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Senior parrots, birds, birding, rock swaps, crystals & stone-cutting. Sometimes I write funny dialogue for the birds in your photographs. I read books, & I vote!

Formerly known as Peachfront on Twitter & Instagram, & Amethyst Qu on Medium.

Haven't owned peachfront.com domain in years but you may find my old trip reports at peachfront.diaryland.com.

Pro Tip: Diaryland does not have any www's.

#birds #crystals #photography #fedi22 #books #writing #selfpublishing #birding #nature

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when do you abandon a book?
I'm not very good at it, but I might be about to do it again.
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@Helen50 @bookstodon

nonfiction> easy to figure out since the most useful info is often front-loaded (unless you're an advanced reader in the field)

fiction>i bail early> i know from 1st chapter, often 1st paragraph, if i'll keep reading

middles can appear slow because you're missing something until the kicker at the end

but beginnings are meant to grab your interest so if they don't you can drop the book w/ confidence as wrong for you or just poorly written

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The movie will never be better than the book. I’ll say it again for those in the back. Star picks up megaphone star “the movie will never be better than the book!“ @bookstodon @romancelandia @alttextgroup

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@VampiresAndRobots @The_BookishWolf @bookstodon @romancelandia @alttextgroup

they don't really bounce you, they just pour more wine & get more animated with the discussion

templetongate, to bookstodon
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I should cancel the Subterranean newsletter and unfollow them on all platforms. It is disheartening to know about all their books I would like to buy but will never be able to afford. Today's announcement is for a limited edition of Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future, the least expensive being $195. I'll have to be content with the ebook I already have.

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@templetongate @bookstodon

hugs

it's an "idea" book so i think ebook (the format i also read it in) works fine

jwilker, to bookstodon
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The rest of the house isn't up yet. Get up and make coffee or finish that fantastic book you started the other night before bed?

Easy choice. They can make their own coffee.

@bookstodon

https://geni.us/VkWalA

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@jwilker @bookstodon

if there's no coffee, there will be no finishing the book, there will be rolling over & going back to sleep

have you considered one of those coffee makers that starts the coffee in the morning for you

🙂

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I admit when it comes to knowledge of Peter Straub's work, I am lacking. I know of him thanks to his collaborations with Stephen King (The Talisman, Black House). When Straub passed away last Sept, I felt I had missed something by not enjoying his writing while he was still on this earth.

Many said at the time that Shadowland is his best work. I'm reading it now. Slow going, but good so far.

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@dbsalk @bookstodon

Check out the Blue Rose Trilogy-- Koko, Mystery, The Throat

Also if you like creepy novellas, he's got em-- The Ballad of Ballard & Sandrine, The Buffalo Hunter, Mr. Cluff & Mr. Cuff...

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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@pretensesoup @bookstodon

i wouldn't...

in the book clubs i participated in, there were always people who didn't read the book, they still showed up & helped out with the ritual drinking of the wine

i think if they're NEVER interested in reading, they'd eventually drift away but some members are always going to have more time to read than others

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Recently, I brought a #book from an online seller. I had to the return it due to the low level damage that it had suffered in transit. This is not the first time that this has happend. I have noticed a marked deterioration in the quality of packaging used to transport #books bought online. Before envelopes were used that had bubbled wrapping inside and gave some sort of protection. Now one has to be thankful if paying 'top dollar' for a brand new #book and it arrives without any minor scrapes especially if it is just stuck in a standard cardboard envelope.

#Reading #AmReading #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon

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@bibliolater @bookstodon

so yes

POD books are going to have damage, I've resigned myself to that, Amazon & now IG seem to be shipping them out that way

  • issue goes beyond disrespect or cheap packaging for POD books

When I ordered a $300 book to be signed for, driver dropped & ran w/o ringing doorbell ON A RAINY DAY, guess he signed for it himself!

knowing when it was roughly due to arrive, i was able to grab it before the package soaked thru but i was still peeved!!!

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@bibliolater @bookstodon

if they would ring & run i wouldn't even care since i work at home BUT this guy didn't even ring... argh!

& i feel like some of this is complete disrespect (he DOES make sure to get my actual signature for items shipped from well-known camera companies like Nikon or Adorama)

cameras are valuable, books are not?

why can't they assume if i'm signing for it, it's because i value it regardless of the driver's opinion of its value?

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@jd @bibliolater @bookstodon

not at all related... the skyrocketing price of ebooks is caused by the skyrocketing costs of marketing & promotion that has far, far, far outpaced normal inflation

a book won't be visible on Amazon if you don't invest, some publishers are spending upwards of $1K a day on ads during a launch-- & these are the indies!

god knows what Simon & Schuster spends

& there's no guarantees anymore that a book will be profitable

bring back 2014!

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If someone, who isn’t an avid reader says, “This is one of the best books I’ve ever read…” (assuming they aren’t talking about something they read when they were 5)

Do you think:

Wow, this must be a phenomenal book, I must find it immediately.

OR

This is probably trash or close to it & if I see it, steer clear. @bookstodon

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@Jennifer @Likewise @bookstodon agree it's my experience that folks who only read a few books but are strongly impacted by those few only read from the most obvious books so ...

People who rarely read aren't discovering hidden gems

Neferure, to bookstodon
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I forgot to post yesterday with all the excitement, but I got a really interesting haul from my small, local library. A good mix, I think:

Blindness - Jose Saramago
Sad Little Men: How Public Schools Failed Britain - Richard Beard
Battersby Hats of Stockport - Rupert Battersby
East West Street - Philippe Sands
In the Castle of my Skin - George Lamming
Taxi For Kiev - Stephen Deponeo
Constable Along the River Bank - Nicholas Rhea
A Death in the Parish - Rev Richard Coles
The Tiger's Wife - Téa Obreht
I am Not Your Eve - Devika Ponnambalam

However, it's not going to help with getting through the to read pile I have already.

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@Neferure @bookstodon

Blindness is a great read, the others are new to me but it looks like you scored a great haul!!!!

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@GlassHalfHopeful

Yet Another Yellow Warbler Only This One's Wearing a Hat looks baffle-gasted

ChrisMayLA6, to bookstodon
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This week I've been mainly reading, no. 103.

I missed (having never read it) the allusions to David Cooperfield in Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead (2022), but it still a very well written if (apart from the more upbeat ending) profoundly depressing tale of #opioids addiction, its supply & the social destruction it has wrought in Virginia (& elsewhere). In the end while appreciating the writing I found the relentlessness hard to take (but perhaps that was the point?).

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@ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon

yes, i think so... there are times & places when somebody has to say, enough with the hero's journey nonsense, some things aren't overcome just by sheer grit & determination or we'd all overcome everything if all we had to do was keep going

the destruction of his knee really hammered that home for me

Omom4075, to bookstodon
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: 1

I really enjoyed the book. An android with human-like features is nothing new in sci-fi, but I really liked this version. The main character android is very likeable.

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@Katma @timgatewood @bookstodon @EvaLie @Omom4075

agree, as i'm not a fan of the info dump i very much like the slow unfolding over the series

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I've been reading a lot lately, so I thought I'd highlight some of my recent favourites.

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@clacksee @bookstodon

i don't think i knew she wrote books, i only know her as a narrator

will have to look this one up!

szilviavirag, to bookstodon
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Who's your favourite Nobel Prize winning writer?
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@szilviavirag @bookstodon

Doris Lessing, for books

Bob Dylan, for music (I actually don't even know if there are any others in that category-- they actually put him in Literature as well)

these choices probably mean I'm low brow, ask me if i care 🤣

plainreading, to bookstodon
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Man, I can't wait to get my hands on Werner Herzog's new book:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/filmmaker-werner-herzog-writes-about-his-prolific-and-varied-career-in-new-memoir

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@plainreading @bookstodon

me too

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser is literally the first Herzog film I ever saw (Every Man for Himself & God Against All was the subtitle (?) or alternate title for that film)

I've always thought it was a great title altho someone told me it's a German saying rather than something he just cooked up

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@I_Like_Books @bookstodon

agree

brendan, to bookstodon
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I’ve been compiling a list of recommended science-fiction books.

Check it out and feel free to add yours—> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16jo7x3cmkQdhpwi8cy5SJcHrLYZJXVZhgabKWtznf-c/edit

#books #scifi @bookstodon

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@brendan @bookstodon

You have many of my favorites already, I added the Marge Piercy books (Woman on the Edge of Time and He, She, and It... bought them long ago so I guess they will be tougher to find...

TheConversationUS, to bookstodon
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Efforts to ban books in public schools and libraries have reached an all-time high, according to the American Library Association.

In 1982, the US Supreme Court ruled that there are limits on a school’s power to ban books, but the justices didn’t agree on the acceptable reasons.

https://theconversation.com/where-the-supreme-court-stands-on-banning-books-212497
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@Bluedepth @TheConversationUS @bookstodon

they're banning books in libraries not bookstores, nobody cares if some intellectual buys a book, the point is to stop kids from having books especially if the kids are already trapped in a terrible situation where their parents are denying them an education-- a situation I, as somebody who was once an abused child, knows very well

don't assume "everyone" has money, bans are to keep the vulnerable powerless, they aren't attacks on the strong

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@Bluedepth @TheConversationUS @bookstodon

And yes, kids are resourceful & creative, denied books that speak to them, many will create fanfic & other communities where they secretly share their own outsider & gay fiction BUT there are also ongoing efforts to criminalize that kind of expression online

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@Bluedepth @TheConversationUS @bookstodon

agree the kids will always read & create, we've all seen how highly Black & LGBT communities prize education in the face of oppression

BUT...

when the intent in Florida & elsewhere is to criminalize whole populations, including Black & LGBT+ people, for sharing books, i struggle to find optimism

samizdat alone doesn't win one's freedom, just look at Russia, they're still not free & it doesn't look like they ever will be

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Number 7 in the Karen Pirie series by current day Queen of Crime Fiction - Val McDermid, Past Lying is due out around the 12th October.

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/book/past-lying

Edinburgh, haunted by the ghosts of its many writers, is also the cold case beat of DCI Karen Pirie. So she shouldn't be surprised when an author's manuscript appears to be a blueprint for an actual crime.




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@kcfromaustcrime @bookstodon on my TBR list!!!

kimlockhartga, to bookstodon
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@bookstodon Now that it's October, let's do a Five Fave Modern Horror book list.
My contemporary spooky reads top five:

  1. The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones

  2. The Library at Mount Char, Scott Hawkins

  3. Slade House, David Mitchell

  4. The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell, Bryan Evenson

  5. Sorrowland, Rivers Solomon

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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon

There are too many good ones out but I've tried a quick scan of what's been suggested so far to avoid putting a duplicate

These 5 rank highly for me--

Tender is the Flesh -- Augustina Bazterrica

The Cabin at the End of the World -- Paul Tremblay

X- Davey Davis

Hawk Mountain --Conner Habib

Our Share of Night- Mariana Enriquez

There are so many others, horror is hopping!

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@duanetoops @kimlockhartga @bookstodon

They are both great reads! I actually listened to Chainsaw as an audiobook, it's great in that format too.

herhandsmyhands, to romancelandia
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If it's a kindle unlimited book, it's not FREE--just like a show or movie on Prime isn't free.

@romancelandia

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@JoanGrey @herhandsmyhands @romancelandia

Was someone grumbling because you borrowed some books? I wish people wouldn't do that... People who borrow books can often afford to read many more books than they otherwise would-- a very good outcome

That said, the recent increase in KU's fee did not go to KU authors; compensation for reads have tested their lowest rates ever over the summer

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My reading list for September (at least the books; I was also reading all of the Hugo finalists in the short fiction categories):
• 9/4 Catherynne M. Valente, Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods
• 9/6 Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material
• 9/10 Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party
• 9/11 Charlie Jane Anders, Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak
• 9/11 Bartosz Sztybor, Filipe Andrade, Alessio Fioriniello, Roman Titov, Krzysztof Ostrowski, Cyberpunk 2077: Big City Dreams
• 9/18 Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas
• 9/18 Kieron Gillen (writer) and Dan Mora (artist), Once & Future Vol 4: Monarchies in the UK
• 9/27 Tom King (writer), Bilquis Evely (artist), and Matheus Lopes (colorist), Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow

https://lafstern.org/matt/2023books.html

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@austern @bookstodon if they were all as good as the two on that list I've read (Boyfriend Material & Consider Phlebias) you had a great month!

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@bookstodon

How "Reptiles of Ecuador" came into existence.

A fascinating history of small steps, lots of persistence and inventiveness.

https://www.anoleannals.org/2023/09/10/the-making-of-the-reptiles-of-ecuador/
However, how do you create a comprehensive field guide about a species-rich animal group in a mega-diverse country?

https://www.reptilesofecuador.com/index.html

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@antipode77 @bookstodon

Crikey it looks even heftier than Ridgely & Greenfield!!! (Birds of Ecuador)

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Hellooo and happy Friday! What are you ? I'm mostly in textbook-land these days but I am listening to Daisy Jones & the Six, which is great as an audiobook. I'm weighing either starting Stradal's The Lager Queen of Minnesota or The Horse by Geraldine Brooks. https://geraldinebrooks.com/horse/ @bookstodon

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@owlislost @bookstodon

Daisy Jones would make a great audiobook, I enjoyed it as a regular book but envy you thinking of that option!!!

This weekend I'm reading Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez, I've just started it but so far highly recommended!

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It's giving Dark Academia's, How To Get Away With Murder but for theatre nerds and I'm here for it. Act 2 is hittin hard, ugh!!!

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@evanpeterjones @bookstodon

it was so sad... sniffle

rabbit_fighter, to bookstodon
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@bookstodon I'm looking for book recommendations for an 11yo who reads at a much more advanced level. He likes sci-fi. He has read the Hitchhiker's Guide series and loved them. I think he would enjoy some more 'hard' sci-fi as well. He needs something challenging but without subject matter that is too mature. Thanks for any help!

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@TEG @sentient_water @RhinosWorryMe @rabbit_fighter @bookstodon

I just remembered the opening paragraphs of Use of Weapons, whicih probably says something about my sense of humor 🤣

But I missed the whisky book, I'll have to look for it

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@susanna @kaypear99 @Thoreau @giantspecks @rabbit_fighter @bookstodon

No, no, NO he wasn't

Having read Podkayne as a child, there was no worse gut punch worse than the moral of the story being girls should give up their dreams of being starship captains & get a job working in child care in the spaceship nursery if they must insist on liking outer space

Let's not even mention the Heinlein 1K-page screed about going back in time to f* his own mom or was it his twin daughters? UGH!!!

mjjmori, to bookstodon
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I’ve gone back to an old #novel I’ve been writing for years- this time I’m getting it done! 😉

But, in doing so I have decided to change the prose text from past-tense to present-tense to give the #narrative some extra tension and forward drive.

It’s working out so far, but I’m not entirely convinced it’s the right thing to do. Most narratives are written in past-tense after all, so it might make my novel less inviting.

Thoughts? 🙂

@bookstodon @amwriting #amwriting #mjjmori

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@rayckeith @mjjmori @pretensesoup @bookstodon @amwriting

Not a recent but...

"You are unlikely to actually be a cokehead party boy checking facts for the New Yorker & getting divorced from a beautiful model but then again if not, why not if it gets you a publishing deal"

Anyhoo

As a writer, I think 2nd person is even more distancing than 3rd person present tense (novelizing our screenplay, are we?) but as a self publisher I see no evidence readers GAF or even notice this stuff

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@pretensesoup @mjjmori @rayckeith @bookstodon @amwriting

Oh, & here's an example of "readers don't care or notice" right here... I read Wasted & I didn't even remember any bits in 2nd person

Technique can help a story move faster but I don't think readers consciously notice or remember technique (unless they're writers/aspiring writers & even then once you get lost in the story... that stuff fades into the background)

w7voa, to random
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Trump, in Meet the Press interview, says that he was given an “option” to pardon himself before leaving office, but didn’t take it.
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/trump-i-could-have-had-a-pardon-before-leaving-office-192993349801

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@w7voa

who gave him that option? the invisible weirdo whisperers inside his otherwise empty skull?

lunalein, to bookstodon
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@bookstodon folks, do you listen to audiobooks? If so:

  • Do you have favorite narrators? Or the opposite? Ever started or quit listening to something because of the voice?
  • if you’re talking about a book, do you say you’ve read it?
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@lunalein @bookstodon

*I don't have favorite narrators, I must not be very picky because I've found most of them to be very good. I visualize easy from reading or being read to, though.

*I do say I've "read" it but try to remember to mention the narrator if their performance was especially good or if somehow special, for instance, Jeff Tweedy's self-narrated audiobook on (song) writing included some singing...

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Food Can Be Literally Addictive, New Evidence Suggests—Scientific American

“Cigarettes all over again.” Same pattern—decades of professional and common knowledge negated by producers. Another marketing downfall with a harmful P for Product. 1 Cor. 6:19

@bookstodon @religion

https://apple.news/AhNBKcNlYSMGEKtNIEhOnfw

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@jason_w_karpf @bookstodon @religion

we've literally known this since the 70s, i heard people say this about rats, sugar, cocaine when i was in college (so the 70s)

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@themodestokid @jason_w_karpf @bookstodon @religion

Lab rats were famous for loving sugar even more than they loved cocaine, which used to be an expensive drug in the 70s, but rats are not impressed by dollar signs on the label I guess...

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August slipped away without my noticing, so below is a belated update on the books I read last month:

Children of Ruin by Tchaikovsky, 3 stars

Feet of Clay by Pratchett, 5 stars

Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Brontë, 4 stars

Take What You Need by Novey, 4 stars

Jingo by Pratchett, 4 stars

The Feather Thief by Johnson, 4 stars

The Lady in the Tower by Weir, 3 stars

A good mix of my pet genres (fantasy and sci fi) with some nonfiction mixed in. @bookstodon

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@hawksquill @bookstodon

The Feather Thief was an awesome book, although it broke my heart that so much was destroyed for a stupid made-up hobby of fancy fly-fishing

I just watched an awful video today about the UK documents every piece of paper in their library--- but do they protect their biological treasures which can never be collected again because the species populations are too small, no, they do not...

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@romancelandia

What she says at 4:11: I don't think the U.S. Library of Congress does this or anything remotely like it for digital editions--would that it did! Considering all the lost information that went into a dark hole with the loss of Geocities and Angelfire websites (thinking about the history of genre romance covers, for example)

https://youtu.be/ZNVuIU6UUiM?si=mfiKqmIVhgKenRMu

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@herhandsmyhands @romancelandia

Nor should it IMO

Digital hoarding isn't free, it costs time, money, & carbon impacts

We don't have time & funding to waste chasing self-publishers around to provide the US Library of Congress w/ free material, it's misplaced anthropocentric hoarding in a world where entire ecosystems are being erased

  • imagine being asked to send copies of all your works to a Trump or DeSantis Library of Congress
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Magic Powers

I haven’t read all of these, but I am convinced he is probably a genius of some sort, as he seems to ooze great intelligence. He’s an author I’d like to hear speak & while I don’t get star struck, I might make him a batch of a peanut butter fudge—or wait, scratch that. That might be a little creepy (ie. Annie Wilkes from Misery) 😉

I’d listen & then quickly leave.

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@Noahlivingston @likewise @bookstodon

I've only read The Echo Maker, that was a good story, kinda sad tho...

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@NatureMC @writers @writingcommunity

Another ex Medium writer here

I feel awful that I ever rec'd Medium to people... they've
changed, & it's a complete waste of time for "reach"-- it's algo-selected ****

Also, they're changing to a vanity publishing model where they let new writers from 3rd world countries join the Partner Program in hope of earning money-- but of course they have to ante up $5/month.

Ugh!

IMO they're no longer legit & I now have the hassle of moving my past work

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@weirdwriter @NatureMC @writers

Honestly? For me, most of my money made from writing genre ebooks, so the same old suspects like Amazon, Apple, Google Play, etc. still work for me... at least until the flood of AI rolls over us all 🙂

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@NatureMC @writers @writingcommunity

Oh yeah, the changes in Blogspot were so frustrating... I don't think they have any discoverability at all at this point :-(

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Anyone else think better when their hands are busy? 🙋🏻

I read audiobooks while I'm sewing, solving visual puzzles, taking pictures, crafting, and just about anything else that doesn't involve words.

Today that's looking like playing with a new printing process while filling my brain with history and theory of nonbinary identities (in preparation for my ACES VCon talk next month).

@edibuddies @bookstodon @lgbtqbookstodon @diversebooks

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@Rana @tanyagold @edibuddies @bookstodon @lgbtqbookstodon @diversebooks

I was like that, I would fall asleep in class if I couldn't sketch-- sometimes I would make written notes but many times teachers didn't talk fast enough or say enough new stuff to keep me awake if they frowned on sketching

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@ExcessivelyDiverting @sharonecathcart @bookstodon

climate fiction but i usually only hear the term used in reference to science fiction-- but now that climate change isn't really science fiction but just stone fact I guess it's logical we can use the label elsewhere

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@XauriEL @ExcessivelyDiverting @sharonecathcart @bookstodon

I can see why. The first person I read in this genre was Kim Stanley Robinson, I guess I got that idea in my mind that it was a sci-fi genre, an idea that definitely seems dated now!

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Kobo Plus pays authors very little per read-- worse than Amazon KU-- so personally I prefer readers to buy books, not stream them (Hoopla's pay to indie authors is also very low)

I think the nearest private library substitute for Libby wouldn't be Kobo Plus, it would be Scribd -- also, while Scribd doesn't take all of my books, it pays VERY well per borrow

Personally, I continue to read books from Libby as well as Hoopla & private retailers

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