yoko ogawa, the memory police

#jamesbaldwin #merrychristmas #freepalestine

"when i die i hope no one who ever hurt me cries and if they cry i hope their eyes fall out and a million maggots that had made up their brains crawl from the empty holes and devour the flesh that covered the evil that passed itself off as a person that i probably tried to love" nikki giovanni

do you ever just stop and think how lucky you were to briefly share the earth with ursula k le guin and octavia butler?

book club hardback(s)

"The fact that AI can't do your job, but that your boss can be convinced to fire you and replace you with the AI that can't do your job, is the central fact of the 21st century labor market..." "The techbro's overwhelming conceit is that nothing is a crime, so long as you do it with an app..."

This Black Friday, boycott Amazon to end Big Tech’s complicity in the mass murder of Palestinians. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/do-not-support-the-first-genocide-carried-out-by-big-tech/ #Palestine #Israel

got bored on a rainy day, made a book tree. siren helped.

don't forget to turn your book ahead one chapter before going to bed.

the evening's reading... #minordetail #adaniashibli #amreading

andre norton, breed to come, ace, 1985 . cover artist unknown . #books #bookstore #bookstagram #macon #maconga #downtownmacon #bookcover #bookcoverdesign #bookcoverart #scifi #sciencefiction #scifiart #sciencefictionart #andrenorton

found flipping thru _john steinbeck: a life in letters_

siren blep for your #caturday

"Researchers Find Three Companies Own More than 19,000 Rental Houses in Metro Atlanta" GSU colleague @jtsphd.bsky.social continuing to tear it up in the institutional single-family rental research space.

wendy's gonna surge wages with that surge pricing, or nah?

james blish, doctor mirabilis, arrow, 1984 cover art by geoff taylor

georgette heyer, beauvallet, ballantine, 1970 cover art by john asaro

nevil shute, in the wet, ballantine, 1967 cover artist unknown

agatha christie, the hallowe'en party, fontana, 1986. cover art by martin baker

agatha christie, the murder of roger ackroyd, pocket books, 1973. cover art by robert emil schulz

"you're always reading by yourself." "i-is that wrong?" sui ishida, tokyo ghoul

carson mccullers, the ballad of the sad cafe one of several literary birthdays today (amy tan, jonathan letham, bruce wayne) but carson's pretty much a local.

"my name's macon; i'm already dead." toni morrison, song of solomon born #otd in 1931

e.c. tubb, stardeath, del rey, 1983. cover art by david b. mattingly

james blish, a case of conscience, ballantine, 1972. cover art by jacques wyrs

"no, i'm not shitting you man. if people saw the world for what it truly is... saw their lives for what they truly are. without dreams or illusions... why should they not elect to die as soon as possible?" the one hand #1 @therightram.bsky.social laurence campbell

neil ravin, m.d., delacorte, 1981 cover art by elaine duillo

Very cool that two of the richest men in the world are teaming up to declare that structural protections of workers rights are unconstitutional

agatha christie, the clocks #goals

robert a. heinlein, the moon is a harsh mistress, ace, 1987. cover art by carl lundgren.

charlotte macleod, the resurrection man, mysterious press, 1992. cover art by mark hess.

alan dean foster, the end of the matter, del rey, 1977 cover art by darrell k. sweet (credited as darrell sweet)

alan dean foster, cachalot, del rey, 1980. cover art by darrell k. sweet

just finished @paultremblay.bsky.social 's horror movie. wonderfully creepy and disturbing. 5 stars.

currently reading, arc on my phone edition

because year of the dragon margaret weis and tracy hickman, the seventhgate: a death gate novel, bantam, 1993. cover art by stephen youll

because year of the dragon margaret weis and tracy hickman, into the labyrinth: a death gate novel, bantam, 1993. cover art by stephen youll

because year of the dragon margaret weis and tracy hickman, the hands of chaos: a death gate novel, bantam, 1993. cover art by keith parkinson

for our first caturday here meet trinity, our 3-legged feral foster fail. one of our 3 bookstore cats. trinity likes plastic bags and murder. she hopes one day to kill all the birbs.

e.l. konigsburg born #otd 1930

stolen from @manmademoon.bsky.social on twitter

happy (lunar) new year! year of the dragon . from tehanu by ursula k le guin

william harry harding, rainbow, holt, rinehart and winston, 1979. cover art by roger huyssen.

nevil shute, the rainbow and the rose, pan books, 1973. cover art by george sharp.

john saul, nathaniel, bantam, 1984, hardback. cover art by joseph cellini.