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I love when the Library Extension lists a book I want to buy available available at one of my Overdrive libraries. Especially when there's no waitlist!
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04-24-2024, 10:50 AM | #169 |
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04-24-2024, 10:52 AM | #170 |
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04-24-2024, 12:56 PM | #171 |
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04-24-2024, 01:43 PM | #172 |
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05-04-2024, 07:29 AM | #173 |
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I'm reading "One of us knows" by Alyssa Cole, and it's really good, but also so tense that I need to take breaks. I don't usually read horror, but this one's intriguing: Ken has multiple personality disorder, and the main personality has been dormant for six years when she suddenly finds herself back, waiting for a boat to take her to an island where she's been hired as a caretaker of a historic castle. Except: None of the personalities remember applying for the job.
There are multiple levels of horror: There's something supernatural in the castle, there's something going between the multiple personalities (has one of them been lying to the others?), there are real world horrors of racism, sexism, and powerful men with no scruples, and also: The last time she was out in the world was in 2014 - why do I carry surgical masks and disinfectant in my pockets? |
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05-23-2024, 01:43 PM | #175 |
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I was delighted today by the legalese in a self-published novel, which I copy/paste here:
This is a work of fiction. Like, duh. Names, characters, weird insect people, business, events, and incidents are the products of the author’s demented imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is mostly coincidental. Except for the bugs living on sentient floating islands in the upper atmosphere of a gas giant. That happened. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, eaten, smoked, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, semaphore, smoke signal, mime, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher (who is unstable at the best of times and let’s be real, these ain’t them), except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews (hopefully not too critical) and certain other non-commercial uses permitted by copyright law. |
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That looks about one step above the early 90s fan-fiction disclaimers we used to see (except folks were begging not to be sued by the studios) |
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05-23-2024, 02:48 PM | #177 | |
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05-23-2024, 04:00 PM | #178 |
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I once saw a disclaimer on a fanfiction warning readers that they shouldn't murder people in real life.
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05-23-2024, 07:16 PM | #180 |
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