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VernAFish

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"Life is no way to treat an animal" K.V

.South Jersey native now living in DC area. Punished by a lifetime of being a Philly sports fan
#flyers #phillies
Rick and Morty enthusiast
Pearl Jam, indie rock, fully prepared for zombie apocalypse.

"What if the most meaningful day of your life was just a simulation running at minimal capacity?
R.S.

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Likewise, to bookstodon
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Just a gratuitous naked shelfie.

What are you reading this evening? I’m still reading David Copperfield and also in the middle of Little Monsters by Adrienne Brodeur. @bookstodon

VernAFish,
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@Likewise @bookstodon Kindred by Octavia butler.

fictionable, to bookstodon
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… we've checked and it's definitely In fact, for those who celebrate, it's

So let's do it again: tell us three you've enjoyed recently and we'll see if we can come up with something else you might like.

Who knows? You might even be able to find it in a

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VernAFish,
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@kimlockhartga @fictionable @bookstodon just ordered Gnomon.. I loved The Gone Away World. Looking forward to it

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Tell me a good book you’ve read this year that you’d recommend.

I’ll start: Crow Mary by Kathleen Grissom
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VernAFish,
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@Likewise @bookstodon This is how you survive a time war. El-Mohtar

Absolutely loved it!!!

pretensesoup, to bookstodon
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Ok, if you're in a book club and the book really doesn't speak to you...do you force yourself to finish it?

Maybe a result of being in the middle of a lengthy and serious writing project, but I've bounced out of a lot of books this year, and a lot of them have been from book club. Maybe I should be pushing myself more, but this isn't grad school, so...I don't know.

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VernAFish,
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@pretensesoup @bookstodon I think if you don't enjoy it don't punish yourself finishing. Go to Wikipedia and read how it ends..😅

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Any good reads this weekend?

I’m still plugging along with David Copperfield( I haven’t made a lot of progress this week, but am sticking with it) & also reading Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann, this was on my summer list, but I didn’t get to it then. #books #photography #fediverse @bookstodon

VernAFish,
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@Archergal @Likewise @bookstodon just read it, loved it. I wont give anything away but I was surprised by the book

VernAFish,
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@Likewise @bookstodon read Standing by the Wall by Mick Herron. It's a collection of short stories connected to his Slow Horses series. I always enjoy his stuff, short, funny and easy reads. Started Tender is the Flesh, it's very disturbing so far. After a terrible plague cannibalism is legal and main character is a butcher.. It's pretty unsettling so far...

RollingStone, to random
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Surprising absolutely no one, Elon Musk has confirmed that the social media platform formerly known as Twitter and now known as X is now worth less than half of the $44 billion he paid for it last year. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-value-twitter-19-billion-1234866167/

VernAFish,
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@RollingStone forcing people to read his ingenious tweets is worth billions of dollars to him. Dismantling a semi open information marketplace is also worth billions to the extreme right.. he and his investors are fine with losing billions, its part of the plan

MattBinder, to random
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we are witnessing whole new levels of desperation

VernAFish,
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@MattBinder man Musk gives off such a needy cringey vibe.

owlislost, to bookstodon
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Happy weekend, everyone! What are you ?? I'm reading a bunch of archiving, design, and metadata books for school, but also finally reading Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead, which is amazing of course, and listening to This Time Tomorrow, which is good fun so far and I haven't even gotten to the premise yet. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/594998/this-time-tomorrow-by-emma-straub/ I also picked up Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman from the library https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501709845/immigrant-girl-radical-woman/
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VernAFish,
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@owlislost @bookstodon The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin and Joe Country (the fith book by Mick Herron in "Slow Horses" series)

VernAFish,
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@flyblue @owlislost @bookstodon me too! I'm always a big fan of her writing style

VernAFish,
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@Abibliophobia @owlislost @bookstodon yeah, I love the series so far and can't get enough. It's like the Jack Ryan books, but funny and dysfunctional

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In honor of Gary Larson's birthday, repost with a Far Side cartoon that you love.

#Farside #comics #WritingCommunity
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VernAFish,
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@franciscawrites @bookstodon

court, to bookstodon
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Finished This is how you lose the time war tonight - and boy it was GOOD. You get drawn in from the first letter and honestly can't really put it down (though I had to since I don't have TIME for the time war most days, sadly). It was beautiful. I'm grateful to Bigolas Dickolas (lol) on the Birdsite - one of the last things I did on there was see them share their love of this story.


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VernAFish,
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@court @bookstodon looks great, I keep hearing good things, will be my next book when I finish Dune..

VernAFish,
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@court @bookstodon really loved this book, thanks for the recommendation. Wasn't what I expected but the writing and story was superb

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