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My #bookreview is brief/won't spoil, to spread good, great, and spectacular #horror #books far and wide.

The family trauma that pervades THE DAY OF THE DOOR is horrifying, but coupled w the intensely creepy events that occur, this story encapsulates HORROR in a masterful, terrifying way. Laurel Hightower has written a beautiful, dark story about the Things that haunt our hearts. (Thunderstorm Bks & Ghoulish Pub)

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Hardcover of THE DAY OF THE DOOR by Laurel Hightower

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If you're going to go to hell anyway, why not go laughing 😂

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Years ago, my Mother-in-law began reading, "The Exorcist". She said it was the most evil book she ever read. So evil in fact, she couldn't finish it, took it over to the beach and threw it into the ocean off a fishing pier.

| went and bought another copy, ran the faucet over it and left it in the night table drawer by her bed. My Father-in-law said that night was the first time she ever screamed and fainted.

I'm going to Hell, but I'll go laughing.

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I want things that are above my reading level, that's how I get better at reading 🤔😁

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Comic from Unshelved about a boy asking librarian about what books he can check out and the librarian telling him he can check out any book. The teacher says it's above the child's reading level and they have a policy. The librarian replies he loves the sound of a breaking policy breaking.

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El amor autista
Ernesto Reaño

¿Somos empáticos? ¿Tenemos una baja empatía? Sí, somos empáticos, eventualmente demasiado, como consecuencia, efecto o fruto de una forma distinta de percibir y procesar los estímulos propios y externos de aquello que llamamos amor. Tenemos una empatía distinta porque amamos de manera diferente. Entonces, ¿por qué no hablar sin ambages del amor?

#novedad #actuallyautistic #neurodiversidad #bookstodon

https://ernestoreano.pe/el-amor-autista/

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The Bloodhounds of Zirth by Lloyd Palmer

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64527

#books #reading #bookstodon #scifi #sciencefiction #scifiart #sciencefictionart #retro #retrofuturism #pulpfiction #pulp #bookart #bookcovers #coverart

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#VirtualJaneCon is happening July 19-20. Didn't make previous cons or want to catch up? All videos are on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/virtualjanecon #AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #JaneAusten @romancelandia

White Background with a black diamond shape. In that shape, in dark pink color, says “Virtual JaneCon.”

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38d

Are you on NetGalley? So is my audiobook!

https://www.netgalley.com/widget/1033223/redeem/fc6239235f9b33970a0a50231b073f4463774309f2020fcfdcf320915f3d88cc

#bookstodon #audiobook #vampirebooks @Books @books@newsmast.community @bookstodon

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想读我们为什么会觉得累

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38d

Five stars:

A Gentle Noble's Vacation Recommendation, Volume 3 by Misaki, Momochi, Sando (2020) is the next in the manga series adaptation. Unfortunately the light novel hasn't been translated into English yet. If it ever is, I will absolutely read it.

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https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_02/gentle_nobles_vacation_recommendation_3.html

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It occurs to me that I haven't been talking up the audiobooks I've narrated in a while. Other more urgent projects are at the front of the queue at the moment and there are only so many hours in the day.

But! That said, if you ever have questions about the books I've narrated or you'd like a free review copy (I always need reviewers), ask away!

Also, if you're curious about my voice, there are free samples of all the books in their store listings, too.

https://adaraastin.ck.page/87de3a4c9f

@audiofiction @bookstodon

#Audiobook #Audiobooks #Audiofiction #Books #Bookstodon #Romance #Erotica

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Jamāl al-Din `Abd al-Rahīm ibn `Umar ibn Abī Bakr al-Dimashqī, known as al-Jawbarī

I've read read plenty of long books in my life but the book I'm currently #Reading wins the 'longest author's name' prize by at least 12 parsecs
#Bookstodon

Right from the start it made me think with dates like "the third/ninth century" - it took me a moment to realise it was AH/CE in that order. Fascinating stuff
#History
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Cover of an ebook edition of "The Book of Charlatans" by Jamāl al-Din `Abd al-Rahīm ibn `Umar ibn Abī Bakr al-Dimashqī, known as al-Jawbarī

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It's time for the Trans Rights Readathon this month! I'm looking forward to my third time paticipating. It starts the 17th and ends the 31st. @bookstodon #bookstodon #books #transrightsreadathon https://transrightsreadathon.carrd.co/

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RE: https://bookstodon.com/@bjvancheyson/116019986483024264

That leaves a lot of choices, I could be:
A grumpy old wizard,
A naive philosopher
A small town marshal
A couple of angry demi-gods
A constable magic apprentice
A murder suspect
A mentally unstable housewife
The Last Dragon Slayer

I think that's all of them... 😁

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35d

想读 642件可写的小事

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想读 642件可写的事

#bookstodon #neodb

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357d

🧵 For all who like to see my #scrollBook project in progress, I start a thread for new photos.
The idea: Having art small enough for a handbag or hanged on a wall. 'Writing' a #book that can't get copied by AI or people - but can be inspiring for others.
Materials: A vintage wooden bobbin, tea-dyed coton flannel, #teaBags, #sareeSilk scraps, #lace, #embroidery, glass rocailles.
@embroidery @textilearts @fibrearts

#TextileArt #collageArt #fiberarts #wildStitching #mixedmedia #bookstodon #writer

Part of my scrollbook with a needle and yellowish green thread. On a background of bright purple flannel a collage of small white lace, a square of a used teabag and scraps of saree silk. The spuares and rectangles are laid in a collage composition and get fixed with wild, wobbly stitches. One silk scrap in rosé has a beautiful dark lilac and red ornamental print.

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📚 **Are students reading less than we used to?**

David Wignall

_A few months ago, a professor told me that she had cut another book from her course’s assigned reading list. “When I started teaching at Williams,” she said, “I assigned a book per week. No way I could do that now.”_

🔗 https://williamsrecord.com/469974/opinions/are-students-reading-less-than-we-used-to/.

#Reading #Books #Bookstodon #Education #Learning @bookstodon

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Five stars:

The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter: Church Management Support Plan by Wakatsu Yatsuki and Kikka Ohashi (artist) (2020) sends Kondou to audit the church. Of course the church is full of magic and he has to be extra careful. Aresh is sent out to the field on a mission and does everything he can to protect Kondou before he leaves.

https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_02/other_worlds_books2.html

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Cover art from the light novel

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This week's #NewBooks at the library: I bought second-hand copies of Animal Anomalies: What Abnormal Anatomies Reveal about Normal Development and The Correspondence of #CharlesDarwin, Volume 14: 1866, both from Cambridge University Press. I also adopted a damaged copy of the large-format English/German Elefantenreich: Eine Fossilwelt in Europa from Verlag Beier & Beran, which features some amazing fold-out plates. I hear it is basically out of print now.

#Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #Evolution #DevelopmentalBiology #EvoDevo #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Fossils #Mammoths #Paleontology #Palaeontology @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, Animal Anomalies, showing a prepared specimen of a frog. The body has been soaked in chemicals that make the flesh translucent and have stained the skeleton red and yellow. This particular frog has a mutation, resulting in its right hind leg splitting into two legs.

In the middle, Elefantenreich, showing a colour illustration of a mammoth in a parched yellow grassland with a herd of mammoths in the background. The individual in the foreground is facing the viewer, dramatically throwing its trunk back over its forehead, and has its mouth open.

On the right, The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 14: 1866, showing a hardback with a moss-green dust jacket with black and white lettering.

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Five stars:

Pleading the Fish by Bree Baker and Thérèse Plummer (Narrator) (2022) is the satisfying conclusion to the Seaside Café mystery series. Everly Swan and Grady Hayes are engaged and actively seeking to disprove the Swan family curse. Unfortunately for both there's also a murder to solve: the killing of the woman who was helping them research the curse.

https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_02/pleading_the_fish.html

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@bookstodon #mystery #audiobook

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305d

Stressed? Feeling overwhelmed? Why not give your frazzled nerves a warm, literary hug and melt your worries away for a while? This week’s Butch/Femme Fiction Therapy Thursday theme: Love At First Sight.

#loveatfirstsight #therapythursday #butchfemme #lesfic #sapphicbooks #bookstodon #writingcommunity #butchfemme #lesbian #lgbtq #lgbtqia
@lgbtqbookstodon @bookstodon @sapphicbooks

Eight book covers on a background of a woman reading in a tub filled with warm water and scented flowers for Therapy Thursday on 05/15/25. Theme: Love At First Sight.

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The 1908 battle of wits between charismatic French genius burglar Arsène Lupin and the English detective 'Holmlock Shears' of Parker Street. The mystery writing is not as tight as the first volume of Lupin's adventures, but the humiliations inflicted on the characters borrowed from Arthur Conan Doyle are really funny, particularly the depiction of Dr Wilson as a sycophantic moron.

"'Tell me, Wilson, what's your opinion: why was Lupin in that restaurant?'
Wilson,without hesitation, replied:
'To get some dinner.'
'Wilson, the longer we work together, the more clearly I perceive the constant progress you are making. Upon my word, you're becoming amazing.'
Wilson blushed with satisfaction in the dark."

@bookstodon #Bookstodon #MauriceLeblanc

Arsène Lupin versus Holmlock Shears, by Maurice LeBlanc, translated from French to English by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos.

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And then when you do start writing them down, you end up with more ideas than you know what to do with... 😁

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Three panel meme with pictures from Pirates of the Caribbean movie where Jack is looking for rum.

Writer: "Why is my idea gone?"
Brain: "Because you refused to write it down last night when you were comfy in bed."
Writer: "But... why is my idea goen???"

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I got my first book blogger review this morning, from Dominique over at "Diary of a Reader."

TWE isn't a perfect novel by any stretch of the imagination, but I feel so SEEN by this review. She got it. 100% understood what I was doing and *how* I was doing it.

ngl, I got tears in my eyes. What a feeling.

https://thediaryofareader.com/2026/02/06/the-whole-enchilada/

#Bookstodon #books #indie #indieauthor

Graphic featuring a quote from the book review of "The Whole Enchilada" by Daniela Quirke, by Dominique at the "Diary of a Reader" blog:

"The Whole Enchilada isn't the light, quirky alien romp its premise might suggest. It's a character-driven science fiction novel that uses the strange to interrogate the deeply human, and it's beautiful."

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I wish I would've realised sooner that I don't have to solve every fictional problem I came up with the same second I came up with them 😁

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Two part meme.
Top part is a picture of a pill bottle that says, Hard to swallow pills.
Bottom part is captioned: If you can't come up with solutions to basic fiction writing problems that you yourself made then try again timorrow, keep learning. Writing is a skill that can be improved.

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