I'm facilitating the first ever GOAT (Gathering for Open Ag Tech) Book Club this Saturday (5/18), open to any and all! 📚🤓🐐
Session #1 is on "Networks, Peers & the Virtual Class," with readings from Yochai Benkler, Richard Barbrook, Michael Bauwens, and others. More session details in the link below. #bookclub#foss#reading#p2p
4.13 Sentient Trains (out of 5) was a good score for The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz at @mcrscifi this evening. Next book is The Cries of Alaere by Barra Hart if anyone wants to join us - despite the Manchester name we meet online, 19:00 UK time third Tuesday of each month (except December).
We’re looking for people interested in presenting two of the remaining chapters in our book club: #13 on Build automation with targets (ideally in calendar week 17 or 18; at 4:00-5:30 PM CEST) #15 on CI/CD pipelines (ideally in calendar week 20 or 21; at 4:00-5:30 PM CEST)
Hey everyone!
Over the past few years, I've been on a reading spree and picked up some tricks along the way that have been total game-changers for me.
If you're looking to read more this year, I've spilled all my secrets in my latest blog post. I hope you find them as helpful as I did! 📚 😊
If a book called itself a "Tiny Book of [topic]", what would you expect from the tininess? Physical size, page count, content – and where goes your limit for "tiny" in those?
🌌 On this day in 1978 the very first episode of the very first version of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy went out on Radio 4. We can't tell you how proud that makes us.
Here's a lovely programme about Douglas and his creation, presented by his friend John Lloyd, that went out on the 40th anniversary.
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If you read large print or dyslexic font paperback books do you prefer this to be indicated on the cover (say on a banner at the top) to help you identify the accommodation?
I compiled a quick poll based on different perspectives I've read.
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Hey #readers and #bookclub people, if you like #reading#shortstories and #fiction episodes, please consider trying out my series. The first couple of stories are free, and the rest of the stories cost less than a quarter each.
Each story is discrete and complete, so no fake cliffhanger to trick a reader into buying the next story.
Good discussion, though a low score (2.7/5), for Clans of the Alphane Moon at @mcrscifi last night.
If you'd like to join us for the next book, it's The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard on 19th March at 19:00 UK time. Online only, usually with Zoom.
What other titles do you think SHOULD HAVE been on Bowie’s book list?
We’re making a list of books we think could have made the list or books we wished had been on the list.
We'll be randomly selecting from this list for the second season of the #BowieBookClub Podcast.
3 people in my bookclub really enjoy reading erotica. To each their own, it’s simply not my thing. My question, & I don’t want to come across as condescending, are there any books of this genre that are well-written? I get there will be a lot of gratuitous stuff, but is that all there is to these books? Years ago, another bookclub I was in read the 1st book in the Sleeping Beauty series by Anne Rice (she wrote these under a different name) & I couldn’t finish it, I thought it was ridiculous.
Thanks to Fulya Gökalp, we can already announce meeting no.5, where chapter 9 of “Building reproducible analytical pipelines with R” by Bruno Rodrigues will be presented.
This month on #BowieBookClub we read ‘Darkness at Noon’ by Arthur Koestler, a tale of human pyschology under duress that makes a fitting conclusion to the Russian books that Bowie included on his reading list.
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Everything's fine, by Cecilia Rabess. He's white, rich, works in finance, has rich friends, votes for Trump. She's black, very smart, is doing ok but her career doesn't fly, has rich friends, mostly white. The book tells their story and it's all in the present tense, giving a feel of inevitability to it all. The story of how you can end up being in a relationship with someone who has very different views to yours. A story that is left incomplete, because how long can you go on telling yourself that Everything's Fine?
As someone who's being slowly finding herself, life's much better on the other side @bookstodon#CeciliaRabess#EverythingsFine#bookclub#books@kiarazard#bookwyrm@thestorygraph
Get your berets and espresso cups! This month on #BowieBookClub we read an art history class in a single book: Beyond the Brillo Box by Arthur C. Danto.