Crawlers, hunters, monsters, pets, npc's, and a slightly unstable AI are just a few things one can expect from this fifth installment in the DCC universe.
All jokes aside, for a series that is at times gratuitously violent, gory, horrific, and comedic, this book wrapped up a storyline that left me with all the feels...and it involved a damned NPC.
Now I just have to decide whether to immediately dive into book 6 "The Eye of the Bedlam Bride"...
Just finished Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh and as the other books she'l has written that I already read it's amazing.
All the trigger warnings, and it contains all the different sparks of glittery darkness, lonely people that happen to be born under the wrong circumstances in the wrong environments.
@bookstodon and other avid readers, either I'm terrible at searching, or what I am looking for doesn't exist (in the U.S.)
I am interested in a print-only (no digital) adult graphic novel subscription service, not comics, and not the superhero stuff. Do I need to search by bookstores? Cratejoy is for the U.K. only, and I thought Panels would be perfect: quarterly, indie pubs, but I can only find their digital app. I would like physical copies, in a monthly or quarterly box subscription.
@kimlockhartga@bookstodon and the nice thing about a local comic shop is once they get to know your preferences they often will tell you about forthcoming works by creators you have read in the past or similar works by newer creators. A lot of the individual issues/ graphic novels I am reading currently were via such recommendations. I pick them up in person but the store is just 15 mins away.
@bookstodon on this #WorldRefugeeDay I'd like to both list and solicit recommendations for books about refugees. With the deepening Climate Crisis, each of us could find ourselves in such a position at any time.
My rec's:
The Beekeeper of Aleppo, Christy Lefteri
Illegal, Eoin Colfer
Welcome To The New World, Jake Halpern, Michael Sloan
@kimlockhartga@bookstodon that was the first one of hers I read, blew me away. I pretty much turned straight back to the start to read it again, and I never normally do that
@MagentaRocks@bookstodon Many thanks for linking that eye-opening article! I'm a big e-book borrower and knew that libraries pay more than the standard commercial price — but I had no idea how bad it really is. Plus, I've run into "piracy" complaints about the Internet Archive before and now know that's basically untrue trash talk.
Extinctions How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves by Michael J. Benton, 2023
A journey through the great mass extinction events that have shaped our Earth.
This timely and original book lays out the latest scientific understanding of mass extinction on our planet. Cutting-edge techniques across biology, chemistry, physics, and geology have transformed our understanding of the deep past, including the discovery of a previously unknown mass extinction.
“Since the Egyptian scribe Ahmes put pen to papyrus some time around 1550BC to explain how to calculate the slope of a pyramid, we’ve had over three millennia of maths literature. So within some level of statistical confidence: here are a subset of the best ever maths books.”
Eight years ago, a woman named Laurene asked writer Richard Kelly Kemick to finish her late husband's novel, a book he had planned to finish upon retirement from his career as a surveyor, but never got the chance. Out of embarrassment and naivety, Kemick accepted. "The hard part was already over —the labour of birthing an idea — and all I had to do was towel it off and spank a bit of life into it," he writes for The Walrus.
Here's more on his efforts to finish a dead man's novel and what he learned along the way. "The briefcase novel has taught me nothing about writing; it hasn’t taught me how to sculpt a sentence, how to develop character, not even how to craft a sex scene (from the notebook titled “Personalities”: “They made love, and she died.”). But the briefcase novel, and the surveyor who made it, has taught me everything about being a writer," he concludes.
@StonerMetal@bookstodon Great choice. Every progressive owes in part our perspective, at least on economics, to Karl Marx and Das Kapital. Took me over two years to trudge through all three volumes, but it was worth it. The observations are as true today as they were when it was first published. Of course, the Communist Manifesto needs to make an appearance at some point. 😀
“Baker’s brave defense of her community’s right to read is a testament to the vital role librarians play in upholding free speech and creative expression in the face of censorship.”
finally getting around to fred moten and stefano harvey's the undercommons, a book i've had for over 3 years. also one that @plainreading recommended when we were recording my pod episode. @bookstodon
@olliethewobbly@bookstodon Holy moly, that's a brilliant, beautifully written book—and I was just citing it this morning in a chapter I'm working on. Among other things, I weep with writerly envy whenever I open it up.
Coming in 5th, it's a fascinating and frightening look at the future of humanity as it grapples with peace after a thousand-year war. It's Children of the Black, Book 1 of the Silver Sights Saga, by W. J. Long III! Great stuff.
This is the first time in a long time when I had to take a shower after reading a book.
This evening I finished second book by Saša Uhlová about low paid jobs. The first volume was about those job in Czechia, the second was about similar jobs in Germany, France and Ireland.
It was not an easy read and I hate what it tells/what's my interpretation about European societies. The most painful was reading about helping elderly people.
@redscroll@bookstodon after picking up some awful stuff, I can either let it sit with me, knowing I can do nothing about it or I can go take a shower and let those feelings flow away