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40d

Check out my scifi adventure story, Death In Transit. @bookstodon Mechanical issues aren't the only interruption in Lia Conway's unplanned vacation. Can her skills help her to build a new life?

On Amazon and more!

#ScienceFiction #Adventure #SciFi #FediBookFair #Bookstodon

Lia Conway's unscheduled vacation threatens to strand her in the middle of nowhere if she can't figure out how to get the transport working again.

Could the trouble provide an opportunity for the next phase of her life?

Find out in Death In Transit now on Amazon and more!

jallbarret.writeas.com/death-in-transit

Background image is Starry Sky Night Stars by Felix Mittermeier.

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25d

All done with #DeanStreetDecember for 2025. Thanks again to Dean Street Press for the reads. If DS(P)D returns next year, so will this bad penny!
#bookstodon #Mystery #middlebrow #biography #reading

@bookstodon

https://robinwalter31.blogspot.com/2025/12/ten-from-ten-dean-street-december-iv.html

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40d

New on my #blog: "Books Reviewed: November 2025."
https://itinerantlibrarian.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/books-reviewed-november-2025/

A small wrap up this month, but still got something in.

#books #reading #AlchemicalThoughts #reviews #BookReview #bookstodon
💙📚

@bookstodon

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25d

Were you ever exposed to materials in books and other media as a child that the adults in your life didn't want for you at that point, or would have been considered mature/difficult for your age? Did the experience cause harm, or did it turn out okay? Details welcome with CWs as appropriate! #bookstodon @bookstodon

0% Yes, and the exposure harmed me
0% Yes, and the exposure was harmless/helpful
0% No, I was never exposed to mature material
0% Other

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40d

Tot anava bé fins ara
Andreu Martín i Joan Miquel Capell

Quatre anys després de Policies, Andreu Martín i Joan Miquel Capell tornen a unir forces per escriure, a quatre mans, una altra novel·la negra procedimental ambientada en els primers albors dels Mossos d'Esquadra com a policia nacional catalana.

@bookstodon

#novetat #novel·lanegra #narrativa #bookstodon

https://www.llibresipunt.cat/2025/11/tot-anava-be-fins-ara.html

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6d

Excerpt of my book The Last Philosopher.

In "Trying to do right" we're introduced to a character who's escaping a prison and thinks he's The Last (Free) Philsopher 😊

DL link in AltText.

@reading @books @fantasy @bookstodon @humor @aiop

#WIPWednesday #Short #Excerpt #IndieAuthor
#SpecualtiveFiction #FantasyBooks #High #Fantasy #SciFi #Satire #Humor #Humour #Comedy
#Book #Books #Novel #Novels #Bookstodon #Bookwyrm #FantasyBooks
#Reading #Readers #ReadersOfMastodon #ReadingCommunity

Nothing about this baby-faced man gave the impression of a
convict. For one thing, his ever-changing frown was often
somewhere between perpetual amazement and advanced calculus.
Combined with his weary blue eyes and the grey streak in his hair, it
gave him the look of a scholar. To complete that image, he needed a
beard, but his smooth face could never produce more than a slight
fuzz.

Herschel |. Pensador was trying out a new idea: non-violent
resistance. Just one of many notions this gifted thinker had about
how things should be done. But it hadn’t evolved into hunger strikes
or protests. Instead, the non-violent part only meant that his escape
should bother no one else. Not even the guards.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tynp5wgkwr0dkvmf3dzp3/The-Last-Philosopher-Part-One.epub?rlkey=n61zknkz05eakr809gcs19kzd&dl=0

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40d

Five stars:

At Death's Dough by Mindy Quigley (2025) is the fifth book in the Deep Dish mystery series. It's the first one not to have an audiobook version and I'll admit to missing Holly Adams's performance.

It's February in Geneva Bay. The snow is thick. The lake is frozen. Delilah O’Leary finds a body while ice fishing. That discovery leads to a story of hidden loot lost during the Prohibition years.

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

#bookstodon #mystery #reading
@bookstodon

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1y

This old image made me think of every single book lover in the Fediverse 📚📖

#bookstodon #books #booklovers

A black and white photo of a book store called "Yesterday's Books" with "Any Book $1.00"

On the first floor, is a big sign "BOOKS will turn you on!"

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27d

Four stars:

The Secret Christmas Library by Jenny Colgan (2025) is part caper and part romance set in a crumbling castle in Highlands. Mirren Sutherland is an insurance inspector with a knack for finding rare books. Her reputation results in her being invited to find a hidden book amongst a hoard of old books in the days leading up to Christmas. Unfortunately she has to work alongside her ex and rival, Theo Palliser.

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

#bookstodon
@bookstodon

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27d

3.75/5 for "Let Him Lie" by Ianthe Jerrold, my penultimate read for #DeanStreetDecember 2025. A beautifully written Clayton's detective story.
#Reading #Bookstodon #Mystery

@bookstodon

https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/547711e9-a370-4629-8697-8ee1a9be78c0

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40d

Un viaje musical con Muzio Clementi
Joan Josep Gutiérrez, Marina Rodríguez

Biografía del pianista, compositor, fabricante de pianos y editor, Muzio Clementi. Los autores, miembros fundadores de la Associació Muzio Clementi de Barcelona, presentan la figura del italiano tanto desde el punto de vista de su multifacética vida como de su obra, enmarcada en un clasicismo que mira ya hacia el romanticismo.

@classicalmusic @bookstodon

#novedad #biografia #bookstodon

https://www.editorialarpegio.com/catalogos/musica/un-viaje-musical-con-muzio-clementi-ensayo-biografico

Portada del libro con retrato del autor.

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40d

Season's Readings 😊

@HeyLaiverd asked to read my stuff offline.

I thought why not make the first part of The Last Philosopher available to everyone.

Use QR or link in alt-text to get e-book, and feel free to share.

@reading @books @fantasy @bookstodon @humor @aiop

#WIPWednesday #AmWriting #IndieAuthor #Free #Ebook
#SpecualtiveFiction #Fantasy #SciFi #Satire #Humour #Comedy
#Books #Novel #Bookstodon #Bookwyrm #BookLovers
#Reading #Readers #ReadersOfMastodon #ReadingCommunity

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tynp5wgkwr0dkvmf3dzp3/The-Last-Philosopher-Part-One.epub?rlkey=n61zknkz05eakr809gcs19kzd&st=fymuxn6v&dl=0

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40d

How is a hoarding bookdragon better than a little bookworm that reads like their life depends on it 🤔

Shouldn't books be for the sharing of knowledge, not for the owning of knowledge 😁

@reading @bookstodon @books @humor @humor@lemmy.world @aiop

#ReadingMemes #Memes #ReadAllTheBooks #Humor #Humour
#Reading #Readers #ReadersOfMastodon #ReadingCommunity
#Book #Books #Novel #Novels #Fiction
#Bookwyrm #Bookworm #Bookstodon #BookLove

| just discovered the term "bookdragon” and I have never felt more seen in my
life. Unlike a bookworm, who reads like their little life depends on it, a bookdragon hoards books like treasure. I used to think I was a bookworm, but now I know that I was very, very wrong.

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40d

Vivir la fuerza: Simone Weil y la Columna Durruti
Xavier Artigas

Una rigurosa investigación histórica reconstruye la breve pero intensa participación de Weil en la Guerra Civil española y ofrece una nueva perspectiva que reivindica el compromiso revolucionario de la filósofa.

@bookstodon

#novedad #ensayo #biografia #filosofia #bookstodon

https://www.pepitas.net/libro/vivir-la-fuerza

Portada del libro donde se ve a Simonel Weil vestida de miliciana y portando un fusil en una calle (probablemente) de Barcelona.

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40d

After a disappointing start, Book 2 of my #DeanStreetDecember , "The Trail of The Three Lean Men" was a lot of fun. Two down, eight to go
#Reading #bookstodon #Mystery
@bookstodon

https://robinwalter31.blogspot.com/2025/12/ten-from-ten-dean-street-december-iv.html

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1y

Was once again reminded of Ursula K. Le Guin's daily schedule, and why this woman was an icon on every single level.

#UrsulaKLeguin #Books #Bookstodon #book #Writing #WritingCommunity

Ursula Le Guin‘s daily schedule

5:30 a.m. - wake up and lie there and think.
6:15 a.m. - get up and eat breakfast (lots).
7.15 a.m. - get to work writing, writing, writing.
Noon - lunch.
1:00-3:00 p.m. - reading, music.
3:00-5:00 p.m. correspondence, maybe house cleaning.
5:00-8:00 p.m. make dinner and eat it.
After 8:00 p.m. - I tend to be very stupid and we won't talk about this.

This was Le Guin's daily schedule first appeared in an interview she gave in 1988 (and more recently reappeared in Ursula Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations).

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31d

So, putting the book down where you finish reading it until it organically evolves into a pile of books doesn't count as "arranging"? Rude! 😜😂

@bookstodon @books @humor @humor@lemmy.world @aiop

#Book #Books #BookMemes #Memes #Humor #Humour
#Novel #Novels #Bookshelf #Mastobooks #BooksofMastodon #Bookstodon #Bookworm #Bookwyrm #Bookstodon #BookLove #FantasyBooks

A meme with pictures of six diffrent bookshelves.

Caption: How do you arrange your books?

1. HEIGHT
2. PERSONAL SIGNIFICANCE
3. COLOR
4. STACKED
5. ALPHABETICAL
6. CHRONDLOGIAL

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26d

From PEN America:

Top 52 Banned Books: The Most Banned Books in U.S. Schools

"The 52 most banned books of the last four school years include National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winners, bestsellers, and beloved books by authors including Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, and Judy Blume."

#books #writing #writersofmastodon #WritingCommunity #bookstodon @bookstodon

https://pen.org/top-52-banned-books-since-2021/

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26d

finished reading We Are the Stars 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗
by Gina Chick.

That wild woman who captivated us on Alone Australia is the product of genes, a generous upbringing, and intense tempering in the crucible of life. A remarkable range of life experience, and an impressive capacity to learn & evolve from life's challenges. Heavy on nebulous metaphor, but fitting. I envy her capacity to inhabit her emotions & body so fully.

#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #Biography #AloneAustralia #AloneTV

@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de

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26d

Really pleased my wife didn't know this rule 32 years ago, and that she didn't decide to wait for when I grow up - whenever that might be. #AmReading #bookstodon #Mystery @bookstodon

Text on a Kobo Sage ereader, from the ebook of "Knock, murderer, knock" by Harriet Rutland. Text as follows:
"I shall marry you when I grow up, then," said Bobby solemnly.

"Oh, Bobby, you can't do that. I'm two years older than you."

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25d

A nice review of the second part of my "Fantasy/Attempted comedy" story The Last Philosopher 😊

Link to first part as #Free #Ebook

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tynp5wgkwr0dkvmf3dzp3/The-Last-Philosopher-Part-One.epub?rlkey=n61zknkz05eakr809gcs19kzd&st=fymuxn6v&dl=0

@books @reading l @writers @keepwriting @writingbooks @worldbuilding

#AmWriting #WIPWednesday
#Reading #Readers
#Fiction #Fantasy #Comedy #SFF
#Author #Authors #IndieAuthor #IndieBooks #Writing #WritingCommunity #Writinglife #WritersOfMastodon
#Bookstodon #Mastobooks #BooksofMastodon #FantasyBooks
#Review #Bookreview
#BookRecommendation

Review by crig Dec 16, 2025

Challenging and compelling
"If you are looking for something different from the usual inkitt offerings, try this. If you are looking for something with a very original storyline, indeed, quite unlike anything else you might have read, try this.
As it is written in a very readable style, what are you waiting for?
Style Give it a go.
Colin Rigby"

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4d

Book Review: Will This Be a Problem? The Anthology: Issue V (edited by Somto Ihezue and Olivia Kidula)
A unique collection of hauntingly engaging and imaginative stories

Ann Michelle Harris has our review at the NOAF blog:
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/01/book-review-will-this-be-problem.html

#books #bookreview #review #bookstodon @bookstodon

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22d

I skipped all the other stages and went straight to 'old weirdo' and I've never been happier 😂

@galacticwriters @writers @books @fantasy @bookstodon
@writingbooks @keepwriting @humor @humor@lemmy.world @aiop

#WritingMemes #Memes #Humor #Humour
#Author #Authors #IndieAuthor #IndieBooks #AmWriting #Writerdons #Writers #Writer #Writing #WritingCommunity #Writinglife #WritersOfMastodon #Bookstodon

An image of a time-line from birth to death.
Caption: Life of an artist
Start: Gifted kid
Middle: A burned out disapointment
End: An old weirdo with a home studio.

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25d

After #DeanStreetDecember 2025, an update on the state of my https://www.deanstreetpress.co.uk/ library. It's in 3 tags: dsp-read, dsptbr, and dsp-dnf. On the left, dsp-read. On the right, dsptbr (atm) I did not screenshot dsp-dnf, because there are only five. 😁
#Reading #Mystery #middlebrow #Bookstodon #nonfiction
@bookstodon

Image shows the 122 Dean Street Press books the poster has read in left-to-right chronological reading order.

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Image shows the 52 Dean Street Press books in his Calibre library the poster has yet to read

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25d

Are there any book clubs on Mastodon? The in-person ones around me keep petering out or are hard to get to, and the ones I’ve seen online are toooo big for my tastes. I have a slight preference for fantasy/sci-fi, but any genre is good. I just want to talk about books! #bookstodon #books #reading

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