I think a suggestion mentioned in Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber was to use a terminal based browser like lynx and spend your time on the web, e.g. reading and editing wikipedia articles. Most passers-by won't recognize the text on the screen as a browser and will think you're working.
Yeah, I've converted the first book I'm reading to plain text and have it just down the side of my screen :-)
I don't have to bother with a bookmark since I just delete what I've read so far, which is also handy.
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Ooo! Ooo! Children of Time! I love Children of time! I will never not recommend Children of Time!
The humans fought amongst each other and mostly died. But they seeded a world that was supposed to have hyperintelligent monkeys! But there are no monkeys and now it has hyperintelligent jumping spiders! We get to follow their development and conflicts and then all of the spoilery spoiler stuff and it's great. One of my favourite books. Are you afraid of spiders? Good, that's a plot point in the book!
(it's not very light though sorry)
Thanks, I'll add it to my list, it sounds great :-)
I'm not afraid of spiders though, I had a pet tarantula once
Tarantulas are very cool! I'm kind of afraid of spiders but they are both incredibly cool and incredibly cute so I refuse to be afraid of them. One of my favourite spiders is phidippus johnsoni!
Also shoutout to cellar spiders and that neat little anxiety dance that they do.
Are those the ones that wear a little water blob hat sometimes?
Where I live now there's lots of interesting bugs but surprisingly few spiders, when I was growing up our house was always full of spiders (very old house out in the countryside) so I guess I never had the opportunity to be scared of them, lol
I have never seen them do that but that sounds adorable so I want to! I am in a similar situation here, I moved from a place with many many spiders and it's weird to not have as many around. It does not help that one of my roommates (a cobweb spider who I call Cain) is very rude and eats a lot of other potential roommates (any ground-dwelling spiders who walk near their web).
On the plus side I now have House Centipedes, which are like spiders who are in training for athletic competition (they run at about human walking speed).
I went and looked up the water drop hat thing, apparently water was put on jumping spiders for cute photos and isn't a real thing :-(
This is the book I've been reading during electrolysis sessions ... and I'll never know if that's the reason I hate this book or not.
I liked the power! I'd recommend Vox as well its a feminist novel.
time travellers wife is excellent but has really sad bits. Her fearful symmetry is also a good read.
Have you read Sarah Waters books at all? I find her engaging without being too taxing. I like the little stranger best... from what I remember tipping the velvet and fingersmith have a fair bit of smut.
If you like dystopian stuff Lockdown is one of the best I've ever read, it depends if you find that taxing.
Thank you :-)
I'm not a big reader, hence the question in the first place - usually I just stick with graphic novels and the news, but it's time for a change!
Ooooh what graphic novels do you like?
Uh-oh, there could be a long list ...
Ones that are free to read online would include:
Dresden Codak
Kill Six Billion Demons
Gunnerkrigg Court
Stand Still Stay Silent (finished)
Freakangels (finished)
Digger (finished)
Nice one thanks! I've never really got into them but they're good cos I can't often focus enough to read
I enjoy them partly because I love art, all the examples I have have distinct original styles and some of the pages are simply beautiful :-)
I edited my previous post for readability BTW
I used to read Dresden Codak a million moons ago! Haven't thought about it in a long time (unless Carl Jung gets mentioned).
If you're into scandalous hand holding then you're in for a real treat getting updated ... also, I love the art style.
I have a large cyborg pride tattoo on my back from Dresden Codak :-)
I'm just going to recommend three books with "hollow" in the title.
Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton
S.T., a domesticated crow, is a bird of simple pleasures: hanging out with his owner Big Jim, trading insults with Seattle's wild crows (i.e. "those idiots"), and enjoying the finest food humankind has to offer: Cheetos ®.
But when Big Jim's eyeball falls out of his head, S.T. starts to think something's not quite right. His tried-and-true remedies—from beak-delivered beer to the slobbering affection of Big Jim's loyal but dim-witted dog, Dennis—fail to cure Big Jim's debilitating malady. S.T. is left with no choice but to abandon his old life and venture out into a wild and frightening new world with his trusty steed Dennis, where he suddenly discovers that the neighbors are devouring one other. Local wildlife is abuzz with rumors of Seattle's dangerous new predators.
Humanity's extinction has seemingly arrived, and the only one determined to save it is a cowardly crow whose only knowledge of the world comes from TV.
What could possibly go wrong?
The Hollow Places by T Kingfisher
Pray they are hungry.
Kara finds the words in the mysterious bunker that she’s discovered behind a hole in the wall of her uncle’s house. Freshly divorced and living back at home, Kara now becomes obsessed with these cryptic words and starts exploring this peculiar area—only to discover that it holds portals to countless alternate realities. But these places are haunted by creatures that seem to hear thoughts…and the more one fears them, the stronger they become.
House of Hollow by Krystsl Sutherland
Iris Hollow and her two older sisters are unquestionably strange. Ever since they disappeared on a suburban street in Scotland as children only to return a month a later with no memory of what happened to them, odd, eerie occurrences seem to follow in their wake. And they're changing. First, their dark hair turned white. Then, their blue eyes slowly turned black. They have insatiable appetites yet never gain weight. People find them disturbingly intoxicating, unbearably beautiful, and inexplicably dangerous. But now, ten years later, seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow is doing all she can to fit in and graduate high school on time--something her two famously glamourous globe-trotting older sisters, Grey and Vivi, never managed to do. But when Grey goes missing without a trace, leaving behind bizarre clues as to what might have happened, Iris and Vivi are left to trace her last few days. They aren't the only ones looking for her though. As they brush against the supernatural they realize that the story they've been told about their past is unraveling and the world that returned them seemingly unharmed ten years ago, might just be calling them home.
Thank you, they all sound really interesting ... especially the first one!
No romantasy smut? I'm fresh out of ideas then I'm afraid...
Ha! Yeah, I'm afraid so - not only do I not want to have that sort of thing on-screen just in case someone reads a couple of words over my shoulder, I also don't want to get all wound up at work
I do rather enjoy working from home playing the audiobook versions out loud in my office. Results are inconclusive as to its effects on productivity, testing continues.
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