I’ve written a few thoughts on Birding by Rose Ruane, 2025, full of wit and wisdom, this story captures the painful process of growing up and examines issues around consent, identity, parenthood, friendship and trauma #bookstodon #WomensPrize #BookReview #Storygraph#audiobook @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/8f011250-3c39-4734-a206-5934d21655d3?redirect=true

What book tracker do you use if any? Any recommendations?

I want to be able to own my data, but would also like recommendations and maybe a community. I just want to track books I've started & finished.

Goodreads is Amazon so I'd rather avoid that, I think.

BookWyrm is cool but I don't see an android app?

StoryGraph, Hardcover, Bookmory, Fable and many others seem like probably the best options. I don't know what to pick!

Ooh, tis that time again, time to get the monthly reading wrap up graphics on Storygraph.

Cover collage this month has a pleasing stepped effect going on.
10 books finished. (Did several short ones at start of the month, then slowed down!) Streak maintained. 4 stories read from the Far Horizons anthology I'm making last all season. 1/3 of the way through the long Great Courses audiobook that I'm also taking all season to go through and absorb.

Here’s my review of My Husband by Maud Ventura, 2021, tr. Emma Ramadan, a novel with a deliciously unhinged character who was brilliantly brought to life in the audiobook #bookstodon #reading #BookReview #audiobook #Storygraph @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/876a656c-45a2-46a7-9943-310f08fdb872

“If there are necessary sacrifices to be made for human progress, is it not essential to hold to the principle that those to be sacrificed must make the decision themselves? We can all decide to give up something of ours, but do we have the right to throw into the pyre the children of others, or even our own children, for a progress which is not nearly as clear or present as sickness or health, life or death?”

- A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/b7aa535e-143b-4be1-b9d3-a1f0b1279816

#readingcommunity #bookstodon #books #history #storygraph @thestorygraph

Here are a few thoughts on Stamboul Train, 1932, by Graham Greene, an early novel set on the Orient Express #bookstodon #BookReview #Storygraph #Braille #reading @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/85c568b6-642e-4087-bd2e-9c9eb71579ed

I’ve written a few thoughts on Audition by Katie Kitamura, 2025, a perplexing read about how we perceive ourselves and those we love #bookstodon #BookReview #BookerPrize #audiobook #Storygraph @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/6bfa7e13-0c1b-48c4-ae49-f2a20a296595

Auf #StoryGraph gibt es nicht nur "Recommandations", sondern auch Vorschläge, die „Out of your comfort zone” sind. Dieses Konzept liebe ich sehr. Das ist quasi der Gegenentwurf zu Algorithmen, die immer nur das Passendste zum eh schon vorhandenen Verhalten/Geschmack vorschlagen. Gut, ich mag jetzt keine Bücher über Hundeerziehung und Gärtnerei, die aktuell diese Liste dominieren, aber genau das ist ja der Punkt.

Here’s my review of Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid, 2025, a brilliantly gripping read for anyone fascinated by the Universe and our place within it, and enjoys a bit of romance too! #bookstodon #BookReview #Storygraph#audiobook @bookstodon

https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/02d81e8e-42ce-4d01-bc12-32595e37c389

Hi everyone!
I (finally) decided to leave Goodreads! I'm now a team #StoryGraph member!
https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/teapotghost (user : teapotghost)
Let's be friends! Even if we don't talk a lot I like seeing what other people read and it motivates me!
#books #bookstodon #goodreads #bookworm #reading #readers

Here’s my review of The Safekeep, 2024, by Yael van der Wouden, the recent winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction #bookstodon #BookReview #audiobook #Storygraph #WomensPrize @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/a596efb5-2c3b-4a6b-a0ee-3c10916e59b8

There are several reasons I have read more this year: cutting out most doomscrolling and all news podcasts being the most significant. But the currently reading tab on #StoryGraph helps me move between books without forgetting them. There is even a reading journal that lets me see how much of each I read in a session. Moving between multiple books (audio, print, and an occasional ebook) paradoxically helps me to maintain my interest in all of them. #Reading #Books

Here are a few thoughts on The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh, 1948, a darkly funny look at the business of funerals in California from the perspective of some expat Brits #bookstodon #BookReview #Storygraph #Braille @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/536377cb-bfa6-4a16-8e52-a819fd1c995b

I’ve written a few thoughts on Eileen, 2016, by Ottessa Moshfegh, a memorable book that came my way unexpectedly and which surprised me! #bookstodon #BookReview #Storygraph #Braille @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/ca5e911e-36c3-4ff1-8ef9-c030e1e3a15d