For this #FridayReads, my first #SpinsterSeptember read of the year, Sylvia Townsend Warner's "Lolly Willowes", a book originally published 100 years ago, a very early example of #feminist #fiction, and "one of the 100 Best Novels in English" according to The Guardian.

If you're curious and like to read in electronic formats, you can read it for free from a nice #StandardEbooks edition, made from the #wikisource transcription of the book.

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Things my mind will always find hard to comprehend.

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Exciting news! D: HEAVY WATER, the second installment in #NealStephenson's Bomb Light series, publishes October 13th.

Europe, 1934. A British journalist arrives in Moscow on a routine cultural assignment. What follows pulls him across a continent on the brink: through Barcelona in the grip of civil war, across Soviet aerodromes, into the frozen landscapes of occupied Norway. At the center of it all is a substance so rare and so consequential that nations are quietly willing to go to war over it.

Heavy water. Two atoms of hydrogen. One oxygen. The difference between a world that holds and one that doesn't.

For more information and to pre-order your copy, visit this link: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/d-neal-stephenson

Tour info will be shared later this week. So, stay tuned!

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For #fridayreads today, a return to @pluralistic@mamot.fr , this time non-fiction.

While reading this 2022 book, several times I got the impression that "this could have been written 20 years before" (or, more to the point, lament that we did not learn the lesson back then), but at the same time the book is still as relevant (if not more) today than it was when it was published.

#chokepoint #capitalism

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Lagging 9 years behind (and it feels too much), but my #fridayreads is @pluralistic@mamot.fr 's #Walkaway, a book I bought as soon as it was out and now I wish I hadn't postponed its reading for so long...

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#DragonBall is the longest book saga I read: I've been reading it for more than 30 years now. On this #FridayReads I'm reading the volume 20 of Dragon Ball Super, released two years ago (so in perspective I'm not lagging behind much...)

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#FridayReads #ReadyPlayerTwo #ErnestCline #SciFi #Bookstodon

#bookstodon #MarchMysteryMadness #FridayReads #AgathaChristie #OrientExpress