#AmReading Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange. It’s loosely a family saga about Native Americans from the “Indian Wars” (bloody massacres) of the late 19th century onwards. It’s pretty grim reading descriptions of brutal “Indian schools” and “prisoner of war” prisons designed to strip people of their culture, language and heritage to produce upstanding Christian Americans. It’s not going to be easy going #books#bookstodon
OMG @bookstodon I just got the best first review a writer could wish for. Forgive me for this little bit of self-promotion.
"The characters are everything, Lailu (cover) is perfect, Daisy is so relatable and there’s a host of supporting characters to love including shifters, vampires and a whole host of magical creatures.
The writing is great, the book flows effortlessly and kept me reading even when I really needed to go to bed."
Eine tolles Anfangskapitel: Dreissigjähriger Krieg. Ein Dorf ist bis jetzt verschont geblieben. Da reist Tyll Ulenspiegel mit seinem Gefolge an und mischt das Dorf auf. Er verbreitet Augenlust und schürt internen Streit. Wenig später ist er verschwunden, Chaos hinterlassend. Kurz danach verödet der Krieg das Dorf.
Schön und knapp beschrieben, ohne die Fallstricke, die bei einem histor. Stoff drohen. Ein bravorös gestalteter Romanbeginn!
I can't wait to see this! I watched Reading Rainbow as a kid, and then later would watch it as a teen after my high school classes, just to relax and feel good about the world. I know a lot of folks feel lovely and warm about this show, I'm so happy they're doing a documentary on it.
How New Science Fiction Could Help Us Improve AI - Scientific American
Fascinating article about organizations trying foster positive sci-fi stories about AI. Good reason why AI sci-fi is mainly negative—more plausible given humankind’s record AND more interesting. My upcoming book The HONOR System is case in point.
Recently finished and recommend Shadow Speaker by Nnedi Okorafor aka @nnedi. I haven't read everything she's written, but everything I have read I've liked a lot, so I'll certainly read the second book in this series. She writes everything from "good for adults too YA" like the Binti stories to "very much NOT for youth" like the superb but intense Who Fears Death. Shadow Speaker lies somewhere in between, I'd say, and I enjoyed it a lot.
🧵 #sff#Books#bookstodon
@nnedi Okorafor is a gifted character writer especially. Her protagonists and other key figures are always striking and memorable. She describes her approach or vision as Africanfuturism and it's powerful, one that exists on its own terms, not defined in relation to historically mainstream western SFF. This context difference is for me a very welcome and enriching, and certainly sometimes humbling, one. There's an enormous sense of dignity and strength to her characters 🧵 #sff#Books#bookstodon
Read IN THE DREAM HOUSE by Carmen Maria Machado if you love haunted houses, gut wrenchingly beautiful prose, autobiographical accounts, trauma narratives, exceedingly queer stories, a meticulous exploration of abuse, thematic echoes & brilliantly structured books.
Another evening, another mammoth reading session. I actually went ahead and purchased Bookly subscription. We'll see if it was worth it. If not, I'm happy to support the dev.
Not quite 25% tonight, but pretty close. At this rate, I'll finish the book tomorrow!
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe meets The Sun is Also a Star in this YA contemporary love story from Jonny Garza Villa, Ander & Santi Were Here, about a nonbinary Mexican American teen falling for the shy new waiter at their family’s taqueria.
#WhatchaReading ? I very much enjoyed The Wonder Engine, the sequel to Clockwork Boys. Suspense, romance, humor, redemption!
I actually followed Ursula Vernon on the bird site because of her gardening posts long before I thought to read any of her books. Might be a lesson there... 😇
At NYU in 1970, 150 protestors broke into the computer lab.
When they left 2 days later, they rigged the mainframe with improvised napalm connected to a slow-burning fuse. (two math professors disconnected it while it was burning)
@platypus@Markoff ’s stories about how anti-computerism got wrapped up in anti-militarism in his What The Dormouse Said have come back around from feeling like period pieces to feeling very, very timely. Someone should republish (or better yet, revisit and update) them.
Finally finished The Great Game, which was superb. Moving onto something lighter. This writer is more my older brothers' age than me, so I may not know about the earlier stuff directly, but will have heard about it from them no doubt. 📖 #books#bookstodon@bookstodon
yo #bookstodon does anyone have a recommendation for a history (need not be a book, could easily be a longread) of the Dark Wood Panel aesthetic of academia/old-ass dive bars/upscale steak houses/libraries?
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Bei Bücher - #Podcasts sei man, wie auch bei Anderen, im Übrigen sehr vorsichtig: die launigen und intellektuell beschränkten Kommentare sind oftmals nervig, der Content eher limitiert. Viel Grossprecherei im Schnitt, viel sich brüstender Grosssprech. Ich nenne hier keine, aber ihr wisst wohl, was ich meine: "... die Themen, der der Roman verhandelt ..." und sich dabei mit seinem Englisch und seinem Wissen vokal brüsten. Nein, ich will keine Bonusfolge, bitte nicht.