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... Why is SF and Fantasy stuck together. They are very different genres. LOL
I like her. That series is on my TBR. I think I can get it from the library. Maybe it will be a 6 book series?
I'm not sure. I could see them expand on things but the ending to book 3 makes it feel like it was intended to be the last book in the series. It was a pretty good story overall btw, definitely recommend you read it sooner or later!
Timelord Iain wrote: "VERONICA!!!"And now I have that Elvis Costello song stuck in my head. lol
Choko wrote: "Veronica, yes, me too! I am so glad we are both back and where we really belong! Welcome back, friend!!!"It feels good to be reading again. :-)
Timelord Iain wrote: "Mysteries and Romances are the 2 most profitable genres, I think...EDIT: Yea:
Book Genres That Make the Most Money
Romance/Erotica – $1.44 billion. ...
Crime/Mystery – $728.2 million. ...
Religious/Inspirational – $720 million. ...
Science Fiction/Fantasy – $590.2 million. ...
Horror – $79.6 million."
I love a good mystery but I won't go near pure romance books. I like a good romance as a B or C side plot only...and even then I'm super duper picky about them.
Oh, and I totally loved the Nathaniel Cade books too! There needed to be more books with the way the third book ended.
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@Soo: Sci-fi/Fantasy: Probably because they're similar and share a similar readership: Both tell stories about people with power we don't have today... whether it's magic or futuristic technology... aliens or trolls/orcs/goblins...
Also, Sci-fi's only been around for 150 years ago (I think people say Frankenstein is the original science fiction novel)... Fantasy has been around for 1000s of years...
The wandering inn has ended my streak at 6 days in a row of finishing at least one new book per day (unless I finish my current nonfiction which is a slower read)
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Slow and steady, for me... I actually had a better week than expected, given I had some extra days off this week, and usually end up not reading as much at home, these days...
Instead I finished The Wandering Inn: Book 1 and read The Conjuring of Zoth-Avarex: The Self-Proclaimed Greatest Dragon in the Multiverse & Unsouled, and started The Cuckoo's Calling... plus In an Absent Dream on day 1... that's all I've read, so far...
LoL Julian! Tome length books will do that to ya!Huzzah for having a good start, Iain! =)
Technically I still have 6 hours to keep the streak alive but I don't like to rush the nonfiction books that I read (usually read a chapter or 2 a night). No way I can finish the wandering inn tonight, I'm maybe 17% done with volume 1
Keep it easy on the pacing. There's no rush. Don't make yourself go into book burn out at the beginning. We've all done that to ourselves at some point. Too excited about the BR opportunities and then pushing to read when not engaged or don't have time. Makes it stressful and lose the fun.
Usually I read while doing some other activity like cooking. That and audiobooks help a lot when driving. The day I find a way to successfully listen to audiobooks while skiing, working, or playing video games will be the day that I can read 300+ books a year.
Practice? Though, only if you want to learn how to do that? I mean, there's nothing wrong with just enjoying all that is skiing or playing video games. And some work demands full attention.
Bah! I've liked most of the books that Luke Chilmenko rates well on GR. He's a LitRPG author that I like. Wish he would write more of the series I like vs hopping around other stuff, but maybe he's stuck on his series or needs a change up? *shrug*Anyways, I got Etherwalker because he rated it 5 stars. If only the cool concepts were written into a cool story! =P
It was one of those that would get my interest for a few minutes and lose it within another few minutes. It's too bad. Story has potential but it didn't meet it, and I really feel like the book just ended in the middle of the arc vs a decent stopping point. Pacing is important darn it!
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Condensed my yearly read shelves into decade shelves, condensed missed new releases from the last couple years into a single shelf, condensed all my audiobook shelves into a single descriptor shelf, added an ebook shelf while condensing, and sorted some more shelves with numbers...
Took 3hrs... not bad when messing with 3000 books... used batch edit, which timed out when doing more than 100-200 books at a time, so I had to do it in chunks... some of my shelves had 300-500 books on them...
Still want to identify some more short stories, based on page count, but other than that I'm happy... unless I decide to break up some of my oversized genre shelves...
More power to ya! I am not a fan of too many shelves on GR. I like my sorta short list of shelves and keeping them to it. lol Otherwise, I'd never crawl out of the organizing hole. It just gets deeper!
Have you guys checked out Storygraph? It's book review/etc website. Though, they want to look more appealing like an app vs website.
It's suppose to recommend books to you depending on what you read and how you rate it vs other readers. I've only spent a little time on it. The interface is too clunky for me to like.
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Otherwise, I'd never crawl out of the organizing hole. It just gets d..."
I've revamped my shelves 2-3 times... first time around, I was literally giving each series a shelf... that became cumberson fast (Around 150 shelves)... especially since you can only view 100 shelves at a time, without having to switch shelf pages...
Then I revamped into genres... I started tracking yearly reads and listens when I transitioned to audiobooks 2014-2016... and I've slowly added subgenres over time...
My whole genre, subgenre thing is a shame, since I wasn't doing it from the beginning... that's half the reason my UF/PNR is clumped instead of separate... it's hard to go back and sort through 800 books and say if they're more UF or PNR... it's such a sliding scale...
I think, if I redid everything now, romance would just be a subgenre that I appended to other books, to indicate when romance fights for domanance over the plot... or a romance-heavy and romance-light shelf option...
And I should really make a Historical Fantasy shelf, instead of just using Steampunk as a catch-all for anything with supernatural creatures or steampowered contraptions in the past... would catch dieselpunk/etc at the same time... and weird westerns...
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I'm feeling overwhelmed just reading all that. lol
Veronica wrote: "I'm feeling overwhelmed just reading all that. lol"XD Busy busy! Haha =D
Billy Summers - I'm about quarter way into the story? This may be the most laid back, sorta normal, hired killer story I've read. lol
GR notifications are broken again. Dun dun dunnnnnn~~
All this talk about shelf reorganization reminds me that I am waaayyyy overdue for a TBR book purge. Time to cull the herd!
@Soo with video games I bet I could also listen to audiobooks if the game is a chill one. As for skiing, in between the actual skiing downhill portion there's a good amount of wait time where you're not really doing anything and audiobooks would be ideal. Usually there's a bit of waiting in line to get on the ski lifts and then the time waiting to go up the lifts. Add that throughout the entire day and you can knock out a lot.
Veronica wrote: "All this talk about shelf reorganization reminds me that I am waaayyyy overdue for a TBR book purge. Time to cull the herd!"Have fun!
Julian, I listen to audiobooks while doing 98% everything else. It's pretty much either an audiobook or music playing for me. I haven't been watching shows/movies. I'll probably have to go on a spree with that at some point. =DLike, I'm behind on anime series by several years. It's good to have so many things I like to do and be able to do it at some point.
Sounds like you can make it work with skiing. Do you have good headphones?
Oooh you should tell me what anime shows you're interested in watching! With skiing I've got some earbuds but need to find a way to let it work. With a helmet on its not the most comfortable fit.
Bone conduction headphones. =) I wasn't too sure about it when I did the research, but I took a chance and got Aftershokz Aeropex. Hooks over your ears. Probably will fit under helmet.
I watch a wide range of anime. Anything from action, mystery, horror, school life, rom-coms, etc.
There's a bunch of anime, Asian dramas & stuff on Netflix I should watch but I haven't made time.
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Notifications are behind. The discussion feature is accurate. Really glad for that option.
Yup. Notifications are going in and out of delayed & on time. It's annoying. The feed & group discussion are staying current. I keep a tab open for Vagabond, WI and Mystery Club. So, I just hit refresh for those.
Updated my personal tracker page with planned BRs. It wasn't as many as I thought. Yay for being manageable!
Timelord Iain wrote: "I caught Soo's notification bug... now my notifications are like 6-12hrs behind, and keep telling me comments I've already read are new..."Same. It's annoying.
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That's where I find out notifications are broken :D when they're not updating at all, anyway....
Guys, I may be turning a new leaf! I sent out several friend requests! The world is ending! Woo! Hehehe
Haha, thanks for your request, Soo ;)
Thanks for accepting! =D
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I used to think I didn't have many friends on here... then I stumble on someone that has less than a Top 8 total, still... and I'm like... somehow I became a social butterfly... even tho I still don't go out of my way to increase my friend count... I add people I BR with... and sometimes I accept randos if they give a decent reason... but generally I ignore randos and only accept BR friends...
Randos. LOL Sometimes randos make good friends, but only after interacting and seeing that it's fun to chat. Another fun comic on WebToon's Canvas: Velvet Vanilla
Mechs!
Plus, Indonesian Artists.
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Timelord Iain wrote: "Somehow, I have over 100 friends... and I don't even know who 25-50% of them are... especially the ones that have changed name AND profile pic... they're basically strangers... half the time I'm ju..."That's why I'm always wary of changing my profile pic even though the son that's in it with me is now 12 years old. I figure people won't know it's me.
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My shelves say I've done over 500 BRs since late 2017... not sure it's 100% accurate... probably done more, since I didn't add that as a shelf until later...
Recenty redid my shelves, and now I can say I've done ~1700 audiobooks and ~1100 ebooks in the past decade... ~300 of them "ebooks" were short stories and novellas, half from author websites... so my audiobooks are WAY ahead on page count...
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I’m not anywhere near your level.
I only started using GR properly in 2018 and consistently in 2019 so I don’t have these stats. But it’ll be fun to see in a few years.
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I’m not anywhere near your level.
I only started using GR properly in 2018 and consistently in 2019 so I don’t have these stats. But it’ll be fun to see in a few years."
Yea... I started using it solely for book tracking in 2013... discussions a bit in 2015... this group and serious Buddy Reads in 2017/2018...
Redid my shelves to count by decade yesterday, instead of yearly... now I have a goal for the 2020s vs 2010s :D
2020s will probably be slower than 2010s, but I also have 3 extra years to match it, since I didn't read much 2010-2012...
I do believe Choko, Iain and I are audiobookholics and speedy listeners. LOL
Started trying out audiobooks in 2017.
2017 - 329
2018 - 438
2019 - 579
2020 - 972
2021 - 709
Reading went up gradually. 2020 and 2021 are comparable. Only difference is that I read more webnovels & dedicated time to music in 2021. 2022 is probably the year I can hit 1000 books because I don't think the pandemic will quiet down until the tail end of this year. Maybe it'll happen. I'm totally cool if it doesn't. Gotta keep life interesting and not stay rooted into patterns. =)
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