@diazona@eivind@tannat@peachfront@agt@bookstodon I had a big kindle back when Amazon made them. They bricked it because they could. That they wanted to means I will never buy another purpose built device. And my iPad does so much more but I DID like the “paper” (non-glary) text in the kindle. And this is how I read paper books https://www.darkmatterzine.com/how-do-i-read/ because I’m vision impaired. At least I can read. #Bookstodon
I loved the fact that these are short stories, I could dip in & out as I wanted. There are old & new tales including gothic horror, science fiction & thrillers, all with the ability to chill in a few pages. I’m not going to go into detail about the various plots but, if you’re unsure about Mr Richter’s writing, this is a great place to start.
smooths lost-cause morning hair, sets third cup of tea for the morning down and moves purring cat off the keyboard.
Helloo! Calling all lovely people who like #sff#books with lashings of mystery and detection. We've just been given some reviewer #audiobook codes for our novel, OverLondon and would love to share them with anyone with a hankering to listen, (hopefully) snort-laugh and leave a review.
OverLondon has pirate detectives. It's got rogue artificers! It's got a big explosive crime. It's got an angry badger! It's got an alternate version of London formed by the Vengeful Queen Anne Boleyn! It's got a world so vivid we regularly run #ttrpg#dnd and pathfinder campaigns based on it. It radiates awesomeness like the power of a supernova that's showing off for its grandparents!
It's narrated by Brendan McDonald who did C.K. McDonnell's amazing Stranger Times audiobooks, which roosted like Smaug on his gold pile at no 1 in the Audible charts for 3 entire days last month. (A near impossible feat!)
It's been likened to what would happen if Spike Milligan and Terry Pratchett ever wrote a book!
If the thought of listening to an amazing voice actor at the height of his game sounds like your cup of tea, just message me or reply, and we'll get you sorted with a code.
Two books that made me sob: The Art of Racing in the Rain and this one.
So beautifully written but also so painful to read. There are parts where I had to choke back tears. Make sure you have a pack of tissue on hand (and don't skip the author's notes at the end.)
Rather heavier #horror than I usually enjoy, and really, really creepy. Also loved the #sapphic relationship in the book, and the main character being full of sharp edges
Triggers: Insects, parasites, toxic family relationship, racism/colonialism, food-related yuckiness
I liked it, but it was a bit all over the place (badum-tsss). Cool idea of a young police officer turned wizard apprentice hunting ghosts. I missed more story about the rivers, i loved the parts about Mother/Father Thames and their children. I didn't appreciate the protag. being a horny teenager whenever he sees a woman.
I've heard the other books in the series are better. Does Peter get more mature? :) Is the pace more smooth? #books#bookstodon@bookstodon
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there's one thing that bothered me more than anything. During the riot Peter runs from the actors, then there is a fire, he still thinks of Lesley and how her face will fall off if he doesn't do something RIGHT NOW. and after that, he just... leaves? goes home? where is the urgency? doesn't Lesley need saving anymore? what did i miss?
I returned the book to the library already and i can't reread it now. any thoughts? #books#bookstodon
When you need to understand and retain important #information that you have #read, do you use an #electronic#book or a traditional paper #book for the purpose?
@jarulf@bookstodon I too prefer to #read a physical #book for this purpose. I find like you, that #audiobooks are not ideal for in-depth understanding and retention.
I saw some of his art online and thought it looked like “Invisible Hands” from Liquid Television, which I LOVED. Same artist! This didn’t have quite the same level of twisted, creepiness as that animated series, but I was so happy to find his work in comic form. There’s more too.
Cool premise that the author doesn't carry all the way through. The story unfolds through several POV characters, but there's always the one (or more) that you're bored with, or there's a boring stretch for one you do like. So I often felt unsatisfied.
The conceit that the book itself is written by a man in a matriarchal world is fascinating. It only bookends the novel with "research" interspersed—I wished there was more.