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Oh, fanfiction totally counts! Lately I've fallen away from fanfic...

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Date: Mon, 07-Oct-2024 7:49:04 AM PDT
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In topic: πŸ“šπŸ“šπŸ“šWhatcha Reading SZ? October 2024 Edition πŸ“šπŸ“šπŸ“š posted by Wahoo
In reply to: I'm still 15 books behind on my Goodreads challenge for the year.... posted by Jenners97
I have the Great Beyond by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keogh on hold from the library, which I'm super excited about.

That sounds like a really interesting book! I'm not generally a fan of biographies or autobiographies but I bet LMP had a lot of great stories.

I'm currently reading The Last September which isn't hooking me but I am gonna force myself to read b/c I'm 15 books behind and I'm like 1/4 though.

I get that 😁

I've also started reading the bridgerton books which....aren't as good as the show. I'm supposed to read all of nine of them. Half way through the Duke and I and I'm like, these are not my Bridgerton! lol

I've neither watched the series nor read the books but it's kind of a twist that the show is better for some people. Most of the time, I prefer a book to the movie or TV series based on it. One exception for me: the Lord of the Rings movies. I watched those first, loved them, then read the books and thought the books were a bit bloated and a tad boring compared to the movies. But I'm sure a lot of Tolkien fans/diehard fans of the books disagree with me <g>.

Next up is Just Another Missing Person by Gillian McAllister.

I just checked out the description of this book and...yep, adding it to my never-ending list.

I need a more realistic idea of what I'm going to be willing to read when I sent my Goodreads goal. And ugh, that fanfiction doesn't count (I mean, I'm not sure I'd be willing to log it anyway but still).

My problem is I tend to read the fanfiction for whatever series I'm currently watching, then after my interest in the show wanes, so does my interest in the fanfic. I started off years ago reading fanfic for a little known show The Sentinel (aired for a few seasons back on UPN...the show was good but the fanfic writers were better. Over the years, I also got lost in fanfic for Stargate, Stargate: Atlantis, Criminal Minds, Supernatural, NCIS, NCIS: LA, Hawaii 5-0 (the reboot), Chronicles of Narnia, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, the Twilight books and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Occasionally I'd read fanfic from shows long off the air like Diagnosis Murder, Starsky and Hutch, and Alias Smith and Jones. I'm sure I'm missing a few shows...anyways, right now, I'm not into any shows enough to read the fanfic, and that saddens me a little. Often the fanfic writers do a better job than the show writers.


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