Penguin Ponders

There is no reason to pirate books. Why would I punish an author like that? FFS people.

Book Cover for Broken Blade by Kelly McCullough A hooded man in loose grey clothes stands on a tiled roof, holding a sword in each hand. Behind him a stylized smoke dragon rises up. A tall tower with lit windows emerges from the misty grey of the sky.

Broken Blade by Kelly McCullough

Aral's been broken by the death of his goddess, but he's still loyal to his shade dragon partner, Triss. Lots of skulking around, big fights and close calls. Surprisingly introspective in places.

🪐📚💙 #specfic #sff 📚🌎

YouTube video by Defunctland Disney's Living Characters: A Broken Promise

I have no plans to ever visit a park again, but I'll devote a few hours to Defunctland

No idea on the books but I have heard that legos or other building blocks can be helpful for fractions - I don't have kids so I have not tried this myself.

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This is very go-go-gadget periscope sort of pose

#Bookvember Unreliable Narrator

*spoilers*

Eugenides from Megan Whalen Turner's Queen's Thief series.

He's only the narrator for the first book - but in the following ones, he's still doing the same things, and we watch others being taken in. It's fabulous to see it from the outside.

Tall heron standing alert in wet grass, showing flared, finely barred neck feathers, a streaked chest, and a long sharp bill with a bright yellow eye.

One of Barry's descendants surveying the area at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica

Bare-throated Tiger-Heron

#birds #herons #nature

As long as tense doesn't switch in the book, it doesn't matter for me

his seems very well researched.

While there is a grimness to this, which seems inevitable due to the history, it was a compelling read. The ending was a surprise but I thought it matched the story.

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The Embroidered Book by Kate Heartfield 1767: Two queens with a powerful secret will enchant the age. A blue, cloth-like background with floral images reminiscent of intricate embroidery dotted with jewels. Two small female profiles in metal face each other, hair up in elaborate styles.

The Embroidered Book by Kate Heartfield

There's some very creepy magic underpinning this alt history. Charlotte and Antoine (Marie Antoinette) change in very different ways over the years. I found myself referencing wikipedia to see how closely things matched -

🪐📚💙 #specfic #sff ⏳📚🌎 1/

this seems very well researched.

While there is a grimness to this, which seems inevitable due to the history, it was a compelling read. The ending was a surprise but I thought it matched the story.

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YouTube video by FF Channel Guo Pei | Haute Couture Fall Winter 2019/2020 | Full Show

I love how these all look like they've stepped out of an unknown fairy tale

Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher

Always love her take on fairy tales. Slightly creepy, amazing characters, and creative worlds.

#BookishQOTD

At a doggy parade three young humans are walking a loaf shaped bulldog down a red carpet.
But wait!
Dog Loaf isn't stopping! (oh no!)
Dog Loaf is off the carpet and headed for the horizon. (Ahh)
Places to go and things to see!
Can they manage to turn him around?!
(They can... Eventually.) (3)

I really enjoy the dual journeys of Elliot and Luke in Sarah Reese Brennan's In Other Lands - especially with the Luke POV short story in Monstrous Affections. I like that it takes place over years, allowing for a lot of growth.

I see a lot of comments about clocks/watches, but I thought it was about most of the sand being in the bottom of an hourglass..

A photo of a crocheted hyperbolic plane - a surface with an exponentially increasing surface area. It is rainbow coloured and it loops and swirls about - in the center of it, poking about from amid the swirls, is the head of a black and white kitten. His paw is poking out from the bottom. It looks like he is wearing an extremely elaborate costume, the sort of thing you’d see on the red carpet at the Met Gala.

Made a hyperbolic plane for the cats to play with, Bandit has decided to wear it.

Queer romance, paranormal, and historical are my main go tos.

Worn #onthisday in 1984 by Glenda Jackson in the title role of Jean Racine's play "Phaedra" when it premiered at the Old Vic in London. Director Philip Prowse designed the costumes; one critic complained that the actresses looked "as if they were trapped in ornate gas balloons." #OTD 📷 V&A Museum

Velocity, Tai and Rida are a solid trio, drawn into the complexities surrounding Brontë and Sabra

I did get a little lost about some parts of the timeline, and with some of the double-named characters.

I'll get the next one

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Book Cover for Fault Lines by Kelly Jennings Two people stand closely, facing the viewer. The older one has serious, wary, body language, with one hand out as if to bar the child beside her from moving forward. She is of ambiguous race, has short cropped hair and a semi-military dress. The child beside her reaches to her shoulder, with short straight hair in a bright orange. She has rounded and more childlike features. She's looking up at the first person with a mix of stoicism and fear. Behind them is a bright orange glow, fading into a futuristic city in the background.

Fault Lines by Kelly Jennings

This is a well thought out book, with the flashbacks slowly revealing more information. It's got a nice mix of dystopia, galactic politics, complex intrigue and factions. The evolving relationships are well done.

🪐📚💙 #specfic #sff 📚🌎 🌈📚 🌈🚀💫 1/

I hate having emotions about reality; I’d much rather have them about Sanctuary Moon.

#Bookvember Nope Genre:

I won't read military fic, unless it's science fiction.
I don't read much historical, unless it's spec fic

In both, I like that buffer of unreality.

I don't read true crime either, I'd prefer to deal with imagined horrors than true ones.

Happy Friday to all women

and people who used to be seen as women but never were

and people who are women but haven’t accepted it yet

and people who want to be women but aren’t sure if they have what it takes

Well at least in the english parts. Not sure how it sounds in the french bits

Somehow Montreal Smoked Meat ( Brisket ) is not on this thread!

I like Corned Beef, I like Pastrami, but MSM is my fav.

I thought hawaiian pizza was everywhere? Unlike Canadian Pizza - Ham, Bacon and Mushroom

Poutine! Easy to make though, if you can't get cheese curds, try some hard mozzarella for a substitue, and any gravy of your choice.

There is an EPIDEMIC of roumd

It's true