Red’s Comments (group member since May 25, 2013)

Red’s comments from the Readerly Friends! group.

Red wrote: "Barb wrote: "Sad to say my local library is not user-friendly or friendly and it costs me $60 a year to have a card. Which is why I don't have a card. However, our impending move will take me to a..."

PS congrats on the big move!

Barb wrote: "Sad to say my local library is not user-friendly or friendly and it costs me $60 a year to have a card. Which is why I don't have a card. However, our impending move will take me to a city with 2 c..."

That is so bogus! $60/year?

Barb wrote: "I have to boast about the awesome book resale shop in my town. I bring in a stack of books and they give me cash out the door OR I can take double the cash amount and have it as store credit...um, ..."

Oh, I used to go to one of those! Actually thought about opening one a few times!

Tania wrote: "I don't know my way around Goodreads and I would be really interested in what members of this group are doing with their own writing whether of blogs, novels, nonfiction or whatever, so that I have..."

Tania, to find anyone's work, you just click on their profile. That's how Goodreads works. Kind of like FB but without the privacy settings. So, no, I don't believe we should have a spam thread. Just click on someone and if he/she has a Goodreads author profile, all his/her books will be there. Or message the person if they aren't savvy enough to have set that up.

Really, though, setting up an author profile on Goodreads is Selling Books 101 and this is a group for reading, not for selling.

Okay, I will go first.

A little over two years ago, I was pregnant with my fourth child and my mother was dying of her second bout with cancer. Her husband was also dying of Parkinson's Disease. It was a really, really tough time in my life for reading for pleasure, but I was also trying to get more serious about publishing fiction, so I felt like I really needed to step up my reading, regardless of "life" happening. I guess in my case it was "life happening" as well as "death happening."

I bought myself a Kindle but I really had trouble getting used to it that first year. Eventually after my daughter was born and my parents were buried, my life "settled" down a bit and I was able to read a bit more.

As you might expect, I have read quite a bit of non-fiction about pregnancy and grief (although there remains to be published a very good book about handling *both*). I regularly come home from the library with a dozen non-fiction books on any given subject that interests me.

I also started reading more comic books, short stories, and novels. At this point, including the books I read with my kids (I homeschool and read all their books with them), I probably read about 12 books a month. I don't always post them because sometimes I think people are too judgmental about what others read, and I'm not always up for discussing what I'm reading.

In this group I'll probably play more of a moderator role, but I am always interested in what others are reading, so I will try to join in as much as I can.

Boast about your book bargain buys.

About your public library, whether you're borrowing paper books or ebooks.

Did you notice a book you enjoyed is on sale? Post a link! Please include some details re: the sale. (price & end date)

In the old group, we allowed self-promo on the 15th of the month and whenever a book was free.

In this group, I would rather we didn't have a flurry of book pimping of free books or $.99 books, just because that info is so easy to find on Goodreads, already.

HOWEVER, if you are having a contest such as a giveaway of some prize that actually costs you money and you'd like to promote that, then you will be allowed. This could include gift cards, Kindles, book swag, paperbacks, gifted copies of ebooks (not prizes sent as email attachments), or any similar iteration.

That's really the only kind of self-promo that's welcome here.

Books you're looking forward to!

Feel free to add the books you are reading to the bookshelf. If it's "currently reading" it will show up at the top of the group page.

Ever had a book change your life? Tell us about it. Good or bad.

What non-fiction are you reading right now?

What fiction books are you reading right now?

Share a little about yourself and what you like to read. Are you doing a Goodreads challenge? What genre books are you into? Do you run a book blog? Whatever you'd like to share about yourself, please do.

We're talking about the books we're reading, and anything pertaining to that.

Everyone who joined this group did so to actively try to boost the # of books he/she is reading, or just to have a place to discuss books.

Authors, it is *not* okay to advertise your book or to wax philosophical at length about the writing process. Please check your ego at the door and try to recall how great it was to just be a reader. Got it?

Let's talk about books!