What happened to this group?

What happened to this group? It used to be pretty active.
But in the 9 1/2 months of 2019 there have been only 6 posts in just one thread, and nothing else. Is everyone just sitting on their sofas watching Game of Thrones re-runs?

Even in 2018 and 2017 there were only three threads each year. But look at the previous years -- lots of traffic in 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 and on back. Is it because Terry Pratchett died?

I didn't come here to complain. I just read a review of a forthcoming fantasy novel in an online Welsh newspaper and came here to post the link. (I have nothing to do with the book, the author or the news service -- just thought it might be of interest.) Anyway, here it is:
https://nation.cymru/culture/review-the-vagabond-king-is-a-fantasy-thriller-insp...

Think Librarything as a whole has quieted down. Could be misperception though.

Are you not counting the monthly "What are we reading?" threads? I seem to recall those happening once a month and getting a few responses.

Could be they decided to read than talk.
Or that just the talk threads have faded to the background, because people prefer GR or Twitter or other places.

>3 gilroy:
Yeah, come to think of itI've been getting those 'Where are you in Fantasyland' posts on my home page. But if you look o the Fantastyfans page none of those from 2018 or 2018 are shown -- just much older ones. surely they should appear... is this a bug of some kind?

https://www.librarything.com/groups/fantasyfans

>4 Crypto-Willobie:

Boy, am I dumb! I have those 'Where are you in Fantasyland' posts on Ignore for my home page. I didn't realize that would make them invisible when I came to the Group page. I wish I could see them here but not on my Homepage Talk Module.

And so here are a couple fantasy re-issues I'd been meaning to post here:

Kingdoms of Elfin
https://www.handheldpress.co.uk/shop/fantasy-and-science-fiction/sylvia-townsend...

and The Cat's Cradle Book (with a few fugitive Elfin stories tacked on)
https://www.handheldpress.co.uk/shop/fantasy-and-science-fiction/sylvia-townsend...

By the incomparable Sylvia Townsend Warner, author of the witchcraft novel Lolly Willowes. And fwiw she was the niece-by-marriage of the great Arthur Machen. (Her mother was the sister of Machen's second wife.)

>6 Crypto-Willobie: Thanks for the STW links. I've read Lolly Willowes and some of her less fantastic novels but need to read the short stories. She was such an interesting writer.

I used to be pretty active on LT, but several years ago, I discovered FB groups of many varieties, and I've been much more active there. It also seems GR has surged ahead of LT as the preferred book-sharing site of the masses, though I personally don't use it. I've also found myself getting sloppier about my personal library cataloging (which is why I'm here now, trying to get caught up), even though I have more free time now than I did years ago when I was obsessive about getting new purchases onto the site almost immediately. I'd also blame a bit on politics, as I was never so caught up in them as I have been for the past 3 years.

>8 bookstothesky: well, welcome back to LT!