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Great list. Wanted to pop in and throw Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner out there.
www.theguardian.com
"State has ordered books by 13 authors, 12 of them women, to be removed from every public school, classroom and library"
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Haha I was just about to post an update as well. Great minds are timed correctly it seems!
We upgraded from v0.19.3 to v0.19.5. The release notes for v0.19.4 have all the goodies, v0.19.5 was more of a hotfix update. I will post links below to those. We also upgraded to postgres v16 which should quell some of the memory leaks we have been having causing unresponsiveness and slow performance (we'll see I'm still unsure if this will pan out.)
Thank you for the patience everyone!
https://join-lemmy.org/news/2024-06-19_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.5_-_A_Few_Bugfixes
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Thank you for posting this deal, I just got to this book in my backlog and it slaps! It's extremely engaging I read it all day instead of working, I couldn't put it down.
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Well now I want to see the spreadsheet too!
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I want to love Murakami novels but the views on sex that bleed into his longer novels are very uncomfortable sometimes (looking at you 1Q84). Anyway also https://archive.is/8sNHt
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You might be interested in the documentary "It's Quieter in the Twilight" about the engineers who keep the Voyagers alive.
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Ah the classic "oh it was just a joke" strat.
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It's not a troll account. https://youtube.com/@DirtyTesla
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They're back up, thanks for the heads up!
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Google launched "Google Wallet" in 2011. Killed it in 2015 for "Android Pay". Android Pay was killed for Google Pay. Then Google Pay was deprecated for the version of Google Wallet that you currently use.
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何か云って。
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This was my favorite quote from the article.
But neither of those books was actually checked out from the Hayden Library on his trip. One of the books was checked out from another library, and another was stolen off the shelves. Norris refused to return the books at first, and Alexa Eccles, the executive director of the Community Library Network, told me in a phone call that, when Norris eventually returned them, the barcodes had been cut out of the book covers, and the library has not been able to return them to circulation or get new copies.
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My friend got me Legends & Lattes.
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I guess I'm off to learn Bulgarian.
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This is awesome thank you for writing your thoughts out! I loved Time Shelter, I heard the translation to English was poor compared to Georgi Gospodinov's native language.
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I didn't realize Murtagh was released, thanks!
Just upgraded to a point release that should fix up some issues with federation to services outside of lemmy. Carry on everyone and enjoy. Previous release notes here: https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-12-15_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.0_-_Instance_blocking,_Scaled_sort,_and_Federation_Queue
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Please post a review of it once you finish! I'm obsessed with Time Shelter and would love to see other opinions on it.
Welcome to the highly anticipated update! Tons of changes in this release, but you might have noticed you were signed out. All sessions were terminated to allow for a more secure user auth flow. New post ranking algorithms and instance blocks for users are the headlining features, but there were almost 400 commits since 0.18.5 so please read the release notes if you are curious about the other big changes. Enjoy the update!
I have been trying to put into words how I feel about this novel by Greg Egan. This novel leans very far into the "hard sci-fi" side of the spectrum and it isn't for everyone. Egan is a mathematician and a software engineer and those areas of expertise are relied on heavily to craft the world we inhabit in Diaspora. I have read this twice now, both times enjoying the technical masterpiece of Egan's world. The beginning is tough to read, it is slow and extremely verbose. There's no hand holding in the conceptual world you have been thrown into. If you are having trouble, the Wikipedia page is helpful to lean on and the glossary in the back of the book is a must to reference in the earlier chapters. As you get the hang of the world though, the story just flows forward. I enjoyed the pacing and characters journeys as well as the general theme of the novel. Highly recommended if you enjoy a technical and dense sci-fi novel.
Dear Authors and lllustrators, I want to update you regarding the Book Fairs Share Every Story/Celebrate Every Voice case. First, I want to apologize on behalf of Scholastic. Even if the decision was made with good intention, we understand now that it was a mistake to segregate diverse books in an elective case. We sincerely apologize to every author, illustrator, licensor, educator, librarian, parent, and reader who was hurt by our action. We recognize and acknowledge the pain caused, and that we have broken the trust of some of our publishing community, customers, friends, trusted partners, and staff, and we also recognize that we will now need to regain that trust. This case will be discontinued starting with our next season in January. For the remaining fairs in the fall, Book Fairs is working on a pivot plan as we speak. We will find an alternate way to get a greater range of books into the hands of children. We remain committed to the books in this collection and support their sale throughout our distribution channels. Our commitment to BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ authors and stories remains foundational for our company. Scholastic believes in the basic freedoms of all individuals. We oppose discrimination of any kind on the basis of age, race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, or national origin. We are committed to providing access and choice, and to helping young readers develop critical skills needed to exercise democracy and build a society free of prejudice and hate. Equally important, we pledge to stand with you as we redouble our efforts to combat the laws restricting children's access to books. This will not be our last communication on the matter, but we wanted to get this initial Word out. We look forward to working to create a better and more just future together. Sincerely, Ellie Berger President Scholastic Trade Publishing
Scholastic found that it either had to give in to the hardliners who wanted to ban books for children or to not allow that, and they seem to have decided to give in.
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL26513113W/Time_Shelter_-_a_Novel?edition=key%3A/books/OL35858097M
Help! I'm looking for interesting microbloggers who focus on the literature space (especially speculative fiction) to follow. Preferably on mastodon since I can consume the rss feed of their content.
openlibrary.org
I have been on a kick recently looking at novels where ideas become "entities" and this novel is an interesting look at what constitutes a "city".
!printsf@literature.cafe A cozy community to talk all things related to speculative fiction in printed work, including comics, books, poems, etc.
Hoping to start a community on a book/writing focused instance similar to r/printsf here on lemmy. You can find us at !printsf@literature.cafe
Currently working my way through The Glass Planet by Christopher Zyck. It's been a very enjoyable and interesting read. Reminds me a little bit of Foundation in the way it tells the story through millennia. I have such a soft spot for grand scale stories like this, they are difficult to get right.
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