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Alas, we're becoming people of quality. Upcoming books: April: The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith #ForTheDickie Year-long reads: Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes #dq25 🫏; Clarissa, Samuel Richardson #clarissa
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TOMORROW!
Join us to discuss "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K LeGuin 📖
Here's the link to the feed; reply here and I can easily add you to the discussion. Post comments using #Omelas or 🌰
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All right, I'm thinking October, then. I'll start putting together a feed and a reading schedule! 📖
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OK, I'm hearing definite interest in a #BSbookclub reading of M.R. James's Ghost Stories of an Antiquary sometime this fall or winter. Do we have anything lined up after Dystopian Present August? I was thinking either October (for Halloween) or December (for the Christmas ghost story tradition).
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Come join us 📖 in reading some dystopian classics (still relevant today...) during August!
▪️Omelas by LeGuin: Aug 1-4
▪️Parable of the Sower by Butler: Aug 6-30
Reply here if you want to be added to the feed, then you'll be able to post to there by using the acorn emoji 🌰 in your post
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Also came here to see what people made of Borges's "Deutsches Requiem" because, phew, I DO NOT KNOW what to make of that. Help me out, #bsbookclub! 🪞
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I'm going to skip this one since I've read Sower and have to catch up on some other stuff, BUT I would also recommend the podcast Octavia's Parables. Here's the Spotify link, but I'm sure it's available elsewhere too 📖: open.spotify.com/show/3qU….
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Octavia's Parables
Podcast · adrienne maree brown & Toshi Reagon · Hosts Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown read the works of Octavia Butler one chapter at a time, bringing a modern analysis and scholarship to th...
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Ok feed is created and appears to work lol 📖
Keywords are #omelas or #earthseed or acorn emoji 🌰
Let me know if you want me to add you, and please spread the word!
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Hey #BSbookclub 📖 we should read Arthur Gordon Pym. It's short and completely bananas.
Nate Wolff@natewolff.bsky.social
It's your boys @rezekjoe.bsky.social and me in The Boston Globe! In print on Sunday! (We are in a big fight about how to interpret the ending of Poe's novel and the illustration poignantly captures the strain in our friendship.) www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/24/a...
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Hey #BSbookclub 📖, as we wrap up #Borges, here's a draft of a reading schedule for Dystopian August: short stories during the first week, then Parable of the Sower starting August 6
Next question: how do I set up a feed?? 😅
docs.google.com
Dystopian Present
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I’m halfway through Orbital by Samantha Harvey and I’m enjoying it so far. 📖
Suw@suw.bsky.social
Righty-ho. I'd like a really good SF or fantasy book, by a woman if poss, that's likely to be in my library app please. I have recently enjoyed: Emma Newman's Split Worlds, Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London (first two). I have recently disliked We All Want Impossible Things and Tomorrow x3.
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I think it's only me and one other person on #bsbookclub who is still keeping up with Clarissa, but that's all right. There's also whoever is running that substack about it and there's a Storygraph readalong, so I know I'm not the ONLY one taking on this project this year still. 📖✉️
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“One gets the impression Brooks hasn’t read many (or perhaps any) contemporary novels, but he also seems unfamiliar with the classics cited.” 📖
Matthew Cheney@melikhovo.bsky.social
From @thelincoln.bsky.social: "The article reads like a DavidBrooksGPT output, combining meaningless phrases like 'raw social courage' with hallucinated facts." countercraft.substack.com/p/brooks-boo...
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Love Middlemarch, but it doesn’t end with Dorothea being dragged to the ocean’s bottom by an enraged albino whale, and I see this as an essential flaw 🐋📖🛖
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This one I liked a lot. Really plays up the unsettling bits in ways that make sense. 📖🪛
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Great list of books, including one by Silvina Ocampo 📖
Neglected Books@neglectedbooks.com
Throughout 2024, a group of folks focused on reading what we called "Wafer-thin Books": under 150 pages long. Though the group is finished, our material remains online at WaferThinBooks.com. Check out the rich variety of suggestions you'll find there.
waferthinbooks.com
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I know it's not the traditional Bill Pullman viewing on this day, but we watched Spaceballs earlier.
Now I decided to rewatch the 90s adaptation that is just called The Haunting, since we recently read it for #bsbookclub 🌌
I remember nothing of it, but Lily Taylor as Eleanor is a good choice.
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Thinking, for reasons, that it's high time I reread Jean Merrill's THE PUSHCART WAR, which I haven't read since I was a kid. Maybe some of you would like to join me? 📖
en.wikipedia.org
The Pushcart War - Wikipedia
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I have eight thousand things on my list of things to do but just had the terrible thought that Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities might be a fun little read for us.
At some point.
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Side quest! Side quest! Side quest!
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