Wczoraj widziałem w Empiku bardzo ładne wydanie książki "Jonathan Strange i pan Norrell" Susanny Clarke. Wygląda to świetnie na żywo - idealne na prezent lub dla siebie. Tylko widzę, że opinie są dość różne - czytaliście te książkę i możecie coś na jej temat powiedzieć?
@Smootnyclown Dzięki :) Parę tytułów znam ze słyszenia, ale nic nie czytałem. Może jak pokonam w końcu te kilkadziesiąt książek, które mam kupione w czytniku... :P @ksiazki
@thorcik No właśnie tego dłużenia się boję, bo o tym też czytałem. Ale z drugiej strony, pasjonuje mnie klimat wiktoriańskiej Anglii, choć bardziej kojarzy mi się ze steampunkiem niż z fantasy. No i książka jest dość droga. Cóż - zobaczę. @ksiazki
@NatureMC@bookwyrm@writers while I didn't dig deep, I'm not sure how bookwyrm would prevent fake review bombing... tho federated instances could block, but it's still lots of content moderation...
@pyperkub Of course but here real people and admins are working for that. I also think that with the size of the servers here, a bombing would be noticeable due to the size of the data. @bookwyrm@writers
Last night I finished Starling House by Alix Harrow. I had no idea what it was about when I started it, but I loved it. It's hard to describe without spoilers, but it's a complex story of families and poverty and bad luck woven into a great haunted house story. It wasn't scary, just creepy. Alix Harrow is now one of my favorite authors, she's brilliant. @bookstodon#Bookstodon#Fantasy#HauntedHouse#AlixHarrow
You ever get the feeling that you just can’t read fast enough? I’m usually happy to mosey along, but this book I’m reading right now—Weyward, by Emilia Hart—is so interesting I just want to devour it, inhale it, consume aaaaall of it at once.
@nik@bookstodon I've read it. Some content was too sketchy to my taste, at times. Three women's lives to be made "palpable" couldn't be an easy task of course. The witch trial episodes were not that convincing...
In November while in upstate New York, we took a small afternoon trip to Saratoga Springs, a small, relatively affluent college town near where @seanbala grew up. We made two stops. One was Lyrical Ballad Bookstore. It was an amazing warren of shelves and lots of old books, maps, newspapers, and pictures. Funny thing is that even though he grew up here, this was Sean's first time going!
@seanbala@bookstodon Afterwards, we went to Uncommon Ground, a local coffee shop that makes its own bagels and roasts its own coffee. We got one of the best mochas we've had in a long time and a bagel with some schmear. Worth checking out if you ever visit!
@seanbala read a book while @dohappybelove did some painting. A good afternoon that we needed at that moment.
I re-read Nicola Griffith's Hild a couple of weeks ago and edited that review. I made even more edits today, then added comments about the second book, Menewood. Both get my highest of recommendation. This link is for the full page.
Holly Webb po raz kolejny przekonała mnie, że jest sprawdzoną firmą, jeśli chodzi o książki dla dzieci. „Zimowy wilk” odznacza się charakterystycznym dla autorki stylem, w ramach którego można liczyć na wartościową i zarazem przystępnie podaną treść.
@Bopson@ksiazki Te świąteczno-zimowe historie doczekały się właśnie wznowień w nowych okładkach. W bibliotece, z której wypożyczałam, stały nawet oba wydania tej konkretnej publikacji.
Readers and Friends of readers!
If you like witty wordplay, endearing characters, and a sense of fun with your mystery: PJ Fitzsimmons is your man. His Anty Boisjoly Mystery series is SO delightful; I read the seven books this year, most twice! It’s the kind of book you have to read bits out loud to whomever else is in the room. Or, if you’re feeling shy, just laugh outloud (to yourself).
@MardraS@bookstodon
You've made my day, Mardra. I'm sorry that I'm here so rarely and only just now saw your kind messages — I think I have to either commit to Mastodon or not.
Either way, I hope you know how motivational this kind of support is as I'm writing book number eight. Thank you.
I started reading Praise, Book 1 in the Salacious Players Club series tonight. I've read 71 percent of it in the last few hours. It's a change from the dragon shifter books I've been reading for the last few days, that's for sure. @bookstodon@romancelandia#bookstodon@readinglightsout
@RomComLove@bookstodon@romancelandia@readinglightsout I think it's one of the best ones I've read. A lot of the books I've read are so focused on the sex scenes that it seems like there's little to nothing else.
If I've written a novella set a "high school" level academy, but the character is older than her classmates due to health issues keeping her out of school (so she's 17 and her classmates are 14/15)
"I especially enjoyed this title as it approaches the popular topic of dinosaurs from an unusual angle and successfully mixes fact with genuine humour. The illustrations are really amusing too and perfectly complement the flavour of the text. It made me chuckle!"