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BackFromTheDud

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Just some guy, born and living in England by accident of birth, pushing 60, and weary of being reasonable in an unreasonable world.
Ruled by my cats.
ASD.
Still playing (badly) Bass, guitars, synths, effects, etc.
Motorbikes, scooters, and other noisy stuff may also turn up.
Watches "Star Trek"
Pronouns: He, Him, "That Bald Bastard".
Thela Hun Ginjeet.
vaj qeylIS mIwvam'e'!
"Work makes you Fret!"
"Everyone I know goes away in the end"
Sometimes (often?) Sweary.

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albnelson , to bookstodon
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Besides Shakespeare, were you assigned more than one book by the same author in school? K-12, not college. @bookstodon

BackFromTheDud ,
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@albnelson Orwell: We got "1984" and "Animal Farm" in the same year. @bookstodon

kimlockhartga , to bookstodon
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I need to reorganize my fiction bookshelves. What system has worked best for you? I'm leaning towards going by author, though that leaves the question of how to treat anthologies. Maybe anthologies could be first, or shelved by the editor's name. Alphabetical by title (preceded by numbers) might work just as well as by author.

I had been doing them by height size, except for the graphic novels, which tend not to match any standard size.

These particular bookshelves are all fiction (except for graphic nonfiction) so organizing by subject seems unwieldy.

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BackFromTheDud ,
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@Likewise @kimlockhartga @bookstodon FWIW I usually put mine in Author (A-Z)/Date of Publication.

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@kimlockhartga It was handy when I had all my Terry Pratchett books on the shelf, that's for sure! @Likewise @bookstodon

BackFromTheDud ,
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@kimlockhartga @Likewise @bookstodon I have a friend who arranges their books by height. You can never find the thing you're looking for!

aburtch , to bookstodon
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After an H.P. Lovecraft kick last year, I’m now reading Edgar Allen Poe. And let me tell you, macabre doesn’t even begin to describe it.

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@aburtch A nice bit of light reading. @bookstodon

pivic , to bookstodon
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Kae Tempest: ‘I used to read David Icke. Imagine that’ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/15/kae-tempest-i-used-to-read-david-icke-imagine-that

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@pivic "David Icke says he's come to save us all! Well, he saved sod all when he played fore Coventry City!" - Jasper Carrott, 1990. @bookstodon

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Hidden Links: How Random Historical Events Shaped Our World by Zac Sangeeth & Sangeeth Varghese

Unravelling thread by thread, this book investigates the disproportional effect of historically unconnected and random events like climate changes, imperial pursuits, pandemics, and nomadic migrations on our modern lives in the most unbelievable ways.

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@megatronicthronbanks Still the Gold Standard for edutainment, IMO. (The 1978 one, I mean, although last year's one is pretty good). @appassionato @bookstodon

desafinado , to bookstodon
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Fun fact (at least in my observation): the word “Shire” appears nowhere in the text of “The Hobbit.”

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@desafinado It was probably a unitary authority, then, not a county council. 🙃 @bookstodon

KitMuse , to bookstodon
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I need your help . One of the classes I'm taking at the graduate level this semester is Religion & Science Fiction. I read more fantasy, and would like to do my research paper on something that's not obvious (like ST/BS5/Matrix/etc.) & I'd love to use more modern sf rather than the golden age classics.

Anyone have any interesting ideas for my research paper on regarding the intersection of religion and science fiction?

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@kiefheim I read those back in the 1990s. Very good books. @KitMuse @bookstodon

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@kiefheim I THINK there was a TV series made based on them, but I may be wrong. @KitMuse @bookstodon

BackFromTheDud ,
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@KitMuse Try Terry Pratchett's "Dark Side Of The Sun" @bookstodon

Jtmoriartywriter , to bookstodon
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Dear friends,

@bookstodon etc. Here is my Tentative reading list for 2024. I am for 12 novels a year, but life, writing, my family, it can all get in the way. For '23 I read 12 things, but they weren't all novels, so thats a half pass. The list:

Any sequels I'm up to (3 trilogies in this case), lotr i read recently but I loved it so much I'm thinking of doing it again. Dispossessed was on 23s list.

Have you read any of these, what's your take? Any suggestions or definite 'don't read that!'

Cat tax, Elspeth hiding behind a Christmas tree. A naughty torti up to no good.

BackFromTheDud ,
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@johngrey My ex-wife read "War and Peace" once: It took a year to read, and three bookmarks to keep track of the story, the footnotes, and the footnotes to the footnotes! @pretensesoup @Jtmoriartywriter @bookstodon

sunflower , to bookstodon
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recommend me a book! i like fantasy, paranormal romance, sci-fi, queer fiction. i need 12 recommendations from other people for a 2024 reading challenge :blobcatblep:

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BackFromTheDud ,
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@gravious "Lesbian Necromancers In Space" sounds like a band name, like "Gaye Bykers on Acid" (yes, they DID exist!). @sunflower @bookstodon

Likewise , to bookstodon
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Or 2.

Good morning ☀️
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BackFromTheDud ,
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@Likewise That's not a very uplifting read. @bookstodon

NickEast , to bookbubble
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I'd make a great hobbit, what fictional characters do you identify with? 😁

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BackFromTheDud ,
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@NickEast I can't stand Hobbits. Lazy, food obsessed, gossiping idiots. No wonder the Shire got wiped out! @reading @bookstodon @bookbubble @books @humour

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@1dalm It's just an opinion.

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@korreckj328 Smeagol was right! "Stupid fat Hobbits!" @NickEast @reading @bookstodon @bookbubble @books @humour

pseudonymsupreme , to bookstodon
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Huh. It just occurred to me that not everyone reads all the time. Like, there’s a bunch of people without books they’re reading right now. That concept is so bizarre to me. I’ve always got several books going. Ebooks, audiobooks and physical copies of books. If you don’t read anymore, when and why did you stop? No judgement. I’m genuinely curious. @bookstodon

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@anomnomnomaly "Whut yew readin' for?" "Well, I read for many reasons...." @pseudonymsupreme @bookstodon

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@anomnomnomaly "Weeeeel, looks like we gaht ourselves a READER!" "It's like I turned up at a Klan rally in a Boy George costume!" @pseudonymsupreme @bookstodon

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@anomnomnomaly I remember hearing the late Jeremy Hardy talking about telling people what he did for a living and them saying "Wow, you must be brave! I couldn't do it!", then them telling him they worked as a bomb disposal expert! @pseudonymsupreme @bookstodon

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@anomnomnomaly I'd liked to have been a stand-up comedian, but social anxiety and an inability to write stuff down meant I would have ended up muttering the C word at random, like some deranged old man in a park. @pseudonymsupreme @bookstodon

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@eribosot mutters the C-Word at random like a deranged old man in a park @anomnomnomaly @pseudonymsupreme @bookstodon

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The Opium Queen

Opium Queen is the true story of the widely mythologized genderqueer Burmese opium-pioneer of noble Chinese descent, Olive Yang, who secretly ran an anti-communist rebel army supported by the CIA in the 1950s heyday of the Golden Triangle.

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BackFromTheDud ,
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@appassionato What? The USA dealing in drugs to attain some destabilisation of a foreign power? SURELY not!! @bookstodon

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The Collapse of Complex Societies

Political disintegration is a persistent feature of world history. The Collapse of Complex Societies, though written by an archaeologist, will therefore strike a chord throughout the social sciences. Any explanation of societal collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all such societies in both the present and future.

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BackFromTheDud ,
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@mutinyc What kind of Anarchist thinks like that? I'm reminded of the time Karl Marx heard some self-proclaimed Marxist talking, and afterwards he said "If that's Marxism then I'M not a Marxist!". @curmudgeonaf @Grizzlysgrowls @appassionato @bookstodon

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@curmudgeonaf Also maybe to do with Colonialism by the British and their occupation of the place to defend the Opium trade with China? @mutinyc @Grizzlysgrowls @appassionato @bookstodon

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@mutinyc Yeah, "More than one kind of Anarchist". The problem with Anarchism is this: Nobody can actually tell you what it is! "Without Leaders" is a wonderful concept, because it means that as nobody makes decisions, nobody is to blame when things go wrong!
Ah well, another Mute. @Grizzlysgrowls @appassionato @bookstodon

ergative , to bookstodon
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Sitting here thinking about how Mr Rochester spends an important chapter of Jane Eyre in full drag.

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@ergative That's another book banned in Florida, then. @bookstodon

kimlockhartga , to bookstodon
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@bookstodon It's time for notable new book releases in the U.S. for October 10, 2023:

A Stroke of The Pen, Terry Pratchett. [Unpublished stories recently unearthed and brought to light for our enjoyment ]

A Light Most Hateful, Hailey Piper. [Friends say that this is THE book: strange, eerie, twisty, mind-bending. What lengths would you go to, in order to protect the people you love from a slippery, evil, controlling force that threatens everything you know?]

Blackouts, Justin Torres. [Everybody says that this is a gorgeous, philosophical book about the life we inherit, what we do with it, and what we leave behind.]

Wrath Becomes Her, Aden Polydoros. [About the ethics and responsibilities of great power wielded as vengeance.]

Hatchet Girls, Diana Rodriguez Wallach. [Are axe murders cyclical? The author combines several horror genres, while linking a modern day fictional crime to the past, and back to Lizzie Borden.]

The Blood Years, Elana K. Arnold. [We rarely see stories about the Romani Holocaust. Based on the real-life experiences of the author's grandmother.]

Songs of Irie, Asha Ashanti Bromfield. [The restlessness of coming of age, in a time of unrest in Jamaica.]

Bittersweet in the Hollow, Kate Pearsall. [Solid writer pens dark YA fantasy thriller about four sisters with unique powers who team up to find out what evil is causing local disappearances.]

Charming Young Man, Eliot Schrefer. [New Adult Bildungsroman/Queer Historical Fantasy about a gifted pianist who explores his place in the world, as well as his identity.]

The Leftover Woman, Jean Kwok. [Two very different (culturally, economically) women's lives fall into deep crisis, which causes them to collide each other. Both are forced to examine their identity as mothers. My most trusted reader friends say that this is evocative storytelling at its finest.]

Run and Hide, Don Brown. [Nonfiction graphic work depicting the ways in which Jewish children evaded the Nazis.]

Queen Hereafter, Isabelle Schuler. [Historical fiction centered on Lady Macbeth. I'm specifically including this, because the response/reviews/ratings have been all over the place, and I'm curious to see where you all land.]

Wearing my Mother's Heart, Sophia Thakur. [Poetry which explores women's identity and voice.]

The Pale House Devil, Richard Kadrey. [What if you need to banish a supernatural trespasser from your family estate? You may as well hire a living investigator as well as a ghost detective. Cover all your bases, and hope that they don't uncover too much of the truth.]

Stars in Your Eyes, Kacen Callender. [Author of Felix Ever After returns with a tender, fierce novel about coping with past trauma and allowing someone to lead you to healing.]

Brainwyrms, Alison Rumfit. [ From the title alone, you know if you're up to this. Think TERFs as the purveyors of horror, and you'll know what to expect. This author does not hold back in shocking the reader in every way, but also has a lot to say through a transgressive horror lens. I'm getting real Gretchen Felker-Martin vibes, just with more body horror, if that helps.]

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@ExcessivelyDiverting The pursuit of Money!@kimlockhartga @bookstodon

BackFromTheDud ,
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@heroineinabook Then just call me Dud the Cynic. @ExcessivelyDiverting @kimlockhartga @bookstodon

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@heroineinabook I usually do. @ExcessivelyDiverting @kimlockhartga @bookstodon

Tinido , (edited ) to bookstodon German
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Emily Wilson, who translated the Odyssey to apoplectic rages of the manosphere from Academia to Podcastia, has a beautiful portrait in the New Yorker.
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/18/emily-wilson-profile

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@Jantar "Ah, the Great Western Railway!" "It's not THAT great. How about calling it the AVERAGE western railway?" @Enema_Cowboy @Tinido @bookstodon

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That's easy for YOU to say!! @christos

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