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Five stars:
Murder at Cape Costumers by Maddie Day and Rachel Delude (Narrator) (2025) is the seventh book in the Cozy Capers Book Group mystery series. There's a murder during Halloween that involves a newly opened costume shop. But in all honesty, the murder is the least important part of this book. Instead, this one is all about family stepping up when things fall apart.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2025/comments_09/murder_at_cape_costumers.html
#Bookstodon Big congratulations to author/legend Samuel Delany, who was just inducted into the Academy of Arts & Sciences! So glad that he’s getting this while he can appreciate it! (Fun fact: I was one of his writing students.) 🎉🎉🎉
https://www.amacad.org/person/samuel-ray-delany
#bookstodon @bookstodon Hit me with your favorite water related books! Dont care about the genre.
I've finished: The Dying Earth by Jack Vance
I know this is a classic that had an influence on SFF. When I started reading I was also not aware how early in SFF history it was written.
But I cannot get over how one dimensional the characters are, or the dialogue. There is hardly any dialogue, the characters mostly make declarations rather than talk like human beings. (and don't get me going about the misogyny)
It was amazing to see the idea for The City & the City by China Miéville in a story published in 1950, but apart from some neat ideas, the level of writing is just so bad.
Mercifully it's a rather short novel, and I was able to push to the end, where the best of the 6 novelettes that make up this book awaits.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/98f64183-4954-47a5-89de-f27d99429319
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I'm trying to decide who to read next. I've got a Joshua Whitehead novel for some Indigiqueer representation. I've also recently acquired some Andrea Gibson poetry, Charlie Jane Anders new book, and an older Alice Hoffman novel.
Choices, choices. Whatcha reading these days? And are you having any concentration issues?
Two favourite authors and a favourite publisher for my "road/highway" #MurderEveryMonday this week - just a bit sad that my only qualifying
Dean Street Press
entry was not a favourite for me - a DNF actually. #Mystery #bookstodon
https://crossexaminingcrime.wordpress.com/murdereverymonday-theme-list/
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#AynRand is quoted, misquoted, praised, and vilified — often by people who haven’t read her.
_The Ayn Rand Reader_ offers excerpts from her #fiction and #nonfiction: her ideas, her voice, her terms.
If you’re serious about understanding her — whether to agree or disagree — start here: https://aynrand.org/novels/the-ayn-rand-reader/
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Here are a few thoughts on Stamboul Train, 1932, by Graham Greene, an early novel set on the Orient Express #bookstodon #BookReview #Storygraph #Braille #reading @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/85c568b6-642e-4087-bd2e-9c9eb71579ed
Another great discussion w/ #RossWolfe about his trilogy of essays critiquing the late neo-Stalinist philosopher & historian #DomenicoLosurdo, w/ particular focus on #Losurdo's attacks on #WesternMarxism in his eponymously titled book.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9QM64C1glw
(the trilogy is here:
https://newintermag.com/against-losurdo/
https://newintermag.com/losurdos-lies/
https://newintermag.com/revisionism-revisited/)
#Marxism #FrankfurtSchool #socialism #politicalTheory #historyOfMarxism #Stalinism #campism #philosophy #books #bookstodon @bookstodon
"According to two district sources, AI was used to measure instructional texts against a rubric that took into account “DEI content.” The books must be removed from all classrooms, and cannot be used as instructional resources—either as texts read in class or as choice books in classroom libraries. Though the books have received no formal challenge, they are currently awaiting further review."
"Book banners have told us over and over again that they’re just trying to take books with extreme sexual content out of public schools. Classics are safe, they’ve said. We’re not removing books based on the ideas they contain, they’ve said. We knew none of that was true; Senate Bill 12 proves it."
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https://franklinstrong.substack.com/p/to-kill-a-mockingbird-pulled-from
"In what intellectual freedom advocates have seen coming for months, a Texas school district has just shut down access to all secondary school libraries for students due to the regulations of the state’s Senate Bill 13... The district also offers no timeline for when students will have access to their own school libraries–facilities that their family tax dollars go to operate. NBISD’s decision to shut down the libraries in order to complete a review of materials based on vague language showcases how quickly and easily public schools are and will continue to cower to far right politics infiltrating communities throughout Texas."
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https://bookriot.com/new-braunfels-isd-library-closures-sb-13/
#AmericanPrestige pod welcomes #GregGrandin for Part 1 of an interview about his recent book, #AmericaAmérica: A New History of the New World. Discussion includes the #SpanishConquest, aspects of English and Spanish #settlerColonialism, as well as the evolution of US-Latin American relations
#historyOfTheAmericas #LatinAmericanHistory #AmericanHistory #UShistory #ModernHistory #colonialism #colonialViolence #revolutions #bookstodon #books @bookstodon
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Five stars:
The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst (2024) is set on a remote island during a revolution. Kiela had been a librarian at the Great Library of Alyssium but was forced to flee when revolutionaries set fire to the building. Now she and Caz, her spider plant assistant, are on her home island with crates of books rescued from the library.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2025/comments_09/spellshop.html
“‘Deserve’ is the word which the possessors use as a weapon against those they dispossess” (Agnes Smedley, quoted by Vivian Gornick in 'The Situation and the Story').
Book Review #14 for 2025 is Thomas McKelvey Cleaver's Pacific Thunder: The US Navy's Central Pacific Campaign. A very good retelling of a critical part of US operations in the Pacific War. Cleaver's writing is balanced between the larger picture of strategy and politics and the human side of war. One thing I learned is that the IJN (Imperial Japanese Navy) nearly captured the USS Hornet as it founder but decided not to. ☕☕☕☕ #bookstodon #usnavy #HistoryMatters #bookreview @books @bookstodon
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Five stars:
Favourite Daughter by Morgan Dick (2025) ended up being the perfect follow up to Unearthing by Kyo Maclear (2023). Here is a fictional account of two half sisters coming to terms with their lives and the influence their father had on them.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2025/comments_09/favourite_daughter.html
For the handful of Russian-speaking in here, who could find this relevant:
this Saturday, 19:00 (JLM/MSK), Metazhurnal will host an online presentation of my book (texts from 2004–2016).
I’ll read; several poets & critics will say some words.
The event will be in Russian. There’ll be a recording.
Join here: https://www.youtube.com/@%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B6%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB
PDF: https://tangowhiskybooks.tumblr.com/post/796662596077060096/%D0%BA%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B0-12-tw-12
In print, the book may still be found in Moscow, Tbilisi, Yerevan and Jerusalem.
Trying to read Murder with Fried Chicken and Waffles, thinking oh wow the Black woman who wrote this has a lot of internalized misogony. Turns out it's written by a white man so it's just plain misogony (and racist stereotypes). No need for me to finish that book. #bookreview #bookstodon #cozymystery
@bookstodon https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/a7a56560-781a-4138-9ed4-e6156fa0b5e0
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That's an absurdly impressive list of authors giving cover blurbs - Alan Moore, Samantha Shannon, and Adrian Tchaikovsky! A body-warping plague escapes from thawing Siberian permafrost and changes how a series of narrators experience death and loss, with each chapter constructed like a short story, with loose connections between them. Despite the perspective shifts, and some turns towards surreal or more traditional sci fi elements, the book is quite repetitive with, for example, multiple narrators having quite similar stories of unrequited love with a person who is about to die. This, along with a bewilderingly poor final chapter, means that my initial fairly high interest from the 'City of Laughter' and 'Pig Son' chapters wasn't sustained. #SequoiaNagamatsu #Bookstodon @bookstodon
I hate both of these things, who knew I'd have so much in common with #JaneAusten 😂
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It’s here! Audiobook is here!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/villyard/immortal-gifts-hardcover-paperback-and-audiobook
The books have a custom hand-drawn map by Travis Hasenour and chapter headers by Nathan Hansen. The audiobook is a multi-narrator book voiced by Dave Robison, Veronica Giguere, and J. Daniel Sawyer.
Please follow the project for updates!
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At the NOAF blog today, our @Princejvstin reviews QUEEN DEMON (sequel to WITCH KING) by @marthawells
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/09/book-review-queen-demon-by-martha-wells.html
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Book Promo: Behold the glorious chaos of my Rollover Files series.
Rough Passages: get old, gain superpowers. Not as fun as most people hoped it would be.
https://books2read.com/Rough-Passages
Sharp Edge of Yesterday: middle-aged mom develops superpowers, makes the military nervous, and still has to deal with her ex-husband and her teenage daughters.
https://books2read.com/SharpEdge
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finished reading Comes the Night 🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑
by Isabelle Carmody.
YA dystopian set in Canberra! In a polluted world, cities have been enclosed in domes and pervasive tech & propaganda keep the population in line. A teenage boy gets entangled in mysterious intrigue, and soon starts to wonder if his dreams are more than they seem. Very slow and overly explicatory, except for the ending which was sudden, unclear and too easy.
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