#Books | Dans ce #livre, la théorie scientifique de la sélection naturelle est discutée à la lumière des données récentes issues du séquençage de nombreux génomes. La #biologie synthétique, la modification et réécriture des génomes sont aussi abordées.
#Books | Le libre arbitre existe-t-il? La beauté est-elle dans l’œil du spectateur? Faut-il limiter la liberté? Abordez les grandes questions philosophiques –avec des cartes mentales, des questions-réponses et des illustrations pour mieux s’orienter.
Got the new Valancourt reprint of “In A Lonely Place” for my birthday. Pretty curious about this. I’ve read all KEW’s sword & sorcery Kane stories, but very few of his straight horror stories.
In my new fantasy book, I'm going to forego describing my MC. The reader will get a picture of his age and status within society, and an impression of his clothing, nothing else. This will allow the reader to picture him more or less however they want. Support characters will be thoroughly described.
So the question is: how much would readers find an undescribed MC off-putting? Not that the answers will change my plans, I'm just curious.
“So did these come and go, [...] so think, as I think, of the gap that they would make in this domain when they were gone; so find it, as I find it, difficult to believe that it could be, without them; so pass from my world, as I pass from theirs, now closing the reverberating door; so leave no blank to miss them, and so die.”
THE ACCURSED is my first ever solidly YA fantasy novel & I am SO excited to share this adventure with you!
Teen heroine Elfled is the only "unBlessed" member of her family--never a problem until they flee political persecution. Without magical skills to see her through, Elfled has only wits & hopes in her fight to resist the forces driving her squarely into Evil's lair.
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've realized I don't feel productive unless I'm learning something. So far today I've listened to part of a #podcast and now I'm reading a little bit of a #nonfiction#book I've been working on. Things are going well. 😁 :blobcatread: #bookstodon#sunday
#JustFinished Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant
This has been an absolutely fascinating book to read and is perhaps the most important book I'll read all year. Merchant is spot on with his commentary about the parallels between the first Industrial Revolution and now. We have not learned a thing about protecting our populations and economies from mass unemployment during technological upheaval.
@bookstodon It's Memorial Day weekend here in the U.S. which is a great time to do some meaningful reflection. To that end, I picked up HEAVYWEIGHT, by Solomon J. Brager. The title is aptly chosen, in so many ways.
It's a graphic memoir about family, identity (including trans/nonbinary), intergenerational trauma, greed, war, bigotry, eugenics, class inequality, privilege, colonial genocide, the plight of political and religious refugees, and the process of confronting personal ghosts. It involved a massive research undertaking that formed the basis of the author's dissertation. I learned so much, even though I thought I knew a lot about the historical time period. Def recommend. #books#bookstodon#holocaust
#Bookstodon / #BookSky challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 13: The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
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
In parallel I do read A Tall History of Sugar [2019] by Curdella Forbes that takes place in rural #Jamaica and starts in the late 1950ies. Seems very promising, being already on page 47! #bookstodon@bookstodon
#Bookstodon / #BookSky challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
May the Fourth is also my latest book's birthday 🎉
Domesticated Magic is a romantic fantasy towards the cosy end of the spectrum, with The Feels, and a grumpy-sunshine-type m/m pairing.
Mateo and his family fled when their people turned to sorcery. Mateo’s own magic is tame but it’s still banned in their new home...yet they use it every day. But the sorcery seems to have followed them. They already lost their world once. Mateo can’t let them lose again.
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).
#PennedPossibilities 326 — Do any of your characters have a favorite place that they've ever visited?
Characters in both "Bayou Fire" and "Pompeii Fire," as well as my current #wip, are travel writers. I've never really considered whether they have a favorite place that they've visited, if I'm honest ... but I suspect sentimental attachments to particular spots all the same. #nospoilers