Here’s my contribution to #NovellasInNovember - Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark, 1981, a wonderfully clever story where life imitates art in the literary world #NovNov25 #reading #audiobook #BookReview #bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/3a9743bc-7c35-4d09-8fca-498307955f20?redirect=true
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started reading 修羅場のワンサイドラブ
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Book Review: Rumor Has It by Cat Rambo
The Disco Space Opera (a.k.a. You Sexy Thing) universe continues with more relationship-based SF, this time at an amazing space station
@Princejvstin has our review!
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/book-review-rumor-has-it-by-cat-rambo.html
Are you looking for your next favorite author? Do you love vampires? You might find what you’re looking for over here!
https://books.bookfunnel.com/farewelltothesun/zck6jl8hfi
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Green City Wars by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Down these mean streets a raccoon must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.
Hey #Bookstodon - I am in a bit of a reading rut and need some #recommendations to help me get out. Do you have any good recommendations for historical #fiction? I would even take some well-written #history or #travel books. My only restriction is that I would like recommendation not focused on the United States (but I am open if it is good). Thanks!
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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!
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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
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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
This old image made me think of every single book lover in the Fediverse 📚📖
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
Are you nervous when you read a new book by an author you've interacted with a lot online? I'm sure I will like the book, since I enjoyed the quirkiness of their previous two novels, but it also gives me anxiety. 🙃
Update: I needn't have worried. It's good.
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A second #SundaySentence, simply because Helen Garner’s diaries are so rich.
“There’s stuff I /should/ be reading, but I don’t know what it is, and so I read just anything, and feel all the time that it’s the wrong stuff.”
Happily, this is not where I am now. (After all, I’m reading Helen Garner!) But I’ve definitely been there.
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! 😜😂
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Apuleius was a 2nd-century Roman writer whose most famous work, The Golden Ass (also known as Metamorphoses), still feels vivid, and surprisingly modern.
It is the only ancient Roman novel in Latin to survive complete.
Inside the novel is also the famous tale of Cupid and Psyche, one of the most beautiful love stories to come down from antiquity.
The Golden Ass is one of the best gateways into the ancient world.
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."
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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
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
I skipped all the other stages and went straight to 'old weirdo' and I've never been happier 😂
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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. 😁
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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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“…each and every one of us carries with us a wholly uncharted world that reveals itself to us only on occasion, in unfathomable states of perception, and may not such rich mental states, this secret reality, the life that exists in the remotest depths of the soul, be represented in literature too?”
Karl Ove Knausgaard
Someone should make a virtual tickler for e-books, otherwise it's discrimination 😜😂
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Tracy Hayes, Apprentice P.I., the first P.I. Tracy Hayes mystery, is only 0.99 everywhere until the end of month. This doesn't happen often, so grab it while you can!
AZ: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MU10OON
Universal Link: http://books2read.com/u/bw9oOy
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I do like both, and I've never understood why this is an issue, is it not the content of the book that matters? Not how that content is delivered? 🤔😁
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