Nerd Farah strikes again! Spent hours reading different translations of Heart Sutra only to realize there’s no good translation of those six words. #buddhism #AmReading
Just finished #UrsulaKLeGuin's VOICES, second book in the Annals of the Western Shore trilogy. As ever I'm awed by how vividly she depicts her worlds, like I just returned from a visit to Ansul. This trilogy may not get the level of attention #Earthsea gets, but I think they're just as lovely.
Alex, the Hearth Fire
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Since I'm in a hopeful mood, what's a hopeful read you'd recommend right now to keep riding this wave?
Fiction and nonfiction is both welcome. Articles welcome, short stories, novels, novellas, audiobooks in particular welcome (but I can do text too).
I wanna keep this good feeling!
Since I'm in a hopeful mood, what's a hopeful read you'd recommend right now to keep riding this wave?
Fiction and nonfiction is both welcome. Articles welcome, short stories, novels, novellas, audiobooks in particular welcome (but I can do text too).
I wanna keep this good feeling!
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I've finished: The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher
Well, that's it I've finished T. Kingfisher's audiobook catalogue up to 11.2025.
I kept The Hollow Places in reserve because it was the most horror coded of her novels, and while it is full of horror and creepiness, it also has Kingfishers human touch. Softening the hard edges with humor and self reflection.
Trust Kingfisher to write horror that I can thoroughly enjoy.
P.S.
As someone living outside the US, one of the most alien aspects of the novel is the constant angst about the cost of medical treatment. That is truly horrifying.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/828dc8ee-3669-46c8-84b2-7f0077ad2d05
@bookstodon @audiobooks #ScienceFiction #horror #humor #TKingfisher #bookstodon #amReading #AudioBooks
I've finished: The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher
Well, that's it I've finished T. Kingfisher's audiobook catalogue up to 11.2025.
I kept The Hollow Places in reserve because it was the most horror coded of her novels, and while it is full of horror and creepiness, it also has Kingfishers human touch. Softening the hard edges with humor and self reflection.
Trust Kingfisher to write horror that I can thoroughly enjoy.
P.S.
As someone living outside the US, one of the most alien aspects of the novel is the constant angst about the cost of medical treatment. That is truly horrifying.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/828dc8ee-3669-46c8-84b2-7f0077ad2d05
@bookstodon @audiobooks #ScienceFiction #horror #humor #TKingfisher #bookstodon #amReading #AudioBooks
Haven't been keeping up with reading this year, so I started to lag behind on my bare minimum of one book a month. To get back in shape, I finished three this month and currently browsing my vast #Calibre database for a fourth one.
#AmReading #Books #Really
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.
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.
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
I just finished reading "Man in the High Castle." Man, the TV series took a lot of liberties with it!
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?
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Need to add this book to my TBR list. #amreading #amwriting
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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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
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
William Gillis 🏴
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Look what came today!
Did the Science Wars Take Place, by William Gillis @rechelon
More info: https://mastodon.social/@rechelon/115096303102083094
And I had things to do this afternoon other than reading, we'll see if any of that happens..
