#goodreads — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #goodreads, aggregated by home.social.
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See also: a great year long Power Broker podcast/read along by 99% Invisible: https://99percentinvisible.org/pb/
Here's the book write-up & links to purchase it via Caro's website (incl. independent friendlies Powells and Bookshop.org): https://www.robertcaro.org/the-power-broker
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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.
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https://www.empik.com/lato-ebook-epub-edith-wfharton,p1519258409,ebooki-i-mp3-p
#book #ebook #goodreads ##bookstagrampl
#książkara
#molksiazkowy
#czytam
#recenzjaksiążki
#czytamirecenzujęTo moje tłumaczenie, pierwsze na język polski.
Postanowiłam poświęcić wakacje na porządkowanie moich spraw: książki, ceramika, zdjęcia. Dwa miesiące miną, jak z bicza strzelił.
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What book tracker do you use if any? Any recommendations?
I want to be able to own my data, but would also like recommendations and maybe a community. I just want to track books I've started & finished.
Goodreads is Amazon so I'd rather avoid that, I think.
BookWyrm is cool but I don't see an android app?
StoryGraph, Hardcover, Bookmory, Fable and many others seem like probably the best options. I don't know what to pick!
#books #reading #StoryGraph #bookmory #fable #BookWyrm #Goodreads
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"What personality trait in people raises a red flag with you?" There were plenty more possibilities I could've chosen for my response to Daily Prompts QOTD, but I chose this one...
#personalitytraits #redflags #pink #tuesdaythoughts #mindfulness #bekind #dontbeadick #writerslife #goodreads #bekindhttps://rickollie.com/2025/09/09/what-personality-trait-in-people-raises-a-red-flag-with-you-2/
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She’s Come Undone (1992). Goodreads reviewer drops “spoilers” 25 years later. Commenters rage. I question reality. Also, a bear rides Rosebud.
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https://ridleypark.blog/2025/08/14/shes-come-undone-spoilers/#Books #Spoilers #Satire #RidleyPark #Goodreads #CitizenKane #LiteraryHumour #Rosebud #BearsOnSleds #reading #OrsinWells #Why
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A while back I had the opportunity to interview a member of the Illinois Symphony Orchestra. Meet, Violinist, Rachel Sompong.
#RachelSompong #Violinist
#IllinoisSymphonyOrchestra
#Musician #Music #Midwest #Illinois #SuperBowlXXX #DianaRoss #RolingStones #MusicMaker #WritersCommunity #GoodReads -
The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year - Book 100 #Goodreads #Reading #Tudors
http://weewritinglassie.home.blog/2025/05/21/the-wee-writing-lassies-300-books-in-a-year-book-100/
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"For All We Know" by Mike Fiorito (@mike3fio) is a thought-provoking novel exploring life's big questions through a young protagonist navigating a chaotic "World of Wonder." The book blends music, psychedelics, and existential themes, encouraging readers to reflect on reality and consciousness.
Full review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/204866973-for-all-we-know#ForAllWeKnow #MikeFiorito #BookReview #Goodreads #ThoughtProvoking #Consciousness #Philosophy #BookRecommendation #WesternCivilization #RealityAndWonder #UFO #Psychedelics
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I can’t believe it! I’ve been doing Goodreads for 10 years and always, always, always joining the giveaways, but this is the first time I’ve ever won. And it’s a really good one too! #LuckyMonday #AlisonBechdel #Spent #Winner #Giveaway #Goodreads #Bookstodon #Books #HappyHappyHappy #GraphicNovel
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How does a larger retailer bounce back from the Covid Pandemic and the rise of Amazon? James Daunt, CEO of Barnes & Noble has an answer
https://zurl.co/K6yE
#growth #innovation #therebootchronicles #deandebiase #BuildBuyBorrow #books #Literature #Retail #Retailers #Booksellers #Bookstores #trust #community #Barnes&Noble #Amazon #Kindle #Waterstones #IndependentBookseller #goodreads #newstores #InternalGrowth #YoungAdults #YABooks #Covid #Lockdown #Target #CVS #Walgreens -
For my next read I am learning more about a truly amazing woman (I know quite a lot about her anyway, but this is her own story) #Goodreads #ReadingChallenge #Bibliophile #Bookworm #CurrentlyReading #NASA #KatherineJohnson #MyHeroes
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CW: tl;dr: All that cool new stuff you want in the Fediverse already exists in the Fediverse, right outside of Mastodon
I keep seeing lots of people who are totally giddy about the #Fediverse, who are gushing over it, who want to promote it, who want it to spread.
And who want it to advance. To learn new abilities. To grow new features.
That's all fine and dandy.
But almost all of these people are still fully convinced that the Fediverse equals #Mastodon. And nothing else. At least not until Tumblr and P92 join the fray. Okay, maybe the #WordPress plug-in that's the talk of the town now that it has become official. Okay, maybe a few of them have also heard of #Pixelfed and/or #PeerTube because their makers are all over the Fediverse.
When these people are talking about the Fediverse, they mean Mastodon. And when they're thinking about the Fediverse, they're only thinking about Mastodon. Because that's all they know.
So these people want new cool features or even new cool use-cases in the Fediverse, stuff that Mastodon doesn't have. They want Mastodon to have it, or they want new projects to be launched that have these features.
If only they knew.
If only they knew that everything, literally everything they propose has already been done. Yes, in the Fediverse. In projects which are fully federated with Mastodon. Why don't they know? Because they've never heard of any of these projects, much less what they can do.
So they want "quote-tweets" in the Fediverse. Which means they want Mastodon to introduce them.
Tell you what: Mastodon is the only microblogging project in the Fediverse that doesn't have quotes. Not only will Eugen Rochko never introduce them, but all the other projects have them with Mastodon forks #GlitchSoc such as being the exception. #Pleroma has them. #Akkoma has them. #MissKey has them. #CalcKey has them. #FoundKey has them. #GoToSocial has them. The old heavyweights #Friendica and #Hubzilla have them, and so does Hubzilla's youngest decendant, the #Streams project. Et cetera.
You want "quote-tweets"? Switch to something that isn't Mastodon, and you've got "quote-tweets".
Or text formatting in posts like bold type, italics, underline, strikethrough,code blocksetc. Would be great if Mastodon had that, in spite of other people saying they don't want it.
Again: Pleroma already has it. Akkoma already has it. MissKey already has it. CalcKey already has it. FoundKey already hasit. GoToSocial already has it. Friendica already has it. Hubzilla already has it (look at this post at its source in a Web browser and weep). (streams) already has it. And so forth. This time, even Mastodon forks have it.
It has been done. It has been done many times. It has actually been done before Mastodon.
Next, long-form blog posting. We need something like #Medium in the Fediverse that isn't Medium itself. Mastodon's 500 characters are too few, and Twitter-like threads are inconvenient.
Except we already have that, too. #Plume and #WriteFreely are about as close to Medium as Mastodon is to Twitter, including clean and distraction-less layouts. Oh, and Hubzilla can do that, too.
By the way: Again, Mastodon is the only Fediverse project that can do microblogging that has a 500-character limit. Pleroma, Mastodon's oldest direct competitor, raised it to a default of 6,000. MissKey and its forks have 3,000 as a default. Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams) have character limits of "go ahead, drop your short story in one post in its entirety," so virtually none at all. And yes, Hubzilla has long-form writing on top of that.
Speaking of Hubzilla: Most recently, there has been the idea to uncouple one's online identity from a specific instance. Your online self should no longer be firmly tied to any one server exclusively. Now, this sounds so ambitious, it might just as well be science-fiction.
What if I told you that just this very thing already exists as well?
No, really. No, I'm not making this up. But you should know by now that I'm not.
Better yet: It was conceived as early as 2011. By the guy who launched Friendica in 2010. He invented a new principle named #NomadicIdentity and a new protocol named #Zot. In its early stages already, even with no technical implementation yet, Zot was more powerful than ActivityPub is today.
In 2012, Zot became reality as the basis of a Friendica fork which later became known as #RedMatrix and, upon its 1.0 stable release in late 2015, which is still prior to Mastodon's initial release, Hubzilla. Hubzilla is still being developed and improved, and it has a fledgling but growing "successor of a successor" named (streams) which offers nomadic identity, too.
Now, what does this nomadic identity even look like? Well, not only does it let you move your channel(s) around from instance to instance with ease and, unlike on Mastodon, with absolutely everything on it. No, it also lets you have your channel on multiple instances at once. Identical clones, automagically kept in sync in real-time, all with the same identity, the same content, the same connections.
Your identity is no longer strapped down to one instance. Not only that, but your channel, your posts, your content is no longer hosted on only one server. This means that if one instance with one of your clones goes down, you still have spares.
Okay, so how about community groups/forums? That'd be cool.
Well, for one, there's #Guppe. It's basically bolted on Mastodon, and in practice, it's centralised because there's only one instance. But it's impractical to use.
Besides, this is becoming a running gag here, Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams) have exactly this built-in and open for the rest of the Fediverse.
Better yet: There's also #Lemmy which amounts to a federated #Reddit or #HackerNews clone. So not only does Lemmy offer this, it specialises in it.
Hubzilla alone can provide Fediverse feature suggestions with "has been done" for years to come. Not to mention what else the Fediverse has to offer. Even if someone should want a free, non-commercial, decentralised, federated #GoodReads clone in the Fediverse, it has been done: #BookWyrm. -
New Book Vending Machines Showcase Afrofuturist Authors
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2023/03/06/afrofuturist-book-vending
#Afrofuturism #BlackSciFi #BlackSFF #BlackAuthors #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackFediverse #stopbookbans #books #goodreads
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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...
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/otter-coast-maia-kb-chowdhury/1143042148?ean=9798986185415
Canadian link is here:
https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/otter-coast-a-medical-marijuana-mystery/9798986185415.html
UK link is here:
https://www.waterstones.com/book/otter-coast/maia-kb-chowdhury/9798986185415
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...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100779578-otter-coast
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
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If anybody out there has happened to read and enjoy my books and/or the #FolkHorrorRevival / Wyrd Harvest Press books if you can, please give them a rating (and if you want to a review) on #Goodreads and/or #Amazon or wherever you bought them and . If you read them and did not like them, then no worries don't trouble yourself 😉
Cheershttps://www.goodreads.com/author/list/7122160.Andy_Paciorek
https://www.blurb.co.uk/user/andypaciorek
https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/andypaciorek
@bookstodon #Books #Art #Folklore #Horror #UrbanWyrd #FolkHorror
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CW: a log list of hashtags
This toot is a placeholder for common hashstags to consider for people in the Fediverse. Feel Free to make suggestions.
#7Books
#1619Project
#aotearoa
#Appalachia
#appalachian
#AmReading
#AmWriting
#astronomy
#aa
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#AlcoholicsAnonymous
#Arizona
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#audiobook
#activist
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#antiracist
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#asian
#AlAnon
#actuallyAutistic
#aging
#Africa
#africianliterature
#bitcoin
#Buddhist
#Buddhism
#brexit
#BlackFriday Black Aziz Ananzi's (@BlackAzizAnansi) hashtag activism
#BlackMastodon Black Aziz Ananzi's hashtag activism
#BlackJoy Black Aziz Ananzi's hashtag activism
#BookRecommendation
#BookToot
#Bookstodon
#blackexcellence
#brownmastodon
#BlackPantherParty
#baltimore
#bookreview
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#fediblock [ a activist project for POC safety by @CaribenxMarciaX, @gingerrroot ) #friendship
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Försökte ge mig på att lägga upp info om mina böcker i inventaire (fediverse motsvarighet till goodreads). Fick felmeddelanden och begreep saker ganska dåligt och det blev nog mest en soppa av det.
Får nog hoppas på att någon so är mer kompetent fixar det istället :P
#inventaire #goodreads #writer #writersofmastodon #sannesböcker #elsinorien
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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.) https://www.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!) https://dragonfly.eco/maia-kb-chowdhury/ @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
