New book! That has also been on my shelf for a while. Experimental fiction.

Ah, if I don't be lazy, I might be able to finish 2 books tonight and/or tomorrow. Since they're both almost done.

does nonfiction/self help books count towards this?
Coz I've been reading this one called "Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers"
It's been.... necessary, to put it mildly.

i look at it this way: did you read it? then it counts.

an aside for you: has it been healing?

All books count!
Also, sorry that it's something you have to go through. Hopefully it helps a lot.

I found a library thing!

I'm going to be a while plucking away at Vas. I doubt it will be my "March" book, but I finally managed to pick up my copy of Big Red from the used book store so I've started that. Much quicker.

Big Red is the second of my dog book mission. I've already noticed a difference in quality between it and Fern, but I don't recall any particularly damaging emotional moments so bonus there.

PS. Vas should also be in my "shelf at home list" as it was there. I just didn't think I'd actually get to it before the others.

I think so. It's definitely helping me understand the more enigmatic parts of my childhood and my mother lol

well, this is a good thing, yes? =)

Oh, for sure :s-grin:

yaay, awesome!

That is good to hear. Does it help that it's in a book, so in that sense it's not a unique scenario? That there are others?

I'm involved in the Reading Link Challenge in my province and one of the books we read this year was Fish in a Tree. It wasn't assigned to me but I might read it anyway. It's about a young girl going through school while having dyslexia. It's for youth and written from her perspective, but the little parts that I encountered during the challenge readings stuck out to be as kinda relatable. It's another book I'm going to put on my 'for later' shelf on my library profile, unless I can find one cheap.

So I made a profile over on LibraryThing. It's kinda neat! More for book geeks. You add your books, see who else has them, review, etc. But you can also add basic information about them, and add tags. The neat thing (and this is where it gets geeky) is that when you bring in your book, it comes with all the library/archive cataloging data, so you can see the Library of Congress records and such.

Also, LibraryThing is developing tools for libraries so that they can use the user-made tags and reviews to enhance their local catalogues, so you could search your local library's books via user tags. There's even a "guess the cover" game where you describe a book's cover by adding tags, and get points based on how many other people also used those words. It's just a little thing, but the ultimate goal is to have a search of book covers with these tags so that, if you forget everything about a book except what it looks like, you have a shot at finding it. Librarians apparently get the cover question a lot and it's very hard to actually answer.

I suppose. r/RaisedByNarcissists was pretty good for helping that click in my mind, that I'm not alone, but the book has helped a lot more with understanding why my mother does some of the weirder things she does. Like, a mother shouldn't be telling her (then) 15 year old about sexual escapades and cocaine and abortions, but apparently narcissists have a tendency to see their children, particularly as they get older, more as friends and can end up crossing boundaries that really shouldn't be crossed.

It's just almost sad, because she bought that book for herself to help her heal from her own narcissistic mother. Another lesson from the book-- children of narcissistic parents often go on to be narcissists themselves. So something for me to look out for in myself and try to overcome my FLEAS (Frightening Lasting Effects of Abuse).

Makes me wish I had more books lol

i'm on goodreads! it seems very similar.....

LibraryThing actually has products that libraries can use to add their user information into their opacs. Not too familiar with GoodReads outside of reviews and author pages. I've been playing cover guess, and adding some details in to the local bookstore/library locations that I've been to. I'm helping!...I hope.

Vas might take me a bit so I'm gunning for Big Red this month, and I want Fish in a Tree to get here. I'm not going to make much progress on my shelf list if I keep getting more books!

i use goodreads to keep track of the books i read....and that's probably what i'd do on LibraryThing, too

Ah. Yeah, not the best use of LT I think, since it's really a social cataloguing site. Once you hit 200 books you need to upgrade to a paid account, which I'm tempted to do anyway, just to fund it a little.

oof. goodreads is free. i joined in feb of 2014 (so the site says) and have books recorded on it back from 2008 - i've recorded 731 books that i've read over that time. (the link is in my sig, if you're curious.) =)

I've seen Goodreads around and have used it to look up reviews when I was going through my mother's book collection. I wasn't too interested in making an account because I've never really wanted to bother making a log of the books I've read. I've picked up LibraryThing because it has some professional application and because I actually do want to start a little miniature library at some point. The books I enter are the ones that I own and would (theoretically) circulate.

One person's description was that LibraryThing puts book data ahead of the social aspect, while Goodreads does it the other way around. Another person described it as LibraryThing is a library, and Goodreads is a bookstore. Where you go depends on what your purpose is.

well that does make sense. i use it for a place to keep track of what i read when. =)

I've tried to do that a couple of times, but I always find myself getting overwhelmed when I feel compelled to add all the stuff I've read previously. I might have a big of a book bragging habit I suppose... ;)


7 more chapters in Big Red. I'm going to need to read faster than one a day to finish on time.


I can't decide on final categories for the reading challenge list I'm making. Anyone have ideas?

when i started keeping track - 2008 - i would post what i was reading on my LiveJournal. then i actually made a list on google docs, and found it was easier to add a book when i was actually in contact with the book (from the time right before i'd start it until just after i finished it (but before i started the next one).) if i tried to remember a book or two back, it didn't go well.

i also post a pic of the cover on my instagram sometime when i'm reading it too, so that helps me keep track as well.

Blah. I'm a few pages from finishing Big Red but I've put it down because I'm just not in the mood to read it. I want to finish it today (last day of March!) but I don't like reading for the sake of finishing something. I'd rather be be in the mood to pay attention.

So I' starting to send my mom to the local bookstore when I want something. Seems silly but if I want something I need to actually get it shipped and I can't be bothered to pay shipping for one book! I ordered a pillowcase that was sold out online and she went to pick it up. Apparently the guy at the till knows who we are. I didn't think I went into the store that much. Something for an old lady to do in a day. ;)

Big Red complete!

Wasn't going to pick up another book until after my assignments were complete but that never seems to work well, if only because I end up pouting instead of reading and no extra time is spent on my assignment anyway.

Time to knock something off my shelf! Going with The Princess Diarist.

welcome, purple!

i'll link post #186 on the first page so you can definitely find it again, and to post your list there!

List is up ^^ a few more then last year and a few repeats lol

Ah yeah....I keep forgetting to actually read. I am really slacking on my reading pace. Pretty sure I'll have to plow through 3 per month to make it now...
XD

i'm reading and updating... just not necessarily posting here ;)

I generally keep my post here more updated than my goodreads list. Mainly because the app is still laggy for me and I'm too lazy to use the website.

i update both, actually....

Apparently my buying pace is still faster than my reading pace. I'll have to address that. Behind in my April book as live has been evil and mean. Read a little bit today though.

I'm finding this book to be a little curious in that it reads so light it's almost like eating a flavour. Tastes good, but there's no substance to it so I'm not getting any actual food.

lol i know that feeling...i always have to many book and loose track so i start over lol, though having my Kobo e-reader has helped lol

I'm going to try and replace the battery in my old Sony e-reader. It's an early one, from 2007 or so, but I just don't use e-readers enough to want to buy a new one.

I like using mine cos i can carry many books at once with just the small thing lol, makes my bag less back breaking... used to carry ALL my books that i read with me... so head... i kind of have a bad back now and im not even 30 yet lol

i only read one book at a time, and i like to read the physical books. i like they way they smell. =)

i like the smell of paper too..... but sadly it seams that teh older the paper hte more stuffed up my nose gets,, and a lot of the books ii have are old >.<

well that's not good, purple! :S

Same.
I have an old sony e-reader that a friend gave me years ago. I think I read maybe one book on it and haven't touched it since. Could probably pawn it for a little extra spending money...