peryton

RPM, he/ they, writer, poet, virgo. paladin subclass Oath of the Library

1349 points

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My Taste

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

Reading...

Finding Nessie (The Walker Witch Files #1)

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective (HBI Series on Jewish Women)

Saga of Old City (Greyhawk Adventures, #1)

peryton is interested in reading...

Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

Robert McKee

Robert McKee's screenwriting workshops have earned him an international reputation for inspiring novices, refining works in progress and putting major screenwriting careers back on track. Quincy Jones, Diane Keaton, Gloria Steinem, Julia Roberts, John Cleese and David Bowie are just a few of his celebrity alumni. Writers, producers, development executives and agents all flock to his lecture series, praising it as a mesmerizing and intense learning experience. In Story , McKee expands on the concepts he teaches in his $450 seminars (considered a must by industry insiders), providing readers with the most comprehensive, integrated explanation of the craft of writing for the screen. No one better understands how all the elements of a screenplay fit together, and no one is better qualified to explain the "magic" of story construction and the relationship between structure and character than Robert McKee.

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Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee

Jeff Zentner

A contemporary novel about two best friends who must make tough decisions about their futures--and the TV show they host--in their senior year of high school.Every Friday night, best friends Delia and Josie become Rayne Ravenscroft and Delilah Darkwood, hosts of the campy creature feature show Midnite Matinee on the local cable station TV Six.But with the end of senior year quickly approaching, the girls face tough decisions about their futures. Josie has been dreading graduation, as she tries to decide whether to leave for a big university and chase her dream career in mainstream TV. And Lawson, one of the show's guest performers, a talented MMA fighter with weaknesses for pancakes, fantasy novels, and Josie, is making her tough decision even harder.Scary movies are the last connection Delia has to her dad, who abandoned the family years ago. If Midnite Matinee becomes a hit, maybe he'll see it and want to be a part of her life again. And maybe Josie will stay with the show instead of leaving her behind, too.As the tug-of-war between growing up and growing apart tests the bonds of their friendship, Josie and Delia start to realize that an uncertain future can be both monstrous...and momentous.

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The Women of Wild Hill

Kirsten Miller

A witty, spectacular, and timely tale of modern-day witches waging war on the patriarchy, from fan favorite Kirsten Miller, the author of The Change and Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books. There are places on earth where nature’s powers gather. Girls raised there are bequeathed strange gifts. A few have powers so dark that they fear to use them. Such a place is Wild Hill, on the tip of Long Island. For centuries, the ghost of a witch murdered by colonists claimed the beautiful and fertile Wild Hill…until a young Scottish woman with strange gifts arrived. Sadie Duncan was allowed to stay. Five generations of Sadie’s descendants called Wild Hill home, each generation more powerful than the last. Then, in the aftermath of a terrible tragedy, the last of the Duncans, once prophesized to be the most powerful of their kind, abandoned their ancestral home. One of them, Brigid Laguerre moved to California and turned her dark gift into fame and fortune. Her sister, Phoebe, settled on a ranch in Texas, where women visit in secret for her tonics and cures. Phoebe’s daughter, Sybil, has become a famous chef. Seemingly powerless, Sibyl has never been told of the Duncan bloodline. Now Brigid, Phoebe, and Sibyl have been brought to Wild Hill to discover their family legacy. The Old One, furious at the path mankind has taken, has chosen three powerful witches to turn the tide. The Duncans will fulfill their destinies—but only if they can set aside their grievances and come together as a family.

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Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science

Jessica Hernandez

An Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn’t working–and offers Indigenous models informed by case studies, personal stories, and family histories that center the voices of Latin American women and land protectors. Despite the undeniable fact that Indigenous communities are among the most affected by climate devastation, Indigenous science is nowhere to be found in mainstream environmental policy or discourse. And while holistic land, water, and forest management practices born from millennia of Indigenous knowledge systems have much to teach all of us, Indigenous science has long been ignored, otherized, or perceived as “soft”–the product of a systematic, centuries-long campaign of racism, colonialism, extractive capitalism, and delegitimization. Here, Jessica Hernandez–Maya Ch’orti’ and Zapotec environmental scientist and founder of environmental agency Piña Soul–introduces and contextualizes Indigenous environmental knowledge and proposes a vision of land stewardship that heals rather than displaces, that generates rather than destroys. She breaks down the failures of western-defined conservatism and shares alternatives, citing the restoration work of urban Indigenous people in Seattle; her family’s fight against ecoterrorism in Latin America; and holistic land management approaches of Indigenous groups across the continent. Through case studies, historical overviews, and stories that center the voices and lived experiences of Indigenous Latin American women and land protectors, Hernandez makes the case that if we’re to recover the health of our planet–for everyone–we need to stop the eco-colonialism ravaging Indigenous lands and restore our relationship with Earth to one of harmony and respect.

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archimedes

Question for the crocheters and knitters!

Last year, my reading-adjacent goal was to crochet granny squares for each book I read. I had such a fun time with this that I'm doing it again this year so I can have enough squares to make a cozy blanket.

My question: do you have a favorite place to buy yarn that 1) isn't Amazon or a big box store, 2) can be accessed in the US (e.g., online), and 3) offers sample packs or small bundles?

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kathytrithardt

Jan 08, 2026

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Essentially, "hate speech" laws cannot be effective because they are impossible to write in an effective way, are often used against the folks they are meant to protect, and it is usually not possible to prove the harm they are meant to mitigate. Instead, counterspeech is the way to go.

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sarahconte

how did you choose your top 5?

personally, i picked mostly childhood favourites because they felt like a safe choice!

how did you guys pick? are they the books that emotionally scarred you the most? the ones you find most relatable? or just your absolute favourite, nothing deeper ✨

i’d love to know!

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Mammoth (Mammoth, #1)

Stephen Baxter

Starting with the story of SilverHair, the last of the few remaining mammoths that have survived in a Siberian evolutionary backwater the MAMMOTH trilogy is the story of the mammoths of history and legend. It is their story built on their own myths and traditions. Conscious and intelligent, the mammoths of this trilogy have, within the limits of their nature, their own culture and oral mythology, even a creation myth, which they will use to tell their story, understand their world and try to cope with the encroachments of mankind. In Book One Silverhair must lead the last surviving family of mammoths to safety when a party of Russian sailors is shipwrecked on the Siberian island the mammths have hidden on through the millennia. The hope for the future lies in her skill and wit and with the calf she is carrying.

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ItsJaderade

Annotating

Hey all,

Any recommendations for ways to annotate? I only ever really did it for academic texts, but now that I’ve become a kobo libra color girlie I’m trying my best to getting into annotating my ebooks….and I can’t help but feel like I’m doing it wrong 😂

Like, is it okay to just highlight stuff and react to it or make predictions?

I feel like it’ll help me make my book reviews better.

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cauldronclique

Writers

Is anyone here also a writer? Where can we buy your books? My debut is still a WIP!

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grumpycat95

Thoughts from 100%

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peryton

landlocked sailor iso dreamboat

I'm looking for books about boats and boating, focusing on relationships w ships and the sea. Who's got recs? Fiction or non, so long as it's nautical. Moby Dick, Life of Pi, The Wager, etc.

But also? Just based on the increasing frequency of these posts- maybe we oughta have a third section, like All Posts|Club Posts|Personals, like a mechanical turk reverse dictionary search, where we can post our "help me pick my next read" and "help me find a book I only vaguely remember the plot of" with the✨️ theme✨️ of newspaper personal ads, like in Escape (the Piña Colada song), both 1) being cute and fun &2) helping explain/reinforce the purpose of the sub/section

examples: newbie d&d player seeking general recs I started playing ttrpgs and I love the setting, and I joined the Found Family quest but I want to try LitRPGs or graphic novels :book cover description ISO better memory I read a book once that was about a cook who was a spy and the little orphan boy trained to be part of the chefspionage network and protect like, a Bible? The cover was yellow and had some kind of Italian scenery on it and I can't remember anyone's name :( :LFR 🌈hockey/sports rivals to lovers im gay. more of this setting + trope pls grabby hands

(2 of these r based on posts i saw in the wild but if u have any leads on the middle one lmk 🙏)

if we had a Personals posts section that way I could play librarian and scroll through JUST people looking for suggestions, and forum enjoyers can sift OUT the recommendation threads ->good for making lists/finding list ideas (you best believe im making a list of boat books) ->could even further sort by specificity "genre" "trope" "setting" "forgot title/author" etc ->creative writing game of getting silly with it newspaper-style (as an aside, i think this app is already the highest concentration of good book recs i've ever seen, and its cool to see a community built so intentionally helpful& constructive)

maybe this function belongs somewhere else idk. anyway, boat books? canoeists and kayakers perhaps? I'd love to find some kind of magic-fantasy-setting huck finn or moana character, somebody learning abt freedom and navigation etc. but I've also enjoyed a pirate adventure or several ;) thank youuuu

peryton is interested in reading...

Mammoth (Mammoth, #1)

Stephen Baxter

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Mushroomwitch

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Saga of Old City (Greyhawk Adventures, #1)

E. Gary Gygax

76%

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Nwanda

I'm so bored I need something fun to read

I feel like I'm hungry with no appetite so I can't say what I'd like to read but recommend me whatever you think is fun Not more than 300 pages with good writing style

Even if I didn't read them now I'm keeping them in my "recommend" shelf

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mimi_reads

DnD recs

Hello all! I’m looking to start playing DnD this year as a new-try for 2026. I’m wondering if anyone has any recs for novels (or graphic novels) which might help familiarize me with the lore and terminology? I absolutely loved The Meighty Nein and The Legend of Vox Machina and am hoping for some books in a similar vein.

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leylines

Thoughts from 46%

i’m ngl the mentions of how much damn money they make is taking me out of the story a little. i truly believe that athletes do not deserve to be millionaires when teachers and doctors and nurses make about 50k a year.

like you’re an adult playing a GAME that doesn’t do much but perpetuate toxic masculinity. be so fucking for real with me rn why do you deserve millions when i have a masters degree and a good job and can barely pay my rent huh ??? correct you don’t NEXT

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miauwing

Books like the movie Sinners (2025)

I don't read or watch a lot of horror, but I loved this movie. Any books like that?

I liked the social commentary (the double horror, being targeted by the vampires and the klan), and the folklore/magical realism elements with how music was used in the film.

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gardenstarter

Thoughts from 11% (page 47)

already know this one’s going to split my heart in two and set the withers of it on fire. holy shit am i ready????

i am. Fitch’s is completely dominating this prose. the imagery is shattering me. buckling in.

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