This is how I feel when I look at my TBR pile 😜😂
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I love that The Expert of Subtle Revisions is on a list with Octavia Butler, Emily St. John Mandel, Emma Straus, Audrey Niffenegger and so many other great writers.
Let's Time Travel with 60 Reality-Bending Novels:
"a collection of interesting time-travel stories and temporal mischief. This specially curated list deliberately draws from all genres, and it’s actually pretty fascinating to see the range of styles and themes in circulation."
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https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/3028-let-s-time-travel-with-60-reality-bending-novels
Five stars:
Skunk and Badger by Amy Timberlake and Jon Klassen (Illustrator) (2020) is the first book in this children's trilogy about a pair of unlikely roommates. The book was recommended to me after I enjoyed Bad Badger: A Love Story by Maryrose Wood and Guilia Ghingini (2025). Badger lives in Aunt Lulu's brownstone. He's a geologist who does "important rock work" at home in his rock room (formerly living room). He has a routine and he likes it.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_01/skunk_and_badger.html
Today is Omar Khayyam’s 978th birthday
(May 18, 1048 — December 4, 1131)
There is something beautiful about celebrating the birthday of a man who helped humanity measure time. Khayyam was a brilliant scholar, respected for his work in mathematics, astronomy, and calendar reform.
His rubaiyat are small poems with a long shadow — a reminder that life is too brief to waste.
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finished reading Howl’s Moving Castle 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
A young woman gets caught up in magical machinations and is turned old & fabulously crotchety. Great characters and vibe but I lost track of the plot a bit (disclaimer: listened to this as a sleep story), and wasn't really into the romantic ending.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8eOjQ3JrXk&list=PLp6dwtXsi8Pu6G7MT4ajMGB1YrumzQRZ9
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finished reading My Cat Yugoslavia 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
by Pajtim Statovci.
Interleaves the story of a young Albanian refugee in Finland, excluded & traumatised, with that of his mother's wedding & her hopes for a future filled with love. The symbolism of the cats & snakes is a bit weird but I think I finally got my head around it. Mostly interesting for its depictions of Albanian culture and Finnish xenophobia.
My husband is reading Pride and Prejudice. He has made a chart to keep track of everyone.
@bookstodon this cyberpunk novel of hackers, incomprehensible AIs, and privatised armies had its moments, but had too many annoying flaws for me to recommend it, with sometimes overly purple prose ("his cologne redolent of river water and orchids" - what the heck kind of scent is that supposed to be?) and some quite derivative plot points, like wasting chapters on a retread of Neal Stephenson's 'primer'. #Bookstodon
10% into #Reading "Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction" and really enjoying it. BUT I assumed the exercises would have answers! 😱 In the one below, the reader is asked if any of these languages are not related to the others. I was chuffed to identify 1, Hawaiian (I think) , by the similarities to Māori. But I'd love to know what all the languages ARE. I suspect there may be Greek, Albanian and Romany in the list, but would love to KNOW 😭 #linguistics #bookstodon @bookstodon
Four stars:
Book of Earth: A Guide to Ochre, Pigment, and Raw Color by Heidi Gustafson (2023) is a very personal meditation on earth based pigments. It is an introduction and survey of the raw ingredients behind certain colors while being a treatise on grief that strikes a similar tone to Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley (2024).
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_04/book_of_earth.html
I had a surreal experience today where a recent male acquaintance told me that he loves my voice and he wished I narrated audiobooks.
Whereupon I informed him that I actually do narrate audiobooks: romance and erotica, with explicit sex scenes.
He then proceeded to have a kind of short circuit meltdown (not a tantrum, he was just apparently a bit overwhelmed) and had to terminate the conversation.
It was bizarrely funny and I felt a bit like I was in an Agnès Jaoui film. 😂
At any rate, dear Fedi friends, if you have been wishing that you could hear me narrate audiobooks, you too are in luck, because I do, and you can find them here:
https://adaraastin.ck.page/87de3a4c9f
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I have to say I feel we're missing a few steps towards an explanation of how "for suppository use only" got in the mix of approprite warning lables 🤔😂
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I am downright delighted to announce that my latest book, YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION, has a brand new look. I really love it, and I hope you do too.
Here’s a look at what’s changed and—maybe more importantly—what’s stayed the same:
https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/refresh-a-new-look-for-you-deserve-a-tech-union/
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Five stars:
X Marks the Haunt by Lindsay Currie (2026) is a middle grade mystery-horror set at Graceland cemetery in Chicago. After a crypt key goes missing the cemetery starts having problems and the crypt keeper's son is being personally haunted by the ghost of a young girl.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_01/x_marks_the_haunt.html
The ARC of my new novella is now ready, via BookSirens. It's a #solarpunk story set in an African nation without capitalism, or governments and politicians, and centers on a 70yr old peasant woman who has to coordinate the defense of the country when a colonizer invades. https://booksirens.com/book/BUG035E/WXLHD4W
You can also pre-order the book, or read a sample, without any sign-in, on this link https://www.ododopress.com/novellas/the-blossoming-of-the-big-tree/
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Take a chance on one of my otherworldly novels about people who risk everything for the friendship, trust, & love. You also get heaps of humor, whimsy, sarcasm, & optimism. Sometimes gritty but never grim.
Paperbacks & DRM-free ebooks via my website:
https://kmherkes.com/the-bookshop1
kindle: https://www.amazon.com/stores/K.M.-Herkes/author/B00GRLYEL2
Nook, Kobo etc here: https://
books2read.com/kmherkes
(DRM-free where possible)
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I want more libraries, but I also want more birdhouses, it's a conundrum 😁
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Five stars:
Call of the Night, Volume 5 by Kotoyama (2020) looks more closely at what it means to be a vampire. It for lack of a better word, humanizes the experience. Taken in the context of when the book was released, it is a meditation on the affects of isolation and forced routine.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_01/call_of_the_night_5.html
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Omar Khayyam
It's here! Available now from Apress/SpringerNature, "We Just Build Hammers: Stories from the Past, Present, and Future of Responsible Tech" brings to life tales of the unsung heroes of responsible tech, and the science fiction that inspired them.
Find your copy at your favorite online bookstore, or learn more at https://thehammerbook.com
Boosts appreciated!
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Help a writer out, please. I’m writing a humorous cosy sci-fi murder mystery.
I have a character who is an absolute delight. He’s affirming and wholesome. He’s a monk. I need help naming his religious order. It’s the Siblinghood of the [adjective] [noun].
Suggestions? Please and thanks.
Yesterday I finished reading "Shift", by Hugh Howey.
It's the second book in the Silo trilogy and definitely the one with the most lore-building / world-building in it, but narrated in a great way to not make it so boring.
Usually I don't like continuously shifting through different timelines but in this case I felt it was a great choice, given the whole concept.
I will shift towards another book and after that I will go for the last book in the trilogy :)
Bookish Discoveries I Made in 2025: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-bookish-discoveries-i-made-in-2025/
''Catherine Babault's Wild Vancouver Island is perfectly framed, visually stunning. She has clearly mastered the technical aspects of her art, and that mastery frees her to bear witness to the spirit of joy, discovery and delight that informs her engagement with the creatures and elements she portrays.'' - Tom Sandborn, Vancouver Sun.
Order a copy on my website. Worldwide shipping: https://www.catherinebabault.com/book/wild-vancouver-island-photo-book
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Trip. By Amie Barrodale.
You are the mother of an autistic teenager, and when you accidentally die at a conference for afterlife studies, you find you have an unexpected chance to maybe fix some things you think you did wrong, though your impact on the living is slight, brief and unwieldy.
4 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈
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