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Dr. Rachel Reddick
@rr4idic@mastodon.online  ·  activity timestamp last week

Another #book I've read lately: Automatic Noodle, by Annalee Newitz. Exactly the cozy, community-building sci-fi I wanted. I love all the robots and now I'm hungry for noodles.

#amreading #cozy #nearfuture #scifi

Automatic Noodle, by Annalee Newitz.  The stylized cover shows a robot hand using chopsticks to lift a bunch of long noodles from a box decorated with the Golden Gate Bridge.  Assorted smaller robots adorn the lower edge.
Automatic Noodle, by Annalee Newitz. The stylized cover shows a robot hand using chopsticks to lift a bunch of long noodles from a box decorated with the Golden Gate Bridge. Assorted smaller robots adorn the lower edge.
Automatic Noodle, by Annalee Newitz. The stylized cover shows a robot hand using chopsticks to lift a bunch of long noodles from a box decorated with the Golden Gate Bridge. Assorted smaller robots adorn the lower edge.
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@maloki@rage.love  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

If you're a autistic woman or girl, or suspect you might be autistic, or just a bit weird. I highly recommend reading Fern Brady's Strong Female Character.

Edit: 62 pages on day one, after not having been reading books with my eyes for quite a while, and not wanting to stop good. And I definitely think it's covering some perspectives of autism that not a lot of people talk about as much.

#AmReading #Bookstodon #BookRecommendation #Books

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Guan
@gu4n@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Profile bio checks out; I forgot my earphones and microfibre cloth, but not my ereader. Back to P. Djéli Clark's The Master of Djinn, gripping enough to not be disturbed by surrounding noise and dirty glasses.
#AmReading #SFF #Books #ButNotEnoughSadly

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@GenXer@theres.life  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

I just finished reading "Man in the High Castle." Man, the TV series took a lot of liberties with it!

#Books#AmReading

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Eve Ventually
@EveHasWords@toot.cat  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

One of the most annoying things about my Kobo is that the font size is so variable between books. On some, I have to increase the font size a lot. But then when I switch back to reading another, the font is comically large. Is there a setting I missing?

@bookstodon#AmReading

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@bobmueller@mastodon.world  ·  activity timestamp last month

Need to add this book to my TBR list. #amreading #amwriting

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@calendsofapril@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

I was raised by an anthropologist to be an anthropologist*, with all that entails.

She also raised me to be christian, I suppose, though never with much enthusiasm. And though she tried, disability and intermittent poverty meant that what science education she was able to provide was spotty.

I never told her I was an atheist. I think it's possible she was one, too.

When I was a young college student in the 1990s, I encountered postmodernism. I flirted with it. It was seductive. A professor I respected warned me to be careful with it. I was.

When I was a young mother in the 1990s and into the new millennium, I scoured every children's book purporting to be about science before I brought it home. Creationism was seeping into the world my children inhabited.

The resurgence of creationism in education in the 2000s—and the resistance to it—became one of the defining cultural battles to play out during my young adulthood.

I thought I understood where the resurgence came from. I had, to my horror, brushed up against reactionary christianity as a teenager. I had seen these people in their own environment. So I thought I could see the bulk of the iceberg under the wedge at the surface.

But what I was able to see didn't quite explain the anti-vaxxers.

That particular branch of anti-science sentiment was as likely to be embraced by "progressive" hippy homesteaders as reactionary christian natalists. Where did the anti-vaxxers come from?

What lead to denial of reality across the political spectra?

I did not know about the science wars in the 1990s. I did not know the role postmodernism played in driving anti-science sentiment on the right. I want to understand.

I'm reading Did the Science Wars Take Place? by William Gillis @rechelon . There are pieces missing in my understanding, and I want to slot them in. I want to understand the whole. Reading this book is part of that.

I'm going to share quotes and thoughts as I make my way through the book. You're welcome to join me. Scroll down in the linked thread. Let's try to work this one out.

Here's the thread: https://kolektiva.social/@calendsofapril/115169983053251178

*I am not an anthropologist. By the standards of the academy, I am not anything. I am an anarchist.

#realism #postmodernism #creationism #anthropology #anarchism #theory#amReading #reflections

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Kem Herkes
@kmherkes@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

BOOK SALE! My fabulous fantasy story collection is still on sale for a few more days because I forgot to set an end date on the sale until an hour ago.
99 cents for 20 stories of whimsy, gargoyles, heroic aunties, brave doggos, & evil bureaucrats who always lose.
https://books2read.com/RelicsFromATravelingShow

#fantasy #wizards#MagicAcademia #magic #MagicSchool #superpowers #monsters #fae #witches #sorcery #elves #heroes#FoundFamily#GoodBooks #reading #writing#AmReading#FediBookfair#BookPromo @bookstodon@gup.pe

Cover of the ebook Relics From a Traveling Show by K. M. Herkes on a tablet screen, shown  against an atrocious pink textured background under a day-glow green graphic reading EBOOK SALE. At the right side is a list of the book contents, namely, whimsy, magic, heroic aunties, treacherous fae, Very Good doggos, and much more. On sale at $0.99. The end date of "in August" is crossed out in bright green and replaced by the words "through September 11"
 The book cover shows a figure at a desk in a wizard's study filled with arcane books and souvenirs. A window above the desk shows a bucolic landscape, a  circus tent and a caravan wagon at sunset.
Cover of the ebook Relics From a Traveling Show by K. M. Herkes on a tablet screen, shown against an atrocious pink textured background under a day-glow green graphic reading EBOOK SALE. At the right side is a list of the book contents, namely, whimsy, magic, heroic aunties, treacherous fae, Very Good doggos, and much more. On sale at $0.99. The end date of "in August" is crossed out in bright green and replaced by the words "through September 11" The book cover shows a figure at a desk in a wizard's study filled with arcane books and souvenirs. A window above the desk shows a bucolic landscape, a circus tent and a caravan wagon at sunset.
Cover of the ebook Relics From a Traveling Show by K. M. Herkes on a tablet screen, shown against an atrocious pink textured background under a day-glow green graphic reading EBOOK SALE. At the right side is a list of the book contents, namely, whimsy, magic, heroic aunties, treacherous fae, Very Good doggos, and much more. On sale at $0.99. The end date of "in August" is crossed out in bright green and replaced by the words "through September 11" The book cover shows a figure at a desk in a wizard's study filled with arcane books and souvenirs. A window above the desk shows a bucolic landscape, a circus tent and a caravan wagon at sunset.
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Kem Herkes
@kmherkes@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

BOOK SALE! My fabulous fantasy story collection is still on sale for a few more days because I forgot to set an end date on the sale until an hour ago.
99 cents for 20 stories of whimsy, gargoyles, heroic aunties, brave doggos, & evil bureaucrats who always lose.
https://books2read.com/RelicsFromATravelingShow

#fantasy #wizards#MagicAcademia #magic #MagicSchool #superpowers #monsters #fae #witches #sorcery #elves #heroes#FoundFamily#GoodBooks #reading #writing#AmReading#FediBookfair#BookPromo @bookstodon@gup.pe

Cover of the ebook Relics From a Traveling Show by K. M. Herkes on a tablet screen, shown  against an atrocious pink textured background under a day-glow green graphic reading EBOOK SALE. At the right side is a list of the book contents, namely, whimsy, magic, heroic aunties, treacherous fae, Very Good doggos, and much more. On sale at $0.99. The end date of "in August" is crossed out in bright green and replaced by the words "through September 11"
 The book cover shows a figure at a desk in a wizard's study filled with arcane books and souvenirs. A window above the desk shows a bucolic landscape, a  circus tent and a caravan wagon at sunset.
Cover of the ebook Relics From a Traveling Show by K. M. Herkes on a tablet screen, shown against an atrocious pink textured background under a day-glow green graphic reading EBOOK SALE. At the right side is a list of the book contents, namely, whimsy, magic, heroic aunties, treacherous fae, Very Good doggos, and much more. On sale at $0.99. The end date of "in August" is crossed out in bright green and replaced by the words "through September 11" The book cover shows a figure at a desk in a wizard's study filled with arcane books and souvenirs. A window above the desk shows a bucolic landscape, a circus tent and a caravan wagon at sunset.
Cover of the ebook Relics From a Traveling Show by K. M. Herkes on a tablet screen, shown against an atrocious pink textured background under a day-glow green graphic reading EBOOK SALE. At the right side is a list of the book contents, namely, whimsy, magic, heroic aunties, treacherous fae, Very Good doggos, and much more. On sale at $0.99. The end date of "in August" is crossed out in bright green and replaced by the words "through September 11" The book cover shows a figure at a desk in a wizard's study filled with arcane books and souvenirs. A window above the desk shows a bucolic landscape, a circus tent and a caravan wagon at sunset.
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@calendsofapril@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

Look what came today!

Did the Science Wars Take Place, by William Gillis @rechelon

More info: https://mastodon.social/@rechelon/115096303102083094

https://store.c4ss.org/index.php/product/did-the-science-wars-take-place-the-political-ethical-stakes-of-radical-realism-preorder

And I had things to do this afternoon other than reading, we'll see if any of that happens..

#anarchism #book #realism #theory#amReading

Photo of a book being held in the hand of a white person (that's me), in front of a leafy green background.

The book is:

Did the Science Wars Take Place, by William Gillis

The other text on the cover is:

The political and ethical stakes of radical realism
Foreward by Matilde Marcolli

The cover features a black and white photo of the fronts of two buildings abutting one another. One wall is rough with uneven stones and exposed brick. The other wall is smooth and finished, and has a window and a doorway. There's a fern growing in the lower corner in front of the rough wall.

The text on the cover is bold, in bright orange and pink. The effect is modern and stark.
Photo of a book being held in the hand of a white person (that's me), in front of a leafy green background. The book is: Did the Science Wars Take Place, by William Gillis The other text on the cover is: The political and ethical stakes of radical realism Foreward by Matilde Marcolli The cover features a black and white photo of the fronts of two buildings abutting one another. One wall is rough with uneven stones and exposed brick. The other wall is smooth and finished, and has a window and a doorway. There's a fern growing in the lower corner in front of the rough wall. The text on the cover is bold, in bright orange and pink. The effect is modern and stark.
Photo of a book being held in the hand of a white person (that's me), in front of a leafy green background. The book is: Did the Science Wars Take Place, by William Gillis The other text on the cover is: The political and ethical stakes of radical realism Foreward by Matilde Marcolli The cover features a black and white photo of the fronts of two buildings abutting one another. One wall is rough with uneven stones and exposed brick. The other wall is smooth and finished, and has a window and a doorway. There's a fern growing in the lower corner in front of the rough wall. The text on the cover is bold, in bright orange and pink. The effect is modern and stark.
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@calendsofapril@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

Look what came today!

Did the Science Wars Take Place, by William Gillis @rechelon

More info: https://mastodon.social/@rechelon/115096303102083094

https://store.c4ss.org/index.php/product/did-the-science-wars-take-place-the-political-ethical-stakes-of-radical-realism-preorder

And I had things to do this afternoon other than reading, we'll see if any of that happens..

#anarchism #book #realism #theory#amReading

Photo of a book being held in the hand of a white person (that's me), in front of a leafy green background.

The book is:

Did the Science Wars Take Place, by William Gillis

The other text on the cover is:

The political and ethical stakes of radical realism
Foreward by Matilde Marcolli

The cover features a black and white photo of the fronts of two buildings abutting one another. One wall is rough with uneven stones and exposed brick. The other wall is smooth and finished, and has a window and a doorway. There's a fern growing in the lower corner in front of the rough wall.

The text on the cover is bold, in bright orange and pink. The effect is modern and stark.
Photo of a book being held in the hand of a white person (that's me), in front of a leafy green background. The book is: Did the Science Wars Take Place, by William Gillis The other text on the cover is: The political and ethical stakes of radical realism Foreward by Matilde Marcolli The cover features a black and white photo of the fronts of two buildings abutting one another. One wall is rough with uneven stones and exposed brick. The other wall is smooth and finished, and has a window and a doorway. There's a fern growing in the lower corner in front of the rough wall. The text on the cover is bold, in bright orange and pink. The effect is modern and stark.
Photo of a book being held in the hand of a white person (that's me), in front of a leafy green background. The book is: Did the Science Wars Take Place, by William Gillis The other text on the cover is: The political and ethical stakes of radical realism Foreward by Matilde Marcolli The cover features a black and white photo of the fronts of two buildings abutting one another. One wall is rough with uneven stones and exposed brick. The other wall is smooth and finished, and has a window and a doorway. There's a fern growing in the lower corner in front of the rough wall. The text on the cover is bold, in bright orange and pink. The effect is modern and stark.
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@packetcat@tenforward.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

good morning

this morning I started reading Stories of your Life and Others, a collection of short stories by Ted Chiang.

the titular Story of Your Life short story is the one that the movie Arrival (2016) is based on, I've wanted to read this short story collection ever since I saw that movie years ago.

I just finished reading that short story, it is just as spectacular as the movie was (although different in some ways)

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/369d16f8-8682-4301-b703-c456809aa8c6

#books #bookstodon#AmReading

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@packetcat@tenforward.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

good morning

this morning I started reading Stories of your Life and Others, a collection of short stories by Ted Chiang.

the titular Story of Your Life short story is the one that the movie Arrival (2016) is based on, I've wanted to read this short story collection ever since I saw that movie years ago.

I just finished reading that short story, it is just as spectacular as the movie was (although different in some ways)

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/369d16f8-8682-4301-b703-c456809aa8c6

#books #bookstodon#AmReading

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Bob
@bobmueller@mastodon.world  ·  activity timestamp last month

Need to add this book to my TBR list. #amreading #amwriting

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Inhae
@life@social.inhae.blog  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

I started 白鳥とコウモリ… I love Keigo Higashino so much!! I should read his books more often!

I just finished the drawings for my journal entry. I decided to do one for each volume, because the book is so great! (At least the first 80 pages I read.)

I did a quick search, and I’m pretty sure that the bridge on the covers is the Kiyosu Bridge (清洲橋), a key location in the novel. It’s cool that it’s not just a random Tokyo pic, but something related to the story.

#ReadingJournal#Journaling#JapaneseLiterature#AmReading

An opened notebook and two books in Japanese. The notebook displays two drawings that mirror the book covers. One is on the bottom of the left page (a city outline with a bridge in front and a tower in the background), and the other on top of the right page (a suspension bridge).
An opened notebook and two books in Japanese. The notebook displays two drawings that mirror the book covers. One is on the bottom of the left page (a city outline with a bridge in front and a tower in the background), and the other on top of the right page (a suspension bridge).
An opened notebook and two books in Japanese. The notebook displays two drawings that mirror the book covers. One is on the bottom of the left page (a city outline with a bridge in front and a tower in the background), and the other on top of the right page (a suspension bridge).
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@life@social.inhae.blog  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

I started 白鳥とコウモリ… I love Keigo Higashino so much!! I should read his books more often!

I just finished the drawings for my journal entry. I decided to do one for each volume, because the book is so great! (At least the first 80 pages I read.)

I did a quick search, and I’m pretty sure that the bridge on the covers is the Kiyosu Bridge (清洲橋), a key location in the novel. It’s cool that it’s not just a random Tokyo pic, but something related to the story.

#ReadingJournal#Journaling#JapaneseLiterature#AmReading

An opened notebook and two books in Japanese. The notebook displays two drawings that mirror the book covers. One is on the bottom of the left page (a city outline with a bridge in front and a tower in the background), and the other on top of the right page (a suspension bridge).
An opened notebook and two books in Japanese. The notebook displays two drawings that mirror the book covers. One is on the bottom of the left page (a city outline with a bridge in front and a tower in the background), and the other on top of the right page (a suspension bridge).
An opened notebook and two books in Japanese. The notebook displays two drawings that mirror the book covers. One is on the bottom of the left page (a city outline with a bridge in front and a tower in the background), and the other on top of the right page (a suspension bridge).
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Jess Mahler
@JessMahler@indiepocalypse.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Starting my next nonfiction read today -- Incarnations: India in Fifty Lives by Sunil Khilnani

It's a history of India told through 50 mini-biographies.

I know more than most Anglos about India's literature, thanks to a couple of highschool and college classes. And along with that came a fair bit about the philosophies and religious traditions that live there. But next to nothing about the history of India.

I figure it's time to fix that.

#AmReading#Books

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packetcat
@packetcat@tenforward.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

starting Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/a474cb48-ba31-44a0-aaeb-0f9e2680705a

#books #bookstodon#AmReading

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@ljwrites@writeout.ink  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

So I #amReading#ATaleOfTwoCities again and this is near the end but

"These words are formed by the rusty iron point with which I write with difficulty in scrapings of soot and charcoal from the chimney, mixed with blood, in the last month of the tenth year of my captivity."

So did Dr. Manette write a message with his own blood because he needed a coagulating liquid or for the DRAMA 💀 #CharlesDickens

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@packetcat@tenforward.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

starting Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/a474cb48-ba31-44a0-aaeb-0f9e2680705a

#books #bookstodon#AmReading

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