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jarulf , to bookstodon
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Trying this new thing graphic from @bookstodon

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@lunalein @jarulf @bookstodon

it was definitely traumatizing...

stina_marie , to horrorbooks
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My is brief/won't spoil, to spread good, great, & spectacular far & wide.

💙📚 HORROR MOVIE by Paul Tremblay is a masterful, creepy tale of the monsters inside us, and the masks we wear to release them AND keep them at bay. It's layers upon layers of the truths hidden in illusions & the allusions hidden in the truth. It's unsettling, profoundly sad, scary: fantastic. (HarperCollins)

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@stina_marie @bookstodon @horror @horrorbooks

thanks, have ordered it... didn't know it was already out

albnelson , to bookstodon
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Besides Shakespeare, were you assigned more than one book by the same author in school? K-12, not college. @bookstodon

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@albnelson @bookstodon

not a chance, i had to find my own books if i liked a particular author

SuperWendy , to romancelandia
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Wendy out here making friends and alienating people. I finally read When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole. Y'all, it did not go well https://wendythesuperlibrarian.blogspot.com/2024/06/review-when-no-one-is-watching.html @romancelandia

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@SuperWendy @romancelandia

eh, i thought it was a lot of fun-- psychological/domestic suspense is supposed to be about terrible people doing terrible things to the point where it goes completely over the top

if you don't like the genre, it makes sense that you wouldn't like the book

i know there is the BWWM romance element but i didn't go in expecting it to be a romance so maybe that's why i enjoyed it more?

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@Jaycee @SuperWendy @romancelandia

makes sense-- i was very much IN that mood at the time, i was reading a ton of books in that general genre of creeping paranoia + home ownership battles & that's probably why it got recommended to me...

LincolnRamirez , to bookstodon
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I've been thinking of finally reading some Stephen King, but no idea where to start.

Go for one of the likes of his famous work, like the Shining or the Green Mile? Or something lesser known?

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@LincolnRamirez @bookstodon

a standalone classic like Carrie or The Dead Zone

some of his later books are very long & would be better for someone who already knows they like his style, for that matter, relatively early work The Stand is too long although the first shorter part (where the flu escapes) is genuinely terrifying

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@StonerMetal @LincolnRamirez @bookstodon

those are both great suggestions, i almost suggested Cujo...

kimlockhartga , to bookstodon
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Since we are coming up on June, it seems like a good time to check in with everyone here on @bookstodon regarding favorite reads of 2024 so far. Whatcha got?

My top five reads of 2024 so far:

The Criminal series of graphic novels by Ed Brubaker (ten primary works)

James, Percival Everett

The Book of Love, Kelly Link

Poor Deer, Claire Oshetsky

Prequel, Rachel Maddow

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@arratoon @kimlockhartga @bookstodon

ooh... glad i saw this, now i've picked up the Herzog book... that looks fantastic

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@alexlubertozzi @kimlockhartga @bookstodon

i struggle to pick & choose top 5s but Crook Manifesto + The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store would probably appear on my list too!

i haven't read your others but i'll check em out since we might have similar taste

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@purplepadma @kimlockhartga @willaful @bookstodon

have to agree about the audio book version of Demon Copperhead

it's intense!!!

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@StonerMetal @kimlockhartga @bookstodon

read Cujo before you read You Like It Darker if you haven't already...

aehdeschaine , to bookstodon
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I've never been able to get into Stoicism, but I still like reading about different philosophies. However, I also know that that is one where a lot of popular works deviate badly from the original.

So, a question: are Ryan Holiday's books solid/accurate? Are they in line with ancient Stoic philosophy? Are they a purely modern interpretation? Are they worth reading for growing my non-expert knowledge (in a positive, not just critiquing, way)?

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@wendypalmer @aehdeschaine @bookstodon

not unfair at all...
Ryan Halliday was literally director of marketing or some such for American Apparel, if he's not commercial the word has no meaning

ergative , to bookstodon
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Hey, friends, I wrote a review of Foundation (the book--the OG!) for Nerds of a Feather.

(Don't click through if you love this book. I didn't much care for it.)

http://www.nerds-feather.com/2024/05/first-contact-foundation-by-isaac-asimov.html

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@ergative @bookstodon

read it as a child, so a long time ago, but didn't we all read it as a parable about Marxism & politics not science -- if you assume psychohistory is real math, i guess it does read silly but that's because the silly idea was meant to be Marxism, wasn't it?

didn't they kind of astrology like just assume Seldon's predictions were relevant ea. time "he" appeared? to the 20th c. reader i don't think they appeared to be?

gosh it's been a LONG time

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@jpaskaruk @ergative @bookstodon

i don't know

i think i may have read something on the topic by Norman Spinrad when he wrote reviews/criticism in the 80s?

but everything SF (& even some fantasy) written in that era had an awareness of the Cold War conflict, when i was 7th or 8th grade a teacher pointed it out, and once you see as a late 20th c. person you can't unsee it

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@emeraldzak @bookstodon @jpaskaruk @ergative

"The interesting story is not whether psychohistory is correct or how it works. The interesting story is told around what people do when they assume "psychohistory" (prevailing philosophy) is correct, and what happens with people who don't subscribe to that "truth."

yeah, i would agree with that read 100%

bibliolater , to bookstodon
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How To Read ANY book in Just 7 Days

“In this video I show you how to read any book in just one week. I then go on to give you some of my best reading tips to helped you stay focused and actually accomplish your reading goals.”

length: nine minutes and forty seven seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_brZLPDqC1M

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@bibliolater @bookstodon

love his tee shirt

i gobble up fiction books but i haven't found you can read "any" nonfic book in 7 days, sure pop junk like Ryan Holiday Stoic's book (sorry Ryan but you probably know that's a hustle) but if it's a deep substantive book in a new area, it takes time>reading a bit, doing a bit of the new thing, screwing up a bit, coming back and reading a bit more...don't laugh but I've spent weeks reading Steve Perry's Secrets of the Nikon Autofocus System...

TheConversationUS , to histodons
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The Republican road from a deep faith in freedom given by God, to a candidate hawking $59.99 bibles

https://theconversation.com/reagans-great-america-shining-on-a-hill-twisted-into-trumps-dark-vision-of-christian-nationalism-226997
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@TheConversationUS @histodons

don't make me laugh

Ronald Reagan was a racist who campaigned on racist dog whistles -- source: was alive in the 1980s

Trump & Reagan are the same f'n guy in slightly different packaging at different points on the path to GOP fascism designed to deny freedom to all women, all LGBTQ+, & all POC

so same-y are they that they are both Z-list actors who built on their fake persona to persuade their billionaire donors to let them be the figureheads of fascism!

franciscawrites , to bookstodon
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Can you name a film that was adapted not from a novel, but from a short story?
Here's one:

The Illusionist (2006)

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@franciscawrites @bookstodon

how short? Minority Report was adapted from PKD's The Minority Report, a novella, but it was published in book form as a part of a short story collection

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@franciscawrites @bookstodon

or a shorter story is PKD's Second Variety, made into a film called Screamers

in that case, i thought the terrifying & delightfully paranoid short story was less effective as a movie while Minority Report was pretty clearly better as a movie

Da_Gut , to bookstodon
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The Many Colored Land by Julian May.... from back in 1982.

How is it?

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@Da_Gut @bookstodon

i was extremely upset, it did not have an ending & i vowed ( a vow I kept) never to read this author again

i don't even remember what happened, just the author's name & how cheated i felt

a hard cover book should have a f'n ending

we're not talking some indie author who has to break up their book into a 6-book series because Amazon won't pay fair royalties on any book over $10, we're talking the f'n 1980s...

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@templetongate @Da_Gut @bookstodon

all i can say is i remember nothing about Julian May except much hyped out of nowhere & then Book #1 ends with, "to find out what happens to Elizabeth, buy another book"

screw that

we know that stuff going in now but books are $3.99 ebooks a pop not hardback trad pub releases...

what this author consented to (without objection as far as i know) was refusing to provide readers with the whole story for what was a good bit of money then

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@templetongate @Da_Gut @bookstodon

ha never got that far but figure
people into Tolkien knew what they were getting, some of the Boomers (the generation immediately before mine) were a bit pushy about him

maybe Julian May is famous now but at the time this author was out of nowhere yet couldn't be bothered to write an ending better than, "buy the next book to see what happens" -- disgraceful by the expectations of the day & honestly a betrayal of the reader's trust

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@templetongate @Da_Gut @bookstodon

Series with undisclosed cliffies were not the default for hardcover books in the 80s & if you were there you know it

also

The 1980s were well after the decline of the magazines when it could be assumed everybody read their critics or even knew they existed

it was dirty dealing that memorably disappointed me & no doubt others-- our library didn't continue w/ the series

Reader should be warned, now has been warned, my job here is done

KrisBock , to bookstodon
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Some of this will mainly make sense to indie authors, but my publisher got a BookBub deal for Something Deadly on Desert Drive. I went from fewer than fifty ratings to 150 in a week! And I basically retained my star rating. I also hit at least #2 in free Cozy Mystery and #2 in free Women Sleuths in the Kindle Store. (I wasn't checking constantly.) Now if only those new readers will go on to read the rest of the series ....
https://tulepublishing.com/books/something-deadly-on-desert-drive/
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@KrisBock @bookstodon

🍾 congrats, i'm sure many will go on to the rest! mystery readers love series, or at least i do...

kimlockhartga , to bookstodon
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@bookstodon I am consistently drawn to the most obscure books, by tiny defunct indie publishers.

Luckily, Universities are the best places to find them. Through Interlibrary Loan, I finally found a book which cannot be bought anywhere, but which can be borrowed.

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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon

tell me how you like it, i think our library has it too, i seem to remember seeing this title...

dbsalk , to bookstodon
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Neil Gaiman ( @neilhimself when he's posting here - which isn't often) is one of my favorite authors, and I'm usually in awe of just about everything he does. It was a cinch, then, that I picked up Unnatural Creatures, an arrangement of short stories that he picked out. So far, all of the stories are good. Surprisingly, I would say that Gaiman's own contribution is the weakest of the bunch, but still entertaining. @bookstodon

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@seanwildz @dbsalk @neilhimself @bookstodon

18 hours! that's a long one, but it looks like a lot of stories from authors i like so i've checked it out!... 🙂

sarahf , to bookstodon
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Had enjoyed 's , but halfway through "The Song of Achilles", I think I like it even better. Not a joke to adapt "The Iliad" and retell it in this way.

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@sarahf @bookstodon

The Song of Achilles is a wonderful book!!!!!!!

i do like it better & considering how good Circe was, that's saying a lot but my heart really went out to Patroclus

FeralRobots , to random
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Can we organize a brigade to data-poison this monstrosity?
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/26/inkitt-ai-publishing-37-million/
@weirdwriter | https://tweesecake.social/@weirdwriter/112004482214144880]

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@weirdwriter @bookstodon @FeralRobots

i don't know that anybody reads on Inkitt, tech bros like this kind of thing because they want to sell to credulous investors not because they think they're going to get any readers

AFAICT, nobody reads serial fic in English anywhere except wanna-be writers, so while Inkitt sorta does seem like a pyramid scheme, the writers do know what the (lousy) deal is in advance & it's on them if they publish there anyway

Likewise , to bookstodon
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Short Stories.

Love ‘em, hate ‘em, somewhere in the middle?

Years ago one of my dear friends (who is a huge bookworm) and I were talking. She told me she hated short stories. I can’t remember why or if she even told me a reason. This conversation has stuck with me, because I struggle with them- why? I have no idea. I have tried different tactics to overcome this. I am s l o w l y reading one now, but I don’t gravitate toward it (not the one pictured, but it’s one I really want to read if I can ever get there).

I’d love to hear your thoughts.
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@Likewise @bookstodon

me, i love em but

lots of people tell me they hate em, esp. romance readers-- i get the idea that a lot of it is about the rather snappy abrupt endings you often get & the fact that the writer has to leave more about creating the world of the short story in the reader's mind, which apparently strikes some readers as a cheat

i like to read them myself but as a self publisher i rarely write them since my readers want novels or series

ronsboy67 , to bookstodon
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TFW you're reading a mystery set in the UK written by a UK resident author and your keen detective abilities make you think "hmmmm, US edition?"🤔
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@ronsboy67 @benetnasch @Rob_l @bookstodon

in the US we say "Business Class"

kimlockhartga , to bookstodon
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@bookstodon Do you own any autographed books? If so, did you personally meet the author at a signing?

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@jessamyn @kimlockhartga @bookstodon

i would faint! definitely find that book!!!

KitMuse , to bookstodon
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I have a question for I've been thinking about writing
in line with the genres I already write. However, I write for fun and for my "happy place", I'm wondering if there has to be a murder in a cozy mystery or if I could deal with other crimes and if they can be written without all the frenetic/zany side characters? Is that a different mystery subgenre?

Thoughts appreciated.

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@KitMuse @bookstodon

the usual caveat> write what YOU like but just don't label as cozy when it doesn't meet the reader's expectations for a cozy

we expect the cozy to have a murder solved by an amateur who encounters quirky characters along the way

there are other subgenres to choose from if you don't like those conventions

example: the caper> a jewel or art heist can eschew murder & the ensemble can have different skills instead of "quirks"

or someone else just said, historical mystery

kenthompson , to bookstodon
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, anyone? Perfect example from publishing. A publisher is using AI to write crappy nonfiction, then assigning author names that almost match leading experts in that field (to trick search engines). No doubt other AIs will now search those texts as authoritative. This is done solely to make money and only makes the world a worse place.
@bookstodon @pluralistic

https://www.washingtonpost.com/newsletters/book-club/

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@hexbatch @diazona @OhOkKay @kenthompson @bookstodon @pluralistic

Amazon KDP doesn't look at this kind of evidence when they are investigating whether or not you are the copyright owner

they don't care if you're the writer, they care if you own the rights to the work you're publishing

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@OhOkKay @hexbatch @diazona @kenthompson @bookstodon @pluralistic

for most of us, they ask if we own the copyright to the work we just published, we send back the email affirming that we do, & they take the block off the book

it's not really a rare event, their content validation review seems to flag things wrongly fairly often but they usually fix it pretty fast too

the odds of having to go to court to prove to Amazon you own a work seems low to me, has that actually happened to ... anyone?

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@OhOkKay @hexbatch @diazona @kenthompson @bookstodon @pluralistic

i know the feeling, my catalog is much smaller & still there are times when i feel like running off to live in the woods rather than deal with their stupid bots

but in the end, they usually find a way to fix what they broke, so i'm hanging in there...

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@OhOkKay @hexbatch @diazona @kenthompson @bookstodon @pluralistic

the AI question is new but we've been competing with AI "writers" for some time

i kind of wish Amazon had been doing a better job all along of stopping AI or mosaic plagiarist "writers"

KPED , to bookstodon
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Do you really need a press release for your book? Here's just one reason:

"If you Google your book title, you will probably notice Amazon and other big retailers first; your publisher and your own website can appear later. Having a press release can boost this rank in search queries."

https://janefriedman.com/why-you-need-a-press-release-in-a-digital-age/

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@KPED @bookstodon

"can" is usually code for "but probably won't"

Likewise , to bookstodon
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3 people in my bookclub really enjoy reading erotica. To each their own, it’s simply not my thing. My question, & I don’t want to come across as condescending, are there any books of this genre that are well-written? I get there will be a lot of gratuitous stuff, but is that all there is to these books? Years ago, another bookclub I was in read the 1st book in the Sleeping Beauty series by Anne Rice (she wrote these under a different name) & I couldn’t finish it, I thought it was ridiculous.

Any insight?
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@Likewise @bookstodon

of course there's well written erotica

over the top writing was Rice's brand>while few would argue she was a great prose stylist, she's a likely one for book clubs because she was a best seller

IMHO erotica doesn't always lend itself well to book clubs or recommending to others because it isn't enough for the writing to be good, the sexual escalation has to tickle your particular erotic fantasies, which are wildly different & personal

oarditi , to bookstodon
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Finally got around to reading Suzette Haden Elgin’s brilliant ‘novel of ideas’, ‘Native Tongue’. It was well worth the wait!

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@oarditi @bookstodon

great book, got an old paperback somewhere but i love the cover on yours!

haikushack , to writingcommunity
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No, reviews Are Not Just for Readers

https://medium.com/writing-self-empowerment/no-reviews-are-not-just-for-readers-5312fc9936d9

@writingcommunity @writing @writers

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@haikushack @writingcommunity @writing @writers

suggest you share your opinion here or else post a gift (non-paywalled) link> you have an endless supply of Medium friend links you can use

meanwhile i'll retain my opinion that when one writes an uncompensated review for a large retailer, one is very often a "little person" who has been somehow persuaded to provide free content to a billion-dollar corporation

ChrisMayLA6 , to bookstodon
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Here's a handy guide to check yourself against; which way do you display/store/shelve your ?

I have so many that I fit a number of different categories depending on which part of he house you're in.... I doubt I'm alone in my pluralist shelving habits

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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/17/shelf-absorbed-nine-ways-to-arrange-your-bookshelves-and-what-they-say-about-you

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@ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon

not sure i fit any of these categories...

i feel like book shelves are cheap, one can always buy or build another to hold one's growing collection

some of my books do share space with my lucky rocks tho...

jillrhudy , to bookstodon
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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

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@jillrhudy @bookstodon

some of them are very good but some are terrible-- somebody allegedly edited Where the Crawdads Sing

so to me

it feels like trad has believed editing is optional since at least 2018

what matters is hooky concept + great promotion & getting the book in front of people

& if the editor didn't bother to insist the plot make sense?

who cares, the reader already spent the money on Reese's say so...

sapavlikwrites , to bookstodon
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🔖📚 What's the weirdest thing you've used as a bookmark? My answer's in the comments 👇👇👇

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@sapavlikwrites @bookstodon @mmromance @lgbtqbookstodon

a counterfeit 10 Boliviano

if I can find it again, i'll take a picture, it's a remarkably ugly currency

got passed to us in 2009 so i made it a bookmark rather than try to pass it on (it wasn't worth much anyway)

ronsboy67 , to bookstodon
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WWW Wednesday asks:

What are you currently reading?
What have you recently finished reading?
What are you reading next?

The screenshots show the 8 books I've finished this year, the 3 I'm currently reading (Crawdads) and the 3 I'll be starting next (Poland)



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Image shows 3 books, as follows Where the Crawdads Sing A History of Modern Lebanon Germany A Nation it its Time
Image shows 2 books, as follows A Line in the River: Khartoum City of Memory Poland: A History San Marino la storia in miniatura

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@ronsboy67 @EllenInEdmonton @bookstodon

i'm with you

the editing job on that book was sooo terrible

dilmandila , to bookstodon
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I just binged on Silo, the Apple TV series, and it's so hooking. Kind of a fresh take on dystopia. Now I want to read the books, they are by Hugh Howey, and I wonder if they are worth a read? Anyone got an insight?

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@dilmandila @bookstodon

i read Wool (the complete book after it was picked up by a trade publisher)

for me i think the best part was the ideas not the story so i would tend to assume if you've already seen the TV series you don't need to read the books but...

on the other hand, books are cheap, what's the harm in taking a look to see what you think? Wool at least was also distributed to libraries

hollie , to bookstodon
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It's so weird that you can "follow Jane Austen" on Amazon.

I get what it means in reality, but every time I see links like that I imagine what a horror show so many of these long-dead authors would find Amazon.

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@hollie @bookstodon

i don't know much about her but my instinct is to doubt Jane Austen is one of those who would find Amazon a horror show since she's got an insane following with tons of fans & imitators in the self-publishing world made possible by Amazon KDP

i suspect she would find it rather fun & amazing how far people have taken the ball & run with it...?

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who would you cast as Murderbot from the Murderbot Diaries?
it's an excellent opportunity to cast a non-binary person (like Emma Corrin or Bella Ramsey? - my favs), but they chose Skarsgård 🤦‍♀️ or he rather chose himself, given that he's the exec.producer
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@kly @tishkova @bookstodon

it is indeed

DejahEntendu , to bookstodon
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1984, by George Orwell

I had never read this before. And that was a hole in my reading, given I'm in my 6th decade.

1984 is one of those books everyone should read. Yes, it's heavy-handed. No, it's not spectacular writing. Yes, we all need to be aware of giving up too much power to our government. But there are other things too.

Orwell's discussions of the proles clearly speak to not leaving them with no safety net. (Winston's youth,
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@DejahEntendu @bookstodon there's a new book. Julia by Sandra Newman, you might enjoy reading that one next

It really made me stop & think how little they knew each other

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