Huh. It just occurred to me that not everyone reads all the time. Like, there’s a bunch of people without books they’re reading right now. That concept is so bizarre to me. I’ve always got several books going. Ebooks, audiobooks and physical copies of books. If you don’t read anymore, when and why did you stop? No judgement. I’m genuinely curious. @bookstodon#bookstodon#books#reading#amreading
From Belly of the Beast regarding The War on Obesity following The War on Drugs.
Confident that the sitting American president has similar bits as a professional segregationist (when it was cool) and a proud co-author of the anti-Black, pro-private-property "Crime" bill of 1994.
These people don't care, haven't cared and can't care: we're not in their orbits.
On New Year's Eve the 85 year old Lilian takes a long walk in Manhattan. On the way she visits places from her past and talks to people she meets. Meanwhile she looks back on her life as an ad copywriter, poet, wife and mother
You can't help but love her independent, prickly character and her way with words
You can read her as a feminist, but this is not too explicit or preaching, which I liked all the better
This is a truly important and groundbreaking book. The antithesis to Andrew Tate, Donald Trump and the like. "Lads" by Alan Bissett - very easy to read, clearly laid out, accessible guidance and advice on how not to be 'That Guy'. How to get teenage boys to read it? Now, that's the challenge... #Books#AmReading#Teaching#Education#edutooter#Lads#ThatGuy#AlanBissett@bookstodon@edutooters
The polity books are super good. The first series is a 5 book long spy drama about an agent in charge of hunting down humans who want to secede from AI rule, rogue AIs that turn to crime, and investigating aliens who dont make sense to anyone. The second series is a trilogy set on a planet that isnt ruled by the Polity AIs but the planet turns everyone into Davey Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean so the population decided they had to invest in sailboats and everyone wants to know about the virus that makes people into immortal sea creatures. #amReading@bookstodon
I'm a sucker for time travel books, but not convinced they work well as audiobooks. It's not as easy for me to follow the time jumps - or in the case of Man in the Empty Suit by Sean Ferrell - the various temporal versions of the main character without the pages in front of me.
I do like the concept of this book, which is a murder mystery where all the suspects are the same person.
A really beautiful book about a man after a long period of grief. Slowly he is opening himself up again to other people and to everything that happened in the past.
Very well written. Moving without getting maudlin. This is a thin line that only good writers can get right.
A #Linguistics question prompted by "Crime Wave at Blandings", the first story in "Lord Emsworth and Others, which I currently #AmReading. PGW has Lord Emsworth saying "dooce" a lot. In my quasi-literate ignorance, that seems like an Americanism, the sort of thing PGW might have picked from living there. Would a very English Earl of the era have said "deuce" as "dooce" , or would he have been more like to say /djuːs/ ? @bookstodon
One last gem from "Borrowed Words: A History of Loanwords in English" - Having come to love the flexibility and specificity afforded by the equivalent words in Hindi, I say " BRING 'EM BACK" #AmReading#ebooks#Linguistics@bookstodon
A fun read from Philip Durkin's "Borrowed Words: A History of Loanwords in English" - an extract from a 1403 letter written in a mix of English and Anglo-French. Franglais has a LONG history indeed. Somehow I don't think extracting the ALT text from the image will be much help here 🤣 #AmReading#Linguistics#History#NonFiction#ebooks@bookstodon
"Following" up a bit of paper book reading with some real fun - a whole page on the origin of "procession" from "Borrowed Words: A History of Loanwords in English" #AmReading#ebooks#Linguistics#etymology@bookstodon