I’ve #read Rock Hard Gargoyle (#book 1/Possessive Monsters). I’m not a huge fan of #monsters#romance or #bodyguard trope, but this was well-done and quite charming. The MCs live in the world after a long-lasting concealment spell has ended & magics are revealed to the world. Includes a surprising light spanking scene in a mostly non-kinky book. #reading#books#romancelandia#romancebooks#bookstodon@romancebooks
The new Nezu Press edition of 'A Seventh Child' alongside the original first edition, published in 1894. And a large photographic portrait of the author John Strange Winter (Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard) by Herbert R. Barraud.
Just finished Olga #Tokarczuk's 'Empusion', her first #novel since winning the Nobel prize.
A magical, intoxicating, even addictive read, with such literary beauty as I've rarely found in a novel, much less a novel that cheekily mixes quirky intellectual caricatures with good old folk #horror
Saying anything more might spoil the experience: best to discover its joys without knowing too much in advance!
@bookstodon Like all the best of #horror, the novel confronts us with what we are suppressing and denying. But it doesn't preach, it coolly describes, dissects, and acknowledges. This is an eery novel about big topics and small pleasures, dualism and food, God and demons, walks in the woods and men debating women
Lynnea Lee’s Xarc’n Warriors is my 1st or 2nd top post-apocalyptic alien #romance series. In this 9th #book, Desired By The Hunter, both MCs have to get over the pre-conceptions and out of their heads to decide to be together. (It’s saying a lot that I’ll say this is 1 or 2 bc I absolutely detest insects.) #books#read#reading#romancelandia#bookstodon@romancebooks https://amzn.to/45QxaaB
What to change? - What to change to? - How to change?
Have you ever heard of these questions? Not? Then it is time for another book on your shelf. If you know „The Phoenix Project“, you might like the format of „The goal“ from Eliyahu M. Goldratt.
It’s a super interesting novel about a plant that is in trouble and how it avoids to get closed.
@dschier@bookstodon I read this book when I worked in IT at a manufacturing company. The argument is there are a few machines or processes or people that limit your overall throughput, and you need to concentrate on optimizing those first. Same mindset as TQM but for throughput instead of quality.
Manufacturing is ahead of tech in this sort of thing. In any IT department there is probably one person who is the limiting constraint because everyone comes to them with problems.