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Just wondering -- were there so few comments on my giant post o'book reviews because nobody had anything to say, or because nobody bothered to read them? (If it's the latter, I can safely give up feeling guilty over not posting book reviews of most of the stuff I read and just stop doing it.)

In other news: halfway through the first day of no sweets, and it's going fine. Not that I usually indulge this early in the day, anyway...

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You're doing better than I usually do for comments. :-D At this point, I mostly stubbornly post on RPG/game stuff because I care about it, even if most people reading me don't.

I skimmed that post because most of the books seemed to be things I wouldn't be interested in reading anyway (I don't mind mystery as a genre, but I have so many things on my to-read pile that I'm not taking it on right now). I mostly read review posts if they're about books I might conceivably pick up to read on my own inclination. (This means that I categorically skip romance novel reviews, yeah.)

I tend to read the romance reviews that come trhough my f-list, but that's because most of them are "I hate myself for reading this and here's why," or "This book is cracktastic! Here's why!" I don't actually pick the book itself up. XD

(There was only one mystery in the bunch, and I didn't get mroe than three chapters in! XD Not that the rest of them seem like the sort of book you'd go for, anyway. I do have Michio Kaku's Physics of the Impossible sitting on my Kindle, waiting to be read...)

See, for a physics book I would definitely be at attention reading your review because I incline that way to begin with. :-) I might not have anything to say about the review, though, if I hadn't read the book (and beyond that, I'm not a physicist anyway). The mystery was just an example, but yeah.

Most of what I get from talking to a romance writer of my acquaintance is that the genre is even more alien than I realize, and if I read more of it I would see just how alien the conventions are to me (note: not wrong, just different), but she says it would be very rare for me to enjoy a romance, and from my limited explorations in the area, I tend to concur. If someone wrote a math-based romance [1], I would totally be there, but I am cognizant that this would be such a tiny potential audience that it would largely not be worth anyone's while to write. ^_^

[1] I tried once, but failed miserably. It was an experiment back in college. ^_^

In high school and undergrad, I could consume romances like candy, but somehow lost the ability to tolerate them over the years. I even picked one up a couple of years back, because so many people loved it, and there was great praise for how the writer handled one aspect of it, so I figured that I could at least get that out of it, if nothing else.

I bounced off the first ten pages, hard. Eventually swapped it on paperbackswap.com.

I liked the reviews, but the books you reviewed weren't books on which I have anything to say.

Thanks!

Same here. Nothing that I had read and nothing that really looked appealing to me. But I like book reviews in general!

:D Thanks!

I skimmed the reviews--thanks for posting them!--but didn't have anything to say.

:D Thanks!

I read 'em -- just had nothing to say.

---L.

Thanks!

I loved the reviews and even noted down some titles to track down for my own, but I had nothing further to add.

Thanks! :D

I read them but I can't comment on DW from the kiosk at work and I didn't get back online at home until tonight.

I in fact did want to ask you about NetGalley accounts. I'm not a professional librarian, nor do I get paid to review, but I do write for a very large team-specific baseball blog and I have done the occasional baseball book review. I'm wondering if it's worth it to try to get an account. Most of the baseball books I've seen there I have on hold at the local library anyway and will get reviewed if there's relevant content to the blog. (Our editor-in-chief got an email from a publicist about a new Derek Jeter biography. We're a specific team blog, and the team isn't the Yankees. I guess....)

I'd think it's worth it. They accepted me at face value - and I made sure to link to my LJ and DW so they can see what the blogs are, and to say that I was the I.T. Librarian, rather than a subject specialist who orders books. Any publisher who has baseball books will probably be quite happy if you're on there. :)

(If you've got a Kindle, they're currently not offering most books on Kindle due to some technical issue thing, but that's due to change sometime this month. Other e-readers and computers are still fine.)

I don't have many reviews up now; I have about 3 enqueued for my personal blog and I haven't actually got around to asking if we need yet another review of Scorecasting on the blog network, although it's relevant as the book mentions the infamous-to-us-fans DiFelice walk of '09. ;) Was going to wait to apply until I had more of a book of the week than a book of the month thing going. But, yes, thanks for letting me know, because I knew you were a librarian but I didn't think you were involved at all in collection development.

I have a Sony Reader, so no problems there, although I'm dreading the day where everything will be either Nook or Kindle.

Normally i would read them, but i am in meetings to my neck and just keeping up with people's lives and not going into much detail in my reading this week.

Understandable! XD

Noooo I love book review posts. But if I haven't read the books I don't tend to comment.

Thanks! :)

I always enjoy reading your book review posts but I usually don't have much to say.

Thanks!

Well, I read them but none of them were my cup of tea and I had nothing to add, so I didn't comment. I was thinking they'd be good short reviews on GoodReads ^^

Aaaaaaggghhh no not another site I have to update! XD

It's because reviewing in batches gets less comments than one at a time.

Hm.

(BTW, Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World, a memoir of a girl growing up in Tibet, in a matriarchal culture, is $2.99 on Kindle today.)

Thanks! I sent the first chapter to my Kindle.

I commented!

But I didn't have anything to say about the specific books you were talking about as I haven't read any of them. I still enjoyed reading it, though, and have wishlisted a bunch of the non-fiction titles that sounded interesting.

You did, yes! XD

In my case, it's because I somehow missed it. OTOH, it's been a bit of a crazy week for me work-wise.

:D Understandable!

I did read it and I did find it interesting, but not having read the books (or likely to read them any time soon) I didn't really have much useful to comment about. Sorry! XD

No prob! Thanks!

sorry, I did tl:dr the post, but I am not super good at commenting anyway.

Hee! Thanks!

Didn't read any of the books, and not interested in reading of them, so no comments (although I suppose I could have said the latter).

:D Thanks!

(it took me three tries to spell "thanks" correctly, sigh...)

You're welcome. And by the way, I enjoy reading your reviews, so don't stop posting them. Sometimes you read things and write about them and then I do want to read them.

I always like reading book reviews - the more the merrier. Snagged the gutenberg link for future reading when less migrainey, as it sounded quite fun. I might try the Judi Dench book if I spot it in the library, too. Sorry for commentfail, and good luck with the sweets! I'm on day 3 of giving up wheat and dairy for a while to see if it has any effect on the migraines. No effect so far, except a giant urge for cheese toasties.

RE: giving up wheat - did you see the 12-entry series by Katherine Eliska Kimbriel on BVC about going with a gluten-free diet? Maybe it would be of interest.

Thanks!

Eek, good luck! If you missed it previously, I found last summer that artificial sweeteners had an effect on mine - now that I've been off them for months, I have fewer migraines and the ones I do have are much less intense.

And I highly recommend people read the Gutenberg book! It's a bit slow at first, but ramps up near the end (and is fairly short), to the point where there was a Sudden Reveal and my thought was "Why, of course that happened! How could it not?!"

That's brilliant about the sweeteners, yay for less plaguey heads. I'd give 'em up too in a general spirit of 'eliminate!'-ness, but I only actually have them in one thing - triptans! so, um, maybe not. :)

I usually read/enjoy your book reviews, but don't always have time, and don't always comment. So...for what that's worth!

Thanks!

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