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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1921.</p><p>The Cervantes Theatre (Buenos Aires) opens with a production of Lope de Vega&#x27;s La dama boba (The Foolish Lady, 1613). It is one of the earliest examples of the &quot;comedia palatina&quot; subgenre. De Vega completed it on 28 April 1613, as shown by a surviving manuscript copy in his own hand.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_dama_boba" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_dama_boba"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_dama_</span><span class="invisible">boba</span></a></p><p>Books by Lope Vega at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/25752" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/25752"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/25752</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/theatre/" rel="tag">#theatre</a></p>

<p>Why Tolkien thought “sub-creation” was the secret to great fantasy and science fiction</p><p>According to Tolkien, fantasy requires a deep imagination known as “sub-creation.” And the genre reflects a fundamental truth of being human.</p><p>By Jonny Thomson</p><p><a href="https://bigthink.com/mini-philosophy/tolkien-fantasy-science-fiction/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bigthink.com/mini-philosophy/tolkien-fantasy-science-fiction/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bigthink.com/mini-philosophy/t</span><span class="invisible">olkien-fantasy-science-fiction/</span></a></p><p>Fantasy books at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/138" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/138"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">ct/138</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/TheInvertedGlass" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="books2read.com/TheInvertedGlass"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">books2read.com/TheInvertedGlas</span><span class="invisible">s</span></a></p><p>After encountering the worst life has to offer, including the death of his wife and child, destruction of his home world, an addiction forced on him by the one responsible and a third of the galaxy falling under the heel of that tyrant, Levi Jacobs, a wizard, seeks to unravel the secrets of time and fate.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefantasy/" rel="tag">#sciencefantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

<p>“They’re about more than mystery”</p><p>Harriet Vane, tried for murder in Strong Poison, meets Lord Peter Wimsey, who loves her though she resists. Across later novels they grow into equal partners, enriching Sayers’ mystery series.<br> <br>By John Mark Ockerbloom</p><p><a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/11/18/theyre-about-more-than-mystery/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everybodyslibraries.com/2025/11/18/theyre-about-more-than-mystery/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everybodyslibraries.com/2025/1</span><span class="invisible">1/18/theyre-about-more-than-mystery/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/publicdomaindaycountdown/" rel="tag">#PublicDomainDayCountdown</a></p>

<p>📚 The Long Shoe by: Bob Mortimer</p><p>Bathroom salesman Matt is at a crossroads. He has lost his job, he is about to be made homeless and his girlfriend has left him. He wants his luck to change and he wants things to go back to how they were. </p><p>Out of the blue he is offered a job that comes with a free luxury apartment. He hopes this might be enough to tempt her back. But...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-long-shoe" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-long-shoe"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-long-s</span><span class="invisible">hoe</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/general/" rel="tag">#general</a></p>

<p>📚 The Antidote by: Karen Russell</p><p>The Antidote opens on Black Sunday, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing—not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the dust bowl drought but beneath its own violent histories. The Antidote follows a &quot;Prai...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-antidote" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-antidote"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-antido</span><span class="invisible">te</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/literaryfiction/" rel="tag">#literaryfiction</a> <a href="/tags/historical/" rel="tag">#historical</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/visionarymetaphysical/" rel="tag">#visionarymetaphysical</a></p>

<p>Last Stand on a Dying World<br>Semper Audacia, 99¢ Space Opera <br><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/mpaxauthor/p/semper-audacia-99-space-opera?r=40xifa&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="open.substack.com/pub/mpaxauthor/p/semper-audacia-99-space-opera?r=40xifa&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/mpaxauth</span><span class="invisible">or/p/semper-audacia-99-space-opera?r=40xifa&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true</span></a> <br><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="/tags/readers/" rel="tag">#readers</a> <a href="/tags/booklovers/" rel="tag">#booklovers</a></p>

<p>&quot;Maps are to geography what notation is to music.&quot;</p><p>British writer, geographer, historian, journalist, cartographer, and inventor John Francon Williams died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1911.</p><p>In 1881, Williams&#x27;s seminal book The Geography of the Oceans was published. This book focuses on topics such as: General Geography of the Oceans, Physical Geography of the Oceans, the Geography of Particular Oceans. It was the first book to cover with such intensity the geography of the oceans.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/geography/" rel="tag">#geography</a> <a href="/tags/oceanography/" rel="tag">#oceanography</a></p>

<p>Book promotion: Move slow, fix things. Heroes beaten down by the system team up to fight for a philanthropist targeted by shadowy enemies in this science fiction adventure about a future more optimistic than dystopian.<br>DRM-free ebook direct price $0.99 <a href="https://kmherkes.com/sale-bookshop/p/controlled-descent-ebook1" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="kmherkes.com/sale-bookshop/p/controlled-descent-ebook1"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kmherkes.com/sale-bookshop/p/c</span><span class="invisible">ontrolled-descent-ebook1</span></a></p><p>Other vendors &amp; formats here:<br><a href="https://books2read.com/ControlledDescent" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="books2read.com/ControlledDescent"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">books2read.com/ControlledDesce</span><span class="invisible">nt</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/fedibookshop/" rel="tag">#Fedibookshop</a><br><a href="/tags/fedifiction/" rel="tag">#Fedifiction</a><br><a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a><br><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a><br><a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a><br><a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a><br><a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#ScienceFiction</a><br><a href="/tags/technothriller/" rel="tag">#Technothriller</a><br><a href="/tags/restorationseries/" rel="tag">#RestorationSeries</a></p>

<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&amp;q=https://reviewdb.app/book/3lwIKeSfEQzXhCriEByKnS" rel="nofollow">The Scar</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 <br>by China Mieville.</p><p>An exuberant, barely believeable steampunk world with cactus &amp; mosquito people, underwater &amp; floating cities, and mysterious powers. Very very long, and rather too serious.</p><p><a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#SFF</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://aus.social/@wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>WildWoila</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://wyrms.de/user/wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>wildwoila@wyrms.de</span></a></span><br></p>

<p>An End to Kings, 1776</p><p>by Jack Kelly</p><p>&quot;Author Jack Kelly of Tom Paine’s War shares with The History Reader the crucial role Thomas Paine (author of Common Sense) played in encouraging Americans to overthrow King George in 1776.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.thehistoryreader.com/historical-figures/an-end-to-kings-1776/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=an-end-to-kings-1776" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thehistoryreader.com/historical-figures/an-end-to-kings-1776/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=an-end-to-kings-1776"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thehistoryreader.com/histo</span><span class="invisible">rical-figures/an-end-to-kings-1776/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=an-end-to-kings-1776</span></a></p><p>&quot;Common Sense&quot; at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/147" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/147</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/ushistory/" rel="tag">#ushistory</a></p>

<p>&quot;It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.&quot;</p><p>~Taylor Caldwell (September 7, 1900 – August 30, 1985)</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>&quot;The sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and hope.&quot;</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1844.</p><p>Alexandre Dumas père&#x27;s near-recent historical adventure story Le Comte de Monte-Cristo begins serialization in the Paris newspaper Journal des débats, and continues through to January 1846. Book publication also begins this year.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coun</span><span class="invisible">t_of_Monte_Cristo</span></a></p><p>The Count of Monte Cristo at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Le+Comte+de+Monte-Cristo&amp;submit_search=Go%21" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Le+Comte+de+Monte-Cristo&amp;submit_search=Go%21"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?q</span><span class="invisible">uery=Le+Comte+de+Monte-Cristo&amp;submit_search=Go%21</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>I&#x27;ve read that the fourth <a href="/tags/dune/" rel="tag">#Dune</a> novel is quite good and perhaps I will read it one day.</p><p>[End of transmission] </p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a></p>

<p>“The Crocodile,” Dostoevsky’s Weirdest Short Story.</p><p>Why being eaten by a crocodile named Little Karl is really a lesson in the dangers of foreign capital.</p><p>By: Emily Zarevich via @JSTOR_Daily </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/the-crocodile-dostoevskys-weirdest-short-story/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/the-crocodile-dostoevskys-weirdest-short-story/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/the-crocodile-</span><span class="invisible">dostoevskys-weirdest-short-story/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>German music historian and critic Friedrich Chrysander died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1901.</p><p>His most significant achievement was the publication of the &quot;Händel-Gesellschaft&quot; edition, a monumental 105-volume collection of Handel’s complete works. He was one of the founders of the Vierteljahrsschrift für Musikwissenschaft, one of the first scholarly journals devoted to the study of music history and theory.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Chrysander" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Chrysander"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedric</span><span class="invisible">h_Chrysander</span></a></p><p>Books about Handel at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=George+Frideric+Handel&amp;submit_search=Search" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=George+Frideric+Handel&amp;submit_search=Search"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=George+Frideric+Handel&amp;submit_search=Search</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>

<p>📚 Pick a Colour by: Souvankham Thammavongsa</p><p>Ning is a retired boxer, but to the customers who visit her nail salon, she is just another worker named Susan. On this summer&#x27;s day, much like any other, the Susans buff and clip and polish and tweeze. They listen and smile and nod. But beneath this superficial veneer, Ning is a woman of rigorous intellect a...</p><p>Winner of the 2025 Giller Prize!</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/pick-a-colour" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/pick-a-colour"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/pick-a-col</span><span class="invisible">our</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/literaryfiction/" rel="tag">#literaryfiction</a> <a href="/tags/sports/" rel="tag">#sports</a></p>

<p>This week&#x27;s <a href="/tags/newbooks/" rel="tag">#NewBooks</a> at the library: I bought second-hand copies of Fevered Planet: How <a href="/tags/diseases/" rel="tag">#Diseases</a> Emerge When We Harm Nature by the late John Vidal and <a href="/tags/dust/" rel="tag">#Dust</a>: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles by Jay Owens, and picked up a review copy of Uncommon Ground: Rethinking Our Relationship With the <a href="/tags/countryside/" rel="tag">#Countryside</a> by Patrick Galbraith.<br> <br><a href="/tags/atmosphericsciences/" rel="tag">#AtmosphericSciences</a> <a href="/tags/pandemics/" rel="tag">#Pandemics</a> <a href="/tags/epidemics/" rel="tag">#Epidemics</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/zoonoses/" rel="tag">#Zoonoses</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/scicomm/" rel="tag">#Scicomm</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/JigsawCity" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/JigsawCity</a></p><p>Nicole&#x27;s brain is slowly being taken over by an ancient, magical artifact, a small fragment of a magic city. She seeks a cure, before the city can destroy her sanity and then eventually, take her life by replacing her mind. Racing against time, she gathers pieces of the city, hoping to find an answer among them.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefantasy/" rel="tag">#sciencefantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

<p>I just finished reading Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford. It&#x27;s set in an alternate 1920s USA in the state of Cahokia. It&#x27;s centered on a detective relatively new to the city of Cahokia, so you are learning the city through his coming to terms with it. The start is somewhat grisly, but worth getting past that for experiencing the setting. For my part, I enjoyed the atmospherics more than the story itself, but you may feel different.</p><p><a href="/tags/murdermystery/" rel="tag">#MurderMystery</a> <a href="/tags/althistory/" rel="tag">#AltHistory</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&amp;q=https://reviewdb.app/book/70XlcW3yOC6eqiuF3NniX1" rel="nofollow">The World We Make</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 <br>by NK Jemisin.</p><p>New York finishes the job against the Multiverse, despite the conservative reticence of the Old Cities. Clunkier and without the freshness of the original. But fun to see more city avatars. I think Mamdani could easily be a character in these books!</p><p><a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#SFF</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://aus.social/@wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>WildWoila</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://wyrms.de/user/wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>wildwoila@wyrms.de</span></a></span><br></p>

<p>📚 The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus by: Emma Knight</p><p>Arriving at the University of Edinburgh for her first term, Pen knows her divorced parents back in Canada are hiding something from her. She believes she’ll find the answer here in Scotland, where an old friend of her father’s—now a famous writer ...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-life-cycle-of-the-common-octopus" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-life-cycle-of-the-common-octopus"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-life-c</span><span class="invisible">ycle-of-the-common-octopus</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/friendshipfiction/" rel="tag">#friendshipfiction</a> <a href="/tags/familylife/" rel="tag">#familylife</a> <a href="/tags/marriagedivorce/" rel="tag">#marriagedivorce</a></p>

<p>Do you like to read? Have I told you about The StoryGraph? </p><p>I kicked Goodreads (Amazon owned) to the curb a long time ago. The StoryGraph is minority- and woman-owned and operated. It&#x27;s WAY better, it&#x27;s 100% free, you can import all your Goodreads info to it, there&#x27;s a free mobile app, and it&#x27;s WAAY better at reading recommendations. Give it a shot!</p><p>References:</p><p><a href="https://www.thestorygraph.com/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.thestorygraph.com/</a><br><a href="https://www.thestorygraph.com/team" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.thestorygraph.com/team</a><br><a href="https://www.bustle.com/entertainment/the-storygraph-goodreads-competitor-nadia-odunayo" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.bustle.com/entertainment/the-storygraph-goodreads-competitor-nadia-odunayo"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.bustle.com/entertainment/t</span><span class="invisible">he-storygraph-goodreads-competitor-nadia-odunayo</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/blackownedbusiness/" rel="tag">#blackownedbusiness</a> <a href="/tags/recommendations/" rel="tag">#recommendations</a></p>