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Welcome to Books & Articles Weekly.
The big news…
Stacker News Fiction MonthStacker News Fiction Month
We are well into Stacker News fiction month. Here is the official announcement. @Scoresby is the brains behind this idea, which is being jointly sponsored by him along with @TotallyHumanWriter and this territory. As I’m sure many of you know, @TotallyHumanWriter is the editor of the 21 Futures fiction anthology.
There is still plenty of time to submit a fiction piece, so start writing and editing. Win some sats to secure your future.
Don’t forget to also check out the top posts of the week. One of the fiction submissions is our top post. A new SN member also cracked the top five. @SymbolSatoshi has arrived on the scene with a splash. I really enjoyed their piece, The Seed Poem. It is not entered in the fiction competition due to its length, but you should read it.
Reminder: For the time being I will zap the top post half the rewards I receive before the next week’s issue, rather than split zaps into cowboy credits.
Happy reading!
As always, please reply with suggestions and opinions on how to make this territory better.
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Link to last week’s post:
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Top Posts Of The WeekTop Posts Of The Week
- [FM] OpenAIDS 10 by @k00b
- 333,337 Sats Withheld in Controversial Writing Competition by @TotallyHumanWriter
- The Seed Poem by SymbolSatoshi by @SymbolSatoshi
- [FM] - The Message by @guerratotal
- Book Review | The Cost of Building Progress by @0xbitcoiner
Siggy’s SuggestionsSiggy’s Suggestions
I suggest you read all of this week’s fiction, since August is fiction month around here.
Speaking of fiction, this post was submitted by newcomer @Ktmorley. It is not in the contest, probably because it seems to exceed the word limit, but I really enjoyed it. I hope to read more from this stacker in the future.
My next suggestion is from the great, not so modest @denlillaapan. He promised me an actual, original, exclusive book review, and he delivered. It is up to his usual standards, but didn’t get the attention it deserved with all this fiction floating around.
Writing ContestsWriting Contests
Stackers’ BlogsStackers’ Blogs
My Bitcoin JourneyMy Bitcoin Journey
Inspired by Writing Contest #1, this is where stacker’s bitcoin origin stories will be posted for easy reference.
- Grayruby’s Bitcoin story by @grayruby
- I Put ¼ Of A Bitcoin In A Landfill by @brandonsbytes
- From Selling Newspapers To Finding Bitcoin by @Coinsreporter
- My bitcoin journey by @Carreson
- "Who are you?" — How do I want to answer? by @IamSINGLE
- "My journey with Bitcoin: the experience of an ordinary Cuban" by @BTCLNAT
- @realBitcoinDog Bitcoin Story - No, social media had nothing to do with it xD by @realBitcoinDog
Book ClubsBook Clubs
- Stoic Book Club:Meditations by @Se7enZ
- Jordan Peterson SN Bookclub -- We Who Wrestle With God by @denlillaapan
- Broken Money_ book club: index and reflection by @elvismercury
BooksBooks
- The Universal Good Deal by @cleophas
- Who Brought The Steak Tartare?, Chapter 1 by @cleophas
- The Final Product by @cleophas
- The Penal Preserve, Chapter 1 by @cleophas
- Happy The Hippo, an absolutely wonderful children’s book written by @cryotosensei for his son.
- The Rogue Scholar by @jbschirtzinger
- Submersible by @johnbnevin
- And Then She Disappears - Block 1 by @ginkgo
Book ReviewsBook Reviews
- Book Review: Sofia Petrovna by Lydia Chukovskaya, translated 1967 by @plebpoet
- The Hummingbird – Sandro Veronesi by @BookGirl
- Pachinko – Min Jin Lee by @BookGirl
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running – Haruki Murakami by @BookGirl
- Civilization and Its Discontents – Sigmund Freud by @BookGirl
- Samarkand, by Amin Maalouf by @BookGirl
- The Midnight Library – Matt Haig by @BookGirl
- Momo - Michael Ende by @BookGirl
- The book that inspired the creation of the Joker by @BookGirl
- American Pastoral: Philip Roth by @BookGirl
- When Nietzsche Wept by @BookGirl
- Book Review | The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters by @0xbitcoiner
- The book that changed how I absorb and build my own opinions. by @BookGirl
- What I learned from reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being by @BookGirl
- Book Review - The Sovereign Child by Aaron Stupple by @OT
- Return of the Strong Gods: My Thoughts by @kepford
- Moral Money: The Case for Bitcoin | Book Review by @SimpleStacker
- [Book Review] Return of the Strong Gods by @SimpleStacker
- [REVIEW]: "Who Let the Bitcoin Dogs Out" and "Self-Immolation to Self Custody" by @SimpleStacker
- review - Hard-Boiled Egg Index: Surviving Zimbabwe’s Hyperinflation by @stack_harder
- [REVIEW]: 21 Futures: Financial Fallout ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️](#914239) by @realBitcoinDog
- Review - The Big Print by Lawrence Lepard by @stack_harder
- Book: Bullsh*t Jobs - David Graeber by @OT
- The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by @ek
- [Book Review] How The Post Office Created America by @jbschirtzinger
- Book Review: Tiny Inkling of Things Far Beyond Me (poetry by plebpoet) by @jbschirtzinger
- Book Review: I Am The Doctor by @jbschirtzinger
- Book Review: Tom Clancy's Net Force by @jbschirtzinger
- Book Review: Yiddish Folktales by @jbschirtzinger
- Book Review: Castle Warlock by @jbschirtzinger
- “The Family Way” by @cryotosensei
- “Murder on the Orient Express” by @cryotosensei
- “Where the Dead Fall” by @cryotosensei
- “Confessions of a Bookseller” by @cryotosensei
- “The Tale of Despereaux” by @cryotosensei
- “Good Habits Bad Habits” by @cryotosensei
- “mockingbird” by @cryotosensei
- “Pay attention, Alex” by @cryotosensei
- “Wabi sabi” by @cryotosensei
- “The secret life of the dyslexic child” by @cryotosensei
- “At Home with Dyslexia” by @cryotosensei
- Book Review-Bitcoin Billionaires, by Ben Mezrich by @siggy47
- Book Review: The Bitcoin Mining Handbook by @siggy47
- Review – I read Gary the economist’s book, The Trading Game: A Confession by @stack_harder
- [REVIEW] There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm by @Scoresby
- Book Review - A Monetary and Fiscal History of the US 1961-2021 by Alan Blinder by @dough
- A Philosopher Goes on Holiday by @Rothbardian_fanatic
- The Wheel of Time: Halfway Point by @Undisciplined
- review - Smuggler, by Rodger Reeves by @stack_harder
- "Saving and Spending Money" by @cryotosensei
- “100 Small Money Habits of People Who Save 100 Million Yen” by @cryotosensei
- “Invent and Wander” by @cryotosensei
- Book Review | “Zen Musings from A Fly On The Wall” by @cryotosensei
- Book Review | “The Little Book of Ikigai” by @cryotosensei
- Book Review | “How to talk so teens will listen and listen so teens will talk” by @cryotosensei
- Book Review- Bitcoin Dog: Following the Scent to the Bitcoin C++ Source Code by @grayruby
- Review: Joseph Jebelli, "The Brain at Rest" by @denlillaapan
- Book Review: Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy (Binder) by @denlillaapan
- Book Review: On Ruling by @jbschirtzinger
- Book Review: A Very Principled Boy--The Life of Duncan Lee by @jbschirtzinger
- Book Review: Unbroken by @jbschirtzinger
- Book Review: Churchill's Citadel: Chartwell and the Gatherings Before the Storm by @jbschirtzinger
- Book review | ‘Why Empires Fall’ by Peter Heather & John Rapley by @carlosfandango
- Edward Chancellor, "The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest" (Joakim Book) by @denlillaapan
- Review of Greg Bear’s Moving Mars by @Rothbardian_fanatic
- Book Review Directory #3
- Book Reviews Directory #2
- Book Reviews Directory #1
Bitcoin Academic Articles & ReviewsBitcoin Academic Articles & Reviews
- Bitcoin Pricing, Adoption, and Usage: Theory and Evidence | Article Review by @SimpleStacker
- Minneapolis Fed Bitcoin Paper | Article Review by @SimpleStacker
- Bitcoin: What Does Mainstream Economics Have to Say? | Article Review by @SimpleStacker
- Competition and trust in the private provision of money | Article Review by @SimpleStacker
Movie & Television ReviewsMovie & Television Reviews
- Sound of Freedom | Movie Review by @SimpleStacker
- Movie Review | “How to make millions before Grandma dies” by @cryotosensei
- Movie Review | “Culinary Class Wars” by @cryotosensei
- Movie Review | “Culinary Class Wars” by @cryotosensei
- El Encargado | Argentinian TV series | very good comedy by @DarthCoin
- The IT crowd | hillarious super funny comedy TV series by @DarthCoin
- Two TV series about the "Schrodinger's cat" theory by @DarthCoin
- From | Que sera, sera... | new season 3 TV series by @DarthCoin
- Bingeworthy: Slow Horses by @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears
EssaysEssays
- Prose piece | Running by @carlosfandango
- Prose piece | The storm by @carlosfandango
- Nihilism Wants Empire:Camus On Nietzsche by @jurraca
- Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction by @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears
PoetryPoetry
- Reflections on the recent holiday by @plebpoet
- internet feelings by @ek
- Sorelle by @Myshkin
- Autunno by @Myshkin
- Poetry:unresolved between a thai lad and I by @cryotosensei
- plebpoet’s original poem + discussion by @plebpoet
- a new kind of poem (that you can see 👀 and hear 🦻) by @plebpoet
- I am not man enough by @Nuttall
- If A Day Comes... by @Tef
- Let's pretend we loved each other by @Nadia
- That's MINE! Poetry. by @Malach17
- Silly rhymes written by a guy (maybe) fallen in love by @0268a5c238
Short StoriesShort Stories
- Short story | The motel by @carlosfandango
- The poet and the reader || short story by
@02879c7d869 - 'little fictions' presents: Cowboys Don't Belong by @plebpoet
- Short Story: “Quarter” by Eduardo Prospero by @eduardopro
- Neo’s Adventure In The Digital Realm: Discovering The Treasure Of Bitcoin by @VEINTIUNO
Fiction Month was a great idea. I hope I can find time to make a submission. 4,000 words seems doable!
It was all @Scoresby's idea. I'm just along for the ride.
I'm looking forward to reading it!
BLUUUU-SHIIIING over here. Thank you, siiir
@denlillaapan should try his hand at some fiction (or convince Lyn Alden to share some of hers...)
no way. NOT my stuff.
Lyn's is in the works, as far as I know. We'll see when it comes out!
Does this mean there actually is a denlillapaan Icelandic saga in some desk drawer?!??
Hahaaaa, no, not at all.
hot take: I think fiction is a little stupid
Do you dare cast aspersions on Calvin and Hobbes?
yes
The Seed Poem’ by @SymbolSatoshi really surprised me — short but it lingers. Also, @Ktmorley’s ‘It Takes Two’? Worth every minute.
Keeping this list up is a wonder of the modern world.
Thanks for your continuing contributions
Massive appreciation for the effort it takes to pull this weekly list together, it’s like the treasure map to the best reading on SN.