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I finished "There is No Antimemetics Division" by qntm late last night.

It was on the TBR shelf for quite some time, but I'm glad I finally gave it a chance. I expected the narration to be a bit less straightforward than it turned out to be. Strong recommendation for anyone looking for a more cerebral, thought provoking, metafiction type read (also pleasantly surprised at the amount of horror).

I put this in the same category as Gnomon by Nick Harkaway and Interstellar (the movie), because at its heart, it's a novel about ideas and memory and where they come from and where they go. Love that shit.

I'll be honest: I feel like there three distinct parts. The first and third parts moved along swimmingly, the middle part was a bit slower in comparison.

Cool note: This book was birthed …

Book cover for There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm. Large geometric black shapes overlay a warm sunset landscape with trees. The title appears in spaced, minimalist white lettering across the image. The contrast between the natural background and stark abstract shapes gives it a mysterious, sci-fi tone.

Let's celebrate, today is World Book Day (athough some countries celebrate in a different day)! It's also known as World Book or International Day of the Book.

What book are you currently reading? What's your favorite book so far?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Book_Day

You can find several interestings books in our catalogue:
www.gutenberg.org

A black-and-white engraved ornament showing an open book with text-filled pages, resting against a stack of closed books, with a rolled scroll lying in front. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book#/media/File:Books_and_Scroll_Ornament_with_Open_Book.png
A black-and-white engraved ornament showing an open book with text-filled pages, resting against a stack of closed books, with a rolled scroll lying in front. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book#/media/File:Books_and_Scroll_Ornament_with_Open_Book.png
A black-and-white engraved ornament showing an open book with text-filled pages, resting against a stack of closed books, with a rolled scroll lying in front. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book#/media/File:Books_and_Scroll_Ornament_with_Open_Book.png
A black-and-white engraved ornament showing an open book with text-filled pages, resting against a stack of closed books, with a rolled scroll lying in front. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book#/media/File:Books_and_Scroll_Ornament_with_Open_Book.png

To help celebrate the Bard's birth, @amysparkes has dropped the price of the DRM-free ebook of "The Players: Act 1" to 99p/c across all retailers and wrote a little newsletter/blogpost about his influence on her writing.

https://buttondown.com/AmySparkesAuthor/archive/happybirthdayshakespeare-discover-the-players-for/

@bookstodon

Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/TheInvertedGlass

After encountering the worst life has to offer, including the death of his wife and child, destruction of his home world, an addiction forced on him by the one responsible and a third of the galaxy falling under the heel of that tyrant, Levi Jacobs, a wizard, seeks to unravel the secrets of time and fate.

@bookstodon

(Left) The cover of The Inverted Glass, by Owen Tyme. The Background is a pink and purple nebula in space. The foreground is largely line art, in white, with a black shadow outline. At the center is an hourglass. The bottom has black sand, with a white figure standing in it. The top has is an inverted mirror image of the bottom, with a black figure in white sand. The hourglass serves as the balance point for a set of scales, which hold a heart and a feather. The heart is on the left and the feather on the right. The heart is lower than the feather. (Right) Lying in blue sand is a heart made of the same sand, full of cracks. It glows from the inside in a warm, yellow color. Over that is the following quote: Nicole felt an extreme kind of loss, realizing she’d been stolen away from the afterlife, just before finding out if she deserved punishment or not! “How dare you do this to me? Why?” “I’m always in need of strong spirits and I’ve seen none stronger. You have unique talents I refuse to see go to waste.” (Bottom) https://books2read.com/TheInvertedGlass

Apr 22: What would your antagonist be willing to die for?

The antagonist of is literally a goddess, so she's not really able to die in any meaningful fashion the protagonist could affect.