🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! It’s time for our recommendation post for next month’s theme! Here are twenty books that we think also fit the April theme of Light vs Dark! These are a mix of Adult and Young Adult titles.
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Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”
This is so so upsetting. So Grammerly is violating the memory of bell hooks AND making AI versions of the rest of us before we're even dead. Someone tell me who to sue, not even joking.
I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
Excited for this! 6 authors & their fantasy/sci-fi/horror. Lasts 1 hour. 7 PM central. Free but you'll need to sign up for the link! #SWSWQR @swsworlds.bsky.social
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@linseymiller.bsky.social
@gabriellebleu.bsky.social
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Check out this upcoming LIVE, Virtual (via Zoom) event featuring #womenauthors and #nonbinaryauthors of #sciencefictionbook #fantasybooks and #horrorbooks. It's fast, it's fun, and it's always amazing. You're sure to find at least one new author to love 💗 #SWSWQR
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i've created the sincerest, wettest cat of a boy
my next ya fantasy is going great I have created the perfect little guy ft. @rosieethor.bsky.social
19 MARCH 📖6 AUTHORS📖8 MINUTE READINGS hosted by @swsworlds.bsky.social
Join us in ten days and find your next favorite SFFH book! I'll be reading my favorite passage from THAT DEVIL, AMBITION. There will also be some giveaways for the books being read.
i have 0 regrets also throw nicolas & isidora from mask of shadows in there too
Samuel Delany on the inseparability of style and content (via @maxgladstone.bsky.social 's newsletter):
this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible
my kingdom for a way to reorganize these so that they're not next to each other, scrivener
Not my project, but I'd like to boost the Trans Rights Readathon. I'd like to see higher participation among indie trans authors and readers this year, since there's increasing pressure to remove trans people from the public eye transrightsreadathon.carrd.co
Some lovely folks have asked if they can donate directly, which is hard for me to accept at a time when so many people are struggling, but what I *can* do is offer a pay-what-you-want epub of THE FALLOW YEAR on Ko-Fi. Cannot stress enough this is virtually identical to the version still on AO3!
Later this month, I'll be doing a reading from THAT DEVIL, AMBITION with five other lovely authors hosted by @swsworlds.bsky.social! Join us and find your next favorite SFF story. There will be giveaways, too!
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Meanwhile actual law will take a lot more time and resources to fight and the KS ACLU is the best place to donate to support that. Not to mention there are a ton of other REALLY BAD bills going through the KS legislature right now that ALSO need to be fought
Anything that isn’t “give trans people in Kansas money right now” is really not helpful because in order to successfully move to another state, you NEED to have current valid identification! Drivers licenses are critical to daily life functions and invalid ID has huge and immediate consequences!
I’m transgender, I live in Kansas, if you want to help rn donate to either the ACLU of Kansas or the ACE foundation in Wichita - the ACE foundation especially is the organization that will help people with money for groceries, rent, etc. More orgs also included in attached img
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nothing like being very sick and very angry
Thank you to @authorsabb.bsky.social heroes @beccacoffindaffer.bsky.social and Ed Underhill, we have some slides that can be shared by anyone about this, with particular reps to target. Let's kill this bill in committee.
Don't be fooled by this bill's name-- this is a book banning bill that will exclude LGBTQ books from all public schools NATIONWIDE.
Call your congresspeople and tell them to VOTE NO on this nakedly bigoted book banning bullshit.
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
LEARNING ABOUT BLACK TRANS HISTORY:
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MMPB (and PB in general) are preferred by children and teenagers in terms of print books, so killing off a thing they would actually buy if publishing made them seems foolhardy to me. But then again, making the exact wrong choice for kidlit seems to be publishing's main business manta nowadays.
I think it's also worth considering that when you bought an MMPB, you bought it. You don't own ebooks. We went from a model of affordable ownership to subscription fees, DRM, temporary licenses, and material that can be altered or removed without your knowledge. Own to rent isn't the better deal.
In terms of paper waste, maybe, but ebooks aren'tthe solution. Speaking as a librarian, ebooks are the bane of my fucking existence. I can buy 10 MMPB for the cost of 1 restricted access temporary license ebook. See:
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One of the children's books challenged by the parents in Mahmoud v. Taylor is 'What Are Your Words?', a “sweet, accessible introduction to gender-inclusive pronouns.” It is literally a Hachette book. The same company paying Alito for his book wants you to buy one of the books he is helping to ban.
The front page of the Hachette Book Group's website urges visitors to "join the fight against censorship" by buying banned children's books that feature LGBTQ characters. This fall, Hachette will publish a book by Sam Alito, who just wrote a Supreme Court opinion making it easier to ban these books.
I'm sorry. That's so annoying.
