Musing Mondays 7/22/13

Musing Mondays asks you to muse about one of the following each week… Hosted by Should Be Reading.

• Describe one of your reading habits.
• Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).
• What book are you currently desperate to get your hands on? Tell us about it!
• Tell us what you’re reading right now — what you think of it, so far; why you chose it; what you are (or, aren’t) enjoying it.
• Do you have a bookish rant? Something about books or reading (or the industry) that gets your ire up? Share it with us!
• Instead of the above questions, maybe you just want to ramble on about something else pertaining to books — let’s hear it, then!

I went on a reading binge last week. I read three books and I’m almost done with a forth. Normally, I manage about a book a week. So, reading almost four is a lot for me. My record is six books in a week and that was because I had taken a week off from work and was reading nonstop. What are the most books you’ve read in a week? Do you often have times where you can’t read?

I have a lot of extra time to read at work. Probably more than people normally do. I get an hour for lunch and then I spend another two hours during the day answering phones for the regular receptionist, during which I can get some reading done between calls. So, that’s almost three hours I get to spend reading. Provided I use the time I have available to read, and not surf the internet or something else, I can finish a book in a day and a half. Two days if it’s a large book. Unfortunately, I end up surfing the internet a lot. Books are entertaining but the internet is also entertaining and I’m weak. Then there is TV and movies and other things to hold my attention and get done during the day. Somehow, reading keep getting bumped down the list of things to do. I shudder to think how little time I would have if I had any little monsters… I mean kids. I’d probably end up locking them in the closet just to get some quiet time.

Honestly, if I could muster enough willpower to get off the computer, I’d probably read a stupid amount of books. As is, Tumblr and Archive of our Own eats my life. I probably qualify for an internet disorder or something.

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Musing Mondays 7/15/13

I had a post all prepared and scheduled for posting this morning only to find MizB had done a fake out and posted a different question than normal! Grrr! So you’re getting two posts for the price of one because I’m not changing my original rambling. Neener!

Our question this week is: What do you think of books that give you recommended reading lists? Do you read them? Do you use their suggestions? Why/why not?

{eg. “THE BOOK OF BOOKS: The Continuously Updated Book Guide to Recommended Reading…” or “BOOK LUST” by Nancy Pearl}

I must confess that this is the first time I’ve heard of this. There are whole books that are nothing more than recommendations for other books? Are they like reviews or just a list of books, the blurb, and then some “READ THIS” shouting? That doesn’t sound very fun. I might follow some of the suggestions if they had a theme. Like “The Best YA Books of the 90’s” or something like that. But, really, I could find a Listopia list on Goodreads easier. Seems like a waste of paper to me.

I did once follow a list of recommendations for books you should read in your lifetime or to be considered “well read”, or whatever it was. I was 21 and I was determined to be brainy and superior. It didn’t end well. I was bored out of my mind reading those books. That was my last attempt to read “the classics”. Apparently, I should stick with my lowbrow paranormal silliness and fantasy clichés. {shrug}

Musing Mondays asks you to muse about one of the following each week… Hosted by Should Be Reading.

• Describe one of your reading habits.
• Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).
• What book are you currently desperate to get your hands on? Tell us about it!
• Tell us what you’re reading right now — what you think of it, so far; why you chose it; what you are (or, aren’t) enjoying it.
• Do you have a bookish rant? Something about books or reading (or the industry) that gets your ire up? Share it with us!
• Instead of the above questions, maybe you just want to ramble on about something else pertaining to books — let’s hear it, then!

Have you ever changed because of a book? Changed a way of thinking? Stopped a habit? Started a habit? Seen something differently after reading a book? I’ve been thinking about this for some time. Book lovers read a lot and we get a lot of different ideas and points of view from books. Those books make us chance, whether we know it or not. So, what book changed you the most?

This is kind of silly, but I can remember when I first read The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett. It is the first book in the Tiffany Aching series, set parallel to Pratchett’s Discworld series and deals with the Witches. The Witches books are my favorite of the Discworld series. But ever since I read it I started to carry a piece of string in my purse just because I thought it was funny. In the book, Tiffany professes to always carry a piece of string because it can be endlessly useful. My piece of string was soon joined by safety pins, tape, gum, hair ties, and other bits and bobs. Imagine my surprise when everything turned out to be endlessly useful. I had adopted a habit.

That’s a silly example but I thought it was fun. We read so many books that it can be hard to see the many different ways that those books change us. They take us outside of ourselves and we get to experience different lives, different ways of living, and travel both our own world and made-up world of fantasy. Our own lives would be tiny without books.

Yesterday was the beginning of my second year blogiversary celebration. The entry forms for the Mystery Box Giveaway and the Gaiman Pack Giveaway are already up. Be sure to stop by frequently to check out new posts. The celebration runs all week.

I’ve been reading as many books as I can so I can review a book a day during the blogiversary celebration. I went out last week and spent more money than I really should to get books for the Mystery Book Giveaway and several books I wanted to review. I need to get a few more things for the Gaiman Pack Giveaway. The little book shop I was at didn’t have everything I wanted. I’ll have to make a run to the Barnes and Noble and I’ve been too lazy to drive all the way out there. (Listen to me, “all the way out there”. It’s the other side of town. It would take 15 minutes. Ugh. I fail at life.) So, now I have a huge stack of books that in a week will be going to someone else. I may cry when I mail them off.

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Musing Mondays 7/1/13

Musing Mondays asks you to muse about one of the following each week… Hosted by Should Be Reading.

• Describe one of your reading habits.
• Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).
• What book are you currently desperate to get your hands on? Tell us about it!
• Tell us what you’re reading right now — what you think of it, so far; why you chose it; what you are (or, aren’t) enjoying it.
• Do you have a bookish rant? Something about books or reading (or the industry) that gets your ire up? Share it with us!
• Instead of the above questions, maybe you just want to ramble on about something else pertaining to books — let’s hear it, then!

I’m fully immersed in preparing for my week long celebration for my two year blog anniversary. I’m in the process of deciding which books to include during that week since I want to include books that are more recently released rather than focusing on my huge back log of to be read books. I’m also looking for a few more people to be guest bloggers. So, if you have a book blog, have time to answer a few interview questions, write a blurb for your blog, and, if you want, perhaps a post on a topic of your choosing, then email me at ladywithbooks@yahoo.com and we’ll set something up.

I just finished The Hero’s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom by Christopher Healy. Expect a review on Wednesday. I’ve been a bit lazy and I’m still working my way through The Winter Witch by Paula Brackston and I just started The Madman’s Daughter by Megan Shepherd on Sunday. I need to get popping on some other books to have them finished on time.

I’m still reading in fits and starts, which is really frustrating because I can read a book in about two days if I could just freaking focus. But I’m having trouble focusing my attention on just one thing. I end up reading something on the internet (usually fanfiction). Then there are a few stories that I am writing myself that take up time. (I have trouble focusing on those as well and getting things done.) Ugh! Why won’t my brain cooperate with me! The books are interesting, don’t get me wrong. But for some reason I’m just antsy.

I need to get off my butt and go get a copy of The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman. I really want to read it and I think I’ll have a giveaway during the blog celebration for it and whatever Gaiman books look good when I get to the bookstore. I’ll give away a Gaiman prize pack! (winces when she thinks about how much money this will cost her)

Welcome to July, everybody! (Thank all the gods I have Thursday off. Maybe I’ll get something done!)

Musing Mondays 6/24/13

Musing Mondays asks you to muse about one of the following each week… Hosted by Should Be Reading.

• Describe one of your reading habits.
• Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).
• What book are you currently desperate to get your hands on? Tell us about it!
• Tell us what you’re reading right now — what you think of it, so far; why you chose it; what you are (or, aren’t) enjoying it.
• Do you have a bookish rant? Something about books or reading (or the industry) that gets your ire up? Share it with us!
• Instead of the above questions, maybe you just want to ramble on about something else pertaining to books — let’s hear it, then!

Today we are going to take the time to talk about a subject that is near and dear to my cold black little heart. And that subject is young adult romance and how I utterly loathe it. If you’ve ever read any of my reviews or posts before, you know that 9 times out of 10 I find the romance in young adult books completely clichéd and asinine.

Now for your clarification; the definition of asinine as brought to you by Wiktionary.

Asinine (Adjective): Failing to exercise intelligence or judgment; ridiculously below average rationality.

In layman terms; stupid, silly, idiotic, foolish, and just plain old dumb. In recent memory I can’t think of a young adult book that did not follow the same pattern in the romance. The mysterious bad boy with a secret heart of gold and the girl who can’t even look at him without having hot flashes and loses all power to think clearly. Of course, she hates him until he does something to redeem himself. The Nightmare Affair by Mindee Arnett would have rated higher if Dusty and Eli weren’t so annoying. Alice in Zombieland by Gena Showalter completely bombed for me because of Alice and Cole’s inability to function around each other like normal people.

On the other hand, Orleans by Sherri L. Smith was made better by having no romance at all. (This is mostly because of the characters’ ages but if Smith had just made Fen a little older and Daniel a little younger then the romance could have been there and, I think, been a detriment to the book.) Game by Barry Lyga gets the romance right by having two characters that, while they are in a relationship, are fully functional people while the romance is going on. Jazz and Connie is a perfect example of how to not annoy your readers with a couple.

This is actually part of why I like middle grade books so much. Any romance in there is incidental and pretty much stops at crush level. Thus allowing the characters to continue on with the story without reacting like dogs in heat. Look, I know teens are just big cesspools of hormones but nobody wants to read about two people sucking face and playing relationship roulette with anybody of the opposite sex. Honestly, it’s just in the way of the plot.

Now, if only there could be a young adult book where the couple are rational and fully functional while they get together and the relationship evolves naturally and gradually. Because, right now, all I’m getting is two people acting like they are on heavy drugs and getting together like a car accident, complete with smashing glass and screeching sounds.

Musing Mondays 6/17/13

Musing Mondays asks you to muse about one of the following each week… Hosted by Should Be Reading.

• Describe one of your reading habits.
• Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).
• What book are you currently desperate to get your hands on? Tell us about it!
• Tell us what you’re reading right now — what you think of it, so far; why you chose it; what you are (or, aren’t) enjoying it.
• Do you have a bookish rant? Something about books or reading (or the industry) that gets your ire up? Share it with us!
• Instead of the above questions, maybe you just want to ramble on about something else pertaining to books — let’s hear it, then!

I am about to commit a cardinal library sin. I am about to knowingly keep a book over its due date. Why? Because it is The Nightmare Affair by Mindee Arnett, it’s due today, and I’m not done with it. Worse, I can’t renew it because the book is brand spanking new and other people have it on reserve. No renewals possible on a book other people are requesting. (whimper) Don’t hate me! I’ll return it tomorrow and give you the ten cents. But, I waited to read The Nightmare Affair until last and now I’m racing to finish it. I don’t think I can do it before tonight. There is a little thing called work in my way. (Dang it!) (hides face in shame)

Has anyone else had to do this before? Have you ever just needed one more night on a book you couldn’t renew and just pretended to forget so you could keep it? I’m going to book hell, I just know it! The only book there will be War and Peace in the original Russian…

I spent a lazy Saturday catching up on some writing projects and doing a bit of cleaning. I’m having a party next weekend and I’m trying to space out the things I need to do to get ready so I’m not rushing around like a chicken with my head cut off come Saturday morning. Then I spent all of Sunday over at the parents’ house for Father’s Day, praising the crotchety old bastard. My brother and I got a bit more done on cleaning out the basement and then he grilled some pork steaks while I made a mountain of mashed potatoes. (Then I got to listen to my Dad’s disapproval over my washing machine acting up. He seems to think that something completely out of my control is a reflection of how well I can manage my life. He did the same thing when the brakes on my car were squeaking. I love my family, really I do.)

So, how was everyone else’s weekend?

Musing Mondays 5/13/13

Musing Mondays asks you to muse about one of the following each week. Hosted by Should Be Reading.

• Describe one of your reading habits.
• Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).
• What book are you currently desperate to get your hands on? Tell us about it!
• Tell us what you’re reading right now — what you think of it, so far; why you chose it; what you are (or, aren’t) enjoying it.
• Do you have a bookish rant? Something about books or reading (or the industry) that gets your ire up? Share it with us!
• Instead of the above questions, maybe you just want to ramble on about something else pertaining to books — let’s hear it, then!

I feel like I should get a prize or something. Maybe a gold star next to my name? I have finished the biggest, nastiest book I can remember ever reading (that wasn’t a school text book).Last week I was lamenting the size of Game by Barry Lyga, sequel to I Hunt Killers. At over 500 pages, I despaired of finishing it. I thought Game would lag and fail to hold my attention. I was wrong. Wow, was I wrong. I couldn’t put it down. I finished in three days and that’s just because I had to stop and do actual work while at work. (shakes fist) I’m pretty sure Game is the largest fiction book I’ve ever read. It still had some problems but, overall, it was really good. I’ll have a full review up on…oh… let’s say Wednesday.

I just started reading Orleans by Sherri L. Smith. I was tootling around the library and recognized the cover from a few other reviews. (Pretty cover. Sparkly.) I took a chance. I like the beginning, where the timeline and news articles give us a brief idea of what’s going on. I thought that was clever. Then we got into the meat of the story and I ran into the wall of the protagonist’s speech pattern. (whimper) It’s first person POV, which isn’t my favorite, and then Fen has the stereotypical (and in my opinion, cartoonish) deep bayou speech pattern that threw me so far that I landed on a different world.

I can understand the reasoning behind using it but I can’t understand why the author thought it would be a good idea. It’s like Smith wrote Orleans correctly the first time and then went back and just threw around a bunch of ‘be’ and ‘they’ and whatever it took to kill proper grammar. It does not help that I can’t get the picture of Fen as a little old black lady, smacking her toothless gums, out of my head because of it. Nothing drives me crazier than improper grammar. Smith must have driven her editor nuts. It makes reading the book jerky because my mind stumbles over it, thinking “that’s not right”. Very hard to read a book like that. It would have been just fine if just the dialogue was like that but the whole book it just too much.

I have to gush for a moment. I saw Iron Man 3 on Saturday! (Lights the candles on her Robert Downey Jr. shrine.) [Not really. I’m not that nuts.] {Well, not quite.} (Yet.) I’m obsessed with the Marvel movies and with Iron Man in particular, so I loved it. At the same time, (sobs) what the HELL did you people do!? The Mandarin!? (cries) Extremis!? (moans) That bloody ending! (dying whale sound) [SPOILER] If Tony could just have the shrapnel and arc reactor surgically removed, then why didn’t he do that back in Iron Man 2 when he was freaking dying!? Or are we supposed to take that to mean Tony injected himself with Extremis and would now survive the surgery when he wouldn’t have before? Why would you leave us so confused!? I mean, I know Mr. Downey isn’t signed up for Iron Man 4 (if there is one at all) and you have to work around that and that Marvel is having problems locking him down for Avengers 2 (You go, Robert!) but did you have to leave it so open ended? I think I’m having a nervous breakdown…

I need a bloody drink. I cannot deal with this.

Musing Mondays 4/29/13

Musing Mondays asks you to muse about one of the following each week…

• Describe one of your reading habits.
• Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).
• What book are you currently desperate to get your hands on? Tell us about it!
• Tell us what you’re reading right now — what you think of it, so far; why you chose it; what you are (or, aren’t) enjoying it.
• Do you have a bookish rant? Something about books or reading (or the industry) that gets your ire up? Share it with us!
• Instead of the above questions, maybe you just want to ramble on about something else pertaining to books — let’s hear it, then!

I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga was one of my favorite books last year. So I was super excited when Barry announced the sequel, Game, was to be released April 16th,2013. I had my reserve in at my library since the beginning of April. I went to pick my copy up at my library on Friday night. At first I thought the book I was given was not the right one. It was the Game cover wrapped around, oh I don’t know, some brick. This thing is 528 pages long. It is both book and murder weapon. Just hurl at your opponent’s head and their skulls will be crushed!

Barry, Barry, Barry! My man, what are you thinking? This is young adult, not the Odyssey.  Books should be 300 to 400 pages long. Even just 400 pages seem to drag in most books. The quality of books that long is rarely equal to the effort needed to read it. But I’ll try, Barry. I really will. I Hunt Killers was just that great that I’ll make the effort to read Game. But, Barry, it better be the best book I’ve read this year or I’ll be very disappointed.

Has anyone else seen this? Where the second book in a series is so much bigger than the first? I know the Harry Potter series ballooned once it started getting so popular and Rowling went pretty nuts by the end, length wise. Any other series that just keep getting longer and longer? Let’s see how long it takes me to read a 500 page book!

 

Musing Mondays 4/22/13

Musing Mondays asks you to muse about one of the following each week…

• Describe one of your reading habits.
• Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).
• What book are you currently desperate to get your hands on? Tell us about it!
• Tell us what you’re reading right now — what you think of it, so far; why you chose it; what you are (or, aren’t) enjoying it.
• Do you have a bookish rant? Something about books or reading (or the industry) that gets your ire up? Share it with us!
• Instead of the above questions, maybe you just want to ramble on about something else pertaining to books — let’s hear it, then!

Happy Earth Day, everybody!  I hope everyone has their little seedlings to plant. I get to run out to the store and get more potting soil this evening since I ran out yesterday right in the middle of my planting spree. Five marigolds, two parsley, two basil, and one rosemary plant survived to planting age and have been transferred into proper pots. I didn’t have enough soil left to get my morning glory seeds planted. Next I need to get some flowers for my hanging baskets. I need to be careful because I’m on a budget and going over means big trouble in May. Ouchie!

Anyway, made a library trip last week and came home with another stack of books. Finished The Runaway King by Jennifer A. Nielson and The False Princess by Eilis O’Neal and started Small Medium at Large by Joanne Levy. So, expect a review for Alice in Zombieland by Gena Showalter tomorrow and a review for The Runaway King by Jennifer A. Nielson on Wednesday. (I’ll continue to post two reviews a week for as long as I can keep up the pace. So, fingers crossed.)

My bookish plans for this week are to do a cleanup of my Goodreads to be read shelf. There are books on there I added over two years ago and I really have no interest in reading them anymore. (I wonder if I can keep them on a secondary list without having them in the three primary lists? Like, I could keep a book listed under LBGT without it also being listed under read, to be read, or currently reading? Can I do that?) [Answer: BIG FAT NO!]

I’m still waiting for my tax refunds to be dropped into my checking account. At that point, I need to renew my car insurance. Whatever is left will be split between the savings account and maybe a couple of bucks for a night on the town. Sorry, no plans for a book buying spree. I might head down to the garden district in the city and hit a few of the bookstores I wanted to feature down there. A spiritual group meets once a month at MoKoBe’s Coffeehouse on the corner of Tower Grove Park. Dunn Books is right next to there. I might kill two birds with one stone.

Did anybody do anything for Earth Day this past weekend?

Musing Mondays 4/15/13

Musing Mondays asks you to muse about one of the following each week…

• Describe one of your reading habits.
• Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).
• What book are you currently desperate to get your hands on? Tell us about it!
• Tell us what you’re reading right now — what you think of it, so far; why you chose it; what you are (or, aren’t) enjoying it.
• Do you have a bookish rant? Something about books or reading (or the industry) that gets your ire up? Share it with us!
• Instead of the above questions, maybe you just want to ramble on about something else pertaining to books — let’s hear it, then!

It’s Monday. It’s raining. And it is tax day. I can’t think of a more yucky combination to ruin a day. I should have stayed in bed.

My reading habits…

I can read, on average, 150 to 200 pages a day provided I use all my spare time to read. That’s on weekdays when I’m at work and can spend my lunch hour and the two hours I spend answering phones reading. Even then, I don’t get much reading done when I’m answering phones because, well, I have to stop and answer the phone when it rings. Very annoying. Very irritating. And probably the reason I might one day quit this job. I hate phones. But enough about that. On weekends I can read up to 300 pages. So, I can read a 300 to 350 page book in two days. Books closer to 400 pages take three days. And books with 400 pages are pretty much my limit. My attention span doesn’t last any longer than that and if the book is longer than 400 pages it’s usually because the plot wanders or the events are just too slow. Most Young Adult and Middle Grade books land in the mid to high 300’s and that plenty long in my opinion.

I’m a fidgety reader. I have to get up and walk around. I pause and put down the book to do something else a lot. I have the attention span of a gnat and I get restless. I bore easily. I probably wouldn’t finish a book if I also weren’t so stubborn. It takes focus to read a book in two days. If I don’t force myself to read as much as I can then it can take me weeks to finish a book. It’s happened. I just lose the drive and then I hardly read at all. I must have like ADD or something. I like to read. I love to read. But sometimes reading takes work and I just don’t have the drive. I snub the book in favor of cleaning or fiddling with a project or just wandering around the neighborhood because I can’t stay still. It’s like I’m trying to crawl out of my skin!

Anybody else like that? Is anybody else a fidgety reader or have times when you just lose the drive to read even though the book you’re reading is fine. I feel like such a scatter brain! Tell me I’m not alone!

Musing Mondays 4/1/13

Musing Mondays asks you to muse about one of the following each week…
 
• Describe one of your reading habits.
• Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).
• What book are you currently desperate to get your hands on? Tell us about it!
• Tell us what you’re reading right now — what you think of it, so far; why you chose it; what you are (or, aren’t) enjoying it.
• Do you have a bookish rant? Something about books or reading (or the industry) that gets your ire up? Share it with us!
• Instead of the above questions, maybe you just want to ramble on about something else pertaining to books — let’s hear it, then!

I finished in the last few days Merry Lee and the Cursed Grandfather Clock by Amanda L. Kidd (Middle Grade) and The Secret Tunnel by James Lear (Gay Erotica). You can expect reviews up on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively. Merry Lee and the Cursed Grandfather Clock was a book I got as a Kindle freebie and it’s a bit of a mess but was an otherwise fun read. The Secret Tunnel was not a good as its predecessor, The Back Passage, but it was still hot and hilarious. I plan to read all of James Lear’s books, so expect to be seeing A Sticky End, the third and so far last Mitch Mitchell Mystery, up on here soon. I’m just a couple pages into The Ugly Stepsister Strikes Back by Sariah Wilson (Middle Grade). So far it’s okay.

My Reading Habits

Honestly, I do most of my reading at work. I know, I know. Why am I not working at working? Well, I spend two hours answering the stupid phone and this is so mind numbingly boring that if I didn’t read I think I might slip into a coma. Mostly I spend the first hour surfing the internet. (Mostly because this is in the middle of the day and I don’t want customers or any of my co-workers/bosses walking past and thinking I’m not doing anything. At least if I’m on the computer it looks like I’m doing something even if I’m not.) For the last hour of the day I read because it’s obvious I’m doing jack shit besides minding the phone. Then I get an hour for lunch. I usually spend the first half an hour walking around in circles in the storage area reading and then the second half an hour actually getting something to eat. Even then I’m reading while sitting in the kitchen.

I read a lot. Not all of it published books. Most of it is fanfiction. At home I might read for a little while after showering and I’m lounging in bed. I don’t read published books a lot at home. I mostly watch TV and movies or surf the internet for fanfiction. If I posted about every piece of fanfiction I read I could get a post up every few hours. You don’t care about my fanfiction obsession. I do have a reading chair in my apartment. That I don’t use. The chair used to be my grandmother’s and we stored it in the basement before I moved with it and even though our basement is clean and dry, the chair still smells. I’ve been meaning to get rid of it but I’m too lazy to figure out how to get it out of my second floor apartment. It takes up a lot of room too. I could have another shelf if I got rid of the chair. (glares at stupid chair)

No! No! No! No!

The news is out; retail giant Amazon is slated to buy book haven Goodreads. Frankly, I’m surprised Goodreads lasted this long. Amazon even has its claws in Library Thing and they had to be salivating over the paradise of information that is Goodreads. I don’t blame either entity for the move but I am disappointed. All I can do is sit here and wait for the Buy buttons to appear and links for other purchases options to disappear. If we’re very lucky Amazon will restrain itself and very little will change with how Goodreads functions. Already more than a few people have deleted their Goodreads account. The buy is reported to go through in July of this year.

Exciting News About Goodreads: We’re Joining the Amazon Family!