BOOKS! Will happily honk on (and on) about the classics, as well as contemporary, LGBTQ+, murder mystery, memoir, biography, and non-fiction genres. GAMES! Into old-style classic point & click adventures, puzzle games, visual novels, walking sims. WRITING! I worked with the game developers Frogwares for many years on their long-running series of Sherlock Holmes adventures. OTHER STUFF! Very much into twisty puzzles (cubing) and Tamagotchi. Vegan for 10+ yrs.
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Last Notes npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy OK, Albert Entwistle, get the heck outta here; you were rottenly written, dreadfully dialogued, and utterly unbelievable. Now it's all up to Vita Sackville-West to put things right, with her 1931 novel, All Passion Spent. Sackville-West was a hugely popular writer in her day, but is rarely read or even discussed in the present (outside of her much-mulled-over love affairs with Violet Trefusis and Virginia Woolf). #reading #books #bookstodon npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy Recommend to me your favourite books that have THE greatest plot twists! I'm talking about plot twists that made you gasp, made your jaw drop, made you stare off into the middle distance for an hour. Here's two of my own favourites: 🔀 The Man From Primrose Lane by James Renner 🔀 Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane I wish I could read both of those again for the first time, and be stunned all over again. #reading #books #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57 npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy I'm a day late in remembering the writer William Burroughs, b1914, d1997 on 2nd August at 83. I discovered his work (by way of Queer) in 1987 when I was 17 years old. Burroughs somehow connected with me where other writers failed to. He had an extraordinary wild and dark humour, and a sharp vision of the world and its overwhelming BS. I haven't read him in a couple of years and need to rectify that. #reading #books #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57 https://bookstodon-files.web.thunderhost.net/media_attachments/files/114/964/123/412/722/308/original/709ad456d91a7116.jpg npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy About to begin a most fascinating book: Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World's Strangest Brains by Helen Thompson. A non-fiction work about how wacky our grey matter can be. The back of the book says: "Imagine... Being permanently lost / seeing auras / never forgetting a moment / an endless hallucination / switching personalities / becoming unreal / feeling other people's pain / waking up dead / turning into a tiger." I'm intrigued! 🧠 #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57 https://bookstodon-files.web.thunderhost.net/media_attachments/files/114/863/240/510/675/075/original/3804f3524b066107.jpg npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy Update on Five Weeks In a Balloon by Jules Verne, which I'm almost done with (70pp left). The writing's engaging, & the situations interesting. The characters, well, uh. The doctor's ok; the "sportsman" companion is a trigger-happy dickhead, & the young assistant is annoyingly chirpy -- or was. Spoiler. I'm enjoying it enough to give it a *** out of *****. Don't see that changing. This isn't the most popular of Verne's works, so I'm still excited to read his later novels. @npub1ny7…uv57 npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy It's up, up and away with my new read, Five Weeks In a Balloon by Jules Verne, the first in a seven book box set (I'm reading my way through chronologically). Written in 1863, it "describes the journey undertaken by three British gentlemen across the continent of Africa, from Zanzibar to the French settlement near the Senegal river". Adventure time! 🌍 #books #reading #bookstodon #SciFi @npub1ny7…uv57 https://bookstodon-files.web.thunderhost.net/media_attachments/files/114/772/534/717/552/375/original/70edc9dc21b326a2.jpg npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy I have an absolute and sudden craving to read everything by Jules Verne. 🌍 #reading #books npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy Book haul! I guess I'm on a Jeanette Winterson kick right now. I'll be starting her memoir as soon as I finish Howards End (which I'm halfway through and having a GLORIOUS time with). #reading #books #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57 https://bookstodon-files.web.thunderhost.net/media_attachments/files/114/568/569/378/854/308/original/00a8ed8e92c469b4.jpeg npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy Oh I've heard of that, but not read it. I think I did look for it at one time, but couldn't find it in print. I'll have another forage. Thank you! npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy There's something about E.M. Forster's writing that makes me want to read him in the springtime. I read and enjoyed A Room With a View a few weeks ago, and am now about to start on Howards End, the last of the unread Forsters on my bookshelf. I think Howards End might be his most popular novel? (No, I just checked, and apparently that's A Passage to India -- which bored the life out of me when I read it years ago, ugh!). #reading #books #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57 npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy Just finished reading Virginia Woolf's short story collection, and I stand by my earlier thought that Woolf's endings are too abrupt and anticlimactic. Left with a feeling of HUH? Next up: A Room With a View by E.M. Forster. Perfect reading for the long holiday weekend! #books #reading #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57 npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy Have been whizzing through books this past week! Now about to dive into The Collected Short Stories of Virginia Woolf. If the stories are anywhere near as good as the font is massive (and it's startlingly massive), I'm in for a treat. 😅 #reading #books #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57 npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy I rather enjoyed Birthday by Meredith Russo, it's a popular one I think, so you may have already read it/heard of it.