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[Anduin]

3 hours ago, sugarbaker design said:

Read the same three.  The Stand is way better than It.  Isn't TLOTR considered three different novels?

It was originally meant to be one volume, and still sometimes published that way.

[proserpina65]

On 1/3/2025 at 10:57 PM, DearEvette said:

Heh I've read so many on that list.  The thing is, while some of those books are long, they really move. You are carried along on the story and they really are over before you know it.  I remember thinking a 200 page book I read just dragged, but Words of Radiance  by Brandon Sanderson all 1100 pages flew by.

Yeah.  A Storm of Swords was long, but I had trouble putting it down long enough to sleep or go to work.  A Dance with Dragons, however, ugh.  So much of that book dragged that I almost wish GRRM hadn't finished it.

[atomic]

Julianne Moore's children's book Freckleface Strawberry has been banned from schools operated by the Defense Department. Apparently the idea of a girl learning to love herself is horrifying these days.

https://deadline.com/2025/02/julianne-moore-shock-trump-banned-childrens-book-1236292077/

[Annber03]

This decision coming from the same sorts of people who whine about "cancel culture". Amazing. 

 

[andromeda331]

Of course it was. Clearly a girl learning to love herself is somehow offensive or something. It's so stupid.

[ProudMary]

I wasn't sure where to put this or if it was being discussed elsewhere, but  anyone who downloads purchased Kindle books to their computer for permanent access should know that effective February 26th, Amazon will be removing that option. I watched this video which explains what's happening very well. (Video Length: 6:51)

Amazon's Changing the Way You Own Your Kindle Books

 

[andromeda331]

2 hours ago, ProudMary said:

I wasn't sure where to put this or if it was being discussed elsewhere, but  anyone who downloads purchased Kindle books to their computer for permanent access should know that effective February 26th, Amazon will be removing that option. I watched this video which explains what's happening very well. (Video Length: 6:51)

Amazon's Changing the Way You Own Your Kindle Books

 

Oh, that's really bad for me. I read download all my kindle books and read them on the computer. It's much easier for me and easier to read since I can make the screen much bigger then I can on a kindle.