Lisa Vegan > Recent Status Updates

All the way through I've been eager to read any included notes at the end (and was tempted to read them before I finished the book) and yet now I've finished the book proper but I'm going to have to wait until tomorrow to read the rest and I might not have time to write a review until at least Tuesday. Impactful story and I want to reflect about my feelings & thoughts.

How had I never before heard of the Ghost Army?

The end of a war is not the end of a war.

I've read a lot about this but somehow up until now I'd missed how Oak Ridge, Tennessee played such a huge role in it.

The history is fascinating. Often with historical fiction stories the fictional characters bother me and I’d prefer a straight history book but at least so far with this book I’m enjoying the characters a lot.

I couldn't wait for what I assume will be an author's note at the end. I had to look up Oak Ridge. I like Song and I'm enjoying this book.

Today is publication day for this book!

Sadly, I’ve had little time to read this past week but I’m hopeful that that I’ll have a lot more time for reading in the coming week.

I started it before bed. I didn’t have time to read more than the prologue, partly because I spent a lot of time looking up 1935’s Black Sunday. I love historical fiction stories that inspire me to look up historical information. Great descriptions that had me feeling as though I was there.

It wouldn't help to report this and it's unproductive to vent but I'm going to kvetch anyway. Recently, whenever I review a book it seems that another rated/not reviewed book is gone from my shelves. Today after reviewing a book, three other rated/not reviewed books are missing. I wish there was a glitch free way to get all my books over to LibraryThing where, as far as I know, (continued in the comments)

I am so disgusted with this site. Almost every time I add a read book my read books number stays the same because another read book somehow gets deleted. At least so far most of the deleted books were just rated, not reviewed, but that's almost worst since I have an offline record of most of my reviews but not of the books I've read and rated but not reviewed.

One of my read books has apparently disappeared off of my shelves. I am so tired of this sort of thing. I wish I'd gotten all my books over to LibraryThing.

Thank you, Goodreads! Tonight, for the first time in a long time, I was able to get to the second page of my shelves from the My Books section!

Uh-oh. I hate it when I find mistakes in medical books, even if they’re books written for laypeople to read for fun. (rest is in the first comment)

I HATE that the new "Did Not Finish" exclusive shelf is on all of our shelves. It should be opt in or at the least we should be able to opt out. Why?!! I think that many of us don't want this shelf. I'm sure that I'm not alone. I suppose that it's not that big a deal compared to some of the other changes that have been made but I'm not going to be able to avoid noticing it it since I regularly go to "My Books" page.

Goodreads has finally let me rename some shelves.

I can't remember all the places and people I was telling about the glitch of when I tried to do that I'd get new shelves with no books instead of the name changes I wanted. the bug seems to be fixed. I wanted to report that.

What a DUMB! DUMB! DUMB! dumb bug/problem/issue. Goodreads isn't letting me get to certain books so that I can add them. I click and click and click, and from more than one place, but nope. I made a note to add the books when I can.

Goodreads won't let me add/check the box for: "Vote for a book review" - just FYI. I guess it's just one more glitch/bug.

In case you want to sign this!

https://www.change.org/p/urge-goodrea...

“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

― Jane Goodall

This is something important to know about Amazon and Robert Reich's newest book, and I'm sure many other books and probably other merchandise too.

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/be...

For those who enjoy children's books:

The books on the annual FAVORITES lists are new books read and rated by thousands of children, teachers, and librarians in rural, suburban, and urban schools and libraries across the U.S. every year!

https://www.cbcbooks.org/awards-and-b...

U.S. people, Call your reps. They’re targeting the libraries now.

https://ilovelibraries.org/article/tr...

Elly Griffiths has a new series. The first book will be out in July:

The Frozen People.

Recrudescence. The return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.



“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Interesting article about the Goodreads Choice Awards: " The Unbearable Whiteness of the Goodreads Choice Awards"

I do miss voting for children's middle grade books and picture books.

https://bookriot.com/the-unbearable-w...

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

I have two of her books on my to-read list. After reading this I want to take a look at all of her books and read at least one of them. Any specific recommendations?

https://sfstandard.com/2024/10/26/rac...

I just noticed that I've received no email notifications for any reason from Goodreads in the last 48 hours.

“What if we saw every decision to relocate as a brave advance?”

“The coast is never saved; it’s always being saved.”

“There’s no point fighting a force as powerful as the ocean.”