#books

Tears for sawdust? Or was it real? (youtu.be)

From "The Velveteen Rabbit" to "Toy Story" what are you really crying about when you weep for lost toys? #booksky, #reading, #books youtu.be/wKly2P0dvQg

#booksky #books 6632 Thunderball / Ian Fleming (Pan 1963) SPECTRE blackmail Britain with the detonation of 2 stolen atom bombs - Bond's best lead to Number One (we'll get his name soon enough) is thru his mistress Domino (forgotten Bondgirl) and with a trip to the Caribbean with old pal Felix Leiter

They’re arguably kind of superfluous, but I’ve always liked it when #novels have a #TableofContents …

Digital illustration of mine depicting Podkin One-Ear from @kieranlarwood.bsky.social 's five realm series

“What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense." - Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon

Posted 1 hour ago by @nontoxicmasc.bsky.social "non_toxic_masculinity_: It's kind of the whole deal. We have a duty to resist unjust laws. #readbooks #liftweights #books #nontoxicmasculinity" IG acct: non_toxic_masculinity_ Dustin Pace

New Fiction Titles (8/11/26) (phillychapbookreview.org)

Check out new #fiction #books for the week of 8/11 from Stanchion, TRP: The University Press of SHSU, Roseway Publishing, @ualbertapress.bsky.social, FSG Originals, Hogarth, Random House, Knopf, Dzanc Books, @transitbooks.bsky.social & Ecco. #writingcommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-fiction-...

A ‘bananas’ order for 5,000 obscure titles from a bookshop in Galway fuels suspicion (irishtimes.com)

European #bookstores #bookshops #bookstores get mass large online orders for antiquarian #books that could be their death warrant. Brought to you by the miracle that is #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ProjectPanama www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

Book Review: Spirit in the Dark by Gary Copeland Lilley (southbroadwaypress.org)

Check out this book review of Gary Copeland Lilley’s new FLP book SPIRIT IN THE DARK. southbroadwaypress.org/2026/08/05/b...

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I am listening to this now and I hope this author really lawyers up and sues the Atlantic for their AI allegations . Casual AI critics are annoying me just as much as LLM Bros. Absolutely none of you know how the technology works, and none of you understand that these LLM checkers are just as […]

Ingefaer vod Renku: Aere Warrior (amazon.com)

NEW from René Vecka! A $2.99 sale! A gripping tale of resilience, rivalry, and revenge, Ingefær vod Renku, Ære Warrior promises an inspiring, action-packed journey of a young woman forging herself into a legend. #youngadult #fantasy #comingofage #books #booksky www.amazon.com/Ingefaer-vod...

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I came home to find a parcel from Amazon... The Last Garagiste is a physical thing... I especially love the hardback.

#booksky #books 6635 Doctor Who And The Ark In Space / Ian Marter (Targer 1981) first trip for the new TARDIS crew to a giant spaceship containing the selected survivors of humanity in hibernation - but a few cubicles have malfunctioned and the writers of "Alien" are about to receive inspiration

The Taste of Ashes by Howard Browne. First edition. 1957. Bumping and boards lightly rubbed, else very good or better in a very good dust jacket with rubbing and edgewear including some chips and tears. $125

#quotes #books #booksky #excerpts #citations #accidentalgods #subin #religion #pehrson #malaria #baluchistan #pakistan #marri #anthropology #afterlife #spirit #gradstudent #deification #shrine #sacrifice #gods #tarn #redfield #death

#booksky #books 📚 #currentread White Horse | Alex Adams

📚💙 Starting today: inventive Austrian novel Short Circuit by Wolf Haas. #booksky #books #reading #currentlyreading #booksintranslation 🇦🇹

“God knows I'm not intelligent otherwise I'd be dead” - How It Is by Samuel Beckett

I'm grateful I grew up in an analogue world: a more embodied, unmediated, unpredictable, ephemeral (unrecorded), authentic, F2F existence. Christine Rosen makes a case to save this even as it fades out. Her thoughts here are troubling, but always insightful, I think.

"I have lived a thousand lives and I've loved a thousand loves. I've walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read." - George R.R. Martin #NowReading Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson

HALF-PRICE SALE! I am filled with gratitude because my feed is filled with Barnes & Noble bookstores across the country celebrating the half-price sale on THE AMATEUR. Inflation is a best, so thank you B&N for offering our new books at 50% off!

#Books #reading #quotes #booksky #susanneclark #piranesi Stuck in the seemingly infinite rooms of the 'halls' or 'the house' as he was (although not stuck in his eyes), I admired Piranesi's appreciation for everything that appeared before him, I admired especially his fondness for the birds there.

#booksky #books 6634 Doctor Who And The Giant Robot / Terrance Dicks (Target 1975) "Invasion Of The Dinosaurs" rehashed with the addition of a King Kong robot - Tom Baker's Doctor debuts with manic energy and UNIT friends to help him bed in after a straightforward victory once he's got his bearings

Letti begins her reconnection journey to her First Nation home (windspeaker.com)

“Some that maybe tried to come back, they weren't necessarily accepted … not everybody gets a happy, welcoming homecoming from a community that really doesn't know much about you.”