@filippodb@Shivablue forse si trovano pochi titoli perché ancora non ci sono molti utenti registrati. E poi non leggo 10 libri al mese, al massimo quando riesco uno 😒 con il poco tempo che ho a disposizione per rilassarmi almeno un'oretta, quindi a me personalmente non peserà inserirli a mano. Anzi, mi sembra di rendermi utile per un progetto così interessante 🙂
Yet again, I'm glad I don't pay any attention to Goodreads reviews. Everyone's a critic, and critics are too quick to judge. I found this tale to be a perfect example of gothic dark fantasy.
This was my first adventure with V. E. Schwab, and I look forward to exploring her work further.
Personally, I thought the story was the perfect length, chugged along at the right pace, and ended at the right time without dragging on for too long - an excellent late-night atmospheric read.💀
Ihr betreibt doch auch einen #BookWyrm Server, oder? Kann man da auch sein Profil von einer anderen Instanz hin umziehen? Oder wenigstens die Bücher irgendwie als Liste importieren?
This isn't a novel, but there's a kids picture book called "We Are All Me" by Jordon Crane that explains this in simple poetry at a level that understandable to both children and adults.
@FullyAutomatedRPG Great, thank you! I take anything. I like the point about the interconnectedness of all life.
I'm a little surprised that the idea hasn't been worked on umpteen times in art.
This may be a silly question, but how does one actually read short story collections? Is it the same as if reading a novel? Do you put the book down between every story? Do you look for connections between the stories? Am I supposed to read them linearly?
@Namnatulco I just finished reading the I, Robot book which is a compilation of Asimov's short stories about robots over a long period of time. That probably has more connectivity and linearity than a compilation of short stories from multiple authors. But even in that form they were only loosely related. There was a through thread of the Three Laws of Robotics and the basic technology of their "brains" but otherwise there wasn't a lot of connectivity to them. So they could have been read in any order even though I started front to back. I definitely had pauses between them but I do that with reading regular novels too.
@hankg thanks! I used to do that, but I kinda gave up pauses between novels (at least switching between multiple ones), because I started to feel lost between a bunch of books and never really finishing any while still wanting to. But it might work better for short stories.
i first filed this on #bookwyrm, where it was accepted and thrown away without explanation. which is why i continue to become disenamoured of the platform. but i told @grimalkina i'd share science tidbits from this cat book.
The fear of artificial life is intimately tied up with the word robot itself, which first appeared in the 1921 science fiction play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), written by the Czech author Karel Čapek. In the play, artificial people—robots—are produced in a factory by the Rossum company. Eventually the robots, who can think for themselves, rise up in rebellion and exterminate almost all of humanity.… The word robot was derived from the Czech roboti, which refers to a serf-like forced laborer.
— Gregory Gbur in Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300231298/falling-felines-and-fundamental-physics/
2nd book by T Kingfisher, and I can confidently say that I'm enjoying her somewhat irreverent(?) take on traditional fantasy. Truly find myself chuckling more than a few times while reading.
A nice palette cleanser and a bit different than my traditional fare.
A paladin for a dead god, a perfumer (maybe poisoner? you have to read to find out, I'm not giving it away!) and the right amount of severed heads.
This one took me extraordinarily long. Felt like DNF at times, but I always went on in the end. Well worth it. The first half of the 20th century in #Japan from a less frequent perspective.
"Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution" by RF Kuang
Based on the Goodreads reviews, this book polarizes readers: they either love it or hate it.
I enjoyed it, but I also enjoy etymology in general, which should almost be a prerequisite to reading Babel. It kind of makes me want to return to Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell to see how they compare.