2017! A Goodreads Odyssey
Hi friends.
I logged onto Goodreads this morning to find that the number of reviews/ratings for The Unseen World has increased dramatically in recent weeks. Specifically, as of right now, there are 2017 ratings**...in November I think it was just over 1000. The book came out in July. You all must have been doing a lot of reading over the holidays.
The fact that there are 2017 ratings in January of 2017 feels auspicious.**
I can't tell you how grateful I am for the support the Goodreads community has given this book. I have been using Goodreads more recently too, and through it I've chosen some books to read that I'm currently enjoying very much. (They are Rivka Galchen's Little Labors and Brit Bennett's The Mothers, if anyone's curious...)
Anyway...thanks for the support, and Happy 2017, and tell me what you did on New Year's Eve!
Here's what I did: my husband--whose birthday also happens to be New Year's Eve--and I went to dinner at the same restaurant we always go to with a big group of friends. My very gracious in-laws very graciously offered to host our daughter for her first sleepover, so I had a Very Important Decision to make: do I stay up late making the most of New Year's Eve, or do I take this golden opportunity to get some serious sleep?
Anyone who knows me would guess I chose the latter.
However, I surprised myself and others by staying up until about 3 a.m., enjoying Philadelphia, my husband, our friends, and the end of 2016....
What did you all do?
**Aaaaaaand, after writing this whole post, I realized that I read too fast and the number is 2007. 2007, not 2017. I experienced a fleeting moment in which I contemplated sitting on this post and watching Goodreads obsessively until the number crept up to 2017, and then thought: meh. 2007 is close enough. This is a metaphor for something. I'm not sure what yet. The end.
I logged onto Goodreads this morning to find that the number of reviews/ratings for The Unseen World has increased dramatically in recent weeks. Specifically, as of right now, there are 2017 ratings**...in November I think it was just over 1000. The book came out in July. You all must have been doing a lot of reading over the holidays.
The fact that there are 2017 ratings in January of 2017 feels auspicious.**
I can't tell you how grateful I am for the support the Goodreads community has given this book. I have been using Goodreads more recently too, and through it I've chosen some books to read that I'm currently enjoying very much. (They are Rivka Galchen's Little Labors and Brit Bennett's The Mothers, if anyone's curious...)
Anyway...thanks for the support, and Happy 2017, and tell me what you did on New Year's Eve!
Here's what I did: my husband--whose birthday also happens to be New Year's Eve--and I went to dinner at the same restaurant we always go to with a big group of friends. My very gracious in-laws very graciously offered to host our daughter for her first sleepover, so I had a Very Important Decision to make: do I stay up late making the most of New Year's Eve, or do I take this golden opportunity to get some serious sleep?
Anyone who knows me would guess I chose the latter.
However, I surprised myself and others by staying up until about 3 a.m., enjoying Philadelphia, my husband, our friends, and the end of 2016....
What did you all do?
**Aaaaaaand, after writing this whole post, I realized that I read too fast and the number is 2007. 2007, not 2017. I experienced a fleeting moment in which I contemplated sitting on this post and watching Goodreads obsessively until the number crept up to 2017, and then thought: meh. 2007 is close enough. This is a metaphor for something. I'm not sure what yet. The end.
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Distant wrote: "On the Booktube community on youtube at present, many are uploading their 'best reads of 2016' videos, and I have noticed The Unseen World appearing in quite a few of those videos, with some having..."I have noticed them too! Also a great community.
I just finished reading it and did a short review. I haven't read anything that left me in such a daze at the end. I was walking around for twenty minutes or so taking it all in. It's was an amazing journey. I went through a very similar time in my life as detailed in the first 175 pages.
Distant wrote: "I just finished reading it and did a short review. I haven't read anything that left me in such a daze at the end. I was walking around for twenty minutes or so taking it all in. It's was an amazin..."Thank you so much!
My last four reads have been five star ones, am on quite a roll. 'Parable of the Sower' by Octavia Butler, 'The Nightingale' by Kristen Hannah, 'Lullabies for Little Criminals' by Heather O'Neill, and 'Seven For a Secret' by Lyndsay Faye. Here's hoping for 5 in a row.
Heft is still one of my very favourite reads. I sometimes sit and wonder what Arthur & Kel are up to these days. That's something I love about realistic fiction, especially ones written so powerfully as Heft, that feeling of verisimilitude that you carry with you after the final page is closed.