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
Mnie ten zbiór opowiadań nie zachwycił, ale osoby bardziej zainteresowane historią Polski powinny tym się zainteresować. Na plus wysoki poziom literacki i chęć stylizacji tekstu w niektórych momentach. No i jest to e-book dostępny za darmo.
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.
We're so close to liftoff...please help us reach our 500 subscriber target so we can launch the new "The Interocitor" sci-fi short story magazine. It's a completely free, all-volunteer effort...no gotchas. Read up, sign up, and strap in!! https://www.theinterocitor.org
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
#TIL that in 1929, JM Barrie, the author of Peter Pan, gifted his work's copyright to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.
"Through this gift, Peter Pan’s magic made an unprecedented leap from the realm of fiction into reality and the hospital began to receive royalties every time a production of the play was on, as well as from the sale of Peter Pan books and other products."
He llegit quasi totes les novel·les de #GarcíaMárquez i fa uns dies vaig començar aquest recull de contes. Només puc dir que és absolutament magnífic. Us el recomano molt molt! @bookstodon#bookstodon#llibres
#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.
haven't been reading as much as I'd like this year and am craving something akin to Several People Are Typing (aka grown up sci-fi-ish version of ttyl)
Just finished reading my first spy novel in ages. Felt like one and oh my goodness it was great! Gave it 4,5 stars as the story is a bit slow in certain parts ( that's in part a pro too in others )
The book is called A Spy Alone by Charles Beaumont and I highly recommend it.
For no particular reason, I had The Rooster Bar by John Grisham on my TBR and started reading it this week. I don't normally go for "airport books," but this one is a ton of fun. Now I remember why I read over a dozen of Grisham's books in the 90s and early 2000s. It's been a while since I picked him up... almost a couple decades, but I'm glad I did again.
FTR, The Rooster Bar has nothing to do with chickens. 😉
#CurrentlyReading Knock, Murderer, Knock! by Harriet Rutland, a little-known crime writer of the late 30s/early 40s, who wrote three well-received novels before divorcing her husband and moving to Devon, whereupon she wrote no more. Knock, Murderer, Knock! is reminiscent of Agatha Christie, if AC had been on the sweet sherry for 48 hours before sitting down to type. Having a good time with it, needless to say. #reading#books#bookstodon
It’s been a couple of years since I last read the Merchant Princes series by @cstross, which I revisit every so often - I’ve just finished re-reading The Bloodline Feud, which I loved and would highly recommend if you want a different take on parallel worlds, industrial development, culture clash and much, much more. I’m straight onto the next book now! #amreading#bookstodon
I can hardly wait until the release of 'The Auroras & Blossoms PoArtMo Anthology: Volume 5', with haiku, poems and a short (fictional) story by me. Pre-orders of this beautiful e-book until 3 June for just $ /€ 4,99 instead of $/€ 9,99.