There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

@patl@pnw.zone cover
@patl@pnw.zone avatar

patl

@[email protected]

Engineering manager; Affiliate Instructor in #spirituality, #creativity, #pilgrimage, #DigitalPersonhood. Perhaps more importantly: #powerlifting, #mountainbiking, Gonzaga basketball fan #GoZags, lifelong learner .

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

patl , to bookstodon
@patl@pnw.zone avatar

A GORGEOUS retelling of the historical events of Spanish conquistadors under Hernán Cortés entering Tenochtitlan and the court of emperor Moctezuma.

This novella reimagines a complex world that many of us have some passing familiarity with. It's trippy hallucinogenic; it thrives in court politics and religious variety, color, aroma.

Think multicultural Game of Throes meets Hunter S. Thompson packed into a tight 220 pages. TIP: Don't skip the author's notes to the translator. @bookstodon

patl OP ,
@patl@pnw.zone avatar

@farbel @bookstodon

Yeah, it wasn't meant to be an easy read :-). Shifting POVs, including the author's; trippy stuff everywhere. Both fast paced and dense as I had to keep the character names at hand to remember who was who.

I kinda loved the disorientation, actually

patl OP ,
@patl@pnw.zone avatar

@farbel @bookstodon I did back up and reread those, smiling at the cheekiness.

I'm gonna let this one settle in my brain a bit, and re-read it in a few months.

GREAT standalone, but I'd love to read 8 more in the series

patl OP ,
@patl@pnw.zone avatar

@farbel @bookstodon Not yet; this is my first by the author. How did you like it?

patl , to bookstodon
@patl@pnw.zone avatar

I swear I planned to only drop off books to the , but I decided if I brought this one home with me, that would free up space for one more book to go into the library :) @bookstodon

patl OP ,
@patl@pnw.zone avatar

@TheDarcBird @bookstodon I saw most of the first two(?) seasons I think, and liked it, but ended up not finishing it. It's good though!

patl OP ,
@patl@pnw.zone avatar

@bookstodon HAHA!!! I'm in a training class today, and they recommended one of the books I'd just dropped off at the . Now I remember why I had that book in the first place.. so I have to go back and get the book unless it's already gone.

picklejr , to books
@picklejr@mstdn.social avatar

anybody know of some novels or series with themes including the good side of humanity? I really like for that, where the human heart is challenged yet prevails.

Not necessarily looking for Sci-Fi but not excluding it either. Maybe something historical or steampunky would be cool. 😅

@books @books @bookstodon

patl ,
@patl@pnw.zone avatar

@picklejr @books @books @bookstodon Becky Chambers

bibliolater , to bookstodon
@bibliolater@qoto.org avatar

Is there anything more beautiful than a well annotated with extensive ?

@bookstodon

patl ,
@patl@pnw.zone avatar

@bibliolater @bookstodon a dear, elderly friend of mine downsized his bookshelves, and I received many of his books.

One of my favorites was a book that I also had loved and had marked heavily, and I was able to compare to his copy, heavily noted and highlighted. It’s a precious thing to see.

patl ,
@patl@pnw.zone avatar

@bibliolater @bookstodon

Yeah, and looks to me like a dialogue between the reader and the text and the author.. and in this case, multiple readers as well.

SallyStrange , to bookstodon
@SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe avatar

10 authors, of whose books I've read at least five:

Ursula Le Guin
Kim Stanley Robinson
Octavia Butler
N. K. Jemisin
Becky Chambers
Iain M. Banks
Martha Wells
M. R. Carey
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vonda McIntyre


@bookstodon

patl ,
@patl@pnw.zone avatar

@SallyStrange @bookstodon

Ooh, this is fun! I've been looking at the authors for whom I want to read a whole catalog, but that's hard.

My 10:

Ursula Le Guin
N. K. Jemisin
Martha Wells
Louise Erdrich
Tana French
Flannery O'Connor
Marilynne Robinson
Roddy Doyle
Haruki Murakami

It occurs to me there are some more nonfiction authors in ther too..
Austin Kleon

patl ,
@patl@pnw.zone avatar

@SallyStrange @bookstodon Yep, I get it!

Oh! Shoot, here's the way to do this. Here's what @thestorygraph tells me for most-read authors of all time.

  1. James S.A. Corey
  2. Eugene H. Peterson
  3. N.T. Wright
  4. Tana French
  5. Richard Rohr
  6. Haruki Murakami
  7. Henri J.M. Nouwen
  8. Austin Kleon
  9. Richard J. Foster
  10. Charles Reed

I'll have to rerun this for the last few years; the list will be really different and much more fiction-oriented.

patl ,
@patl@pnw.zone avatar

@SallyStrange @bookstodon @thestorygraph

Here's what Storygraph tells me for the last 5 years:

  1. James S.A. Corey
  2. Tana French
  3. Martha Wells
  4. Hazel Soan
  5. Brian K. Vaughan
  6. Louise Erdrich
  7. Ursula K. LeGuin
    (and the next 3 are at 4 books, so they miss the cutoff, but..)
  8. Esther de Waal
  9. Rebecca Roanhorse
  10. Pierce Brosnan

Anyway, super fun memory-jogger prompt.

mostaurelius , to bookstodon
@mostaurelius@mas.to avatar

A pack horse librarian delivering books in rural Kentucky in 1938. During the Great Depression, the Pack Horse Library Project was a Works Progress Administration (WPA) program in which the librarians, who were often called "book women" or "book ladies," delivered books to remote parts of Appalachia.

source: https://www.facebook.com/GoodwillLibrarian

@bookstodon

patl ,
@patl@pnw.zone avatar

@mostaurelius @bookstodon Love this!! The original bookmobile ❤️

Schnuckster , to bookstodon
@Schnuckster@beige.party avatar

The Emmett Till book has got me needing to explore Black history from an American perspective, beyond my usual X and King hinterland. Remember, Black history is for every month. 📖📚 @bookstodon

patl ,
@patl@pnw.zone avatar

@Schnuckster @bookstodon Not SPECIFICALLY Black history, but very much in this space, I highly recommend Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates and The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander.

patl ,
@patl@pnw.zone avatar

@Schnuckster @bookstodon Well, it's hard for ANYONE to be on Baldwin's level, but Coates' work is really really good.

Ooooh, also check out John Lewis (RIP)'s Walking With the Wind, which is his memoir/history of the Civil Rights Movement. There's an excellent graphic novel adaptation of John Lewis' work too, a trilogy titled March, which is fantastic in that format.

patl , to bookstodon
@patl@pnw.zone avatar

A @bookstodon question for mood readers especially.. Do you find that your book format goes through moods as well?

I almost always have an in-progress, but I also go through stretches of either reading print books or ebooks, and my TBR piles of both keep growing :).

Rarely do I have audio, print and ebook in active progress at any time, as print and ebook essentially need the same kind of attention from me.

patl OP ,
@patl@pnw.zone avatar

@arratoon @bookstodon Totally understandable :)

There's a separate issue here for those of us who have to buy a print copy of a book we've read in ebook or audio, just to display on our shelves like trophy.

But I'm al for keeping local bookshops happy. They keep me happy :)

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • random
  • lifeLocal
  • goranko
  • All magazines
    •