NightHawk362

Fantasy writer, book collector and anarchist

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My Taste

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

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The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism

Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies

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The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps

A Wrinkle in Time (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #1)

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brittwarren

What worlds would you jump into?

The book that I'm currently reading (Throne of Nightmares) has the two MCs jumping into different book worlds and living out certain plot points, and it made me wonder what worlds I'd like to visit and what I would do in them...

I can imagine traveling the streets of Velaris and walking over the Sidra River, riding on a dragon in Navarre or attempting the obstacle course they train on, petting some of the Kiyou wolves in Atlantia, training with assassin's outside of Nighthaven... The possibilities are nearly endless.

What worlds would you visit, and what fun things would you get up to?

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33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs, from Billie Holiday to Green Day

Dorian Lynskey

From one of the most prominent music critics writing today, a page-turning and wonderfully researched history of protest music in the twentieth century and beyond Nowhere does pop music collide more dramatically with the wider world than in the protest song, which forces its way into the news and prompts conversations from Washington to Westminster. Rather than being merely a worthy adjunct to the business of pop, protest music is woven into its DNA. When you listen to Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Public Enemy, or the Clash, you are not sitting down to a dusty seminar; you are hearing pop music at its most thrillingly alive. 33 Revolutions Per Minute is the story of protest music told in 33 songs. An incisive history of a wide and shape-shifting genre, Dorian Lynskey's authoritative book takes us from the days of Billie Holliday crooning “Strange Fruit” before shocked audiences to Vietnam-era crowds voicing their resentment at the sounds of Bob Dylan to the fracas over the Dixie Chicks’ comments against George W. Bush during the Iraq War. For anyone who enjoyed Alex Ross’s The Rest is Noise , Bob Dylan’s Chronicles , or Simon Reynolds’ Rip It Up and Start Again , 33 Revolutions Per Minute is an absorbing and moving portrait of a century when music was the people’s truest voice.

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The Once and Future Witches

Alix E. Harrow

In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in Alix E. Harrow's powerful novel of magic and the suffragette movement. In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box. But when the Eastwood sisters -- James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonna -- join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women's movement into the witch's movement. Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote -- and perhaps not even to live -- the sisters will need to delve into the oldest magics, draw new alliances, and heal the bond between them if they want to survive. There's no such thing as witches. But there will be. An homage to the indomitable power and persistence of women, The Once and Future Witches reimagines stories of revolution, sapphic love, motherhood, and women's suffrage--the lost ways are calling.

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Arboreality

Rebecca Campbell

A professor in pandemic isolation rescues books from the flooded and collapsing McPherson Library. A man plants fireweed on the hillside of his depopulated Vancouver Island suburb. An aspiring luthier poaches the last ancient Sitka spruce to make a violin for a child prodigy. Campbell’s astonishing vision pulls the echoing effects of small acts and intimate moments through this multi-generational and interconnected story of how a West coast community survives the ravages of climate change. A novella expansion of the Sturgeon Award winning short story “An Important Failure.”

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Ode to the Half-Broken

Suzanne Palmer

Forty years ago, the world nearly ended. Be is an old robot who was there, and doesn’t want to think about what happened, or what role they played in that conflict. They have settled into a life of isolation in the abandoned ruins of an old mill in the former New York Botanical Gardens, disinterested in what has happened in the outside world since they stepped away from the war. Someone out there, though, has not forgotten about them, and when they are attacked, their person vandalized, and one of their leg stolen, they set out to find the thief accompanied by a cyborg dog and a human mechanic. The world has changed, but the recovery from the war is uneven and faltering, and Be begins to suspect a malicious hand trying to rekindle the old conflict and finish what was started. In order to stop them, Be needs to come to terms with both their own past and who they have become, and how everything and everyone else they knew has changed in their absence. Being left alone is no longer an option, and peace may be impossible. This is a story about coming to terms with your past, with who you’ve become and who you still want to be: a tale of resilence and hope, an ode to those struggling to become whole in a world half-broken.

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strawberrymilk

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AI in Video Games

Hey everyone, I know we have lots of gamers in here so I wanted to share this resource I found with the community. It’s a list of video games that have used AI in development and to what extent. The list can be found linked 🔗here.

As far as I’m aware, it’s still being updated regularly. I’m genuinely so heartbroken over a few of these and I’m so, so tired of AI being everywhere.

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The Once and Future Witches

Alix E. Harrow

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The Once and Future Witches

Alix E. Harrow

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Alix E. Harrow

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theuncomfypotato

Libraries - Destroyer of TBR's!

Guys. Usually my library selection is a dumpster fire of poop... but today it was full of some really good books that I had no choice but to yoink not 1 but 2 books! And I have until September 15th to read them!

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Now that my TBR for September is officially destroyed. Has your local library destroyed your TBR lately?

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Grimm's Fairy Tales

Jacob Grimm

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megislostinabook

Deciding whether to mark a book interested vs TBR

Hey everyone! I love all the different ways you can mark a book on PB. I am so used to Goodreads where it’s TBR pretty much. It got me thinking, how do you guys decide whether a book is TBR or interested?

I noticed when perusing through others libraries that some people have an even split and then some have all books pretty much in “interested” and only what their immediate TBR is as TBR!

I usually just have everything as TBR because I plan to read it someday but I started marking a few as interested just to test it out.

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riskyreads

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I’m not a writer. ✍🏼 ❌

Super not. I did okay in English. They always tried to put me in advanced English courses because I was in advanced courses in nearly every other subject, and I read a lot and I guess that helped me test well, but I always hated English. And would deny their efforts to put me in advanced English.

Anyway. The other day I watched Ilona Maher’s podcast with her sisters and I remember hearing B.K. Borison say she wrote the stories she wanted to read and I honestly kind of want to do that for myself. For fun.

No self publishing, no becoming a writer or author. Like I just wanna have fun with it, see where it goes. So today I spent time like creating a world in my head and added some key things I always love in stories. Maybe I’ll write it as YA so my kids can read it one day idk. And I’m just curious like, has anyone done this?

I actually once upon a time wrote fantasy ish stories for my neopets when I was a teen so it’s not really my first time attempting this idea, but if anyone has done this, did you lose interest? Did you absolutely love it? Did you let anyone read it 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Again not for any other reason other than fun but did you also get imposter syndrome. I’m a perfectionist and it really ruins my life sometimes like it makes me stop attempting new things often just bc I’m like oh I’m bad (bc I really am hahahahaha) and so I quit.

Oh and are there any online resources with basic story writing? Again I just want to do it for fun, but I’d like to make it semi readable normal feeling. Not just magical mystical word vomit.

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Wraithpirate

Pour one out for Dolly

Dolly Parton was an amazing philanthropist and singer. She was a queer ally and helped get kids free books. She did so much for education in East Tennessee. Truly a woman to look up to and her family is asking people to donate to her book program for kids instead of flowers to remember her. RIP Dolly you were amazing.

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Grimm's Fairy Tales

Jacob Grimm

The Grimm brothers were early 19th-century writers best known for their fairy tales coming from Scandinavian, Icelandic and Germanic origins. By 1807 there was a growing interest in German folk tales. The Grimm brothers were academics who invited friends to their home and asked them to relate stories they had heard. They soon published their first collection of tales and from there several more volumes followed. This compilation of fairy tales which includes the complete canon of over 200 tales has become a beloved set of classical stories the world over. Included in this collection are Hansel and Gretel, Briar Rose, The Fisherman and His Wife, Rapunzel, The Frog Prince, Little Red Riding Hood, Rumpelstiltskin, Tom Thumb, and many more. These stories are a delight to read and will rekindle up many childhood memories as they are reread. Presented here in this edition is the faithful translation of Margaret Hunt.

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The Weeping Tide (Wilderlore, #2)

Amanda Foody

Barclay and his friends must save an island city from the Legendary Beast of the Sea in this exciting second book in the Wilderlore series, perfect for fans of Nevermoor and How to Train Your Dragon. Something is wrong at the Sea. The weeping tide, a carnivorous algae bloom, is eating up all the fish. Beasts are terrorizing the nearby Elsewheres. And Lochmordra, the Legendary Beast, is rising at random and swallowing ships whole. Barclay’s teacher, the famous Guardian Keeper Runa Rasgar, has been summoned to investigate, and as her apprentice, Barclay gets to join too. But Runa’s nemesis has also been called to the Sea, and he’s brought apprentices of his own. When the not-so friendly competition between them grows fierce, it’s Barclay—the only one from the Elsewheres—who can’t seem to keep up. The key to stopping Lochmordra lies in his mythical home, but as the flood of the weeping tide encroaches, time is running out to find it. If the rival groups can’t cast aside old grudges and learn to work together, soon the Sea will be destroyed completely. And all the while Barclay must ask himself: is there truly a place for him in the Wilderlands?

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The Weeping Tide (Wilderlore, #2)