Spending too much time here

FriedGreenTomatoes2

We’ve been going 19 years HPQ
I started it with a health visitor friend when we both worked at the same hospital. We’d stop and chat on the corridors about what we were reading and suggest recommendations! Then finally decided to start a book club. At our first meeting we agreed to meet every other month as we felt monthly meetings would be too prescriptive. Readers like the opportunity to have time to read their own choices too in conjunction with book club reads. I think that’s why we’ve stayed the course and have 15 members!

Goodness, I’m wittering on … 😮

well done, ours folded with Covid and never got going again. I shall have a look at The Whalebone. Good luck !

My usage of GN goes in waves.
I spend a lot of time on here for maybe a couple of weeks, and then I get a bit bored so drift off again for a month or so.
It’s quite a small site so you see lots of the same people saying the same things.

sodapop

I'm quite disciplined about the amount of time I spend on social media. I wish I could say the same about my reading habit, always looking for a moment to read ' just another chapter'.

I read at night, probably why I'm not a morning person.

Right, time to log off, do some crocheting.

I have to look at my emails, FB and do three word puzzles before I can usually start something productive. Although I can manage to start the washing machine beforehand.

As I'm not a morning person this suits me fine; getting up at 6.45 am and rushing around making packed lunches, breakfasts, children off to school, myself ready for work was done on auto-pilot. Ok as long as no-one asked a question such as "where's my gym kit" or "I've got Home Ec today and forgot to get my ingredients ready".

Oh, the bliss of Wordle now 😁

We’ve been going 19 years HPQ
I started it with a health visitor friend when we both worked at the same hospital. We’d stop and chat on the corridors about what we were reading and suggest recommendations! Then finally decided to start a book club. At our first meeting we agreed to meet every other month as we felt monthly meetings would be too prescriptive. Readers like the opportunity to have time to read their own choices too in conjunction with book club reads. I think that’s why we’ve stayed the course and have 15 members!

Goodness, I’m wittering on … 😮

The novel is *’The Whalebone Theatre’ *HPQ.
To be honest I’d never have bought it - so thank you book club! I’m enjoying it immensely. I’ve worked out I’ll have read it by Monday night - all being well. 😁

Ultimately, who the heck cares what I think anyway?!
🤣 👏
We'd have to have a very puffed up sense of our own self-importance to believe everyone is hanging off our every word!

FriedGreenTomatoes2

I’m reading a really good novel right now. It’s our book club read, almost 600 pages and I have to finish it by Wednesday. That’s stopping my GN gallop a bit. I agree with what you say NGM and Dickens - you expressed my own thoughts better than I could. Made me think.

Is it because it’s winter? Cosy, warm at home and so …
I don’t have childcare commitments, I don’t bake, craft or knit. I’m not into keep fit, gyms or churches with their activities.

#lazygran. 😂

Crikey, 600 page read, that's an ambitious choice for a book club! What is the book? Pre-covid, I was a member of a small book club and one of my colleagues would turn to the last page of our next book, and if it was in excess of 300 pages she said she was unlikely to finish it.

I think about all the things I could have done instead of reading threads on GN....but some are so interesting and I occasionally add a comment like I have just done!

I'm quite disciplined about the amount of time I spend on social media. I wish I could say the same about my reading habit, always looking for a moment to read ' just another chapter'.

silverlining48

I keep meaning to leave because I spend/ waste far far too much time on GN.
Maybe it’s not too late to make a new resolution.

Don’t leave! I’d miss you!

I’m reading a really good novel right now. It’s our book club read, almost 600 pages and I have to finish it by Wednesday. That’s stopping my GN gallop a bit. I agree with what you say NGM and Dickens - you expressed my own thoughts better than I could. Made me think.

Is it because it’s winter? Cosy, warm at home and so …
I don’t have childcare commitments, I don’t bake, craft or knit. I’m not into keep fit, gyms or churches with their activities.

#lazygran. 😂

I am not on social media apart from GN so am always surprised how posters know so much about people I haven’t even heard of.

YouTube is my real addiction, but it's in the evening when I might otherwise be watching TV. It's usually much more entertaining than anything that's on TV and I can choose whether to watch dance, music, TV, travel, clothes or makeup, or old TV or films, depending on what I feel like.

GN is ten minutes now and again.

Me too - I was told that Secretaries have big bottoms because they sit down a lot. I’m not a Secretary but I certainly sit down a lot …….

I keep meaning to leave because I spend/ waste far far too much time on GN.
Maybe it’s not too late to make a new resolution.

I only use Facebook and GN.

Yes, if I stop for a coffee, I browse through.

But now, am going to read my library book!

I find if I am on my phone I am on here all the time - if I use my laptop it is less. I think smartphones are like crack

I don't know if it's old-age or simple 'escapism' - or even addiction - but yes I know I spend too much time on here.

In fact, your post has prompted me to be more disciplined.

I'm on too many threads, sticking my oar in, and I'm going to curtail it.

Ultimately, who the heck cares what I think anyway?!

Thanks for the post!