I'm assuming joint venture to get a site out there where they might have more control of content.
I've got two words that are going to make all the pain go away. Miniature Golf.
Mayor ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
megan walker - Feb 12, 2013 6:48:54 am PST #20408 of 28353
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Amy - Feb 12, 2013 6:55:00 am PST #20409 of 28353
Because books.
Goodreads exploded too quickly, I think, and a lot of it is a junior high bitchfest/popularity contest.
I don't really care if it's pub-run -- it's going to be all algorithms like anything else. And Goodreads friending and "top friending" and blah blah has gotten too much like Facebook with all the clutter.
le nubian - Feb 12, 2013 7:14:30 am PST #20410 of 28353
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I agree, Amy. That's why I have rejected using it.
sumi - Feb 13, 2013 4:50:23 am PST #20411 of 28353
Art Crawl!!!
Kate Elliot talks about Crown of Stars on the occasion of the release of the complete series to e-book in the UK.
Amy - Feb 13, 2013 5:10:27 am PST #20412 of 28353
Because books.
That's why I have rejected using it.
To be clear, I like that you can create groups, like megan has done, and I enjoy taking part in those. It's just the site as a whole is so cluttered and busy now, it feels like Facebook, so I don't use it for much other than groups.
megan walker - Feb 13, 2013 6:15:30 am PST #20413 of 28353
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
The Scholarly Kitchen covers Bookish.
Huh, when I checked it out, I didn't look at it as an Amazon competitor. Since I don't buy many books, that makes it even less interesting.
I found the ads on Bookish particularly distracting, but I'm sure that's only because I'm not used to them.
I mostly use Goodreads for tracking what I read and want to read. Besides librarians, I don't really interact with people I'm not friends with, so I don't have issues with the whole social clique thing.
Polter-Cow - Feb 13, 2013 7:11:15 am PST #20414 of 28353
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yeah, I don't use Goodreads as a social thing besides following what my friends are reading. I don't accept friend requests from people I don't know because, you know, I don't care about their opinions.
Tom Scola - Feb 13, 2013 7:32:01 am PST #20415 of 28353
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Consuela - Feb 13, 2013 7:37:39 am PST #20416 of 28353
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So I read Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith the other day. It's the story of a light-skinned black woman whose father taught her to fly his crop-duster. So during WWII, she decides to pass for white so she can become a WASP.
It's really very good, although as a YA it's a bit light. I wanted more detail and drama, although the drama I got was pretty good. I just wanted more of it. And I wouldn't mind hearing what happens afterwards, since the war ends without her ever telling the WASP or her fellow pilots who she really is.
meara - Feb 13, 2013 8:14:40 am PST #20417 of 28353
Ooh, that sounds right up my alley. I will look it up.