Tag: Goodreads

News & Notes – 12/23/2023

This week’s links include a Tolkien copyright fight, an author losing a book deal for review bombing other authors, Overdrive’s most downloaded authors, fighting book bans, and more.

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Bookish News Awards Worth Reading/Viewing NaNoWriMo-related Books, Movies, and TV Writing Quote In honor of NaNoWriMo, today’s quote is about writing, not reading. Twitter Facebook 0… Read more »

Why is this book on my TBR? (a Goodreads hack)

If you’re like me, with a TBR list a mile long, you probably go through and prune it occasionally. (Or at least try to.) And when you do, you inevitably run across books you have no memory of… as in, you literally cannot remember why the book is on your… Read more »

News & Notes – 2/18/2017

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Goodreads rolls out new Rereading feature. I’ve been waiting for this since I first joined Goodreads. I’m so excited! Bookstore sales rose 2.5% in… Read more »

Goodreads Rolls Out Rereading. Yes, Really!

Goodreads has finally added tracking for the books you reread! I don’t know about you, but I’ve been wanting this feature since I first joined Goodreads. I’m so excited! To use the new feature, just mark a book you’ve already read as “Currently Reading.” Goodreads will remember the date(s) when you… Read more »

News & Notes – 8/06/16

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Goodreads’ new homepage design rolled out this week. (Goodreads blog) The Man Booker Prize longlist for 2016 was announced. (Man Booker Prize) Writers Organizations Condemn… Read more »

News & Notes – 6/04/16

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Goodreads is redesigning its home page. (Google Blogs) Go to the link and click the “Click here to try it for yourself!” link to test the… Read more »

News & Notes – 5/14/16

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Federalist Paper #2 surfaces. The John Jay manuscript, thought missing since the 1890s, was discovered among the documents of the Brooklyn Historical Society. (New York Times)… Read more »

News & Notes – 4/30/16

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News The Hugo Awards finalists for 2016 have been announced. The Sad and Rabid Puppies managed to influence some of the categories pretty heavily, but… Read more »

Down the Rabbit Hole

If you’re like me, you can get on the Internet to do one thing–write a blog post or check Facebook, for instance–and surface hours later, wondering where on earth the time went. I thought it might be fun (and dangerous!) to look at where I go when I’m playing on… Read more »