#book funnel

[jrhartauthor]

Naughty or Nice, these Christmas stories are sure to pique even Santa's interest.

Check out the list (and fill your eReader) here.

[meleighm]

Sale Extended!

I know. I’m a pushover, but I’ve decided to extend the offer on Jareth, First Lord through Monday. So now you don’t have an excuse! Go on over to Book Funnel and find the link to your favorite retailer. Set on a rustic world lost to Earth centuries before, Esperance has developed a clan system, each clan ruled by a First Lord with psychic abilities. Jareth is the current ruler of Clan…

[kannemeinelauthor]

FREE books

There are over 30 lesbian/sapphic/women-loving-women books available over at Book Funnel including TWO of mine! Take a look here: https://books.bookfunnel.com/bfsfr_salespromos/u4fy9brunp

[erickaclay]

Saved from ourselves.

I had a lady tell me she couldn’t connect with me on LinkedIn because she can’t connect with any “Jesus people” since they’re too toxic and cruel. I just told her there wasn’t any need for an explanation and that I prayed she’d find peace and to have a great rest of her week. The old me would have said, “And I can’t commiserate with bigots so thanks for letting me know!” But the new me? I’m…

[karen-carlisle-off-the-artboard]

Doctor Jack & Other Tales eBook out 1st Feb, 2023

https://karenjcarlisle.com/2023/01/21/doctor-jack-other-tales-ebook-out-1st-feb-2023/

The compilation eBooks are formatted and uploaded. You may have seen them available for pre-order on some online bookshops.

First up is Doctor Jack & Other Tales – book one in The Adventures of Viola Stewart – with new cover to match the published 3rd edition paperback. The eBook compiles the original (and now delisted) eBooks: Three Short Stories and Doctor Jack.

Official publication day is 1st Feb, 2023.

  I’ve madly trying to get things in order before my surgery on Thursday.

So far I’ve set up:

Bookfunnel page to deliver eBook reward to Patrons (Conspirator+ tiers) later this week (Link post scheduled for Thursday, 19th Jan)

direct from author book sales page on my website at: karenjcarlisle.com/product/doctor-jack-other-tales-journal-1-ebook/ (NOTE: link goes live next week)

eBook delivery page finalised via Bookfunnel (as epub. mobi, and pdf)

links for other online bookstores added to book sales page on my website (via Books2Read – books2read.com/Doctor-Jack-Other-Tales 

The above link to buy direct from me will go live next week – depending on surgery recovery (effectively pre-order and get one week before publishing date: 1st Feb, 2023.)

You can also find pre-orders online at: books2read.com/Doctor-Jack-Other-Tales (delivered by other stores on/after official publishing date: 1st Feb, 2023)

[headdaze]

it seems like my book obsession tendencies have transcended even into the realm of my kpop obsession 😂 like from what I gather most fans are after physical albums to get the photocards (like the goodies).. on the other hand there's me going "oh I want the pHOTOBOOK!!! it feels so amazing in my hands and I love flipping through it--" and before you ask it's not because I enjoy the beautiful pictures within (although it is a nice bonus, always makes me appreciate the art of photography more ✨): "I like the weight of the pages and the scent of a new book no matter the type 😃"

my art obsession has also highkey snuck its way into the kpop obsession like half of my decision when I decide what albums to get is "OK, but can I use the outfits the group is wearing in the phonebook for ARTISTIC REFERENCE??? 😀" (after first briefly skimming through unboxing videos) (this is real thought I have had. multiple times.)

[jrhartauthor]

Christmas may be over, but that doesn't mean you have to put away your Christmas reads for the season. Go ahead, you know you still want one... or five... or twenty-nine of them... (Pssst... get into the spirit of NYE with This Christmas, which has a great New Year's party!)

[brightwoods]

Ty years after the fact when he finds out that Kit's "I love you" was meant romantically and that Kit left because he thought Ty rejected him when Ty had assumed those words had been said as platonically as when any of his family members had said the same thing to him:

[gideonisms]

I bet whoever started the church doctrine of never loving anything in the world more than god just had god as a special interest

[erickaclay]

The cusp of something different.

Putting my dog down felt like excising a good portion of my past. For the longest time, it was my daughter and me and my two pups around the kitchen table, homeschooling and living and laughing and crying and wishing this moment in time would get over itself already and move on. And then it did. And now I’m thirty-eight, my dogs are dead, and my daughter is at school. And Jesus is saying, “It’s…

[envydean]

My parents have left the house...

Me: pulls up a balloon animal omegaverse book on my kindle...

[claredugmorewrites]

To build up excitement for the forthcoming Hexes and Heiresses Collection (coming summer 2023), some of the collection participants have written short stories connected to the world in their main collection story.

I have written one myself, called the Setting of the Sun, which features a young Princess Celestia, whose death in the main story is the catalyst for my forthcoming novella The Dark Side of the Moon.

To grab your copy of Twilight of the Witch Queen, and a host of other fabulous fantasy books, check out Free Fantasy December on BookFunnel.

[cruelsister-moved2]

this is so humiliating 30 years old and you still cant read a book that isn't abt sexy fairies going into heat

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

hi!! you recommended vonnegut a while ago, and i just read slaughterhouse five and it was incredible and i was wondering which one of his books is your favorite/which one you would recommend next?? thank you!!

oh my GOD yes yes yes I am not a normal person about kurt vonnegut. I have three options for you with pitches as to why.

Mother Night is one of my favorites out of everything he ever wrote, and it’s definitely an excellent second book. He wrote in his foreword that it’s the only book he ever wrote that he knew what the meaning of it was. Whether that’s actually true and remained true, I don’t know, but the point he makes in it is one that’s pretty profound and I’ve heard shockingly little of in media.

The book follows a former high-ranking member of the Nazi party, who was a very successful propagandist for them, which distracted from the fact that he was also the most successful wartime spy for Allied forces. It’s also one of the less weird books he’s ever written? Kurt Vonnegut really leans into absurdism, and it’s more evident in some books than others. This sort of helps with the learning curve.

That being said, Cat’s Cradle is my favorite out of all of his books, and it’s also the second I ever read, after slaughterhouse five. It’s like, 20% more weird than slaughterhouse five? So if you vibed with some of the weirder aspects of it (think like, the alien zoo subplot) then I highly recommend Cat’s Cradle. I honestly can’t figure out how to give a synopsis of this one without revealing information best revealed in the book, but it’s a commentary on the post-WWII arms race and religion. It’s insanely good.

The thing about Kurt Vonnegut is that he has a lot of different recurring themes, and I feel like everyone takes away some kind of core message from his works. That being said, I feel like The Sirens of Titan most clearly and compellingly states Vonnegut’s core message in his works, and it’s definitely a must-read out of his books. It’s not my favorite but it’s definitely fighting it out for a place at the very top of the list. It follows the richest man in the world, who has the least purpose in it, at the center of an interplanetary war between Mars and Earth.

I will say that there’s only one book that I would say you probably shouldn’t read as your second book and that’s Breakfast of Champions. There’s two reasons for this.

First, Kurt Vonnegut’s books exist in a loosely interconnected universe. He’s somewhere between Marvel and Shakespeare in how he does it. It’s not like Marvel where it’s feeding into an overarching narrative, and you don’t need to read them in some kind of particular order to understand, but he’s not like Shakespeare just alluding to his own works in different plays in the sense that these books are explicitly existing within the same universe. You have specific places (Ilium, which you saw in Slaughterhouse Five, shows up a lot) and characters that recur throughout. The protagonist of Mother Night, for example, is briefly referenced in Slaughterhouse Five, etc. They’re used primarily as a vehicle for meta commentary and it’s honestly so well executed.

Kilgore Trout makes the most appearances across the disparate novels. He’s widely regarded as a character meant to be a stand-in for Vonnegut himself, and he plays his largest role in Breakfast of Champions. You also have characters in Breakfast of Champions that are taken directly from his other books, like with the minor role the protagonist of Bluebeard plays in BoC (Bluebeard is also a banger of a book worth reading but personally my least favorite of all his books). Again, you don’t need to read Vonnegut’s books in any official order to understand them, but Breakfast of Champions has the most cameos and greatest use of meta fiction in it, so the reading experience is just overall enhanced by having a little more grounding in his other works.

The second reason is it’s really fucking weird.

In a brilliant kind of way. It’s regarded to be one of his best works, and it deserves the reputation. But the techniques he uses in this are by far the most experimental, and while those experiments absolutely pay off, I usually recommend that people get used to his particular approach to absurdism before tackling Breakfast of Champions. I highly recommend this book if you like Vonnegut, but really spend time with him as an author before reading it and you’ll get so much more out of it.

[vividxp]

If you are looking for more Black reactors/podcasts about AMC's IWTV, i've posted a few tagged as 'iwtv reactions'

[inky-evergreen]

A redraw of a redraw I did when Fgteev into the game was the only Fgteev book