A new release of #ChronoWars is out!

Read it at https://infinitenoveltranslations.net/records-of-chronos-wars-volume-6-chapter-1-new-territory-part-9/ for free!

Enjoy~

Astrid perked up. All this time she'd thought she was having a catastrophic mental breakdown. Now that she knew it was a _perfectly normal_ catastrophic mental breakdown, she could cope.

(Andrew Cownden. _Astrid Falls_. Tellwell, 2024, p. 24.)

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Today In Labor History April 4, 1866: Russian revolutionary, Dmitry Karakozov attempted to assassinate Czar Alexander II. He failed and the government executed him. Some believe that Karakozov chose the year 1866, since that was the year in which a character in Chernyshevsky’s “What Is To Be Done?” planned to launch a revolution. In the book, the protagonist, Vera Pavlovna, escapes a controlling family, and an arranged marriage, to start a socialist cooperative and a truly egalitarian romantic partnership. She starts a seamstress commune, with shared living quarters, profit-sharing and an on-site school to further the women’s education. Chernyshevsky wrote the novel in response to Turgenev’s “Fathers and Sons.” He wrote the book while imprisoned in the Peter and Paul fortress. The book inspired generations of Russian radicals, including the nihilists, anarchists and even many Marxists.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #nihilism #anarchism #communism #chernyshevsky #russia #novel #fiction #Revolutionary #commune #socialism #books #fiction #author #writer @bookstadon

The Fall of the Romance Empire – John Samson #Preview #Novel #Humour https://tslbooks.uk/the-fall-of-the-romance-empire-john-samson

Last week was pretty solid on the #reading #goal but things are gonna take a hit with me going vacation starting to.orrow. I am bringing a #novel and one #manga bit no loppies #comicbooks and I dont expect to be reading much except during transit.

"It took Howard Langer two years from his first serious attempt at #writing — 60 pages longhand in pencil — to complete what would become “The Last Dekrepitzer.” It took almost two more years for the 74-year-old to find an agent and #publisher.

“I was 70 and I wanted to #write my whole life, and so I said to myself, ‘You know, if you don’t start now it’s not going to happen.’ So I sat down the next morning and began,” said Langer, a Philadelphia attorney who also teaches at the University of Pennsylvania’s Carey Law School.

Langer’s debut #novel about a fiddling #Hasidic #rabbi won the 2024 National #Jewish #Book Award and was shortlisted for The Athenaeum of Philadelphia’s 2024 #Literary Award.

“I was stunned when I received the call telling me of the award,” Langer said."

https://www.timesofisrael.com/fiddling-with-writing-lawyer-pens-award-winning-book-about-busking-rabbi-in-nyc/

Today in Labor History April 2, 1840: Émile Zola, French novelist, playwright, journalist was born. He was also a liberal activist, playing a significant role in the political liberalization of France, and in the exoneration of Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish army officer falsely convicted and imprisoned on trumped up, antisemitic charges of espionage. He was also a significant influence on mid-20th century journalist-authors, like Thom Wolfe, Truman Capote, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer and Joan Didion. Wolfe said that his goal in writing fiction was to document contemporary society in the tradition of Steinbeck, Dickens, and Zola.

Zola wrote dozens of novels, but his most famous, Germinal, about a violently repressed coalminers’ strike, is one of the greatest books ever written about working class rebellion. It had a huge influence on future radicals, especially anarchists. Some anarchists named their children Germinal. Rudolf Rocker had a Yiddish-language anarchist journal in London called Germinal, in the 1910s. There were also anarchist papers called Germinal in Mexico and Brazil in the 1910s.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #zola #germinal #anarchism #writer #fiction #strike #dreyfus #antisemitism #rebellion #novel #author #books #france #mining #coal #journalism @bookstadon

You have to lead up to a question like that slowly, over a period of 20-50 years

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Pues esto es muy entretenido

still reading 梨, now finished 自由慄
I finished it so fast because it turns out to be extremely short
it has a particular format which does make sense but that has the end result of most pages having just a few lines of text
it's not quite as short as 口に関するアンケート but it's not terribly longer either
as for the story, I still need to think it more
I did get a couple of the ideas but I really need to reread it
which is not that hard because, again, short
#novel #horror #nashi

<<La primera medida de todo poder autoritario es hacerle la vida imposible a los porqués.>>

Manuel Rivas.

Chapter 4 of the story I'm writing is live. Where will Mila end up this week? Can she finally find a safe place to rest and start figuring out what to do?

#thelastapprentice #fantasy #webnovel #novel #story #writing #creativewriting #narrative

https://churapereviews.com/2025/03/31/the-last-apprentice-chapter-4/

AMBITIOUS VAMPIRE NOVEL combines a centuries-long vendetta, a Jewish family saga, and the humor and contemporary detail of a cozy romantasy. Well crafted and written, but not exactly my cup of tea; might be yours, though. SOLID B

https://books2read.com/immortalgifts

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To help readers get to know Janice Deal, author of the novel THE BLUE DOOR (coming on April 22), we asked her to name 8 things she loves. Here are the first two - as quirky as we'd expect from Jan.
#indieauthor #novel #booklover

"Gershom Scholem brought kabbalism from the shadows into the lamplight of scholarship. He is the real-life protagonist in Steve Stern’s #novel, A Fool’s Kabbalah; Menke Klepfisch is the novel’s fictional protagonist, and they make an odd pairing. Scholem is traveling #postwar #Europe in search of looted #Jewish #books while, several years earlier, Klepfisch lives in a #Polish #shtetl, a holy fool who finds himself entertaining #Nazi occupiers with his antics."

https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/books/a-fool%E2%80%99s-kabbalah-by-steve-stern/

Sharing my March reading list! Work picked up and it's been getting warmer (meaning more time outside) so I've been reading a little less. I managed to get through:

Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds
Those Beyond the Wall - Micaiah Johnson
Careless People - Sarah Wynn-Williams

Obviously one of these is not like the others! Of the two sci-fi novels, Those Beyond the Wall is easily my favorite. Gritty and dystopian, it felt very Mad Max-esque. Revelation Space was also great, but not quite to my taste. It dragged on a bit in places but also jumped between characters just a tad too quickly. Still a solid story and very interesting settings and characters though.

Careless People, of course, is a factual dystopian story, which is, uh, not ideal. I've never worked for Facebook (and in fact have turned down job offers from them) but I *still* feel dirty just for being in an adjacent industry. Chilling stuff.

https://tinjar.ghost.io/welcome-to-a-new-solarpunk-novel-a-new-faith/