@bourgwick@heads.social2025-12-14 19:18:41
recent-ish reading/rereading. #books
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-12-14 19:18:41
@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…
@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
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-12-10 17:14:52
This is a really really nice interview with Canadian Children's Book author Robert Munsch. It's his "last hurrah”. He's living with dementia and parkinson’s.
He's going to be leaving (MAID) at some point (not soon) but there are 50 more books that will be released after he has passed.
He just seems like a wonderful guy…
#Books #Munsch #CBC
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7009124
@AccordionBruce@Mastodon.social2025-10-17 23:21:49
This week's @… radio episode inspired by co-host @… taking the fam to Europe, available online now!
Includes lots of Italian #Accordion 🇮🇹🪗
And a random recommendation for fans to send authors tip-off of waiting thousand-dollar checks if their #books show up in the big #Anthropic #AI ebook piracy settlement 📚
Click to listen while you read:
https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/accnoir-2025-10-15-rowans-italian-travel-romance/
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-12-14 23:04:59
farewell to my one true book format. #books
@emd@cosocial.ca2025-10-02 04:34:55
Just finished First Lie Wins, by Ashley Elston: https://ashleyelston.com/books/first-lie-wins/
If you like mysteries and spies, it’s a great read, super fun.
Gonna check out her other books now!
@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…
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io2025-10-07 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
@timbray@cosocial.ca2025-10-25 01:56:38
At the public library.
#Halloween #photography #books
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-25 22:48:09
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-09-30 11:28:40
@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
@PwnieFan@infosec.exchange2025-10-01 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
@ronaldsnijder@mastodon.social2025-10-26 16:11:49
@bobmueller@mastodon.world2025-09-19 07:00:09
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-09-22 13:56:38
JOINT REVIEW: Class, by Paul Fussell
(... nice to see this classic book get some attention!)
#books
@theDuesentrieb@social.linux.pizza2025-09-22 19:50:57
Sosehr ich die Rad der Zeit bisher (3.Band) auch mag, ich schwöre, jedes Mal wenn die Amyrlin eine fischige Metapher raushaut, höre ich in meinem Kopf ein Sitcompublikum lachen.
Robert Jordan meinte wohl man könne seine Charaktere nicht ohne ihre signature moves auseinanderhalten.. womit er vollkommen recht hatte.
Zum Glück gibt es die WheelOfTime Compendium App
#books
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-10-02 00:38:11
recent-ish reading/rereading. #books
@TFG@social.linux.pizza2025-10-03 15:43:30
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io2025-11-18 18:04:46
I have MANY issues with the #YouTube algorithm, but every now and then it just recommends me a #video of some random person with 6 views and 92 subscribers looking absolutely delighted as they review the #books they’re reading.
And I can’t stop smiling watching these videos every now and then because they are so human, earnest, and wonderfully awkward.
@PwnieFan@infosec.exchange2025-09-28 16:54:22
Should I have finished the print cover before today? Absolutely. But instead, let's be impressed I learned how to make textures from my own photos. Used that to make the texture for the back cover. https://www.megancarney.com/books.html
@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
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io2025-11-18 18:07:26
@matthiasott@mastodon.social2025-10-28 08:45:47
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io2025-10-09 13:56:31
The fundraising letter I got from #NYPL (New York Public Library) this week has some fantastic news:
They are raising money because of “book checkouts doubling and tripling at some branches”.
People are READING!
People are continuing to read, despite the popular narrative that everyone just wants to sit scrolling video feeds and chatting with bots all day. People want books, people have the attention span to read them, and at the very least some libraries are thriving.
Have hope in people!
#libraries #books #bookstodon #GoodNews #positivity #NYC
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io2025-10-30 17:30:09
Cool personal announcement: I’m now working with Hachette Book Group, 3rd largest publisher in the world! 📚😍
I’m helping with their email #marketing on their executive marketing strategy team for the next 1.5 months. Got many book lists to curate!
This is a dream come true in many ways, reading is my longest-standing and most consistent hobby. I don’t know who I would be if I wasn’t constantly surrounded by books - definitely not the Mariya before you today.
As a reader, as a writer - getting to see publishing from the inside and help promote products that I fundamentally believe do good in the world is a relief and a blessing. I’m so honored and lucky.
(Don’t worry, my agency is not going anywhere and we are still very much working with other clients!)
#books #publishing #emailmarketing