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When i was hungry and homeless, I went to the gd library. It was warm (or cool) when I needed it, sometimes had snacks, and had a computer for me to fill out job applications online (which I absolutely needed literacy to complete).

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“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”

-Terry Pratchett (Hogfather)

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Bad news guys,

I went to Book Barn today for my used books fix and I fear we lost a baddie...

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I've decided Ro is a leo and Ash is a scorpio

I've been reading Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson and it's giving me hella parallels of me and my toxic relationships with Scorpio women. Also I'm 99% sure I knew the twist from 14 pages in. I will be VERY surprised if I'm wrong.

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I've been reading Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson and it's giving me hella parallels of me and my toxic relationships with Scorpio women. Also I'm 99% sure I knew the twist from 14 pages in. I will be VERY surprised if I'm wrong.

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my latest cartoon for New Scientist.

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The problem with commercial F/M romance is that it's written by the most heterosexual women alive and reading it you feel yourself slowly suffocating from the Gender of it all like a fish in a eutrophying lake. And what we actually need as a culture is F/M written by insane bisexuals violently allergic to heteronormativity

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Seeing a marburg virus outbreak in 2024 on the heels of a global coronavirus pandemic reminds me of reading a seanan mcguire interview in 2012ish where she discussed how our societal approach to quarantine is a joke & the individual desire for freedom & autonomy over safety gets people killed. I have to wonder what going through the early '20s as someone well educated in viral mutations and infection vectors must've been like. Prophets screaming from a crumbling parapet

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The Storybook Tarot

help the kickstarter here!

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the thing is that I adore T. Kingfisher books because most of them feature aggressively practical women, but as an aggressively practical woman I also feel sooooo fucking called out sometimes

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Hmmm, interesting. I also had mixed feelings but I thought it was because the narrator didn't do a very good job. I was tempted to do a reread without the audio to see if that helped.

Mid-Year Book Freakout

Tagged by @bibliophilecats thank you!

1.Best Book so far in 2024: Sarvijumala by Magdalena Hai.

2.Best Sequel you've read so far in 2024: Lords of Uncreation by Adrian Tchaikovsky (book 3 of the Final Architecture trilogy).

3.New Release you haven't read yet, but want to: The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett, I have it but haven't felt like picking it up yet.

4.Anticipated Release for the second half of the year: A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher.

5.Biggest Disappointment: Honestly none, I've had a good time reading this year!

6.Biggest Surprise: Witch King by Martha Wells, I liked it a lot more than the Murderbot series (which I also enjoy).

7.Favorite New Author: Emily St. John Mandel.

8.Newest Fictional Crush: No new ones so far.

9.Newest Favorite Character: Olian Timo from the Final Architecture trilogy by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

10.Book that made you cry: None.

11.Book that made you happy: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel.

12.Most Beautiful Book you've bought/acquired this year: House of Open Wounds by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

13.Book you need to read by the end of the year: Whichever I fancy reading!

Tagging @howlsmovinglibrary @logarithmicpanda @accidentalspaceexplorer @manuscripts-dontburn

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I'm curious about whether each of you read Witch King on paper/ebook or audiobook.

Mid-Year Book Freakout

Tagged by @bibliophilecats thank you!

1.Best Book so far in 2024: Sarvijumala by Magdalena Hai.

2.Best Sequel you've read so far in 2024: Lords of Uncreation by Adrian Tchaikovsky (book 3 of the Final Architecture trilogy).

3.New Release you haven't read yet, but want to: The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett, I have it but haven't felt like picking it up yet.

4.Anticipated Release for the second half of the year: A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher.

5.Biggest Disappointment: Honestly none, I've had a good time reading this year!

6.Biggest Surprise: Witch King by Martha Wells, I liked it a lot more than the Murderbot series (which I also enjoy).

7.Favorite New Author: Emily St. John Mandel.

8.Newest Fictional Crush: No new ones so far.

9.Newest Favorite Character: Olian Timo from the Final Architecture trilogy by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

10.Book that made you cry: None.

11.Book that made you happy: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel.

12.Most Beautiful Book you've bought/acquired this year: House of Open Wounds by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

13.Book you need to read by the end of the year: Whichever I fancy reading!

Tagging @howlsmovinglibrary @logarithmicpanda @accidentalspaceexplorer @manuscripts-dontburn

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"Don't use Libby because it costs libraries too much, pirate instead" is such a weird, anti-patron, anti-author take that somehow manages to also be anti-library, in my professional librarian-ass opinion.

It's well documented that pirating books negatively affects authors directly* in a way that pirating movies or TV shows doesn't affect actors or writers, so I will likely always be anti-book piracy unless there's absolutely, positively no other option (i.e. the book simply doesn't exist outside of online archives at all, or in a particular language).

Also, yeah, Libby and Hoopla licenses are really expensive, but libraries buy them SO THAT PATRONS CAN USE THEM. If you're gonna be pissed at anybody about this shitty state of affairs, be pissed at publishing companies and continue to use Libby or Hoopla at your library so we can continue to justify having it to our funding bodies.

One of the best ways to support your library having services you like is to USE THOSE SERVICES. Yes, even if they are expensive.

*Yes, this is a blog post, but it's a blog post filled with links to news articles. If you can click one link, you can click another.

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Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

— John Green.

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This makes a ton of sense. I haven't read the wheel of time and don't know how, or if, Sanderson imitated Jordan's style. So I didn't know if it would be a huge pivot. I've only read one Sanderson book and was underwhelmed. I don't know how much of my dislike was just that his books are shoved down my throat at every given turn by people who think he's god's gift to fantasy.

And where unfinished series are concerned, I'm not intimidated by that either. I've read series that have no ending and I've also stopped in the middle of a series where I was satisfied and felt like nothing else was necessary for me to enjoy it.

And thanks for the answer. I love a good book rant.

hey kkc squad I’m curious