Jarulf

I work in a used books shop and read mostly Science fiction and fantasy, but not exclusively.
I game a bit, but wouldn't call myself a gamer. Interested, but not very knowledgeable about walkability, the open social web and rewilding #fedi22 #manga #books #Bookstodon #Urbanism #Cities #Walkability #Rewilding #Ttrpg #RuneQuest #RQ #Glorantha

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2026-04-12 19:10:11 UTC

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let's hope Magyar will be an improvement

2026-04-10 04:59:15 UTC

I'm probably going on a minor shopping spree tomorrow, any recent(-ish) fantasy books I should take a look at?
#Fantasy #Books #Bookstodon @npub1q60…kp90

2026-02-14 17:01:10 UTC

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tog bort mitt konto häromdagen. Inte för att jag använde det så ofta, så det var ingen stor sak för mig.

2025-09-05 04:21:22 UTC

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It varies a bit, but definitely more than 20. For a normal year I probably land somewhere between 50 and 60, but it can vary quite a bit, both up and down.
This has been a slow year, currently at 28.
I also read mostly Science Fiction and Fantasy.

2025-09-04 09:43:07 UTC

@npub1ny7…uv57
Reading Godkiller by Hannah Kaner and enjoying myself thoroughly. I've been in a reading slump for a while, but this book seems to have pulled me out of it.
Intriguing world building, without describing everything in exhausting detail, revealing more as needed. The main characters are all described well, interesting, and not one-sided, as are the conflicts.
About halfway through now. And I haven't a clue how this will end.
#bookstodon #GodKiller #HannahKaner

2025-08-21 12:37:05 UTC

#Surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #Google #Amazon #Apple
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2025-07-17 19:58:22 UTC

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I really enjoyed how different the various characters sounded, from Peter, to Nightingale to the river goddesses and so on.

2025-07-17 19:53:02 UTC

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I have several of them as audiobooks, the narrator, Holdbrook-Smith is fantastic imo (to my Swedish ears any rate). But I also have a lot of them as ebooks and the later ones as hardbacks.
I agree they are fun and not particularly heavy, but not shallow. It's a fun mix of urban fantasy and police procedural.

2025-07-17 19:27:08 UTC

@npub1ny7…uv57 Yesterday I read Winter's Gifts, and today The Masquerades of Spring by Ben Aaronovitch, novellas in the Rivers of London series, though both are set in the US. Very different books, but both enjoyable, though I liked Masquerades best.
I also got Stone & Sky, a full length novel, but I'll probably squeeze something else in first, so I don't overdose on Aaronovitch.
These are always fun reads (or listens, as the case may be).
#RiversOfLondon #BenAaronovitch #PeterGrant #Bookstodon

2025-07-03 21:02:17 UTC

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I've never smoked in the sense of having a habit. I've certainly tried a few times in my younger days, which I assume doesn't count.

2025-06-16 18:18:41 UTC

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shame that my brand new copy is already falling apart though.
Let's see if the shop will send me a new one.

2025-06-16 18:09:30 UTC

@npub1ny7…uv57 The girl from H.O.P.P.E.R.S, the second Jaime book in the Love and Rockets library. This is pretty much where the stories about Maggie and Hopey start properly, with the arrival of Ray, the Death of Speedy, Hopey's tour with the band, pregnancies and the utterly haunting and tragic Flies on the Ceiling.
These are stories I've already read more than a few times, though there were a couple of short ones I don't remember or have missed, but they are fantastic.
#LoveAndRockets #Comics

2025-06-09 13:34:18 UTC

@npub1ny7…uv57
I'm continuing my recently started project of slowly catching up to where Love and Rockets is today. I'm halfway through Heartbreak Soup and really enjoying it, much more so than when I read it the first time in the 80s. I always preferred Jaime's work then, I found Beto confusing and didn't enjoy his art style that much.
I've clearly changed my mind about this because this is really good.
#Comics #LoveAndRockets #GilbertHernandez

2025-05-30 17:46:59 UTC

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Yup. Written on the Dark by Guy Gavriel Kay. Good but not his best, I have maybe the last quarter or so left.

2025-05-30 06:34:53 UTC

@npub1ny7…uv57 I've been watching some YouTube videos talking about the Kobo Libra Colour (many of them also being very critical of Amazon). They are full of Amazon ads.
Not a big revelation or surprising or anything, I was just amused.
#ereader #kobo #kindle #eBooks #Amazon

2025-05-28 18:51:30 UTC

@npub1ny7…uv57
60 pages in, I'm really enjoying Written on the Dark, Guy Gavriel Kay's new book.
GGK never disappoints, he is always a treat and joy to read.
#GuyGavrielKay #WrittenOnTheDark #AmReading #bookstodon

2025-05-22 16:24:43 UTC

@npub1ny7…uv57 Oh. Oh yes. I got a mail from a book store today that the new book by Guy Gavriel Kay, Written on the Dark was available to order. It didn't take me long.
#GuyGavrielKay #SFF #Fantasy #bookstodon

2025-05-19 19:56:54 UTC

@npub1ny7…uv57 In the 80s I discovered Love and Rockets by the Hernandez brothers. And fell in love.
While it's been an on/off kind of relationship we're getting back together now.
I have a lot of the comics, but I've decided to pick up the trades and am in the middle of Maggie the Mechanic. The first few stories are fun, even if they don't all fit comfortably with what comes later, but you see how quickly Jaime develops as both artist and writer.
#LoveAndRocketsComic #Fantagraphics #Comics

2025-04-22 07:42:46 UTC

@npub1ny7…uv57 About two thirds of the way in Kuang's Babel, and it's so good.
Though a word in Swedish looked a little odd.

2025-04-21 11:11:09 UTC

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you know, you may be right. While I'm not a huge fan of cynicism, Second Saviour looks fun.
Bought.

2025-04-21 07:35:11 UTC

Dear @npub1ny7…uv57 people, I'm currently reading Kuang's Babel and really enjoying it. But after watching a bit of a rant on YouTube about much of modern fantasy books, I thought I'd look for some independent SFF authors to read.
What I think I'm in the mood for is low fantasy, realistic characters, no love triangles or too obvious political discussions (about our current situation), so basically escapism. Maybe something that feels more 70s to 90s, if that makes sense.
#sff #Reading #Books

2025-04-19 21:06:32 UTC

@npub1ny7…uv57
I just got around to reading Babel by Kuang, and while I haven't gotten too far yet, I'm already liking it a lot. (They've only just arrived in Oxford and been given a tour of Babel itself)
#bookstodon #Reading #sffbooks

2025-04-05 18:46:01 UTC

I'm sure I'm not the only EU citizen wishing all Americans who are out on the streets today a better future. Fighting for not just your own democracy but for all of the rest of us too.
Thank you.
Stay safe!
#USpol #HandsOff #Democracy

2025-03-04 21:54:49 UTC

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exactly what I did too, only get spam in Gmail account now.

2025-02-23 07:23:44 UTC

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P. D. James. I've read many of her crime novels, but put this one off for some reason.

2025-02-23 07:21:37 UTC

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I've read Seveneves, or listened to it actually, and it was pretty good. Though I tend to miss things with audiobooks, and remember them less well after. Guess my mind wanders a little.

2025-02-22 17:03:16 UTC

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thanks, that's definitely something I might want to check out.

2025-02-22 12:21:10 UTC

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my side table is starting to creak a little under the strain of heavy literature, but I thank you.
This book is one I was vaguely aware of, but yet another writer I never got around to read, and now you leave me with no excuse to put it off much longer. That's a good thing.

2025-02-22 10:13:32 UTC

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I'm surprised no one has suggested Greybeard by Aldiss yet. I read it couple of years ago.

2025-02-22 08:47:05 UTC

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I've read some stuff by Gaiman, both graphic novels and regular novels, and he's been someone I've always respected, even if I haven't enjoyed everything he's done. For many, he has apparently been very important so this probably feels like a personal betrayal of sorts. Need I even mention Rowling for another kind of betrayal felt by many?
For me Zimmer Bradley was the worst one, both due to the alleged acts themselves and because I really enjoyed a lot of her books.

2025-02-22 08:29:57 UTC

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Gaiman, of course is a recent one. Arthur C Clarke, and Marion Zimmer Bradley are others. It's an impossible question, can we separate the artist from their art? Can we laud the art and condemn the artist?
Whatever the truth of allegations like these, they will inevitably change how we relate to the author and their books though.
But I should me some Heinlein again.

2025-02-22 08:06:54 UTC

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I've read many, or at least several, of his classic novels like Stranger in a Strange Land, Starship Troopers, Glory Road etc. The one I had problems with involved a young woman/girl who had a medical examination by her father. It was uncomfortable and gave me 'dirty old man' vibes.This was probably in the 80's. I may not have given the book a fair chance.
I've probably read something since, but I guess it would have been more of his earlier work.

2025-02-22 07:28:27 UTC

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I loved Heinlein when I was a kid, Citizen of the Galaxy and Double Star I reread several times. First in Swedish and then as I got older in English.
I've read a lot more, of course, but then I started one that icked me out, and I stopped reading him.

2025-02-22 07:22:00 UTC

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Since I haven't read either yet, I can't really comment. Both are on my list now.

2025-02-22 07:16:05 UTC

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I'm amused by the fact someone named Walker has written about running. There's also a children's author named Speed who wrote about racing cars. It's silly, but I kind of like stuff like that.
But now I'm off-topic in my own thread.

2025-02-21 21:03:48 UTC

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I'm not really aiming for fun and cozy times when I ask for postapoc books, so that's fine. 😃
I read Station Eleven a few years ago, and liked it a lot.
I hadn't heard of the others though, so do thanks for that.

2025-02-21 20:04:31 UTC

@npub1ny7…uv57 It appears I want the world to end.
I recently finished #EarthAbides and have ordered #TheDeathOfGrass and have #ACanticleForLeibowitz on my TBR, though I don't own a copy yet. #TheLongTomorrow by #LeighBrackett sounds interesting too, but what else might interest me?
It's Payday next week...
#SFF #PostApoc

2025-02-19 20:04:46 UTC

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ooooh, that's a really tough one.
Can't really decide. Depends on where it hit, I guess. I have some suggestions

2025-02-18 20:33:35 UTC

@npub1ny7…uv57 I just finished #EarthAbides and am now rereading #YokohamaKaidashiKikou. Both are #postapocalyptic but couldn't be more different. I love #YKK it's such a sweet story, and amazing art.
#Bookstodon #Reading #Manga

2025-02-18 05:44:21 UTC

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it is a well-known fact, that an empty space is in need of a bookcase.

2025-02-17 19:02:36 UTC

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this sounds like something I might be interested in, thanks for the review. Going in my TBR pile

2025-02-15 19:05:24 UTC

[@Da_Gut](https://dice.camp/@Da_Gut ) @npub1ny7…uv57 Heh, absolutely.
Oh, I forgot completely about A Canticle for Leibowitz. I've been wanting to get that, but I just ordered a few other books and am not allowed to spend more right now, according to my wallet (it's very opinionated and a bit of a spoilsport).
Next month perhaps.

2025-02-15 16:55:28 UTC

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I can imagine it must have been. I hadn't heard of it until relatively recently, maybe a couple of years ago or so. And soon after it came in at the used book shop where I work. Clearly a sign it wanted me to read it! It languished on my shelf for a bit though, until I started reading it a month or two ago.
I absolutely agree that the themes still resonate.
Also, no zombies or weird mutants.

2025-02-15 15:56:57 UTC

@npub1ny7…uv57
After a break reading other stuff I picked up @EarthAbides again, and am about halfway in. It really shows it is one the first novels exploring a @postapoc setting, and not written after decades of fiction, movies and TV-series have made a lot of us familiar with the topic, even if we aren't preppers. The contrast is interesting.
It was first published 75 years ago, so some language and views are very dated, but with that in mind, I'm really enjoying the book.
#Bookstodon #Reading

2025-02-12 19:13:10 UTC

@npub1ny7…uv57
I'm re-reading A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay, one of my favourite writers.
It's such a beautiful book, interesting, lovely almost deceptively simple language.
I don't want it to end, but I can't put it down.

2025-02-11 18:15:22 UTC

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some additional trivia from Sweden. As a kid in the seventies I had a single copy of a large format issue of Shang-Chi Master of karate. Yup, karate.
I thought it was really cool. It was a different issue to the one below though.
https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/113/986/598/499/589/553/original/4caa9d14307b1634.jpg

2025-01-25 07:29:06 UTC

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Ah, blir det på tyska då eller tar de emot bidrag på engelska med? Min tyska är.. rudimentär vore en komplimang.

2025-01-25 07:25:36 UTC

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Det låter ju jättespännande. Kul!
Jag är "intresserad allmänhet". Hur/var kommer undersökningen att publiceras?

2025-01-25 07:15:02 UTC

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Kul, vad är det ni undersöker?

2025-01-25 07:12:03 UTC

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Det är ju bara en liten bit från Lund, och där finns det visst lite arkeologi har jag hört... Mina föräldrar började som arkeologer (I Lund) och syrran är det. På jobbet hade vi förresten i veckan besök av Anders Ödman.

2025-01-25 07:07:52 UTC

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Haha. 🙂 Trots ryktet är stan rätt ok, faktiskt. Vi har ett jättekul Leksaksmuseum alla borde besöka.

2025-01-25 07:00:42 UTC

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God morgon från Eslöv.
Working my way slowly through my Bookwyrm books and correcting their entries. Then I'm off to my actual work.

2025-01-23 19:56:28 UTC

It's great to see that the #Pixelfed #Kickstarter is going well, I'm sure the money will be put to good use.
But I'd love to see #Bookwyrm get more attention too. I've no idea how much they get each month, or how many developers are involved, but I'm sure they would be happy to have more of both.
I'll end my sub to The Storygraph and start supporting Bookwyrm at the end of the month, but it'll be a small drop in a vast ocean.
Edit: no I won't. I'll support both.
@npub1glt…aq0j
@npub1ny7…uv57

2025-01-22 21:55:44 UTC

@npub1ny7…uv57
Some books are in a hurry, they push you along. They pull on you and shout "Come, come see!"
And when they are there, when you are done and close the final page, they're already gone, skipping ahead to see what's next
Some books are slow, they take their time, and don't mind if left alone a while. They take up room, a welcome lodger, unforseen that only slowly steps away.
Both are fine, the impatient and the slow, different kinds of friends for different kinds of moods.
#Books

2025-01-17 20:56:10 UTC

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you too.

2025-01-16 15:40:09 UTC

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Right, I should probably have mentioned that.
https://f-droid.org/

2025-01-16 07:38:54 UTC

@npub1ny7…uv57
TIL that there is an android app for #Bookwyrm (on #Fdroid).
I've had an account on bookrastinating.com for a couple of years, but after signing up and importing my books from #TheStoryGraph it hasn't seen much use.
I intended to give it some love a few months agy, but then #InternetArchive and #OpenLibrary got hit with that attack.
But I think that's been resolved now, and the android app will make things a little easier too, so I don't really have any excuses anymore do I?

2025-01-15 22:27:39 UTC

#HumbleBundle #TerryMoore #SiP #StrangersInParadise #GraphicNovel #Comics
#Reading
@npub1ny7…uv57
I've had four of the old paperbacks, vol 2-5 of Strangers in Paradise for years, but lacking the first one I never read them. So when I saw that Humble Bundle had everything by Terry Moore, I couldn't resist, even if I'd promised myself I should by anything more in January.
I'm halfway through the second volume now and really enjoying it.
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/ultimate-terry-moore-collection-abstract-studios-tbc-books-encore

2025-01-14 10:26:11 UTC

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I do track what I read, but I've stopped doing any sort of challenge and I don't rate the books. It's just a record of my reading and occasionally useful if I need to refresh my memory about a book or author. The stats and pretty graphs of my habits are fun to glance at, but unimportant.
I read for pleasure, to relax, to escape and not specifically for self-improvement, though hopefully that can sometimes be a side benefit.
I don't want my reading to become a chore.

2024-11-22 17:05:53 UTC

På väg hem #snow #Winter
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2024-10-19 14:49:35 UTC

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adorable. Who could resist that look?

2024-10-14 12:43:18 UTC

I'm trying to convince myself that I need some sort of voice assistant, smart screen thingy. I have a 1st gen Google nest hub, used as a timer in the kitchen and for listening to the radio. Bought before I de-googled my life.
So I want to do that, but also use with my picore player and IKEA trådfri lights.
I'm not technical, I don't know how to solder or code, but my thumbs are in the right places, mostly. Suggestions?
#HomeAssistant #HomeLab #PiCorePlayer #Linux #Rpi #RaspberryPi #FOSS

2024-09-02 12:46:47 UTC

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I don't work on Mondays, so I'm currently on my bed reading (and glancing occasionally at my phone)