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Loved this. Some great discussion of outsider artmaking, earnest weirdos, and subjectivity in marked judgements of what makes something 'good' or 'bad'. Whose criteria are you gonna live by? Someone else's, quietly? Or your own--with flying saucer attacks?

Ed Wood - Made in Hollywood USA by Will Sloan
@bookamatic.bsky.socialtag:booksky

#BookChallenge for September:

Books I’ve discovered through BlueSky because their authors were brave enough to promote them.

Let’s boost our favourites!

12/ Villager by Tom Cox

@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social new book, Curious Events Lately Occurring In This Neighbourhood is also out now.

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Paperback edition of Villager by Tom Cox
@rossbrooks.co.uktag:booksky

DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE . . . THE MOVIE!

One of the less lovely things about publishing a book is the amount of AI-generated spam one receives. I've had several offers to turn Queer Origins into a film. This one even came with a script! 🌈📚🎞️🦋

#books #booksky #reading #writing #authors

Screenshot from email. It reads: "Hi Ross, What immediately stood out to me about *Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life* is the tension between the neat, familiar story of sex in nature and the much stranger reality your research uncovers. The image of Darwin and Linnaeus encountering hermaphroditic slugs, sex-changing birds, male pigeons producing milk, pregnant seahorses, and bisexual pigs gives the book an unusually compelling visual question: what happens when nature refuses to behave according to the categories we expect it to? That gave me an idea for a short cinematic piece built around the moment those assumptions begin to break apart."Screenshot of email: "**Here’s the vision:** Black screen. **“We think we know how sex works in nature.”** A Victorian naturalist's notebook opens. Male bird displaying. Female watching. A neat illustration of courtship. **MALE. FEMALE. COURTSHIP.** Everything looks orderly. Then the page turns. A hermaphroditic slug. A bird changing sex."Screenshot from email. It reads "A male seahorse carrying eggs. A male pigeon feeding its young. A pig. Another page. The neat categories begin to disappear. The sound of pen scratching across paper becomes faster. **“But nature was never this simple.”** Darwin studies an illustration. Linnaeus turns a page. Cabinets of specimens. Botanical drawings. Animal skeletons."Screenshot from email. It reads: "Handwritten observations. And everywhere, examples that refuse to fit the conventional picture. Then the screen goes completely black. **SEX.** Pause. **GENDER.** Pause. **NATURE.** Then: **“What if evolution was always stranger than the story we were told?”** The imagery shifts from Victorian illustrations into modern scientific footage and back again, connecting the observations of nineteenth-century naturalists to the much larger question your book raises about how science has understood sex and sexuality. And finally: **“Nature has never been as tidy as we imagined.”** *Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life* I think that could capture what makes your book so intriguing without reducing it to a simple “history of sex.” It puts the reader inside the discovery itself, where every new observation challenges an assumption they thought they understood."
@amandajames.bsky.socialtag:booksky

Come to Cornwall this #weekend and discover the secrets of Lucy's library! ❤🥰😍

NOW just #99p/99c!!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Such a brilliant book, I didn’t want it to end. Made me feel a lot better and certainly got me thinking. Loved every page!

#booksky #mustread #readingcommunity

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@buchanan.todaytag:booksky

I’ve managed to get two-thirds of the way through the glossary revisions for my #WIP, so it’s time for a break, a pint, and a few pages of someone else’s work. #BookSky

@tmgreen.uktag:booksky

Cold coffee. Numb feet. The hiss of a surveillance radio. Three weeks watching a bookshop on the Lower East Side, waiting for nothing to happen. But in the frequency of silence, everything is recorded.

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#TheLamarrLegacy #ColdWarThriller #HistFic #IndieAuthor #BookSky

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@glawrence.bsky.socialtag:booksky

#NewRelease!

Alexandria, Egypt, 51 BCE.

Cleopatra has ascended the throne of Egypt.

As her reign unfold, mistakes cost the young Queen dearly, leading to mortal peril, flight... & civil war

Descendants of the Gods
$4.99 or #Free #KindleUnlimited!

#Ancient #histfic #booksky 📚💙
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@ech0reads.bsky.socialtag:booksky

Saw this petition on threads and wanted to share - its currently at 257 signatures out of a goal of 500.

Please sign and share to keep AI slop out of the book community!

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