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Exploding-heads appear to be back again with an allowlist instance, preemptively defederated. by robertoqs in c/meta@literature.cafe

[-] robertoqs@literature.cafe 5 points 9 months ago

Thank you for your essential work on maintaining literature.cafe's hygiene.

What are you reading/listening to this week? (January 12th, 2023) by robertoqs in c/chat@literature.cafe

[-] robertoqs@literature.cafe 4 points 10 months ago

This week I started reading Ursula K. Le Guin's Rocannon's World (1966). I had previously read The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (1973), and the The Dispossessed (1974) is in progress.

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Now I'm crossposting from Lemmy to Mastodon, by tagging myself, @robertoqs@writing.exchange. Lemmy's “Title” field produces, conversely, an initial separated line in the resulting toot.

Edit: But only a link to Lemmy is displayed in said toot, and not the post's “Body” field.

What do you normally do when you're listening to an audiobook? by robertoqs in c/audiobooks@literature.cafe

[-] robertoqs@literature.cafe 1 points 1 year ago

Besides the advent of the world wide web, I've always supposed the proliferation of audiobooks and podcasts has had a fundamental link with the proliferation of traffic jams.

What do you normally do when you're listening to an audiobook? by robertoqs in c/audiobooks@literature.cafe

[-] robertoqs@literature.cafe 2 points 1 year ago

I've never been much of an audiobook listener. However, the few ones I've listened to I've enjoyed very much. Excellent narration, excellent voice acting. I used to play them while cooking, and then while eating what I had just cooked. Then if I was drinking wine with the food, the experience continued, extending into the horizons of my imagination.

What's a book you read in school that you actually enjoyed quite a lot? by robertoqs in c/fiction@literature.cafe

[-] robertoqs@literature.cafe 2 points 1 year ago

The Odyssey.