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ChrisMayLA6 , 5 months ago to bookstodon

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

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

@bookstodon
#readersofMastodon

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

riggbeck , 5 months ago

@ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon

There's that word 'curated' in the article. Unless you work professionally in a museum or art gallery, it's a pretentious attempt to lend intellectual rigour to tidying things up.

scotlit , 5 months ago to bookstodon

“The film is based on the 1992 novel of the same name by the Glaswegian Alasdair Gray. […] Like watching Lanthimos’s gorgeous spectacle, reading Gray is a wild & unsettling ride. His work is full of progressive imagination, wry impropriety & intricate literary form.”

Discover Alasdair Gray – the radical Scottish polymath & author of POOR THINGS

@bookstodon

#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #PoorThings

https://theconversation.com/poor-things-meet-the-radical-scottish-visionary-behind-the-new-hit-film-220080

riggbeck , 5 months ago

@scotlit @bookstodon

I've only just started reading his work. Every Short Story 1951-2012. I like the sly surrealism of his ordinary characters as they negotiate the bizarre circumstances he places them in.

ChrisMayLA6 , 6 months ago to bookstodon

As you wake up this morning to sort out your presents (fro yesterday) spare a thought for that book that someone gave you thinking you'd like it....

@bookstodon
h/t Tom Gauld (as always, a treat)

riggbeck , 6 months ago

@ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon

The spurned book that you pounce on in a charity shop gets all the love denied to it as a gift.

riggbeck , 6 months ago to bookstodon French

@bookstodon

While you're reading your Kindle, it's reading you back. And:

"For those who prefer to purchase books from brick-and-mortar stores, tracking reading on book social site Goodreads, which is owned by Amazon, will put you back into the tech giant’s purview."

The article is from 2020, so I imagine the enshittification will be even worse by now, as AI use increases.

This is just one of the reasons I only read print books and don't use sites like Goodreads.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/03/amazon-kindle-data-reading-tracking-privacy

riggbeck OP , 6 months ago

@Jennifer @bookstodon

Do you know if the Nook or the Onyx Boox is doing the same as Amazon? I'd be surprised if they weren't.

riggbeck , 11 months ago to bookstodon French

@bookstodon

riggbeck OP , 11 months ago

@kolya @bookstodon

Does a quote have to be from a book? I've always liked it. Here's the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=013zp1Ry4qA

riggbeck OP , 11 months ago

@kolya @bookstodon

Nonsense. The quote says everything I wanted to say about the technocratic capture of reading, so I used it.

riggbeck OP , 6 months ago

@templetongate @bookstodon

I enjoy my provocations. It's been a while since anyone took this bait.

CultureDesk , 7 months ago to bookstodon

Staff make the call when it comes to deciding what's age-appropriate at their libraries. In Idaho, an organization called Parents Against Bad Books claims parents should have a say, while in Washington State, a proposal would require libraries to use a system like the one used by the movie industry, and in Florida, there's a formal challenge process under the "Don't Say Gay" law. NPR breaks down the situation.

https://flip.it/z-60GL

#Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #Libraries

riggbeck , 7 months ago

@CultureDesk @bookstodon

Parents shouldn't be allowed to weigh in on whether a book is age-appropriate. Their views are subjective, and those most concerned usually come from the RW Christian side of politics. But wherever they're coming from, no parents should be allowed to decide what other people can read. That's just giving in to creeping censorship.

dailymedievalcats , 7 months ago to medievodons German

Nuncat.

Ms: State Library Victoria, 096 R66HF, f. 99r (15th c.). #medievalcat #medieval @medievodons @histodons

riggbeck , 7 months ago

@dailymedievalcats @medievodons @histodons

So that's where they got the idea from in Doctor Who.

dailymedievalcats , 7 months ago to medievodons German

“Here is nothing missing, but a cat urinated on this during a certain night. Cursed be the pesty cat […].And beware well not to leave open books at night where cats can come.”.

Ms: Cologne, Historisches Archiv, G.B. quarto, 249, f. 68r (15th c.). #medievalcat #medieval @medievodons

riggbeck , 7 months ago

@dailymedievalcats @medievodons

I love how cats have left their mark on history.

ChrisMayLA6 , 7 months ago to bookstodon

Meanwhile in #Paris..... having been subjected to a #bedbug infestation & a #sewage problem in the #Seine, now the #Olympics organisers are picking a fight with Paris' riverside #book stalls that they want to absent themselves from the banks while the opening ceremony as their stock boxes are apparently a security risk...

How this will play out for the Paris mayor & Olympics management remains to be seen

@bookstodon

riggbeck , 7 months ago

@ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon

The Olympics are like a vampire sucking the life out of any city foolish enough to let them in. Or perhaps that flying city in Gulliver's Travels that raids the countryside beneath it for supplies.

weebdeluxe , 9 months ago to bookstodon

The second book on my September TBR was Stephen King's Pet Sematary.

I plan on reading all of Stephen King's books at some point, but Pet Sematary was very high on my To-Do-List, as its reputation was really good. Let's say I was not disappointed: The pacing was great, the writing style grabbed me even though it was quite dense for my taste. Never lost the plot or sight of the characters, which is always a huge danger with me. I even enjoyed the ending, which is not a given with King. A four star book for me, happy to have read this!

#amreading #books #bookstodon #stephenking #petsematary @bookstodon

riggbeck , 9 months ago

@yon @bookstodon @weebdeluxe

I think Apt Pupil is disturbing because it's a real, rather than an invented, horror. You can see it happening in the resurgence of the extreme right. The film was excellent as well.

DocCarms , 9 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to bookstodon

There was a poll that stated—Rowling’s opening line in the HP series is one of best in the world. Someone posted about how there are a bunch of other opening statements that are better.

Here’s one of my personal favorites, from Gabriel Garcia Marquez (in English):
“It is inevitable — the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.”

What are some of your favorite opening lines in literature? 😊
@bookstodon #books #literature #writing #OpeningLines #bookstodon

riggbeck , 9 months ago

@DocCarms @bookstodon

When the bank blew up, I had just got to the part in "Old Macdonald Had a Farm" where it was Oink Oink here and an Oink Oink there (it's easier to grunt on a mouth-harp than do most anything else, so I was stretching it out a little to make up for spoiling it later on when the Gobble Gobbles commenced), and at first I thought I'd busted my eardrums from blowing too hard.
-Tracker, by David Wagoner

The most perfect opening line and run-on sentence in the world.

benkaden , 11 months ago to random German

"I once read that buying books represents the illusion of buying the time needed to read them. That sounds about right."

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-07-25/books-declining-sales-print-digital-hoarding?fbclid=IwAR1h_BaQghRsWqkFCyL2e8Iw4OGiMoAETvbQ3p6UbYSyRwVLwAi7Jn49iKQ

#Buchkultur #Tsundoku

riggbeck , 9 months ago

@benkaden

I share the author's love of real books and have never succumbed to the Kindle cult. The statistics seem to be about new book sales, so I'm curious about about sales of used books, which are the main source of my supply.

If you buy print editions, which do you buy the most?

@bookstondon

riggbeck , 9 months ago

@benkaden @bookstondon

I just want to say that I'm very disappointed in 6.96 of you. The other 5.04 people clearly have their heads screwed on right.