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The Kindle Books and Resources List
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All of Jan, Kindle is giving two books free to Prime Members. It has one book from the Paper Magician author, Charlie Homberg.
https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/firstreads/
https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/firstreads/
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I have suddenly found myself both very pleased (and very in trouble) with the easy one-click buy option for kindles on Amazon, as I've just gotten myself several Middle English books (both in and about) for very cheap. Including one co-written by Tolkien!
A Middle English Reader and Vocabulary
I'm not sure what exactly sparked this sudden desire to immerse myself in Middle English but... there we are.
A Middle English Reader and Vocabulary
I'm not sure what exactly sparked this sudden desire to immerse myself in Middle English but... there we are.
The dumbest thing I've ever bought
was a 2020 planner.
"Does anyone ever think about Denethor, the guy driven to madness by staying up late into the night alone in the dark staring at a flickering device he believed revealed unvarnished truth about the outside word, but which in fact showed mostly manipulated media created by a hostile power committed to portraying nothing but bad news framed in the worst possible way in order to sap hope, courage, and the will to go on? Seems like he's someone we should think about." - Dave_LF
was a 2020 planner.
"Does anyone ever think about Denethor, the guy driven to madness by staying up late into the night alone in the dark staring at a flickering device he believed revealed unvarnished truth about the outside word, but which in fact showed mostly manipulated media created by a hostile power committed to portraying nothing but bad news framed in the worst possible way in order to sap hope, courage, and the will to go on? Seems like he's someone we should think about." - Dave_LF
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Sigh. I know. Especially if you are reading a series like “The Expanse”, and you just keep buying the next in line *directly from your kindle*.
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But it's gooooooood for you, Inanna. . . . Goooooooooood. . . .
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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Look, some people smoke, some drink, there are those who need a daily chocolate fix; some people habitually eat out, go to theatre, opera, movies.
My vice is buying books (the vast majority ebooks) at the rate of 1 to 3 a week. That means I spend bw $500 - $600 a year on my passion/weakness/habit/vice/strengthening medication.
I can live with that.
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My vice is buying books (the vast majority ebooks) at the rate of 1 to 3 a week. That means I spend bw $500 - $600 a year on my passion/weakness/habit/vice/strengthening medication.
I can live with that.
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I share your vice. I mostly buy them on sale. And they take up NO space, so I’ll never have to KonMari them.
It’s also fun to read someone raving over a book and go to get a closer look on Amazon and find that I already have it.
It’s also fun to read someone raving over a book and go to get a closer look on Amazon and find that I already have it.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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Shoot! I never thought of it that way! Thank you, impish.Impenitent wrote:Look, some people smoke, some drink, there are those who need a daily chocolate fix; some people habitually eat out, go to theatre, opera, movies.
My vice is buying books (the vast majority ebooks) at the rate of 1 to 3 a week. That means I spend bw $500 - $600 a year on my passion/weakness/habit/vice/strengthening medication.
I can live with that.
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I rarely spend more than $3 on a Kindle book. Case in point - both Going Postal and Wee Free Men are 1.99 right now.
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
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The Kindle Books and Resources List
Ooh. I don’t have wee free men. (Rushes off).
I need stuff to read. Am okay with buying - I usually rely on my libraries, so I don’t buy much - so if anyone can recommend a series worth its salt, I’d appreciate it. Preferably world-building, but I will take good writing any day.
The NYTimes books lists have been disappointing.
I need stuff to read. Am okay with buying - I usually rely on my libraries, so I don’t buy much - so if anyone can recommend a series worth its salt, I’d appreciate it. Preferably world-building, but I will take good writing any day.
The NYTimes books lists have been disappointing.
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I'm on the second Witcher book and enjoying it. It's got complicated political intrigue with magic and monsters, is less graphic than the GoT (and written earlier) and has women in a variety of roles. It doesn't feel very deep, for reasons I can't quite identify yet.
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
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I forget Frelga, in English?
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Yes, and a pretty good translation. With some translations from Slavic languages, you can just tell that what you are reading is not quite English.Alatar wrote:I forget Frelga, in English?
I'd like to find a Russian translation, though. I don't think I have enough Polish to read the original.
Oh! Speaking of, you can get the entire Fire and Sword trilogy by Henryk Sienkiewicz for. 99 on Kindle, or as an imprint of an 1899 edition free on Google books. Or on Project Guttenberg. (I'm grumpy about Amazon charging for ebooks in public domain). It's a classic of Polish literature, war and romance in the vein of Dumas or Scott, and while it's history rather than fantasy, it might as well be for most folks here.
It might even provide some insight into what happened in 2016. And the movie is also great.If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
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*scampers to Kindle store*
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It appears I already have noth Pratchets on Kindle. I'd forgotten. Sent from a tiny phone keyboard via Tapatalk - typos inevitable.
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And now have the complete collected works of Henryk Sienkiewicz ... all of them...for 99c !
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I got it too. But for $2.41!!!
What the heck!
What the heck!
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Ah! Found the 0.99 version, returned the 2.40$
'You just said "your getting shorter": you've obviously been drinking too much ent-draught and not enough Prim's.' - Jude
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W00t! Let me know how you like it.
If you can find the movie, I highly recommend it. It was a collaboration between Poland and Ukraine, the two sides in the war depicted in the movie, and is more balanced than the pro-Polish novel.
If you can find the movie, I highly recommend it. It was a collaboration between Poland and Ukraine, the two sides in the war depicted in the movie, and is more balanced than the pro-Polish novel.
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
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If I come across the movie, chances are I'll have no recollection whatsoever of your advice.
That's the way my memory swings these days. I argue it's like my bookshelves: overfull with no room for any additions.
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That's the way my memory swings these days. I argue it's like my bookshelves: overfull with no room for any additions.
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