#AmReading All Roads Lead to Austen, a memoir/travelogue about an American English teacher who decides to spend a year in Latin America and see if Austen hits the same way in translation. She's also exploring recommendations for local literature. Very engaging, especially for an Austen fan.
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Have you prepared your bug out bookbag? 🤔
Books emergencies bore several people yearly! Don't let it happen to you! 😜
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"I really enjoyed reading this, so utopian and dystopian at the same time"
Here is a selection of what readers are saying about The Blossoming of the Big Tree. We will keep adding more to this page as they come along, and we hope it can convince you to read this story, about an old woman who has to coordinate the defense of her decentralized nation when a colonizer invades, though she is the reclusive type of person.
https://www.ododopress.com/blog/praise-for-the-blossoming-of-the-big-tree/
What are you reading currently? #IAmReading
Nearing the end of Writing Down The Bones by Natalie Goldberg.
2/3 advice on writing.
1/3 advice on life.
Brilliantly, at the same time.
Just started Death With Interruptions by José Saramago.
And what do you have on hold?
Several books by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
Because I’d like to write like him when I grow up.
The first Science of Discworld book gets 4/5 stars... I think, wait let me check my math.The Science parts got 3 and the Wizard parts got 5 so if you add 'em up carry the 1, always carry the one, divide by two you get 4... I think.Unless we take into account that the Science chapters were longer than the Wizard chapters, wigheted data-points and all that, but a little lying to children is to be expected, it is #Discworld after all, the narrativum has to go somewhere.
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(comment on Science of Discworld)
Claude Monet by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Renoir and Monet studied painting together at the atelier of Charles Gler in Paris. Renoir submitted this painting to the first Impressionist exhibition in Paris in 1874
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Four stars:
Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool by Clara Parkes (2019) is a written account of a crowd funded venture to turn a 676 pound bale of fleece into saleable yarn. The project was jokingly called "The Great White Bale" is presented as a series of chapters, each one being one of the stops she made.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_07/vanishing_fleece.html
What are you reading currently? #IAmReading
I'm currently reading The Sisters Brothers, by Patrick DeWitt. It is a funny and clever cowboy noir. Definitely recommend. Thank you Mike and Ellen!
And what do you have on hold?
I'm only listing the newest additions to my hold list:
MISERY'S WIFE, Joan Tierney. Queer, climate fiction, based on a folktake, with a trans protagonist. 
FISHBONE CINDERELLA, Elizabeth Lim. Historical, heart wrenching, w/ magic.
BIOLOGICAL WAR: A SCENARIO, Annie Jacobson
HEART THE LOVER, Lily King. Sequel to WRITERS AND LOVERS.
WILD DARK SHORE, Charlotte McConaghy. I will read anything she writes.
YESTERYEAR, Caro Claire Burke. Because everyone else is reading this.
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I've finished: Knock Knock, Open Wide by Neil Sharpson
I'm not a big fan of horror.
I loved Knock Knock, Open Wide, mostly because the physical horror bits are few and far between.
Sharpson is mostly interested in how the horrific events traumatize the victims. We follow two timelines, two generations trying to live and love while a curse hangs over them.
Following their struggle, their failures and successes is what Knock Knock is about.
The thing that captured me was that at the core of this dysfunctional family are two couples that truly love each other. The proposal scenes just melted my heart. These scenes of mutual consent stand in stark contrast to the coercive powers that haunt them.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/3aea5cb7-513b-4e83-a4a9-7e27101aac81
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A reminder that in addition to blatant piracy of author and publisher's works, the AI tech bros are absolute barbarians, right up there with the book-burning bastards https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3rprx2wl4o
I hope the ghost of Ray Bradbury haunts these wankshafts on a nightly basis.
As a big fan of both Trek and Discworld, I support the flawless logic of this crossover 😜😂
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What happens when the grammar police inevitably gets corrupted? 🤔 Is that where slang comes from? 😁
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Begebe mich zum 1.Mal in die Welten des Brandon Sanderson mit "Splitter der Dämmerung" und hoffe, es lohnt sich.
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My review of Cormac Mac Art: Isle of Swords by Matthew John just went up at Grimdark Magazine!
A fast-paced and gritty adventure involving one of Conan creator Robert E. Howard’s more underutilized characters.
(As always, boosts are appreciated!)
https://www.grimdarkmagazine.com/review-cormac-mac-art-isle-of-swords-by-matthew-john/
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It’s both #Caturday and the birthday of M.R. James (born #OTD in 1862), perhaps the finest author of ghost stories we’ve ever known. This makes it a very good day indeed.
(Donnie, on the right, was born in 2020 but he can be as supernatural as the next cat.)
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Palaces of the Crow. Ray Nayler.
You are children of different nationalities, when fighting at the start of WWII sends you deep into the Lithuanian woods where your survival may depend on understanding an evolved crow society you find there.
4 of 5 library cats 🐦⬛ 🐦⬛ 🐦⬛ 🐦⬛.
I pre-ordered a couple books, and the seller said to pick out a free book as well, so I chose the most topical and maybe too resonant: The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, by David Wallace-Wells. Yes, nothing like some apocalyptic future nonfiction as light reading 😂
This week's #NewBooks at the library: second-hand copies galore!
- The #Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar: Life with a Lovable Tawny Owl, published by Bantam Press, bought at a local recycling shop.
- Lyell: The Past is the Key to the Present, published by the Geological Society of London.
- Volcanoes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Major Eruptions, published by @princetonupress.
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Powieść otarła się o 10/10, ale jednak odjąłem za jakieś tam drobiazgi. Cieszę się, że nie jest to powieść w stylu "mężczyźni zawsze źli, kobiety zawsze dobre" i że tak naprawdę to krytyka pewnych przemian w świecie. Dystopia z jednej strony wymagająca, ale z drugiej wciągająca. Choć dla niektórych będzie trudna do przebrnięcia ideowo.
https://lubimyczytac.pl/ksiazka/opowiesc-podrecznej/opinia/100973798
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"There are a few times in life when you leap up and the past that you'd been standing on falls away behind you, and the future you mean to land on is not yet in place, and for a moment you're suspended, knowing nothing and no one, not even yourself" (Ann Patchett, 'The Dutch House').
Many of us had to figure out our own queer/ neurodivergent identities, and or how to manage our disability(s).
I figured its time we had a book bundle in which characters do that, by authors on the same journey(s).
So I organised this fantasy & multi-genre bundle.
https://itch.io/b/3781/figuring-it-out-queer-neurodivergent-disabled
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Stanisław Przybyszewski - "Moi współcześni"
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Like a Cat Loves a Bird by James Bailey, 2026, is an excellent biography of Muriel Spark and has made me excited to read more of her work this year! #bookstodon #BookReview #reading #Storygraph #audiobooks @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/4d1179d5-1ce4-46b4-887b-d845b0b880df?redirect=true
I had to do #MurderEveryMonday this week, on the day a different social network fell over dead (for a bit😂 ) to plug my compatriot (& the person who hooked me on Shakespeare) & flout my contrarian cred by sharing the OTHER Ellis Peters series (Cadfael bored me rigid, didn't finish even one - read all Felse twice, some thrice)
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https://crossexaminingcrime.com/murdereverymonday-theme-list/
Five stars:
The Hapless Child by Edward Gorey (1961) reads like a storyboard of the old Mystery! opening while being a parody of a Victorian Penny Dreadful.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_09/hapless_child.html
