I’ve written a few thoughts on Birding by Rose Ruane, 2025, full of wit and wisdom, this story captures the painful process of growing up and examines issues around consent, identity, parenthood, friendship and trauma #bookstodon #WomensPrize #BookReview #Storygraph#audiobook @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/8f011250-3c39-4734-a206-5934d21655d3?redirect=true
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Here’s my review of A Start in Life, 1981, by Anita Brookner, a wonderfully entertaining and thoughtful novel that surprised and delighted me! #bookstodon #BookReview #Braille #reading @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/c3f94b8f-fc4e-40e5-8627-8ec73594cf91
"Thanks to denial, I'm immortal" -Philip J. Fry 😂
@reading @bookstodon @bookbubble @humour
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From Whimsical Tigress, book 8 of the Whimsical Dreams series.
https://www.tiffanyetaylor.com/bookshelf
#wipwednesday #romanticsuspense #embezzlement #dangerinperil #bodyguard #graphicartist #butchfemme #lesfic #sapphicbooks #bookstodon #writingcommunity #butchfemme #lesbian #lgbtq #lgbtqia
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Here’s my review of Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid, 2025, a brilliantly gripping read for anyone fascinated by the Universe and our place within it, and enjoys a bit of romance too! #bookstodon #BookReview #Storygraph#audiobook @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/02d81e8e-42ce-4d01-bc12-32595e37c389
It's #PrideMonth, which means that all my books are free this month!
They're free every other month, too, but now they're super extra doubly free ;)
Enjoy some queer fiction by a queer author today!
If you're in the mood for a Solarpunk western, try Echoes Through the Mountains.
"Cut off from civilization by landslides, Moffat County isn't exactly a beacon of thriving futurity. There's no Internet, no functioning power grid, and almost no people, following a mass exodus of anyone and everyone with the means to leave. Even the drones don't bother to land in this forgotten little corner of Colorado anymore.
The isolation suits Raine Bartlett just fine; all she wants is to be left alone. Alone with her thoughts, with her books, with her chickens and goats and a mule named Pauly... not to mention her hoard of goods stolen from the massive e-commerce and technology company DataLess, Inc. As the best shot on the Western Slope, if there's anyone left to keep track of such things, Raine has put her skills to good use, knocking down transcontinental shipping drones with her muzzle-loading flintlock and a handful of buckshot so she can steal their contents and run. It's not a hard life, nor is it an honest one, but it gets her through the days, and that's all she needs.
Until one day, while out hunting, Raine is interrupted by something strange: a child named Sparrow. Tiny and androgynous and of indeterminate age, with a dark past they're reluctant to share and the impressively irritating ability to mimic any sound they hear, Sparrow has been walking for 30 miles, more or less, just to get here. They are on a mission: find Radio Echo, the mysterious voice from the sky who broadcasts music 24/7 at 1320 kHz, and help save what's left of the nearby town from an impending DataLess invasion.
And maybe watch a couple movies when they're done. They've never seen one before, but rumor has it that Echo, a solar-powered techno guru hidden away on top of a mountain, owns every movie ever made."
Echoes Through the Mountains is available for free from my website: https://ater.neocities.org/books/mybooks
or at: https://books2read.com/b/bOgDKW
Firefighter Love: Curvy Girl Alpha Male Romance (Curvy Temptations) is a younger man / older woman age gap romance I narrated as Eden Cavell for Kelsie Calloway.
When a hot young firefighter moves back to the small town where he grew up, he finally gets a chance to ask out his childhood crush: his best friend's big sister!
The male lead is super sweet and it's a big-hearted, wholesome story (with a red hot finale).
"Firefighter Love: Curvy Girl Alpha Male Romance (Curvy Temptations)" is available as an audiobook on Audible, Amazon & Apple Books. It's also available in ebook and paperback formats on Amazon.
(If you've ever wondered what I sound like as the voice of a hunky young firefighter, here's where you find out!)
@audiobooks @bookstodon @romancelandia
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I've finished: The Mercy of Gods by James S.A. Corey
The Mercy of Gods starts with a group of scientists embroiled in some heavy lab politics. Then the aliens arrive.
Sadly, the rest of the novel continues to emphasize politics. Among the humans and with the different aliens, the questions are of relationships and power politics, not of science and research.
We have a group of researchers that never geek out about their ideas. When someone has a breakthrough it comes out of nowhere, there is no setup of gathering data, forming hypothesis, testing and coming to conclusions.
There is one character who actually tries to learn about the aliens, but he does so on his own and no one else is interested enough to have a conversation about his theories.
I expected something different from a novel about a biology research group that encounters an abundance of alien life forms and is given a lab and a research project to complete. Even if it is under horrific circumstances.
I understand the main dilemma of survival, resistance or compliance under fascist imperialism. But the lack of scientific discourse, geecking out or even curiosity among researchers is baffling to me.
Instead we spend an inordinate amount of time on who is fucking whom.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/727e8286-ed23-4fe1-89f3-c40c8bcef87e
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Maps are great, but this is greaterest 😊
@bookstodon @fantasybookstodon @speculativefictioncomedy @bookbubble @humour
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So excited to see that The Barbellion Prize is returning soon after a hiatus, I’ve missed it! This UK prize shines alight on talented disabled and chronically ill writers and I’ve discovered some great books through it #bookstodon #writing #Publishing #BarbellionPrize #disability #ChronicIllness @bookstodon @disability
https://www.thebarbellionprize.com
My collection of first-edition hardcovers has grown. "The Nemesis Legacy" will join them in January. Which one's your favorite? 📚🙂👍
#gamedev #devlog #itchio #commonLisp #McCLIM #NicCLIM #programming Map editor programming alpha note part 3/3: Picking up and using host lisp lambdas inside the map editor (also, player-based ephemeral storage).
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/nicclim-alpha-part-iii-map-edit-macros/
I left this one as *just* picking up and using lambda forms around the map so as not to clutter up the example, a finished game of life game will be separate.
Also includes my thoughts after reading Dungeon Crawler Carl #bookstodon .
My latest read: "NIGHTMARES" by J.D. Allen - Searching for a new speculative-horror collection to sink your teeth into? This one's worth a look!
Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7864768066
StoryGraph:
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/238197e5-9b54-4d1a-ba1d-7121db5c3f32
@bookstodon @horrorbooks @specfic
#horror #specfic #book #books #bookrec #bookrecs #bookreview #bookreviews #booksofmastodon #readersofmastodon #read #reads #reading #readingcommunity #bookstodon #booktodon
The grand finale is here!
The final two Chapters (43 and 44) of "A New Faith" are up on the website at https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith
#solarpunk #hopepunk #bookstodon #novel #climatechange #adaptation #migration #mystery
#thriller #amwriting #WritersCoffeeClub
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#climatefiction
My latest read: "Rare Specimen and Other Stories" by S.J. Shank - Eager for a satisfyingly-swift swirl of speculative fiction? Give this one a look!
Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7874245623
StoryGraph:
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/111ac15e-ba5d-4a59-ade5-a9e4e320885f
@specfic @scifi @horrorbooks @bookstodon
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New #blog post!! Pay no attention to the date that it's going up and the date at the top of the page, it's fine!! Here are my thoughts on the Kobo Libra Colour which I think is a Good Enough eReader to make as my primary device these days!
https://renkotsuban.com/posts/2025-10-05-Ruminating-on-eReaders-part-2-The-Kobo-Libra-Colour.html
Recent butch/femme fiction new releases through August 31, 2025.
#newreleases #lesfic #sapphicbooks #bookstodon #readingcommunity #butchfemme #lesbian #lgbtq #lgbtqia
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New #blog post!! Yes, again!! In the same day! Don't look at the post dates, this uhhh actually came out on the 6th 😭 But here's my #ShortBoxComicsFair haul! Go get some cool comics today!!
https://renkotsuban.com/posts/2025-10-06-ShortBox-Comics-Fair-2025.html
New #blog post!! Yes sorry, this is the third one today, I am on a roll going through my backdated #Blogtober! This time I'm talking about Bookmory, the (relatively) simple book-tracking app that has gotten me back into reading more regularly again
https://renkotsuban.com/posts/2025-10-07-Goodbye-BookWyrm-Hello-Bookmory.html
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**find a book you actually like in under 3 minutes**
#Video length: two minutes and forty-nine seconds.
Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky
First contact on the lightless surface of an alien moon.
https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/close-to-critical
#bookstodon
A little reminder that the paperback editions of all eight books set along The Nod/Wells Timelines are available via Bookshop(dot)org. That means just about any book store can order and benefit from their sale!
https://bookshop.org/lists/the-nod-wells-timelines
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Want to read my book for free? Ask your library to order it!
(It’s available via Ingram and Overdrive)
https://books2read.com/u/bo0RR1?store=overdrive&format=EBOOK
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/katherine-villyard/immortal-gifts/
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Three from Dean Street Press for my #MurderEveryMonday today, very apt that I'm sitting at a table/desk as I type this 😀 #Mystery #Reading #Bookstodon
https://crossexaminingcrime.wordpress.com/murdereverymonday-theme-list/
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