icasticoFound an interview with one of my favorite authors - African-American #scifi master Samuel R. Delany. #booskstodon #author #raceRelations
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internetsdairyThis series (basically "literary" Groundhog Day) is starting to show signs of later period mysterious shows like Russian Doll, Lost etc where they're going to have to make a call as to whether to explain what's going on or leave it open, and tbh there's a vanishingly small chance of that happening in a satisfying way. But, still a good read and they better keep translating them. #booskstodon
Galen StricklandBarring a possible short story or two, by the end of the year I will have read everything Lois McMaster Bujold has published. Today I finished and review Beguilement, the first of the Sharing Knife series. It is as good as anything else I've read by her, and I hope I can still say that in December. One more book each month till then.
Ian HuntJust came across this blog (via @jntod.zirk.us, whose selection is out tomorrow) where people are invited to select short stories -- A Personal Anthology. This selection is by Ian Patterson #ShortStories #books #booskstodon https://apersonalanthology.substack.com/p/a-personal-anthology-by-ian-patterson
A Personal Anthology, by Ian Patterson
These are not the best short stories ever, nor are they representative of anything apart from themselves. I’ve read hundreds of others that clamoured to be listed, so in the end this is, as much as anything else, a list of Great Omissions. There are no stories in translation—nothing by Borges, Maupassant, Chekhov, Babel, Kafka, Bruno Schulz, Clarice Lispector, Julio Cortázar, or Eileen Chang. And nothing by Henry James, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Katherine Mansfield, Jean Rhys, Henry Green, Virginia Woolf, Edward Upward, Dorothy Richardson, Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, Kay Boyle...oh, I’ve hardly got started on who’s not on this list. Let alone all the many brilliant living writers, old and young, who deserve a look in, and who (with one exception) I’ve excluded. The few stories that remain, the ones that
GinaRaeMitchellTales from a Roundabout-Volume 1 by Jeff Stanger | Book Review | #Satire #HumorousFiction @jeffstanger
"Tales from a Roundabout" is a riotously funny collection of short stories penned by Jeff Stanger. Set in Carmel, Indiana, a city infatuated with art, status, and traffic circles, the book delivers a dose of hilarity when you need it most.
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Tales From A Roundabout-Volume 1 By Jeff Stanger | Book Review | #Satire #HumorousFiction @jeffstanger | Gina Rae Mitchell
"Tales from a Roundabout-Volume 1" is a riotously funny collection of short stories penned by Jeff Stanger. Set in Carmel, Indiana, a city infatuated with art, status, and traffic circles, the book delivers a dose of hilarity when you need it most. #BookReview #Satire #HumorousFiction @jeffstanger