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my latest book haul:
-the long way to a small, angry planet
-my favorite thing is monsters
-bloodborne: the death of sleep
-bloodborne: the healing thirst
-the fireman
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A BREATHTAKINGLY ORIGINAL FUSION of European and Indigenous American mythologies adds a dimension of supernatural horror to a novel already overflowing with the everyday horrors of colonialism and rapacious profiteering. Beyond stunning. SOLID A
Barnes & NobleThe Buffalo Hunter Hunter (B&N Exclusive Edition)|BN ExclusiveThis Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition contains personally selected letters from the soldiers who were at the actual incident on the Blackfeet Nation in 1870 that is at the heart of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. As Jones writes in his introduction to this material, "I knew I wanted to have...
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer was as fantastic as I knew it would be. Braiding Sweetgrass is one of my favorite books and I put this one off for far too long. I did finally order a copy from my local indie bookstore and picked it up today. Beautiful. Just as I knew it would be.
Finished Where the Axe is Buried by Ray Nayler. Excellent and timely. Highly recommend.
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This is so cute I can't even believe it's real.
The Guardian · ‘Book brigade’: US town forms human chain to move 9,100 books one-by-one
@jredlund Well, my copy of the definitive book on the Grammar B style I evidence and espouse so regularly has arrived on my door step, its package summarily ripped open, and here it is under my camera as I think of the potential and what my buying it portents, with all that starting to worry me that if I were to read it—as surely I will—and not have my eyes glaze over as many academic tomes are wont to do to me, will it ruin my happiness by maybe showing me that how I do write ISN'T what Winston Weathers describes and thus the text corrupts me… will I be appalled or overjoyed? Will I learn something about myself?
Likely.
And something new, whether or not I like it!
We're delighted to share that two stories from Geoffrey W. Cole's ZEBRA MERIDIAN AND OTHER STORIES have been nominated for an Aurora Award on a slate packed with Canadian SFFH goodness.
Check out the full ballot here: https://www.csffa.ca/awards-information/current-ballot/
Congratulations to all the nominees! 
I posted a new YouTube short! And I'm in it! It's about books of course. 
youtube.com- YouTubeEnjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
"He sits crouched in the chair with his head down on the desk, and his eyes closed, in a state of misery and peace." - Oryx And Crake by Margaret Atwood
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In #books: For too long, the story of El Paso told by Hollywood filmmakers, news reporters, and cowboy historians has been that of a Wild West frontier town full of outlaws. ... These self-perpetuating tropes still predominate in mass #media.
https://www.texasobserver.org/el-paso-untold-story/
The Texas Observer · El Paso's Still-Untold StoryA new revisionist history lays out an urgent task that it does not accomplish.
Come let this succubard read you to sleep~ 
We'll be reading through various Elder Scrolls books, The Celestia Code, and some other fantasy if there are requests 
[Twitch] https://www.twitch.tv/octaviaconamore (better audio quality)
[Youtube] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G8cw_qnX94
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A ponder this morning: What is the best public-domain book you would recommend someone read? Bonus points if it's a lesser-known one!
(For example: Alice in Wonderland books may be good, but they're not exactly a diamond-in-the-rough. I'm looking for those.)
My chronic illnesses are bad at the moment. I don't have the same energy to write things, do drystone, take photos or share things.
Until you read it, I don't think you'll understand how much the book means to me. The fact it exists. The fact I still existed to write it.
Book promotion is really important to me (to all authors, so much of it is on us) and my poor health and low energy means that it may feel unsubtle for a while.
#Reading How Beautiful We Were, a beautifully told story of #activism and cultural and community connections along with the ugliness of #environmentalRacism and #corporateGreed of #BigOil and complicity of governments in the death of people and the #environment.
New at Kate of Mind: picking my way through bits of the Booker International Prize short list, I come to Solvej Balle's ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME, VOLUME ONE
http://kateofmind.blogspot.com/2025/04/solvej-balles-on-calculation-of-volume.html?m=1
kateofmind.blogspot.comSolvej Balle's ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME, VOLUME ONE (Tr by Barbara Haveland, Narr by Elizabeth Liang)I have discovered something uncanny. Or at least, it is not something that I have discovered, because I already knew it, but I have discover...
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just in case you weren't familiar with Dorling Kindersley Multimedia - the short-lived educational software division of the book company - its crowning achievement is this Macromedia Director-produced animated re-imagining of stephen biesty's Incredible Cross-Sections: Man-of-War
every now and then i mourn the disappearance of dorling kindersley's exceptional 1990s multimedia CD-ROM titles like Incredible Cross-Sections: Stowaway! and The Way Things Work
today at the thrift store, i stumbled upon this 2010 edition of Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth by DK.
the naturalist museum-style photography and incredibly dense and informative text was a reminder that although we lost some of the interactivity, the presentation is still as rich as ever.
the web of the late 2000s, contrary to common belief that wikipedia-answers-all, is a dead knowledge landscape compared to this single volume.
it presents a single, coherent, and consistent scientific view of the origins and development of organisms on earth. this is the kind of book that I would have hauled out as a kid, and pored over every single page.
If you're ready to make things happen, this book might be useful...
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A guide to direct action for those disillusioned with the posturing of liberal “activism.”
The radical left is losing, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Here is the radical’s guide to activist work — the manual we need at this crucial moment to organize for universal human rights, a habitable earth, and a more egalitarian society.
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GET THE BOOK -- https://bookshop.org/p/books/full-spectrum-resistance-volume-one-building-movements-and-fighting-to-win-aric-mcbay/12661642
ALTERNATE SOURCE -- https://annas-archive.org/md5/83e3288697161e16c32eac3262d0ab74
