#book database

[wttnblog]

I Created A LGBTQ+ Book Database and You Should Check It Out!

There has been a recent uptick in book bans across the country which disproportionately affect queer authors and stories. As a huge book advocate, I was wracking my brain for what I could do to bring more visibility to queer literature.  I work with GSA Link, Inc. , a non-profit that supports LGBTQ+ youth and their families. Since this aligns with the work I do there, I proposed an idea: a…

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aro & ace book database

another post about my database of 200+ aro & ace books! these are all books I’ve read or are on my tbr, with notes included.

[vickihinze]

Fiction Finder by Julie Arduini

Have you heard of Fiction Finder? If not, you’re in for a treat! Fiction Finder comes from ACFW, American Christian Fiction Writers. If you’re looking for a book to read, Fiction Finder is your source to discover great authors and titles. Maybe you’re like me and want to recall a book, but you can’t remember the title. Or the author. But you remember it was about divorce. Again, Fiction Finder…

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

aro tumblr, academics and otherwise, arise!! i need your help with reading recs!

i'm studying up on aromanticism and amatonormativity (yeah for fiction related purposes, per my M.O.), and i'm on the hunt for nonfiction reading materials. essays or articles (academic or pop), or collections, or whole-ass books--literally anything i can read. i am also accepting links to your favorite tumblr posts on the subject!

i myself am also aro, so i've got the 101 stuff down. what i'm looking for is deeper dive material. i am not opposed to dense theory texts, i just don't know where to start lol. also accepting personal essay style reflections, though--literally the whole range of nonfiction would help!

i am looking SPECIFICALLY for aro, not aro and ace conflated (if you have recs that hit both, please do drop them, just specify that it's both!)

my (tiny) list currently consists of:

- Minimizing Marriage by Elizabeth Brake

- Refusing Compulsive Sexuality by Sherronda Brown (which, yeah, i know is ace, but it's on thin ice because she does mention aro in text too)

feel free to boost even if you have no new contributions! thanks for reading!!

[elumish]

I've added a "vibes" column to my romance novel spreadsheet as another way to narrow down books that otherwise have similar tags (for example, the spreadsheet currently has five books (one of which I might remove because I DNF'd it for being unexpectedly a Christian romance) with the tags "She's the target," "Bodyguard," and "Forced proximity/living together", but they are definitely not all similar books).

And these vibes are probably the most subjective thing in the spreadsheet, so I want to try to be careful not to have them just be my opinions on the books. But I am so tempted to add a vibe that's just "The straights are not okay."

[nancydrewdatabase]

Book covers in the Message in a Haunted Mansion for the interactable books. Plus two handwritten journals (Lizzie's and Nancy's).

Not to be confused with the book cover of the Nancy Drew book Message in a Haunted Mansion, these are in-game books.

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[nevermoorsource]

Thomas Labourot recently shared this process video of Jack as he teases the next volume of the Nevermoor graphic novel.

[incompleteninny]

The sixty-seventh free, unedited chapter of my upcoming book, “The Heist at Cordia Aquarium” is now available on its website (or click here to read from the beginning).

It's dark. Cramped and humid and hot. Thea tightens her arms around her knees; each breath comes rough. Haggard. Harsh against her throat, dry and raw as it is.

It's my fault. I could have said something; I could have stayed out of this and let them find someone better. Then Ivan could become a wrestler; Waylon could help whoever it was that needs him. But no, I'm selfish. I took everything from them.

Her thoughts bounce around inside her head, repeating — never-ending. Those that she escapes just add to the weight of the air around her. Floating at the edge of her perception, like specters waiting for another turn to haunt her.

She presses her head into her knees and she wretches. A dry, tearless sound — just as it's been for a while now. How long am I going to sit here, useless?

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[legends-expo]

Knowledge is power! And probably worth more than your car... but Sean Stewart wouldn't know anything about that...

Watch the full panel A Clone Wars Novel with Matthew Stover and Sean Stewart now on our YouTube!

[hush-house-yard-sale]

The Hush House Card Catalogue

@baja-blasted @terephin (please ignore the crabs)

//So the software I'm using to keep track of my books, lore bits, etc. is called Seatable! It wasn't my first choice for this project, I'm more familiar with Airtable (I've used it professionally), but Airtable's free plan doesn't let you color-code :c

//Seatable is a website that looks a lot like google sheets, but instead of building a spreadsheet, you're building a database. I knew I wanted a database rather than a spreadsheet for my card catalogue because it became pretty apparent early on that a spreadsheet would mean a lot of duplicate entries and be a lot more work to maintain, as well as monumentally more work if I wanted to use it for reference.

//My database isn't finished, and so I'm not really comfortable making it public, but I'm happy to walk through some of the things that I like most about it, that made me choose to make a database rather than a spreadsheet.

//The main things that were really important to me was being able to have (and filter by) multiple items in the same column, having lots of cross-linking between the different sheets in the base, and having different views depending on what I was looking to reference.

//These are my different tables right now, and the way they work is that each table has the most detailed information on each item, e.g. Books has the most detail on books, and Skills has the most detail on skills. But I have columns in each table that allow me to crosslink between them.

//So for each book, I have listed the skill and memory they give, but instead of writing each out individually it links to the corresponding entry in skills/memories

//And then over in the memories tab it has all the detail on the aspects, which wisdoms it can be committed to...

//...and every book this skill can be found in and every item it can be used to craft. And those boxes can be expanded so they're easier to read as well!

//I can also group and sort things in different views. My default view for books, for example, splits them into two categories—whether I've read the book or not—and then sorts the books in each category alphabetically. But I also have one that groups them all by mystery and then sorts them from low to high, and I have another that groups them by topic. Each of these views also omits columns that aren't relevant to that particular view, for example, if I'm searching for books by mystery to give to a visitor, it's important to know the author because it's fun to give people books they themselves have written, but I don't really care about what memories that book gives, or when I'm trying to connect lore dots, it doesn't matter whether or not the book is cursed and I don't need to include books I haven't read yet (and thus don't have topic tags for). The rows on the topic one are also bigger so I can better read the blurbs.

//Well, the topic one actually groups by location, because when I group it by topic, it splits it into every combination of my topic tags, rather that giving me "here are all your books about the mansus" "here are all your books about Longs and Names" so I've stored them all in different places in the house depending on what books I think are relevant to one another.

//It's still in progress, I don't have everything written down yet, and I want more data for workbenches, and I want to try and see if there's a way for it to, say, auto-match skills/souls to workbenches for committing to the tree or crafting certain recipes. Also my color-coding is in shambles bc I'm waiting for a friend to recover from covid so that they can make me a greasemonkey script to make it a little less... corporate...

//But yeah! I like it a lot, and it works really well for my purposes. I highly recommend trying it out, and I'm happy to answer questions!

[pied-piper-pluto]

as much as i love themes and symbolism something was bugging me about the way they are talked about on here sometimes and i just made a connection between that and how in the moe database book the author talks about the use of deep and emotional storylines being a moe element... theres something to that i think

[aroaessidhe]

Aro-allo books!

ARO WEEK 2023

THE TROUBLE / Adult contemporary “romance” / aro gay protagonist

MOONSHINE / Adult historical fantasy / major side character who has some POV is aro bi

AN ACCIDENT OF STARS / upper YA/adult portal fantasy / secondary MC is a polyam married aro woman

THE LAST 8 / YA alien apocalypse sci-fi / aro bi MC

TWO DARK MOONS / YA high fantasy / one of the two MCs is an arospec girl

TAKE ME TO YOUR NERDY LEADER / YA contemporary / aroallo MC

BAKER THIEF / adult urban/high fantasy / one of the two MCs is aro bi

THE ORACLE STONE / adult high fantasy / one of the three MCs is aro pan

DITHERED HEARTS / adult fantasy romance / one of the major characters who has POV is aro bi

*as a note, some of these only briefly explore aromanticism. If you want more details on how much things are explored, see my database!

[plangentia]

i actively hate this part of my job

[medusa-unleashed]

The reveal in episode 44 of Burnt Cook Book Party is absolutely INSANE!!! I can’t wait to catch up, I’m loving the show @bcbparty