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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're looking for a Christmas Romance audiobook, I've narrated a great one!
Lily is a single mom starting over in a small mountain town. Last Christmas, her brother's hot best friend Beckett kissed her under the mistletoe. This year she's newly arrived, newly divorced, and hoping for a second chance in more ways than one.
Lily is a great character: she is a woman who knows what she wants and is not afraid to go after it. And Becket is the hunky mountain man we all deserve: caring, together, and more than ready to appreciate a good woman who comes his way.
Taken by the Mountain Man by Kelsie Calloway is one of my top three best selling romance audiobooks of the year. At just 42 minutes long, you can listen in a single session!
If you like a story with a big heart and sizzling sex scenes, this one's for you. Go on and cozy up with a nice hot mountain man romance!
The books is available for Kindle and Kindle Unlimited from Amazon, and the audiobook is available from Amazon, Audible and Apple Books.
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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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Book Review: China Mountain Zhang
A stone cold classic of future lives which holds up more than 30 years after it was written.
@DrEddieClark has our review at the NOAF blog
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/03/book-review-china-mountain-zhang.html
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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/
It may seem like it, but buying things just for the sake of buying them is not happiness. Instead enjoy the things you already have 😊
And I say that as someone who has a book for sale 😁
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"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
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"…reading a book is a considerable commitment of not only time but also thought and even emotion, especially when you have so many books you have brought into the house, when you seem to buy books even compulsively, out of a hunger for yet another book, and haven’t yet read most of them, when you have acquired so many that although you have many bookcases, in many rooms, there are still books piled on the floor."
--Lydia Davis
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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A Review of Hearth Stories, Springtime Fare: https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-hearth-stories-springtime-fare/
Five stars:
The Hotel Balzaar by Kate DiCamillo and Júlia Sardà (2024) is the second in the Norendy Tales series. This one also uses interwoven stories to create something bigger but the setting feels more grounded despite its magical realism.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_03/hotel_balzaar.html
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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Books Received, March 28 — April 3
Seven books new to me. Five fantasy, two science fiction, of which at least three are series. The first four!
https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/post/books-received-march-28-april-3-2
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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
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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 🐈 🐈 🐈 .
#GardnerDozois 's best short SF of the year collections are always good, but the 1998 one might be the best I've read. My favourite story was a re-read of Ted Chiang's Story of Your Life (later adapted as Arrival) and there are also extremely memorable stories by Geoffrey A. Landis, Greg Egan, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ian R. Macleod, and Michael Swanwick (whose story The Very Pulse of the Machine was adapted for the Love Death + Robots series). The cover, however, is extremely ugly. #Bookstodon @bookstodon
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/
A new list of “The 100 Best Novels” is out from The Guardian, it’s a list chosen by prominent authors, but they don’t say if they gave any criteria for what constitutes ‘best’, which is my pet peeve about these lists. What does best mean?
Anyway, the top 50 is about what you’d expect, but 50-100 is more unusual, with a lot more contemporary works, and some totally new authors to me.
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/may/12/the-100-best-novels-of-all-time
I'm doing a #pride themed challenge next month (#prideopoly) so I'm curious: what was the last good queer book you've read? #bookstodon #suggestmeabook #queerbooks #queer @bookstodon
Finished listening to “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes. 💐🐁
(no, I haven’t seen the movie)
I have just finished reading this lovely book and my heart is warm and my mind is busy with ideas and hopes. Give it a try #bookstodon
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!
https://johnwilker.com/series/space-rogues/
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