New here, looking for my home on the fediverse. Interests include traditional musics from around the world, opera, Asian drama series and growing my own veg.
Decades of life with chronic illness. Brain often malfunctions. Whatever words I’ve gotten out have likely been a struggle. Please be kind.
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e-book from Evie Snow, free today ( sunny.garden )
Writer George Penney (who also writes wonderful posts about house-sitting adventures with feline overlords in various countries and is an entertaining follow) just posted this on Mastodon:...
Peter Pan and the Copyright that Never Grew Up - Plagiarism Today ( www.plagiarismtoday.com )
When most people discuss perpetual copyrights, they’re usually its at least somewhat hyperbolic....
Masha du Toit's ebooks available across platforms, free until 31st July ( masha.co.za )
Masha du Toit is celebrating the release of their books on 7 new platforms by making them free until 31st July (except on Amazon because Amazon has other ideas). Sci-fi and fantasy, LGBTQ....
Ancient historical fiction?
I had an interesting thought yesterday. I was pondering, what if some of the archaic literature we relied upon to document past events was actually fictional accounts intended to be read for leisure?...
Is there a tendency to regard books which make us feel bad as "better" than ones which don't?
I’m dragging myself through an “award-winning” “best-selling” “recommended” book I got from the library and wishing I hadn’t. (Yes I know those phrases mean little and I can stop, though I’m nearing the end after hoping it would stop being so hopeless. Yes I can be naively optimistic ;) .) The characters and...