I think it's safe to say that over the past few years #EmilyStJohnMandel has easily become one of my favorite authors, and I am very excited to pick up Sea of Tranquility soon. Before I do, I feel I should re-read some of her backlist since it seems Station Eleven, Glass Hotel, and SoT are somewhat interconnected. This is not something I mind doing at all and am really enjoying #StationEleven for the third time. #FridayReads#Books#AmReading#Bookstodon@bookstodon
Despite being a big fan both shows, I did not realise that Celia Imrie, who played Pamela Adlon's mother in Better Things, was my absolute favorite character in the BBC adaptation of Gormenghast. #TV
Hot tips for weird fantasy kids: the DVD of the Gormenghast BBC adaptation is super cheap on eBay ($7-ish), and the trilogy is on sale for $3 for Kindle today.
Pomes Penyeach by James Joyce was written over a 20-year period, from 1904 to 1924, and originally published #OTD in 1927 by Shakespeare and Company, for the price of one shilling (twelve pennies) or twelve francs.
The title is a play on "poems" and pommes (the French word for apples) which are here offered at "a penny each" in either currency. via @wikipedia
You make plans. You plot, you plod, you arrange. But somewhere in your gut, you can feel the fates smirk and scheme. A spinner, an alloter, a cutter, each crack their knuckles in turn, nod to one another, and set to work...
Some speed readers say they can read thousands of words per minute, and there are many courses and apps that claim to help you increase your reading speed. The problem? They don't work. Big Think explains the trade-off we make when we race through books, and the only techniques that actually improve reading ability.
Born in Hirzel, a rural area in the canton of Zürich, as a child she spent several summers near Chur in Graubünden, the setting she later would use in her novels. via @wikipedia
Over the next couple of weeks I’ll be highlighting books featured in the recent neurodivergent reads round-up continuing with 'Sincerely Your Autistic Child'!
Read more from the review and recommendations for other neordivergent books here:
I have been #writing half my life, though I still don't understand the tags people use to define their projects. I know #fantasy, I #write lots of #romance, intended or not, some #mystery...
I'm #hardofhearing, have been for a little less than half my life and it's consuming all of it. I'm really tired...
I'm trying to learn some #pixelart, wanting to make my character image, and room, and house, and a whole map of a solo #TTRPG I'm playing. I'm not pretty consistent, though. I'm still fighting to understand the isometrics...
I'm new to Mastodon, have been trying to look around the important info, but I can't wrap my head around a lot of it at once, so please take me under your care.
I'm pretty reserved, constantly fighting to share things and be more open, but I really wish to find here a space where I can be myself and meet wonderful potential friends.
I have a more detailed introduction on Tumblr, if someone's interested...
That would be all for now. Thank you for reading 💙
Anyone know of an online book platform selling #epub#ebooks without Adobe DRM crap?
Something like #Bandcamp is for music, but for #books? Bonus points if they sell books in other languages than English, such as Dutch or German. Would love to buy ebooks & drag' n drop them to my ereader. Currently reading mostly on paper as I'm not willing to use, nor is there a Linux version of Adobe Digital Editions. This sadly rules out library lending as they seem to be locked into Adobe DRM here.
Not the story with the ending that tidies things up, but rather the story that holds you hostage until one of these ‘lasts’ comes about. Whether it’s through brilliantly expressed imagery (Presumed Innocent, Hausfrau, Hannibal) or simple, yet direct wording (The Push, The Whispers, Watch Me Disappear). These 6 books do it—& to me, it’s nothing short of spectacular. #books#booktoot#read#bookstodon#fiction@bookstodon
Watch Me Disappear by Janelle Brown
The Push by Ashley Audrain
Hannibal by Thomas Harris
Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum
Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
The Whispers by Ashley Audrain
Just finished: Smoke & Mirrors by Elly Griffiths 3/5 stars 🌟 🌟 🌟 I liked the setting in snowy Brighton and the theater. Could have been 4 stars but in the conclusion, the killer's motive felt flimsy to me so I docked a star. So far I don't like this series as much as the Ruth Galloway series, but I'll still continue reading because I love Griffiths' writing style and character development. #books#mystery
Hey #Bookstodon friends, what’s the best thing to do with used books other than just selling them on Amazon? I don’t typically reread, so I have some wonderful books in great condition that need new homes. One of them was released just a couple months ago. Is there a way to find out if my local #library might be interested? #Books
Next up is Pierre-William Fregonese''s "Raconteurs d'Histoires".
Focusing on the writers, this book delves into the importance of #GameWriting and #NarrativeDesign, and what sets story-driven games apart from their "instant enjoyment" counterparts.
There were whispers in the corridors now. Æsir and ásynjur who would not meet his eyes. Mother’s doing, Forseti knew. Weaving rebellion and discontent amid Ásgarðr’s bright and shining halls.
“You must call the þing.” Víðarr had said, seated beside Forseti at morning meal. “This cannot go on.”
But it could. How else could anything go? How could Forseti, god of law and justice, be seen to be brought low by the gossip and conspiracies of women? Of Hel and her foul beasts, who danced and wailed every night beyond the Wall, brewing madness and discontent.
The halls of Gimlé had been empty last night, the endless feast of the einherjar abandoned. Today, when Forseti walked the Wall, many of the warriors turned from him, stiff-backed and defiant, gazes fixed out across the Line. Behind the shields and banners, the runes and signs, Forseti heard laughter. Singing. The beat of drums and the strumming of the strange modern lyres the new dead brought with them to the grave.
In contrast, Ásgarðr was cold and empty. Anger and sadness dripping from its gold-lined eaves.
Book no. 28: The Readers' Room, by Antoine Laurain, translated from French by Jane Aitken, Emily Boyce & Polly Mackintosh.
A great Parisian literary mystery!
Elsa is seemingly enemy Number One & worldwide government agencies (on & off grid) are after her.
In my head, I had Jack Reacher, John Wick & Ethan Hunt (yes, I know they’re men!) all vying for attention, it has that kind of feel. If that’s not your thing then fine, but if you enjoy relentless bullets, chases & explosions then this is for you. An entertaining read. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
If you want to actually think deeply about reality vs experience, what it means to live well, and the difference between a simulation of something and the thing itself…I’ve never read any philosophy, or any reasoned argument, that was more compelling than The Quantum Thief
I just finished Hannu Rajaniemi's Invisible Planets last week, and I really got an urge to re-read The Quantum Thief now. #books#bookwyrm
The greater the speed, the greater the drag. The more there is to move, the more the movement is opposed.
It's a mechanical process, indifferent and detached. Devoid of feeling and sentimentality. We needn't feel slighted. We just need more lift and thrust.
#vendredilecture "Strange Bedfellows" de l'Américaine Ina Park. La professionnelle de santé raconte les infections sexuellement transmissibles, en partant de son expérience de son médecin. C'est drôle, pas moralisateur et instructif, à la Maïa Mazaurette. Bcp aimé le chapitre sur les officiels américains qui traquaient les IST dans les années 1970, celui sur les postiches pubiens... Herpès, gonorrhée, VIH, syphilis, chlamydia... On se familiarise avec eux. L'insta d'Ina https://www.instagram.com/inaparkmd/
#Fridayreads#VendrediLecture#books#bookstodon La couverture du roman de "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida" de Shehan Karunatilaka. Le prix Booker Prize 2022 est une fenêtre ouverte sur la guerre civile au Sri Lanka dans les années 1980. On suit le fantôme d'un photojournaliste cynique, gay et accro aux jeux d'argent, qui entre deux mondes, celui des morts et des vivants, tente de rétablir la vérité avec l'aide de ses proches. Un roman très caustique et plein d'humanité