[2023] Wild Discussion Showing 4,001-4,050 of 4,060

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Are you talking about the end of the year wrap up that Goodreads creates? I'm able to still see mine from 2021.

[Hannah]

You used to be able to click ahead to see your wrap up for the current year as well, but I agree, Thomas, it seems like you can't anymore! I don't know if it's a glitch or a purposeful update.

[dalex]

Thomas wrote: "Anyone know why I suddenly can’t access my year in books for this year?"

I think it was a glitch that we were able to the see our 2022 Year in Books for a day or so. It seems early for them to roll that out. I'm pretty sure it isn't usually available until sometime in December.

[Hannah]

No, it's always been a feature! I often check my current Year in Books during the year. But I always thought it was kind of weird that they had it available, so I'm not too surprised that it's gone now.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Wow I never knew you could access it through the year... I always just waited for the announcement that it was ready in December.

[Amy (Other Amy)]

I never knew that either. I usually just click on the link to my challenge on the home page to see what I've read. It would be nice to have warning on the year in wrap; I always have the most annoying books on mine for longest and shortest and whatnot.

[T.]

Mine recently switched to the 2022 year as the default, so I have to go back to see previous years. It threw me off when I first ran across it.

[T.]

T. wrote: "Mine recently switched to the 2022 year as the default, so I have to go back to see previous years. It threw me off when I first ran across it."

But now I see that has changed again, and 2022 is not available. Weird.

[Jill]

I only looked at mine yesterday, but it is gone today!

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

I’m not sure where you are looking. I always use the challenge, which shows how many books I’ve read and links to all the covers. I didn’t think you could get the info like total pages, most popular, etc. till end of year.

[Jill]

Robin P wrote: "I’m not sure where you are looking. I always use the challenge, which shows how many books I’ve read and links to all the covers. I didn’t think you could get the info like total pages, most popula..."

On your own My Books page, down the left side there is "Your reading activity" The fourth one down says " Year in Books"

[Jill]

For anyone not seeing 2022 year in books, I found the answer. Go to your year in books and in the URL change the year number to 22 and try that.

[Amy (Other Amy)]

Wow that's cool. I had no idea. I have two books to fix! Thanks.

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

That's funny, I've been on here about 11 years and never knew this.

[L Y N N]

Nadine in NY wrote: "NancyJ wrote: "... Oh I just remembered... Many women get a huge surge of energy before they go into labor. They call it "nesting." I felt amazing, like superwoman. I was climbing ladders and every..."
For me "nursing" time became reading time once I had 2/3 children. All 3 of my children were born within just less than 5 years, so we would all sit and read while the baby at the time nursed. So I did a lot of reading, but nothing even close to adult literature! LOL

[Mandy]

Jill wrote: "For anyone not seeing 2022 year in books, I found the answer. Go to your year in books and in the URL change the year number to 22 and try that."

thank you . it worked for me!

[chysodema]

2023 will be only my second year of doing reading challenges, and I didn't start my 2022 challenges until March-May, so it's my first time knowing prompts in advance and planning ahead.

Does anyone have any tips for how you go through your TBR and match books on your list to the prompts? I started out taking each book and going down the whole list of prompts and seeing which fit, but there are 221 books on my "fit into future challenges" list (which is just my TBR for stuff I want to try to read next year) and I kind of burned out doing it that way.

[Kendra]

Lailah wrote: "2023 will be only my second year of doing reading challenges, and I didn't start my 2022 challenges until March-May, so it's my first time knowing prompts in advance and planning ahead.

Does anyon..."

If you go to the listopias for the various prompts, the lists will show if the books are already on your TBR (or any exclusive shelf you have). Just keep in mind that some people are more flexible with how they interpret prompts than others, so just because a book is on the list, you might not think it counts. And while a few people write notes about why they added/voted for a book, most don't.

[chysodema]

Kendra wrote: "Lailah wrote: "2023 will be only my second year of doing reading challenges, and I didn't start my 2022 challenges until March-May, so it's my first time knowing prompts in advance and planning ahe..."

Brilliant, thank you! You have totally changed my life.

I find that info by scrolling and seeing which books have "Want to Read" next to them, correct? I don't see a place on the listopia page where any books from my TBR are gathered together.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Yes, unfortunately there's no way to search lists to see only books on your TBR. But I agree that that's the easiest way to see how books fit (assuming someone else has added them to the listopia!)

[NancyJ]

Lailah wrote: "2023 will be only my second year of doing reading challenges, and I didn't start my 2022 challenges until March-May, so it's my first time knowing prompts in advance and planning ahead.

Does anyon..."

I also use tags - the Goodreads shelves or genre tags- to see topics that other readers discovered in the books. Our group listopias tend to favor books that are fairly recent, or the favorites of active members who vote early. Over time, they will get better as more people vote. The main advantage to tags is that they are used by more people, and over time some books get hundreds or thousands. They will also help you to find books that aren’t on your tbr yet. They don’t work for all prompts.

As with the listopias, if you scan down the tag lists, you can see the books that you added to your own shelves. Note- this doesn’t work if you’re looking at a list of covers only.

Example:
Here are tag lists that would help find your Asian-authored books:
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

You can find any other tag lists by editing the links above with a different term at the end. I often start with a book that I know would fit, and I look at the tags that were given to that book to see which ones might be popular. In this case I started with She who became the sun.
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

[NancyJ]

For title prompts, you can search your tbr for keywords. If you go to My Books, you will see TWO search bars on your page. Use the lower one to search for only books you added to your shelves.

[♞ Pat]

Jill wrote: "For anyone not seeing 2022 year in books, I found the answer. Go to your year in books and in the URL change the year number to 22 and try that."

You can also click the "Reading Challenge" link above "Year in Books" and that will take you to the current year.

[chysodema]

NancyJ wrote: "Lailah wrote: "2023 will be only my second year of doing reading challenges, and I didn't start my 2022 challenges until March-May, so it's my first time knowing prompts in advance and planning ahe..."

Thanks so much, I will try this out as well.

[Kathy]

NancyJ wrote: "Lailah wrote: "2023 will be only my second year of doing reading challenges, and I didn't start my 2022 challenges until March-May, so it's my first time knowing prompts in advance and planning ahe..."

Thanks, Nancy for the information about how to search tag lists. I figured there must be a way!

[Sunny]

I have 9 remaining prompts to choose books for in 2023. I've been busy with several different tasks lately and haven't taken time to research and decide what I want to read. I have things arranged in my area here for this year:
Welcome

[Pamela, Arciform Mod]

Emily wrote: "Yes, unfortunately there's no way to search lists to see only books on your TBR. But I agree that that's the easiest way to see how books fit (assuming someone else has added them to the listopia!)"

My kingdom for this feature!

[Thomas]

I see Goodreads choice awards are open. I’ve only read one of them

[T.]

Thomas wrote: "I see Goodreads choice awards are open. I’ve only read one of them"

Haha! same here. Which one did you read? I read The Kaiju Preservation Society.

[Bec]

Thomas wrote: "I see Goodreads choice awards are open. I’ve only read one of them"

Ohhh, off to check it out!

[Bec]

Bec wrote: "Thomas wrote: "I see Goodreads choice awards are open. I’ve only read one of them"

Ohhh, off to check it out!"

Okay I've read a few, but have more on my TBR list...

[Aimee]

Thomas wrote: "I see Goodreads choice awards are open. I’ve only read one of them"

I've read three, but in different categories so it's hard to vote for them when I can't compare them with their peers, so to speak.

I noticed The Lost Metal was on the list despite it only being published yesterday, so Goodreads clearly has high expectations of Sanderson fans' reading speeds!

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Mod Note: I've archived all of the conversations around choosing the 2023 prompt, but if you'd like to continue discussing the GR Choice Awards, we have a thread for that!

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Thomas]

T. wrote: "Thomas wrote: "I see Goodreads choice awards are open. I’ve only read one of them"

Haha! same here. Which one did you read? I read The Kaiju Preservation Society."

I read The It Girl

[Lindsay]

Oh I was excited when I saw this but then realised I’ve not read any from the award list…but I have several on my TBR list from various different categories!!!

[Thomas]

Gosh I miss you guys when this discussion finishes

[Tracy]

Well Thomas, we’ll just have to think of something engaging to talk about every week!

[Pamela, Arciform Mod]

I just put my final book in the 2022 spreadsheet and claimed my column for 2023

I feel like a sprinter before a race! Limbering up...

[Thomas]

I’ve already started of course I will finish in tandem next year by finishing before the date I started this year

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

Thomas wrote: "Gosh I miss you guys when this discussion finishes"

I feel the same way, when the yearly choosing process is done.

I could start weekly questions like some of my other GR groups have. All kinds of subjects, like

What is the first book you remember reading?
How do you track/rate/journal about your books?
What is your favorite book in x genre?
Have you met any authors?
How do you get out of a reading slump?
Which literary character would you like to meet?

Etc, etc.

[Tracy]

That would be great Robin!

[Amy (Other Amy)]

I would love that.

[Sunny]

I would love that, too, Robin

[Thomas]

The first book I remember was Noddy and the Goblins, I cried so hard my nanny made me take a nap

[Pam]

Does anyone ever set a goal of less than 52 books?? I feel like there are books I own that I will never get around to reading because of their length and my not wanting to fall behind in the challenge. So, I’m thinking that to encourage myself to read my doorstops, I’m going to set a goal of 26 books for the ATY Challenge and focus on finishing specific books. I still plan to keep my grandson’s at 52, though. His books will be a lot easier, although we haven’t been reading much lately.

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

Pam wrote: "Does anyone ever set a goal of less than 52 books?? I feel like there are books I own that I will never get around to reading because of their length and my not wanting to fall behind in the challe..."

Yes, I'm sure many people don't expect to finish all 52 books. I am running into the same issue because I am in multiple groups and I put off reading long books. But often they are my favorites.

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

Thomas wrote: "The first book I remember was Noddy and the Goblins, I cried so hard my nanny made me take a nap"

Ooh, great answer, I think I'll start with that question and you can post a bit more about that.

[Dubhease]

Robin P wrote: "Pam wrote: "Does anyone ever set a goal of less than 52 books?? I feel like there are books I own that I will never get around to reading because of their length and my not wanting to fall behind i..."

In 2023, I'm prioritizing my own reading (for example finishing series) over either ATY or PS prompts. My goal for 2023 will be to complete 40 ATY prompts.

Some people opt for 26 since that is doing exactly half of it.

I'm using all the ATY prompts to do a movie challenge. (Around the year in 52 movies.)

[Hannah]

What a great idea! I find it so fun to talk and read about people's reading habits but I find that the non-readers in my life are very bored by such things, haha.

[Sunny]

Thomas wrote: "The first book I remember was Noddy and the Goblins, I cried so hard my nanny made me take a nap"

The first one I remember reading was It's For You, Snoopy I was around 8 years-old; and couldn't wait to find more books about Snoopy and Charlie Brown.