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[perhaps-it-was-all-a-dream]

I would die if someone did this for me.

The love language of annotating a book

[profeminist]

Can confirm:

Goodreads was the future of book reviews. Then Amazon bought it.

"A prominent author’s decision to pull her new novel from publication after being ‘review bombed’ highlights Goodreads’s power in publishing — and raises questions about its longtime owner"

This Washington Post piece is paywalled, but if you click on the article via the Reddit link, you can get free access for 45 days through their partnership with Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/14qltca/goodreads_was_the_future_of_book_reviews_then/

The alternative: StoryGraph: https://www.thestorygraph.com/

[writtenroses1813]

I’m so sorry but in the nicest way possible do yall actually read books or just read words??? Cause I’ve been seeing that trend of people not understanding how “snarled” and “eyes darkened” and “eyes softened” etc. was used in a book and like…

Genuinely, do yall just not have imagination?? Or not understand figurative language??? Also eyes do literally darken and soften have you not lived a life??? How do you read with no imagination? Is this how you get through so many books in one month - you simply don’t take the time the understand the words as they are read?

[charliejaneanders]

Random writing thought: the best stories are often the ones that only you could have written — but also the ones that you could only write at this one moment.

I couldn't write All the Birds in the Sky from scratch now if I tried. But the me of 2013 couldn't have written The Prodigal Mother either.

[leebrontide]

ONE LAST WEEK TO GET EM FREE!!!

FUCK IT I AM STRESSED ABOUT THE US ELECTION SO I'M MAKING BOTH MY BOOKS FREE, TO GIVE PEOPLE SOMETHING PLEASANT (IF ANGSTY) TO FOCUS ON, THAT CONTAINS THEMES OF HOPE AND STRUGGLING WITH SYSTEMIC INJUSTICE AND CHANGE!

Secondhand Origin Stories (book 1):

An outsider with superheroic ambitions

A near-invincible teen with infamous powers

A prodigy with treasonous technology

A frail girl with a family legacy

A supervillian with mysterious motives

And a family fractured by secrets

Names in Their Blood (book 2):

After a spring they barely survived, the superhero team the Sentinels, and their family, head to rural Minnesota for long awaited reunions and a chance to finally start to heal. But when they realize that genetically altered people have been going missing from the small town that houses the US's only full service hospital for genetically altered people they have to decide who they can trust- and fast, our thousands of people could die.

Free on gumroad at the links above or itch over here.

Please reblog to give people free books!

[sugas6thtooth]

Remember Hind. Remember Reem. Remember all the little boys and girls who are more than mere numbers. They are dreams, humanity's innocence, and most importantly they are not to be forgotten.

[catbrarian]

cats and libraries ۫ ꣑ৎ

[starryvomit]

[thecrazydesigner]

Nonfiction Thursday: New Title Recommendations

Around the Ocean in 80 Fish & Other Sea Life by Helen Scales

This is an inspiring tour of the world's oceans and 80 of its most notable inhabitants. Beautifully illustrated, the book includes fascinating stories of the fish, shellfish, and other sea life that have somehow impacted human life - whether in our medicine, culture or folklore - in often surprising and unexpected ways.

Ice by Amy Brady

Ice is everywhere: in gas stations, in restaurants, in hospitals, in our homes. Americans think nothing of dropping a few ice cubes into tall glasses of tea to ward off the heat of a hot summer day. When children bruise their arms or fall sick with fevers, parents wrap ice in dishtowels and press them tenderly to their skin. Nearly half of all refrigerators owned by Americans feature automatic ice machines. Ice-on-demand has so revolutionized modern life that it's easy to forget that it wasn't always this way...and to overlook what aspects of society might just melt away as the planet warms.

In Ice, journalist and historian Amy Brady shares the strange and storied two-hundred-year-old history of ice in America: from the introduction of mixed-drinks "on the rocks," to P. T. Barnum's first-ever indoor ice rink, to how delicacies like iced custard and iced tea revolutionized our palettes, to the ubiquitous ice machine in every motel across the U.S. But Ice doesn't end in the past. Brady also explores the surprising, present-day uses of ice in sports, medicine, and sustainable energy - including cutting-edge cryotherapy breast-cancer treatments and the promise of a substance called "flammable ice" that may prove to be a cleaner fuel source - underscoring how precious this commodity is, especially in an age of climate change.

In A Flight of Starlings by Giorgio Parisi

In this enchanting little book, celebrated physicist Giorgio Parisi guides us through his unorthodox yet exhilarating work, starting with investigating the principles of physics by observing the sophisticated flight patterns of starlings. Studying the movements of these birds, he has realized, proves an illuminating way into understanding complex systems of all kinds - collections of everything from atoms to planets to other animals like ourselves.

Along the way, he reflects on the lessons he's taken from a life in pursuit of scientific truth: the importance of serendipity to the discovery of new ideas, the surprising kinship between physics and other fields of study and the value of science to a thriving society. In so doing, he removes the practice of science from the confines of the laboratory and into the real world. Complexity is all around us - from climate to finance to biology, it offers a unique way of finding order in chaos.

Muscle by Roy A. Meals, MD

An entertaining illustrated deep dive into muscle, from the discovery of human anatomy to the latest science of strength training. Muscle tissue powers every heartbeat, blink, jog, jump, and goosebump. It is the force behind the most critical bodily functions, including digestion and childbirth, as well as extreme feats of athleticism. We can mold our muscles with exercise and observe the results.

In this lively, lucid book, orthopedic surgeon Roy A. Meals takes us on a wide-ranging journey through anatomy, biology, history, and health to unlock the mysteries of our muscles. He breaks down the three different types of muscle―smooth, skeletal, and cardiac―and explores major advancements in medicine and fitness, including cutting-edge gene-editing research and the science behind popular muscle conditioning strategies. Along the way, he offers insight into the changing aesthetic and cultural conception of muscle, from Michelangelo’s David to present-day bodybuilders, and shares fascinating examples of strange muscular maladies and their treatment. Brimming with fun facts and infectious enthusiasm, Muscle sheds light on the astonishing, essential tissue that moves us through life.

[mgcsheaven]

realistically there is no chance i will have time to read, imma still bring a book though

[greenfinchg-illustration]

Sketch ~

[technicallydecadentartisan]

Una historia inconclusa por su naturaleza

Ya es algo habitual terminar una novela de Andrea y llorar. No llorarcasi de un modo metafórico, no. Me estoy limpiando las lágrimas mientras escribo esto.

«Tinta y ceniza» es una novela que no cuenta la historia de los personajes protagonista con un principio y una meta. Diría que es el relato de la Guerra atravesándoles, pues que sangran con una herida inconmensurable desde 1940. La narración se mueve por los acontecimientos sin pausa, sin prisa, bebiendo de un trabajado autorial exquisito tanto en su documentación, como en su cultura masticada y digerida.

Está lectura ha sido comérmela a bocados, disfrutar, desentrañar y deshilachar cada recurso, cada hecho, cada silencio, cada referencia. En este momento no te puede decir con más palabras que el arte de Tomé crece con hambre animal.

Sinceramente, este trabajo es una muestra más de su versatilidad creativa, de su potencial literario, de su manera de plasmar el mundo.

No tengo palabras, solo trepidación y cariño.

ﾟ⁠:⁠｡«Una serie más de pasos,

locos, sin sentido, sin destino»∘⁠˚⁠˳⁠°

«Tinta y ceniza»: hilo de lectura

Existen libros que tienen el poder de absorberte, de maravillarte con su estilo y de arrobarte con sus personajes. Ayer comencé a leer «Tinta y ceniza» y tengo muchísimas ganas de ir compartiendo ideas, impresiones o cosas aesthetic. No obstante, como es una colaboración y haré reseña, quiero compartir esto en un lugar un poco más íntimo y más dado a crear collages, por ejemplo. O, tal vez, es solo que este lugar tiene todas las vibras de Dostoyevski y Tolstói (¿y tú de quién eres más?).

En realidad no importa, el caso es que aquí vas a tener un rinconcito sobre esta novela ❤️‍🩹

[bi-dykes]

YA novel covers

[thebookaddict7]

Good books can make you homesick for places you have never been.

[mysharona1987]