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Topic: GoodReads?
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ladyvorkosigan
♀ 8283
Member # 8283 |  Posted: 3:51 AM, April 23rd (Monday), 2012 |     |
Anyone using?
PM me here if you want to be friends.
It nagged him, in particular, that none of the girls he’d known so far had given him a sense of unalloyed triumph.
Posts: 14226 | Registered: Sep 2005 | From: Florida |
m334455
♀ 26893
Member # 26893 | | Posted: 9:43 AM, May 1st (Tuesday), 2012 | |
What is it? I haven't heard of it, but I'm interested.
BW 38, 5 kids
Dday Dec. 2009
Posts: 4034 | Registered: Dec 2009 |
trumanshow
♀ 25624
Member # 25624 | | Posted: 6:06 PM, May 1st (Tuesday), 2012 | |
I joined but need to go back to see recommendations
Basically, you click off the books you like and the site uses that to rec other books
How does it work to be friends? Do you rec to each other?
Your ex wanting to be friends is like asking a kidnapper to stay in touch when they let you go.
The type of fierce loyalty that I possess made me incapable of comprehending the level of disloyalty that he possessed
Posts: 1764 | Registered: Sep 2009 | From: Charlotte, NC |
ladyvorkosigan
♀ 8283
Member # 8283 | | Posted: 6:01 AM, May 2nd (Wednesday), 2012 | |
You really just see one another's activity, if you have any. I just feel dorky having anything other than zero friends or at least a handful of them. 
If you set up your categories and shelves right you get good recommendations. I also like the site from an architectural point of view. It's doing something really right in terms of interpreting your tags, the books you've rated highly, elucidating patterns you didn't even realize were there, and then also other user's lists are so interesting and help you understand what you like. I didn't realize, for example, that I tend to like books where interaction is based heavily in correspondence until Good Reads told me I did, and then it was like duh, obviously.
Only negative is that the most active population seems to be YA romance, followed by YA fantasy. I had to figure out how to get rid of those recs since like everyone else I have read Hunger Games. Past that, it's pretty equally balanced between fantasy and romance, not a strong scifi contingent.
Also a lot of authors are heavy users, and I find that, quite sensibly, people who write books I like also tend to read books I will like. [This message edited by ladyvorkosigan at 6:03 AM, May 2nd (Wednesday)]
It nagged him, in particular, that none of the girls he’d known so far had given him a sense of unalloyed triumph.
Posts: 14226 | Registered: Sep 2005 | From: Florida |
Threnody
♀ 1558
Member # 1558 | | Posted: 10:04 AM, May 9th (Wednesday), 2012 | |
I'm on it, but I haven't updated in a few months. I keep forgetting to.
PM coming. Maybe knowing you're looking and posting will keep me updating my own shelf.
“If you don't like my opinion of you, you can always improve.” ~ Ashleigh Brilliant
"Great love requires determination." ~ tryingtwo
"Don't try to win over the haters, you're not the jackass whisperer." ~ Brene Brown
Posts: 14040 | Registered: Jun 2003 | From: Middle-of-Diddly, TX |
wildbananas
♀ 10552
Member # 10552 | | Posted: 1:23 PM, May 9th (Wednesday), 2012 | |
Sending you a PM too. 
Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light. ~ Yogi Bhajan
Posts: 15505 | Registered: Apr 2006 | From: Now an AZ girl |
osca
♀ 35628
Member # 35628 | | Posted: 4:14 AM, May 27th (Sunday), 2012 | |
On it, was very active, up to the moment of Dday...
Me: BS 32
Him: WS 36
Kids: 3 yr Son
Complication: Expats living abroad
Married: 03/2006, together since 2003
Dday: April 7th 2012, 6 months emotional, 3 months physical
OW: 35, his first gf, daughter of a prostitute (no really!) Apple >> Tree
Posts: 266 | Registered: May 2012 | From: Europe |
Healing2012
♀ 35238
Member # 35238 | | Posted: 9:00 PM, May 29th (Tuesday), 2012 | |
I'm sending a PM, too! I'm always looking for new goodreads friends
BS: Me (42)
WS: Husband (47)
Married 10 years
Two children 6 & 18 (my stepson)
D-day #1: 12/18/11
D-day #2: 8/26/12 (still in contact w/ OW)
Status: Separated for 3 years; Divorcing
Posts: 370 | Registered: Apr 2012 | From: Midwest |
twinmama
♀ 35637
Member # 35637 | | Posted: 2:17 PM, June 11th (Monday), 2012 | |
sent yall some PMs too!! Add me 
Twinmama 35
Wh 34
Twins 4
T 13 yrs M 11 yrs
Dd EA 2/2012
Dd EA/PA 3/21/2012
Separated and I filed for D 7/12/12 ready to move on without this jerk!
Posts: 82 | Registered: May 2012 | From: MO/IL |
abbycadabby
♀ 27428
Member # 27428 | | Posted: 2:28 PM, June 11th (Monday), 2012 | |
I sent you a PM! Anyone else feel free to PM me too and I'll add you as well.
Posts: 1354 | Registered: Feb 2010 |
bluelady
♀ 11061
Member # 11061 | | Posted: 9:56 AM, July 10th (Tuesday), 2012 | |
Yeah. I just found GoodReads the other day, and I'm obsessed. I've been on it for HOURS now.
This could be good and it could be bad...
Me (BS): 35
Divorced
Posts: 1474 | Registered: Jun 2006 | From: a little bit of everywhere |
tsol25
♀ 29461
Member # 29461 | | Posted: 4:40 PM, July 12th (Thursday), 2012 | |
I need to see your correspondence recommendations
PM-ing
me - tsol, that's all for now
Posts: 1208 | Registered: Aug 2010 | From: Canada |
shockandhurt
♀ 27729
Member # 27729 | | Posted: 6:51 PM, July 18th (Wednesday), 2012 | |
Will be sending a PM to you ladyV. Feel free to anyone else to send me a PM and I'll add you.
Me-BW 35
Him-WH 38
D-day#1 1/11/10
D-day#2 1/26/10
D-day#3 3/25/10
D-day#4 5/20/10-discovered he signed up at AFF in 2004-claims it was just curiosity and nothing came of it.
Posts: 73 | Registered: Feb 2010 |
CallMeRed
♀ 36312
Member # 36312 |  Posted: 9:40 AM, August 25th (Saturday), 2012 | |
I am an author, and I love Goodreads from both the reader and author POV.
Have you guys all discovered the giveaway section? I have got some great books through that. And also some great reviews.
D-Day 19 July 2012
Me - BS - 41
Him - WH - 40
Stepchild: 16 Children: 9, 8, 5
Together 14 years, married 10.5 years.
Status: aiming for R with a Plan B just in case.
Posts: 275 | Registered: Jul 2012 | From: England |
devistatedmom
♀ 24961
Member # 24961 | | Posted: 6:04 PM, August 25th (Saturday), 2012 | |
Damn you all. I just wasted the last few hours playing on goodreads! 
BS(me) 46, Two wonderful teens.
He is no longer my best friend. Repeat until it sticks.
WH says marriage is over: May 15, 2009.
EA#2 July 20, 2009. Legally sep: Aug 16, 2009. DIVORCED!!!! Signed Nov 23, final Dec 24, 2010, adultery listed.
Posts: 5738 | Registered: Jul 2009 | From: Canada |
jrc1963
♀ 26531
Member # 26531 | | Posted: 8:09 PM, August 25th (Saturday), 2012 | |
I have it... but I haven't looked at it in a few months.
Me: BSO - 46
Him: FWSO - 69
DS - 13
D-Day - 12-11-09,
R - he finally came home
Your life is an Occasion. Rise to it. - Mr. Magorium, "Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium"
Posts: 25019 | Registered: Dec 2009 | From: Florida |
girlsbird
♀ 30877
Member # 30877 | | Posted: 2:56 AM, October 11th (Thursday), 2012 | |
OK You got my curiosity up.
D-Day 10/28/10..almost admission 7/10 Reconciled. I was the betrayed
Posts: 1203 | Registered: Jan 2011 | From: arizona |
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