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Peterdamien

Peterdamien

Joined February 2016

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Men At Arms by Terry Pratchett
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Today's book. Really good so far. Topic aside, she's such an enjoyable writer, I want to go find her novels now.

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vivastory Reminds me of Clayton Eshleman's poetic exploration of the Lascaux cave paintings 7y
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London: The Biography | Peter Ackroyd
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#bookmail ! These both look pretty nifty. I can't wait to dig in.

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Men At Arms | Terry Pratchett
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Book 2, out of this month's (hopefully) 10-Book goal. I thought I'd read all the Vimes books, but somehow missed this one! I'll hopefully finish it today.

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The best way to read Harlan Ellison's endless moaning, is to have someone not putting up with that shit, one paragraph later

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Reading this, volume one of a history of my personal religion. It's really good so far. It's also made me realize that I really want to read a biography of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez

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Under the Skin | Michel Faber
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Just finished this. What a strange, slow book, which refused to become less elusive as the ending approached. The power of the writing and characters kept me going though, and I really dug it.

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I swore I was done buying books in 2016, and it proved exactly as true as we might have expected...

BookishFeminist 😂😂 done buying books is a really funny joke no matter what time of year 7y
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Books! Cats! A Guillermo Del toro themed blank notebook! A collection of Lucy Clifford stories! Merry Christmas!

AThousandLives87 Oooohhhh!!! That Rasputin book looks good!!! 7y
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X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills | Chris Claremont
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X-Men are always politically relevant. But GOD LOVES MAN KILLS is particularly relevant in our current political climate, I think.

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Treasure island | Robert Louise Stevenson
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Drink up me hearties...

LeahBergen Oh, I may be due for a reread ... 7y
Peterdamien @LeahBergen I flipped it open at random and realized I just wanna devour the whole thing tonight. 7y
cewilf Love this! 7y
TheNextBook Does anyone watch Black Sails!?! Some of the characters are included in the show and the show is amazing! 7y
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Normal: A Novel | Warren Ellis
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A very short book which, like a TARDIS, is a lot bigger on the inside than it seems. Very clever, albeit with lots of worrying talk about the future. Pardon me while I blow up the internet and hide in the hills now...

Theresa I love that description- like a TARDIS! 7y
vivastory I checked this out today. Looks like a good quick read for the weekend. 7y
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Volume 2 is as good as volume 1. Clunky in places, but really fun storytelling, and the sort of improbable-but-logical conclusion that only the Doctor would dream up. Really surprised at how good this story was.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation / Doctor Who: Assimilation 2 Volume 1 | Scott Tipton, David Tipton, Denton Tipton, J K Woodward
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The Doctor and the Enterprise-D team up against the Borg and the Cybermen. Such a stupid premise, but surprisingly well-written, faithful to both series' tones, AND the art is great.

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Normal: A Novel | Warren Ellis
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Tonight's book is very small, but I've been really looking forward to it. The first line is "hand over the entire internet now and nobody gets hurt". How can it not be a winner?

Marchpane Great first line, I'm intrigued. 7y
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The Red Tree | Caitlín R. Kiernan
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An excellent, clever, very elusive sort of horror novel with a fascinating ending, and which really deserves a better cover than it's been saddled with here. Definitely recommended.

malloryomeara Ugh, I love that book so much. 7y
BookishFeminist You're right, this cover is terrible. 😂 but I think I'll stack it now anyway! 7y
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Excellent, clear book; mainly about depression, but with an occasional bipolar slant as well. Goes on my little list of "books I'd hand people if they need it"

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An excellent quote, from a so-far excellent book

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Just got an ARC of this (as well as Flash and Wonder Woman) and am so excited. To get into it. What I've read of Son of Superman has been the best Superman I've read in years and years.

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The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm | Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling
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Finished writing chapter 3 in MY book, now gonna read a few short stories and then dive back in.

readinginthedark Nice! How is this? I've heard Ellen Datlow is a fantastic editor! 7y
Peterdamien It'll be excellent. It'll be varied and clever and a lot of fun. I will, quite literally, buy any book without glancing inside if I see Ellen Datlow edited it. She's the BEST. 7y
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The Red Tree | Caitlín R. Kiernan
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Bunked off all my other reading for this, because I am such a fan. It's great so far, but I do think the book deserves a better cover than this.

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"To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries. Everywhere else we may be bound by laws and conventions — there we have none." —Virginia Woolf

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Harry Potter | JK Rowling
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"Relive" implies I ever stopped. #harrypotter #yuleball

TheNextBook Have fun!!! 7y
Suzze I cannot wait to hear about this. On the B&N employee group, there were a lot of employee complaints about not getting any support from the company for this. No money, no nothing. They were told to find a band to play and come up with crafts, etc. This is what happened with the Frozen event when I was still working and in charge of the kids department. They gave us a few things to make copies of and we 7y
Suzze We're on our own. We had 600 kids show up when we expected 100 max. 7y
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Peterdamien @Suzze holy buckets, that's insane. I had NO idea. They put together fun stations here (which, I now realize, were ingeniously cheap) and found a really talented local singer. Amazingly done. I never would've realized there was no budget. 7y
Suzze @Peterdamien So glad you enjoyed it. 7y
balletbookworm Yep, we had zero budget at my store, too, but we had lots of happy little kids making owl masks and coloring Christmas ornaments and having a dance party with limbo. 🎉 7y
kimmiecatj I was in charge of my store's event. I hope people had a good time. A little girl asked me if we could go play more charades when the event was ending. 7y
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The Night Ocean | Paul La Farge
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A wonderful book so far, lyrical and pulling, as it slowly guides you into the story chapter by chapter, until you're suddenly deep in. Really enjoying it.

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Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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If you can ever find a copy of Frankenstein illustrated by Bernie Wrightson, do so. Trust me.

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Bought this for two bucks, and now can't stop reading it, because I am a total sucker for Hollywood history kinda books.

Suet624 I've wanted to read this. Will have to find it now. 7y
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I hadn't realized til this big reread how much The Dark Tower books feel like just a straight channeling of King's subconscious storytelling brain onto the page, more than anything else he's done. Hence, I think, the surreal quality the books pick up. #DarkTowerDecember

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"My advice to those who made read these pages is to shun literature..."

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Today's book, because the idea of #DarkTowerDecember is too wonderful. I've never actually read the whole series, so it'll be fun.

TheNextBook #darktowerdecember this is become so epic! I'm so glad you're joining in! 7y
TheNextBook Becoming* when the excitement makes you mispell everything! 7y
bio_chem06 You will love it. I can't find anyone who didn't enjoy reading that series, even if fantasy isn't their genre. So amazing! 7y
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Touched With Fire | Kay Redfield Jamison
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"But he had a second weapon -- his pen."

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Beloved | Toni Morrison
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Last novel for this class and...I just really don't want to read it. Not right now. Remembering why I'm so rubbish at literature classes and book clubs. Sigh.

Curley_Bender That book is so so good though. I have a feeling it'll end up treating you right. 7y
Peterdamien @Curley_Bender oh probably. I've yet to read anything by her which hasn't floored me. I'll definitely be coming back to this one on my own 7y
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Long Run | Catriona Menzies-Pike
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This book is just tops, you guys

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Long Run | Catriona Menzies-Pike
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Tonight's book! A very bookish running book, which is my jam. Makes me miss running, though.

LauraBeth Can you still run? 7y
kerry Immediately adding to stack. Bookish running books are the best kind of running books. 7y
Peterdamien @LauraBeth yeah, I just lost the habit a year or two ago. But every single time I find a good running book (and this is) I get back at it, soooooo 7y
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LauraBeth @Peterdamien read this: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/06/09/the-running-novelist then lace up and get your butt back at it 7y
Peterdamien @LauraBeth oh, I love that article. It made me immediately buy his book on running, which made me run even MORE. Clearly I have to go for a run tonight. 7y
bio_chem06 Just ran 3 miles today, training for my first half in April. Putting this book on my list! 7y
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This made me grin foolishly when I bumped into it, in the store

Liberty AND THEN IT GANKED YOU FOR YOUR INSOLENCE. 7y
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I love the idea of a plainclothes hospital staffer whose job it is to be NORMAL.

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The Princess Diarist | Carrie Fisher
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Wound up with the audiobook of this today, and am well pleased. Can't wait to walk somewhere tomorrow while Carrie Fisher (AND daughter!) talk brilliantly to me

Matilda I downloaded it today and squealed. 7y
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Touched With Fire | Kay Redfield Jamison
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A quote from Austrian composer Hugo Wolf, via Touched with Fire

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Okay, I guess I'll buy just one...more...book...

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Morte | Robert Repino
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Today's book, MORT(E), which I discovered via @Liberty , is one of those glorious examples of an insane premise, treated logically. It's really great so far. And the cover and binding is GORGEOUS

LectricSheep I love this book so much. It's so different from anything else I've read. 7y
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A Monster Calls | Patrick Ness, Siobhan Dowd
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Devastatingly powerful and good. Excuse me while I go be heartbroken all over a mug of tea...

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Anansi Boys: A Novel | Neil Gaiman
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The audiobook I'm enjoying whenever I'm out walking. Countless time through it. Lenny Henry's reading is amazing.

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This morning's read. From page one, it basically says "hello, I'm here to stomp all over your heart. Let's get started, shall we?" (Amazing book, though) (and BREATHTAKING movie trailer. So watch that.)

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Mama Day | Gloria Naylor
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This week's class book is MAMA DAY, which I've read before and which is amazing. I recommend it especially if you were a fan of the movie BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD. They share some DNA.

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Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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👬 GOOD. 🔥BAD.

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If ever a week (hell, a MONTH) deserved to be followed by a bunch of Star Trek novels, it was this past one. Also on display here, my amazing bookmark skills. I should be on etsy.

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Kindred | Octavia E. Butler

When in doubt, crawl inside of a good book, pull the cover shut over you, and stay there...

#ReadingWithoutWalls

RinaBrahmbhattBarot Today that is a really struggle...tough day for humanity 7y
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Made for Love | Alissa Nutting
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I keep compulsively returning to sneak a few more pages of this book, even though I REALLY need to read another book for a thing. It's just SO good. Makes me realize I REALLY need to read TAMPA

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The Stars Are Legion | Kameron Hurley
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Also reading this tonight. Weird as hell, and it doesn't ease you into nothin', but it's good. Reminds me of THE EXPANSE, in some ways

Chessa I loooove the expanse! Sold. 7y
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Kindred | Octavia E. Butler
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Tonight's book, for that class I'm taking: KINDRED. I've, you know, heard that it's kinda well liked and stuff

BookishFeminist And our pick for @LitsyFeministBookClub this month! It's so good. 7y
Peterdamien @BookishFeminist I know! I was very excited when @LitsyFeministBookClub picked it because I knew I had it coming up, and I was hoping it would coincide. I am PROPER EXCITED 7y
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Made for Love | Alissa Nutting
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Welll, goodbye other book plans for the night, and helloooooo Made For Love

tysephine I love how the cover is basically one of those awful air brushed flea market t-shirts! 7y
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