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Mitch

A Reader on Reading | Alberto Manguel

I guess that 19% are all here on Litsy 🥳🥳🥳

Ruthiella 👍👍👍 4d

AmyG Only 19%? 4d

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ShyBookOwl

So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading | Sara Nelson

I wish Goodreads let you add private notes to your TBR. I add so many books that I know I'll only read if I'm in a specific mood or bc a specific person recommended it, and I'd love to note that somewhere!

Caroline2 Me too!!!! 🙋‍♀️ 7d

Booksblanketsandahotbeverage I think they have that on Storygraph.. (adding private notes) 7d

ChaoticMissAdventures @Booksblanketsandahotbeverage I think you can only note in it on SG once you mark it as currently reading (then the journal button pops up) But it does give you tags you can mark at anytime and already tells you the "mood" of the book 7d

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Ruthiella Maybe set up a shelf for each mood? 7d

xicanti LibraryThing has this option! Even non-private comments are pretty unobtrusive, too. 7d

ShyBookOwl @Booksblanketsandahotbeverage @ChaoticMissAdventures Oooh good to know! The mood tag could help 7d

ShyBookOwl @Ruthiella That could work! Thx 😊 7d

ShyBookOwl @xicanti Never heard of that but definitely looking it up right now! 7d

Daisey Once you‘ve shelved a book in Goodreads, you should be able to if accessing on a computer. I can add private notes by clicking “Edit my activity” from the book‘s page after it‘s shelved or from the My Books page if notes are check marked to be visible. 7d

ShyBookOwl @Daisey 😯 cool!! I'll check that out 7d

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oddandbookish

Lonely Planet Hidden Libraries: The World's Most Unusual Book Depositories | Nancy Pearl, D. C. Helmuth

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This book is such a hidden gem!

It showcases 50 different “hidden” libraries from all around the world (plus outer space). Every library profile tells you how to find it (if applicable, some are no longer around and some are not open to the public). Also, all the photos have captions which I appreciated.

Full review: https://oddandbookish.wordpress.com/2025/01/05/review-hidden-libraries/

oddandbookish #book #booklover #bookstagram #bookworm #bibliophile #bookobsession #bookish #bookreviewer #booktok #library #bookspin #bookspinbingo #auldlangspine #holidaybookdragons #libraries #travel #nonfiction #coffeetablebook #bookaboutbooks
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peanutnine

Queer Books | Edmund Pearson

I've been organizing my storygraph challenges this weekend and decided to make one to track my reads for #QueerBC
If anyone else participating wants to join, here's the link:
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/eaaf6dca-2dd1-4218-887e-1df2e9c...

I've got all the authors since we started last May and will try to keep it updated as we add more ☺️
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lil1inblue This is awesome! Thank you! 🥰 1w

PuddleJumper That's brilliant! Thank you 1w

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readingjedi

Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour of the Bookshops of Britain | Robin Ince

Also a Christmas book - this is the book I wish I could've written! Oh well, I can still emulate the research!

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MeganAnn

A Year of Reading: A Month-by-month Guide to Classics and Crowd-pleasers for You and Your Book Group | Elisabeth Ellington, Jane Freimiller

I read 154 books this year! At the beginning of the year I started drawing the spines in my book journal with a stack for each month & am proud to say I kept it up all year long. I‘m definitely going to continue to do this in 2025 as I love the way these pages turn out… plus it‘s good practice for my art.

In the middle of 2 more books but I don‘t know if I will finish them today. Might wait to post my StoryGraph wrap-up tomorrow just in case.

Julsmarshall So gorgeous! 2w

staci.reads Beautiful! 2w

Librariana Oh my goodness gracious, this is AMAZING!! What a talent you are! 😍😍😍 2w

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TheBookHippie Beautiful. 2w

vlwelser 😍😍😍😍😍 2w

Deblovestoread Love this! 🩵 2w

EKonrad This is gorgeous! You‘re so talented! 2w

BookmarkTavern Beautiful! 2w

TheBookgeekFrau 😍😍 2w

MeganAnn Oh wow! Thank you all for your kind words!! 🥰 Hoping to post this year‘s stacks more regularly. @Julsmarshall @staci.reads @Librariana @TheBookHippie @vlwelser @Deblovestoread @EKonrad @BookmarkTavern @TheBookgeekFrau (edited) 2w

DogMomIrene Those are beautiful! 2w

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Blueberry

A Year of Reading: A Month-by-month Guide to Classics and Crowd-pleasers for You and Your Book Group | Elisabeth Ellington, Jane Freimiller

NataliePatalie 😱 4w

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Blueberry

A Year of Reading: A Month-by-month Guide to Classics and Crowd-pleasers for You and Your Book Group | Elisabeth Ellington, Jane Freimiller

Your 'year of reading' from Goodreads has a different look this year.
Edit: 😆, it doesn't. It's the same at the website.

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Blueberry

A Year of Reading: A Month-by-month Guide to Classics and Crowd-pleasers for You and Your Book Group | Elisabeth Ellington, Jane Freimiller

5⭐

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Robotswithpersonality

The Thing The Book: A Monument to the Book as Object | Jonn Herschend, Will Rogan

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Chalk this up as another book doing battle with its own subtitle 'a monument to the book as object', based on the introductory discussion of The Thing periodical, it's clear that non-traditional formatting is key in the minds of those putting together the magazine. So when they decided to make a book, what you get is partly an exploration of books, their components, the way they tell stories, 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? but also partly an art object, something to engage with rather than read.
There are a number of written pieces I find interesting for different reasons, but I'd argue there were an equal number of entries that I can't review because I didn't interact with them as I do with a book. As little as I might find myself qualified to discuss the merit of a book, that dwarfs my readiness to talk about the relative values of art. 4w

Robotswithpersonality 3/? Regarding the written works that I perceived and enjoyed as short stories or essays, my favourites:
Footnotes by Jonathan Lethem, yep, the entire text of the essay is in the footnotes. Terry Pratchett would be proud. 4w

Robotswithpersonality 4/? The Artist as Bookmaker by Gwen Allen, a short history of other objects introduced as books, and artists making books that were art first, nad where that blurred line might be going in the future. Loved delving into the creative minds of the past, a little worried about the implications of the conclusion. 4w

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Robotswithpersonality 5/? A Note to My Students by Andrew Leland, cheeky commentary, the role of academia in determining textual value meets the wide-eyed wonder that is realizing how much can be done with text to make stories. 4w

Robotswithpersonality 6/? The Fire This Time: Razing the Book by Andrew Hultkrans, could be dismissed as a product of its time diatribe against ebooks, but I think the concern around information retention threated by format viability and licensing is a perennial concern it's always good to add more well-spoken voices to. 4w

Robotswithpersonality 7/? Endnotes by Rick Moody, a tad surreal, but I happily floated along, again, once you realize the author is choosing to tell some kind of story entirely in end notes it's just fun to bounce about in the creativity for ten pages 4w

Robotswithpersonality 8/? Questions for a Reading Group by Starlee Kline, reading group questions feel like a ripe format for creativity and parody, and the author makes a short narrative that seems to poke fun at how off topic a reading group might get, how provocative or awkward questions might get, how nitpicky they can get, but also how a person might approach a work written by someone they know, and how people can be petty, and the good old standby 'divorce/having 4w

Robotswithpersonality 9/? an acrimonious ex means you might start blurting out grievances regardless of the time or place
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Robotswithpersonality 10/10 ⚠️ The Hearing Trumpet: A Character List, big warning on this one, among the dated language used is a particular transphobic character description; while telling a tale solely through a character list and accompanying descriptions is a neat premise, it's not so great that you can't skip it to avoid the harmful sentiment (may just be a result of being published in 2014?) 4w

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