Four stars:
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft (1936) is perhaps the ur horror set in Antartica. We have a remote outpost, a bunch of scientists, and an unexpected mountain. This novel is also the one directly credited for inspiring What Stalks the Deep by T. Kingfisher (2025).
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2025/comments_11/at_the_mountains_of_madness.html
If the universe as a fair place you'd live long enough to finish your reading list 😜😂
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Here it is, my latest book, and my first one in Swedish! Lilla boken om Panos: historien om den ikoniska badmodedesignern is now out in Sweden, and looks at the swimwear designs of Panos Papadopoulos from the 1980s through to 2020. More at https://lucire.com/insider/20240831/the-latest-little-book-is-out-showcasing-panos-papadopouloss-swimwear/ published by Tukan förlag, and available now through Adlibris, Bokus, and other retailers in Sweden and Finland.
https://www.adlibris.com/se/bok/lilla-boken-om-panos-historien-om-den-ikoniska-badmodedesignern-9789180385831
https://www.bokus.com/bok/9789180385831/lilla-boken-om-panos-historien-om-den-ikoniska-badmodedesignern/ #book #history #fashion #mode #moda #bok #swimwear #trends #bookstodon
‘You are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going. I said nothing. I’m one of the innocents who could’ve spoken up and out when no one would listen to the “guilty”, but I did not speak and this became guilty myself’ @bookstodon https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17470674
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Hello fellow @bookstodon reading lovers! 
A few years ago, I found a blog called "The Happy Quitter!" , written by Bridget, aka nonsmokingladybug.
She shared her story "Losing It All" in installments on her site. 🔗 https://nonsmokingladybug.wordpress.com/category/losing-it-all/
People, me included, followed her journey, every step of the way... We thought her writing was captivating, and her story would make a great book. She was thinking of maybe publishing her story some day...
I've been struggling to keep up with reading people's blogs, so I've been missing out on most of her latest posts. But, she informed me that she made the dream a reality! She was publishing her story!
This is the link with all the info on her new book, which she is punishing under her pen name "Alexandra Lynn": 🔗
https://nonsmokingladybug.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/count-down-to-my-book-launch/
I haven't read the book yet, but I will try to get a copy somehow... It's published in the USA, and with all the tariffs... 🤔 But she mentioned an eReader version, so that may be the easiest way to get it for me. It is on Amazon, which isn't everyone's cup-of-tea... But still, it could be worth to check it out!
I always enjoyed her blogs about the journey she made after losing it all. So that's why I wanted to share this here with you.
Her book is just a little drop in an ocean of self-published books, so every bit of promotion could help her.
If you want to check out more about her, do check her blog: 🔗 https://nonsmokingladybug.wordpress.com/
Happy reading! 
Amazon.de link to the book: 🔗 https://amzn.eu/d/cFTzpGb
Many thanks to Walter Cummins and The California Review of Books for reviewing THE EXPERT OF SUBTLE REVISIONS
"When Hase and her dad were active together, one of their major amusements was creating fictitious identities that enable them to contribute entries to Wikipedia, delete others, and revise the information in still others. This creation and manipulation of supposed reality, while a seeming hobby, is symptomatic of what is happening to the people of the novel, emulating the power of the music box.
Menger-Anderson’s success for readers, beyond her strengths in creating people and realities, depends on winning over their credulity to accept varying identities, the musical essence of human lives, and the doubling patterns of human existence. The richness of her imagination contributes to our acceptance her sometimes wild premises."
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https://calirb.com/the-expert-of-subtle-revisions-by-kristen-menger-anderson/
I've finished: When the Sparrow Falls by Neil Sharpson
This is a story about a Soviet style East European dystopia. As someone who grew up in the late 80s it really appealed to me.
An ideology turned into an authoritarian nightmare and the people that get ground up in the wheels.
It is Sharpson's ability to personalize those people as they get crushed in the gears that makes this a great novel.
It's a bit strange to read a novel in 2025 where the AI future is viewed in a positive light. But it was published in 2021, before AI became synonymous with LLMs.
It was interesting reading When The Sparrow Falls at the same time as The Ragpicker, a novel where the digitization of human consciousness and virtual reality are the cause of the apocalyptic nightmare.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/50271032-ec89-41c3-87ad-ac67855b8417
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It would sound better to call wikipedia an impressive feat of collaboration 🤔
But correcting people online is an annoying and fun activity we can do from home 😜
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Yesterday, I was reading Shklovsky and stumbled upon this unexpectedly chilling short text. I translated it for you (although I just googled that the book itself *is* available in English, if you decide to read it from start to finish).
Four stars:
Witches of Dubious Origin by Jenn McKinlay and Saskia Maarleveld (Narrator) (2025) is a paranormal urban fantasy with some romantic and mystery overtones. Zoe Ziakas is a librarian who likes routine and her cozy cottage. The appearance of her family grimoire turns her life upside down. To further complicate things, an undead friend of her grandmother has arrived at her doorstep demanding that she be freed from her situation.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2025/comments_12/witches_of_dubious_origin.html
Five stars:
Assault and Beret by Jenn McKinlay and Karyn O'Bryant (Narrator) is the fifth book in the Hat Shop mystery series. Vi and Scarlett are in Paris; Vi to teach a class on hat making and Scarlett to find Vi's husband. Both end up in the middle of a stolen painting mystery, a kidnapping, and a murder.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2025/comments_11/assault_and_beret.html
This week's #NewBooks at the library: second-hand copies of...
- Charles Lyell: The Years to 1841: The Revolution in Geology. Having reviewed Radical by Nature two years ago made me want to read up on other historical natural historians of this time period. There is no good recent book on the early geologist Charles Lyell. The standard is still the two books written by Leonard G. Wilson, which are the first two parts of an unfortunately unfinished trilogy. I obtained the second book some time ago, and now managed to buy the first part at a very decent price via eBay.
- The Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History
- Biominerals and Fossils Through Time. Reviewing Fossilization made me want to understand more about the physical basis of fossilisation.
#Geology #EarthSciences #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #NaturalHistory #Fossils #Fossilisation #Mineralogy #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon
Just a reminder that my Kickstarter is still running! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/villyard/immortal-gifts-hardcover-paperback-and-audiobook
If you’re looking for FREE STUFF on YouTube, my entire short story collection audiobook is there: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhQiWBjDWW3YFpjxqYO8F_WKtlRBCCvee&si=tGgcNFU5QHlPOuz9
It's been so long since I've had an eligible title from https://www.deanstreetpress.co.uk/ for #MurderEveryMonday I had to really fish for it. BUT, I've visited trout farms, so this one counts. Plus a Kiwi cliché from my theatrical compatriot #Mystery #Bookstodon
https://crossexaminingcrime.com/murdereverymonday-theme-list/
Do you want to hear me chat with Sheryl on the Nice Jewish Books podcast? It’s here, and wherever else you get your podcasts!
https://jewishlibraries.org/immortal-gifts-tales-of-a-jewish-vampire-with-katherine-villyard/
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Bookstore haul! We went to Tsunami to nibble at my credit after the last time I sold back seventeen (probably a real number) bags of books.
1. Syntax of the River by Barry Lopez
2. Mindfulness Meditations for Anxiety by Michael Smith (a plethora of different angles into meditation, lots of exercises, excited to dive into this one)
3. Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer
ME on Nice Jewish Books! https://www.katherinevillyard.com/2025/11/16/me-on-nice-jewish-books/ #fantasy #bookstodon @bookstodon
Have you been on the fence about my Kickstarter? It’s almost over! Only 5 more days for the last chance at my audiobook for two months and the last chance at this special edition hardcover ever!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/villyard/immortal-gifts-hardcover-paperback-and-audiobook
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Since discovering them a couple of years back, #KatharineKerr 's Deverry series has become my fantasy comfort read; it's so easy to slip into her world with its particular catchphrases and characters that reoccur, but change, across hundreds of years of resurrections. This is the first part of her second quadrilogy, which focuses on the elves of her world. #bookstodon @bookstodon
Five stars:
Three Blue Hearts by Lynne Kelly (2025) is about the son of a wealthy politician who wants to find his own place in the world. He begins his journey by rescuing an octopus and making friends with her new caretakers.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2025/comments_11/three_blue_hearts.html
It’s the end of the year, so @thecontinent's Africans of the Year edition for 2025 is here! 🎉
So many great Africans.
That also means.... I got to pick my top 5 African reads of the year 👏🏾
Book promotion: Move slow, fix things. Heroes beaten down by the system team up to fight for a philanthropist targeted by shadowy enemies in this science fiction adventure about a future more optimistic than dystopian.
DRM-free ebook direct price $0.99 https://kmherkes.com/sale-bookshop/p/controlled-descent-ebook1
Other vendors & formats here:
https://books2read.com/ControlledDescent
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finished reading The Scar 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
by China Mieville.
An exuberant, barely believeable steampunk world with cactus & mosquito people, underwater & floating cities, and mysterious powers. Very very long, and rather too serious.
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Saved by the Mountain Man is a High Heat Romance audiobook I narrated as Eden Cavell.
When a Runaway Bride crashes her car on a snowy mountain road, she turns an unsuspecting Mountain Man's life upside-down!
I was thrilled to narrate a story about a Runaway Bride! The female lead is full of fire and absolutely deserves her happily-ever-after. (Also, off the record: the groom that ditched her was seriously a bullet-dodged. We love to see it.)
In addition to the hunky Mountain Man love interest promised by the title, this story also features the steamiest shower scene I've ever narrated. Kelsie Calloway writes great sex scenes and in this book she outdoes herself.
At 46 minutes long, this is the perfect listen for a cozy, romantic night by the fire.
Saved by the Mountain Man is available as an audiobook on Amazon, Audible and Apple Books. It's also available as an ebook for Kindle Unlimited on Amazon.
Go on, treat yourself. 💋
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Pixy's Journey 
![THE RED ELEPHANT
The red elephant, my son's toy, you'll be the first invited into my book, so all the other wouldn't be vain.
The red elephant squeaks and whines. All the rubber toys should be squeaking; otherwise why would the air come out of them.
So, despite the writings of [Alfred] Brehm, the red elephant squeaks and whines. And I'm writing in my nest high above Arbat street.
A rare bird would reach me without losing its breath. My nest broke my habit of long breaths.
My son is laughing.
He laughed when he saw the horse for the first time. He thought that it made itself four legs and a long face as a joke.
We all manufactured in different shapes, but we all have the same voice if we're squeezed.
— Move aside, red elephant. I want to see life without a jest and to tell it something with my voice through the squeaker.
This is the end of a feuilleton.
VICTOR SHKLOVSKY. THIRD FACTORY (1926)](/proxy/post_attachment/931946/ff38e62322.png "THE RED ELEPHANT
The red elephant, my son's toy, you'll be the first invited into my book, so all the other wouldn't be vain.
The red elephant squeaks and whines. All the rubber toys should be squeaking; otherwise why would the air come out of them.
So, despite the writings of [Alfred] Brehm, the red elephant squeaks and whines. And I'm writing in my nest high above Arbat street.
A rare bird would reach me without losing its breath. My nest broke my habit of long breaths.
My son is laughing.
He laughed when he saw the horse for the first time. He thought that it made itself four legs and a long face as a joke.
We all manufactured in different shapes, but we all have the same voice if we're squeezed.
— Move aside, red elephant. I want to see life without a jest and to tell it something with my voice through the squeaker.
This is the end of a feuilleton.
VICTOR SHKLOVSKY. THIRD FACTORY (1926)")
