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<p>In his latest novel YOUR LIFE WITHOUT ME, published by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://bookish.community/@canongatebooks" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>canongatebooks</span></a></span>, James Meek examines the unpredictable links between personal trauma, family dysfunction & political violence. He & Lara Pawson discuss the book on the London Review of Books bookshop podcast</p><p><a href="https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-video/podcasts/james-meek-and-lara-pawson-your-life-without-me" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-video/podcasts/james-meek-and-lara-pawson-your-life-without-me"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk</span><span class="invisible">/podcasts-video/podcasts/james-meek-and-lara-pawson-your-life-without-me</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#novel</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a></p>

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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? January 06

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<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/TheInvertedGlass" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="books2read.com/TheInvertedGlass"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">books2read.com/TheInvertedGlas</span><span class="invisible">s</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.”

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

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<p>“They’re about more than mystery”</p><p>Harriet Vane, tried for murder in Strong Poison, meets Lord Peter Wimsey, who loves her though she resists. Across later novels they grow into equal partners, enriching Sayers’ mystery series.<br> <br>By John Mark Ockerbloom</p><p><a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/11/18/theyre-about-more-than-mystery/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everybodyslibraries.com/2025/11/18/theyre-about-more-than-mystery/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everybodyslibraries.com/2025/1</span><span class="invisible">1/18/theyre-about-more-than-mystery/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/publicdomaindaycountdown/" rel="tag">#PublicDomainDayCountdown</a></p>

Strong Poison book cover.

The image shows the vintage book cover of Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers.

It has a mustard-yellow background with large black serif text.
The title “Strong Poison” dominates the center, with the oversized letter S stretching above the rest of the word.

Above the title, in smaller text, is the author’s name and the price “7/6 net.”
Below the title, it reads: “A New ‘Lord Peter’ Detective Novel.”
At the bottom, the author’s name appears again in bold, capitalized letters.

Two publisher emblems—a stylized “VG” monogram—appear in the top-right and bottom-left corners, alongside the name Gollancz, the publisher.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_Poison#/media/File:Strong_poison.JPG

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<p>📚 The Long Shoe by: Bob Mortimer</p><p>Bathroom salesman Matt is at a crossroads. He has lost his job, he is about to be made homeless and his girlfriend has left him. He wants his luck to change and he wants things to go back to how they were. </p><p>Out of the blue he is offered a job that comes with a free luxury apartment. He hopes this might be enough to tempt her back. But...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-long-shoe" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-long-shoe"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-long-s</span><span class="invisible">hoe</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/general/" rel="tag">#general</a></p>

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<p>📚 The Antidote by: Karen Russell</p><p>The Antidote opens on Black Sunday, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing—not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the dust bowl drought but beneath its own violent histories. The Antidote follows a "Prai...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-antidote" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-antidote"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-antido</span><span class="invisible">te</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/literaryfiction/" rel="tag">#literaryfiction</a> <a href="/tags/historical/" rel="tag">#historical</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/visionarymetaphysical/" rel="tag">#visionarymetaphysical</a></p>

The Antidote opens on Black Sunday, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing—not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the dust bowl drought but beneath its own violent histories. The Antidote follows a "Prairie Witch,” whose body serves as a bank vault for peoples’ memories and secrets; a Polish wheat farmer who learns how quickly a hoarded blessing can become a curse; his orphan niece, a basketball star and witch’s apprentice in furious flight from her grief; a voluble scarecrow; and a New Deal photographer whose time-traveling camera threatens to reveal both the town’s secrets and its fate.

Russell's novel is above all a reckoning with a nation’s forgetting—enacting the settler amnesia and willful omissions passed down from generation to generation, and unearthing not only horrors but shimmering possibilities. The Antidote echoes with urgent warnings for our own climate emergency, challenging readers with a vision of what might have been—and what still could be.

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD. NATIONAL BESTSELLER. THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE. From Pulitzer finalist, MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and bestselling author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove Karen Russell: a gripping dust bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraskan town

A Most Anticipated Book of 2025 from Lit Hub, Marie

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<p>Last Stand on a Dying World<br>Semper Audacia, 99¢ Space Opera <br><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/mpaxauthor/p/semper-audacia-99-space-opera?r=40xifa&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="open.substack.com/pub/mpaxauthor/p/semper-audacia-99-space-opera?r=40xifa&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/mpaxauth</span><span class="invisible">or/p/semper-audacia-99-space-opera?r=40xifa&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true</span></a> <br><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="/tags/readers/" rel="tag">#readers</a> <a href="/tags/booklovers/" rel="tag">#booklovers</a></p>

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<p>"Maps are to geography what notation is to music."</p><p>British writer, geographer, historian, journalist, cartographer, and inventor John Francon Williams died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1911.</p><p>In 1881, Williams's seminal book The Geography of the Oceans was published. This book focuses on topics such as: General Geography of the Oceans, Physical Geography of the Oceans, the Geography of Particular Oceans. It was the first book to cover with such intensity the geography of the oceans.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/geography/" rel="tag">#geography</a> <a href="/tags/oceanography/" rel="tag">#oceanography</a></p>

Cover of The Geography of the Oceans by John Francon Williams, 1881

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<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&q=https://reviewdb.app/book/3lwIKeSfEQzXhCriEByKnS" rel="nofollow">The Scar</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 <br>by China Mieville.</p><p>An exuberant, barely believeable steampunk world with cactus & mosquito people, underwater & floating cities, and mysterious powers. Very very long, and rather too serious.</p><p><a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#SFF</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://aus.social/@wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>WildWoila</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://wyrms.de/user/wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>wildwoila@wyrms.de</span></a></span><br></p>

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<p>An End to Kings, 1776</p><p>by Jack Kelly</p><p>"Author Jack Kelly of Tom Paine’s War shares with The History Reader the crucial role Thomas Paine (author of Common Sense) played in encouraging Americans to overthrow King George in 1776."</p><p><a href="https://www.thehistoryreader.com/historical-figures/an-end-to-kings-1776/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=an-end-to-kings-1776" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thehistoryreader.com/historical-figures/an-end-to-kings-1776/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=an-end-to-kings-1776"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thehistoryreader.com/histo</span><span class="invisible">rical-figures/an-end-to-kings-1776/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=an-end-to-kings-1776</span></a></p><p>"Common Sense" at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/147" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/147</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/ushistory/" rel="tag">#ushistory</a></p>

Colonists pulling down the statue of King George in New York City, 1776.

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<p>"It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you."</p><p>~Taylor Caldwell (September 7, 1900 – August 30, 1985)</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

This is a public domain image that has been significantly altered and/or edited by the person uploading it to Wikipedia, James Seneca. It is, in fact, a composite of several different images, views, artistic likenesses, and perspectival renderings of the subject, Taylor Caldwell. This image may be freely copied and redistributed without the permission of the author.

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<p>Book Jenga<br><a href="/tags/caturday/" rel="tag">#caturday</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/photography/" rel="tag">#photography</a></p>

Blume gently touching a book in a stack of books, looks like she is playing Jenga.

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Novela "La inevitabilidad del arte"

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Novela posmoderna "La inevitabilidad del arte"

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<p>American educator Prudence Crandall was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1803.</p><p>She ran the Canterbury Female Boarding School, which became the 1st school for black girls in the United States. The decision to admit Black students led to intense opposition. Local residents passed a law specifically targeting her school, known as the Black Law, which made it illegal to operate a school for Black students from out of state without local permission.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prudence_Crandall" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prudence_Crandall"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prudence</span><span class="invisible">_Crandall</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49765" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49765</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#education</a></p>

Prudence Crandall, American teacher. Top caption: "The just man shall be in eternal remembrance." Bottom caption: "Went to prison for teaching colored children."

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<p>“The Crocodile,” Dostoevsky’s Weirdest Short Story.</p><p>Why being eaten by a crocodile named Little Karl is really a lesson in the dangers of foreign capital.</p><p>By: Emily Zarevich via @JSTOR_Daily </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/the-crocodile-dostoevskys-weirdest-short-story/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/the-crocodile-dostoevskys-weirdest-short-story/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/the-crocodile-</span><span class="invisible">dostoevskys-weirdest-short-story/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

“The Crocodile,” Dostoevsky’s Weirdest Short Story.

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+18 (Violencia gráfica), "Identidades parasitarias"

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Is this the right place to post stories by Spanish speaking writers?

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<p>German music historian and critic Friedrich Chrysander died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1901.</p><p>His most significant achievement was the publication of the "Händel-Gesellschaft" edition, a monumental 105-volume collection of Handel’s complete works. He was one of the founders of the Vierteljahrsschrift für Musikwissenschaft, one of the first scholarly journals devoted to the study of music history and theory.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Chrysander" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Chrysander"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedric</span><span class="invisible">h_Chrysander</span></a></p><p>Books about Handel at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=George+Frideric+Handel&submit_search=Search" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=George+Frideric+Handel&submit_search=Search"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=George+Frideric+Handel&submit_search=Search</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>

Friedrich Chrysander; portrait by Leopold von Kalckreuth (1901).

Friedrich Chrysander is depicted as an elderly man, with a dignified and thoughtful demeanor. He has a serious expression, his gaze slightly downward or focused in contemplation, suggesting his deep engagement with scholarly work. His face is lined with age, and his white beard and mustache are carefully rendered, emphasizing his advanced years and wisdom.

He wears a dark suit, possibly with a waistcoat, and a white shirt with a high collar. The attire is simple yet elegant, reflecting his serious approach to his work.

He is seated, perhaps in a study or library, with his posture slightly forward, indicating active thought or engagement with a task at hand. His hands, one of which might be holding a book or paper, are depicted with care, emphasizing the intellectual labor they perform.

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1803.</p><p>British scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.</p><p>In his laboratory notebook there is a list in which he set out the relative weights of the atoms of a number of elements, derived from analysis of water, ammonia, carbon dioxide, etc. by chemists of the time.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dalton#Atomic_theory" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dalton#Atomic_theory"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dal</span><span class="invisible">ton#Atomic_theory</span></a></p><p>Books about John Dalton at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56648" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56648</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/chemistry/" rel="tag">#chemistry</a></p>

Various atoms and molecules as depicted in John Dalton's A New System of Chemical Philosophy (1808).

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<p>This week's <a href="/tags/newbooks/" rel="tag">#NewBooks</a> at the library: I bought second-hand copies of Fevered Planet: How <a href="/tags/diseases/" rel="tag">#Diseases</a> Emerge When We Harm Nature by the late John Vidal and <a href="/tags/dust/" rel="tag">#Dust</a>: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles by Jay Owens, and picked up a review copy of Uncommon Ground: Rethinking Our Relationship With the <a href="/tags/countryside/" rel="tag">#Countryside</a> by Patrick Galbraith.<br> <br><a href="/tags/atmosphericsciences/" rel="tag">#AtmosphericSciences</a> <a href="/tags/pandemics/" rel="tag">#Pandemics</a> <a href="/tags/epidemics/" rel="tag">#Epidemics</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/zoonoses/" rel="tag">#Zoonoses</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/scicomm/" rel="tag">#Scicomm</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>

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

On the left, Fevered Planet, showing a black-and-white photo of the rocky landscape of a hand-dug open-pit mine. In the foreground is a small, lone human figure resting one leg on a pile of shattered rocks. The title is written across the photo in neon-orange, with the last letters of each word rendered as if they are powdering into fine dust at their edges.

In the middle, Uncommon Ground, showing part of the oil painting "Wivenhoe Park, Essex" by John Constable, showing a bucolic landscape with a grazing cow behind a wooden fence. The fence runs across the picture in the foreground, while there is a large pond in the background. Behind the pond can be seen a small planted grove of large trees, and on the right, part of what looks like a mansion. The centre of the image has been rendered as if part of the drawing has been ripped out, showing the rough edge of torn paper and at the bottom, a curled-up piece of torn paper.

On the right, Dust, showing a NASA satellite photograph of planet Earth at night. Next to artificial lighting, several colourful swirls are visible in blue, red, and purple. This is a composite image that was taken on the 23rd of August 2018 that shows the various aerosols in our atmosphere. You can read more about this particular image here: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/92654/just-another-day-on-aerosol-earth

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<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/JigsawCity" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/JigsawCity</a></p><p>Nicole's brain is slowly being taken over by an ancient, magical artifact, a small fragment of a magic city. She seeks a cure, before the city can destroy her sanity and then eventually, take her life by replacing her mind. Racing against time, she gathers pieces of the city, hoping to find an answer among them.</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 Jigsaw City, by Owen Tyme.

The background is a futuristic city of sky scrapers covered in greenery, with water ways in place of some streets. The background has been divided by dark lines that cut it up, into a jigsaw puzzle.

The foreground is a hexagonal coin with an indentation in the center that follows the same shape, with raised lines forming a hexagram in the center, which has a smaller one turned at a ninety-degree angle inside the hexagon at the center of it. The smaller hexagram has another inside it, a pattern that repeats until the lines become so fine and indistinct, they blend together.

(Right) There's a pool of lava at the base of a rocky slope, with some sharp rocks sticking upward out of it and the following text over the top:

“I’m immune to heat and fire. I can easily carry and protect one of you…”

“That’s suicide! Ye’d need to deliver an army to make a difference, not one person!”

“I *am* an army.”

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

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<p>I just finished reading Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford. It's set in an alternate 1920s USA in the state of Cahokia. It's centered on a detective relatively new to the city of Cahokia, so you are learning the city through his coming to terms with it. The start is somewhat grisly, but worth getting past that for experiencing the setting. For my part, I enjoyed the atmospherics more than the story itself, but you may feel different.</p><p><a href="/tags/murdermystery/" rel="tag">#MurderMystery</a> <a href="/tags/althistory/" rel="tag">#AltHistory</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>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&q=https://reviewdb.app/book/70XlcW3yOC6eqiuF3NniX1" rel="nofollow">The World We Make</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 <br>by NK Jemisin.</p><p>New York finishes the job against the Multiverse, despite the conservative reticence of the Old Cities. Clunkier and without the freshness of the original. But fun to see more city avatars. I think Mamdani could easily be a character in these books!</p><p><a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#SFF</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://aus.social/@wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>WildWoila</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://wyrms.de/user/wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>wildwoila@wyrms.de</span></a></span><br></p>

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<p>📚 The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus by: Emma Knight</p><p>Arriving at the University of Edinburgh for her first term, Pen knows her divorced parents back in Canada are hiding something from her. She believes she’ll find the answer here in Scotland, where an old friend of her father’s—now a famous writer ...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-life-cycle-of-the-common-octopus" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-life-cycle-of-the-common-octopus"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-life-c</span><span class="invisible">ycle-of-the-common-octopus</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/friendshipfiction/" rel="tag">#friendshipfiction</a> <a href="/tags/familylife/" rel="tag">#familylife</a> <a href="/tags/marriagedivorce/" rel="tag">#marriagedivorce</a></p>

Arriving at the University of Edinburgh for her first term, Pen knows her divorced parents back in Canada are hiding something from her. She believes she’ll find the answer here in Scotland, where an old friend of her father’s—now a famous writer known as Lord Lennox—lives. When she is invited to spend the weekend at Lord Lennox’s centuries-old estate with his enveloping, intriguing family, Pen begins to unravel her parents’ secret and to fall in love for the first time...

Her best friend, Alice, an aspiring actor, is starring in a university production and making the most of the feminine power she wields—until a tryst with her tutor threatens to spin out of control.

As Pen experiences the sharp shock of adulthood, she uncovers the truth about her own family and comes to rely on herself for the first time in her life. A rich and rewarding novel of campus life, of sexual awakening, and ultimately, of the many ways women can become mothers in this world, The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus asks to what extent we need to look back in order to move forward.

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A witty, warm and brilliantly told debut that is at once a love story, a story of female friendship and motherhood, and an irresistible mystery surrounding an extraordinary British family.

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