A F/F romance, Steampunk vs Fae, exploration of an 18th Century, French, rural utopia threatened by a greedy city. If you'd like an ARC so you can drop a review on Goodreads or Library Thing, let me know.
Premise: “When an overly serious scholar attends a Jane Austen annual conference, she strikes a deal with the man playing Mr. Darcy and finds her perspective, and her heart, changed.”
Reading The Bangalore Detectives Club book 1, and really enjoying it. I hadn't realised was set in the 1920s, when my great-grandmother was living there, so learning more of the place is fun. As is the reference to Lady Molly, I might have to dust off my Orzcy and check her out #AmReading#ebooks#Kobo#India#mystery@bookstodon
Excited for the release of Boy of Chaotic Making, Charlie Holmberg's third installation in her Whimbrel House trilogy. It's coming out in a couple of days!
Also looking forward to Satoshi Yagisawa's More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, a sequel that will be released this July. 🎉
I'm no expert at maths in much the same way ostriches are not experts in flying , but something still seems a bit suss about this, from "Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year" by Susie Dent. Unless, of course, my copy "had the good fortune to fall through a time warp from a hundred years in the future" 😀 #Nonfiction#etymology#language#AmReading#ebooks#Kobo@bookstodon
#WhatchaReading ? I tried The Actress and the Rake by Carola Dunn, but it gave me the ick. 🤢
Also reading a rather thematically interesting study on L.M. Montgomery and romance in her books and A Stroke of the Pen, rediscovered short stories by Terry Pratchett -- which are enjoyable, except I keep wondering if he'd want us to be reading them. :-(
"It was good to chat, as people had done before the world grew so dire, and all contact had the quality of risk, and all the concatenated sorrows of the world seemed to drain away the pleasure of conversation from young people."
Trying my (and the) second Jack Haldean mystery "Mad About the Boy?" - 1/4 in and I'm (a) glad I have never had any so-called "friend" as utterly unsympathetic, uncaring and obtuse about others as Jack Haldean and (2) wondering why someone hasn't killed HIM yet. #AmReading#ebooks#Kobo#aurumzeitlich#Mystery@bookstodon
The Minnesota #JASAN region proudly welcomes Julia Quinn, author of the #Bridgerton book and movie series, in conversation with Candice Hern. The event is on Zoom and costs $10. The event is on February 10 and is from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EST. (I'm debating on whether or not I'm going. If you go, tell us about it!)
#WritersCoffeeClub Feb. 1st Tell us about yourself, published work, WIP or anything else people should know.
Hi I'm Dave. My debut novel launches on Kickstarter in April. It's F/F romance, steampunk vs fae story about the economic dynamics in 18th century France.
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"He asked me to play a guest spot in his outrageously good series The Games."
Sam Neill's mentions of John Clarke are a bittersweet highlight of his memoir "Did I Ever Tell You This?" and the quote above made me want to watch that marvellous show all over again. The 100-metre track episode timeless comedy genius, imo
Another snippet of Romagnolo in "San Marino la storia in miniatura" once again stumping all the online translators I know of
"S’t’vù che ai tu penn al tignol a n’ dega dan fai ciapé la guaza ad San Zvan"
Just read Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator, a graphic memoir following Julia Salazar's first year in office. Really interesting and enlightening about how organizing and governing work, and how resistant the system is to change. Mostly hopeful.
Reading "San Marino la storia in miniatura" for a reading challenge @thestorygraph - very interesting and VERY personal history of the author's home country. I'm grokking more unaaided than I thought I would but the Romagnola brings me (and translators) to a screaming halt😂
"A j'ho la moj so l'uròla"" non capisco! #History#Nonfiction#Italian#AmReading#ebooks@bookstodon
The style felt a bit too self-consciously irreverent in places, but this was still hugely enjoyable. I'm fairly knowledgeable about medieval history, and it's impressive how much territory Janega covered in such a short book written for a general audience. She made an interesting argument about how misogyny and patriarchy perpetuate themselves, even though the specific stereotypes about women change.