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BookLikes tags, a bonus way to use them
I deleted all my books and shelves the other day. The whole system was too slow, too complicated, too frustrating. I thought I would start again from 2014. I also thought that all the reviews I had written would disappear along with the books (a la GR), but they didn't, they remained. Very pleasantly surprised.
Yesterday the Thursday Candy was book tags. I set up a shelf called 2013-reviews and then went through all the reviews I had but were not attached to books and added 2013-reviews as a tag and all the books magically appeared on my shelves. I still had to add them to the 2013-reviews shelf as they only came up on Read, and then the date. The whole process was so simple and efficient, just brilliant.
This means that any reviews I copy over to BookLikes and post as a review are just going to need a tag that is the same as the shelf name to appear on my book list and I won't need to search endless vendors and add the book first.
This feature is really great, really smooths the shelving process. Thank you so much BookLikes, I'm a really happy camper :-)
Leafmarks
A new booksite, new new new, Leafmarks. It looks a lot like Goodreads in its clean presentation. As it was started by two GR people, I have high hopes for it. I've just uploaded my csv from GR to contribute some data.
I like BookLikes, I love being able to blog, but there really isn't any useful book data here for me. I don't even bother to look for books and reviews here because it is so hard to find anything and then you never find much. Until there are book pages that collect all reviews of a book together, rather than book pages categorised by seller, the book side of BookLikes isn't going to work for me and I will have to continue using Goodreads.
So I'm looking forward to this new site a lot. Monogamy of booksites is not required so it may end up that I use one, two or even three sites, probably with an overlap of friends on each site, which will make it more seamless than if it was always a set of new and different people, to fulfil my book reviewing, cataloging and blogging needs.
Anyway, Good Luck to Leafmarks and thanks to Jacqui and Emily May for founding it.
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Don't Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned
More than I wanted to know.
Interpreter of Maladies
I keep trying to read and like Lahiri's books but I never even get to finish them. They just don't hold my attention.
America by Heart : Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag
Ridiculous woman. Sets herself up to represent Christians. She should have stuck to pageants.
Kevin My Military Man
I got this because I read the author's note on http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/7370-kevin-my-military-man I was kind of put off by the note but mystified as well.Abandoned.
Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
How a leader does it. Politics at its best.
The Tehran Conviction (Jack Teller Series)
I bought all the Tom Gabbay books and looked forward to reading a Goodreads author, but none of them held my attention. The best thing I can say is good to read just a few pages late at night to put you to sleep.
The Berlin Conspiracy: A Novel
I got it and a couple of other Gabbay's books from a rack of marked-down thrillers to read on a long trip. Thrilling it ain't. None of them were.
The White Tiger: A Novel
Unusual to feel sympathy for a really disgusting and unethical hero, but that's what made the book great.
Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales
Better than the Forensic Files on tv. Very detailed and interesting but a bit gruesome, unless you like reading about decomposition.Remember the old school song, 'the worms crawled in and the worms crawled out'? That about sums it up.