I'm assuming joint venture to get a site out there where they might have more control of content.
Plus bonus points for use of the word 'mosey'.
Oz ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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 28354
"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 28354
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 28354
"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 28354
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 28354
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 28354
"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 28354
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 28354
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 28354
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 28354
Ooh, that sounds right up my alley. I will look it up.