#whatimreading — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #whatimreading, aggregated by home.social.
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"I don't care how many people they're paying off or mind-controlling, even eldritch abominations can't get a construction permit overnight in *this* city."
From The City We Became, N. K. Jemisin
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#whatimreading
#Horses, a 4,000 year genetic journey across the world, by Ludovic Orlando (translated). Somewhen somewhere in our past a group of people figured out domesticating horses for fun & profit. Their horses are ancestors to all horses today. The search for the first domesticated horses combines archeology, linguistics, genetics to track down who did it and where and when. #bookstodon #science #genetics Spoiler: it was the Yamna Kurgan indo-European speakers on the Pontic steppe. -
#whatImReading #bookstodon
Where the Water Goes, by David Owen. Water in the US South West is way more fraught than elsewhere. Who “owns” it, who gets it, and why, have been contentious issues for over 150 years. Basically there’s not enough, but no one wants to cut back. Severe drought isn’t helping. Owen travels the length of the #coloradoRiver, describes & explains the issues and the people involved, clearly, and with some humor. If you live in the West you might wanna know about this stuff. -
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"The straight line of liberty is something I admire, without being able to walk it."
Annie Ernaux, A Frozen Woman
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"Amazing. I'm living the great dream of my childhood, the scenes of kissing and embracing so often imagined and acted out. Where is the guilt I thought I would feel--and the love? The idea that going out with a boy is some kind of pinnacle of experience is definitely dead, almost laughable. Our two bookbags lie side by side in the grass, but a life together, forget it. For the first time I'm terrorized by the idea of marriage. I'm beginning to emerge, to disencumber myself."
Annie Ernaux, A Frozen Woman
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This is interesting. I may skim over some of the technical parts, but I'm happy they're in there. Maybe I'll learn something.
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"I'm writing myself and can do as I please: I can turn myself in any direction I like and easily put new words into my mouth. But if I'm trying to show clearly the path I took to become a woman, then I shouldn't spit on the great lump of a girl weeping with rage because her mother won't let her wear stockings and a revealingly tight skirt. I should explain. Without calling myself a fool. Are those years even over?"
Annie Ernaux, A Frozen Woman
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Yet another first paragraph, by Kaveh Akbar:
Cyrus Shams
Keady University, 2015
"Maybe it was that Cyrus had done the wrong drugs in the right order, or the right drugs in the wrong order, but when God finally spoke back to him after twenty-seven years of silence, what Cyrus wanted more than anything else was a do-over. Clarification. Lying on his mattress that smelled like piss and Febreeze, in his bedroom that smelled like piss and Febreeze, Cyrus stared up at the room's single light bulb, willing it to blink again, willing God to confirm that the bulb's flicker hsd been a divine action and not just the old apartment's trashy wiring."
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Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was.
"Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked.- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Rereading this, I doubt it's the 42nd time, who knows. I just finished a book about people dying, and keep thinking about people that have died, but it's cold and grey November, so something lighter, that begins with the random destruction of the entire planet 🙄. I've never read The Ice Storm (seen the movie), that's up next, for Thanksgiving. I picked it up and didn't feel cynical enough, but a week or so of holiday advertising should do it 🤔
I know many find this book annoying, but that's true of most things 😆 -
This morning's excerpt from "I See You've Called in Dead"
"Where do you see yourself in the hierarchy of humanity?" Tuan asked.
"I don't understand the question," I said.
"As a cisgender white male, I mean. Where do you stand, do you think?"
"I'm eating, Tuan."
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From "I See You've Called in Dead," by John Kenney
"Does the underground thing bother you? Is that why cremation?"
"Not really. Also I'll be dead."
"Yes, but that's the quandry for me. I can't imagine a complete lack of feeling."
"You should read your own writing." -
[Substituted asterisks because I haven't figured out italics on my phone]
"The kinds of signs I was now reading about weren't meant for us at all, they belonged to processes to which human beings were not privy, even if they took place in our own cells.
These were alluring thoughts. Secret languages, codes, strange forms of cognition, visible, and yet incomprehensible signs. Everything that lived was pervaded by information and communication, from the very smallest components of a cell to flocks of birds, shoals of fish, crowds of people in the streets during a revolution or on any normal day. The problem was that life wasn't *at all* like that, an abstract, fantastic system, and I was too quick by half to have pursued such trains of thought. Because down on my hands and knees in the moist soil of the forest, meticulously teasing forth a white thread of the mycelium, *that was all it was,* a white thread. It connected with one of the roots of the tree and absorbed nutrients. What it knew was in *itself,* quite literally."Knausgaard, The Wolves of Eternity
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Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died
Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
from #WhatImReading
Phil Lewis
Sep 26, 2025#AssataShakur, a famed political activist who was found guilty of shooting a New Jersey state trooper in 1973 and later granted political asylum in #Cuba, has died. She was 78.
On Thursday, Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“At approximately 1:15 PM on September 25th, my mother, Assata Shakur, took her last earthly breath. Words cannot describe the depth of loss that I am feeling at this time,” Kakuya Shakur, her daughter, wrote on Facebook.
https://www.whatimreading.net/p/assata-shakur-political-activist-dead
#BlackLiberation #BlackLivesMatter #BlackMastodon #news #politics #USpol
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𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰'𝒎 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈: "𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑻𝒊𝒎𝒆" 𝒃𝒚 𝑲𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒆 𝑩𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒍𝒆𝒚 -
Praised and hyped but intrigued by the concept, I wade in with some suspicion that this hybrid genre work will promise and promise . . .
#whatimreading #books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #quotes #reading #kalianebradley #theministryoftime #sf #romance #scifi #sciencefiction #timetravel
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Toxic Prey by John Sandford
Book 10-2025
Fiction/Thriller. 3/5Themes: viral contagion, Gaia, government agents, Northern New Mexico
If you need a fluffy beach thriller this is the perfect fast paced lightish read that you need. There are no unique ideas or literary prowess here. There is a mad doctor intent on saving Gaia with a viral contagion who is hunted down by a determined group of government agents. 12 Monkeys-esque without the time travel.
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Starting this #GraphicNovel - Sacco is quite brilliant in the writing field of #comics #journalism.
Not all #nonfiction books are bland & boring. His books are really interesting & blend factual text with comic #illustrations.#bookstodon #reading #history #Bosnia #SoftcoverBooks #ReadMoreBooks #Readers #WhatImReading #literature #WarHistory #LearnHistory #GenX
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#FridayFragments #whatimreading this week:
📚2 opposing viewpoints re #GenAI and #students
📚3 articles re:impacts
layoffs on #highered from #chronicleofhighereducation and
@snopes https://higheredpraxis.substack.com/p/friday-fragments-march-21st -
Death on Denial by EJ Eussel
Number 4 in Quest Investigations, and number 13 in Mythmatched Mates
#WhatImReading #WhatImReadingNow #AmReading #Mystery #MMRomance #LGBT @lgbtbookstodon @bookstodon @fantasy
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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲" 𝗯𝘆 𝗧𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗗𝘂𝗲 -
She's been on my list too long! Time to enjoy a good horror tale, and so far the updated Gothic elements are well in place for terrible "fun."
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I'm currently reading The Lady Under The Lake by E.J. Russell
What is everyone else reading?
It's book 3 of Quest Investigations, but also part of the Mythmatched Mates series.
The whole series has been addictive, and I keep coming back for more.
#WhatImReading #WhatImReadingNow #AmReading #MMRomance #Mystery #LGBT @lgbtbookstodon @bookstodon
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Everybody chime in with what you're reading these days. I was a huge fan of Zahn's Quadrail series so I happily jumped onto this series too. Fun, zippy space opera with a ton of action and mysterious alien tech. #WhatImReading #WhatImReadingnow
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Next on the reading list: David Bergen’s “Away From the Dead”
#canlit #gillerprize #readersofmastodon #whatimreading #mennonitelit #historicalfiction #davidbergen
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Next on the reading list: David Bergen’s “Away From the Dead”
#canlit #gillerprize #readersofmastodon #whatimreading #mennonitelit #historicalfiction #davidbergen
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Next on the reading list: David Bergen’s “Away From the Dead”
#canlit #gillerprize #readersofmastodon #whatimreading #mennonitelit #historicalfiction #davidbergen
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Next on the reading list: David Bergen’s “Away From the Dead”
#canlit #gillerprize #readersofmastodon #whatimreading #mennonitelit #historicalfiction #davidbergen
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Next on the reading list: David Bergen’s “Away From the Dead”
#canlit #gillerprize #readersofmastodon #whatimreading #mennonitelit #historicalfiction #davidbergen
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Fascinating, twisty take on AI and robots, and how their internal processes might actually work. And what our over reliance on them might very well lead to. #WhatImReading #WhatImReadingNow #AmReading
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I loved Zahn's Quadrail series. And this is shaping up to be a good one too. Ripping good space opera thriller. ##WhatImReading #WhatImReadingNow #AmReading
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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗘𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵" 𝗯𝘆 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗴
Still trying to catch up to the Master of Horror's output! *Phew* Finally the conclusion of the trilogy so I can settle in to Holly!
#books #whatımreading #billhodges #endofwatch #stephenking #holly
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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗘𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵" 𝗯𝘆 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗴
Still trying to catch up to the Master of Horror's output! *Phew* Finally the conclusion of the trilogy so I can settle in to Holly!
#books #whatımreading #billhodges #endofwatch #stephenking #holly
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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗘𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵" 𝗯𝘆 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗴
Still trying to catch up to the Master of Horror's output! *Phew* Finally the conclusion of the trilogy so I can settle in to Holly!
#books #whatımreading #billhodges #endofwatch #stephenking #holly
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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗘𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵" 𝗯𝘆 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗴
Still trying to catch up to the Master of Horror's output! *Phew* Finally the conclusion of the trilogy so I can settle in to Holly!
#books #whatımreading #billhodges #endofwatch #stephenking #holly
