I will never not be sad that Tamora Pierce had planned extra books in the Circle of Magic series, and her publisher wouldn’t pick them up. They’re all out of print now too. Do you know how many copies I could sell if I could order them into the bookstore!!!.

I did not know that. Damn. I wanted to read that one. Now I don’t really any more

Same.

Wrong call. This is about the rich not sharing.

Can't think of a better way to encourage piracy.

Carp! Keep fighting!

"Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" Mary Oliver: The Summer Day

but I first read it in Cheryl Strayed's Wild

"Under the Same Stars" by Rose Christo, the then-assumed author of the "My Immortal" fanfiction.

As someone who spent the entirety of my teenage years on Tumblr, I was incredibly excited to finally read the story behind the infamous fanfiction and the biography of the author.

Of course the entire thing was a hoax, and the book was canceled, but in the long-run it only added to the immeasurable infamy of "My Immortal".

To be honest I believe the issue is not with the book, but with the world, which have eroded and blemished the concepts of faith, self love and forgiveness, endurance, etc. So many books, movies, commercials, "self-help-professionals"(throws up in mouth a bit), ponzi schemes, etc. have chewed and spit out these themes so many times that they became stale.

Also I must add, Coelho was ahead in this as well, because in the book he actually subtly picks at the mythos of "will it to make it true", inclining to question these kinds of this.

They are price gouging libraries out of digital existence, which only means patrons and access will suffer. This is totally by design.

Sure my ebook budget will keep paying $120/shitty James Patterson title on OD Advantage (compared to the retail of $30/hardback or, really a wholesale rate of like, $19 or we). It’s a totally sustainable /s.

There was a huge to-do about some nonfiction book by the “it” guy of the moment about 10 years ago. I can’t remember the title or his name but he was paid an insane advance (this in the days of a dying print medium). Anyway, in the editing process - or maybe even after literary critics got advanced copies to write reviews on, it came out that he totally made up a quote he attributed to Bob Dylan. Out of thin air. This was before Dylan won the Nobel Prize, but come on, he’s been famous for 60 years, and specifically for his writing, and the internet exists, so these kinds of checks take about 5 minutes to complete. Anyone with internet access could have confirmed that Dylan never said whatever the author quoted him as saying. So that hit the news and it’s just not a cute look. At all. If you’re going to be faking Bob Dylan quotes, how likely are people going to be to buy your book about brainpower or the art of thinking or whatever?

I’m pretty sure it was cancelled immediately. And I think the guy had to return the advance. I’m not sorry about it. You don’t lie while presenting yourself as an authority, but even worse, you don’t f*ck with Bob Dylan.

I'll be honest, I hated the fucking book.

Like every single thing about it, I hated. I found the entire thing insipid and reductive, but I kept reading it because I had heard so much about it and kept hoping it would get better. For me, it didn't. I'm a cynical old broad, and books like that just don't work for me.

But that doesn't mean you can't love it or that you're wrong for loving it. I'm glad you can find inspiration and joy in it where I couldn't. Your reaction to the book makes you happy, and we could all use a little bit of happiness in our lives.

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I love it and probably because I didn't look for deep meaning from it. My biggest lesson from it was that sometimes what you're seeking is already with you and you don't have to look do hard to find it. A few phrases from it help to keep momentum when I feel low. For example, if you really want something, the universe conspires in your favour towards it, this keeps you working towards your dreams. I was a book nerd and I don't get time to read as much as I used to, but I loved Alchemist.

The Wheel of Time was ALMOST cancelled

Agree. If you enjoyed The Alchemist's themes about fate, determinism, life purpose, etc, then I'd recommend reading Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow next. It's a more nuanced and challenging perspective on those same concepts.

I mean, that may be true, but not because of this. Libraries pay for each copy of a book they lend.

Would this apply if book is out of print? There's no way to buy the book from the publisher and for the publisher/author to make money.

A neighbour of mine works for a publishing house, and they were working on a book about conspiracy theorists when COVID hit. They kept at it for a while, but decided to shelve it when QAnon stuff started making its way over here (Netherlands) and some Qultists started doing really extreme stuff.

I hope they still publish it at some point in the future, it sounded interesting, it was written by an anthropologist studying the ‘culture’ of conspiracy theorists.

I guess my days as a librarian are numbered.

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I don't think its just an accusation if he literally said them on a tv broadcast on the BBC and a podcast, and printed them in the Daily Telegraph. He also literally compared the Scottish National Party to the Nazis

This kills me. KILLS ME.

The thing about it is that I totally understand it. It starts off slow. The first book takes place over the course of one day and is really only about setting up who all the characters are and what their type of writing is like.

But damn, by the time book 5 ended, I was completely hooked. It was just long enough to set up the main plot line of the series and get you comfortable reading each character's writing. It's definitely something that would have probably turned off most mainstream audiences, but I just loved it.

I'm excited for his next book though. He's pretty far along the editing stages for it based on his social media posts and I hope it's great. I'm here for whatever he's got.

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