#TopTenTuesday 10 Things To Do Once You’ve Finished A Book

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Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

The rules are simple:

  • Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
  • Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
  • Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists.
  • Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

Book StackThis week is a ‘freebie’ for which we’re invited to come up with our own topic. My list contains some suggestions for things to do once you’ve finished a book. 

  1. If you use it, update the status of the book on Goodreads to ‘Read’ [Me: Show off progress towards my Reading Challenge]
  2. Decide what rating to give the book [Me: Then change my mind a couple of times]
  3. Write a review [Me: Attempt to decipher my scrawled notes, curse a bit and decide to come back to it later] 
  4. Publish your review [Me: Notice all the things I meant to say but didn’t and the spelling mistakes]
  5. Copy the review to Goodreads, NetGalley, Amazon, etc [Me: If I remember/can be bothered]
  6. Share the review on social media [Me: Try not to dwell on the amount of likes it gets]
  7. Read other readers’ reviews of the book [Me: Decide their reviews are so much better than mine or think – wait, did we read the same book?]
  8. Decide whether to put the book back on your bookshelf or put it in the pile for the charity shop [Me: Who am I kidding that this is an actual choice?]
  9. Check out other books by the same author [Me: Add them all to my To-Read shelf on Goodreads thus ensuring it continues to expand at the same rate as the universe]   
  10. Decide what you fancy reading next [Me: Check which book I was due to have read by tomorrow]

Can you identify with any of these?

16 thoughts on “#TopTenTuesday 10 Things To Do Once You’ve Finished A Book”

  3. 😂😂😂 Identify with them all especially – not freaking out over social media interaction (or lack of) get the authors back catalogue that I’m going to read immediately and then don’t for ages 😂

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  4. Scrawled notes which I can’t follow:check; post review on goodreads and netgalley but forget amazon and waterstone’s; check. One extra one I do if its a kindle ed is mark so many paras that I struggle with them while writing my review and end up leaving them aside altogether

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    1. I always forget Waterstones! I highlight lots in my Kindle as well but, maybe because it’s old, it has the annoying habit of deleting them if I’ve downloaded another book or moved a book between collections in the meantime so I have to go hunting in the My Clippings document for them. (For a long time I didn’t know there was such a thing.)

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  10. Perfect list! I do all these same things, including reading others’ reviews and marvelling at how they’re able to say the same I was trying to say but SO much more eloquently. There are definitely times,though—like you said—that I wonder if we even read the same book. Ha ha! Just one of the many things I love about book blogging.

    Happy TTT!

    Susan
    http://www.blogginboutbooks.com

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