We Sacrifice Goodreads (and Sallie Uninstalls It Live)

Show Notes

Soph brings Goodreads to the altar this week – 20 years old, 150 million users, owned by Amazon since 2013, and barely updated since launch. Sallie downloads it for the first time to give it a fair hearing, Sarah defends the one feature she can’t get anywhere else, and the verdict ends with a live uninstall. Sarah also puts Pagebound forward for veneration.

Before that, Sarah’s 80% through Ben Pester’s The Expansion Project, a surreal workplace horror about a daughter who vanishes on Bring Your Daughter to Work Day. Sallie’s losing patience with R.F. Kuang’s Katabasis after a late cast change, which prompts Sarah’s hottest take yet on Kuang. Soph finds £35 on a forgotten Waterstones gift card, reports back on her dust jacket survey, and recommends Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir.

Next week we’re back in A Court of Thorns and Roses – read up to and including chapter 31. Join our Fable book club to share your thoughts between episodes.