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Kirsty Darbyshire

Philip Gwynne Jones’ Venetian series is one of the few series I find myself going back to at the moment. _The Venetian Sanctuary_ is set in summer 2020 as Venice is coming out of the first wave of lockdowns. I’m weary of the technique of having the dead body narrate what happened before their death; but apart from that it was an enjoyable read.

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booksns.com/125650/ Question about Diary of an Oxygen Thief #books My understanding was that the book is supposed to sort of show some sort retribution to the misogynistic main character but is his being a subject of Aisling's photography project it? I know he's an unreliable character so this plot point could even be some sort of gross exaggeration of what actually happened but I …

Trending Books · Question about Diary of an Oxygen ThiefMy understanding was that the book is supposed to sort of show some sort retribution to the misogynistic main character but is his being a subject of Aisling's photography project it? I know he's an unreliable character so this plot point could even be some sort of gross exaggeration of what actually happened but I just kept thinking, that's it? I understand his being a part of the photography project kind of depicts him being caught off guard and vulnerable but I thought it was going to be more sinister especially since the girl who warns him about Aisling mentions
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Pen

@kristiedegaris Thank you so much for sharing your story on the unpaid labour of book authors.

I first learned about this through the 2022 book "Chokepoint Capitalism" by @pluralistic which describes in detail how publishers (and other intermediaries) systematically exploit creative workers:

pluralistic.net/2022/08/21/wha

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chokepoi

The system is in an advanced stage of #enshittification, and things must change.

pluralistic.netWhat is Chokepoint Capitalism? – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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booksns.com/125645/ Hot take on classics. #books My hot take on a lot of classic literature is that most classics are accessible and readable, but the printing choices made by publishers are the greatest barrier for most people. Many publishers choose unreadable fonts which are tightly spaced which creates greater visual strain for the readers. I think a lot of classics need …

Trending Books · Hot take on classics.My hot take on a lot of classic literature is that most classics are accessible and readable, but the printing choices made by publishers are the greatest barrier for most people. Many publishers choose unreadable fonts which are tightly spaced which creates greater visual strain for the readers. I think a lot of classics need to be given releases which are published in fonts which are more modern with better spacing. by Current-Lie1213
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David Amos

There are good books and there are bad books. There are also good bad books. Orwell attributes this latter category to Chesterton and describes it as "the kind of book that has no literary pretensions but which remains readable when more serious productions have perished."

I want to extend this category with a different kind of good bad book. The kind that allows "our personal thoughts [to] germinate in authentic and vivid directions" thanks to "the author's ploughing of the intellectual landscape," as Alain de Botton so eloquently puts it.

What Technology Wants is this kind of good bad book.

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Read more: thoughtcicles.xyz/what-technol

Thoughtcicles · What Technology Wants: A ReviewA mess of grand theories, bad physics, and dubious metaphors—but a “good bad book” that helped clarify my thinking about how we live with technology.
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