Picked up this history of Australian #philosophy on the chance it covered philosophical logic, and indeed @consequently , Graham Priest, relevance logic, and the Automated Reasoning Group make cameos. As a book the writing is delightfully funny and acerbic, but so biased towards the author's right wing politics and personal friends that it's hard to take seriously as history. He goes so far as to praise a 'gaps in the fossil records' anti-evolution book, and discusses David Stove at length while somehow not mentioning his remarkably explicit endorsements of racism and misogyny. University of Sydney also appears to receive excessive emphasis, although admittedly its 1970s split into right and left wing philosophy departments is bizarre and interesting. @bookstodon #bookstodon
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To celebrate Jane Austen's 250th, Austen Connection is hosting an Austen read-along during 2025. They are currently in the midst of “Mansfield Park!” For the full schedule, go to https://austenconnection.substack.com/p/the-great-jane-austen-read-along.
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Another older review, and I have to say I agree, what's better than "some good old cynicism and humour." 😁
Free eBook in comments.
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To say I’m excited about the impending publication of the new novel, The End of Everything, by M. John Harrison would be something of an understatement.
“Phillip Tennent makes his living at the tideline, collecting artefacts that wash up from the Channel. It's been years since the crisis changed everything, but its exact nature remains obscure. Government barely functions, the seas are full of new creatures, Europe has been mislaid. It feels like the end.
Now Phillip has fished out of the water an object he can't keep. A creature that keeps changing. An artefact he must take inland, before it destroys everything he thinks he knows.”
I love that cover design, the sickly way the “Everything” in the title collapses towards the bottom of the page, a metaphor for decay, runoff, entropy or perhaps something much worse.
As another (connected) Mike once asked “What is the exact nature of the catastrophe?”
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I'm currently reading book #6 in the Rivers of London series and I finally figured out my issue with it.
Is it just me or is Peter Grant, the regular POV character, also the least interesting character in the books? 🤔
It suddenly came to me that my favourites are the extras where the main character doesn't appear at all, but overall it's still pretty good 😁
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Part 5 of #THWhite 's quintet of Arthurian novellas is an oddity: the publisher baulked at releasing the collection, partly due to wartime paper rationing, so White raided it for its best 20 pages and stuck them in the 1st book! What remains, published posthumously, is uneven: moments of the sublime, moments of laugh out loud ridiculousness, but too much of Merlyn lecturing out White's political beliefs. #Bookstodon @bookstodon
Fanart of Richard, long for Dick, the control freak of galactic proportions 😁
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It's quite late, but here it is my review of Star Wars: No Prisoners. Such a great (short) book.
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While in Glasgow yesterday, I couldn’t resist a visit to Good Press in St. Andrew’s Street. It’s probably for the best that this amazing shop crammed full of books, zines, music and other treasures isn’t on my doorstep, because I’d be there every other day…They have things I’d never find anywhere else!
Picked up a couple of interesting titles (it would have been rude not to!).
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Do you remember your first favorite book?
My first real favorite: the fairy-tale The Golden Ball.
Today I looked up the author and discovered he’s still alive: a scholar, professor, and author of academic works on totalitarianism, information policy, and hybrid wars. I may never read those. But I will absolutely reread the first book I ever loved.
There’s something very moving about smart, busy, serious people who still choose to write for children.
Performative reading before it became cool. This little satyr surely loved his public reading back then
In an updated writing version of this meme I vividly hallucinate 1s and 0s onto liquid crystals.
The future is now! 😂
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On the hour interviewing @cdegroot with @kentpitman about #bookstodon https://berksoft.ca/gol The Genius of Lisp - the history of #computers, #retrocomputing and #computing, #ai, #lisp and McCarthy - of Uncle John's Mystery Hour.
Great discussion! (boost for the #book btw)
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@ramin_hal9001 's #bookReview is over here: https://fe.disroot.org/objects/87b9e619-4e1d-4387-9f2f-8f3cf859a827
Five stars:
Into the Midnight Wood by Alexandra McCollum (2026) is a queer romantasy set at the edge of an enchanted wood somewhere near Cleveland. David Carew, a Welsh accountant has been sharing a house with a roommate with absurd name: Meredith Schwarzwelder. Meredith is a handful to live with, as is the the nearby Midnight Woods, and those two forces have kept the roommates from maintaining a third housemate for any amount of time.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_03/into_the_midnight_wood.html
My first book for the #TransRightsReadathon was Beyond They/Them by em dickson and illustrated by Cameron Mukwa. It's short profiles of people in entertainment, politics and sports who identify as nonbinary, genderqueer, two-spirit or otherwise gender-diverse. Feels a little written down to kids at times, but the author's passion for the work of the subjects shines.
Ello sweet and lovely (reading) Friendos 
The last two months, I've been caught up reading again! At times where my body needed to relax, recharge, but my brain was still looking to be entertained... I got back to reading more again. 😊
Halfway through November, I learned about the new Dan Brown book in his Robert Langdon series. It had been a while since I read his books, so I set off, starting with Angels & Demons.
At the end of December, I finished the 6th book, the Secret of Secrets. I read another Dan Brown book after that, Deception Point.
I finished it yesterday. But now... As I started it at the end of December, is this my last finished book of 2025? Or is it the first one of 2026?
I've never really tracked my reading, but I thought it may be nice to make a thread this year, pinning 📌 it to my profile, and adding the books that I've managed to finish in 2026.
Maybe Deception Point was the last of 2025, maybe it's the first of 2026... But this is the first post of my #BooksIn2026.
I've now started a re-read of the Hunger Game series, which I'll read in the order of their release.
Books 📚 of 2026:
*January*
1. Deception Point - Dan Brown
2. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
3. Catching Fire (the Hunger Games series, book 2) - Suzanne Collins
4. Mockingjay (the Hunger Games series, book 3) - Suzanne Collins
5. Storm Front (the Dresden Files, book 1) - Jim Butcher
6. Fool Moon (the Dresden Files, book 2) - Jim Butcher
*February*
7. Grave Peril (the Dresden Files, book 3) - Jim Butcher
8. The Ritual Bath (Decker/Lazarus series, book 1) - Faye Kellerman
9. Sacred and Profane (Decker/Lazarus series, book 2) - Faye Kellerman
10. Milk and Honey (Decker/Lazarus series, book 3) - Faye Kellerman
11. Day of Atonement (Decker/Lazarus series, book 4) - Faye Kellerman
12. False Prophet (Decker/Lazarus series, book 5) - Faye Kellerman
13. Grievous Sin (Decker/Lazarus series, book 6) - Faye Kellerman
14. Sanctuary (Decker/Lazarus series, book 7) - Faye Kellerman
*March*
15. Justice (Decker/Lazarus series, book 8) - Faye Kellerman
16. Prayers for the Dead (Decker/Lazarus series, book 9) - Faye Kellerman
17. Serpent's Tooth (Decker/Lazarus series, book 10) - Faye Kellerman
Ello sweet and lovely (gaming) Friendos 
My book reading is going a bit slower at the moment... Not because I am not reading, but because I am reading a proper (Dutch) book now, instead of the digital English ones I was reading on my Kobo.
Koa's breeder, Joke, gave/gives each new puppy parent a book during their first puppy date. 😊 And while I do know something about dogs, if there is a way to learn more, get better insights and all, then I will try to acquire the knowledge.
So, I'm currently reading "Bewust van Hondengedrag", by Connie Berendsen. I hope I can read a bit of it every day, so that I'll have read it all before I can pick up Koa. Only one more month to go!
Well, I'll try to relax a bit for now, as today will be a long one for me. But... If all goes well, a good one... 🤎🐾
Some info on the book and it's contents, translated to English for this Toot (as it's a Dutch book by a Dutch author):
Bewust van hondengedrag (Conscious of Dog Behavior) by Connie Berendsen is a practical and down-to-earth guide focused on understanding and raising dogs. Rather than relying on strict, rigid training formulas, the author advocates for an approach rooted in intuition, mindfulness, and a healthy dose of common sense.
By sharing her own personal experiences, Berendsen takes the reader into the world from the dog's perspective.
The book serves as a comprehensive manual covering the full spectrum of a dog's life, including:
* The Early Stages: What to look for when getting a dog, the dangers and consequences of puppy mills, and the critical socialization period.
* Behavior and Training: Navigating dog puberty, establishing healthy boundaries, understanding how dogs learn, and the pros and cons of using corrections.
* Health and Psychology: Managing both physical and mental well-being, dealing with hyperactive or obsessive/addictive behaviors, and navigating interactions with other dogs.
* Specialized Roles: It even touches on the training and life of psychosocial service dogs.
Ultimately, the book is designed to help owners build a deeper, more empathetic, and balanced relationship with their dogs by truly understanding the "why" behind their behavior.
Some Dutch info about the book, written on/by Dagboek van een hond © (A dog's diary):
🔗 https://www.dagboekvaneenhond.nl/de-5-beste-boeken-over-het-gedrag-van-honden/#bewust-van-hondengedrag
Catch you all later folks!
If you're looking for a Christmas Romance audiobook, I've narrated a great one!
Lily is a single mom starting over in a small mountain town. Last Christmas, her brother's hot best friend Beckett kissed her under the mistletoe. This year she's newly arrived, newly divorced, and hoping for a second chance in more ways than one.
Lily is a great character: she is a woman who knows what she wants and is not afraid to go after it. And Becket is the hunky mountain man we all deserve: caring, together, and more than ready to appreciate a good woman who comes his way.
Taken by the Mountain Man by Kelsie Calloway is one of my top three best selling romance audiobooks of the year. At just 42 minutes long, you can listen in a single session!
If you like a story with a big heart and sizzling sex scenes, this one's for you. Go on and cozy up with a nice hot mountain man romance!
The books is available for Kindle and Kindle Unlimited from Amazon, and the audiobook is available from Amazon, Audible and Apple Books.
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Book Review: China Mountain Zhang
A stone cold classic of future lives which holds up more than 30 years after it was written.
@DrEddieClark has our review at the NOAF blog
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/03/book-review-china-mountain-zhang.html
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-Little Dalek the philosopher
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Nonfiction Titles I Recently Added to My TBR List: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-newer-nonfiction-titles-on-my-tbr-list/
"Unicorn Variation" by Roger Zelazny and Rene Auberjonois (1981) is a brilliant performance of one of Zelazny's sillier short stories. This post will be an indulgent one filled with nostalgia and rambling. If you prefer my usual short and concise posts, please come back tomorrow.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_03/unicorn_variation.html
