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alfreda89 ([personal profile] alfreda89) wrote2013-10-03 11:07 am

I found a discussion group at LibraryThing....

Lots of people are annoyed with Goodreads right now. I haven't had time to decide what I will do about any new policies (I don't think I have lost any reviews but haven't time to check. I am annoyed enough about politics--I don't need to find out that my review cache has been slashed.) But I am already over at LibraryThing*. I think of it as a place to categorize books, but since I have hundreds at Goodreads, I haven't duplicated it at LibraryThing. When I first found the system, it seemed complicated, the interface hard to read for my eyes damaged by illness.

And I didn't immediately spot any good discussion groups at LibraryThing. I found one today, doing the "looking for reviews" bit writers do when their books first come out. Sandstone78 has a topic and reading thread over there, talking about books I would be interested in reading. It was a happy chance that she read Night Calls and Kindred Rites long ago and enjoyed them.

"Book recommendation: Katharine Eliska Kimbriel's Night Calls has just been reissued in ebook, with a print version soon to follow. I have good memories of this book and its sequel, dark fantasies about a young witch on the American frontier learning to control her Gift and deal with the supernatural (a werewolf in the first book and a poltergeist in the second.) I was pleased to see that a third one is on the way sometime next Spring, and plan to re-read these soon, along with a first read of the author's related chapbook Wings of Morning."

A review doesn't have to be a page long to let others know you like a book. Part of why I review books is to let others know when I find something worth recommending. I so appreciate others who do the same.


* Yes, sadly, my books do need some love over there.

[identity profile] martianmooncrab.livejournal.com 2013-10-03 04:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I was following links at Goodreads,and a popup box came up, and normally I just close them. This question was if I would recommend Goodreads to anyone, and I chose No. They gave me another box asking why, and I clearly stated "Goodreads was bought by a company that I do not agree with, and therefore I will not support Goodreads" which I think covers it.

[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2013-10-03 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I am willing to see what Amazon does with this before I write it off, but their first salvo was ham-handed.

Vonda McIntyre dislikes Amazon so much she won't sell her ebooks there. That is a considerable financial hardship. I am in too much financial trouble, I can't draw that line in the sand. Small stores have not come up with a way to sell books for the midlist writers who have been squeezed out.