#phantastikprompts zu meinen kommenden Debütroman "Die Abenteuer des Edward Corby"
18. Frage an die Hauptfigur: Lässt du deinem dich schreibenden Zeit zum Lesen?
Aber natürlich. Anja liest eh meistens abends im Bett und arbeitet so ihren SuB (Stapel ungelesener Bücher) ab. Watt muss, dat muss.
I've recently read "Digital Minimalism" by Cal Newport
It helped me a lot with understanding how many digital distractions we have in the world. And it told me how to retake some control over my digital life and my attention, my digital freedom.
Book Review: The Witch Roads
The first part of Elliott’s newest fantasy series that hits the power chords of her themes.
@princejvstin.com has the review at the NOAF blog
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/03/book-review-witch-roads.html
'Here come Handbooks, a series of handmade micro-published collections of poetry, prose and images.'
Clare Pollard, Chris Meade, Will Ashon and more in glorious concertina editions:
https://blownrose.uk/handbooks
#books #reading #writing #poetry #fiction #bookstodon @bookstodon
Die @leipzigerbuchmesse naht mit großen Schritten und ich bin schon so aufgeregt. Trefft mich auf dem Panel zur Anthologie AQUA OBSCURA vom @carpathiaverlag. Ich freu mich!
#Buchbubble #lesen #bookstodon #autor_innen
I edited Shelley's Ozymandias, and realised that, if only five sentences can change the landscape of English literature, as well as public attitudes to ancient civilisations, we shoud get writing.
I met a traveller from an antique land, who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command tell that its sculptor well those passions read, which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things -- the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' No thing beside remains. Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away."
#PercyByssheShelley #Shelley #Ozymandias @writing #bookstodon #PeanutButterShelley
'It opened up a whole new life for me.'
The UK is shuttering about 40 #libraries a year:
One broch, two millennia, three murders. ‘Thicker Than Water’ is a compelling new murder mystery set in northern Scotland.
The ruined Castle Sinclair Girnigoe stands on the coast north of Wick in Caithness and is visited by the book’s two central characters as they follow the trail of a murderer.
Find out more on my website:
http://www.kenlussey.com/ttw/index.html
Received yesterday - a copy of Looking at Women Looking at War by the late Victoria Amelina.
Amelia was killed by a Russian rocket while having dinner with fellow writers.
This book is her unfinished document of the atrocities during the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Really looking forward to this, but suspect it will be a tough read.
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250367686/lookingatwomenlookingatwar/
Morning fedi 
Today I'm reviewing Welcome to Ferrendale! Read my thoughts on this delightfully sinister and intriguing folk horror story:
https://www.draliceviolett.com/welcome-to-ferrendale-by-oli-jacobs #bookstodon #BookMastodon
Zur diesjährigen #lbm25 werde ich ziemlich atkiv sein. Ein neues #Buch erscheint (dazu bald mehr), aus dem lese ich mehrfach (auch dazu bald mehr). Doch derzeit gucke ich durch's #LeizpigLiest-Programm und habe ein feine Punkte gefunden. Etwa Bettina Wurche, die schon auf dem #Elstercon sehen durfte:
https://www.leipziger-buchmesse.de/pco/de/buchmesse/677f85adf8aa733d1d004259
Finished earlier this year, "Nyt minusta on tullut kuolema; Suurromaani atomipommista & sen kehittäjistä" by Steffen Jacobsen.
A book in Finnish.
A fictional novel centred around the Manhattan Project. Many of the characters do seem to have historical counterpart & some historical figures appear in the story, but overall I think it's fiction.
A decent book to listen, but it was a bit too simplistic & predictable with the compulsory love story & drama.
Finished earlier this year, "Chronographia" by Michael Psellos.
A history of 14 emperors & empresses of the Byzantine Empire in the 11th Century. Written by Michael Psellos who was a high ranking official in the Byzantine court.
I like Roman history, but I'm not that familiar with Byzantine history & emperors & empresses.
This was an audiobook & was a difficult listen, because of the numerous non-familiar names.
I think this would be better as a physical book.
#bookreleaseday ! Penelope Ross has always felt like a passenger in her mother’s fairytale - until the night of her 17th birthday, when she is forced to enter on her own. #gifted by #Feiwel&Friends ! #yalit #booksky #books #bookstodon @bookstodon @yalit
#bookreleaseday ! In this action-packed debut, time traveling archaeologist Rabbit Ward maneuvers through the past to recover a long-lost, precious menorah hiding out in ancient Rome. #gifted by #stmartinspress #booksky #books #bookstodon @bookstodon
I’m currently reading the entirety of The Stories of #JohnCheever. Some of his short stories are my very favorite in all of literature. I’ve only read a few of these in my college days. Now it’s time for the rest.
If you have any curiosity over what I’m raving about, give this a gander.
https://archive.org/details/enormousradio0000chee
#Bookstodon
An important read for #InternationalWomensDay and month. #books #bookstodon
https://buy.bookfunnel.com/pjmf2ns9fh?tid=mmps8120dd
He plays a secret agent in the movies. What happens when he discovers his mysterious extra is the real thing?
Up next I’m continuing my read through of the #StarTrek Pocket novels with Vulcan’s Soul, Book II: Exiles (2006) by Josepha Sherman and Susan Shwartz #StarTrekTOS #bookstodon
