Jessica’s Comments (group member since Jan 07, 2012)

Jessica’s comments from the The Dusty Bookshelf group.

Oh yeah! Sorry about that. I will finish it by this evening.

I'm not but that's a good idea. It would make you feel accomplished finishing tons of books quickly :)

Thanks for finding that quote Hayley. A lot of the updates to the policy are hidden in that massive thread (I saw someone say that if anyone read the whole thing it should count towards their 2013 reading challenge lol). That makes me feel a little better. I hope it means they notify everyone from now on that violates the TOS. The date is confusing me because they don't say what they will do after that date. But I imagine they will notify everyone from now on.

I agree that this is not a site for online battles. I love talking about books with all of you guys here! :)

To add to that - they obviously can (and already have) deleted people's stuff since it's their site and they can do whatever they want. But unless they clarify their process of enforcing this TOS change it's makes me reluctant to invest my thoughts here. I feel like I have to back up my data frequently and cross post it on other book sites. I should probably do that anyway, but still... :) Reassurance would be nice that they aren't just going to be delete happy.

I think Goodreads has a right to whatever policy they decide since it's their site. I read a garage analogy that I thought was really good. If Mike has a garage where he lets you store your stuff for free, he has every right to change his mind (even if he doesn't have a good reason) and not store your stuff anymore. However, with that same analogy, if you were storing your stuff there and Mike just threw it away without warning, you would be pretty pissed. Your justified reaction would be "Why didn't you just tell me! I could have moved it."

I see the need for more civility and less drama on this site. BUT I don't feel comfortable with the outright deleting of things without a) a way for me to defend or justify myself b) a chance to change my content to comply with the TOS and/or c) a way to back up my data before it's permanently deleted. I feel the process of removing content is unfair and makes me feel uncomfortable. What if my content was flagged unfairly and just flat out deleted without me being able to do anything about it? Or what if they have a script running all this deleting and something of mine gets deleted accidentally? Their statement makes it sound like that any inappropriate content after Sept 21 will just be outright deleted and cannot be restored at all.

I know there was a case of a blogger on facebook who was flagged as a plagarist because an author was suing a publisher for the use of a title name and his way of defending his title was flagging and sending cease and desist notices to any blogger who mentioned this title's name. The blogger was able to defend themselves to facebook (because facebook removed it from the public and did not just outright delete it) and they eventually reinstated her post. Goodreads could learn from facebook how to respect their users while keeping a civil site.

Just my two cents. :)

Thanks for making the poll! here's the link for anyone that still wants to vote

http://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/90...

Lilaboti - I'm going to start his second book A Thousand Splendid Suns this week! I think it totally counts!!

Tanya - I love that list. There are tons of authors on there that I love reading. It's so fun to read the books by famous authors that don't get a lot of hype - a lot of them are really good ones.

I'm reading The Hourglass Door and the next book The Golden Spiral for my challenge. They've both been on my shelf for only a year. They're just babies! But they are getting dusty and I need to read them.

I wish I could have read with you guys, too :( Maybe next RAT. :)

Hayley - glad you're okay!

Alana - that's awesome. yay for being busy! reading or otherwise :)

Tanya - I haven't read the Knife of Never Letting Go, but I've heard really good things about it. The first book is sitting on my kindle. You know getting digitally dusty ;)

Alana - the waiting list for my library is like over 600 people for it. O.o I guess I'll be buying it LOL

Yay I'm glad you guys are bringing back the readathon. We did one last year and it was so fun :). Count me in.

And I'm going to read cuckoos calling this month too!! Lol. I don't think I can save it until the readathon. It's very next on my list. Love the hashtag Hayley!

A read a thon thread is such a good idea! I love doing those. If you're on twitter we can do a hash tag if you want. :)

Alana - Ha ha I thought the same thing about the John Galt chapter! I think she had a good point where she showed that even if you are completely "selfish" you do end up helping others around you. But I think people living to the extreme that she showed would end up more like Scrooge than anything. I agree that the other extreme is just as bad where people feel entitled to help. I'm glad I finished it. I learned a lot about being more objective but no way would I go to that extreme. I think it's so important to care for and help others.

Hayley I'm on season 1!! Lol. I will be tweeting about it now that I know you are watching it. I love the little jabs at other crime shows. :)

I love Rick riordan! I read the lost hero but I haven't continued the series yet. I learn so much mythology when I read his books :)

It's that season of no TV shows - summer. I have been watching Psych on Hulu. Has anyone watched it? My kind of crime show. Very funny and not at all scary. I think it would be a cozy mystery...wasn't there a discussion of cozy mysteries somewhere in this group? :)

So does anyone watch TV in the summer? Or do you like to read more in the summer?

So does your book shed have a name? Like after a library or something? :) That's so cool!

I don't know what age group your kids are, but some really fun books that I got recently at the library that my 4 and 6 yo love are the Mo Willems books.

I'm still chugging through Atlas Shrugged, which was has been on my shelf intimidating me for years. When I finally finish it, I'm going to start Princess Academy by Shannon Hale who is a local Utah author. It's only been on my shelf a year, but I'm excited to read it.

Hey Michelle! I never got to welcome you to the group :) I think I buy 3 books for every one I read too LOL. I'm pretty sure my books breed in their sleep...

I agree with Hayley - there's no right way to read a book and I love all the formats they come in :)