How to support your favourite authors—even if you can’t buy their books, Suyi Davies Okungbowa
https://suyidavies.com/essays/support-authors
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Finally! A chart I can identify with …
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I pay a terrible price to bring this news to you …
More fun here …
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Current mood
#Books #Reading #Snoozing #RainyDay
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Here’s what I read in March, April, May, June & July
- The Phoenix Project, Gene Kim, Kevin Behr & George Spafford
- Sherlock & Co. Podcast, Episodes 36–41
- Empire Podcast, America’s Founding Fathers & the American Revolution, Episodes 146–159
- A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, Holly Jackson
- 90 Common French Phrases Every French Learner Should Know, Frederic Bibard
- How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr
- How to Fail Miserably at Writing, Giselle Renard
- The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
- Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs
- The Return of Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs
- The Beasts of Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs
- The Girl Who Would Be Free, Ryan Holiday
- The Rest is History, Titanic, Episodes 427–432
- Empire Podcast, American Imperialism, Episodes 160–169
- HIM, Geoff Ryman
- Mr. Einstein’s Secretary, Matthew Reilly
- The Peripheral, William Gibson
- The Rest is History, Fall of the American Indigenous Peoples, Episodes 446–456
The rest of this year’s list is here:
https://janusworx.com/reading/2024/
#mjbReads #Books #mjbBooks #Reading #mjbReading
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It’s been a while since I posted on of these, so this is a going to be a thread methinks
Here’s what I read in March, April, May, June & July
- The Poppy War, R.F. Kuang
- The Dragon Republic, R.F. Kuang
- The Burning God, R.F. Kuang
- The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett
- Empire Podcast, Series 6, Episodes 128–132, Buddhism
- Foundryside, Robert Jackson Bennett
- Shorefall, Robert Jackson Bennett
- Locklands, Robert Jackson Bennett
- Schaum’s Outline of French Grammar, Mary Coffman Crocker
- 5BX Plan, The Royal Canadian Air Force
- The Pixar Touch, David A. Price
- Empire Podcast, Series 7, Episodes 133–145, Queens and Empresses
- The Romance of Lust: A Victorian Erotic Novel, Anonymous
- Sherlock & Co. Podcast, Episodes 1–15
- Sherlock & Co. Podcast, Episodes 16–35
- Empire Podcast, Episodes 148–155, America: The Empire of Liberty
- The Dagger and the Coin - 01 - The Dragon’s Path, Daniel Abraham
- The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, Susan Wise Bauer
- The Bed of Procrustes, Nicholas Nassim Taleb
- How Git Works, Julia Evans
- The Programmer’s Brain, Felienne Hermans
- The Dagger and the Coin - 02 - The King’s Blood, Daniel Abraham
- The Dagger and the Coin - 03 - The Tyrant’s Law, Daniel Abraham
- The Dagger and the Coin - 04 - The Widow’s House, Daniel Abraham
- The Dagger and the Coin - 05 - The Spider’s War, Daniel Abraham
- The Tiger, John Vaillant
- Troll Mountain, Matthew Reilly
The rest of this year’s list is here:
https://janusworx.com/reading/2024/
#mjbReads #Books #mjbBooks #Reading #mjbReading
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It was the Kobo Elipsa e-reader that finally solved this conundrum for me
I really did have a backpack just for books before that
https://www.tumblr.com/myjetpack/757146800119545856/for-guardian-books
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“It’s sufficiently well written that I kept reading, without being actually good.”
… @Bluejo, reviewing a book
https://reactormag.com/jo-waltons-reading-list-june-2024/
This is mostly my reading life. I’m slowly learning to put them down now
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“I paid a terrible price for this knowledge.”
It sure feels like that at times!
#Books #Reading
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Via catchymemes on Tumblr
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