@seav@en.osm.town2026-02-13 06:56:03
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@bourgwick@heads.social2025-12-14 19:18:41
recent-ish reading/rereading. #books
@hacksilon@infosec.exchange2025-12-10 09:06:09
Lovely article about the magic of physical #books in Asterisk Magazine:
> Kalman is exquisitely attuned to the magic of physical books. In fact, she includes the instructions and ingredients for another type of spell in The Principles of Uncertainty.
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> Attached on a perforated edge is a folded map of the world, drawn by her mother. “Either put it on the wall,” suggests…
@seav@en.osm.town2026-02-13 06:56:03
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot2026-01-09 14:11:51
While I'm wittering on about #books, these are two of my to-read piles. One is in a bookcase as I knew I'd be a while getting round to them. I bought those for 50p a pop at a Christmas bazaar. They often have some mid-century gems but not this time. The other is by the bed, the Active Pile. The top three are proofs sent to a bookshop in town which offers them to
@stefan@gardenstate.social2025-12-13 21:05:40
Just finished The Way of Kings.
while the writing was good and the characters were good it's such a poorly plotted book that it becomes unenjoyable.
Very little happens over 800 pages and while I love character development it's no excuse for how slow this moves. I would have enjoyed this at 500 pages. At 1000 I don't even want to read more.
#books
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-12-14 23:04:59
farewell to my one true book format. #books
@oligneisti@social.linux.pizza2026-01-07 23:01:52
From: Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett
> ... although she was opposed to books on strict moral grounds, since she had heard that many of them were written by dead people and therefore it stood to reason reading them would be as bad as necromancy.
#books
#TerryPratchett
@Xavier@infosec.exchange2025-11-24 19:41:05
Hey there #bookstodon folks. Would love help finding my next #audiobook adventure. I just finished the latest book in "Dungeon Crawler Carl" and, while amazingly fun, it reminded me that I try to only read series that have endings. I hate waiting for the next book!
So what are…
@bourgwick@heads.social2026-02-07 17:28:43
even a dystopian 21st century future imagined by philip k. dick in 1964 was unthinkable without paperbacks (not that i wanna live in "the three stigmata of palmer eldritch"). #books
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.social2025-12-07 16:45:44
Mein Angebot steht immer noch: Wer noch ein Exemplar des wunderbaren Buches "Drystone - A life rebuilt" (in Englisch) der noch viel wunderbareren @… haben möchte, sagt bitte hier Bescheid. Ich verschenke jeden Monat ein Exemplar bis auf weiteres. #books
@jake4480@c.im2026-01-21 04:40:35
@bobmueller@mastodon.world2025-12-28 01:50:02
@theDuesentrieb@social.linux.pizza2026-01-19 07:01:10
@bourgwick@heads.social2026-01-02 01:49:37
exactly the post-jazz age/pre-WWII romp i needed. #books
@castarco@hachyderm.io2026-01-11 22:16:24
I'm reading Kurt Vonnegut's "Galapagos".
This is a novel from **1985**... and, while it's not "great", I'd still recommend it for anyone living this current time, plus, it's kinda funny.
It manages to:
- describe AI techno-bros as what they are: self-centred assholes.
- (shallowly) describe incels before those were a concept in our collective imagination.
- (very subtly) establish a clear connection between all those self-proclaimed "apolitical" people and... nazis.
#books #KurtVonnegut #literature #scifi #humour
@andrewspink@mastodon.green2026-01-01 17:33:28
Books read in 2025:
#bookstodon #books #boeken #storygraph
@pre@boing.world2025-12-07 13:16:18
Read "Revelation Space" by Alastair Reynolds, a story about some future space people investigating the demise of an extinct civilization.
Some of the people are software uploads or implants in other people's brains, or infectious biological agents and things.
The story is galactic in scale across time and space with good world building, a good tale weaving of elements together.
I liked the scene where the woman falling to her death in a lift-shaft remembered she was on a space-ship which only had gravity coz of engine thrust, so saved herself turning the engines off with a wrist controller.
Trouble is I came to it infrequently with long gaps and so struggled to keep track of what's going on quite a bit. Lots of different elements to keep track of.
My fault, should try and concentrate harder and remember things.
#reading #books #novel #alastairReynolds #revelationSpace
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-12-28 04:18:50
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io2026-02-03 16:32:09
Speaking of #taxes, I just got this #book from the office (it’s published by my employer) and I’m so excited to read it.
From the blurb: “taxes are the public’s most powerful weapon in the fight for a real democracy”
Link if anyone wants: #Taxation #nonfiction #books #democracy
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-12-25 03:58:28
nearing the conclusion of an epic mass market sci-fi paperback & my nose is tragically just slightly too stuffed to smell it. #books
@pre@boing.world2026-02-04 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