Voice recognition mistake of the day: "Itchy tentacle back?"
(Is she tempted to go back?) Now I'm getting creepy crawlies up my spine. Is there a cream for this? @bookstodon#amWriting
"...how pointless I think dystopias are now. This sort of creeping sense that we're doing their imagining for them. We're just feeding them - the right - with more and more possibilities for how bad things could get. Our imaginations are in service to the wrong ends."
My specfic winged romance, Grounded, is on sale in the US at the special price of 99c until 11 Dec! Check out your favourite US ebook site to see why reviews called it "a sweet, empowering tale of renewal" and "one of the best paranormal romances I've read".
@NarrelleMHarris@bookstodon You are. Actually, this was just a random collision with your posts. Frankly, I wish I were thoughtful enough to catalogue these interactions. I was curious about the lens through which The Profession viewed the technology.
For what it’s worth, speaking as a Designer of Things, it feels derivative and unimaginative. Hollow words, though grammatically correct. Strunk & White would be pleased, I suspect. Not impressed, but pleased. 🤔
@craig_patrick@bookstodon Ha! No doubt! I mentor other writers as well, at times, and I've said before there's a big difference between a storyteller and a grammarian. :)
A new narrative history of the Viking Age, interwoven with exploration of the physical remains and landscapes that the Vikings fashioned and walked: their rune-stones and ship burials, settlements and battlefields.
@appassionato@bookstodon fuck these Vikings. Raping and pillaging defenseless towns and monasteries. At least the Romans assimilated and had many bloodless victories.
When I see the courage of the Ukrainian resistance, I can only conclude the Congressional Republicans who refuse them arms are Russian collaborators. Shameful!
Slava Ukraine
I need some #help from my bookish friends here, particularly those in the #Chicago area. I'm trying to identify an independent #bookstore that, instead of providing gift receipts, uses a gold sticker over the price of the book. The issue is that the gold sticker doesn't tell the recipient of the book where it's from, and I'd rather not ask if I can avoid it.
The store in in a north suburb, and knowing the person who shops there, probably an affluent one.
I'm looking for some recommendations on podcasts about books, preferably fiction. It can either be deep-dives or quick reviews of new or favourite books.
Either in English (Australian), Dutch or German.
I really have no point of reference 🙂
@nevele@bookstodon two of my favorites are Our Opinions Are Correct (Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders diving into sci-fi and spec fic) and The Maris Review (Maris Kreizman is a fantastic interviewer).
Well THAAAANK YOU #GNUTerryPratchett for 'ruining' a whole page of this book A lengthy passage about a Scottish Highland character's interactions with "the Little People" ends with this question and OF COURSE I read the whole thing mentally substituting "Wee Free" for "Little" - Every.Single.Time 🤣 #AmReading#ebooks#DeanStreetDecember#Discworld@bookstodon
@pgcd@bookstodon In an interesting twist, the character is telling the story to a child who says that he "thought fairies were nice, and had wings" and she replies with a lengthy desription of "the Little People" that is eerily prescient of The Wee Free People. "neither good nor bad" being one phrase that particularly resonated
@JoelBarr@Lsquare28@bookstodon I read the Foundation and Empire quartet when I was about 12. Loved them. Read them for what they are, not as a possible reality.
recommend me a book! i like fantasy, paranormal romance, sci-fi, queer fiction. i need 12 recommendations from other people for a 2024 reading challenge :blobcatblep:
@lorywidmerhess@bookstodon Like you, I've found Stevenson hit and miss (the one I'm reading now seems like a miss), but I absolutely LOVED Fair Miss Fortune, gave it 4.5/5 at the Storygraph