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I just finished listening to the audiobook of Prophet by Sin Blaché & Helen Macdonald and it made me feel feelings. BOOK RUDE. Giving it 5 ⭐
Lovely sci-fi thriller with a dash of horror and queer romance (do not let the romance put you off unless it's a trigger, trust me)!
20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers (don't forget the alt text).
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Missing the #Svengoolie BOO-Nanza Double Feature because I’m in St. Louis attending AuthorCon IV and fighting real monsters with Scares That Care. This is a wonderful cause and I’m happy to join so many other horror authors and help in my small way.
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#PopsugarReadingChallenge book 38: a cozy fantasy. "The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant," by Drew Hayes.
Books for niece's upcoming 13th birthday. Was going to hold back one to go with the Christmas ones but can't. These just feel like they go together.
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Este libro ha sido donde más información he recibido de Roshar, con personajes establecidos y creciendo como los humanos que son, ¡qué batalla! Siento que apenas estoy empezando a adentrarme a todo
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If you've been my friend, you're never forgotten, even when you Go Ahead to the next campfire.
Thinking about Ardath Mayhar. One of my favorites of her works is THE WORLD ENDS IN HICKORY HOLLOW.
"The owls were mourning when the lights went out. I'll always remember that, I guess, along with a lot of other things less appropriate."
https://www.amazon.com/World-Ends-Hickory-Hollow-ebook/dp/B06XXRYX18/
Just saying... I've read ~27 books so far in 2024.
With my eyeballs, not my ears.
I like audio books just fine. Listened to all of George RR Martin's Song of Fire and Ice while driving back and forth between Florida and Colorado. Thoroughly enjoyed them that way, though I felt I lost some detail when my attention drifted.
It's easier to flip pages back and scan with eyes to find what inattention missed than it is to FF and RW around in a spoken narrative.
Then, later, I READ them, too. Gotta say, they are much better read than heard.
This is all to say that I have zero issue with listening to audio books. I think they're great.
But it's not reading. It's passive, not active. It's almost as evocative of the imagination as reading, though perhaps not, IMO, as engrossing.
Which brings me to my unpopular Fediverse …
Just saying... I've read ~27 books so far in 2024.
With my eyeballs, not my ears.
I like audio books just fine. Listened to all of George RR Martin's Song of Fire and Ice while driving back and forth between Florida and Colorado. Thoroughly enjoyed them that way, though I felt I lost some detail when my attention drifted.
It's easier to flip pages back and scan with eyes to find what inattention missed than it is to FF and RW around in a spoken narrative.
Then, later, I READ them, too. Gotta say, they are much better read than heard.
This is all to say that I have zero issue with listening to audio books. I think they're great.
But it's not reading. It's passive, not active. It's almost as evocative of the imagination as reading, though perhaps not, IMO, as engrossing.
Which brings me to my unpopular Fediverse opinion:
If you've listened to an audio book, then you have not, technically, read it.
Words have meanings. If you swam to an island, you wouldn't say to walked there. If you poached an egg, you wouldn't say you scrambled it.
Again: audio books are great. For shorthand, I think you should say you "read" the book, even though you didn't.
But you know, and I know, you didn't read it.
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Book 42 of 2024
Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth edited by Isabela Oliveira and Jed Sabin
4 stars
I've had this book on hold through the Queer Liberation Library for months, and it was worth the wait! What a lovely collection with a fun mix of genres and styles: everything from sci fi to fantasy to post-apocalyptic to historical fiction. A few standouts for me were "Uncharting Territory," "Seedlings," "The Aloe's Bargain," "How to Make a Spell Jar," "what the water gave," and "To Build a Garden."
I really appreciated the diverse and nuanced variety of queer representation, including a bisexual woman who's in a relationship with a man! I very rarely feel seen by these types of collections, so I was on the verge of tears when I read that particular story.
Just an idle observation, but first and second person narration seem to be trendy now?! It's so …
Book 42 of 2024
Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth edited by Isabela Oliveira and Jed Sabin
4 stars
I've had this book on hold through the Queer Liberation Library for months, and it was worth the wait! What a lovely collection with a fun mix of genres and styles: everything from sci fi to fantasy to post-apocalyptic to historical fiction. A few standouts for me were "Uncharting Territory," "Seedlings," "The Aloe's Bargain," "How to Make a Spell Jar," "what the water gave," and "To Build a Garden."
I really appreciated the diverse and nuanced variety of queer representation, including a bisexual woman who's in a relationship with a man! I very rarely feel seen by these types of collections, so I was on the verge of tears when I read that particular story.
Just an idle observation, but first and second person narration seem to be trendy now?! It's so funny how things like that ebb and flow in popularity.
Pym, by Mat Johnson.
You are a Black academic with a specialty in Edgar Allen Poe’s only novel, and when you lose your job you set out to prove it wasn’t a novel, but a real account of a tropical island near Antarctica, that white peoples have never found.
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Here's my entry for this month's monthly challenge. It includes 2 books that I haven’t read and 4 that I have.
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6 Degrees of Separation - Notes in the Margin https://www.notesinthemargin.org/2024/10/05/6-degrees-of-separation-15/
Honored by this Q&A put together by the British Fantasy Society! https://britishfantasysociety.org/finding-a-voice-and-backing-important-speculative-works-through-crowdfunding/ #bookstodon