The Greenville Eight protested library discrimination in 1960. Their fight and others like them are a legacy that continues to play out now.
bookriot.com/the-greenvil...
Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."
I've never used grammarly but if you have an account, I'd throw it in the trash and set it on fire because what the actual fuck
GREEN AND DEADLY THINGS by Jenn Lyons on a pale grey limestone hearth alongside a pale green drink in a stemmed glass.
NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about GREEN AND DEADLY THINGS by Jenn Lyons. A standalone fantasy of librarian knights, killer queens, & cosmic harmony, this is a ferocious adventure & absolute pleasure. Our drink is the Parnathi and it is very botanical. VERY BOTANICAL.
Steampunk illustrated book cover of Martha Wellsβ The Emilie Adventures. Intricately worked copper filligree of florentine pipes and rivets, with colourful medallion vignettes of a sea witch queen, a teenage girl, ships and a kelp forest. All in watercolour style.
I am really enjoying @marthawells.comβs Emilie Adventures, written when my daughter was born. It is exactly the kind of interesting, uncomfortable, swashbuckling adventure Iβve been hoping for on her bookshelves! On another level, Iβm savouring all the moments I think she will enjoy. βΊοΈ
I say no easily, often, and firmly.
People tend to think βnoβ = βconvince meβ or that βcompromiseβ = βgive me what I want.β So when I am direct & unyielding in my no, Iβm told I am βnot nice,β which seemingly violates my contract of Existing as Female π
They "take steps" to filter out personal information. Pffft. #pervertglasses #Zuckerbergspervertglasses
Imposter syndrome is the mistaken belief that other people know wtf theyβre doing.
"What are the experiences of people of color in the publishing industry?"
arleysorg.com/by-the-numbe...
The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
darksky.org/news/two-sat...
If you can't see spring (yet), then grow your own. Good plan! π·
That was supposed to be messy, not easy.
It's Ocean's 8 but more intense and on a space station. The relationships are complicated. The characters are easy and human. And I love them.
I might be pushing the boundaries of "the last year," but Hammajang Luck by Makama Yamamoto. Read it, read it, read it. I got to the last page and immediately said, "I want more." Luckily The Obake Code is already available.
"More worrisome, when we read fast, we experience nothing. The book does not have a chance to burrow into our heart."
I went to our nature section look for otters, but instead found a question an otter might ask
Brilliant!!! (I don't even need context.)
This world book day, why not get your hands on our EXCLUSIVE 5th anniversary special edition, featuring fantasy stories by 20 indie authors?
The Kickstarter is your ONLY chance to buy this gorgeous book, ft. original art from Arden Powell & Madeleine Rico!
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good morning! new from me in @strangehorizons.bsky.social today, a review of Alexandra McCollum's Into the Midnight Wood, in which I vent some frustrations with the current state of the cozy romcom fantasy novel
(I liked this one tho!)
My experience of the internet is not typical because, while I am aware there are bad actors, I have personally met the best humans on the internet. People I consider my family, people I would hop a plane and drop everything for at a momentβs notice, who would do the same for me.οΏΌ
ππππππ ALL the clapping!
βοΈ #NoWar π #NoKings π #FightTheGoodFight π
Miscellaneous #Monday merriment #memes!
It's a new month, which means a whole bunch of new books are hitting store shelves.
Here are 14 SF/F titles that caught my eye coming out in the first half of March: www.andrewliptak.com/science-fict...
The IMLS's new homepage encapsulates how much the regime has damaged this agency, and the propaganda truck project? Only criss-crossing the country to red states.
Here's what's been happening and what you can do about it.
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Good morning. We are open. πβοΈ
Of course they do... genius.
On this basis, I'm assuming, there's a retired primary school teacher out there whose antibodies could do the childhood disease equivalent of walking into the Copland Road end at Ibrox in a Celtic shirt and offering to take on all comers.
#booksky
No matter how low or "under control" #inflation might be, prices are still increasing. Corporations will always take as much as they can, and they will not give it back.
Deep breath. "My anger\stress\outrage\sadness (modify as needed) is a puddle, and I am stepping out of it in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.)" Step out and exhale. [Seen as a clip from a movie I didn't recognize. It seemed silly at the time, but I have been using it with some success, at least in the moment.]
The @clarkeaward.bsky.social judges said this would be a future classic of the genre. FT said it was one of their SF books of the year. Interzone said all kinds of nice shit.
It is now cheap. Buy it, think about direct action and punk and the climate and hope wrapped round a brick
