Goodreads has launched the opening round for their yearly awards for the best books just recently. I skimmed through the categories myself, yet already saw quite mixed reviews about the suggestions for this year’s nominees.
Some categories like poetry and children books were removed (yeah, you can say that children ain’t a target audience for the Goodreads yet this platform always seemed to be well rounded).
Graphic novels is also something that was removed unfortunately. Although these ain’t my cup of tea, I’m almost sure it must be upsetting for a large group of people.
The craziest thing is that System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries #7) by Martha Wells is nominated for best Science Fiction, and it was literally published 3 days ago - on the 13th November. Come on! I haven’t even received my preordered copy yet.
Most people who vote for that aren’t likely to have had time to read it even, it’s what - 11 days left to vote in the first round? Yet I wouldn’t be surprised if it won, just by of how popular the series is and the author is…
No one will have time to even read through a couple of the books they haven’t read for even one single category, so the whole thing just seems pointless.
I thought it came out yesterday (book releases on Tuesdays).