#nowreading — Public Fediverse posts
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Books finished in 2026:
32. Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett (1992)
31. Escape From Freedom by Erich Fromm (1941)
30. Walking With The Comrades by Arundhati Roy (2011)
29. Wild Seed by Octavia E Butler (1980)
28. Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline (2020)
27. The Last Hero: A Discworld Fable by Terry Pratchett (2001)
26. Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P Newton with J Herman Blake (1973)
25. The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney (1955)
24. Granny Made Me An Anarchist by Stuart Christie (2004)
23. The Day of The Triffids by John Wyndham (1951)
22. Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (1970)
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)Discworld number 14, Witches series number 4.
Enjoyable as always though not my favorite series in Discworld. I still like Death the most followed by the Wizards series. I just started Men At Arms so am not yet sure where to place the City Watch vs. Witches.
I've read them all in order so far except for the stand alone graphic novel The Last Hero which I found in a used book store not long ago.
#books #bookstodon #nowreading #reading #book #discworld #terrypratchett #fantasy
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Oh balls...Another expensive and immersive hobby has bit me.
Shout out to Pocket Books in Lancaster PA for having a wonderful shop, great selection and wonderful community engagement/outreach.
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Come spesso accade in questa famiglia, @alephoto85 li compra, e io li leggo (per prima) 😁 (e la gatta ci poggia i piedi)
Che dire... Ma che spettacolo di fumetto! Ma che disegni! Ma tutto wow!
#fumetti #ut #corradoroi #paolabarbato #comics #reading #nowreading #letture #lettureestive
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"Shakespeare is a very good writer. This is not news."
-- #FirstSentences of Daniel Hahn, If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation (2026)
This table of contents has me SO EXCITED. Look at it, it's beautiful!
#ReadingNotes will go here.
#Bookstodon #NowReading #DanielHahn #Translation #Shakespeare
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Another great line in the Graham Greene novel I'm currently reading - 'The Heart of the Matter'
"He listened with the intent interest one feels in a stranger's life, the interest the young mistake for love"
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For reasons (*gestures widely at the world*) I started reading @adamgreenfield's "Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire"
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2536-lifehouse (DRM-free)
https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9798855525021-lifehouse (DRM-free)"[showing practices of mutual care and local power] from the Black Panther survival programs, the astonishingly effective Occupy Sandy disaster-relief effort and the solidarity networks of crisis-era Greece, as well as municipalist Spain and autonomous Rojava."
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Major Scobie asks Yusef the Syrian why he calls him a friend, and Yusef replies:
"Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something."
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Graham Greene - The Heart of the Matter
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"Helm doesn't know when Helm was born.
Or brewed.
Conjured or conceived.
First formed above the highest mountain.
First blown into the valley.
Long before humankind -- that brief, busy interlude."-- #FirstSentences of Sarah Hall, Helm (2025)
#ReadingNotes will go here. I am giddy for this one, truly, but also a little intimidated tbh. The first chapter was no joke!
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"There are many ways not to be someone."
-- First sentence of Daniel Heller-Roazen, Absentees: On Variously Missing Persons (2021)
Started last night. #ReadingNotes will go here.
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#NowReading Part way through a book that I feel is very much the Fediverse manual for life: How to be a Half-Arse Human by Leena Norms.
It is very much about how to put less than 100% effort into your life, and still achieve. It is not about being lazy, it is about not running out of spoons.
I am enjoying it.
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Really enjoying Peter Clines’ new book, God’s Junk Drawer. He’s such a great author! 📚
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Books finished in 2026:
31. Escape From Freedom by Erich Fromm (1941)
30. Walking With The Comrades by Arundhati Roy (2011)
29. Wild Seed by Octavia E Butler (1980)
28. Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline (2020)
27. The Last Hero: A Discworld Fable by Terry Pratchett (2001)
26. Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P Newton with J Herman Blake (1973)
25. The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney (1955)
24. Granny Made Me An Anarchist by Stuart Christie (2004)
23. The Day of The Triffids by John Wyndham (1951)
22. Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (1970)
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)#books #bookstodon #nowreading #reading #book
This is an investigation into why fascism is so attractive to modern man. Using psychoanalysis (while rejecting some of Freud's conclusions about character development) along with historical analysis of the social character of peoples, Fromm points to alienation and fear stemming from changes in society that leave man emotionally unfulfilled while giving him a very specific kind of freedom that is not supportive or conducive to spontaneous action but instead drives man to work incessantly without a logical end. Perversions that lead to a desire to submit to authority and behave sadistically towards the weak are described in detail along with their origins. Comparisons are drawn between medieval man as well as the role of the Reformation in mankind's social development.
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Media Log: Love & Other Monsters (Emily Franklin)
Started: May 24, 2026
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#NowReading Naomi Aldertons "Don't burn Anyone at the Stake Today". You may know her from the excellent "The Power", but this is non-fiction, and she is still very good.
She is writing about an understanding of the current time as the Information Revolution - and as analogous to the Printing Press and the Industrial Revolution. And explaining, under this concept, some of what is currently happening.
It is really short, easy to read, and very good.
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“It had been a melancholy dreary parting at Liverpool and a dreary melancholy journey down to Dover and back home, lonesome as an onion peddler, on the sea-swept channel boat to Calais—“
Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
#literature #books #nowreading -
One of my current reads. Maybe it‘ll even help, who knows.
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I'm currently reading (or trying to read) Heller's book 'Catch 22'.
I know it's meant to be a seminal masterpiece, but despite the clever satirical writing, it is a dreadfully mysogenistic book, and it probably was when it was written.
The repetitive storytelling (if it is indeed storytelling at all) is all over the place, which might have been acceptable in the experimental times when it was written, does not stand the test of time for me.
It's difficult to relate to, love or hate, any of the characters, because despite so much being written about them all, we don't get to know any of them.I'm going to plough on with it, and maybe I'll be rewarded eventually, but , goodness me, it's a slog through treacle!
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Anyone interested in the debauchery of post Gold Rush #sanfrancisco should read The Barbary Coast by Herbert Asbury--a history of brawlers, drinkers, harlots, gamblers and misc charlatans. Set within a 10 block radius in what is today North Beach and Chinatown--an area you can feel Barbary ghosts to this day. Like SF fog, book rolls though one character to another--Johnny Devine to Madame Bertha Khan to Little Josie Dupree, each chasing a certain sinful mirth unique to SF. #books #nowreading
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#NowReading ‘Running through sand: An ageing comedian’s ill-thought-out ultra in the Sahara’ by Paul Tonkinson.
Borrowed from #Taunton Library.
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Paradises Lost
Ursuala K. Le Guin
Published by Winter TextsPrinted and bound in #Minneapolis
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#NowReading (well not at this precise moment) - South Breaks by @Firlefanz
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I just finished reading "Braking Day" by Adam Oyebanji. (I love a title pun)
Set on a generation ship travelling between stars, the story starts when the protagonist -- a junior engineer from a low-class family striving to be an officer -- sees a woman on the ship who shouldn't exist just weeks before it's time for the ship to flip around and start to decelerate. After that discovery, the mysteries just deepen.
At first I thought I was reading a murder mystery, but it was not. It's more a little-guy versus the system story. I thought it was a solid, enjoyable novel.
I appreciated the author's approach to character diversity -- he never describes any physical attributes of his characters, and almost all of them have names that confuse any ethnic classification by pairing first and last names from very different groups, so your imagination is free to "cast" them any way you like. What he does describe is the more salient point of the social class of his characters.