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norniel , 1 month ago to bookbubble

@bookbubble @lesekreis @bookstodon
#MattHaig Midnight library seems to be the #paolocoelho of this generation. Or just for people with a short attention span.
#nornielreads

jillrhudy , 1 month ago

@norniel @bookbubble @lesekreis @bookstodon oh definitely. I can’t stand Haig or Coelho.

kimlockhartga , 2 months ago to bookstodon

@bookstodon Hey, I love me some Penguin Random House as much as the next reader, but I'm also interested in the indies, which are usually more daring than the Big Five.

Favorite indie publishers? Please add to my list:

Two Dollar Radio
Bluemoose
Unnamed Press
Coffeehouse
Small Beer
Graywolf
Catapult
Driftwood
Black Spot
Future Tense
Copper Canyon
Tin House
Dzanc
Melville House
Quirk
Blackwater
Red Hen
City Lights
Algonquin
Black Rose
Hellbound
Wakefield
Fledgling

#bookstodon #books #indie #publishers

jillrhudy , 2 months ago

@kimlockhartga @bookstodon aren’t Tin House and Algonquin distributed by Big Five publishers tho?

kimlockhartga , 3 months ago to bookstodon

@bookstodon I have added some wee friends to my bookshelves:

A sculpture of a woman reading, seated criss cross applesauce, with one up, so that she can rest her head on her right palm.
Sculpture of a woman lounging, resting her head on her right arm. She is stretched out on her side, reading a book.

jillrhudy , 3 months ago

@kimlockhartga @bookstodon love those 💕

jillrhudy , 3 months ago to bookstodon

Listening to Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart by Gennarose Nethercott and reading The Honey Witch by Sidney J. Shields and Flint and Mirror by John Crowley. What about you guys?
#bookstodon #fiction @bookstodon

jillrhudy OP , 3 months ago

@patchworkbunny @bookstodon I’ve always loved Jasper Fforde! Tempest of Tea looks wonderful.

jillrhudy OP , 3 months ago

@boxofdelights @bookstodon I need to try Leckie!

beecycling , 4 months ago to bookstodon

I finished R.F. Kuang's Babel yesterday. Bloody great book. I feel like something lighter now, so starting Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett.

Oh and the current audiobook I have going is Starling House by Alix E. Harrow. I believe all these books are ones I got tipped off too by Reading Glasses podcast, which seems to be influencing me a lot lately. 📚 #Books @bookstodon

jillrhudy , 4 months ago

@beecycling @bookstodon impeccable choices. Off to look for this pod.

patchworkbunny , 4 months ago to bookstodon

Finished What Feasts at Night - T. Kingfisher always delivers! This was extra creepy because I have a thing about moths. When I was a kid, someone convinced me they would nest in my hair...
#books #bookstodon @bookstodon

jillrhudy , 4 months ago

@patchworkbunny @bookstodon I enjoyed this but felt like she could have made the moths a lot scarier

CindySue , 4 months ago to bookstodon

Everyone should go out and read Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement by Ashley Shew. Thank you @jillrhudy for the recommendation. Loved it.

@bookstodon

#books #reading #nonfiction #disability #neurodivergence #ableism #bookstodon #read

jillrhudy , 4 months ago

@CindySue @bookstodon She has some spunk! I love her whole bead on things.

zkrisher , 4 months ago to bookstodon

I've finished: Re Side Story by Jasper Fforde.

It has been a while since Shades of Gray. What I remember is that it was not what I expected from Fforde. While it had some of Ffordes humer, It was darker, sadder… It was also a dystopia with no rhyme or reason. A satire on an imagined British mix of Communism and Classism that didn't go anywhere.

Red Side Story fixes this. Eddie and Jane are trying to find out the why to this dystopia and their world will never be the same.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/866b04bd-f46d-437f-9779-3d539520b6de

@bookstodon #bookstodon #SFF #JasperFforde #AmReading

jillrhudy , 4 months ago

@zkrisher @bookstodon I feel as though I need to re-read Shades of Gray first and I am 10 DRCs behind so I may be reading Red Side Story in the distant future!

jillrhudy , 4 months ago

@kimlockhartga @zkrisher @bookstodon I don’t know! It’s making Libby acquisitions impossible within budget!

CindySue , 4 months ago to bookstodon

@bookstodon Help me pick my next book. I am almost finished with Black Tudors. I have Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity by Donald Yacovone, River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the SIlk Roads by Cat Jarman, Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement by Ashley Shew, and Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth. Which do I choose? I do intend to read all four.

#books #bookstodon #read #reading

jillrhudy , 4 months ago

@CindySue @bookstodon I’ve met Ashley Shew and her book is audacious so I recommend it!

Sophie , 4 months ago to bookstodon

Just finished “#Evicted: #Poverty and Profit in the #American City,” by Matthew Desmond

He says it’s not his intent to unduly villainize any particular group, and I believe him. But it brought back a lot of memories from my chaotic youth in trailer parks and I’m pretty ready to hate some fucking landlords

#books #bookstodon @bookstodon

jillrhudy , 4 months ago

@Sophie @bookstodon it’s great and so is Poverty, By America

jillrhudy , 5 months ago to bookstodon

Book jackets should say less.
#bookstodon #spoilers @bookstodon

jillrhudy OP , 5 months ago

@Sarahw @bookstodon Definitely. Sometimes even the ending! What is the point of reading it if the insert already provided a full summary of the entire contents?

jillrhudy , 5 months ago to bookstodon

Just found out T. Kingfisher is publishing a Grimm-inspired book in August and the title is "A Sorceress Comes to Call." Have I downloaded a DRC? YASSS @ursulav
#sff #fantasy #Grimm #bookstodon @bookstodon

jillrhudy OP , 5 months ago

@timgatewood @drawnonglass @ursulav @bookstodon I missed this whole discussion! Yes, I am fortunate in that regard. I get digital galleys from a bunch of publishers. I’ve been sending reviews for six years.

jillrhudy , 5 months ago to bookstodon

I really don’t mean to be a snob about indie and self-publishing but professional editing makes an immense difference and I can feel its absence within about three pages. Editors at the big 5 are very good at their jobs. 🫣 #bookstodon @bookstodon

jillrhudy OP , 5 months ago

@failedLyndonLaRouchite @bookstodon I insist upon paying the programmer and photographer; the editor would be paid.