And if you haven't read The Way of the Wielder yet, no worries! You can buy your copy on Amazon now (or read it on KU for free): https://a.co/d/hRZOw8j
#Bookstodon / #BookSky challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#PennedPossibilities 330 — How does your MC go about expressing or not expressing their sexuality?
Suetonius, like many gladiators, is pimped out by his lanista -- and he's very popular with the clients. When he falls hard for Drusilla, his experience is translated into tenderness.
#WordWeavers
5/30 — Are you comfortable writing from the POV of a child? Written any?
One of my characters in "In The Eye of The Storm" and "Through the Opera Glass," Clarice, is a child when we first encounter her, and a teenager later on. I admit that she was rather like me as a kid, bookish and rather serious. I found it easy to take some of my childhood experiences and translate them to her life during and after WWII.
Viele der Erinnerungspassagen in #IlkaRakusa|s Text #MehrMeer drängen fast, mit den eigenen Erinnerungen schriftstellerisch umzugehen. Vielleicht auch, um sich nochmals des eigenen Lebens zu vergewissern.
"Es denkt sich zurück. Die Gravitation der Erinnerung kennt kein Halten. Damals, dort, weisst du noch, ach ja. Vor wieviel Jahren? Dreissig? Vierzig? Mein Gott! Wie auf einer Kinderrutsche schlittert der Gedanke in die Tiefen der Zeit, ganze Dezennien hinab."
@hugo oh good. it’s a practical guide to utopia building w/ its own dictionary of new terms for a new society. then there’s “amberland” by the same author that is a “travel guide” to a place that operates according to somewhat similar principles. “bolo’bolo” has been translated into numerous languages but i think “amberland” is still only in german.
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.
#Bookstodon / #BookSky challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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!
I feel a bit stuck in my reading. The cosy mysteries and fantasies are becoming a bit boring. (Just read a few to many one after another) But my brain is unwilling to process harder SFF or litfic. Nothing on my tbr really appeals. Anyone have ideas for genres I could try? @bookstodonmy@boeken#bookstodon#books#reading
@Knien@bookstodonmy@boeken What about historical fiction? The historical novels from Ken Follett are a nice and easy read, the whalebone theatre from Joanna Quinn is a beautiful book in this genre.
@bookstodon Another really good graphic nonfiction book I've read recently, and recommend, is WE HEREBY REFUSE, regarding the Japanese-Americans forced into internment camps in WWII.
The story addresses a common victim-blaming response to the plight of others: "Why didn't they fight back?" It's almost always the wrong question, even though indeed, they did fight back. Victim-blaming is a pernicious permission structure, allowing us not to care about terrible events that happen to other people.
@kimlockhartga@bookstodon Most Japanese Americans & Asians (in US & outside of it) called them concentration camps - not internment camps. Colonial, racist governments called them internment camps in US & Canada but that's a dishonest word for them. Internment camps are for military personnel. Japanese & Asians(anyone who looked Japanese) were rounded up & imprisoned in colonial concentration camps. Many died in them.