@davej@dice.camp2026-04-07 02:11:11
@davej@dice.camp2026-04-07 02:11:11
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social2026-04-12 01:01:04
If you are a logophile or perhaps a lexophile, or if you watch British TV, you know the name, Susie Dent. She’s got a new book, a mystery, called Guilty by Definition. TBH I’m not a fan of mysteries, but I am a fan of her, so I picked this up when I saw it. 1 chapter in and I’m hooked. Editors at an Oxford dictionary get a letter that references the year the senior editor’s sister disappeared. #bookstodon
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-04-10 00:25:53
@bourgwick@heads.social2026-05-10 21:26:56
@frankel@mastodon.top2026-05-29 09:14:52
@mela@zusammenkunft.net2026-05-09 22:41:51
Wonach ich suchte: einem Ersatz für die App, mit der ich E-Books von meinem Calibre-Web-Server auf meine mobilen Geräte synchronisierte.
Was ich jetzt möglicherweise habe (weitere Tests ausstehend): ein komplettes E-Book-Audiobook-Ökosystem, mit Synchronisierung des Lesestatus über alle Geräte.
Fast wie zu Amazon-Zeiten, aber OpenSource.
Oder in anderen Worten: Well, that escalated quickly.
@ronaldsnijder@mastodon.social2026-05-02 09:23:26
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-05-08 04:55:01
A guide to a-Shell
#bookmarks
@Philantrop@mastodon.mailstation.de2026-04-11 10:22:54
@bourgwick@heads.social2026-05-10 00:53:04
thoroughly dug peter richardson's "brand new beat," rich archivally-informed history of rolling stone's 1st 10 years, how it grew from the bay area scene before blanding out in nyc, essentially from the perspective of their less glamorous but far hipper co-founder ralph j. gleason. #books
@thomasrenkert@hcommons.social2026-04-06 17:36:36
This is a book recommendation for a good book. I think more people should read it. #bookstodon
@primonatura@mstdn.social2026-05-13 17:00:53
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk2026-04-20 13:37:24
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2026-04-03 19:53:41
Jeg er næsten færdig med en kort historie om Italien og det giver stort indtryk om lige præcis hvor imponerende EU er efter tusinde år af mere eller mindre konstant krig i Europa.
Jeg får også lyst til at starte en ny europæisk bogklub til at lære om vores fælles europæisk naboer samt læse nogle gode bŸger jeg ellers ville aldrig har kommer til. Nogen der har lyst til at komme og læse med i hovedstaden?
Eng:
I’ve almost finished a short history of Italy, and it really brings home just how impressive the EU is after a thousand years of more or less constant war in Europe.
I’m now also keen to join/start a European book club to learn about our fellow European neighbours and read some good books I’d otherwise never get round to. Anyone fancy joining me in or around Copenhagen?
#bookstodon #bogstodon #dkæs
@Rob_Oost@mastodon.social2026-03-31 08:49:20
The title goes like this: "The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook".
And basically, that is exactly what you'll get in this #book
It's not the first book on James Cook I read, but Hampton Sides is a very attractive narrator, and he did his homework very well.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-04-02 07:56:33
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Book of Love:
🎵 Modigliani (Lost in Your Eyes)
#BookofLove
https://cursesforever.bandcamp.com/track/book-of-love-modigliani-lost-in-your-eyes-i-dream-of-jeanne-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/53yTfRNAwCC7aLGaKlbysJ
@Philantrop@mastodon.mailstation.de2026-06-11 18:15:35
Middle of the Night, by Riley Sager
#Adventure #Book #Crap #Crime
@emd@cosocial.ca2026-05-24 21:24:52
The wonderful Kate Quinn’s latest, The Astral Library (https://www.katequinnauthor.com/books/the-astral-library/) is a different kind of book for her. It’s more treatise than fiction, but worth a read,
@UP8@mastodon.social2026-05-01 20:32:56
Been up cleaning at Room 23 and returning library books so I took a good look at this bookshelf
#photo #photography #bookshelf
@frankel@mastodon.top2026-03-22 18:10:59
@TFG@social.linux.pizza2026-05-14 18:17:03
The nice thing when reading old #books is, you sometimes find things the owners left in them.
Today I found a very thin chocolate wrapping. It was from "Victor Schmidt & Söhne" (Victor Schmidt & Sons). A sweets company founded ~1850 in Vienna. The wrapping may be waiting for ~120-130yrs in the book (because the book is that old) and it told me something about the previo…
@Tuxramus@social.linux.pizza2026-03-29 10:51:47
This is my friend's new book, he's in Ireland. I can't put it down, I absolutely love it! #author #books #writingcommunity
Astral Hours (English Edition)
@Rob_Oost@mastodon.social2026-04-27 11:50:53
@Philantrop@mastodon.mailstation.de2026-05-10 16:09:01
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-04-01 21:58:00
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
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/54KZBYmE7MUlwxM2bUzSVY
@bourgwick@heads.social2026-05-02 20:45:44
@Rob_Oost@mastodon.social2026-06-01 18:19:53
Beste plek om "Atlas van tuindorpen in Nederland " te lezen is natuurlijk in de tuin 😋
Prachtig boek van Martijn Haan en Bart van Hoek. Fijne, sociaal bewogen architectuur, mooi beschreven en gefotografeerd in historische en huidige context, en gelukkig heb ik al een aardig aantal van de beschreven tuindorpen bezocht.
#book
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-05-25 15:18:11
I've finished reading Simon Winder's "#Germania" a while ago, but I've been slacking with the review. This is a book about the history of #Germany, in the wide meaning of word. However, it's not your boring detailed history book. The author takes us on a deeply personal journey across German landscape, across tiny towns and great forests, Schlosses, churches and monuments, and uses that as a context to bring the country's surprisingly interesting history to light. And honestly, it works — it is deeply enjoyable, to the point of making me wonder if one day I should actually move to Germany, get a Bahncard 100 and start exploring myself.
I didn't quote the book here, but if I were to choose one quote that really resonated with me, it would be:
"""
Solitary tourism is something that everybody should indulge in. Of course it is a fraudulent solitude because its enjoyment comes from its limited duration and having a cheerful, only very temporarily abandoned main base area. […] And then, suddenly, I am in Vienna, standing in the shadow of a monstrous, derelict flak tower, and completely alone. The virtue of solitary tourism is its infinite ability to absorb boredom. I often find myself almost crippled with anxiety that the companion or companions on a journey might be finding everything wholly without interest, would rather be eating somewhere else, are secretly angry that we have wound up walking down this street rather than that, are contemptuous of my own interests. Solitary tourism cauterizes all this: if a museum is boring beyond all measure there is no pressure to feign interest, you just leave. I am perfectly happy, in a zoned-out way, to crisscross a town, walking for hours, just for the off-chance something curious might be round the next corner – indeed in the confidence that there will always be something curious (there always is). But for each street, each bar, each folklore museum to be converted into an inter-human negotiation creates an entirely different dynamic.
[…]
Quite possibly the pleasure of this way of life would be much reduced in some other countries, particularly more insistently gregarious places such as Italy. German culture puts a high value on temporary solitude of a stagey kind. Perhaps this is its great gift. In some moods I think there is no need to do anything other than read German writers from the first half of the nineteenth century – a sort of inexhaustible storehouse of attitudes flattering to those who just like sometimes to be left alone. Everyone must have at least a part of them that wants to live in a stairless, doorless tower as a sort of intellectual Rapunzel, setting aside, at least in part, the complicated sexual frisson laid out by such an idea. Germany really is thick with ivy-covered turrets and the promise of solitude (Kepler staring at the planets above Prague, Faust conjuring demons) – the great majority presumably built in the nineteenth century in response to the whole literature devoted to the subject. There is one turret in Lübeck, built onto a city guard tower of just outrageous fakeness, which would do me for life.
"""
(Simon Winder, Germania)
And if you follow me, you have evidence that the part about crisscrossing towns is so true: the best things I've posted here I found by complete accident, especially the murals.
#books #bookstodon
@PwnieFan@infosec.exchange2026-03-17 15:47:06
Anyone else's head always this busy? I didn't even try to fit all my thoughts into this month's writing newsletter.
https://buttondown.com/megancarney/archive/traps-we-know-and-fall-into-anyway/
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-03-17 13:30:45
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Book of Love:
🎵 Boy
#BookofLove
https://evankenney.bandcamp.com/track/the-book-of-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/4FQhTIpf3bnxGsCr0dHhtr
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-05-01 15:23:21
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Book of Love:
🎵 Boy
#BookofLove
https://open.spotify.com/track/4FQhTIpf3bnxGsCr0dHhtr
@bourgwick@heads.social2026-03-23 02:32:42
that bittersweet feeling of opening a used book & finding a sweet bookmark from a long-departed bookstore in a faraway place (closed in 1999, according to reddit) #books
@Rob_Oost@mastodon.social2026-04-24 13:06:18
"The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science" by Dava Sobel, one of
my favorite writers since "Longitude".
Not only a brilliant scientist with 2 Nobel prizes, but also a forerunner for women in science, Marie Curie unfortunately only understood the medical risks of radioactivity after it undermined her own health.
#book …
@Philantrop@mastodon.mailstation.de2026-05-22 11:55:42
Bred and Butter, by Heather Lauren
#Book #Crap #Likelytocausebraindamage #Novella
@Rob_Oost@mastodon.social2026-05-25 12:06:23
Nice read on a bloody hot day: "An Account of the Arctic Regions and Northern Whale Fishery (1820)", written by explorer, scientist and later clergyman William Scoresby (1789-1857).
A clever and experienced observer, who spent lots of travels around Spitsbergen and Greenland, tells a detailed story.
We once sailed the Scoresby Sound in Eastern Greenland: beautiful and wild.
#book
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-03-19 13:03:17
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
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/54KZBYmE7MUlwxM2bUzSVY
@Philantrop@mastodon.mailstation.de2026-04-08 09:53:56
The Island, by Adrian McKinty
#Adventure #Book #Meh #Review
@Rob_Oost@mastodon.social2026-04-20 13:37:30
@bourgwick@heads.social2026-03-13 14:38:25
amazing piece but basically woke up in the middle of the night wondering about the unanswered question here: if book freak richard hell has been in the same wee spot since '74, what does he do when his shelves are full? does he have storage spaces like verlaine? does he deaccession at the strand? #nyc #books
@ose_rouge@don.linxx.net2026-04-20 20:44:59
Right To Read Day | APRIL 20, 2026 | For Your Freedom To Read. Unite Against
Book Bans. #BookBans https://uniteagainstbookbans.org/right-to-read-day/
@Philantrop@mastodon.mailstation.de2026-05-09 08:25:13
Stolen Family (Detective Josie Quinn #24), by Lisa Regan
#Book #Crime #Mystery #PoliceProcedural
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-04-15 20:15:45
Alberta Senator @… delivered an excellent speech warning of the harms of online censorship, moral panic, book bans, and the problems with bans and age verifications as Senate Bill S-209 moves from the Senate to the House of Commons.
Thank you Senator! I could not agree more!
#OnlineHarms #AgeVerification #CanPoli #CdnPoli #SoberFirstThought #Canada #Censorship #BookBan #Alberta #ABPoli #DanielleSmith
@Philantrop@mastodon.mailstation.de2026-05-03 14:52:37
Wicked Women (D.I. Kim Stone #23), by Angela Marsons
#Book #Crime #Favourite #Mystery
@Philantrop@mastodon.mailstation.de2026-04-03 10:33:05
@Philantrop@mastodon.mailstation.de2026-05-31 12:23:28
Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries #8), by Martha Wells
#Adventure #Book #LGBTQ #Meh
@Philantrop@mastodon.mailstation.de2026-05-30 17:03:37
@Philantrop@mastodon.mailstation.de2026-04-25 10:52:55
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-05-21 20:05:03
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Book of Love:
🎵 I Touch Roses
#BookofLove
https://open.spotify.com/track/54KZBYmE7MUlwxM2bUzSVY
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Ivj2i9BbyMoJmb0ZucUM2
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg
@Philantrop@mastodon.mailstation.de2026-05-23 13:38:15
@Philantrop@mastodon.mailstation.de2026-05-22 11:21:53
@Philantrop@mastodon.mailstation.de2026-03-21 15:14:32
The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett
#Book #ComingofAge #Family #HistoricalFiction
@Philantrop@mastodon.mailstation.de2026-04-20 17:13:16
To Sir Phillip, With Love (Bridgertons #5), by Julia Quinn
#Book #Crap #HistoricalFiction
@Philantrop@mastodon.mailstation.de2026-04-19 09:28:07
@Philantrop@mastodon.mailstation.de2026-04-18 14:53:21
@Philantrop@mastodon.mailstation.de2026-04-18 13:58:28
The Ruin (Detective Cormac Reilly #1), by Dervla McTiernan
#Book #Crime #Mystery #PoliceProcedural
@Philantrop@mastodon.mailstation.de2026-04-19 14:18:50
The Scholar (Detective Cormac Reilly #2), by Dervla McTiernan
#Book #Crime #Favourite #Mystery
@Philantrop@mastodon.mailstation.de2026-05-14 10:01:08
