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It's finally here. I'm rolling out the second book of The River City Chronicles, Down the River, on a weekly basis on my blog starting today. Here's chapter one:
Does your laptop have a mind of its own? Robert Neuwirth shares a file that booted up on his screen and wrote itself to the hard drive in The Disambiguation.
Catch this exclusive short story and listen to Neuwirth explain why he filled it with computer code at https://fictionable.world
If you’re a fan of podcasts, there are over dozen pBookstodonicated to #JaneAusten and the Brontes. If I’m missing any, let me know so I can update the list!
Dante's new series revolves around the mystery of the journal that was discovered in “The Rough Edges” series. a fast-paced, action-packed story that's filled with suspense and surprises... I highly recommend “The Collector.”
If you're in the UK, Blue Machine is now out in paperback! The US version will be along this September. An engrossing odyssey into oceanography, this is a captivating book about the liquid engine powering our planet.
Today in Labor History May 2, 1919: Soldiers of the Freikorps murdered Gustav Landauer, anarchist, pacifist, and Education Minister, in the short-lived Bavarian Workers Republic. The Freikorps were right wing veterans of World War I. Many went on to become Nazis. Landauer believed that social change could not be won solely through control of the state or economy, but required a revolution in interpersonal relations. "The community we long for and need, we will find only if we sever ourselves from individuated existence; thus we will at last find, in the innermost core or our hidden being, the most ancient and most universal community: the human race and the cosmos." Landauer’s grandson is the acclaimed film director, Mike Nichols (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Graduate, Catch-22, Carnal Knowledge, Silkwood). British writer Philip Kerr wrote the novel, “Prussian Blue,” in which Hitler is one of the Freikorps militants who murdered Landauer.
#Books | 💧 Dans cette BD, suivez les aventures de Sophie et de son chat, qui explorent les propriétés de l' #eau Au fil de l’histoire, on s’interroge avec eux : comment l’eau s’évapore-t-elle ? Qu’est-ce qu’un nuage ? Pourquoi un glaçon flotte-t-il ?
#Books | 🧠Le libre arbitre existe-t-il? La beauté est-elle dans l’œil du spectateur? Faut-il limiter la liberté? Abordez les grandes questions philosophiques –avec des cartes mentales, des questions-réponses et des illustrations pour mieux s’orienter. 🧐👀
#Books | Plongez dans les mystères de l'#Océan avec ce #livre magnifiquement illustré : son fonctionnement, son rôle dans la régulation du #climat, mais aussi l’histoire de son #exploration et les #espèces incroyables qu’il abrite. Accessible à tous!
SPUNGE. A thirsty fellow, a great drinker. To spunge; to eat and drink at another's cost. Spunging-house: a bailiff's lock-up-house, or repository, to which persons arrested are taken, till they find bail, or have spent all their money:
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
"Many tried to describe her indescribable aura. Some said it was akin to fine filaments of strummed silver that hovered over her dark cascading hair. Others were reminded of the southern lights, brilliant streaks that hissed across her deep-sky eyes. Still others said her fingers were like holy spinnerets, that her every nimble gesture was an act of brilliant, captivating love." -- from 'The Extinction of Irena Rey' by Jennifer Croft
DILDO. [From the Italian DILETTO, q. d. a woman's delight; or from our word DALLY, q. d. a thing to play withal.] Penis-succedaneus, called in Lombardy Passo Tempo. Bailey.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
Jewish students participating in pro-Palestine protests on their campuses would have valuable things to say about the alleged "rising antisemitism" at their schools. But the media is ignoring them.
My April reading list:
• 4/7 Dorothy Dunnett, Checkmate
• 4/12 David D. Levine, The Kuiper Belt Job
• 4/15 Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold (tr. Gregory Rabassa)
• 4/16 Naomi Kritzer, Liberty's Daughter
• 4/25 Martha Wells, Witch King
• 4/30 Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya (tr. Marian Fell)
I recently read a compilation of #UrsulaKLeGuin short stories- The Unreal & The Real volume 1 Where On Earth. These are her realist stories. Her writing never fails to illuminate & this line from Unlocking the Air was a gut punch in the context of modern times #books@bookstodon
PUFFING. Bidding at an auction, as above; also praising any thing above its merits, from interested motives. The art of puffing is at present greatly practised, and essentially necessary in all trades, professions, and callings. To puff and blow; to be out of breath.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)