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Cake day: November 2nd, 2023

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  • Yeah, we have spent years honing the knowledge and skill which is buying books for ourselves and those amateur’s think they can spend five minutes in a bookshop and come out with the goods. I stuck it out for years and then I begged them to stop and they did.

    The carrot cake thing is a douchebag move. But at least your Dad bought a cake. It wouldn’t even have occurred to my father. My mother was the definition of a married single mom.













  • Whatever skeleton crew Amazon has left running Goodreads made a huge error. Both in the categories they chose to cut and the timing of the announcement. I was watching a livestream on youtube by bookslikewoah and Jess Evans which had a number of other booktubers and lots of Goodreads target demographic. We all came in pissed at the cuts and it poisoned any good will we still had left towards the awards.

    As someone said they could have cut Humour and it would have been fine because most of those books could easily be absorbed into the memoir and autobiography category. The fact that Graphic novels were cut and none of them redistributed into categories like Sci-fi or fantasy was noticed. But MG well, the anger was palpable.

    My feeling is that this was a spineless attempt to avoid culture wars in the USA. As the latest Heartstopper book was sure to win Graphic Novel and MG just seems to be the latest battleground for the loud and the stupid. Rather than fight for children’s right to diverse books, they chose to cancel the category, like the useless quivering quislings they are.