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The Language of Liars by S L Huang

A linguist goes undercover to unravel a xenological puzzle whose answer is in plain view.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/try-something
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76d

Made a list of all the 2026 fantasy and sci-fi book releases that I’m excited for:
https://youtu.be/oRaNxr3Uoj0
#bookstodon #booktube #amreading

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61d

New review: A nicely balanced collection of essays with long-lived trees from around the globe that provides ten different answers to the question: "And what else can you learn from tree rings?"

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2026/01/14/book-review-in-the-circle-of-ancient-trees-our-oldest-trees-and-the-stories-they-tell/

#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Dendrochronology #Trees #Wood #Forests #Plants #Botany #Scicomm @bookstodon

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61d

If sniffing old books is wrong then I don't want to be right 😁

@reading @joinin @bookstodon @books @humor @humor@lemmy.world @aiop

#Book #Books #BookMemes #Memes #Humor #Humour
#ReadingMemes #Memes #ReadAllTheBooks #Reading #Readers #ReadersOfMastodon #ReadingCommunity
#Litterature #Novel #Novels #Bookshelf #Mastobooks #BooksofMastodon #Bookstodon #Bookworm #Bookwyrm #Bookstodon #BookLove #FantasyBooks

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Caption: pov: you are an old book i discovered

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61d

Five stars:

Murder in Waiting by Lynn Cahoon and Susan Boyce (Narrator) (2020) is the eleventh book in the Tourist Trap mystery series. Amy's wedding is coming up and Jill is doing her best to help plan a bachelorette party. But she's distracted by the hit and run death of Frank Gleason, the historical society man who has been epically slow at approving the wall at her home for preservation.

https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_01/murder_in_waiting.html

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58d

New #BookReview on my #blog: "Diary of a Bookseller."
https://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2026/01/book-review-diary-of-bookseller.html

#books #reading #ItinerantLibrarian #reviews #bookstodon
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60d

I'm doing a new thing. This is my current WIP. Want to read the first chapter for free? https://www.patreon.com/posts/immortal-blood-1-146725634?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

#vampirebooks #self-promo #bookstodon #amwritingfantasy @books @Books@mstdn.social @bookstodon

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60d

Five stars:

"Reunion" by John Cheever (1962) is one of the author's shorter short stories. It covers a brief but final reunion between a son and his estranged father in New York. The narrator had a brief layover to change trains during his trip from the Adirondacks to Cape Cod by way of Grand Central Station.

https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_01/reunion.html

#bookstodon #ShortStory
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58d

Coming soon to a dealer’s room near you (if you’re at Arisia)! Come see the Broad Universe table and come hear us read on Saturday night!

#bookstodon #arisia #broaduniverse #arisia2026 #SFCon @Books @books@newsmast.community @bookstodon

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58d

So, it's either keep buying more books or become a librarian? 🤔
It's a rare thing indeed to have life present us with two excellent choices 😊

@libraries@literature.cafe @Libraries @library @books @bookstodon @humor @humor@lemmy.world @aiop @joinin

#Library #LibraryMemes #Meme #Memes #Libraries #Librarians #Humor #Humour #Funny
#ReadingMemes #Memes #ReadAllTheBooks
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It's not that I *can't* read all of the books I already have, it's that once a reader finishes all the books in their possession, they transcend into their final form and I'm just not ready to become a librarian yet.

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17d

I just discovered the Fanart friday tag so you're going to be getting some fanart of my story The Last Philosopher on fridays 😁

This one is a map of the Sojurut continent before and after "The Spell"

@reading @fantasy @bookstodon @worldbuilding

#FanArtFriday #FanArt #Map #Maps
#AmWriting #IndieAuthor
#SpecualtiveFiction #FantasyBooks #Fantasy #WorldBuilding #SciFi #Satire
#Book #Books #Novel #Novels #Bookstodon #Bookwyrm
#Reading #Readers #ReadersOfMastodon #ReadingCommunity

The digital version of this map was drawn from my pencil scribbling, which I guarantee you don’t want to see, by https://www.wattpad.com/user/edoggypaws

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226d

The Midnights Reads collection by Sourcebooks Fire is made for readers who crave twists, secrets, and adrenaline-fueled suspense. From deadly secrets to chilling mysteries, these page-turners are perfect for fans of late-night thrills and dark YA drama.
#bookstodon @bookstodon #YA @yalit

🌞This Is Where We Die by Cindy R.X. He (July 1, 2025 by Sourcebooks Fire)
Eight friends went on a trip. Only six came back. Now a killer has one night to make sure the survivors pay for what they did . . . so that zero make it out alive.

🌞Catch Your Death by Ravena Guron (September 2, 2025 by Sourcebooks Fire)
Trapped in a mansion with a murderer and a family of liars - how would you survive?

🌞The Payback Girls by Alex Travis (April 1, 2025 by Sourcebooks Fire)
Why get over your cheating ex when you can get even? John Tucker Must Die meets One of Us Is Lying in a gripping, page-turning debut thriller.

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A 2025 book I am #Reading prompts this query. The following sentence made me cringe - what do #bookstodon users think?
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But they each knew they had witnessed something extraordinary, the betrothed couple losing control, as well as the two men who swooped down to disarm the situation, in rather a deus ex machina.
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It also has a use of 'judicial' when judicious would be more common. Not "wrong", but would it have been standard in 1936, I wonder?
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0% It's ineptly pretentious
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58d

This is really cool! Last year I read William Dalrymple's "The Golden Road" and central to its narrative are these trade routes. This was an experiment to reconstruct a lost 5th century CE ship design based on drawing in the Ajanta Caves. According to Dalrymple, images in the Ajanta Caves provide some of the best info for the period.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyn15110gvo

#India #MastIndia #History #AncientHistory #Histodons #Books #Bookstodon #Ocean #Ships #Sailing #Archeology @histodons @bookstodon

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57d

This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- I bought a second-hand copy of #Isotopes: Principles and Applications, published by Wiley. Isotopes are hugely important in various branches of science, and I have it in mind to get to grips with the finer details at some point.
- I found a copy of Simon Lamb's Devil in the Mountain: A Search for the Origin of the Andes at a local charity shop, a classic from @princetonupress
- And I bought a copy of Paul Thagard's Bots and Beasts: What Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart? from @themitpress for basically the price of a packet of crisps.
#Chemistry #Physics #Geology #EarthSciences #Orogeny #CognitiveScience #Cognition #Intelligence #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon

A photo of three books standing on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books and part of the beech-coloured laminate floor.

On the left, Isotopes: Principles and Applications, showing a chunky hardback book with a bluish-black cover. A band of large ochre and brown pixels is running diagonally across the bottom-left corner. Though no explanation is given on the cover, this is a close-up of a colourised schematic plot that shows nuclides and their decay products

In the middle, Devil in the Mountain: A Search for the Origin of the Andes, showing a colour photo of a group of small, single-storey concrete buildings on a barren hillside with a huge mountain range with snow-covered peaks in the background. This photo is reproduced in the book, with the legend explaining that this is a small cemetery on the road to the Zongo Valley in the Cordillera Real, just north of La Paz. The peak in the background is the 6088 metre high peak of Huayna Potosi.

On the right, Bots and Beasts: What Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart?, showing a colour photo of three figures, a small white robot, a woman, and a dog, in a grassy field facing the viewer, the out-of-focus background showing a blue sky.

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58d

Five stars:

Kowloon Generic Romance, Volume 10 by Jun Mayuzuki and Amanda Haley (Translator) (2024) begins the process of wrapping up the series. Yaomay is away from the city and can see clearly. Kudou is confronted by the reality of his situation. Kujirai A knows most of B's past now and that her very existence is tenuous at best.

https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_01/kowloon_generic_romance_10.html

#bookstodon #manga
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Join the Texas Observer in conversation with author Jessica Pishko on February 5th for this FREE event at Alienated Majesty Books.

We'll discuss Pishko's provocative and important book about the dangers posed by extremist sheriffs in the United States.

RSVP: https://buff.ly/4gzkA5r

#events #books #bookstodon @bookstodon #Austin #Texas #police #extremism #CriminalJustice #law

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61d

So here's the first of the #MysteryAuthors from our #Winter issue.

Nice trees, somewhat obscured by the #BlankPage

But who could it be?

#books #reading #writing #ShortStories #fiction #comics #translation #blog #bookstodon

A desk looks out on lush foliage, with piles of books, a lamp and a computer screen showing an empty page

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59d

My favourite story from Russian writer Leonid Kostyukov, whose seminar I attended in the 2000s: once, in the 90s, he was asked to read and review a novel, and then the author asked his advice on a title.

“Not a word about Yeltsin,” said Kostyukov (still the Yeltsin era).

— But there’s nothing about Yeltsin in it!
— Exactly, — Kostyukov replied.

The title, oddly enough, was never used — even with another name in Yeltsin's stead.

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59d

finished reading I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
by Ed Yong.

Delves into the many varied & amazing ways humans & animals have evolved to depend upon microbes. Most of this was familiar to me already, though told in the author's excellent clear & awed way. New was the incredible nesting of microbes within high-order animal cells, with each doing distinct jobs, such that none can survive without the others. Yong is always good for a celebration of life & its complexity.

#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #NonFiction #ScienceWriting

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