#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.

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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Book number 39 for the year has been finished, so it’s time for a bit of cricket

#CurrentlyReading #Goodreads #ReadingChallenge #Bibliophile #BookLovers #Bookworm #HenryBlofeld #Cricket #SharingMyLoveOfCricket

📚 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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#currentlyreading

Annals by Tacitus

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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.

🐻🛷
https://ridleypark.blog/2025/08/14/shes-come-undone-spoilers/

#Books #Spoilers #Satire #RidleyPark #Goodreads #CitizenKane #LiteraryHumour #Rosebud #BearsOnSleds #reading #OrsinWells #Why

#currentlyreading

Juan De Mairena by Antonio Machado

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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

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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

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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

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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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For my #reader friends, you can find me on both Goodreads and Storygraph! 🥰

Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/emmalthorley
Storygraph:
https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/emmathorley

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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

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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My husband’s newest book!
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Some unusual & inspiring insights into Brussels beer culture & history. A highly enjoyable read paired with #Jambedebois - an all time favorite by @brasseriedelasenne

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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!

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