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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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My new book HYPERSCALE is finally out this week!

Yesterday I went on MS NOW’s The Beat with Ari Melber to talk about data centers, AI, and the threats that come of how tech billionaires have shaped the technology to benefit themselves at everyone else’s expense.

Get your copy today: https://hyperscalebook.com

#tech #artificialintelligence #generativeai #datacenters #books #elonmusk #reading

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21d

In case you needed to dislike JK Rowling even more:

"Neil Blair established High Line Publishing Studio to help Jewish and Israeli literary figures who are being 'shunned.' Blair represents such leading literary lights as JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series."

https://www.washingtonjewishweek.com/jk-rowlings-agent-fights-back-against-silent-boycott-of-jewish-writers/

@bookstodon #books #bookstodon #reading #Israel #Palestine

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37d

12th and final chapter quote from The Last Philosopher: Part Two 😁

I was hoping to make Part Two available this week, but I've been having some health issues again.
Still, I'm still aiming to make it available by next Wednesday.

1€ ebook of Part One: https://payhip.com/NickEastIndieWriter

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Secret meetings
“Never say to someone’s face that which will hurt more
when said behind their back.”
-Headmasters of Pentakl

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📚 Mad Mabel by: Sally Hepworth

Meet Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick: eighty-one years old, gloriously grumpy, fiercely independent, and never without a hot cup of tea—or a cutting remark. She minds her own business in her quiet Melbourne suburb, until a neighbor turns up dead and the whispers start flying.

Because Elsie hasn’t always been Elsie. On...

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Meet Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick: eighty-one years old, gloriously grumpy, fiercely independent, and never without a hot cup of tea—or a cutting remark. She minds her own business in her quiet Melbourne suburb, until a neighbor turns up dead and the whispers start flying.

Because Elsie hasn’t always been Elsie. Once upon a headline, she was Mad Mabel Waller—Australia’s youngest convicted murderer. But was she really mad, or just misunderstood? Either way, she’s kept her secret buried for decades.

Enter seven-year-old Persephone, a relentless little chatterbox who has just moved in across the road (armed with stickers, questions, and no sense of personal boundaries); Joan, who appears to have it in for Elsie; and a healthy dose of public interest—the cops are sniffing around, and the media is circling like seagulls at a picnic.

So Mabel does what she’s always done best—she takes matters into her own hands.

Is she a cantankerous old lady with a shady past? A cold-blooded killer with arthritis? Or just someone who’s finally ready to tell her side of the story?

Sharp, surprising, and wickedly funny, this is the unforgettable story of a woman who’s spent a lifetime being underestimated—and is about to prove everyone wrong. Again.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From New York Times bestselling author Sally Hepworth comes a twisty tale of justice, redemption, and one irrepressible woman who’s not done breaking the rules just yet.

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48d

When this book is published on October 20, 2026, i'm going to put everything else I'm reading on hold and read this.

"Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech's Data Empires" by Paris Marx.

Book description: An eye-opening account of how the data-center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point Underlying our seamless access to AI, cryptocurrency, and unlimited cloud storage is a hulking, costly physical infrastructure. Massive data centers full of energy-hungry chips and processors power everything we do online. Scrambling to meet dubious market demand, the tech giants—Amazon, Google, Microsoft—have made our planet a bargaining chip in the next great race for a market monopoly. In Hyperscale, journalist Paris Marx uncovers the excesses of hyperscale data processing. He exposes the deceptive, exploitative ways tech companies are syphoning energy and resources from vulnerable communities in their pursuit of digital power, abandoning the pretense of social responsibility. Amid energy blackouts and tech-induced battles over drinking water, Marx makes a powerful case for technology that promotes the social good over the bottom lines of tech billionaires...

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20d

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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That's my favorite part of the holidays! 😂

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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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"The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny" by Michael Wallis. My rating: 5 out of 5 stars. Published in 2017.

Book description: In the spring of 1846, a restless caravan prepared for what they hoped would be the most rewarding journey of a lifetime. But in eagerly pursuing what would a century later become known as the "American dream," this optimistic-yet-motley crew of emigrants was met with a chilling nightmare; in the following months, their excitement would be replaced by desperate cries for help that would fall silent in the deadly snow-covered mountains of the Sierra Nevada. We know these early pioneers as the Donner Party, a name that has elicited horror since the late 1840s. This is an account” (of the notorious saga which recounts how the unlikely band of early pioneers met their fate.

This book is detailed and graphic. It is much more than the overview written in the school history textbooks I read.

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"Ethel Kennedy: The Extraordinary Life and Bold Legacy" by Kerry Kennedy. My rating: 5 out of 5 stars. Published in 2026.

Book description: A vivid, and intimate biography of Ethel Kennedy, written by her daughter, Kerry Kennedy. Inside the life of an iconic American. When her husband Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1968, Ethel Skakel Kennedy, drew national attention for her grace, dignity, and resolute commitment to furthering his work in human rights, which she did for the rest of her life. Ethel was so much more than a dutiful wife and keeper of Robert's extraordinary legacy of service. She was extraordinary in her own courageous, curious, compassionate, and witty self.

I think this is a marvelous book. Anyone who knows me, knows I love to read books about the Kennedy family. Not scandalous ones, but books that share their gifts to the world, and their legacy of public service. I highly recommend this book.

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19d

I’ve written a few thoughts on Five Little Pigs, 1942, by Agatha Christie, where Poirot embarks on a True Crime book to investigate a case! An excellent read #bookstodon #BookReview #reading #Storygraph #Braille @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/759a70f7-6cde-439e-b392-b52fbe53a8a8

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24d

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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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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23d

Are all Job Creators also Dark Lords, or is it just most? 🤔😜

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Three panel meme with images from The Lord of the Ring movies.
1: Good guy Sauron, gave out gifts. Picture of the Ringwraiths.
2: Developed industry. Picture of Orcs and a furnace.
3: Created thousands of jobs. Picture of the plains of Mordor burning with troops.

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"I Will Be Good: A Dublin tenement girl's journey to freedom, by Peig McManus. My rating: 4 out of 5 stars. Published in 2023.

Book description: 'Peig McManus was born into the last of Dublin's tenements before moving to one of Ireland's first social housing estates in Cabra. Her father believed that children should earn their keep and learn to face reality as soon as possible. That reality was poverty, class prejudice and strict Catholicism. This book is the story of a girl who rebelled against societal expectations and dreamed of further education. It tells of a young woman whose hopes of marriage to a Scottish sailor ended in the heartbreak of a daughter given up for adoption; of a mother who needed something more than her 'place at home'; and of a pioneering citizen who became one of Ireland's foremost campaigners for educational reform.

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46d

As an opening line this is hard to beat 😂

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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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25d

Currently #Reading and enjoying Vaseem Khan's Quantum of Menace but disappointed to see him peddling the tiresome and utterly wrong conflation of non-standard orthography with non-standard grammar. The spelling of FITE DA POWA is non-standard, but there is nothing at all questionable about the completely standard grammar. #bookstodon
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Text on an e-reader as follows.

Though he had once bought a t-shirt with the slogan, FITE DA POWA, he hadn't actually worn it because, A, he hated the questionable grammar, and B, he looked a bit of a tit in it.

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📚 We Radiant Things by: Franny Choi

Blending lyric memoir and cultural criticism, acclaimed poet Franny Choi's debut essay collection explores our obsession with cyborgs and what sci-fi representations of Asian femmes reveal about race, gender, sexuality, disability, labor, technology, and language.

In the 2014 film Ex-Machina, a J...

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Blending lyric memoir and cultural criticism, acclaimed poet Franny Choi's debut essay collection explores our obsession with cyborgs and what sci-fi representations of Asian femmes reveal about race, gender, sexuality, disability, labor, technology, and language.

In the 2014 film Ex-Machina, a Japanese maid named Kyoko--beautiful, obedient, unspeaking--peels back the skin on her face to reveal glimmering circuitry. The white man who has been trying to understand her inscrutable behavior looks on in horror. When Franny Choi first watches this scene, their own face awash in the screen's eerie glow, they feel a familiar mix of revulsion and self-recognition. Yes, Choi thinks, that's what I've been trying to say.

In this luminous essay collection, Choi descends into the uncanny valley to encounter notable cyborgs and robots from across American culture and asks why so many of them bear the faces of East Asian women. Just why is it that whenever artificial intelligence is represented, a sexy but unfeeling Asian woman enters the frame? What does the literal objectification of Asian femmes say about how the West imagines--and dreads--an increasingly automated future?

Choi draws from their own experiences along with queer, feminist, and critical race theory to answer these questions. Refusing the detached safety of critical distance, they write instead "at stabbing range"--a risky intimacy that collapses the space between human and machine, critic and subject. We Radiant Th

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📚 The Glass Hotel by: Emily St. John Mandel

Vincent is the beautiful bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their li...

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Vincent is the beautiful bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their life together. That same day, a hooded figure scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: 'Why don't you swallow broken glass.' Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company called Neptune-Avramidis, sees the note from the hotel bar and is shaken to his core. Thirteen years later Vincent mysteriously disappears from the deck of a Neptune-Avramidis ship.

Weaving together the lives of these characters, Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel moves between the ship, the towers of Manhattan, and the wilderness of remote British Columbia, painting a breathtaking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts.

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2020

PRAISE FOR THE GLASS HOTEL

'A lovely, beautifully written and constructed novel that I couldn't put down, full of memorable, unusual characters... Mandel's agility with time in this story was a marvel.' Kristin Hannah, author of The Nightingale

'Elegant . . . beguiling . . . the joys of The Glass Hotel are participatory: piecing together the connections and intersections of Mandel's human cartography, a treasure map ripped to pieces' Guardian

'Though its characters were inspired by Bernie Madoff, his victims, and

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35d

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.

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Fanart of Lyeasrakardsul reading by candlelight in his penthouse apartment.

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36d

An Unexpected Birthday Journey of 2026

Travel along through this story to uncover what led to an unexpected birthday celebration full of relaxation, exploration, and good times.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/birthday-journey-2026/

#blog #BlogPost #story #reading #Family

A large yellow and orange beach ball draws the eyes attention next to the title of 'An Unexpected Birthday Celebration' over top of blue waves of water hitting a beach coast line.

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Pure Men. By Mohamed Mbougar Sarr; transl Lara Vergnaud.

You are a Senegalese man, who has a lot of straight sex, but you are also a literature professor who teaches gay French poets, and if that is not bad enough, you comfort a woman who’s (probably) gay son’s body was exhumed by an angry mob…and this is just the start of people’s grievances with you.

3 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈.

CW: extreme anti-gay bias

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Book cover featuring a picture of a black man in a traditional African pattern shirt.

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19d

In the run-up to both spooky season and NaNo, I thought I'd share one of my prize possessions with you all:

#reading #writing

An LED sign with white lettering, lit and resting on a black bed. The sign reads: "Read Books, Be Kind, Stay Weird."

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18d

"Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King" by Caroline Bicks. My rating: 4 out of 5 stars. Published in 2026.

Book description: A first-of-its-kind exploration of Stephen King and his most iconic early books, based on groundbreaking research and interviews with King—all conducted by the first scholar to be given extended access to his private archives. This book will provide insight to anyone curious about how great books get written and published.

This book is partly a biography of Stephen King, and partly a memoir of Caroline Bicks, and her being drawn to Stephen King's writing. It contains much detail about Stephen King's early manuscripts and his life, especially before he became famous.

I enjoyed it very much, and highly recommend it.

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Here's #Autumn with Mark Haddon, tony lashden translated by Maddy Robinson, Rolli, Laura O'Meara and James Young. Plus Cherise Saywell picks her top five #ShortStories

All at https://fictionable.world

#books #reading #fiction #comics #translation #blog #podcast #books

The fantastic contributors for Fictionable's Autumn 2026 issue from top left to bottom right: tony lashden, Mark Haddon, Laura O'Meara, Maddy Robinson, James Young, Rolli and Cherise Saywell

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