For the new year, I’m going to try a thing based on a Ray Bradbury quote:

The best hygiene for beginning writers or intermediate writers is to write a hell of a lot of short stories. If you can write one short story a week—it doesn’t matter what the quality is to start, but at least you’re practicing, and at the end of the year you have 52 short stories, and I defy you to write 52 bad ones. Can’t be done. At the end of 30 weeks or 40 weeks or at the end of the year, all of a sudden a story will come that’s just wonderful.

So far I’ve only got half of one 'cause it’s the first week of January, but I’m going to see how far I can get with it.

I’m just getting started on a biography of P.G. Wodehouse. Not bad so far!

I was the same, I didn’t really see the point of them until I tried out my sister’s eBook reader. Then I was sold!

Also, while I still prefer physical books, I can’t deny that it’s nice to just be able to carry my entire library around in a bag.

The North Korea section of the book was so creepy, I still think about that from time to time.

“There’s no greys, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”

“It’s a lot more complicated than that -”

"No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”

Yeah me too! November 1st I sit down and every idea leaves my brain immediately lol

I’m working my way through Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes because I’m on a kind of Neanderthal thing lately lol.

I was thinking of trying that (again lol) this year, so that would be really handy!

I own it but haven’t read it yet, but apparently Edith Grossman’s translation of Don Quixote is supposed to be great. Also I just learned she died a couple of weeks ago, RIP.

I made an account on Bookwyrm and I’m for sure going to use it, I just need to actually get all my books logged on there first so I have to wait until I’ve got more free time.

For the show, the beginning of the 2005 revival is probably a good place to start! The first couple of seasons are probably a bit dated now but still good, and they treat it as kind of a soft reboot because it had had been off the air for ~15 years at that point so it’s designed for new viewers to drop in without having to know all the backstory and stuff.

As for the books I have no idea lol. There are quite a lot of those IIRC.

I am convinced that there’s not a book written that can’t be improved by the addition of a Sassy Robot Sidekick.

Doctor Who is good for the second one too, that’s basically the Doctor’s whole deal that they never carry a weapon and just try to talk their way through everything. Although they will fuck someone up if they get pushed too far lol.

I really like Homage To Catalonia, it might actually be my favourite Orwell book.

Also most Bill Bryson books. I read One Summer, America, 1927 recently and really enjoyed it, but A Short History Of Nearly Everything and At Home were also highlights.

Good for them. They’ve been there for over 450 years, it should be on the Olympics to work around them IMO.

I might have a similar situation coming up, but I think what I’m going to do is essentially just get rid of most of my books and then try to re-acquire them at the other end of the move. Apart from a few specific ones where the physical book itself is important, like a couple of signed copies I have and some well-worn ones that I’ve had forever.

I’m also working on cataloging everything in BookWyrm so I can keep track of what needs replacing. Bit of a pain but I just don’t think I can physically transport that many books.

Met too! I still haven’t found a really good community for Doctor Who stuff on Lemmy yet, there are a few but they’re a bit sparse at the moment.

Hello, RandomDent here! Don’t want to give out too much personal info, but I read a lot and am trying to write things I don’t hate, so far unsuccessfully lol.