📚 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by: Mark Haddon
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions and admonishments ha...
https://bookblabla.com/book/the-curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time
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Jean-Paul Sartre (June 21, 1905 - April 15, 1980) as a child, lost the use of one eye, but later became one of the sharpest observers of human nature.
#Sartre believed that people are not born with a fixed “essence”: we become ourselves through choices.
By the end of his life he was almost blind, but he kept working. Around 50,000 people reportedly came to his funeral procession in Paris.
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This past weekend, I thought I'd dip a toe into Fantasy, a genre I usually only get close to with SFF titles. Naomi Novik had a little novella out: The Summer War, and it turned out to be a quite satisfying read. (I had read one of her novels before: Uprooted.)
So, I thought "Why not give a full-length fantasy tome a try?" To that end, I picked up the highly rated This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me, by Illona Andrews. Are any of you familiar with it? It came out this year. The author seems to have put forth significant effort into world-building and story development. We shall see!
Ian Fleming (May 28, 1908 — August 12, 1964) didn’t invent James Bond out of nowhere. During World War II, he worked in British Naval Intelligence and saw from the inside how real secret operations were planned.
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RE: https://mendeddrum.org/@Pratchat/116610861214203983
Pratchat has a whole back catalogue of excellent discussions about #TerryPratchett and #Discworld, but they don't understand the importance of overusing #hashtags in the #fediverse, so you might have missed them.
Seeking a multi-book eReader for Android (tablet), that can open 4 (or more) books at the same time. Mostly EPUB or MOBI, or PDF if I must.
Can you help? Can you boost to someone who can? 🙏👍😀
I just learned that the last saturday of April celebrates Indie Bookstore Day.
So, please buy your books from Indie stores.
Yes, even if they don't have dragons 😜😁
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My book is available here: https://books2read.com/b/m0pJYA
🧠🇸🇪 Swedish #education officials are scaling back digital device usage in schools after reports indicated a decline in basic #literacy skills.
The new strategy prioritizes printed #books and handwriting to support cognitive focus and deep #reading. #Research suggests that physical materials enhance memory retention and reading comprehension compared to digital screens.
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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
I didn't know basic dickheads knew how to read, good for them! 😜😂
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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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Dancer From The Dance. Andrew Holleran.
It’s 1970’s post-Stonewall NYC, and you are the most beautiful of the beautiful A-gays, and your life is an endless stream of parties, bathhouses, Fire Island summers, public parks, restrooms, drugs, and disco after disco; everyone thinks you must be the happiest queen, but of course…
4 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈
CW: racial fetishization
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"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
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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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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