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Bookclub: Irvine Welsh

Currently on BBC Sounds: Irvine Welsh speaks to Bookclub, presented by James Naughtie, about his era-defining 1993 debut TRAINSPOTTING. This episode was recorded at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in August 2026.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00316t6

#Scottish #literature #Trainspotting #IrvineWelsh #novel

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But reading will help with that, I'd like to propose that: The Revolution should be educated! 😂

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Cartoon of the Peanuts with one child, in class, saying to the other, "No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them.

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20d

I never remember my dreams, so I'm going to assume this is what I dream about all the time! Dogs who read 😁

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Post by Daniel Spenser

Last week I had a dream and the only thing I remembered about the dream
was a poster on a wall so I made the poster and put it on a wall and it was the fastest I have ever made a dream come true and it felt exhilarating like I had solved a mystery.

Poster of a dog reading a book titled Bones held by a human hand. With the repeated caption EVERYBODY READS! in the background.

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This post puts words to my favourite experience as a reader 😊

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Post by angelica chong

there is something incredibly satisfying about reading the first page of a book, and immediately something in your brain sits up and goes 'oh, i'm going to like this' — and then every subsequent page proves you right

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1y

If a book hasn't been banned somewhere is it even worth reading? 🤔😁

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Picutre of a bookshelf with a sign saying,
Banned Books: Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
-Isaac Asimov
The shelf features books and has signs explaining what each one was banned for.

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18d

As a middle-aged man I still identify with Alice in Wonderlands "required to play along with adult nonsense" 🤔

I'd like to suggest the subtitle: "10-years-old and already sick of your bullshit." 😂

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Post by roach-works

look, here’s the thing: alice in wonderland’s enduring fucking charm is that
it perfectly captures the vibe of being a very tired and annoyed child who
is nonetheless required to play along with adult nonsense.

alice is dragged from place to place without warning, forced to play stupid
games with no good prizes, grilled over her schooling and manners and
recitation and dress, scolded, judged, insulted to her face, sent away,
given gifts she didn’t ask for and doesn’t like, corrected incorrectly, been
subject to shifting and arbitrary rules, and then when she gets snappish
with all this bullshit everyone acts like a little girl’s temper is the end of the
fucking world.

alice in wonderland isn’t a drug trip or a nightmare or a metaphor, that’s
just what being ten years old is LIKE. that’s why kids love it so much. even
if they can’t quite articulate how, they recognize themselves in it.

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1y

Traffic makes beasts of us all, but that's too far, way too far 😂

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Post by lindsey

I hope the guy who just cut me off in traffic has his fav book made into a movie & the characters are nothing like he imagined them.

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1y

That's my favorite part of the holidays! 😂

#Introvert
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Post by Fran
Two paintings of women in nice dresses reading books.
Caption: My favourite category of painting is “portrait of an introvert who snuck out of the party she was forced to attend to go read in a quiet room somewhere” also known as me every holiday season.

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22d

The fact that marketing more than quality influences what becomes popular is proof that we live in an inherently unjust universe 😜😁

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#Marketing #Popular

A meme captioned: When god makes indie authors
1: A spoonful of determination
2: Some wit and courage
3: An extra dose of natural writing talent
4: But they can't have everything. I'll add just a dash of poor marketing skills
5: *Whoops* As he spills the entire dose...

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As an opening line this is hard to beat 😂

#DouglasAdams
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Photo of the Chapter 1 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Post by Dunwall:
this is my favourite quote ever

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33d

For anyone who's been waiting...

I now have three chapters or ten scenes left to edit before The Last Philosopher: Part Two will be available 😁

Progress is slow, but I'm getting there... 😊

Here's some fanart of Lyeasrakardsul to reward your patience.

@reading @books @fantasy @bookstodon

#AmWriting #IndieAuthor #Indie
#FantasyBooks #Fantasy #Satire #Humor #Humour #Comedy
#Novel #Books #Bookstodon
#Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity

Fanart of Lyeasrakardsul reading by candlelight in his penthouse apartment.

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43d

Gratitoot!

Since I started my own shop at payhip to sell my #eBooks more directly I've now sold ELEVEN! 😊

I'd like to name and commend the buyers but I don't think I should put their emails online 😜

The first 3 were Australians, but with the latest being Finnish we now have a 3-way-tie for second!

Score so far 😁
Aussies: 3
Dutch: 2
US: 2
Finn: 2
Czech:1
UK: 1

#Gratitude
#IndieAuthor #Indie #Author
#Fantasy #FantasyBooks #Comedy #Satire
#Books #Novel #Bookstodon

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14d

When it hurts so good you can't stop #reading 😁

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67d

Kicking and screaming is the only way I go anywhere, but the boring dystopia we're heading towards has earned it more than most 🤔😂

@webcomics
@reading @bookstodon @books

#CalvinAndHobbes
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Four panel Calvin and Hobbes comic.

Calvin: YESTERDAY DAD WENT UT TO BUY A HARDCOVER NOVEL.

HE SAID HE WANTED TO READ SOMETHING LONG, RICH, AND THOUGHT- PROVOKING FOR A CHANGE, AND HE WANTED A CLOTH BINDING SO HIS BOOK COULD BE CARRIED AROUND AND REREAD LATER.

THEN HE SAID HE WAS GOING TO BUY THE BOOK WITH CASH SO NOBODY COULD TRACE THE PURCHASE TO HIM AND EXPLOIT HIS INTERESTS FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES.

Hobbes: YOUR DADS GOING INTO THE FUTURE KICKING AND SCREAMING. ISN'T HE?

Calvin: WHAT IF HES TURNING INTO SOME KIND OF SUBVERSIVE?

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208d

Piles of books spark joy 😁

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Post by Elle Lookbook
In Japanese, "tsundoku" means collecting books and letting them pile up,
not from neglect, but for the joy of knowing they're there, full of untold stories.

Reply by M. Nolan Gray
"Babe, it's not clutter. It's the Japanese practice of tsundoku."

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262d

I do all of these, which one I use seems to motly depend on the quality of the book 🤔

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@joinin

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READING STYLES:
SCAN: look over quickly
READ: absorb content
SKIM: read selectively]
BROWSE: look for something interesting
PERUSE: read thoroughly
REFLECT: think deeply about what you read

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I'm not sure if I've posted this before but I thought if someone wants to ask me questions about what this quote "really" means, I'll try to answer 😁

#eBooks of Part One and Two available at: https://payhip.com/NickEastIndieWriter

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Part one: With a Capital D
“For every extreme there are infinite in-betweens.”
“Boole, extreme logick philosopher

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Does this count as one of those "Choose your own story" kind of books? 🤔😂

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Photo of a bunch of scrabble tiles captioned, Just bought a book from IKEA.

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I'm both of these readers...
I especially "treat reality as a temporary inconvenience" and "ask questions nobody prepared for" 😁

My reader Reader Threat Level score would be is 8/10 🤔 That sounds surprisingly right to me 😂

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P.S If you know where these are from let me know so I can add credit.

Literary Fiction Readers
Threat Level: 11/10
* analyses everything
* hears what wasn't said
* notices energy shifts
* finds symbolism accidentally
* asks questions nobody prepared for

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Fantasy Readers
Threat Level: 5/10
* mentally lives elsewhere
* knows 17 fictional kingdoms
* treats reality as a temporary inconvenience
* owns maps for places that don't exist

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1y

Nonspecific editions > Specific editions 😂

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Nonspecific Editions by John Atkinson, Wrong Hands
Some Musketeers, Dumas
Roughly The Mid Nineteen Eighties, Orwell
An Unsightly Property on the Yorkshire Moons, Bronte
The Approximate temperature Paper Catches Fire, Bradbury
Around the World Eventualy, Verne
One of the Henrys, Shakespeare

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Well, it seems the 'Yes' vote for an audiobook version won by a slight margin 😁

Which I completely understand, I wouldn't want to listen to me either 😂

Question, would anyone be interested in an Audiobook version of The Last Philosopher read by me? 😁

I'm trying to decide what to work on next...

#Audio #Audiobook #Audiobooks #Indie #IndieAuthor #IndieFantasy
#Humor #Humour #Funny #Geek
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Options: (choose one)

48% Yes
37% No
4% Mind your own business ya nosy gobshite...
11% Other in comments

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1y

What do you mean OR? 🤔
I can broil in existential dread and plot a fantasy series at the same time. 😂 Luckily I don't make mistakes, at least not any I'm willing to admit too 😜

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Post by C.G. Drews

Apparently some people go to bed and just...sleep???
They don't plot a 7-book epic fantasy series or softly broil in existential dread or replay every mistake they ever made???
And then they wake up [checks notes] REFRESHED? | just. It sounds a bit fake.

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6d

“Owens meanwhile writes staccato sentences in the vein of Gertrude Stein; simplicity which seems at times nearly aphoristic soon reveals its full effect.”

via @literaryhub – Megan Nolan’s foreword to the US edition of Agnes Owens’ 𝘈 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘔𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳

@bookstodon

https://lithub.com/megan-nolan-on-agnes-owenss-a-working-mother-an-ode-to-working-class-scotland/

#Scottish #literature #novel #20thcentury #workingclass #workingclasswriters #womenwriters #AgnesOwens