How about a picture of #7books for #7BooksToKnowMe ?

Saw the tag #7BooksToKnowMe and #7Books and couldn't resist - and me being me it won't be just 7 books but 7 series:

- The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
- Culture series, especially Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
- Sprawl trilogy by William Gibson
- The Elric Saga by Michael Moorcock
- The Sandman by Neil Gaiman (yes, it's a comic, but still counts)
- Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
- Dune series by Frank Herbert (yours truly is a completionist, so including all the KJA & BH stuff).

#7books

Sociology Themes and Perspectives - Michael Haralambos

Corum: The Prince With the Silver Hand (Anthology) - Michael Moorcock

Ulrich Haarbürste's Novel of Roy Orbison in Clingfilm.

Sad Book - Michael Rosen

Griffin and Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence - Nick Bantock

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes - Bill Watterson

The Hogfather - Terry Pratchett

Ok, let's do this. Geez, I love this.

My #7books list:

- The Hitchhiker Guide To The Galaxy (Douglas Adams
- Blood Meridian (Cormack McCarthy)
- The Memory Illusion (Julia Shaw)
- Foundation (original trilogy, Isaac Asimov
- Lord Of The Rings (J. R. R. Tolkien)
- The Complete Fiction Works of H.P. Lovecraft
- Il Sistema Periodico (The Periodic Table) (Primo Levi)

My #7books or #7bookstoknowme

1 Something wicked this way comes; Ray Bradbury
2 Hothouse; Brian Aldus + Cage of Souls by Tchaikovsky cos could be two stories in sequence.
3 The Drowned World; J G Ballard a 3 book sequence on climate change by coincidence? Who knows.
4 Gormenghast; Mervyn Peake - displaced Lord of the Rings because I also have his illustrated Captain Slaughterboard kids book.
5 Any Terry Pratchett
6 Patrick O'Brian's unfinished 20 volume book.
7. Feersum Endjinn; Iain M Banks.

Just saw the #7Books tag and...I'm gonna distract myself from the therapy truth bomb I just had and list the most impactful books I've ever experienced. 😅 Doing post-therapy right.

1. His Dark Materials - Phillip Pullman
2. Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine
3. Sailor Moon (Manga counts, right?) - Naoko Takeuchi
4. Dealing with Dragons - Patricia Wrede
5. The 10th Kingdom - Kathryn Wesley
6. Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
7. The Snow Queen - Joan Vinge

There's way more than just 7, but these are probably the top ones I'd point someone to. ❤️

Just learned of #7books for #GetToKnowMe! Tried focusing on lesser known greats, though I couldn't fairly omit some popular #choices. Compromises had to be made. In alphabetical order by #author:

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - The Little Prince

Dan Simmon - Hyperion Cantos

Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

John Crowley - Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr

Mária Szepes - The Red Lion

Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves

Walter Moers - The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

Play with me. #7Books to get to know me:

1. Rubyfruit Jungle
2. The Tomb
3. The Color Purple
4. The Well of Loneliness
5. Deceptions
6. And the Band Played On
7. Desert of the Heart

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#7books To get to know me! In no particular order: #AustralianLiterature

1. Land of the Golden Clouds by Archie Weller
2. My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
3. Looking for Alibrandi by Melinda Marchetta
4. Playing Beatie Bow by Ruth Park
5. My People (book of poems) by Oodgeroo Noonuccal

And international authors:
6. The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko (uncertain who the translator would be).
7. Hogfather by Terry Pratchett

Which are your favourites? Or does anyone else see themselves in these books?? Let me know!

Hey, look, I'm trying mastodon, (again)! #introduction

I'm going to be posting art stuff that inspires me, and sometimes politics/current affairs. It's all a bit vague and nebulous right now, so here's #7Books to get to know me, see if we can't sharpen things up a bit.

1. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

2. Walkaway by Cory Doctorow

3. Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett

4. Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey

5. Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

6. Dracula by Bram Stoker

7. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (it's a love-hate thing).

#7books to get to know me:

The Lacemaker by Laura Frantz
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Gutenberg's Apprentice by Alix Christie
Wallenberg by Kati Marton
Curtain by Agatha Christie
Second Advent by Tony Perona
The Commandant of Lubizec by Patrick Hicks

Honorable mention:
In the Shadow of Dora by Patrick Hicks
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Passions of the Mind by Irving Stone

Here is my #GetToKnowMe list for #7books :

- Awakening the Brain: The Neuropsychology of Grace #CharlotteTomaino
- Thank you for Arguing #JayHeinrichs
- The Great Turning #DavidKorten
- The Dream Machine: JCR Licklider and the Revolution that Made Computing Personal #MitchellWaldrop
- The Universal Baseball Association, Inc. J Henry Waugh Prop #RobertCoover
- The Brothers Karamazov #FyodorDostoevsky
- The Dispossessed #UrsulaKLeGuin

#7Books to get to know me:

1. Rubyfruit Jungle
2. The Tomb
3. The Color Purple
4. The Well of Loneliness
5. Deceptions
6. And the Band Played On
7. Desert of the Heart

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#7books to know me. They are listed in the order I have read them in my lifetime.

— Boris Vian - Froth on the Daydream
— Desmond Morris - The Naked Ape
— Gabriel García Márquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
— Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
— Hermann Hesse - The Glass Bead Game
— Donna Williams - Nobody Nowhere
— Jack London - Martin Eden

Here is my #GetToKnowMe list for #7books. These items are my favorites because they were entertaining, I connected with them emotionally, and/or they helped me to better know myself.

— The Phantom Tollbooth #NortonJuster
— The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy #DouglasAdams
— The Gods of Jade And Shadow #SylviaMorenoGarcia
— Pattern Recognition #WilliamGibson
— Neverwhere #NeilGaiman
— Some Men Are Lookers #EthanMorden
— Bloom County Babylon #BerkeBreathed

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Here is my #GetToKnowMe list for #7books. These items are my favorites because they were entertaining, I connected with them emotionally, and/or they helped me to better know myself.

— The Phantom Tollbooth #NortonJuster
— The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy #DouglasAdams
— The Gods of Jade And Shadow #SylviaMorenoGarcia
— Pattern Recognition #WilliamGibson
— Neverwhere #NeilGaiman
— Some Men Are Lookers #EthanMorden
— Aerotropolis #JohnKasarda

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Given, I am an avid reader and people want to find out stuff about me.

#7Books

J.D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye

George Orwell - Animal Farm

Allen Ginsberg - Howl, Kaddish & other poems

Jack Kerouac - Dharma Bums

John Steinbeck - Of Mice & Men

Theodor Storm - Der Schimmelreiter (The Rider on the white horse)

Alexander Solzhenitsyn - Archipelago Gulag

#7Books (+ 1) that powerfully impacted me:

1. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
By Betty Edwards

2. The Americans
By Robert Frank

3. A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream
By Mark Gevisser

4. Bluebeard
By Kurt Vonnegut

5. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
By Stephen King

6. The Negative
By Ansel Adams

7. The Sellout
By Paul Beatty

8. A Catcher in the Rye
By JD Salinger

#art #photos #SocialJustice #PTSD

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Seven books to know me. Some titles shortened due to character limit. In no particular order.

1 'Walden' Henry David Thoreau

2 'The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement' Eliyahu M. Goldratt

3 'Tuesdays with Morrie' Mitch Albom

4 'It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken' Greg Behrendt

5. 'The Five Love Languages' Gary Chapman

6. 'A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues' André Comte-Sponville

7. 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' Zora Neale Hurston

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Took me a long time to admire #SteffenBashoJunghans #7Books double cd on #StrangeAttractorsAudioHouse from 2004. But since his passing in December 2022 I took another deep dive into the album and it really starts to grow in me. A hidden hard to enter abstract masterpiece?
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_laCknKzMNNrFOQOo_3atwy-sPS7jB04y4