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deirdrebeth

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Red headed, right handed, hockey addicted, happily married, polymath.

Techhead for the www.writersdrinkingcoffee.com podcast.

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Narayoni , to bookstodon group
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Yup, no one messes with Granny! 🤣🤣
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"The man raised his sword. Lightning speared down again and split a stone a few yards away, filling the air with smoke and the stink of burnt silicon. 'Missed,' he said smugly, and Granny saw his muscles tense as he prepared to bring the sword down. A look of extreme puzzlement crossed his face. He tilted his head sideways and opened his mouth, as if trying to come to terms with a new idea. His sword dropped out of his hand and landed point downwards in the peat. Then he gave a sigh and folded up, very gently, collapsing in a heap at Granny's feet. She gave him a gentle prod with her toe. 'Perhaps you weren't aware of what I was aiming at,' she whispered. 'Mother of the night, indeed!' The soldier who had tried to restrain the man stared in horror at the bloody dagger in his hand, and backed away. 'I-I-I couldn't let. He shouldn't of. It's – it's not right to,' he stuttered."--from Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett.

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@Narayoni @negative12dollarbill @bookstodon

I love Granny! Thank you for sharing.

JBrianCoyle , to bookstodon group
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I didn't use the app on my Kindle tablet much, but I recently noticed the icon disappeared from my 'Books' folder.

I managed to track down this bit of
https://help.goodreads.com/s/article/Changes-to-Goodreads-on-Fire-tablet

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deirdrebeth ,
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Maintaining an app takes personnel. Amazon already got what they wanted from GR so they have little to no reason to keep it a vibrant community.

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Idea:

Bookstores should group fantasy with horror instead of scifi. Both fantasy and horror are purely creations of the author's mind; scifi is tethered to factual information.

If you need to group scifi, I'd put it with mysteries and thrillers.

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@aprilfollies @_L1vY_ @Uair @bookstodon

"authors who stick close to currently understood science" isn't the definition of Science Fiction in anything I've ever run across.
The difference AFAIK as I know is whether the science is understood by the characters in the book. If it's woo-woo even to them, then it's fantasy.

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@alexlubertozzi @aprilfollies @_L1vY_ @Uair @bookstodon

Are you trying to make a joke? Or do you really not know the definition of "nonfiction"? I'm honestly not sure!

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