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Fannish Fifty #2: Steampunk Novel Series

I've been having a bit of a difficult week, so I thought I'd try recommending something cheery for my second Fannish Fifty post.

( 3 Steampunk Novel Series I Really Enjoyed )

So, Goodreads is making some changes, and my deep and insightful opinion of them so far is that a number of them are annoying me a lot.

Having just finished a book I actually wanted to rec to a few people, I discovered that while the field to let me flag up who recommended it to me auto-fills based on what I type, the field for recomemnding it to other people doesn't, because... sod you, I guess.

Apparently, recording where I bought a book/comic from and when is an unpopular feature, so I'm no longer able to do that, which is really annoying given that I like to actually track where I bought things in case I want to go back there and buy more things.

Also, because apparently too many people are creating new book entries and new editions with not enough detail in them, only librarians can now create new editions and new book entries. So, if you want to add a new edition of an existing thing or add a new thing, you have to post in the Librarians group and hope someone comes along and does it for you. Given that the three posts I made requesting those sorts of things a week ago haven't been actioned, I'm guessing that's not going well. This really bugs me, because I often find that the audiobooks I can borrow from the library (most of which are produced by part of Bolinda) aren't on goodreads, and my brain itches if I record books against the wrong edition. It's also annoying me because there are series of books pushed out by companies like Catalyst Game Labs as ebook-only that expand on their game lines that don't get consistently added to Goodreads. I use Goodreads to, amongst other things, track what I've bought and in which format for a lot of these game lines, particularly when I'm doing things like buying bundles from Bundle of Holding, and perhaps I'm being overly grumpy tonight, but it feels like I'm either going to have to stop doing that, or try and become a librarian so that I can keep on doing it myself.

Any way, now that I've ranted, Amari and the Night Brothers us a fun MG/YA read that's... sort of like Men In Black, but where the protagonist is a 13-year-old girl who ends up in training to join a supernatural ministry because her brother's disappeared. The magic system is interesting and I want a lot of the rich to get eaten by monsters.

I forgot to post up what I read in October because of my preoccupation with failing to get ready for NaNo, and then November was a bit of a bust because of how badly I was doing at actually trying to complete NaNo. Still, I'm getting closer to my end of year target, even if it seems to have been comics more than books over the last couple of months.

( What I read: October-November )

It's September tomorrow? Seriously? Ugh. This month is always difficult at work, because so many people go on leave and there's usually a big event in September each year that causes me a pile of work, but for added fun and games I've been covering my boss' desk (in addition to mine, and the empty post in the team) which has meant that I've spent most of the last couple of weeks desperately trying to deal with the urgent deadlines until the less urgent deadlines become urgent. Unfortunately, that means I keep losing reading time because I'm either dozing during breaks, or worrying about work. Hopefully, the back end of September will be a bit quieter.

( What I read in August )

As someone gifted me a paid membership for the next few months, I should probably actually try posting occasionally. My week's rather been on fire and the weather has me feeling exhausted all the time, so I don't have a lot of brainpower in play at the moment...

By way of a holding pattern, I thought I'd post up a list of the things I read in June. It's mostly a cut-and-paste from a thread I maintain on Goodreads for tracking what I've read since the start of the year, which is what the serial numbers refer to.

June was a bit of a slow month for reading; VidUKon took up a lot of my time, and I've been hiding in computer games quite a lot for various reasons.

( June Reading List )