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@jensilber@mastodon.social
2026-04-25 18:26:00

I've largely resolved to never watch a movie adapted from a book I read -- or at least not from a book I loved. I just watched the Netflix adaptation of "People We Meet on Vacation" because I thought the book was enjoyable but not spectacular, and it turned out that the movie had largely the same deficiencies that the book had [in my assessment].
But now I'm curious: if someone watched the movie* without already having read the book, how would it seem to them?

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2026-04-15 21:04:33
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"Outgrow your dependence on platforms" says person who posts to Substack.
I haven't read their article because I don't want to give them clicks, honestly, but there is no fucking way to remove dependencies in the indie book market. We'll never be able to own everything because in the end we'll be dependent on payment providers to make sales on the internet, even if people buy from our website. My beautiful subs via self-hosted Ghost are as good as it gets but …

Screenshot of a post by a person linking to their substack: "Seeing a lot of authors talking about leaving Draft2Digital. I get it. But leaving doesn’t remove dependence—it just moves it. The real question isn’t 'should I leave?' It’s 'how dependent do I want to be?'"
@brian_gettler@mas.to
2026-04-06 13:39:13

Over the weekend, I read Rebecca Campbell's Arboreality (2022). It's an enthralling novella about climate catastrophe, community, and collaboration with the natural world. The story, set in British Columbia, bounces between loss and hope, suggesting that doing the hard work of building a new world from the ashes of the old is how one staves off despair and keeps hope alive.
Check it out.
#SolarPunk

The cover of Campbell's Arboreality. It depicts a green book cover burning a way to reveal color sketches of plants beneath.
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot
2026-02-13 22:28:45

Some sneak video from the filming of Neuromancer in London. You immediately know what scene this is, if you've read the book: (sorry abt the tictok link - it's not an app I use and I wasn't sure how to get the video off of it - best viewed without sound)

@pre@boing.world
2026-02-04 13:41:14

Read "How To Survive In A Science Fiction Universe" by Charles Yu, a novel about a time-machine repair-man getting stuck in a loop during his search for his father.
First person narrated, in a fictional universe in which you can travel in time but you can't change anything about the past.
It was fun and an easy read, lots of interludes about the physics of fictional universes and explanations of acausal items causing their own existence, including the book itself that you read in your hands.
Its nice if you'd like something with experimental narrative form twisting the usual story format.
#reading #books #charlesYu