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"Crooked cops, judges, and county employees accepted poached meat as gifts and arranged cover-ups. People in the valley who opposed poaching mostly stayed silent."A look inside the new Atavist story, by Nick Davidson: https://longreads.com/2026/05/07/undercover-agent-wildlife-poaching/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social#Longreads #Nonfiction #Reading #Journalism #Poaching #Wildlife #Colorado #Undercover #TrueCrime

@hannaB I know! There was another part where she describes the FMC touching the MMC's shoulder, but uses the word "deltoid"!! Like, who says "I put my hands on his deltoids"?!? There was another part where the author said the FMC "licked his throat" and I had to do a double take. I realised she meant neck. Throat is a bit... internal...

@decorum @Buchhandlung_am_Bruehl Aksioma also published a book on the history of the "like" button and how it changed online social validation.

Yes I ordered more books, what of it?The State of the Art, Ian M. Banks - My next book in the Culture series, I'm really enjoying these, I read one or two a year.Hell's Angels : A Strange and Terrible Saga, Hunter Thompson - I'm slowly working my way through Thompson's work, like really good commentators his view is still relevant.Blindness, José Saramago - Dunno, taking a punt on this, looks interesting.All used, from https://www.betterworldbooks.com#bookstodon #reading

Picked this up at the local bookstore today. I'm close to done buying books online—it’s vapour the minute they decide. Fuck the oligarchs and billionaires, and may they all boil in their own sweat as they watch us die ahead of them, which unfortunately is likely. But we are their food supply and there's no reasonably habitable planet other than ours within light years of here. Try farming on Mars, assholes. #books #reading #truecrime

Hayo finished readingRogue Protocol by Martha WellsThey seem to be getting better. The story is very immersive. I keep complaining about how short these novellas are, however the author packs an unbelievable amount of detail into such a small package.March 30, 2026 https://hayobethlehem.nl/library/book/rogue-protocol#Reading #Bookstodon #ScienceFiction #Fiction #Robots

Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923– December 12,1999)Before writing Catch-22, Joseph Heller served as a bombardier in World War II and flew 60 combat missions over France and Italy.That experience became the seed of one of the most famous anti-war novels of the 20th century - a book where war is shown not as noble glory, but as a terrifying system of fear, paperwork, commands, and absurd rules.#books #writers #reading #catch22 #JosephHeller #Heller #book #bookstodon @bookstodon

@joyousjoyness Those doohickeys are a game changer. With one of those other things that holds the reader over the bed, I can turn pages and my arms stay under the covers.

@nuclearconvoy I hear you, I have been there a few times myself. One of the reasons I normally have 4 books on the go and some varied stuff on the shelf if I just need something lighter.

@PlaystationPixy Hey it’s good to hear from you. Your puppy is so cute! ️Summer Knight is really good. The Dresden Files is one of my favorite series.

@hannaB So I was listening to the audiobook of Mort before and I missed parts of it due to lack of attention span. I'm now re-reading the book, especially the parts where I have gaps and the story is a lot more cohesive.I would say Colour of Magic is far less cohesive. Magic really had chapters that felt like a rough draft, whereas there is an overall story going on in Mort.

@sophiajanehayden_author I disagree that a writer should be the best judge of their own work's emotional impact on readers.

@mattmaison Same

Ein bisschen gelesen habe ich auch noch. Mir hat es sehr gut gefallen, würde es weiter empfehlen. Codestupser | Blog - Buch Thomas Huberhttps://codestupser.de/blog/buch-thomas-huber#reading #lesen #book #Buch

@jspath55 why would anyone want to know which book did other person read? what could they even use that information for o.0@dch @Rasta @Joy_intl

Gig alert! If anyone on here lives in or near Reading (UK) and is free on the evening of 14th May, it'd be lovely to see you. #electronicMusic #gigs #Reading

I finished Flowers for Algernon yesterday. Great book! Highly recommend it!It had a bit in it where Charlie has PKU, and I thought that was interesting, but a lot of it was medical mumbo jumbo that was quite unrealistic to PKU (except for faulty enzymes though).Still, a great book. 4.5/5#book #books #booksky #bookstodon #reading #readingcommunity

Are you tired of book bans?Do you want libraries to be funded?Both of those decisions are made by elected officials.That could be you.Run for office today!Get started here - ReadLeadRun.org#nationallibraryweek #read #reading #library #libraries

Got this in email and it's worth sharing. If you buy #books, consider buying them at Bookshop.org. While their prices might not be as good as #Amazon for some things, every purchase supports a small Indy bookstore. Read the message to learn more. And it's free shipping for Indy Book Day. #reading And if you're an author who has been suckered into an exclusive deal with Amazon, WHY? You're helping them wipe out Indy publishers and the organizations that support them.

I just learned that the last saturday of April celebrates Indie Bookstore Day. So, please buy your books from Indie stores. Yes, even if they don't have dragons #Indie #Bookstore #IndependentBookstoreDay #Bookstodon #Reading #BooksMy book is available here: https://books2read.com/b/m0pJYA