Today at the NOAF blog,
@princejvstin.com
reviews BIRTH OF A DYNASTY: A Novel by Chinaza Bado
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/05/book-review-birth-of-dynasty-novel-by.html
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finished reading Every Secret Thing 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
by Marie Munkara.
Mission mob vs bush mob in the Top End. Crude & cutting humour, with occasional glimpses of the raw, traumatic truth of dispossession & cultural genocide.
Butch/Femme fiction Books on $ale on 05/15/25.
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“In 2019, I went on a tour of Chernobyl. The Ukrainian guide who explained what led to the nuclear accident said something that stuck in my mind. “Americans grow up with the idea that questions lead to answers,” he said. “But Soviet citizens grew up with the idea that questions lead to trouble.”
Excerpt From
Nexus
Yuval Noah Harari
New thing! Immortal Gifts read-along! New chapters drop Fridays at 2pm ET. Chapter one is up!
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/KatherineVillyardBooks/posts/165936661?utm_campaign=postshare_creator
Ream: https://reamstories.com/page/msgv9f2ca9955e/public(summary:msgv9f2ca9955e/mshm4hlp26b397/ebook)
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/post/Immortal-Gifts--The-Thing-About-F0F824LEMZ
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I've finished: A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys
A Half-Built Garden is the most Fediversial novel I've read.
The anarchists have won. The corporations and nation states have been sidelined. Most of the world is under the control of egalitarian communities that use an alternative network to achieve consensus and work to rehabilitate the climate change ravaged earth.
This is very much a slice of life novel in the vain of Becky Chambers, centered around a communal lgbtqia+ household. But as opposed to most slice of life novels there is a major crisis, and it falls upon this community to save the day.
Aliens have made first contact and they insist that the only way for technological species to survive is to leave their biospheres behind and build Dyson Swarms.
As their way of life comes under threat from without and within, Will the dandelion network survive? Will the power of decisions through discussion and consensus overcome manipulation and coercion.
A special aspect of the aliens is the importance they place on the place of children in society.
PS:
I didn't expect this novel to be so Jewish, what a delight.
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https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith/
Until June 16 - Part 1 of "A New Faith" can be downloaded in #PDF or #EPUB format #drmfree
If you like it, please subscribe for the rest of the story.
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Butch/Femme fiction books currently in pre-order status on Amazon as of 05/20/25.
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💻 📚 **How an AI-generated summer reading list got published in major newspapers**
“_Only five of the 15 titles on the list are real._”
🔗 https://www.npr.org/2025/05/20/nx-s1-5405022/fake-summer-reading-list-ai.
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My ebook is 99 cents in most places! If you’ve been on the fence about whether you want to buy what one of my critique partners called “a love letter to Judaism, but with vampires,” NOW IS THE TIME.
Also the vampire’s wife is bi/pan and has two mommies. Buy it for Pride!
https://books2read.com/immortalgifts
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finished reading The Man Who Died Twice 🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑
by Richard Osman.
More fun times with the crime-solving (& committing!) pensioners. The stakes are higher but doesn't feel so fresh. A bigger role for the inscrutable Bogdan is welcome. Laughs off some pretty substantial abuse of the justice system.
Tracy Hayes, Licensed to P.I. is now out!
Az: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DYF5CP39
Apple: https://books.apple.com/us/book/tracy-hayes-licensed-to-p-i/id6742452596
B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/tracy-hayes-licensed-to-pi-susanna-shore/1147048420
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/tracy-hayes-licensed-to-p-i
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From Whimsical Tigress, book 8 of the Whimsical Dreams series.
https://www.tiffanyetaylor.com/bookshelf
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Stressed? Feeling overwhelmed? Why not give your frazzled nerves a warm, literary hug and melt your worries away for a while? This week’s Butch/Femme Fiction Therapy Thursday theme: Soulmates/Reincarnation.
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Today's review goes in the Non-SF Books section of the site. Nicola Griffith is this year's recipient of SFWA's Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. She has written SF, Fantasy, and historical fiction, but The Blue Place is a neo-noir mystery, and the beginning of her Aud Torvingen series. Very good, highly recommended.
Ham-fisted construction is my favourite 😂
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“Katherine Villyard’s Immortal Gifts is a tender, layered, and unexpectedly intimate vampire novel that defies the genre’s usual brooding tropes.”
“It’s for the weird, the tender-hearted, the spiritually curious.”
https://literarytitan.com/2025/06/03/immortal-gifts/
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*** ALONE ***
“Whimsical Sunshine is an incredible story… Hands-down, the best one of the Whimsy series yet!”
https://www.tiffanyetaylor.com/bookshelf
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Out now!!
Save $1.25 and buy direct from Evernight Publishing.
https://www.evernightpublishing.com/her-cravings-mastered-by-suzy-shearer/
Can 51 year old Jessica allow one man to control her again?
Especially now she's come face-to-face with Aiden Dowling, 54—a confident, attractive Dom, who looks at her like an apex predator.
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On the day Nicola Griffith officially becomes the latest SFWA Grand Master, I review another of her Non-SF books. We are so lucky she is still with us, still inspiring us with great books. Long may that continue.
New sapphic audiobook review: Kiss of Seduction by Rawnie Sabor, narrated by Allie Shae
https://judeinthestars.com/2025/06/12/kiss-of-seduction-by-rawnie-sabor-narrated-by-allie-shae/
Video review: https://www.instagram.com/p/DKzoL-VCAsR/
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Paru avec un peu de retard, mais ça y est 🥳
https://dx.doi.org/10.5840/agstm202464226
https://shs.hal.science/halshs-04944680v1
Où un texte antique est (encore) sauvé de la disparition par les petites manies d'un intello carolingien (Florus)
La lettre aux moines d'un évêque Valérien (qu'on n'est pas sûr d'identifier par ailleurs) n'avait jamais été rééditée depuis 1612… et elle avait un petit trou. C'est réparé 🛠️
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finished reading Wifedom 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗
by Anna Funder.
Biography of George Orwell's impressive wife, Eileen, and how he and his biographers erased her contribution from history. Masterfully shows how the infrastructure provided by women is kept invisible. The fictionalised sections made me uncomfortable, being based on so little source material - how much of herself has the author put into this? But that is the very point she is making about biography. Also: Orwell was a mysogynistic lecher.
Stressed? Feeling overwhelmed? Why not give your frazzled nerves a warm, literary hug and melt your worries away for a while? This week’s Butch/Femme Fiction Therapy Thursday theme: Secret Crush.
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Today's review is a novella by Rae Wilde, who has also published as Rae Knowles. "I Can Fix Her" is quite puzzling, more a fever dream scenario, but also fantasy and horror, and a revenge tale, maybe love story, take your pick. Good and recommended.