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Ah, I understand a bit more now. Thanks. Larry Send a noteboard - 22/11/2013 08:50:26 AM

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View original postThough with Goodreads I usually turn to it after reading or mid-read. A lot of times I'll get halfway through something and want to see if others agree with my impressions. Especially if the writer does a lot of Author Tract which I find increasingly annoying as the years go by.


View original postIn terms of new books to read though, from authors or series I haven't read, almost entirely from here.




View original postHow "new" is new for you, though? I'm used to seeing early 2013 releases being discussed at some places as almost "older" books, since their blogs/sites are oriented toward the just-released.

Sure, but the only book blogs I regularly visit rather than just stumble on via google are Wertzone and OF Blog, and usually not for suggestions. I'm looking for a second take on a book I've already read, to add more depth to it. To see what I missed or a different perspective. When I get new book suggestions its usually incidental, like some aspect of the book I really liked being compared to another book I haven't read. I don't much care if a book, even a non-SF/F one, is dated. I tend to enjoy the reminders of prior popular fads or idioms. As you say, blogs focus on new releases, often pre-release, but most have archives that pop up on a google search for that book, and most reviewers mix in older favorites or classics or special requests with the new releases. Since I usually arrive by google rather than seeking that blog, it's not a problem.


I suppose blogs like the one I co-run are a bit different in focus from the so-called "new shiny" crowd, but it certainly is neat seeing how people arrive at the blogs I maintain (the other main one, Gogol's Overcoat, has a steady flow of traffic from people, presumably students, looking for reviews of specific stories by Flannery O'Connor, Zora Neale Hurston, and William Faulkner). Sometimes that reference-based searching is overlooked by those who want to be the first to cover a book or author. Nice to be reminded of it.

Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

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To whom do you turn when you want to learn more about new books? - 10/11/2013 06:17:07 AM 1651 Views
This is the only place. - 10/11/2013 04:26:22 PM 1332 Views
Maybe, but I'm a bit skeptical - 11/11/2013 12:14:36 AM 1280 Views
If you want to attract NEW readers, the site needs to be reworked from scratch - 13/11/2013 01:06:41 PM 1218 Views
Preaching to the choir here - 14/11/2013 07:55:56 AM 1373 Views
Re: If you want to attract NEW readers, the site needs to be reworked from scratch - 21/11/2013 09:24:22 PM 1310 Views
That might be swimming upstream against a strong current - 22/11/2013 08:41:15 AM 1255 Views
Quite - 22/11/2013 03:34:50 PM 1130 Views
io9 - 10/11/2013 07:32:41 PM 1593 Views
Locus Online also has good lists of upcoming/new SF/F releases - 11/11/2013 12:16:18 AM 1250 Views
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Very true - 14/11/2013 07:57:14 AM 1271 Views
I'm skeptical of the Economist. - 16/11/2013 05:02:47 PM 1247 Views
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I've essentially stopped reading - 11/11/2013 12:36:51 AM 1396 Views
I don't think very highly of the discussions on r/fantasy - 11/11/2013 08:25:54 AM 1426 Views
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I'd say this place is still the most influential for me. - 11/11/2013 10:29:19 AM 1216 Views
For some odd reason, I distrust Goodreads - 14/11/2013 07:58:29 AM 1375 Views
"Distrust"? Interesting word choice. - 14/11/2013 09:32:35 PM 1351 Views
Call me old fashioned... - 11/11/2013 02:47:37 PM 1187 Views
Old fashioned! - 14/11/2013 07:59:43 AM 1227 Views
I second that suggestion. - 14/11/2013 09:35:51 PM 1164 Views
Re: I second that suggestion. - 16/11/2013 02:10:10 AM 1071 Views
Here mostly, Goodreads, io9 - 11/11/2013 09:40:41 PM 1394 Views
Interesting - 14/11/2013 08:01:05 AM 1191 Views
Typically new is "New to me" - 14/11/2013 08:36:09 AM 1532 Views
Ah, I understand a bit more now. Thanks. - 22/11/2013 08:50:26 AM 1190 Views
Here mostly too. And bookshops over here. - 12/11/2013 06:54:05 PM 1186 Views
I have list of things to read longer than I have time to read - 13/11/2013 05:39:59 PM 1165 Views
So true - 14/11/2013 08:03:16 AM 1202 Views
here, mostly, but i also have less time to read (sort of) and a lot to read... - 19/11/2013 03:49:15 PM 1099 Views
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I'm all BELE - 29/11/2013 07:12:03 PM 1101 Views
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