Just started I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons, Peter S. Beagle’s latest book. I don’t know why I was afraid I might not like it… I’m loving it from the first chapter. The author of The Last Unicorn hasn’t lost his touch.
Right now it’s pure normal fairy tale silliness, but I’m eager to see where it goes. #books#bookstodon
I just breezed through a magazine spread about an actress who designed her house to "indulge her passion in all things literary." In 10 photos taken in 10 different rooms of her house, I saw maybe 100 books, most of them coffee table books. They don't make literary passions the way they used to. #Books#Bookstodon
Happy bookiversary to my debut! One year later and it's sold reasonably well, picked up some award noms, and garnered love from a lot of people. And I've learned a lot about writing, publishing, marketing...myself, maybe.
If you want a copy, find it here: https://books2read.com/u/49dN1p Or I have a few copies--$17 each, send me a msg or an email (ehlupton at gmail).
Currently re-reading Robin Hobb's Farseer Books (The Realm of the Elderlings). I started reading the series in 2003, the series finished in 2017.
So I kind of grew up with the characters, it is different compared to binge-reading a series in a short time. Now I am revisiting the books and the characters, Fitz and my beloved Fool just being young children, not having endured all the trauma yet. Let's see if the books will still be so magical to me 20 years later 😃 #books#Bookstodon
French mathematician Abraham de Moivre was born #OTD in 1667.
He is best known for de Moivre's theorem, which links complex numbers and trigonometry, and for his work in the development of analytic geometry and the theory of equations. He published "The Doctrine of Chances" (1718) where he developed a formula for the normal approximation to the binomial distribution, now known as the de Moivre-Laplace theorem.
Major publishers sent me hundreds of baseball books when I was the book critic for Glamour and later for Ohio's largest newspaper. I praise five that made it into my Hall of Fame at one of my favorite @medium publications, Beyond the Scoreboard.
Among them: Jim Bouton's inside-baseball classic, "Ball Four," and Kadir Nelson's "We Are the Ship," an award-winning celebration of the old Negro leagues:
Hello @bookstodon . The TLDR answer is: It depends. However, there are some interesting points in the article if you are curious to measure your own reading carbon footprint.