For those of you who like to write (or have to do a lot of it even if you don't like it), or like to annotate books, what are your favorite writing instruments?

For general writing, I like fountain pens (and my dozens of bottles of ink). Day to day, I use the Lamy Safari, but I have a handful of cheap Japanese "Preppy" fountain pens that write well and I have some other fountain pens of various quality/price.

I also recently got a brass pen with a Japanese made felt tip that also takes fountain pen ink and writes wonderfully. I have a dip pen and some acrylic inks somewhere but I rarely use that one.

All of the above require paper that will take the ink, so they're not ideal for annotating. I typically use a mechanical pencil when annotating, rather than ink. Unless I am annotating in my Kobo Libra Colour.

But for general writing I do lik pens and I try to pick up a variety of different or unusual pens when I can!

“The early internet was a capitalism-free zone… a network without hierarchy, it relied on horizontal decision-making and mutual gift exchange, not market exchanges.”

As someone who grew up in the 00’s I have truly been feeling so nostalgic for the early internet lately 😭 like, it used to just be a fun place full of wacky stuff that people posted for no other purpose than connecting with other people. And now it is a fully monetized hellscape with like three websites on it 😭

Does anyone have any thought provoking fiction or memoir recommendations. I’m working on my suggestions for a local book club and love books we can have great discussion on. My current list includes The Water Dancer, Homegoing, and Project Hail Mary but I’d love a few more great reads. Previous books we’ve read that have been big hits with the book club were The Vanishing Half, The Glass Castle, On The Savage Side, Mad Honey and several historical fiction reads centered around world war 2 in Europe.

I’d also add Viy by Nikolai Gogol and The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

I felt like I jinxed myself earlier when I replied to someone's post about how many books I read at the same time and now I have 5 books on my current read.

I am currently:

reading Frankenstein (I have 20 pages left but I am delaying for some reason), the national telepathy, and one hundred years of solitude (I am kind of waiting to be done with Frankenstein to continue with this one).

rereading jade city because I am seeing people reading it, and I have been wanting to go back to this world for so long now.

I unintentionally started listening to broken country very randomly, because I dont even enjoy that kind of books any way so and I didn't even mark it currently reading here because I already have like 4 books already

how many books are y'all reading and which one(s)? :)))