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jake

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the jake of all trades, poet, editor, kilt wearing heathen. he/him

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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.

jake ,

@passenger @Jtmoriartywriter @farbel @bookstodon to add, if you can find it, watch the SciFi series. It is not the highest budget production, but it makes up for that in storytelling.

truth is all three movies versions have some good and bad to them, and as a dune fan I am glad they all exist.

fictionable , to bookstodon
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'How should a society decide who gets to be a writer?

In the present-day US, the answer is simple: Submittable.com.'

Samsun Knight on the tyranny of the slush pile.

https://themillions.com/2023/10/on-the-tyranny-of-slush-piles.html

Or just send your to us:

https://www.fictionable.world/submit.html

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jake ,

@fictionable @bookstodon

as someone who ran a fiction magazine for a decade i don't agree with the premise of that article. The future is in the slush pile, not in a network of who happens to know the right person.

and i suspect the issue is more that the slush pile usually outweighs the subscribers for most small magazines.

sheiladebonis , to bookstodon
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Where's a good online marketplace to sell that is ? Their Seller Central has become a little too complicated and I have a lot of former rentals my brother used in college which my mom had to purchase because he missed the return deadline. If it helps any, they are , , , , and some (editions published within the last decade). Also may sell some to local stores. @bookstodon

jake ,

@sheiladebonis @bookstodon alibris is another option. Abe Books is owned by Amazon, unfortunately. For new books, Bookshop is a great alternative

jake ,

@sheiladebonis @bookstodon AH you said sell, not buy, this is what I get for posting before coffee... sorry about that.

chestas , to bookstodon
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I've just seen the Netflix series All The Light We Cannot See, based on the novel by Anthony Doerr which is sitting on my bookcase. It has tempted me to read and/or reread some novels based in WWII.

Does anyone have any recommendations of novels based historically in or around WWII?

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jake ,

@chestas @bookstodon If you've not read Catch-22, it would recommend it. Satire, funny at times, and yet also very much about the war.

dbsalk , to bookstodon
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I admit when it comes to knowledge of Peter Straub's work, I am lacking. I know of him thanks to his collaborations with Stephen King (The Talisman, Black House). When Straub passed away last Sept, I felt I had missed something by not enjoying his writing while he was still on this earth.

Many said at the time that Shadowland is his best work. I'm reading it now. Slow going, but good so far.

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jake ,

@craig_patrick @Spiggitzfan @dbsalk @bookstodon Ghost Story is my favorite so I’m biased but. Start with Ghost Story.

iamgaarden , to bookstodon
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Hello @bookstodon

I'm looking for sff books with female knights. I'm not picky with genre labels, I just really love my female knights 😌

Know of any?

I have read and loved:

  • Sam Darren's Dragonoak trilogy
  • Justin Lee Anderson's The Lost War
  • Craig Schaefer's The Wisdom's Grave trilogy

And currently I'm reading Tamora Pierce's Alanna: The First Adventure

jake ,

@iamgaarden @bookstodon The Hero and the Crown! it's YA but fantastic.

appassionato , to bookstodon
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Numbers: A Cultural History

Numbers, A Cultural History seeks to place the history of mathematics into a broad cultural context. While it treats mathematical material in detail, it also relates that material to other subject matter: science, philosophy, navigation, commerce, religion, art, and architecture. It examines how mathematical thinking grows in specific cultural settings and how it has shaped those settings in turn.
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jake ,

@appassionato @bookstodon reminds me of a book i started way too long ago, The Universal History of Numbers (which may be out of print at this point). Going to take a look at this too!

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@nichorra @bookstodon anything by Lucille Clifton or Tracy K. Smith.

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