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whitneymcn

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Have enjoyed making and doing stuff on the first couple of webs thus far. Now working on web-related stuff for a book publisher. I like music. Brooklyn gardener. May or may not be notable.

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CultureDesk, to bookstodon
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Until high school, Kate Feiffer believed that her mother Judy's novel, "A Hot Property," was about real estate. Then a boyfriend plucked the book from the shelves, started reading passages aloud, and revealed it was a piece of 1970s erotica. From then until just a few years ago, Kate considered "A Hot Property" to be her literary Waterloo — the book she'd hoped to conquer but never been able to. But on her mother's death, she picked up the novel and — between bouts of screaming and cringing — found something more thoughtful and reflective than she was expecting. Here's what she wrote for LitHub.

https://flip.it/cbERa2

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whitneymcn,
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@CultureDesk @bookstodon When you look into it, an impressive number of people -- otherwise famous and not -- wrote '70s erotica under pen names.

autisticbookshop, to bookstodon
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Here’s a challenge for all of you this month! How many of you have read books by autistic authors/containing autistic leads? Which of those books have you loved?

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whitneymcn,
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@autisticbookshop @bookstodon @actuallyautistic Excellent question, and for me the answer is few to none -- could you share some that you love?

MagentaRocks, to bookstodon
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This never occurred to me. I read anytime throughout the day - whenever it strikes the mood. I think reading is good for you, no matter the time of day.

Anybody else feel the same as the writer of the opinion piece?

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I’m retired, and I still won’t let myself read in the daytime. Why not?

Gift Link:

https://wapo.st/4aG52cI

whitneymcn,
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@MagentaRocks @bookstodon "Why is the act of reading in the daytime considered so disruptive..."

Who the actual fuck does the author of this essay -- A WRITER -- spend time with in their normal life to give them the impression that reading on the daytime is controversial?

whitneymcn, to bookstodon
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@bookstodon I've burned through all of the Brother Cadfael books in the past couple of months, and I have a question: I've Googled this a bunch, but I still can't find anybody online who is connecting the dots to prove that Cadfael himself was the reason that there were so many murders in a relatively few years, in this tiny 12th century English town.

That kind of analysis HAS to be a thing, doesn't it?

whitneymcn,
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@lunalein @bookstodon Exactly so.

KitMuse, to bookstodon
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I need your help . One of the classes I'm taking at the graduate level this semester is Religion & Science Fiction. I read more fantasy, and would like to do my research paper on something that's not obvious (like ST/BS5/Matrix/etc.) & I'd love to use more modern sf rather than the golden age classics.

Anyone have any interesting ideas for my research paper on regarding the intersection of religion and science fiction?

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whitneymcn,
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@KitMuse @bookstodon It's not an exact match on either count, but particularly given the Hugo drama this year, R.F. Kuang's Babel is worth thinking about.

ChrisMayLA6, to bookstodon
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Here's a handy guide to check yourself against; which way do you display/store/shelve your ?

I have so many that I fit a number of different categories depending on which part of he house you're in.... I doubt I'm alone in my pluralist shelving habits

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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/17/shelf-absorbed-nine-ways-to-arrange-your-bookshelves-and-what-they-say-about-you

whitneymcn,
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@RolloTreadway @ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon The last time we moved -- almost 15 years ago -- we re-shelved books in a somewhat organized way, but since then it's been "oh, yeah, I pulled that out a while ago, it's now on the cookbooks shelf."

brucy, to bookstodon
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Doing a pinned thread of my reading for 2024. Goal is 40 books, which is for sure low, but I also believe in playing games on "easy" mode. Audiobooks count, sorry.
Feel free to mute this if not your ball of wax.

Book stuff, but in app form.
Goodreads :
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/20783138
Story Graph : https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/brucy
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whitneymcn,
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@brucy @bookstodon Yeah, as a tween/teen in the late '70s/early '80s I read a loved a lot of Heinlein's books, but I have a much harder time re-reading them now.

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Just finished “How to Hide an Empire,” by Daniel Immerwahl

I’m often surprised by how much I don’t know, but this really astonished me with my own ignorance. I’m embarrassed to say how little I knew of US colonialism, territories, and global military bases

Immerwahl explains the post WWII / as a product of technological innovation in a clear (and very readable) way. Highly recommend!

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@Sophie @bookstodon My grandfather was a 30yo social worker when he volunteered for the military in 1942.

The navy sent him to graduate school for the next three years, with the explicit goal of training him to support an Occupation Government in Korea or Japan.

The USA has just taken a different angle on "empire," in my view.

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