Seems as good a day as any to release this new edition for sale.
https://lucire.biz/product/nineteen-eighty-four/
#GeorgeOrwell #NineteenEightyFour #novel #book #bookstodon #dystopia
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My #bookreview is brief/won't spoil, to spread good, great, and spectacular #horror #books far and wide.
The tropes and subtext in THE NIGHT SHIP could be both trite & unceasingly grim but Alex Woodroe's deft & elegant writing makes this weird, cosmic horror tale of survivors battling the forces of darkness a suspenseful, thrilling, life-affirming adventure of determination & grit. (Flame Tree)
#book #review #bookstodon #CosmicHorror @bookstodon #mothersuspiriareview #MSReview @bookstodon@toot.community
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Revisiting Vonnegut, who satirised *right now* back in the mid-60s:
Fascism, racism, communism & absurd, confused ideas of patriotism in contemporary USA.
And how ruthless lawyers and the establishment try to frame a billionaire as insane because he wants to help people and share his wealth.
A revenge twenty years in the making . . . is no small revenge. THE PHOENIX IN FLIGHT reimagined, a #Swashbuckling #MilitarySF #SpaceOpera by @sherwood.bsky.social & David Trowbridge. Book I of EXORDIUM!
#BookViewCafe #bookstodon #ebook #Paperback @bookstodon @books
https://bookviewcafe.com/bvc-announces-the-phoenix-in-flight-by-sherwood-smith-and-dave-trowbridge/
![ALT TEXT: EXORDIUM : THE PHOENIX IN FLIGHT by Sherwood Smith and Dave Trowbridge ]
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Brandon nyr-Arkad, the Emperor's scapegrace youngest son, defies protocol and evades a ceremonial duty, an act punishable by death. He's just ahead of an attack on the Panarchy of the Thousand Suns by Eusabian, a revenge twenty years in the making.
PHOENIX IN FLIGHT begins the five volume arc of *Exordium,* as Brandon discovers what happened to his home after he left, and he has to make a decision: stay an outlaw, or return and deal with the smoking ruins of his rejected world?
#ExordiumSeries, #MilitarySF, #ScienceFiction, #SpaceOpera, #Swashbuckling, #WomenInSF, #collaboration, #CompetencePorn, #DaveTrowbridge, #MilitaryWar, #swashbuckling, #SherwoodSmith](/proxy/post_attachment/969985/fd3811894f519362289b3e7101e8f657.jpg "ALT TEXT: EXORDIUM : THE PHOENIX IN FLIGHT by Sherwood Smith and Dave Trowbridge ]
[ALT IMAGE: A midnight black background has what looks like a golden shield of a stylized phoenix rising in flames against a simple yet threatening artistic interpretation of a blazing star.]
Brandon nyr-Arkad, the Emperor's scapegrace youngest son, defies protocol and evades a ceremonial duty, an act punishable by death. He's just ahead of an attack on the Panarchy of the Thousand Suns by Eusabian, a revenge twenty years in the making.
PHOENIX IN FLIGHT begins the five volume arc of *Exordium,* as Brandon discovers what happened to his home after he left, and he has to make a decision: stay an outlaw, or return and deal with the smoking ruins of his rejected world?
#ExordiumSeries, #MilitarySF, #ScienceFiction, #SpaceOpera, #Swashbuckling, #WomenInSF, #collaboration, #CompetencePorn, #DaveTrowbridge, #MilitaryWar, #swashbuckling, #SherwoodSmith")
Last chance to buy book 5 in the Silk Rope Masters series!! Grab a copy before it ends.
https://www.evernightpublishing.com/kaden-by-suzy-shearer/
“I adored this story!”
“This book is AWESOME!!! This series and this book is a total must read. Super spicy and steamy.”
“This love story is so full of surprises and has an emotional depth that is amazing. Absolutely loved their journey to happiness and their naughty exploits too!”
#BDSM #maturecouple #romance #contemporary #newrelease #read #readromance #romance #romanceAuthor #romanceNovel #romanceNovels #bookstadon #WritersCoffeeClub #writingCommunity #wordweaver #creativity @bookstadon #romanceBooks #bookstodon
I'd like to replace that last one with, "Books where you can figure out the end after reading the first few pages." 😜😁
@reading @bookstodon @books @humor @humor@lemmy.world @aiop
#Book #Books #BookMemes #Meme #Memes #Humor #Humour #Funny
#ReadingMemes #ReadAllTheBooks #Reading #Readers #ReadersOfMastodon #ReadingCommunity
#Litterature #Novel #Novels #Bookshelf #Mastobooks #BooksofMastodon #Bookstodon #Bookworm #Bookwyrm #Bookstodon #BookLove
It's always fun when my hobbies interact
#Reading Laura Spinney's fascinating book "Proto" this quote made me think of the fine #cDrama #ToTheWonder
"The Altai are beautiful. Prehistoric people would have been as sensitive to natural beauty as we are"
The stunning beauty of the Altai is a star of that show, images from the Drama came to mind while reading this and other references to the Altai in the book 😍 #linguistics #History #bookstodon @bookstodon
Two truths and a lie: I've read the Bible cover to cover because a teacher once told me "the Bible isn't that kind of book". Immediately after The Hobbit, I read The Two Towers. I've read the entire Twilight saga out of spite.
Oh. Sorry! Those were three truths! My bad! #bookstodon #reading #books
"Science fiction writer Octavia Butler wrote in her 1993 novel 'Parable of the Sower' that Feb. 1, 2025, would be a time of fires, violence, racism, addiction, climate change, social inequality and an authoritarian 'President Donner.'
"That day is today."
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/01/octavia-butler-feb-1-2025-black-history-month
Here’s my review of The Party by Tessa Hadley, 2024, a very enjoyable novella set in post-war Bristol #bookstodon #BookReview #reading #Storygraph @bookstodon https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/88e11385-8de4-494f-81ce-6b679c230e64
Love getting lost in a historical fiction series?
Set in 19th-century Ireland, The Fitzgeralds of Dublin series follows one family through hardship, secrets, and choices that echo across generations.
📚️️️️️ Books 1–9 available as box sets
📖 Read free in Kindle Unlimited
Amazon - https://mybook.to/FitzgeraldsBoxSets
#BooksByLornaPeel #Books #FamilySaga #HistoricalFiction #Bookstodon #Ireland #KindleUnlimited #Dublin @bookstodon
As a rule I couldn't give a fetid dingo kidney for celebrity endorsements of books I'm #Reading
BUT in the https://www.deanstreetpress.co.uk/ edition of "Mystery of Mr Jessop" the intro by Curtis Evans proved an exception. Learning that PGW liked it enough to have Bertie Wooster quote from it from it left me very gruntled 😍
The introductions that DSP gets for most of their books really add a lot of interest and value to the releases. Very well worth it
Five stars:
A Pose Before Dying by Alex Erickson and Amy Melissa Bentley (Narrator) (2024) is the start of the Cat Yoga Mystery series. Ash Branson has just opened her cat yoga studio. She teaches yoga and fosters cats. Students who connect with a cat can adopt them. But she's plagued by a dog groomer neighbor who wants her shut down and then one of her students is murdered in her studio.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_01/pose_before_dying.html
I spent yesterday afternoon finishing The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (my 3rd book by Iris Murdoch, and what a great title!) which I mostly enjoyed, especially the first half, and am looking forward to listening to the Backlisted podcast on it this morning to hear their take on it! #Bookstodon #Reading
I love pie. Living my entire life in #Aotearoa, my favourite pies are steak and mushroom, steak and cheese, and pepper steak.
But I love #Reading about PIE almost as much as I love eating pie, and Laura Spinney's "Proto was a delicious read. 4.5/5 at #TheStoryGraph for me
#linguistics #History #bookstodon
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“Rats fed a calorie restricted diet lived longer and were healthier than those allowed to eat without limit. During caloric restriction or CR, an animals is fed 30 to 50% fewer calories than it would consume if it ate as much as it liked ad libitum while making sure that it consumes enough essential nutrients to not become malnourished. In rodents and other species, animals on CR live 20 to 50% longer as judge by both average lifespan and maximum lifespan. Moreover, they appeared to have delayed the onset of several diseases of aging, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cognitive decline, and cancer.”
An excerpt from the book, “Why We Die” by Venki Ramakrishnan
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This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- I finally bought #TerryGoodkind's "The Children of D'Hara" bundle from Head of Zeus to replace the individual novellas I had.
- Plus a second-hand copy of James Delbourgo's "Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of #HansSloane" from Allen Lane.
- and a second-hand copy of "Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose?" by the ever-thoughtful Michael Ruse, published by Harvard University Press.
#Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #Fantasy #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology @bookstodon
Book six of the apparently neverending series of Deverry novels by #KatharineKerr was a strong outing, with a perfect balance between her usual elements of ethereal high magic and low, dirty, gritty small scale violence. Would be incomprehensible to anyone not already steeped in the setting and characters, however. #Bookstodon @bookstodon #fantasy
#Vietnamese history is filled with incredible women and it is something I am very proud of.
"The Bronze Drum" is a book about the first rebellion against China lead by a pair of Vietnamese sisters known as "Hai Bà Trưng." (The book is in English).
Their courage is a symbol of resilience against colonizers and oppression that has stood thousands of years.
Happy Womens Day y'all. Women are incredible.
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Five stars:
Toxic Toffee by Amanda Flower and Rebecca Mitchell (Narrator) (2019) is the fourth book in the Amish Candy Shop mystery series. Bailey King is barely back from a brief sojourn to New York City where she was filming the pilot for Bailey's Amish Sweets when a man collapses at her feet, dead.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_05/toxic_toffee.html
I’m just saying… from Nikki on NetGalley and Goodreads.
#bookstodon #vampirebooks @fantasy @bookstodon @bookstodon@fedigroups.social
Calling on #bookstodon 🗣️🗣️
I am looking for book recommendations! I’m in need of something new to read. I tend to enjoy fiction. Satirical. Dark humor.
I love Kurt V, Bradbury, Huxley. Stuff like that.
Book friends, can you give a sister some reccs?
Thank you 🙏🏽
Why does fiction matter?
Because stories can sharpen the way we understand other people.
A meta-analysis found that reading fiction has a small but positive effect on social cognition. Including our ability to interpret emotions, motives, and inner lives.
In other words: novels may help us practice empathy.
#books #literature #bookstodon #mentalhealth @bookstodon #reading #fiction
At no point of reading this book do I have the slightest idea of what is going to happen next
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