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📚 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6) - J.K. Rowling (2005) ★★★★★

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8872812403?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss

#Goodreads #Libros

"Saving Grace"

A very, very good fandom work of #ProjectHailMary from Rocky's perspective.

Quality reading
https://archiveofourown.org/works/55999603/chapters/142221274#workskin

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One of my favorites!

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HALLO!

Es ist so weit: #Kotomori ist live.

Dazu gibt es natürlich einen passenden Blog-Beitrag:

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Heyho du da!
Hast du einen kurzen Moment?

Erinnerst du dich noch an #Kotomori?
Eine Plattform für alle die Geschichten lieben und Welten erschaffen. Eine Community von und für Bücher-Nerds.

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Bookstores & Love Stories: My Trip to Scotland Inspired by ‘One Day’

At the top of the year, my eldest niece aka Niece invited me to join her on a trip to Scotland.

Dear Reader, I was just as perplexed as you are that my first-generation Haitian-American niece (like me) a) wanted to visit Scotland and b) visit during early Spring, whilst still chilly and rainy. The tropical Caribbean—where her mother was born—is right there! A shorter flight, no less!

Well, the trip was centered around the musical adaptation of the bestselling novel One Day by David Nicholls. Turns out I had watched the Netflix series a couple of years prior. It wasn’t until the credits were rolling that I learned it was based on a book. Had I known, I would’ve read the novel, then jumped into the series to do what we readers do: compare and contrast. Niece also watched the movie starring Anne Hathaway.

Set in Edinburgh, Scotland, One Day revolves around Emma and Dexter (Em and Dex), who meet at a “uni” (university) graduation party in 1988. What’s supposed to be a one-night-stand expands into a decades-long friendship fraught with unspoken, secret feelings.

It’s frustrating and endearing because the feelings are reciprocated. This isn’t a story of unrequited love. Somehow, through his immaturity and womanizing, Emma loves Dexter, and despite his sometimes selfish behavior towards her, she really is the only woman he’s ever loved .

For years, they’re not in the same place in life—geographically, career, relationships, maturity, financially. He’s white; her family is of Indian descent, though in the play she’s depicted by a Black woman. Em and Dex go on vacations together, call, and write letters, a crucial one is never delivered nor read. There’s a feeling of FINALLY! when they become a couple.

Then you realize there’s too much left in the book. Clearly, the coupling is not the typical happily ever after ending. I screamed at the TV watching the series, talked out loud to myself while reading the book, and was grabbed by Niece on my left and Sister on my right in the theater during the musical.

Niece and I knew what was coming. Sister did not.

The play was our second-to-last night in Scotland. It was a wonderful evening. We snapped photos and bought souvenirs in the downstairs lobby of The Royal Lyceum. Niece surprised us with a VIP experience in the theater’s upper room. A reserved bar table awaited us. The bartender served us chilled champagne until it was time to claim our seats—first row of the mezzanine.

Niece, ever the researcher, planner, and fellow book lover, found several bookstores for us to visit while in Scotland. I’m an over-packer and had to be mindful of suitcase space. I still had to buy a bag. In addition to the ONLY FOUR books I bought, I purchased lovely-smelling body butters, a vase from a museum gift shop, funky overalls for The Roots Picnic in Philadelphia in May, mini bottles of whisky for myself and brother, and whatever else escapes me at the moment.

It was late March. We braved chilly winds and rain. I wore leggings under my clothes every day and still never got too hot as we walked around, especially when we bookstore-hopped.

One of the first days, if not the first, we visited Waterstones, a chain bookstore. I purchased Before We Hit the Ground by Selali Fiamanya and a leather bookmark branded with the store name. On a separate day, Aunt-Niece Day, (my sister stayed at the hotel), we visited the combo McNauhtan’s Bookshop & Gallery and Typewronger, where I snagged Redwood Court by DeLana R.A. Dameron. The store owner stamped the inside of my book and gave me an elephant origami.

A short, brisk walk brought us to Topping & Company Booksellers, where I continued my purchases of Black-authored books with Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh and Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah. I also witnessed a real-life love story in real time.

While browsing on the lower level, I watched an elderly couple enter. They were both stooped over and took small steps. They were also snazzy dressers. The wife declared she’d wait for him downstairs, to which he replied, “You’re not going to come with me?”

The combination of the raspiness of his weathered voice, the longing in his voice, him reaching out to place his hand on hers, her quick and simple “ok,” and them shuffling off together towards the elevator left me teary-eyed with a lump in my throat.

I bet they didn’t squander years like Emma and Dexter did.

I want that elderly couple’s relationship one day.

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Bookstores & Love Stories: My Trip to Scotland Inspired by ‘One Day’

At the top of the year, my eldest niece aka Niece invited me to join her on a trip to Scotland.

Dear Reader, I was just as perplexed as you are that my first-generation Haitian-American niece (like me) a) wanted to visit Scotland and b) visit during early Spring, whilst still chilly and rainy. The tropical Caribbean—where her mother was born—is right there! A shorter flight, no less!

Well, the trip was centered around the musical adaptation of the bestselling novel One Day by David Nicholls. Turns out I had watched the Netflix series a couple of years prior. It wasn’t until the credits were rolling that I learned it was based on a book. Had I known, I would’ve read the novel, then jumped into the series to do what we readers do: compare and contrast. Niece also watched the movie starring Anne Hathaway.

Set in Edinburgh, Scotland, One Day revolves around Emma and Dexter (Em and Dex), who meet at a “uni” (university) graduation party in 1988. What’s supposed to be a one-night-stand expands into a decades-long friendship fraught with unspoken, secret feelings.

It’s frustrating and endearing because the feelings are reciprocated. This isn’t a story of unrequited love. Somehow, through his immaturity and womanizing, Emma loves Dexter, and despite his sometimes selfish behavior towards her, she really is the only woman he’s ever loved .

For years, they’re not in the same place in life—geographically, career, relationships, maturity, financially. He’s white; her family is of Indian descent, though in the play she’s depicted by a Black woman. Em and Dex go on vacations together, call, and write letters, a crucial one is never delivered nor read. There’s a feeling of FINALLY! when they become a couple.

Then you realize there’s too much left in the book. Clearly, the coupling is not the typical happily ever after ending. I screamed at the TV watching the series, talked out loud to myself while reading the book, and was grabbed by Niece on my left and Sister on my right in the theater during the musical.

Niece and I knew what was coming. Sister did not.

The play was our second-to-last night in Scotland. It was a wonderful evening. We snapped photos and bought souvenirs in the downstairs lobby of The Royal Lyceum. Niece surprised us with a VIP experience in the theater’s upper room. A reserved bar table awaited us. The bartender served us chilled champagne until it was time to claim our seats—first row of the mezzanine.

Niece, ever the researcher, planner, and fellow book lover, found several bookstores for us to visit while in Scotland. I’m an over-packer and had to be mindful of suitcase space. I still had to buy a bag. In addition to the ONLY FOUR books I bought, I purchased lovely-smelling body butters, a vase from a museum gift shop, funky overalls for The Roots Picnic in Philadelphia in May, mini bottles of whisky for myself and brother, and whatever else escapes me at the moment.

It was late March. We braved chilly winds and rain. I wore leggings under my clothes every day and still never got too hot as we walked around, especially when we bookstore-hopped.

One of the first days, if not the first, we visited Waterstones, a chain bookstore. I purchased Before We Hit the Ground by Selali Fiamanya and a leather bookmark branded with the store name. On a separate day, Aunt-Niece Day, (my sister stayed at the hotel), we visited the combo McNauhtan’s Bookshop & Gallery and Typewronger, where I snagged Redwood Court by DeLana R.A. Dameron. The store owner stamped the inside of my book and gave me an elephant origami.

A short, brisk walk brought us to Topping & Company Booksellers, where I continued my purchases of Black-authored books with Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh and Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah. I also witnessed a real-life love story in real time.

While browsing on the lower level, I watched an elderly couple enter. They were both stooped over and took small steps. They were also snazzy dressers. The wife declared she’d wait for him downstairs, to which he replied, “You’re not going to come with me?”

The combination of the raspiness of his weathered voice, the longing in his voice, him reaching out to place his hand on hers, her quick and simple “ok,” and them shuffling off together towards the elevator left me teary-eyed with a lump in my throat.

I bet they didn’t squander years like Emma and Dexter did.

I want that elderly couple’s relationship one day.

Subscribe so you can read more about my trip to Scotland and other book musings.

Bookstores & Love Stories: My Trip to Scotland Inspired by ‘One Day’

At the top of the year, my eldest niece aka Niece invited me to join her on a trip to Scotland.

Dear Reader, I was just as perplexed as you are that my first-generation Haitian-American niece (like me) a) wanted to visit Scotland and b) visit during early Spring, whilst still chilly and rainy. The tropical Caribbean—where her mother was born—is right there! A shorter flight, no less!

Well, the trip was centered around the musical adaptation of the bestselling novel One Day by David Nicholls. Turns out I had watched the Netflix series a couple of years prior. It wasn’t until the credits were rolling that I learned it was based on a book. Had I known, I would’ve read the novel, then jumped into the series to do what we readers do: compare and contrast. Niece also watched the movie starring Anne Hathaway.

Set in Edinburgh, Scotland, One Day revolves around Emma and Dexter (Em and Dex), who meet at a “uni” (university) graduation party in 1988. What’s supposed to be a one-night-stand expands into a decades-long friendship fraught with unspoken, secret feelings.

It’s frustrating and endearing because the feelings are reciprocated. This isn’t a story of unrequited love. Somehow, through his immaturity and womanizing, Emma loves Dexter, and despite his sometimes selfish behavior towards her, she really is the only woman he’s ever loved .

For years, they’re not in the same place in life—geographically, career, relationships, maturity, financially. He’s white; her family is of Indian descent, though in the play she’s depicted by a Black woman. Em and Dex go on vacations together, call, and write letters, a crucial one is never delivered nor read. There’s a feeling of FINALLY! when they become a couple.

Then you realize there’s too much left in the book. Clearly, the coupling is not the typical happily ever after ending. I screamed at the TV watching the series, talked out loud to myself while reading the book, and was grabbed by Niece on my left and Sister on my right in the theater during the musical.

Niece and I knew what was coming. Sister did not.

The play was our second-to-last night in Scotland. It was a wonderful evening. We snapped photos and bought souvenirs in the downstairs lobby of The Royal Lyceum. Niece surprised us with a VIP experience in the theater’s upper room. A reserved bar table awaited us. The bartender served us chilled champagne until it was time to claim our seats—first row of the mezzanine.

Niece, ever the researcher, planner, and fellow book lover, found several bookstores for us to visit while in Scotland. I’m an over-packer and had to be mindful of suitcase space. I still had to buy a bag. In addition to the ONLY FOUR books I bought, I purchased lovely-smelling body butters, a vase from a museum gift shop, funky overalls for The Roots Picnic in Philadelphia in May, mini bottles of whisky for myself and brother, and whatever else escapes me at the moment.

It was late March. We braved chilly winds and rain. I wore leggings under my clothes every day and still never got too hot as we walked around, especially when we bookstore-hopped.

One of the first days, if not the first, we visited Waterstones, a chain bookstore. I purchased Before We Hit the Ground by Selali Fiamanya and a leather bookmark branded with the store name. On a separate day, Aunt-Niece Day, (my sister stayed at the hotel), we visited the combo McNauhtan’s Bookshop & Gallery and Typewronger, where I snagged Redwood Court by DeLana R.A. Dameron. The store owner stamped the inside of my book and gave me an elephant origami.

A short, brisk walk brought us to Topping & Company Booksellers, where I continued my purchases of Black-authored books with Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh and Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah. I also witnessed a real-life love story in real time.

While browsing on the lower level, I watched an elderly couple enter. They were both stooped over and took small steps. They were also snazzy dressers. The wife declared she’d wait for him downstairs, to which he replied, “You’re not going to come with me?”

The combination of the raspiness of his weathered voice, the longing in his voice, him reaching out to place his hand on hers, her quick and simple “ok,” and them shuffling off together towards the elevator left me teary-eyed with a lump in my throat.

I bet they didn’t squander years like Emma and Dexter did.

I want that elderly couple’s relationship one day.

Subscribe so you can read more about my trip to Scotland and other book musings.

Bookstores & Love Stories: My Trip to Scotland Inspired by ‘One Day’

At the top of the year, my eldest niece aka Niece invited me to join her on a trip to Scotland.

Dear Reader, I was just as perplexed as you are that my first-generation Haitian-American niece (like me) a) wanted to visit Scotland and b) visit during early Spring, whilst still chilly and rainy. The tropical Caribbean—where her mother was born—is right there! A shorter flight, no less!

Well, the trip was centered around the musical adaptation of the bestselling novel One Day by David Nicholls. Turns out I had watched the Netflix series a couple of years prior. It wasn’t until the credits were rolling that I learned it was based on a book. Had I known, I would’ve read the novel, then jumped into the series to do what we readers do: compare and contrast. Niece also watched the movie starring Anne Hathaway.

Set in Edinburgh, Scotland, One Day revolves around Emma and Dexter (Em and Dex), who meet at a “uni” (university) graduation party in 1988. What’s supposed to be a one-night-stand expands into a decades-long friendship fraught with unspoken, secret feelings.

It’s frustrating and endearing because the feelings are reciprocated. This isn’t a story of unrequited love. Somehow, through his immaturity and womanizing, Emma loves Dexter, and despite his sometimes selfish behavior towards her, she really is the only woman he’s ever loved .

For years, they’re not in the same place in life—geographically, career, relationships, maturity, financially. He’s white; her family is of Indian descent, though in the play she’s depicted by a Black woman. Em and Dex go on vacations together, call, and write letters, a crucial one is never delivered nor read. There’s a feeling of FINALLY! when they become a couple.

Then you realize there’s too much left in the book. Clearly, the coupling is not the typical happily ever after ending. I screamed at the TV watching the series, talked out loud to myself while reading the book, and was grabbed by Niece on my left and Sister on my right in the theater during the musical.

Niece and I knew what was coming. Sister did not.

The play was our second-to-last night in Scotland. It was a wonderful evening. We snapped photos and bought souvenirs in the downstairs lobby of The Royal Lyceum. Niece surprised us with a VIP experience in the theater’s upper room. A reserved bar table awaited us. The bartender served us chilled champagne until it was time to claim our seats—first row of the mezzanine.

Niece, ever the researcher, planner, and fellow book lover, found several bookstores for us to visit while in Scotland. I’m an over-packer and had to be mindful of suitcase space. I still had to buy a bag. In addition to the ONLY FOUR books I bought, I purchased lovely-smelling body butters, a vase from a museum gift shop, funky overalls for The Roots Picnic in Philadelphia in May, mini bottles of whisky for myself and brother, and whatever else escapes me at the moment.

It was late March. We braved chilly winds and rain. I wore leggings under my clothes every day and still never got too hot as we walked around, especially when we bookstore-hopped.

One of the first days, if not the first, we visited Waterstones, a chain bookstore. I purchased Before We Hit the Ground by Selali Fiamanya and a leather bookmark branded with the store name. On a separate day, Aunt-Niece Day, (my sister stayed at the hotel), we visited the combo McNauhtan’s Bookshop & Gallery and Typewronger, where I snagged Redwood Court by DeLana R.A. Dameron. The store owner stamped the inside of my book and gave me an elephant origami.

A short, brisk walk brought us to Topping & Company Booksellers, where I continued my purchases of Black-authored books with Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh and Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah. I also witnessed a real-life love story in real time.

While browsing on the lower level, I watched an elderly couple enter. They were both stooped over and took small steps. They were also snazzy dressers. The wife declared she’d wait for him downstairs, to which he replied, “You’re not going to come with me?”

The combination of the raspiness of his weathered voice, the longing in his voice, him reaching out to place his hand on hers, her quick and simple “ok,” and them shuffling off together towards the elevator left me teary-eyed with a lump in my throat.

I bet they didn’t squander years like Emma and Dexter did.

I want that elderly couple’s relationship one day.

Subscribe so you can read more about my trip to Scotland and other book musings.

Bookstores & Love Stories: My Trip to Scotland Inspired by ‘One Day’

At the top of the year, my eldest niece aka Niece invited me to join her on a trip to Scotland.

Dear Reader, I was just as perplexed as you are that my first-generation Haitian-American niece (like me) a) wanted to visit Scotland and b) visit during early Spring, whilst still chilly and rainy. The tropical Caribbean—where her mother was born—is right there! A shorter flight, no less!

Well, the trip was centered around the musical adaptation of the bestselling novel One Day by David Nicholls. Turns out I had watched the Netflix series a couple of years prior. It wasn’t until the credits were rolling that I learned it was based on a book. Had I known, I would’ve read the novel, then jumped into the series to do what we readers do: compare and contrast. Niece also watched the movie starring Anne Hathaway.

Set in Edinburgh, Scotland, One Day revolves around Emma and Dexter (Em and Dex), who meet at a “uni” (university) graduation party in 1988. What’s supposed to be a one-night-stand expands into a decades-long friendship fraught with unspoken, secret feelings.

It’s frustrating and endearing because the feelings are reciprocated. This isn’t a story of unrequited love. Somehow, through his immaturity and womanizing, Emma loves Dexter, and despite his sometimes selfish behavior towards her, she really is the only woman he’s ever loved .

For years, they’re not in the same place in life—geographically, career, relationships, maturity, financially. He’s white; her family is of Indian descent, though in the play she’s depicted by a Black woman. Em and Dex go on vacations together, call, and write letters, a crucial one is never delivered nor read. There’s a feeling of FINALLY! when they become a couple.

Then you realize there’s too much left in the book. Clearly, the coupling is not the typical happily ever after ending. I screamed at the TV watching the series, talked out loud to myself while reading the book, and was grabbed by Niece on my left and Sister on my right in the theater during the musical.

Niece and I knew what was coming. Sister did not.

The play was our second-to-last night in Scotland. It was a wonderful evening. We snapped photos and bought souvenirs in the downstairs lobby of The Royal Lyceum. Niece surprised us with a VIP experience in the theater’s upper room. A reserved bar table awaited us. The bartender served us chilled champagne until it was time to claim our seats—first row of the mezzanine.

Niece, ever the researcher, planner, and fellow book lover, found several bookstores for us to visit while in Scotland. I’m an over-packer and had to be mindful of suitcase space. I still had to buy a bag. In addition to the ONLY FOUR books I bought, I purchased lovely-smelling body butters, a vase from a museum gift shop, funky overalls for The Roots Picnic in Philadelphia in May, mini bottles of whisky for myself and brother, and whatever else escapes me at the moment.

It was late March. We braved chilly winds and rain. I wore leggings under my clothes every day and still never got too hot as we walked around, especially when we bookstore-hopped.

One of the first days, if not the first, we visited Waterstones, a chain bookstore. I purchased Before We Hit the Ground by Selali Fiamanya and a leather bookmark branded with the store name. On a separate day, Aunt-Niece Day, (my sister stayed at the hotel), we visited the combo McNauhtan’s Bookshop & Gallery and Typewronger, where I snagged Redwood Court by DeLana R.A. Dameron. The store owner stamped the inside of my book and gave me an elephant origami.

A short, brisk walk brought us to Topping & Company Booksellers, where I continued my purchases of Black-authored books with Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh and Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah. I also witnessed a real-life love story in real time.

While browsing on the lower level, I watched an elderly couple enter. They were both stooped over and took small steps. They were also snazzy dressers. The wife declared she’d wait for him downstairs, to which he replied, “You’re not going to come with me?”

The combination of the raspiness of his weathered voice, the longing in his voice, him reaching out to place his hand on hers, her quick and simple “ok,” and them shuffling off together towards the elevator left me teary-eyed with a lump in my throat.

I bet they didn’t squander years like Emma and Dexter did.

I want that elderly couple’s relationship one day.

Subscribe so you can read more about my trip to Scotland and other book musings.

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A double dose of creativity on National Creativity Day!

Here’s a photo from an art class a few years back. We used acrylic paint and fire to make these coasters!

I love art and take random classes whenever I can. It’s my favorite hobby!

And then there’s career!

It’s such a blessing to make a living as a writer.

Have you read my fiction book, The Gypsy Smiled yet?

You can read all about creative people in the music business!

It’s available directly from my publisher, Higher Ground, for just $9!

Check it out!

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Conservative Version of Goodreads Only Has the Bible and ‘The Art of the Deal’

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📚 „Collected Poems“ by Derek Walcott explores complex colonial history of the West Indies in a rich, multifaceted linguistic poetic voice, the reader may find themselves transported and deep in thought. #goodreads #postcolonialism #books

Time for a #Fable update!
I’ve just finished #SunriseOnTheReaping, and the comparison between Fable and #Goodreads is now stark. Fable’s book review section is leaps and bounds better than Goodreads. I like that you can grade different parts of the book, and they provide options to describe the book. It’s a lot easier to leave a detailed review without even typing a personal one. Plus, I LOVE that you can identify possible issues/trigger warnings for other readers. I think a peer reviewed TW section is helpful if people are actively avoiding certain topics.

#books #bookstodon #reading

Book 105 for the year - which is one more than last year and we still have one month to go - and it’s a warning about the rise of a totalitarian state.

#Goodreads #ReadingChallenge #BookLovers #Bookworm #Bibliophile #CurrentlyReading #DystopianFuture #Totalitarian #YevgenyZamyatin

Book 105 for the year - which is one more than last year and we still have one month to go - and it’s a warning about the rise of a totalitarian state.

#Goodreads #ReadingChallenge #BookLovers #Bookworm #Bibliophile #CurrentlyReading #DystopianFuture #Totalitarian #YevgenyZamyatin

Book 105 for the year - which is one more than last year and we still have one month to go - and it’s a warning about the rise of a totalitarian state.

#Goodreads #ReadingChallenge #BookLovers #Bookworm #Bibliophile #CurrentlyReading #DystopianFuture #Totalitarian #YevgenyZamyatin

Book 105 for the year - which is one more than last year and we still have one month to go - and it’s a warning about the rise of a totalitarian state.

#Goodreads #ReadingChallenge #BookLovers #Bookworm #Bibliophile #CurrentlyReading #DystopianFuture #Totalitarian #YevgenyZamyatin

Book 105 for the year - which is one more than last year and we still have one month to go - and it’s a warning about the rise of a totalitarian state.

#Goodreads #ReadingChallenge #BookLovers #Bookworm #Bibliophile #CurrentlyReading #DystopianFuture #Totalitarian #YevgenyZamyatin

#Bookwyrm #fediday2025

#Vortrag von @jascha

#Adaption von #Goodreads: #Buchobjekt mit #Beschreibung, #Link für #Erwerb, #Leseaktivität, #Leseliste, #Rezension;

#Bücher ID: #ISBN / #OpenLibrary ID, #Goodreads #Schlüssel; für feststellen der #Ausgabe; #Ergebnis: #dezentral​er #Buchkatalog

#Liste​n: #verschieden​e #Modi: #geschlossen​e #Liste / #Liste bei der andere #Bücher hinzufügen können mit #Moderation / #offen​e #Liste / #Gruppenliste

https://c-tube.c-base.org/w/re2HqzmfyLrk7n4ecPGJGc

#testaPP

Nearly two years ago I met and wrote about Natalia Kessler. She went from being a War Crimes Lawyer to an Adult Figure Skater, Artist, Dancer and wife. Here's her story. #NataliaKessler #FigureSkater #Artist #Dancer #Lawyer #BarbieTheMovie #Inspiration #HealingJourney #GoodReads #WritersCommunity

https://rickollie.com/2023/07/20/natalia-kessler-from-figure-skating-to-artistic-fulfillment/

Additions & Changes, April 2025:
- New game added to the list: Death in Space

Top 100 list of TTRPG "Core" Rulebooks in #GoodReads https://www.goodreads.com/list/user_vote/9983219

Top 10:
1) Wanderhome
2) Thousand Year Old Vampire
3) Call of Cthulhu, 7th edition
4) Blades in the Dark
5) Dialect: A Game About Language and How it Dies
6) Dungeons and Dragons, 5th edition
7) CY_BORG
8) Old-School Essentials Classic Fantasy
9) Mörk Börk
10) Monsterhearts 2

#ttrpg #ttrpgs #Roleplaying #wanderhome #tyov #CoC #CallofCthulhu #DialectRPG #DnD #dnd5e #BladesInTheDark #BitD #Monsterhearts2 #cy_borg #MorkBorg #Oldschoolessentials #OSECF

When it comes to #literature, I'm no literati. I believe there's nothing more homely and common than enjoying a good book.

This is where #Bookwyrm comes in. When it comes to #WebSocial platforms and the various "David v Goliath" grudge matches, none are more ambitious than the ones that seek to dethrone #Bezos.

#GoodReads is owned by #Amazon and as such is another #SiliconeValley trap. Consider dumping it and trying out Bookwyrm.

Welcome - BookWyrm
https://bookwyrm.social/

*starts sweating*
#Goodreads #ReadingChallenge #ReadingChallenge2024

Additions & Changes in top 10, September 2024:
- Monsterhearts 2 surpasses CY_BORG
- Alien and Delta Green surpass Mörk Borg

Top 100 list of TTRPG "Core" Rulebooks in #GoodReads
https://www.goodreads.com/list/user_vote/9983219

Top 10:
1) Wanderhome
2) Thousand Year Old Vampire
3) Call of Cthulhu
4) Dungeons & Dragons 5e
5) Blades in the Dark
6) Monsterhearts 2
7) CY_BORG
8) Alien: The Roleplaying Game
9) Delta Green
10) Mörk Borg

#ttrpg #ttrpgs #Roleplaying #wanderhome #tyov #CoC #DnD #dnd5e #BladesInTheDark #BitD #Monsterhearts2 #cy_borg #AlienRPG #DeltaGreen #MorkBorg

85 out a goal of 200 books this year (i updated it) #bookstodon #books #reading #readingcommunity #readingchallenge #readingchallenge2024 #goodreads

Every year when #goodreads statistics drops I feel targeted by the discourse that some people seem to make #reading competitive and don't take time to enjoy it anymore. It's more that I really love #books. I just #read too much and don't consume other forms of media that much. We all have personal goals in the end! #readingcommunity #readingchallenge #readingchallenge2024 #readers #books #bookstodon #booklover #bookworm

I'm now 72 books in my reading challenge, out of a 120 goal! At best I would like to reach 150 books (I'm 27 books ahead they say), keeping a 250 pages per books average and outdoing the 27,629 total of last year! :D #readingchallenge #readingchallenge2024 #readingcommunity #goodreads #readers #reader #reading #books #bookstodon #bookworm #booklover

Me: read 65 out of 120 books, May hasn't even started
Me: I read 100 books without trying while working, but setting a higher goal (120) because I was on disability leave was greedy and will make it competitive >:( (I would feel anxious about making it competitive for others with a lower goal, I need to get over myself)
#bookstodon #book #books #reading #readingcommunity #readingchallenge2024 #goodreads #goodreadschallenge #goodreadschallenge2022 #readings #bookworm #booklover #booklovers

Découvrez ma modeste #review sur #goodreads !! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125509406-sortir-de-chez-soi

#lecture #lectures #livre #livres #avislecture #conseillecture #lecturedujour #lecturedumoment #lecturesdelasemaine #lectures2024 #goodreadschallenge #bookreview #MastodonFrance #mastodonfrancais #readingchallenge2024 #readingcommunity

#cr : Laura Jurgenson, Sortir de Chez Soi, (chez la superbe collection contrebande de l' #editeur la contre allée). #Independant d' #Amazon ! Livre 85/120

#librairies #litterature #écriture #ecrivain #ecrivaine #autrice #traducteur #traductrice #poete #poètes #poesie #traduction #traductologie #linguistique #livre #lecture #lectures #lectures2024 #ReadingChallenge #readingchallenge2024 #goodreads #lecteur #lecteurs #bookstodon #reading #readingcommunity #books #book #bookworm

Hoy #ParanoidKids2 cumple su PRIMER MES, navegando siempre entre los puestos 1 y 2 de esa categoría.🤯
No puedo quedaros más AGRADECIDO por vuestro caluroso abrazo a este libro.🙏
(Además, hoy junto a mi apreciado Antonio Heras (@armaimpaciente) y su #Oculto, que no me canso de recomendar 💜).
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#libros #librosrecomendados #halloween #booktodon #bookwyrm #goodreads #amazon #vampiros #terror

Finishing the book, #The1619Project and it’s been…hard mentally, emotionally. It’s also been powerful + necessary for me to read about my ancestors’ sojourn of terror in the U. S.

How they courageously fought + resisted at EVERY turn for their freedom, human rights, families,and dignity. It’s STILL a battle.

Being a sci-fi fan, I will say, there is NO dystopian or post-apocalyptic narrative that comes close to the historical experience of Being Black in the U. S.

This country owes such an enormous debt and humans are the real monsters. #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #mustread #GoodReads

He actualizado mi #blog. Escribo para encontrar a mi tribu y mis letras quieren llegar a tí. A tí, que necesitas un abrazo...

#writing #writingcommunity #escritores #autores #booklovers #chicklit #blogger #deviantart #journal #letras #lectores #autismo #neurodivergent #actuallyautistic #mstdnmx #tkzone #mastodonsocial #nanowrimo #snaimail #mutuals #libros #goodreads #librosrecomendados

https://ivanovaili.blogspot.com/2022/11/entrada-desvergonzada-de-un-diario-casi.html?m=1