2022/2023 - Chat about whatever you like: the weather, good stuff, bad stuff, family or pets! Showing 801-850 of 1,215

[Helen]

woohoo congratulations Phrynne

[Jenny]

Congratulations, Phrynne.

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Thankyou:)

[Trish]

Wow Prynne, congratulations on a great year of reading!

[Sharon]

Congratulations Phrynne!

[Krystal]

Phrynne wrote: "I just finished my Goodreads Challenge 350/350. Cutting it a bit fine but I made it 🥂"

Amazing, Phrynne! Congrats!

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Thanks everyone:)

[Dale]

Phrynne wrote: "I just finished my Goodreads Challenge 350/350. Cutting it a bit fine but I made it 🥂"

Well done Phrynne.

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Thanks Dale:)

[Alex]

Not book related, but can't but help admire the 70 year old retired art teacher and 62 year old retired nurse for completing the Sydney to Hobart. Warms the heart.

[Karren]

Congratulations Phrynne and a Happy New Year.

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Karren wrote: "Congratulations Phrynne and a Happy New Year."

Thanks Karren. Happy New Year to you too:)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Alex wrote: "Not book related, but can't but help admire the 70 year old retired art teacher and 62 year old retired nurse for completing the Sydney to Hobart. Warms the heart."

Yes that sure was admirable!

[Carolyn]

Phrynne wrote: "I just finished my Goodreads Challenge 350/350. Cutting it a bit fine but I made it 🥂"

Congratulations Phrynne! Almost a book a day - don't know how you do it!!

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Thanks Carolyn. I'm not sure how I do it either:)

[Helen]

Alex wrote: "Not book related, but can't but help admire the 70 year old retired art teacher and 62 year old retired nurse for completing the Sydney to Hobart. Warms the heart."

That was awesome to see :)

[Alex]

Congrats to all readers in reaching their 2022 challenge - from the mega readers to the modest. What finer way to savour life than thru an armchair and like-minded people.

[Helen]

Alex wrote: "Congrats to all readers in reaching their 2022 challenge - from the mega readers to the modest. What finer way to savour life than thru an armchair and like-minded people."

So well said Alex, there is nothing like travelling the world, into the future, back in time in hard times and good from your armchair the best is a good book

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Alex wrote: "Congrats to all readers in reaching their 2022 challenge - from the mega readers to the modest. What finer way to savour life than thru an armchair and like-minded people."

Beautifully said Alex! Completely agree :)

[Dale]

Alex wrote: "Congrats to all readers in reaching their 2022 challenge - from the mega readers to the modest. What finer way to savour life than thru an armchair and like-minded people."

Absolutely.

[Krystal]

Alex wrote: "Congrats to all readers in reaching their 2022 challenge - from the mega readers to the modest. What finer way to savour life than thru an armchair and like-minded people."

Here here!

[Sharon]

Alex wrote: "Congrats to all readers in reaching their 2022 challenge - from the mega readers to the modest. What finer way to savour life than thru an armchair and like-minded people."

Couldn’t agree more :)

[Deb]

Deborah wrote: "Hello all - I hope you are all having a very good holiday period.

I have been very absent this year. On the reading front, committing to read 200 books this year was a bit too much, and a challeng..."

Well, I have sent a query to GR, maybe we will hear back.

[Suz]

Congrats, Phrynne! I will have to double mine this year, but haven't even set it yet.

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Suz wrote: "Congrats, Phrynne! I will have to double mine this year, but haven't even set it yet."

Thanks Suz. I can't increase mine anymore. I barely made it in 2022! Have to wait until I retire:)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

I increased mine by 10 over 2022, but I agree - retirement aids reading!

[Marianne]

Phrynne wrote: "I just finished my Goodreads Challenge 350/350. Cutting it a bit fine but I made it 🥂"

Well done!

[Sharon]

Sad news and way too young 😥

Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis, dies aged 54

[Helen]

It was way too young for her to go so sad

[PattyMacDotComma]

Here's a list of LitHub's best book covers of 2022. There are some real doozies!

https://lithub.com/the-103-best-book-...

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Here's a list of LitHub's best book covers of 2022. There are some real doozies!

https://lithub.com/the-103-best-book-..."

I definitely don't have the same taste in bookcovers as whoever selected these!

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Not one cover there I even remotely like!!

[Carolyn]

PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Here's a list of LitHub's best book covers of 2022. There are some real doozies!

https://lithub.com/the-103-best-book-..."

I think the person who chose those likes a very distinctive artistic style, which isn't to everyone's taste (including mine!)

[Leonie]

PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Here's a list of LitHub's best book covers of 2022. There are some real doozies!

https://lithub.com/the-103-best-book-..."

I'm with Carolyn on this one! Not mine, either!

[Jülie ☼♄ ]

I’ve suddenly got a lot of strangers “liking” my reviews of particular books. These people have very few if any friends and few books, one of them using the same profile picture with a different name.
Obviously they are scammers but what do I do about them? I don’t want them infiltrating my profile etc.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Block them if you can work out who they are Jools. They can't see your profile if you do that. Or any comments you might make.

[Jülie ☼♄ ]

Brenda wrote: "Block them if you can work out who they are Jools. They can't see your profile if you do that. Or any comments you might make."

Can’t seem to do that Brenda as they all have their profiles set to private 🤷🏻‍♀️

*Edit to note I have found where to block them and have just blocked twelve people! All have liked my Jasper Jones and Honeybee reviews in the last couple of days.
In all my Goodreads membership years I have never had anything like this happen, it’s only now since the “new” Goodreads format that things are going weird. Spam stuff 😡

[Krystal]

Jülie ☼♄  wrote: "Brenda wrote: "Block them if you can work out who they are Jools. They can't see your profile if you do that. Or any comments you might make.""

I have had a TON of bots liking my Honeybee review recently! It's nuts! I appreciate the likes of course lol but not like this. I don't understand why????

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Just had a quick look Krystal and that's bad. You should probably report it

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

In fact it has happened to everyone who has reviewed Honeybee. Have a look at yours Brenda and Carolyn.

[Carolyn]

Just checked my Honeybee likes and ditto. All private accounts, few books, no friends. Sounds like sock puppets again.

There's probably no point blocking them all - more will just spring up, but is there anywhere we can contact GR about the problem? Perhaps if we all do at the same time they might actually do something.

[Jülie ☼♄ ]

Carolyn wrote: "Just checked my Honeybee likes and ditto. All private accounts, few books, no friends. Sounds like sock puppets again."

Yep, even as we speak. Surely GR can do something about this? It never happened in the past…I get email notifications every time they post 😡

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

They try a bit harder these days. Now there are fake photos attached to their accounts which make them look more real.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Phrynne wrote: "In fact it has happened to everyone who has reviewed Honeybee. Have a look at yours Brenda and Carolyn."

Yes I've noticed loads of review likes for both Honeybee and Jasper Jones. I also had no idea why!!

[Carolyn]

Looks like most of my GR friends who reviewed Honeybee have them too - Sharon, Patty, Suz, Lisa, Gloria and that's just the few I've looked at.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Very weird!!

[Krystal]

It's wild! I'm just reporting as they come up now but too many to go through and report. I'm honestly too lazy. But how strange that it's just these two books! Also not my Jasper Jones one, maybe because I only gave 2 stars? Hmmmmm...

Craig Silvey apparently has a GR vigilante working on his behalf.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

More than one Krystal!! I've had at least a dozen in the past hour or so and since the discussion, I've checked them. And yes, all private profiles with nice pics!! Why don't these people get a life!!

[Marianne]

A lot seem to have 17 books and 0 friends, and two of mine with different names had the same photo!!

[Jülie ☼♄ ]

Marianne wrote: "A lot seem to have 17 books and 0 friends, and two of mine with different names had the same photo!!"

I can see why they’ve got no friends! 😂…and 17 books is a weekend challenge to a lot of people here 😂