Recent butch/femme fiction new releases through August 10, 2025.
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The Immortal Gifts Podcast: Episode 8 https://www.katherinevillyard.com/2026/03/16/the-immortal-gifts-podcast-episode-8/ #fantasy #bookstodon @bookstodon #audio #audiobook #ImmortalGifts #podcast
One of these is better than the others... you know the one I mean 😁
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All good choices, but one is clearly better than the others 😁
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Kate Beaton is a comic artist who had a semi-regular web series called Hark! A Vagrant! (http://www.harkavagrant.com/). She's ended the series, but her archives are a wonderful backlog of her poking fun at history.
Her spins on the Brontës and Austen never fail to amuse me.
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My favorite reads of 2025 (so far.)
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See my reviews:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/71384024-michael-shotter
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Are you going to @SeattleWorldcon2025 @seattlein2025 ? Come hear Broad Universe read!
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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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I finished #reading "There is No Antimemetics Division" by qntm late last night.
It was on the TBR shelf for quite some time, but I'm glad I finally gave it a chance. I expected the narration to be a bit less straightforward than it turned out to be. Strong recommendation for anyone looking for a more cerebral, thought provoking, metafiction type read (also pleasantly surprised at the amount of horror).
I put this in the same category as Gnomon by Nick Harkaway and Interstellar (the movie), because at its heart, it's a novel about ideas and memory and where they come from and where they go. Love that shit.
I'll be honest: I feel like there three distinct parts. The first and third parts moved along swimmingly, the middle part was a bit slower in comparison.
Cool note: This book was birthed in an online community known as the SCP Foundation. Here's a link: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/
A quote or two:
"Humans can forget anything. It’s okay to forget some things, because we are mortal and finite. But some things we have to remember. It’s important that we remember. Write something that will make you remember.”
"But an idea can end a world. An idea is alive. It can mutate, it can replicate, it can predate on other ideas…and it can hide."
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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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
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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Spring into Reading! Barnes & Noble has curated a great list of 500 audiobooks and ebooks (including The Expert of Subtle Revisions!) available for under five dollars, now through 4/27. Check out the full list here:
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https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/spring-into-reading-500-under-5/fiction/_/N-32ftZ10h8?page=3
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.
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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Currently #Reading "The Book of Charlatans", devoted to exposing con artists and scammers in the medieval Islamic world, and have reached a chapter showing that one thing universal among people of anywhere and anywhen is a deep love & reverence for the legal profession. #History #Bookstodon
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"First thing we do,..." 😆
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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#climateCrisis + KMP #haiku always
@ramin_hal9001 's #bookReview is over here: https://fe.disroot.org/objects/87b9e619-4e1d-4387-9f2f-8f3cf859a827
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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
Our local independent bookshop has a monthly ‘mystery book’ subscription. The staff have hand-crafted teeny tiny editions of each title they’ve included so far. Each book cover is a faithful rendition of the real one. Amazon could never. AI could never.
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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.