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WITCH KING
Martha Wells
(Book Club)
Big asterisk on this review. I'm already not a fantasy fan and have little patience for Proper Nouns or Dramatis Personae. Then I had to pause my reading for 2 weeks when my mom died. I can only say this wasn't for me.
ELDER RACE
Adrian Tchaikovsky
I'm a sucker for any Nausicaa-style "ancient tech re-emerges to cause chaos" story. A subtle connection to Children of Memory here: A grumpy hermit from a forgotten age wielding tech-as-magic to help the locals. Fun read.
HYPERION
Dan Simmons
(Book Club)
I see its influence on SF, but can't ignore its cringe tropes. The Soldier's Tale has SO MUCH sex & violence, I thought it a satire But no, later tales have as much "She breasted boobily down the stairs" as actual cosmic world building.
BookQSFer Melissa Scott has a new MM fantasy/mystery out, an Astreiant novella Point of Knives.
Nicolas Rathe and Philip Eslingen are back, drawn together from opposite sides of the law to investigate a series of murders whose impact stretches deep into Astreiants underworld. ...
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Oscar Peterson by Jean-Pierre Jackson. For years I've been trying to get my hands on Oscar Peterson's autobiography "A Jazz Odyssey", but it's long out of print and as a consequence unreasonably expensive to buy. I got this cheap little book as the best available substitute. On the plus side, it's a short read, Jackson clearly knows Peterson's life and discography well, and it's well written and clear. On the minus side, it feels like an expanded Wikipedia entry, really skimming through the different parts of his life with a heavy focus on Peterson's early years and putting forward the thesis that post-1972, nothing major came out of Peterson's discography. Since the greatest album by Oscar Peterson (according to me) is the 1981 Nigerian Marketplace, I obviously can't agree with that assertion. Anyway, long story short, I enjoyed reading this, learned a few things, bought an album on the basis of it, and I'm still going to be looking for an affordable copy of A Jazz Odyssey...
If we can trust to this Why, dance and drink and revel! Great scarlet mouths to kiss, And sorrow to the devil!
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I mildly recommend Long Island by Colm Tibn
Real books for all!
I've just learned that Bryan Yonki's 'Hand-Painted in LA: Some Los Angeles Signs' has already gone out of print. I have a couple of copies left in the shop in case anyone wants one: .
British birds by Thorburn, Archibald -1860-1935-
"Tales from Kentucky Nurses" (2015)
William Lynwood Montell
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Coucou mes Bookinautes adors ! Le nouveau roman de mon auteur Chouchou est en librairie et je peux ENFIN vous en parler... Mme si je n'aurai jamais assez de place pour tout voquer : "Les Guerriers de l'Hiver" d'Olivier Norek, publi ce jour aux ditions Michel Lafon !
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On en parle ensemble Belle journe tous !
EdRecamier Grand reporter FranceTV, actuellement en poste Washington,Stphanie Perezavait mu avecson "gardien". Elle rcidive avec ce portrait de jeune femme que ladversit va compltement transfigurer. de ici
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A PANORAMIC LOOK AT INTIMACY in many varieties, from sex to romance to family to caregiving to community solidarity to self love, comes in this beautifully curated collection of prose, poetry, and visual images from people with disabilities. A MINUS
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Cup of Gold, SteinbeckDo you prefer reading printed books or ebooks I actually like reading digitally on my Kindle, or via the Kindle app on my phone or tablet. But even so, a physical copy of a novel is always going be awesome.
Unsecret Identity: Eric Icarus - Book One is available now via Amazon
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I just sent a submission to a university press for In the Name of Mississippi. Totally apart from whether they will want to read the full or not, I'm proud of it. It's a good piece of writing in and of itself.
Bookshop.org launches secondhand book buy-back scheme that will rival Amazon
Bookloop by Bookshop.org will allow readers to exchange books for credit, which can then be used to purchase other titles from their website. Authors and indie bookshops will then receive royalties from the exchange.
"Two Paths to The New South" (2014)
James Tice Moore
A study of the effects of four reading styles on college students mental health and quality of life based on positive psychology-A first-of-its-kind study
Paper text reading and audio reading methods were effective in reducing anxiety levels and improving sleep quality. However, the electronic text reading approach was less effective compared to paper text reading and audio reading, and the video reading approach was not effective in improving depression.
Liu Y (2024) A study of the effects of four reading styles on college students mental health and quality of life based on positive psychology-A first-of-its-kind study. PLOS ONE 19(8): e0308475.
In The Distance by Hernan Diaz was a fantastic book, highly recommend even if you don't particularly like westerns.
So my face doesnt exactly show it but the stickers came out great
Aug 28: Do you incorporate poems, songs, or letters in your work How do you format them
There are song lyrics in my medieval fantasy that are indented and in italics.
For the epub, this was so tedious, and I vowed to not have anything similar again. However, in my WIP, there may be letters needing the same treatment.
At least in the WIP, it would all be in one chapter, unlike , which has the lyrics in various spots.
A humanitarian assessment of Africa and the First World War 1900-1932 OIiver Schulten
Quite enjoying Brandon Sanderson's Secret Project 2 "The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England" on various levels historical (though it's a separate dimension really, not the actual one), comedic, etc.
Bonus points for including a scop, alliterative verse, well-groomed Viking-analogues without any horned helmets, and fun words like wlis, from Proto-Germanic walhiskaz foreign person", usually a Celtic or Romance speaker, from which we got Welsh, but also Walloon.
If, on the off-chance, you are going to Creatures, Crimes, and Creativity and you want to meet up, let me know. Ill buy you a drink.
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If, on the off-chance, you are going to Creatures, Crimes, and Creativity and you want to meet up, let me know. Ill buy you a drink.
Supporting Your Man. Every good woman wants to see her man thrive and achieve his dreams. Joseph Collins Jr.'s book, The Beautiful Lesson from the Ugly Woman: A Woman's Guide to Help Her Man Achieve Phenomenal Success, offers the perfect roadmap to support your partner's journey toward greatness. If youre eager to learn how to guide your man to success while strengthening your relationship, this book is a must-read.
What are your sources of current ebooks with no DRM Im not looking for classics/old books. I know about those.
#epub #ebook #book #drmfree
What are your sources of current ebooks with no DRM Im not looking for classics/old books. I know about those.
CHRONIQUE
Coucou mes Bookinautes chris ! Aujourd'hui je vous parle de "L'le", le nouveau thriller sign Jrme Loubry, paru ce jour aux ditions Calmann Levy !
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On en parle ensemble en commentaires Belle soire tous !
Flipping through these pages has me dying to get back to the gorgeous world of .
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Today on our podcast Re-Creative and I are joined by writer and poet Abigail Grimes to discuss the classic Ray Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451.
Abigail makes a great case for why you should read Fahrenheit 451, if you haven't already. It's a fun conversation about the 1950s, how Bradbury wrote the book, and about the writer himself.
We hope you'll listen in!