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NickEast

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Aspiring fantasy author and geek, with a bunch of chronic illnesses.

The Last Philosopher is my first book under the subtitle, Nothing is Everything.

It's been called imaginative, funny, and unique. People have even gone so far as to compare it to #DouglasAdams and #TerryPratchett.
My response to that comparison, is to go hide under the covers for a week with embarrassment.

Posts about writing, reading, books, libraries, and geekstuff.

#Writing #Author #Indie #Fantasy #Comedy #Satire #NoAI

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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to librarians group

“There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”
-Samwise Gamgee (Movie version)

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Picture of a cubical that's half bussiness, half nursery. Caption: My library installed a cubical for adults to study in if they can't leave their kids at home.
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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to bookstodon group

I would think classics would be the goal if your looking to evolve as a read, but if you're reading just for fun and you like YA that's fine too 🤔 Not everything has to be a competition 😇

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Xweet from @MATCHAURA ‘reading classics doesn’t make you any better than wattpad readers’ okay it does a little come on now Reply lu @l ou_r_de_s As a society, we need to stop pretending that YA is a decent genre when it's the literary equivalent of a marvel movie.
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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to librarians group

I don't get it, it's the same picture 😁

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Okay, so it's not the same picture. The first panel is an ordinary bookcase captioned: How other people see libraries. The second panel is a magical library filled with unicorns, dragons and all your favourite characters captioned: How I see libraries.
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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to bookstodon group

I don't remember Dune being like a book book 🤔 But then again I like big books and I cannot lie😜😂

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Picture of Dune by Frank Herbert. Front view caption: You assholes didn’t tell me this is like a book book. Side view caption: Hope you like words bitch
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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to bookstodon group
@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to bookstodon group

Umm, no thank you, all shall love books and despair! 😜😂

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Xweet saying: If you like: - books You should try: - shutting up about it
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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to bookstodon group

A horror described is a horror lost... 🤔😁

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Two panel meme that I'm not sure where it's from, showing Lovecraft as a child point at a dark portal on a blackboard. He says, "This is something so horrifying I dare not describe it..." Second panel is a an old lady teacher saying, "Lovecraft... this is the 7th week in a row you've shown something so horrifying you dare not descirbe it!"
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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to bookstodon group

Ah, to be a simple sea captain that simply hates an animal. That's the dream! 😜😂

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Four panel meme of Ron from the Parks and Rec tv-show. 1: Metaphors? I hate metaphors! 2: That's why my favourite book is Moby Dick 3: No froo-froo symbolism 4: Just a good, simple tale about a man who hates an animal
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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to bookstodon group

Woe is me 😂 Please send book recommendations...

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Three panel meme of Pablo Escobar from the Narcos TV-series looking sad and introspective. Title: Me, trying to recover after finishing a great book no one else knows...
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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to psychology group

Just a friendly reminder that if you haven't seen The Good Place, you're missing out on some of the best TV writing ever 😁

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There panel meme about writing from the show The Good Place. 1. When you’re not sure how to solve your own mystery story: 2. Ted Danson as Michael saying, "Now, I've investigated all of the rocks in the neighborhood. 3. A bag of ordinary rocks, "These 78 are the most suspicious."
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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to bookstodon group

I don't know, I still think I prefer the little work that reads like their life depends on it, over the hoarding wyrm of consumerism 🤔😁

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I just discovered the term "bookdragon” and I have never felt more seen in my life. Unlike a bookworm, who reads like their little life depends on it, a bookdragon hoards books like treasure. I used to hink I was a bookworm, but now I know that I was very, very wrong. Mindblowing.
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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to librarians group

Ah, the ambiance of childhood☺️ Now for the important question, do we think I can install Doom on these PCs?😁

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A picture of a library with four PCs with the old thick, grey monitors are setup. Caption: Where the smell of library books mingled with the hum of old monitors
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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to bookstodon group

But if I already have a book, why would I want to go anywhere? 😜 😂

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Picture of a chalkboard standing infront of loads of books, on it is written: Book lover confession #1 That akward moment when I arrived at the party and realised B.Y.O.B did not mean Bring Your Own Book.
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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to bookstodon group

And you don't even have to talk back, it's the best! 😜 😂

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Picture of René Descartes with quoute: "The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”
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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to librarians group

They should add an interesting smells section, I could contribute some of the liquid that comes out of my bokashi bucket 😂

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A picture of a tree with a makeshift sign leaning against it saying, "Dog library, Take a stick leave a stick." Beneath is a pile of sticks and a water bowl.
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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to bookstodon group

I mean I have read some Dostoyevsky, and I get the point 😂

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A picture of a sign that says: Bert's Books Don't cry for me Dostoyevsky The truth is I never read you All through your chapters Your epic fiction You kept on writing I kept my distance (Obviously best sang as alternative lyrics to the song don't cry for me argentina)
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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to librarians group

Libraries have bean bags now? What will they think of next! 😁

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Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is *all* the knowledge, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like.
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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to bookstodon group

I've been going with the "When I've read it I put it on a shelf where there's still some room left." 🤔 😁

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Six panel meme of various book arrangments. Title: How do you arrange your books? 1. Height 2. PERSONAL SIGNIFICANCE 3. Colour 4. Stacked 5. Alphabetical 6. Chronological
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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to bookstodon group

Everyone wants to think they're open-minded until someone says the movie was better 😜😁

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A picture of a lady, cluthching her book, being led away from a worried looking reading group by a black clad, stereotypical bouncer. Caption top: Anyone else think the movie was better? Caption bottom: Book club bouncer
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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to librarians group

In relation to my latest post about opening bookcases 😁

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Picture of a bookcase door opening onto more bookcases. Caption: Some dream of fame. Some dream of traveling to space. I dream of having a secret door in one library that leads to another hidden library.
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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to librarians group

Has anyone read the Scandinavia and the world comics? If not https://satwcomic.com/
It's surprisingly fun and accurate to describe nations as people... So which nation is this? 😁

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Picture of a notebook lying on a wooden table next to a cup of black coffe. Caption on the notebook: “Civilized nations build libraries; lands that have lost their soul, close them down.” -Toby Forward
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@vextaur The RSS feed over where? 🤔 😁

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@vextaur You say right here on friendica but I thought that was a diffrent plattform? 🤔

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@vextaur Hey, sorry about the late reply but I've been a traveling... I'm a bit curious about friendica, do you know if there's some way to connect an account there with an account here on Mastodon? 🤔

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@vextaur Yeah, that is what I meant there seems to be a lot of diffrent platforms connected to the fediverse but I'd have to have a diffrent account on each of them. It would be nice if there was a way to connect accounts or an account server where you could chose what platforms you wanted to interact with 🤔 But don't listen to me I'm just lazy and don't want to have a lot of diffrent accounts 😂

@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to bookstodon group

From the halo I'm assuming this means it's holy to make someone holey for interrupting my reading? 😜😇

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An old painting of a man reading and holding a knife, with what looks like a halo over his head. Caption: When you’re reading and you don’t want any interruptions.
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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to bookstodon group

Just enjoy reading however, whenever, or wherever you can 😁

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TO BE A READER, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO: -read every day -read quickly -read certain books -have already read certain books -finish every book you start jarrettlerner.com
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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to bookstodon group

I'm not saying I know that the romantics genre is responsible for most of these, but I'm going to assume it is... I guess there's nothing like a fragile woman to get the old romance going in the men that wrote her 🤔😂

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Things Women In Literature Have Died From: Cold hands Pony exhaustion Beautiful face Strolling congestion Missing slippers Sherry served too cold Wrist fevers Ship infidelity Night brain Going outside at night In ltaly Shawl Insufficiency Clergyman’s dropsy Too many pillows Fliting headaches Garden troubles River unhappiness General bummers Letter-reading fits Not enough piliows Spinal degeneration as a result of pride Haven't seen the sea In a long time Parents too happy Too many novels The Unpleasantness
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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to bookstodon group

This is the only kind of math I endorse or understand 😜😂

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Photo of a sign from a bookshop. Book Math: Buying the series means you really only bought 1 book.
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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to bookstodon group

Like all great writing I'm not sure if this is genius or offensive, so I'm going to go with both... 😂

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Xweet by @lucabrazzers i'm sorry I referred to “reading” as “spreading book cheeks”
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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to bookstodon group

Is that not what library ladders are for? 🤔 😂

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Tweet saying "Once again, my plans have been foiled" with a picture of a library ladder with a "no climbing, no dancing, no singing, sign."
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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to bookstodon group

I wouldn't say I'm a book collector but they are starting to pile up... Get it pile up? Like book pile. Well, I thought it was funny 😆 Also, I've always fancied myself as someone who erupts out of things 🤔

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Xweet from @Sotherans ART COLLECTORS: my vault is hermetically sealed COMIC COLLECTORS: everything is ordered by issue and in plastic TOY COLLECTORS: I've never even opened this box BOOK COLLECTORS: (erupts from a pile of books) I have no idea what I was looking for when I started
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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to bookstodon group

I know that look, I've given people that look, it doesn't work. Just throw the book at them like they deserve 😜😂

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Meme of a classic painting of a young woman trying to read and looking frustrated captioned: When someone assumes that when you are reading a book, that you are "doing nothing" and therefore can be interrupted. Repeatedly.
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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to bookstodon group

What would be your reaction if you came upon a library but didn't know what a library was... 🤔😂

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Tweet from Alix Hawley: Library patron of the week: the fella who came in, wandered around for a good while, then asked pleasantly, “What is this place?”
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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to bookstodon group

Hemingway is overrated, but I like this cover for some reason 🤔 😂

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A fake bookcover of Hemingways "A farewell to arms" with a picture from Monty Pythons Black Knight sketch where he's just had both his arms cut off.
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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to bookstodon group

The Stranger by Albert Camus. 4/5 stars.

https://ramblingreaders.org/book/58445/s/stranger

Near the end at the part with the priest, I wonder if the point is to illustrate that choosing religion is to choose death over life? As in choosing to say that the end of your life is more important than how you live your life? 🤔

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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to bookstodon group

It says something about reality that the best thing about it is escaping from it 🤔 I'm not saying what it says, just that it's something 😂

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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to snorkling group
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Eww! 😂

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Caption: I've never met Lauren but I already know I don't like her. A picture of the saddest bookshelf with text: Lauren keeps the look neutral by stacking books back to front.
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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to bookstodon group

Oooh, I mean don't cut people off, but that seems harsh! 😂

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I hope the guy who just cut me off in traffic has his fav book made into a movie & the characters are nothing like he imagined them
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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to bookstodon group

I won't guarantee I've done ALL of these, but you get the idea 😁

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I WILL READ BOOKS ON A BOAT. I WILL READ BOOKS WITH A GOAST. I WILL READ BOOKS ON THE TRAIN. i WILL READ BOOKS IN THE RAIN. I WILL READ BOOKS WITH A FOX. I WILL READ BOOKS WITH A MOUSE. I WILL READ BOOKS IN A HOUSE. I WILL READ BOOKS HERE AND THERE. I WILL READ BOOKS EVERYWHERE.
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I'm usually not a big fan of short stories, but this I like 😂

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Capition: A short story about decisions :) Picture of an open door with the ground covered in snow and one paw print from a cat.
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The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays by Albert Camus
https://ramblingreaders.org/book/104510/s/the-myth-of-sisyphus-and-other-essays

"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide." May be the best opening line in any philosophical anything.
I always knew I was a bit absurd, but now I'm starting to think I am an amateur absurdist... 😂

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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to bookstodon group

Not sure if I've posted this before, but either way it bears repeating 😁 Sing along if you don't know the words!

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Picture of a number of books on display and a sign saying "I like big BOOKS and I cannot lie".
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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to bookstodon group

Books are nice ☺️

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Picture with an open book: THERE IS NO BOOKAHOLICS ANONYMOUS BECAUSE NO ONE WANTS TO QUIT!
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@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to bookstodon group

jPod
I would recommend this book to anyone who has ever worked in IT. Especially, executives and managers.
Also, to anyone who has parents that are incompetent mosters (Incompemonsters TM) and need YOU to fix THEIR problems 😂

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https://ramblingreaders.org/book/266333/s/jpod