#books — Public Fediverse posts
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‘The truth about Diana’: Charles Spencer to publish book about late sister https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/18/charles-spencer-diana-book-swan-song #Books #DianaPrincessOfWales #Monarchy #Culture #UkNews
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‘The truth about Diana’: Charles Spencer to publish book about late sister
By Ella CreamerEarl says he wanted to ‘write down my own thoughts and memories’ with 30th anniversary of Diana’s death ‘on the skyline’
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/18/charles-spencer-diana-book-swan-song
#Books #DianaPrincessofWales #Monarchy #Culture #UKnews #TheGuardian #EllaCreamer
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #BooksandComics #SciFi #Books #StephenKing 10 Best Sci-Fi Books of the 1980s http://dlvr.it/TV3yGK
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📚️ ‘Amazon buying [and destroying] rare #Books in bulk for [A I] training.’
https://flowingdata.com/2026/08/18/amazon-buying-rare-books-in-bulk-for-training/
😞
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Book Series I Want to Catch Up On: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-book-series-i-want-to-catch-up-on/
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Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis by Grace Lavery #books #literature #dedication
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Esto es bellísimo, gente 🖤🖤🖤
#books #libros #bookstodon #frances #french #literatura #literature
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Mussolini's Ghost: The Afterlife of a Dictator
"Gundle argues that the root causes of Il Duce's disturbing persistence lie in the way Italians negotiated the transition from war to peace and from Fascism to democracy. Instead of acknowledging the enthusiastic backing many had given to a criminal dictatorship, many Italians behaved as though Fascism had never really existed."
🔗 https://global.oup.com/academic/product/mussolinis-ghost-9780198805908
#Italy #Fascism #Fascist #BenitoMussolini #Mussolini #History #Histodons #Reading #Nonfiction #UniversityPress #Books #Bookstodon #Booksky #Academia
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Dear publishers and booksellers,
Fantasy is NOT science fiction.
Thrillers are NOT mystery.
Dark fantasy is NOT horror.
Please fix. Thank you for your time.
Signed,
A reader who keeps getting duped -
https://www.wacoca.com/media/741163/ Jリーグ33年分のファクト＆レコードを一冊に『J.LEAGUE FACT＆RECORD BOOK ”非”公式記録集1993～2025』8月19日発売 | 株式会社カンゼン #book #books #書籍
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https://www.magmoe.com/3168462/entertainment-news/2026-08-18/ 『VIVANT』キャストに関する“公式発表” ネット反応さまざま（オリコン） – Yahoo!ニュース #books #entertainment #EntertainmentTopics #エンタメ #エンタメトピック #書籍
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@janeishly @sundogplanets afaik #Tredition claims the US #AI companies(!) basically pinky promised(!!) to not train on everyone's #books once they feed them. Like yeah, that's gonna help... 🤦♀️ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/01/ai-memorization-research/685552/
Sad, imho. I hope more people complain. Perhaps to tredition, or the German culture secretary, or perhaps unions that can put on pressure:
https://tredition.com/support/kontakt https://kulturstaatsminister.de/ https://selfpublisher-verband.de/ #noai #llm #bookstodon #writing #writingcommunity #selfpublishing
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1st of December -
3 people
3 lives
3 journeyshttps://www.hhousebooks.com/books/first-of-december/
or search for Karen Jennings First of December
Original painting :
Les naufragés by Eugène Le Poittevin, 1839‘An important read’
Full review: https://www.instagram.com/p/DW3Mv_WjcsI/#outnow #newtitles #novel #publishing #tbr #tbrlist #books #bookstodon
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https://www.magmoe.com/3168420/book/2026-08-18/ 【開催決定！】2026年10月15日（木）『全国の工務店向け 書籍累計発行部数26万部超！年間360件の相談を解決する「市村塾」市村氏が公開する 裁判にならない建築現場の作り方』 | 一般社団法人日本優良ビルダー普及協会のプレスリリース #【開催決定！】2026年10月15日（木）『全国の工務店向け書籍累計発行部数26万部超！年間360件の相談を解決する「市村塾」市村氏が公開する裁判にならない建築現場の作り方』 #book #books #PRTIMES #サービス #サイト #ニュースリリース #プレスリリース #代行 #方法 #書籍 #配信
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Tues. Aug. 18, 2026: Internal and External Fog
image courtesy of M from PixabayTuesday, August 18, 2026
Waxing Moon
Pluto, Neptune, Saturn, Chiron Retrograde
Foggy, warm, humid
I hope your week started well!
You can read the Community Tarot Reading for the Week here.
Friday, I walked down to City Hall to put our primary ballots in the ballot box. On impulse, on the way back, I stopped at the patio of Door Prize to have an iced coffee and muffin from the Rainy Day Coffee pop-up and chat with the owner, which was tons of fun. I highly recommend both voting and treats!
Came home to work on the collage. The washi tape was a disaster (putting it mildly), because it doesn’t actually stick to anything. What is the use of decorative tape if it doesn’t stick?
I decided to use novelty pushpins, but couldn’t get the ones I wanted in time, so I sent off the submission with the photograph of the piece (sans pushpins, but telling them about the upcoming embellishment), dimensions, and statement. We will see. If it fits her vision for the show, great. If not, that’s fine, too. I won’t be offended. I’m pleased I was invited to submit! I got to work on something fun, and if it’s not part of the show, I will keep working on it until it’s right for something else.
A friend’s play was chosen for a short play festival in Vermont later this fall – during the time I’m in studio, so I won’t be able to trot up to see it, unfortunately. But I’m excited for her.
I customized this week’s CSA box, which I will pick up tomorrow. Many yummy things. I look forward to it.
I re-read Joan Anderson’s A YEAR BY THE SEA. My copy is in storage, so I got it out of the library again. I re-read it because I’d picked up a copy of A WEEKEND TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE on the free cart, and have been reading it, and wanted to start at the beginning again. I first read it either just before I moved to the Cape, or when I’d just arrived. I know the places she mentions now much better than I did when I first read it, and see her experiences through the way my own filters have changed, which is interesting.
I had to put a pain patch on the bad hip, because it was grumbling so badly I had trouble concentrating on anything.
I did a solid work session on the ghostwriting and got close to where I hoped to be by end of day. I considered working after dinner, but I was out of steam, and the pain patch was starting to fade.
Did not sleep well into Saturday, in spite of Legs Up the Wall every night. It’s not smoothing out my sleep cycles the way promised.
I was up early, did the housework, and lost most of the morning to paperwork I need to prepare to fight to keep my health insurance, thanks to this despicable administration. I have documentation up the ying yang, so that will help. It’s more of finessing the gap until I’m fully in the Medicare group by March (although, with the dirty shenanigans the administration is doing with that, too, who knows what things will be like come March).
In the afternoon, I read the next book for review, and did some reading for pleasure. I was tired, mentally as much as physically.
Leftovers for dinner, and made it an early night, yes, kept up Legs Up the Wall.
Too early a night, because I woke up at 1:30 AM on Sunday, and struggled to get back to sleep. The pose is getting me to sleep faster, and the sleep is deeper, but I’m still waking up in the middle of the night. I’ll still do it for the full 30 days and see what happens, but I’m a little frustrated.
Did the Community Tarot Reading for the Week, which you can read here. Some lovely cards came up.
My brain is whirring with the planning for this, that, other, and working backwards from dates to make sure everything gets done. I’m behind on a few things I hoped to get done last week, mostly because of the ghostwriting, but I will steady on this week. I don’t have all that much outing-and-abouting to do, which helps. I can do long days at the desk, into the night if I need to.
My mother’s primary care physician is leaving the practice in October, and she is being handed off to someone else. That’s the third doctor in five years, which is frustrating.
I got dressed and put together to leave the house, and left right after lunch to drive down to Ventfort Hall in Lenox. It was a lovely drive, although there was quite a bit of weekender traffic trying to get out. I went a slightly different way than I usually do, so I could avoid the chaos that is central Lenox on a summer weekend. I tried to backtrack the way I come out, which is different than the way I come in, and I found it. It’s actually much easier.
I parked, checked in, and had some time to chat with people and sit out back on the veranda. It was a lovely summer day.
The reading was the play GORGEOUS by Keiko Green. The literary committee read it last year and liked it, and it was great to see it on its feet for a reading. It was directed by Cat Ramirez, a director out of Philadelphia, and performed by Brenny Campbell and Annie Fang, stage managed by Sarah Keyes (who is the chair of the literary committee and just finished performing in IBOSS down at Great Barrington Public Theatre, the show I tried to see last weekend, but was sold out).
I sat with another member of the literary committee and his wife – it was the first time we’d met in person, since the meetings are on Google Meet. It was fun to chat in person.
The reading went very well – the actors and direction brought it to life in beautiful ways. Again, the trajectory from reading it in committee to seeing it on its feet is very satisfying. It’s a comedy with some very dark issues wrapped up in the humor.
There was a talkback afterwards, and Sabine Denise Jacques (part of WAM’s staff) talked about the safe container to hold different experiences and biases, and how a particular stylistic choice in this play did so when dealing with a difficult issue in it (I don’t want to give away spoilers for the play). That struck home, and made me realize, especially early in my career, how many spaces were deliberately made unsafe for both performers and audience, usually by the director, because they claimed it made the work more raw and honest. I’ve always disagreed with that, and now I wonder how different my own work and my career would have rolled out had I been enveloped in safe spaces (like my collaborator and I worked to create in MOON TRIBE TALES), rather than the unsafe spaces so often deliberately created. There’s no way to answer that, of course. There’s just a way to move forward, glad that the arena is changing, and that we all can work to make it better for the generation(s) coming up behind us instead of going, “well I had to deal with it, and turned out just fine!”
No, boo, you survived, which is to be honored, but you are not fine. There’s damage and scars, and why inflict that on others because it was inflicted on us? Make things better.
Anyway, I had a good cry about that in the car on the drive home, and then picked up my favorite Chinese comfort food at Golden Bamboo because I didn’t feel like cooking.
In the evening, I read the next book for review.
It was the 7th night of Legs Up the Wall pose, when everything was supposed to change.
Sigh.
It did not.
I woke up around midnight, and then Charlotte started fussing around 2. I managed to fall asleep after a bit, and dreamed I was visiting a long-time friend in London (we’ve been friends since we were about 13 or 14). I woke up at 5:30, to Tessa’s yelling, and started Monday. I am going to keep doing the full 30 days of L-u-the-W, but I am discouraged. I like doing it, but it’s not smoothing out the sleep issues as promised.
Monday quickly started Monday-ing, and can it just not once in a while? Sent off an email to the libraries, promising I would have some information to them by end of day (I’d hoped to get it to them early). Sent off some information answering questions someone sent a few weeks ago, which had fallen by the wayside, and I managed to get back on track.
Wrote and submitted 2 book reviews, got another book. If I can read and write the next two reviews in the next couple of days, I can batch invoice by the end of the week. The workflow has been very erratic from this job in the past few months.
Looked at a job listing that sounded good at first. Copywriter. Only under skills it listed “good at studio lighting” and “crowd interaction.” W-the-everlovin’-F? No. Your PRODUCTION TEAM is “good at studio lighting” and it’s a different job to be with crowds. Your COPYWRITER writes the damn words. Get a clue, people.
There have been multiple shootings in Pittsfield over the past few weeks, which is concerning.
I was sent an event invitation, only when I try to open it, it asks for inappropriate information. If you send me an e-vite, it’s already in my email, which is open. I should be able to click it, not have to re-sign into the email and then enter a lot of information that has nothing to do with the invitation. No. Just no. If you want to invite me to something, don’t set up barriers to the invitation and do it through a third-party platform. Give me the information I need to make a decision.
The Honor Roll playwrighting session was terrific. I got three scenes done on the play, and am galloping toward the climactic sequence. I’m fine on page count, too.
Got the promised work done on the panel for the librarians and sent it off for their review and suggestions.
Switched over to the ghostwriting, and had a solid session. I still have some character profiles to finish and a final polish, but there’s a chance I will get it out the door today, a day early. I also got some positive notes overall of the work I’ve done, which was a nice boost, given how glum I’ve felt about it lately.
Cooked catfish for dinner. Baked it in seasoned breadcrumbs. It was okay, but not something I would seek out in the future. It has been years since I ate catfish, and I guess this is why.
Read the next book for review in the evening, and will write and submit the review today. I hope to turn around one more book tonight, although it’s a big one.
I’ve noticed, since doing Legs up the Wall pose every night, that I fall asleep faster, and more deeply. Yay. But I wake up exactly 2 hours after I go to bed, thinking I’ve had a full night’s sleep. Not so yay. I mean, great I feel well-rested, but 2 hours ain’t gonna cut it, you know? I can usually fall back to sleep fairly quickly, but then the cats start fussing around 3 or 4, and it’s chaos.
It happened again last night – 2 hours good sleep, awake, went back to sleep, Charlotte started fussing around 3. I moved to the sofa, but gave up about 4:40 and just started the day.
Thanks to shrinkflation, our bread and coffee didn’t last the week, so I’m out this morning to restock, and to pick up a prescription for my mom. I will write and submit the review, then spend the rest of the day on the ghostwriting. I’d like to get that out the door today instead of tomorrow, and spend some time tomorrow on the Llewellyn article and the play.
No yoga tonight, so I can work as long as needed, provided I can keep up my energy levels.
Hope you’re having a good week! I hope the humidity breaks soon. It hasn’t been that hot, but the humidity makes everything feel heavy.
#art #books #exploitation #freelance #life #mentalHealth #playwrighting #technology #theatre #writing -
My review of Killing Floor by Lee Child is up at Conspicuous Consumption.
https://afterblockhead.blogspot.com/2026/08/killing-floor-by-lee-child.html
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After the government labels Angela a Super Villain she winds up as a stunt rider in Hollywood where her path keeps crossing with the mysterious Arktos, a superhero that just doesn't seem to want to give her up.
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #BooksandComics #Books #History #Adventure 10 Greatest Historical Adventure Books of All Time http://dlvr.it/TV3sj3
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Taoyuan Main Public Library, main building of Taoyuan Public Library.
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Amazon joins the list of companies destroying rare books to feed to the AI machine #AI #books
https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/08/17/amazon-joins-the-list-of-companies-destroying-rare-books-to-feed-to-the-ai-machine
