The Power asks the question; What if women were the stronger sex.
It is an interesting sci-fi question with allot of potential and while it was interesting to see the inversion of the power dynamics, Alderman did not go much further than opposite world.
Her answer seem to be, just as bad as men.
This is a legitimate point of view, but I would have hoped for a more speculative novel.
Hi! The "should I do a newsletter" poll has closed and it's tight. 42% would like a newsletter, 33% say no, they are over email. 8% were a maybe and 17% were other.
For the “other." people were looking for RSS feeds or read on a website which, thankfully, is available for the newsletter. No idea when the first issue will be published but will advertise here with link to access via RSS and web.
I'm a member of a Friends' Group (library by the cabin) and we want to do embroidered tote bags to sell. Does anyone have any recs for vendors, cost, quality? Any info will help!
As a pun lover, I like the aptness that my reaction to "Where the Crawdads Sing" , book 9 for 2024 was indeed NEIN. I only finished it because I had to, since it was a prompt for the 2024 onboarding challenge @thestorygraph Still, it did put a long ago favourite track into my head,. "Crawdads" did NOT boil my crawfish #AmReading@bookstodon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhSkU9WNEos
My stats @thestorygraph looking good for 2024 so far, my first ever 100% NF wheel. And a very high average rating, that's going to drop like a stone when I finish my 1st fiction book for 2024, "When the Crawdads Sing" #AmReading@bookstodon#ebooks#nonfiction
Hey, mastodon! Nerds of a Feather is reviewing a bunch of Novellas this month, and I have the honour of contributing the first review of Nerds today. It's a review of Indra Das's 'Last Dragoners of Bowbazar', which is a thoughtful meditation on memory, identity, and coming of age, but which does not quite deliver on the promised dragons.
But I do enjoy reading about my ancestry. On myTBR this year is a bioy of Gulzar, a famous Hindi/Urdu writer. I read a collection of his poems and essays about Partition (left image) in 2021 (most in English), as Partition is the reason I exist. It was a challenging, draining read. This year, I'm reading ABOUT him, in Hindi. (Right) The bio's title is "Zero Line ON Gulzar" #AmReading#ebooks
Truth is that there is always some form of repression, or enforced conformity exercised by people with power over those under their control….because their way is the only way and anything else is intolerable. And to break out of this would entail a lot of pain and a whole lot of courage.
(from Mort by Terry Pratchett)
Okay, I've decided that 2024 is finally going to be the year I get on #StoryGraph. My Goodreads library import is currently in process and my 2024 goal of 52 books is set 👀
I read a lot of literary fiction, sci fi and speculative fiction more generally, nonfiction, historical fiction, and classics.
I love the look of some of the Storygraph features like mood tagging and buddy reads. Drop your username or DM me if you'd like to be friends!
After getting halfway through the 10-book "Reads the World" 2024 challenge at @thestorygraph today with the brutal & emotionally draining "Out of Sri Lanka", getting to halfway through their 6-book 2024 onboarding challenge with Tina Fey's "Bossypants" is the perfect palate cleanser #AmReading#ebooks@bookstodon#ReadingChallenge
Death is this unexpectedly sweet and sad character that I want to befriend, take care of, and assure him that everything will be alright and that we all love him.
Death is one of my favourite discworld characters ❤️