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Misja van Laatum20 Books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No reviews, just book covers. Explanation in the ALT text.Day 2/20<a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/20Books20Days" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20Books20Days</a>

Misja van Laatum20 Books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No reviews, just book covers. Explanation in the ALT text.Day 1/20<a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/20Books20Days" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20Books20Days</a>

The Duchess of Spring 🌼 🌺 🌷 :verifiedace:20 Books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers.Day 3/20<a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/20Books20Days" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20Books20Days</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Reading</a>

Kriszta Satori20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanation, no reviews, just book covers with alt text.Hibo Wardere: Cut One Woman's Fight Against FGM in Britain TodayDay 11/20<a href="https://journa.host/tags/20books20days" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20books20days</a> <a href="https://journa.host/tags/20books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20books</a> (Apologies for delays)

Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦Just... just don't read the sequel. <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/20Books20Days" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20Books20Days</a>

Kevin T. Houle20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers (don't forget the alt text).10/20<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/20Books20Days" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20Books20Days</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a>

RickNobodyBeinz<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/20books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20books</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/20books20days" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20books20days</a> 20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers. This is my day 6

Liam Ui BhriainThe 20 Book Challenge: Twenty books that have had an impact on who I am – one book cover a day over 20 (non-consecutive) days.No explanations, no reviews. Just the book cover and alt text.Day 10History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides<a href="https://c.im/tags/20Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20Books</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/20Books20Days" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20Books20Days</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Books</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bookstodon</a>

Kriszta Satori20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanation, no reviews, just book covers with alt text.David Remnick: Lenin's tomb The last days of the Soviet empireDay 10/20<a href="https://journa.host/tags/20books20days" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20books20days</a> <a href="https://journa.host/tags/20books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20books</a> (Apologies for delays)

BrettAsimov's New Guide to Science (9/20)It says something that Asimov is on the gentler end of creepy for SF authors, of which there will depressingly more later.This was a comprehensive layman's guide to human thought at the time, and was like catnip to young Brett desperate to understand the world, or at least believe someone did. My first "man can know the nature of things" moment.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/20books20days" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20books20days</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/recap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#recap</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/WhyItMattered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhyItMattered</a>

BrettTales of My Uncle Harry (8/20)I don't know if this collection of Australian bush tall tales and shaggy dog stories is well remembered these days, but I remember my fourth class teacher reading stories from this to us sometimes (shoutout to Mr. Mike Gatty - I still remember you, sir).I often think my father would have enjoyed these, too, and it's not impossible that he actually knew Keith Garvey - they moved in some of the same circles around the same time, so they may have met. I like to think they did, and perhaps shared a story (and a beer) or two.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/20books20days" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20books20days</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/recap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#recap</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/WhyItMattered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhyItMattered</a>

BrettThe Eye in the Pyramid (7/20)The canonical "behind the mask is a face, and behind the face is another mask" novel. I think this may have been formative for a lot of readers, though the plot is near impossible to map as it circles back and recontextualises events. It is my (previosuly) unspoken contention that every internet libertarian thinks they're really Hagbard Crane - you're not, dude. This was the closest I ever went to being libertairan myself, fortunately it didn't take (although if Tarentella Serpentine had shown up at the critical time...)<a href="https://aus.social/tags/20books20days" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20books20days</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/recap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#recap</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/WhyItMattered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhyItMattered</a>

BrettWuthering Heights (6/20)I was strongly tempted by the charming Persuasion, by Jane Austen, because I was on quite the Victorian novel kick at the time, despite being a schoolboy in regional Australia in this slot, but this wild tale of horrible people doing horrible things to other horrible people within the confines of strict societal structures took precedence. In hindsight I can see the wildness and the moors called to me at the time.It helps a lot that Kate Bush never wrote a song called Persuasion, too.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/20books20days" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20books20days</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/recap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#recap</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/WhyItMattered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhyItMattered</a>

BrettSwords Against Death (5/20)This could have been any of the Swords series, which is very much my comfort read. This one, though, has both "The Price of Pain-Ease" (where Fafhrd and the Mouser finally deal, after a fashion, with the deaths of their true loves Vlana and Ivrian) to surprisingly human ends, and "Bazaar of the Bizarre" which is just plain fun as Fafhrd has to rescue the Mouser from one of *those* shops. I should read more modern fantasy but I just want to hang out in Lankmahr where adventure lies down every misty avenue.Honourable mention for this slot: literally everything Fritz Lieber ever wrote, he was that good.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/20books20days" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20books20days</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/recap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#recap</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/WhyItMattered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhyItMattered</a>

Kriszta Satori20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanation, no reviews, just book covers with alt text.Eugene Ionesco: Drámák (Eugene Ionesco: Plays)Day 9/20<a href="https://journa.host/tags/20books20days" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20books20days</a> <a href="https://journa.host/tags/20books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20books</a> (Apologies for delays)

BrettRingworld (4/20)Was this the last hurrah of classic space opera? Probably not to be honest, but the twin concepts of this huge structure and the Teela Brown gene modifying causality hit young Brett like a ton of scrith, in a way not much has since.I still reread it every so often, and it still hits hard even if the edge is worn off a little. I think it has to be the best thing Larry Niven ever wrote, and every time he revisited it it got worse (it being built by the Pak made no sense to be and continues not to. I will not be taking questions on this matter).If I can't live in Majipoor or Nehwon, I could do much worse than taking a singleship and a sword here.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/20books20days" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20books20days</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/recap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#recap</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/WhyItMattered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhyItMattered</a>

Uzi Bobuzi20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers. 16/20<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/20Books20Days" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20Books20Days</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/20Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20Books</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilentSpring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SilentSpring</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RachelCarson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RachelCarson</a>

BrettMan, Metals, and Modern Magic (3/20)I am not a metallurgist either by training or inclination, though metal is cool I guess - it lets us do a bunch of things. J. Gordon Parr probably is a metallurgust though because when someone is this passionate about their subject you know they ended up there somehow. If you've ever encountered someone so in love with their topic and they talk about it so passionately you get a bit of a contact high from them, this is that feeling, the book<a href="https://aus.social/tags/20books20days" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20books20days</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/recap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#recap</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/WhyItMattered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhyItMattered</a>

mkb20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/20Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20Books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/20Books20Days" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20Books20Days</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/20Days20Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20Days20Books</a>

Brett2/20 Njal's SagaThis is the best story I know. A sweeping, darkly funny generational tale from before those words became a genre, where good people have opportunities to change their fate but can't because they're impossibly human, and tiny elments butterfly themseves into tragedy as predictably and unstoppably as a freight train. Why are there so few films of this when we have so many lyrca clad power fantasies?It is a crime against humanity that the Magnus Magnusson translation has been out of print for decades, and you can't change my mind.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/20books20days" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20books20days</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/recap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#recap</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/WhyItMattered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhyItMattered</a>

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