Wandering Adventure Party

So I'm like a decade and a half late to this party, but I'm a quarter of the way through Gone Girl and it's really good.The little word choice hints or red herrings, whichever they turn out to be, are great.#Reading #Bookstodon #GoneGirl

#JustFinished Witches of Dubious Origin by Jenn McKinlayIt was cute with smooth writing. Nothing groundbreaking about it. A nice contemporary fantasy with a workplace attraction.#books #bookstodon #SFF #fantasy

@erikcats It was something I saw in advertising copy as recently as today as I saw it listed in an ebook sale of classics right as I finished it.But yeah, Heathcliff is definitely not fine.

Oh, and now we hit "yep, she's in hell, but let's just pretend for a bit..." in description of a character."Love story" did not prepare me for this hot mess express. It's such a train wreck (the characters, not the writing) and I cannot look away.#Reading #Bookstodon #WutheringHeights

Automatic Noodle by @annaleen is a wonderful book about robots standing up to oppression through being.It also made me extremely hungry for a dish I have to drive at least an hour and a half to get.#Reading #Bookstodon

@CiaraNi "Missed My Stop" Book Club

Finished reading Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston this morning. Picked it specifically for a more challenging literary read than my usual fare, and because with Black History Month going on, filling the gap in my English Literature education that is Black writers.It was definitely a challenging read, it took a while to get used to the phonetically spelled dialect in the dialog. But I'm glad I did it. The book was worth it. A rich slice of life story#Reading #Bookstodon

@MissConstrue the perfect time to listen!

@benroyce @venitamathias And I don't own a car, so when would I find time to listen to them?Still, different tastes for different people, and all that.

Reading a book on literary analysis: How to Read Literature Like a Professor. Really enjoying how approachable it is, how light the tone is while simultaneously holding out info and trusting the reader.It feels more like a chat with a smart friend than a lecture. Also, it is vastly expanding my TBR with the examples. Like needing to fill the giant gap in my reading history that is Their Eyes Were Watching God.#Reading #Bookstodon

@clacksee Much obliged.

Finished Twelve Months last night and moving to Sword of Shannara from the D&D 5e 2014 Inspirational Reading list.Looked a bit at the Goodreads reviews first, and see that some just see it as fully derivative of Lord of the Rings. So far, with son of the Inn keeper and mysterious stranger arriving to small town I see more overlap with Wheel of Time (which came later)#Reading #Bookstodon

D is for the Death of Rats Join us for #ArtABCs; the best art challenge on the whole internet. No AI, Yes alt text, CW as neededhttps://dotart.blog/karin-wanderer-learns/d-is-for-dazzling #mastoArt #Art #Painting #Watercolor #Watercolour #Ink #AYearForArt #TerryPratchett #bookstodon #Discworld #books

@ShaulaEvans @bookstodon "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan, back in grammar school. It motivated me to study physics, and even though that's not the career I ended in, it nevertheless set me on my path.

@Bfordham Sent you a follow request with my bookwyrm account. (Back then, I didn't know I could sign up to bookwyrm with my Masto account...)

@Princejvstin @bookstodon Footnote to your last comment in that review: as the New Management books start not less than 6 months after the end of The Regicide Report, Eve isn't on anyone's radar at the Laundry as yet. (This might be seen, in 20/20 hindsight, as a huge blunder …)

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I've made some reading lists from AD&D Appendix N, 5e's Appendix E, and some other games.Based on a post from Grognardia (https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-original-dungeon-delver.html?m=0), I've started my delve into the inspirational media of D&D with The Moon Pool by A. Merritt, written in 1919.It begins with a classic D&D scene, a group faced with a door that will not open and puzzling how to make it do so. And then when the door does open...Liking Merritt's immersive description so far.#Bookstodon #Reading #AppendixN

Finished my reread of Snow Crash tonight. As much as I love so much of this book, there's a whole bunch that's been visited by the suck fairy since I first read it at age 22.Like Fido the Rat Thing is the best boy 10/10, would pet.But there's this tying of sex and violence throughout that doesn't feel like a purposeful theme, or if it is, doesn't feel like a critique. Which given that the protagonist not named Protaganist is a 15-year-old girl, hits a little different as a dad.#Bookstodon

@Da_Gut oooh, yes. That'll add some great flavor for the Tribes in the Dark game I'm planning!