I can see it. Didn’t really think about it since I already have a bottomless TBR pile based on personal recommendations, or curiosity, than I can possibly ever read.
Asking on Mastodon with the #books tag would probably yield some good results. Lots of chatty folks follow that tag :)
I know few will care about an unknown story by an unknown author, but goodness, I loved writing about this one! I'm proud of what I wrote. And I think my guest poster did as well.
First appearance of E. W. Hornung's fictional gentleman thief A. J. Raffles in the story "The Ides of March" in Cassell's Magazine (London).
The stories were collected into one volume—with two additional tales—under the name "The Amateur Cracksman", which was published the following year. Hornung used a narrative form similar to Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories.
If you ever wanted a version of Dionysus in Wisconsin that was short, set in 2010, and replaced most of the magic with discussions of philosophy, I've got a new short story out! It's free and full of whimsy (and existentialism). It's a slow burn, friends-to-lovers, dealing with depression, café AU version of DIW. You can find it on my website in both epub and pdf formats: http://ehlupton.com/extras/
I bought Great North Road by Peter F Hamilton and it's comically large. I knew it was a large book but actually seeing it in person made me laugh. I have three other books next to it and it's larger than all of them stacked together.
“And in his last look as we drove away, I saw that he was very sorry for me. I was glad to see it. I felt for my old self as the dead may feel if they ever revisit these scenes. I was glad to be tenderly remembered, to be gently pitied, not to be quite forgotten.”
I had no idea that race, politics, and the impact of the Brown vs. The Board of Education (1952) and the Southern Manifesto (1956) in the South was such a prominent theme of Pat Frank’s Alas, Babylon (1959).
The unique disappointment of taking precious free time to read most of a book you like but that then bumps you completely out of interest just as you’re almost at the end.
If I’ve got to try to wrap my head around why the main character would act a certain way that seems totally unrealistic to the personality fully 300 pages into a book, that story isn’t my jam. 🤷♂️
The Hugo voters have no collective taste. Case in point: they gave the award to T. Kingfisher's middling "Nettle & Bone" instead of her actually good "Wizard's Guide To Defensive Baking".
A VIRTUOSO RIFF ON AN AMERICAN classic: the inimitable Percival Everett retells the story of Huckleberry Finn from Jim’s perspective, transforming it from a familiar picaresque to a more complex adventure and a meditation on code-switching. A MINUS
It's been a year since I joined the Fediverse
A year ago today I made my Lemmy account...