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Stuart J. WhitmoreSeems to me like it's a good time to share a link to 160 free fantasy stories. Grab one or a few for your e-reader of choice!<a href="https://about-the-author.online/tags/ebooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ebooks</a> <a href="https://about-the-author.online/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://about-the-author.online/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://about-the-author.online/tags/fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fantasy</a> <a href="https://about-the-author.online/tags/free" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#free</a> <a href="https://about-the-author.online/tags/freebies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freebies</a> <a href="https://ebooks.stuartwhitmoreauthor.com/fantasticfantasytales/f3uifuire4" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ebooks.stuartwhitmoreauthor.com/fantasticfantasytales/f3uifuire4</a>

Patch ArcanaBook Promotion: Since the tragedy of 1994, Agency Division have weilded their authority over matters arcane with relative impunity. Enforcers like Vidcund Därk, collectively known as the Men in Black, serve a single purpose - the absolute eradicaton of magic and those who would use it. This is not an uncommon goal - a group of rogue arcanists known as the Grey Angels have much the same outcome in mind. When a respected mathematics professor obtains a translated copy of the Pnakotic Manuscripts, the hunt is on to determine how he got hold of it. But soon, a bigger crisis unfolds - one that Agency Division can’t keep under wraps.<a href="https://www.sanityline.net" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.sanityline.net</a><a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/readers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#readers</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/fedibookfair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fedibookfair</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/dystopia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dystopia</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/urbanfantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#urbanfantasy</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/adventure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#adventure</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/action" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#action</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/thriller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#thriller</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/series" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#series</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reading</a> (And, if you go with the kobo store links, now available as a DRM-free e-book)

Robert Bates<a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Reading</a> Yes, the majority of language migrations are driven by hype - LeadDev <a href="https://share.google/v1LrHYbnPAmP4xZX5" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://share.google/v1LrHYbnPAmP4xZX5</a>

Curtis McHaleSigh...yet again I got a book from the library and realised that while I was waiting for the hold I also purchased the book.Need to do better tracking this stuff.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reading</a>

Graham Downs"A person who won't read has no advantage over a person who can't read" -- Mark Twain <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quotes</a> <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reading</a><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a>

Anne Delong<a href="https://beamship.mpaq.org/@bob" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@bob</a> <a href="https://aoir.social/@aram" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@aram</a> I don't have a Kindle (for the reasons mentioned above) but I understand that you can set it up to read library books through Overdrive or Libby. Some of these may have been purchased through Amazon, but libraries also carry ebooks by local authors and small presses. It's a way to support authors with your tax dollars.Also, don't forget about the thousands of free books available at places like Project Gutenberg!<a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.gutenberg.org/</a><a href="https://musician.social/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://musician.social/tags/ebooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ebooks</a> <a href="https://musician.social/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libraries</a>

Michael ShotterMy latest read: "Fleet of Knives" by Gareth L. Powell - See my Goodreads review for details but if you enjoyed "Embers of War" and like yourself some full-blown space opera action and adventure, this one's definitely worth a look!<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7783350308" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7783350308</a><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/specfic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@specfic</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/scifi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@scifi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#scifi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#book</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bookreview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bookreview</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bookreviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bookreviews</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bookrec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bookrec</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bookrecs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bookrecs</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bookrecommendation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bookrecommendation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bookrecommendations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bookrecommendations</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/booksofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#booksofmastodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/readersofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#readersofmastodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/readingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#readingcommunity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/booktodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#booktodon</a>

ArchimageIt’s hot out. Stay cool inside and read a fun book.<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cat-Warlock-Serg-Koren-ebook/dp/B0FHWZXJKQ/=Serg+Koren&qid=1753963598&sprefix=serg+koren%2Caps%2C154&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Cat-Warlock-Serg-Koren-ebook/dp/B0FHWZXJKQ/=Serg+Koren&qid=1753963598&sprefix=serg+koren%2Caps%2C154&sr=8-1</a><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#book</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reading</a>

FictionableThe heat is stifling as Min and Hazel head to the park. But it’s not just tennis at stake in Proper Magic by Ali McClary:<a href="https://www.fictionable.world/stories/proper-magic-ali-mcclary" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.fictionable.world/stories/proper-magic-ali-mcclary</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ShortStories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ShortStories</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/translation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#translation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/comics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#comics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#blog</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a>

BlairFor this week’s <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/ThursdayBooksandBeer?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ThursdayBooksandBeer</a> I’m reading a science fiction eco-thriller by Ray Nayler: The Tusks of Extinction. Resurrected Mammoths and digitised consciousness downloaded into them. What’s not to love? It’s paired with a ‘Faux’ ice cream smoothie sour non-alcoholic ‘beer’ from One Drop, which is very tasty but pretty remote from what I usually drink. <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/literature?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/reading?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/sciencefiction?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/alcoholfree?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#alcoholfree</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/craftbeer?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#craftbeer</a>

Jan BartosikFeersum Endjinn by Iain M. Banks<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12015.Feersum_Endjinn" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12015.Feersum_Endjinn</a>1 of thi moust entataynink syfy reeds ov ol, hooj recomindayshn :)<a href="https://witter.cz/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://witter.cz/tags/amreading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#amreading</a> <a href="https://witter.cz/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://witter.cz/tags/kindle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kindle</a> <a href="https://witter.cz/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://witter.cz/tags/booktoot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#booktoot</a> <a href="https://witter.cz/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#book</a> <a href="https://witter.cz/tags/knihy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#knihy</a> <a href="https://witter.cz/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#scifi</a> <a href="https://witter.cz/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/scifi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@scifi</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/knihy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@knihy</a>

Julie ANTHOINE author"Complément", le tome III de ma saga "Un jour je serai moi" sera disponible en ligne à partir du 1er septembre prochain. -------------- The third volume of my series "One day I will be me" will be available in French the 1st of september this year. The volume II and III will not be available in English yet but if you would like to help me and can introduce me to an English publisher, thank you in advance! 😉 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bookstagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bookstagram</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/helpmetofindapublisher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#helpmetofindapublisher</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/livre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#livre</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/litterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#litterature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reading</a>

Ronald SnijderKids these days...<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Internet</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cartoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cartoon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chicken" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#chicken</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SavageChickens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SavageChickens</a> <a href="https://www.savagechickens.com/2025/07/rebel-kid.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.savagechickens.com/2025/07/rebel-kid.html</a>

Alfred Chow - Maker of ThingsI have finished reading: 37: Arthur C Clarke - Childhood's End.I am now reading: 38: Arthur C Clarke - 2061 Odyssey Three.I have read 2001 and 2010 so many times (and likewise seen the films often) I only have to look at the books and whole thing comes flooding back.<a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Books</a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/Reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Reading</a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bookstodon</a>

Graham Downs"A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books" -- Andrei Tarkovsky <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quotes</a> <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a>

The Wee Writing LassieThe Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year - Book 169 <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/goodreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#goodreads</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fantasy</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/westeros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#westeros</a><a href="http://weewritinglassie.home.blog/2025/07/31/the-wee-writing-lassies-300-books-in-a-year-book-169/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">http://weewritinglassie.home.blog/2025/07/31/the-wee-writing-lassies-300-books-in-a-year-book-169/</a>

DrWebOpinion | There is no reading crisis in the U.S. Here’s what’s really happening. – The Washington Post<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/28/naep-reading-crisis-test-scores/?utm_campaign=wp_todays_headlines&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F43de0aa%2F68889ba7300b042829555ed8%2F596bcdaaae7e8a44e7ddff37%2F29%2F64%2F68889ba7300b042829555ed8" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a>(Washington Post staff; iStock)<blockquote><a class="" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Opinion</a>There is no reading crisis in the U.S. Here’s what’s really happening.Politicians and journalists are misinterpreting the results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress.By Paul ThomasPaul L. Thomas is a professor of education at Furman University and author of “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Reading-Serve-Literacy-Needs-Students/dp/B0B9PSGB36" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">How to End the Reading War and Serve the Literacy Needs of All Students</a>.”After her controversial appointment, U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon posted this apparently uncontroversial claim on <a href="https://x.com/EDSecMcMahon/status/1922986744313426219" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">social media</a>: “When 70% of 8th graders in the U.S. can’t read proficiently, it’s not the students who are failing — it’s the education system that’s failing them.”Americans are used to hearing about the nation’s <a href="https://www.tcpress.com/literacy-education-9780807764633" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">reading crisis</a>. In 2018, journalist <a href="https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2018/09/10/hard-words-why-american-kids-arent-being-taught-to-read" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Emily Hanford</a> popularized the current “crisis” in her article “Hard Words,” writing, “More than 60 percent of American fourth-graders are not proficient readers, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, and it’s been that way since testing began in the 1990s.”Five years later, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/11/opinion/reading-kids-phonics.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">New York Times</a> columnist Nicholas Kristof repeated that statistic: “One of the most bearish statistics for the future of the United States is this: <a href="https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/reading/nation/achievement/?grade=4" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Two-thirds</a> of fourth graders in the United States are not proficient in reading.”Each of these statements about student reading achievement, though probably well-meaning, is <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-linda-mcmahons-claim-013000581.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">misleading if not outright false</a>. There is no reading crisis in the U.S. But there are major discrepancies between how the federal government and states define reading proficiency.At the center of this confusion is the <a href="https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">National Assessment of Educational Progress</a>, a congressionally mandated assessment of student performance known also as the “nation’s report card.” The NAEP has three achievement levels: “basic,” “proficient” and “advanced.”The disconnect lies with the second benchmark, “proficient.” According to the <a href="https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/guides/scores_achv.aspx#achievement" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">NAEP</a>, students performing “at or above the NAEP Proficient level … demonstrate solid academic performance and competency over challenging subject matter.” But this statement includes a significant clarification: “The NAEP Proficient achievement level does not represent grade level proficiency as determined by other assessment standards (e.g., state or district assessments).”In almost every state, “grade level” proficiency on state testing correlates with the NAEP’s “basic” level; in <a href="https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/studies/statemappingtool/#/subject-grade" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">2022</a>, 45 states set their standard for reading proficiency in the NAEP’s “basic” range. Therefore, it is inaccurate to say that nearly two-thirds of fourth-graders are not capable readers.The NAEP has been a key mechanism for holding states accountable for student achievement for over 30 years. Yet, educators have expressed doubt over the assessment’s utility. In 2004, an <a href="https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED497886.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">analysis by the American Federation of Teachers</a> raised concerns about the NAEP’s achievement levels: “The proficient level on NAEP for grade 4 and 8 reading is set at almost the 70th percentile,” the union wrote. “It would not be unreasonable to think that the proficiency levels on NAEP represent a standard of achievement that is more commonly associated with fairly advanced students.”The NAEP has set unrealistic goals for student achievement, fueling alarm about a reading crisis in the United States that is <a href="https://tomloveless.com/posts/literacy-and-naep-proficient/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">overblown</a>. 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Bich Nguyen :verified:"This list gathers eight of the books that readers are turning to in order to understand our present moment. They are from all different genres–memoir, speculative fiction, history, children’s books, and graphic novels. We asked librarians and staff at Brooklyn Public Library to write stories about their connections to these books, and describe why they think we should all be reading them now."<a href="https://electricliterature.com/librarians-recommend-8-books-that-changed-the-shape-of-politics-and-reading-in-america/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://electricliterature.com/librarians-recommend-8-books-that-changed-the-shape-of-politics-and-reading-in-america/</a><a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libraries</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/librarians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#librarians</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/ReadingIsFundamental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ReadingIsFundamental</a>

Niklas"Sorry to trouble you was how the note began, which is such a great opener. Please, trouble me! Trouble me! I've been waiting my whole life to be troubled by a note like this. <blockquote> Sorry to trouble you but it looked like someone was using a telephoto lens to take pictures through your windows from the street. If it was someone you know, then sorry for the misunderstanding, if not, though, I got the make/model/license of their vehicle. <blockquote> Brian (from next door) and his phone number </blockquote> </blockquote> You don't really need a telephoto lens because we have giant windows in front with no curtains. Sometimes I pause before coming inside and watch Harris and Sam innocently going about their business. Harris mutely explaining something to Sam, or lifting Sam into the air. I feel such tenderness toward them. Try to remember this feeling, I say to myself. They are the same people up close as they are from here. We all immediately knew which neighbor Brian was. The FBI neighbor. If there's one thing we've learned from Brian it's that being in the FBI is not a secret like the CIA. He wears his (bulletproof?) FBI vest with the letters FBI on it way more than could possibly be required. It's like if someone on the Dodgers wore his uniform to water the lawn. All the neighbors would be like, We get it, dude, you're on the Dodgers. So the first thing Harris did after I read the note aloud was scoff that of course the FBI neighbor had "caught" someone with a "telephoto lens." And the second thing Harris did was nothing. He was busy and didn't think it was worth pursuing. "It's a little creepy, though, right?" "People take pictures of everything these days," he said, walking out of the room. "Do you think I should call him, though?" But Harris didn't hear me." — Miranda July: <a href="https://bookwyrm.social/book/1599043" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">All Fours</a>, pp. 1-1Grand opening. <a href="https://bookwyrm.social/hashtag/300225" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MirandaJuly</a> <a href="https://bookwyrm.social/hashtag/128" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#book</a> <a href="https://bookwyrm.social/hashtag/202" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reading</a>

Bob Doto 📿 🗃 🚩There's this enormous universe of meaning-making taking place in the zeptoseconds between encountering a text and attempting to read it. So many assumptions and expectations about otherwise meaningless markings on the page. So many opportunities to read wildly and against the grain. <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reading</a>

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