Are all Job Creators also Dark Lords, or is it just most? 🤔😜
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Do you want an easy on-ramp to transition from ebook walled garden to DRM-free? Something like this might help!
I feel sorry for librarians in the era of tech-bro controlled social media 😒
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As an opening line this is hard to beat 😂
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Wiem, że to nie jest perfekcyjna książka, ale przez to, jak mnie przeorała i nie pozwoliła spać, nie mogę dać mniej niż 10/10. Każda kolejna książka z Igorem Brudnym (to tom nr 3) jest coraz lepsza, ale tutaj uczciwie muszę powiedzieć, że nie każdemu polecam. Tak mocnej fabuły i sprawy (pod kątem... nazwijmy to, zezwierzęcenia ludzi) nawet ja się nie spodziewałem.
https://lubimyczytac.pl/ksiazka/cherub/opinia/101673109
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In 19th-century Dublin, a disillusioned doctor and a fallen woman cross paths, sparking a forbidden love that defies society's judgments.
Amazon - https://mybook.to/ascarletwoman
Other Retailers - https://lornapeel.com/fitzgeralds/a-scarlet-woman
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Currently #Reading and enjoying Vaseem Khan's Quantum of Menace but disappointed to see him peddling the tiresome and utterly wrong conflation of non-standard orthography with non-standard grammar. The spelling of FITE DA POWA is non-standard, but there is nothing at all questionable about the completely standard grammar. #bookstodon
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This week's #NewBooks at the library: some books I hope to review soon!
- I received a review copy of Jessica Riskin's The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste #Lamarck, published by Riverhead Books. This will be the finale of an upcoming Lamarck-review-extravaganza.
- I received my preorder of Cody Dahler's The State of This! A Thicky Thicky Dumb Dumb's Guide to #BritishPolitics, published by Bonnier Books. This was supposed to be, but through some miscommunications ended up not being, a signed copy. Cody, let us know if you're ever in Devon on a speaking engagement, and I'll make an effort to come out and remedy that! :)
- Lastly, happy publication day to @parismarx Hyperscale: Ambition, Power and the Relentless Rise of Data Empires, published by Profile Books!
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Just finished Welcome to the Kokoro Cat Clinc, by Syou Ishida. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4/5 stars
It started out cozy, but then each successive story took on a sharper edge than the one before it. There's more emotional depth than I had anticipated, and the last story really got to me. The author does a good job of allowing the characters to see what changes they need to make, based on the lessons they learn from the mysterious Kokoro Clinic for the Soul. There's plenty of social commentary here. #books #bookstodon @bookstodon
Several of you recommended The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell. I am 100 pages in, and completely invested! I love the story, the characters, the science, the way it unfolds in alternating time periods, the way details are slowly revealed, all of it. Magnificent storytelling. From the first few pages, I have been bracing to be torn apart and profoundly disturbed, but the suspense keeps me firmly in place.
Excellent rec!
Bardzo czekałem na możliwość przeczytania tej książki, a jednocześnie bałem się, że nie będzie to to, czego oczekuję. Ale nie zawiodłem się, a do tego czyta się szybko, przyjemnie, mimo że nastrój i treść nie są przyjemne. Miks kryminału z literaturą piękną (bardziej to drugie), książka z gatunku tych wartościowych. Nie bójcie się, jeśli nie przetrawiliście np. "Biegunów" naszej noblistki.
https://lubimyczytac.pl/ksiazka/prowadz-swoj-plug-przez-kosci-umarlych/opinia/101180038
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Five stars:
Murder at the Toy Soldier by Maddie Day with Rachel Dulude (Narrator) (2026) is the eighth book in the Cozy Capers Book Group mystery series. Mac and Tim are busy now as the adoptive parents of Ella and Luca. There's a murder at the toy shop where Mac had purchased a birthday gift for Ella.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_09/murder_at_the_toy_soldier.html
I've finished: The Dritty Doesen: Some of the Least Reasonable Stories of Matthew Sanborn Smith
I like short story collections with commentary by the author. It gives more meaning and depth to the stories and helps me appreciate them more.
As someone who knows Mathew Sanborn Smith from his wacky Beware the Hairy Mango podcast, these stories are not as out there as the title suggests. Accept the title story itself.
I enjoy Sanborn's work and themes of social justice are always at the forefront of his work.
I read it for the r/fantasy 2026 reading challenge, as my choice for the: Small Press or Self Published, prompt.
Mathew is now on feedie and his podcast is the most beige party media I know.
Beware the Hairy Mango:
https://bewarethehairymango.com/
The Dritty Doesen is available on SmashWords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/987326
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For anyone who's been waiting...
I now have three chapters or ten scenes left to edit before The Last Philosopher: Part Two will be available 😁
Progress is slow, but I'm getting there... 😊
Here's some fanart of Lyeasrakardsul to reward your patience.
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Pure Men. By Mohamed Mbougar Sarr; transl Lara Vergnaud.
You are a Senegalese man, who has a lot of straight sex, but you are also a literature professor who teaches gay French poets, and if that is not bad enough, you comfort a woman who’s (probably) gay son’s body was exhumed by an angry mob…and this is just the start of people’s grievances with you.
3 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈.
CW: extreme anti-gay bias
finished reading Brigands & Breadknives
Loved it. Zyll is hilarious. A bit more action and less cozy than the first two, but still a great book.
Strongly agree 😂
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he was a technician
https://subspacewagon.systems/he-was-a-technician/
Algol, Part III
https://archive.org/details/algol-part-iii-by-richard-j-tilley
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I saw someone else celebrating their wattpad rankings here's The Last Philosopher: Part One 🎉
Not to brag, but it was once ranked 9th of more than 500 000 #Fantasy stories.
I think it's easy to forget the good things about our #Indie journeys, and wattpad was good for me at the start of my #Writing journey 😊
You can still read the #Stories #Free on #Wattpad and #RoyalRoad
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Happy Halloween season!
A ghost story set in Medieval Japan
"Days in Green," my first original fiction, is now available as an eBook.
It is available on Amazon or kobo, and you can purchase both the ePub & PDF in my own webstore.
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If you’d like to read a manuscript sample, you can read most of the draft here, but...
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📕 In the eBook version, I added the Author’s Note, Appendix, and the cover art by Maiji/Mary Huang (@maiji)!!
https://www.humangray.com/
At the very beginning, I planned this novella after looking at her illustration for the Genji Monogatari series. I'm very happy now.
Of course, I hired copyeditor Toni Suzuki (https://www.editsbytoni.com/) to polish my English. Writing in a second language was challenging for me, and I’ve accomplished that with her help.
My protagonist is Kazuhito, an ex-Emperor of Medieval Japan. One night, a ghost woman came before his bed.
She said,
“Don’t let me be killed, please. I know you are responsible for that.”
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finished reading Kiki's Delivery Service
How did I go for so long not knowing there was a book? Granted I didn't even get around to watching the movie until this year...
Similar stories, but still very different. The book is the more cozy of the two. A fun, quick read.
For #MurderEveryMonday this week
"Crime fiction with a mythical creature in the title or on the cover"
five entries courtesy of
Dean Street Press
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https://crossexaminingcrime.com/murdereverymonday-theme-list/
Deep in isolation, a luxury wellness resort promises peace.
Four friends arrive for a weekend away.
There is no signal.
Guests are instructed to remain inside after dark.
Whatever waits beyond those doors has been waiting long enough.
SOL DYSIS is out now.
Available on Amazon.
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finished reading Kiki and the New Magic
I had simply assumed the live-action Kiki movie was an entirely original story based on the same framework. Turns out it takes inspiration from the second book. Neat.
Another peaceful, easy read. Not as exciting as the movie, but that's fine by me. I needed the chill.