Simon
@beanprole.bsky.social
Dad, reader, average musician, cyber-security nerd, cat friend, and all around tired guy with a sore back. Aotearoa New Zealand.
You know when a book's blurb completely puts you off, but it's everywhere so you hate it a bit more with each mention and you build up some snobbish attitude without actually having read it? Anyway, time for me to be the last person on the planet to get around to reading Dungeon Crawler Carl 🪐📚 💙📚
January 6, 2026 at 10:41 AM
You know when a book's blurb completely puts you off, but it's everywhere so you hate it a bit more with each mention and you build up some snobbish attitude without actually having read it? Anyway, time for me to be the last person on the planet to get around to reading Dungeon Crawler Carl 🪐📚 💙📚
On to book 3 of the year, Oranges by John McPhee - How did I nearly reach 50 years old and not know Jaffa was a place? What's next? Snifter is a region in Belarus famous for it's ancient mint varietals? Also, I think I might be living in the past and need some more current references... 📚🇳🇿
January 6, 2026 at 4:13 AM
On to book 3 of the year, Oranges by John McPhee - How did I nearly reach 50 years old and not know Jaffa was a place? What's next? Snifter is a region in Belarus famous for it's ancient mint varietals? Also, I think I might be living in the past and need some more current references... 📚🇳🇿
Just finished book 2 of the year, Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson. Listened to a character name pronunciation vid halfway through, it was like the novel just doubled it's character cast as I had just about every name wrong in my head ;) Who's Ka-lamb? I think you mean Callum ;) 🪐📚 💙📚 #malazan
January 5, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Just finished book 2 of the year, Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson. Listened to a character name pronunciation vid halfway through, it was like the novel just doubled it's character cast as I had just about every name wrong in my head ;) Who's Ka-lamb? I think you mean Callum ;) 🪐📚 💙📚 #malazan
2 hours editing epubs, converting back and forth between formats, trying to get chapters to work on my kindle... then figured out a minute removing spaces from the chapter file names fixed everything. Nothing like overcomplicating tech issues to keep your days filled with frustration ;) 💙📚🇳🇿
January 3, 2026 at 7:02 AM
2 hours editing epubs, converting back and forth between formats, trying to get chapters to work on my kindle... then figured out a minute removing spaces from the chapter file names fixed everything. Nothing like overcomplicating tech issues to keep your days filled with frustration ;) 💙📚🇳🇿
Decided the best way to get through some of my TBR was a 2026 reading plan... fast forward two hours and I'm 50 books in and a bit overwhelmed. So, yeah, if all authors out there could not release any books in 2026 so I can catch up some... that'd be appreciated. #pukapuka #booksky #self-sabotage
December 23, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Decided the best way to get through some of my TBR was a 2026 reading plan... fast forward two hours and I'm 50 books in and a bit overwhelmed. So, yeah, if all authors out there could not release any books in 2026 so I can catch up some... that'd be appreciated. #pukapuka #booksky #self-sabotage
So, uh, anyone hiring a security engineer or infrastructure engineer? ;) #nzpol #firingCVsintothevoid
November 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM
So, uh, anyone hiring a security engineer or infrastructure engineer? ;) #nzpol #firingCVsintothevoid
Brooke van Velden celebrating James Cameron getting citizenship on the day redundancies are confirmed at Weta FX pretty much sums up the "NACT First" economy to me... #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
Hollywood legend James Cameron gets NZ citizenship
For most of the past 14 years, the Titanic director has called Wellywood - not Hollywood - home.
www.stuff.co.nz
August 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Brooke van Velden celebrating James Cameron getting citizenship on the day redundancies are confirmed at Weta FX pretty much sums up the "NACT First" economy to me... #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
Normally I try to keep things on an even keel, but I'm more and more enraged by the sideshows we're getting while real issues are not being dealt with. Who needs another enquiry which amounts to a carnival for science-dodging village idiots + pearl clutching about the word spineless? #nzpol
August 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Normally I try to keep things on an even keel, but I'm more and more enraged by the sideshows we're getting while real issues are not being dealt with. Who needs another enquiry which amounts to a carnival for science-dodging village idiots + pearl clutching about the word spineless? #nzpol
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SILKSONG IS REAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL
April 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
SILKSONG IS REAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL
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Hollow Knight: Silksong releasing 2025 according to Nintendo
April 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Hollow Knight: Silksong releasing 2025 according to Nintendo
Mixed reading month in March... including a few short books on the Booker International longlist, some questionable romantasy to see what the fuss is about, the Ockham NZ Fiction award shortlist and some gems while trying to find fantasy that doesn't read like it's written for YAs. 🖋️📚💙 #pukapuka
March 31, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Mixed reading month in March... including a few short books on the Booker International longlist, some questionable romantasy to see what the fuss is about, the Ockham NZ Fiction award shortlist and some gems while trying to find fantasy that doesn't read like it's written for YAs. 🖋️📚💙 #pukapuka
Have been searching out some decent literary fantasy recently and found a goodreads review containing "honestly, this is the most pretentious book i have ever read. its so far beyond high-brow, its in an obnoxious league all on its own." - I think I might have found my next read! ;) 💙📚 🪐📚 #pukapuka
March 26, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Have been searching out some decent literary fantasy recently and found a goodreads review containing "honestly, this is the most pretentious book i have ever read. its so far beyond high-brow, its in an obnoxious league all on its own." - I think I might have found my next read! ;) 💙📚 🪐📚 #pukapuka
Normally I don't pay too much attention to my goodreads recent updates feed, but enjoyed this one... Does marking something as Did Not Finish count as getting something done? ;) 💙📚
March 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Normally I don't pay too much attention to my goodreads recent updates feed, but enjoyed this one... Does marking something as Did Not Finish count as getting something done? ;) 💙📚
Just finished the Ockham NZ fiction award shortlist... enjoyed them all, but the standout was The Mires by @tinamakereti.bsky.social - reminding me that while it's easy to see the differences between ourselves and others it's our commonalities and connections which are truly important. #pukapuka 💙📚
March 13, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Just finished the Ockham NZ fiction award shortlist... enjoyed them all, but the standout was The Mires by @tinamakereti.bsky.social - reminding me that while it's easy to see the differences between ourselves and others it's our commonalities and connections which are truly important. #pukapuka 💙📚
Sure to be heard soon - "What I would say to you is that Seymour is handling the destruction of school lunches fantastically, and if you have a problem with it you should just have your chef whip something up for the kids before the nanny drops them to school." #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3606...
Free school lunch provider goes into liquidation
The latest twist in the ongoing school lunches situation has seen Libelle Group - a member of the School Lunch Collective - go into liquidation.
www.stuff.co.nz
March 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Sure to be heard soon - "What I would say to you is that Seymour is handling the destruction of school lunches fantastically, and if you have a problem with it you should just have your chef whip something up for the kids before the nanny drops them to school." #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3606...
A varied reading month in February... started on the International Booker Prize longlist which has been good so far, crossed a few off the NYT 100 best books of the 2000s unread list, enjoyed a few randoms that popped up in my bsky feed and revisited my favourite book from my childhood 💙📚 #pukapuka
March 1, 2025 at 12:35 AM
A varied reading month in February... started on the International Booker Prize longlist which has been good so far, crossed a few off the NYT 100 best books of the 2000s unread list, enjoyed a few randoms that popped up in my bsky feed and revisited my favourite book from my childhood 💙📚 #pukapuka
Reading the International Booker longlist is off to a good start. Ibtisam Azem's The Book of Disappearance is great speculative fiction told from multiple POVs and set in an Israel and Palestine where one day all Palestinians simply vanish. Touching, engrossing and infuriating in under 260 pages 💙📚🇳🇿
February 27, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Reading the International Booker longlist is off to a good start. Ibtisam Azem's The Book of Disappearance is great speculative fiction told from multiple POVs and set in an Israel and Palestine where one day all Palestinians simply vanish. Touching, engrossing and infuriating in under 260 pages 💙📚🇳🇿
Half way through my 650 page book, and getting to the life story of the third member of a family that doesn't seem connected to any plot points yet... this must be one of those literary fiction books I hear about ;) 💙📚🇳🇿
February 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Half way through my 650 page book, and getting to the life story of the third member of a family that doesn't seem connected to any plot points yet... this must be one of those literary fiction books I hear about ;) 💙📚🇳🇿
Weirdly my post didn't seem to make it to the #booksky 💙📚 feed so quoteposting to see if that changes things... because it's totally important that everyone sees what I thought about a book I just read! Now I feel like I'm reliving the book obsessing over external validation...
This character study in anxiety, paranoia and delusion is like watching a spider in a sink fighting to get out as the plug is pulled and the water circles the drain. As someone who's a bundle of anxieies on a good day, and whose worst horror is their own mind, it all felt a bit too real at times. 💙📚
February 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Weirdly my post didn't seem to make it to the #booksky 💙📚 feed so quoteposting to see if that changes things... because it's totally important that everyone sees what I thought about a book I just read! Now I feel like I'm reliving the book obsessing over external validation...
This character study in anxiety, paranoia and delusion is like watching a spider in a sink fighting to get out as the plug is pulled and the water circles the drain. As someone who's a bundle of anxieies on a good day, and whose worst horror is their own mind, it all felt a bit too real at times. 💙📚
February 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This character study in anxiety, paranoia and delusion is like watching a spider in a sink fighting to get out as the plug is pulled and the water circles the drain. As someone who's a bundle of anxieies on a good day, and whose worst horror is their own mind, it all felt a bit too real at times. 💙📚
"I wonder if this is going to end well" I think, as the characters in the book I'm reading turn up to their new job in the township of Eldritch... 💙📚
February 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
"I wonder if this is going to end well" I think, as the characters in the book I'm reading turn up to their new job in the township of Eldritch... 💙📚
Recently saw an imagined interaction with a librarian - "Could I get that book I loved as a child?" "Which version?" "What do you mean?" "The version you remember from childhood or the version with all the issues?" - Just read Harriet the Spy again nearly 40 years later, and boy oh boy issues :) 💙📚
February 18, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Recently saw an imagined interaction with a librarian - "Could I get that book I loved as a child?" "Which version?" "What do you mean?" "The version you remember from childhood or the version with all the issues?" - Just read Harriet the Spy again nearly 40 years later, and boy oh boy issues :) 💙📚
Today's hot take: Storygraph is good for performative readers who want graphics to post to social media to show how readery they are. Goodreads is good for people who just want to know information about the books they're read or might want to read.
Today's not hot take: Amazon/Bezos still sucks
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Today's not hot take: Amazon/Bezos still sucks
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February 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Today's hot take: Storygraph is good for performative readers who want graphics to post to social media to show how readery they are. Goodreads is good for people who just want to know information about the books they're read or might want to read.
Today's not hot take: Amazon/Bezos still sucks
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Today's not hot take: Amazon/Bezos still sucks
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My son has a pretty uncommon name, so whenever I see a reference to it I get a bit Leonardo DiCaprio pointing meme about the whole thing. Currently in the middle of a book with a character that I can't stand, who shares my boy's name... not exactly sure how to feel about it :-/ 💙📚🇳🇿
February 14, 2025 at 7:41 AM
My son has a pretty uncommon name, so whenever I see a reference to it I get a bit Leonardo DiCaprio pointing meme about the whole thing. Currently in the middle of a book with a character that I can't stand, who shares my boy's name... not exactly sure how to feel about it :-/ 💙📚🇳🇿