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Spring into Reading! Barnes & Noble has curated a great list of 500 audiobooks and ebooks (including The Expert of Subtle Revisions!) available for under five dollars, now through 4/27. Check out the full list here:
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https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/spring-into-reading-500-under-5/fiction/_/N-32ftZ10h8?page=3
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The future is now! 😂
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On the hour interviewing @cdegroot with @kentpitman about #bookstodon https://berksoft.ca/gol The Genius of Lisp - the history of #computers, #retrocomputing and #computing, #ai, #lisp and McCarthy - of Uncle John's Mystery Hour.
Great discussion! (boost for the #book btw)
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@ramin_hal9001 's #bookReview is over here: https://fe.disroot.org/objects/87b9e619-4e1d-4387-9f2f-8f3cf859a827
Five stars:
Into the Midnight Wood by Alexandra McCollum (2026) is a queer romantasy set at the edge of an enchanted wood somewhere near Cleveland. David Carew, a Welsh accountant has been sharing a house with a roommate with absurd name: Meredith Schwarzwelder. Meredith is a handful to live with, as is the the nearby Midnight Woods, and those two forces have kept the roommates from maintaining a third housemate for any amount of time.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_03/into_the_midnight_wood.html
My first book for the #TransRightsReadathon was Beyond They/Them by em dickson and illustrated by Cameron Mukwa. It's short profiles of people in entertainment, politics and sports who identify as nonbinary, genderqueer, two-spirit or otherwise gender-diverse. Feels a little written down to kids at times, but the author's passion for the work of the subjects shines.
What we need is more librarian humour 😂
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Ello sweet and lovely (gaming) Friendos 
My book reading is going a bit slower at the moment... Not because I am not reading, but because I am reading a proper (Dutch) book now, instead of the digital English ones I was reading on my Kobo.
Koa's breeder, Joke, gave/gives each new puppy parent a book during their first puppy date. 😊 And while I do know something about dogs, if there is a way to learn more, get better insights and all, then I will try to acquire the knowledge.
So, I'm currently reading "Bewust van Hondengedrag", by Connie Berendsen. I hope I can read a bit of it every day, so that I'll have read it all before I can pick up Koa. Only one more month to go!
Well, I'll try to relax a bit for now, as today will be a long one for me. But... If all goes well, a good one... 🤎🐾
Some info on the book and it's contents, translated to English for this Toot (as it's a Dutch book by a Dutch author):
Bewust van hondengedrag (Conscious of Dog Behavior) by Connie Berendsen is a practical and down-to-earth guide focused on understanding and raising dogs. Rather than relying on strict, rigid training formulas, the author advocates for an approach rooted in intuition, mindfulness, and a healthy dose of common sense.
By sharing her own personal experiences, Berendsen takes the reader into the world from the dog's perspective.
The book serves as a comprehensive manual covering the full spectrum of a dog's life, including:
* The Early Stages: What to look for when getting a dog, the dangers and consequences of puppy mills, and the critical socialization period.
* Behavior and Training: Navigating dog puberty, establishing healthy boundaries, understanding how dogs learn, and the pros and cons of using corrections.
* Health and Psychology: Managing both physical and mental well-being, dealing with hyperactive or obsessive/addictive behaviors, and navigating interactions with other dogs.
* Specialized Roles: It even touches on the training and life of psychosocial service dogs.
Ultimately, the book is designed to help owners build a deeper, more empathetic, and balanced relationship with their dogs by truly understanding the "why" behind their behavior.
Some Dutch info about the book, written on/by Dagboek van een hond © (A dog's diary):
🔗 https://www.dagboekvaneenhond.nl/de-5-beste-boeken-over-het-gedrag-van-honden/#bewust-van-hondengedrag
Catch you all later folks!
If you can get 1 percent better each day for one year, you’ll end up thirty-seven times better by the time you’re done.
Conversely, if you get 1 percent worse each day for one year, you’ll decline nearly down to zero.
What starts as a small win or a minor setback accumulates into something much more.
James Clear, Atomic Habits
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Nonfiction Titles I Recently Added to My TBR List: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-newer-nonfiction-titles-on-my-tbr-list/
"Unicorn Variation" by Roger Zelazny and Rene Auberjonois (1981) is a brilliant performance of one of Zelazny's sillier short stories. This post will be an indulgent one filled with nostalgia and rambling. If you prefer my usual short and concise posts, please come back tomorrow.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_03/unicorn_variation.html
Happy #Caturday!
T.S. Eliot's 1939 collection of whimsical light poems, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, is entirely dedicated to felines and served as the basis for the musical Cats.
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I can't say this has ever happened to me, but I understand some readers worry about getting to the end? 🤔
P.S If you know where this is from let me know so I can add credit.
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Book Review: Ode to the Half-Broken by Suzanne Palmer
Traumatized but healing mechas and humans building community in a ‘cozy’ post-apocalyptic setting
Christine Baker has our review at the NOAF blog
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/04/book-review-ode-to-half-broken-by.html
Platform Decay. Martha Wells. (Book ~342 of a series)
You are a newishly self-aware security android who’d rather be watching TV, instead, you must rescue hapless humans from a corporate controlled ginormous space station; pretty much your average day.
3 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 .
So I figured out editing the universal book link so here is a URL with all stores where my new novella is listed for pre-order. https://books2read.com/blossoming
It's about a 70yr old woman, probably autistic, who accepts to coordinate the defense committee of her decentralized country, a seemingly easy job responding to climate disasters, until a colonizer invades to steal the tech that makes their nation a #solarpunk utopia.
Read a sample: https://www.ododopress.com/novellas/the-blossoming-of-the-big-tree/
Finished listening to “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes. 💐🐁
(no, I haven’t seen the movie)
Know what's better than one book? Two! Or in the case of the Space Rogues series, ten!
One minute they're saving the entire commonwealth, the next they're helping a drunk space wizard. And so much more!
I’ve written a few thoughts on Heart the Lover by Lily King, 2025, an enjoyable read about college days and the impact those early relationships can have later in life. I liked it but didn’t love it as much as I’d hoped to #bookstodon #reading #audiobook #BookReview #WomensPrize @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/4bcf8606-6460-463a-a6c9-acafde143fec
Platform Decay (Murderbot, volume 8) by Martha Wells
Once again, the need to rescue friends distracts Murderbot from its shows.
https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/all-my-empathys-a-disaster
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In February I enjoyed Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie, 1923, which brightened those dull and damp days! Here are a few thoughts on this lesser known but very entertaining early Christie #bookstodon #BookReview #reading #Storygraph #Braille @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/1c75d97d-2f23-40e8-a46d-e90ee5f78fbc?redirect=true
Five stars:
On Morrison by Namwali Serpell (2026) is an in depth look at Toni Morrison's life and career as an author through in depth analyses of her books.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_03/on_morrison.html
Hugh Cook's excellent: Chronicles of an Age of Darkness, finally have new editions after languishing in copyright limbo for decades.
Cook plays with genre tropes, mixing adventure, satire and humor, elements that help these books transcend the limits that make so many other works of the 80s and 90s feel so dated.
The fan group that published them have made the effort to offer them at venues other than Amazon.
You can get them DRM free while supporting local book shops at BookShop.org:
https://bookshop.org/beta-search?keywords=Chronicles+of+an+Age+of+Darkness%2C
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I'm off to Te Waipounamu / the South Island next week for 3 poetry readings in 3 days!
* Invercargill - Tues 10 March
* Dunedin - Weds 11 March
* Christchurch - Thurs 12 March
Please come along, and invite your friends!
Invercargill is a solo gig kindly hosted by Arts Murihiku where I will read poems that focus on my Southland childhood & adolescence – in Dunedin and Christchurch, there are open mikes plus myself & other great guest readers.
Full details here: https://www.timjonesbooks.co.nz/2026/03/01/draculas-march-three-cities-three-readings-three-days/
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