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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

olliethewobbly , 7 months ago

@ej @smutstodon @bookstodon tbh thats not weird. i feel the same with richard siken's instagram account (poet)

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

olliethewobbly , 7 months ago

@taoish @histodons @medievodon @bookstodon I LOVE THIS!

olliethewobbly , 7 months ago

@taoish @histodons @medievodon @bookstodon plus friends of the library lecture is a good title

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

@bookstodon

olliethewobbly , 7 months ago

@julieofthespirits @bookstodon adding to tbr ASAP

olliethewobbly , 7 months ago

@julieofthespirits @bookstodon also this podcast ep from tin house https://tinhouse.com/transcript/between-the-covers-adania-shibli-interview/

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

olliethewobbly OP , 8 months ago

@leapingwoman @Jennifer @bookstodon both are on my very long tbr
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/3220458 for a amazing odyssey translation i read in school

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

@bookstodon

olliethewobbly , 8 months ago

@sarahf @bookstodon @anuja89 OH MY GOODNESS

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.

@bookstodon
@books
#nonfiction
#fairytales
#folktales
#psychology
#Jung

olliethewobbly , 8 months ago

@appassionato @bookstodon @books filing this under "a book i didn't think i wanted but i think i need it"

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 , 8 months ago

@kimlockhartga @bookstodon me but with short story collections

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

olliethewobbly , 9 months ago

@RobinMarx @bookstodon @horrorbooks @horror this is epic!

olliethewobbly , 9 months ago

@RobinMarx @bookstodon @horrorbooks @horror read bits and pieces of it at my library job. its good

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?

@bookstodon

olliethewobbly , 10 months ago

@the_arto @azforeman @bookstodon this is so me

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

olliethewobbly , 10 months ago

@bennett @bookstodon i'm about to read this, amazing article!