Do you want a book like Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles--vampire protagonists, historical backstory, queer characters--but maybe more multicultural and less morally gray?
Do you want a story about surviving prejudice, overcoming grief, and found family?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/villyard/immortal-gifts-hardcover-paperback-and-audiobook
#bookstodon #vampirebooks @books@lemmy.ml @books #historicalfantasy
FREE SHORT STORY! La Divina Commedia, written by me and read by Kyle Akers. https://youtu.be/CaQKHLa-bKY?si=rCTxw1w02SPk_XJ3
Five stars:
Shop Cats of New York by Tamar Arslanian and Andrew Marttila (Photographer) (2016) is a photography book that highlights some of the shop cats who were working and living in stores in New York City in 2016. I heard of the book via the Instagram account and it has sat on my to be read wishlist long enough that an updated volume has been released. This review, however, is of the original first edition.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2025/comments_12/shop_cats_of_new_york.html
This library needs an "interesting smells" section 🤔😁
@libraries @library @books @bookstodon @humor @humor@lemmy.world @aiop
#DogsOfMastodon #Dog
#Library #LibraryMemes #Memes #Libraries #Librarians #Humor #Humour
#Bookstodon #Bookworm #Bookwyrm #BookLove
Five stars:
The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst (2025) is the second book in the Spellshop fantasy series. This one answers the question, what happened to the librarian who was turned into a statue.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2025/comments_10/enchanted_greenhouse.html
Five stars:
Hand Drawn Victoria by Emma FitzGerald (2024) is a short meditation on the capital of British Columbia as presented through ink, watercolor, and text. It was written during the COVID lockdown and was released last year.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2025/comments_10/hand_drawn_victoria.html
Five stars:
Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz (2025) is set in a near future, post civil war, San Francisco. The main characters are an oddball collection of sentient robots who had been working in a ghost kitchen that has now been abandoned by the owner corporation.
https://www.pussreboots.com/blog/2025/comments_10/automatic_noodle.html
"Political Scientist #LalehKhalili joins us to discuss her new book, #ExtractiveCapitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy, out now from Verso."
https://thisishell.com/interviews/1861-laleh-khalili
#capitalism #extractivism #inequality #polycrisis #books #bookstodon @bookstodon
Loved the characters, the setting and the food, but the actual mystery was not great. 3.5 stars for Calypso, Corpses, and Cooking by Raquel V. Reyes #bookstodon @bookstodon #bookreview #cozymystery https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/0ffb4ed5-2706-4272-a264-57fa8239c37a
Yay! A non-fiction anthology to which I contributed an essay detailing the world building process for my #solarpunk stories in the Yat Madit (Big Tree) world, has won The Ignyte Awards.
There are some good books here if you are looking for something to read!
https://ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/
https://jaylit.com/african-writers-among-2025-ignyte-award-winners/
Shout out to people who love ebooks but hate Amazon:
Bookshop.org has started doing eBooks! They have an app! They have classics for free! They have daily 99p deals!
Much excite!
New review: Lechuguilla Cave features otherworldly photos and high production values, providing an unforgettable trip into one of the world's most extraordinary caves.
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Caves #Caving #Speleology #Scicomm @bookstodon
Anthropic Settlement: What Authors Should Know
A free webinar hosted by the Authors Guild
Thursday, October 16, 2025 - 6:00 pm Eastern
#books #writing #writersofmastodon #WritingCommunity #bookstodon @bookstodon
https://authorsguild.org/event/anthropic-settlement-what-authors-should-know/
Jenny Erpenbeck: “Why did people always pronounce the word ‘freedom’ with such enthusiasm, as they continue to do today, whenever they speak of the collapse of East Germany, whereas when talking about people from other countries — from countries like Mali, Niger, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Mexico, Haiti, and other “shitholes,” as Donald Trump recently described them — they’re met with contempt and aversion?”
#SundaySentence #bookstodon @bookstodon #racism #immigration
When you erase words, you erase worlds that were, and worlds to come.
Readers resist.
#BannedBooksWeek #books #livres #censorship #FreedomOfExpression
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #IndependentBookshops #BookCensorship #FreedomOfSpeech #bookstodon #bookshops #librairies
This week's #NewBooks at the library: @princetonupress has a 70% off sale at the moment! I bagged myself four fascinating books:
- The Mirror and the Mind: A History of Self-Recognition in the Human Sciences
- The Network of Life: A New View of #Evolution
- Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built
- Long Problems: Climate Change and the Challenge of Governing across Time
#Psychology #Neuroscience #Neurobiology #Embryology #DevelopmentalBiology #ClimateChange #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon
No city names in the TITLES of any of my #MurderEveryMonday entries this week, instead a country, a county and a 'region'. One from a specific house, of course. The publishing house of Dean Street Press #Mystery #bookstodon
https://crossexaminingcrime.com/murdereverymonday-theme-list/
@bookstodon
Book number 3 on my #StephenKing re-read journey.
This was a lot of fun to revisit. Another one I read decades ago. This has so many of my favorite short SK stories in it. Many many classics.
This book turned out a remarkable ELEVEN movie + tv adaptations. Absolutely insane. Talk about legendary.
Really hard to pick a favorite but Battleground is so much fun.
Anime Review: Kaiju No. 8 — Season 2
A shift from character and comedy to action and intensity
Ann Michelle Harris has our review at the NOAF blog:
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/10/anime-review-kaiju-no-8-season-2.html
#books #bookstodon @bookstodon
New #blog post! I ramble a bit about my first two beloved eReaders, the Kindle Keyboard and Kindle Voyage
https://renkotsuban.com/posts/2025-10-04-Ruminating-on-eReaders.html
Here’s my review of My Husband by Maud Ventura, 2021, tr. Emma Ramadan, a novel with a deliciously unhinged character who was brilliantly brought to life in the audiobook #bookstodon #reading #BookReview #audiobook #Storygraph @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/876a656c-45a2-46a7-9943-310f08fdb872
October 5-11, 2025 is Banned Books Week. During that week, a generous donor will match the value of book donations made via any of our 4 independent bookstore wishlists. Here are links to the wish lists:
Politics and Prose: https://politics-prose.com/wishlist/rocliswawresp
Mahogany Books: https://www.mahoganybooks.com/wishlist.php?publicwishlist=e754d358-5fe3-4edb-b808-e5247e500bb1
Solid State Books: https://bookshop.org/wishlists/1f8be267c141a55e8d1196724c2e7ef145bdaa9f
People's Book: https://bookshop.org/wishlists/fcb53997a15127c7c1d79194b14defaea888057b
Out now!!
Buy direct from Evernight Publishing and save $1.25!
https://www.evernightpublishing.com/an-artist-s-kiss-by-suzy-shearer/
Isabella Coburn, 50, used to be the most in-demand nude artist’s model, now she’s a successful sculptor.
Artist, Gabriel ‘Archangel’ Milford, 53, needs Isabella to model for him and sparks fly when they meet. Though she refuses him, Gabriel is determined Issie will pose for him. She’s equally determined she won’t.
Amazon: bit.ly/3WjyEY4
Evernight: bit.ly/4nZIN8h
Apple: bit.ly/3KtcwrF
Kobo Plus: bit.ly/4nPJm4q
Barnes & Noble: bit.ly/46wLJ6s
#read #readromance #romance #romanceAuthor #romanceNovel #romanceNovels #bookstadon #writersofMastodon #WritersCoffeeClub #ScribesAndMakers #writingCommunity #wordweaver #creativity @bookstadon #romanceBooks #bookstodon #BDSM #oldercouple #maturecouple #contemporary
finished reading Watership Down 🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑
by Richard Adams.
The trials & adventures of rabbits setting up a new warren: strange cultures, claw-biting escapades and the terror of war. Similar to Wind in the Willows but the anthropomorphism is weaker and the characters less vibrant. It's just as misogynistic: does are thought of as mere 'breeding stock', though worth fighting over. Drags along though it builds to a decent climax.
#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #SFF
@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de
Murder in G Major by Alexia Gordon, a cozy with a paranormal. Fun characters, a nice setting and a good mystery and most importantly a competent sleuth. https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/f567072d-220c-41dc-8239-345be33b4d2c @bookstodon #bookstodon #bookreview #cozymystery
