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I never expected it to happen... But I think I love Dracula. It's a more entertaining read than I thought it would be!

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Goddess, he writes so beautifully.

#books #bookstodon #reading #fantasy #tadwilliams @bookstodon

“As the weather had changed during their strange journey, so, too, had the vegetation: the evergreens and low shrubs in which Simon had been snowbound and lost had given way to oak and birch and white ash, their interlaced branches bound with flowering creepers, making an overhead canopy colorful as a stained glass ceiling but far more delicate. Ferns and wood sorrel blanketed the stones and fallen trees, covering Aldheorte’s floor with a bumpy counterpane of green. Mushrooms crouched hiding in pools of shadow like deserting soldiers, while other pale but oddly beautiful fungi clung to the trunks of trees like the steps of spiraling staircases. The morning sun sprinkled all with a light like fine silver and gold dust.”

From Tad Williams’ “Stone of Farewell”

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overgrown reading nook (2024)

#illustration #art #books #reading #commissionsOpen

2024 full color commission

a nonplussed chameleon glances up at the viewer from their book. around them, plant life grows beyond the borders of their pots.
commissioned for a book worm with an impressive indoor garden.

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This new biography of George Michael by Sathnam Sanghera is a great read, it is written from the perspective of a genuine fan, highly recommended! #bookstodon #BookReview #reading #Storygraph #audiobooks @bookstodon
Tonight the Music Seems so Loud - https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/146ecf23-a0b1-451b-a0b2-ca4495d0fcce

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📚 Whistler by: Ann Patchett

When Daphne Fuller and her husband Jonathan visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they notice an older, white-haired gentleman following them. The man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, who had been married to her mother for a little more than year when Daphne was nine. Now fifty-three, Daphne hasn’t seen Eddie for many ye...

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When Daphne Fuller and her husband Jonathan visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they notice an older, white-haired gentleman following them. The man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, who had been married to her mother for a little more than year when Daphne was nine. Now fifty-three, Daphne hasn’t seen Eddie for many years, not since the fateful event that changed the direction of both their lives. Meeting again, time falls away; while their relationship was brief, it had a profound impact on them both, and now that they are reunited, they have no intention of ever being separated again.

Whistler is a story about two adults looking back over the choices they made, and the choices that were made for them. It’s a story about bravery, memory, the often small yet consequential moments that define our lives, and the endless stream of loss that in time comes for us all. Beautiful in its simplicity, it is ultimately about how love endures, and how the feeling of being known by one other person, even for a short period of time, can change everything.

A Katie Couric Book Club Pick / One of President Obama's '26 Summer Reading List Picks / A Good Housekeeping Book Club Pick / A GoodReads Most Anticipated Book of Summer
“Ann Patchett’s new novel is a rare phenomenon in contemporary fiction: a novel both majestic and intimate, original and masterful in its structure, crystalline in its prose, revelatory in its insights, utterly devastating yet ultima

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36d

📚 The World Jones Made by: Philip K. Dick

Floyd Jones has always been able to see exactly one year into his future, a gift and curse that began one year before he was even born. As a fortune-teller at a post-apocalyptic carnival, Jones is a powerful force, and may just be able to force society away from its paralyzing Relativism...

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Floyd Jones has always been able to see exactly one year into his future, a gift and curse that began one year before he was even born. As a fortune-teller at a post-apocalyptic carnival, Jones is a powerful force, and may just be able to force society away from its paralyzing Relativism. If, that is, he can avoid the radioactively unstable government hitman on his tail.

Precognition; a world ruled by Relativism; giant alien jellyfish. The World Jones Made is a classic Philip K. Dick mash-up, taking deep philosophical musings and infusing them with wild action.

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#introduction

hello! i'm back to mastodon on a new instance after an extended social media break. looking forward to a fresh start.

i like #flowers #plants #animals #writing #reading #art #music #repair and a bunch of other stuff.

i'm hoping to keep my experience on the lighter side this time around, so i'll be following more selectively than before. i will be checking news, politics, etc., here, but probably not wanting it on my feed.

see you around #bloomscrolling and #caturday!

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22d

读过寻找我们的鱼类祖先 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
预期是科普，结果发现是讲的空棘鱼的发现和后续研究过程，即便是自诩自然科普爱好者看这本书之前也没意识到进化论的重要 missing link 实物证据如它是这么晚（20 世纪中期）才被发现的，这个世界上真的是还有太多未知了。最动人的是书里记录的研究者们的一腔热情，比如自学成才把博物馆办得有声有色机缘巧合发现第一只而名垂青史的拉蒂迈，逃离东德去实现自己潜水梦骑自行车穿越欧洲最后设计潜水器又搞到船成功拍到鱼的弗里克，丈夫死后继承衣钵并绽放自我充满热情建立史密斯研究所饱受当地人爱戴的玛格丽特……都非常 inspiring。

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📚 The Great Alone by: Kristin Hannah

Alaska, 1974. Ernt Allbright came home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes the impulsive decision to move his wife and daughter north where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier.

Cora will do anything for the man sh...

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Alaska, 1974. Ernt Allbright came home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes the impulsive decision to move his wife and daughter north where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier.

Cora will do anything for the man she loves, even if means following him into the unknown. Thirteen-year-old Leni, caught in the riptide of her parents’ passionate, stormy relationship, has little choice but to go along, daring to hope this new land promises her family a better future.

In a wild, remote corner of Alaska, the Allbrights find a fiercely independent community of strong men and even stronger women. The long, sunlit days and the generosity of the locals make up for the newcomers’ lack of preparation and dwindling resources.

But as winter approaches and darkness descends, Ernt’s fragile mental state deteriorates. Soon the perils outside pale in comparison to threats from within. In their small cabin, covered in snow, blanketed in eighteen hours of night, Leni and her mother learn the terrible truth: they are on their own.

#1 New York Times Instant Bestseller

In Kristin Hannah’s The Great Alone, a desperate family seeks a new beginning in the near-isolated wilderness of Alaska only to find that their unpredictable environment is less threatening than the erratic behavior found in human nature.

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22d

Spoiler ahead ⚠️

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23d

Good morning 😁
Time for another chapter starting quote of The Last Philosopher: Part Two...

P.S If you ask me these Knomes sound like they're on to something about technology 😂

Buy Part One: https://books2read.com/b/m0pJYA

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Opening from the eight chapter of The Last Philosopher: Part Two

The stench of a Knome

“Technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.”
-Knome administrator saying

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📚 Where There Was Fire by: John Manuel Arias

Costa Rica, 1968. When a lethal fire erupts at the American Fruit Company’s most lucrative banana plantation burning all evidence of a massive cover-up, and her husband disappears, the future of Teresa’s family is changed forever.

Now, twenty-seven years later, Ter...

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Costa Rica, 1968. When a lethal fire erupts at the American Fruit Company’s most lucrative banana plantation burning all evidence of a massive cover-up, and her husband disappears, the future of Teresa’s family is changed forever.

Now, twenty-seven years later, Teresa and her daughter Lyra are picking up the pieces. Lyra wants nothing to do with Teresa, but is desperate to find out what happened to her family that fateful night. Teresa, haunted by a missing husband and the bitter ghost of her mother, Amarga, is unable to reconcile the past. What unfolds is a story of a mother and daughter trying to forgive what they do not yet understand, and the mystery at the heart of one family’s rupture.

Brimming with ancestral spirits, omens, and the anthropomorphic forces of nature, John Manuel Arias weaves a brilliant tapestry of love, loss, secrets, and redemption in Where There Was Fire.

A lush and atmospheric novel about three generations of a Costa Rican family wrestling with a deadly secret, from rising literary star John Manuel Arias

“An exciting new voice with a prowess for lyricism.” ―Publishers Weekly

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A B&N DISCOVER PICK * A GMA BUZZ PICK * MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023: CrimeReads, Debutiful, Good Morning America, Library Journal, Zibby Mag, The San Francisco Chronicle, and more!

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27d

I need to see the rewritten version of this poem 😂

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A drawn picture of Edgar Allen Poe and his Raven.
Caption: The Passive Agressive Raven
Speech bubble from the Raven saying, 'Nevermind.'

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112d

May 22 is International Sherlock Holmes Day — the birthday of Arthur Conan Doyle, the man who created the world’s most famous detective.

Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, a real physician who could read a patient’s profession, habits, and character from tiny details: a walk, an accent, worn sleeves, mud on shoes.

Doyle later tried to kill Holmes at Reichenbach Falls… but readers refused to let him go.

#books #writers #SherlockHolmes #ConanDoyle @bookstodon #bookstodon #reading #today

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19d

The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and his mother). Rabih Alameddine.

You, an older, gay, Lebanese high school teacher, who’s been through an awful lot of bad personal and political history, have to figure out how to deal with your toxic mother (and other relatives who historically made your life miserable), so you capitulate to their hetero-normative views of family eventually.

1 of 5 library cats 🐈.

@bookstodon #bookstodon #books #reading #lgbtq #lebanon #mothers

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19d

读过 Apple in China 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
苹果刚到中国落地各种水土不服那里还稍有点意思，大多数部分有些流水账了，尤其一开始讲苹果前期历史那里无聊得我都快弃了，后面的 pivot 波澜壮阔时代感也完全没写出来。作者自身的观点直到 epilogue 才出现，且明明自己能念正文却找别人而且听得出几章之间语调差别就很违和。一开始纳闷为啥这种书会被豆瓣和谐掉，听了几分钟立刻明白，一上来就是习近平指挥党媒对苹果发出不实指控要求优待中国顾客来彰显实力这事能说吗 lol 但其实不看表面看实质全书主治根本就是 China No.1 美国授人以渔之后现在工业化不行毫无还手之力。如果正文还不够明显的话结语里也是说得很清楚了。贵党对这种低级黑高级红也不放行真是对国民阅读能力没信心啊。

#reading

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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.
#Reading #Mystery #bookstodon @bookstodon

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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18d

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)
@unmlawlibrary #globalmuseum #library #libraries #reading #history

300-year-old library tool.
Palafoxiana Library, Puebla

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17d

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

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

#kindle #spaceship #magic #aliens #legendary #fedibookfair #boost #amreading #writing #dwarfs #readers #rogue #heroes #bookwyrm #reading #goodbooks #space #time #dwarves #dystopia #sorcery #monsters #futurism #planets #sciencefiction #science #scifi #writing #young #newadults #teen #teens #ya #books #booktoot #booksky #bookfunnel @bookstodon

https://books.bookfunnel.com/sci-fi-fantasy-paranormal-ku-aug-sept-2026/zijbicypro

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All in favour of changing Library to Book hoard, and Librarian to Book Dragon? 😁

P.S Book Dragon is obviously the best kind of dragon 😊

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Post by dolohkov:

An Old English word for library was “bochord”, which literally means “book hoard”, and honestly I really think we should go back to saying that because not only does it sound really cool, but it also sort of implies that librarians are dragons.

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📚 Exit Party by: Emily St. John Mandel

Los Angeles, 2031: The first spring after the collapse of the United States, peacekeeping troops withdraw from the city, the Jacaranda trees blossom, and the curfew is finally lifted. Ari Waker and her roommate pass the gauntlet of bomb-sniffing dogs, the shanty towns, and the Red Cross...

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$Los Angeles, 2031: The first spring after the collapse of the United States, peacekeeping troops withdraw from the city, the Jacaranda trees blossom, and the curfew is finally lifted. Ari Waker and her roommate pass the gauntlet of bomb-sniffing dogs, the shanty towns, and the Red Cross tents as they walk across Silverlake to a party. The mood is ecstatic inside the apartment, people drink and dance, a woman wears a silver dress, pleated like tinfoil. And then: A shift. A bewildered twin, an uncanny doppelganger stumbles through the crowd and out into the night, and Kareem, the party’s host, vanishes into thin air. As Ari Waker unravels the mystery of this inexplicable night, Emily St. John Mandel unfurls a story that takes us from a future America splintered by civil war to the seaside cliffs of Greece where weapons dealers hide in an elegant resort, and from the domed city of Paris to a colony on the moon. An unforgettable literary feat, Exit Party is a novel about the price of safety, the perils of the surveillance state, a requiem for a world not unlike our own, and a breathtaking story of resilience in the face of cataclysmic change. The award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility returns with a breathtaking novel of doubles, shadow worlds, and fractured timelines as a man disappears from a glittering Los Angeles party, and a woman—a gunrunner, an art collector, an operative of the State—searches for answers.$

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Fun with edu-fuckin-cation, am I doing it right? 😂

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Post by @matchatia
This was the most valuable information I learned at UCLA:

Photo of a presentation:
All Spoken Language has Rules!
fanTAstic -> fan fuckin tastic
Rule: 'fucking can be inserted only before a stressed syllable

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Transcription. Ben Lerner.

You are interviewing your famous and very aged philosopher-mentor, who’s showing signs of dementia, for what might be his last interview, but the recording gets messed up, and suddenly what might be an okay approach, philosophically, to solve this is not as okay in the real world.

3 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈.

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Finished Dungeon Crawler Carl.

I was really excited for this one, but it sadly didn't quite live up to the excitement I had in my head.

It was a bit tonally all over the place in the first half, and seemed to care more about being a videogame in book form than telling an emotionally impactful book.

It's a shame, because it definitely has some beats and moments where it really shines well.

#book #books #bookstodon #booksky #reading #readingCommunity

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