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Love. Hate. Betrayal. Romance. Horror. Hope. Separation. Reunion. Perry Martin’s debut novel, Pretty Flamingo, promises all of this and much more. It is a sublime tale that oscillates primarily between two time periods and two places: the late 1960s set in Brisbane, Australia, and the early 2000s largely set in California, the US.
Ένα βιβλίο με ρυθμό που σε κάνει να αναστοχαστείς τη ζωή που (δεν) έζησες
Geylang East Public Library, Public library in Singapore.
My review of Lazarus Man by Richard Price is up at Conspicuous Consumption.
https://afterblockhead.blogspot.com/2026/07/lazarus-man-by-richard-price.html
remaining housed
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In capitalist and familial abusive prison
https://subspacewagon.systems/in-capitalist-and-familial-abusive-prison/
A Conversation With a Musician and a Forest
https://subspacewagon.systems/a-conversation-with-a-musician-and-a-forest/
the aberrant king hymn (curbs / curves)
https://subspacewagon.systems/the-aberrant-king-hymn-curbs-curves/
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https://www.wacoca.com/media/?p=708895 「紙の本」派・一冊を自分の言葉で整理する、余韻まで楽しむために選んだ読書グッズたち | ライフハッカー・ジャパン #book #books #書籍
Our bookish badges make cute gifts for fellow book worms. https://www.koolbadges.co.uk/reading-book-badges-c-51.html
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Blog - Books in June 2026
TL;DR: 6 #books, 1,702 pages (49 books, 12,328 pages year to date). 3 fiction, two #ttrpg, one non-fiction.
Enjoyed a return to the #RiversofLondon series with the latest instalment, a pacy thriller from Kevin Wignall, with my favourite novel being #emilystjohnmandel's Last Night in Montreal.
Grace Blakeley's Vulture Capitalism - a chilling reminder of neoliberalism's growth over the last 40 years, & what we have lost with that.
https://delta-pavonis.blogspot.com/2026/07/books-in-june-2026.html
#PhantastikPrompts 12
editor demands +20K
I'm no longer trad published. I tend to over write at first draft and editors have historically said, cut 10k but here are a dozen notes which inevitably add length.
I have enjoyed my two novellas as they force me to focus on few POVs, and avoid too many pleasant diversions. I want to write more although they're not economic.
pebbles and phosphate
a declaration from father joy that matters
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After much hard work, my husband, the author, now has four books available for sale on Amazon! What an achievement! #author #authors #writing #writings #book #books #library #libraries #amazon #amazonshopping #buyingbooks #fantasy #sodaandthesinistersnatch #sodaandtheineffableconcoction #wetheriffed #chuckvincent #thewritinglife #accomplishment #accomplished #literature #modernliterature #pennsylvaniaauthor
I feel seen.
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The Satire and Style of Vanity Fair is as Relevant as Ever
Roshan Sethi on William Makepeace Thackeray’s Famous Novel
Vanity Fair at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/599
Émilie du Châtelet (1706–1749), mathematician, physicist & translator
By Marie Lebert
Books by Émilie du Châtelet at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/56975
Searching The Meaning Of Life! (S.T.M.O.L) » 🌐
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Όλα μπορείς να τα σωπάσεις, όμως ποτέ τον έρωτα• την ώρα που ανοίγουν τ’ άστρα,
όταν αρχίζει στην καρδιά η μουσική
και κόβονται γλυκά τα γόνατα.
Τότε σε οδηγούν τα βήματά σου.
Γιώργος Ιωάννου, 20 Νοεμβρίου 1927 – 16 Φεβρουαρίου 1985| Τα χίλια δέντρα και άλλα ποιήματα | εκδόσεις Κέδρος
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Finished reading Adrian Tchaikovsky's "Children Of Strife."
https://amzn.to/4dbmURq
📖🚀🪐
While the earlier books in this epic series were better, this was still engaging and inventive.
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remaining housed
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The oberration of cullers of dreamed horses
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#WordWeavers 12/7: What one word sums up how your SC feels in the part of your WIP you're currently working on?
I’m currently alternating revisions on one thing with early scenes of a new project. So far this is purely a two-handler, no SCs in sight—unless you count Becky, whose feelings mostly run along the lines of ‘are we going for a walk?’ and ‘what’s for dinner?’
She’s a Cocker Spaniel.
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Foreknown Illusory Object Language Chains
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The Diaspora Of Moonlight Interposed
https://archive.org/details/the-diaspora-of-moonlight-interposed-by-richard-j-tilley
Rockslide On The Garden’s Edge
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#WritersCoffeeClub 12/7: Talk about an inspiration for an element in your current WIP.
Well, the new WIP—or I might say potential WIP—is just a few scenes at the moment. What I can say is it’s drawing on elements from both my life (where it’s relevant that I’ve been an agnostic/atheist since I was 16) and my Dad’s—who was a Vicar when I was young, did various other jobs, but in retirement became heavily involved as a ‘backup’ priest in a rural parish.
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In capitalist and familial abusive prison
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crescents like a waking diamond’s remorseful resilience
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Published in 2012, The Last Zero Fighter is a collection of firsthand accounts of Japanese aviators during World War II. Each account chronicles the subject’s upbringing, reasons for joining the Imperial Japanese Navy, training to be an aviator, and experiences during the Pacific War. Each chapter focuses on a different aviator and is organized as follows:
One interesting thing the book and interviews highlight is the differences in training programs Japan used for its aviators. Unlike Western nations, which preferred officers (four-year university graduates) for their pilot training programs, the majority of Japanese aviators were originally civilian teenagers who graduated from the Kaigun Yoka Renshusei (Yokaren for short) program. This program recruited civilian males, aged 15 to 20, directly into the Navy as enlisted men for a couple of years of training and schooling, and then sent them directly into flight training. Some of them would eventually be promoted up to the officer ranks. The rationale was that teenagers possessed better hand-eye coordination for flight training. Another program known as the Kaigun Hiko Soju Renshusei (Soren for short) drew from the Navy’s enlisted personnel who passed the exam and prerequisites to attend flight school. Of course, Imperial Japanese Naval Academy and university graduates who became officers could also attend flight training and become pilots or aviators.
The author states that his intention with this book is to share the thoughts and motivations of the Japanese pilot with the English speaker.
Dan King visited Japan several times during his high school years in the 1980s and then earned a Bachelor’s degree in Japanese at California State University, Los Angeles. He then moved to Aichi Prefecture and worked for Toyota Motor Corporation from 1986 to 1996. During this time, he passed the highest level of Japanese language proficiency test administered by the Japanese Ministry of Education. It was also during this time that he began interviewing Japanese WWII veterans about their experiences. At the time of the book’s publication, he had met over 250 Japanese Army and Navy WWII veterans and interviewed 97 of them about their experiences.
Dan King’s other books in his series on Japanese veterans include A Tomb Called Iwo Jima: Firsthand Accounts from Japanese Survivors, Blossoms from the Sky: Firsthand Accounts from Kamikaze Pilots Who Volunteered to Fly the Ohka Baka Bomb, and The Iron Graves of Saipan: Firsthand Accounts of the Japanese 9th Tank Regiment from Manchuria to the Mariana Islands.
In addition to his interviews, King has also worked as a historical and technical consultant on various films and documentaries about Japan or the Pacific War, such as John Woo’s Windtalkers (2002), Edward Zwick’s The Last Samurai (2003), Clint Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers (2006), and the HBO miniseries The Pacific (2010).
The book is organized fairly well. Each chapter covers the subjects’ experiences chronologically through the war. Since all of these men survived the war, each chapter concludes with their final thoughts on the war, looking back on it some 70 years later. Given their advanced age, these men look back on the war with sorrow and wisdom, noting the cruelty of war.
Additionally, the subjects are arranged chronologically, with the early chapters detailing the prewar period (including experiences in the Second Sino-Japanese War in China), and the later chapters showing men recruited in the middle of the Pacific War who underwent far less rigorous training. For example, Tomokazu Kasai received no dogfighting or aerial gunnery training before being sent to an active unit following advanced flight training. He literally had to learn on the job. What becomes apparent is that all of these men were lucky to survive the war.
The title of the book is something of a misnomer. It would seem to imply that this is a biography of the last Zero fighter pilot and his aircraft or the last dogfight in the Pacific War, but it’s not; it’s a metaphorical title. On the other hand, not many of these men are still alive, so the interviews that King conducted could literally be from the last Zero fighter pilots.
While each chapter is substantial, there are only five interviews in the book. Given that it’s been over 80 years since the end of WWII, the number of living veterans is dwindling every day. In fact, at the time of the book’s publication in 2012, only Kaname Harada and Tomokazu Kasai were still alive. Harada passed away in 2016, and Kasai passed away in 2021. With this in mind, the subject matter is a victim of time, and the paucity of veterans for King to interview is understandable. Eventually, we will all pass into nothingness, so it’s left to historians to document these experiences before that happens.
As with any book dealing with personal accounts, this one has the same limitations as any oral history. It suffers from offering the reader a very narrow perspective of the events and is limited by the inherent biases in personal recollections, given the chosen interviewees. That is to say, the five subjects the author interviewed may or may not be representative of the average experience of a Japanese aviator.
The majority of these men were Yokaren graduates and fighter pilots. Haruo Yoshino was the only person who wasn’t a fighter pilot, and thus seems like the odd man out. Additionally, none of these men commanded any units. While some of them rose through the ranks to become officers, the majority of their experience was as enlisted men. Essentially, all of the narratives are from the enlisted man’s perspective. Consequently, the view they have of the war is very narrow and solely “from the cockpit,” so to speak.
Overall, the book does exactly what the thesis claims. It documents the lives and war experiences of the five men who were interviewed. The book is well organized and moves chronologically through their experiences and the war. Thankfully, it’s not trying to be some epic narrative of the war, but presents the reader with the personal recollections of these aviators.
Rating:
⭐⭐⭐⭐
Rating: 4 out of 5.Very good/Worth your time
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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
-- Haruki Murakami
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LEE Y COMPARTE EL #PoemaDelDía
"Epístola para los amados", de Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão (Portugal, 1938-2007) https://franciscocenamor.blogspot.com/2026/07/poema-del-dia-epistola-para-los-amados.html
Epístolas e memorandos (1996), incluido en Antología breve de la #poesía portuguesa del siglo XX (@IPN_MX , México, 1998, selec. y trad. de Mario Morales Castro).
https://www.wacoca.com/media/708780/ 宝島社、暗闇で光る「JR東日本 みどりの駅時計」。アラームは本物の発車メロディー「せせらぎ」と「春」 – トラベル Watch ##推し活 #book #books #Jr #JR東日本 #JR東日本版みどりの駅時計BOOK2暗闇で光る!蛍光色Ver #アラームクロック #みどりの駅時計BOOK #ムック #付録 #企業・政府・官庁 #宝島社 #旅のアイテム #旅の情報 #旅の方法 #旅行 #旅行グッズ #時計 #書籍 #書籍・Web #生活雑貨 #目的 #目覚まし時計 #蛍光バージョン #観光 #鉄旅 #鉄道 #鉄道グッズ #雑誌 #駅時計
https://www.wacoca.com/media/708782/ 【本パ プレイベント】『君が手にするはずだった黄金について』『成瀬は信じた道をいく』文庫化記念 小川哲×宮島未奈 トークイベント | 紀伊國屋書店 #book #books #書籍
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What a gorgeous review for my forthcoming Appalachian weird horror novella, GODFESTATION! #books #horror #fantasy #appalachia #literature
"La costumbre de calcular": Cocinaba para él cuando una gota de salsa en su camisa bastó. La bofetada llegó precisa. Caí contra la mesada y desperté en el hospital. 'Me caí por la escalera', mentí...
https://fictograma.com/d/3468-la-costumbre-de-calcular
Finished reading The Dark Half for the first time (but having had seen the film adaptation). It was pretty good. A goofy premise that's never fully explained, and like MANY King books it is kind of anticlimatic and limps across the finish line, but I generally enjoyed the experience.
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Born to rival crews. Bitter enemies as teens. Barely tolerant of each other on a good day, and now Rowena Lee needs to rely on Hollis Silar as backup to prevent a war that could destroy everyone she loves.
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3 semanas encerrado en casa y acepté ir al carnaval. Todos bailando, bebiendo y amando la vida. Yo solo pensando en el absurdo, la miseria y por qué no puedo disfrutar nada. Al final volví igual...
https://fictograma.com/d/3465-el-carnaval
Ann M. Martin celebrates the 40th anniversary of The Baby-Sitters Club! I LOVED reading this series in childhood because it was a modern portrayal of girls, life, family, and friendships in America. Incredibly relatable. One of my earliest memories of seeing an Asian American character in media, and one who didn't fit the usual Asian stereotypes. 😍 Claudia Kishi forever!
Interview with Ronny Chieng on The Daily Show earlier this week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaVf2CwyZjY