Today I finished reading "Turning to Birds: the Power and Beauty of Noticing" by Lili Taylor. This is a collection of essays, each mostly focused on one type of bird. It is a combination of her experiences in both birdwatching and bird conservation and how those activities have changed her. In particular, the essays on migrating and on the chimney swifts were interesting to me, and the bluebird/sparrow one somewhat heartbreaking.
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Some #PeerTube video accounts you might want to follow about #Books #Writing & #Authors :
➡️ @kerry_ferrand - In-depth book reviews and book hauls
➡️ @faereviews - Brief reviews & shorts about romantic fantasy books
➡️ @weirdwriter - Blind author posting videos on writing, accessibility, gaming etc
➡️ @mcoorlim - Steampunk novelist, retro game fan
➡️ @athenaproductions - Irreverent sweary videos about history, philosophy, literature
➡️ @audiobooks - Well-performed public domain audiobooks
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@queerromanceclub #QueerRomanceClub
I apologise, I’ve let the ball drop for the Queer Romance Club November read (got ever so slightly frantically busy the last few weeks…).
The theme is classics/old favourites, and I thought maybe instead of running a vote and picking a single book, queer romance fans can drop their recommendations in the comments:
- maybe the first romance you ever read that wasn’t just straight m/f (even if it was m/f with a bisexual character etc)
- nostalgic reads which might not hold up today but which you still have a soft spot for
- a classic of the genre which you think is the gold standard (I don’t know, like LoTR is for fantasy)
- even just books that are a few years old now that you think did not get the attention they deserved when they were released.
No need to be a regular participant in the QRC, this is just about blowing up those TBR lists :)
(But more about it here, FYI:
https://mastodon.au/@wendypalmer/113144943004145104)
#books @bookstodon #reading #LGBTQBooks #LGBTQRomance #romancelandia #RomanceReads
The weather (in the Northern Hemisphere) is getting chilly, so it's a great time to warm up with a Mountain Man!
My best-selling romance audiobook of 2024 was Taken by the Mountain Man by Kelsie Calloway, which I narrated as Eden Cavell.
Lily is a divorced single mom starting over in a small mountain town… hoping for a second chance at romance with her brother's hot best friend Beckett! She can't forget their kiss under the mistletoe last Christmas. Maybe this is the year she can make her dreams come true.
Kelsie Calloway writes big-hearted, high heat romances with determined female leads, sweetheart male love interests, and sizzling sex scenes. Lily is a protagonist you can cheer for and Beckett is the kind of guy you'd hook up with your sister (if you weren't single yourself).
If you like second chance romance, brother's best friend romance, mountain man romance, or just plain spicy romance, this is a bestseller for a reason.
At 42 minutes, you can listen to this in one go and it makes a good bedtime story.
Available in audiobook on Apple Books, Amazon and Audible, plus in ebook on Amazon.
#Audiobook #Audiobooks #Audiofiction #Books #Bookstodon #Romance #RomanceBooks #Romancelandia
📚 Yours Truly by: Abby Jimenez
Dr. Briana Ortiz's life is seriously flatlining. Her divorce is just about finalized, her brother's running out of time to find a kidney donor, and that promotion she wants? Oh, that's probably going to the new man-doctor who's already registering eighty-friggin'-seven on Briana's "pain in my ...
https://bookblabla.com/book/yours-truly
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #humorous #generalfiction #romance #contemporaryfiction
So here's #Autumn2025 with box fresh #ShortStories from Helon Habila, Ephameron, Caroline Clark, Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall and Kasimma – plus Chadwick Allen on the classics of #Indigenous #literature
Catch them all at https://fictionable.world
#books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #translation #blog #bookstodon @bookstodon
What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? November 4
Nobody's Girl A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice PDF Ebook
How quickly this moment would pass, how deeply it impressed itself on both their hearts.
The love of a mother for a child is profound; the trust of that child in the mother is unyielding.
Isn't this what matters, what really, really matters? Our love for one another, our determination to be there, our relationships that hold and hug us tight?
Seaside Story canvas print -- https://stevehendersonart.com/featured/seaside-story-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print
#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #family #love #reading #books
How a misread Arabic tale misled generations of historians about the Black Death's rapid spread
by University of Exeter
by Stephanie Baum & Robert Egan
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-misread-arabic-tale-misled-generations.html
Black death at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/698
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book talk: #RaidingTheHeartland
"Author #WilliamLopez documented the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (#ICE) raids on small and rural towns -- and the fallout for families and local economies. The book is based on his own field work in communities and workplaces."
https://www.c-span.org/program/book-tv/raiding-the-heartland/666302
#USpol #USpolitics #ICEraids #ICEdetentions #immigrantRights #immigrantWorkers #stateRepression #familySeparation #racializedCommunities #racializedPolicing #books @bookstodon
I need this machine really badly.
What Did Sigmund Freud Have to Say About Leonardo da Vinci?
According to Sigmund Freud, Leonardo da Vinci’s early life experiences as a child raised by a single mother shaped his art and research.
by Anastasiia Kirpalov
https://www.thecollector.com/what-sigmund-freud-say-leonardo-da-vinci/
Freud and Da Vinci at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/391
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1629
Another book list to tempt you, this one thanks to the excellent journal, World Literature Today, of their choice of seventy-five notable translations into English published in 2025.
#books #literature #translations #reading @bookstodon
https://communitymedia.video/w/h1jdbHm8xTj5VEDuCWAbBW
#lispyGopherClimate #technology #podcast #weekly
featuring @kentpitman @ramin_hal9001 @jns
Longterm #reliability , the #climateCrisis , technology and knowledge
Kent has found the source to his Cross referenced editing facility from Open University #lisp #lispm example.
#scifi #books with this theme? Ending of Cats Cradle?
On the #art side check, @prahou 's #unix_surrealism, https://photronic.art
Happy #lambdaMOO year! 35 years! https://lambda.moo.mud.org as always.
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43 of the Most Iconic Short Stories in the English Language
From Washington Irving to Kristen Roupenian
by Emily Temple
Short stories at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/634
One of my favourite romance books out of all the audiobooks I've narrated is Scar by Kelsie Calloway. (I narrated this one as Eden Cavell.)
Scar's a reclusive mountain man who's given up on love. Marilyn's the natural disaster he didn't see coming. When they face an Alaskan avalanche together, she turns his world upside-down!
Scar is a 6'6", rugged Alakan outdoorsman and I am a petite woman. I love that audiobook narration means I got to voice such a gruff, manly character -- who I would never be cast to play in a normal acting situation.
This story is a classic grumpy-sunshine pairing and it's also an Experienced Older Man + Younger Woman age gap romance. It's both sweet and spicy.
There's one particular spicy story element that deserves a content warning (you'll love it or hate it), so I'll put that under a content warning below so you only see the spoiler if you want to.
Available in audiobook on Apple Books, Amazon and Audible, plus in ebook on Amazon.
#Romance #Audiobook #Audiobooks #Bookstodon #Books #Ebooks #Audible #Amazon #AppleBooks #RomanceBooks #Romancelandia
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Settling accounts
Before he was famous, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was Louise Dupin’s scribe. It’s her ideas on inequality that fill his writings
by Rebecca Wilkin
Rousseau at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1286
Celebrating Sir Tim Berners-Lee, 2025 Internet Archive Hero Award Recipient https://blog.archive.org/2025/11/05/celebrating-sir-tim-berners-lee-2025-internet-archive-hero-award-recipient/
"The dusk crept out across the fields wiping out the day's light."
Black April (1927)
American author Julia Peterkin died #OTD in 1961.
In 1929 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Novel/Literature for her novel Scarlet Sister Mary. She wrote several novels about the plantation South, especially the Gullah people of the Lowcountry. She was one of the few white authors who wrote about the African-American experience.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Peterkin
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Belle da Costa, the woman who concealed her origins in 1905 and ended up running New York’s most legendary library
The Morgan Library in New York pays tribute to its first director, who navigated a racist society and went on to lead the cultural institution for over two decades
by Use Lahoz
Space travel is the lifeblood of the Sol system, connecting colonies scattered across planets, moons, and the far reaches of the Oort Cloud. Find out more! https://www.mpaxauthor.com/worldbuilding-spotlight-space-travel-in-the-sol-system/
#WritingCommunity #books #readers #sciencefiction #worldbuiling
📚 The Chrysalids by: John Wyndham
David lives in a tight-knit community of religious and genetic fundamentalists, who exist in a state of constant alert for any deviation from what they perceive as the norm of God’s creation—deviations broadly classified as 'offenses' and 'blasphemies'. Offenses consist of plants and animals tha...
https://bookblabla.com/book/the-chrysalids
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #sciencefiction #dystopianfiction #literary
📚 All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by: Bryn Greenwood
As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations,...
https://bookblabla.com/book/all-the-ugly-and-wonderful-things
