Comments on: Goodreads and Favourite Books

By: KC Burn

KC Burn — Mon, 16 May 2011 17:29:28 +0000

Thanks Barb! And I agree, let’s learn together!

By: Barb

Barb — Mon, 16 May 2011 17:21:50 +0000

Friended you on Goodreads… I haven’t figured out how to make the best of it either!
As rule, I don’t add books I didn’t like, and in fact all the books I’ve put on are past favorites!
Nice meeting you… let’s share books… and hopefully readers…!

By: KC Burn

KC Burn — Thu, 05 May 2011 02:35:22 +0000

Hi Diane! I don’t know if I welcomed you to the blog, or not (I managed to lose track of a number of things the past few weeks) but I’m glad you’re here!

Up until now, I’ve been treating Goodreads as a beautiful but dangerous animal – I’m fascinated yet wary all at the same time. I’m not a ‘dive right in’ sort of person, but I think I’ll slowly start spending more time there. I also feel guilty I have people friending me and it looks like I haven’t read any books! So, that’s one of several tasks for this weekend.

By: Diane Dooley

Diane Dooley — Thu, 05 May 2011 02:21:11 +0000

I LOVE Goodreads. I originally joined it as a promotional tool, but found I enjoyed it too much to use it just for that. I keep a very low profile as an author; as a reader I’m all over that place. I rarely give a book less than three stars. If I’m not enjoying it I just don’t finish it, and I don’t think it’s fair to rate a book I didn’t finish.

I think we’re already friends there, KC. I get your blog posts in my feed, at least. I’ll double check.

My five star ratings are the books I cannot put down and books I return to again and again. They’re not always the same ones.

By: KC Burn

KC Burn — Wed, 04 May 2011 23:46:49 +0000

Thanks Cathy! And I considered the 3 or higher route as well and decided against it for now, although I might change my mind… it’s entirely possible I put WAAAAAY too much thought into this.

By: Cathy in AK

Cathy in AK — Wed, 04 May 2011 15:36:43 +0000

Done!

And I do the same thing, add books without rating them or nothing less than a 3. If there is no rating it may be because I remember the book but don’t, exactly, recall how I felt about it Ah the advantage/disadvantage of age.

By: KC Burn

KC Burn — Wed, 04 May 2011 15:23:36 +0000

Thanks Jason! I appreciate the friendship & advice. I may have to consider adding all books as read, with a fewlabeled as favs, instead of rating them. And this is the first time I’ve tried replying to a blog entry on my phone so if it all goes awry, blame the tech I did just download the new Goodreads app for android, so that will be fun to play with… eventually.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 04 May 2011 11:45:11 +0000

I will be sending a friend request for sure.

I am also non-confrontational and like to keep it happy. Of course, whenever you get that many people together (we have around 2500 members in the goodreads m/m group), there are going to be all types.

You know, you call add a book as ‘read’ without giving a rating. You can write a review so you can remember what you liked about books or what didn’t work for you.

~smooches~
Jase