Tracy Hayes, Apprentice P.I., the first P.I. Tracy Hayes mystery, is only 0.99 everywhere until the end of month. This doesn't happen often, so grab it while you can!
AZ: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MU10OON
Universal Link: https://books2read.com/u/bw9oOy
Are you in Wyoming? Do you want to read my book for free? I’m in the Wyoming Virtual Library! https://virtuallibrary.overdrive.com/virtuallibrary-80-234/content/media/11081870
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Today is Daphne du Maurier’s birthday!
Few #writers could create an atmosphere like Daphne du Maurier. Her #stories begin elegantly, then something shifts. A beautiful house can become a prison, love can turn into possession, and silence can be more frightening than a scream. Suddenly you are #reading faster than you planned.
Have you read any of her #novels?
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The Night Ship by Alex Woodroe
A young woman's bid to escape Nicolae Ceaușescu’s Romania is complicated by apocalypse.
https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/apr%C3%A8s-moi
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A little patch of land.
Bread on the table.
A dear friend you can talk to.
A small house you can call Home.
Rabbits…
Such a modest dream. And yet so impossibly out of reach.
Which character from this story stayed with you the most?
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Last night, I finished reading the Jeff Flake/Rob Hart collab DETOUR. I did enjoy it, despite its flaws, but I have a few caveats:
1) It is the first in the series, and apparently they did not promote it as such, so many readers were irritated about the abrupt ending.
2) The story reads as if it is being optioned as a TV series, and apparently, it was.
3) The characters are laughably one-note creations. Ex: I am a smart but awkward female scientist who lacks confidence.
4) The story is not only clichéd and burdened by stereotypes, but also spends a very long time to get to space and then spends almost no time there.
You may enjoy this, too. It was fun, very light fare, and honestly, sometimes you are in the mood for that.
Five stars:
Paris is Always a Good Idea by Jenn McKinlay and Brittany Pressley (Narrator) (2020) is a novel about self love and grief. Chelsea Martin can't accept that her father is marrying a woman he's only known for two weeks. She can't move on from the gaping hole in her heart from her mother's death due to stage four cancer seven years earlier. She decides the only way to move on is to revisit her gap year boyfriends.
#bookstodon #romance #audiobook
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https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_05/paris_is_always_a_good_idea.html
Currently reading:
- Ignore All Previous Instructions - Ada Hoffman (ebook on computer)
- In Between Days - Camryn Garrett (audiobook)
- True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color - Kory Stamper (ebook on phone)
- OverLondon - George Penney (ebook on phone and computer)
- Short Story America Anthology, Volume 1 - edited by T.D. Johnston (via Internet Archive)
- Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz - Ruth Plumly Thompson (via Project Gutenberg)
Of these - OverLondon, True Color, and In Between Days are my main focus.
finished reading Where the Dark Stands Still 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
by AB Poranek.
A girl enters a spirit wood to rid herself of her magic, but instead finds power, purpose & love. Based on Polish fairytales, so reminiscent of Katherine Arden's The Bear and the Nightingale. Fairly simple YA story with one plot line and few surprises, but well realised and doesn't take the easy way out.
I've finished: Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
This was the 40th anniversary edition of Woman on the Edge of Time and I was listening to it on it's 50th anniversary.
What amazed me was how many of the social and environmental ideals proposed for a better future are the same ones I see today.
So many of the progressive ideas we are fighting for today were already proposed more than 50 years ago and the progress is so slow, even going backwards in the past decade.
I was especially intrigued by the introduction of diverse pronouns in a 1976 novel, an idea I only became aware of in the past decade or so through contemporary works of SF&F.
I loved the ending and how it elevates Connie's role as more than just a tourist visiting from the bad old days.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/d291fbda-e6c3-40e7-91d1-f86c8be8cf1e
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Fresh in for #FossilFriday, a new review! In Search of Sea Dragons is an engrossing tale of fossils and obsession.
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Do you like novels about rich screwed-up American families? Are you frustrated that there are not enough rich screwed-up lesbians represented in those stories. Well Like Family by Erin White is for you. I enjoyed it a lot once I got my head around how all the entwined lives fitted together. #bookstodon @bookstodon #KeefsReads
Magic can give you just one thing. Choose wisely:
Knowledge?
Courage?
Love?
Or simply more time at home?
You will receive it today, because today is L.Frank #Baum’s birthday - the #author of The Wonderful #Wizard of #Oz.
Repost if you think the world needs a little more #magic & great #books
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Baby’s first audiobook? https://www.katherinevillyard.com/2026/05/15/babys-first-audiobook/ #fantasy #bookstodon @bookstodon #audio #audiobook
Four stars:
Me for You by Lolly Winston (2019) is about a widower trying to keep his shit together after the unexpected and sudden death of his wife. I picked up the book new in 2019 and didn't feel like reading it during the early days of the COVID pandemic. And then the book got moved to a box of things to find new homes for. I'm not sure when or why. But I decided I should read the things in there before I find new homes. And that's how I came to finally read Me for You.
Rudy, age 54, is now a widower. He and his wife had plans to travel. She was a pharmacist. He's a music teacher and part time piano player at Nordstrom's. Now that she's gone — a heart attack in her sleep — he's finding that he might want more than just friendship with his coworker, Sasha.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_05/me_for_you.html
Library-pub, add a book quiz and a non-alcoholic bar and I'm in 😁
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The English poet Roger McGough sends readers’ eyes travelling to and fro the way a tennis ball would across a net when they read 40-Love. Indeed, the poem itself – like the “middle aged couple” he writes about – is split by such a ‘net.’
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Escape to 19th-century Ireland with The Fitzgeralds of Dublin series, a sweeping family saga of forbidden love, betrayal, and secrets that shape generations.
Read FREE with Kindle Unlimited - https://mybook.to/FitzgeraldsBoxSets
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This week's #NewBooks at the library: Three more books from our January clearance sale
- Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity by Nicklas Brendborg, published by Hodder & Stoughton.
- Ancestors in Evolutionary Biology: Linear Thinking about Branching Trees, a more technical volume by Ronald A Jenner, published by Cambridge University Press as part of their series of Systematics Association Special Volumes (@SystAssn).
- #Acrocanthosaurus Inside and Out by Kenneth Carpenter, published by the University of Oklahoma Press.
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Having spent the week in Yorkshire, I couldn’t resist picking up The Poems of Sylvia Plath, a new landmark edition edited by Amanda Golden and Karen V. Kukil and published just last week. This edition draws on decades of research and almost doubles the content of the 1981 Collected Poems.
The second image here is from a visit to Plath’s grave at the church at Heptonstall, back in September 2020. I still find it hard to believe that she was only 30 when she died, and yet she produced so much incandescent work.
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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?”
#MJohnHarrison #TheEndOfEverything #SpeculativeFiction #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
FREE BOOK! Get my Twilight Zone Assortment Box of short stories with twist endings here: https://shop.katherinevillyard.com/b/love-stories-ebook
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This week's #NewBooks at the library: Who is excited about the next few books he will be reviewing?
- After an impressive debut, I am looking forward to reading Cal Flyn's second book, The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness, published by HarperCollins.
- Time for another deep dive into the history of my favourite discipline, #EvolutionaryBiology. I really enjoyed Costa's annotated version of Wallace's notebook, and am very excited about delving into this annotated version of #CharlesDarwin's The Descent of Man, beautifully published here by @princetonupress. Expect me to go dark for a while, it's over 760 pages!
- And for context, I will be adding a review of Jeremy DeSilva's A Most Interesting Problem: What #Darwin’s Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong about #HumanEvolution, published a few years back, also by Princeton.
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"Everything you see in me is not mine, it's yours. Mine is what I see in you."
Erich Maria Remarque (June 22, 1898 - September 25, 1970)
#reading #books #quotes
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The Guardian's 2026 list of the 100 best novels of all time: https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/may/12/the-100-best-novels-of-all-time
"The most striking difference between this list and its predecessors is an increase in female writers: 36 out of 100 compared with 21 in 2015 and a paltry 16 in 2003, with only Jane Austen’s Emma and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in the top 10 of both previous lists. The number of women rises as the decades go by; half of the contemporary writers are female. This might not announce the decline of the great white male, but it does signal a much-needed reset."
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/may/16/story-behind-100-best-novels-all-time
