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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.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50402391-the-wolf-of-baghdad
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📚 Harry Potter y la Orden del Fénix (Harry Potter, #5) - J.K. Rowling (2003) ★★★★
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8780792898?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss
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Compared to #Pagebound, #Goodreads is a slow mess.
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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 -
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.
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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 -
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
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/447424-the-cold-between-a-central-corps-novel
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I'm constantly disappointed with #Goodreads both the site and the app. There are so many quality of life things they could add which would be trivial to implement, but they keep things more or less the same and unchanging.
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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.
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This is less what I am reading than what I've just finished, but you can check out what I'm up to by following the link to Goodreads.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/08/10/what-am-i-reading/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
That I am reading a book is neither a recommendation nor an endorsement. There tends to be an overrepresentation of fiction titles because I listen to these when I work out and to fall asleep, which in each case burns through many chapters. They also tend to be shorter.
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Die Buchplattform Goodreads, auf der User*innen ihre Bücher digital verwalten und bewerten können, hat nun verraten, welche 15 Sci-Fi-Bücher der letzten drei Jahre bei den Leser*innen am besten ankamen. #sfcd #sciencefiction #goodreads #lesen #buch
Die 15 beliebtesten SciFi-Büch... -
Turns out I have a #Goodreads account. Sorry about ignoring everyone’s friend requests since 2007.
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Hey everyone,
I'm having major issues, & with my book coming out Tuesday, I'm at a loss. Currently, if you want to add Mechanical Soldier ( https://a.co/d/0eWR6DCX ) to your Goodreads, it's not linked to my actual author page, so you'll have to search for it. I submitted a request, but who knows?
Update: Goodreads page is fixed! Thank you librarians!
(1/3)
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Readers have spoken: 100 reviews and ratings for 4.6 stars! https://www.amazon.com/Song-Sirens-First-Contact-ebook/dp/B0H4PYHS84 #sciencefiction #goodreads #greatreads
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August is Black Business Month. Here’s a great opportunity to support a Black-owned business…
Do you use Goodreads? If so, you can migrate to @thestorygraph. You can even import all of your Goodreads data.
Nadia Odunayo is the founder and sole developer. Together with her small team, they’re making a great product that’s slowly improving over time.
So go support Nadia and co. instead of a fascist billionaire.
#BlackBusinessMonth #BlackMastodon #Books #Reading #TheStoryGraph #Goodreads
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Search on #NeoDB ( #Fediverse alternative to #Letterboxd #Goodreads etc) could use some work, but enclosing a media title in quote marks can help.
E.g.
1. Movie & TV search for sour minnows (without quotes): have to scroll through all internal NeoDB results, then through all external results, to find the TMDB result for Sour Minnows as the very last result 😓
2. Movie & TV search for "sour minnows" (with quotes): only 1 result, TMDB for Sour Minnows 👍
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Après "Le talent est une fiction", encore un superbe essai de Samah Karaki:
"L'empathie est politique : Comment les normes sociales façonnent la biologie des sentiments"
Un réveil politique nécessaire et une critique éclairante de l'empathie comme réaction aux malheurs et aux conflits.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218589855-l-empathie-est-politique -
Terminé una relectura de "Ascendance of a Bookworm, Part 4, Volume 3" y me dije "Termina los otros libros que estás leyendo antes de continuar con el siguiente volumen".
Por supuesto, no me hice caso, así que mi lista de lecturas simultáneas se mantiene en 6 libros 😅️.
Por cierto, estoy en #TheStoryGraph, por si alguien quiere agregarme: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/cfnnm
(También tengo perfil en #Bookwyrm , pero realmente no lo uso. En #Goodreads no, lo borré hace rato.)
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Having just finished my 61st book of the year, I have decided that this will be next escapee from the teetering tower that is my To Be Read Pile!
#Goodreads #ReadingChallenge #CurrentlyReading #Bibliophile #Booklovers #Bookworm #OperationSealion #LeoMcKinstry #SecondWorldWar #WorldWarTwo #History #TBRpile
