@ronaldsnijder@mastodon.social2025-10-26 16:11:49
@ronaldsnijder@mastodon.social2025-10-26 16:11:49
@Nathan@social.lostinok.com2025-10-26 02:35:25
My family has started taking up the tradition of group silent reading sessions where we all cozy up in the living room and read our own books. I started the Memory Palace by Nate DiMeo tonight and loved this simple quote that works for both the past and present. #reading
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-11-27 01:21:24
Just checked out some truly excellent books from the library to read to my 4-year-old:
Adèle & Simon by Barbara McClintock (things to find), The Marvelous Now by Angela DiTerlizzi and Lorena Alvarez Gómez (rhyming & positive encouragement about mood regulation), and Forts by Katie Venit & Kenard Pak (lovely ode to children's forts).
I had a wonderful reverse-Magritte moment reading Adèle & Simon where Simon loses his drawing of a cat and my kid pointed out one of the actual cats in the image. I said "No, that's a cat, we're looking for a drawing of a cat," before realizing that technically we were looking for a drawing of a drawing of a cat, and the thing my kid pointed to was indeed a drawing of a cat, just not in that category relative to Simon's frame of reference...
#AmReading #ReadingNow #ChildrensBooks
@debellum@ludosphere.fr2025-11-23 17:44:58
Lecture de la semaine : Vae Victis 183 #reading #vaevictis #vaevictis183...
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io2025-10-09 14:01:29
And at least here in #NYC, I see evidence of people #reading all the time.
1 - Bookstores all over the city have customers at any time of day - they are often full, I struggle to get through to certain shelves at times.
2 - Every time I ride the subway i see someone reading a paper book on the train. Same thing with most times I go to any park or most cafes (at least ones where people sit alone).
3 - I have a friend who works at a major book #publisher and she’s been telling me all year that their sales are some of the best they’ve ever been. They’ve had multiple instances of needing to urgently order more books printed because of certain titles getting way more demand than expected. Those aren’t all celebrity memoirs or newest trendy fantasy either - it often happens with older titles, across genres.
4 - Nearly every acquaintance I have in the city (not just my friends) reads on a regular basis. I hear about books people have read and see them pulling books out all the time - most of the people I know read at least a book a month.
@yaya@jorts.horse2025-11-20 19:19:15
genuinely bizarre thing the official Reading WhatsApp just sent out lmao
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#fedifc #ReadingFC
@pre@boing.world2025-11-03 17:48:44
Content warning: Buffy Comics
Been reading some of the Buffy The Vampire Slayer comic-books, set after the TV shows ended.
It's a very different world with Buffy and Xander being commanders of a whole slayer army with seemingly massive resources, from a castle being attacked by various supernatural forces.
Very different pacing from the TV show too.
You know that episode of Angel where Spike and Angel are running around in Italy chasing after Buffy who now dates The Immortal?
Turns out it wasn't Buffy at all, but one of her decoys that have been deployed around the world. Andrew thought it would be funny to troll the two vampires by pretending she was dating The Immortal.
The artwork is all great, but sometimes a little rough and I find it challenging since I don't always recognize who is supposed to be who, especially as the artists and styles switch from book to book.
Some of the mini stories feel like just pulling the TV show characters back for no good reason.
I hear rumors of a new Buffy TV show starring SMG with no involvement from Joss, and wonder if it'll assume these stories of visiting the future or fighting with an army from a castle base will be retconned out entirely?
It's an entertaining read and nice to visit those characters again, but doesn't feel much like the TV show because it's such a different setting and Buffy is very different as a commander than a school girl.
#reading #comics #buffy
@stefan@gardenstate.social2025-08-29 01:32:40
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io2025-10-09 14:05:06
5 - I went to Brooklyn’s #Book Festival last month and it was FULL.
So many people even at the very end of the day - people buying books, people walking around and sitting down in any spot they could find in the park to start reading what they got.
I heard multiple vendors talking to each other about how they didn’t bring enough stock to meet demand that day - in fact I couldn’t buy anything from multiple vendors I wanted to support because they had so few books left, and sold out of the ones I was interested in.
#NYC #reading
@TFG@social.linux.pizza2025-10-03 15:43:30
@yaya@jorts.horse2025-10-18 15:08:28
sammy's gonna fill the camelbak with rosé
i'm squeezing in watching this Reading match while we're on the way to the theatre for 24hr horror movie marathon (the main point of me coming out to philly to begin with)
#ReadingFC
@bobmueller@mastodon.world2025-10-27 22:00:12
#Reading causes insanity. #SupportIndependentBookstores
@stefan@gardenstate.social2025-09-01 21:32:07
aivi & surasshu make my fav background music when reading
#music
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-11-06 00:23:49
I'm reading "Lab Girl" by Hope Jahren and it's both fascinating and beautifully written. Usually I wait until I'm done to post a review, but I wanted to share this excellent excerpt as a teaser:
"So how to combine a liter of fluid with active agents, customized according to the patient's weight and status, while keeping everything sterile? If this is for the ER or the ICU, we have about ten minutes to make it happen. Fortunately for the patient, there is a sleep-starved teenager apprenticed to a chain-smoking barmaid in the basement who is ready for action."
#AmReading #ReadingNow
@yaya@jorts.horse2025-11-02 04:05:57
I sent in a message to Reading today and they read it out during the match and then called me good lad
and while I did follow it up to say im a good lass
it did feel good to be called a good lad by the delightful Reading commentators hehe
#fedifc #ReadingFC
@yaya@jorts.horse2025-11-06 20:22:01
Reading commentators read my message out again hehe
#fedifc #ReadingFC
@pre@boing.world2025-10-01 21:37:15
Read the first of Martha Well's Murderbot books, "All Systems Red" in which a security drone rescues it's crew from violence and death on the planet they're exploring.
The robot seems barely distinguished from the cyborgs and the humans really. Certainly organic parts, autonomy, inner life. Seems to not particularly like the humans but also seems to be pretty much like one.
Seemed short, like the first episode of a show rather than the whole series. Which I suppose I should have expected if I'd noticed it was a novella. There is indeed a whole series of them. Given I bought 'em in a bundle expect I'll read more.
#reading #murderBot #marthaWells #allSystemsRed