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Just realized that my profile bio has said "new here and still learning to use the site" or something to that effect for ten years now.
At this point, I'm leaving it just for the sheer silliness.

GR, I do not feel the need to contribute to your ballad of official reading goals; I have enough stress in my life already.
Goal: I will probably read some books this year.

Is anyone else seeing a weird bug with things not actually disappearing from their Currently Reading bar?

Argh, is it seriously going to reshare the 'my year in books' thing every time I try to open it? grr.
sorry for the spam

Apologies if I just spammed your feed with old reviews - I discovered some of my books from earlier this year hadn't saved their "Read" dates, so I went back and added them. For some reason, this caused the reviews/ratings to all re-post. I have deleted as many of the double posts as I could.

I loved this series when I was a kid, but could never find this volume - it was one of the last books put out as the publisher was going under, and only 1,000 copies were printed, so it never made its way to my rural library. It's fun to finally track it down now (in reprint :) ).

GR informs me that I read 491 books last year.
I suspect this is mostly a measure of how much time I spent on the bus commuting to&from work.
Given that, I'm hoping, oddly enough, that I will read fewer books this year....
;)

I feel like there are bits missing.

I understand the Goodreads interface is trying to be more modern, and I'm hoping that the update also includes useful new accessibility features and other enhancements to make content more usable... but so far, my first impression is just that this is an impressive and complicated way to show less information on the page.

(There are electronic books on my "currently reading" shelf that are on hold because both of my e-readers are now broken. :( )

Have to set this one aside for a time until I can mend the binding. :(

Sorry for spamming the page - catching up after being offline for a few days.

Home sick from work, reading my way through a teetering stack of library books.

A friend is looking for book recommendations for nonfiction on contemporary Central Asia. Any thoughts, folks?

Will be adding some books as I unpack them; will try not to let it spam everyone's feed, but I'm sure I'll miss unclicking the "Add To Feed" box occasionally.

It would be impolite of me to rename this book "The Plothole Ajar."

This really is more of a few figleaves of romance over a mystery/farce, but it's quite good! Pity the printing I have has several misprints that can make it hard to follow at times.

In bed with the flu, seems like a good time to get caught up on comics I checked out of the library. Short is useful when you can't stay awake.

I have to wonder about this quote: "At the beginning of the nineteenth century, European settlement had been spread thinly along the eastern coasts, and clocks were the only machines that played a role in ordinary life." I fear the author has forgotten the existence of mills, pumps, and Spanish colonization....

I started reading this on the bus, but am realizing that I should save it to read when I'm near an internet connection so I can look up the photos it's referencing, not all of which are in the book.

I keep being in the middle of too many things, in life as in books.

I feel like I've read this before, as though long ago, but can't remember the ending... but I surely can't have, it's only a few years old! Mysterious.

Alas, poor Kobo. :( Gravity happens. With luck, the lovely little gizmo will be restored soon and I can finish reading the things on it!