"Just as a bookcase full of read and unread books conjures up a portrait of the owner over time ('joggers of the memory,' Georges Perec calls them), so the books that arrest us in the present constitute a reflection of 'what we are, or what we are becoming or desire' (Lynne Sharon Schwarz)."
-- Moyra Davey, 'Index Cards'
Having trouble focusing on your book? Try immersive reading
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/20/nx-s1-5790811/immersive-reading-trend
"Just as a bookcase full of read and unread books conjures up a portrait of the owner over time ('joggers of the memory,' Georges Perec calls them), so the books that arrest us in the present constitute a reflection of 'what we are, or what we are becoming or desire' (Lynne Sharon Schwarz)."
-- Moyra Davey, 'Index Cards'
"Just as a bookcase full of read and unread books conjures up a portrait of the owner over time ('joggers of the memory,' Georges Perec calls them), so the books that arrest us in the present constitute a reflection of 'what we are, or what we are becoming or desire' (Lynne Sharon Schwarz)."
-- Moyra Davey, 'Index Cards'
Hive Mind: Looking for a sci-fi book read in the mid-'60s. Takes place in a moon colony run by a large corporation. Murders are happening & no one can find the murderer. A detective is brought up from Earth to assist. He is blind & has a "birth defect" that allows him to see people as strange, colorful geometric objects, which leads to the answer. Need author & title.
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*Please Boost*
Have you ever listened to audiobooks?
Audiobook Appreciation Month takes place every June, celebrating the accessibility, educational value, and storytelling magic of listening to books.
Established by the Audio Publishers Association in 1998.
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ICYMI: this Pride, you can help make queer art! Via author Jeffrey Ricker: "The crowdfunding campaign for the film version of "At the End of the Leash" is still running for a few more days. It could use your support!"
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Support the film here:
https://seedandspark.com/fund/attheendoftheleash#story
Watch the trailer here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09MoyUHFRdc
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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📚 A Stage Set for Villains by: Shannon J. Spann
The gods are dead. All that’s left are the Players...
The performers of the Playhouse are as worshipped as they are feared, their enchanting shows bending hearts, minds, and even reality itself. Vicious, godlike, lethal. Eighteen-year-old Riven Hesper knows the dangers better than anyone, after her o...
Blindsight. Peter Watts.
You are a human-? hybrid, part of a small crew of other human hybrid types, led by a vampire, when you are sent unexpectedly to the Oort Cloud to meet some inexplicable aliens who just showed up; this situation somehow does not keep you from mainly pondering many philosophical questions about the nature of humanity.
2 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈.
Today is the birthday of the Marquis de Sade (June 2, 1740 - December 2, 1814) - a gifted writer and a monster. His name became a word for taking pleasure in another person’s suffering: #sadism.
In his #books we see how intellect, power, and desire can become a philosophy of #violence.
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Global institutions are caught in a delusion, begging Silicon Valley to "do the right thing."
They fail to grasp the ironclad law of fiduciary duty. You cannot shame a corporate machine engineered strictly for capital efficiency. It’s a category error. If a system cannot feel empathy, stop trying to teach it how. Logic must fight logic.
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Five stars:
A Gentle Noble's Vacation Recommendation, Volume 7 by Misaki (2023) takes the manga series in a new direction and ups ante. Unfortunately the anime series ends well before this story arc begins. Maybe there will be a second coeur or series in the future.
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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“Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that – I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much – so very much to learn.”
Sylvia Plath, #author of The Bell Jar
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“The only advice that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.” - Virginia Woolf
Eww, no thanks, to people and self-help books 😜😁
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Orwell once explained his mission very simply: he wrote because there was “some lie” he wanted to expose and “some fact” he wanted people to see.
Happy Birthday George Orwell!
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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)
📚 Game On by: Navessa Allen
I hate that woman.
Tyler Neumann has spent years looking for his father, and not because he wants to meet the man. No, he wants to destroy him. And he’ll manipulate whoever he can to exact his revenge.
Including Stella McCormick. She’s everything Tyler hates. Her wealth and privilege have protected her ...
https://bookblabla.com/book/game-on
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #romance #suspensefiction #humorous #darkhumor
On the Calculation of Volume IV. Solvej Balle. Trans by Smith and Russell.
(Book 4 of 7; spoilers ahead for books 1-3)
You are still stuck, almost a decade later, reliving the same 18th of November over and over again, but now you have found others also stuck in that day; together you discover a few anomalies in this new world, but a curious complacency remains, given the weirdness of the situation.
3 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈.
"Write the truest sentence that you know."
That simple advice guided Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) throughout his life. A reporter, soldier, traveler, Nobel Prize winner, and master storyteller, he transformed real-life adventure into timeless literature.
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📚 Kin by: Tayari Jones
Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbors since earliest childhood but are fated to live starkly different lives. Raised by a fierce aunt determined to give her a stable home in the wake of her mother’s death, Vernice leaves Honeysuck...
https://bookblabla.com/book/kin-oprahs-book-club
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I'm not generally a fan of short stories but this I like 😂
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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
