The Manhole - Featured in our book - The Secret History of Mac Gaming: Expanded Edition

A fascinating reminder of the role the Apple Macintosh played in the history of video gaming.

Coming soon, register your interest here: https://www.bitmapbooks.com/collections/all-books/products/the-secret-history-of-mac-gaming-expanded-edition

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How far would you go to right a wrong? ‘The House With 46 Chimneys’ is a spooky adventure story for younger readers involving a two-century-old family mystery and the haunting of Dunmore Park, a ruined house in central Scotland.

These atmospheric - or creepy - stone steps can be found in the north range. They have an important role as the book’s young characters find themselves cast ever further adrift from their everyday realities.

Find out more:
https://www.kenlussey.com/h46c/index.html

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Heute fängt die Lese-WM an☝️

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This book is wild and strange and very creative -- I'm really enjoying it. It's got an emotionally strangled Ishiguro quality. These are not well people and they're telling a lot of lies to themselves.

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I HAVE now, with much pains and study, conducted the reader to a period, where he must expect to hear of great revolutions. For no sooner had our learned brother, so often mentioned, got a warm house of his own over his head, than he began to look big, and take mightily upon him; insomuch, that unless the gentle reader, out of his great candour, will please…

— Jonathan Swift
https://palimpseste.vercel.app/#text/8fddb737-7ee6-4a32-99f1-1ed7bf985bfa
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ON the beach at night alone,
As the old mother sways her to and fro, singing her husky song,
As I watch the bright stars shining—I think a thought of the clef of the universes, and of
the future.

— Walt Whitman
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Finished reading “Touched” by Walter Mosley.

Martin wakes up to cops with guns drawn. From there the story splits into something stranger: a possible alien alteration, a second consciousness sharing his body, and a man uncertain of his own sanity.

Reminded me of American Gods: mythic forces colliding with the mundane.

A blistering critique of qualified immunity. racist enforcement, and police militarism wrapped in a propulsive, strange novella.

4/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/137123578

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Do not answer your name if it’s spoken from behind you
in an empty place.
It isn’t checking if you’re there.
It’s checking if you’re reachable.

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Bar Fridman-Tell's Honeysuckle is a haunting, unsettling reimagining of Welsh #mythology Blodeuwedd.

Daye is a childhood companion made of flowers for Rory. As seasons pass and friendship becomes something else, questions of coercion, consent, & control arise.

The story also considers the ethics of creation and humanity's relentless need to control nature and tame that which should remain wild and free.

Check the content warnings for this one.

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My review of To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is up at Conspicuous Consumption.

https://afterblockhead.blogspot.com/2026/06/to-lighthouse-by-virginia-woolf.html

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