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.
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wants to watch Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
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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3/5 for "Murder Isn't Cricket" by the Radfords. Sadly book 1 of my 2025 #DeanStreetDecember did not bowl me over. One down nine to go. This is now the fourth year for this fun SUMMER tradition 😁
#Bookstodon #Mystery #Reading
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https://robinwalter31.blogspot.com/2025/12/ten-from-ten-dean-street-december-iv.html
The Barbellion Prize is coming back! This essential literary prize which “celebrates and promotes writing that represents the experience of chronic illness and disability” has been on hiatus but is now relaunching. They need help to raise funds to cover the cost of running the prize and welcome any donations, please spread the word!
“As with disability in general, the literature of disability and chronic illness is too commonly turned away from, leaving non-disabled readers ignorant of the profound difference experienced by many and disallowing a voice to chronically ill and disabled writers. All of the volunteers working to support the prize are motivated by a desire to celebrate difference as represented in literature and to effect positive social change via that representation.”
https://barbellionprize.org/donate/
#bookstodon #reading #books #chronicIllness #Disability #disabled #literature #publishing #InternationalDayOfPersonsWithDisabilities #IDPWD @disability @bookstodon
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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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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
https://robinwalter31.blogspot.com/2025/12/ten-from-ten-dean-street-december-iv.html
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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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
Options: (choose one)
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
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
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/547711e9-a370-4629-8697-8ee1a9be78c0
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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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
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https://robinwalter31.blogspot.com/2025/12/ten-from-ten-dean-street-december-iv.html
The very first Nobel Prize in Literature in history was awarded to Sully Prudhomme in 1901.
Most people don’t know him today - which makes it even more interesting to read the man who started Nobel literary history.
Try his elegant, heartbreaking “The Broken Vase”.
Was once again reminded of Ursula K. Le Guin's daily schedule, and why this woman was an icon on every single level.
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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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Heated Rivalry. By Rachel Reid.
You are a star hockey player just out of high school, when you meet your fellow rookie and nemesis, a Russian player, and you and he will go on to challenge each other on the ice and in the bed FOR 8 YEARS, which it turns out is longer than either of you can stand.
4 of 5 library cats 🏒 🏒 🏒 🏒
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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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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.
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Stag Party. By Torrey Peters.
You are an usually large and ugly 19th century lumberjack in an all male remote camp, and you get the chance to appear at an arranged “dance” as an available female, which you eagerly accept.
4 of 5 library cats 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳.
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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
