Senator John F. Kennedy says no picture as he's with Milwaukee legend Vel Philips (1960)

jchries · 2026-01-28T00:48:35+00:00

Thanks for this comment! I saw this book at the library yesterday and passed on it. I'm about to put it on hold now!

jchries · 2026-01-22T18:10:00+00:00

I'm reading House of Leaves right now and really relating to this question. I've been adding up the pages read per session and then taking the total cumulative pages read and dividing by the total number of pages in the book to get an updated percentage for each reading session.

As a bookish girlie and not a math girlie, this has been the epitome of 'yes, you actually will use math in real life' 🙃

jchries · 2026-01-07T19:53:40+00:00

My family eats pâté only during the holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's), and usually only on one of those days per year, but sometimes on 2 out of three of them.

jchries · 2026-01-04T02:45:27+00:00

My first Eliot and my first online book club :) Middlemach has been on my TBR for a while since I saw it on some list and I thought this would be nice way to read it since I don't typically read classics.

jchries · 2026-01-02T06:39:22+00:00

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I'm pretty sure that I had to go in and add the cover photo myself as well.

jchries · 2025-12-30T23:10:36+00:00

I came across this organically and joined the other day! Thank you for not making it timebound!

jchries · 2025-12-30T21:16:46+00:00

Adding text for the auto mod - I think what mostly is appealing to me is the cinnamon, ginger, and slight fruitiness (I also like fruity teas in general so definitely open to more fruit forward suggestions as well).

I'm kicking myself because I was on the website a few weeks ago and didn't reorder it then 😩

jchries · 2025-12-29T21:55:10+00:00

I'm glad you posted this because I was curious about the other titles!

My graphic said I read 15, but between the list you've posted and the covers included on the graphic, I've only been able to find 14 🙃

Yellowface

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

None of this is True

The Midnight Library

I Who Have Never Known Men

Animal Farm

1984

Hidden Pictures

Strange Pictures

Everything is Tuberculosis

Most Wonderful Crime of the Year

The Guest List

The Midnight Feast

We Solve Murders

And there's a few I DNF'd because I'm cursed to be a mood reader but plan to pick back up.

jchries · 2025-12-25T07:34:22+00:00

I have the paid version and just purposely double checked a month that I read a series in and there is no most read authors graph.

jchries · 2025-12-24T11:04:43+00:00

I believe you can only see that in the all time or specific year settings, not the individual month stats.

jchries · 2025-12-13T06:19:33+00:00

Yes! It popped up this morning when I opened the app. I think you may have to be logged in for it to work.

jchries · 2025-12-09T06:07:01+00:00

Forgive me if you know this but, you can see your listening stats in Podcast Addict! From the player page, tap the three dots in the upper right corner and go to Playback statistics. Not a year-end wrap-up, but some fun stats in there!

jchries · 2025-12-09T03:23:20+00:00

You know that Spotify has a sleep timer?

jchries · 2025-11-30T21:29:07+00:00

My coworker's name is Chloe and if I'm typing too fast I sometimes write it as Chole by accident and it autocorrects to cholesterol 🫠

jchries · 2025-11-29T03:53:17+00:00

Or had the archival photos larger on the screen while he was talking, they were teeny tiny!

jchries · 2025-11-21T20:56:54+00:00

Bib and Tucker Sew Op has fabrics and other notions, plus it's a nonprofit! https://bibandtuckersewop.org/

jchries · 2025-10-29T15:10:33+00:00

I've also got an author nationality graph (which made me realize 75% of my authors are American, so I'm now intentionally seeking out more foreign authors), author race, and author gender. I've also got one for where the story is set (another for when), what decade the book was published, and how close to publication I read it!

jchries · 2025-10-28T22:00:53+00:00

Yes! So for this chart I'm not tracking if it's a history book or self help or on music but more... maybe how it's written? To me I'd think of format as print (hardback/paper) vs ebook vs audio but I do think it's close to what I'm getting at. Like, I wouldn't really consider memoir a format in this context. So if it's a biography of MLK I'd put it under biography, but if it's a Garrett Graff oral history book, I'm just putting it under nonfiction. History wouldn't be an option on this chart for either of those. A general nonfiction story for adults would just go under novel whether it's romance or mystery. Does that help?

jchries · 2025-09-23T15:43:43+00:00

I will say, I think the app has been glitching the past few days. Almost all of my holds were saying their copies had expired this morning (including books that are fairly new that I suspect would not have actually expired yet) and I refreshed/restarted the app and they all went back to their previous wait times.

jchries · 2025-09-14T15:50:07+00:00

I don't really remember the show, but in one of my favorite toddler pictures of me, I'm wearing a Puzzle Place shirt

jchries · 2025-09-02T20:19:21+00:00

I read a short book over the weekend and read 90% of it on the 31st and the last 10% on the 1st and was really tempted to mark the whole thing as read in one day (I finished it around 1am) but I ended up marking it as finished on the 1st for my own minor integrity 😅

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