Abridged crossover idea:
Homeinvader eats an old lady's ham-fisted construction and falls for ugly guy who with a mattresses piled on a vegetable, and strange footwear mating rituals, is determined fit to govern. 😂
@reading @bookstodon @books @humor @humor@lemmy.world @aiop
#WritingPrompt
#ReadingMemes #Memes #ReadAllTheBooks #Humor #Humour
#Reading #Readers #ReadersOfMastodon #ReadingCommunity
#Book #Books #Novel #Novels #Fiction
#Bookwyrm #Bookworm #Bookstodon #BookLove
Review: Bloodtide by Sophie Burnham
@princejvstin.com has our review for your Friday
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/review-bloodtide-by-sophie-burnham.html
"Sargassa and Bloodtide are the queer forward alternate history/future history SF novels you may not have known you wanted, but are here for you."
#books #fantasy #sciencefiction #alternatehistory #bookstodon @bookstodon
American journalist, teacher, playwright, and poet Angelina Weld Grimké died #OTD in 1958.
Grimké was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural and artistic movement centered in Harlem, New York, during the 1920s and 1930s. Some of her well-known poems include "The Eyes of My Regret," "Tenebris," and "The Black Finger." These works often reflect her personal struggles and the broader societal challenges faced by African Americans.
Terry Pratchett’s on Tolkien’s influence on fantasy:
J.R.R. Tolkien has become a sort of mountain, appearing in all subsequent fantasy in the way that Mt. Fuji appears so often in Japanese prints. Sometimes it’s big and up close. Sometimes it’s a shape on the horizon. Sometimes it’s not there at all, which means that the artist either has made a deliberate decision against the mountain, which is interesting in itself, or is in fact standing on Mt. Fuji.
For his first trick…
"The art of the murderer… is the same as the art of the magician," is a line in John Dickson Carr's first novel It Walks by Night.
By John Mark Ockerbloom
https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/07/for-his-first-trick/
British poet and literary critic Lascelles Abercrombie died #OTD in 1938.
He was a prominent member of the Georgian poets. He was particularly known for his verse dramas & dramatic monologues such as The Sale of Saint Thomas and Deborah.
French science writer Amédée Guillemin was born #OTD in 1826.
Guillemin presently started writing books of physics and astronomy which became very popular. He wrote "The Sky" and "The Physical World" (5 vols.). He also wrote a series of booklets about astronomy and physics under the title "Small popular encyclopaedia", a scientifically sound but accessible collection about sciences and their applications.
Books by Amédée Guillemin at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/9614
A little late, but The Millions has come out with its fall book list and there is plenty to eagerly anticipate. Some are already on my to-read list, but I did run across a few more that have been added, such as: Beasts of the Sea by Iida Turpeinen, Hazel V. Carby's Racial Fictions, Fear Less by Tracy K. Smith, and Karina Pacheco Medrano's The Year of the Wind.
#books #reading #TBR @bookstodon
https://themillions.com/2025/10/the-millions-great-fall-2025-book-preview.html
finished reading Skyward Flight: The Collection: Sunreach / ReDawn / Evershore 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
by Brandon Sanderson & Janci Patterson.
While the hero of the series is lost in the Nowhere, her fellow pilots get on with being awesome and taking the fight to the oppressors. Decent YA fare with lots of dogfights, light humour and a little romance. The hyperslugs are adorable.
#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #SFF #SciFi #YoungAdult
@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de
"Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses. Poets are the policemen of language; they are always arresting those old reprobates the words."
Letter to Ellen O'Leary (3 February 1889)
~William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939)
Public Domain Stories
Explore Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original Sherlock Holmes adventures — preserved and shared by https://www.gutenberg.org/.
Distributed Proofreaders has posted its 50,000th unique title! It is "A Dictionary of the Art of Printing."
Read about it here:
https://blog.pgdp.net/2025/12/07/celebrating-50000-titles/
Book at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77410
Congratulations to all who worked on it.
#introduction time again.
Hi everyone! I'm Elizabeth. I am a freelance editor, specialising in SF/F.
When I don't have my nose stuck in a book, I can be found playing TTRPGs. At the moment, I'm playing in a campaign of Mouse Guard.
I am also the caretaker of one cranky grandma of a dog, of whom you can expect the occasional photo.
Book Review: The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah
A good entryway to non-Western fantasy for readers in search of new ground
our co-founder, @The_G , has our review at the blog
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/10/book-review-stardust-thief-by-chelsea.html
#books #fantasy #review #bookstodon @bookstodon
American illustrator, author, youth leader Daniel Carter Beard died #OTD in 1941.
In 1905, Beard founded an organization called "The Sons of Daniel Boone," which aimed to teach boys outdoor skills, woodcraft, and self-reliance. This organization was one of the first to emphasize the importance of outdoor education and adventure for youth. The Sons of Daniel Boone was later merged with the Boy Scouts of America.
Books by Daniel Carter Beard at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/8612
Remember lying on the floor reading? I read science fiction and went to other worlds in my mind.
My first was The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet written by Eleanor Cameron in 1954.
It's set in Pacific Grove California & on Basidium, a tiny habitable moon of Earth, invisible from the planet in its orbit 50,000 miles away.
I need to get back to those worlds.
Photo from inside Green Apple Books in #SanFrancisco #SciFi #Books
@charliejane @annaleen @cstross @scalzi @pluralistic
finished reading The Cruel Stars 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
by John Birmingham.
Action space opera that doesn't take itself too seriously. Humanity has become a diverse species dangerously dependent on digital & genomic enhancement - a zealous puritan strain plans to change that. A few too many characters to begin with - none of them I connected with, and many of whom die - but they come together nicely.
#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #SciFi
@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de
“It’s devastating for us to know that these kids who put in hundreds of hours of hard work had that torn away from them because of the objections of a single parent,” says Picoult... "I had 20 books banned in one school district in Florida alone because of a single parent’s objection and she admitted she had not read any of the books...She said that they were banned for ‘mature content and sexuality.’ There were books of mine that did not even have a single kiss in them.”
#books #writing #writersofmastodon #WritingCommunity #bookstodon @bookstodon
📚 Little Secrets by: Jennifer Hillier
All it takes to unravel a life is one little secret...
Marin had the perfect life. Married to her college sweetheart, she owns a chain of upscale hair salons, and Derek runs his own company. They're admired in their community and are a loving family—until their world falls apart the day their son...
https://bookblabla.com/book/little-secrets
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #thrillers #crimefiction #psychological
Book Review: The Nameless Land by Kate Elliott
Elen’s story continues and finishes in a land of lost magic, royal intrigue and much more
@Princejvstin has our review at the NOAF blog
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/10/book-review-nameless-land-by-kate.html
#bookstodon #books #review @bookstodon
New #BookReview on our #library #blog: 'White Poverty.'
https://libraryguides.berea.edu/blogs/system/from-our-shelves-iwhite-povertyi
#FromOurShelves #books #reading #review #poverty #Christian #ThisIsAmerica 💙📚
@bookstodon
@bookstodon@a.gup.pe
@librarians
Thanks for hosting #Writephant, @neve
My books, low-key fantasy with romance, mostly queer, are currently in the annual end of year #Smashwords sale — they’re already affordable but now they’re extra affordable, all 25% off:
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/wendylpalmer
but you’ll also find them on #KoboPlus or #Hoopla, or any of your favourite ebook retailers. They’re not for everyone…but the readers who like them…REALLY like them 😊
@bookstodon #books #reading #GayRomance #IndieAuthor #HolidayReading
![Beard's frontispiece for Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
Daniel Carter Beard - Library of Congress[1]
"Knight in armor tilting at man in modern dress in tree onto which a man in modern dress has climbed for refuge", "Published as frontispiece in: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / Samuel Clemens. New York : Charles L. Webster & Co., 1889. ", "1 drawing : pen and ink over graphite underdrawing ; sheet 36 x 57.1 cm."](/proxy/post_attachment/250779/0a6872f0d1.jpg "Beard's frontispiece for Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
Daniel Carter Beard - Library of Congress[1]
\"Knight in armor tilting at man in modern dress in tree onto which a man in modern dress has climbed for refuge\", \"Published as frontispiece in: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / Samuel Clemens. New York : Charles L. Webster & Co., 1889. \", \"1 drawing : pen and ink over graphite underdrawing ; sheet 36 x 57.1 cm.\"")
