The Rook Shelf
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Intellectual omnivore
Books rated on a Rook scale of 1-5 🐦⬛
Books rated on a Rook scale of 1-5 🐦⬛
Am I Getting Sick or Is It Just Stress?: A Classic Tale for Modern Times
February 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Am I Getting Sick or Is It Just Stress?: A Classic Tale for Modern Times
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February 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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For the love of all that is good in this world do NOT buy books from Amazon. Cancel your Amazon accounts.
Go to the Library (in person or online ebooks!) and support local bookstores instead. Please #BookSky don’t be ambivalent
Go to the Library (in person or online ebooks!) and support local bookstores instead. Please #BookSky don’t be ambivalent
February 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
For the love of all that is good in this world do NOT buy books from Amazon. Cancel your Amazon accounts.
Go to the Library (in person or online ebooks!) and support local bookstores instead. Please #BookSky don’t be ambivalent
Go to the Library (in person or online ebooks!) and support local bookstores instead. Please #BookSky don’t be ambivalent
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It’s not called literature because it’s to be used as kindling.
February 3, 2025 at 11:44 AM
It’s not called literature because it’s to be used as kindling.
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Not to second guess the aliens but whenever you’re ready guys.
February 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Not to second guess the aliens but whenever you’re ready guys.
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You're not overwhelmed. You're under attack.
February 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
You're not overwhelmed. You're under attack.
Not a bad start to the new year reading-wise.
#booksky
#2025readingchallenge
#fantasynovels
#mystery
#thriller
#booksky
#2025readingchallenge
#fantasynovels
#mystery
#thriller
February 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Not a bad start to the new year reading-wise.
#booksky
#2025readingchallenge
#fantasynovels
#mystery
#thriller
#booksky
#2025readingchallenge
#fantasynovels
#mystery
#thriller
Another oft overlooked #dystopiannovel: The Circle by Dave Eggers. Big Brother meets Silicon Valley. Unsettling precisely because it is so believable. 🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛
#booksky
#rookshelf
#booksky
#rookshelf
February 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Another oft overlooked #dystopiannovel: The Circle by Dave Eggers. Big Brother meets Silicon Valley. Unsettling precisely because it is so believable. 🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛
#booksky
#rookshelf
#booksky
#rookshelf
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February 1, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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The USAF has reversed itself "after uproar." We must continue to pay attention. We must continue to preserve & share the stories of the Tuskegee Airmen & the Women Airforce Service Pilots. I promised them I would always tell their stories. You can too. Knowledge is power! www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
January 27, 2025 at 12:40 AM
The USAF has reversed itself "after uproar." We must continue to pay attention. We must continue to preserve & share the stories of the Tuskegee Airmen & the Women Airforce Service Pilots. I promised them I would always tell their stories. You can too. Knowledge is power! www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
This! Some of the best thinking I’ve done has come in the middle of writing.
No, I don't need a bloody copilot for this document, thank you.
Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.
Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.
January 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
This! Some of the best thinking I’ve done has come in the middle of writing.
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Spite's a great motivator.
I wrote twelve books that way.
If you're feeling pissed off at the fuckery afoot? Spite, yo. It'll get you far.
I wrote twelve books that way.
If you're feeling pissed off at the fuckery afoot? Spite, yo. It'll get you far.
January 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Spite's a great motivator.
I wrote twelve books that way.
If you're feeling pissed off at the fuckery afoot? Spite, yo. It'll get you far.
I wrote twelve books that way.
If you're feeling pissed off at the fuckery afoot? Spite, yo. It'll get you far.
Starting a list of #dystopiannovels to read to galvanize the spirit and give hope. Starting with a less obvious one: Red Rising, the first in the Red Rising Saga, by Pierce Brown. Had all the obvious tropes about class wars but add in climate crisis and oligarchs.
Rook rating: 🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛
Rook rating: 🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛
January 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Starting a list of #dystopiannovels to read to galvanize the spirit and give hope. Starting with a less obvious one: Red Rising, the first in the Red Rising Saga, by Pierce Brown. Had all the obvious tropes about class wars but add in climate crisis and oligarchs.
Rook rating: 🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛
Rook rating: 🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛
Et tu, Jewel?
January 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Et tu, Jewel?