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I get 12 Audible credits yearly in March. It‘s amazing I have any left.

Amazon: use 6 credits get $20.

I have huge book club picks & a new book in a series I love. YES!

I can only dream of having the luxury of time to read a book, 3/4 of my page count‘s absorbed via ears vs eyes. I don‘t audio shame. Anyway you can get an unabridged book into your imagination - 5⭐️!

Current treeware: Malice by John Gwynne. Seeya in 6 months for that review 😆

2010's world of 7 billion humans as seen from 1968.

This tour de force of world building combines broad strokes through media snapshots and a focus on a few characters. Much of John Brunner's vision has come true and much has not, and it's worth pondering what trends continued into the present confirming his predictions and what trends suffered discontinuities. 👎

#sunlightwellness

10 weeks to get here from The Book Depository

📘 (cheating here) Tous à Zanzibar. (I can't think of anything else)
✒️ Fiction: Carlo Luis Zafón; theory: Slavoj Žižek
🎥 Un zoo la nuit (1987)
🍆 Zucchini (not eggplant).
#manicmonday #letterZ @JoScho

A rare example of an SF novel from the 60s, in all its hip, experimental glory, actually surviving its time and remaining a fascinating, if occasionally infuriating read today. Get past the first few pages which seem designed to alienate the unconvinced reader and this morphs into a great read which touches on profound themes without ever becoming po-faced or worthy. It won't be for everyone but it deserves to be much better known than it is.

Considering this was written in 1968 it's pretty prescient.