novel

112d

I'm writing a novel and it's about 3/7 finished with the rough draft.

#writing #novel #book #roughdraft

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In these times of despair, here is a hopeful story - “A New Faith”.

Available to read online or download (EPUB and PDF) for free at: https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith

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107d

Today is Dracula Day.

Some monsters never die 🧛‍♀️
Bram Stoker gave the world more than a vampire. He created a shadow that still follows us through books, films, dreams, and nightmares.

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105d

🎉 NEW EDITION!

Alan Sharp (1934–2013) is remembered today as a screenwriter, the author of classic Hollywood movies such as Ulzana’s Raid (1972) & Night Moves (1975), as well as the 1995 film Rob Roy, starring Liam Neeson. But his writing career began with the award-winning – & taboo-breaking – novel A GREEN TREE IN GEDDE. Still controversial, it is nevertheless “a flagship of 1960s Scottish prose”. Order now!

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-green-tree-in-gedde/

#Scottish #literature #novel #20thcentury #1960s

Book cover

A GREEN TREE IN GEDDE
Alan Sharp

White lettering against a background of bright green overlapping leaves. Between the words of the title, in much smaller lettering, are the following lines:

Here we sit
Birds in the wilderness
Down in Demerara

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105d

Douglas Stuart in conversation with Kevin MacNeil
29 May, An Lanntair, Stornoway – £12/£10

“JOHN OF JOHN is Douglas Stuart’s finest novel yet… he infuses his narrative with an authentic understanding of the essence of Hebridean identity… a contemporary masterpiece”

https://lanntair.com/events/event/douglas-stuart-john-of-john-book-tour/

#Scottish #literature #novel #DouglasStuart #LGBT #QueerLit #Hebrides

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104d

The book nerd commandments:
1. You can always get high on your own supply 😂

I'm taking suggestions for the rest... 😁

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A meme captioned 'Book Sniffers Anonymous'
Side by side photos of two people sniffing books.
Fake Dictionary entry:
book sniff-ing [boo k] [snif-ing]
verb
1. breathing in the scent of a book: often done in secret
2. how book nerds get high

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142d

That sounds made up, but I'm not a doctor so I'll allow it 😁
But I'm wondering if anyone knows what this disease is called? 🤔
My genetic disorder just makes me want to pee all the time 😂

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Post by Louise Jensen Duffy

So, a lot of people ask me why I buy so many books. The truth is, I have a genetic disorder where my body doesn’t produce enough books of its own, so I have to supplement.

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175d

What's stronger than "Strongly Agree" 😜😂

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The original image looked slightly diffrent: https://medium.com/@GuillemBruix/f-ck-social-media-read-books-242b54f1c250

Photo of a sign in a bookshop window. In large white letters on a black background it says:
FUCK SOCIAL MEDIA.
MARRY BOOKS.
KILL AI.

Edited 174d ago

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192d

The definition of a good day 😁

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My boss told me to have a good day so I went home to read..

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194d

I didn't know basic dickheads knew how to read, good for them! 😜😂

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Cover a book I assume doesn't actually exist, with a 1950s looking picture of a young man pointing at an engine.
Title: Everything I don't like is WOKE, a book for basic dickheads
The young man saying: This engine is woke.

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210d

Completly misunderstanding how society works is what tech bros do best! 😂

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Drawing of a tech bro being interviewed by the standard tech bro sychophant.

Tech bro: “Philip K. Dick. Ray Bradbury. Like so many others in tech, I draw inspiration from completely misunderstanding those authors.”

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248d

Could be pictures me reading as a kid in the big chairs at my grandparents house
Which is your favourite? I can't decide between 4 and 11😊

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A comic showing a person in a big chair and using it for twelve diffrent readin positions.

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258d

But if I have a choice I prefer in the bath, the massage chair, the couch, and the bed in that order... 😁

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I WILL READ BOOKS ON A BOAT.
I WILL READ BOOKS WITH A GOAT.
I WILL READ BOOKS ON THE TRAIN.
I WILL READ BOOKS IN THE RAIN.
I WILL READ BOOKS WITH A FOX.
I WILL READ BOOKS IN A BOX
I WILL READ BOOKS WITH A MOUSE.
I WILL READ BOOKS IN A HOUSE.
I WILL READ BOOKS HERE AND THERE.
I WILL READ BOOKS EVERYWHERE.

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217d

Perhaps not the Magic System we need, but the Magic System we deserve! 😜😂

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Meme on a painting of three people looking like they may be wafting away some odour.
Caption:
Witches and Wizards don't fart, the Cast Smells.

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236d

So, it's either keep buying more books or become a librarian? 🤔
It's a rare thing indeed to have life present us with two excellent choices 😊

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Post by Tara Wine-Queen

It's not that I *can't* read all of the books I already have, it's that once a reader finishes all the books in their possession, they transcend into their final form and I'm just not ready to become a librarian yet.

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171d

I know some people say they don't read speculative fiction because it's "not realistic" well guess what 😜😂

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Photo of Baron Harkonnen from the 1984 Dune film.
Caption:
I quite like the 1984 film version of Dune, but the characters are a bit far fetched. An obese, orange, diseased peadophile starting a war for his own selfish needs.
Come on.

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165d

When we're busy worldbuilding it's easy to forget that stories are supposed to have a story 😂

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Four panel comic meme with two people in an office, one pitching something to the others from whiteboard.

Guy: "So, what do you guys think?"
Whiteboard: 500+ pages of lore and worldbuilding
Others: "It's good, how much is important to the story?"
Guy: "STORY?"

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79d

RAT RACE: Callum McSorley launches his latest Ali McCoist thriller
25 June, Edinburgh: £5/£8/£16.99 (with book)

DCI Alison McCoist is up to her oxters in Glasgow’s shadiest police unit, with a list of guilty secrets growing longer by the day…

https://www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinburgh/callum-mcsorley-rat-race-2026/

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101d

“I want my writing to be this oasis, this thing that’s just for me”

Douglas Stuart talks about his new novel, JOHN OF JOHN. He discusses the book’s origins, the communities & landscapes that shape his characters, & why he continues to write about the kind of people mainstream British fiction so often overlooks

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOP12bOLRow

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78d

Don Quixote is often cited as the first modern #novel - a book about a man who reads so much he starts living inside stories.

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Don Quixote

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84d

Is all writing paradoxical, or do I just have serious lack of 'Times'? The author yawned because he couldn't be bothered to figure it out. 😂

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Dickens: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Schrödinger: Nice.

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99d

Archie Hind (1928–2008), author of THE DEAR GREEN PLACE, was born #OTD, 3 June

“The only other 20th-century novel I know that places a writer’s struggle in an equally well-imagined city is Nabokov’s THE GIFT”
—Alasdair Gray

1/4

https://www.scotswhayhae.com/post/with-hind-s-sight-a-review-of-archie-hind-s-the-dear-green-place

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77d

The addition of Abigail as POV character means Peter Grant gets a well deserved break, and that this is definitely the best of the later books in the Rivers of London series. 4/5 stars.

I give the series overall so far 3,5 stars, but not being a big crime/detective reader I'm perhaps not the target audience. But if you're looking for a crime series filled with magic and other fantasy/scifi elements, and the occasional geeky refrence, this might be for you...

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(comment on Stone and Sky)

Ben Aaronovitch: Stone and Sky (2025, Orion Publishing Group, Limited)

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80d

I'm not generally a fan of short stories but this I like 😂

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Post by Molly Hodgdon

His kiss was slow, but firm and unyielding like an old man backing his Lincoln Town Car over a handicapped parking sign.

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85d

Opening quote from the second chapter of The Last Philosopher: Part Two 😊

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Ebook of Part One available here: https://books2read.com/b/m0pJYA

Crossing the Khmur

“There is no idea so good that it can’t become horrible by applying it to everything.”
-Said, not written, the Socks

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