@seav@en.osm.town2026-02-13 06:56:03
@seav@en.osm.town2026-02-13 06:56:03
@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
@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
@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
@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
@primonatura@mstdn.social2026-02-25 20:00:26
@bourgwick@heads.social2026-03-07 23:53:59
learned today that mass market paperbacks sometimes had full color advertising in the middle. #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
@bobmueller@mastodon.world2025-12-28 01:50:02
@jake4480@c.im2026-01-21 04:40:35
@theDuesentrieb@social.linux.pizza2026-01-19 07:01:10
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io2026-03-06 16:44:53
Just learned that when you rate / review a #book before the official publication date, #Goodreads asks has an extra approval process asking where you got the book from and then manually vetting what you say.
I get access to a bunch of Advanced Reader Copies (ARCs) through my #publishing job, but this is the first time I tried to publicly rate one 😅
Fun to see the behind the scenes!
#books
@bourgwick@heads.social2026-01-02 01:49:37
exactly the post-jazz age/pre-WWII romp i needed. #books
@andrewspink@mastodon.green2026-01-01 17:33:28
Books read in 2025:
#bookstodon #books #boeken #storygraph
@pre@boing.world2026-03-05 19:09:41
Read the second of the Murder Bot novellas by Martha Wells, Artificial Condition.
Our hacked security droid takes a job looking after more idiots in order to get a ride to investigate his missing memories.
And they get into trouble of course.
Enjoyed it more than the first one. The ship intelligence he teams up with sure does have a lot of ability for an auto-pilot. The Secunit's sarcasm and reluctant disdain of his charges seems better written and deepening.
#reading #books #murderBot
@gdchill@sueden.social2026-02-21 10:25:23
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-12-28 04:18:50
@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
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-12-14 19:18:41
recent-ish reading/rereading. #books
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-12-14 23:04:59
farewell to my one true book format. #books