#bookquotewednesday — Public Fediverse posts
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"Don't play like you haven't heard this one before. When you create the conditions of war, you get to name the places it happened."
- Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball And Ascension
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"Don't play like you haven't heard this one before. When you create the conditions of war, you get to name the places it happened."
- Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball And Ascension
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"Don't play like you haven't heard this one before. When you create the conditions of war, you get to name the places it happened."
- Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball And Ascension
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"Don't play like you haven't heard this one before. When you create the conditions of war, you get to name the places it happened."
- Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball And Ascension
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"Don't play like you haven't heard this one before. When you create the conditions of war, you get to name the places it happened."
- Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball And Ascension
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#bookquotewednesday (From a not yet published WIP):
"Not a problem to the Prefectorate: marriage is a holy sacrament between one patriarch and however many wives he can grab and hang onto without starting a blood feud …"
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#BookQW is with us once more, and this time I remembered about it before the last moment. The prompt word is DRY.
Feminist comedian Jemima has recently been dumped by her manager Eddie. Her PA, Imogen, discovers the reason why; Eddie has taken Jemima's drug-abusing ex-husband Chaz on as a client instead.
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It's #BookQW time. Well, actually, it's past that time, but I'm pretending it's still Wednesday here. The prompt word this week is "free":
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"At that moment the power of reading made itself clear and real to me. If I could see the words, then no one could control them or what I got from them. They couldn't even know if I was merely seeing them or reading them, sounding them out or comprehending them. It was a completely private affair and completely free and, therefore, completely subversive." - James, by Percival Everett
#Books #Bookstodon #BookQuoteWednesday #Resist #BookQuote @bookstodon
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"At that moment the power of reading made itself clear and real to me. If I could see the words, then no one could control them or what I got from them. They couldn't even know if I was merely seeing them or reading them, sounding them out or comprehending them. It was a completely private affair and completely free and, therefore, completely subversive." - James, by Percival Everett
#Books #Bookstodon #BookQuoteWednesday #Resist #BookQuote @bookstodon
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"At that moment the power of reading made itself clear and real to me. If I could see the words, then no one could control them or what I got from them. They couldn't even know if I was merely seeing them or reading them, sounding them out or comprehending them. It was a completely private affair and completely free and, therefore, completely subversive." - James, by Percival Everett
#Books #Bookstodon #BookQuoteWednesday #Resist #BookQuote @bookstodon
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"At that moment the power of reading made itself clear and real to me. If I could see the words, then no one could control them or what I got from them. They couldn't even know if I was merely seeing them or reading them, sounding them out or comprehending them. It was a completely private affair and completely free and, therefore, completely subversive." - James, by Percival Everett
#Books #Bookstodon #BookQuoteWednesday #Resist #BookQuote @bookstodon
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"Sport is agony. We agree to suffer endlessly in exchange for the mere possibility of sublime rapture. Sometimes, we even get it."
-- Why We Love Baseball: A History In 50 Moments by Joe Posnanski
#Baseball #Sports #MLB #OpeningDay #Books #BookQuoteWednesday #BookQuote #Bookstodon @bookstodon -
"I arrived at the Ministry sweaty and vibeless. It was a dark toothache of a day, barely qualifying in its chromatic dullness for 'gray.'"
- The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
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"He looked at no one. His face was a mask.
They walked on."
- The Long Walk by Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman)
#Books #Bookstodon #BookQuote #BookQuoteWednesday #StephenKing @bookstodon
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The key word today is "earth".
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For #BookQW here's a fragment of a nightmare from Eilert's perspective, as he remembers old fears.
Wiz Duos 1 is available from the fine people at Wizard's Tower Press: https://wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/novellas-the-wiz-duo-series/wiz-duo-book-1/
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"And quite a few books.
I always think that the quickest way to understand someone is to look at what's on their bookshelves. Especially if they are honest bookshelves, not the fancy ornamental kind. And there was nothing fancy or ornamental about this place."
- Grace Winters, The Life Impossible by Matt Haig
#Books #Bookstodon #BookQuote #BookQuoteWednesday #Quote @bookstodon
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It's #BookQW and Eilert is meeting his former tutor.
https://wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/novellas-the-wiz-duo-series/wiz-duo-book-1/
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"Coveleski.
Your warhammer is POLISH?"
- Sophia, I Kill Giants by Joe Kelly
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It's #BookQW, so let's have the build up to an inadvisable excursion!
https://wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/novellas-the-wiz-duo-series/wiz-duo-book-1/
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Today's #BookQW is a three-fer! Who knew there were so many WORLDs to go around?
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For #BookQW, the word is 'run'. Here, we encounter one of the deadlier hazards of the Rust Graveyard.
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#BookQW More of Garnas shopping for equipment!
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"He could not have been more than thirteen years old and yet, like all of them, he was already quite grown up. Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child." - Dr. Watson in The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
#Books #Bookstodon #BookQuote #BookQuoteWednesday @bookstodon
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Who'd like to read about a magical weapon for #BookQW? The word is 'miss'.
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For #BookQuoteWednesday, Garnas gets a different kind of drop on someone.
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#BookQW #BookQuoteWednesday Today's word is "idea":
“Can I feel more hopeful now?” asked Juniper.
“If that helps you to go on,” said Vaendras. “By tonight we should reach the Grove, and then we'll know whether we have any hope.”
“Hope of what?” asked Hesko. “Saving Shellwall?”
“Naturally. We have the option of fleeing for our lives, of course, but I don’t expect either of you will cotton to that idea.”
“Running away from trouble is an easy habit to fall into,” said Hesko, “and a bad one.”
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Bit of a gruesome one, I fear, as the prompt word is "flesh":
Blisk had been a tall man as well as a muscular one; in simple terms of size and mass, he had probably weighed nearly as much as Juniper and Flint put together. Blisk’s former avoirdupois was scattered all over the bedchamber, covering the walls, the bedding, the floor — there were even gobbets of flesh dangling coyly from the ceiling.
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It's #BookQuoteWednesday and the word is 'turn'. Garnas has not found his sea legs.
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"You know what actually smells nice? The pheromone that puts kaiju and their parasites in murder mode. If you smell something that reminds you of oranges, you should run.” - Kahurangi in Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
#BookQuoteWednesday #Books #Bookstodon
(I wonder if @scalzi is giving The Shining a tip of the hat with this nugget)
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It's #BookQW and Eilert is showing Garnas a whole new world.
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The word for this week's #BookQW is 'play', and Eilert is up somewhere high.
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Today's word for #BookQuoteWednesday is CLIMB. Here's a passage from To Sail the Interstice, where someone returns to an old haunt and sees it with different eyes.
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"You could have driven past, but didn't. He needed somebody, and you stopped and listened. You're a man who stops and listens. If that's not the definition of friendship, it's close enough for now."
- Lark in "I Cheerfully Refuse" by Leif Enger
#BookQuote #BookQuoteWednesday #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
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Jeff Jarvis, Clay Shirkey, and Clayton Christensen (to name just three) are ultimately nihilists: They gushingly compare the internet to the printing press only because they see the creation of each as a “disruptive” event—they couldn’t care less about human flourishing, let alone about what made print so special (and the allure endures enough that they have the nerve to write books talking about how books and book culture suck). #book #books #booksToRead #BookQuoteWednesday #bookstodon
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"He sits crouched in the chair with his head down on the desk, and his eyes closed, in a state of misery and peace." - Oryx And Crake by Margaret Atwood
#Books #Bookstodon #BookQuote #BookQuoteWednesday @bookstodon
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"You'd kill him?"
Roland's smile was wintry in the moonlight. Merciless.
"Without a moment's hesitation," said he.- The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower VII)
#Bookstodon #BookQuote #BookQuoteWednesday #StephenKing #TheGunslinger #Books @bookstodon
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Post a quote from your book/story/poem/essay or a quote that resonates with you. Here's mine.
"I don't invite this trouble. It just comes to me," Carlito Brigante, After Hours, by Edwin Torres
I model all my baddies on this line. #crimefiction
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#bookquotewednesday #bookqw Today’s word is “hope.”
Here, my time traveler from BROADWAY REVIVAL has just met the Gershwin brothers, confessing his dreams of being a musical theatre triple threat. He mentions some versatile talents of the thirties, and muses privately about others not born yet. Today’s readers will recognize #linmanuel and #davemalloy but I included others from the 2070s. Because I hate sf novels that think culture stops around the time of a book’s publication.
#musicals