Here are a few thoughts on Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford, 1949, a delight from start to finish! #bookstodon #BookReview #reading #Storygraph #Braille @bookstodon https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/e5d40053-8004-4db3-996b-e0883036b07c
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RE: https://writing.exchange/@hiisikoloart/117059611297916781
Please share this post and the one beneath it so I can prove to my fellow indie authors that Mastodon has the spirit and the community I have been telling them about.
They keep resisting coming here but maybe if they can see that you guys love art, whether it is written, drawn, knitted, or carved, they would join the wonderful communities here. (:
#FediHelp #Mastodon #Bookstodon #Fedibooks #Fantasy #FantasyBook #Preorder #BookPreorder #eBook #Anthology #DarkFantasy #GrimDarkFantasy #Fairytale
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In these times of despair, here is a hopeful story - “A New Faith”.
Available to read online or download (EPUB and PDF) for free at: https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith
#bookstodon #books #book #novel #story #fiction #hopepunk #solarpunk #climatefiction #sciencefiction #speculativefiction #mystery #thriller #detective #women #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #extinction #survival #adaptation #migration #immigration #indie #indieauthor #clifi #scifi
"When I try to reconstruct the way information about books traveled in the time before the internet, I remember a friend standing in front of my bookcase more than thirty years ago and asking what was really good, what was only all right and what was imperative for her to read" (Anne Enright, 'Attention,' pp. 53f).
From Jessica Luther in our magazine: Once the majority has decided a marginalized group is the demon in one part of a story, it’s easier to paint them as demons in another. To counter this, we need to look at gender-expansive athletes in a detailed and holistic way. https://www.texasobserver.org/trans-athletes-inclusion-sports-culture/
"Wide-eyed with interest,
Speedy saw an important little man dressed all in cloth of gold, with
a headdress at least a yard high. He was seated cross-legged on a
giant blue earthworm."
The Yellow Knight of Oz
Just finished reading BRAWLER, by Lauren Groff. These stories pack a punch, tell us a lot about ourselves, and make us so involved that we start telling the characters what to do and what not to. The author who impressed you with the story collection of FLORIDA, is back, and more skilled than ever before. #books @bookstodon #bookstodon
Today is Dracula Day.
Some monsters never die 🧛♀️
Bram Stoker gave the world more than a vampire. He created a shadow that still follows us through books, films, dreams, and nightmares.
#DraculaDay #Dracula #BramStoker #Stoker #books #vampire #literature #reading #today #onthisday #bookstodon @bookstodon #booksky #BookTok #readers #novel #horror #horrorbooks #bookstagram
Trigger Warning Addendum https://www.katherinevillyard.com/2026/05/27/trigger-warning-addendum/ #fantasy #bookstodon @bookstodon
I'm delighted to announce that all my books are now available at Bookshop dot org in ebook as well as print format. So you can support local, independent bookstores even if you prefer ebooks.
https://www.lauraperryauthor.com/books
#books #bookstodon #pagan #fiction #nonfiction #HistoricalFiction #GayRomance #Minoan
Want to read screenplays I wrote? I realized I have a whole ton of scripts lying idle in my folders and decided to make books out of them. Here is the first, the stories range from drama, dark comedy, thriller, teen lesbian romance (is that a genre?) It's available for free via @ododopress (Only pdf, the epub comes out a huge file at 40mbs and I can't figure out how to reduce it). Enjoy the read!
https://www.ododopress.com/screenplays/home-is-a-fine-place-to-die/
#books #bookstodon #reading #screenplay #film #writing #writingcommunity
Jean-Paul Sartre (June 21, 1905 - April 15, 1980) as a child, lost the use of one eye, but later became one of the sharpest observers of human nature.
#Sartre believed that people are not born with a fixed “essence”: we become ourselves through choices.
By the end of his life he was almost blind, but he kept working. Around 50,000 people reportedly came to his funeral procession in Paris.
#reading #books
#bookstodon @bookstodon #writer #readingcommunity #bookstagram #BookTok #bookish
Rolling my eyes at Cory Doctorow
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Five stars:
A Poisonous Pour by Maddie Day with Linda Jones (Narrator) (2026) is the third Cece Barton mystery. It's Memorial Day weekend but unpopular Regan Greene, president of the local valley district organization has been murdered after Richard's unflattering article was published.
#bookstodon #audiobook #mystery
@bookstodon
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_05/poisonous_pour.html
Life is short. Read more.
I read and loved the Mars trilogy quite a few years ago; this is a collection of short stories and poems set in that world, including some 'alternate future histories' checking in with some of the characters in a timeline where the colonisation did not go forward. #KimStanleyRobinson at the best of times is rambling and digressive. It's part of his charm. But this is him at his absolute most rambling, with most of the stories just following their characters around as they do outdoor recreation on Mars and think about life. But in the middle of this very inessential feeling book is a terrific 100 page novella, called Green Mars for some reason, describing an ascent of Olympus Mons. Yes, more outdoor recreation, but the stakes are a bit higher and it really is a great piece of ultrarealistic and detailed imaginative writing. @bookstodon #bookstodon
I try not to bleat too much about my disability, but I was born with a crippling case of congenital laziness.
That's why when I saw the titles of the five new Sara Woods reissues from Dean Street Press show up for pre-order at Kobo, I smiled at these two:
First, my life's motto. Then, my epitaph - THEY GET ME
😱😁
#Reading #Bookstodon @bookstodon
(These are books 11-15 of the Woods series reissued by DSP, the whole series is very good for fans of quality #Mystery writing)
This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- Another second-hand volume to my growing collection of The Correspondence of #CharlesDarwin, this one Volume 26: 1878, published by Cambridge University Press.
- #Warhammer: The Art of #GamesWorkshop, a rather rare exhibition catalogue of grimdark artwork that I bought via eBay.
- I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in #NaturalHistory, the final of the essay bundles from #StephenJayGould, published by Harmony Books.
#Books #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #Scicomm @bookstodon
Ian Fleming (May 28, 1908 — August 12, 1964) didn’t invent James Bond out of nowhere. During World War II, he worked in British Naval Intelligence and saw from the inside how real secret operations were planned.
#IanFleming #JamesBond #books #reading #writers #author #readers #today #onthisday #BookTok #bookstodon @bookstodon #booksky #bookstagram #literature #spyware #intelligence #book
This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- The last of the books from the NHBS January sale: Michael Ruse's The #Philosophy of Human #Evolution, published by Cambridge University Press
- A lovely version of Humphrey Carpenter's highly praised J. R. R. #Tolkien: A Biography, published by HarperCollins
- A second-hand copy of Ant Ecology, published by Oxford University Press
#HumanEvolution #Anthropology #Fantasy #LOTR #LordOfTheRings #Myrmecology #Ecology #Insects #Entomology #Books #Bookstodon #Scicomm @bookstodon
Nie ukrywam, że już mnie męczy ta seria, ale już doczytam do końca (jeszcze jedna książka). Tutaj jest trochę więcej rodziny królewskiej i trochę więcej kryminału, ale jakieś to takie... męczące. Bliższe klasycznym książkom tego gatunku, ale jednak "boskość" Królowej już męczy.
https://lubimyczytac.pl/ksiazka/morderstwo-po-krolewsku/opinia/99202049
@ksiazki #książki @bookstodon #bookstodon #książkodon #FediKsiążki #Readlist2026PL
Five stars:
The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper, George Hauman and Doris Hauman (Illustrators) (1930) is the version of the story I grew up with. It's about a Depression Era steam train packed full of food and toys for needy children breaking down just outside of town and needing rescue from another engine. Most refuse save for another, even older steam engine that is willing to try.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_05/little_engine_that_could.html
Five stars:
Kowloon Generic Romance, Volume 11 by Jun Mayuzuki and Amanda Haley (Translator) finally pulls back the curtain on Kowloon and Generic Terra. We learn why Reiko will get to leave the city.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_06/kowloon_generic_romance_11.html
Shel Silverstein is famous for his children’s poetry and illustrations.
In poem Lazy Jane the word "rain" hovers just above Jane’s open mouth, as the string of words above it seems to represent the trickle of water she longs for.
#poetry #reading #Love #poem #poet #Silverstein #graficpoem #poems #bookstodon @bookstodon #books #book #poemaday #poetrycommunity #pictures #readers #readersofmastodon #booksky #bookish #BookTok #bookclub #readit #Bookwyrm #rain #booklovers #LazyJane
My first time reading #LouiseErdrich . Some more familiarity might have helped, as this book is obviously personal: the main setting is the independent bookstore she owns in real life, and while the rest of the staff is fictional she appears herself as the owner. Moreover, the story is shunted this way and that by the events of 2020, Covid and the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis, in a way that saps the plot of forward momentum but also seems appropriate for that crazy, disorienting year. A real window into the indigenous experience of the time even if maybe not the most coherent book. Charmingly, the book ends with a 7 page long list of the main character's favourite books! @bookstodon #bookstodon
