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I love reading challenges that prompt you to expand your horizons but let you select your own books.

I've seen around the world style challenges before, but hesitated to join since I almost exclusively read SF&F and the books other members add to the prompts are a great way to discover new authors.

Lately I've found the: Speculative Fiction World Tour challenge on The StoryGraph. It has very good prompts and is open ended so no stress inducing deadline.

Sadly there are only 9 participants so far.

I hope others will also find this challenge interesting and join us on a world tour of the speculative fiction genre.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/073a9752-f06e-4dc3-bac0-4a36292dcb96

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The StoryGraph has changed it's review priorities, I wonder if it is because of the advent of LLMs.

Since it's inception The StoryGraph has emphasized its questioner as the preferred method of book review. Allowing it to categories its database according to easily measurable criteria instead of free text reviews.

The open text box was located at the bottom of the page and regarded as optional.

This week the text box and star rating where elevated to the top of the page and strongly emphasized

I speculate that this may have something to do with LLMs. For the StoryGraph who's stated goal is to give the best book reccomendations, the free text box is now more valuable as data than the traditional statistical model.

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I love pie. Living my entire life in #Aotearoa, my favourite pies are steak and mushroom, steak and cheese, and pepper steak.

But I love #Reading about PIE almost as much as I love eating pie, and Laura Spinney's "Proto was a delicious read. 4.5/5 at #TheStoryGraph for me
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