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Having loved Gate of Ivrel, I eagerly snatched up several more CJ Cherryh books from eBay. One of them was Heavy Time, part of her Company Wars sub-series in the greater Alliance-Union Universe. The third book in this sub-series, Downbelow Station won Cherryh her first Hugo, so I was excited for this.
I’m looking for engaging without being dense. So something like a light Stephen King, also I love post apocalyptic stuff but I’ve read most of it. Not a fan of short stories.
I am looking for a nice book light that can also last me a while. I have one by energizer, and while it’s not bad, battery time isn’t too great for my liking.
I read a ton of Stephen King as a kid and I think my kid will be into it, but I’m not sure which book would be a good entry point. He has so many different types of story from weird to horror to mind bending. What would you use as a good entry for his horror? For an 11 year old.
We all have at least one: the title(s) that you still haven’t finished weeks, months, even years after you started reading it, but nevertheless you are determined to finish… someday.
Just hit pg 179 of the “remastered, full-color edition” of Mark Z. Danielewski’s “House of Leaves” and I need to gush about it somewhere. Obviously some (mild) spoilers on my end, but I’d appreciate no spoilers in the discussion below.
Does anyone want this old and lightly dusty 20 volume set of books?
They have been with my family since probably that date, but nobody wants them anymore.
Really really enjoyed this one although it took me a few weeks to fully digest. Here’s two of my absolute favorite excerpts (please forgive any OCR glitches). They both describe fairly old phenomena, one that’s been around as long as the internet, and one that’s been around as long as language, but in both cases people have a tendency to ascribe their effects to something new and uniquely bad despite then having been part of humanity far longer than we often realize.
Reading Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. It, and couple of others, were recommended here recently, and is somewhat of a new genre for me, memoir / biography in graphic novel format, graphic memoir?
I’m curious about where I can find public lists of banned books across various states in the US. Are these lists openly accessible to the public, or do they mainly remain internal documents shared between the government and libraries?
I’m not sure if anyone in this community is doing this type of thing, but I know that there is a volunteer community of ebook editors. I’ve come across some books in my field that have very poor ebooks and I’d like to try editing them at least for my own use and, where appropriate, public consumption. I’ve tried using the built in Calibre Ebook editor which is functional but a bit of a slog. Is there dedicated software (preferably FOSS) That is really great for editing ebooks? Thanks in advance for any recommendations!
Tiphaine watched as Tsomak stepped aside for a quick drag and then puff of a cigar. Then, lifting with his beer gut-burdened back, he poured out more of the barrel into the forest creek. It probably was as much exercise as he had done in the last 20 years.
The New Books Network is a consortium of author-interview podcast channels dedicated to public education. Covering 100+ subjects, disciplines, and genres, we publish 70 to 100 episodes every week.
Latest podcast episode is up in which we repeatedly fail to wrap our tongues around the various place, people and concept names in one of the most ground breaking Sci Fi novels ever written. Sorry Ursula.
I'm just curious. I've tried searching, and I'm really not finding anything. I had on a documentary, and just thought a book about a magic woman or women, secretly witnessing the hysteria woud be neat. Benevolently, or malevolenty. I'd accept short stories, film or comics, or whatever.
So, in the last ten days I've been reading the "dumb luck and dead heroes" series by Skyler Ramirez. I stumbled onto this series on Goodreads, probably in the "also enjoyed" section for another book.
Our latest podcast episode is now live where we talk about the short story collections "Songs of a Dead Dreamer" and "Grimscribe" by Thomas Ligotti. We picked three stories to discuss and will probably go back to do more at some point. You can get it at the usual places podcast home, website, RSS, YouTube and PeerTube and the usual others - Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Amazon but ain't linking to them. Just search 'The Devil's Library' if you use them.
From the dawn of civilization to the modern globalized world, humans have built their societies on the backs, hides, and lives of animals. In An Animal’s History of Humanity, Chris Jeffries traces the often-overlooked story of animal exploitation through time, revealing how the fate of nonhuman creatures has been intimately intertwined with human progress, power, and profit.
I've somewhat recently become addicted to audiobooks. Every time I'm in my car or doing something mindless I put on an audiobook. I had a good stretch of one book I liked after another but now am looking to dig a little deeper. The books I've listened to so far were all books that I kept seeing being recommended over and over again.
I'm not taking any sides in this discussion by posting this. The article was in my RSS feed and I thought it might promote some discussion in these smaller communities. Please check out the article as it covers a lot more than what the title says :)
I was told if you have 1000 books you are official library. I just catalog all the books me and my wife have and it came out at 900. If I included books I have duplicates in I would have 913 books. So close but so far away. I look forward to expanding my collection.
But at same time I wouldn't mind having this whole collection in ebook form so that I could travel and still have access to all my books.
I'm currently obsessed with the tv show Outlander and have been reading the books. They're engaging without being heavy reading, and I love all the tropes e.g. "touch her and die".
Last week I finished When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi, and I am currently working on the fourth book in the Chequey Series by Daniel O’Malley, Royal Gambit.
Only in the last 2 years have I begun my journey on reading as a hobby and pastime. I focused on sci-fi and fantasy picking series of books like The Witcher, The Wool series and The Expanse.
The podcast I am part of released our third episode yesterday and we talked about 'Sundial' by Catriona Ward. If you'd like to listen along/subscribe as well as the usual places like Apple, Amazon, Spotify and YouTube, we're also available directly via the podcast home, our RSS Feed and on the Fediverse too on PeerTube.
Not just coding, but writing whole new type of code? History on coding be nice as well. I already own Hackers:Heroes of the Computer Revolution. But like other books on it as well.
I'm looking for something like 'A Fire Upon the Deep' or 'The Stars my Destination'. There should be a lot of world building and the plot shouldn't linger in just one place most of the book.
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