This week's #NewBooks at the library: I bought second-hand copies of Fevered Planet: How #Diseases Emerge When We Harm Nature by the late John Vidal and #Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles by Jay Owens, and picked up a review copy of Uncommon Ground: Rethinking Our Relationship With the #Countryside by Patrick Galbraith.
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finished reading The World We Make 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
by NK Jemisin.
New York finishes the job against the Multiverse, despite the conservative reticence of the Old Cities. Clunkier and without the freshness of the original. But fun to see more city avatars. I think Mamdani could easily be a character in these books!
“Saturday began with my new boyfriend disappearing in front of my eyes. Not a good start for the day, to be honest.”
Season to Be Witched is here! Find it on
Az: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSKQ19D6
Others: http://books2read.com/u/mqLx91
Sample: http://www.susannashore.com/seasontobewiched.html
🌴 What would you do if you washed ashore on a tropical island full of giant women?
Daughters of Atlantis is an erotic tropical island fantasy story I narrated for Amber Collins. If you're a fan of sensual tiny man + giantess stories, this is the audiobook for you. 💋
Daughters of Atlantis is available as an audiobook on Amazon, Audible and Apple Books. It's also available as an ebook for Kindle Unlimited on Amazon.
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Five stars:
"A Miscellany of Characters That Will Not Appear" by John Cheever (1960) first appeared in the November 12, 1960 edition of the New Yorker as "Some People, Places, and Things That Will Not Appear In My Novel." The original title was then used for a collection of Cheever short stories and the story's title was changed to "A Miscellany of Characters That Will Not Appear."
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2025/comments_12/miscellany_of_characters_that_will_not_appear.html
Because all the cool kids do it! https://soundcloud.com/katherine-villyard/sets/immortal-gifts-retail-sample
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My year in review for reading as calculated by LibraryThing:
It’s the last 47 hours. Need I say more?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/villyard/immortal-gifts-hardcover-paperback-and-audiobook
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Finished reading #UrsulaKLeGuin 's 1820s historical novel set in a (fictional) part of the Austro-Hungarian empire - Orsinia, a setting she has returned to, in various time periods, in a few of her non-SFF works. The story does eventually feature a violent revolution, but this is not an exciting or heroic book - it is very slow moving and took me some time to get into. But the care, clarity, and skill she brings to characters, setting, and prose definitely paid off for me. #Bookstodon @bookstodon
New on my YouTube channel: "White Poverty: an Under 5 Review."
https://youtu.be/Q5GaCMtT10I?si=4286PX-AxfI5efAF
#Under5Reviews: where I tell you about a book and help you decide if you want to read it or not in under 5 minutes.
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The big reveal…
So I wrote up a lot of these little stories a few years ago but I’ve added some new ones, cleaned it all up and now I’m the happiest with it that I’ve ever been. You can definitely get a copy in time for Christmas, if you’re so inclined…
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I'm currently reading Transcription, by Ben Lerner, and so far, I'm impressed. I briefly confused the author with Ben Marcus. Ha! I get authors confused all the time. Anyway, *this* Ben wrote The Topeka School, which I thought was very good, and showed an excellent understanding of human behavior, especially regarding young people.
This novel won't appeal to everyone, but if you liked his earlier work, you're the right reader for it. Also, if you've been avoiding longer books, this one is only 130 pages.
LAST THREE DAYS! This is your LAST CHANCE to get the audiobook with Dave Robison, Veronica Giguerre, and J. Daniel Sawyer for TWO MONTHS!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/villyard/immortal-gifts-hardcover-paperback-and-audiobook
Want to test-drive the audiobook? You can listen to the first four chapters here: https://youtu.be/RmDtm6koQCY
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Five stars:
Death at the Door by Olivia Blacke with Stefanie Kay and Petrea Burchard (Narrators) (2025) is the next book in the Ruby and Cordelia mystery series. During an all hands meeting the local sandwich (and drug) delivery man is murdered. Ruby decides she needs to solve the murder and Cordelia will do whatever she can to keep her roommate alive.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2025/comments_11/death_at_the_door.html
Absolutely not me IRL, but I know people like this 😁
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And here it is, my third #Autocade Year of Cars annual for all you #car aficionados out there! Octane called last year’s ‘brilliant’ and ‘totally absorbing’ and I hope this 2026 edition hits the same high notes! Boosts appreciated!
https://lucire.biz/product/autocade-year-of-cars-2026-hardcover/ #book #car #yearbook #bookstodon #coche #waka #Auto #voiture #macchina #design #trends #tendances #WeirdCarMastodon
More festive decorations going up, although we fear Jack & Olivia are more tangled up than a hyperactive kitten in a knitting shop (we are trained professionals, do not try this at home)
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New #BookReview on my #blog: 'Burned by billionaires.'
https://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/11/book-review-burned-by-billionaires.html
Book "exposes the constant and often reckless and cruel damage that the uber rich inflict on society as a whole."
Pub. by #TheNewPress
Only two more days! This hardcover edition will be signed, numbered, and this is your only chance to get it, EVER. It also has a ribbon bookmark and head and tail bands!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/villyard/immortal-gifts-hardcover-paperback-and-audiobook
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I'm in bed resting today and I've got a craving to sift through old YA books from the 80's, to see if there's anything I can remember reading and loving.
I'm doing some web searches and there are many lists of "favorite 80's YA books," but I was the wee nerd into the less popular stuff. So what I want is to just get a list of ALL published titles during a specific year.
Is that possible? (I'm trying to avoid AI so please don't offer that)
Multiple copies, schmultiple copies, maybe no one else deserves this book 😜😂
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I've finished: Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
As someone who has recently finished T. Kingfisher's back catalog I was glad to discover Heather Fawcett's work. It scratches a similar itch.
I loved the academic angle, it takes me back to my years at university.
I do wish the solutions Emily finds were based on events we were told about in advance rather then a moment of inspiration. She has a vast amount of knowledge that comes in handy, but I want to see her work towards a solution using the clues she found along the way.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/1735e2b1-a9df-4923-bbbf-825297721654
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Check it out! 👇👇👇👇👇
Announcing a new Poltroon Press edition of THE MALTESE FALCON with a pub. date of January 6, 2026! Illustrated with scene-setting B&W photos of FALCON locations from San Francisco, it includes a "mapback" pinpointing crime scenes and a coda of two linked Sam Spade short stories written by me to answer the question, "What happened to the falcon!?"
Preorder the hardcover edition here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0918395429?crid=1LPA6APQ0TP0H
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Zadie Smith:
"It's through other people's novels, other people's paintings, other people's poems and other people's music that I am made aware that everybody is not like anyone else, and yet we are all stuck inside these flesh cages, experiencing what we imagine to be a shared reality through a radically singular medium: consciousness" ('Dead and Alive,' p. 286).