i withdrew from my goodreads reading challenge a month ago. i had pledged to read 50 books that year and ended up just not keeping to it in favour of reading the books I truly, wholeheartedly enjoy. and that is one fault i have with that app: that it had turned reading into some sort of competition. my friends currently do not have goodreads, but my old friends did and we'd compare book goals and everything almost religiously and somewhere along the way I had found that I wasn't reading the books I truly wanted to. I was just reading to place a tick next to the space that said 'you are 3 books behind schedule'. I don't think I'd ever delete my account. I don't got the guts to. I rarely use it anyway, just log in to leave the occasional review of a book I finished and I find myself giving more 5 stars than 1 stars these past few days 'cause I am finally reading for myself, not for some stupid goal
i withdrew from my goodreads reading challenge a month ago. i had pledged to read 50 books that year and ended up just not keeping to it in favour of reading the books I truly, wholeheartedly enjoy. and that is one fault i have with that app: that it had turned reading into some sort of competition. my friends currently do not have goodreads, but my old friends did and we'd compare book goals and everything almost religiously and somewhere along the way I had found that I wasn't reading the books I truly wanted to. I was just reading to place a tick next to the space that said 'you are 3 books behind schedule'. I don't think I'd ever delete my account. I don't got the guts to. I rarely use it anyway, just log in to leave the occasional review of a book I finished and I find myself giving more 5 stars than 1 stars these past few days 'cause I am finally reading for myself, not for some stupid goal
this is so so so eye opening n wonderful.