I'm in bed resting today and I've got a craving to sift through old YA books from the 80's, to see if there's anything I can remember reading and loving.
I'm doing some web searches and there are many lists of "favorite 80's YA books," but I was the wee nerd into the less popular stuff. So what I want is to just get a list of ALL published titles during a specific year.
Is that possible? (I'm trying to avoid AI so please don't offer that)
Multiple copies, schmultiple copies, maybe no one else deserves this book 😜😂
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I've finished: Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
As someone who has recently finished T. Kingfisher's back catalog I was glad to discover Heather Fawcett's work. It scratches a similar itch.
I loved the academic angle, it takes me back to my years at university.
I do wish the solutions Emily finds were based on events we were told about in advance rather then a moment of inspiration. She has a vast amount of knowledge that comes in handy, but I want to see her work towards a solution using the clues she found along the way.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/1735e2b1-a9df-4923-bbbf-825297721654
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Announcing a new Poltroon Press edition of THE MALTESE FALCON with a pub. date of January 6, 2026! Illustrated with scene-setting B&W photos of FALCON locations from San Francisco, it includes a "mapback" pinpointing crime scenes and a coda of two linked Sam Spade short stories written by me to answer the question, "What happened to the falcon!?"
Preorder the hardcover edition here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0918395429?crid=1LPA6APQ0TP0H
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Zadie Smith:
"It's through other people's novels, other people's paintings, other people's poems and other people's music that I am made aware that everybody is not like anyone else, and yet we are all stuck inside these flesh cages, experiencing what we imagine to be a shared reality through a radically singular medium: consciousness" ('Dead and Alive,' p. 286).
I'm keeping reading Shklovsky. This paragraph is not that funny for a non-Russian ear, but it reminded me of two great anecdotes I want to share. (01/03)
Is Victor Pelevin's 'Babylon' (also known as Homo Zapiens and Generation P) the ideal novel for Mastodonians ?
It's an alcohol-and-drug-fuelled fantastical satire on both capitalism and tech, in which (we gradually discover) politicians are computer-generated, and representations more important than reality. In one key scene, we find ourselves in an art exhibition, but the walls are hung not with paintings, but with notarised certificates confirming that the original was bought by its current owner for so-many-million-dollars. Not even a copy of the original - because only the price is important now,
But it precedes and predicts our ai-and-billionaires world. It was written in Russia in the 1990s, and clearly reflects the shock of the cowboy-capitalism that was imposed there after the soviet collapse. It is horrific - yet it is the model for the world the likes of Trump would propagate. They saw the emergence of Russian oligarchy, and wanted it. I first read it when I was working in Russia 20 years ago, so can vouch for its accuracy. I came to this re-reading after also re-reading Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, and was struck by the contrast between that story of 1930s capitalism-as-worker-exploitation, and Pelevin's portrayal of capitalism as insane consumerism.
Today is the author's birthday.
Did you miss my Kickstarter? You can still grab the audiobook here! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/villyard/immortal-gifts-hardcover-paperback-and-audiobook/backing/redeem?ref=creator_share\
"My hidden agenda in the book club is to get people excited about reading stories about members of the #LGBTQ+ community who are different than them."
I'm pleased to share my first story for The Advocate, about the joy of #queer folks reading together: https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-book-clubs
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THE EXPERT OF SUBTLE REVISIONS on NPR's 2025 list of Books We Love! Lot's of great books on this list. Thanks, NPR and Ilana Masad!
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Five stars:
Cinder House by Freya Marske (2025) recontextualizes Cinderella into a haunted/sentient house story. Ella was a living, breathing girl at one point, until her greedy stepmother poisoned her and her father to get the house. Now Ella is forever tied to the house she should have inherited, becoming one with her home.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2025/comments_11/cinder_house.html
An Amazon AI chatbot that sums up the book you are reading while you are reading it. While trampling over the writer’s rights.
“Ask This Book."
“Your expert reading assistant, instantly answering questions about plot details, character relationships, and thematic elements without disrupting your reading flow.”
Enshittification is too polite a word for all this.
New review: Spinosaur Tales brings together two of the finest popular palaeontology writers for a nuanced and detailed overview of this challenging group of dinosaurs.
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I pulled all my e-books off Kindle yesterday because of this. It effectively ends my writing career because, despite everyone complaining that Amazon is evil... nobody buys books from the many other stores my books are available on.
I am sad. I am angry. I am *exhausted*.
I am ONE indie author. I am nobody. My protest is utterly meaningless in the face of this ever-expanding AI takeover. Unless all indies do this, and all tradpub authors pressure their publishers to fight Amazon, my pulling my books is not going to do a damned thing to make Amazon stop doing this. All it will do is end whatever tiny little chance I might still have had at having a real writing career.
But I am so sick of AI being shoved into every aspect of my life and not even having the right to opt out of it. This is the ONLY protest I CAN make. So that's what I'm doing. And at least I know they won't be able to use my books this way.
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finished reading Prophet Song 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗
by Paul Lynch.
A horrifying realistic account of an everyday Western country being gradually consumed by an authoritarian regime. Every moment of encroaching terror is disturbingly relatable. Writing style felt like a monotone ramble, which masked its poignancy.
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Years ago (late 1980s/early 1990s), I read a book by someone who worked as a hostage negotiator for the New York police.
I'd like to find a copy, but I have no idea what the author's name is or what it was called.
Do any of you have any ideas?
Book #Review: Wrath by Shäron Moalem and Daniel Kraus
Imagine Pinky and the Brain, minus the comedy, plus lots and lots of gore
@carturo222.bsky.social has our review at the NOAF blog for your Monday
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/book-review-wrath-by-sharon-moalem-and.html
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Hi, @bookstodon ! Looking to support independent authors on Buy Nothing Day? You can buy my science fiction adventure novella, Death In Transit, on Smashwords!
I've also got a free preview of the book on my blog today!
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Four stars:
Fatality by Firelight by Lynn Cahoon and C.S.E. Cooney (Narrator) (2017) is the second book in the Cat Latimer mystery series. Cat is offering a winter retreat for writers with skiing and talks at the local university. Unfortunately one of her guests is a person of interest in the murder of a local playboy.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_01/fatality_by_firelight.html
Book Review: We Who Hunt Alexanders by Jason Sanford
A dark fantasy contemplation of family, and monsters, and darker subjects still.
@Princejvstin has our review for your Black Friday
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/book-review-we-who-hunt-alexanders-by.html
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Lia Schattenfell (https://bsky.app/profile/liaschattenfell) hat eine tolle Buchvorstellung über meinen Roman "Mooslande" geschrieben.
Schaut doch mal rein und viel Spaß mit "Mooslande".
aanrader! net uit: Atlas van in nevelen gehulde continenten, door Ihsan Oktay Anar
https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/de-arbeiderspers/boek/atlas-van-in-nevelen-gehulde-continenten/
30 jaar geleden uitgekomen, nu eindelijk te lezen in het Nederlands — en ga dat dan ook doen! 😃 #bookstodon
(Ik ben de allereerste lezer geweest van de vertaling, want het is vertaald door mijn moeder, die ook de eerste Nederlandse vertaler van Orhan Pamuk was. Toen dit boek 30 jaar geleden uitkwam nam ze zich direct voor het ooit in het Nederlands uit te zien komen — dat is er dus eindelijk van gekomen, en het is het wachten waard geweest! En prachtig uitgegeven, met een kaartje in het omslag. Foto’s volgen wanneer ik mijn eigen exemplaar ontvang.)
