Hello! I came to peek at your Snowflake wishes, and found your reading post, which filled me with great delight. Perhaps next year I'll manage something as long and thoughtful! We have many similar interests and bookish loves: Goblin Emperor, Captive Prince, Points. Are you on Goodreads?
Edited to add: Locke/Sabetha - what a long, long buildup to NOTHING. One of my most disappointing books!
Hi! Nice to meet you -- or, rather, nice to talk to you, because I've definitely noticed your name in posts of shared friends (we seem to have quite a few!)
I'm only just dipping into Points/Astreiant, having read just the novella, but I liked it a lot and plan to read more of the books.
Poking through your LJ and interests, I also really like the Swordspoint books (although, in the interests of full disclosure, I like Richard and Katherine a lot more than I like Alec :P)
I'm sort of on Goodreads, in that I have a Goodreads account, but I only use it to keep track of what my flist is reading for those folks who don't post about it on LJ -- I just have Goodreads email me their updates. I don't actually post there myself, but I do write about everything I'm reading on LJ. I try to keep things under the reading tag, but that one gets pretty messy, so the easiest way to find anything specific is via my author tags (and I love talking about books whenever, so if you do read any of those write-ups and want to talk, I am totally game,
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I'm not generally good at posting (unless it's Snowflake, or I'm doing an occasional NaBloPoMo), but I do manage to get out a Reading Wednesday post each week. And because I'm a person who loves making lists, and crossing things off of lists, I do several challenges at Worlds Without End. The first ones I did were the Women of Genre Fiction ones, which have been really helpful in my discovery of new authors to love.
I came across your Reading Wednesday posts and was very happy you're doing them too! A number of folks on my flist do, and that always makes Wednesday something to look forward to :)
I had no heard of Worlds Without End before, but having browsed, some of those challenges sound neat (and I love the titles :)
As far as reading challenges go, I find Reading Bingos work for me quite well, because they allow for, and even dictate, a spread of things, and yet I can mostly still read in my preferred genres. Plus, as you say, you get to cross things off, and there are short-term milestones (bingo!) before the final one (blackout). I've still got a couple of bingo cards from 2015 going (it was actually the result of last year's Snowflake Challenge), but I think I'm going to run out before the end of the year, so I should do something about that...
I remember seeing those Reading Bingo cards going around last year - they looked like a lot of fun. (And yay! for having EVEN MORE LISTS to be able to cross things off!)
Edited to add: Locke/Sabetha - what a long, long buildup to NOTHING. One of my most disappointing books!
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I'm only just dipping into Points/Astreiant, having read just the novella, but I liked it a lot and plan to read more of the books.
Poking through your LJ and interests, I also really like the Swordspoint books (although, in the interests of full disclosure, I like Richard and Katherine a lot more than I like Alec :P)
I'm sort of on Goodreads, in that I have a Goodreads account, but I only use it to keep track of what my flist is reading for those folks who don't post about it on LJ -- I just have Goodreads email me their updates. I don't actually post there myself, but I do write about everything I'm reading on LJ. I try to keep things under the reading tag, but that one gets pretty messy, so the easiest way to find anything specific is via my author tags (and I love talking about books whenever, so if you do read any of those write-ups and want to talk, I am totally game, ( ... )
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I had no heard of Worlds Without End before, but having browsed, some of those challenges sound neat (and I love the titles :)
As far as reading challenges go, I find Reading Bingos work for me quite well, because they allow for, and even dictate, a spread of things, and yet I can mostly still read in my preferred genres. Plus, as you say, you get to cross things off, and there are short-term milestones (bingo!) before the final one (blackout). I've still got a couple of bingo cards from 2015 going (it was actually the result of last year's Snowflake Challenge), but I think I'm going to run out before the end of the year, so I should do something about that...
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Haha, yes, exactly! It's so satisfying! :D
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