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ladyvorkosigan (original poster member #8283) posted at 9:51 AM on Monday, April 23rd, 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.
m334455 ( member #26893) posted at 3:43 PM on Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
What is it? I haven't heard of it, but I'm interested.
BW 38, 5 kids
Dday Dec. 2009
trumanshow ( member #25624) posted at 12:06 AM on Wednesday, May 2nd, 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?
remarried 11-15-15
Her prize is a man who ran out on his wife and children. His is a woman who is too stupid to understand that she is not special, she is simply there.
ladyvorkosigan (original poster member #8283) posted at 12:01 PM on Wednesday, May 2nd, 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.
Threnody ( member #1558) posted at 4:04 PM on Wednesday, May 9th, 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
wildbananas ( member #10552) posted at 7:23 PM on Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
Sending you a PM too. 
Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light. ~ Yogi Bhajan
osca ( member #35628) posted at 10:14 AM on Sunday, May 27th, 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
Healing2012 ( member #35238) posted at 3:00 AM on Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
I'm sending a PM, too! I'm always looking for new goodreads friends
BS: Me (46)
XH: Husband (52)
Married 10 years
Two children 11 & 23 (my stepson)
D-day #1: 12/18/11
D-day #2: 8/26/12 (still in contact w/ OW)
Status: Divorced - 6/18/15
twinmama ( member #35637) posted at 8:17 PM on Monday, June 11th, 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!
abbycadabby ( member #27428) posted at 8:28 PM on Monday, June 11th, 2012
I sent you a PM! Anyone else feel free to PM me too and I'll add you as well.
bluelady ( member #11061) posted at 3:56 PM on Tuesday, July 10th, 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...
tsol25 ( member #29461) posted at 10:40 PM on Thursday, July 12th, 2012
I need to see your correspondence recommendations
PM-ing
me - tsol, that's all for now
shockandhurt ( member #27729) posted at 12:51 AM on Thursday, July 19th, 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.
CallMeRed ( member #36312) posted at 3:40 PM on Saturday, August 25th, 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.
devistatedmom ( member #24961) posted at 12:04 AM on Sunday, August 26th, 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.
jrc1963 ( member #26531) posted at 2:09 AM on Sunday, August 26th, 2012
I have it... but I haven't looked at it in a few months.
Me: BSO - 56 Him: FWSO - 79 DS - 23 D-Day - 12-11-09, R - he finally came homeYour life is an Occasion. Rise to it. - Mr. Magorium, "Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium"
girlsbird ( member #30877) posted at 8:56 AM on Thursday, October 11th, 2012
OK You got my curiosity up.
D-Day 10/28/10..almost admission 7/10 Reconciled. I was the betrayed
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