#novels
NEH Funded Street & Smith #Digitization Project Completed (113,342 pages From 4,790 Dime #Novels) https://www.infodocket.com/2023/12/05/neh-funded-street-smith-digitization-project-completed-113342-pages-from-4790-dime-novels/
Tales of Victor Sierra In Stock!
Want a signed physical copy of Tales of Victor Sierra? Check out https://darwincomics.spiderforest.com/store.php for this and more direct order options!
#indieauthors #amwriting #novels #vampires #dhampirs #whiteout #directpurchase
I have the first chapter of a #fantasy novel about bird shifters who are also secret agents. Check out Nightwing Academy here https://www.inkitt.com/stories/adventure/572841 #amwritingfantasy #ya #novels
Saying No: See the Light Posts!!
Mandy finally pushes back about her parent's behavior. https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3367454/15/Michael-Saying-No
#indieauthors #amwriting #novels #Michael #YA #Highschool #Mutant
All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque. You are a teenage German boy who signs up to fight in WWI with your classmates, and you never find anything worth fighting for, just mud and death in the trenches, as any sense of yourself or any recognizable future fades. 4 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈.
#NowReReading2023 A CAB CALLED RELIABLE by Patti Kim via @stmartinspress imbibed at Get Better Coffee #Hatsudai #旗台 #Books #Novels #Bookstodon @bookstodon #BookMastodon
Chocolate shop owner Laura is 57 years old and has been married to the same man for decades. She never would have expected to end up falling in love with another woman. But when she meets 53-year-old single mother Carina, her whole world is turned upside down …
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A #sapphic late bloomer romance novel about attraction, desire and the miracles (and difficulties) of a new love.
🌊 🧜♀️ 💞 🌈
Out now:
https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/B0CP8YDG2M/ref=sr_1_4?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=UFLBK9LG9BEI&keywords=Flowing+like+Water&qid=1701533475&sprefix=flowing+like+wat%2Caps%2C826&sr=8-4
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#lesbian #books #novels #writers #indieauthors #indie #amwriting
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#Books #BookPromoting #Novels #Writing #FussyLibrarian #Author
The latest on my newsletter: Primary school kids took to the terraces at Old Trafford, recently, for an event with author A M Dassu intended to help boost reading skills and tackle racism.
https://markcantrellauthor.substack.com/p/old-trafford-book-event-shows-racism
#books #childrensbooks #literacy #readingskills #novels #authors
@SethRudy Missing some context here, but may I offer a carefully curated corpus of 200 French Eighteenth-Century novels with solid metadata and available in various file formats, among them XML-TEI? https://github.com/MiMoText/roman18
#corpus #mimotext #novels #TEI #French @tcdh
(And with thanks to @stefan_hessbrueggen for the pointer to this post!)
SHIMMERING, GORGEOUS, WISTFUL meditation on life, love, art, and loss set against the surreal cityscape of New York in the 2020 COVID lockdown. Everything is vivid, everything feels deeply true. A MINUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-vulnerables-sigrid-nunez/1143043782?ean=9780593715512
#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #novel #novels #fiction #NewYork
What novel should I read next?
#books #ScienceFiction #fiction #poll #Recommendations #novels
Comic Crusaders Podcast #385 - Kat Leyh
Hang out with Al Mega as he chats with talented artist, writer,...
https://www.comiccrusaders.com/comic-crusaders-podcast-385-kat-leyh/
#Kat Leyh #lumberjanes #thirsty mermaids #comics #graphic novel #lgtbq+ #action #actor #al mega #comic books #comic crusaders #drama #editing #film #genre #graphic novels #horror #music #novels #podcast #pop culture #producer #production #sales #scifi #show #streaming #talk show #tv #vidcast #snapdragon #Inkwell Management
My beloved friend Viv Pi has just successfully published her second novel in the Lila Birch mystery crime series! Lila is a PhD candidate in anthology at a Canadian university. While taking a break to visit her parents in the small town of Collinghurst, she becomes embroiled in another murder. Small town communities have their secrets as Lila comes to find out, all while trying to keep her thesis defense on track. #CanadianFiction #CrimeFiction #Mystery #Novels https://tinyurl.com/Defence-Wounds
Comic Crusaders Podcast #384 - Erica Schultz
Hang out with al Mega as he chats with comic book writer, letterer, and editor, Erica Schultz. Tune in as we discuss Erica's NEW Spawn title, Rat City...
https://www.comiccrusaders.com/
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#Erica Schultz #spawn #rat city #comics #action #actor #al mega #comic books #comic crusaders #drama #editing #genre #graphic novels #horror #movies #music #novels #podcast #pop culture #producer #production #scifi #show #streaming #talk show #tv #vidcast
New novel progress: wrote 723 words today on my lunch break, and they're good words. I'm at 63,581 words in this first draft, not too far from my goal of ending up at 75,000 - 80,000 words. Huzzah!
Comic Crusaders Podcast #383 - Dan Panosian
Hang out with Al Mage as he chats with comic book artist extraordinaire, Dan Panosian. Tune in to learn about his latest work with...
https://www.comiccrusaders.com/comic-crusaders-podcast-383-dan-panosian/
#dan panosian #image #dynamite #red sonja #spawn #action #actor #al mega #comic books #comic crusaders #comics #editing #genre #graphic novels #horror #music #novels #podcast #pop culture #production #scifi #show #streaming #talk show #tv #vidcast
Paul Lynch’s fifth novel "Prophet Song" is the winner of the 2023 Booker Prize. Its US publishing date is coming up on December 5.
https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/prophet-song
Funeral in Berlin
Today I finished reading Loop by Koji Suzuki: part 3 in the Ring novel series.
So far, it's my favourite book in the series. Without spoiling anything, this book expands massively on the Ring's setting in ways I could never imagined.
Now I'm up S, the fifth book. I have to skip Birthday, the fourth book, since it isn't on Kindle. It's just a collection of short stories anyway, so I don't think I'm missing much.
A LONG-FORGOTTEN LITERARY GEM from 1938, reissued in a sumptuous new edition. Beautifully stark modernist novel traces the gradual diminution of a woman’s life with pitiless clarity. A MINUS
https://www.boilerhouse.press/product-page/william-s-wife-by-gertrude-trevelyan
#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #fiction #novel #novels #SmallPressSunday
This month marks 10 years since Inspired Quill published Silas Morlock, so the latest post on my author newsletter seems quite apt for the occasion...
https://markcantrellauthor.substack.com/p/time-waits-for-no-morlock
#books #publishing #dystopian #fiction #scifi #horror #novels
THE FAMILY THAT SLEUTHS TOGETHER…finds out more about themselves and each other in this charming, engrossing California murder mystery starring three generations of smart, sharp women solving a complicated crime. B PLUS
#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #fiction #novel #novels #mystery #mysteries
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott. You are the most iconoclastic/‘tomboyish’ of four young sisters, and it looks like you may chart a path as a writer, but as your sisters fall into the roles allocated them by the 19th century patriarchy, you too may be deprived of the dull spinsterhood you aspired to.
Book 52, 2023: Our Lady of the Highway by Hal Hartley. I loved this novel. Renegade anarchist nuns hole up in a Brooklyn convent! Lola joins them to try to curb her violent mystical powers. They make hallucinogenic beer! The cops try to close them down!There's a pitbull named Desmond!
If you love Hartley's #films you'll love this. #reading #novels #books @bookstodon
Hard to believe it's been a decade! This month is the tenth anniversay of Inspired Quill publishing my novel, Silas Morlock.
Find out about the book here: https://tykewriter.wordpress.com/fiction/silas-morlock/
If you want to grab a copy for your shelves, please do consider buying direct from the publisher -- and help support a vibrant independent publisher.
You are more likely to find classic #novels in the homes of people living in English-speaking countries #infographic #books https://readerupdated.com/2023/01/12/the-most-popular-book-genres-in-36-countries-around-the-world-infographic/
A SPIRITUALIST’S WIFE STRUGGLES to come to terms with her husband’s new world of séances and “readings”—and fears he’ll find out some of her own secrets. Lush evocation of post-World War I Scotland and the frenzies of Jazz Age society. B PLUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hazardous-spirits-anbara-salam/1143029073?ean=9781959030133
@bookstodon
#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #fiction #novel #novels #historicalfiction #supernatural #paranormal #1920s #Scotland
You are more likely to find classic #novels in the homes of people living in English-speaking countries #infographic #books https://readerupdated.com/2023/01/12/the-most-popular-book-genres-in-36-countries-around-the-world-infographic/
New Business Cards for Darwin Publishing!
I decided that I needed to split my business cards up. So I went to this new card solely for my #Novels!! Yes the QR code does work to take you to my author website even without the card in hand! WHOOP!
New Yorker: The Surprising Sweetness of the Ayn Rand Fangirl Novel https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-surprising-sweetness-of-the-ayn-rand-fangirl-novel #NewYorker #Culture/CulturalComment #MaryGaitskill #AynRand #Novels
Book 51, 2023: River by Esther Kinsky. An exploration of London’s rimy River Lea, and the neighbourhood’s characters, combined with stories from time spent near the Rhine, Oder, and other rivers. @bookstadon #books #reading #novels
I now have two novels available as ebooks. They are contemporary sci-fi stories about psychic powers, set against a backdrop of our modern struggle against the climate crisis and corporate corruption. I hope you will pick them up and if you enjoy them, please do leave me a review!
Kindle collection: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CNGV8ZVB
Kobo collection (epub): https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/series/project-cephalus
#SciFiBooks #SciFi #SelfPublishing #Writing #Novels #EBooks #Bookstodon #WritersOfMastodon
I can't say much without massive spoilers, but if you're a fan of Ringu (1998) or the Ring (2002) film franchises, definitely check out the original novels by Koji Suzuki.
The movie adaptations of Ring (the first novel) are actually just a small piece of the overall narrative.
The scope of the novels is so much larger that they'll blow your mind.
Nothing is what you think it is.
Last weekend, I found myself wanting to revisit the Ring novels by Koji Suzuki after watching both Ringu (1998) and the Ring (2002).
Now I've just finished Spiral. I forgot most of it, having last read it over a decade ago, but it's just as good as I remember.
I skipped Ring, since it's very similar to both the Japanese and American film adaptations.
Now I'm ready to read the third book, Loop, for the first time. Can't wait.
The Vanished Novelist
"Kathleen Sully's name appears in no encyclopaedia, in no dictionary of biography, in no other survey of the English novel" ... BenAstrea posted Brad Bigelow's NeglectedBooks.com article "Kathleen Sully, the Vanished Novelist," a nice bit of detective work on an author who seemed to continually mystify her contemporaries.
https://www.metafilter.com/201411/Kathleen-Sully-the-Vanished-Novelist
#KathleenSully #literature #books #novels #novelists #fiction #WomenWriters
Deep philosophical questions - do people sharing stuff they want to sell get any traction here? Books, or newsletter subscriptions, or workshops?
I get mixed messages as a novelist ie a small creator.
#amwriting #sfff #writerlife #mastobooks #marketing #novels #books #workshops #askmastodon
Self promo time!
Going against her boss' wishes, Valerie Pierce went looking to recruit a masked vigilante for an elite ops group at Gray Tower. Who she found was a perplexing man, battling inner demons so deep it might consume them both.
Available on #Kindle, #KindleUnlimited, & paperback: https://amzn.to/3hqswsN
This is a stand alone story with suspense, mystery, & an "open door" romance. The story deals with serious topics but has an HEA.
1/9 Happily, academia, and #openaccess publishing within it, still provides a space for something different to the world of agents, editors and #conglomeration that is depicted in these two recent articles on how corporatisation has impacted the world of #LiteraryFiction: ‘not merely the way #novels were published but also the content of those novels’; as well as how we understand the ‘global literary canon’ of everyone from Albert Camus, William Burroughs and WG Sebald to Orhan Pamuk, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Sally Rooney.
https://newrepublic.com/article/176458/big-publishing-killed-author-sinykin-fiction-review
This is largely because, while some academic authors do have agents, there’s not much prospect of individual scholars being a ‘moneymaker’ in the way Stephen King and John Grisham, or even Cormac McCarthy and A.S. Byatt, are, let along the literary estates turned ’commercial assets’ of Jorge Luis Borges, Georges Simenon and Vladimir Nabokov.
I find myself wondering if my #writing simply isn't the right style for most people. #Novels and other #stories should be open to any style of writing yet... I can't seem to find an audience because I'm too matter of fact with mine? #amwriting #writinglife #WritingCommunity
LOVE, HEARTBREAK, AND LOSS are the cornerstones of this elegantly constructed novel that captures the power of connection and the pain of isolation. Sex is a constant presence in the book, but evocations of food and friendship hit even harder. A MINUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/family-meal-bryan-washington/1143022796?ean=9780593421093
#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #fiction #novel #novels #lgbtq #lgbtqwriters #BlackWriters
The Great Fire of London, 1666, received a mention in Sunshine, book two in my Golden Age of Hollywood series, today. Thomas Farriner, a baker, started the fire. However, a psychologically troubled Frenchman, Robert Hubert, was tried and executed for starting the blaze. Robert wasn’t even there - his ship hadn’t docked when the fire started. Why strive for justice when a scapegoat is at hand, eh?
🖼️ Artist unknown.
Anyone got any recommendations for fantasy novels? I was a big fan of Percy Jackson when I was younger and more recently read Mistborn and really liked it, and am interested in finding something similar.
#book #books #bookstodon #fantasy #novel #novels #mistborn #doesanyoneactuallyreadhashtags
New novel progress: wrote 1,283 words today on my lunch break. Feeling pretty good about it.
SENSATIONAL WILD-WEST DETECTIVE yarn features the “Holmes On the Range” brothers—a pair of cowboys turned sleuths—guarding a fossil dig in Wyoming with trouble not far behind. Brilliant return of these colorful characters in a sharp, twisty plot. A MINUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hunters-of-the-dead-steve-hockensmith/1144073554?ean=9781685493455
#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #fiction #novel #novels #mystery #historicalfiction #SmallPressSunday
I read both the original Ring novel, and Spiral (its sequel) by Koji Suzuki many years ago and enjoyed them. Spiral starts to get weird though, and I'm told the sequels get even weirder still. Maybe that's why I never got around to reading them all.
Spiral was adapted to film in Japan and released in 1998, same year as Ringu, but fared so poorly that it got retconned out. I'll have to see it sometime.
For now, I wouldn't mind reading the novels again. 🤔
Statement on AI-generated fiction from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association:
https://www.sfwa.org/2023/11/03/sfwa-comments-on-ai-to-us-copyright-office/
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Novels #Writing #Fiction #SF #SFF #ScienceFiction #Fantasy @LitStudies
"Ildas McNair alighted from the plane, wrinkling his nose against the acrid smell of aviation fuel. He'd spent the two-and-a-half-hour flight wondering why Alex had been so desperate to see him after all these years. He was about to find out..."
A excerpt from one of my novels:
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2015/12/from-jack-to-king-chapter-one.html
On The Road, by Jack Kerouac. It’s the late 40’s, and you are a young man trying to dig America and its many people and pick up chicks, so you spend a lot of time trying to meet up with your whacked out best friend by hitchhiking and busing repeatedly across the US, but whether you learn anything is debatable. 3 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈.
@bookstodon #books #novels #bookstodon #hipsters #dudes #cars #beats
I write #fantasy #novels - one of my first is called FairyKnight - about a fairy who wants to become a full fledged knight and save the kingdom. Here’s the link to the inkitt site https://www.inkitt.com/stories/fantasy/562578
Do you like your #fantasy #novels with a bit of #cozy #cozyfantasy tossed in?
NEAR-FUTURE NOIR THRILLER, set in a Pacific Northwest sodden with “broken weather,” combines lots of action and a colorful cast of characters for a highly entertaining read. B PLUS
https://splinterpress.com/product/the-dissection-and-reassembly-of-cohen-hoard/
#SmallPressSunday #book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #fiction #novel #novels #sciencefiction #scifi #thrillers
Here's what I'm reading right now in between doing review swaps with other #indieauthors!
What are y'all reading right now? Drop them in the comments!
#writing #writer #writers #writingcommunity #author #authors #book #books #bookstodon #bookstadon #novel #novels #reading #photography #coffee #espresso #houseplants #pothos #scifi #sciencefiction @bookstodon
The big day has come - Re:Apotheosis Metamorphosis is live!
The fate of billions depend on one villain's final reckoning with the sins of her past...
Pick it up today!
Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C4ZJJD15
Print: https://www.amazon.com/Re-Apotheosis-Metamorphosis-Robert-Marks/dp/1927537797
THE GREATEST ELIZABETHAN MYSTERY—who killed Amy Robsart, wife of the Queen’s favorite, Robert Dudley?—explored in this intriguingly framed novel that breathes new life into a much-told story. Richly envisioned. B PLUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-minds-evil-toy-g-lawrence/1143908991
#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #novel #novels #fiction #historicalfiction #Elizabethan #Tudors #SelfPublishedSunday
Gulliver’s Travels, by Jonathan Swift. You are an early 18th century ship’s surgeon who is repeatedly Washed Ashore on various never before seen islands, whose inhabitants find you Unaccountably Strange due to differences in Size and Temperament, but nevertheless teach you several Important Lessons about merry old England, particularly its Superior Personages. 4 out of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈.
@bookstodon #bookstodon #books #novels #reading #travel #satire
DELIGHTFUL, UNLIKELY SLEUTH Mrs. Pargeter—widow of an English crime boss—gathers her late husband’s crew to solve two linked mysteries. Entertaining cozy is author Simon Brett at his best. B PLUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mrs-pargeters-patio-simon-brett/1143403622?ean=9781448311286
#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #novel #novels #fiction #mystery #mysteries #mysterynovels #CozyMysteries #cozymystery
uuuum y'all need to read this series immediately, it's so good: https://sistahscifi.com/products/a-song-below-water-book-by-bethany-c-morrow
"A Song Below Water" by Bethany C. Morrow
#Fantasy #YoungAdult #SistahSciFi #BlackMastodon #BlackWriters #Novels #Books #BlackFedi
A MAGIC-INFUSED FAMILY SAGA traces the lives and the gifts of three generations of Dominican-American women. Beautifully realized characterizations and lush prose shine. B PLUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/family-lore-elizabeth-acevedo/1142598431?ean=9780063207264
#Books #book #bookreview #bookreviews #novel #novels #fiction #magicrealism #dominicanamericanwriters #afrolatinawriters
A TALENTED, PRIVILEGED, COMPLICATED family unravels long-buried secrets in this keenly observed, expertly crafted novel alive with details of its vibrant Cape Cod setting. B PLUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/little-monsters-adrienne-brodeur/1142484037?ean=9781668046166
#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #novel #novels #fiction
UNTANGLING A FAMILY LEGACY of secrets, shame, sacrifices, and survival, a mother and daughter find their way toward a new understanding. Powerful, nuanced characterization of three generations of Vietnamese-American women. B PLUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/banyan-moon-thao-thai/1142267980?ean=9780063267107
#Books #book #bookreview #bookreviews #fiction #novel #novels #VietnameseAmerican
GORGEOUS, EVOCATIVE, SPOOKY as hell, Paul Jessup’s latest novel is infused with terror, yearning, and twisted love. Impeccable and poetic prose, powerful characterization, a haunting that lingers on. A MINUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/glass-house-paul-jessup/1143609516?ean=9781630230753
#Books #book #bookreview #bookreviews #novel #novels #fiction #horror #SmallPressSunday
#Books #Novels #JohnSteinbeck #JefferyEugenides #JohnBunyan #MayaAngelou #LinYutang #China
Some interesting "finds" . . .
6 books that I bought for just $3 at the Great Valley Bookfest in Manteca this morning.
EVOCATIVE BALLET NOVEL captures the struggles of young dancers in 1930s London. A clever mix of historical figures with fictional characters adds a punch of realism and immediacy. B PLUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-dance-of-the-dolls-lucy-ashe/1143081673?ean=9781454951230
#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #fiction #novel #novels #historicalfiction #ballet
RICHARD OSMAN’S LATEST Thursday Murder Club adventure is his best one yet. Impeccably plotted, full of wit and fun, it’s also a marvelously observant portrayal of the power of love and friendship. A MINUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-last-devil-to-die-richard-osman/1143105947?ean=9780593657454
#Books #book #bookreview #bookreviews #fiction #novel #novels #mystery #mysteries
Is there a #fediverse version of say #royalroad where you write a novel and there’s a permalink in the fediverse and folks ‘subscribe’ to your novel and get updates when you post new chapters? #activitypub #writing #novels
#QuestionOfTheDay: what's your books, comics or general writing hot take? Like an actually scorching hot take that you actually believe and would cause controversy.
#books #comics #comicbooks #webcomic #novels #writing #reading #fantasy #SciFi
*As an example of the kinds of takes i mean you can check out the responses to the previous 2 Question of the Days:
anime/manga & video games: https://urusai.social/@ami_angelwings/111156320038982619
TCGs, TTRPGs, & board games: https://urusai.social/@ami_angelwings/111167509492045763
My wife and I recently read Firekeeper's Daughter & Warrior Girl Unearthed by Indigenous author Angelline Boulley and loved the learning & listening process through the novels.
We were wondering : anyone have any recommendations for other Indigenous-authored novels?
#Novels & #Novelists picks of the day:
➡️ @stephenfry - #Author, actor, comedian, half of Fry & Laurie, Jeeves etc
➡️ @neilhimself - Novelist, graphic novelist, screenwriter, author of "Sandman"
➡️ @lilithsaintcrow - #Novelist & long-time Fediverse user, often fantasy, SF, otherworldly elements
➡️ @mofanning - Writes on damaged people seeking happier futures, often dark romantic comedies
➡️ @DiscworldMonthly - Newsletter about Terry Pratchett incl. #books, TV, events etc, running since 1997
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I'm at a point that although I wish for more comments or more kudos on my works on #AO3, I've also given up as I can't figure out how work gets seen on that site.
Anyway, if you like a good fantasy story, where small details can have large ripple effects later, and enjoy the Avatar-verse, then take a look at my Legend of Korra fanfiction:
https://archiveofourown.org/series/3370741
As long as you've seen the first season of Legend of Korra, then it should all make sense. Heck, you probably don't even need to see that, but book 1 would have more clarity if you did. Book 2 is a rewrite of the canon version, and Book 3 will have similar beats to the canon but has my ripple effects of Book 2.
I did so much research for this fanfiction. Dug into the Avatar-verse a LOT, especially the Spirit World, spirit energy, the Beyond/Space, and how that all interconnects with the physical world. And let me tell you, there's so much gaps in the worldbuilding, which gives me a lot of freedom.
I then looked at some common themes that the fandom seems to use in relation to the Spirit World and Spirits, so I collated those as well to try to find a sort-of consensus. (Not that there is one really.) That is reflected in how I depict Spirits and the Spirit World.
Anyway, I play with a lot of fun themes. (Even time travel!) I strive to accurate depict how people in oppressive regimes often have underground mutual aid networks, and how these often have anarchist roots (I paint these as good because they are!).
Korra and Asami's journey is very much a long arc of learning about how to listen to the people's needs and then give them the materials/tools needed to build what they need to be sustainable. Of course, the powers-at-be don't like that and fight Korra and Asami at every turn.
Note: since I'm disabled, I wanted more queer disabled rep, so when our heroes face off in epic battles, they will have scars and deal with temporary (or permanent) disability. How they acclimate is crucial to their journey and the goal of justice, where no one is left behind.
(Content Warning for: graphic violence, abuse, murder, poisoning, attempted genocide.)
Enjoy!
#LegendOfKorra #Fanfiction #Anarchism #Writing #QueerCharacters #DisabledCharacters #LongStories #Novels
Don't just teach your children to read...Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.
#GeorgeCarlin #reading #books #fiction #novels #authors #writers #CriticalThinking @bookstadon
Here is a list of 65 #books #banned #censored by the Urbandale, Iowa #school district. Picture books, YA #novels, LGBTQIA coming of age stories, and classics from Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston. #FreedomToRead #FirstAmendment #FreePress #FreeSpeech
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z5KAGlK08tY4R_vYz1LTfol5ojw3IJ38/view?fbclid=IwAR06q-3oU1QlsCeINbRoHek2CCtF8-mk8gIxPTmnk2WcaoXbVB840wQEi74
@georgetakei
Mr. Takei, have you read Jay Rubin's novel, The Sun Gods?
Harvard (emeritus) translator of Murakami Haruki's novels & short stories. It's written from the perspective of a white young man, but it deals with the internment in a very moving way.
I heard him read from it 12 years ago, or so, at Seattle's University Bookstore, the city where most of the novel is set & where I grew up. Many Issei & Nisei were interned from there.
📚 📖
#novel #novels
#books #Literature
#Japan
Apparently my Depth Year goal for my to-be-read pile is to read 1 TBR boook and replace it with 10+ books 🤣
Hi fellow book nerds! I'm trying to put together a Utopian Book Club (focused on novels and novellas). I want to include LeGuin's The Dispossessed and @pluralistic 's Walkaway, but from there I've got an endless list of mostly white dudes.
What cool utopian fiction by BIPOC writers have I missed out on?
#BookWorm #books #utopia #BIPOCLit #literature #UtopianFiction #utopian #solarpunk #novels #novella #BIPOCwriters #fiction #ImagineUtopia #eutopia #SpeculativeFiction #scifi #fantasy #BookWyrm
On our recent trip to Japan, I ran out of novels to read, so I went to a bookstore in Naha, the capital of Okinawa, which had an English language section.
I recommend this debut novel by Deborah Install, A Robot In The Garden.
It's sweet (some may say naive, but that's more the robot than the author), & a dark underbelly emerges later on.
Themes: divorce, meaning of family, AI/human interaction, parenting, world travel, mystery.
It's so good, y'all!
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#books #literature #novels
The best #StarWars #novels I've read are by #JamesLuceno, particularly #DarthPlagueis, which should be at the top of any fan's reading list, detailing decades of galactic history leading up to #TPM, from about 65 BBY.
Note that Plagueis is not canon. Some of Luceno's later novels are, including #Tarkin and #Catalyst. Catalyst in particular is notable for being hundreds of pages of #Krennic manipulating pacifist #GalenErso into his work on the #DeathStar.
Finished reading the 2019 novel Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston and its alternate reality of post-2016 America and post-WWII UK is definitely very optimistic. Still, it's a pretty good read if you're into queer literature. 🏳️🌈📖
Now I'm looking forward to seeing its film adaptation on Amazon Prime this August.
If you want to find official #StarWars authors, artists and other persons of interests for #reading folks of #canon and #StarWarsLegends #novels and #comics here on Mastodon, check our "following" list. There aren't terribly many, but more than you might realise. Also, if we missed any accounts, feel free to point them out to us.
#Caturday
El #gato Primo y yo con la cara de #ElTerror.
#Primo the #cat and I see the face of #TheTerror.
😱
#Cats #Gatos #CatsOfMastodon #GatosDeMastodon #books #libros #bookstodon #libroverso #novelas #novels #DanSimmons
"Eat, Pray, Love" author Elizabeth Gilbert has announced that she will halt the release of her next book, "The Snow Forest," after criticism about its Russia setting. Much of the backlash came via Goodreads, where users posted more than 500 one-star reviews of the as-yet-unpublished novel, which Gilbert says is "set in the middle of Siberia in the middle of the last century." Here's the full story.
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/12/1181714943/elizabeth-gilbert-halts-new-book-release-russia-ukraine
Hello! I recently migrated from another instance, and I just managed to delete my #introduction, so here it is (again). I am a #writer of #literary #fiction ( #novels and #stories). I used to work in biomedical research but not anymore. I have three #cats and can never get enough cat photos. Thank you for reading!
A few years back we (w/ Adam Grener) developed a tool to read Charles Dickens' #novels through the lens of temporal character #networks. The first outcome was "Twenty Thousand Leagues Above the Book: An Interactive Visual Analytics Approach to Literature" https://doi.org/10.1145/3148330.3154507 2/n #analytics
@kottke Thanks for the link! I am a big fan of Patrick O'Brians series of British Naval novels of the Napoleonic era with Jack Aubry and Stephen Maturin — one long continuous story. The first three, a trilogy of sorts, are:
Master and Commander
Post Captain
HMS Surprise
Mastodon Books is a server for anyone who enjoys books, either reading or writing:
:Fediverse: https://mastodonbooks.net
Official description: "We are the book-dedicated space on Mastodon. For readers, you will find endless reviews. For writers, we have a large group of focused readers and reviewers ready to promote your books. Join us!"
For more info, ask their admin at @RogerRemacle
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Excited today to announce the picks of this year's "Long Summer" reading challenge, 26 weeks total (May Day to Halloween), hopefully with 52 books read, with a heavy emphasis on "summer reading" like beach and airport novels, genre thrillers, etc. Listed in order from thinnest to thickest book, while books grouped together will be read in order without stopping. See the replies for more thoughts on this list!
#SummerReadingChallenge #books #reading #challenge #beach #airport #novels
Outside academia, I don't think people agree on #Genre #Definitions. #Writers themselves don't want their work limited to one label - crime, mystery, horror, thriller... A cagey writer might say, "I write #Novels with crime, mystery, horror, and thrills."
Three of my #Australian #fantasy #novels (The Time of the Ghosts, The Wizardry of Jewish Wizardry and The Art of Effective Dreaming) can be bought as a #collection. This is the URL for finding out where it's available. It will be in more places soon: https://books2read.com/u/md6ayE #books
My son finally earned his key.
We have a family rule that you can't see the movie till you've read the book "The Shining" and earned your key. My daughter @TeenHorror came up with this rule since "that's how I had to do it".
His sister and I held a brief, scary ceremony and presented it to him in recognition of this achievement.
Some years ago I wrote the first two #novels in a #fantasyRomance series. It was set in an #alternateTimeline of Scotland, where #magic is real, #dragons are fighting for survival, #vampires rule the nightclubs, the #fey are wild and dangerous and #monarchs are chosen for their magical power.
Here's one of the earliest chapters, where a young lawyer is invited to a dinner at Holyrood Palace.
https://tapestriesoftheveils.wordpress.com/2023/05/09/loyalty-and-treason/
#writing #writersOfMastodon
This will be the most *controversial* and *divisive* polls on Mastodon and the fediverse >:3
Do you like your books hardback or paperback?
♻️boost for more votes
#novels #lightnovels @bookstodon #bookstodon #books #reading #controversial #poll #polls
Stolen from @raccoonformality