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My newest review tackles THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY
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Sabed que acabo de leer Piranesi y soy una persona 200% más feliz que cuando la empecé. Qué maravilla, qué gozo de libro
Finished Piranesi. What a joy of reading @bookstodon #bookstodon #libros
https://lectura.social/user/berniethewordsmith/reviewrating/141516
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#ArthurCClarke 's prose could most charitably be described as unassuming, and his attempts to write human characters and politics are not very convincing, and yet this story of first contact encountering a massive alien spacecraft still, somehow, really works: Rama is such a memorable, mysterious, awe inspiring creation. #Bookstodon @bookstodon
Book Review: Making History by K. J. Parker
Another novella set in Parker's mainline secondary universe, about a group of academics tasked with a seemingly impossible task by a tyrant.
@princejvstin.com has our Boxing Day review
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/book-review-making-history-by-k-j-parker.html
All language is weird, but I sometimes wonder if English isn't the weirdest 🤔
Also, does that technically make liguistics a Weird Science 😁
P.S Never spell how it sounds 😜
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Currently halfway through KJ Charles’ queer gothic romance All of Us Murderers and having a grand time! @bookstodon #bookstodon #amreading #mmromance
New #BookReview on my #blog: "The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition."
https://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/12/book-review-ferengi-rules-of-acquisition.html
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New #BookReview on my #blog: "Alchemy and Mysticism: the Hermetic Museum."
https://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/12/book-review-alchemy-and-mysticism.html
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This week's #NewBooks at the library (the last one for 2025!): Three second-hand copies of Atlas of the Galilean Satellites from Cambridge University Press; the absolutely massive Fire and Mud: Eruptions and Lahars of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines from the University of Washington Press; and #CharlesDarwin, Geologist from Cornell University Press which I might well review sometime soon in the new year in light of an upcoming Darwin biography...
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House of Mirth. By Edith Wharton.
It’s late 19th century NYC, and you’re a youngish beautiful woman with few $ assets, and you’ve managed to live off higher society while avoiding getting married, but this arrangement starts to come to a sudden end; you are confident you can save yourself, but you’d somehow missed how powerless you’d be if others had other uses for you.
4 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈
CW: antisemitism
Five stars:
Time Loops & Meet Cutes by Jackie Lau with Cindy Kay and Raymond J. Lee (2025) is a romance story that uses the manipulation of time to bring together Noelle and Cam. On June 20th Noelle at some very good dumplings from a night market stall run by an elderly woman. After that she's stuck in the same day until she can figure out what she needs to do.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2025/comments_12/time_loops_and_meet_cutes.html
Ello sweet and lovely (gaming) Friendos 
Howdy! I've not been around much, sorry. Not on this account, at least...
I've not been gaming. And I've not been trying to get further with my puzzle, although it's still open on my table. I've just needed a pause I guess. 😊
Yesterday, well, still today for less than 30 minutes, I did manage to finish the last book by Dan Brown, "The Secret of Secrets". I think it was the biggest book by mister Brown so far! It was a long read... But! If you enjoyed his previously released books, you may also like this one. 😊 It's a bit different from his previous books, but then, so was Origin... Even though it took me longer to get through the pages (there were 899 on my Kobo with my settings), it was worth the read! 😁
More info 🔗 https://danbrown.com/books/novels/the-secret-of-secrets/
I have now started a re-read of an older book, the first one of the "Women's Murder Club", by James Patterson (1st to die). (🔗 https://www.jamespatterson.com/series/james-patterson/womens-murder-club/). There are many books in the series now. I read the first few a long time ago, so it may be fun to re-read a few and then make progress with some I haven't read yet. 😊
Although I also want to read the two "not Robert Langdon" books by Dan Brown. I've read them before, but it would be nice to re-read those as well.
Anywhoo... Maybe soon, I'll try some more on the puzzle. But for now, with the colder days, I've been snuggling under my blanket with my Kobo eReader. 😊
Happy reading 
Five stars:
"A Vision of the World" by John Cheever (1962) follows a man as he is tormented by a phrase he doesn't understand but features in all of his dreams over the course of a few weeks.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_01/vision_of_the_world.html
I just stared reading #AutisticMenopause, and I LOVE how they describe Autistic people as Autistic experts. #bookstodon #ActuallyAutistic
I write, erase, rewrite
Erase again, and then
A poppy blooms.
Katsushika Hokusai
finished reading Blackout 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
by Connie Willis.
The Oxford time travellers are back, back to the London Blitz in WW2. But they are having trouble returning home, and getting caught up in all sorts of trouble in the meantime. Slow moving and overly detailed, but the near slapstick humour saves it. Only the first half of the story, so unfulfilling.
I've finished: The Ragpicker by Joel Dane
It is not easy to do something innovative in the post-apocalyptic sub genre.
Humans surviving in enclaves, hunted by robots inhabited by broken uploaded minds is nothing new. But Joel Dane manages to explore these themes in a very humanizing manner.
As Ysmany partners with the ragpicker, to save a baby from the military twitch that dominates her enclave, they go on a journey that will form a new partnership that will change the relationship between the remaining humans and the remnants of the uploaded.
For this is a found family novel, though it is in no way cozy. Filled with danger, pain and trauma, while there is a healing process, and the new partnership builds a safer community, it is an incremental improvement.
I like it when the authors don't forget that life is hard when they write about a healing journey.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/2f165f4f-d323-4ed4-beee-d0d1ccd945d1
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I've finished: Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle
Lucky Day dresses a well worn fantasy trope: you can't cheat lady luck, and dresses it in science fiction clothes.
It is interesting to see a statistician have to deal with probability defying events on the personal, philosophical and investigative levels.
However this novel must come with a body horror content warning. Tingle absolutely delights in graphic descriptions of injury and death.
If you want a more family friendly novel that deals with the implications of impossible phenomena manifesting in our world, try When We Were Real by Daryl Gregory.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/7690dede-bb83-45a7-98cf-28dd75493055
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I saw that question in one of the groups, and I think it's an interesting one to ask.
I've had a good reading year, with many interesting reads (and exciting re-reads), but if I was to pick one book... I think "Ninefox Gambit" by Yoon Ha Lee takes the spot. What's your top book?
Buchempfehlung passend zur Zeit: Birgit Jaeckel - Das Erbe der Rauhnacht.
Danke an Bernhard für die Empfehlung: https://www.naturklang-keller.de/literatur-empfehlenswert/spirituelles-5/
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Wow. I just inhaled "Blood over bright Haven" in two days. This is such a great book! Fiction, but it's about the big problems of the real world: colonialism, sexism, racism, capitalism, abuse of power... Big topics and only 460 pages, so it's very straight to the point. And it's a little gory. If you're fine with that like me, it's a 10/10 book! It's one of my favorites now.
Today’s book is The Incandescent by Emily Tesh! It’s a magic school “dark academia” story with lesbians! #bookstodon @bookstodon #queerfiction
Here are a few thoughts on Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1934, a reread for me, about the excesses of a wealthy American set living on the French Riviera, alcoholism and the ways mental illness was treated at the time #bookstodon #BookReview #reading #Storygraph #Braille @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/214d6cce-ed09-4e6c-ad04-3b6efbb7db3b
Okay, how about we do one more review before the year is out? Coming soon to https://inquisitivebiologist.com
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Finished the third and most recent of #AdrianTchaikovsky 's Children of Time series - but the fourth is coming in a couple of months (https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/adrian-tchaikovsky/children-of-strife/9781035057788)! This one really worked for me, with its blend of hard lives on an inadequately terraformed planet with surreal and brain-bending temporal inconsistencies and fairytale elements. While the dive into hyperevolved animal intelligence feels less deep than the first two Children books, I did appreciate the acknowledgement of a bird psychology book by Jennifer Ackerman, one of my favourite pop science authors. @bookstodon #Bookstodon #SciFi
