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Today is Jack Kerouac birthday.

Before he became the voice of the Beat Generation, Kerouac was a promising college football player. A broken leg ended his sports career — but the long recovery gave him time to read obsessively and begin writing the stories that would change American literature.

He later wrote On the Road in a burst of energy that became legendary: typing day and night on a single 120-foot scroll of paper.

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But what if I'm reading all comfy in my bed one night and get a craving for cheese, should I stop and get up and get cheese, that doesn't sound right 😜 😂

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Post but Uni of Liverpool Library: This is not a bookmark. Photo of an individually wrapped slice of cheese. Reply: Me talking to the pest control man - "No mate I've no idea why we have mice in the library" *Picks up a book and actual cheese falls out of it*

Exit Strategy - Martha Wells

This one made me cry at the ending as Muderbot rebuilds its memory and grapples with human emotions, and the true freedom it's friends give it, because they recognise it as a fully sentient being that...

https://curtismchale.ca/book/exit-strategy-martha-wells

A humanoid shap in a space suit outside a ship - Exit Strategy from the Murberbot Diaries

There's a pop-up window on my website, sophiajanehayden.com, where you can get a link to a PDF of The Story of Rockit by joining my email list. It's a short children's tale. Rockit is an adorable Australian herder pup with big dreams of herding cattle like her famous grandfather, Mick. But when she is adopted into a California home, she's met with two mean cats and a couple of elderly, very slow-moving tortoises, Herman and his wife, Morticia, in the backyard. It seems her dreams of being a herder have been dashed. But are they? Wise old Herman, who has lived for 105 years, tells Rockit never to give up on her dreams.

I wrote a cute little story for young children and am giving readers a chance to download it by joining my mailing list at sophiajanehayden.com. Rockit is an adorable pup with a famous Australian cattle herding grandfather, Mick. Her dream is to one day herd cattle like Mick. But her dreams are dashed when she moves into a California home with only a couple of very slow tortoises to herd. But Herman, the wise, old tortoise won't let Rockit give up on her dream.

The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster. I really enjoyed Baumgartner, which in retrospect was a love letter to his wife before he died in 2023. These books are sort of detective novels. But it's the descent into madness that runs through them. Writing that is both really clever and very readable. @bookstodon

Photo of the ebook. Dominated by text. A small dark drawing of a figure seen through an apartment block window.

Hello + ❣️ Christopher Wimmer stellt euch sein neues Buch »Alles muss man selber machen« über Rätebewegungen vor – wie selbstverwaltete Gesellschaften historisch aussahen, wie sie strukturiert waren, wie sie funktionierten + funktionieren sollten. Eintritt frei:
• Freiburg Fr 13.03. | 19:00, Susi-Café Vaubanallee 2
• Karlsruhe Sa 14.03. | 18:30, Café Noir, Schauenburgstr. 5
On tour: https://christopherwimmer.de/tag/votraege

»Die Revolutionierung des gesamten Lebens in globaler Perspektive – um nichts weniger geht es in diesem Buch.« Zitat aus »Alles muss man selber machen. Zur Geschichte der Rätebewegungen, von der Pariser Kommune bis Rojava« von Christopher Wimmer