Happy birthday to #ChawtonHouse! Chawton House is celebrating 20 years open to the public! It provides a research library on women writers from 1660 - 1850. An exhibit, “Treasures of Chawton House.,” will run from September 13 - April 28, 2024.
Started another #book that's been sitting on my TBR list for a while. I added The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach to my TBR over a decade ago. I recall it being all the rage back then, so I guess it's finally time to see what all the fuss was about. I haven't even read the back of the jacket, so besides being about baseball (or at least baseball-adjacent) I have no idea what to expect. That can be a good thing. #Bookstodon#Books#AmReading#FridayReads@bookstodon
reading the news about the flood here in Norway and wiki pages on the revolution in Iran converged into a bizarre dream during my nap: i'm a spy fighting the regime and the flood simultaneously, there's danger everywhere and i must save people (from either fanatic theocrats or masses of water, choose your poison), pew-pew 🦸♀️
all i wanted was to refresh my memory of what happened in Iran during that time, so i'm not... erm... so disoriented to read Disoriental by Négar Djavadi (see what i did there? 🥁🥴)
@MichiganPal I’ve just started the Red House by Roz Watkins. I’m only a few chapter in but am so far enjoying it, after a couple of false starts on books that failed to keep my interest. It is about a dark topic but hopefully will be suspenseful rather than grim.
It does have the below quote, which my greyhound-adjacent part-whippet would resent if she could bestir herself from her bed…
"Another man sat at the corner of the desk in a blue leather chair, a cold-eyed hatchet-faced man, as lean as a rake and as hard as the manager of a loan office. His neat well-kept face looked as if it had been shaved within the hour. He wore a well-pressed brown suit and there was a black pearl in his tie. He had the long nervous fingers of a man with a quick brain. He looked ready for a fight." #Bookstodon#AmReading#Books#RaymondChandler@bookstodon
Well over 60% through Demon Copperhead, which I will say I’m confused as to why Trust by Hernan Diaz also won the fiction Pulitzer Prize, especially when it was alongside DC. But whatever, I digress. I started reading Unscripted by James B. Stewart & Rachel Abrams last evening to see what the writing style was like. I don’t read a lot of non-fiction, but I think this is going to be a good one. It’s about CBS, Sumner Redstone & it’s said if you liked the TV show, Succession, then you will enjoy this. https://share.libbyapp.com/title/8998907 #books#amreading#booktoot@bookstodon
I started Demon Copperhead at the beginning of July, but put it down b/c several library books came in. I’m back at it & it’s definitely a good one. #friday#books#kindle#fiction#amreading@bookstodon
It's Friday, which means #FridayReads. I'm currently about halfway through the audio for The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro. The pace is a bit slow, but the narration is ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ and I'm enjoying it overall.
i #AmReading Howards End by E. M. Forster and he's like the meme "but he can hurt you in other ways":
The feudal ownership of land did bring dignity, whereas the modern ownership of movables is reducing us again to a nomadic horde. We are reverting to the civilization of luggage, and historians of the future will note how the middle classes accreted possessions without taking root in the earth, and may find in this the secret of their imaginative poverty.
Sometimes, @bookstodon , the landscape of writing is so alien and hostile that you cannot see the book you were writing, the characters you were breathing life into, or the idea you began the entire journey with.
Then you start some #amwriting theory, just talking outloud to a trusted sounding board (in this case my partner), and they politely listen for 15 minutes. They get the joy of being there when you hit upon the ideal turn, the twist, the character revelation that will work, that creates sense once again from your unearthly landscape, that makes it Okay to Stop Worrying, and proceed with your edits.
Then you #amreading over your work, and liking it, and able to plant credible hints throughout the writing that makes the newly discovered ending Just PerfectTM.
Love you all, thank you for the constant support on mastodon, even during my quiet, busy periods.
Moriarty.
Ps. "Stainless Steel Souls" is my current work, due out October 1st. Tag me for the presale.
The #bronte Society’s Women’s Writing conference is happening September 22 - 24. “…is back with an impressive line-up of female writers, poets, artists and experts driving the sustainability conversation.” You can find more information at https://www.bronte.org.uk/whats-on/1294/weekend-festival-passes/6758
i #AmReading Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, and it's soooo gooood! i usually listen to audiobooks before bed and i get sleepy after 15-30 mins. not with this book, i do not 😁 it's so packed with action and drama and dragons and danger and daggers pew pew pew (why does everything start on a D? 🤔)
i appreciate especially how cool the protagonist is with her sexuality and body, and she has flaws, how refreshing 😁