No idea how this amazing trilogy have eluded me for 2 decades!
"The best epic fantasy book I have read in a while. Tons of names, tribes, nations, cities, countries, factions, individuals clash in a massive once-in-a-millennium undertaking. What more does a bookworm need? Simply top-shelf stuff, imho. "
I’ve been reading the Chronicles of Narnia (publication order) for the first time since I was a child. I’m currently on The Magician’s Nephew, the part where the talking animals plant Uncle Andrew because they think he’s a tree. Ends with “and now on to more important things”. Meanwhile I studiously kill each and every one of my darlings in drafts of fantasy novels hoping against hope one day they’ll be published. 😵💫😵💫😵💫😭 @bookstodon#books#fantasy#writing#reading
📚 Writing my debut novel, Terror to Valor: Echoes and Shadows. The recent EU elections show gains for far-right, far-left, and new independents with misinformed views.
🌍 Disinformation and digital subversion by RU are impacting the EU physically and socially. This is just the start.
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AVAILABLE NOW AS AN AUDIOBOOK! - "Shards" - The first short-fiction collection from The Nod/Wells Timelines, featuring 8 legendary tales of science fiction, horror, and the paranormal.
It's official, folkes! Cruel Provocations is now available!
A couple of reviews already that are five stars, neither from people who have any reason to be nice to me. I'm overwhelmed.
I would suggest not using Amazon for a physical copy. They have KDP and get shirty about fulfilling other POD services. So Booktopia or Barnes & Noble for the physical. Amazon are great for the eBook versions, as are any of the other stores.
‘He had a sarcastic turn of phrase’: discovery of 1509 book sheds new light on ‘father of utilitarianism’
“Last month, UCL academics unveiled the most significant rediscovered books left to the university in Bentham’s will, including the translation of Brandt’s Ship of Fools and a maths textbook explaining Euclid’s propositions. Their contents, together with the philosopher’s own notes, indicate how some of his radical theories were first sparked.”
Tremor, by Teju Cole.
You are a photographer and academic (or maybe you are the reader? Hard to tell) from Africa, but also of the West in some ways, who is wondering if art is an artifact or alive (or both? Maybe neither?).
3 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈. @bookstodon#bookstodon#reading#art#photography#race
This is the 1000th free ebook released by Standard Ebooks:
'This edition of Ulysses is special, too, because it was specially transcribed to ensure that it contains only pre-1929 text. (As you may know, only books published before 1929 are in the U.S. public domain.) To our knowledge, there’s no other modern online edition of Ulysses that carefully adheres to this requirement — the rest are mishmashes of various editions and corrections from earlier or later editions, with little, if any, oversight into what corrections are included or not.'
“…what bothers me about this educational approach—the “problem” approach, the “STEAM” (STEM + arts) approach—is what it leaves out. It leaves out the humanities. It leaves out books. It leaves out literature and philosophy, history and art history and the history of religion. It leaves out any mode of inquiry—reflection, speculation, conversation with the past—that cannot be turned to immediate practical ends.”
I feel a bit stuck in my reading. The cosy mysteries and fantasies are becoming a bit boring. (Just read a few to many one after another) But my brain is unwilling to process harder SFF or litfic. Nothing on my tbr really appeals. Anyone have ideas for genres I could try? @bookstodonmy@boeken#bookstodon#books#reading
Big Barrel is off to the dumpster to get some grub. Jakub Żulczyk draws a picture of decline in Many Years of Hardships, translated by John and Małgorzata Markoff.