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[Gretchen]

On my app homepage, I suddenly see every book review posted. Not just the reviews my friends post. It's kind of scary. Anyone else experiencing this?

[Gretchen]

On my app homepage, I suddenly see every book review posted. Not just the reviews my friends post. It's kind of scary. Anyone else experiencing this?

[Lisa]

No still only seeing my friends reviews, Gretchen.

[Lariela]

The holiday music invasion has once again begun before Thanksgiving. My preferred music is Tchaikovsky. As classical music can have a nice wintery sound.

[Gretchen]

My app is back to normal but it was pretty scary there for a while. Unlimited access to books and reviews on Goodreads with no filter is overwhelming to say the least.

[Deb]

Gretchen wrote: "My app is back to normal but it was pretty scary there for a while. Unlimited access to books and reviews on Goodreads with no filter is overwhelming to say the least."

It sounds kind of like the electronic version of unexpected telepathy.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Gretchen, I have to know, how can Wee Gretchen 1 be looking so sad in such a fabulous Princess Beanie!!??

(reference to new avatar.) :)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I'm having no GR problems. Not that I have noticed anyway. Haven't really been anywhere on GR yet other than notifications, A&M and private messages.
The gremlins may be out there waiting for me and they haven't found me yet.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

No gremlins here either....

[Gretchen]

I took that picture last weekend when we took the girls sledding. The twins (as demonstrated in the photo by Baby B) were not impressed. Big sister, however, wanted to stay out until it was too dark to see. We were sledding out a my grandparents' farm. I remember it being a lot less work when I was Elizabeth's age and I had several aunts and uncles to pull me up all the hills.

[Allison]

Aha!! I finally have my notifications back!!

[Simona]

Gretchen wrote: "I took that picture last weekend when we took the girls sledding. The twins (as demonstrated in the photo by Baby B) were not impressed. Big sister, however, wanted to stay out until it was too dar..."

She's a real cutie, and also your carbon copy. Congratulation Gretchen

[Gretchen]

She's not just my carbon copy. Obviously she is the carbon copy of her identical twin and the twins are carbon copies of their big sister. If they were all redheads, I'd be in big trouble.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Brian wrote: "Just a question. If i re-read a book from last year and mark it to this year and it puts me one under for last years reading challenge, will it say I didn't finish my challenge? GR should let you p..."

Hi Brian,
Just review a different edition of the book and mark that different edition as finished this year. Then you'll have two editions of the same book with two different ratings and reviews for it (or the same rating and review if that is the case).

[Robin]

Terri wrote: "Brian wrote: "Just a question. If i re-read a book from last year and mark it to this year and it puts me one under for last years reading challenge, will it say I didn't finish my challenge? GR sh..."

Terri, if you do that which review will people see as there's two of them?

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

That depends.

Do you mean GR friends? or not GR friends?

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

With GR friends, they'll see both your reviews when they go to a book.

If you are talking about non GR friends, the review on the book that is the most popular (most likes) will show first in the line up.
If you haven't any or many likes, then, in my experience, the first review you wrote shows up before the second one.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

To check how it might look. If anybody wants to friend me or are already on my friends list (such as yourself, Robin). Then go to this book, Blood Eye.
I wrote two reviews a year or so apart, of two different editions of this book. You should see both reviews on it?? If my assumption is correct.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Both show up, Terri.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

There's your answer. Thanks, Margaret. :)

[Gretchen]

https://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...

Two of the books I vote for won. I'm not surprised by the historical fiction winner. It's a pretty "it" book right now.

[Robin]

Terri thanks for the clarification.

[Darcy]

Oh Huzzah! The book I may (or may not) have voted for in the bodice ripper romance category won!

*high-fives Simona*

[Dawn]

Nothing I voted for won. I was hoping my Horror and Fiction picks would win.

[Gretchen]

My horror pick one. Anne Rice is one of those authors who wins no matter what for me.

[Lia]

Two of my picks are the winners. Cooking Books and Picture Books. :)

[Robin]

I was hoping for one of my picks To Honor You Call Usto win. But Alass, it came fairly low in the science fiction list. For me, it was one of the standout books of this year. Hopefully it does better next year.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

How's everybody going in the Goodreads Reading Challenge? Not long now to complete our goals.

I had to push my number back from 50 to 40. I simply couldn't see myself making my goal this year as I got too far behind at the beginning of the year.

To make 40 I am still 10 books behind, but I am reading quite a few photography books right now and I think I can make that 40 goal.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

I completed mine... WAY OVER target.

I think it had something to do with A) The number of cook books I read this year and B) The number of books I started but turned out to be crap and didn't finish.

:p

I'll set my next year's goal by my 2014 Challenge Book shelf rather than their result, which is well screwed.

[Deb]

I didn't realise you could adjust the goal! Well, it is good to know, this is only the second time I have enlisted in the challenge (I don't do many challenges at all) and I may have underestimated how much I read.

I aimed for 80 and I have already finished 96, that is only newly read books; no re-reads.

Hey Margaret; do you list a book that was so bad you couldn't finish it on your challenges shelf? I am still undecided on what to do about those.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

No Deborah. I view my Challenge shelf as being for books that I read completely.

After all the challenge is to read X number of books in a year. If the book isn't finished it hasn't, in my mind at least, met the criteria.

[Gretchen]

Surprisingly I finished mine last month sometime. Next year I might have to aim a little higher.

[Andy]

Was 5 ahead.... now 2 down going into the final days... & one of them to read is ... where's Asterix the Gaul when yer need him.

[Jane]

Margaret wrote: "I completed mine... WAY OVER target.

I think it had something to do with A) The number of cook books I read this year and B) The number of books I started but turned out to be crap and didn't fini..."

That's what I did, too--except I read no cookbooks. The books I # of abandoned I didn't count in trying to figure out this year's goal.

[happy]

Terri wrote: "How's everybody going in the Goodreads Reading Challenge? Not long now to complete our goals.

I had to push my number back from 50 to 40. I simply couldn't see myself making my goal this year as I..."
I finished mine with my last book - working on my 61st book now

[ECH]

My goal was just to recover my ability to read for pleasure again. I think I've done alright at it.

[Dawn]

I've gone way over with mine too but I do it intentionally. I love challenges but it stresses me out to have it hanging over my head all year!

I surprisingly only abandoned 1 book this year. Unusual for me.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I count a book I never finished in my GR challenge. And rereads. I know everybody has differing opinions of what constitutes 'read', but I feel if you have read enough of the book (usually half of it) it counts as read.
You still read it, you just didn't read it all the way through.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Dawn wrote: "I've gone way over with mine too but I do it intentionally. I love challenges but it stresses me out to have it hanging over my head all year!

I surprisingly only abandoned 1 book this year. Unus..."

I've abandoned 20 or 30. I adopted a new mantra this year. "Life's too short to read crap books".

[Dawn]

I count them all, even if I only read a chapter.

[Dawn]

What is your minimum star rating then Margaret?? Do you abandon only 1 star books or do you abandon 2 star books as well??

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

These days if I abandon a book I don't star it at all. It's not fair to give a rating on something I haven't finished.

I used to 1 star rate them, because I didn't realise you didn't HAVE to give stars when you read a book.

2 star books tend to be ones I've found dull or boring.

1 star books now tend to being either badly written, complete crap, or, occasionally both.

[Deb]

Some year, just for giggles, I think I might count re-reads. I do a lot of re-reading so it might be fun to find out.

Rather to my amazement I have gone back to the habit of years ago and not abandoned any books. I do have one that I have not finished but I absolutely have not abandoned it, I just need the right head space to read it.

It is an amazingly written book and very descriptive and rich, so much so that I need a lot of time and quiet to be able to read more than a couple of pages at a time, and you need more than a couple of pages or you lose track of the narrative.

[Pamela]

I've currently read 63 of 70 so should get there by the end of the year. I only joined Goodreads part way through this year so have gradually moved my challenge up. I plan to be much tougher on myself from the start next year :)

[Gretchen]

It's not a historical fiction list but I thought some of the choices were interesting:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/boo...

[Robin]

Has anyone seen Michael Clarke's tribute to Phillip Hughs during his funeral? www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjHSFBVPOys
it was very poignant. Incredibly incredibly sad.

[Simona]

Darcy wrote: "Oh Huzzah! The book I may (or may not) have voted for in the bodice ripper romance category won!

*high-fives Simona*"

Yay! I think it would have been good if had read and voted it, ahem....and I had a winner in SF also.

[Simona]

Andy wrote: "Was 5 ahead.... now 2 down going into the final days... & one of them to read is ... where's Asterix the Gaul when yer need him."

LOL! but a Feast for Crows is a good one...

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Gretchen wrote: "It's not a historical fiction list but I thought some of the choices were interesting:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/boo..."

Hmmm. Nothing there I would read. In fact, nothing there I would touch with a nine foot pole. :p

[Gretchen]

Margaret wrote: "Gretchen wrote: "It's not a historical fiction list but I thought some of the choices were interesting:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/boo..."

Hmmm. N..."

I like the list of children's books much better.