Posts by drgrigg@mastodon.sdf.org
(DIR) Post #APqJCKpXu4IGHAX2AK by drgrigg@mastodon.sdf.org
2022-11-21T22:45:16Z
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@SDF Thanks for the wonderful job you are all doing.
(DIR) Post #AQQBQ8tvFTt7OBD2IK by drgrigg@mastodon.sdf.org
2022-12-09T06:07:48Z
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@SDF Thanks, as always, for your efforts.
(DIR) Post #AQe4k2oHcoukp8YN8a by drgrigg@mastodon.sdf.org
2022-12-15T22:48:43Z
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@SDF : I made this: latest episode of our regular podcast about books.https://twochairs.website/2022-12-13-1653
(DIR) Post #ARD8Rjw2GQYNmWjGUa by drgrigg@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-01-01T04:43:46Z
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@paulox I can heartily endorse. I’m a volunteer producer with them (The Return of Sherlock Holmes is one of mine). We really do work hard to create ebooks which are pleasant to read and follow all the relevant standards. And you can download them for free, no strings attached.
(DIR) Post #ASYJY89zzUSoNoB5dI by drgrigg@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-02-11T00:00:28Z
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@lauren It's always been my favourite, mostly because I watched it 5 times in the tiny cinema aboard the S.S. Canberra during a month long voyage to Australia. Oh, and the fact that I was 13 years old!
(DIR) Post #ATIhd713WTATYA7ILw by drgrigg@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-01-02T23:03:13Z
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A tour of the best books I read last year, counting up.#6: The City & The City by China MiévilleThe best fusion of the crime and science fiction genres that I've ever read. It opens as a simple procedural crime novel but then reveals a strangeness about the location of the crime: two cities, intertwined but not mixing.The balancing of this strange, science-fictional idea with the solid working out of the central crime is beautifully done.#books #bookrecommendation #booktodon
(DIR) Post #ATIhd7l8l81zr5g6BU by drgrigg@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-01-02T23:06:10Z
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A tour of the best books I read last year, counting up#5: The High House by Jessie GreengrassThis is a very sad, elegaic novel about the forthcoming climate disaster we are slipping into. It’s about change and how we struggle to deal with it, change both slow and rapid, all too often very slow at first and then very rapid.A very impressive and moving book, beautifully written, sounding a grim warning, which doesn’t give any easy answers. #books #bookrecommendation #booktodon
(DIR) Post #ATIhd8NQSmejlpafrM by drgrigg@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-01-02T23:08:46Z
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A tour of the best books I read last year, counting up#4: The Secret History by Donna TarttNot an easy book to describe. One way might be to say that it’s a highly literate crime novel, but there’s no mystery involved. It’s really all about what led up to the murder, the relationships between the people involved, and then the consequences of the murder. The quality of the prose is outstanding. It’s just remarkably good all round.#books #bookrecommendation #booktodon
(DIR) Post #ATIhd9VGH8WBGQGRiC by drgrigg@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-01-02T23:10:27Z
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A tour of the six best books I read last year.#3: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony DoerrIt intertwines a number of different stories and characters: Konstance on an interstellar spaceship; Anna and Omeir in Constantinople in 1450; Seymour, a disturbed teenager in Ohio; and Zeno Ninnis, a gay man.These very disparate stories are linked together by an ancient, fantastic narrative. Seems bizarre, but the author pulls it off brilliantly.#books #bookrecommendation #booktodon
(DIR) Post #ATIhdAerytnWqVldKK by drgrigg@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-01-02T23:12:47Z
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A tour of the best books I read last year, counting upSecond on my list: All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent DaltonIt follows the fortunes of young Molly Hook, a “little gravedigger girl. A really engaging main character, a gripping story, and wonderful descriptions of the beauties of the lush tropical north around Darwin.It’s a celebration of nature, and the perseverance and bravery of an extraordinary character.#books #bookrecommendation #booktodon
(DIR) Post #ATIhdBtROD30fzamg4 by drgrigg@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-01-02T23:15:00Z
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A tour of the best books I read last year.#1: Limberlost by Robbie ArnottThis is a beautifully-written and moving novel. Arnott’s deep love of Tasmania, its history, its landscape, its wildlife and vegetation, its mountains, forests and rivers have never been so obvious as in Limberlost.It’s about how deeply-felt experiences, both positive and negative, can resonate through someone’s entire life and shape every moment.#books #bookrecommendation #booktodon
(DIR) Post #ATy7lyH5szFfhKYLXU by drgrigg@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-03-25T08:43:25Z
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@dave @davew 'cause he's a wacko?
(DIR) Post #AVQdCUz90wvqkgX0Ay by drgrigg@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-05-08T00:39:16Z
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@lauren So much! Mastodon feels a little like it, at least, much more than Twitter ever did. Another case of Google building something which is actually pretty good, then getting bored with it.
(DIR) Post #AVd1JXiUTGwGc5RRei by drgrigg@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-05-14T00:06:22Z
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@ParadeGrotesque If you'll take a tip from a hard core Pratchett fan, don't start with the first two books, which honestly aren't that good. Start with MORT, in which Death takes on an apprentice. You can always go back to the first two after you've read EQUAL RITES and SOURCERY.
(DIR) Post #AZmHFxNniLvk9MKrpo by drgrigg@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-09-15T02:45:34Z
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@ParadeGrotesque That’s basically the plot of “The Inheritors” by William Golding (published 1955), as I recall.