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recent-ish reading/rereading. #books

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…

The Message in the Medium—Asterisk
A love story told in books.

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

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

farewell to my one true book format. #books

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

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

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…

At the public library.
#Halloween #photography #books

During the Halloween season,
I'm always on the lookout for scary stories.
None were more frightening than Sebastian Haffner's memoir,
which depicts the plight of average Germans during the rise of Nazism.
No need to read the sequel . . . we're living it.
#books
#booksky

Bernard Doucette (@bdoucette.bsky.social)
During the Halloween season, I'm always on the lookout for scary stories. None were more frightening than Sebastian Haffner's memoir, which depicts the plight of average Germans during the rise of Nazism. No need to read the sequel . . . we're living it. #books #booksky

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

Am reading short stories by Raymond Chandler, and this intro is just brilliant:
"IT MUST HAVE been Friday because the fish smell from the Mansion House coffee-shop next door was strong enough to build a garage on."
#books #reading

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.

Oh, here's an interesting perspective on buying #books. #reading

exactly the post-jazz age/pre-WWII romp i needed. #books

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

Anyway, this is the video that prompted me to post this. The delight when they pull out their crochet book is so heartwarming 🥹 #YouTube #video #books

Books read in 2025:
#bookstodon #books #boeken #storygraph

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

so thomas #pynchon just writes novels as elaborate delivery vehicles for all the character names, right? (complimentary) #books

✍️ New post: Amateurs!
#blogtober #books #web #internet

Amateurs! · Matthias Ott
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

nearing the conclusion of an epic mass market sci-fi paperback & my nose is tragically just slightly too stuffed to smell it. #books

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/

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