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Technology is great, isn’t it?

Years ago, I used to forget about a book (seemingly) moments after reading it.

Then, Instagram was invented and I developed a GENIUS system wherein I took a picture of every book I read and posted the picture with a unique hashtag. Whenever someone asked me to recommend a book I’d read, I could search that hashtag and all my saved book photos would come up.

I even got fancy at one point and realized that I could make a highlight of all the books I’d read. Then I learned that the max number of photos in a highlight is 100, so I want back to the original, tried and true system.

Well.

Instagram changed the way they do hashtags. I can’t search anymore. I’m annoyed. And frustrated. And I’ve stopped posting about the books I’m reading.

So.

Here’s the new solution. I’ve managed to grab screenshots from instagram of all my old book posts (probably? maybe?) and from now on I’ll be keeping my list here. On my very own blog. Over which I have total control. (Just so you know what’s going on here). (I mean, I suppose I could start using the Goodreads account I abandoned 11 years ago, but what would I do with all these photos?)

Have you read any of these? Have any to recommend?

A few from the old Goodreads account and/or that I didn’t take photos of because of the ‘system collapse’ funk:

• James
• After Annie
• City of Thieves
• Beautiful Ruins
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers
• Cutting for Stone
• The Thorn Birds
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
• The Invisible Bridge
• Those Who Save Us
• A Thousand Splendid Suns
• The Soldier’s Wife
• Middlesex
• Wuthering Heights
• The Fault in Our Stars
• Gone Girl
• The Road
• the Weight of Water
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• The Language of Flowers
• The Red Tent
• The Paris Wife
• Stones from the River
• House of Sand and Fog
• The Prince of Tides
• Loving Frank
• Little Bee
• The Art of Racing in the Rain
• Room
• The Help
• I Know This Much is True
• The Lowland
• The Lovely Bones
• Life After Life
• The Time Traveler’s Wife
• Life of Pi
• The English Patient
• The Poisonwood Bible
• The Kite Runner
• Gone with the Wind
• Little Women
• The Shipping News
• Cold Mountain
• East of Eden
• The Cider House Rules
• Jane Eyre
• The Great Gatsby

I think I’ll still post on IG when I’ve added a new read here, just so you’ll know to check.

We all feel better now, right?

TO BE READ

Maybe THIS is the reason that fate/(technology) has decided to frustrate me by sabotaging my book recording system.  Never have I ever had a consistent system for keeping track of books that I want to read.  Until NOW …

(What should I add to this list?)

 

• Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Wedding People by Alison Espach
• The Winemaker’s Wife by Kristin Harmel
• The Goddess of Warsaw
• The Latecomer
• The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife
• Lion Women of Tehran
• This is How it Always Is

Thanks for looking,

~Jaye