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I haven't done an audiobook giveaway in a while. Let's fix that!
If you are going through a hard time and listening to an audiobook might be a little treat, then:
1. Make your pick from the audiobooks I have narrated (catalogue link follows below).
2. DM me the title.
3. Let me know if you'd like a free copy through Audible US or Audible UK.*
4. I will send you a code for a free copy, no strings, no questions asked.
It's that easy!
*Audible US and Audible UK are the only options or I would offer more. If you live in other regions, you can access these versions by changing the country code in your Audible phone app settings or the region on the broweser version.
If you aren't sure what to pick, I'd recommend one of these three books:
- The Giantess Slave is low spice scifi, that several listeners have told me they find helps them fall asleep. (It's an odd compliment, but I'll take it!)
- The Trouble with Angels is medium spice comedy romance that's funny and big-hearted with a great story. It gets good reviews from people who don't think of themselves as romance fans.
- Lockdown and Dirty is the book I won a narration award for. It is very high spice but also wholesome, about a sweetheart of a guy who has a big crush on his roommate but doesn't want to endanger their friendship.
Or you can pick a title from any of the books in my catalogue.
If you would like an audiobook, please don't hesitate. It would give me so much joy to be able to offer a little pick-me-up to someone who needs it.
https://adaraastin.ck.page/87de3a4c9f
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finished reading The Sound of the Mountain 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
by Yasunari Kawabata.
In post-war Japan, an aging man grapples ineffectually with the autumn of his life, the failure of his children's marriages, and his slightly inappropriate relationship with his daughter-in-law. Calmly mellow & unfocussed, much like old age might be.
#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #JapaneseLiterature
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finished reading The Lathe of Heaven 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
by Ursula Le Guin.
A man's dreams shape reality, and his therapist uses him as a tool to fix the wrongs in the world. But if utopia lacks free will, diversity & creativity, is it still utopia?
#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #SFF #UrsulaLeGuin
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This week's #NewBooks at the library: Some classic literature that I bought second-hand.
- A Plague of Sheep: Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico, published by Cambridge University Press (which was removed from the holdings of the University of Plymouth Charles Seale-Hayne Library just down the road from me!)
- Carl Safina's classic Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas, published by Henry Holt
- and Extinctions in Near Time: Causes, Contexts, and Consequences, published by Springer.
#Extinction #Biodiversity #Palaeontology #Paleontology #NaturalHistory #NatureWriting #EnvironmentalHistory #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon
Four stars:
A Land So Wide by Erin A. Craig (2025) is a fantasy set in the extreme landscape of Canada and peppered with Scottish magic and legend. Mistaken is a small village, protected by warding stones against the Bright Eyes but anyone who stays past sunset is stuck there for the rest of their lives. But what if the stories past down for the last century aren't exactly true?
https://www.pussreboots.com/blog/2025/comments_10/land_so_wide.html
New Merch Drop!
50% of profit on my Support Your Library T-shirts and Hoodies from September-November goes to the Nerds for Literacy project!
Head to ThornCoyleBooks to check them out: https://thorncoylebooks.com/products/support-your-library-tee
Reminder.
It's soon October, which means it's soon time for all northern hemisphere dwellers to crawl into their #Book caves and not emerge again until Mars.
Access to education and information shouldn't be bound to income 🤔
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Five stars:
Murder at Cape Costumers by Maddie Day and Rachel Delude (Narrator) (2025) is the seventh book in the Cozy Capers Book Group mystery series. There's a murder during Halloween that involves a newly opened costume shop. But in all honesty, the murder is the least important part of this book. Instead, this one is all about family stepping up when things fall apart.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2025/comments_09/murder_at_cape_costumers.html
While choosing my next book to read, my husband is looking over my shoulder. Sees the cover and instantly buys himself a copy to take with him on his upcoming business trip.
The book:
Time Loops & Meet Cutes by Jackie Lau (2025).
#Bookstodon Big congratulations to author/legend Samuel Delany, who was just inducted into the Academy of Arts & Sciences! So glad that he’s getting this while he can appreciate it! (Fun fact: I was one of his writing students.) 🎉🎉🎉
https://www.amacad.org/person/samuel-ray-delany
#bookstodon @bookstodon Hit me with your favorite water related books! Dont care about the genre.
I've finished: The Dying Earth by Jack Vance
I know this is a classic that had an influence on SFF. When I started reading I was also not aware how early in SFF history it was written.
But I cannot get over how one dimensional the characters are, or the dialogue. There is hardly any dialogue, the characters mostly make declarations rather than talk like human beings. (and don't get me going about the misogyny)
It was amazing to see the idea for The City & the City by China Miéville in a story published in 1950, but apart from some neat ideas, the level of writing is just so bad.
Mercifully it's a rather short novel, and I was able to push to the end, where the best of the 6 novelettes that make up this book awaits.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/98f64183-4954-47a5-89de-f27d99429319
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I'm trying to decide who to read next. I've got a Joshua Whitehead novel for some Indigiqueer representation. I've also recently acquired some Andrea Gibson poetry, Charlie Jane Anders new book, and an older Alice Hoffman novel.
Choices, choices. Whatcha reading these days? And are you having any concentration issues?
Two favourite authors and a favourite publisher for my "road/highway" #MurderEveryMonday this week - just a bit sad that my only qualifying
Dean Street Press
entry was not a favourite for me - a DNF actually. #Mystery #bookstodon
https://crossexaminingcrime.wordpress.com/murdereverymonday-theme-list/
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#AynRand is quoted, misquoted, praised, and vilified — often by people who haven’t read her.
_The Ayn Rand Reader_ offers excerpts from her #fiction and #nonfiction: her ideas, her voice, her terms.
If you’re serious about understanding her — whether to agree or disagree — start here: https://aynrand.org/novels/the-ayn-rand-reader/
#philosophy #books #bookstodon #literature #AynRand #Objectivism
Here are a few thoughts on Stamboul Train, 1932, by Graham Greene, an early novel set on the Orient Express #bookstodon #BookReview #Storygraph #Braille #reading @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/85c568b6-642e-4087-bd2e-9c9eb71579ed
Another great discussion w/ #RossWolfe about his trilogy of essays critiquing the late neo-Stalinist philosopher & historian #DomenicoLosurdo, w/ particular focus on #Losurdo's attacks on #WesternMarxism in his eponymously titled book.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9QM64C1glw
(the trilogy is here:
https://newintermag.com/against-losurdo/
https://newintermag.com/losurdos-lies/
https://newintermag.com/revisionism-revisited/)
#Marxism #FrankfurtSchool #socialism #politicalTheory #historyOfMarxism #Stalinism #campism #philosophy #books #bookstodon @bookstodon
"According to two district sources, AI was used to measure instructional texts against a rubric that took into account “DEI content.” The books must be removed from all classrooms, and cannot be used as instructional resources—either as texts read in class or as choice books in classroom libraries. Though the books have received no formal challenge, they are currently awaiting further review."
"Book banners have told us over and over again that they’re just trying to take books with extreme sexual content out of public schools. Classics are safe, they’ve said. We’re not removing books based on the ideas they contain, they’ve said. We knew none of that was true; Senate Bill 12 proves it."
#books #writing #writersofmastodon #WritingCommunity #bookstodon @bookstodon
https://franklinstrong.substack.com/p/to-kill-a-mockingbird-pulled-from
"In what intellectual freedom advocates have seen coming for months, a Texas school district has just shut down access to all secondary school libraries for students due to the regulations of the state’s Senate Bill 13... The district also offers no timeline for when students will have access to their own school libraries–facilities that their family tax dollars go to operate. NBISD’s decision to shut down the libraries in order to complete a review of materials based on vague language showcases how quickly and easily public schools are and will continue to cower to far right politics infiltrating communities throughout Texas."
#books #writing #writersofmastodon #WritingCommunity #bookstodon @bookstodon
https://bookriot.com/new-braunfels-isd-library-closures-sb-13/
#AmericanPrestige pod welcomes #GregGrandin for Part 1 of an interview about his recent book, #AmericaAmérica: A New History of the New World. Discussion includes the #SpanishConquest, aspects of English and Spanish #settlerColonialism, as well as the evolution of US-Latin American relations
#historyOfTheAmericas #LatinAmericanHistory #AmericanHistory #UShistory #ModernHistory #colonialism #colonialViolence #revolutions #bookstodon #books @bookstodon
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Five stars:
The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst (2024) is set on a remote island during a revolution. Kiela had been a librarian at the Great Library of Alyssium but was forced to flee when revolutionaries set fire to the building. Now she and Caz, her spider plant assistant, are on her home island with crates of books rescued from the library.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2025/comments_09/spellshop.html
“‘Deserve’ is the word which the possessors use as a weapon against those they dispossess” (Agnes Smedley, quoted by Vivian Gornick in 'The Situation and the Story').
Book Review #14 for 2025 is Thomas McKelvey Cleaver's Pacific Thunder: The US Navy's Central Pacific Campaign. A very good retelling of a critical part of US operations in the Pacific War. Cleaver's writing is balanced between the larger picture of strategy and politics and the human side of war. One thing I learned is that the IJN (Imperial Japanese Navy) nearly captured the USS Hornet as it founder but decided not to. ☕☕☕☕ #bookstodon #usnavy #HistoryMatters #bookreview @books @bookstodon
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