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For #MurderEveryMonday this week's theme is "weather significantly affects the plot." My only entry almost has a spoiler on the cover. Book 11 of the excellent Lane Winslow series by Iona Whishaw it was not my favourite, but still got 4/5 from me at #TheStorygraph - none have gone below 4 and I gave book nine 5/5. The series does a great job blending mystery with social commentary, especially on issues relating to racism, indigenous peoples, and immigrants.
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Cover of "Lightning Strikes the Silence" by Iona Whishaw showing a woman in the foreground and a tree being struck by lightning during a rainstorm

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Major spoilers ahead ⚠️

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The urge to keep all the tabs open is not a recent thing.
Pictured: a 300-year-old library tool that enabled a researcher to have seven books open at once, yet conveniently nearby (Palafoxiana Library, Puebla)
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300-year-old library tool.
Palafoxiana Library, Puebla

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Vie Sean Eric Fagan on Bluesky:
The Inheritance Trilogy by
N K Jemisin is on sale for US$3.00 (georestricted to the U.S.). This contains all three novels, *plus* "The Awakened Kingdom" novella.

(check your preferred format/book selling site to confirm this works for you)

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"Marmee & Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother" by Eve LaPlante. Your rating: 4 out of 5 stars. Published in 2012.

Book description: A moving portrait of Louisa May Alcott and her mother, the real “Marmee.” This biography is based on the Alcotts’ intimate diaries and other private papers, some recently discovered in a family attic and others thought to have been destroyed, to revive this remarkable daughter and mother. Abigail May Alcott—long dismissed as a quiet, self-effacing background figure—comes to life as a gifted writer and thinker. A politically active feminist firebrand, she fought for universal civil rights, an end to slavery, and women’s suffrage.

I was totally captivated by this book. Not only does it present a portrait of the characters, but it also paints a vivid picture of the times in which they lived on this earth. My life is richer for having read this book.

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Book Promotion: Epic Sci-Fi & #Fantasy books for #August

A collection of 39 #books for you to read. Read my #spaceopera

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📚 We Are All Made of Molecules by: Susin Nielsen

Thirteen-year-old Stewart is academically brilliant but socially clueless. Fourteen-year-old Ashley is the undisputed "It" girl in her class, but her grades stink. Their worlds are about to collide when Stewart and his dad move in with Ashley and her mom. "The Brady Bunch" it isn't. Stewart is trying to be 89.9% happy abou...

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Thirteen-year-old Stewart is academically brilliant but socially clueless. Fourteen-year-old Ashley is the undisputed "It" girl in her class, but her grades stink. Their worlds are about to collide when Stewart and his dad move in with Ashley and her mom. "The Brady Bunch" it isn't. Stewart is trying to be 89.9% happy about it, but Ashley is 110% horrified. She already has to hide the truth behind her parents' divorce; "Spewart" could further threaten her position at the top of the social ladder. They are complete opposites. And yet, no matter their differences, they share one thing in common: they--like the rest of us--are all made of molecules.

Written in alternating voices, Susin Nielsen deftly explores family tragedy and family ties; sibling rivalry and union; and adolescent confusion and revelation.

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Book Promotion: Choose a #book on #Kindle Unlimited

A collection of 160 #books for you. Read my #spaceopera

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Book Promotion: First #book in a series on #KindleUnlimited

A collection of 89 #books for you. Read my #spaceopera

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读过 Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
本以为是纯蹭 enshittification 这个词的热度扩成一本书，后半部分觉得还行。前半段也觉得就是个外行互联网发展史概论，怀念一下 good old days，对不熟悉互联网发展史和如何运作的人有一定的 TLDR 价值。到后期开始给作者提倡的解决方案时逐渐有了些体系，喷 Apple 以安全为名实则降低了所有人包括 iSheep 们的体验和安全性的 iMessage 圈地行为的时候就直加分了。解决方案无非是提倡政策和监管层面的反垄断，right to fix, right to exit, inter-operability, net-neutrality, unionize. 开始安利 mastodon/fediverse/activityhub 的时候突然次元壁破了。三星半

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Another wednesday another chapter quoute from my work in progress 😁

Find Ebook of Part One at your favourite online bookstore here: https://books2read.com/b/m0pJYA and yes that means Amazon is not included 😂

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Philosophy happens

“Philosophers can be both imaginative in their ignorance and ignorant of their ability to imagine.”

-The Ladyship

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📚 The Reformatory by: Tananarive Due

Gracetown, Florida

June 1950

Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie’s journey further into the ...

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Gracetown, Florida

June 1950

Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie’s journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory.

Robbie has a talent for seeing ghosts, or haints. But what was once a comfort to him after the loss of his mother has become a window to the truth of what happens at the reformatory. Boys forced to work to remediate their so-called crimes have gone missing, but the haints Robbie sees hint at worse things. Through his friends Redbone and Blue, Robbie is learning not just the rules but how to survive. Meanwhile, Gloria is rallying every family member and connection in Florida to find a way to get Robbie out before it’s too late.

The Reformatory is a haunting work of historical fiction written as only American Book Award–winning author Tananarive Due could, by piecing together the life of the relative her family never spoke of and bringing his tragedy and those of so many others at the infamous Dozier School for Boys to the light in this riveting novel.

*Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner * New York Times Notable Book * Locus Award Finalist * Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and the Shirley Jackson Award *

“You’re in for a treat...one of those books you can’t put down...Due h

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📚 The Calamities by: Chuck Wendig

Mourning Mayne knows he’ll one day bear the duty of managing his family’s vast empire of wealth and power. But the feckless Mourning has always struggled to accept this legacy of cruelty, domination, and exploitation . . . and something even darker.

Because the Maynes are no ordinary family: Hidden in...

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Mourning Mayne knows he’ll one day bear the duty of managing his family’s vast empire of wealth and power. But the feckless Mourning has always struggled to accept this legacy of cruelty, domination, and exploitation . . . and something even darker.

Because the Maynes are no ordinary family: Hidden in our world are the fiends—half-human, half-demon, and possessed of a dark magic born from buying human souls—and the Maynes are one of the oldest and most influential fiendish families.

But when Mourning’s estranged father, the formidable and terrifying Hadrian Mayne, demands that Mourning return to the fold, he has to decide whether to accept his legacy and embrace his role in the family or to forge his own destiny, and with it, change the course of the world.

Because along the way home, he will meet Key, a black-market seller of human souls, and Quinn, an artist who may hold the dark truth behind the fate of the fiends. Alone, they have all struggled with the darkness of their natures . . . but together, they might find a path out of the shadows.

Book One of The Fiends

The heir to one of the world’s most influential families reckons with the demonic secret of their power in this contemporary dark fantasy that melds occult magic with shocking family drama, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Accidents.

“Vivid, unsettling, and darkly compelling, The Calamities is Chuck Wendig at his best.”—#1 New York Times bestselling aut

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I'm pretty sure that's not what the Doctor meant...

But would I watch Doctor Who with John Wick as the companion? 🤔
Hell yes I would 😂

(No one had better do anything to K9) 😊

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Two photo meme
1: A quote on a wall, "You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world! -Doctor Who"
2: Photo of John Wick using a book to split someone's skull open.

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Spoiler ahead ⚠️

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"White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America's Darkest Secret – An Investigative Biography of Passing, Lynching, and Civil Rights Activism" by A.J. Baime. My rating: 4 out of 5 stars. Published in 2022.

Book description: An “electrifying” biography of Walter White, a civil rights leader who passed for white in order to investigate racist murders, help put the NAACP on the map, and change the racial identity of America forever. Walter F. White led two lives: one as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and the NAACP in the early twentieth century; the other as a white newspaperman who covered lynching crimes in the Deep South at the blazing height of racial violence.

I wanted to learn more about him, as his name often comes up in books about the civil rights movement and in books about the NAACP. Well written and very interesting.

#nonfiction #biography #CivilRights #history #NAACP #AfricanAmerican #books #reading @bookstodon

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For those who saw my post about 'selling your own eBooks' I now have a shop, check it out here: https://payhip.com/NickEastIndieWriter 😁

It was pretty easy so I recommend giving it a try as a self publishing option.

For my readers Part One and Part Two with images is now available on Payhip 🎉

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📚 American Hagwon by: Min Jin Lee

In schools and churches, hotel rooms and nail salons, law firms and fried-fish shops; in cramped, dingy apartments and luxury, gated communities, the men, women, and children in American Hagwon struggle to find satisfaction and meaning in a world that seems to grow le...

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In schools and churches, hotel rooms and nail salons, law firms and fried-fish shops; in cramped, dingy apartments and luxury, gated communities, the men, women, and children in American Hagwon struggle to find satisfaction and meaning in a world that seems to grow less forgiving with each passing year. Once comfortably middle class in Korea, John and Helen Koh and their three children—Bo, DH, and Mido—find their lives upended, first by a shocking betrayal by John’s oldest friend, then by the 1997 Asian financial crisis.

Desperately striving to regain their footing, they leave Seoul for Sydney and eventually settle in Southern California—where new vistas of opportunity open up for the children as their parents, strangers in a strange land, must adjust to a new life in which their experience and education mean little, and they set their sights on whatever it takes to provide for their children’s futures. The Kohs, their friends, relatives, and even their foes move in and out of each other’s lives as they navigate new courses across the years, always nursing the almost all-consuming faith that education will lead the next generation to success and security.

In American Hagwon, Min Jin Lee has crafted an unforgettable, panoramic novel where the smallest of gestures can have enormous repercussions, where the bonds of family and of memory twist and fray but rarely break, and where willful self-sacrifice—for the benefit of loved ones and even strangers—is a ki

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Major spoilers ahead ⚠️

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That should tell you everything you need to know about who was the real beast after all 😂

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[Watching Beauty and the Beast]
Gaston: *snatches book away from Belle*
My 10-year-old daughter: *gasps* He lost her page!!!

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Mild spoilers ⚠️

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📚 Station Eleven by: Emily St. John Mandel

Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end.

Twenty years later, Ki...

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Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end.

Twenty years later, Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians. They call themselves The Traveling Symphony, and they have dedicated themselves to keeping the remnants of art and humanity alive. But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who will threaten the tiny band’s existence. And as the story takes off, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, the strange twist of fate that connects them all will be revealed.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST • Set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse—the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity. • Now an original series on HBO Max. • Over one million copies sold!

Look for Emily St. John Mandel’s bestselling new novel, Sea of Tranquility!

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📚 Appetite by: P. Paramita

Zarina, a prep cook at a fancy New Haven restaurant, is underpaid, overworked, and might as well be invisible. The only upside? She gets to take home leftover ingredients and whip up modern spins on the Bangladeshi dishes she grew up eating—all while enjoying her second greatest passion, professional wrestling: namely, her hero Sierra My...

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Zarina, a prep cook at a fancy New Haven restaurant, is underpaid, overworked, and might as well be invisible. The only upside? She gets to take home leftover ingredients and whip up modern spins on the Bangladeshi dishes she grew up eating—all while enjoying her second greatest passion, professional wrestling: namely, her hero Sierra Myst, the massively successful, high-flying heel who’s built like a superhero and is every bit as daring.

One night, Zarina posts about Sierra Myst, and the impossible happens: Sierra responds. Zarina is elated at the chance to become closer with her idol. At first, their friendship is everything she’s ever dreamed of. But as the weeks fly by, Zarina starts to feel more like Sierra’s unpaid personal assistant and relationship counselor—and her desire to make Sierra happy soon threatens everything she’s worked for.

An affirming and utterly original debut about a young chef chasing her dreams—and the pro wrestler she idolizes who derails everything

“Appetite holds a mirror to the puzzling ways humans sometimes find themselves connecting with one another, on and offline. Prepare to be captivated.”—Jinwoo Chong, author of I Leave It Up to You

“I flew through Appetite in one hungry sitting—chest racing, mouth watering, and seriously questioning if I should make women’s wrestling my new personality.”—Haley Jakobson, author of Old Enough

How far will you go to feed your ambitions?

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Let's do this.

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(comment on The Stone Sky)

N. K. Jemisin: The Stone Sky (AudiobookFormat, 2017, Hachette Audio)

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Another #MurderEveryMonday , another plug for Dean Street Press. This week's theme is "Crime fiction with the word ‘clue’ in the title." and of the hundreds I own, only one qualified. I'd never even heard of E.R. Punshon before DSP introduced me to him, and I love the series now.
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Cover of the book "Ten Star Clues" by E.R. Punshon

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