"Little Brother" von Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic ) handelt davon, wie schnell die eigene Heimat zum Feindstaat werden kann, wenn die Freiheit der Sicherheit untergeordnet wird. Und davon wie schnell die Technik, die uns ermächtigt und vernetzt, zum Mittel der Überwachung und Unterdrückung werden kann. Dabei macht Doctorow Mut mit den Mitteln der Technik für die Demokratie zu kämpfen. #bücherwabe #chemnitz #bücher #literatur #lesen #books #literature #bookstodon #scifi #politik #politics
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Publishing looks glossy from the outside. Inside? It’s built on unpaid labour.
My first book is out this year.
Here’s what I actually got paid, what my contract says, & why most authors can’t afford to do this twice.
https://kristie-de-garis.ghost.io/published-doesnt-mean-paid/
#Publishing #Books #Author #Writer #WriterCommunity #bookstodon #authors
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Luckily Bert is right, you don't HAVE to read Dostoyevsky 😂 But you can if you want 😊
@bookstodon @bookbubble @humour @reading
#Song #Evita #Dostoyevsky
#Book #Books #BookMemes #Memes #Humor #Humour
#Novel #Novels #Bookshelf
#Mastobooks #BooksofMastodon #Bookstodon #Bookworm #Bookwyrm #Bookstodon #BookLove #BoostingIsSharing
Do you like vampires? Do you like FREE? These authors have you covered! https://books.bookfunnel.com/farewelltothesun/ysc00awnxj
#bookstodon #vampirebooks @fantasy @bookstodon@a.gup.pe @bookstodon
Hey, mystery fans! Want a murder-vacation in your imagination? My book The Case of the Missing Finger is free on all retailers through February 16th. Also from my web store, DRM-free.
https://cheribaker.com/products/the-case-of-the-missing-finger
Careless People is a complicated book: the author is complicit in the activities she describes, which no amount of ironic detachment or claims of trying to change the system from the inside can hide. #bookstodon
https://bookshop.org/a/7949/9781250391230
finished reading Home Fire 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
A British-Pakistani family gets caught (& distraught) on the three horns of identity, politics & jihad. Deeply immersive for a range of perspectives.
#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon
@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de
Edited 174d ago
Concursos literário e de fotografia abrem inscrições na região de Americana
O Concurso Literário é aberto a pessoas com mais de 18 anos, residentes nas cidades de Americana, Santa Bárbara d’Oeste, Nova Odessa, Limeira, Piracicaba, Sumaré, Hortolândia, Paulínia e Rio Claro. O vencedor do concurso terá seu livro publicado. As categorias de inscrição variam conforme a idade, com textos limitados a diferentes números de caracteres, de acordo com a faixa etária e o nível de leitura do participante.
Veja mais em https://tododia.com.br/cultura/concurso-literario-e-de-fotografia-abrem-inscricoes-na-regiao/
finished reading Record of a Spaceborn Few 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
Centuries after sending colonies into space as insurance against Earth's collapse, humans have integrated into alien civilisation. But now what purpose do those colonies serve, and what happens to their distinctive communal culture? Good premise & great world-building but not much plot, with a few too many characters.
#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #SciFi #SFF
@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de
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#VirtualJaneCon is happening July 19-20. Didn't make previous cons or want to catch up? All videos are on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/virtualjanecon #AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #JaneAusten @romancelandia
🧵 For all who like to see my #scrollBook project in progress, I start a thread for new photos.
The idea: Having art small enough for a handbag or hanged on a wall. 'Writing' a #book that can't get copied by AI or people - but can be inspiring for others.
Materials: A vintage wooden bobbin, tea-dyed coton flannel, #teaBags, #sareeSilk scraps, #lace, #embroidery, glass rocailles.
@embroidery @textilearts @fibrearts
#TextileArt #collageArt #fiberarts #wildStitching #mixedmedia #bookstodon #writer
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📚 **Are students reading less than we used to?**
David Wignall
_A few months ago, a professor told me that she had cut another book from her course’s assigned reading list. “When I started teaching at Williams,” she said, “I assigned a book per week. No way I could do that now.”_
🔗 https://williamsrecord.com/469974/opinions/are-students-reading-less-than-we-used-to/.
#Reading #Books #Bookstodon #Education #Learning @bookstodon
Stressed? Feeling overwhelmed? Why not give your frazzled nerves a warm, literary hug and melt your worries away for a while? This week’s Butch/Femme Fiction Therapy Thursday theme: Love At First Sight.
#loveatfirstsight #therapythursday #butchfemme #lesfic #sapphicbooks #bookstodon #writingcommunity #butchfemme #lesbian #lgbtq #lgbtqia
@lgbtqbookstodon @bookstodon @sapphicbooks
THE EYE OF THE WORLD Chapter 3: The Peddler
I've been putting away clothes that were LONG overdue for being put away (including a garbage bag of clothes from the move) and listening to The Hills of Tanchico (from #WheelOfTimeTVshow) on repeat bc it's been stuck in my head, when I suddenly realized: I could be listening to my audiobook!
Padan Fain you horrible creep, let's meet you!
@bookstodon #TheWheelOfTime #WheelOfTime #bookstodon #audiobookstodon #audiobooks #AmReading #AmReadingFantasy
finished reading The Grand Sophy 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
by Georgette Heyer.
A irrepressible cousin comes to stay and causes a great upheaval, but between cunning plans and good luck it all works out neatly. More wit than romance, but it does that well.
#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #PeriodDrama
@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de
I think that today (7th April 2025), inspired by the hashtag #bookstodon, I created two new hashtags: #readersdon and #writersdon. If someone had this idea before me, please let me know.
finished reading Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
by Ed Conway.
A high-octane tour through the materials that underlie our civilisation: sand, salt, steel, copper, oil & lithium. So many intriguing side notes that sent me off down rabbit holes (African ghost miners!). Really brings home the mammoth scale, complexity & interconnectedness of these critical industries that we take for granted. But also highlights their fragility, the environmental damage they cause, and the immense difficulty of reforming them to be sustainable.
#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #NonFiction #MaterialsScience
@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de
Edited 155d ago
#wipwednesday
From Whimsical Tigress, book 8 of the Whimsical Dreams series.
https://www.tiffanyetaylor.com/bookshelf
#wipwednesday #romanticsuspense #embezzlement #dangerinperil #bodyguard #graphicartist #butchfemme #lesfic #sapphicbooks #bookstodon #writingcommunity #butchfemme #lesbian #lgbtq #lgbtqia
@lgbtqbookstodon @bookstodon @sapphicbooks
finished reading Mind of My Mind 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
by Octavia Butler.
The god-like mutant Doro finally breeds his race of super-powered telepaths. Can they hold it together, and can he tolerate them? Not much narrative tension or interesting characters, and not a lot happens.
#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #SFF #OctaviaButler
@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de
Rare, oh it's so rare
To meet somebody
Able to understand you
So deeply that
You never feel alone.
-Debora Radice
❤️
@poetry
#readersdon #writersdon #bookstodon #poetry #poem #poesia #poems #poesie #thoughts #pensieri #thought #pensiero #poemoftheday #thoughtoftheday #poesiadelgiorno #pensierodelgiorno
Edited 153d ago
finished reading Anxious People 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
by Fredrik Backman.
A bunch of charming idiots (i.e. everyday people) get thrown together and muddle their way through a crisis in the only way humans can: messily, and hilariously. Occasionally heavy-handed but the portrayal of people and their idiosyncrasies is a joy.
#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon
@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de
Edited 148d ago
What does Balrog taste like? Inquiring minds need to know... 😁
Also, are the Elves an allegory for the diffrent ages of Brittish royalty? 🤔
@bookstodon @fantasybookstodon @speculativefictioncomedy @bookbubble @humour
#FantasyMemes #Fantasy #Memes #Humor #Humour
#Low #High #Epic #Science #Comedic #Whatever #GiveMeAllYouveGot
#Book #Books #Novel #Novels
#Mastobooks #BooksofMastodon #Bookstodon #Bookworm #Bookwyrm #Bookstodon #BookLove #BoostingIsSharing
finished reading My Father and Other Animals: How I Took on the Family Farm 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
by Sam Vincent.
After an unsettled life of freelance writing, the author takes on the family farm. A memoir of his father and the land, an ode to regenerative agriculture, and an example of how to connect with Traditional Owners. The author is only two degrees of separation from me, so I found it easy to imagine myself in his shoes, going down a route that appeals but was not available.
#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #Autobiography #Farming #RegenAg
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Edited 126d ago
Dear #bookstodon-friends, I've been thinking about doing some sharepic-style mini-reviews of books (mostly #horror/ #suspense/ #litfic) that I've been reading - I tried by best with the tools available on my phone and this is the result. Pretty enough? Sufficient info? Anything else I should/could add? #frauenlesen #iamreading @bookstodon
Edited 121d ago
finished reading The Tainted Cup 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
by Robert Jackson Bennett.
A murder mystery fantasy novel - why is this a first for me?! Fairly standard whodunnit which escalates to political intrigue, made distinctive by very cool world-building: an empire built to defend against leviathans attacking from the sea, whose bodily fluids enable a raft of fantastical bio-enhancements. Interesting characters and the potential for more fleshing out give the series much promise.
#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #MurderMystery #CrimeFiction #Fantasy #SFF
@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de
Edited 144d ago