#it is on goodreads tho

[nopoodles]

The Story Graph is lovely from a reader/book tracking perspective but my gosh is it a nightmare as an indie author. Not a single one of my books has been imported automatically so far and Welcome To Humanity has missing publisher info (despite the fact that I gave every detail upon importing) AND only half a cover for some reason.

On Goodreads I have an author profile, which means I can update my own books. If I have a new cover or details to include or something gets messed up and I need to fix it, I can just do that. But on Storygraph, I'm stuck emailing them or filing a ticket (which I've already done 6+ months ago for WTH and it hasn't been updated yet. Do I do it again? Do I accept that the cover is forever gonna be half?)

I know I'm not a bestseller. I know my books aren't making a huge impact on the market. And I know I'm probably the only person checking my Storygraph page. But it's frustrating anyway because it leaves me in this awkward limbo where I tell people to look for my books on the Storygraph (especially since Amazon owns Goodreads) and my stuff isn't on there or it's only got bits and pieces.

Not to mention, if I add the book myself, manually, so the details are actually in there (not all of them, for some reason) it sticks a "user added" logo on it as if it's some unverified and therefore less valuable thing (dare I even call it a book).

This post brought to you by "I've tried importing my upcoming pirate book (Not The Fighting Kind) twice already today and despite the message that reads 'it can take up to a minute' it's still not on there!"

[barzyhughes]

quinn reading books to improve his brain 🥰

[somewhereincairparavel]

I'm not obsessed with Jason Grace. I'm merely giving him the love he didn't get all these years. 💅

[sarafangirlart]

What if we all just kill ourselves?

[time-bombed]

the christians are trying to cancel shannon for including gay people in unraveled and i think that’s absolutely hilarious

[kittensandforeheadkisses]

I am NOT going to let a one star review on goodreads ruin the emotional euphoria I got after finishing one of the best trilogies ever

[kevinsdsy]

this lil thing the apple books app does is so sexc to me

[chemicalarospec]

i dont really get what's so funny about Mr Luigi having The Lorax on his Goodreads -- I think I do too. however i did also make my goodreads at the ripe age of 11. so when it had me rate books I'd already read, the set was very much limited to children's books. Also I literally still a child. I think I was on that website illegally.

[bespectacledbun]

I often think about how it's been shown over and over again that chev reads romance not for some bullshit reason of understanding humans (as he claims) but because he likes them. I think about how he very clearly self inserts with these books too, like in that one event where he kept imagining himself and Emma as the main characters of the romance novels he was reading. like. that shit is so funny and sweet and endearing to me. this man would soooooo be into reader insert fan fiction if he was real like he would absolutely bitch about people writing the characters OOC or making them do dumb shit in a fanfic. chevalier "he would not fucking say that" michel is real to me idk

[jurdanhell]

here’s the stolen heir’s wal*mart exclusive deleted scene!

[martianbugsbunny]

You're A Star never stood a chance when I saw this first:

like everyone else can go home, we already have a winner in the People-Are-Stars poetry category

[veryrealauthorthings]

[sergeantpixie]

Thanks for tagging me @forasecondtherewedwon!

rules: list 5 of your favourite books on a poll, so your followers can vote which book they think captures your vibe the best

Tagging: @morocorra, @imperpetuallylost, @randomestfandoms, @woodswit, and anyone else who wants to!

Book summaries from Goodreads below the cut:

Libba Bray's The Diviners:

Evie O’Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City—and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It’s 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession with the occult. Evie worries her uncle will discover her darkest secret: a supernatural power that has only brought her trouble so far. But when the police find a murdered girl branded with a cryptic symbol and Will is called to the scene, Evie realizes her gift could help catch a serial killer. As Evie jumps headlong into a dance with a murderer, other stories unfold in the city that never sleeps. A young man named Memphis is caught between two worlds. A chorus girl named Theta is running from her past. A student named Jericho is hiding a shocking secret. And unknown to all, something dark and evil has awakened…

Ami McKay's The Witches of New York:

The year is 1880. Two hundred years after the trials in Salem, Adelaide Thom ('Moth' from The Virgin Cure) has left her life in the sideshow to open a tea shop with another young woman who feels it's finally safe enough to describe herself as a witch: a former medical student and "gardien de sorts" (keeper of spells), Eleanor St. Clair. Together they cater to Manhattan's high society ladies, specializing in cures, palmistry and potions--and in guarding the secrets of their clients. 

All is well until one bright September afternoon, when an enchanting young woman named Beatrice Dunn arrives at their door seeking employment. Beatrice soon becomes indispensable as Eleanor's apprentice, but her new life with the witches is marred by strange occurrences. She sees things no one else can see. She hears voices no one else can hear. Objects appear out of thin air, as if gifts from the dead. Has she been touched by magic or is she simply losing her mind? 

Eleanor wants to tread lightly and respect the magic manifest in the girl, but Adelaide sees a business opportunity. Working with Dr. Quinn Brody, a talented alienist, she submits Beatrice to a series of tests to see if she truly can talk to spirits. Amidst the witches' tug-of-war over what's best for her, Beatrice disappears, leaving them to wonder whether it was by choice or by force. 

As Adelaide and Eleanor begin the desperate search for Beatrice, they're confronted by accusations and spectres from their own pasts. In a time when women were corseted, confined and committed for merely speaking their minds, were any of them safe?

Megan Abbott's Dare Me:

Addy Hanlon has always been Beth Cassidy's best friend and trusted lieutenant. Beth calls the shots and Addy carries them out, a long-established order of things that has brought them to the pinnacle of their high-school careers. Now they're seniors who rule the intensely competitive cheer squad, feared and followed by the other girls—until the young new coach arrives.

Cool and commanding, an emissary from the adult world just beyond their reach, Coach Colette French draws Addy and the other cheerleaders into her life. Only Beth, unsettled by the new regime, remains outside Coach's golden circle, waging a subtle but vicious campaign to regain her position as "top girl"—both with the team and with Addy herself.

Then a suicide focuses a police investigation on Coach and her squad. After the first wave of shock and grief, Addy tries to uncover the truth behind the death—and learns that the boundary between loyalty and love can be dangerous terrain.

Nina LaCour's Everything Leads to You:

A wunderkind young set designer, Emi has already started to find her way in the competitive Hollywood film world.   Emi is a film buff and a true romantic, but her real-life relationships are a mess. She has desperately gone back to the same girl too many times to mention. But then a mysterious letter from a silver screen legend leads Emi to Ava. Ava is unlike anyone Emi has ever met. She has a tumultuous, not-so-glamorous past, and lives an unconventional life. She’s enigmatic…. She’s beautiful. And she is about to expand Emi’s understanding of family, acceptance, and true romance.

Sarah Rees Brennan's Tell the Wind & Fire:

In a city divided between opulent luxury in the Light and fierce privations in the Dark, a determined young woman survives by guarding her secrets. 

Lucie Manette was born in the Dark half of the city, but careful manipulations won her a home in the Light, celebrity status, and a rich, loving boyfriend. Now she just wants to keep her head down, but her boyfriend has a dark secret of his own—one involving an apparent stranger who is destitute and despised. Lucie alone knows the young men’s deadly connection, and even as the knowledge leads her to make a grave mistake, she can trust no one with the truth.

Blood and secrets alike spill out when revolution erupts. With both halves of the city burning, and mercy nowhere to be found, can Lucie save either boy—or herself?

[zeldasavefile]

Why is there no letterboxd/goodreads for video games tho

[crazypigeonenjoyer]

Look at this cool edition of “Carry on, Jeeves” I got the other day!

[kskfkakkdnsna]

My most recent Goodreads review

Anyway don't waste your time on A Hue of Blu, it's crap.