Finished this 992 page behemoth of a novel by typographer #RianHughes , in which Earth is 'invaded' by ideas from outer space. Full of style shifts from fake wikipedia pages and BBC articles, to text-based graphic storytelling, to an entire novella presented as a serialisation from a 1970s science fiction magazine, this is one for people who enjoy formal play and metafictional tomfoolery. It is definitely too long, and there are parts that don't work, like some very clunky political / academic satire, but overall I enjoyed its ambition and playfulness. @bookstodon #bookstodon
bookstodon
Oh no I did I thing! https://www.katherinevillyard.com/2026/09/16/oh-no-i-did-i-thing/ #fantasy #bookstodon @bookstodon
Ahhhh, es ist endlich so weit: "Im Keim - Was uns bleibt", das Buch meiner Frau, kann nun überall bestellt werden. Zum Beispiel auch hier: https://shop.autorenwelt.de/products/im-keim-von-julia-fischer?variant=58929998397765
Eine wundervolle Geschichte für Menschen, die sich mit chronischen Krankheiten (insbesondere #MECFS) herumschlagen oder andere auf diesem Weg begleiten. Bitte schaut es euch Mal an, es ist wirklich großartig geworden!
I'd love to know from book fans on Fedi, who are the really hot *contemporary* noir novel writers who you love? Especially noir thrillers (vs mysteries), and extra especially from Ireland?
- noir writers, expec. thrillers
- Irish noir writers
- novel writers (vs other media)
- contemporary (publishing within last 5 years)
- popular and successful
*Based on specs for a particular project. Ta.
This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- Two second-hand copies of The Correspondence of #CharlesDarwin, covering the years 1858–1860, published by Cambridge University Press.
- A new copy of The Catskill Fossil Forest, published by Gilboa Historical Society Press. A local curiosity for sure, but a fascinating little booklet about the discovery of petrified trees from the Devonian.
#Books #Bookstodon #Scicomm #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Evolution #Trees #Wood #Forests #Plants #Botany #Paleobotany #Palaeobotany #Fossils #Paleontology #Palaeontology @bookstodon
My CONjuration Panels: Let Me Show You Them! https://www.katherinevillyard.com/2026/10/13/my-conjuration-panels-let-me-show-you-them-2/ #fantasy #bookstodon @bookstodon
For #MurderEveryMonday this week's theme is "weather significantly affects the plot." My only entry almost has a spoiler on the cover. Book 11 of the excellent Lane Winslow series by Iona Whishaw it was not my favourite, but still got 4/5 from me at #TheStorygraph - none have gone below 4 and I gave book nine 5/5. The series does a great job blending mystery with social commentary, especially on issues relating to racism, indigenous peoples, and immigrants.
#Reading #Mystery #bookstodon @bookstodon
My writing process
https://www.katherinevillyard.com/2026/08/27/my-writing-process/
I've finished: The Fortunate Fall by Cameron Reed
It is hard to discuss The Fortunate Fall without spoiling it.
The first half is great mid 90s Cyber Punk. With some neat ideas and much more depth than just; Maya is a camera.
I enjoyed the historical aspects of the novel, as Maya works to uncover past atrocities that the current regime is working to memory hole.
The cycle of revolution where the alternative is just another type of repression is the main theme.
The second half of the novel goes off the beaten path and I guess that's why I only heard about this novel in the 2020s.
It is definitely worth it, despite some bad writing. This is a novel that will make you think about the author's intent.
I think it's championing free will and consent.
That's why I accept the notion that The Fortunate Fall may exist in the same universe as the author's new novel (published 30 years later), What We Are Seeking.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/authors/36be4c2d-6059-4151-bc43-c87147f8aa0a
PS.
I enjoyed the Wizards vs. Lezbians episode about The Fortunate Fall.
Note that the episode is from 2021, before the author's transition. So they are still referring to her by her former name.
https://wizlez.libsyn.com/the-fortunate-fall
@bookstodon @audiofiction
#ScienceFictioni #CyberPunk #dystopian #lgbtqia #amReading #bookstodon #AudioBooks
Ooh @NickEast_IndieWriter 's book is 99p on Kobo. https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the-last-philsopher-part-one
It would be rude not to
#books #bookstodon
Edited 149d ago
C'est Génial. Max Frische's novel Stiller is, apparently, translated into English as I'm Not Stiller.
Question about bestsellers - can anyone recommend a funny romcom bestseller with a fanastic opening chapter?
#Bookstodon #romcom #funny #chicklit
@bookstodon @bookshopIE
Hi folks. I’m on the hunt for four issues of the literary journal The Green Book: Writings on Irish Gothic, Supernatural & Fantastic Literature, edited by Brian J. Showers (https://swanriverpress.ie/the-green-book/)
The numbers I’m looking for are 1, 2, 6 and 10.
If anyone has copies of these they’d be willing to part with, I’d be really grateful.
Any boosts would also be appreciated. Thank you!
#Bookstodon #TheGreenBook #IrishLiterature #GothicLiterature #FantasticLiterature #SwanRiverPress #BrianJShowers #BookWantList @bookstodon
In my eleven years as an indie author, my recent goals have been to help readers find my work in places other than Amazon. Starting with ebooks last year, I learned how to format in EPUB for Draft2Digital. I then released four stories on Kobo, Barnes & Noble, and Bookshop.org (among others).
I’m very proud to announce that I’ve officially learned how to publish paperbacks through another platform—one that makes my books available for order in libraries and brick and mortar stores.
My new horror novella, Bride of the South Side, can now be ordered direct from IngramSpark, and I couldn’t be more happy. 🤘🏼
#bookstodon #books #IngramSpark #IndieAuthor #IndieHorror #SupportIndieHorror #HorrorCommunity #DavidRider #CalCityCrew #BrideoftheSouthSide
https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=wlWBuS7TFq5oYrOZZI4mHoO5tbARZYPUsEGVVwcwgkI
This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- I adopted a damaged copy of Ian Newton's second edition of The Migration #Ecology of #Birds, published by Academic Press
I bought two books by Cambridge University Press second-hand
- Patricia A. McAnany & Norman Yoffee's Questioning #Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire,
- and The #Atmosphere and #Climate of #Mars in their Cambridge #PlanetaryScience series
#Books #Bookstodon #Scicomm #Ornithology #Astronomy @bookstodon
Five stars:
Death on the Menu by Lucy Burdette with Laura Jennings (Narrator) (2018) is the eighth book in the Key West Food Critic mystery series. Hayley Snow is helping her mother cater a Havana/Key West conference at the Little White House but before the flan is served, Hemingway's Nobel prize medal is missing and one of the catering staff is dead.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_08/death_on_the_menu.html
"To allow the completion of every impression, every germ of a feeling deep within, in darkness, beyond words, in the realm of instinct unattainable by logic, to await humbly and patiently the hour of the descent of a new clarity: that alone is to live one's art, in the realm of understanding as in that of creativity" (Rainer Maria Rilke).
#sundaySentence @bookstodon #bookstodon #RainerMariaRilke #creativity
Work has interfered with my ability to focus on reading this month. But I finally finished Table for Two by Amor Towles. Not that it's a difficult read, it was all pleasure, especially the novella in the second half. All the words in the right order. #bookstodon @bookstodon #KeefsReads
Bardzo wciągający kryminało-thriller-delikatnie-horror (ale raczej kryminał). Nie bez wad, ale za to z otulającą atmosferą Bieszczad, a konkretnie małej wioski na końcu świata, która mami spokojem, ale jest tłem dla solidnych akcji kryminalnych. Parę niewykorzystanych wątków, dość luźny (mimo napięcia) i powtarzam - wciąga.
https://lubimyczytac.pl/ksiazka/pomruk/opinia/101097933
@ksiazki @bookstodon #książki #czytam #FediKsiążki #Ksiązkodon #Bookstodon #Readlist2026PL
https://skiffyandfanty.com/blog/book-review-find-me-where-it-ends-by-cassandra-khaw/
Fresh and new at Skiffy and Fanty , @TrishEM has a review of FIND ME WHERE IT ENDS by @cassandrakhaw
Encore 4000€ qui manquent au ulule pour la publication de Dissension, roman graphique SF et politique
https://fr.ulule.com/dissension-jim182/
> À travers une histoire profondément humaine, Dissension aborde la vulnérabilité, la résilience et la difficulté de maintenir le dialogue dans un monde fragmenté. Un récit engagé, sensible et drôle, où les réflexions sur le pouvoir et l'identité côtoient quelques blagues de boules soigneusement placées.
Another wednesday another chapter quoute from my work in progress 😁
Find Ebook of Part One at your favourite online bookstore here: https://books2read.com/b/m0pJYA and yes that means Amazon is not included 😂
@reading @books @fantasy @bookstodon
#WIPWednesday #WorkInProgress
#Quote #Quotes #BookQuote
#AmWriting #IndieAuthor #eBook
#FantasyBooks #Fantasy #WorldBuilding #SciFi #Satire #Humor #Humour #Comedy
#Novel #Books #Bookstodon
#Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity
Four stars:
Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore with Brittany Pressley (Narrator) (2020) is Quantum Leap meets WKRP. It's New Year's Eve 1982 and Oona has to make a decision: go to London to study economics or take a gap year and tour with her boyfriend and the band where she plays keyboard. Before she can make up her mind, the new year starts and she finds herself in 2015, a nineteen year old mind in a fifty-one year old body.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_08/oona_out_of_order.html
I’ve always loved the strangeness of the image on the cover of David G. Rowlands’ collection They Might Be Ghosts, published in 2003 by David Tibet, Richard Dalby and Kat Cormie’s Ghost Story Press.
The design is by Steven Stapleton of Nurse With Wound fame and, as is typical for Steve’s artwork, is fittingly sinister.
I’m very fond of David’s wonderful stories, too. I wish he’d written more.
#DavidGRowlands #TheyMightBeGhosts #GhostStoryPress #DavidTibet #RichardDalby #KatCormie #StevenStapleton #GhostStories #SpookySeason #HauntedOctober #Bookstodon @bookstodon
Five stars:
Death by Irish Coffee by Alex Erickson with Melissa Moran (Narrator) (2026) is the 15th book in the Bookstore Cafe mystery series. Death by Coffee has a successful St. Patrick's Day collab with a newly opened bar but the next day the bar's owner is found dead in the back of a woman's truck.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_09/death_by_irish_coffee.html
