The Immortal Gifts Podcast: Episode 13 https://www.katherinevillyard.com/2026/04/20/the-immortal-gifts-podcast-episode-13/ #fantasy #bookstodon @bookstodon #audio #audiobook #ImmortalGifts #podcast
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The 1908 battle of wits between charismatic French genius burglar Arsène Lupin and the English detective 'Holmlock Shears' of Parker Street. The mystery writing is not as tight as the first volume of Lupin's adventures, but the humiliations inflicted on the characters borrowed from Arthur Conan Doyle are really funny, particularly the depiction of Dr Wilson as a sycophantic moron.
"'Tell me, Wilson, what's your opinion: why was Lupin in that restaurant?'
Wilson,without hesitation, replied:
'To get some dinner.'
'Wilson, the longer we work together, the more clearly I perceive the constant progress you are making. Upon my word, you're becoming amazing.'
Wilson blushed with satisfaction in the dark."
Four stars:
Tomboy Bride by Harriet Fish Backus (1969) is a memoir of life in mining towns. Harriet Fish left Oakland to marry her fiancé and live with him in a small mining community above Telluride, Colorado.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_05/tomboy_bride.html
And then when you do start writing them down, you end up with more ideas than you know what to do with... 😁
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I got my first book blogger review this morning, from Dominique over at "Diary of a Reader."
TWE isn't a perfect novel by any stretch of the imagination, but I feel so SEEN by this review. She got it. 100% understood what I was doing and *how* I was doing it.
ngl, I got tears in my eyes. What a feeling.
https://thediaryofareader.com/2026/02/06/the-whole-enchilada/
I wish I would've realised sooner that I don't have to solve every fictional problem I came up with the same second I came up with them 😁
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📚 Boost student engagement & get hesitant readers excited about reading with film-book pairings for National Library Month! Check out our suggestions for films to pair with Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story The Yellow Wallpaper and more!
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reading recommendations wanted:
I'm looking for a romance author who is at least queer friendly (and some queer relationships!) I don't really want a series. I want the beach read kind of books where there's a main thread but also a friend thread and maybe even a few others. It all comes out happy in the end, and no one is annoyingly perfect. Contemporary setting would be nice, but not required.
(Having read _22_ books by Jill Mansell in the last 6 years, I think I have binged her stuff as hard as a I want to - I specifically want something similar but more queer)
THE EYE OF THE WORLD Chapter 3: The Peddler
I've been putting away clothes that were LONG overdue for being put away (including a garbage bag of clothes from the move) and listening to The Hills of Tanchico (from #WheelOfTimeTVshow) on repeat bc it's been stuck in my head, when I suddenly realized: I could be listening to my audiobook!
Padan Fain you horrible creep, let's meet you!
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the tissue of this scarred question
is not an issue these odd glitches
of meteorological plane of reality
lemons are almost ripe beside the porch
of my building; scared numbness and sour taste
of what to do next and how to proceed to
pass the oblivion and all the syrupy stickiness
of inevitable mundane
One of our clients has a DriveThruFiction deal of the day today. For the next 23 hours, you can get the sci-fi novel Dreamwalkers for just £1.54.
https://site.drivethrufiction.com/product/498995/Dreamwalkers?affiliate_id=235519&src=fediverse
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The Immortal Gifts Podcast: Episode 3 https://www.katherinevillyard.com/2026/02/09/the-immortal-gifts-podcast-episode-3/ #fantasy #bookstodon @bookstodon #audio #audiobook #ImmortalGifts #podcast
In 19th-century Dublin, a disillusioned doctor and a fallen woman cross paths, sparking a forbidden love that defies society's judgments.
Amazon - https://mybook.to/ascarletwoman
Other Retailers - https://books2read.com/AScarletWoman
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finished reading The Grand Sophy 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
by Georgette Heyer.
A irrepressible cousin comes to stay and causes a great upheaval, but between cunning plans and good luck it all works out neatly. More wit than romance, but it does that well.
I think that today (7th April 2025), inspired by the hashtag #bookstodon, I created two new hashtags: #readersdon and #writersdon. If someone had this idea before me, please let me know.
Five stars:
Tell-Tale Treats by Jennifer J Chow and Catherine Ho (Narrator) (2026) is the third book in the Magical Fortune Cookie mystery series. The Pixie Inn is hosting a small reunion for a once tight knit clique of women who met in high school. Their leader and self professed queen bee is a demanding woman and clearly the group isn't as close as it once was. When she is found dead in a bathtub, Felicity fears her almond cookies might have been the cause.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_02/tell_tale_treats.html
finished reading Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
by Ed Conway.
A high-octane tour through the materials that underlie our civilisation: sand, salt, steel, copper, oil & lithium. So many intriguing side notes that sent me off down rabbit holes (African ghost miners!). Really brings home the mammoth scale, complexity & interconnectedness of these critical industries that we take for granted. But also highlights their fragility, the environmental damage they cause, and the immense difficulty of reforming them to be sustainable.
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From Whimsical Tigress, book 8 of the Whimsical Dreams series.
https://www.tiffanyetaylor.com/bookshelf
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I’ve written a few thoughts on Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico, 2022, tr. Sophie Roberts. A brilliant critique of the Instagram generation, it’s endlessly quotable, I loved it! #bookstodon #BookReview #reading #audiobook @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/1e5bf325-0a66-4eae-b4d0-c74bc6eedc03
This #Caturday we would like to thank our feline sensitivity reader, Winslow Stewart McCready, for his work on the cat-related stories in our book.
He approves.
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After a long gap where the third book was, erm, lost in translation, I finished the Lars sister bells trilogy with The Night of the Scourge. You should read them all. There's a lot of pages covering 400 years, but the way he brings it full circle is so well done. #keefsreads @bookstodon #bookstodon
Pets Are Family, Too: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-pets-are-family-too/
The ebook of Immortal Gifts is $0.99 in most English language countries this week to celebrate my audiobook coming out. (Some sites—like Amazon—have deals on the audiobook if you buy the ebook.)
https://books2read.com/immortalgifts
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