2026-10-26T04:02:01Z https://nostr.now MPG https://nostr.now/npub1unq7fwqqaaqh2jt5qm8s89a0pys72uj3ns3ymgrnl94deyf0eqqs5hyytf https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-3f96fc2e3d3269c6066c040ff3c9616e/accounts/avatars/110/662/183/561/607/694/original/e62ff5064513b859.jpg https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-3f96fc2e3d3269c6066c040ff3c9616e/accounts/avatars/110/662/183/561/607/694/original/e62ff5064513b859.jpg https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrec0wppyxjzskjdqzr8jva70n2sq9ygs2kfkyptlh57r733khk4czyrjvre9cqrh5za2fwsrv7quh4uyjretj2xwzyndqw0uk4hy39lyqz4xr8k5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqja0748xzrphj39sp62frrquph0nr45934j8k3kja9xqpl83tw9cs75hsx'>nevent1q…5hsx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>For all the reading they claim to support, they sure can&#39;t read the room. 2026-09-18T22:45:11Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgfs5y8ngf39m7vtj8herknsvk8cxgql8qga57h8x6y20m9t0n66gzyrjvre9cqrh5za2fwsrv7quh4uyjretj2xwzyndqw0uk4hy39lyqzyaq5xk It&#39;s been a minute, but the new book report is up! <br/><br/>What do you get when you have an Traditionalist Anglican Saint marry a Modernist Catholic Devil, and you throw a little World War I into the mix? <br/><br/><a href="https://hagstation.com/hagreads/books/Ford_Ford_Madox__Parades_End.php">https://hagstation.com/hagreads/books/Ford_Ford_Madox__Parades_End.php</a><br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span> #reading #Books 2025-08-11T14:18:32Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgqccs3s2e7t6tq9g9d0cwjg3mlya3jn730tsc9pvw6fjdhdrrudczyrjvre9cqrh5za2fwsrv7quh4uyjretj2xwzyndqw0uk4hy39lyqzsu8zkw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxmy0eausuz0kflzynkcn9an85lf54v9uvr93hvlatv6dsw7wsgucz23289'>nevent1q…3289</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;Mewling&#34; is indeed a huge red flag. It&#39;s a ways down but I also reviewed Bride. Twas bad. 2025-08-04T17:10:41Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9cpnnxsjneexnwzakw0jumlewrsugz0kscsscl4znmjlzqras8hgzyrjvre9cqrh5za2fwsrv7quh4uyjretj2xwzyndqw0uk4hy39lyqzepj86h In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsr5sw4az9ue3upn5u554ny5svea072khsv754a8spqkqwmu0y9dcqxc2vz6'>nevent1q…2vz6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>that review was my friend! She also did The Frost Queen&#39;s Blade review which is also very cringe. 2025-08-04T12:48:26Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqst2cz88ncjl5hh0jkydaapzyyyz3cwqe04ls059r28yu0uqnj8gtczyrjvre9cqrh5za2fwsrv7quh4uyjretj2xwzyndqw0uk4hy39lyqztqprtg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxff66a0ae6xw5pxjtedzczsg8zfdpjyqfzt79vheku6zmhs4807cm836yd'>nevent1q…36yd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>ahem. (Link in bio)<br/><br/>I programmed it myself. RSS feed.i do ask for a login as a countermeasure to LLM bots. Got a few new items in the hopper 2025-08-04T01:29:09Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqwvp0zradk4eu9sq5j5qx2juwtym3x5n9vzqr7ykm7y6jw64ftrgzyrjvre9cqrh5za2fwsrv7quh4uyjretj2xwzyndqw0uk4hy39lyqzdk59uk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8whzep7g3eljcrznuzlt3em349lhfuuxmdzdd59kn5r7z8q8x6jqtezc46'>nevent1q…zc46</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>There are a number of single-player games out there specifically about writing letters. I got into the genre with the game Quill <a href="https://trollish-delver-games.itch.io/quill-a-letter-writing">https://trollish-delver-games.itch.io/quill-a-letter-writing</a> , but Storybrewers have really taken to the concept with their lineup: Good Society (the Jane Austen TTRPG) has an Epistolary phase where players write letters in character to one another, and the upcoming My Later Father&#39;s Correspondence is a solo letter-writing campaign. <a href="https://storybrewersroleplaying.com/">https://storybrewersroleplaying.com/</a> 2025-04-24T20:02:09Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9dmwk4ac4yxvlvdvlz57sferhqcphycg2uks99egga48xfw6xv3qzyrjvre9cqrh5za2fwsrv7quh4uyjretj2xwzyndqw0uk4hy39lyqzjkfsn6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswu2l6t0fdj0zq3fprwpvl38majnka6a3sqqvhduse52eqadln9yspu2eme'>nevent1q…2eme</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I (and a friend) write salty book reviews at my site (not all reports are salty fwiw). For my part, I try to find the humor, or post facto workshop the bad stuff, but I would never just put a living author&#39;s work on blast here. One of the reasons I joined Masto is the lower drama and overall shittyness. 2025-04-08T12:46:59Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrma43rladup8w58hqkwrsr98ac5ld0y52fkj7n7vvd7zg3dq9fnqzyrjvre9cqrh5za2fwsrv7quh4uyjretj2xwzyndqw0uk4hy39lyqz5tt8pp One of my #dnd players sent this to me today, I love it! #bookwyrm <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span> #embroidery<br/> <img src="https://sb-ce379m3c8a.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/114/189/820/161/522/305/original/2a4016eea7164976.png"> <br/> 2025-03-19T15:35:43Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsq0mguhsqmvf0z4jkfzx44wpwwq0gf4kt07txg7f449n2t96frfaqzyrjvre9cqrh5za2fwsrv7quh4uyjretj2xwzyndqw0uk4hy39lyqzu4aatl Pizoxuat decides to kick it old school and read a romance novel from the bad old days that still managed to horrify her! <br/><br/><a href="https://hagstation.com/hagreads/books/McNaught_Judith__Whitney_My_Love.php">https://hagstation.com/hagreads/books/McNaught_Judith__Whitney_My_Love.php</a><br/><br/>I&#39;m also amused that someone writing a Regency-era novel had the parents of their incorrigible tomboy girl who will certainly cause a scandal if left unchecked decide that &#34;France will straighten her out.&#34; ...Had she never read even *one* 19th century British novel?<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1me9m8lh6kfs63q39vja8phwyw5hc7quwaxw7h2accepkc6g0w2wqf6z28v" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Romancelandia group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1me9…z28v</span>)</a></span> 2025-03-05T22:15:24Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqst7tksyzauj3guxuxhcemeuf9pmzax34dthd29vela2s3j549h7cgzyrjvre9cqrh5za2fwsrv7quh4uyjretj2xwzyndqw0uk4hy39lyqzrsuxlx ...it&#39;s been a while! I continue my ill-considered re-read of the 90&#39;s #Ravenloft novels with the 4th entry: a rambling werewolf story about bards and incest that might have at least closed with some sort of coherent unifying theme had the requirements of the setting not tied the author&#39;s hands. <br/><br/>...Or maybe it&#39;s just a bad book! You decide!<br/><br/><a href="https://hagstation.com/hagreads/books/King_J_Robert__Heart_of_Midnight.php">https://hagstation.com/hagreads/books/King_J_Robert__Heart_of_Midnight.php</a><br/><br/>#dnd <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span> 2025-03-03T15:59:33Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqewphwnx5hywmc0pwsuwcgqwyk96w6r9grvn03kvxy5e32wny27czyrjvre9cqrh5za2fwsrv7quh4uyjretj2xwzyndqw0uk4hy39lyqzvk59xu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs08yuag5rjht4n87vyh0wecfgfyuwsr8hu9ugcn2xsstnq4n0s6eggmmc3w'>nevent1q…mc3w</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Oh no! Is it possible to re-download? That might be a daunting task but ... you paid for those books! <br/><br/>People are posting other options for jailbreaking your kindle library in my replies, have dig and see if any of those might work? 2025-02-15T13:13:14Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqj0yu52lmsfsq87zh72jdh09e7jzs9zh8pgfmz3nplpjg27y40fgzyrjvre9cqrh5za2fwsrv7quh4uyjretj2xwzyndqw0uk4hy39lyqzcgxpav In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy9emwn5g0xne6y6nhzlct6xh7y40glxlw8pwk69stlcv09rvd35spgznac'>nevent1q…znac</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>then I definitely recommend the Boox Note. The battery life for the color version isn&#39;t as good, I just have the b+w version (series 3, I believe series 4 is out or soon to be out) which has good battery life, and suits my needs to a T. 2025-02-14T19:40:01Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstflp4a403zdrsfnsru7wdq5dleh77svj6dm877gecp680tasxqpqzyrjvre9cqrh5za2fwsrv7quh4uyjretj2xwzyndqw0uk4hy39lyqz4q4emf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqmg7r8rcaztw4xlchggunnpugq07hcdl7lrz0vpxswy50ua5eyfg3dvu6r'>nevent1q…vu6r</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I really enjoy my Boox Note 3, but it&#39;s not *just* an eReader, it&#39;s also my notepad. If you just need an eReader you could probably stick to your Kobo and be fine. (I use the Kobo store because with Calibre it&#39;s trivial to move my purchases to the Boox). 2025-02-14T19:25:35Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswcllzj2av59x8tzswe4mmst0v3t3p3v6decveg05vuwvgqh4ajngzyrjvre9cqrh5za2fwsrv7quh4uyjretj2xwzyndqw0uk4hy39lyqzvhs6ds In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq5daw39w5qpdacpg9gpd24nhlfq5r39l7usnvd9zu2ty3kjm29hq6zsu2z'>nevent1q…su2z</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I was never really in the amazon eBook ecosystem, but my husband was. A year ago for Christmas I replaced his dying PaperWhite with a Clara BW. He reports it&#39;s a superior eReader, and it took me about a half hour to convert his kindle purchases to be readable on the Kobo, using the instructions here:<br/><br/><a href="https://www.cloudwards.net/remove-drm-from-kindle-books/">https://www.cloudwards.net/remove-drm-from-kindle-books/</a><br/><br/>And with the deASCM plugin, getting my purchased Kobo books onto my 3rd party eReader is pretty easy. 2025-02-14T18:15:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgwafm9ael6t5cjmuenf0r7m0rywqhygtut58pf4r99gedk934muczyrjvre9cqrh5za2fwsrv7quh4uyjretj2xwzyndqw0uk4hy39lyqzz7h74k If any of you are in the Amazon ebook ecosystem and have been considering leaving, Amazon has announced that they will be disabling their Transfer to USB functionality next week, so you have 1 week to liberate your library before then! You don&#39;t need to rush out and buy a new eReader this week, but you will want to get your purchases migrated to ePUB before you lose that ability altogether. 🧵 for how-to...<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span> #Books<br/> <img src="https://sb-ce379m3c8a.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/114/003/475/047/881/470/original/e0c04a2ec456cec1.png"> <br/> 2025-02-14T17:47:04Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsr4q7lpknkjhthz0x3mwun4lzsn0ggjj208j2cuah3qutm9f5trlszyrjvre9cqrh5za2fwsrv7quh4uyjretj2xwzyndqw0uk4hy39lyqz8extvy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrz7gfax0z7kw6yjyer62ymypwxwd7juc52efdlpmfgjkdcxgumxq6ckxdd'>nevent1q…kxdd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>thanks for the heads up on thriftbooks -- I have an upcoming review for an OoP novel and wasn&#39;t sure if I should just link to eBay in the &#34;where to find this&#34; section. 2025-02-13T16:12:40Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxsft8cklyumfuplfltcyllte2hxad4jcmudpsqfml3x9csu8mweczyrjvre9cqrh5za2fwsrv7quh4uyjretj2xwzyndqw0uk4hy39lyqzz93a2d I don&#39;t do a lot of #kickstarter as a rule, but this wek I will be backing two of them and I just wanted to share, in case anyone else might be interested. Today&#39;s backing: <br/><br/><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/storybrewers/my-late-fathers-correspondence-an-epistolary-rpg">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/storybrewers/my-late-fathers-correspondence-an-epistolary-rpg</a><br/><br/>This is from the people who made Good Society, the Jane Austen RPG and is another #Regency game. Similar to Quill, it is a solo (w/ 2p option) TTRPG letter-writing campaign in which you are a daughter dealing with the loss of her father and the closing of his affairs.<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span> #writing 2025-02-10T15:12:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszww0vqkag2gd4pzjnfrccjza6nexknfkrm7ug3fre9pajplu4hxszyrjvre9cqrh5za2fwsrv7quh4uyjretj2xwzyndqw0uk4hy39lyqzx8xagy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0rgu9jyurc6gjwkplzr9myehuf6u53mk9yfvcz6spgds84h3usdgj68u4g'>nevent1q…8u4g</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I hear bookshop.org has a new eShop? 2025-02-07T13:38:17Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspsdm99lw0l8gn48xv9kwg3dcgs7jps3g8a0c8zv62ryhfmg3p09czyrjvre9cqrh5za2fwsrv7quh4uyjretj2xwzyndqw0uk4hy39lyqzd4mtnn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfw53nd4gpaarhgjf70z0w90ec4jzkzl8pcn6ksm0mmlnjgq92x8ge0cg80'>nevent1q…cg80</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>it&#39;s on my to-read list. 2025-02-06T13:11:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsy7f3qg52z8ad9d86c99xxnuxxwet9u0l5urt6fmt7p0vcwjkwfjczyrjvre9cqrh5za2fwsrv7quh4uyjretj2xwzyndqw0uk4hy39lyqzge0aq7 10 years ago, Margaret Atwood wrote _The Heart Goes Last_. <br/><br/>The two main characters are working poor homeless, living in their car. Most people are, in fact. They used to have homes &amp; good ,working-class jobs. They are made an offer for stability... at a price.<br/><br/>There&#39;s a definite &#34;no one knows where the money went&#34; foundation. (See Alt Text for quote)<br/><br/>I have a feeling we&#39;re about to find out, &amp; we&#39;ll KNOW where the money went. Will we stop it? #elon #trump #uspol #capitalism <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span><br/> <img src="https://sb-ce379m3c8a.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/113/951/844/802/432/438/original/0f2739430c59717b.png"> <br/> 2025-02-05T15:00:32Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2n5w7tscu7f9fu8eppkrr72hln00avur6kzrztfrjkhfejgznf4qzyrjvre9cqrh5za2fwsrv7quh4uyjretj2xwzyndqw0uk4hy39lyqz8sz276 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxda5jyg40c874se5lfv7zngxguvypdmk4c0fgfea04z5ly98z3sgn9t0tw'>nevent1q…t0tw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>So with much love and respect to the late Sir Terry... the problem I had with Good Omens at the time (not even including more recent developments about one of its authors) is that I have traditionally found that neither one of them were particularly good at writing satisfying endings to stories, and Good Omens suffers the same problem. My advice: Enjoy the journey, don&#39;t stake it all on the destination. 2025-01-23T20:33:38Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs80m5k7ag6dy9uhap6ffa39f5czfq7dc22qx4v2wr95fhmmhhawqszyrjvre9cqrh5za2fwsrv7quh4uyjretj2xwzyndqw0uk4hy39lyqz7et8r5 It&#39;s been a while! With the holidays and various projects I&#39;ve been lax on posting my reviews. <br/><br/><a href="https://hagstation.com/hagreads/books/Turgenev_Ivan__Fathers_and_Sons.php">https://hagstation.com/hagreads/books/Turgenev_Ivan__Fathers_and_Sons.php</a><br/><br/>This novel is an true favorite of mine. I had the idea to re-read it simply because I read it in college when I was a young liberal, but am now more of a middle-aged radical. How would it hold up?<br/><br/>Bazarov is a polarizing character, hated at the time, beloved now. What do you think of Turgenev&#39;s doomed nihilist?<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span> #reading #literature 2025-01-21T19:33:12Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszgzs7tzpt3c5r683hapwcpk7rhv5ayacdnzfu85t0rpgtt9cc30szyrjvre9cqrh5za2fwsrv7quh4uyjretj2xwzyndqw0uk4hy39lyqzwtu6m9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs92kqkk5yzk9ntr2dna4qn440czv8h6gqmwf8tptf9l28qz7nv0dgs6av67'>nevent1q…av67</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Parable of the Sower 2025-01-15T15:28:30Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsphtutjkqkvqnpz8dfvsulxuxjlptu64jwltq2nlygrqqx2k94clszyrjvre9cqrh5za2fwsrv7quh4uyjretj2xwzyndqw0uk4hy39lyqza8eh6e In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspl8ed77vmra39cxfz4k7wxse4ryxtp4nvqgd9a23zvz7ethd9luc4jkwd3'>nevent1q…kwd3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>If I felt like the Lincoln Project ads were going to the people who actually needed to see them the most, I would feel better about them. As it is, I am a little unsettled that it seems like the people who are their prime audience are liberals which... feels like a trojan horse.<br/><br/>I have no problem giving disaffected republicans who can&#39;t believe that Trump ran off with their party a couch to crash on... but I am *not* going to add them to the lease. 2024-10-09T15:38:54Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdczw5gwzgw24pfgy9k6ky0q3kgqp7vmudqepx7lmwrpp0462q0dqzyrjvre9cqrh5za2fwsrv7quh4uyjretj2xwzyndqw0uk4hy39lyqzlsrrxl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvlvysm9rj7yrxjfyukcwaqhkqqhpmxe5pl455qg0kh0l68t3c69ssjj2us'>nevent1q…j2us</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>JD Vance&#39;s abortion story about his &#34;friend&#34; was so incredibly slimy as to call the truth of any of it into question. He stated that her takeaway is &#34;if I didn&#39;t have that abortion, it would have destroyed my life.&#34; He doesn&#39;t say she regreted it, he says that HE wanted her to have &#34;other options.&#34; What other options? Abusive guys will use ANY leverage to keep abusing and a living child is perfect leverage. What the F would he propose to solve for that?! 2024-10-03T15:06:41Z