#BBAW
Book Blogger
Appreciation Week
2016
Day 3
Day 3: What have you read and loved because of a fellow blogger?
OMG, this is just impossible to answer! There would be way too many, and I don’t remember who recommended what!
BUT, I’m glad to ask, because,
at about the turn of the year, realizing precisely that: no way to remember why this or that book is on my Goodreads TBR (don’t laugh, 1,153 books right now as I write this, but probably many more by the time you read it, lol), who recommended it to me,
I decided to remedy that problem!
Words And Peace 
WoW! That’s a lot on your to-read list! I’d be terrified…I keep my to-read list to an absolute minimum. I sometimes go in and whittle that list down too!! 0.o
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thanks for stopping by Risa! Believe it or not, I do some regular whittling as well!! So how do you resist adding books when you bump into sthg that sounds too good to pass?
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I try to include this kind of private note to myself on LibraryThing when I add a book to my TBR list there, because I realized that I would never remember who recommended what!
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I wish I had been as wise as you earlier on!
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I do the same as Laurie – private comment when I add it to my LibraryThing account. Some people are such prolific recommenders that they have their own tag (for example I have a well used “Mark’s Fault” tag on many of my LibraryThing To Reads.
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great idea!
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I love the idea of doing a recommended by! There’s so many books I’ve picked up because of recommendations but when it comes down to actually reading it I don’t remember who told me about it in the first place!
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yep, that was my problem, and sometimes I am, why on earth did I put this book on my TBR?? so that’s why now I add this comment on my Goodreads shelf
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I don’t really keep track, but usually it’s not “a” fellow blogger, it’s more like fellow bloggers (emphases on the “s”). It’s a cumulative effect. If one of my favorite bloggers likes it maybe I’ll read it, if two like it then it goes higher on my list. If three or more recommend it, it becomes a must read.
For example: The Winemaker Series which I heard about on your blog but also on Anne’s Le French Book blog. That made me enter a LibraryThing givaway for one. I won it and I’m hooked.
PS: I’m not participating in BBAW, but I am following it.
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thanks for stopping by and commenting. I hope one day on you can participate in BBAW. I’d love to see the 5 books you would choose to present yourself. Ah yes, Anne is the publisher, so I’m glad you follow what’s going on at Le French Book, great stuff!
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That is a great idea to add recommend by to keep track. I agree I have no idea who recommended what I just have a long TBR list.
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I see I’m not the only one, lol
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Reading how many books you have on your GR to-read shelf makes me feel a little better about the number on my shelf. 🙂 I wish I were a little better at remembering who recommended what as well.
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and Adam told me he had over 1,800, so my turn to feel better, lol
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I have a line in my TBR spreadsheet for this! But as soon as I actually read the book, I take it off my TBR spreadsheet and lose the information about who first recommended it to me. So I need to find a better system!
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do you have a spreadsheet for books to review or books read? then you could transfer that info there
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I have not kept track of where I get recommendations. Some I remember, but many – not so much. I guess I’m OK with that because often when I write a review, someone will comment on how much they loved that book or whatnot and then I remember.
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I guess that would not work for me, because I follow over 400 blogs, too large for my old memory, lol
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Love this idea! I don’t have GR anymore but may try to implement this in Edelweiss. I do have a few tags of other bloggers’ names so it wouldn’t be too hard to make that a more formal system — thanks for the idea!
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yes, tagging sounds good to. May I know why you quit GR??
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Oh, this is perfect! The screen shot is hilarious (I had to go look at mine and I’m sitting at 1,819 on TBR). But what I love is that you had a hard time remembering the “who.” I did, too! I really wanted to do a specific recommendation for all 5 books, but I couldn’t remember who had done the recommending for most…. so I picked two that I was sure of and the other 3 I had to sort of generalize. I love the idea of keeping track of who recommended books to you, because, I don’t know, it’s a good idea. 🙂
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I feel better now with your 1,819!!
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This is the exact same problem I encountered when writing this post. By and large I have no idea who recommended what!
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it seems a common problem among us all!
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That’s a lovely idea. May I borrow it too? Thank you. 🙂
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please do! that’s part of the fun of book blogging, we share tips and ways of doing things
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I was losing track too so in my TBR spreadsheet I started to add a note about who recommended the book or where did I read about it with a link. I don’t delete anything from the list (I just have a column where I mark what is read) so when I do read it I still have the data.
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smart move!
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I need to keep better track of why I read books, too! I discovered that when I was going through my read books for this prompt!
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amazing the things we all discovered this week!
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