#reading
Tina meets an artist whose dress hides a surprise, and changes her world.
#365Stories in 2023 - 156/365
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"The Striding Place" (1896)
by Gertrude Atherton
While hunting in Yorkshire, Weigall's friend, Wyatt Gifford, goes missing near the 'Strid, a treacherous section of the River Wharfe.
A protege of Ambrose Bierce, Atherton found inspiration in her own visit to the 'Strid, and in a pair of poems, "The Force of Prayer" and "The Boy of Egremond," about a twelfth-century tragedy at that spot.
And now you know something new. Old, but new.
#book #books #reading #literature #vintage #antique #goodytwoshoes
Out of all the books in my shelves, I knew right where to find Shirley Jackson's Haunting of Hill House. I'm almost through watching the Netflix series so now I may go back and read the book. Are you reading anything scary, horrific, fantastical? I am also reading Eve Bunting's Ghost Children and even though it's for middle readers, I'm scared. 😬 #Reading #Books #Horror
Pleasant but weird dreams last night. Rainy day meant I managed a sleep in for last day of holidays. Today’s plans: finish my book, lunch with mum and my brother, maybe work on some terrariums that are getting a bit overgrown this afternoon. #holiday #reading #terrarium
what if you wanted to read a book, but your brain said "no fam back up, you read that line wrong, ya gotta read it again, y'know?"
#reading #grr #stupidbrain
There were blinding lightning flashes as they hurtled through the storm. The windshield was an expressionist smear.
“Madness!” the driver shouted. “Greed, corruption and madness! What has..."
#writing #literature #poetry #stories #adventures #language #reading #amwriting #books #prose #novels #writers #bookstodon #amreading #writersofmastodon
Today we have a replay of one of my all time favorite episodes of one of my absolute favorite podcasts.
Evolution of libraries as a friendly place for children, history of children’s literature, a historic female key player that you’ve probably never heard of and a bonus creepy doll bit. What’s not to like?!?
#99pi #bookstodon #books #literature #library #librarian #reading
“The transition from a culture of the written word to a culture of images hinders what experts refer to as ‘deep literacy’. Digital leisure spares us from the slow, introspective solitude of #reading #TheGreatestBooks. […] Only #books of considerable substance imbue us with a detailed understanding of various subjects while enabling a dialogue with the past. […] That’s precisely what the great books offer. And ‘great books’ often happens to coincide with, well, ‘hefty books’. In return, they demand solitude, immobility, and no company other than combinations of letters arranged in horizontal lines, carefully stacked into paragraphs. Are we still capable of the level of concentration required for deep reading? […] We exaggerate the artistic merits of television series to mask a shameful and growing ineptitude for engaging with substantial literary works.”
https://www.elmundo.es/opinion/2023/05/23/646b7e2efc6c835a5d8b45ae.html
(Translation from the original by #ChatGPT)
A few days late, as usual, but here are my #MayReads
-Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas
-Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas
Not a great showing, but a mix of greatly improved weather and getting into some TV shows combined to put a dent in my reading activity. With the @storydarlings Throne of Glass series read along over, I’m not sure what to read next 🤔
#England #cricketers become first #LGBT #couple to read #CBeebies #bedtime #story.
The #SameSexCouple, who #married last year, will read #EmilyCoxhead's #FindYourHappy, about a #sloth learning to #navigate their #emotions.
#Women #Lesbians #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Entertainment #Sports #Cricket #Literature #Books #Reading #Representation #Culture
#book 7
The Gifts by Liz Hyder
I've not got a whole heap to say about this. It was fine. I think my main issue was that there was a host of characters and no one to really latch on to. And they all seemed alike in personality so that often only the context of the scene informed me who was involved. And it didn't explore the wider mystery of the premise. But yeah. It was fine.
.AGAIN
📍 Centro Sociale della Pace
📅 mercoledì, 14 giugno (19:00)
numerosi sono i mondi che popolano lo spazio
lesbiche e pettirossi e malva e betulle pendule
Reading di Klaus Miser
in dialogo con Giusi Montali
L’associazione Lesbiche Bologna presenta un incontro con Klaus Miser, in dialogo
con la poeta Giusy Montali al Centro Sociale della Pace (Via del Pratello 53).
Klaus Miser ha fatto della trasversalità la sua cifra, a partire dal proprio
percorso biografico -ricco di collaborazioni con il mondo della musica e del
teatro contemporaneo- fino al linguaggio poetico.
Un linguaggio che rivendica l’identità lesbica e l’antispecismo, narrando
desideri, soggettività marginalizzate, lotta, scenari naturali.
L’incontro ci permetterà di conoscere i due nuovi progetti, kill your poet again
e Didascalia, plaquette letteraria che si interroga sulla risignificazione delle
immagini attraverso testi poetici.
Presentati a Sprint - Salone Internazionale Indipendente del libro d’arte -
segnano un ritorno alla
#Parents and #LGBTQ+ #advocates #clash at #California #elementaryschool
A #book #reading that explained that #samesex #parents #exist to #children drew 100 #protesters and #counterprotesters in #noho
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #California #Education #Conservatives #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
C'est mon jour de repos. J'ai des biscuits de la Patisserie, et je lis Cyrano en Francais, c'est genial *
(It's my day off. I've cookies from the patisserie, and I'm reading Cyrano in French, it's great)
* - ok, attempting to read. Don't get it all without prompts, but pleased how much I do understand without having to check on translate, my French reading comprehension is improving
#books #livres #biscuits #patisserie #reading #lire #AmReading #CyranoDeBergerac #French #Francais
Some recent horror and horror-adjacent reads I enjoyed. Check them out!
#reading #readingcommunity #horror #reads #horrorreads #recentreads #bookrecommendation #bookrecommendations #books #booksofmastodon #bookstodon #booktodon
Three strong personalities, mothers and daughters, Japanese traditions, fighting old age all the way, Minae Mizumura's 'Inheritance from Mother' is an intense novel of 'vexatious spirit' Noriko, her two daughters, and complex family stories.
#reading #BookReview #JapaneseLiterature @bookstodon
https://gallimaufrybookstudio.com/inheritance-from-mother-minae-mizumura-womenslives-otherpress/
This month, RIF instead of Reading is Fundamental, it means Reading is FABULOUS! I hope you'll join me in supporting DRAG STORY HOUR as they spread the joy and freedom of books. Donate at the link:
#storytelling #reading #Pride #PrideMonth #drag #readers #IReadBannedBooks #fabulous #Transgender #queer #LGBTQ #GoFundMe #allyship
My #current list: :blobcatbook:
#editing:
* Manuscript by Andrea Simonne
* Assessing submissions to Tangled Tree Publishing & Hot Tree Publishing
#proofreading:
* Manuscript by Katy Archer
#reading:
* "TV Goes to Hell" by Stacey Abbott
#listening:
* "Jurassic Park" by Michael Crichton
* "Haunted Castles" by Ray Russell
Okay, not only is Cozy Horror a thing, it's a thing I love. Gimme book recommendations other than T. Kingfisher (I have read all of hers, and adore them). @stina_marie @bookstadon #Bookstadon #CozyHorror #Reading #ReadingCommunity
Yesterday, I began reading the book The Apple II Age.
A couple chapters in, and so far, I'm really liking the detailed look of what went into mainstream computing, and how it went from mainly military application to consumer level, in great detail. I can't wait to dig deeper into it.
And I love the pixelated cover.
Re-reading Helene Hanff. Her books are delicious; so warm and witty and interesting. She only wrote six (excluding her books for children), her most well known being 84 Charing Cross Road, and I so wish she had felt inspired/had the opportunity to write more! #books #reading #bookstodon
Just started reading David Grann's new book, 'The Wager': https://bookrastinating.com/book/405045/s/the-wager
There's an excellent podcast episode about this book which only made me want to read it more: https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-220-shipwrecked-5-26-2023
#DavidGrann #TheWager #book #reading #Bookrastinating @bookstodon
Started reading S.B. Divya's "Meru."
https://amzn.to/3Yw3HPG
📖🚀🪐
Seems like this is going to be an inventive and interesting #HardSciFi story.
#Books #Reading #SciFi #SciFiBooks #ScienceFiction
#Reading #recommendation... I'm just finishing up reading Marin Gurii's "The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium" (2014). It is absolutely #prescient.
It contains the best description of North America's current #political climate that I've seen; he clearly saw, writing a decade ago, exactly how toxic our collective #dialectic would get.
And more importantly, he saw the #danger it represented to our very democracies.
Go read it.
#Reading AI in cybersecurity: Yesterday’s promise, today’s reality
#Reading The Original AI Doomer: Dr. Norbert Wiener
https://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/the-original-ai-doomer-dr-norbert
Five stars: Murder on Mustang Beach by Alicia Bessette and Karissa Vacker (Narrator) (2023) is the second book in the Outer Banks Bookshop mystery series. It's nearly summertime and Cattail island is abuzz with the anticipated birth of a mustang foal. Unfortunately that's overshadowed by a body found in the local dojo.
http://pussreboots.com/blog/2023/comments_06/murder_on_mustang_beach.html
I reviewed Chloe Garner's The Queen's Chair.
5 ⭐ Very Highly Recommended
Great ensemble cast with a strong MC. Intriguing world building.
https://books.theunseen.city/user/nlowell/review/79194/s/off-the-wall
I just finished #ILikeMeBetter by Robby Weber from Inkyard Press! Loved it! Great themes of honesty, self-reflection and owning your mistakes. This LGBT YA romance made me swoon and is perfect for the beach! #Reading #books #InkyardPress #Pride2023 #pride #pridemonth #lgbt #YA #lgbtqia #lgbtq
Working next week's newsletter.
Thinking about the immensity, the mystery, and memories that lie in wait on either side of every door...
Subscribe below if you'd like to give it read it when goes out on Wednesday:
https://duanetooos.substack.com
#reading #writing #art #poetry #read #write #amwriting #amwritingnonfiction #books #sunday #blog #newsletter @bookstodon
#introduction #introductions Hi, I am Takky! I am an #akita #inu from the UK who actually speaks #Japanese! I am technically a #greymuzzle ? seen as I turned 30 this year. I sometimes go to the #manchester meets, #club #animalz however I have been all around the country including #leeds, #york and many moons ago #Londonfurmeets #LFM
Hobbies include #gaming, #reading (especially if it's #kyellgold) and tinkering around with #tech things occasionally. I recently got an #iMac #Mini with the M2 chip and I am enjoying it! However, do also have #Windows and #Linux. I use #PopOS at the moment.
I am also a massive #visualnovel #VN nut and am reading so many of them I can't keep track. Luckily #itch.io is useful in this!
I also read #doujinshi occasionally and speak #Japanese
Personal stuff: I am #LGBTQ and used to identify myself as #gay, however now I'm not so much bothered with labels and expectations around them. My #pronouns are #they / #them and I was #AMAB (Assigned Male at Birth)
Hi! I am a resting mental health #nurse obviously interested in #mentalhealth living in the #uk #unitedkingdom.
Hobbies include #photography, #gaming (or #gayming as I am #lgbtq) and #reading if I can be bothered! (I go in bouts of #bookworm and then stop) as well as fiddling with #tech as long as it's not too obtuse.
Hoping to find #knowledge, #chats, #memes and enjoy an #opensource #alternative to #birdsite!
I am #nonbinary, #agender
#hashtags everywhere!
Library.love is a server for library workers and library lovers, run by a non-profit organisation:
:Fediverse: https://library.love
For more info see their About page at https://library.love/about or contact their admin at @paula
#FeaturedServer #Library #Libraries #Books #Reading #Fediverse
I spent yesterday cleaning up weeds and pine needles to get the Little Free Library looking good. I think it paid off - it looks much better than before 😄 So, now that it's not such a mess, here's a picture of the whole kit and caboodle!
Now it's on to the final phase of building this thing: adding a Geocache, submitting it to become a PokeStop, and, of course, get more books!
"On the wall she would hang an Indian sari shot through with gold thread and sewn with tiny glass bits that reflected the light like spangles. On the floor she’d lay a woven ikat carpet from Indonesia. The bed she would cover with a wondrous cloth brought back from some remote, mystical region of Bhutan and scatter on it Ming-style embroidered cushions." - from Inheritance from Mother by Minae Mizumura
My short story “Hibernation Heirloom” published today at Sunday Morning Transport. It’s both a bearskin story and a motherhood story, and I’m excited for people to read it. https://www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/hibernation-heirloom
Just finished reading East of Ealing, the third book in Robert Rankin's Brentford a trilogy that currently stands at 11 #books .
As usual a throughly delightful read, 4/5 stars. 👍
I would recommend it to anyone who loves humourous specualtive fiction that mixes and matches genres and ideas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brentford_Trilogy
@fantasy @fantasybookstodon @scifi @bookpromotion
@bookstodon
#Reading #Readers
#Review #Recommendation
#ReadingCommunity #Bookwyrm #Bookstodon #BookLove #BoostingIsSharing
The lights go out, and Elizabeth fears for her life as the dead bodies pile up at her inn. She asks herself if one of her friends can be responsible for the Penobscot #Indian curse? Whom can she trust in Blue Harbor, #Maine?
MEET ME IN MAINE
by Susanne Leist
https://amzn.to/2TvFk8n
https://bit.ly/3gj85hz
#Bookrecommendations #Darkfantasy #BooksWorthReading #Bookstagrams #Reading #Vampire #Romance #Paranormal #Horror #Thriller #Ebooks #Occult #Romanticsuspense @bookstodon #Booksale
Five stars: The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune (2020) is a quiet slice of life fantasy about found family. Linus Baker is a caseworker. He's made a career out of assessing Department in Charge of Magical Youth orphanages. Now the Extremely Upper Management has sent him to a distant orphanage a day's train and ferry ride away for a month long assessment.
http://pussreboots.com/blog/2023/comments_06/house_in_the_cerulean_sea.html
Happy Pride Month! 💗 🌈 This is my first year celebrating pride identifying as Bisexual.
I am reading "Bi - the hidden culture, history, and science of bisexuality" by Julia Shaw and it is such an informative treat. I love learning more about the queer community. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in learning more about bisexuality and queer history.
I would love to try writing a blog post today to talk about this book, my personal journey of self discovery, and my wonderful experience of getting to meet my long distance boyfriend last week 💗 Let's see if my hands are up for it
Wishing everyone a wonderful June! 💗 🌈
To celebrate #Pride even further, I am #reading MANHUNT by Gretchen Felker-Martin this month, a book in which trans people must hunt cis men for their vital organs in a post-apocalyptic America where oestrogen has become a commodity.
Also, fuck TERFs. #bookstodon
"We are always caught", Jon Kabat-Zin says, in our own self-assembling bars, "the karma of it" all. A prison of own making, a prisoner of our own condemnation. Built and rebuilt everyday. No quarter. No pardon. No parole. Maybe redemption arrives as a riot. Maybe forgiveness is an escape...
#reading #writing #art #poetry #read #write #saturday #books #mindfulness #amwriting #amwritingnonfiction @bookstodon
With energy and angular momentum. A rock covered in water, hearts, heartbreaks, life, earth, and air will rotate over a million miles in a single day. In only twenty-four hours, a world of 6.6 sextillion tons will shift around the great distance of its own axis, forty-thousand kilometers of circumference, until the light reappears.
https://duanetoops.substack.com/p/the-sun-will-rise
#reading #writing #art #poetry #read #write #amwriting #amwritingnonfiction #books @bookstodon #saturday
Ich fand diese knapp 12 Minuten Buchbesprechung (stimmt hier ja sogar wörtlich) von @antjeschrupp zu „Nach Trans“ von Elizabeth Duval sehr informativ & echt eine Benchmark, wie ich mir Rezensionen vorstelle. Ich bestelle das Buch jetzt gleich in meiner Buchhandlung.
#trans #lgbtqia #pride #rezension #gender #kulturwissenschaft #reading #lesen
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tedgki4b-c4&feature=share
So I've decided to read the SF Masterworks series, which starts off with Joe Haldeman's "The Forever War". Not a great start. Its weird and stereotypical depiction of homosexuality aside, it just doesn't feel like the great sci-fi anti-war novel some critics make it out to be. I didn't care about the main character and the ending was very abrupt. Maybe I'm missing something here - it is part of a trilogy, after all. 1.5/5.
#scifi #bookstodon #reading #novel
i just realized i forgot to show you here!!
i reformatted Bookish Brews Featured Bookshelf (which highlights the best new book releases by global majority authors every single month) and I'm so so proud of it!! I think it looks soo much better than before!
You can now start browsing by genre, which is a huge feature I'm slowly adding to Bookish Brews 🥲
Please come check it out!! there's a ton of book recs!!
I got some lovely #reading suggestions last week and guess what I did with them? Saved them and reread a series I have read before 🙈 I am a sucker for the
#scholomance series from Naomi Novik. Starting next week, new books!
Topic: Contrarian Barbarian's Book Club (Of greatness!)
@bookstodon I'm popping this up once more, just in case anyone else wants to join before our first meeting in late June.
Is anyone out there interested in being a part of a Contrarian Barbarian's Book Club where we read whatever the hell we want individually and meet up once a month on the newly formed Contrarian Barbarian Discord server to tell each other about it for a couple of minutes each and then discuss? (All genres/fiction/non-fiction on the table.)
The key focus would be sharing books we love with other people in a positive way. It'd have the diehard rule that if you freakin' love a thing, no one can be negative about it because that would be raining on your parade and your parade is spectacular dammit!
All time zones welcome to say hi!
LGBTQIA++, disability and neurodivergent friendly, with a structure with set rules of conduct--meaning that boorishness (repeatedly talking/typing over people and not respecting boundaries) or trollishness gets booted with the might of Gandalf warding off the Balrog.
If you like the sound of this, reply to this and tell me about the book you love most with the power of the sun.
We've already got a bunch of amazing people and the more the merrier! :blobsmilehappyeyes:
#books #bookstodon #sff #horror #scifi #crimefiction #nonfiction #reading #genrefiction #scifi #mystery #literature #history #botany #romance #science #reading
I love a nice productive afternoon of adding books to my wishlist instead of reading the books I already have 😁😩
#lol #why #books #reading #wishlist #readers #bookstodon #Productivity
Since it's the first of the month I think I might set a reading goal for June, which is something I've never done before. 😁
I'll try to set a realistic goal for how many nonfiction books I can read in one month. 😅📚 :blobcatread:
"Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs." – Jim Rohn
I guess by this definition I'm successful then, I don't own a television but I have a library of books. 😆
Not sure how I feel about this quote, came across it and thought I would share it on here.
I have so many books to choose from and read right now :blobcat0_0: :blobcatread:
I'm suddenly really curious: if you use an e-reader, what mode do you prefer when reading?
I asked yesterday:
> Can anyone recommend hacker / cyberpunk / cypherpunk fiction written in the 70s/80s/90s, please?
I got a wealth of amazing replies - thank you *so* much!
Here's a consolidated list of the replies/recommendations:
#books #reading #scifi #hacker #cyberpunk #cypherpunk #fiction
📚 HERE’S YOUR SUMMER #READING LIST! 📖
Going outside generates a lot of photos I find. #writing #reading #poetry #jacksonville #florida
@pyperkub @neil The Artifical Kid by Bruce Sterling
When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger
Synners by Pat Cadigan
Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott
The Bridge trilogy by William Gibson
Dreams of Flesh and Sand by W. T. Quick
Mirrorshades edited by Bruce Sterling
Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling
Ed-
The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner
Read my short story "Élan Vital" in ✊🏾 Black Sci-Fi Short Stories ✊🏾 edited by Tia Ross
It's a story of dealing with loss, of holding on, and of letting go. It's dedicated to my mom 💖
The anthology is available in hardback and is fabulous! Get it today:
https://ktempestbradford.com/bibliography/black-sci-fi-short-stories/
#SFFBookClub #books #reading #bookstadon #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #SFF #ShortFiction
It is that time of the month again, and it is time for you to choose a new book for me to read. We are almost at the bottom of the pile of unread books I own. I have no idea what you will pick for me this month.
My #current list: :blobcatbook:
#editing:
* Manuscript by Layla Hagen
* Assessing submissions to Tangled Tree Publishing & Hot Tree Publishing
#proofreading:
* Manuscript by Katy Archer
#reading:
* "The Lying Game" by Ruth Ware
* "From Hell" by Alan Moore
#listening:
* "Jurassic Park" by Michael Crichton
I love @gutenberg_org for the access to old, out of copyright works. I should use it more! Anyone have recommendations for old stuff that is unusual, but readable? #books #reading
Off the top of my head I've read Martin Chuzzelwit, Tom Jones: A foundling and The Blazing World.
#Introduction (Formally @Jaybot@4bear.com)
I’m a single #gay male residing in Southern #California. I enjoy #gaming, #hiking (everything #outdoors really...) #music, #movies, #reading and #photography to name a few interests. I’ve been playing #FFXIV for the last 12 years, and enjoy genres like #JRPGs, #Action, #Adventure, #Fighting and #Simulation type games.
Looking forward to connecting with other users here on Mastodon! Thanks in advance for any boosts/reposts! 🥰
Definitely one of those low-energy days. I think it will be an evening of #reading instead of writing. Because I just can't find the oomph for writing.
(It still helps my #writing project, though, because I'm reading something that I've decided was a shared favorite of one of my MCs and her best friend in high school...)
Truly grateful that @WarnerCrocker included me in his "Sunday Morning Reading"
#reading #writing #photography
https://warnercrocker.com/2023/05/28/sunday-morning-reading-3/
People who have rediscovered reading for pleasure, how did you get back into it? 📖
I loved #reading as a kid, and I want to be more intentional with it. Any tips and tricks for reforming the habit are welcome!
(Bonus points to anyone with #adhd specific tricks, or #tech workers with a ton of screen time every day)
Listen to all the voices in our @Flipboard community. If you are a #flipboard fan and want to share your experiences about how you use the app DM your details and your profile and I’ll add your articles (space limited) https://link.medium.com/sC7yLGXJaAb #content #writing #creating #reading #publishing #magazine @salvomic @thetaoistonline
6. Every child has full rights to know all the myths, legends and folktales of their own country and culture.
7. Every child has the right to invent and tell their own stories, or make their own versions of existing tales. In cases when children are primarily influenced by television, it is the adults' responsibility to lead them down the pathways of imagination and put good books into their hands.
5/7
Why little children in a NSW town are reading thanks to Dolly Parton. https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/how-dolly-parton-has-sparked-a-reading-revolution-in-central-western-nsw-20230523-p5dand.html. #australia #nsw #dollyparton #reading #kidsbooks #Gilgandra #Library #Libraries #Librarian #Smh #SydneyMorningHerald
Staying in on this #Friday night? If so, here is a good article to #read while you #relax
Our new #writer Samie Dorgham investigates...
Why The Stoics Were Anti-Materialists
https://www.thetaoistonline.org/post/why-the-stoics-were-anti-materialists
#stoicism #stoic #philosophy @philosophy #writing @writing #reading
In today's #LongreadsTop5:
➡️ Abuse and murder on tuna fishing boats.
➡️ New books cars and society.
➡️ The international laws that govern the sea.
➡️ A mysterious teepee.
➡️ An oral history of Top Chef.
#Longreads #Editors Picks #Nonfiction #Journalism #Reading #OralHistory #Essay #Books
Been reading Rick Rubin's book "The Creative Act", read this little nugget of a reminder this morning:
#reading #writing #art #poetry #read #write #creativity #books @bookstodon #amwriting #amwritingnonfiction #friday #tgif
“We resist the notion that we’ll become mere handfuls of dust, so we wish to become words instead. Breath in the mouths of others.”
- Margaret Atwood, “Old Babes in the Wood”