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  1. See also: a great year long Power Broker podcast/read along by 99% Invisible: 99percentinvisible.org/pb/

    Here's the book write-up & links to purchase it via Caro's website (incl. independent friendlies Powells and Bookshop.org): robertcaro.org/the-power-broker

    #GoodReads #ThePowerBroker

  2. I finished a long book for the first time in years...

    If you've read The Power Broker (which won a well deserved Pulitzer), you already know the impact of Robert Moses – not just in NYC, but on nearly every highway, neighborhood, mass transit system, or city/town in America.

    #GoodReads #NewYorkCity #NYC #Power #ThePowerBroker

  3. All it takes is one great review from a happy customer... and we are good working for free for at least another 18 months! If you like what we do, please review "After Dinner Conversation" stories on #Amazon, #Goodreads, or elsewhere.

  4. 📚 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6) - J.K. Rowling (2005) ★★★★★

    goodreads.com/review/show/8872

    #Goodreads #Libros

  5. Well, I wasn't able to finish my August reading goals. The last few days I've been way too tired to read more than a few pages. No regrets, because I had a great time at the conference!

    I'll take the first few days of the new month to finish.

    #books #reading #goodreads

  6. I am 66 books into this year, and next up I shall be rereading this one. I have it on my Kindle (other ebook readers are available) but feel that I need an actual physical copy sitting on my politics shelf.

    #CurrentlyReading #Goodreads #ReadingChallenge #Bibliophile #Booklovers #Bookworm #Politics #SinclairLewis #ItCantHappenHere

  7. What does it mean to be displaced and how does this impact memory? As a graphic novel, 'The Wolf of Baghdad' explores the England Carol Isaacs was born into and the lost world of her Iraqi-Jewish roots.

    Sandi Toksvig described 'The Wolf of Baghdad' as being a book 'where you fall inside the story. It's wonderful.' But what impact has TWoB made since publication in 2020? Check out the comments on Goodreads.

    goodreads.com/book/show/504023

    #books #history #iraq #goodreads #uk #usa #media #politics

  8. When Shapes Take Hold

    Avery Wilde’s When Shapes Take Hold: A Cascadia Mystery is a character-driven environmental mystery set along Washington’s Hood Canal. The novel follows architect Cole Walker after his dogs uncover illegal crab traps near a waterfront lodge, a discovery that leads to forged invoices, concealed shipments, a secret tunnel, and a broader scheme threatening the surrounding community and ecosystem. Wilde develops the investigation through close attention to physical evidence, local relationships, and the rhythms of the fjord. The result is a mystery grounded as firmly in its setting as it is in criminal intrigue.

    Cole’s architectural perspective gives the story a distinctive way of observing the world. He reads landscapes, structures, light, and spatial inconsistencies with the same care that an investigator might study testimony. This sensitivity helps him recognize clues, but it also reveals his emotional life, particularly his need for openness, color, and belonging. His gradual movement from guarded isolation toward participation in the community provides the novel with a satisfying internal arc. By the epilogue, his thoughts about building have become a statement of personal growth: “How the shape of things might take hold if he listened.”

    The supporting characters give the investigation warmth and consequence. Sam’s steady competence, Tara’s vulnerability and resolve, and the community’s investment in the water make the central crime feel personal. Murphy and Cooper contribute humor and affection while also serving meaningful roles in the plot, repeatedly using their instincts to uncover dangers the human characters overlook. Wilde balances these communal scenes with moments of tension, particularly Cole’s passage through the hidden tunnel and the operation to expose the illegal harvesting network. The novel’s deliberate pacing allows its relationships, setting, and ecological concerns to develop alongside the mystery.

    When Shapes Take Hold is a story about learning to belong to a place by accepting responsibility for it. The novel connects environmental stewardship with attentiveness, courage, and public action, culminating in Cole’s defense of the fjord and the community’s recognition of his motives: “You spoke for the water. Not for yourself. People hear the difference.” Wilde presents the Hood Canal landscape as both a living system and a source of emotional meaning, giving the conclusion a sense of earned renewal. The book offers an inviting blend of regional mystery, ecological awareness, found family, and personal restoration.

    Pages: 218 | ASIN : B0H66YR4MH

    #amateurSleuth #author #AveryWilds #book #bookRecommendations #bookReview #bookReviews #bookShelf #bookblogger #books #booksToRead #crimeFiction #ebook #fiction #goodreads #indieAuthor #kindle #kobo #literature #mystery #nook #novel #read #reader #reading #story #WhenShapesTakeHold #writer #writing
  9. The Most Anticipated Fall Books, According to Goodreads Readers

    Goodreads readers’ most anticipated fall 2026 books presents a packed season featuring major comebacks, big names, and series finales.
    bookriot.com/goodreads-anticip

    #fall2026 #goodreads

  10. Knoxi’s World

    Knoxi’s World by James Nathaniel Miller II is a sprawling Christian action thriller that mixes human-trafficking conspiracies, college basketball, romance, covert rescue missions, political intrigue, and futuristic quantum technology. The story follows Knoxi Musket, an eighteen-year-old University of Texas freshman whose plans for basketball and a future in politics are interrupted when she becomes involved with Alexis Blanca, a trafficking survivor hiding behind the identity of Tejano star Glorietta Zomata. That encounter draws Knoxi and her extended circle into an international corporate scheme designed to protect and profit from forced labor. It’s a big, crowded story, but its central concern stays personal: what happens when someone sees another person suffering and decides that walking away isn’t acceptable.

    Knoxi is an appealing lead because her courage comes with fear, confusion, and emotional consequences. She can confront a hostile reporter, fight an attacker, fly into danger, and make hard decisions under pressure, but the book also lets her grieve over the people she can’t rescue. Her faith isn’t simply part of the setting. It shapes her choices, her relationships, and the way she understands responsibility. The strongest scenes often involve survivors such as Alexis, Robbie, and Peaches. Their experiences give the conspiracy a human cost, while the Muskets’ lively family relationships keep the story from becoming relentlessly grim. Humor, romance, sports talk, and affectionate teasing regularly break through the tension.

    The novel moves with the restless energy of a television action series. Chapters often end on gunshots, revelations, disappearances, or sudden changes of plan, and the narrative keeps widening until it includes cartels, compromised officials, media corporations, pirates, secret military technology, and a corporate merger with global consequences. Readers of Ted Dekker may recognize the combination of Christian conviction, physical danger, moral confrontation, and heightened reality. Miller’s approach is warmer and more family-centered than Dekker’s darker psychological suspense, though. He’s especially interested in loyalty, marriage, parenthood, and the idea that ordinary acts of compassion can ripple outward. The futuristic inventions occasionally function like narrative wild cards, but they fit the book’s enthusiastic, anything-can-happen spirit.

    What I liked most wasn’t the weaponry or the global plot. It was Knoxi’s realization that rescue work leaves wounds even when the mission succeeds. The book gives victory a complicated emotional texture, allowing her to feel relief, guilt, exhaustion, and renewed purpose at the same time. Rolfe Sagan’s surprising role also adds some welcome moral complexity, transforming a hostile media figure into someone whose final actions help expose the conspiracy, although the ending deliberately leaves questions about his fate. Knoxi’s World is earnest, energetic, and openly devotional, with a generous belief in courage, redemption, and the power of stopping for one vulnerable person.

    Pages: 297 | ASIN : B0797LYXJN

    https://open.spotify.com/episode/3KqseCZv0BKG2bAu2bMuXc?si=A3W7QrIXSGSuUWceyxmSnw

    #ActionAndAdventure #author #book #bookRecommendations #bookReview #BookReviews #bookShelf #bookblogger #books #booksToRead #christianFiction #contemporaryRomance #ebook #fiction #goodreads #indieAuthor #JamesNathanielMillerII #kindle #KnoxiSWorld #kobo #literature #nook #novel #read #reader #reading #story #womensFiction #writer #writing
  11. For those of you who do the Goodreads thing - I'm giving away 5 hardcovers of THE COLD BETWEEN, the first in my SF space opera series.

    It's a nice edition, I think. Fits well in the hand. Pretty durable, too, I find. AND you get Seth Rutledge's stunning artwork up close and personal!

    #sff #goodreads #giveaway #giveaways

    goodreads.com/giveaway/show/44

  12. Heyho du da!
    Hast du einen kurzen Moment?

    Erinnerst du dich noch an
    #Kotomori?
    Eine Plattform für alle die Geschichten lieben und Welten erschaffen. Eine Community von und für Bücher-Nerds.

    So weit so gut. Wollte nur bekanntgeben das die Seite Morgen gegen 12:00 Uhr live gehen wird.

    https://kotomori.de

    #Books #Manga #BuchBlog #BuchCommunity #bookcrossing #goodreads

    RE: https://sharkey.daddelwerk.net/notes/aoa1hd7tgtlq02c3

  13. The #koreader statstics are nice, but not really helpful for imports to #openlibrary or #bookwyrm. I guess I would have to combine them with my #calibre library for more information on the books themselves. Still, it's nice to have the data.
    Next up: comparison of #libby and #goodreads exports to see how to adjust the first to look like the latter.

  14. OK, if I want to import my reading statistics to #OpenLibrary, I need a CSV file in the #Goodreads export format. I don't have a Goodreads account, so can anyone tell me what an exported file from there looks like? I'm sure I'll be able to go from my #Libby and maybe #KOReader exports to that format (after all, ETL is a big part or my job), if only I knew what it's supposed to be.

    PS: yes, since I'm not over the @bookrastinating catastrophe, I'm trying something other than #bookwyrm for now.

  15. If you're interested in using the Fediverse's reading platform BookWyrm, you can import your existing data from Goodreads, LibraryThing, StoryGraph, OpenLibrary or Calibre. More info on how to do the import into BookWyrm in this guide:

    ➡️ fedi.tips/importing-your-data-

    If you want to find out more about BookWyrm, there's a general guide to it here:

    ➡️ fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-ne

    #FediTips #BookWyrm #Books #Reading #Goodreads #LibraryThing #StoryGraph #OpenLibrary #Alternatives #Fediverse

  16. Me ayudáis a dejar Goodreads?

    Veo que soléis usar Openreads, Openlibrary y Bookwyrm.
    Mi intención es usarlo como hasta ahora Goodreads, llevar un control de los libros que voy leyendo, de los libros que quiero leer, escribir alguna opinión de alguno que me haya gustado y leer las opiniones de los demás.
    Doy por hecho que tendré que crear muchas fichas de libros sea donde sea. Pero cual sería el más similar? Creo que sería Bookwyrm por lo que he leído.
    Y si es Bookwyrm, necesito meterme en una instancia de España, para poder leer las opiniones de los libros que vayan publicando aquí o están federados como mastodon?
    La verdad que estoy liado así que os agradezco la ayuda que me podáis dar, y así hacer las cosas más o menos bien desde el principio y no tener que estar cambiando.

    #libros #literatura #goodreads #bookwyrm #openreads #openlibrary

  17. If It’s Such Great Literature, Why Does It Only Have 3.5 Stars?

    "Do “mediocre” Goodreads ratings represent a lukewarm response to some titles, or reflect a readership passionately divided into polarised factions?"

    #SciComm by @grrlscientist

    #Literature #ClassicLit #GreatBooks #LiteraryCriticism #GoodReads #Ratings #Books grrlscientist.medium.com/about

  18. If It’s Such Great Literature, Why Does It Only Have 3.5 Stars?

    "Do “mediocre” Goodreads ratings represent a lukewarm response to some titles, or reflect a readership passionately divided into polarised factions?"

    #SciComm by @GrrlScientist

    #Literature #ClassicLit #GreatBooks #LiteraryCriticism #GoodReads #Ratings #Books grrlscientist.medium.com/about

  19. If It’s Such Great Literature, Why Does It Only Have 3.5 Stars?

    "Do “mediocre” Goodreads ratings represent a lukewarm response to some titles, or reflect a readership passionately divided into polarised factions?"

    #SciComm by @grrlscientist

    #Literature #ClassicLit #GreatBooks #LiteraryCriticism #GoodReads #Ratings #Books grrlscientist.medium.com/about

  20. #BookRecs I recommend reading The Pope at War by David Kertzer, so long as you are up for immersing yourself in the details of Vatican policy during World War Two. I live in an area where Pacelli, the pope during that period, is highly respected. He does not deserve that respect. The most frustrating thing about books like these is that they will never reach the audience that needs them most. Here is a link to my goodreads review. Note: I am not interested in arguing with Pacelli’s supporters. #Books #History #Bookstodon #Holocaust #WorldWar2 #Fascists #Reading #BookReview #GoodReads #JewishAuthors #Jewish

    goodreads.com/review/show/5755

  21. Happy dance over here!!! Otter Coast: A Medical Marijuana Mystery... Join in on the book party... because my second eco-fiction novel is ready for you! Read a review, buy & read, add a starred review!

    As architectural intern Amalia Sengupta Erenwine grapples with her nascent career in New York City and the consequences of her new relationship, her friend the Reverend Mildred McCaine plans a panel about medical marijuana at her Binghamton church. When these two women take off on a road trip back to Mildred's hometown, they each in their own way intend to prove themselves pure of intent and unencumbered by their pasts. Amalia hopes to demonstrate she's true to her word and figure out her love life, and Mildred is drawn to confront fuzzy details about her family's past. But when the women uncover mysterious goings-on at Mildred's childhood home, an intriguing ancient artifact, and long-forgotten memories of otters at play, their fine intentions come unraveled. How will Amalia reconcile her deeper knowing with her life's goals? And how will Mildred remember and come to terms with her family's history, and her own present and new unfolding?

    Links are ready in two places - Barnes and Noble and Amazon...

    barnesandnoble.com/w/otter-coa

    amazon.com/Otter-Coast-Medical

    Canadian link is here:

    indigo.ca/en-ca/otter-coast-a-

    UK link is here:

    waterstones.com/book/otter-coa

    Asia, Africa, ANZA are best served by Amazon. For international, orders, please go directly to your local bookseller and order with this information:

    Maia Chowdhury, Otter Coast, ISBN: 9798986185415

    Please add a starred review on Goodreads, as it helps to generate more interest and views, rankings and sales. Tell your friends and share this message...

    goodreads.com/book/show/100779

    Thank you, friends, for all your support in the making of this book! Enjoy!

    Maia :-) <3

    #Adventure #AmWriting #Architecture #BIPOC #CliFi #ClimateChange #ClimateChangeFiction #CommunityPlanning #ContemporaryFiction #CreativeWriting #Desi #Diversity #EcoFiction #Engineering #Fracking #GoodReads #HighSpeedTransit #HydraulicFracturing #IndieAuthor #IndiePublisher #Intersectionality #LiteraryFiction #Logistics #Love #LoveStory #Marijuana #MedicalMarijuana #Metaphysical #MixedDesi #MixedRace #Mystery #Nanowrimo #Planning #Rail #Reiki #Transit #VisionaryEcoFiction #VisionaryFiction #Visualization

  22. Hi @zhivi ! You asked me to describe my ecofiction... here is my best go at it, this morning. 

    I write for myself and others who are interested in visualizing what is possible, from a perspective of where we are starting. It's not science fiction. It's not realistic fiction. It's somewhere in between. I call it Visionary Ecofiction. I've written three novels, one is published (The Erenwine Agenda, with a focus on hydraulic fracturing, the natural gas extraction process), another is about to be published (Otter Coast, with a focus on medical marijuana and creative states of consciousness) and the third is - well, still being written through Nanowrimo (Rail is the working title, although I have changed it up a few times already; it has a focus on the logistics of high speed transit and community planning - and the protagonist is aiming to save the world 🙂).

    All three interweave romance, although they're not romances. I call them adventures, love stories, mysteries... a little of all of these. Visionary Ecoficiton encapsulates the intrigue of all these genres, for me. The work is typically classified as Literary Fiction or Contemporary Fiction, and is also listed as Visionary and Metaphysical Fiction. The Erenwine Agenda was shortlisted for an international publishing award in the Visionary and Metaphysical category, and reached #5 on Amazon in the same group. It's on several Goodreads Lists (including Powell's Books') for classic and new Ecofiction and CliFi (Climate Change Fiction). I began publishing myself, and then branched out into publishing work of other authors when I realized there are many other people like me, who are optimists in the world and who write about ecology. We needed a platform! I created one. (This is the link.) aseiarts.com/

    I think one of the best encapsulations of my work comes in the form of an interview conducted by the old Ecofiction.com site, now Dragonfly.eco. It was written a while ago when I was still married, and was not as far along in my writing trajectory - yet it summarizes the spirit of my work very clearly. (Thanks Mary for updating my name!) dragonfly.eco/maia-kb-chowdhur @ecofiction

    My work (partly what you and I began talking about) also touches on race, identity and social context. I think that is as important in today's emerging conversations about climate as is the basic underlayment of ecology in ecofiction. How we identify ourselves and each other IS our cultural ecology. As a woman of mixed race, who identifies with more than one group, I feel a personal responsibility (and pleasure) to share my own intersectional experience through writing. 

    Thank you for asking!

    #Adventure #AmWriting #Architecture #BIPOC #CliFi #ClimateChange #ClimateChangeFiction #CommunityPlanning #ContemporaryFiction #CreativeWriting #Desi #Diversity #EcoFiction #Engineering #Fracking #GoodReads #HighSpeedTransit #HydraulicFracturing #IndieAuthor #IndiePublisher #Intersectionality #LiteraryFiction #Logistics #Love #LoveStory #Marijuana #MedicalMarijuana #Metaphysical #MixedDesi #MixedRace #Mystery #Nanowrimo #Planning #Rail #Reiki #Transit #VisionaryEcoFiction #VisionaryFiction #Visualization