Five stars:
The Puppets of Spelhorst by Kate DiCamillo and Julie Morstad (Illustrator) (2023) is the first of the Norendy Tales. It's a short, heavily illustrated parable of stepping into the roles given to you while still being true to yourself. The story follows five puppets as they come into the ownership of an old and lonely former ship's captain and then to a family with children.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2025/comments_10/puppets_of_spelhorst.html
Four stars:
Audition for the Fox by Martin Cahill (2025) is a fantasy novella with a similar vibe to the Singing Hills Cycle by Nghi Vo. Nesi, a failed acolyte has one last chance to find her calling, if she can convince T’sidaan, the Fox of Tricks to take her on as his apprentice.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2025/comments_10/audition_for_the_fox.html
#CoverReveal : We're obviously always delighted to celebrate one of our (very!) local literary stars, Muriel Spark, and Hodder has James Bailey's Like a Cat Loves a Bird, "a spiky and delicious new literary biography", coming next April.
#books #livres #MurielSpark #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #LikeACatLovesABird #JamesBailey #Biography #biographie #ScottishLiterature #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon
“You seem very unconcerned about this.“
“Man, I was not raised in the woods by Bolsheviks.“
“Are you a capitalist?“
“You should have asked me if I'm a fellow traveler before you kissed me, don't you think?“ Sam said, smirking.
“But?“
“I'm a librarian.“
“Is that a political affiliation?“
Sam considered this. “Near enough.“
#AmReading Old Time Religion by E.H. Lupton @pretensesoup
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finished reading A Court of Thorns and Roses 🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑
by Sarah Maas.
My first foray into #romantasy. The plot is so-so (humans vs faeries, love & intrigue) but finishes strongly. The romance is weak - it's never clear why she loves the faerie lord, except for his sexy man-beastiness. Hopefully this is not the best the genre has to offer.
#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #Fantasy #Romance
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I've finished: Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders
I learned something about myself when reading Lessons in Magic and Disaster.
I can read about wars and horrible dystopias and keep my distance. But a book about an LGBTQ family that is suffering from bullying as well as having it's own internal tensions is triggering for me. In 2025 this hits to close to home.
I had to find less stressful moments during the week to open this novel. I'm glad I stuck with it to its magical ending.
I love novels where the main character is researching a subject that illuminates the narrative.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/45a4a25f-74d4-4a09-aa55-df1c276dce1c
@bookstodon @audiobooks #fantasy #lgbtq #bookstodon #amReading #AudioBook
One of our authors, S. Parnam-Harris, isn't on social media, but she is running a 50% off sale on #DriveThruFiction during the #FediBookFair weekend.
The books are available as ePub or PDF, and do not have #DRM.
It's Saturday 1st November here in the UK, which means it's FediBookFair!
This weekend, we invite authors and publishers to write about their books, research, and related topics, with the #FediBookFair hashtag.
If that sounds interesting to you, please follow the hashtag and boost this so that more people can join us.
If it doesn't sound fun, please mute the hashtag - we have no interest in filling your timeline with stuff you're not interested in. You can find out how to do that here: https://fedi.tips/filtering-your-timeline-to-hide-posts-on-mastodon/
#AmReading At Midnight Comes the Cry by Julia Spencer-Fleming. I usually like this series but am feel iffy about the theme of small town white supremacists. Having a feeling it may get very white savior-y. But perhaps I'll be pleasantly surprised.
Here comes another spicy audiobook for spooky season! 🎃
The Mirror by Amber Collins is a red-hot story of erotic revenge!
When Nick and Katy inherit a haunted mirror, they can make their biggest wishes come true. But will they go too far to humiliate the hot couple that torments them?
If you have ever wanted to put a bully in their place, this story is for you.
Content advisory follows in the next post!
Get yourself in the Halloween spirit with this spicy story. 💋
Available in audiobook format on Amazon, Audible an Apple Books. Also available in ebook format on Amazon.
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#NSFW #Audioook #Audioobooks #Books #Bookstodon #Halloween #Erotica #SizeFantasy #Shrinking #Magic #Witch #Halloween
It's almost the end of the month & you know what that means!
It's a great time to support your fave indie artists, writers, musicians and creators by boosting us, buying from us, subscribing to our newsletters, reviewing our work, leaving a tip, etc.
Your support lets us keep making art for you. Thank you! 💕
PS If you are an Audible member and you have credits leftover at the end of the month, why not treat yourself to an audiobook narrated by yours truly? 💋
You can find my audiobooks (and all my links) here:
https://adaraastin.ck.page/87de3a4c9f
* Boosts appreciated *
I have three spooky audiobooks for you for a spicy Halloween trick-or-treat! 🎃
The Cauldron is about a witch who runs a rare book store (and eats people to achieve immortal youth). It's fun, light, campy, and sexy.
https://geni.us/TheCauldron
My Wife, The Witch is about a witch who turns the tables on her too-large husband by shrinking him and dominating him in the night of his wildest dreams and nightmares.
https://geni.us/MWTW
The Mirror is about a couple who inherit an enchanted antique that transforms their lives and lets them seek revenge on their bullies (in a spicy way).
https://geni.us/TMir
All three books are available as audiobooks (narrated by yours truly) on Amazon, Audible and Apple Books, and also available on Amazon as Kindle ebooks.
Go on, get yourself a Halloween treat! 💋
#Halloween #HappyHalloween #NSFW #Audiobook #Audiobooks #Audiofiction #Books #Bookstodon #Erotica #Macrophilia #Witches #Magic #SizeFantasy #GiantWoman #Giantess #TinyMan #GroupSex
Five stars:
Natural Barn Killer by Amanda Flower and Rachel Dulude (2025) is the fifth Farm to Table mystery. It's Thanksgiving and Shiloh Bellamy is hosting a meal at the farm house. After the meal she finds her chickens standing on an exposed femur, sticking out of the dirt mound by their recently moved coop.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2025/comments_11/natural_barn_killer.html
It's less of a collection and more a state of mind, and that state is cluttred and disorganised... 😂
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Joking is serious business... 😁
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Look who has come knocking for Halloween...
Fascinating and most informative, this detailed and deeply researched biography draws on previously unavailable correspondence to present a fuller picture of the life of Edgar Allan Poe.
https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/10/31/book-review-edgar-allan-poe-a-life/
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Book Review: The Witch of Prague by J.M. Sidorova
An intriguing magical realism novel set in the run up to the Prague Spring of 1968.
@Princejvstin has the review at the NOAF blog
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/10/book-review-witch-of-prague-by-jm.html
#review #fantasy #bookreview #bookstodon @bookstodon
I've finished: Lives of Bitter Rain by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Lives of Bitter Rain starts strong, as we witness Angilly's childhood trauma and see her develop her skills.
But eventually it just becomes a superfluous prequel. We learn nothing new about the world or the characters that wasn't already told or implied in Days of Shattered Faith.
I don't think there's anything here that couldn't be covered by a flashback scene or chapter in the next novel.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/9f1f1427-1dd8-47a9-88bb-5fca34434f60
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Are you in the Atlanta area? Come to Local Author Day at the Norcross Public Library and see me and many other authors!
https://youtube.com/shorts/QMjQxghDXd8?si=94NS3YVoRKWVlzhe
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I've finished: Anima Rising by Christopher Moore
Christopher Moore is back with a novel that is more appealing to me, despite the very high quantity of crude sexual jokes. (I know it's Moore, but he's laying it very thick here).
I didn't connect with Sacre Bleu or his Noir novels.
Making the book about the models, the disadvantaged rather than the geniouses of the period was a great choice.
I think this will appeal to the fans of the Fool novels more than those of the Pine Cove novels.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/f6fe0a2e-87df-474d-9b18-e9fd9237a381
@bookstodon @audiobooks #Fantasy #humor #ChristopherMoore #bookstodon #Audiobook
I've finished: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
There's a running gag on r/fantasy, for every book recommendation request someone will find a way to recommend Dungeon Crawler Carl.
I saw it on sale and decided to give it a try.
I don't play RPGs and don't watch reality TV, but after a couple of chapters with too much game mechanics exposition I started enjoying myself.
The humor can be crude and characters can be superficial and annoying. But it's allot of fun and great escapism.
I must admit, I'm hooked and will continue reading DCC.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/bbcc55dd-c970-453d-9396-ed5a51cd0bdf
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One of our authors, S. Parnam-Harris, isn't on social media, but she is running a 50% off sale on #DriveThruFiction during the #FediBookFair weekend.
They're available as ePub and PDF, and unencumbered by #DRM.
one of the many joys of our relocation has been getting acquainted with this brilliant and exciting current literature. I very highly recommend each of these books. #AusLit #bookstodon
Three stars:
The Great Panjandrum Himself by Samuel Foote, Randolph Caldecott (Illustrator) (1885) was the inspiration for Edward Gorey's The Object Lesson (1958). It started as a nonsense poem, published in 1775 but is best known for its slightly reworked version with Randolph Caldecott's illustrations. Foote's version was written to be a memory test for actor Charles Macklin who boasted he could recite back anything he'd heard once verbatim.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2025/comments_11/great_panjandrum_himself.html
This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- I adopted a damaged copy of David Farrier's Nature's Genius: Evolution's Lessons for a Changing Planet, published by @canongatebooks.
The other two are cases of the more I read, the more I go down rabbit holes.
- After reviewing Mysteries of the Deep, I bought an ex-library copy of the classic 1995 Paleoclimate and Evolution, with Emphasis on Human Origins, published by Yale University Press, to read more on the work of Elisabeth Vrba and colleagues (this one came from the holdings of the University Library of Durham)
- After reviewing Every Living Thing, I wanted to know more about Cuvier and tracked down an ex-library copy of the classic 1987 The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate: French Biology in the Decades Before Darwin, published by Oxford University Press (this one came from the holdings of the University of Saint Katherine Library)
#ClimateChange #Evolution #Palaeoclimate #HumanEvolution #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon
