#Books

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Terry Pratchett’s on Tolkien’s influence on fantasy:

J.R.R. Tolkien has become a sort of mountain, appearing in all subsequent fantasy in the way that Mt. Fuji appears so often in Japanese prints. Sometimes it’s big and up close. Sometimes it’s a shape on the horizon. Sometimes it’s not there at all, which means that the artist either has made a deliberate decision against the mountain, which is interesting in itself, or is in fact standing on Mt. Fuji.

Hal Incandenza, la sua famiglia, Don Gately e tutti gli altri occupano queste millecentottanta pagine con la disinvoltura di chi ha tanto da raccontare, di vita, disagio, tennis, droghe, alcol e servizi segreti.
La lettura di Infinite jest è come un viaggio senza programma, in cui ti imbatti in luoghi da visitare o qualcuno da ascoltare e, fra disperazione, violenza e imprevedibile comicità, inciampi in una riflessione, in un pensiero che ti tocca, ti centra in pieno.

@Bookclub

David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest" book cover.

Presenting my lovely partner Tony, the majestic manbeast who finished writing an epic science fiction novel today.

3 years in the writing, 15 countries passed through/lived in. Numerous primal screams into the void only for the void to yodel back. Many many, MANY coffees. Sooo many thumps on the head with a pillow by yours truly (purely for confidence boosting purposes I assure you.) A plethora of space facts inflicted at random intervals... usually over breakfast before caffeine.

I am so freakin' proud right now.

Also, so full of celebratory dinner. We ate all the dinner. So much dinner. Infinite dinner. (Why did I say yes to tiramisu?)

Big Angry Space Rocks will be out some time in the next year or so once edits happen.

Thank you for reading my monologue.

The boring version of this image description is that you're looking at a man sitting across a table, smiling with a glass of wine at his elbow. Okay, now that's out of the way. This man is my lovely partner Tony. Even though he's 46 he looks around 35 or so because he's Dorian Grey and somehow hasn't aged for a decade. He has dark brown soft curly hair, is quite slender with olive skin. He's grinning at the camera in a way that says I caught him just as he was laughing at something, not expecting a picture (I am very quick with my phone). He's wearing dark green framed glasses with fluro yellow highlights at right angles at the tops, bottoms and sides. His T-shirt is white and blue with tentacles all over it. The wine at his elbow is white. You know looking at this picture that this is a person who doesn't mind a tentacle monster. Is willing to baritone belly laugh at ridiculous things and is ridiculously intelligent when it comes to astrophysics to the point where he really should have studied that instead of spending half his career as a high flying engineer doing engineer things. This is a picture of a happy man. You know his book is going to be intelligent and fun and that the photographer adores him and is ridiculously proud. The end.

During the birdsite's heyday, it was a place where we engaged with other people who cared about sending to incarcerated . We followed and retweeted book programs in the US, Canada, UK, and France. We also chatted with many of our volunteers and supporters.

We love Mastodon, but are finding it a bit lonely. We would love to follow other groups that send books to people in . Does anyone have recommendations for whom we should follow?

Boosts welcome.