Just in case anyone's a fan of this book and wasn't aware, there's also a short story kind of prequel to this book called The Day Before The Revolution that's free to read here.

Yeah I do that too! I'm here for cozy literature talk, not whatever is going on in the rest of Lemmy lol.

For the new year, I'm going to try a thing based on a Ray Bradbury quote:

The best hygiene for beginning writers or intermediate writers is to write a hell of a lot of short stories. If you can write one short story a week—it doesn’t matter what the quality is to start, but at least you’re practicing, and at the end of the year you have 52 short stories, and I defy you to write 52 bad ones. Can’t be done. At the end of 30 weeks or 40 weeks or at the end of the year, all of a sudden a story will come that’s just wonderful.

So far I've only got half of one 'cause it's the first week of January, but I'm going to see how far I can get with it.

I'm just getting started on a biography of P.G. Wodehouse. Not bad so far!

I was the same, I didn't really see the point of them until I tried out my sister's eBook reader. Then I was sold!

Also, while I still prefer physical books, I can't deny that it's nice to just be able to carry my entire library around in a bag.

I can appreciate that they're in a somewhat difficult position, with the law on one side and what's morally right on the other side, but also this is exactly the sort of scenario where everyone needs to band together to demonstrate that an unjust law won't fly, and IMO trying to weasel out of it with a half-measure is just appeasing the wrong side.

In an ideal world all the libraries, schools and publishing companies would just ignore this and carry whatever books they see fit, and give the legislators a choice to either back off or go after them all at the same time.

This is one I've been meaning to read for ages! I really liked The Disposessed and The Left Hand Of Darkness, but that's as far as I've gotten with Ursula Le Guin so far.

I own it but haven't read it yet, but apparently Edith Grossman's translation of Don Quixote is supposed to be great. Also I just learned she died a couple of weeks ago, RIP.

I made an account on Bookwyrm and I'm for sure going to use it, I just need to actually get all my books logged on there first so I have to wait until I've got more free time.

I am convinced that there's not a book written that can't be improved by the addition of a Sassy Robot Sidekick.

Good for them. They've been there for over 450 years, it should be on the Olympics to work around them IMO.

I might have a similar situation coming up, but I think what I'm going to do is essentially just get rid of most of my books and then try to re-acquire them at the other end of the move. Apart from a few specific ones where the physical book itself is important, like a couple of signed copies I have and some well-worn ones that I've had forever.

I'm also working on cataloging everything in BookWyrm so I can keep track of what needs replacing. Bit of a pain but I just don't think I can physically transport that many books.