Lemmy Exclusive Book Giveaway: Ghost Trigger ( beehaw.org )
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What are you reading? (July 2023)
Hey Beehaw (and others)! Whatcha reading?
Elliot Page Does Not Owe You a Legible Timeline: On the Beauty of Nonlinear Queer & Trans Storytelling ( bookriot.com )
The Virtue of Owning Books You Haven’t Read: Why Umberto Eco Kept an “Antilibrary” ( www.openculture.com )
[…] Eco separated his visitors into two categories: “those who react with ‘Wow! Signore professore dottore Eco, what a library you have. How many of these books have you read’ and the others — a very small minority — who get the point is that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendages but a research tool.”
Why Libraries are Awesome
So I’m a big advocate of utilizing your local public libraries. The best way to secure more funding for them is to use their services! So I thought real quick that I should write up a quick posts about the services that many libraries offer nowadays that you may not know about. Some of these points may be applicable mostly to...
Deleuze on Palestine: "The Grandeur of Yasser Arafat" and "Stones" ( www.youtube.com )
Two of Deleuze’s essays read by Acid Horizon....
US Nobel-winning poet Louise Gluck dies at 80 ( www.reuters.com )
LeVar Burton to replace Drew Barrymore as host of National Book Awards ( www.npr.org )
Anyone has the Linux app image of Restream chat app running? (Need transparent chat for single screen)
I reported it as not working a day or two ago. They last updated it in 2021 or before but their support claims it’s still working. I stream using a single screen and so far I’ve been using the Steam overlay browser with some transparency but I’d like to be able to view chat without background with the text having borders...
Before she was killed by a Russian missile strike, novelist Victoria Amelina wrote about Ukraine and the meaning of home ( web.archive.org )
Neural Wraith 3 audiobook ( www.amazon.com.au )
As I've enjoyed the prior audiobooks in the series I am happy to hear book 3 is coming up soonish, August 1st.
2023 Locus Awards Winners ( locusmag.com )
Fun Fact: The longest piece of literature ever written is a Loud House fanfiction called "Loud House Revamped".
The fanfiction is currently above 16,777,215 words (we don’t know the word count because fanfic.net uses 24-bit integers to count the amount of words and this fic surpassed the computational limit), and is 2000+ chapters. It is written by Jamesdean5842 and is still being written to this day....
I just bought the only physical encyclopedia still in print, and I regret nothing ( arstechnica.com )
‘Journalism mustn’t be silenced’: colleagues to complete slain reporter’s book ( www.theguardian.com )
is anyone reading the Witcher novels right now? or lately? ( beehaw.org )
My second read-through now and I’m loving them even more this time!...
What are you reading? (June 2023)
Hey Beehaw, whatcha reading right now?
“When Stars Collide” by Ottessa Moshfegh ( www.newyorker.com )
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Do you set reading goals for yourself or participate in reading challenges?
Do you set goals like reading a certain number of books in a year? Participate in reading challenges?...
Goodreads was the future of book reviews. Then Amazon bought it. ( www.washingtonpost.com )
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/917041...
dumb question but, Can anyone create a "for dummies book"
You would be shocke dbut ive never read or gotten to read a for dummies book, are they any good if so feel free to suggest some…...
1968 Mental unity following surgical disconnection of the cerebral hemispheres ( people.uncw.edu )
I love these old papers. The diagrams are beautiful, and the writing style gets me every time....
Book about Indian History, culture, folklore
Hey guys,...
Do you reread books?
Do you reread books or are you done with them once you’ve read them?...
Oddly current events related: Dead Wake (Erik Larson) - On the sinking of the Lusitania and the US’ entrance into WWI ( eriklarsonbooks.com )
I had picked this up at a used book store a long ways back after reading nothing but rock bios for a while - thought a little historical non-fiction could beef my brain up....
