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@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io
2025-10-07 18:54:02

Phew finally managed to track down a copy of “Enshittification” by @…
Was weirdly hard to find it in NYC today! I tried multiple bookstores and had to wonder around multiple floors of the Union Sq. Barnes and Noble to find a sole copy tucked away on a sociology shelf.
Not sure if I’m just too early, since I was looking around 1 pm on the day the book officially released, or if the bookstores are sleeping on it.
In either case - I have it and I’m delighted to be reading it!!
#books #tech #enshittification

@Billybobbell@twit.social
2025-10-04 11:08:23

"History does not belong only to the past: it is still burning."
Excellent #book about #cameroon and the brutal end of empire.
Check out this book on Goodreads: The Cameroon War: A History of French Neocolonialism in Africa

@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot
2025-08-05 07:31:18

Is anyone familiar with The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher? I picked one up at a book swap, by total fluke the first in the series, and so far it's actually quite good. Given the premise I wasn't sure which way it would go.
This was an emergency book as I'd left my *actual* book in my work bag: Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai, which I'm really enjoying #books

@newstik@social.heise.de
2025-10-02 05:59:37

A #fraud you may or may not have heard about. Target: book #authors. A company is so happy to promote your #book, they guarantee, in a professional contract, that they will sell 100k volumes of your book, an…

@groupnebula563@mastodon.social
2025-10-06 03:58:02

I've just started reading "Tuesdays with Morrie", and I have to say, it is an amazing book so far, one I think everyone ought to read. Pick up a copy from your local bookstore or library and give it a read, I promise you'll like it!
#Bookstodon
@…

@PwnieFan@infosec.exchange
2025-08-02 01:15:43

Excerpt from a poem I found in a book I picked up for free at an estate sale. The cover has coffee rings on it; I like thinking of this book as someone’s constant companion. #bookstodon (excerpt from ‘A Feather for Voltaire’ by Jorie Graham)

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-08-26 23:27:45

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Book of Love:
🎵 Modigliani (Lost in Your Eyes)
#BookofLove
cursesforever.bandcamp.com/tra
open.spotify.com/track/53yTfRN

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2025-07-22 10:21:15

Time for another "review". This one's hard. While the book was quite interesting, it required me to be quite open-minded. Still, I think it's worth mentioning:
Robert Wright — Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
The book basically focused on a thesis that both biological evolution and cultural evolution are a thing, they are directional and this directionality can be explained together using game theory — as eventually leading to more non-zero sum games.
It consists of three chapters. The first one is is focused on the history of civilization. It features many examples from different parts of the world, which makes it quite interesting. The author argues that the culture inevitably is evolving as information processing techniques improve — from writing to the Internet.
The second chapter is focused on biological evolution. Now, the argument is that it's not quite random, but actually directed towards greater complexity — eventually leading to the development of highly intelligent species, and a civilization.
The third chapter is quite speculative and metaphysical, and I'm just going to skip it.
The book is full of optimism. Capitalism creates freedom — because people are more productive when they're working for their own gain, so the free market eliminates slavery. Globalisation creates networks of interdependence that make wars uneconomic. Increased contacts between different cultures makes people more tolerant. And eventually, the humanity may be able to unite facing a common "external" enemy — the climate change.
What can I say? The examples are quite interesting, the whole theory seems self-consistent. Still, I repeatedly looked at the publication date (it's 1999), and wondered if author would write the same thing today (yes, I know I can search for his current opinions).
#books #bookstodon @…

@salrandolph@zirk.us
2025-09-26 16:58:37

This week I tell a story of reading a book that cast an entangling spell.
#bookstodon
salrandolph.substack.com/p/mas

@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.social
2025-08-09 11:34:15

Yay!!! #book #drystonewall #ALifeRebuilt @…

A left hand holding a book in front of a garden. The garden is mostly meadow and grass and small cobble stone wall. The book is "Drystone - A life Rebuilt" from Kristie De Garis.
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2025-08-23 04:15:04
Content warning: CSA

#readThisBook #bookstodon
I’ve been reading since 1955. Countless times I’ve dropped a book for various reasons. But this is the first book I’ve wanted to not read. It’s painful af. It’s Alan Davies’ autobiography, Just Ignore Him. He’s a British actor & comedian. His writing is phenomena…

@cheryanne@aus.social
2025-09-30 11:28:40

Great meet the author event tonight with Frank Bongiorno in conversation with Virginia Haussegger about her new book (launched tonight) *Unfinished Revolution*. Elizabeth Reid was there too!
#Books #History #Politics

Whiteboard depiction of the event
Frank, Virginia, Elizabeth, Mark

"Everything is Tuberculosis" by John Green is a 2025 non-fiction book everyone should read.
Tuberculosis kills more people each year, once again, than any other disease. Now that
John was a chaplain at a children's hospital before he became famous, after he and his brother Hank Green invented vlogging. This is his second non-fiction book. Everything he writes is GREAT.
#BookRecommendations

@ronaldsnijder@mastodon.social
2025-09-11 14:58:24

Just found this #book of stories based on #TheStand by #StephenKing. Now seems a good time to read about the end of the world as we know it.

Cover of the book "The end of the world as we know it" ISBN 9781399738675
@Rob_Oost@mastodon.social
2025-08-29 14:22:07

"The Wager-a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder", by David Grann. You get exactly the history lesson you expect: the hardship of life at sea in the 18th century, the lack of medical understanding, and the collapse of civil behaviour under life-threatening situations. And the incredible survival of some of the crew, and the following courtmarshall.
#book

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-08-29 01:32:40

I love Mortal Engines and i love reading stories in that universe. If you like those perfect books you will also enjoy this. Not on the same level as the OG series.
#books #reading

cover of the book Thunder City by Philip Reeve
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-08-19 11:28:03
Content warning: multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis

As with covid, you don't want to give TB the chance to evolve, either. There already is a multiple-drug-resistant strand of TB (or more than one, probably - I'm not up on the details). I remember reading a book about it, Tracy Kidder's book about Dr Paul Farmer.
#tuberculosis #MDRTB #books

@pre@boing.world
2025-07-24 18:48:23
Content warning: "Outland" by Dennis E Taylor

Read "Outland" by Dennis E Taylor, book one of the Quantum Earth series in which some college students figure out how to make a portal to parallell Earths just in time for their Earth Prime to suffer a supervolcano.
Taylor is pretty good at this stuff, loved his Bobiverse books.
Story was always progressing, even if it sometimes seemed to progress too slowly. Everyone's hip with all the literature so are comparing their situation to movies and TV shows all the time. Realistic cat-herding difficulties as they try and save as many people as they can and slowly realize that none of them will be going home and their home is doomed.

Looking forward to the next one.
#reading #books #scifi

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-09-22 13:56:38

JOINT REVIEW: Class, by Paul Fussell
(... nice to see this classic book get some attention!)
#books

@bourgwick@heads.social
2025-07-21 01:11:08

recent-ish reading/rereading. #books @…

pile of books
Das Energi by Paul Williams
The Two of Them by Joanna Russ
Destinies: The Science Fiction Magazine
Playing Changes by Nate Chinen
Prankster Memoirs by John Babbs
The CAN book by Pascal Bussy & Andy Hall
The Bride of Entropy by Robert Hunter
Harry Smith: American Magus
Music Universe, Music Mind by Robert Street
The Last Great Dream by Dennis McNally
San Francisco Nights by Scalutti & Seay
We Jazz #13
The Original of Laura by Vladimir nabokov
Saga #7-#9
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot
2025-08-01 18:17:00

I've just finished Lissa Evans' Small Bomb at Dimperley. I love her #books: they're well written often quite humorous easy reads with great characters.
Next up, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai, followed by The Place of Tides by James Rebanks. That one's for a book group run by a local bookshop. I'm trying it for the first time in September.
Also picked…

@newstik@social.heise.de
2025-07-19 09:02:29

Saint Exupéry's #book "Flight to Arras" was originally translated by Lewis Galantière.
Has there ever been a second #translation ?
I feel Galantière is too far off the original.

@jake4480@c.im
2025-07-27 02:28:22

Found the Cosmos book from 1980 (made about the show) at thrift for a couple bucks, this thing is incredible.
#CarlSagan #Cosmos #bookstodon #books

The cover of the Cosmos book- stars and a galaxy, the title, and Sagan's name
Inside the Cosmos book, images of planets and whatnot
@PwnieFan@infosec.exchange
2025-10-01 01:14:48

Brownies to celebrate book release day! Good thing I'm better at writing than knitting socks. Now I just need to find a magic pen that would let me write fascism away. #bookstodon

A bite of brownie with a badly knitted sock in the background
@Rob_Oost@mastodon.social
2025-07-28 14:17:36

In 'The vegetarian', by Han Kang, a bloody dream leads a young woman to stop eating meat. This leads to a series of social, personal and mental issues. Intense, and maybe difficult to understand without having a Korean background. A gripping story in three parts.
#book #goodread

@erk709@social.linux.pizza
2025-10-04 01:00:57

"Everybody in this book was failed people."
What if #MarySue wrote a #review of your #book?
#humor

@stf@chaos.social
2025-07-17 13:39:29

last year i was blessed to read the #murderbot series by Martha Wells. last week i had the pleasure to watch the series based on the 1st book. if you want to read something cool go buy the #books, and as an appetizer go and watch the tv series. both have my blessing of approval.

@edintone@mastodon.green
2025-07-12 19:20:11

I've just finished reading and reviewing Murray Bailey's
The Heretic Cypher. It's the first of a thriller series with with an Egyptology theme. It's due to be published on 25 July. #bookstodon

The cover of a book with a red and black background of pyramids and hieroglyphs with white text over reading: The Heretic Cypher
@Rob_Oost@mastodon.social
2025-08-25 12:12:05

"Chaise Longue" describes the unconventional, alcohol and drugs-fueled early life of Baxter Dury.
Entertaining, funny, sad and chaotic-not unlike his music.
#book #goodread

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-08-13 23:17:05

Hate to bring up HP but no other book has given me as close a feeling as when I read HP. Truly a joy to read with the world feeling both real and magical.
#books #fantasy

the cover of To Shape a Dragon's Breath. a red cover with a red dragon head kind of covered in feathers.
@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-08-10 13:05:46

𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝: 𝑁𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑙 𝐴𝑐𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 by Charles Perrow. It made a big impression on me when I first came across it but when I put it in my backpack for a trip to Binghamton I recalled that the versions of many incidents in it aren’t the best you can find in the literature.
Not sure how well it aged: flying has gotten safer and people don’t write about maritime accidents like they did in the 70’s
#books

A black paperback book on a wood table with an image of the cloud of the Challenger explosion, at the top the title Normak Accidents, a red bar white white letters across the middle says Living with High-Risk Technologies, and the author’s name Charles Perrow
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org
2025-07-19 15:02:20

Long trip back to Copenhagen starts with EV to Lyon a packed but slowly emptying train to Geneva, during which I have been completely captured by an #IainMBanks #Culture novel. Actually, surprisingly my first. That's the gift of both train travel and a good book. #bookstodon #booksky #FlyingLess

@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org
2025-07-19 15:13:08

In spite of having read several of Iain Banks' non-Sci Fi oeuvre I had never been remotely tempted by the culture novels, though I have friends who raves about them at Uni. Then I spotted this on a summer reading table at the library, which I suppose shows the value of a good librarian...
#IainMBanks #Culture novel. Actually, surprisingly my first. That's the gift of both train travel and a good book. #bookstodon #booksky #FlyingLess

@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-07-24 14:46:34
Content warning: Tiago Forte on thinking about climate change

Good to see Tiago Forte talking about this. A lot of people read his stuff.
(He's a writer/teacher best known for the "Building a Second Brain" framework.)
"It was that summer when climate change stopped being an abstract concept and became viscerally personal for me. I realized that this wasn’t a one-time freak event—every summer we could expect deteriorating air quality from rampant wildfires. ...
"This convergence of physical heat, failing infrastructure, and human vulnerability isn’t just a temporary inconvenience. It’s a preview of the fundamental challenge that Jeff Goodell explores in The Heat Will Kill You First, a book that forced me to confront an uncomfortable truth: all our routines for productive living and working are built on the assumption of a stable climate. It no longer makes sense for me to teach people how to build productive systems without taking into account the increasing instability of our wider environment."
#TiagoForte #ClimateChange #ClimateDiary #environment #books #heatwave

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-07-14 01:00:00

I KNEW IT! Worsel really was an Eastern and not a Western Dragon (says so in the first chapter) #scifi #books #fiction #dragons

A book with a long red dragon holding a ray gun on a hand attached to a wing and a woman firing a ray gun in a hand tied to another arm with vacuum tube electronics around him.  Title reads: "The Continuing Adventures of E.E. DOC SMITH'S LENSMEN",  The DRAGON LENSMAN by David A. Kyle