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When a book fails to provide an index, you just have to take matters into your own hands. I wish that were the only thing about this book that makes me a bit grumpy. Still, it’ll get used. #C64 #books

I hear that some #book publishers sell rejected texts, sent in by wanna-be book authors, to AI companies for #LLM training.
Garbage in, #garbage out.

"Maurice and Maralyn" bt Sophie Elmhirst. A story of their lives, that were more than the story of their shipwreck caused by a sperm whale and the four months at sea before they were rescued.
Interesting how people can change, but their true being remains very much the same.
#book #goodread

Time for another book on my #Bookstodon: "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" by Isabel Wilkerson. I'm pretty sure I've read it because someone recommended it on Fedi, and it's a good recommendation. However, note it's a bit on the emotionally heavy side.
The book is built upon a thesis that the racism in the USA is actually a caste system. It covers a lot: the history from slavery through Jim Crow regime to today's white supremacist movements and US elections; comparisons to India and Nazi Germany; detailed analysis of causes ("pillars of caste") and consequences. As it turns out, these can be pretty detrimental to the dominant caste itself too. All of it is illustrated by many examples and personal stories.
It's an important read, and it reads really good though. However, it weighs heavily, so I had to take breaks while reading it.
#books

"The Witches of Moonshyne Manor" is exactly the book I needed this week. It's a book about good people with good intentions doing their best and sometimes making mistakes and then figuring out how to move forward. #bookstodon

➡️ We Energies Cookie Book Archive
#bookmarks

If you are on apple devices and are into software #dev and team dynamic, I recommend to get the full #book "The psychology of software teams" at

‎The Psychology of Software Teams
‎Computer und Internet · 2026

#TIL: "The book store supply chain [#Bookland] wanted to be able to identify individual books in greater detail than was possible with the U.P.C. code. […] The EAN aggreed and assigned them a country code [in 1985]. The code proposed by Bookland with a "978" prefix has now been accep…

somehow not *not* a beach book: made a game of trying to spot the proto-heads among the communards in chris jennings' brilliant, oddly fun, & wonderfully written "paradise now," a history of 19th century american utopians & socialist forerunners. #books

Reading Dungeon Crawler Carl at a Great Wold Lodge water park 3 days told me it's the best book. Is this the biggest book series since harry potter?
#books

Finished C Wilson - When women were warriors - book 1 (the warrior's path). Coming of age! And the many shapes relationships between mothers and daughters and warriors and apprentices and lovers and wives can take.
#book #reading

RE: #bookstodon and all lovers of nature and #biodiversity

The Fiancée Farce, by Alexandria Bellefleur
#Book #Family #Favourite #Humour

I like this! #books

Uncovered · Judge a book by its writing
Read first pages blind. No cover, no name, no hype. Find out what you actually fall for.

Pamela Des Barres probably was the ultimate groupie. "I'm with the Band" describes her tumultuous life and the sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll that go with it.
Entertaining read.
#book #goodread

Just started reading The Butcher’s Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl Book Five) by Matt Dinniman and it has the funniest dedication I gave ever eead: “Thanks everyone for all your continued support. A special thanks to the dude who sent nudes. It’s not necessary, but I appreciate it. I hope you get the help you need.” #bookstodon

Finally re-started reading House Of Leaves.
Still wondering why it's not getting more attention, with all the liminal space trend in recent years
Probably because it's virtually impossible to create an audio book and movie from it?
#books #reading

"Dark Matter" is a ghost story set in Spitsbergen during the cold and dark winter. Not the best place to be alone in the arctic dark....
By Michelle Paver.
#book #goodread

Finished: CL Polk - Even though I knew the end. Lovely bit of not knowing how to trust.
#book #reading

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheBethDittoShow
Book of Love:
🎵 Boy
#BookofLove
https://djwarrentrack.bandcamp.com/track/book-of-love-boy-ext-intro-outro-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/4FQhTIpf3bnxGsCr0dHhtr

the last bookstore left on book row (besides the strand & forbidden planet) #nyc #books

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Book of Love:
🎵 Boy
#BookofLove
https://djwarrentrack.bandcamp.com/track/book-of-love-boy-ext-intro-outro-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/4FQhTIpf3bnxGsCr0dHhtr

➡️ Tim Bray · Life During Class Wartime
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/05/03/Life-During-Class-Wartime
(This is a link from my bookmark collection. A new link gets posted each night.)

Life During Class Wartime

A Murder in Springtime (Bruno, Chief of Police #19), by Martin Walker
#Book #Bruno #Crime #Meh

Roger Dooley does not have a Wikipedia page. Which is odd, considering his interesting life.
Spanish galleon San José does have a Wikipedia page on which Dooley is not mentioned. Which is odd, considering Dooley discovered the wreck.
"Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire", a most interesting en well-researched book by by Julian Sancton.

There's a bit in QualityLand [ #books #reading #socialMediaBan

reading freedom
#book #reader #photography #belgium

➡️ Open Library
#bookmarks

Everybody dies some day. "The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning" provides practical handles on how to de-clutter your life, for your own benefit, and the ones who outlive you.
Useful to give this matter some thought timely. Written in a light an utilitarian style by Margareta Magnusson.
#book #goodread

I rewarded myself for #BackToSchool preparation with this book by Anders Kofoed, and it's wonderful. Every Danish home should own it as a beautiful guide to the wildlife and the challenges that we encounter in Danish waters. And then maybe we'd do something finally about our choking seas. A huge recommend on #bookstodon for #DKmastodon from me.
I hope it is translated, the format would do well all round the North and Baltic Seas.
A particularly tasty nugget unearthed today: the Kattegat hosts one of the world's rarest and shallowest of ecosystems, a cold seep which is rather wonderfully named a bubble reef (boblerev) in Danish.
I think we should use this term in English - surely a bubble reef sounds much more appealing than a cold seep?
#biodiversity #marineBiology #Stem #BiodiversityCrisis #danmark

"Rudeboy: Inside outsider": over het toch wel chaotische leven van (en door) Patrick Tilon, ooit frontman van de legendarische Urban Dance Squad. Hoe de spanning tussen personen spannende muziek en persoonlijke spanning oplevert.
Af en toe wat chaotisch boek, maar zeker interessant.
#book #goodread

"Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black" by actress and writer Cookie Mueller is an interesting and sometimes weird collection of stories spanning a large part of her colourful life.
#book #goodread

The Way We Play (The Bradford Boys #2), by Tia Louise
#Book #Crap #Family #Meh…

What to do with a bunch of defeated Atheneans in Sicily in 400 BC? Let them perform Euripides, of course.
"Glorious Exploits", a striking storyline, well written by Ferdia Lennon.
#book #goodread

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Book of Love:
🎵 I Touch Roses
#BookofLove
https://prepedits.bandcamp.com/track/book-of-love-i-touch-roses-full-bloom-prep-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/44o844oHFVKj3bJ9oRuoji

"Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars". The biography of Barry Adamson.
Sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll, the usual ingredients are all there. And he's a good storyteller.
#book #goodread

"The Running Grave" is a whole lot better than the previous Cormoran Strike. A bulky book, telling you to stay clear of cults. By Robert Galbraith
#book #goodread

Reliquary (Pendergast #2), by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
#Adventure #Book #Crap #Horror

"How the World Made the West".
The West, so the story goes, was built on the ideas and values of Ancient Greece and Rome, which disappeared from Europe during the Dark Ages and were then rediscovered by the Renaissance.
Josephine Quinn shows in a fascinating longread that this is an oversimplification.
A connect-the-dots history lesson well worth reading.
#book

RE: #CemeteryBoys and the ending is just what I needed emotionally right now.
So glad that my book club chose to read it for September, especially given the sequel is coming out so soon.
I listened to the audio book and #AviRoque did an excellent job bringing the characters to life.
#Bookstodon #trans #LGBTQ #Latinx #DiaDeLosMuertos #AidenThomas

Annie Bot, by Sierra Greer
#Book #Novella #Review #ScienceFiction

Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children #1), by Seanan McGuire
#Adventure #Book #ComingofAge

I'm going on a reading adventure. I just finished up with Shadows of the Apt series by Adrian Tchaikovsky. As I started thinking about what to read next, I thought I might go back and finish series that I never completed. I try to only read book series whose story is concluded. But occasionally I can't resist like Dungeon Crawler Carl. But I'm so bad at waiting.
So thought this might be a good use case for my local AI. I downloaded by reading history from #BookWyrm and asked it to find all the series that had concluded, but I never finished. And it worked great.
So now I get to go back and jump into old worlds that I used to explore. Its going to be so much to visit old friends, old stories. Squee! First up, #Mistborn!
#bookstodon #books #reading @…

The Ex Vows, by Jessica Joyce
#Book #Humour #Meh #Review

Something Wilder, by Christina Lauren
#Adventure #Book #Crime #Humour

I've read Douglas Preston's "The Blasphemy" and it was pretty good.
The synopsis is that the US government has built the largest particle accelerator ever, in the remote area of Arizona, and a small team of scientists are about to get it running. However, as it is about to reach full power, they suddenly start losing output and a mysterious "greetings" appears on the main screen. Suspecting prank malware, they decide not to report it upstairs but to resolve it themselves. However, with no progress and suspiciously piling up problems, an ex-CIA operative is sent to investigate, under the cover of liaison tasked with improving the relations with the local Navajo people. On top of that, a lobbyist wanting to see their contract renewed engages with a televangelist to put some pressure on the project.
The book sets a mystery quite really, and keeps you caught in it to the very end. It's also packed with action. You get annoyed by politics, corruption and fundamentalism. You get mystified by the philosophical and theological problems. At some point, you just keep reading to see how the events unfold.
Apparently it's a part of Wyman Ford series, but the story is self-contained.
#books #bookstodon #thriller #SciFi

Middle of the Night, by Riley Sager
#Adventure #Book #Crap #Crime

Down Among the Sticks and Bones (Wayward Children #2), by Seanan McGuire
#Adventure #Book #Family