#recommendedreading — Public Fediverse posts
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Recommended Reading List: June 2026
This rather short list makes it look like I didn’t read much in June, but I did. I had some misfires (as you can see), and I read quite a few things that I didn’t think were worth recommending. And then there’s Kelley Armstrong… I binged the Kelley Armstrong Rockton/Haven’s Rock series until I caught […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2026/07/09/recommended-reading-list-june-2026/#freenonfiction #Mysteries #RecommendedReading #HavensRock #KelleyArmstrong
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I highly recommend this book if you're interested in learning the details of how a dozen or two (edit: or four) excellent artists tackle their work.
Every time I pick it up and read a chapter or two, it sparks some whole new line of thinking about my own work.
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Recommended Reading List: May 2026
With school over (as of the first week of May), I have more time to read. I occasionally binged a novel. I’ve had some down days as the chronic health issues flared and on one lovely day, I read two entire novels, something I hadn’t done since the damn dental surgeries of 2023. It was […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2026/06/12/recommended-reading-list-may-2026/#freenonfiction #MiddleGradeYoungAdult #Mysteries #RecommendedReading #Romances
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Nicole Higginbotham-Hogue @higginbothampublications.wordpress.com@higginbothampublications.wordpress.com ·Country Tides: Out Now
She swore she would never love again, but that one knock changed everything. Life is a normal routine for Jane Allman. She wakes up, feeds her animals, tends to her garden, and from time to time, she calls her sister. She isn’t a crazy partier, and she has no need for a relationship. She is happy being on her own. Nevertheless, things change when businesses are brought into her small community and she finds one of the owners, Hadley Grace, at her door asking for a favor. Jane is absolutely […]https://higginbothampublications.wordpress.com/2026/05/25/country-tides-out-now/
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Recommended Reading List: April 2026
I had a good reading month. Lots of fun things, although a couple of the novels read slowly. (Meaning I had to savor every word. Oh, woe is me!) I did finish a crappy mystery anthology. It was the one I was reading at UNLV during lunch, although a number of students ended up co-opting […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2026/05/02/recommended-reading-list-april-2026/#freenonfiction #Plays #RecommendedReading #SpyFiction #AllyCarter
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Recommended Reading List: March 2026
Technically, the first thing I finished reading was Anton Chekov’s The Seagull for my theatre history class. I’d read both the play and the short story the first time I was in college 100,000 years ago, and didn’t like them then. I decided to give the dang thing a chance again. Still didn’t like it, […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2026/04/04/recommended-reading-list-march-2026/#freenonfiction #OnWriting #Plays #RecommendedReading #AllyCarter
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Recommended Reading List: February, 2026
I had a lovely February of reading. Lots more time than I expected, which is fun. As regular readers of this feature know, I don’t recommend everything nor should I, considering I’ve also been reading 300-year-old plays for my Theatre History class. But there’s lots of good here, including a nonfiction book that everyone in […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2026/03/01/recommended-reading-list-february-2026/#freenonfiction #Mysteries #RecommendedReading #Thriller #CaseyStegman
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"Trump's MAGA movement is plotting to steal the election with a fake emergency. This is an election coup, a direct attack on freedom and democracy. The vast majority of Americans oppose this — and will do so in the streets if necessary."
https://www.theframelab.org/maga-plans-fake-emergency-to-rig-midterm-elections/
#Elections #Fraud #Trump #GOP #USPol #Democracy #Vote #VoteBlue #VoteMidterms #Protest #Resist #Framelab
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An insightful and timely Aeon essay...
https://aeon.co/essays/what-explains-the-perpetual-need-for-political-enemies
#Trump #GOP #ICE #USPol #Democracy #Protest #Resist #Psychology #Aeon
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The other day, at an Under The Volcano event in #Tepoztlán, I was asked this question.
I cheated a little and said that I would have liked to have the imagination of an entire #ShortStory anthology.
What's the #book by another #author that YOU wish you had written? -
Recommended Reading List (Belated Edition): July 2025
Not as much to recommend in July, primarily because I didn’t like what I read enough to recommend it. So one novel and a nonfiction book, as well as some articles. In case you’re wondering why this post is for July, I got behind on posting my lists and…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/12/30/recommended-reading-list-belated-edition-july-2025/#freenonfiction #RecommendedReading #DanielSilva #EvgeniaPerez #GabrielAllon
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Recommended Reading List: October, 2025
I decided to do the Recommended Reading List as intended, releasing it the month after I did the reading. I got behind earlier in the year, so the place where I store the recommended reads has turned into a towering mass of fiction. I’m going to catch up on those, but first,…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/11/08/recommended-reading-list-october-2025/#freenonfiction #MiddleGradeYoungAdult #Mysteries #RecommendedReading #SpyFiction
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Just a casual reminder that I have a curated list of bookmarks regarding a more sceptical view of the current AI hype. If you need something beyond prompt tricks or how cool it is to generate an avatar, have a look.
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Am currently listening to Cunk on Everything.
#Cunk #PhilomenaCunk
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Recommended Reading List: April 2025
Still operating from behind here, because these past two years were insane. At least I found time to read again, even when conducting a workshop or working with student manuscripts. I didn’t find a lot to like, though, in April. I read a number of books that either didn’t end well or…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/08/28/recommended-reading-list-april-2025/#Fantasy #freenonfiction #historicalfiction #RecommendedReading #AaronCouch
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A great #horror reading for the night: #Tender, Beth Hetland's debut #GraphicNovel. A #story that's soft, warm, humid— like blood. 🩸 And its episodes around physical pain... Oh my.
#Books
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Recommended Reading List: March 2025
I had some strange experiences in my March reading. I taught a Gothic class in May, with an emphasis on Gothic romance. I loooove Gothic romance, and am not horribly fond of Gothic horror. But I chose a couple of books I hadn’t read before…and one of them! OMG! It started okay, had great…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/07/25/recommended-reading-list-march-2025/#freenonfiction #OnWriting #RecommendedReading #Amazon #BarbaraBroccoli
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This Should Radicalise You (on AI porn)
https://helenaaeberli.substack.com/p/this-should-radicalise-you
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Recommended Reading List: February 2025
I mentioned in January’s list that I had fewer books to recommend in February and March. I read a lot but didn’t finish some of the books, and the ones I did finish, I didn’t really like well enough to recommend. As I tell my writing students, you…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/05/31/recommended-reading-list-february-2025/#freenonfiction #RecommendedReading #AlyssaCole #AshleyRuthMBernier #BestAmericanMysteryandSuspenseStories
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This is sobering and illuminating: astrophysicist and author Adam Becker exposes the #flaws and outright #lies in #SiliconValley ideology, including the tech bros' obsessions with #Mars, #AI, and #immortality. 👨🏽💻
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/04/youre-not-going-to-mars-and-you-wont-live-forever-exploding-silicon-valleys-ideology/
#interviews #ArsTechnica #technology #capitalism #oligarchy #TechOligarchy #AdamBecker #ArsTechnica #singularity #books #RecommendedReading