@Salixj I could be more involved on Goodreads, but I had hoped, out of the hundreds of Mastodon instances, an updated, in-sync instance would be for book readers. I yap generally on mastodon.social and mastodon.sdf.org, using the #amreading, #nowreading and #books hashtag @LienRag
#amreading The Garden of Departed Cats.
@LienRag it does seem that this instance is very underused. It has enough people, but no one seems to respond.
@ColourOfSpring what instances are you using in terms of reading?
We've all found other instances, right? Did you join a different instance yet retained a focus on what you're reading? Please let me know. #amreading _Some Tame Gazelle_ by Barbara Pym.
Read "The butchering art : Joseph Lister's quest to transform the grisly world of Victorian medicine" by Lindsey Fitzharris. Dovetailed nicely with "The ghost map" by Steven Johnson with its description of the gradual acceptance of the germ theory. I can't imagine undergoing surgery back then! {shudder} #amreading #wasreading
Read "A Bear Called Paddington" by Michael Bond for the #readharderchallenge (children’s classic published before 1980). I don't remember ever reading any of the Paddington books, but I do vaguely remember having a dislike for them. Maybe cover illustrations put me off? Or the fact I don't like marmalade? Whatever it was, it kept me from meeting a tote adorbs character. I found Paddington funny & captivating. Better late than never, I guess! #amreading #wasreading
#amreading "Ready Player Two" by Shira Chess. I really, really wish I could say I'm enjoying it. The topic is fascinating, but its style is so academic that it's a chore to read. I may have to give up on it.
Just finished "Bringing Columbia Home: the Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew," by Michael D. Leinbach. Sad & inspiring at the same time. Lots of great stories about the people who came together to find the pieces of the shuttle & the remains of her crew in East Texas. I wish Leinbach would have focused more on those stories & on the accident investigation panel than the bureaucratic details of organizing the searches. Good, but could have been better.
#amreading #finishedreading
#Amreading _Zuleika Dobson_ by Max Beerbohm, _The Grave's a Fine and Private Place_ by Alan Bradley, and Goldie Vance, volumes 2 and 3.
#amreading "Last Days of the Incas". This book is incredible. What an amazing society we have lost. Is conquest and obliteration of the weak inevitable?
The nitro cold brew settles slowly like a well poured pint of Guinness.
#amreading To Be A Machine
#books #coffee
I’m so emotionally invested in this book. I suffer a hangover every time I stop reading. It takes time to find myself, like I’m physically detaching myself from the character and his world.
Currently reading :) 📖
1st day off for Lunar New Year 😀 Drinking a coffee outside and #reading Left Hand of Darkness
#amreading #books
Just finished "The ghost map: the story of London's most terrifying epidemic..." by Steven Johnson. Love me some narrative non-fiction, especially the disaster-y stuff. Great mix of gory disease details, medical detective work, Victorian slice-of-life, pig-headed miasmist "scientists," and human tenacity. I have no clue why it suddenly has 3 holds on it, but I'm glad because that finally got it out of my cache of ever-renewing library books.
#amreading
Honestly, I just finished reading "Finding a Balance Between Caring and Not Giving a Fuck" by @WelshPixie and wow, that was perfect and exactly what I needed right now.
Funny as hell, sweary as you'd expect (which I enjoyed & you should expect from the title), and just all around a 5-star read.
I kinda wanna post quotes all night, but instead, here's a link to it so you can buy it:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/531375
Currently reading :) 📖
Short story 6/100:
O CAPOTE (aka THE OVERCOAT), by Gogol, translated into Brazilian Portuguese by Paulo Bezerra
I first read it several years ago, very early in my translation studies days. Reading it now was a fascinating exercise and I'm still geeking out about it. xD Can't wait to read the rest of this anthology, and Bezerra's translations of Dostoevsky! 8D
Short stories 5 and 7/100:
- THE RESIDENT
- DIFFICULT AT PARTIES
Again, both from CMM's HB&OP. I think those two were the stories I least enjoyed, largely because a lot of it went through my head? I'll be re-reading the book over the next few weeks, might write a proper review after discussing it to death with some friends.
#shortstories #fiction #sff #Latinx #queer #USA #literature #horror #amreading
Just finished reading "The Making of Gabriel Davenport" by Beverly Lee. It's a good story, with supernatural/horror elements and great characters that will keep you reading to the end. Here's my review:
https://talltechtales.com/the-making-of-gabriel-davenport-a-review/
Only 88 pages into Pachinko and I'm already in tears. Such a heartbreaking story so far... #amreading #nowreading #books