Jennifer, to bookstodon
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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

kimlockhartga,
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@jillrhudy @Jennifer @bookstodon A thousand times, yes. Also, her musings on substack.

Jennifer,
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@kimlockhartga @jillrhudy @bookstodon ooh I didn't know she has a Substack! I'll subscribe, thanks!

Imperor, to rpgmemes
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I'm re-reading The Hobbit at the moment. Gandalf might not be a conjurer of cheap tricks, because he's only packing the expensive, high-caliber stuff.

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@imperor

CeruleanRuin,

There are also things like cuckoo clocks and a reference to a train.

Aielman15,
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“I’m sorry, you can’t pass” Gandalf said calmly.

pussreboots, to bookstodon
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Five stars: Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher (2023) is a novella retelling of Sleeping Beauty. The story was inspired in the process of writing a different retelling, namely, Hamster Princess: Harriet the Invincible (2016), written under the actual name, Ursula Vernon

http://pussreboots.com/blog/2023/comments_12/thornhedge.html

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jillrhudy,
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zkrisher, to bookstodon
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I've finished: The Stranger Times by C.K. McDonnell

It was recommended to me here on Mastodon' though I don't remember by who.

I hadn't heard of C.K. McDonnell before and am glad to have found such a talented comedy writer.

The Stranger Times is over the top sitcom urban fantasy.

There aren't many good funny fantasy writers. Many try to hard and it shows. McDonnell's characters go all the way across the line into caricature, thus avoiding the uncanny valley between the real and the absurd.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/50f44ffc-2f9d-4a2a-ba9f-047add0fb7f9

@bookstodon

PickPoppies,
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@zkrisher @bookstodon I haven't read that one but I have read his Dublin Trilogy books and I really like him. Never disappointed when I read his stuff

KitMuse, to bookstodon
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Now that I'm back on the writing track, realizing I'm 12K into a story I was thinking about aiming toward Kindle On one hand, that still might be a good idea to try and introduce more readers to my Musimagium world. On the other... maybe I should just release it normally when it gets longer.

I did just get a bonus though and I can't tell if I had any reads at all or not.

@bookstodon

KitMuse,
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@weirdwriter @bookstodon Ooh, interesting. Thanks for sharing this. I really want an alternative to Vella and this looks like it might just be it.

weirdwriter,

Wanted to share their author help articles, too. http://help.leanpub.com/en/collections/32694-author-help @KitMuse @bookstodon

scotlit, to litstudies
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George MacDonald (1824–1905) was born , 10 Dec. Seen by many as the forefather of modern fiction, he was a huge influence on later writers including JRR &

“The sheer imaginative force of LILITH makes nonsense of our everyday notions of ‘good writing’. MacDonald aims not to make us read, but to make us dream”

David Melville Wingrove on LILITH, MacDonald’s last – & very strange – major work

@litstudies

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2010/11/beautiful-terrors-george-macdonald-and-lilith/

HighlandLawyer,
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@simonvarwell @scotlit @litstudies Surprised you didn't get The Princess & the Goblin/ The Princess & Curdie as a child. Somewhat "old fashioned" (ie rich) language, but no more so than other "classics" such as E. Nesbit etc. & the social attitudes have held up better than most.

simonvarwell,
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@HighlandLawyer @scotlit @litstudies if I did, my memory has circled the wagons!

slhuang, to sffbipoc
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hello

I wanted us to talk about the actual work of the 5 who were targeted for sabotage

so I went and looked up their books

and they all look AWESOME

I made a video here, start at 3:08 for the 2-minute rundown on their : https://www.tiktok.com/@s.l.huang/video/7310714852127870250

(or from the top if you want feels from me lol)

WHO ELSE IS EXCITED ABOUT THESE??? tell me!!


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sigridellis,
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@slhuang @bookstodon @sffbipoc Voyage of the Dammed sounds really good!

UncannyMagazine, to random
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Reading for the Nebula or Hugo Awards? Try the short story "Flower, Daughter, Soil, Seed" by Eugenia Triantafyllou! Click on the link below!

https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/flower-daughter-soil-seed/

inkican,

@UncannyMagazine Thanks for joining us!

ergative, to bookstodon
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Day 3 of ! Get yourself a copy of Alix E Harrow's newest, 'Starling House'. Southern gothic at its finest, which I raved about at length here on @NerdsofaFeather: http://www.nerds-feather.com/2023/07/review-starling-house-by-alix-e-harrow.html

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chloroform_tea,
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@ergative @NerdsofaFeather @bookstodon

This came in my illumicrate box (with a v fancy dust jacket) and I’m really looking forward to getting to it

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zkrisher, to bookstodon
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I've finished: The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher

In time of war and stress I turn again to T. Kingfisher for some soothing escapism.

How can a blue beard re-imagining full of body horror be relaxing? Leave that to T. Kingfisher.

You just know that Rhea will get all the support she needs to succeed.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/6996bdfa-2184-4156-b61d-8ff993d713d5

@bookstodon

charism8,
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@zkrisher @bookstodon
I love T Kingfisher! I particularly like her comment I read somewhere about the saint of steel trilogy. Something along the lines of: I set out to write a fluffy romance, but I've been informed that fluffy romances generally contain fewer severed heads

jillrhudy,
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@charism8 @zkrisher @bookstodon 🤣 how awesome is @ursulav getting ready to read my ARC of What Feasts At Night this week

SceNtriC, to ksiazki Polish
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Nie przypominam sobie książki, gdzie głównymi bohaterami są osoby z . To fantastyka młodzieżowa, ale nie taka w stylu nowoczesnych Young Adult, tylko w starym klimacie czystego fantasy, gdzie opowieść ma czegoś nauczyć młodych nastolatków. No i na pewno uczy tolerancji względem "inności" oraz wlewa trochę nadziei w serca tych, którzy nie mają w życiu łatwo. Niestety, jako czysta opowieść broni się to moim zdaniem słabo, choć przeczytałem z przyjemnością. Ale nie wiem, czy będę sięgał dalej.

Pełny opis: https://lubimyczytac.pl/ksiazka/naznaczeni-blekitem/opinia/80195203

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rdarmila,
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@SceNtriC @ksiazki Co mi uświadamia, że nigdy nie doczytałem tego cyklu do końca i nie wiem jak się kończy.

SceNtriC,
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@rdarmila Ja już wyleczyłem się z kończenia każdej serii. I tak chyba daję zbyt dużo szans książkom. Może gdy kiedyś już "napocznę" wszystkie serie, to zacznę kończyć te, które mniej mi się podobały. @ksiazki

mpax, to random
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imalcolm,
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@mpax
“Don’t forget, that’s soy for the large cappuccino, and almond for the latte.”

inkican,

@mpax Do you know how much money I spend here every month? This is ridiculous!

jillrhudy, to bookstodon
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Listen up fans of the ! THE FAMILIAR by Leigh Bardugo is as excellent as I expected! Set in Spain around 1590. Five star review: https://jillsreads.com/the-familiar/
@bookstodon

princelysum,
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@jillrhudy @bookstodon Where is Berdugo from?

jillrhudy,
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@princelysum @bookstodon She is Jewish, born in Israel.

SceNtriC, to ksiazki Polish
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Styl Neila Gaimana jest niepodrabialny - nie znam drugiego autora, który by go kopiował (więc pewnie po prostu mało wiem). I co prawda jakoś nigdy nie ekscytuję się, gdy przede mną jest jego książka, ale mimo wszystko zawsze jestem oczarowany po lekturze, bo ten pisarz potrafi tworzyć genialne światy, a raczej rzeczywistość. Często lepszą od bohaterów, ale za to dochodzi do tego dobra, baśniowa historia na granicy światów.

No dobry jest, co Wam poradzę.

Pełna opinia: https://lubimyczytac.pl/ksiazka/nigdziebadz/opinia/80088256

@ksiazki

mason,
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A ja Wam powiem, że odkąd kompletnie przestałem się przejmować tym, że czegoś nie przeczytałem do końca, mam więcej czasu na czytanie tego, co mi się podoba :D

Zaś co do ilości stron/ilości książek - tu też jestem ewenementem, bo czytam wtedy, kiedy mi się zechce :-)

@Mateusz @SceNtriC @ksiazki

SceNtriC,
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@mason No i słusznie. Ja to traktuję jako stały punkt dnia, który mnie relaksuje. A "ścigać się" na liczbę książek chcę raz w życiu, aby tego doznać. @Mateusz @ksiazki

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