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appassionato , 4 months ago to bookstodon

Remembrance: Selected Correspondence of Ray Bradbury, 2023

Iconic author of Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury believed that, someday, a collection of his letters could illuminate the story of his life in new ways. That story emerges across time and memory from the pages of Remembrance.

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#nonfiction
#letters

olliethewobbly , 4 months ago to bookstodon

oh btw @bookstodon thoughts on Earthlings? I just finished it and found it a thrill ride discussing compulsory heterosexuality and asexuality

kamreadsandrecs , 5 months ago to bookstodon

@bookstodon My #review of The Apothecary Diaries Vol. 2 #lightnovel by Natsu Hyuuga, Kevin Steinbach (trans.) and Touko Shino (illust.) is now live! This was enjoyable as the first volume, not least because the setting and mysteries expand.

#historical #mystery

Full review here: https://kamreadsandrecs.tumblr.com/post/742898021990301696/title-the-apothecary-diaries-vol-2-light

Tinido , 5 months ago to bookstodon German

News from #hugoawards #chengdu #censorship scandal:
"WIP officials announced that director Dave McCarty and board chair Kevin Standlee have resigned " The linked article also gives an overview on the developments that led to the resignation.

#publishing #sff #awards #worldcon
#bookstodon @bookstodon

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/94229-resignations-censures-follow-in-wake-of-hugo-awards-controversy.html

olliethewobbly , 5 months ago to bookstodon

about to tell everyone abouthow alternative history novels don't have to be about ww2. sometimes they're about lgbtq history/futures or imaginative epics about the curse of maggie
(all from sealion press https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/)
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clacksee , 6 months ago to lgbtqbookstodon

Hello. Did you know there's a fourth Starship Teapot book in the works? Because there is…

Henry, the unswearing robot, has a lot to say.

#StarshipTeapot #SiClarke #books #scifi @lgbtqbookstodon @bookstodon

clacksee , 6 months ago to bookstodon

My friend Anne Corlett has a new book coming out!

The Theatre of Glass and Shadows takes you to a secretive theatre district in post-war London.

#AnneCorlett #WelcometotheShow #NetGalley #TheatreOfGlassAndShadows #immersivetheatre #literaryfiction #bookshelf #bookworm @bookstodon

beecycling , 6 months ago to bookstodon

After enjoying R.F. Kuang's Yellowface so much, I'm now reading Babel - which I got from the library. It's a 500+ page honker, and the library copy is a hardback so I can't exactly slip it in my pocket to carry around. It's definitely an at home read. Enjoying it so far. She has a very readable style. @bookstodon

CultureDesk , 6 months ago to bookstodon

Author Johannes Lichtman was mystified when he was invited to speak to the CIA's creative writing group, which is called Invisible Ink. But in spite of the fact that it was unpaid (he was offered lunch in the executive dining room and a photo with the CIA seal instead) he took the gig. He wrote for the Paris Review about the stories CIA staffers are telling — no spy novels, one presidential biography, and a really good muffin recipe.

https://flip.it/DqVYFi

#Books #Writing @bookstodon

Likewise , 7 months ago to bookstodon

As a reader, do you prefer when people give you random books as gifts, or do you prefer getting a gift card to a bookstore (so you can pick the book)? Just curious.

Unless I’m asked about a specific book, I prefer the bookstore card 📚
#books #mondog #fediverse #photography @bookstodon

pivic , 7 months ago to bookstodon

I've finally started reading Noam Chomsky's :chomsky: 'Fateful Triangle': https://bookrastinating.com/user/pivic/generatednote/343225#anchor-343225

#NoamChomsky #GeorgeOrwell #israel #Palestine #USA #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #war #WarCrimes #Gaza #FreePalestine @bookstodon

ej , 7 months ago to bookstodon

Sitting weird on a book that I enjoyed and it was fine. But also not sure how I feel about finding the author has used exclusively AI art to promote it. I'm not trying to be a Luddite here. Sincerely. My daytime career is in tech. AI is a tool, but used in this way? Feels weird? Curious what @smutstodon and @bookstodon thinks

taoish , 7 months ago to histodons

Voynich manuscript!!

No one knows more about it or speaks more engagingly on the topic than Lisa Fagin Davis. Here is her most recent (very rigorous) discussion of the topic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VlSRZy0D_Y

@histodons @medievodon @bookstodon

julieofthespirits , 7 months ago to bookstodon Spanish

Minor Detail - Adania Shibli

Like a lot of people, I discovered this novel after the scandal at the Frankfurt Bookfair this year, but it's so good that it's a shame to reduce its appeal to "read this to piss off racist Germans"

The prose is incandescent, and the novel's structure, divided into two parts where the second functions as a commentary on the first, is very much my jam. It's so good on a literary level that it can't simply be reduced to mere protest literature, but also depoliticizing it from its condition as a tale of the Nakba and its status as an open wound and a continuing process would be equally unjust, but so it goes with the art made by oppressed peoples

It's very short and can be read in a day or two, although sometimes its intensity makes it hard to read too much of it at once. The only weakness I'd say is the ending, which I feel resolves it too neatly, but can't really say much there without providing spoilers

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olliethewobbly , 8 months ago to bookstodon

@bookstodon anyone reading best minds? its about ginsberg and his family history, as well as his own psychiatric hospitalization, as told from his psych records entrusted to a Columbia University medical student
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/best-minds-how-allen-ginsberg-made-revolutionary-poetry-from-madness/37272020/#edition=65276002&idiq=54051719
this is on my tbr

olliethewobbly , 8 months ago to bookstodon

@bookstodon out of curiousity, what are people's thoughts on the modern retelling of greek myths (the songs of penelope series by claire north, pat barker's series about the trojan women, herc by phoenicia robertson and clytemnestra by costanza casati). also circe and the song of achillies by madeline miller.

i like them as i know that these stories are being retold and continuing to be a part of the world and literature, especially as a classics enthusiast (five+ years of latin and a lifelong love of greek mythology). but i was wondering what other people thouhgt

appassionato , 8 months ago to bookstodon

Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales: Revised Edition

A renowned psychologist examines fairy tales through a Jungian lens, revealing what they can teach us about the darkest sides of human behavior.

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#nonfiction
#fairytales
#folktales
#psychology
#Jung

sarahf , 8 months ago to bookstodon

This is very sad news! RIP #A.S.Byatt.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/17/as-byatt-author-and-critic-dies-aged-87

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kimlockhartga , 8 months ago to bookstodon

@bookstodon I don't know how you all cure a reading slump, but I just loaded up on as many graphic novels as I can get for free. It usually works. Bonus: getting to read some new graphic novels!

olliethewobbly , 9 months ago to bookstodon

btw jesmyn ward has let us descend out. fall of fiction continuing strong (also i will read morgan talty at some point)
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olliethewobbly , 9 months ago to bookstodon

@bookstodon picked up the T(y)ranny by Alison Rumfitt. She's best known as a horror novelist, but its her first collected work. You can get it via gumroad for like free. it's amazing. also a necessary deconstruction of margaret atwood's works
https://zarfeditions.gumroad.com/l/zEDDb

RobinMarx , 9 months ago to horrorbooks

I interviewed horror master Stephen Graham Jones for Grimdark Magazine! We chatted about his latest novel “Don’t Fear the Reaper,” recent slasher flicks, and more!

https://www.grimdarkmagazine.com/an-interview-with-stephen-graham-jones/

#HorrorBooks #HorrorFam #Bookstodon @bookstodon @horrorbooks @horror #StephenGrahamJones

azforeman , 10 months ago to bookstodon

Things are getting funny on the other site. Like, what the hell did I just read?

"any engagement with texts that isn't an erotic relation"

I'm like, sir, has the papercut on your dick still not healed from when you tried to fuck the books? Is that what's going on here?

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bennett , 10 months ago to bookstodon

downside of masto's particular set of affordances is I can't figure out who posted this, and who boosted it into my timeline. But thank you both!!

"Lester del Rey... intuited that what millions wanted from a publishing industry urgently optimizing to keep up with capitalism was to escape the modern age into a world where capitalism and industry had never happened. There is magic in that. At least I thought so, as a kid. But there’s also, in del Rey’s vision, a formulaic—let’s face it, industrial, rationalized—conception of culture and a pernicious nostalgia that courts sexism and white supremacy. Today, fantasy is, along with romance, our wildest, most flourishing genre. It might not be this way were it not for Lester del Rey, even if his legacy now is as the wizard so many writers and readers choose to battle against."

https://slate.com/culture/2023/10/lester-del-rey-invention-fantasy-book-publishing.html

#SFF #Fantasy #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #Publishing