@Texreader posted this sale, but be aware this is Book 2 in The Arc of the Scythe series, and you do really need to read Scythe first. For February‘s author for #authoramonth
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@Texreader posted this sale, but be aware this is Book 2 in The Arc of the Scythe series, and you do really need to read Scythe first. For February‘s author for #authoramonth
Was unsure of where to start for this month‘s #AuthorAMonth and this was available on Spotify so I started today. Pleasantly surprised to find this essay collection is narrated by actor Maya Hawke, as we‘re in rewatch prep mode for the new season of Stranger Things. 🤷🏻♀️😂
Though I‘m not a fan of Joan Didion‘s writing style, this is a moving reflection on loss and the impact of her daughter‘s death.
#AuthorAMonth @Soubhiville
pickThe narrator is also the author of this unusual fictional story, being portrayed as a true nonfiction biography of the wife, Inez Victor, of a senator. She (assuming the narrator is a she) tells the story according to the events she learns her information about Inez. As a result it is told out of chronological order, but in “real time” as the narrator interviews Inez and many others and reads news articles and documents, etc. In other words, ⬇️
#wordoftheday
“This seems astonishing now, but we forget how confused and febrile those few weeks in 1975 actually were, the “reassessments” and the “calculated gambles” and the infusions of supplemental aid giving way even as they were reported to the lurid phantasmagoria of air lifts and marines on the roof and stranded personnel and tarmacs littered with shoes and broken toys.”
#authoramonth @Soubhiville Joan just keeps on giving.
Have you been waiting for this announcement #AuthorAMonth readers? I've been excited since I started working on results and graphics yesterday. Here is our author lineup for 2026!
41 people voted this year. The author with the highest vote count was Amor Towles with 24. Then Martha Wells with 20.
Many of the rest each had 19.
Is there one author or book you're most excited to include in your 2026 reading plan?
From @Soubhville
Have you been waiting for this announcement #AuthorAMonth readers? I‘ve been excited since I started working on results and graphics yesterday. Here is our author lineup for 2026!
41 people voted this year. The author with the highest vote count was Amor Towles with 24. Then Martha Wells with 20. Many of the rest each had 19.
Is there one author or book you‘re most excited to include in your 2026 reading plan? (I‘ll comment below my tag list.)
A new #wordoftheday
“Intermission at the ballet, one of those third-string touring companies that afford the women and children and dutiful providers of small cities an annual look at … “Nutcracker”; an occasion, a benefit, a reason to dress up after the general fretfulness of the season and the specific lassitude of the holiday and stand outside beneath an improvised canopy drinking champagne from paper cups.”
#authoramonth @Soubhiville
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