How often do you use the interlibrary loan system for library books? Nearly every book I read has to come from another library. Luckily, we have a statewide network. Multiple choice poll
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"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."
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https://bookriot.com/new-braunfels-isd-library-closures-sb-13/
At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That’s a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, from “A Diamond as Big as the Ritz”.
Pictured here with Zelda and their daughter, Frances.
#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
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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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Five stars:
Favourite Daughter by Morgan Dick (2025) ended up being the perfect follow up to Unearthing by Kyo Maclear (2023). Here is a fictional account of two half sisters coming to terms with their lives and the influence their father had on them.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2025/comments_09/favourite_daughter.html
For the handful of Russian-speaking in here, who could find this relevant:
this Saturday, 19:00 (JLM/MSK), Metazhurnal will host an online presentation of my book (texts from 2004–2016).
I’ll read; several poets & critics will say some words.
The event will be in Russian. There’ll be a recording.
Join here: https://www.youtube.com/@%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B6%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB
PDF: https://tangowhiskybooks.tumblr.com/post/796662596077060096/%D0%BA%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B0-12-tw-12
In print, the book may still be found in Moscow, Tbilisi, Yerevan and Jerusalem.
Trying to read Murder with Fried Chicken and Waffles, thinking oh wow the Black woman who wrote this has a lot of internalized misogony. Turns out it's written by a white man so it's just plain misogony (and racist stereotypes). No need for me to finish that book. #bookreview #bookstodon #cozymystery
@bookstodon https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/a7a56560-781a-4138-9ed4-e6156fa0b5e0
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That's an absurdly impressive list of authors giving cover blurbs - Alan Moore, Samantha Shannon, and Adrian Tchaikovsky! A body-warping plague escapes from thawing Siberian permafrost and changes how a series of narrators experience death and loss, with each chapter constructed like a short story, with loose connections between them. Despite the perspective shifts, and some turns towards surreal or more traditional sci fi elements, the book is quite repetitive with, for example, multiple narrators having quite similar stories of unrequited love with a person who is about to die. This, along with a bewilderingly poor final chapter, means that my initial fairly high interest from the 'City of Laughter' and 'Pig Son' chapters wasn't sustained. #SequoiaNagamatsu #Bookstodon @bookstodon
I hate both of these things, who knew I'd have so much in common with #JaneAusten 😂
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It’s here! Audiobook is here!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/villyard/immortal-gifts-hardcover-paperback-and-audiobook
The books have a custom hand-drawn map by Travis Hasenour and chapter headers by Nathan Hansen. The audiobook is a multi-narrator book voiced by Dave Robison, Veronica Giguere, and J. Daniel Sawyer.
Please follow the project for updates!
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At the NOAF blog today, our @Princejvstin reviews QUEEN DEMON (sequel to WITCH KING) by @marthawells
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/09/book-review-queen-demon-by-martha-wells.html
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Book Promo: Behold the glorious chaos of my Rollover Files series.
Rough Passages: get old, gain superpowers. Not as fun as most people hoped it would be.
https://books2read.com/Rough-Passages
Sharp Edge of Yesterday: middle-aged mom develops superpowers, makes the military nervous, and still has to deal with her ex-husband and her teenage daughters.
https://books2read.com/SharpEdge
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finished reading Comes the Night 🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑
by Isabelle Carmody.
YA dystopian set in Canberra! In a polluted world, cities have been enclosed in domes and pervasive tech & propaganda keep the population in line. A teenage boy gets entangled in mysterious intrigue, and soon starts to wonder if his dreams are more than they seem. Very slow and overly explicatory, except for the ending which was sudden, unclear and too easy.
A premise so good that it tricked me into reading it twice. The writing tho was not great. So dnfed it for a second time. Anyone have a good book with a throuple of magicians/witches please let me know. #romancebooks #books #bookstodon @bookstodon
Five stars:
Rosie and Michael by Judith Viorst and Lorna Tomei (Illustrations) (1974) is a picture book celebration of a solid, life-long relationship. Rosie and Michael take turns in this book explaining the hows and whys of their friendship. Each of their examples are then illustrated in intricate pen and ink drawings.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2025/comments_09/rosie_and_michael.html
finished reading The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
by Robert Louis Stevenson.
When our baser urges are allowed to run free, they end up dominating. Disturbing, even if the 'science' is a bit amusing.
Five stars:
The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts by Kim Fu (2026) is a modern day spin on Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House. Eleanor Fan is a video therapist who works from home. Her mother has recently died after a painful decline due to cancer and with her inheritance Eleanor is looking to own her own home.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_03/valley_of_vengeful_ghosts.html
Do you want to see me read my short story “Book of Shadows”? https://youtu.be/60na1zBCbpw?si=BL9TCr1dZFud6ynG
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Fascinating article that gets at how translation can be a tricky business. The whole meaning can change - and often to the opposite meaning the author intended!
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From: @publicdomainrev
https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/115264769615001777
Opinions on whether to add a book to Kindle Unlimited (which makes it Amazon exclusive for at least 90 days), or to keep the option to make it available through other stores during that time?
I'm asking for my new spicy novella, "Seducing Audrey". I already put the complementary short story, "Free Market Audrey", on KU.
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Options: (choose one)
Library appreciation post 😁
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On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder is a valuable thing to have by your side in these times of increasing fascism.
Each chapter begins with a short bit of advice as it's title, followed by a sentence or two on it's potential importance. The rest of the chapter provides concrete historical examples.
Each chapter is short, and the book is only 126 pages. Possibly the most valuable thing that you could ever read.
I'm going to be posting the first page of each chapter, because of how important I think it is to share these ideas. Please boost if you feel them useful.
