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Here’s my review of A Start in Life, 1981, by Anita Brookner, a wonderfully entertaining and thoughtful novel that surprised and delighted me! #bookstodon #BookReview #Braille #reading @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/c3f94b8f-fc4e-40e5-8627-8ec73594cf91

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"Thanks to denial, I'm immortal" -Philip J. Fry 😂

@reading @bookstodon @bookbubble @humour

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

Post by Jonathan Edward Durham

I’m not a book hoarder. I’m prepping for the possibility that one day I might have 173 years to do nothing but read.

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136d

#wipwednesday
From Whimsical Tigress, book 8 of the Whimsical Dreams series.
https://www.tiffanyetaylor.com/bookshelf

#wipwednesday #romanticsuspense #embezzlement #dangerinperil #bodyguard #graphicartist #butchfemme #lesfic #sapphicbooks #bookstodon #writingcommunity #butchfemme #lesbian #lgbtq #lgbtqia
@lgbtqbookstodon @bookstodon @sapphicbooks

A black background with two figures dressed in black holding stacks of cash with a snippet from Whimsical Tigress, book 8 of the Whimsical Dreams series, for WIP Wednesday on 08/27/25.

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Here’s my review of Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid, 2025, a brilliantly gripping read for anyone fascinated by the Universe and our place within it, and enjoys a bit of romance too! #bookstodon #BookReview #Storygraph #audiobook @bookstodon

https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/02d81e8e-42ce-4d01-bc12-32595e37c389

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136d

Firefighter Love: Curvy Girl Alpha Male Romance (Curvy Temptations) is a younger man / older woman age gap romance I narrated as Eden Cavell for Kelsie Calloway.

When a hot young firefighter moves back to the small town where he grew up, he finally gets a chance to ask out his childhood crush: his best friend's big sister!

The male lead is super sweet and it's a big-hearted, wholesome story (with a red hot finale).

"Firefighter Love: Curvy Girl Alpha Male Romance (Curvy Temptations)" is available as an audiobook on Audible, Amazon & Apple Books. It's also available in ebook and paperback formats on Amazon.

(If you've ever wondered what I sound like as the voice of a hunky young firefighter, here's where you find out!)

https://geni.us/FFLo

@audiobooks @bookstodon @romancelandia

#Romance #Romancelandia #Audiobook #Audiobooks #Bookstodon #Romance #RomanceBooks #FirefighterRomance #BBWRomance #AgeGapRomance

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119d

I've finished: The Mercy of Gods by James S.A. Corey

The Mercy of Gods starts with a group of scientists embroiled in some heavy lab politics. Then the aliens arrive.

Sadly, the rest of the novel continues to emphasize politics. Among the humans and with the different aliens, the questions are of relationships and power politics, not of science and research.

We have a group of researchers that never geek out about their ideas. When someone has a breakthrough it comes out of nowhere, there is no setup of gathering data, forming hypothesis, testing and coming to conclusions.

There is one character who actually tries to learn about the aliens, but he does so on his own and no one else is interested enough to have a conversation about his theories.

I expected something different from a novel about a biology research group that encounters an abundance of alien life forms and is given a lab and a research project to complete. Even if it is under horrific circumstances.

I understand the main dilemma of survival, resistance or compliance under fascist imperialism. But the lack of scientific discourse, geecking out or even curiosity among researchers is baffling to me.

Instead we spend an inordinate amount of time on who is fucking whom.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/727e8286-ed23-4fe1-89f3-c40c8bcef87e

@bookstodon @audiobooks
#ScienceFiction #amReading #bookstodon #Audiobooks

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Maps are great, but this is greaterest 😊

@bookstodon @fantasybookstodon @speculativefictioncomedy @bookbubble @humour

#FantasyMemes #Fantasy #Memes #Map #Maps
#Low #High #Epic #Science #Comedic #Whatever #GiveMeAllYouveGot
#Book #Books #Novel #Novels
#Mastobooks #BooksofMastodon #Bookstodon #Bookworm #Bookwyrm #Bookstodon #BookLove #BoostingIsSharing

Picture of a book where the map folds out so at to stay on the side of the text while you read.
Captioned: Every book should have its maps set up like this...

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So excited to see that The Barbellion Prize is returning soon after a hiatus, I’ve missed it! This UK prize shines alight on talented disabled and chronically ill writers and I’ve discovered some great books through it #bookstodon #writing #Publishing #BarbellionPrize #disability #ChronicIllness @bookstodon @disability
https://www.thebarbellionprize.com

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133d

My collection of first-edition hardcovers has grown. "The Nemesis Legacy" will join them in January. Which one's your favorite? 📚🙂👍

@specfic @scifi @horrorbooks @bookstodon

#books #bookstodon #booktodon

Books by Michael Shotter: "The Big Men," "309," "Shards," "The Nemesis Effect," "Big Man Down," "500," "The Spiral and The Threads," "8: Tales of The Big Men from The Nod/Wells Timelines"

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"I read, therefore I am," I'm pretty sure that's what he actually meant... 😁

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

#ReadingMemes #Memes #ReadAllTheBooks #Humor #Humour #Thinking #Philosophy #Psyhology
#Reading #Readers #ReadersOfMastodon #ReadingCommunity
#Book #Books #Novel #Novels #Fiction
#Recommendation #Bookrecommendation
#Bookwyrm #Bookworm #Bookstodon #BookLove

“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”

— René Descartes

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#gamedev #devlog #itchio #commonLisp #McCLIM #NicCLIM #programming Map editor programming alpha note part 3/3: Picking up and using host lisp lambdas inside the map editor (also, player-based ephemeral storage).

https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/nicclim-alpha-part-iii-map-edit-macros/

I left this one as *just* picking up and using lambda forms around the map so as not to clutter up the example, a finished game of life game will be separate.

Also includes my thoughts after reading Dungeon Crawler Carl #bookstodon .

A NicCLIM McCLIM application frame with a wonky hextille map of boxes on the right which contain EMPTY and LIFE. In the command interactor, it appears that cur1, a bytecompiled-function has been funcalled on the current cell, resulting the number 1 for 'LIFE'.

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135d

My latest read: "NIGHTMARES" by J.D. Allen - Searching for a new speculative-horror collection to sink your teeth into? This one's worth a look!

Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7864768066
StoryGraph:
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/238197e5-9b54-4d1a-ba1d-7121db5c3f32

@bookstodon @horrorbooks @specfic

#horror #specfic #book #books #bookrec #bookrecs #bookreview #bookreviews #booksofmastodon #readersofmastodon #read #reads #reading #readingcommunity #bookstodon #booktodon

An excerpt from Michael Shotter's Goodreads/StoryGraph review of the book "NIGHTMARES" by J.D. Allen

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134d

The grand finale is here!

The final two Chapters (43 and 44) of "A New Faith" are up on the website at https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith

#solarpunk #hopepunk #bookstodon #novel #climatechange #adaptation #migration #mystery
#thriller #amwriting #WritersCoffeeClub
#WordWeavers #ScribesAndMakers
#PennedPossibilities #writingcommunity #sciencefiction
#climatefiction

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133d

My latest read: "Rare Specimen and Other Stories" by S.J. Shank - Eager for a satisfyingly-swift swirl of speculative fiction? Give this one a look!

Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7874245623
StoryGraph:
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/111ac15e-ba5d-4a59-ade5-a9e4e320885f

@specfic @scifi @horrorbooks @bookstodon

#specfic #scifi #horror #shortstory #collection #bookreview #bookreviews #bookrec #bookrecs #book #books #read #reads #reading #readingcommunity #booksofmastodon #readersofmastodon #bookstodon #booktodon

Michael Shotter's Goodreads review of the book "Rare Specimen and Other Stories" by S.J. Shank

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95d

New #blog post!! Pay no attention to the date that it's going up and the date at the top of the page, it's fine!! Here are my thoughts on the Kobo Libra Colour which I think is a Good Enough eReader to make as my primary device these days!

https://renkotsuban.com/posts/2025-10-05-Ruminating-on-eReaders-part-2-The-Kobo-Libra-Colour.html

#Blogging #Blogtober #Bookstodon

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132d

Recent butch/femme fiction new releases through August 31, 2025.
#newreleases #lesfic #sapphicbooks #bookstodon #readingcommunity #butchfemme #lesbian #lgbtq #lgbtqia
@lgbtqbookstodon @bookstodon @sapphicbooks

Book covers displayed on vintage design coffee cup/reading glasses/open book background for butch/femme fiction new releases for week ending 08/31/25 with the quote, “Books may be the only true magic.”

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New #blog post!! Yes, again!! In the same day! Don't look at the post dates, this uhhh actually came out on the 6th 😭 But here's my #ShortBoxComicsFair haul! Go get some cool comics today!!

https://renkotsuban.com/posts/2025-10-06-ShortBox-Comics-Fair-2025.html

#Blogging #Blogtober #Bookstodon

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New #blog post!! Yes sorry, this is the third one today, I am on a roll going through my backdated #Blogtober! This time I'm talking about Bookmory, the (relatively) simple book-tracking app that has gotten me back into reading more regularly again

https://renkotsuban.com/posts/2025-10-07-Goodbye-BookWyrm-Hello-Bookmory.html

#Blogging #Bookstodon

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132d

The only question is would I rahter be this book club's bouncer or the book club's owner? Or is it like a fight club scenario where I'm both! 🤔😂

@reading @bookstodon @bookbubble @humour

#The #First #Rule #Of #Bookclub #Is #TheBook #IsAlways #Better
#ReadingMemes #Memes #ReadAllTheBooks #Humor #Humour
#Reading #Readers #ReadersOfMastodon #ReadingCommunity
#Book #Books #Novel #Novels #Fiction
#Bookwyrm #Bookworm #Bookstodon #BookLove #BoostingIsSharing

Caption: Book Club Bouncer
A drawing of a living room where a number of people are drinking wine and a lady is being led out by a man dressed all in black and wearing sunglasses.
The owner of the club is saying, "Anyone else think the movie was better?"

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129d

That's our Emily! Cheerful as always.

#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon
#WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #EmilyBronte #Victorian @romancelandia

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What a great review! https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7075757002

#bookstodon #vampirebooks @fantasy @bookstodon@a.gup.pe @bookstodon

A pretty blue image with review quotes… that aren’t the review I’m highlighting!

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131d

📚 **find a book you actually like in under 3 minutes**

#Video length: two minutes and forty-nine seconds.

🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjickmuG0vU.

#Advice #Tips #Reading #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon

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135d

Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky

First contact on the lightless surface of an alien moon.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/close-to-critical
#bookstodon

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129d

A little reminder that the paperback editions of all eight books set along The Nod/Wells Timelines are available via Bookshop(dot)org. That means just about any book store can order and benefit from their sale!

https://bookshop.org/lists/the-nod-wells-timelines

@bookstodon @specfic @scifi @horrorbooks

#specfic #scifi #horror #thriller #book #books #bookshop #bookstodon #booktodon #reading #amazonalternative