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I’ve just finished reading a fascinating book about 3 women who rose to the top of the fashion retail business in the U.S., my favourite being Geraldine Stutz of Henri Bendel’s who brought the store back to life as a place for exclusive fashion in the 1960s #bookstodon #BookReview #reading #Storygraph #audiobook #NonFiction @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/51547c6d-601e-4d56-af35-7f9e9c567326

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34d

Book Review: These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart by Izzy Wasserstein
Breaking binaries in a future that feels terrifyingly near
Alex Wallace @SpanishSpy has our review at the NOAF blog:
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/book-review-these-fragile-graces-this.html

#bookstodon #books #review @bookstodon

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36d

Very late start, but it's time for a 2026 thread of books I read. Heather Fawcett was excellent (although book 1 was better). Andrew Cartmel was on form. Elle Hartford was sweet seashorecore (if that's a thing!) & Laura Laakso was an excellent start to a new to me crime fantasy series with an mc with chronic pain. #amreading #books #bookstodon

How to Care for Cursed Fish by Elle Hartford 5⭐️
Underscore by Andrew Cartmel 5⭐️
The Copper Heart by Sarah Painter 4⭐️
Fallible Justice by Laura Laakso 5⭐️

Must Love Moss and Moonshine by Maisy Magill 4⭐️
Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett 5⭐️
Curse of the Pogo Stick by Colin Cotterill 5⭐️
The Good and the Green by Amy Yorke 4⭐️

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32d

Tomorrow night (Feb 13th) I'll be joining dozens of writers at the San Francisco Writers Conference Sips & Stories After Dark Event. It's free to attend, but you must register. Come say hi! I'd love to see you.

"Come mix and mingle with authors and other book lovers in the beautiful San Francisco Hyatt Regency Embarcadero on Friday night, Feb. 13th from 8-10 pm. Shop at the on-site bookstore or buy directly from the authors. Gather and socialize in the magnificent atrium of the Hyatt. A cash bar will be available and a hot chocolate bar for the little ones in the children’s section at this all-ages event. Sip and savor the sounds of live classical music from local symphony musicians and more during this unique experience. No entry fee, but a two-book-minimum is encouraged."

https://www.sfwriters.org/events-and-programs/sips-and-stories/#register

#books #writing #writersofmastodon #WritingCommunity #bookstodon @bookstodon

Image reading: Join us at Sips & Stories After Dark and author signing event. Friday, February 13th from 8:00 -10:00 pm. The Hyatt Regency SF on Embarcadero. All ages welcome!

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314d

finished reading My Father and Other Animals: How I Took on the Family Farm 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
by Sam Vincent.

After an unsettled life of freelance writing, the author takes on the family farm. A memoir of his father and the land, an ode to regenerative agriculture, and an example of how to connect with Traditional Owners. The author is only two degrees of separation from me, so I found it easy to imagine myself in his shoes, going down a route that appeals but was not available.

#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #Autobiography #Farming #RegenAg

@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de

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309d

Dear #bookstodon-friends, I've been thinking about doing some sharepic-style mini-reviews of books (mostly #horror/ #suspense/ #litfic) that I've been reading - I tried by best with the tools available on my phone and this is the result. Pretty enough? Sufficient info? Anything else I should/could add? #frauenlesen #iamreading @bookstodon

A picture of the book "Thin Air" by Michelle Paver. The info next to it reads: 1935. A group of British mountaineers wants to be the first to reach the summit of the deadly Kangchenjunga. But ahead lies more than ice and avalanches - a dark secret waits to be uncovered. It may become their undoing.
3 and a half stars.
Keywords: gripping, suspenseful, mysterious

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30d

Picked up on a #bookstodon recommendation: a space opera that I found excellent in places but flawed. Every major character is an insanely overpowered unkillable badass, making the over the top violence feel a bit weightless. The prose is pretty good and the plotting has a lot of energy, so given that it's a debut novel I'd definitely read #BethanyJacobs again, but probably not anything from this series. @bookstodon

These Burning Stars, by Bethany Jacobs

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332d

finished reading The Tainted Cup 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
by Robert Jackson Bennett.

A murder mystery fantasy novel - why is this a first for me?! Fairly standard whodunnit which escalates to political intrigue, made distinctive by very cool world-building: an empire built to defend against leviathans attacking from the sea, whose bodily fluids enable a raft of fantastical bio-enhancements. Interesting characters and the potential for more fleshing out give the series much promise.

#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #MurderMystery #CrimeFiction #Fantasy #SFF

@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de

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301d

finished reading Nervous Conditions 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
by Tsitsi Dangarembga.

Becoming a familiar refrain in African literature: girl fights for education & freedom against patriarchy & colonialism. This one, set in pre-independence Zimbabwe, might be the original (?) and the best, with carefully crafted & evolving characters. Ends very suddenly, though.

#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #Zimbabwe #AfricanLiterature

@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de

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31d

If you are dreading Valentine's Day, I am happy to give you a romance or erotica audiobook of your choice for free, no strings, no questions asked.

1. Pick out a title from among the books I have narrated at the link below.
2. DM me your choice.
3. Let me know if you'd prefer a free code for Audible UK or Audible US.*

*These are my only options, sorry. But you can redeem them from anywhere by changing the Audible website country settings or app settings.

Have a Happy Valentine's Day on me, please! 💋

https://adaraastin.ck.page/87de3a4c9f

@bookstodon @audiofiction @LonelinessCorps

#Singleton #Single #Solo #ValentinesDay #Audiobook #Audiobooks #Audiofiction #Bookstodon #Romance #Erotica

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310d

#sapphicfictionsaturday
I’m reading An Unlikely Partnership by Katie Trapp. What’s in your hands today? 📖
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BKH4WBLL

IG/Threads: @katietrappauthor
Bluesky: @katietrappauthor.bsky.social

#whatareyoureading #sapphicbooks #cozymystery #policeprocedural #forcedproximity #grumpysunshine #magic #butchfemme #lesfic #bookstodon #readingcommunity #lesbian #lgbtq #lgbtqia
@lgbtqbookstodon @bookstodon @sapphicbooks

A woman laying outside in a hammock reading next to a picture of the cover of An Unlikely Partnership by Katie Trapp with the caption “What Are You Reading?” for Sapphic Fiction Saturday on 05/10/25.

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31d

Suck it linguists I'll make my own grammar rolls 😜😂

@linguistics @humor @humor@lemmy.world @aiop @writingcommunity @writingbooks

#LinguisticMemes #Meme #Memes #Linguistics
#Language #Words #Humor #Humour #Funny
#Reading #Readers #ReadersOfMastodon #ReadingCommunity
#Book #Books #Novel #Novels #Fiction #Bookstodon

Post by keva
Here's my first attempt at synonym rolls, with attached picture of cinnamon rolls.

Reply by BrazilFlair
Just like grammar used to make.

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306d

I love that Stephen Graham Jones pulls no punches, and names his Blackfeet main character "Good Stab."

He reminds us that true horror is perpetrated by people, and that blood will cry out for justice forever.

THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER is a great title.

@bookstodon
#books #bookstodon #Horror @horror #BooksWorthReading

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304d

Library-pub, add a book quiz and a non-alcoholic bar and I'm in 😁

@libraries @librarians @bookbubble @bookstodon @humour

#Library #LibraryMemes #Memes #Libraries #Librarians #Humor #Humour
#Bookstodon #Bookworm #Bookwyrm #BookLove #BoostingIsSharing
#Repost #From #Old #Account

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It would be fun if public libraries were well- funded and open in the evenings and we built a culture where it’s normal to gather at the library after work and browse the shelves and chat about the latest books and read the Saturday night away.

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30d

Some excellent books here! Of Barbara Pym: ‘I see in her characters spinsters of the type I aspire to be: incisive, busy, and fine with or without a partner. Pym was ahead of her time…So ahead, in fact, that we haven’t yet caught up to her’ | Eight Booker Prize-nominated books that celebrate ‘spinster lit’ | The Booker Prizes

https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/eight-booker-prize-nominated-books-that-celebrate-spinster-lit?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=ap_z4nscnz4ja

#bookstodon #reading @bookstodon

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29d

This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- I expanded my collection of #Tolkien books with The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation from W.W. Norton
- I used my employer's Christmas voucher to buy a copy of Simon Parkin's The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in a City under Siege from Sceptre (look out for a review in due course).
- I also found a second-hand copy of What Is Regeneration? from the University of Chicago Press.

#Books #Scicomm #Tolkien #Literature #DevelopmentalBiology #SeedBank #Botany #Bookstodon @bookstodon

A photo of three books standing on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books.

On the left, standing up, The Tower and the Ruin, showing a black-and-white photo of J.R.R. Tolkien on a black background. He is wearing a suit and lighting his pipe.

In the middle, lying down, What Is Regeneration?, showing several blue drawings of hydras, a stalked underwater hydrozoan with a crown of tentacles at its free end.

On the right, standing up, The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad, showing part of a black-and-white photo of two women wearing head scarves, seated against a background of concrete rubble. The top half of the cover shows several technical botanical drawings of plants in colour and black-and-white.

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310d

Dear #bookstodon, I'm looking for #recommendations - what's a book of short stories or a short(ish) novel you've enjoyed recently, in the genres of sci-fi / speculative or literary fiction? No big names please. Women / queer / neurodiverse writers interest me especially.

#lovetoread #bookrecommendations #actuallyAutistic @bookstodon

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30d

Five stars:

What the Dog Knows by Sylvia McNicoll (2022) is set in the week leading up Canada Day. Naomi with the guidance of her dog has to fix her family before time runs out.

https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_02/what_the_dog_knows.html

#bookstodon
@bookstodon

Cover art

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306d

#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 05/14/25.

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32d

Book Review: Lessons in Magic and Disaster
A Russian nested doll of stories, characters and relationships, and yes, magic
My review of @charliejane 's book at the NOAF blog:

http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/book-review-lessons-in-magic-and.html

#books #sff #queer #lgbtq #review #bookstodon @bookstodon

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29d

"Are our myriad technological innovations to be seen as responses to collective needs and desires, or are they simply logical developments in the inexorable evolution of technology itself?"

Sven Birkerts, 'The Gutenberg Elegies,' 1994

#sundaySentence #Artificial_intel @bookstodon #technology #bookstodon

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311d

sometimes you have to choose a book by its cover. found this one while reshelving at the library this morning and greatly looking forward to reading it.

#bookstodon #amreading

A library book: The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa

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311d

Reading Never Whistle At Night edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. I really have loved this book, I have a little over 100 pages left. The stories are amazing.

However, I do suggest not reading before going to sleep at night. I woke up this morning saying "what the motherfucking hell" after the dreams I had.

@bookstodon
#books #bookstodon

Cover of Never Whistle At Night. Cover has black background with colorful pictures around the edges- there is a butterfly with a skull, a mouse, a frog, a snake, an eyeball, and flowers and weeds.

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29d

Why would anyone want to be the king if they can be the librarian? 🤔😁

Source: https://www.patreon.com/HotPaperComics

@libraries@literature.cafe @Libraries @library @books @bookstodon @humor @humor@lemmy.world @aiop @joinin

#Library #LibraryMemes #Meme #Memes #Libraries #Librarians #Humor #Humour #Funny
#Bookstodon #Bookworm #Bookwyrm #BookLove #FantasyBooks

Four panel comic:
1st: A wizard says, "PULL THE SWORD FROM THE STONE AND BECOME THE NEW KING!
2nd: Boy ask, "ARE THERE ANY OTHER AVAILABLE JOBS?
3d: Wizard replies, "GET THE CAT OUT OF THE TREE AND BECOME THE NEW LIBRARIAN."
4th: The boy sits in the library reading his book with the cat sleeping on his desk.

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#sapphicfictionsaturday
I’m reading Tarnished Gold by Ann Aptaker. What’s in your hands today? 📖
https://www.goodreads.com/book/24693894-tarnished-gold/get_a_copy

Bluesky: @annaptaker.bsky.social‬
IG: @ann_aptaker
Website: http://www.annaptaker.com/

#whatareyoureading #sapphicbooks #mystery #historical #noir #murder #criminal #butchfemme #lesfic #bookstodon #readingcommunity #lesbian #lgbtq #lgbtqia
@lgbtqbookstodon @bookstodon @sapphicbooks

A woman laying outside in a hammock reading next to a picture of the cover of Tarnished Gold by Ann Aptaker with the caption “What Are You Reading?” for Sapphic Fiction Saturday on 05/31/25.

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