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I completely judge a book by its cover.

It’s not fair to books that may not have that attractive of a cover, but it is what it is-most especially when it’s an author or title I am unfamiliar with. The book below is evidence of this. This cover completely grabbed ahold of my attention. Not only did I read the synopsis, but I also knew I wanted to paint the other half. This is an older picture, but I’ve finally started reading it. While the synopsis is not one I’d gravitate towards, I’m giving it a chance, & all b/c of the initial attraction to the cover. @bookstodon

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I started Tidelands last evening, so far so good. Having some family over in a bit, hoping to meet up with this book & possibly a glass of wine later today. @bookstodon

kcfromaustcrime , to bookstodon
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Head cold from hell all week so I've been reading while sooking about being sick for the first thing in ages. First up is Problem Solved: True Stories from a Blind Private Eye

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62059426-problem-solved

True crime memoir




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ronsboy67 , to bookstodon
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SO reassuring when The Algorithm gets it so very wrong. Sorry Google, but YOU would have to pay ME to get me to read any more of hers.
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Traded in some books & came home with some new ones. Trade-size editions are my favorites. In fact one of these is a trade for the same book that was a hardback (my least favorite reading format).

Not counting e-editions, do you prefer paperback or hardback. If hardback, why? Just curious. @bookstodon

janbartosik , to bookstodon
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Is there a story where the Martians are not an austere, reserved, spartan, militarized, conscientious and super techy bunch of people?

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tim , to bookstodon
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“The Golden Enclaves” (Scholomance book 3) by Naomi Novik. @bookstodon

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weebdeluxe , to bookstodon
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I manage to read a chapter per day of A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine. It is a good book, but the prose somehow is difficult to read... at least to me. Well, at least that way I'll manage.

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ExcessivelyDiverting , to histodons
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Happy birthday to ! 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.

Visit https://chawtonhouse.org/whats-on/exhibition-treasures-of-chawton-house/ for more information.

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New episode of is up! talks to Brenda Cox on the theme of and goodness.
Austen Chat is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and other streaming platforms. For more information, head to
https://jasna.org/austen/podcast/episode2

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tim , to bookstodon
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“The Last Graduate” (Scholomance book 2) by Naomi Novik @bookstodon

dbsalk , to bookstodon
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Started another 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.
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“…why should I seek to change, what has been so precious to me for so long! You can never show better than as your own natural self.”

  • Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

I’m getting close to finishing Demon Copperhead & in doing so, my interest in reading David Copperfield is definitely piqued.
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tishkova , to random
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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 🦸‍♀️

tishkova OP ,
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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? 🥁🥴)

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Here is the latest art from Of Evil and Angels Book II, Chapter 34 (Blood Redemption).
https://www.steaphankay.com/books/of-evil-and-angels-bookii

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MichiganPal , to random

For my reading friends: What books have you been reading over the last week? I hope you have enjoyed them, whatever they were.

wendypalmer ,
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@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…

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From The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler:

"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

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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
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Friday night lights are soft & booked up.

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. @bookstodon

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