A man with too many interests. Science Fiction and Fantasy Enthusiast. Come back often for reviews and commentary from the realms of speculative fiction.
@@LetsReadSFF Eh, just feel that a books should not be bound by formal structure because of genre expectations, Lieber was certainly able to write action but here he chose not too and that is intresting. I felt that the review was genrally dismissive and condecending and chose to only focus on the negatives and did so with great emthisis.
Patiently waiting the 2023 Spreadsheet. I love your spreedsheets and I’ve been using them since 2019. I really aprecciate all your hard work and the effort you put in them.
One is indeed coming. A but behind my intended schedule, but also excited to move everything into a new year. My revised plan is to have it out sometime this week.
This is the first video of yours that I have found, so maybe you have already visited it in another, but there is a LFL in Airdrie that is designed to look like Wall-E. I will definitely be watching more of your videos. Always nice to find fellow Albertans channels :)
Yes, correct! Books that are DNF can be selected from the survey. Now there are three main options. Read, Unread and DNF under STATUS if I remember correctly.
Hi! I really enojy the spreadsheet! Just a question though. In "booksurvey" I add the length of the audiobook under "Hours". But it won't show up in "Hours Listened" on the "Summary" page. Is there a particular format that you're supposed to fill it in? Or am I just not understanding it? Thank you to both you and all the others compiling this tracker!
I took a look. It's working as long as the format is set to audio and the book has a completed date. Most of the stats won't show up until a date completed is assigned to the Book Survey in Column C. Does that work?
Yeah. Good luck with Sundiver. Haven't met anybody yet that finished that book. But, since it seems to have some popularity, somebody evidently has. Sure wasn't me. I tried because I wanted to read a David Brin book, but, thought it was pretty bad. But, maybe that's just me. Other books in you list are unfamiliar to me, so, I'll give them a look. Thanks for that.
Thank you to everyone who made this spreadsheet, especially Brock!! Looking forward to more content from you! Also, do you know of any other Local RU-vidrs/BookTubers? I live in the same city as you!
who in the world would vandalize something that is meant to benefit the community???? Little free libraries are super neat and cute! I would chase the hooligans down if I caught them
Ooop, I have another question. haha. I want to record all my acquisitions from before 2021, but I think the stats are limited to this year? How do I change the conditions of the date column to include the books from years before 2021 into the other categories too? So, I can input dates before this year, but then in my charts, only the 2021 books are showing up. If that makes sense...
Ah yes. Right now the spreadsheet only works for its designated year. It's always been a goal to make it include data over multiple years, but haven't found an elegant way to do that. This might be the push I need to try.
I might be missing it, but why isn't there a column for Author Race? Like instead of Race just being under diversity, having an individual chart for, I read 16 Black authors, 3 Indian, 4 Native American, etc.
Because I've not yet found a good way to record and show that information without adding fifteen more columns. I've never been happy with my curent solution because issues of disability and race can be separate things and some stories may have aspects of both. Be it by author, by theme, I've run into to situations where I'm assigning traits and categories which might not reflect the author's intent or identity at all. I suppose a column could be created similar to Country but with labels for race as well.
It's also of how granular should it be. Native American, First Nations and Indigenous as one lump of people, or could it be broken into the various peoples that exist within those groups?
I still have unread books on my shelves that were making the BookTube rounds in 2013 when I started my channel. I think I will be adding these to my "39 books to read in my 39th year" list (yes, I have unapologetically stole this idea from Simon at Savage Reads), which will commence in July. This year I've been enjoying(?) deeply emotional memoirs and breaking them up with short story collections (weird fiction, dark fantasy, or horror, mostly). Although, last night, Authority by Jeff VamderMeer was calling and I'm intrigued by the change of narration from Annihilation. Nice to see you face again!
Congrats on not buying books and so nice to see your face again. I put Don Quixote aside as I really didn't like the German translation. I keep meaning to try different translations to get back to it. How do you like your edition?
I'm enjoying the Walter Starkie translation. It's a very jovial translation (so far). I originally thought it was going to be quite dry, but it's very approachable.
