#nowreading — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #nowreading, aggregated by home.social.
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"Always beware of manifestations too lofty to identify themselves." - from Deus Irae by #PhilipKDick and #RogerZelazny, 1976
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"Always beware of manifestations too lofty to identify themselves." - from Deus Irae by #PhilipKDick and #RogerZelazny, 1976
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"Always beware of manifestations too lofty to identify themselves." - from Deus Irae by #PhilipKDick and #RogerZelazny, 1976
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"Always beware of manifestations too lofty to identify themselves." - from Deus Irae by #PhilipKDick and #RogerZelazny, 1976
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Catch Me If You Can
The True Story of a Real Fake[1980]
#NowReading #Audiobooks #Books #NonFiction #Biography #Memoir #TrueCrime #Crime
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Catch Me If You Can
The True Story of a Real Fake[1980]
#NowReading #Audiobooks #Books #NonFiction #Biography #Memoir #TrueCrime #Crime
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Catch Me If You Can
The True Story of a Real Fake[1980]
#NowReading #Audiobooks #Books #NonFiction #Biography #Memoir #TrueCrime #Crime
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Catch Me If You Can
The True Story of a Real Fake[1980]
#NowReading #Audiobooks #Books #NonFiction #Biography #Memoir #TrueCrime #Crime
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The World Without Us
[2007]
#NowReading #Audiobooks #Books #NonFiction #Science #Envionment #Nature #History
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The True Believer
Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements[1951]
#NowReading #Audiobooks #Books #NonFiction #Philosophy #Politics #Psycology #Sociology
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It's like Warner foresaw the age of streaming an AI! Fascinating reading his perceptions around the links or otherwise between theory and culture #NowReading
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Tonight’s read is Robert Heinlein’s “Time for the Stars” on Kobo+
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I just finished reading “The Pushcart War” by Jean Merrill. Written fifty years ago, it’s an amusing faux history of a war in New York City between the pushcart vendors and the big trucking companies. I first heard about this book when it was mentioned on the podcast “The War on Cars”.
In the story, traffic is getting worse and worse as thousands of trucks clog up the streets of NYC, and the trucking companies decide to deflect blame from themselves by vilifying the pushcart vendors, kicking off a war between the two. In spite of being a slightly silly book for young people, what it’s describing is pretty much exactly happening here & now (in Toronto where I live) where bicycles and bike lanes (which reduce traffic and increase road safety for everyone) are being blamed for road congestion caused entirely by cars.
It’s a short book at 233 pages, and I’d say aimed at young people (but not little kids). There’s no romance and no one dies, and while there is some violence it doesn’t result in much injury. It’s a quirky read and I enjoyed it.
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How to Sell a Genocide
The Media's Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza[2026]
#NowReading #Audiobooks #Books #NonFiction #Politics #History #War
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#NowReading ‘The book of dust volume three: The rose field’ by Philip Pullman.
Borrowed from #Taunton #Library. I generally don’t enjoy reading books over 300 pages, this is 621…but it’s the last in the trilogy of a second trilogy…got to be done - and I’m excited.
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#NowReading ‘The book of dust volume three: The rose field’ by Philip Pullman.
Borrowed from #Taunton #Library. I generally don’t enjoy reading books over 300 pages, this is 621…but it’s the last in the trilogy of a second trilogy…got to be done - and I’m excited.
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#NowReading ‘The book of dust volume three: The rose field’ by Philip Pullman.
Borrowed from #Taunton #Library. I generally don’t enjoy reading books over 300 pages, this is 621…but it’s the last in the trilogy of a second trilogy…got to be done - and I’m excited.
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#NowReading ‘The book of dust volume three: The rose field’ by Philip Pullman.
Borrowed from #Taunton #Library. I generally don’t enjoy reading books over 300 pages, this is 621…but it’s the last in the trilogy of a second trilogy…got to be done - and I’m excited.
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#NowReading ‘The book of dust volume three: The rose field’ by Philip Pullman.
Borrowed from #Taunton #Library. I generally don’t enjoy reading books over 300 pages, this is 621…but it’s the last in the trilogy of a second trilogy…got to be done - and I’m excited.
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There Is No Antimemetics Division
A Novel[2020]
#NowReading #Audiobooks #Books #Fiction #ScienceFiction #Horror #Fantasy
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One of my current reads. I like to have a few options in rotation.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/b0be70cf-548a-44e6-84dd-68fffdf4db60
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One of my current reads. I like to have a few options in rotation.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/b0be70cf-548a-44e6-84dd-68fffdf4db60
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One of my current reads. I like to have a few options in rotation.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/b0be70cf-548a-44e6-84dd-68fffdf4db60
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One of my current reads. I like to have a few options in rotation.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/b0be70cf-548a-44e6-84dd-68fffdf4db60
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One of my current reads. I like to have a few options in rotation.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/b0be70cf-548a-44e6-84dd-68fffdf4db60
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I don't usually follow news about which movies and series are coming up. (Unless it's about #StarWars.) So, it's purely coincidence that I am #nowReading " #TheOdyssey " just before a new movie adaptation of the story by #ChristopherNolan is about to be released.
Specifically, the #book I'm reading is "The Odyssey:
Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original" translated by Samuel Butler, published in about 1921. -
#nowreading / finished The AI Con - How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want
Recommended for anyone looking to salve existential fears stemming from this AI hype cycle. Two standout themes. 1) both AI utopians and doomers are used to promote inevitability of AI. 2) biggest / most likely doomer scenarios will not be Skynet, but financial collapse or environmental issues
Eyebrow raising book to read on the subway..telepathically communicating "yeah I think it's all bs" #books
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Easy Money
Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud[2023]
#NowReading #Audiobooks #Books #NonFiction #Economics #Finance #Business #Politics
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New book on the round !
Haruki Murakami's After Dark. This is the very first book I read from him. Been curious about his works so I wanted to start with that book! Hope to enjoy it!#NowReading #Japan #JapaneseLiterature #Books #Reader #Reading #MurakamiHaruki #村上春樹
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New book on the round !
Haruki Murakami's After Dark. This is the very first book I read from him. Been curious about his works so I wanted to start with that book! Hope to enjoy it!#NowReading #Japan #JapaneseLiterature #Books #Reader #Reading #MurakamiHaruki #村上春樹
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New book on the round !
Haruki Murakami's After Dark. This is the very first book I read from him. Been curious about his works so I wanted to start with that book! Hope to enjoy it!#NowReading #Japan #JapaneseLiterature #Books #Reader #Reading #MurakamiHaruki #村上春樹
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New book on the round !
Haruki Murakami's After Dark. This is the very first book I read from him. Been curious about his works so I wanted to start with that book! Hope to enjoy it!#NowReading #Japan #JapaneseLiterature #Books #Reader #Reading #MurakamiHaruki #村上春樹
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New book on the round !
Haruki Murakami's After Dark. This is the very first book I read from him. Been curious about his works so I wanted to start with that book! Hope to enjoy it!#NowReading #Japan #JapaneseLiterature #Books #Reader #Reading #MurakamiHaruki #村上春樹
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New book on the round !
Haruki Murakami's After Dark. This is the very first book I read from him. Been curious about his works so I wanted to start with that book! Hope to enjoy it!
#NowReading #Japan #JapaneseLiterature #Books #Reader #Reading #MurakamiHaruki #村上春樹 -
New book on the round !
Haruki Murakami's After Dark. This is the very first book I read from him. Been curious about his works so I wanted to start with that book! Hope to enjoy it!
#NowReading #Japan #JapaneseLiterature #Books #Reader #Reading #MurakamiHaruki #村上春樹 -
The Butcher's Masquerade
Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 5[2022]
#NowReading #Audiobooks #Books #Fiction #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Humor #Dystopia
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Books finished in 2026:
21. Secolo Nuovo: Or The Times of Promise, A Novel by Fulvia Ferrari (2021)
20. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels (1880)
19. Working Class History: Everyday Acts of Resistance and Rebellion by Working Class History (2020)
18. The Diary of a Drug Fiend by Aleister Crowley (1922)
17. Small Gods by Terry Pratchett (1992)
16. The Red and The Black by Stendhal (1830)
15. The Book of Sand (1975) and Shakespeare’s Memory (1983) by Jorge Luis Borges
14. Anarchist Feminists In The Philippines From Etniko Bandido (~2016)
13. The Unseen by Nanni Balestrini (1989)
12. Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare: A Guide to the Armed Phase of the African Revolution by Kwame Nkrumah (1968)
11. Rights of Man by Thomas Paine (1792)
10. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (2011)
9. Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker (1911)
8. Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (1996)
7. Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett (1991)
6. The Nation On No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition by William C Anderson (2023)
5. baedan - journal of queer nihilism - issue one (2012)
4. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (1992)
3. They Will Beat The Memory Out Of Us: Forcing Nonviolence on Forgetful Movements by Peter Gelderloos (2024)
2. It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis (1935)
1. Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge (2006)The history of a world in which Tesla's inventions bring us unlimited power (not just the inventions alone) but much more than that it's the tale of the writing of the history of a group of witches and the followers of Mary who have fought patriarchy, empire and capital throughout the history of Europe starting a generation before the time of the one we call Jesus. Lots of anarchists and communards and some pirates, militant unions, and socialists too. California and communal life also play a big part in it.
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#NowReading Culture and Society by Raymond Williams, prompted by some excellent referencing by @llannerch at an event - what an old school beauty this is! #Bookstodon
