Athena Posted December 29, 2014 Author Share Posted December 29, 2014 (edited) Statistics of my Book Collection (post 2): Edited November 2, 2015 by Athena Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted December 30, 2014 Author Share Posted December 30, 2014 (edited) Statistics of my Book Collection (post 3): Some of the next ones still need some work: Edited November 2, 2015 by Athena Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted December 30, 2014 Author Share Posted December 30, 2014 (edited) Statistics of my Book Collection (post 4): Edited November 2, 2015 by Athena Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Athena Posted December 30, 2014 Author Share Posted December 30, 2014 (edited) Statistics of my Book Collection (post 8): (reserved) Edited November 2, 2015 by Athena Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted December 31, 2014 Author Share Posted December 31, 2014 My thread is now open for business ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 Those charts are gorgeous, and some of the best and most detailed I've ever seen! Well done! Love the pictures of your collections! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSchultz19 Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 If you're going to plan on reading another Jodi Picoult early this year, I recommend Nineteen Minutes especially because I know you enjoyed The Pact. I love looking at the pictures of your shelves. It's interesting to look at the colors of the books. Like the fantasy ones are dark or red, but then there is the chicklit shelves that are all yellow, white, and other bright pastel colors. The graphs are BEAUTIFUL. I love stats and graphs, so your book log is always so pretty Have a fantastic reading year!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Happy, happy reading year, Gaia! This is a great start to your new thread, just beautiful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Begins Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 WHat great pics ! And is that a TOtoro in the background ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Hope you have a good reading year in 2015. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted January 1, 2015 Author Share Posted January 1, 2015 Note: Some emoticons were removed. Those charts are gorgeous, and some of the best and most detailed I've ever seen! Well done! Love the pictures of your collections! Thanks Kate ! I do like doing things like this . If you're going to plan on reading another Jodi Picoult early this year, I recommend Nineteen Minutes especially because I know you enjoyed The Pact. I love looking at the pictures of your shelves. It's interesting to look at the colors of the books. Like the fantasy ones are dark or red, but then there is the chicklit shelves that are all yellow, white, and other bright pastel colors. The graphs are BEAUTIFUL. I love stats and graphs, so your book log is always so pretty Have a fantastic reading year!! I will keep this in mind, thanks ! I don't know yet which one I plan on reading next. Thank you for your comments on my shelves and graphs, too ! I love statistics and graphs too, I had a lot of fun making them . Thank you! Happy, happy reading year, Gaia! This is a great start to your new thread, just beautiful! Thanks Kate !! Thank you ! WHat great pics ! And is that a TOtoro in the background ? Thanks! Yes, it is . It's my boyfriend's, we both really like it. Hope you have a good reading year in 2015. Thanks, Claire ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anisia Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 This is already such an amazing thread, loved all the charts and photos! Happy reading in 2015! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted January 1, 2015 Author Share Posted January 1, 2015 This is already such an amazing thread, loved all the charts and photos! Happy reading in 2015! Thank you, I wish you happy reading in 2015, too ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobblybear Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Oh wow, so many books and pictures and statistics! I love it! I love the plush microbes that you have (on your fantasy bookshelves) as well. I hope you have a happy reading year in 2015, Gaia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 I spy Waddles the Penguin - I have him too! Happy reading! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inver Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 I love all your bookie shelve piccies....plenty reading material to choose from Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted January 2, 2015 Author Share Posted January 2, 2015 Oh wow, so many books and pictures and statistics! I love it! I love the plush microbes that you have (on your fantasy bookshelves) as well. I hope you have a happy reading year in 2015, Gaia. Thank you !! I love the plush microbes! I've got them on various shelves (though most are in the fantasy book cases as I've got the most of that), they are so cute. Thanks . I spy Waddles the Penguin - I have him too! Happy reading! Thanks Noll! I had no idea his name was Waddles, that's a nice name! I love all your bookie shelve piccies....plenty reading material to choose from Thanks Diane ! Below will follow the first review of the year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted January 2, 2015 Author Share Posted January 2, 2015 Charles Yu - How to Life Safely in a Science Fictional Universe Genre: Science-fiction Age-range: Adult Format: Hardback Pages: 233 Date read: 30-12-2014 <-> 01-01-2015 Synopsis (me):An engineer who repairs time travel machines gets stuck in a time loop. My thoughts: I found this book at the library and its cover and title intruiged me. This book was quite different from most science-fiction books. For starters, it's quite mindboggling, a lot of the concepts and ideas are certainly things that make you think. The book has quite some funny moments in it, which I enjoyed. There were quite a few plot twists in the book, and also some fourth wall breaking stuff (which was really well done). I really enjoyed reading about the world and how things worked there. The only thing I liked less, was that some of the sentences in the book were too long in my opinion. They kept on going, comma after comma. I felt it would've been better if there had been some more punctuation and smaller sentences. Other than that, I really enjoyed reading the book. It's very funny. It doesn't read as quickly as perhaps a very easy book, because of the time travel concepts that you need to wrap your head around. I really enjoyed the book though and wished I had my own copy. I do think it's certainly a book to re-read. Throughout the book you learn more about the character's back story and past. I thought these scenes were quite interesting to read. While it is a science-fiction novel with a lot of interesting concepts and passages, I also enjoyed reading these passages that were perhaps not as mindboggling, if that makes sense? Overall then I quite enjoyed reading this book. It was funny and there were some really interesting sentences, scenes and concepts. I also liked the illustrations that were in the book from time to time. I had some issues with the writing style in certain scenes, mainly because I felt some of the sentences were a bit long. I do recommend this if you like a sort of mindboggling time travel science fictiony type read. Rating: (*****) (9/10) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anisia Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Sounds like an interesting read. I want to read more sci-fi books this year, so I might check if we have this at the library Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Signor Finzione Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Amazing bookshelves! I almost died with envy when I saw the fantasy ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
julie Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Happy Reading this year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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