#goodreads — Public Fediverse posts

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

#GoodReads #ThePowerBroker

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

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.

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

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8872812403?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss

#Goodreads #Libros

HALLO!

Es ist so weit: #Kotomori ist live.

Dazu gibt es natürlich einen passenden Blog-Beitrag:

https://kotomori.de/willkommen-auf-kotomori/

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

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

https://nkvssp.thecomicseries.com/comics/674/

You can do it. It's tricky and you can

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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.

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.

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:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/importing-your-data-into-bookwyrm-from-goodreads-librarything-storygraph-openlibrary-or-calibre

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

➡️ https://fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-network-for-people-who-enjoy-reading

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

Conservative Version of Goodreads Only Has the Bible and ‘The Art of the Deal’

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://thehardtimes.net/culture/conservative-version-of-goodreads-only-has-the-bible-and-the-art-of-the-deal/

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

#Bookwyrm #fediday2025

#Vortrag von @jascha

#Adaption von #Goodreads: #Buchobjekt mit #Beschreibung, #Link für #Erwerb, #Leseaktivität, #Leseliste, #Rezension;

#Bücher ID: #ISBN / #OpenLibrary ID, #Goodreads #Schlüssel; für feststellen der #Ausgabe; #Ergebnis: #dezentral​er #Buchkatalog

#Liste​n: #verschieden​e #Modi: #geschlossen​e #Liste / #Liste bei der andere #Bücher hinzufügen können mit #Moderation / #offen​e #Liste / #Gruppenliste

https://c-tube.c-base.org/w/re2HqzmfyLrk7n4ecPGJGc

#testaPP

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

https://www.amazon.com/Otter-Coast-Medical-Marijuana-Mystery/dp/B0BV5DD9LB/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1676895718&refinements=p_27%3AMaia+Kb+Chowdhury&s=books&sr=1-1&text=Maia+Kb+Chowdhury

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

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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

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