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222d

Got to check this out live last night. A fun watch for all you horror readers, with samples of three new or upcoming books read by the authors. 👍

https://www.youtube.com/live/GgAUSePnU2Q

@bookstodon @horrorbooks @specfic

#horror #books #bookstodon #booktodon #readingcommunity

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223d

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 📚 **10+ Best Bookshops in Edinburgh You Must Visit (Local Guide for Book Lovers)**

>>If you are ever in Edinburgh and in need of visiting a bookshop this is for you.

🔗 https://www.solosophie.com/best-bookshops-edinburgh/.

#Books #Bookstodon #Edinburgh #Scotland @bookstodon

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222d

As you might expect, when Ronald McGillvray and I created The Post Mortem Report over three years ago, one of our goals was to inform readers about us and our work as authors but we also like to have fun, something I think comes across nicely in our latest trailer for the show. 🙂

https://youtu.be/5DBGUaoM7Rc

@bookstodon @specfic @scifi @horrorbooks

#specfic #horror #scifi #video #podcast #authorcast #trailer #teaser #sample #books #reading #readingcommunity #booktube #authortube #bookstodon

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222d

Ebooks? Or paper? What's your preference? Takahe has limited support for this type: See Original Page

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245d

This is the kind of math we like around here 😜

@bookstodon @fantasybookstodon @bookbubble @humour @reading

#Math
#Book #Books #BookMemes #Memes #Humor #Humour
#Novel #Novels #Bookshelf
#Mastobooks #BooksofMastodon #Bookstodon #Bookworm #Bookwyrm #Bookstodon #BookLove #BoostingIsSharing

Picture if a pink sign standing on a table covered in books saying,
BOOK MATH:
Buying the series means you really only bought one book.

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My #bookreview is brief/won't spoil, to spread good, great, and spectacular #horror #books far and wide.

A cosmic horror coming-of-age story that is equally terrifying and touching, GOOD BOY is a perfect blend of mystery, monsters, love, and loyalty that is earnest, emotional, & eerie. Neil McRobert has written a truly satisfying, stellar novella filled with Horror AND Heart. (Wild Hunt Books)

#book #review #bookstodon
@bookstodon #mothersuspiriareview #MSReview @bookstodon@toot.community

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245d

Early visions of Mars: Meet the 19th-century astronomer who used science fiction to imagine the red planet

Parisian astronomer Camille Flammarion brought used science fiction to bring Mars to life

By Matthew Shindell

https://www.space.com/astronomy/mars/early-visions-of-mars-meet-the-19th-century-astronomer-who-used-science-fiction-to-imagine-the-red-planet

Camille Flammarion at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/8763

#Books #Astronomy #Sciencefiction

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222d

All my #books are on #sale during the

#Smashwords #SummerWinterSale

Sister Seekers #Prequel and Book 1 are #FreeBooks

The first #Trilogy (not for the faint of heart 😈 ) is 75% off! 👛

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

(If you're looking for Book 2, the listing got orphaned... link here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1795345 )

#Free #BookToot #DarkFantasy #EpicFantasy #EroticHorror #DnD
@bookstadon @bookstodon @fantasy @horror @ttrpg @sffbookclub @lgbtqbookstodon

Smashwords JULY Summer/Winter Sale. A light, cheerful illustration of a summer beach transitioning to snow and blue-shaded coniferous trees

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Lauren Haney, "Right Hand of Amon" etc? Good?

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Excerpt from a book I'm reading, Slow Poison, by Mahmood Mamdani, father of Zorhan Mamdani.

"FBI agents knocked on
my door...they asked what I thought of Marx. I said I had
never met him. Not surprisingly, this Ugandan Muyindi had never heard of Karl
Marx. “He’s dead.”

I said, “I'm sorry, what happened?”

“No, he died long ago.”

I wondered why, then, the question. “Why, then, are you asking me?”
Later, I would remind myself: the FBI introduced me to Karl Marx! "
#books #bookstodon #book

Roughly a month after returning from Alabama, two FBI agents knocked on
my door, wearing beige raincoats, badges in hand. The FBI—I was thrilled. Just
like on television, I thought.

After a few preliminaries, they asked what I thought of Marx. I said I had
never met him. Not surprisingly, this Ugandan Muyindi had never heard of Karl
Marx. “He’s dead.”

I said, “I'm sorry, what happened?”

“No, he died long ago.”

I wondered why, then, the question. “Why, then, are you asking me?”

They said that Marx believed that the money of rich people should be taken
away and distributed to poor people.

I said it sounded like a fine idea!

At that point, they seemed to decide there was little point in continuing the
conversation, and they left. That, however, was not the end of the story. I went
to the library to look up Marx. Later, I would remind myself: the FBI intro-
duced me to Karl Marx! This was 1965. It would mark my entry point into the
civil rights movement. There was a student organization at the university called

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11d

شهادة الاطفال في زمن الحرب / In Time of War: Children Testify : Mona Saudi : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Takahe has limited support for this type: See Original Page

in-time-of-war-children-testify

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10d

A Review of Medium Error: https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-medium-error/

#BookReviews #ScienceFiction #Books #Bookstodon

@bookstodon

Book cover for Medium Error by Eyal Avissar. Image on cover shows something red growing in a Petri dish. The centre is dark red and there are red tendrils spreading out in every direction. It feels ominous.

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222d

Escape from the Land of the Dead: On Leonora Carrington’s The Stone Door

"Magic and ideology are both practices of belief."

By Celia Bell

https://lithub.com/escape-from-the-land-of-the-dead-on-leonora-carringtons-the-stone-door/

#Books #Literature #literarycriticism #WomeninArt

Leonora Carrington

This evocative photograph captures Leonora Carrington, the British-born Surrealist artist and writer. Carrington appears poised and enigmatic, her expression calm but intense, often with piercing eyes that suggest her deep inner world.

She has semi-long curly hair and wears a lacy midi-length blouse with a skirt (or black pants), her arms wrapped around one of her knees.

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

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222d

How Gustave Moreau’s Mystical Paintings Defined the Symbolist Movement

Gustave Moreau was the defiant visionary whose mystical paintings shaped a groundbreaking new movement in France and beyond.

by Kelsey Spicuzza

https://www.thecollector.com/gustave-moreau-symbolist-movement/

Symbolism in literature at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/7864

#Books #Literature #Symbolism #Art_criticism

L'Apparition (1876), watercolor, 105 x 72 cm., Musée d'Orsay

by Gustave Moreau

Gustave Moreau’s L'Apparition is a haunting and richly symbolic watercolor painting that vividly captures a moment from the biblical story of Salome. In this striking scene, Salome stands transfixed before the vision of the severed head of John the Baptist, which hovers, radiant and bleeding, in the air before her.

Salome is adorned in elaborate, orientalized robes and jewelry that shimmer with color, light, and texture—an opulent reflection of her allure and the decadent atmosphere of Herod’s court. Her expression is one of awe and dread as she gazes upon the miraculous apparition.

The head of John the Baptist floats above a luminous nimbus, glowing with supernatural intensity, contrasting with the dark, richly patterned architectural setting behind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Moreau#/media/File:The_Apparition,_Gustave_Moreau_1876.jpg

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244d

Hannah Arendt on Jews, Refugees And Suicide, 1943

“The comity of European peoples went to pieces when, and because, it allowed its weakest member to be excluded and persecuted.”

– Hannah Arendt, We Refugees, 1943

By Paul Sorene

https://flashbak.com/hannah-arendt-on-jews-refugees-and-suicide-1943-476686/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hannah-arendt-on-jews-refugees-and-suicide-1943

#Books #Holocaust

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244d

The Origin of the Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs

The story of the doom-bringing rock may help us prevent a repeat catastrophe

BY SEAN RAYMOND

The end of the story is written, literally, in stone.

https://nautil.us/the-origin-of-the-asteroid-that-killed-the-dinosaurs-889220/?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nautilus-newsletter

Asteroids and Astrophysics at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/24464
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/40414

#Books #Astrophysics

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“Let us try then to recapture some actual experience, which seems to have a connection with the experience of reading these old books; to spring from poetry; to be interfused with the same emotion...”

Reading at Random with Virginia Woolf

By Frances Lindemann

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/02/18/reading-at-random-with-virginia-woolf/

Virginia Woolf at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89

#books #literature #literarycriticism

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212d

Today's the day. SHADOW OF THE ELDERS is available wide both in ebook and paperback! If you've been waiting until it left Amazon to check it out, now's the time!

https://books2read.com/shadowoftheelders

#bookstodon #books #fantasy #SFF #writingcommunity @indieauthors @bookstodon

Book promotion image with a hooded rider on horseback on the left Shadow of the Elders book cover on right. Author Will Elm. Red background, black tree in the center growing out of a white angular design and surrounded by repeating white lines that recede into distance. Three people, black, shadows, walk white paths towards the tree. Quotes on the left read "Imaginative, intense, and full of heart." with 5 stars beneath it. Available wide at barnes and noble, amazon, apple books, ratkuten kobo, smashwords, bookshop.org, google play books, and more.

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218d

finished reading The End and Everything Before It 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
by Finegan Kruckemeyer.

A tangled weave of lives lived for love, community, place & simple pleasures. Beautifully written. I didn't quite grasp the ending, worth a revisit.

#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon

@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de

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209d

Over at Netflix's Tundum blog, they announce the complete casting of P+P. Rufus Sewell is Mr. Bennet! And my heart will not protest, nor lie, but I will be throwing Mr. Bennet a bit of my female gaze.

https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/pride-and-prejudice-cast-photos-release-date-news

#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon
#WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #EmilyBronte #CharlotteBronte #AnneBronte #Victorian @romancelandia #JaneAusten

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221d

New Review - a good assortment of speculative takes awaits in Several Worlds edited by Kate MacDonald - lots of surprises and tales to enjoy

https://www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/7/24/several-worlds-a-middleoak-anthology-edited-by-kate-macdonald

#Books

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221d

🇺🇸 📖 **The Book That All Americans Should Be Reading Now**

"_A nation’s prosperity is not a given. It is constantly shaped by the strength and character of its institutions. If you want to see how a country will do economically in the long run, look at its institutions.

🔗 https://www.zmescience.com/other/economics/the-book-that-all-americans-should-be-reading-now/.

#Economy #Economics #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon @economics @bookstodon

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243d

finished reading Akarnae 🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑
by Lynette Noni.

Fairly derivative YA fantasy: teenage girl crosses into a parallel world, where she becomes a fish-out-of-water at a school for talented students, and discovers she's the only one who can prevent the obliteration of humanity. Some ingrained patriarchy - why do female heroes always have to be hot? Totally needless. Nice enough but nothing special.

#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #YoungAdult #Fantasy #SFF

@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de