@hynek@mastodon.social2024-02-29 17:04:55
It felt a bit weird to read a #book set in Russia these days, but this one includes a brief history of Russian colonization of their far east (think: Vladivostok) and of a region even most Russians know next to nothing about — so it’s good context to what’s happening right now. Also: big cats.
@paul@social.van.buu.re2024-04-29 20:08:59
Rutger Bregman wil eigenlijk gewoon heel hard met een taartschep gemept worden.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/202431991
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2024-04-29 17:17:26
2024 NFL Draft superlatives: Falcons double book, Bears offseason darlings, Patriots show support and more
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2024…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social2024-03-31 07:24:01
gestern habe ich endlich das großartige #lego-buch "the secret life of bricks" zu ende gelesen, an dessen unbound-crowdfunding ich beteiligt war.
ein spannender überblick über konstruktionsgrundlagen, entscheidungsfindungen zur bauteil-weiterentwicklung und die geschichte hinter einigen der themenwelten.
meine lieblingsstelle: das "book of monsters". 🙃
@me@mastodon.peterjanes.ca2024-02-01 05:09:23
It was a book of classic, simple design, like a flattened salmon, 800 pages long, very clean, very sleek. There was just one remarkable thing about it.
"It's so… black!" said Ford Prefect. "You can hardly make out its shape... light just seems to fall into it!"
The blackness of its title was so extreme that it was almost impossible to tell how close you were standing to it.
"Your eyes just slide off it…" said Ford in wonder.
—Douglas A…
@servelan@newsie.social2024-04-28 22:30:30
Ruby Bridges Blasts Book Bans As “Ridiculous” Attempts to “Cover Up History” – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/04/ruby-bridges-blasts-book-bans-as-ridiculous-attempts-to-cover-up-history/…
@MidniteLibrary@glammr.us2024-02-01 04:46:35
I'm sorry, the podcast I co-host was mentioned where????
"The market caters to everyone from book lovers [...] to book haters (Book Club for Masochists)"
From the chapter Podcasts, Audiobooks and Podiobooks by Matthew Rubery in The Routledge Companion to Literary Media
@laimis@mstdn.social2024-04-28 18:05:48
While on vacation was able to finish this #book:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23658680-the-magic-of-thinking-big
One of those "oldies but…
@MidniteLibrary@glammr.us2024-02-01 04:46:35
I'm sorry, the podcast I co-host was mentioned where????
"The market caters to everyone from book lovers [...] to book haters (Book Club for Masochists)"
From the chapter Podcasts, Audiobooks and Podiobooks by Matthew Rubery in The Routledge Companion to Literary Media