We’re excited to welcome back Derek Tyler Attico, acclaimed author of "The Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko" to Trek Long Island!
If you are an author yourself, you don't miss his panel on the Fundamentals of Storytelling.
treklongisland.com
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Book 11 of 2026.
This book is repetitive, overly obvious, and almost worth reading. I guess it has not aged well? Better as a blog post. Not too boring if you can multitask.
I listened to this one on audible.
Fresh on my #blog — "This is my genre: Fantasy" which is my contribution to a series of articles on book genres by @alexandra and @joel
#wwwWednesday #books #bookstodon #BookCommunity #fantasy #sff #GenreFiction #BloggingChallenge
thomasrigby.com/posts/this-is-my-genre-fantasy/
I am reading "Baldwin: A Love Story" right now. It's huge but very good, and very enlightening on issues of race and color and sexuality and how individuals navigate a world with cultures built to oppress them and do the introspective and interpersonal work to think about and write about those cultures both creatively and truthfully. Huge recommend.
I'm reading the audiobook and the reader does a great Baldwin voice without making it feel like an artifical or shallow impersonation.
This week, I finished *Mater 2-10* by Hwang Sok Yong and *Human Acts* by Han Kang. More and more, when I read Korean works, it makes me leery of the sale of "k-culture". Love us when we're beaten and begging for help, not just when we're at the Oscars or telling you the best way to care for your skin.
Finished Like Mother, Like Daughter.
It really felt like nothing happened for 80% of the book, and then the last 10-15% of the book everything came full swing. I felt the ending was a disappointment, and the focus of 3 plots really diluted the main plot. I didn't enjoy it at all, which is a massive shame.
Dune: Part 3.
“Experience the epic conclusion of the Dune trilogy.”This movie is based on Dune Messiah, the second book in the Dune series. The first two movies were based on the first book.
I wonder if they will be making movies based on the later books in the series which get rather insane. If not, I’m good with them stopping here, it’s a natural place for things to stop — those who have read the Dune series know why.
https://youtu.be/3_9vCamtuPY
#movies #dune #dune3 #books
How America’s nineteenth century war on birds turned into 20th century bird preservation. Full of colorful characters, it’s an insightful look into a slice of American history. Three and a Half Stars ⭐⭐🌠
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https://steves-book-stuff.beehiiv.com/p/blue-canary
what up what up yall. what's good with you guys tonight? I hope you guys are good and staying warm. In my case, it is warm here for now. About 80 or close to it... so, yep. what's good? Just been reading the HP books on audible. Also, i'm reading Harper Security OPS. #bookWorm #AllTheChillVibes #ItsYaGirlStaja :)
Are you a Kobo Plus reader? How do you find your next book?
Do you use Highlights pages such as this one?
https://bf.sophiemaddon.com/mar-apr-koboplushighlights/ojlydb8j0o
25 books, various genres and authors, check it out (PS: my light sci-fi mystery YA novel is on KoboPlus!)
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📘 "Women Without Men" by Shahrnush Parsipur, translated from Persian into English by Faridoun Farrokh
This is a book set in Iran in which we follow a variety of women, all with different backgrounds and circumstances, but who are all suffering due to the misogyny that has deeply shaped their lives. With alternating perspectives and a wonderful tinge of magical realism, these characters start moving towards each other. It becomes a tale of women changing their lives for the better with the cards they've been dealt, within the strict confines of their society.
I think it's so skillful to be able to create a story that is serious enough to tackle topics like femicide, sexual violence, suicide and patriarchal oppression well, but that's also funny enough to almost make me snort my drink out of my nose. I loved the dialogues. And I really came to appreciate the character Munis. Her thirst for knowledge, her silent outrage at having been fooled, her frustration slowly warping into despair at some way of knowing and existing being forever out of reach... I loved being part of her transformation.
I think this is a book for people who believe that the best revenge is a life lived well. Even then, it might be hard. Not everyone is or becomes a good person. Some women don't change much. Some women pick lives not many would envy. But I still found it comforting to have seen them come together, to experience their influence on each other and to see them depart again on their own paths. Truly a great read.
#AmReading #WomenInTranslation #InternationalBooker2026
Your regular reminder that Powell's Books is owned by a real estate speculator who only tolerates the bookstore.
No qualms at all about shutting down the Henry Weinhard brewery when developers came calling.
We haven't even discussed the anti-labor nonsense.
It's okay to really enjoy what is left of the Powell's experience, but it's important to understand the long game.
Some of us are old enough to remember when the bookstore was still obviously a converted car dealership.
The Poison Squad by Deborah Blum was an excellent book, though the topic is infuriating. It covers the history around attempts to get food safety legislation passed in the US in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century, particularly a central figure in a department that latter became the FDA. If you remember learning about Upton Sinclair and the meatpacking industry horrors of that era, that’s covered here, but there’s a much broader look that covers all sorts of OTHER food safety nightmares.
Disappointing how many of the food manufacturers named as being phenomenal assholes still exist today…
I read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by Philip K. Dick.
I thought it was entertaining! Really brilliant concepts, I love how this was the genesis of Blade Runner, I can see the clear inspo. I do think the book is a bit better for being shorter while conveying the same thing 😅
One thing that made me feel gross was every time a woman appeared in the book, the author kept going on about her breasts. Not very cool at all.
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Just finished *Mater 2-10* It's Korean historical fiction, but it's also #labor history, organizing, #imperialism and what it was to live through the 20th century, and this one. It made me cry and I had to take my time, but it was worth it.
cc @ljwrites
Recordamos a #GraceJones]: un punto de inflexión donde la valentía negra reescribió el guion del mundo. No celebramos solo un evento, celebramos la perseverancia de una cultura que nunca se rinde.
Sigue leyendo desde aquí ⤵️
https://elrincondekeren.com/homenaje-a-grace-jones
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I have just finished reading "A Sea of Unspoken Things" by Adrienne Young (review link below) and have moved on to Tomi Adeyemi's "Children of Blood and Bone" which is a cracking fantasy novel in a dystopian world.
#wwwWednesday #books #BookReview #BookCommunity #Bookstodon
thomasrigby.com/posts/book-review-a-sea-of-unspoken-things-adrienne-young/
Finished reading The Wasp Trap.
I enjoyed it, but it's flawed.
The Good: page turner, kept me guessing, villain reveal was satisfying, epilogue while short was satisfying.
The Bad: MMC grossed me out, cryptic clues go nowhere, first 10-15 chapters are a slog, villain defeat is hilariously bad, story isn't really gripping.
3.5/5
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