Looking forward to reading 'War Among Ladies,' by Eleanor Scott, published in 1928 on the subject of schoolteachers in the UK, solely on the strength of the following dedication:
`TO THE MAN IN THE TRAIN
between Newton Abbott and Exeter, who declared to the Author that all teachers had:
Too much pay
Too little work, and
Too much leisure,
this book, respectfully and without permission, is
It has been a while since Shades of Gray. What I remember is that it was not what I expected from Fforde. While it had some of Ffordes humer, It was darker, sadder… It was also a dystopia with no rhyme or reason. A satire on an imagined British mix of Communism and Classism that didn't go anywhere.
Red Side Story fixes this. Eddie and Jane are trying to find out the why to this dystopia and their world will never be the same.
I'm 48.27% into my ARC of MOONSTORM by @deuceofgears and I love it so much 💙 the characterisation is top-notch, and taking the time away from 🍉 news and household work (chronic illness flare-up! again!!) to read this depiction of war and trauma is, oddly, proving to be rather cathartic. This is my first read of a book by this author, although I'd heard of them before, and now they've got my attention.
Reading "San Marino la storia in miniatura" and the passage about people acquiring RSM passports in the mid C19 reminded me of the Customs officer who was stumped by the RSM stamp on my passport as we left Rome (a gimmicky tourist souvenir that cost €5 then) - he looked at at it and asked "did you enter San Marino directly?" D'Oh! 🤦♂️ (if it WERE possible, RSM is not a Schengen state, so maybe the 90 days wouldn't start until we left 😀 ) #AmReading#ebooks@bookstodon
Reading " San Marino la storia in miniatura" for a reading challenge @thestorygraph and the vocabulary, with lots of 19th century officialese, is a challenge, but so is the absence of commas in lists. Not just the "oxford comma"; the author will pile adjectives together or lists of objects, with not a comma in sight. Is this standard practice in #Italian ? #AmReading#ebooks#nonfiction#History@bookstodon
I struggle with short stories, & I don’t know why. I’m about halfway through this slim collection & I will say they are s t r a n g e , so I’d definitely recommend, b/c I like strange & creepy stories. I’ve yet to read her debut, Tender is the Flesh, but based on this one, I’d like to. #Mondog#photography#fediverse#amreading@bookstodon
@bookstodon Thank you USA person who bought my book =)
It's always a delight to find sales on a day when I haven't done any active advertising, but clearly I'm doing something right when I get a sale without any active presence (very hard to do, nothing sells itself beyond chocolate!).
I had also sold a copy in person, meeting an old friend from school. I love the support I get in person, #amwriting how about you? But I will meet people I haven't seen in 20+ years, we swap a catch up and a What do you do? And when I say I'm a writer they always want to see, then want to buy.
It will take baby steps, but only you can take them for your writing and books, and the steps are all 1 size bigger than the last.
You can do this.
#amreading how many people do you know of in real life who you have supported, creatives (art, craft, not just writers)?
If anyone is looking for a good biography, I’ve really been enjoying “Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America” by Joy-Ann Reid.
It has a conversational writing style that works well with the stories about Medgar and Myrlie’s life before and during the civil rights era in the U.S. There’s so much about them I never learned in school.
“At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
Did anyone catch #LoveandJane last night on Hallmark? No? Have I got you covered!
Premise: Lilly, a hopeless romantic and literary enthusiast, is surprised when her wish to talk to her favorite author comes true and #JaneAusten herself appears in her life.
Premise: “Lilly, a hopeless romantic and literary enthusiast, is surprised when her wish to talk to her favorite author comes true and Jane Austen herself appears in her life.”
After taking a darker turn in Love Will Tear Us Apart, Relight My Fire returns to the all-out comedy horror clown show that is The Stranger Times series.
This time around we get a finale with some Naked Gun vibes.
Just finished Solutions and other Problems by Allie Brosh. Kind of excruciating ito read at times, but also very relatable. I loved the rant about "the Ugly Duckling" and "Rudolph" because I remember my kid being so furious about those kinds of stories when she was in middle school. I'm hoping I can get her to read it.
Pitchers and catchers report next week, and it's around this time of year that, if I can, I try to read something baseball-related. Yesterday I picked up a book that I read when I was a teen and remember enjoying it very much: If I Never Get Back by Darryl Brock. It's sort of like if Field of Dreams and Back To The Future had a baby, and it's great. #Books#Baseball#Bookstodon#AmReading#Fiction#Sports#MLB#FridayReads@bookstodon
My first ebook of 2024. I really loved both the concept and execution of this. Mason's prose is strong and chameleonic across the different chapters. I found several of the characters extremely compelling, though the ending was too neatly symmetrical. It's my one major gripe with the entire "interlocking stories" lit fic subgenre. Still a compelling experiment in combining historical fiction and ecofiction.