I am reading Frankenstein. It has really shocked me in the difference between the actual book and how Frankenstein is generally portrayed nowadays. The writing is eloquent and beautiful, lyrical. I will certainly read some more Shelley afterwards, any suggestions? I usually tend to read science fiction, so it has been very interesting to read the source of it all.
People here have such impressive reads! I’ve read some three pages over the last week, for no real reason other than “life can be busy”. With such a low bar, I hope to read more next week!
I randomly started Deathworlders, suggested by another user, and I’m enjoying it more than I expected. It’s a light read, and a bit disjoint (as you’d expect from a serialization), but fun and with some good solid scenes. I plan on reading a bit more of it before dropping out.
Some weeks you read more than others, and that’s ok. I finished my Percy Jackson audiobook and am finally reading the pages of my physical book today :)
I’ve been in a bit of a reading slump these past few days due to you know… gestures around broadly so I am still on my books I was before. I am still enjoying the Percy Jackson book, it feels like a nice escape from everything.
For whatever it’s worth, I’ve both noticed and appreciated your efforts lately.
And just what I’ve seen of it via posts and announcements has already been enough to sort of vicariously exhaust me, so I can only imagine…
I’m trying my best to be optimistic but tbh if no real change occurs or solutions are actually proposed soon, I might have to shutdown for my own well being here as well. I’m really hopeful it won’t come to that. I am attempting to sign up with Cloudflare’s CSAM image scanning service as well as looking into ways to disable photo uploads since this instance really isn’t even image focused either. If worse comes to worse, we could migrate to firefish I guess. I’m quietly waiting but very impatiently. I’m just rattled emotionally over what happened. I appreciate the support from the community a lot.
statement of virtual support<
While I love this instance, I would totally understand if you shut it down to preserve yourself. I think this little space is great, and I thank you for setting it up and being very on top of problems creeping up. I hope solutions will be found.
Aw I appreciate it. I can say as of right now we aren’t going anywhere :)
Yeah - I was sort of afraid of that. I like this place - you’ve done a good job here. But there’s no reason you should put yourself at risk. So it’d be a shame if it came to that, but it is what it is.
Last week I polished off the eleven books in the King’s Watch series by Mark Hayden, as well as the cozy mystery spinoff by the author’s sister with the excellent title Murder Within Tent, and the… what do you call the relationship between two spinoffs of the same show? Cousins? As well as the two modern UK procedurals in a cousin series (the Tom Morton books), and a couple of so-so novellas in yet another spinoff series featuring a minor set of characters from the King’s Watch books by someone else entirely.
This week I banged through a few books in a really quite decent urban fantasy series, the Lost Fall books by Chris Underwood, a quick, fun, not especially complex action thriller set in a Mexican border town called Cryptid Slayer, and the latest Prof Croft urban fantasy book which is really a dollar store Dresden Files that I’m only still reading out of inertia, really. Today I read the first Rev Parata Occult Mysteries book, a fun lovecraft-flavored noir set in 1984, and I’m about 75% through the second one which I’m not enjoying as much because the author made the decision to lampshade the solution to the mystery less than a quarter of the way through, and I’m not sure if he intended to turn the book into a howcatchem instead of a whodunit or he just thinks I’m a moron. I expect I’ll finish that off before bed.
Kindle Unlimited is a real mixed bag in terms of quality, but it’s one flat fee every month for a huge library and every now and then you find a gem amidst the mediocrity.
