Review: Paladin's Faith by T. Kingfisher
Come for the plot drama, stay for the intriguing developments in fantasy world theology says @chloroform_tea at the @NerdsofaFeather blog today
Chemically Imbalanced: Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery
Chemically Imbalanced is a field report on how ordinary people dealing with common problems explain their suffering, how they're increasingly turning to the thin and mechanistic language of the "body/brain," and what these encounters might tell us.
As a reader, do you prefer when people give you random books as gifts, or do you prefer getting a gift card to a bookstore (so you can pick the book)? Just curious.
#WritersCoffeeClub
Dec 18th: Will you read over the holidays? What book will you choose?
I'll probably read a few more short stories from the Gothic Fantasy collection or from one of my Library of America books. #AmReading@bookstodon#Bookstodon
Christ, imagine being so deranged that you'd post negative reviews of books of fellow new authors you perceived as rivals. Goodreads is turning into the YouTube of the literary world (no that's not a compliment).
‘It’s totally unhinged’: is the book world turning against Goodreads? | Books | The Guardian
I used to really like Goodreads, but that was many years ago.
I honestly find the reviews mostly useless, like a lot of crowd sourced reviews.
99% are "I like books about trains. This book is about trains. This is a good book" or "I didn't like this book, not enough trains" only some are in more elaborate language.
@joannaholman@timrichards@bookstodon That's pretty much how I use it, though if I happen to write a review of something (for my blog or the Sisters in Crime newsletter) I'll post it there as well.
Same Page librairies only lend their audio books for 2 weeks, which is a bit tight for some longer ones.
I squeaked through "The Vanishing Half" by Brit Bennett with about 2 minutes to spare before it was to expire, by listening at 1.25x speed.
I did enjoy it. Interesting storyline, I understand it's a favourite of Barack Obama. #EllieKPosts #IAmReading#libraries#audioBook#audioBooks @bookstodon
12/18/23 — Open 6-9p. Mask recommended. No open containers, please.
I don't have much to say about these 2 great books. These ladies do just fine speaking for themselves. Hear what they have to say in these stories, here now!
Read MISLAID IN PARTS HALF-KNOWN by Seanan McGuire if you love thrift stores, maple syrup, reunions, mischiefs of magpies, classrooms, nonsense, running as fast as you can, dinosaurs, goblins, beautiful girls, seeking justice, vegetarian food, croquet, crushes, and goodbyes.
Book sales are slumping and if you're not a celebrity author, your publisher won't do much to promote your work. For The Walrus, Tajjia Isen writes about how "the finicky labour of trying to bottle hype is largely offloaded onto writers," and how all this affects the kind of titles publishers acquire, and the books readers end up buying.
my novelette "Jay Moriarty Violates the Official Secrets Act," a modern-day queer reinterpretation of Sherlock Holmes' nemesis, is free on Smashwords until January 1: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1436835
Catherine Chidgey's Remote Sympathy (2021) implicitly takes Hanah Arendt's idea of the banality of evil & constructs a story of Germans' self-delusion & complicity in the horrors of Buchanwald Labour Camp during WW2. Told from four perspectives (a jewish prisoner, an SS Officer & his wife & the townspeople), its a compelling story that does not flinch away from difficult questions & explores the lies that people will tell themselves!
"When I was twenty-six, my first novel, The Temple of Gold, was published by Alfred A. Knopf. (Which is now part of Random House which is now part of R.C.A. which is just part of what’s wrong with publishing in America today which is not part of this story.)'
William Goldman, Preface to The Princess Bride. @bookstodon
@SimonRoyHughes@bookstodon
Better than the Godfather for quotes.
"Some day everyone will be wearing masks"
Wm Goldman was a versatile writer. Some of his books on the TBR pile. Though I'm not convinced he ever really meant to write a sequel to "The Princess Bride"