Books

Finished Mistborn: Secret Histories novella. Don't want to spoil, but it was really exciting to read this secret history. ...

Hey everyone, we're juuuuust over halfway through our second [email protected] community book bingo challenge! If you haven't joined in yet, there's still plenty of time. You might've even already made progress by accident: anything you've read since May has the potential to count! The challenge only requires completing five ...

The First Will ...

Slow day so here's a free public domain eBook. Enjoy! ...

Foreigner is CJ Cherryh at her absolute best, a fantastic novel that's smartly written and with a well-realized world. It's got a couple of small hiccups, but this book shows why Cherryh is considered one of the foundational sci-fi writers of our time.

The Guardian has published a piece on Infinite Jest. Thought some folks here might enjoy this :) ...

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Books themselves aren’t going anywhere, or so I keep telling myself and fervently hoping despite all the evidence humanity’s collective brains are dissolving into a stew of slop and influence.

I also saw a person buy the first book coming out of the store. I really enjoyed the series so far.

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I recently got a boox go color 7 because I dont have space to buy physical books. the only platforms I can find that have a decent selection are ones like kindle where you dont get the book, only the ability to read it through their app. i want to use the built in reader on my device and I dont want to be able to get rugpulled ...

In the filings, Anthropic states, as reported by the Washington Post: “Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world. We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.”

I've been on this LitRPG kick lately. I've listened to dungeon crawler carl, and now I'm on "He Who fights with Monsters" book 4. Where Jason, has been transported back to his original world earth. ...

Just started the first book, and seems kinda shit. Or maybe is just the grimdark setting? ...

What social media sites/platforms seem to be the best nowadays for following/interfacing with authors? As in, where are fiction writers congregating online nowadays? Social media? Siloed into personal Discord channels? TikTok? Other??? ...

First I'm hooked on The Expanse series. I finished three books in the series in Jan and I'm nearly done with another one that I'll finish in the next few days. It'll be a sad day when I'm all caught up. But I'll watch the TV series at that point. ...

1 minute: The Lion and the Mouse by Aesop, ...

This weekend, Amazon is premiering its $40 million Melania Trump documentary. It already seems to be a flop. ...

A lot of these are fantastic. Did they miss anything? Do you have a favorite?

Finished The Bands of Mourning by Brandon Sanderson, 3rd book in the 2nd era of Mistborn! ...

If you're into the horror genre, the Bram Stoker Awards for 2025 have just released their preliminary ballot listings. Lots of categories, lots of great work - not just book fiction but also graphic novels, poetry, short stories and non-fiction. ...