45 The Unknown Ajax, Georgette Heyer I inherited Mum's collection of Heyer's books. I sometimes wonder if the state of the book could be used as a guide to how much she enjoyed them. In which case this one was probably a favourite. Pages 135 to 194 are no longer attached to the spine and the last 2 pages are making a bid for freedom!
I enjoyed this at a re-read. You know that Anthea & Hugo will end up together its the scrapes they get into on the way. #books@bookstodon
@Helen50@bookstodon I too used to have the whole collection. Over time they disappeared. Was watching #bridgeton and had to laugh. The writer of those books was definitely a Heyer fan. A little bit more saucy but knew the situations to a tee.
June #books list, asterisks for my favorites of the month (but I liked almost all of these). Hit me up if you've read:
James - Percival Everett
City of Laughter - Temin Fruchter
A Crane Among Wolves - June Hur
Goodbye, Vitamin - Rachel Khong
The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels - Janice Hallett
The Funeral Cryer - Wenyan Lu*
A Fire So Wild - Sarah Ruiz-Grossman
Flyaway - Kathleen Jennings
Notes on an Execution - Danya Kukafka
Natural Beauty - Ling Ling Huang*
The Devourers - Indra Das
Clear - Carys Davies*
Rebel Girl - Kathleen Hanna
Last Days in Plaka - Henriette Lazaridis
Soldier Sailor - Claire Kilroy*
Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie*
Radiant Heat - Sarah-Jane Collins
Vladivostok Circus - Elisa Shua Dusapin
Such a Bad Influence - Olivia Muenter*
@beecycling@weirdwriter@bookstodon The environmental cost is too much even if the work is public domain. And the 'AI' will always have been trained on stolen content.
I’d like to show you the Brazilian edition of Star Wars: Thrawn (Timothy Zahn), by Aleph Publishing. All Star Wars books released by Aleph follow the same format and layout, being items that look beautiful in the collection (I am not sponsored by the publisher at all, it is my opinion as a consumer).
I’m reading the first 3 volumes of this by way of preparation for China Miéville’s(!) forthcoming contribution to the IP. Pretty good writing for a Hollywood actor, I thought, and brilliant art, but basically pretty pedestrian.
@cynical13@Narayoni@bookstodon Somebody once asked on social media for the most “kick-ass” female character in books or on film. Mainly the replies involved Lara Croft, Ripley, or Zena.
They were wrong of course.
I finally read Ancillary Justice last night. Late to the party, but glad to have gotten here! I enjoyed the book but it also sort of felt complete to me. Can anyone tell me how the sequels are? @bookstodon#books
Way back in the 1980s, when I was in college, we had a tent city on the UC Berkeley campus to protest the Apartheid regime in South Africa. Lots of parallels to what's been happening on campuses recently with the Palestinian solidarity protests, including violent police crack downs.
During this time, author Kurt Vonnegut came to speak in support of the movement, and against Apartheid.
I recently found this amusing clip
of Vonnegut explaining the different types of character arcs a story can have.
I found this book that teaches Zionists on how to speak to non Zionists. it's important to read these books to understand their demonic way of thinking and counter it.
In this book they are teaching you how to lie effectively, deceive people and use emotion as a weapon.
@TruthSandwich@palestine@israel Anti-Semitism doesn't mean anything these days. These words don't work. you won't stop us from exposing your lies everyday.
44 Travels with Herodotus, Ryszard Kapuściński
Written by a Polish journalist this is a book in two strands. In one he reviews some of his past assignments, in the other he reviews his reading and relationship to Herodotus and his Histories. His interpretation of Herodotus was fascinating. He examines technique and proposes that Herodotus should be known as the first journalist and The Histories is the first piece of reportage.
I must re-read Herodotus. #books@bookstodon
"The book didn’t want anyone to know it was there. If it were destroyed, everyone who’d survived in the story would be gone too. There would be no one left to remember the ones who had died. The balance of the world goes horribly askew when a story is confiscated; it becomes a darker, more ominous place." -- from 'The Book Censor's Library' by Bothayna Al-Essa; trans. Ranya Abdeirahman, Sawad Hussain
@negative12dollarbill@bookstodon oh my goodness, this does sound like an emotional gut-punch. Reminds me a little of Heaven, by Mieko Kawakami, which was a terrifying glimpse of bullying in Japanese schools.