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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TIL the fantastic "Living Computers: Museum + Labs" museum in Seattle died of #COVID - #RIP .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Computers:_Museum_%2B_Labs

Here are some photos of the cool ways in which I spent a day in there...

Europe: we need to attach the lids to the bottles so they are recycled altogether

Festival in Europe: you cannot enter with water, but you can buy plastic bottles of water inside. Only you can't keep the cap, so we'll rip it for you

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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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