#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.

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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.

📚 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

"Saving Grace"

A very, very good fandom work of #ProjectHailMary from Rocky's perspective.

Quality reading
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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.

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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.

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Answer question on people not liking books

https://www.goodreads.com/questions/31453027-why-do-you-think-there-are-so-many-people

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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

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.
https://bookriot.com/goodreads-anticipated-fall-2026-books/

#fall2026 #goodreads

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

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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!

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I realize people hate AI, but I do use a site called GoArt.fotor to make my heroine on the Flicka's LOVERS book cover do stuff. I couldn't resist posting this one for the promo that the book is in. Even Flicka can't believe how hot this Book Funnel Promotion is--the Dirty Little Secrets promo running throughout May, which Flicka's LOVERS is featured in. CLICK ON FLICKA! https://books.bookfunnel.com/dirtylittlesecrets/5ekvo0duwp #secrets #promotion #books #bookfunnel #book #novel #novels #now #may #featured #fridayVibes #friday #fridayReads #booktok #mastodon #ai #aiArt #mastoArt #goodreads #romanceReaders #romancelandia #romance #love #loveStory

You'd think, since #goodreads is now part of #Amazon, it would be updated/updateable as Amazon is updated. Ain't technology #ironic? We can do so many things, but so many others are still beyond our capabilities.

Cindy Larie Cowles

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I haven’t actually finished any of the books that I’ve already started reading, but I’m going to start to read this today and hope to finish it before the day is over. Happy Darwin Day everyone!

#CurrentlyReading #Goodreads #ReadingChallenge #Bibliophile #Booklovers #Bookworm #CharlesDarwin #OnNaturalSelection #Evolution #NaturalSelection #TheoryOfEvolution #DarwinDay #PenguinBooksGreatIdeas #GreatIdeas #PenguinBooks

I haven’t actually finished any of the books that I’ve already started reading, but I’m going to start to read this today and hope to finish it before the day is over. Happy Darwin Day everyone!

#CurrentlyReading #Goodreads #ReadingChallenge #Bibliophile #Booklovers #Bookworm #CharlesDarwin #OnNaturalSelection #Evolution #NaturalSelection #TheoryOfEvolution #DarwinDay #PenguinBooksGreatIdeas #GreatIdeas #PenguinBooks

I haven’t actually finished any of the books that I’ve already started reading, but I’m going to start to read this today and hope to finish it before the day is over. Happy Darwin Day everyone!

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Buy small this Xmas! Buy from me. All my books have reviews up on #Goodreads You can dig them out on #Booktopia (Aus) #BarnesAndNoble (US), #Watersontes (UK), and if you really must: #Amazon.

#books #BooksBooksBooks #Christmas #reading #AmReading #SciFi #Fantasy #paranormal #IndieArtist #writing

The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year - Book 244 #MondayBlogs #goodreads

http://weewritinglassie.home.blog/2025/12/01/the-wee-writing-lassies-300-books-in-a-year-book-244/

#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

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📚 CW: online scams, impersonation

Seeing a rise in scam accounts on Goodreads and other bookish platforms — new profiles with no reviews, no shared books, and flirty DMs targeting women.

One even used a photo of Paul Hollywood. (My friend told him not to bother unless he brought baked goods. He didn’t.)

I wrote a PSA about spotting these scammers, with red flags, a laugh, and a few hard truths.

✨ You are not too smart or too seasoned to be targeted. But you can be ready.

📚 Beware the Bookish Scammer: A PSA for Readers and Authors https://sharonecathcart.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/%f0%9f%93%9a-beware-the-bookish-scammer-a-psa-for-readers-and-authors/

#Goodreads #ScamAwareness #RomanceScams #BookCommunity #MastoBooks #OnlineSafety #AmReading #books #Bookstodon

#currentlyreading

Pensees by Blaise Pascal (555 p.)

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year - Book 223 #goodreads #mondayblogs

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year - Book 220 #goodreads #reading #mondayblogs

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year - Book 217 #goodreads #mondayblogs

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year - Book 214 #mondayblogs #reading #goodreads

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Annals by Tacitus

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Juan De Mairena by Antonio Machado

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#nowreading The Pagan Lord, book 7 of the Saxon Chronicles. Also book 8 of my 50-book #Goodreads reading challenge for this year. I want to finish the whole series this year because I really need to read more fiction and historical fiction hits that right spot between fiction and my love for history books.

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Hoy #ParanoidKids2 cumple su PRIMER MES, navegando siempre entre los puestos 1 y 2 de esa categoría.🤯
No puedo quedaros más AGRADECIDO por vuestro caluroso abrazo a este libro.🙏
(Además, hoy junto a mi apreciado Antonio Heras (@armaimpaciente) y su #Oculto, que no me canso de recomendar 💜).
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Finishing the book, #The1619Project and it’s been…hard mentally, emotionally. It’s also been powerful + necessary for me to read about my ancestors’ sojourn of terror in the U. S.

How they courageously fought + resisted at EVERY turn for their freedom, human rights, families,and dignity. It’s STILL a battle.

Being a sci-fi fan, I will say, there is NO dystopian or post-apocalyptic narrative that comes close to the historical experience of Being Black in the U. S.

This country owes such an enormous debt and humans are the real monsters. #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #mustread #GoodReads

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