#7books — Public Fediverse posts

My old pinned post is kinda outdated now. Time for an update!

Again, in no specific order, 7 books that influenced me:

The King's Two Bodies
Ernst Kantorowicz

The Sleepwalkers
Christopher Clark

Catholicism
Bishop Robert Barron

Lost in Thought
Zena Hitz

The Invention of Science
David Wootton

The Historian
Elizabeth Kostova

Physical Foundations of General Relativity
Dennis Sciama

#introduction #7books #bookstodon #bookwormph

When I joined Mastodon two years ago, the #7Books #7BooksToKnowMe hashtags were a thing, and I had fun compiling my list. How do I choose only SEVEN?!? At the time I declared that my list was by no means permanent. With that said, I feel an update is past due, especially since one of the authors from my original list turned out to be... problematic. I'm posting the original list, as well as the current version (images to save characters, with #AltText of course).
#Bookstodon #Books @bookstodon

@RadiantFlux
#7books
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1. American Tabloid
James Ellroy

2. VALIS
Philip K. Dick

3. Neuromancer
William Gibson

4. The Job
William S. Burroughs

5. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Mordecai Richler

6. The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail
Henry Lincoln, Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh

7. Anne of Green Gables
L. M. Montgomery

Dieser Buchcover-Quatsch, der da von außen reingeschwappt kam, scheint mir recht ungelenk. Für Mastodonten gibt es immerhin meistens ALT-Beschriftungen, aber die enthalten nicht etwa Bildbeschreibungen, sondern nur Autor:in und Titel. Wenn euch die Umschlaggestaltung sowieso schnuppe ist, warum belastet ihr die Infrastruktur dann mit ihren zahlreichen Pixeln? Die letzte Aktion dieser Art - "#7books to get to know me" mit allen Angaben in einem einzigen Toot, anno domini 2022 - war nicht nur ergiebiger und erkenntnisreicher, sondern auch ressourcenschonender. #20books #20books20days #nobluesky

#7books seems like an interesting way to find out more about people's tastes.

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Regeneration by Pat Barker

The Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard (yes the whole lot counts as one)

Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

Nella Last's Diaries

The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki

Doctor Syn: A Smuggler Tale of Romney Marsh by Russell Thorndike

How about a picture of #7books for #7BooksToKnowMe ?

Saw the tag #7BooksToKnowMe and #7Books and couldn't resist - and me being me it won't be just 7 books but 7 series:

- The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
- Culture series, especially Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
- Sprawl trilogy by William Gibson
- The Elric Saga by Michael Moorcock
- The Sandman by Neil Gaiman (yes, it's a comic, but still counts)
- Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
- Dune series by Frank Herbert (yours truly is a completionist, so including all the KJA & BH stuff).

Ok, let's do this. Geez, I love this.

#7BooksToKnowMe

My #7books list:

- The Hitchhiker Guide To The Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
- Blood Meridian (Cormack McCarthy)
- The Memory Illusion (Julia Shaw)
- Foundation (original trilogy, Isaac Asimov)
- Lord Of The Rings (J. R. R. Tolkien)
- The Complete Fiction Works of H.P. Lovecraft
- Il Sistema Periodico (The Periodic Table) (Primo Levi)

Sometimes you come across a hashtags that makes you think. And maybe even write a blog post. Like #7Books that will help you to get to know me. First there was some hesitation, because would I even get to seven books? And maybe the books I pick are too shallow or maybe a bit over the top?

I have not been reading much in recent years. Time was spent on family live, birding/walking, social media and yes, work. And to be honest, picking a book I read a thousand year ago to ‘describe me’ seems a bit forced. Anyway, I give it a shot…

I start with two books that are my all-time favorites I recently reread: 1. The origin of species – Charles Darwin 2. A short history of nearly everything – Bill Bryson

Writing this reminds me of an exercise we did in school. Watching an old drawing with several people (unfortunately forgot the scene) we were asked with which person we identified the most. I picked the person observing the other people in the scene. To observe and wanting to understand how thinks work. So basically I am a science guy. And add: not into religion.

The groundbreaking book of Charles Darwin is awesome in several ways. The epic journey with the Beagle which lead to this book (and others), the reasoning and deduction of the scientist which lead to the theory and the endeavor to publish it while he knew there would be religious flack. I am proud to own a 6th edition from 1897.

The book by Bill Bryson is complete different. Bill is not a scientist but an observer with many questions he dares to ask. In this book he covers many topics of life, nature, science, universe, and everything. Written clearly and with a lot of humor. Bill is a brilliant writer, and I read most of his books and I have a small collection. I could easily fill the list with his books, but that is probably not the idea behind #7Books. That being said…

Books 3 and 4 3. The Monk in the Garden: The lost and found genius of Gregor Mendel – Robin Marantz Henig 4. The Body – Bill Bryson

Gregor Mendell was an Austrian scientist and monk who lived in the 1800s. He experimented on garden pea hybrids and is known as the father of modern genetics. The book itself is partly fictionalized because many records about his live are lost. I read this book a long time ago (even before reading Darwin).

The Body is Bill Bryson latest and probably last book (because of retirement) in which he guides the reader through the human body. With facts and anecdotes the books leads to a deeper understanding of human body.

There are thousands of things that can kill us—slightly more than eight thousand, according to the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems compiled by the World Health Organization—and we escape every one of them but one. For most of us, that’s not a bad deal. – Bill Bryson

Books 5, 6 and 7 – fiction department In the fiction department I have read books in different genres, from Stephen King to Harry Mulisch, and from Nicci French tot Jonas Jonasson. I do not keep all the books I read. Some books I enjoyed so much the end up on the bookshelf. To be honest it feels very arbitrary to pick three books, because most of them I read a long time ago. But looking at the bookshelf these three caught my attention the most: 5. The Kite Runner – Haled Hosseini 6. The shadow of the wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafón 7. Censoring an Iranian Love Story – Shahriar Mandanipour

Not sure what these books tell about me…

#7Books

https://mokum.icu/7books/

New instance, new #introduction part 2 (reposted from my previous instance):

#7Books is agony, so #14books it is:

— #Imajica by Clive Barker
— #Orlando by Virginia Woolf
— #GoodOmens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
— #JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrel by Susanna Clarke
— #TheSouthernReachTrilogy by @jeffvandermeer
— #DearSenthuran by Akwaeke Emezi
— #TheGoneAwayWorld by Nick Harkaway
— #WhiteIsForWitching by Helen Oyeyemi
— #RoadsidePicnic by the Brothers Strugatsky
— #AllTheBirdsInTheSky by @charliejane
— #Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
— #TheGoldfinch by Donna Tartt
— #BloodMeridian by Cormac McCarthy
— #TheLibraryAtMountChar by Scott Hawkins

Ok, I fibbed. One last go-to comfort re-read: the #Discworld series, also by Terry Pratchett (Is listing an entire series cheating? I can't possibly pick one. Sorry not sorry.)

#NoSuchThingAsTooManyBooks #ComicsDeserveTheirOwnList #Bookstodon #BooksOfMastodon

Here is my #GetToKnowMe list for #7books. These items are my favorites because they were entertaining, I connected with them emotionally, and/or they helped me to better know myself.

— The Phantom Tollbooth #NortonJuster
— The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy #DouglasAdams
— The Gods of Jade And Shadow #SylviaMorenoGarcia
— Pattern Recognition #WilliamGibson
— Neverwhere #NeilGaiman
— Some Men Are Lookers #EthanMorden
— Bloom County Babylon #BerkeBreathed

#Bookstodon #books #InspiredByAdamcr

Here is my #GetToKnowMe list for #7books. These items are my favorites because they were entertaining, I connected with them emotionally, and/or they helped me to better know myself.

— House in the Cerulean Sea, #TJKlune
— The Expanse series, #JamesSACorey
— More Happy Than Not, #AdamSilvera
— Red, White & Royal Blue, #CaseyMcQuiston
— Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, #BenjaminAlireSaenz
— The Song of Achilles, #MadelineMiller
— We Are the Ants, #ShaunDavidHutchinson

#Bookstodon #books

[bringing over some previous posts to my new account]

Given, I am an avid reader and people want to find out stuff about me.

#7Books

J.D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye

George Orwell - Animal Farm

Allen Ginsberg - Howl, Kaddish & other poems

Jack Kerouac - Dharma Bums

John Steinbeck - Of Mice & Men

Theodor Storm - Der Schimmelreiter (The Rider on the white horse)

Alexander Solzhenitsyn - Archipelago Gulag

Seven books to know me. Some titles shortened due to character limit. In no particular order.

1 'Walden' Henry David Thoreau

2 'The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement' Eliyahu M. Goldratt

3 'Tuesdays with Morrie' Mitch Albom

4 'It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken' Greg Behrendt

5. 'The Five Love Languages' Gary Chapman

6. 'A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues' André Comte-Sponville

7. 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' Zora Neale Hurston

#7Books #bookstodon @bookstodon

I've saw a lot of #7books so I will recommend my own, but make all the authors #Arab. All books listed have helped to inspire me while #writing. Here are #7booksilove:

Khalil Gibran's The Prophet
The Golden Chariot by Salwa Bakr
Rama and the Dragon by Edwar al-Kharrat
The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz
+100 Iraq (short story collection)
+100: A Century After Nakhba (short story collection)
The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem

#7bookstogettoknowme @bookstodon #middleeast #writingcommunity

#7books #7bookstoknowme

In no particular order...

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

All the Myriad Ways by Larry Niven

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams

Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett

The Rowan by Anne McCaffrey

Startide Rising by David Brin

Breed to Come by Andre Norton

(It was difficult to choose just seven)

@bookstodon #sff #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #scifi

Repost for new server.
#7books #7bookstoknowme

1) Murderbot series by Martha Wells
2) Steerswoman series by Rosemary Kirstein
3) The Voyage of the White Cloud by M. Darusha Wehm
4) Manifold Worlds duology by Foz Meadows
5) The Innsmouth Legacy by Ruthanna Emyrs
6) Sal & Gabi duology by Carlos Hernandez
7) Tales of the Polity series by Francesca Forrest

Honorable mention, most of Aliette d'Bodard's work.

#book #books #bookstodon @bookstodon @bookstodon.com #sff #speculativefiction

#7books from my 2022 reading that I wrote “Fun!” beside after finishing them:
We Sold Our Souls - Grady Hendrix
The Atmospherians - Alex McElroy
The Verifiers - Jane Pek
The Husbands - Chandler Baker
Just Like Mother - Anne Heltzel
Counterfeit - Kirsten Chen
Bookish People - Susan Coll
Mickey 7 - Edward Ashton
Whoops, that’s eight :)
#AmReading #2022Reading

I'm 37 and just discovering I'm #neurodivergent, awaiting assessment while working on unmasking

One of things I realised through this process is that I can't do any of the #7movies, #7books and similar trends, because who am I?
What do I really like?

When I think of all the "top X favourites" lists I've compiled throughout my life I realise I actually don't like some of them, and can't for the life of me pick true favourites.

Will I have to rewatch all the films I've ever seen?

#7books to know me (not including my own 6 books. That would seem to be a more direct approach, but tbf the disadvantage is hardly anyone has read them so the list wouldn't tell you much)

* The Zero Stone, Andre Norton
* War of the Worlds, H G Wells
* The Count of Monte Cristo, Dumas
* Monkey (Arthur Waley translation of Journey to the West , Wu Cheng'en)
* Perdido Street Station, China Miéville
* Lord of the Rings, JRRT
* Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner

Celebrating the first Friday since classes ended by impulse buying a stack of books 📚 so what better time to do #7books … in no particular order, some of my most re-readable:
Frankenstein
Ancient Light
The Hobbit
Discourse on the Method
Sherlock Holmes (all)
The Moosewood Cookbook
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy #fridayfavourites #bookfedi #7booksilove

Celebrating the first Friday since classes ended by impulse buying a stack of books 📚 so what better time to do #7books … in no particular order, some of my most re-readable:
Frankenstein
Ancient Light
The Hobbit
Discourse on the Method
Sherlock Holmes (all)
The Moosewood Cookbook
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy #fridayfavourites #bookfedi #7booksilove

Celebrating the first Friday since classes ended by impulse buying a stack of books 📚 so what better time to do #7books … in no particular order, some of my most re-readable:
Frankenstein
Ancient Light
The Hobbit
Discourse on the Method
Sherlock Holmes (all)
The Moosewood Cookbook
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy #fridayfavourites #bookfedi #7booksilove

Celebrating the first Friday since classes ended by impulse buying a stack of books 📚 so what better time to do #7books … in no particular order, some of my most re-readable:
Frankenstein
Ancient Light
The Hobbit
Discourse on the Method
Sherlock Holmes (all)
The Moosewood Cookbook
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy #fridayfavourites #bookfedi #7booksilove

Celebrating the first Friday since classes ended by impulse buying a stack of books 📚 so what better time to do #7books … in no particular order, some of my most re-readable:
Frankenstein
Ancient Light
The Hobbit
Discourse on the Method
Sherlock Holmes (all)
The Moosewood Cookbook
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy #fridayfavourites #bookfedi #7booksilove

#7books #7livres #7libri #7libros #7bücher
- À la Recherche du Temps Perdu (1913–1927), Marcel #Proust
- Vierundzwandzig Stunden aus dem Leben einer Frau (1927), Stefan #Zweig
- The Waves (1931), Virginia #Woolf
- A Scots Quair (1932–34), Lewis #Grassic #Gibbon (Cloud Howe in particular)
- L'Iris de Suse (1970), Jean #Giono
- Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore (1979), Italo #Calvino
- El amor en los tiempos del cólera (1985), Gabriel #GarcíaMárquez

Connus ou moins connus !

#7Books - #novels - to know me:
#Ulysses - #JamesJoyce
#MansFate / #LaConditionHumaine - #AndréMalraux
#AnotherCountry - #JamesBaldwin
#MrsDalloway - #VirginiaWoolf
#TheMasterAndMargarita - #MikhailBulgakov
#GravitysRainbow - #ThomasPynchon
#TheDispossessed - #UrsulaKLeGuin
If you asked me tomorrow, this would change. #7bookstoknowme #novels #literature #LitStudies @litstudies

4. The #Bible (duh)

5. Cave-exits by #HansBlumenberg

6. Don Quixote by #Cervantes

7. The Unknown University by #RobertoBolaño

#7books #Bookstodon /2

OK #Bookstodon, so it is time for #7books that made a difference in my life, restricted to books that I have not [yet] read in full.

1. "Naked Lunch" by #WilliamSewardBurroughs

2. "Gravity's Rainbow" by #ThomasPynchon, obsession of my 20s! Note I technically read to the final page of this book the third time I tried reading it, but there are vast portions of the book are terra incognita for me.

3. "Regeneration Through Violence" by #RichardSlotkin

/1

Ahora que he retomado la lectura y la he cogido con más ganas, voy a hacer mi recopilación de #7libros.

📕 Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
📕 La casa de Bernarda Alba - Federico García Lorca
📕 El Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
📕 Maldito Karma - David Safier
📕 Reina Roja - Juan Gómez Jurado
📕 1984 - George Orwell
📕 Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

#7libros
#7librosparaconocerme
#7books
#bookstodon

Sé que la lista es extraña y pintoresca, pero tiene su explicación. 🧵⬇️

#7books #kidlit

Spring by #TaroGomi
#AKidsBookAbout Climate Change
#WolvesInTheWalls by #NeilGaiman
#WhereTheWildThingsAre
#ThisMooseBelongsToMe
The story of #FrogBellyRatBone

#7Books

#FoucaultsPendulum
#Moravagine
#ZenandtheArtofMotorcycleMaintenance
#RedMars
#ColdMountain
#TheDungeonMastersGuide
#Neuromancer

#7Periodicals

#2600
#Mondo2000
#Wired
#TheNewYorker
#Dragon
#Dice
#Harpers

Notes -
DMG - 1980 publication
Neuromancer includes the sequel #CountZero and sideways linked #MonaLisaOverdrive
Dice is a biker magazine.
Wired before 1997. Wired after 1997 is shit.
RedMars includes the trilogy

#7Books

#FoucaultsPendulum
#Moravagine
#ZenandtheArtofMotorcycleMaintenance
#RedMars
#ColdMountain
#TheDungeonMastersGuide
#Neuromancer

#7Periodicals

#2600
#Mondo2000
#Wired
#TheNewYorker
#Dragon
#Dice
#Harpers

Notes -
DMG - 1980 publication
Neuromancer includes the sequel #CountZero and sideways linked #MonaLisaOverdrive
Dice is a biker magazine.
Wired before 1997. Wired after 1997 is shit.
RedMars includes the trilogy

Lo reposteo por el cambio de cuenta.

#7libros #7books

Van los mios:
📚

Jesús no dijo eso, de Bart Ehrman.

Los cristianismos derrotados de Antonio Piñero

Jesús, una aproximación histórica, de Antonio Pagola

Justicia, de Michael Sandel.

Buda Blues, de Mario Mendoza.

El infinito en un junco, Irene Vallejo.

Cándido, de Voltaire.

@Bronwen I unfortunately regularly fail to get to the books I want to read, but I think I can still put together a list for #7books

- The Lord of the Rings #Tolkien
- Innumeracy #Paulos
- A Demon Haunted World #Sagan
- The Messenger #Zusak
- Beauty #McKinley
- Don't Make Me Think #Krug
- Lost at Sea #OMalley

Súmome a lista de 📚 #7libros #7books #bookstodon #literaverso cos que mais me presta destacar dos que vexo na estantería por diversos motivos (podedes preguntalos).

📖 A Praia dos Afogados - Domingo Villar :galician_heart:
📖 A triloxía The Century - Ken Follet 🏛️ 💯
📖 Odessa - Frederick Forsyth 🇩🇪 🔯
📖 Non penses nun elefante rosa - Antía Yáñez :galician_heart: ♀️
📖 Comer Comida Real - Carlos Ríos 🥗
📖 Triloxía da nova República - Timothy Zahn 🌌
📖 A Luz dos Jedi - Charles Soule 🔆 🛰️

Joining the challenge! Tried to pick seven that had a big effect on my life, not necessarily my favorites.

1. Foundation by Isaac Asimov - the first "grown-up" novel I ever read, it always stays with me for its themes of trying to understand history at a grand scale and use that understanding to make a difference.

2. Personal History by Katharine Graham - even more than books by journalists, the memoir by The Washington Post publisher made me believe in the power of the press and transparency. I did not know it at the time, but it helped me understand that life goes on after a loved one's suicide.

3. War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges - deepened my instinctual attraction to pacifism and showed me how powerful a cultural critique can be

4. The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton - at the time it was one one of the books that made me want to be a Catholic. I no longer possess that desire but Merton's story is still a model of spiritual seeking.

5. The Expressiveness of the Body by Shigehisa Kuriyama - one of the first books I read in graduate school and still an untouchable ideal of scholarship. A book I recommend to everyone to understand how history of science and medicine can change your perspective.

6. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf - For me, this book represents all the ways my wife has shaped my life. Like Woolf and all my other favorite novels, she sees people completely and has the type of sadness and compassion that engenders.

7. Parenting Outside the Lines by Meghan Leahy - I felt like this book gave me permission to be a dad and still be myself with all my flaws. And it made me take Buddhism, Taoism, and Zen more seriously as ideas I could actually apply in my life, not just esoteric traditions.

#7Books #7booksToKnowMe #reading #literature #bookadon #literature #philosophy #fiction

Veo por aquí a la gente recomendando sus #7libros #7books de cabecera a modo de tarjeta de presentación... ahí van los míos, leídos en "modo ocio"

1) El médico - Noah Gordon
2) El marciano - Andy Weir
3) Cosmos - Carl Sagan
4) Dime quien soy - Julia Navarro
5) Un plan sencillo - Scott B. Smith
6) Moby Dick - Herman Melville
7) Los 10 negritos - Agatha Christie

... así, a botepronto, y otros tantos que se quedarían en el tintero.

#bookstodon

#7libros #7books

Van los mios:
📚

Jesús no dijo eso, de Bart Ehrman.

Los cristianismos derrotados de Antonio Piñero

Jesús, una aproximación histórica, de Antonio Pagola

Justicia, de Michael Sandel.

Buda Blues, de Mario Mendoza.

El infinito en un junco, Irene Vallejo.

Cándido, de Voltaire.

#7books to get to know me:

Diamond Age--Neal Stephenson
Notorious Rake--Mary Balogh
Persuasion--Jane Austen
The Colored Fairy Books--Andrew Lang
Cockfighter--Charles Willeford
Sheltered--Charlotte Stein
Lamb--Christopher Moore

#romance #sciencefiction #mythology #unreliablenarrator #eroticromance #hilarious

#7Books Magic and witchcraft. Tomorrow I’ll share some general nonfiction and social justice.

1) Psychic Witch by #MatAuryn
2) Entering Hekate’s Garden by #CyndiBrannen
3) Practical Planetary Magick by #SoritaDEste and #DavidRankine
4) Condensed Chaos by #PhilHine
5) The Mighty Dead by #ChristopherPenczak
6) Blackthorn’s Botanical Magic by #AmyBlackthorn
7) Magic for the Resistance by #MichaelMHughes

#Magic #Books #BookLover #WitchCraft

#7Books Magic and witchcraft. Tomorrow I’ll share some general nonfiction and social justice.

1) Psychic Witch by #MatAuryn
2) Entering Hekate’s Garden by #CyndiBrannen
3) Practical Planetary Magick by #SoritaDEste and #DavidRankine
4) Condensed Chaos by #PhilHine
5) The Mighty Dead by #ChristopherPenczak
6) Blackthorn’s Botanical Magic by #AmyBlackthorn
7) Magic for the Resistance by #MichaelMHughes

#Magic #Books #BookLover #WitchCraft

#7Books Magic and witchcraft. Tomorrow I’ll share some general nonfiction and social justice.

1) Psychic Witch by #MatAuryn
2) Entering Hekate’s Garden by #CyndiBrannen
3) Practical Planetary Magick by #SoritaDEste and #DavidRankine
4) Condensed Chaos by #PhilHine
5) The Mighty Dead by #ChristopherPenczak
6) Blackthorn’s Botanical Magic by #AmyBlackthorn
7) Magic for the Resistance by #MichaelMHughes

#Magic #Books #BookLover #WitchCraft

#7books que impresionaron mi espíritu:

1. Ficciones de Jorge Luis #Borges
2. La historia interminable de Michael #Ende (lo estoy leyendo ahora)
3. #Tao te ching de Lao Tzu
4. Las Hortensias de Felisberto Hernández
5. Fedro de #Platón
6. Madame #Bobary de #Flaubert
7. Pedro #Páramo de Juan #Rulfo

#Librodon #bookdon #literatura #literature #philosophy #filosofía

#7books que impresionaron mi espíritu:

1. Ficciones de Jorge Luis #Borges
2. La historia interminable de Michael #Ende (lo estoy leyendo ahora)
3. #Tao te ching de Lao Tzu
4. Las Hortensias de Felisberto Hernández
5. Fedro de #Platón
6. Madame #Bobary de #Flaubert
7. Pedro #Páramo de Juan #Rulfo

#Librodon #bookdon #literatura #literature #philosophy #filosofía