rorystarr, 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to books

Folklore read live!

Why is the whale man of Iceland a whale, man?

Find out the tale LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/20k0aM96LwA

#FairyTaleTuesday #WritingCommunity #storyteller #FairyTale #AmReading #reading #vancouver #indiewriter #fairy #folklore #folk #tales #stories #GrimmBrothers #dnd #dnd5e #pathfinder #pf2e #ttrpg #lotr #fantasy #Iceland #Icelandic #fairies #elves #elvish #elf #whale

beexcessivelydiverting, 6 days ago to books

Phew #Janeites, LOTS of virtual events happening this summer! Many of them free!

#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #JaneAusten #EmilyBronte #CharlotteBronte #AnneBronte #Victorian

https://open.substack.com/pub/excessivelydiverting/p/austen-bronte-issue-10-summer-2024-virtual-event?r=1ep55&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

beexcessivelydiverting, 6 days ago to books

“’Pride & Prejudice's Alternate Ending Scandalized UK Audiences”

https://collider.com/pride-and-prejudice-2005-alternate-ending/

#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice

purplepadma, 8 days ago to random

I feel on edge. Maybe it’s the obscene amount of caffeine I’ve consumed. I’ve just got to finish making the dinner, then after we’ve eaten I’ll probably continue reading The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout, which I am very much enjoying #AmReading #bookstodon

dbsalk, 8 days ago to escribiendo

As I noted right here in this feed, this past Saturday was Towel Day. That inspired me to check out The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy from the library to re-read it for the first time since 2000. It still holds up! What a delightful classic.

Also worth noting: Douglas Adams basically described an e-reader device almost 30 years before Kindle came on the market.

#FridayReads #AmReading #Fiction #DontPanic #HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #Bookstodon @bookstodon

Excerpt from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams: "...he also had a device which looked rather like a largish electronic calculator. This had about a hundred tiny flat press-buttons and a screen about four inches square on which any one of a million 'pages' could be summoned at a moment's notice. It looked insanely complicated, and this was one of the reasons why the snug plastic cover it fitted into had the words DON'T PANIC printed on it in large friendly letters. The other reason was that this device was in fact that most remarkable of all books ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The reason why it was published in the form of a micro sub-meson electronic component is that if it were printed in normal book form, an interstellar hitchhiker would require several inconveniently large buildings to carry it around in."
Sign, white text on red background: "DON'T PANIC AND CARRY A TOWEL"

DJDarren, 10 days ago to random

Finished reading Paul Auster's '4 3 2 1' today. Now in a place where I'm kinda sad that I'm not in Ferguson's world any more, and don't really know what to read next.

A truly wonderful book.

#Bookstodon #AmReading

beexcessivelydiverting, 10 days ago to Podcasts

If you’re a fan of #podcasts, there are over dozen of them dedicated to #JaneAusten and the Brontes. If I’m missing any, let me know so I can update the list!

https://excessivelydiverting.substack.com/p/austen-bronte-newsletter-issue-7-podcasts

#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon
#WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #EmilyBronte #CharlotteBronte #AnneBronte #Victorian

beexcessivelydiverting, 10 days ago to books

#JaneAusten fans despair at student digs plan for hotel where she danced

https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/28/jane-austen-fans-despair-at-student-digs-plan-for-hotel-where-she-danced-southampton-dolphin

#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian

beexcessivelydiverting, 10 days ago to books

“Libraries as a Gateway to Forging Your Own Path: #JaneAusten, Murder Mysteries, and Me”

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/94385-jessica-ball-on-jane-austen-murder-mysteries-and-libraries-as-a-gateway.html

#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian

beexcessivelydiverting, 11 days ago to books

“#JaneAusten either didn't like the name John or hated someone in her life named John.”

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WMG/JaneAusten

#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian

Eceni, 11 days ago to Writers

Supremely good, thoughtful, insightful - and humbling - review of #AnyHumanPower from @TOMunro - who knows tipping points can happen...

https://fantasy-hive.co.uk/2024/05/any-human-power-by-manda-scott-book-review/

#amreading
#amwriting
#ChangeIsComing
#PowerToWisdom
#writers #writing
#Thrillers

CuriousMagpie, 11 days ago to bookstodon

I’ve been paying closer attention to when books were written. Pre-2016 (trump)? Pre-2020 (covid)? Different vibes for sure but I can’t quite put my finger on how to describe it yet.
#amreading @bookstodon

hawksquill, 11 days ago to books

I've had such an influx of long-awaited sequel pre-orders arriving plus library holds coming through, and then a friend lent me yet more books!

I love having so many reading options that I need to use the notes app to keep track of my queue. 🥰

#Reading #AmReading #Bookstodon @bookstodon

rorystarr, 11 days ago (edited 11 days ago) to books

Folklore read live!

Beautiful & helpful elves...
(...that might also brutally kill you or steal your baby.)

Tales of Icelandic Elves LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/yxPJpem7upA

#FairyTaleTuesday #WritingCommunity #storyteller #FairyTale #AmReading #reading #vancouver #indiewriter #fairy #folklore #folk #tales #stories #GrimmBrothers #dnd #dnd5e #pathfinder #pf2e #ttrpg #lotr #fantasy #Iceland #Icelandic #fairies #elves #elvish #elf

Eceni, 12 days ago to Writers

We are not being offered useful options at #GeneralElection2024

So what do we do if we want to bring Power to those with Wisdom & Wisdom to those with Power?

ANY HUMAN POWER - out May 30th - the political Thriller of the moment

https://linktr.ee/anyhumanpower

@septemberbooks

#Amreading
#writers #GeneralElectionUK