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Dandadan (ダンダダン), Volume 1 by Yukinobu Tatsu (2021) (November 2025) is the start of a 22 (as of writing this review) volume manga series that also has an anime adaptation. I read volume in in translation, both in English and German.

This introductory volume brings together Momo Ayase and Ken Takakura (nicknamed Okarun). They're both high school students. She knows spirits. He knows UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena). When they each call bullshit on the other's special interests / knowledge, they end up facing both E.T.s and spirits.

https://pussreboots.com/blog/2025/comments_12/dandadan1.html

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I am re-reading one of my favorite #books: "The Snow Leopard" by Peter Matthiessen. It is a #travel book set in 1973 in #Nepal as the author accompanies a #science expedition into the #Himalayas. It is a book about #nature and a #Buddhist introspection on grief and change.

The cool thing is that I am #reading the chapters on the day they were set. A really nice experience if you have never read such a book like that before.

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I’m only 7 followers away from the 25 they recommend you have to launch!

“A literary vampire story with multiple times lines and POVs that tackle romance, grief, sadness/depression, love, acceptance, religion and even vampire pets.” —Nikki on Goodreads

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/villyard/immortal-gifts-hardcover-paperback-and-audiobook

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finished reading Slade House 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
by David Mitchell.

Every nine years, people disappear into a house which otherwise can't be found. The author's usual layering of stories across different time periods gradually reveals the truth, though it's not particularly clever this time around. Dark arts & illusions, bit creepy, not really my thing.

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#GardnerDozois 's yearly #SciFi collections are slowly taking over my bookshelf. This one from 1991 starts extremely strongly with Nancy Kress's 'Beggars in Spain', which I believe she later reworked into her most well known novel. She really is the best writer in SF at handling themes of class and wealth inequality I think. Other highlights are by Alexander Jablokov, Geoffrey A. Landis, Rick Shelley, and two Greg Egan stories I already own in his Axiomatic collection. #Bookstodon @bookstodon

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The books are right here, no need to go anywhere else. 📚
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Five stars:

Deadly Crush by Maddie Day and Linda Jones (Narrator) (2024) is the second Cece Barton mystery, or third if you count the short story that launched the series. Cece hired the wrong electrician to redo the lights in Vino y Vida something she realizes as Karl takes too long to complete his work and in the rude way he treats his assistant, Ian.

https://pussreboots.com/blog/2025/comments_10/deadly_crush.html

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FREE SHORT STORY: Minotaur, a story of alien abduction. https://youtu.be/t-6Ih7iZMaQ?si=IeU9-liKHudabFaw

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finished reading Enemy of God 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
by Bernard Cornwell.

The Saxons threaten to overrun Briton; a search for a legendary artifact to bring back the Old Gods; a little blissful romance; Lancelot is a backstabbing, cowardly bastard; oaths, what are they good for? A touch more magic than in the first book, but just as hard, dirty & cynical.

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It is that time of year, so I thought I’d mention that my book YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION is very much a thing you can buy for any tech workers in your life. Or yourself!

You can buy it just about anywhere books are sold, or ask your library to grab a copy! https://ethanmarcotte.com/books/you-deserve-a-tech-union/

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Here’s my review of The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley, 1953, a wonderful novel about class, memory and the loss of youthful innocence, with a dash of magic! #bookstodon #BookReview #Braille #reading #Storygraph
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/0160c5fb-2919-4971-ab84-7f037475dfbd

finished reading The Help 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
by Kathryn Stockett.

In 1960s Mississippi, white women and the black maids they employ navigate the upheaval of the civil rights movement. The contrast of ingrained racism and the deep emotional integration of black women into white family life is astounding. Potential for deep analysis, but you can also just enjoy the story.

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It’s still happening! If you’re on Kobo Plus, these books are FREE for you to read! https://books.bookfunnel.com/spookyseasonkoboplus/z5p28bouj7

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Abridged crossover idea:
Homeinvader eats an old lady's ham-fisted construction and falls for ugly guy who with a mattresses piled on a vegetable, and strange footwear mating rituals, is determined fit to govern. 😂

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Review: Bloodtide by Sophie Burnham
@princejvstin.com has our review for your Friday
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/review-bloodtide-by-sophie-burnham.html

"Sargassa and Bloodtide are the queer forward alternate history/future history SF novels you may not have known you wanted, but are here for you."

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I was thinking of @Forestofglory and a conversation we had a while back about cultural histories of the Tang. It made me remember this lesser known one.

This book is a cultural history of the city of Chang'An through the collected tales of failed examinees, women and foreigners. Also one of the books that sent me on the rabbit hole of foreigners and intercultural marriage in Tang China

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Five stars:

What Stalks the Deep by T. Kingfisher (2025) is the third novella in the Sworn Soldier series. This one takes Alex Easton far of their comfort zone and into the mountains of West Virginia. A friend's cousin has gone missing from a reputed cursed mine. Alex with their experience with the unnatural is called into help locate the man.

https://pussreboots.com/blog/2025/comments_10/what_stalks_the_deep.html

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finished reading Skyward Flight: The Collection: Sunreach / ReDawn / Evershore 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
by Brandon Sanderson & Janci Patterson.

While the hero of the series is lost in the Nowhere, her fellow pilots get on with being awesome and taking the fight to the oppressors. Decent YA fare with lots of dogfights, light humour and a little romance. The hyperslugs are adorable.

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FOUND. Thank you.

If you happen to have a cassette copy of Unicorn Variations by Roger Zelazny, read by Rene Auberjonois and can make an audio file for me, please let me know how we can make this happen. I used to have a copy and it died a horrible death many years ago.

The ISBN is 0886467365

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Into the Wardrobe: THE GHOST OF FOSSIL GLEN by Cynthia D. DeFelice
@Reading1KLives has the newest
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https://skiffyandfanty.com/blog/wardrobe-ghost-of-fossil-glen-by-defelice/
"This is a book that deserves to stay in circulation for kids and adults to both continue enjoying and learning from."

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Book Review: The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah
A good entryway to non-Western fantasy for readers in search of new ground
our co-founder, @The_G , has our review at the blog
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/10/book-review-stardust-thief-by-chelsea.html

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Many thanks to Goodreads editor Sharon for including THE EXPERT OF SUBTLE REVISIONS among the "New Voice Alert: Promising 2025 debut novels." Check out the full list of book recommendations in the December editors' picks column!

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https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/3034-goodreads-editors-get-bossy-about-book-recommendations

Five stars:

Murder at the Beacon Bakeshop by Darci Hannah and Amy Melissa Bentley (Narrator) (2021) is the start of the Beacon Bakeshop mystery series. Lindsey Bakeswell has purchased the Beacon Harbor lighthouse to convert into a bakery. On opening day her exfiance's lover is murdered and Lindsey is the prime suspect.

https://pussreboots.com/blog/2025/comments_10/murder_at_the_beacon_bakeshop.html

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Not quite a biography, given so little can be known of Pythagoras's life, but instead a history of how his name and ideas associated with him have been used across the millennia. The most interesting part was how Kepler was convinced that the ratios for harmonious musical chords should exactly match the ratios between planetary orbits - a false but useful idea, like alchemy. Overall the book was educational but very slow if you aren't fascinated by the history of numerological pseudoscience, e.g. the assignment of spiritual concepts to specific numbers. #Bookstodon @bookstodon

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A biography I read largely in honour of my late father brought up the halfway mark in my #DeanStreetDecember
https://robinwalter31.blogspot.com/2025/12/ten-from-ten-dean-street-december-iv.html

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