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We love our customers.
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Booksellers work with ~ 25% margin,
Amazon wants 60% from the publishers.
We pay fees and taxes in our city, Amazon doesn't.
We have fair working conditions, Amazon doesn't. Why do people buy books from Amazon? We have fixed prices in Germany, whether in Munich, Buxtehude or on Amazon - new books cost the same!
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The selection committee for the Akutagawa and Naoki literary awards have announced that no works will receive either of the biannual awards this time — for the first time in 27 years. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/07/17/books/akutagawa-naoki-no-awardees/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #books #awards #literature #books #akutagawaprize #naokiprize
In his memoir “Things Become Other Things,” the writer, photographer and walker finds beauty in what’s vanishing, one step, one story, one cup of coffee at a time. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/07/16/books/craig-mod-things-become-other-things/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #books#craigmod #hiking #walking #kissaten
Just learned about the memoir "The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots" by John Swanson Jacobs.
John Swanson Jacobs was an enslaved person who escaped and travelled all over the world before writing his memoir in Australia, which makes it the only memoir of a formerly enslaved person we know of which was not edited by and published under the auspices of a white abolitionist.
It was lost for over 150 years and just rediscovered and reprinted last year. Sadly, it's being sold at academic prices, which means $20 for the ebook and over $100 for the hardcover. I plan to see if it's available through interlibrary loan.
Anyway, amazing bit of rediscovered history, check it out!
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/U/bo213914021.html
From the humble backyard plot to the royal Water Theatre Grove at Versailles, gardens have long been a source of sustenance, beauty, and spiritual communion. A new book cultivates a rich survey of 300 magnificent gardens.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/07/the-contemporary-garden/
Okay Fediverse, what are you reading today? 📚
#FediBookClub#Reading#Books#Literature#Recommendation#Book#Novel#TBR
You can pick from any work of fiction.
Who do you choose to lead your party in a quest of unknown challenges and difficulty?
#fiction #books #anime #manga#VIDEOGAMES #ttrpg #ccgs#TV #television #movies #film#musicals #comics
My book Drystone – A Life Rebuilt is out in just three weeks.
I really believe in this book. It’s honest about important things, quietly subversive, funny, easy to read, and I’ve poured everything into writing it and getting it into the world as far as I can.
If you can, I’d love your help. A share, a preorder, a message to someone who might love it, it all makes a difference.
Info and links below.
Twelfth Night has always been my favorite Shakespeare play. Most folks don't know that Shakespeare can be hella queer -- and Twelfth Night is Shakespeare at his queerest.
But even at his queerest, Shakespeare is implicitly queer, never explicitly.
So I challenged myself to take the implicit queerness of Twelfth Night and make it explicit.
The result is What You Will: A Queer-er Shakespeare.
I kept the dialog from Twelfth Night almost entirely unchanged, using action and internal monologue to bring the queer to the surface where we can all see it.
In What You Will, the cross dressing Viola becomes a trans egg, slowly realizing that Cesario is who he really is. And the bisexual disaster Sebastian... stays a bisexual disaster, but this time gets a happier ending.
What You Will is half off on Smashwords this month. Check it out today!
In the days leading up to the release of Convergence of Connection, I've been posting "out of context quotes" from the series (to get people interested and/or excited).
I've not posted them here yet (I don't want to overwhelm you all), but today's quote is one of my favorites, so I'm sharing it with you. 💚
I finished Atmosphere on Saturday and, after sitting with it for a few days, I think it might be one of my favourite books ever.
I thought Taylor Jenkins Reid would struggle to surpass Seven Husbands but man, this does.
I really really hope this gets adapted (properly) for the big screen because the narrative deserves it.
Read it!
9/10*
*Marks removed for emotional devastation
An Anciente Mappe of Fairyland by Bernard Sleigh, 1920
If you believe in fairies, this ancient map and guide will help you know them and find them
By Paul Sorene
Fairyland at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/37291
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