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206d

It's #NationalLibraryWeek! I practically grew up in a library, and my love for them is often reflected in my books. I literally cannot imagine a world without them.

In my post-apocalyptic novella "Unloveables," the unnamed protagonist even lives in one!

Unloveables was originally written as part of the novel, _Where There's Smoke_, but I also published it separately as a novella.

I'm self-published and release all my books for free. Try one today!

https://books2read.com/b/bo0GeL
https://books2read.com/b/mvPN9q

#bookstodon @bookstodon #fiction #selfpublished

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"They're poisonous," I insisted.
"They are not."
"It's literally impossible to tell without a microscope," I said smugly, reciting a little-known-fact from an old magazine I read in the library.
. . .
Yes, we had a library. It was open 24/7 and there were no librarians. There was no one in charge at all, and there was little furniture left besides the staggering bookshelves. It was not in great shape and the newest book was almost as old as I was. I practically lived there. The basement storage rooms were particularly cozy year-round.
. . .
Rat: "That is a myth perpetuated in the twenties, after artificial intelligence began publishing misleading field guides that encouraged readers to consume toxic mushrooms.

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272d

Picked up on a #bookstodon recommendation: a space opera that I found excellent in places but flawed. Every major character is an insanely overpowered unkillable badass, making the over the top violence feel a bit weightless. The prose is pretty good and the plotting has a lot of energy, so given that it's a debut novel I'd definitely read #BethanyJacobs again, but probably not anything from this series. @bookstodon

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1y

finished reading The Tainted Cup 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
by Robert Jackson Bennett.

A murder mystery fantasy novel - why is this a first for me?! Fairly standard whodunnit which escalates to political intrigue, made distinctive by very cool world-building: an empire built to defend against leviathans attacking from the sea, whose bodily fluids enable a raft of fantastical bio-enhancements. Interesting characters and the potential for more fleshing out give the series much promise.

#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #MurderMystery #CrimeFiction #Fantasy #SFF

@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de

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1y

finished reading Nervous Conditions 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
by Tsitsi Dangarembga.

Becoming a familiar refrain in African literature: girl fights for education & freedom against patriarchy & colonialism. This one, set in pre-independence Zimbabwe, might be the original (?) and the best, with carefully crafted & evolving characters. Ends very suddenly, though.

#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #Zimbabwe #AfricanLiterature

@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de

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273d

If you are dreading Valentine's Day, I am happy to give you a romance or erotica audiobook of your choice for free, no strings, no questions asked.

1. Pick out a title from among the books I have narrated at the link below.
2. DM me your choice.
3. Let me know if you'd prefer a free code for Audible UK or Audible US.*

*These are my only options, sorry. But you can redeem them from anywhere by changing the Audible website country settings or app settings.

Have a Happy Valentine's Day on me, please! 💋

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

@bookstodon @audiofiction @LonelinessCorps

#Singleton #Single #Solo #ValentinesDay #Audiobook #Audiobooks #Audiofiction #Bookstodon #Romance #Erotica

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195d

A Single Man. By Christopher Isherwood.

You are a late middle aged gay professor in the early 1960s, your partner died in an accident a year ago but almost no one knows because you can’t say the truth of it; as you teach, you wonder if the aged have anything to offer the young.

4 out of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈.

@bookstodon #bookstodon #books #reading #gay #lgbtq #aging

Book cover with a few small illustrations of ordinary things

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1y

#sapphicfictionsaturday
I’m reading An Unlikely Partnership by Katie Trapp. What’s in your hands today? 📖
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BKH4WBLL

IG/Threads: @katietrappauthor
Bluesky: @katietrappauthor.bsky.social

#whatareyoureading #sapphicbooks #cozymystery #policeprocedural #forcedproximity #grumpysunshine #magic #butchfemme #lesfic #bookstodon #readingcommunity #lesbian #lgbtq #lgbtqia
@lgbtqbookstodon @bookstodon @sapphicbooks

A woman laying outside in a hammock reading next to a picture of the cover of An Unlikely Partnership by Katie Trapp with the caption “What Are You Reading?” for Sapphic Fiction Saturday on 05/10/25.

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273d

Suck it linguists I'll make my own grammar rolls 😜😂

@linguistics @humor @humor@lemmy.world @aiop @writingcommunity @writingbooks

#LinguisticMemes #Meme #Memes #Linguistics
#Language #Words #Humor #Humour #Funny
#Reading #Readers #ReadersOfMastodon #ReadingCommunity
#Book #Books #Novel #Novels #Fiction #Bookstodon

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Here's my first attempt at synonym rolls, with attached picture of cinnamon rolls.

Reply by BrazilFlair
Just like grammar used to make.

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1y

I love that Stephen Graham Jones pulls no punches, and names his Blackfeet main character "Good Stab."

He reminds us that true horror is perpetrated by people, and that blood will cry out for justice forever.

THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER is a great title.

@bookstodon
#books #bookstodon #Horror @horror #BooksWorthReading

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273d

Some excellent books here! Of Barbara Pym: ‘I see in her characters spinsters of the type I aspire to be: incisive, busy, and fine with or without a partner. Pym was ahead of her time…So ahead, in fact, that we haven’t yet caught up to her’ | Eight Booker Prize-nominated books that celebrate ‘spinster lit’ | The Booker Prizes

https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/eight-booker-prize-nominated-books-that-celebrate-spinster-lit?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=ap_z4nscnz4ja

#bookstodon #reading @bookstodon

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271d

This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- I expanded my collection of #Tolkien books with The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation from W.W. Norton
- I used my employer's Christmas voucher to buy a copy of Simon Parkin's The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in a City under Siege from Sceptre (look out for a review in due course).
- I also found a second-hand copy of What Is Regeneration? from the University of Chicago Press.

#Books #Scicomm #Tolkien #Literature #DevelopmentalBiology #SeedBank #Botany #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.

On the left, standing up, The Tower and the Ruin, showing a black-and-white photo of J.R.R. Tolkien on a black background. He is wearing a suit and lighting his pipe.

In the middle, lying down, What Is Regeneration?, showing several blue drawings of hydras, a stalked underwater hydrozoan with a crown of tentacles at its free end.

On the right, standing up, The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad, showing part of a black-and-white photo of two women wearing head scarves, seated against a background of concrete rubble. The top half of the cover shows several technical botanical drawings of plants in colour and black-and-white.

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179d

Nightmare Before Christmas, 1929 edition...

It's an illustration from the chapter "What the green tree said" in Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson. Sentient, running Christmas trees are another thing John R. Neill had trouble drawing.

#bookstodon #CurrentlyReading
@bookstodon

A tall pumpking headed figure runs from something that looks more like multieyed Spanish moss with numerous outstretched hands than a Christmas tree mid stride.

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1y

Dear #bookstodon, I'm looking for #recommendations - what's a book of short stories or a short(ish) novel you've enjoyed recently, in the genres of sci-fi / speculative or literary fiction? No big names please. Women / queer / neurodiverse writers interest me especially.

#lovetoread #bookrecommendations #actuallyAutistic @bookstodon

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272d

Five stars:

What the Dog Knows by Sylvia McNicoll (2022) is set in the week leading up Canada Day. Naomi with the guidance of her dog has to fix her family before time runs out.

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

#bookstodon
@bookstodon

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206d

Aw crap, it's #EarthDay too? Celebrate with a book about taking down an evil fossil fuel corporation!

Wild Things - Sometime in the near future, four teens are living through every day dystopia, perpetuated by ecological collapse and mass extinction. Each has a unique connection to nature; a connection which will prove useful as they find themselves embroiled in fossil fuel conspiracies and corporate corruption.

https://books2read.com/b/3y667v

@bookstodon #bookstodon #fantasy #fiction #YoungAdult #selfpublished

(sorry for all the book posts - I'm self published and mastodon is the only place I have to advertise!)

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1y

#wipwednesday
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
@lgbtqbookstodon @bookstodon @sapphicbooks

A black background with two figures dressed in black holding stacks of cash with a snippet from Whimsical Tigress, book 8 of the Whimsical Dreams series, for WIP Wednesday on 05/14/25.

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206d

Today is Nabokov’s birthday.

A serious butterfly specialist and a brilliant #literature professor in the US, famous for his lectures.

Speaking of Lolita: he did not write a #romance. He wrote a chilling masterclass in manipulation and self-justification.

Predators like #Epstein crave beautiful alibis. #Nabokov offers none. He gives us a liar so eloquent that the #readers has to struggle not to be deceived.

#books #bookstodon #today #writers #writer
@bookstodon #birthday

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274d

Book Review: Lessons in Magic and Disaster
A Russian nested doll of stories, characters and relationships, and yes, magic
My review of @charliejane 's book at the NOAF blog:

http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/book-review-lessons-in-magic-and.html

#books #sff #queer #lgbtq #review #bookstodon @bookstodon

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271d

"Are our myriad technological innovations to be seen as responses to collective needs and desires, or are they simply logical developments in the inexorable evolution of technology itself?"

Sven Birkerts, 'The Gutenberg Elegies,' 1994

#sundaySentence #Artificial_intel @bookstodon #technology #bookstodon

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1y

sometimes you have to choose a book by its cover. found this one while reshelving at the library this morning and greatly looking forward to reading it.

#bookstodon #amreading

A library book: The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa

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1y

Reading Never Whistle At Night edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. I really have loved this book, I have a little over 100 pages left. The stories are amazing.

However, I do suggest not reading before going to sleep at night. I woke up this morning saying "what the motherfucking hell" after the dreams I had.

@bookstodon
#books #bookstodon

Cover of Never Whistle At Night. Cover has black background with colorful pictures around the edges- there is a butterfly with a skull, a mouse, a frog, a snake, an eyeball, and flowers and weeds.

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1y

#sapphicfictionsaturday
I’m reading Tarnished Gold by Ann Aptaker. What’s in your hands today? 📖
https://www.goodreads.com/book/24693894-tarnished-gold/get_a_copy

Bluesky: @annaptaker.bsky.social‬
IG: @ann_aptaker
Website: http://www.annaptaker.com/

#whatareyoureading #sapphicbooks #mystery #historical #noir #murder #criminal #butchfemme #lesfic #bookstodon #readingcommunity #lesbian #lgbtq #lgbtqia
@lgbtqbookstodon @bookstodon @sapphicbooks

A woman laying outside in a hammock reading next to a picture of the cover of Tarnished Gold by Ann Aptaker with the caption “What Are You Reading?” for Sapphic Fiction Saturday on 05/31/25.

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270d

The Immortal Gifts Podcast: Episode 4 https://www.katherinevillyard.com/2026/02/16/the-immortal-gifts-podcast-episode-4/ #fantasy #bookstodon @bookstodon #audio #audiobook #ImmortalGifts #podcast

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278d

This one is more expensive and also the most detailed piece of art I have probably ever made. It took me a year to finish, and it is selling for 500€ (incl, paypal fee and VAT).

Please share so people can see I can do more than just silly comics. :D

Direct buy: https://ko-fi.com/s/0e5c6516e9
Or part payment options at: hiisikoloart@gmail.com

You can also commission something similiar if you like!
#art #illustration #bookcoverart #bookillustration #Bookstodon #books #bookcovers #NOAI

Illustrated eBook cover for sale. Depicts a red dragon with green horns and eyes geaming in cold sunlight with its wing over an elf-man. Sunlight shows the patterns of its wing, and reflects on its curved horns, neck spikes, and long claws.

The elf man is pale, and has white, slightly curled short hair resting on his forehead and temples. The hair in a long braid that snakes down his shoulder to his exposed peck. The braid is tied with a silky white ribbon and it turns from white to pale red and finally turns entirely black at the end. His eyes are red, and his pointed ear is red and sunlight makes it look luminecent.
He is wearing green, buttoned trousers and nothing else. They are resting low on his hips. His abs are visible, as he holds the head of his dragon companion. He has tattoos all over his arms, around his navel, neck, decolte, and ear. He also has scars on his side, arm, and chest if you look closely. They have long since healed.

The background is of cold mountain ranges disappearing into a fog. The light is cold, and unyelding.

The yellow text overlays say:
Two hiisikoloART signatures, hiisikoloART watermarks, "author name" and "very cool title" on bold text. No AI label, illustrated typography! 100% human made original art!

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247d

Today is Jack Kerouac birthday.

Before he became the voice of the Beat Generation, Kerouac was a promising college football player. A broken leg ended his sports career — but the long recovery gave him time to read obsessively and begin writing the stories that would change American literature.

He later wrote On the Road in a burst of energy that became legendary: typing day and night on a single 120-foot scroll of paper.

@bookstodon
#books #bookstodon #writers

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