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I'm an old. Heart transplant recipient. #Saxophone and some other instruments. Fond of lagomorphs and rodents. Been BunRab one place or another online for over 30 years.

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zkrisher , to bookstodon
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I've finished: Swordheart by T. Kingfisher

You can tell it's been a stressful couple of weeks when I yet again turn to T. Kingfisher for comfort.

With more of the elements that make the saint of steal novels so wonderful, we get another compelling women, an honorable knight with a dark past, a sinister plot and the white rat to help out, as well as a gnome and his ox.

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I love the White Rat, especially the bishop! And the gnoles are so iinteresting!

franciscawrites , to bookstodon
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Can you name a film that was adapted not from a novel, but from a short story?
Here's one:

The Illusionist (2006)

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2001 A Space Odyssey - "The Sentinel" by Arthur Clarke

whitneymcn , to bookstodon
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@bookstodon I've burned through all of the Brother Cadfael books in the past couple of months, and I have a question: I've Googled this a bunch, but I still can't find anybody online who is connecting the dots to prove that Cadfael himself was the reason that there were so many murders in a relatively few years, in this tiny 12th century English town.

That kind of analysis HAS to be a thing, doesn't it?

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Sister Frevisse a couple centuries later, half a dozen in the 16th c...

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I would be willing to die by ginger beer if it were dry, not disgustingly sweet, ginger beer

skaeth , to bookstodon
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What are your thoughts on DNF (Did Not Finish)-ing books? Do you feel guilty about it? Do you worry you missed out on something? Or are you confident in dropping a book and reaching for the next one?

At what point are you most likely to DNF, if ever? What sorts of things cause you to DNF?

My friend, book blogger Kriti, was musing on these questions a while back, and it sparked this new post: https://armedwithabook.com/dealing-with-dnf-the-practice-of-did-not-finish/

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I give a book about 50 pages, and if I'm still not into it, I skip to the last 5 pages and read them, to see if it makes me curious to find out how the characters got from there to here. If it does, I go back to p.50 and slog on; if not, it's a DNF.

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Rarely; once in a while none of the names on the last few pages are any of the ones that were in the first 50!

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Certain authors have become known for killing off all the people you thought were important at the beginning... and there's a whole style thing I've noticed in murder mysteries of writing a chapter "prequel" for each character before getting into the story, where each of them muses about or runs from something they're hiding that might be a motive for them as victim or murderer, sometimes the style works, sometimes it doesn't.

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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James Blish, A Case of Conscience

Likewise , to bookstodon
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Dear Bookworms,

What’s the first book you’ve finished in 2024?

This is mine: Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward
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Mislaid in Parts Half-Known, Seanan McGuire - latest in the Wayward Children series, works best if you're already reading the series, especially the immediately previous book.

golgaloth , to bookstodon
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So, how many of you are reading more than one book at a time?

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Met my spouse on a dating app, one of the things that attracted me to their profile was "I know what room of the house I'm in by what book I'm reading in there." That rang a bell. Yes, I have a bathroom book, as well as the nightstand book, the dinner table book, the sofa book, and the ebooks that live on my devices that come with me everywhere.

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@bookstodon As we approach the end of 2023, I would love to know about the very best books you read this year. (They don't have to have been published in 2023 for your "best of" list.)

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Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, Jesse Q Sutanto

Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning, Sarah Weinman

On Animals, Susan Orlean

Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life, Lulu Miller

Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1), Mur Lafferty

Weird Fishes, Rae Mariz

Light From Uncommon Stars, Ryka Aoki

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Tell me a good book you’ve read this year that you’d recommend.

I’ll start: Crow Mary by Kathleen Grissom
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I finally read the Greenwing & Dart series by Victoria Goddard, really interesting fantasy world with great characters.

1dalm , to bookstodon
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Need a good new character driven mystery book recommendation for a road trip.

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Delightful fantasy mystery with unusual nod to famous fictional detective: Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison. Her other books, set in the eorld of The Goblin Emperor, are also mysteries within their fantasy setting. Very character driven.

DocCarms , (edited ) to bookstodon
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There was a poll that stated—Rowling’s opening line in the HP series is one of best in the world. Someone posted about how there are a bunch of other opening statements that are better.

Here’s one of my personal favorites, from Gabriel Garcia Marquez (in English):
“It is inevitable — the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.”

What are some of your favorite opening lines in literature? 😊
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The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

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I read Conflict of Honors first, so that line wasn't my introduction to the series, but it is certainly a line that keeps one reading! (All these books later, I have to admit I still like Shan and Priscilla best.)

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