn) wrote: "Sir Anni wrote: "Timelord Iain (Eeyawn) wrote: "Sir Anni wrote: "Siobhan wrote: "We do indeed love being put into teams! The notifications are going crazy! :D
I love talking to you lot on here, bes..."

I feel bad for the green great dragons, that will never be allowed to exist😂

But I don't think that's something only true in english, in german I would also never list the colour before the size... Would sound wrong somehow...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Probably comes down to Linguistic Ancestry... don't all languages stem from 3-4 base languages like Latin?... So any language that is a "cousin" is going to have similar rules...

[Siobhan]

Timelord Iain (Eeyawn) wrote: "Probably comes down to Linguistic Ancestry... don't all languages stem from 3-4 base languages like Latin?... So any language that is a "cousin" is going to have similar rules..."

Proto-Indo-European is the common ancestor.

Language is so interesting, seriously. :D

English and German are both "Germanic" languages. But English also took a lot from "romance" languages which came from Latin.

[Charlie]

That list is actually awesome. I've never consciously noticed it before but it makes a lot of sense to my brain!

[Zaara]

Sir Anni wrote: "Siobhan wrote: "We do indeed love being put into teams! The notifications are going crazy! :D
I love talking to you lot on here, best book friends a girl could ask for!"

Totally agreed!"

Wooooot! It's so good to get to know everyone a bit better + the 😍😍😍 community pet gallery has really boosted the festive spirit round here...I actually logged in for a little while day before yesterday (quietly) just to see everybody's posts.
ALL THE BEST, everyone for next year.

EDIT I will now bomb ALL the team threads...😃 and exercise the "siscouraging" privileges of being Swiss neutral...

[Chris]

Hey guys, I would like to get on a team again for the new year. I'm hoping to get over my burnout. Life stress just "killed" me this year and I think I need to square away more time for myself so I'm getting back into my books! Can you send me a direct message to let me know who wants me? lol I don't check here enough anymore to get it via the Notifications! Thanks in advance!

[Sha]

So I thought I wouldn't join this year but then I saw the spreadsheet and feel in instant lust. Can I still join?

[Scott , Karsa Orlong]

Sha wrote: "So I thought I wouldn't join this year but then I saw the spreadsheet and feel in instant lust. Can I still join?"

You'll be added to HoC. Stop by our thread and do an intro. Welcome back.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Sha wrote: "So I thought I wouldn't join this year but then I saw the spreadsheet and feel in instant lust. Can I still join?"

Our master plan worked!!! >:D

[Virginie]