@bourgwick@heads.social2025-10-02 00:38:11
recent-ish reading/rereading. #books
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-10-02 00:38:11
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-09-30 11:28:40
@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
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-09-01 16:00:47
an oxygen mask, but it's just the smell of mass market paperbacks #books @…
@stefan@gardenstate.social2025-08-29 01:32:40
@timbray@cosocial.ca2025-10-25 01:56:38
At the public library.
#Halloween #photography #books
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-25 22:48:09
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-08-19 18:00:49
"Look up: five hopeful novels about the climate crisis"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Books
@ronaldsnijder@mastodon.social2025-10-26 16:11:49
@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
@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
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social2025-09-12 11:46:06
"half-off #books" by WrongHands 🙃
https://wronghands1.com/2025/09/12/half-off-books/
@Tuxramus@social.linux.pizza2025-09-16 19:41:47
I got two books in the post today from Cork. I can't wait to read them. I love the artwork in The Madness of King Goll. Both books are available from #books
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-09-22 13:56:38
JOINT REVIEW: Class, by Paul Fussell
(... nice to see this classic book get some attention!)
#books
@bobmueller@mastodon.world2025-09-19 07:00:09
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-08-19 17:00:49
"Blue sky thinking: why we need positive climate novels"
#Climate #ClimateChange #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
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-08-19 11:28:03
Content warning: multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis
As with covid, you don't want to give TB the chance to evolve, either. There already is a multiple-drug-resistant strand of TB (or more than one, probably - I'm not up on the details). I remember reading a book about it, Tracy Kidder's book about Dr Paul Farmer.
#tuberculosis #MDRTB #books
@ronaldsnijder@mastodon.social2025-08-24 13:36:39
@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!
@matthiasott@mastodon.social2025-10-28 08:45:47
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot2025-08-05 07:31:18
Is anyone familiar with The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher? I picked one up at a book swap, by total fluke the first in the series, and so far it's actually quite good. Given the premise I wasn't sure which way it would go.
This was an emergency book as I'd left my *actual* book in my work bag: Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai, which I'm really enjoying #books
@stefan@gardenstate.social2025-08-13 23:17:05
@bobmueller@mastodon.world2025-09-17 14:30:06
Everything is better at the #library. #amreading #books
@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
@ronaldsnijder@mastodon.social2025-08-14 16:57:00
Survey on longform content in institutional repositories. This is part of a study commissioned by The British Academy and carried out by Information Power Ltd. #OpenAccess #books #AcademicPublishing
@TFG@social.linux.pizza2025-10-03 15:43:30
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-08-10 13:05:46
𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝: 𝑁𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑙 𝐴𝑐𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 by Charles Perrow. It made a big impression on me when I first came across it but when I put it in my backpack for a trip to Binghamton I recalled that the versions of many incidents in it aren’t the best you can find in the literature.
Not sure how well it aged: flying has gotten safer and people don’t write about maritime accidents like they did in the 70’s
#books
@ronaldsnijder@mastodon.social2025-08-07 15:16:32
As I will be leaving #OAPEN, the managing director wrote this blog. For me it feels a bit weird, like reading your obituary, but if you are looking for a job in the space of #OpenAccess #books and have t…
@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