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Mary wrote: "I'm kind of missing the days before I found online reading groups/sites. Where I just picked up a book because I wanted to read it and not to fit it into some sort of challenge. Or because I offere..."Mary, I know exactly what you mean! Before I joined good reads, I was reading what seemed like a book a day. Then when I joined goodreads and a few groups, and doing the challenges, it was great. Challenges can be really fun, and I love seeing and discussing what everyone else is reading. But like you, I just get burned out on them sometimes, and when I do, I'll keep signing up for them, and I either change my entire list of challenge books by the end of the month, or won't finish the challenge at all. I think taking a break from the challenges and games, and just getting back to reading whatever you're in the mood for is a great idea; when they start feeling restrictive, it takese the fun out of reading, and we can't have that, LOL!!!
Ditto!! On all of your points. I'm also starting to get confused as to which challenge I signed up for. I knew I was going to spell F.L.O.W.E.R.S., but where the hell was it? In which group? I speant, like, an hour looking for it. Then I realized I could put S.P.R.I.N.G. in front of it with a little work. So, I put my books in. Oopps. Forgot to put the stars afterwards. So, I hyperlink to the book to see if I gave it 4 or 5 stars and LOST ALL MY DATA and had to start over. Luckily I had some done typing in my Word file. All this makes it work and not fun. I love GoodReads, but long for the days when I could just pick up a book and read it!
Well today I picked up an old historical romance. Well not really old 2005-but "old" since I've owned it for years and have mostly been reading newew releases lately. It's just a simple historical romance. No vampires, no shifters, there's no mail by date attatched to it, it's not WL on PBS(haven't checked bookmooch). I am really enjoying it too. I can probably work it into a couple challenges if I look them all up. And it's not really part of a series. Which is another thing I'm getting burnt out on. It seems every book I pick up is part of a series that needs to be read in order. This one is connected to other books but I don't know which order it falls into the mix and I don't care.
Mary, I
love
Nicole Byrd's books. They are written by a mother/daughter team. My favorites are:
. I don't know how many times I have re-read them. WIS was not rated that high, but I just loved it! However, the most popular with the public is
.Ooopps! I guess I'm doing that GoodReads thing again. Hard to resist when one of my favorite authors is posted.
I just requested Widow in Scarlet from bookmooch.I have a few others in my TBR already. I love the sparkly pink cover of GTL. My library has a few others. I put Dear Imposter on my WL on paperbackswap.
Mary, I'm checking out bookmooch.com right now. Interesting. I just tried GR bookswap, but a lot of the books I want aren't available. I mailed my first book to someone the other day. It was pretty easy. I was surprised. Does bookmooch work the same way (i.e. you print a label and put it in your mailbox for the postman)?
I don't know how goodreads swap works so I can't say. Paperbackswap.com is much, much better than bookmooch. I get a lot more books on PBS then on bookmooch. But PBS has stricter rules to follow and book posting guidelines. So I do them both. I get more wish list books on PBS but on bookmooch you can post damaged books. PBS is US only and Bookmooch is international.
Thank you for the explaination Mary! I appreciate it.
Mary wrote: "I'm kind of missing the days before I found online reading groups/sites. Where I just picked up a book because I wanted to read it and not to fit it into some sort of challenge. Or because I offere..."I too sometimes get burned out of challenges or even sticking to one genre. Right now I'm in a romance burn out and just picked up and started reading Water for Elephants (fiction) out of the blue and I'm really enjoying it. I think it's going to help me feel more "reading refreshed"! (Hopefully!)
Megan wrote: "Mary wrote: "I'm kind of missing the days before I found online reading groups/sites. Where I just picked up a book because I wanted to read it and not to fit it into some sort of challenge. Or bec..."I definitely think that switching up the genre helps. Sometimes, I'm so worn out on the PNR alpha males, or the virgin historical romance heroine, that I could just scream! So, that's when I switch it up a bit.
You're right Michelle. And so far I'm feeling really good about what I'm reading- I'd have to say that so far it's working!! :o)
I know! I 'should' be reading my book for M for M.A.R.C.H., but Bekah posted her review of
...and now I want to read that! I think I may.
Lisa Kay wrote: "I know! I 'should' be reading my book for M for M.A.R.C.H., but Bekah posted her review of ...and now I want to read that! I think I may."Read it! Read it! I want to read that one too, so I'd like to know what you think about it :)
Oh my! You haven't read it yet?!!! This will be a re-read for me, but I remember it was really good. It's been years, and my tastes change. However, it
is
Lisa Kleypas.
I am so with you ladies on the burnout! My problem is that I'm reading so much of everything else I just don't seem to have time for romance anymore. At home or in the books. HA! I took a break from all for April. Though the genres are still mixed I'm getting romance, comedy, action, etc. But the point of my rambling is I'm finally getting a little romance back! I say stand firm with yourselves ladies and take back the joy of reading! :P
I have sort of stopped paying attention to my challenges and it's been kind of a relief. The only one I'm really making sure I do is a team challenge because I don't want to let my team down.But for the past month or so I've just been reading what I want. I spent some time today and worked several of hte books I read into challenges after the fact. I also haven't joined anymore for awhile. The last 1 I joined was just a TBR clean up challenge with no specific slots to fill. I just set a challenge of reading 13 books that I've owned more than 6 months. That's just 1 a week to average for the duration and that's what I wanted to focus on this year anyway.
Mary, Where are you doing a team challenge and how does it work? What does "hte" mean?I've just found out I spent a ton of money trying to plug holes in series for a Spring Cleaning challenge. Oh dear!
hte is just me making a typo. I'm doing a Team Challenge in the Serious Overload of Series (S.O.S.) group. It's a paranormal/urban fantasy group on goodreads. Participants were put into teams and each team has a Bingo Card filled with names of popular goodreads shelves that fit the groups theme. Everyone in the group has to read a book from that shelf and write a review on goodreads in order to get the stamp for that space on their card. First team that gets Bingo wins. There's no prize other than bragging rights. Each week a new shelf is called. This week it's Urban Fantasy. Last week was Demons and the week before was YA-Fantasy.
Ohhhhh! Thanks! Yes, it is good you are not letting your team down. Well done.H Happy
T Together
E Eternally
My mind was in a whirl. LOL!
Man-oh-man! What is with paperbackswap.com ??? That site is great. I've had books on my wishlist here at GoodReads for a couple months and I sent one book and received one book. I went to paperbackswap.com today and in two hours I got notices I would get two books (yipee) and I've had to wrap and mail three! Wow!
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Of course the simplest thing would be to stop joining challenges and PBS games. But I don't seem to do that. Well I do manage to stop doing games when I feel burned out. Sometimes for 3 or 4 months at a time.
I enjoy coming on to discuss the challenges and the comaraderie. But then I find myself reading for the challenge even though it's not like required that I complete them.
I think I need a break from any challenges that are restrictive as far a genre, book thems, titles etc.., Just do ones that are basically "read x books in x amount of time" or read "x books you've owned longer than a year in x time".