I have to infer that the #Bezos#newspaper, #WashingtonPost, is getting out ahead of a truly terrible story about #GoodReads ... Corrupt reviews and bullying are a bad enough story to kill the platform, but still -- Reading this piece, I feel like there's something worse wriggling under the covers about to come crawling out. (Paywalled.)
I got one day (today) left in Montreal. Gonna break away to look for bookshops out here - anyone have recommendations? Extra boosting for any left-leaning shops.
Thanks for the other recommendations: I'm going to have to try to get to see more of them when I'm not with family, haha.
Ok weird question, I haven't read fiction in forever but would like to again, and the only guidepost I have to go by is "Terry Pratchett is great because he writes about meaty stuff without taking it too seriously." Doesn't have to be SF/F though.
@sarahtaber Hi!! Hope you've been enjoying the recommendations.
I recommend:
Zen Cho's "Spirits Abroad" short story collection
Diane Duane's Star Trek novels
Jean Merrill's The Pushcart War
Leonard Richardson's Constellation Games
Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice
comics: Kris Straub's Starslip Crisis
the romance novels of Courtney Milan, such as Trade Me
Penny Aimes's romance For The Love of April French
the anthology It Gets Even Better: Stories of Queer Possibility
“Often forgotten are the Japanese Americans who lived in Hawaii and were also forced from their homes and imprisoned in Hawaii and on the U.S. mainland.
Their forced relocation and incarceration has been largely omitted from the dominant narrative of Japanese American internment in the U.S. during World War II.”
Pictured: A 1945 photograph of detainees at the Honouliuli Internment Camp ⬇️
@TheConversationUS
This novel, The Sun Gods, was originally written in the 70s, I believe, and then abandoned for decades before finally being published a decade ago.
It deals with a love story set against the backdrop of Japanese internment during WWII.
By the renowned Harvard Professor Emeritus translator of the novels and short stories of Murakami Haruki. I saw him read from it maybe 12 years ago at the University Bookstore on the Ave. in Seattle. It's a signed copy!
📚 📖 #Literature#books
Been meaning to start a reading thread, to log & celebrate the books I read. I can't forget to maintain it until I start, so...
Listened to Redemption's Blade by @aptshadow - another interesting rework of classic fantasy tropes from the mind that brought you the underappreciated Spiderlight. This story comes alive thanks to its interesting ensemble, my favourite being the shifty artefact hunters Cat & Fisher. Read if you want classic fantasy adventure with a thoughtful twist.
On the Brink by RB Kelly - Near future scifi in which an artificial human travels to an agricultural space station in search of something that might not exist. On the one hand, this is a story about prejudice & economic division, on the other an exploration of grief & reluctant friendship. Kelly's socially informed setting is very well crafted, & the central relationship compelling. Read if you like near future sf pointing at modern problems.
He was a physicist and X-ray crystallographer, discoverer (1912) of Bragg's law of X-ray diffraction, which is basic for the determination of crystal structure. He was joint recipient (with his father, William Henry Bragg) of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915, "For their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays"; an important step in the development of X-ray crystallography. via @Wikipedia
H.G. Wells wrote the roman à clef Ann Veronica based on his relationship with Reeves. Wells later wrote that while the character of Ann Veronica was based on Amber, the character he believed came closest to her was Amanda in his novel The Research Magnificent.
Reeves published 4 novels and 4 non-fiction works, dealing with a variety of subjects, but all sharing a common socialist & feminist critique of capitalist society.@Wikipedia
"The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry."
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe died #OTD in 1896. Stowe wrote 30 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters. She was influential both for her writings as well as for her public stances and debates on social issues of the day. via @Wikipedia
“[L]ife offers no guarantees,” Sofía Segovia says, but “sometimes it does offer gifts”. Something given almost arbitrarily. Something unlooked for, unearned, unmerited, undeserved. A compassion handed out with caprice. Little things. Small victories. An incandescent flickering. Trust and hope and kindness and mutuality...
Saw this article on @BookJotter blog, which I highly recommend subscribing to if you like cool book-related articles from around the globe. #books#read#booktoot@bookstodon
In the history of every writer is the story of a reader. A reader who received a gift. The gift of being welcomed, of being befriended by a book, of being seen, of being understood, of becoming less alone. The recipient of an assurance. A promise. That despite all their ill-fitting parts, there is somewhere they belong. A solid place upon a spinning globe.
I am incredibly pleased to announce that 'Mistress Bridget and Other Tales' by E. Yolland, with a 15-page introductory essay by me, will be published on 15 July.
📚Finally got my copy of one of Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s book’s to help me understand better authoritarianism, Fascism, and threats to democracy around the world.
🇺🇸 I care about American democracy and am looking forward to reading this book.
This song just came up in my music playlist, and I thought some of my fellow written scifi fans here (especially those of us of the older persuasion!) might enjoy it.
“Nul doute : l'erreur est la règle : la vérité est l'accident de l'erreur.”
Georges Duhamel was born #OTD in 1884. In 1935, he was elected as a member of the Académie française. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature twenty-seven times. via @Wikipedia
📚Finally got my copy of one of Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s books to help me understand better authoritarianism, Fascism, and threats to democracy around the world.
🇺🇸 I care about American democracy and am looking forward to reading this book.
Today's indie author review! The Mentor of Barrenmoor Ridge by Jackson Marsh:
"A slow burn May/December romance... an action-packed, fast-paced, page-turner of a mystery, filled with danger, adventure, suspense, thrills and the passions of man and mountain."