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Okay, how about we do one more review before the year is out? Coming soon to https://inquisitivebiologist.com

#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Dinosaurs #Fossils #Evolution #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Scicomm @bookstodon

A photo of four books standing on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books.

On the left, a stack of three books, showing their spines. From top to bottom: Spinosaur Tales, The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt, and Jurassic West.

On the right, standing up, The Desert Bones, heavily annotated with yellow post-it notes. The cover shows a colour drawing of Spinosaurus on a sandy plain with two crocodylians in the foreground, and some sauropods in the background. The drawing is by Joschua Knüppe.

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📚 Accidentally Amy by: Lynn Painter

A stolen latte results in a meet-cute for the ages in this brand-new edition, with bonus content, of New York Times bestselling author Lynn Painter's rom-com Accidentally Amy.

Isabella Shay is usually a very honest person. But when she’s running late for her first day at her dream job and the barist...

https://bookblabla.com/book/accidentally-amy

@bookstodon

#books #reading #libraries #fiction #romance #contemporaryfiction #women

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@adriabailton thank you for hosting the last #writephant of 2025 😊

#SelfPromo

The #Smashwords sale is in its last few days (ends 11:59 p.m. Pacific January 1st US time, so Australians have to the middle of 2 Jan)

All mine are 25% off, if you’re in the mood for well-rated quirky/low-key/non-epic fantasy with queer romance:

https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/wendylpalmer

there’s plenty more to browse too. I’ve got a few queued up, but the one I’ve already read, and really liked was, The King is Dead, by Naomi Libicki, for a not-European-set fantasy about a man who must look after his deeply traumatised cousin, while uncovering a conspiracy within his own family and beyond.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1474178

#fantasy #books #BookSale @bookstodon

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They were grown men or at least had lived for several decades, which in some societies is considered the same thing.

Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

#books #discworld

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#OTD in 1850.

Alfred Tennyson is named Poet Laureate of the UK in succession to William Wordsworth, but only after Samuel Rogers has declined the offer because of his age and Tennyson is assured that birthday odes will not be required of him.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2987

#books

10 ⁄ 13 More details Alfred Tennyson, portrait by P. Krämer.

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#OTD in 1918.

Wilfred Owen is killed in action aged 25, at the Sambre–Oise Canal, with only five of his poems published. News of his death reaches his parents in Shrewsbury a week later on Armistice Day.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/517

#books #literature #poetry

9 ⁄ 14 More details Portrait of Wilfred Owen, found in a collection of his poems from 1920.

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Endre Ady was born #OTD in 1877.

Some of his notable poetry collections include "Új versek" (New Poems, 1906), "A Holnap" (Tomorrow, 1908), and "A halottak élén" (At the Head of the Dead, 1918).

Books by Endre Ady at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/39489

#books #literature #poetry

Endre Ady, hungarian writer. Aladár Székely - Scan from the original work.

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I WROTE FOR PULPS!

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Do you normally read books with less than 4 stars?

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#OTD in 1924.

The New York Times published evidence from Edwin Hubble stating that the Andromeda Nebula, previously believed to be part of the Milky Way, is in fact another galaxy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hubble

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/54776

#books #astronomy

Studio Portrait of Edwin Powell Hubble. Photographer: Johan Hagemeyer, Camera Portraits Carmel. Photograph signed by photographer, dated 1931.

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British Library Exhibit Reveals Lives of Medieval Women

By Madeleine Muzdakis

https://mymodernmet.com/british-library-medieval-women/?utm_campaign=daily-digest&utm_content=link&utm_source=convertkit&utm_term=11212024&utm_medium=email

#books #literature

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What I Read in 2025: https://lydiaschoch.com/what-i-read-in-2025/

@bookstodon

#Books #AmReading

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The Inquisitive Biologist looks back at 2025 and picks his five favourite books. Palaeontology, aerobiology, speleology, degrowth, and geomicrobiology top this year's list.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/12/31/year-list-the-inquisitive-biologists-top-5-reads-of-2025/

#Books #BookOfTheYear #BookReview #Bookstodon #Scicomm #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Aerobiology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Speleology #Caves #Lechuguilla #Economics #Degrowth #Microbiology #Geology #Geomicrobiology #EdgarAllanPoe #EAPoe #Biography #Literature #Goth #Gothic #Horror #ScienceConvention #ScienceFair @markwitton @princetonupress @princetonnature @Carl_Zimmer @timparrique @TetZoo @bookstodon

A composite picture of five book covers.

The top row shows three covers: King Tyrant (with a moody Tyrannosaurus rex picture by Mark Witton), Air-Borne (showing a colourful picture of lots of spores, pollen, and other small airborne particles), and Lechuguilla Cave (showing an otherworldly photo of a cave with yellow ecrustations fringing an azure blue/green pool)

The bottom row shows two covers: Slow Down or Die (showing a photo of part of a large merry-go-round with people in seats that hang from chains) and Intraterrestrials (showing a colourful aerial picture of a hot spring with yellow, pink, and green colours caused by microbes)

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Pulp Books: Joyless & Twisted !

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YOUTH PERVERTED! Teenage Immorality Blamed on Obscene Literature

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. By Ken Kesey.

You’re a half-Native guy in a mental hospital (it’s the 1950s) for 20 years, when a complete asshole conman white dude shows up thinking he can control everything; since he has little regard for his own life or that of others he succeeds in the way a wrecking ball succeeds in its task.

2 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈

CW: hate speech, racism, misogyny, cultural appropriation

@bookstodon #books #reading #bookstodon #mentalhealth

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📚 Deep Freeze by: Michael C. Grumley

The accident came quickly. With no warning. In the dead of night, a precipitous plunge into a freezing river trapped everyone inside the bus. It was then that Army veteran John Reiff’s life came to an end. Extinguished in the sudden rush of frigid water.

There was no expecta...

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#books #reading #libraries #fiction #thrillers #technologicalfiction #suspensefiction #sciencefiction

The accident came quickly. With no warning. In the dead of night, a precipitous plunge into a freezing river trapped everyone inside the bus. It was then that Army veteran John Reiff’s life came to an end. Extinguished in the sudden rush of frigid water.

There was no expectation of survival. None. Let alone waking up beneath blinding hospital lights. Struggling to move, or see, or even breathe. But the doctors assure him that everything is normal. That things will improve. And yet, he has a strange feeling that there's something they're not telling him.

As Reiff's mind and body gradually recover, he becomes certain that the doctors are lying to him. One by one, puzzle pieces are slowly falling into place, and he soon realizes that things are not at all what they seem. Critical information is being kept from him. Secrets. Supposedly for his own good. But who is doing this? Why? And the most important question: can he keep himself alive long enough to uncover the truth?

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

From the bestselling author of the Breakthrough series: In his next near-future thriller, Michael C. Grumley explores humanity’s thirst for immortality—at any cost...

A fast-paced juggernaut of a story, where revelations pile upon revelations, building to a stunning conclusion that will leave readers clamoring for more - James Rollins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sig

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A Review of Grief Eater: https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-grief-eater/

#BookReview #Books #Horror #Zombies #LGBTQ

@bookstodon

Book cover for Grief Eater by Emma Osborne. Image on cover is a drawing of a zombie with green skin and long, wavy black hair who is holding her head up and back and looks like she’s yelling in pain. There is a little blood around her mouth.

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I'm filling out the promts for the #storygraph Challenges 2026 and I'm open for recommendations

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TIL: over two dozen Philip K. Dick stories are in the public domain because their copyright was not renewed

https://philipdick.com/2012/04/03/public-domain-philip-k-dick-stories/

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📚 The Midnight Train by: Matt Haig

When your life flashes before your eyes, where would you stop?

No one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there.

The chance to re-live the moments that meant most.

To see what kind of person you really were.

For Wilbur his best days were with Maggie, the lov...

https://bookblabla.com/book/the-midnight-train

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#books #reading #libraries #fiction #generalfiction #literaryfiction #visionarymetaphysical

When your life flashes before your eyes, where would you stop?

No one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there.

The chance to re-live the moments that meant most.

To see what kind of person you really were.

For Wilbur his best days were with Maggie, the love of his life. On his honeymoon in Venice.

Before he gave it all away.

He wishes he could go back and live differently. But to do so risks everything...

A magical, time-travelling love story, from the world of The Midnight Library.

When your life flashes before your eyes, where would you stop?

-- Book Release Expected: May 26, 2026 --

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#OTD in 1878.

Henry Irving's production of Hamlet, with himself in the title rôle playing opposite Ellen Terry as Ophelia, opens at the Lyceum Theatre, London (of which they have taken over the management). The tendency of actor-managers to emphasise the importance of their own central character did not always meet with the critics' approval.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet

Hamlet at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1524

#books #literature #theatre #drama

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Act I, Scene IV by Henry Fuseli. Hamlet, Horatio, Marcellus, and the Ghost, on platform before the Palace of Elsinor.

This image is an engraving based on the work by Henry Fuseli, titled Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Act I, Scene IV. It illustrates a dramatic moment from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. The scene shows Hamlet, Horatio, and Marcellus witnessing the ghost of Hamlet's father on the platform before the palace of Elsinore.

The ghost appears in armor, pointing dramatically, while the characters react in fear and awe. The dark, atmospheric setting emphasizes the tension and supernatural tone of the scene. Fuseli's composition captures the gothic and emotional intensity for which he is renowned.

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This image is a painting by Eugène Delacroix, titled Hamlet and Horatio in the Cemetery (1839). It depicts the famous gravedigger scene from William Shakespeare's Hamlet, specifically Act V, Scene I.

In this pivotal moment, Hamlet reflects on mortality as he holds the skull of Yorick, the court jester he knew in his youth. The scene is set in a graveyard, with a gravedigger presenting the skull to Hamlet, while Horatio observes. The dramatic sky and earthy tones contribute to the somber and introspective mood of the painting, characteristic of Delacroix's Romantic style. This artwork is housed in the Louvre Museum.

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📚 Flux by: Jinwoo Chong

Four days before Christmas, 8-year-old Bo loses his mother in a tragic accident, 28-year-old Brandon loses his job after a hostile takeover of his big-media employer, and 48-year-old Blue, a key witness in a criminal trial against an infamous now-defunct tech startup, struggles to reconnect with his family.

So begins Jinwoo Chon...

https://bookblabla.com/book/flux

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#books #reading #libraries #fiction #literaryfiction #lgbtq #gay

Four days before Christmas, 8-year-old Bo loses his mother in a tragic accident, 28-year-old Brandon loses his job after a hostile takeover of his big-media employer, and 48-year-old Blue, a key witness in a criminal trial against an infamous now-defunct tech startup, struggles to reconnect with his family.

So begins Jinwoo Chong’s dazzling, time-bending debut that blends elements of neo-noir and speculative fiction as the lives of Bo, Brandon, and Blue begin to intersect, uncovering a vast network of secrets and an experimental technology that threatens to upend life itself. Intertwined with them is the saga of an iconic ’80s detective show, Raider, whose star actor has imploded spectacularly after revelations of long-term, concealed abuse.

Flux is a haunting and sometimes shocking exploration of the cyclical nature of grief, of moving past trauma, and of the pervasive nature of whiteness within the development of Asian identity in America.

A New York Times Editor’s Choice
- Best Book of 2023 by Esquire, Apple Books, HuffPost, GQ, Cosmopolitan, and Goodreads.
- Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
- VCU Cabell First Novelist Award

Brazen, exhilarating, fun, and surprising! I couldn't predict where this novel was going, but I was definitely along for the ride. Ling Ma, author of Severance

A blazingly original and stylish debut novel about a young man whose reality unravels when he suspects his mysterious employers have inadvert

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My favorite books published in 2025:

Gliff - Ali Smith
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad
Audition - Pip Adam
Dusk - Robbie Arnott
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng - Kylie Lee Baker
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter - Stephen Graham Jones
Sour Cherry - Natalia Theodoridou
The Hymn to Dionysus - Natasha Pulley
Eternal Summer - Franziska Gansler (tr. Imogen Taylor)
The Silver Book - Olivia Laing
We Pretty Pieces of Flesh - Colwill Brown
Woodworking - Emily St. James

#books #bookstodon

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2025 in #books, a thread, inspired by (but not limited to) https://shereads.com/traci-thomas-best-books-of-2025/ :

Two books I loved, part 1:
Gliff - Ali Smith

A fable about survival in a totalitarian surveillance state. A reflection on childhood, siblinghood, and the cost and worth of kindness. A dance with language and memory. I was torn between the impulse to read it all in one sitting and the urge to savor every single sentence.

#books #bookstodon

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