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<p>Spring into Reading! Barnes & Noble has curated a great list of 500 audiobooks and ebooks (including The Expert of Subtle Revisions!) available for under five dollars, now through 4/27. Check out the full list here: </p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/spring-into-reading-500-under-5/fiction/_/N-32ftZ10h8?page=3" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.barnesandnoble.com/b/spring-into-reading-500-under-5/fiction/_/N-32ftZ10h8?page=3"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.barnesandnoble.com/b/sprin</span><span class="invisible">g-into-reading-500-under-5/fiction/_/N-32ftZ10h8?page=3</span></a></p>

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<p>Do you remember your first favorite book?</p><p>My first real favorite: the fairy-tale The Golden Ball.<br>Today I looked up the author and discovered he’s still alive: a scholar, professor, and author of academic works on totalitarianism, information policy, and hybrid wars. I may never read those. But I will absolutely reread the first book I ever loved.</p><p>There’s something very moving about smart, busy, serious people who still choose to write for children.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <br><a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/writers/" rel="tag">#writers</a></p>

The Golden Ball

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<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/SheSeeksPeace" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/SheSeeksPeace</a></p><p>The Hunter seeks peace and quiet to mourn the loss of her best friend in a world that seems bound and determined to make that task impossible. Enemies attack when she’d rather be alone, allies can’t take a hint and the arch-demon Wrath seeks the Hunter’s hand in marriage, even though she’d sooner kill him.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

(Left) The cover of She Seeks Peace, by Owen Tyme.

The background is a snow-capped, craggy mountain with green, grassy hills at its base, which feature yellow and blue flowers.

The foreground is dominated by the round symbol for peace, in gold. Along the bottom of it are two olive branches. At the top is a dove in flight. Arranged on the lower three spokes of it are three figures based on the AIGA symbol for a woman. The figure on the right is blue. The one in the middle is a very dark gray, bordering on black, which includes a top hat. The figure on the left is red and has horns, like a demon.

(Right) The background is a view from the interior of a gun's barrel, with the rifling very apparent and the following quote over the top:

Reggie looked down the barrel of one of his own pistols, which the girl held in both hands, because the M1911 was a little large for someone so small.

There was a long, silent moment as the girl giggled and met his gaze. The murderous look was gone, replaced by something more playful, like a cat toying with a mouse.

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/SheSeeksPeace

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<p><a href="/tags/afshinmatinasgari/" rel="tag">#AfshinMatinAsgari</a> and the Long History of <a href="/tags/usiranrelations/" rel="tag">#USIranRelations</a> </p><p>Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi speaks with the author of <a href="/tags/axisofempire/" rel="tag">#AxisOfEmpire</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/blogs/news/afshin-matin-asgari-and-the-long-history-of-us-iran-relations" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.versobooks.com/en-ca/blogs/news/afshin-matin-asgari-and-the-long-history-of-us-iran-relations"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.versobooks.com/en-ca/blogs</span><span class="invisible">/news/afshin-matin-asgari-and-the-long-history-of-us-iran-relations</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/iran/" rel="tag">#Iran</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/waroniran/" rel="tag">#warOnIran</a> <a href="/tags/middleeast/" rel="tag">#MiddleEast</a> <a href="/tags/imperialism/" rel="tag">#imperialism</a> <a href="/tags/usimperialism/" rel="tag">#USimperialism</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

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<p>Oops, Typo! A New Exhibition Embraces 500 Years of Printed Mistakes</p><p>The show at Yale Library explores the printing errors, blunders, and gaffes that made literary history.</p><p>by Min Chen</p><p><a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/yale-errata-exhibition-2751007" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="news.artnet.com/art-world/yale-errata-exhibition-2751007"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.artnet.com/art-world/yale</span><span class="invisible">-errata-exhibition-2751007</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

A section of a page from the Wicked Bible of 1631.

The notorious typographical error is visible in the highlighted line 14: "Thou shalt commit adultery" — the word "not" was accidentally omitted from the Seventh Commandment, directly inverting its meaning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographical_error#/media/File:Marked_Wicked_bible.jpg

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<p>📚 Between Two Fires by: Christopher Buehlman</p><p>The year is 1348.</p><p>Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising i...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/between-two-fires" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/between-two-fires"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/between-tw</span><span class="invisible">o-fires</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/horror/" rel="tag">#horror</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/historical/" rel="tag">#historical</a> <a href="/tags/medieval/" rel="tag">#medieval</a></p>

The year is 1348.

Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in a second war on heaven, and that the world of men has fallen behind the lines of conflict. Is it delirium or is it faith?

She believes she has seen the angels of God. She believes the righteous dead speak to her in dreams. And now she has convinced the faithless Thomas to shepherd her across a depraved landscape to Avignon.

There, she tells Thomas, she will fulfill her mission: to confront the evil that has devastated the earth, and to restore to this betrayed, murderous knight the nobility and hope of salvation he long abandoned.

As hell unleashes its wrath, and as the true nature of the girl is revealed, Thomas will find himself on a macabre battleground of angels and demons, saints, and the risen dead, and in the midst of a desperate struggle for nothing less than the soul of man.

An Instant New York Times, USA Today, and Indie Bestseller

Enter a darker age with USA Today bestselling author Christopher Buehlman's Between Two Fires, a medieval horror adventure unlike anything on the shelf. The beloved BookTok sensation is now coming to Nightfire.

And Lucifer said: Let us rise against Him now in all our numbers, and pull the walls of heaven down...

At the Publisher

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<p>March is a great month for queer science fiction, fantasy, and horror book releases; I have 60 on my list. Check them out! <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/queersff/" rel="tag">#QueerSFF</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> </p><p>kilagreene.bearblog.dev/march-2026/</p>

Cover of the book BLACK AS DIAMOND by U.M. Agoawike, which features art of giant crystals with a castle and a tree rising from among them.

Cover of the book SHAKE OUT THE GHOSTS by Al Hess, which features art of a pink cityscape seen through a window.

Cover of the book THESE SHATTERED SPIRES by Cassidy Ellis Salter, which has stylized art of four human figures facing a spiky castle in the distance.

Cover of the book SEASONS OF GLASS & IRON by Amal El-Mohtar, which shows an abstract geometric shape with a rabbit emerging from one side, chasing a fox or coyote into the other side, against the backdrop of a serene-looking countryside.

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<p>In an updated writing version of this meme I vividly hallucinate 1s and 0s onto liquid crystals. </p><p>The future is now! 😂 </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@galacticwriters" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>galacticwriters</span></a></span> @writers <a href="https://lemmy.world/u/books" rel="nofollow">@books</a> @fantasy <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@writingbooks" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>writingbooks</span></a></span> @keepwriting <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@humor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>humor</span></a></span> @humor@lemmy.world @aiop</p><p><a href="/tags/readingmemes/" rel="tag">#ReadingMemes</a> <a href="/tags/meme/" rel="tag">#Meme</a> <a href="/tags/memes/" rel="tag">#Memes</a> <a href="/tags/readallthebooks/" rel="tag">#ReadAllTheBooks</a> <br><a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> <a href="/tags/readers/" rel="tag">#Readers</a><br><a href="/tags/writingmemes/" rel="tag">#WritingMemes</a> <a href="/tags/meme/" rel="tag">#Meme</a> <a href="/tags/memes/" rel="tag">#Memes</a> <a href="/tags/humor/" rel="tag">#Humor</a> <a href="/tags/humour/" rel="tag">#Humour</a> <br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#Author</a> <a href="/tags/authors/" rel="tag">#Authors</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#IndieAuthor</a> <a href="/tags/indiebooks/" rel="tag">#IndieBooks</a> <a href="/tags/amwriting/" rel="tag">#AmWriting</a> <a href="/tags/writerdons/" rel="tag">#Writerdons</a> <a href="/tags/writers/" rel="tag">#Writers</a> <a href="/tags/writer/" rel="tag">#Writer</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#Writing</a> <a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="/tags/writinglife/" rel="tag">#Writinglife</a> <a href="/tags/writersofmastodon/" rel="tag">#WritersOfMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a></p>

Painting of a woman lying in bed reading a book.

Caption: Have you ever realized how surreal reading a book actually is? You stare at marked slices of tree for hours hallucinating vividly.

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<p>Green Book Covers: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-green-book-covers/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-green-book-covers/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesda</span><span class="invisible">y-green-book-covers/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/toptentuesday/" rel="tag">#TopTenTuesday</a> <a href="/tags/stpatricksday/" rel="tag">#StPatricksDay</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

Book cover for The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Image on cover shows a pale-skinned woman wearing a glamorous, silky green gown that shows off a little cleavage. She’s lying back and gently stretching out her arms.

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<p>📚 And Now, Back to You by: B.K. Borison</p><p>Jackson Clark and Delilah Stewart have had their fair share of run-ins over the years, often ending in disaster. While Jackson thrives on routine and organization from the comfort of his radio booth, Delilah loves the spontaneity and adventure out in the field. When they’re partnered again...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/and-now-back-to-you" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/and-now-back-to-you"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/and-now-ba</span><span class="invisible">ck-to-you</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/romance/" rel="tag">#romance</a> <a href="/tags/workplacefiction/" rel="tag">#workplacefiction</a> <a href="/tags/contemporary/" rel="tag">#contemporary</a></p>

Jackson Clark and Delilah Stewart have had their fair share of run-ins over the years, often ending in disaster. While Jackson thrives on routine and organization from the comfort of his radio booth, Delilah loves the spontaneity and adventure out in the field. When they’re partnered against their will to cover a historic snowstorm, they find themselves scrambling to figure out how to work together.

Eager to be taken seriously as a journalist, Delilah offers Jackson a deal: If he can help her ace this assignment, she’ll help him rediscover his long-lost fun side. With unexplored chemistry burning beneath their clashes, the unlikely partnership quickly tumbles into an easy and surprising friendship.

But when other feelings start to enter the equation, can Jackson and Delilah withstand the storm? Or does what happens in the mountains stay in the mountains?

Promises plenty of Borison's signature banter, emotional nuance, and snowed-in charm. New York Times.

Two competing meteorologists are forced to find common ground in this opposites attract, When Harry Met Sally inspired romance, from #1 New York Times bestselling author B.K. Borison.

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<p>"Long was influential in getting Roosevelt the presidential nomination in 1932, but when Roosevelt strayed from his promises to the ‘forgotten man’, he raised hell. [...] Though he was frequently reminded that it was not a junior senator’s place to rock the boat, he paid no attention."</p><p>Jefferson Cowie reviews <a href="/tags/thomasepatterson/" rel="tag">#ThomasEPatterson</a>'s <a href="/tags/americanpopulist/" rel="tag">#AmericanPopulist</a>: <a href="/tags/hueylong/" rel="tag">#HueyLong</a> of <a href="/tags/louisiana/" rel="tag">#Louisiana</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n05/jefferson-cowie/that-damn-smooth-stuff" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n05/jefferson-cowie/that-damn-smooth-stuff"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n0</span><span class="invisible">5/jefferson-cowie/that-damn-smooth-stuff</span></a><br><a href="/tags/hueyplong/" rel="tag">#HueyPLong</a> <a href="/tags/ushistory/" rel="tag">#UShistory</a> <a href="/tags/americanhistory/" rel="tag">#AmericanHistory</a> <a href="/tags/southernhistory/" rel="tag">#SouthernHistory</a> <a href="/tags/populism/" rel="tag">#populism</a> <a href="/tags/thekingfish/" rel="tag">#TheKingfish</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

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The HarperCollins Union has ratified a new contract, including the highest starting pay in publishing.

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<p>Ello sweet and lovely (reading) Friendos <img src="https://eggplant.place/media/emoji/beige.party/blobcatbook.png" class="emoji" alt=":blobcatbook:" title=":blobcatbook:"></p><p>The last two months, I've been caught up reading again! At times where my body needed to relax, recharge, but my brain was still looking to be entertained... I got back to reading more again. 😊</p><p>Halfway through November, I learned about the new Dan Brown book in his Robert Langdon series. It had been a while since I read his books, so I set off, starting with Angels & Demons.<br>At the end of December, I finished the 6th book, the Secret of Secrets. I read another Dan Brown book after that, Deception Point.</p><p>I finished it yesterday. But now... As I started it at the end of December, is this my last finished book of 2025? Or is it the first one of 2026?</p><p>I've never really tracked my reading, but I thought it may be nice to make a thread this year, pinning 📌 it to my profile, and adding the books that I've managed to finish in 2026.</p><p>Maybe Deception Point was the last of 2025, maybe it's the first of 2026... But this is the first post of my <a href="/tags/booksin2026/" rel="tag">#BooksIn2026</a>. <img src="https://eggplant.place/media/emoji/beige.party/blobcatbook.png" class="emoji" alt=":blobcatbook:" title=":blobcatbook:"></p><p>I've now started a re-read of the Hunger Game series, which I'll read in the order of their release.</p><p>Books 📚 of 2026:<br>*January*<br>1. Deception Point - Dan Brown<br>2. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins<br>3. Catching Fire (the Hunger Games series, book 2) - Suzanne Collins <br>4. Mockingjay (the Hunger Games series, book 3) - Suzanne Collins <br>5. Storm Front (the Dresden Files, book 1) - Jim Butcher <br>6. Fool Moon (the Dresden Files, book 2) - Jim Butcher <br>*February*<br>7. Grave Peril (the Dresden Files, book 3) - Jim Butcher <br>8. The Ritual Bath (Decker/Lazarus series, book 1) - Faye Kellerman<br>9. Sacred and Profane (Decker/Lazarus series, book 2) - Faye Kellerman<br>10. Milk and Honey (Decker/Lazarus series, book 3) - Faye Kellerman<br>11. Day of Atonement (Decker/Lazarus series, book 4) - Faye Kellerman<br>12. False Prophet (Decker/Lazarus series, book 5) - Faye Kellerman<br>13. Grievous Sin (Decker/Lazarus series, book 6) - Faye Kellerman<br>14. Sanctuary (Decker/Lazarus series, book 7) - Faye Kellerman <br>*March*<br>15. Justice (Decker/Lazarus series, book 8) - Faye Kellerman<br>16. Prayers for the Dead (Decker/Lazarus series, book 9) - Faye Kellerman<br>17. Serpent's Tooth (Decker/Lazarus series, book 10) - Faye Kellerman <br>18. Jupiter's Bones (Decker/Lazarus series, book 11) - Faye Kellerman <br>*April*<br>19. Stalker (Decker/Lazarus series, book 12) - Faye Kellerman </p><p><img src="https://eggplant.place/media/emoji/beige.party/playstation.png" class="emoji" alt=":playstation:" title=":playstation:"> <img src="https://eggplant.place/media/emoji/beige.party/pixy_party.gif" class="emoji" alt=":pixy_party:" title=":pixy_party:"></p><p><a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

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<p>If you're looking for a Christmas Romance audiobook, I've narrated a great one!</p><p>Lily is a single mom starting over in a small mountain town. Last Christmas, her brother's hot best friend Beckett kissed her under the mistletoe. This year she's newly arrived, newly divorced, and hoping for a second chance in more ways than one.</p><p>Lily is a great character: she is a woman who knows what she wants and is not afraid to go after it. And Becket is the hunky mountain man we all deserve: caring, together, and more than ready to appreciate a good woman who comes his way. </p><p>Taken by the Mountain Man by Kelsie Calloway is one of my top three best selling romance audiobooks of the year. At just 42 minutes long, you can listen in a single session!</p><p>If you like a story with a big heart and sizzling sex scenes, this one's for you. Go on and cozy up with a nice hot mountain man romance! </p><p>The books is available for Kindle and Kindle Unlimited from Amazon, and the audiobook is available from Amazon, Audible and Apple Books. </p><p><a href="https://geni.us/TBTMM" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>geni.us/TBTMM</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@audiofiction" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>audiofiction</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="/tags/audiobook/" rel="tag">#Audiobook</a> <a href="/tags/audiobooks/" rel="tag">#Audiobooks</a> <a href="/tags/audiofiction/" rel="tag">#Audiofiction</a> <a href="/tags/audiodrama/" rel="tag">#Audiodrama</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#Book</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/romance/" rel="tag">#Romance</a> <a href="/tags/romancebooks/" rel="tag">#Romancebooks</a> <a href="/tags/bbw/" rel="tag">#BBW</a> <a href="/tags/bbwromance/" rel="tag">#BBWRomance</a> <a href="/tags/mountainmanromance/" rel="tag">#MountainManRomance</a> <a href="/tags/christmas/" rel="tag">#Christmas</a> <a href="/tags/mistletoe/" rel="tag">#Mistletoe</a> <a href="/tags/kindle/" rel="tag">#Kindle</a> <a href="/tags/kindleunlimited/" rel="tag">#KindleUnlimited</a> <a href="/tags/audible/" rel="tag">#Audible</a></p>

A white smartphone plays the audiobook of Taken by the Mountain Man. In the background, snow falls over a cozy mountain cabin. A sticker in the bottom right corner says: "Available in Audio."

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<p>If you can get 1 percent better each day for one year, you’ll end up thirty-seven times better by the time you’re done. </p><p>Conversely, if you get 1 percent worse each day for one year, you’ll decline nearly down to zero. </p><p>What starts as a small win or a minor setback accumulates into something much more.</p><p>James Clear, Atomic Habits</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/nonfiction/" rel="tag">#nonfiction</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/jamesclear/" rel="tag">#JamesClear</a> <a href="/tags/atomichabits/" rel="tag">#AtomicHabits</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/amreading/" rel="tag">#amreading</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/readers/" rel="tag">#readers</a> <a href="/tags/quotes/" rel="tag">#quotes</a> <a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#quote</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

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<p>Book Review: China Mountain Zhang<br> A stone cold classic of future lives which holds up more than 30 years after it was written. <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.nz/@DrEddieClark" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>DrEddieClark</span></a></span> has our review at the NOAF blog</p><p><a href="http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/03/book-review-china-mountain-zhang.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nerds-feather.com/2026/03/book-review-china-mountain-zhang.html"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nerds-feather.com/2026/03/</span><span class="invisible">book-review-china-mountain-zhang.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> @bookstodon</p>

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<p>How Einstein revolutionized the meaning of “where” and “when”</p><p>Even space and time are relative in Einstein's universe. That means our old notions of "where" and "when" no longer apply on cosmic scales.</p><p>by Ethan Siegel</p><p><a href="https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/einstein-revolutionized-where-when/?utm_source=nautilus.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=are-we-all-doomed-to-develop-ai-psychosis&_bhlid=c8e74783f471d1d0672424048a5359c94a883770" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/einstein-revolutionized-where-when/?utm_source=nautilus.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=are-we-all-doomed-to-develop-ai-psychosis&_bhlid=c8e74783f471d1d0672424048a5359c94a883770"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bigthink.com/starts-with-a-ban</span><span class="invisible">g/einstein-revolutionized-where-when/?utm_source=nautilus.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=are-we-all-doomed-to-develop-ai-psychosis&_bhlid=c8e74783f471d1d0672424048a5359c94a883770</span></a></p><p>Einstein at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1630" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1630"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1630</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/physics/" rel="tag">#physics</a></p>

Dr. Albert Einstein writes out an equation for the density of the Milky Way on the blackboard at the Carnegie Institute, Mt. Wilson Observatory headquarters in Pasadena, Calif., Jan. 14, 1931.

A black-and-white photograph of Einstein with wild white hair and a thick moustache, wearing a tweed jacket, writing on a blackboard with chalk. He turns his head toward the camera with a lively, alert expression. The equation R_ik = 0 is written in large chalk letters on the dark board behind him, with additional partially visible equations above.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#/media/File:Albert_Einstein_writing_on_a_blackboard_in_Pasadena_(1931).jpg

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<p>25% off @ Smashwords: <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1667520" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smashwords.com/books/view/1667520"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smashwords.com/books/view/</span><span class="invisible">1667520</span></a></p><p>The Hunter seeks peace and quiet to mourn the loss of her best friend in a world that seems bound and determined to make that task impossible. Enemies attack when she’d rather be alone, allies can’t take a hint and the arch-demon Wrath seeks the Hunter’s hand in marriage, even though she’d sooner kill him.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

(Left) The cover of She Seeks Peace, by Owen Tyme.

The background is a snow-capped, craggy mountain with green, grassy hills at its base, which feature yellow and blue flowers.

The foreground is dominated by the round symbol for peace, in gold. Along the bottom of it are two olive branches. At the top is a dove in flight. Arranged on the lower three spokes of it are three figures based on the AIGA symbol for a woman. The figure on the right is blue. The one in the middle is a very dark gray, bordering on black, which includes a top hat. The figure on the left is red and has horns, like a demon.

(Right) The background is a view from the interior of a gun's barrel, with the rifling very apparent and the following quote over the top:

Reggie looked down the barrel of one of his own pistols, which the girl held in both hands, because the M1911 was a little large for someone so small.

There was a long, silent moment as the girl giggled and met his gaze. The murderous look was gone, replaced by something more playful, like a cat toying with a mouse.

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/SheSeeksPeace

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<p>Celebrating Women’s History Month</p><p>Celebrate Women’s History Month with JSTOR Daily. We hope you’ll find the stories below a valuable resource for classroom or leisure reading.</p><p>By The Editors</p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/womens-history-month-editors-picks/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/womens-history-month-editors-picks/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/womens-history</span><span class="invisible">-month-editors-picks/</span></a></p><p>Women literature at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=women+literature" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=women+literature"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">cts/search/?query=women+literature</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/womenhistorymonth/" rel="tag">#WomenHistoryMonth</a></p>

Wollstonecraft in 1790–1791, by John Opie

John Opie - Tate Britain

An oil portrait of Wollstonecraft against a near-black background. She has loosely curled ash-blonde hair held back by a white bandeau. Her gaze is direct and composed. She wears a deep teal draped garment with a white fichu at the neckline, and rests one hand on an open book. A quill and inkwell are visible to the upper left.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Wollstonecraft#/media/File:MaryWollstonecraft.jpg

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<p>25% off @ Smashwrods: <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1657116" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smashwords.com/books/view/1657116"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smashwords.com/books/view/</span><span class="invisible">1657116</span></a></p><p>After encountering the worst life has to offer, including the death of his wife and child, destruction of his home world, an addiction forced on him by the one responsible and a third of the galaxy falling under the heel of that tyrant, Levi Jacobs, a wizard, seeks to unravel the secrets of time and fate.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefantasy/" rel="tag">#sciencefantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

(Left) The cover of The Inverted Glass, by Owen Tyme.

The Background is a pink and purple nebula in space.

The foreground is largely line art, in white, with a black shadow outline.

At the center is an hourglass. The bottom has black sand, with a white figure standing in it. The top has is an inverted mirror image of the bottom, with a black figure in white sand.

The hourglass serves as the balance point for a set of scales, which hold a heart and a feather. The heart is on the left and the feather on the right. The heart is lower than the feather.

(Right) Lying in blue sand is a heart made of the same sand, full of cracks. It glows from the inside in a warm, yellow color. Over that is the following quote:

Nicole felt an extreme kind of loss, realizing she’d been stolen away from the afterlife, just before finding out if she deserved punishment or not!

“How dare you do this to me? Why?”

“I’m always in need of strong spirits and I’ve seen none stronger. You have unique talents I refuse to see go to waste.”

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<p>📚 Alien Clay by: Adrian Tchaikovsky</p><p>Professor Arton Daghdev has always wanted to study alien life in person. But when his political activism sees him exiled to the planet Kiln, condemned to work under an unfamiliar sky until he dies, his idealistic wish becomes a terrible reality.</p><p>Kiln boasts a ravenous, chaotic ecosystem. Its monstrous alien life means Arton wil...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/alien-clay" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/alien-clay</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a></p>

Professor Arton Daghdev has always wanted to study alien life in person. But when his political activism sees him exiled to the planet Kiln, condemned to work under an unfamiliar sky until he dies, his idealistic wish becomes a terrible reality.

Kiln boasts a ravenous, chaotic ecosystem. Its monstrous alien life means Arton will risk death on a daily basis – if the camp’s oppressive regime doesn’t kill him first. But, if he survives, Kiln’s lost civilization holds a wondrous, terrible secret. It will redefine life and intelligence as he knows it – and might just set him free.

They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind...
Alien Clay is a thrilling tale of alien encounter – from the acclaimed Arthur C. Clarke Award-winner Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Unputdownable – Stephen Baxter, author of Proxima

Heart-in-the-mouth fantastic – New Scientist

Restlessly brainy and utterly involving – Daily Mail

The perfect gateway into what makes Tchaikovsky great – SciFiNow

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<p>Lost Archimedes Page from Medieval Manuscript Discovered in France</p><p>A page long thought lost from one of the most important surviving manuscripts of antiquity has now been identified in a French museum, offering fresh insight into both ancient science and medieval book culture.</p><p><a href="https://www.medievalists.net/2026/03/lost-archimedes-page-from-medieval-manuscript-discovered-in-france/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.medievalists.net/2026/03/lost-archimedes-page-from-medieval-manuscript-discovered-in-france/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.medievalists.net/2026/03/l</span><span class="invisible">ost-archimedes-page-from-medieval-manuscript-discovered-in-france/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/mathematics/" rel="tag">#mathematics</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a></p>

Archimedes the Thinker by the Italian painter Nicolò Barabino. It shows Archimedes sitting in a chair with his feet stretched out in front. His arms are resting on the high-backed chair. A table with a papyrus on it.

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<p>Now is the time, through March 31st, to nominate a book of imaginative fiction for this year's Ursula K. Le Guin prize, which anyone is encouraged to do. To find out what kind of books are considered, see what has been shortlisted in previous years, and find the form to make your nomination, here's further information.<br><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/ursulakleguin/" rel="tag">#UrsulaKLeGuin</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://www.ursulakleguin.com/prize26" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.ursulakleguin.com/prize26</a></p>

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<p>He said a lot of what I think. I feel like this is a growing consequence of consumerism. Treating art more like it’s a product rather than a process. I also think that the people that actively do not choose to read, but want to become authors, they are the very same kinds of people that really want their brains to be treated like an LLM. Video, Writers who don't read books: A Response, youtube.com <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbZAakIN8QY&si=uSTVIF70iBYapX8y" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbZAakIN8QY&si=uSTVIF70iBYapX8y"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbZAak</span><span class="invisible">IN8QY&si=uSTVIF70iBYapX8y</span></a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a></p>

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