That’s, uh, quite the dialogue tag. From Fritz Leiber’s Swords in the Mist. The speaker is Fafhrd. 🪐📚💙

This is what I actually want to (re)read in 2026 and what I’m starting now. 🪐📚💙

These are not good books, but goddamnit I’m reading them. 💙📚 I read Shadow Moon and sequels many years ago and all I remember is a fugue state. I thought it was me at the time. I didn’t understand then that books could simply be very bad. I’ll find out what happens with my newer state of wisdom.

Noobs to the 372-Pages podcast are always welcome. Why not start the year with an inexplicably terrible book? Expand your horizons! It will make everything else you read this year seem so much better. 📚💙

Something very special arrived in the mail today… 📚💙 It took a while to find a copy.

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

You have 13 hours left to throw your self-published fantasy book into the #SPFBO hat! mark---lawrence.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-...

Yeah so that didn’t work out.

My wife mashes potatoes like they killed her family.

In case you’re wondering what kind of dad I am, I am already lamenting the fact that municipal xmas tree curbside pickup won’t happen until Jan. 6.

Currently on the last book on my October to-read list. 📚💙

Who chose these colours and why do they hate my eyes? 📚💙

Any I should play/replay before selling? #RetroGaming

Thanks to AI and self-publishing, you too can spam the market with slop novels based on current events within moments. #AIbooks 💙📚 What a time to be alive. 🤑🤮

@372pages.bsky.social the fans persist.

Amazing and heartwarming book. I don't have much of a platform but if even one more person picks this up because I said so, the world will be just a tiny bit better. #booksky

When my teenager has friends over, it reminds me of being in public places and overhearing random boring conversations that are appropriately loud and you just have to try and tune them out because you’re stuck in that space for a time. But inside my own house.

Just in time for the first @372pages.bsky.social free-to-all episode covering this masterpiece, a giveaway for 100 print copies of the book was just launched by the publisher (US residents only, sorry). www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho... Really, with a book like this, aren't we all winners?

Physical game disc, double-wide case, full colour embossed game manual, wired controller … Alundra is go! This game does not hold your hand. #retrogaming @sharkabytes.bsky.social @retroblast.bsky.social

If you don't know the extent of AI books, here are 374 I've categorized. Tip of the iceberg. 💙📚 www.goodreads.com/list/show/22... www.goodreads.com/list/show/22... www.goodreads.com/list/show/23... www.goodreads.com/list/show/23... www.goodreads.com/list/show/22... www.goodreads.com/list/show/22...

This is me. I'm that dad.

The perfect promo for Brown's new book coming out this fall. 📚💙

My free Kindle Unlimited trial came just in time this year. 📚💙

‘Crowds of young men swaggered beerily to and fro, …’ 🪐📚💙

Around page 100 she's naked again, and apparently she has enchanted her underwear (not currently worn) to give off bright light on command, because ...??? 🪐📚💙

I understand reading for pain, and choose to do it more than is likely healthy. For example, I am about to take advantage of a Kindle Unlimited free trial month. Between that and @372pages.bsky.social -worthy books, it’s a lot of pain. Glorious, self-inflicted pain. Still beats AI books though. 📚💙

I don’t know why I’m still reading these. Ed Greenwood’s books are uniquely unbearable. Here, he is committed to making his FMC inexplicably naked as many times as possible, and that’s just by page 66. 🪐📚💙

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Our final Night of the Crabs episode is now live on the main free feed! Listen with your favorite 8 year old! youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyJk... spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3eMQ... apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3...

Being a parent means you notice when Annie’s mac & cheese changes the material for their cheese powder packet and you have to use scissors to open it now but there are no longer 1 in 10 packets with the powder hard and clumped up, and you appreciate that.

Like, follow, and share if you love libraries! Take action to support libraries at action.everylibrary.org

Ready to see the movie. I’ve been looking forward to this one for years. #FF #Fantastic4 #FantasticFour

Forget leaving an AI prompt in your book. This guy left the prompt in his book's TITLE. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... #AIbooks #AIslop #deathtoAI 📚💙

It’s a very good book and you know you need some positivity in your life. 📚💙

My love of book/publishing drama is hindered by my slow discovery of said book/publishing drama. Could someone tag me the next time something juicy comes up? 💙📚 Never heard of the Salt Path before this anyway, so maybe I'm better off this way.

Our next book is NIGHT OF THE CRABS by legendary British pulp author and pipe smoking champion Guy N Smith! We're recording our first full episode for it on Wednesday, so get reading! amzn.to/4n7oia9

No it can't

For those of you who say #AIbooks are all bad, I offer you this heartwarming story about a courageous golden retriever. It can be yours for the low, low price of your eternal soul and belief in a sane universe. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... 📚💙

The reading year is HALF OVER. You’d better get moving. 📚💙

We just announced our next book on the 372 Patreon. It follows in a fine tradition and is gonna be a great summer read, so pack your pipes and get a copy! patreon.com/372pages

*Krusty the Clown 'Poochie's dead!' voice* "Ugly love is done!!!" The final episode just posted to the free feed so go find out who dies! Youtube: youtu.be/Xkdfb4dUps0?... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5ars... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3...

I finally read Ready Player One, the inaugural "book we don't expect to like" from @372pages.bsky.social . Afterwards I started listening to the episodes discussing it, and there is a 100% match with my experience. Wow! What a cringy cringefest of an over-explaining, under-describing, boring book!

The final Ugly Love episode is done! Whatever @372pages.bsky.social chooses for their next book will undoubtedly seem genius-level in comparison. 📚💙

If this skeet gets 100 likes I will make a c*nty big the cat costume

Ugly Love spoilers: Brad kicks ass: youtube.com/shorts/LPbkP...

It’s that time of year when I get stressed that there’s only half the year left for my reading plans, until I remember there’s still a full month until the actual half-way mark. Phew! 💙📚 Currently reading in linked posts:

Even toddlers can be moved by art. 💙📚

Today in #bookselling was an absolute banger. Best bit was a three-year-old with very firm opinions about picture books. They asked repeatedly for "storeberry" (by Don & Audrey Wood) and "hatback" (by Jon Klassen). Excellent taste. #booksky💙📚

This would be a problem for who, exactly?

I'm reading this (about 1/3 done) and it's lovely! I've never sought out Cozy Isekai (not even sure if there are others; there must be, yeah?) but I'm being charmed by it. Bookworm MC, an idyllic (but not problem-free) world, simple and hopeful living, ... what's not to like? 📚💙