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A clarification for the top of the posting: The first link Bookmarks Magazine is for the official website of the magazine. Most of the issues already have their featured books posted here for easy viewing, but the most recent ones do not have this ready yet.
The second link Bookmarks Goodreads Shelves has specific shelves for the issues so it is another way to search books and quickly add them to your TBR. This is the "personal page" for Bookmarks magazine on goodreads.
The third link Bookmarks Subscribers is a group I started with my friend Lisa because we love the magazine. We have gotten to know the editor and he supports our efforts completely. The magazine is really phenomenal and a must-have subscription for book lovers. They are much cheaper this way, and they arrive in your mailboxes before arriving in the bookstores.
I hope this helps to clear up the confusion!
I don't know if it is just me, but the Bookmarks Goodreads shelves link goes to a random person's profile, not to a goodreads shelf. Is this suppose to happen?
That is what I get also. Also on the Bookmarks Magazine I can only view 2 of the 4 magazines that are pictured on the home page.
is there anyway someone who has a subscription could provide a list of books reviewed in July/August and September/October??
I finally found the January/February issue, but you can't view the books reviewed in it either. Stephanie, if it isn't too much work for you, is there any way you can list the books in these issues? Or is there some other way you know of that will let us know what books have been reviewed this year by Bookmarks?
Kathryn - if you go archive (on the top of the page) you can pull up the Jan/Feb issue (it took me a little while to figure it out)..I have a couple of possible books, but would like to know what is in the most recent issues
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Links corrected
Thanks, Dlmrose! Hopefully I can find something to use for this task, or it may be another I have to skip.
ehhh...I would check that list...just looking at it...it doesn't seem to mesh with some of the books I saw online...I didn't see any Austen listed in the online months, but at least 1 on the bookshelf
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http://www.goodreads.com/group/booksh..."
Should be fixed now - very odd, that link worked before!
Thanks Dlmrose. Since I am not a subscriber, I cannot see the issues on line either. Unless I am doing something wrong. It tells me to see the issue I have to buy it.
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We put the GR shelf link there because you can't get clickable links on the website to the July/August and September/October shelves.
The link Dlmrose posted takes you to the Goodreads Bookmarks Subscribers group. The link in the task takes you to the Bookmarks Goodreads site. There you'll see the dates of each of the issues and you can click on them to see what books were reviewed.
Lyn if you click on the cover picture, it should bring up the reviews for you - that's how I found themLyn M wrote: "Thanks Dlmrose. Since I am not a subscriber, I cannot see the issues on line either. Unless I am doing something wrong."
there are two months you can't do that on yet...so make sure it isn't the two newest ones (they aren't hyperlinked yet)Lyn M wrote: "Dee - I did, but it didn't give me anything but the cover still. WAHHHH. I'm sure I am doing something really dumb wrong, lol. I will keep trying."
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Lyn, go back to message 1 in this thread and see if clicking on the link named Bookmarks Goodreads Shelves doesn't get you to their GR page. Assuming it does, you'll see a list of the issues there and can click on each one to get the list of books reviewed.
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That may be because that link was the bookshelf for the Subscribers group - their bookshelf wouldn't necessarily be the same as the lists in the various 2010 issues of the magazine.
Jan-Feb 201013 1/2 - Nevada Barr
A Change in Altitude - Anita Shreve
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon - Neil Sheehan
And Another Thing -- Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of three - Eoin Colfer
Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife - Francine Prose
Ayn Rand and the World She Made - Anne C. Heller
Blood's a Rover - James Ellroy
Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America - Barbara Ehrenreich
Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor - Tad Friend
Chronic City - Jonathan Lethem
Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker - James McManus
Generosity: An Enhancement - Richard Powers
Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right - Jennifer Burns
Half Broke Horses - Jeannette Walls
Invisible - Paul Auster
Last Night in Twisted River - John Irving
Lit: A Memoir - Mary Karr
Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son - Michael Chabon
Nine Dragons - Michael Connelly
NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children - Po Bronson
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work - Matthew B. Crawford
Stardust - Joseph Kanon
Stitches: A Memoir - David Small
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance - Steven D. Levitt
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance - Stephen J. Dubner
The American Civil War: A Military History - John Keegan
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and The Fire That Saved America - Timothy Egan
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope - William Kamkwamba
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein - Peter Ackroyd
The Children's Book - A.S. Byatt
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis - Lydia Davis
The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard - J.G. Ballard
The Financial Lives of the Poets - Jess Walter
The Gates - John Connolly
The Good Soldiers - David Finkel
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution - Richard Dawkins
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
The Humbling - Philip Roth
The Lacuna - Barbara Kingsolver
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession - Allison Hoover Bartlett
The Monster in the Box: An Inspector Wexford Novel - Ruth Rendell
The Museum of Innocence - Orhan Pamuk
The Original of Laura (Dying Is Fun) - Vladimir Nabokov
The Wild Things - Dave Eggers
Under the Dome - Stephen King
Wolf Hall: A Novel - Hilary Mantel
so basically you still have to go back and check the magazine to make sure your book is within the 2010 time-frame...you can't rely on the bookshelves...
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You shouldn't use the shelves from the Subscribers group. If you go the link in the post, that takes you to the Bookmarks page. On that page are links to each issue and you can click on those.
The Subscribers group is not the same thing as the Bookmarks official page.
ok, had an idiot moment!! now that the original link works, its much clearer...
I am so confused right now. The only two issues I can't seem to figure out where to see a list of the books reviewed in them are the two newest that don't have the lists up on their website yet. I tried the bookshelf, but the books all just seem random on there, no matter how I sort them. The group is the same - just a lot of random and little useful organization or labeling.
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are you sure you're using the right link? You are not going to get the right lists if you're going to the Subscribers group. Please do not use the link in Dlmrose's post, since that takes you to the Subscribers group.
Bookmarks Goodreads shelves takes you to the Bookmarks page. On that page, under the heading "Bookmarks Magazine Bookshelves" is a list of issues. If you click on one of those links, it will give you a list of the books which were reviewed in that issue.
AH. Thanks. I'll check it out and see if anything in their newest two issues is on my shelves. If not, a couple caught my attention and I can always add them to the short list of books I wan to keep an eye out for if I happen to go to the used bookstore nearby, or if I ever get a few credits on paperbackswap.
Dlmrose wrote: "I think this is the link to the group's shelves- we will correct it asap.http://www.goodreads.com/group/booksh..."
I'm a moderator of the Bookmarks Subscribers group and this is a link to our bookshelf. The bookshelf contains books our members have read and started a thread on from any issue of the magazine. You may find threads for books reviewed in 2010 issues by looking at the topics, which correspond to the bimonthly magazine; but our site does not have all the books reviewed in each issue. Our site is for all those who love the magazine and want to talk about the books reviewed there.
Jon, the editor of Bookmarks magazine, has been nice enough to shelve all the books reviewed in each magazine by its bimonthly issue in his Bookmarks Magazine profile page. The link for that is "Bookmarks Goodreads shelves" as listed in the task description. This has the latest issues, in fact Goodread users often get this info before the magazine hits the newsstands.
If you have never seen Bookmarks Magazine, I'd suggest browsing through one at Barnes & Noble, better yet....buy it! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this magazine!!! I have all but 2 or 3 issues. My TBR has grown phenomenally just from Bookmarks.
@StephanieWhat can I say, other than I LOVE THIS TASK!!! ;D
Sandy - Thank you so much for finding that link. I found so many more books to read because of it!
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You're welcome, but the thanks are really due to Stephanie. She gave me the link in the first place to include in the task posting, but somehow I goofed it up in posting. At any rate, it's fixed now, so all is okay!
Thanks all, I was just using the wrong month, I guess the month I was using is not there yet, lol. What a dummy.
Phew! I am glad everything is cleared up!
I found several books to use, too, Stephanie. Now I just have to decide which one!
sweet! i can use Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America! :)
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I've got quite a few choices here as well. Looking forward to this one! When I have a bit more time I think I'll be investigating reviews of more of those books. Thanks Stephanie!ETA my worry is I'll have a LOT less books to choose from for the Winter Challenge...! So there's my excuse to get more books in...
I posted some information at the top of the thread to hopefully further clear up any confusion anyone might have regarding the links.
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I am a huge fan of Bookmarks magazine and look forward to each new issue in my mailbox. Check out the website at Bookmarks Magazine and scroll down to view the issues from 2010. You can also find the Bookmarks Magazine’s Goodreads Shelves at Bookmarks Goodreads shelves That link has shelves for all books reviewed in Bookmarks in 2010 – the magazine website does not yet include clickable links for the July/August or September/October issues.
Click on an issue to view all books reviewed and the stars awarded by the magazine. Select and read any book of your choice that was reviewed this year.
Required: In your posting, you must include the issue you selected.
If you also fall in love with the magazine, check out the goodreads group dedicated to its featured books... Bookmarks Subscribers. Happy reading!