Earlier: "I entered this profession just as the storm clouds of the current book-banning push were starting to gather, but I enrolled in a librarian certification program hoping it would pass over me as if lamb’s blood were painted on my doorframe." https://www.texasobserver.org/abilene-isd-librarian-book-ban/
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Today at the NOAF blog, THE SUBTLE ART OF FOLDING SPACE author @john_chu tells @Princejvstin the answers to his Six Books questions.
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/04/6-books-with-john-chu.html
But technically free wifi can mean free books in places where no other free books are available 🤔
It always surprises me how many places there are to read for free online! 😊
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Five stars:
Navigating Night by Julie Leung and Angie Kang (Illustrator) (2026) is a picture book about a girl who helps her father navigate the streets as they make food deliveries from their Chinese restaurant. The story is set in the days before cellphone navigation, meaning the daughter must rely on a paper map and her own eyesight, even on stormy nights.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_06/navigating_night.html
The Immortal Gifts Podcast: Episode 14 https://www.katherinevillyard.com/2026/04/27/the-immortal-gifts-podcast-episode-14/ #fantasy #bookstodon @bookstodon #audio #audiobook #ImmortalGifts #podcast
The Praxis (Dread Empire's Fall, volume 1) by Walter Jon Williams
The Shaa conquered the universe. Soon, there will be no Shaa. Who will take their place?
Today is Harper Lee’s 100th birthday.
Born in a small town in Alabama, where her father worked as a lawyer, Lee loved #books. One of her childhood friends was Truman Capote, who spent time in #Monroeville as a boy. Years later, she turned the world she knew into a novel about the difficult bravery of doing what is right when the world refuses to do so.
Do you like her novel To Kill a Mockingbird?
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Classic sci-fi imagined machines taking care of the boring and dangerous work, so humans could spend more time creating, reading, and connecting.
And somehow, we ended up with the opposite.
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Hi All, I had a busy day yesterday. Been querying writers on Mastodon about the best platforms for self-publishing. gwendolenau pointed me in the direction of Smashwords (thanks again) and I ended up joining Draft2Digital.
The eBook edition of How to Succeed as a Supervillain by Following the Evil Overlord List, is now available on 6 different platforms (including Apple) with more to come. Seems to be a really useful tool.
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Just been catching up on the #WomensPrize for Fiction 2026 longlist and for the first time ever I’ve actually already read 2 of the books - Heart the Lover by Lilly King which I enjoyed very much but didn’t love, and Audition by Katie Kitamura which I was perplexed by but also found to be a brilliant read that readers interpret in many ways. Looking forward to reading some more from this year’s list!
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https://lithub.com/heres-the-longlist-for-the-2026-womens-prize-for-fiction/
67 days later... I finally finished reading Darwin's Descent. I knew I would spend a significant amount of time with this book, but this is still a new personal record. Thoughts are being committed to paper, but for now, here is the obligatory mugshot. Annotations galore! Especially if you consider (second photo) that I ended up annotating both Darwin's original text and the numerous annotations.
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Have you enjoyed Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir?
Then you’ll probably also enjoy The Andromeda Strain and The Andromeda Evolution. They, too, explore the idea of an extraterrestrial microorganism, a mystery that must be solved to save Earth, and plenty of fascinating scientific details.
Sci-fi readers, what other similar books would you recommend?
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Kobo(dot com) has eReaders that work great and so far they haven't gotten weird about what you can do with any old readers. My oldest one is going on 9 years old and has been passed down to my kid, who uses it daily.
Additionally, you can still break the DRM of Kobo books easily in Calibre. You don't need Amazon for literally anything book-related at this point. Every eBook I own (around 4k at this point?) is FREE. They are mine. It's still possible to do this. (If an author only sells on Amazon, well, that's a choice they made.)
Audiobooks? There's libro.fm, which lets you download unlocked files. All your current "locked" Audible books? You can easily break the locks on all of those too. My audiobooks are all free.
Five stars:
Magic Research Exchange Plan by Wakatsu Yatsuki and Kikka Ohashi (Illustrator) (2021) is the concluding volume of The Other World’s Books Depend on the Bean Counter. The news of the kingdom's research into magic has reached a neighboring country and they have sent delegates to learn more.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_04/other_worlds_books3.html
Five stars:
A Gentle Noble's Vacation Recommendation, Volume 5 by Misaki, Momochi (Artist), Sando (Character Design) (2021) is the how and why Lizel eventually says yes to Eleven joining the team.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_04/gentle_nobles_vacation_recommendation_5.html
Five stars:
Sula by Toni Morrison (1973) is about the community of Bottom, high on a hill overlooking the white city. Nice views, poor land. The rise and fall of Bottom is told through two extremes: Nel, well mannered and shy, and Sula, restless and dissatisfied.
“Without #libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.”
-Ray Bradbury
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This week's #NewBooks at the library: Two more books bought in my employer's January clearance sale. Drew Harvell's Ocean Outbreak: Confronting the Rising Tide of Marine Disease from the University of California Press, and Benjamin von Brackel's Nowhere Left to Go: How Climate Change Is Driving Species to the Ends of the Earth from The Experiment.
In the middle is another of Jack Yeovil's Dark Future novels, Route 666, that I bought off eBay after listening to Jordan Sorcery discussing it. I put your theory to the test, Jordan, but it seems your podcast did not drive the price up, as I was the sole bidder and paid a tenner for this.
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Book Review: This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me
Ilona Andrews expands their fantasy and romance talents into the burgeoning realm of isekai in English
@Princejvstin has our review at the NOAF blog:
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/06/book-review-this-kingdom-will-not-kill.html
Where love rules, there is no will to power;
And where power predominates, love is lacking.
The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl Jung
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The Testaments. By Margaret Atwood.
You are a teen girl, living in Canada after the Christo-fascist takeover of the US, when you learn that your true identity is that of a famously “abducted” US baby; and so you are thrust into a role you never asked for, and have to understand anew what ‘family’ means.
3 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈.
Note: sequel to The Handmaids Tale
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I read To Broadway by Maurane Mazars, a #GraphicNovel with images that made me think of Jules Feiffer's passionate modern dancers. That's apt because it's set in the late 1950s.
Uli is a young gay man studying dance at a prestigious studio in Germany. But no one there understands his love for popular dance. (One of my favorite scenes is of him alone in a theater, entranced by what I recognized as an impressionistic watercolor vision of "An American in Paris.")
He decides to pursue his Broadway dream, but nothing is as he expected; his new friends mock pop culture too, and the Black American dancer he fell for in Germany won't pursue a relationship with him.
There's not a lot of text in this--it's mainly images and atmosphere and you have to work a bit to follow the story. I found it very relatable and often beautiful.
(Thanks to the #QueerLiberationLibrary for making the book available)
I’m here to recommend the new (February 2026) collection of poems by Nicky Melville, ‘Get Tae’. Writing also as nick-e melville, he’s one of my favourite poets, Scottish or otherwise. His work is lucid, biting, often darkly funny, satirical and archly acquisitive (in the sense that he borrows brilliantly from the mundane, the political, film, and the realms of ad copy, among other things).
The book is available from Blue Diode Press, who also published his excellent selected poems, ‘Decade of Cu ts’.
https://www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page/get-tae-by-nicky-melville
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Aprovecho este lunes para dar el aviso que ¡Tengo un nuevo Blog!:
https://none-dc.neocities.org/
Está vez hecho desde cero por mi donde publicaré mis relatos, ensayos, poemas y pensamientos extendidos.
En lo que va de esta semana voy a estar compartiendo lo que llevo publicado allí, así que antemano disculpen el "spam" 😅.
Si te interesa hecharle un ojo ¡Estas más que Bienvenide!
EDIT: I forgot to mention: This is a bilingual Blog! You can read my stories, Poems and essays in both Spanish and English!
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I've finished: Dead Country by Max Gladstone
This is a novel about a powerful magician returning to the remote town that cast her out when her powers manifested. It is about people and their relationships with each other and with their home / land. Relationships that are an integral part of the magic system.
This is an adult novel and while there are allot of grudges, they go beyond petty grievances. It is an introspective book and it matters to the plot.
I was impressed by the depth of the world building, history and magic system. I wasn't aware that it is set in a universe already established in Gladstone's Craft series. This ignorance was a bonus for me as I slowly discovered how big the world is outside Edgemont.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/5b23a65b-e9eb-4096-9b0b-1a2dbd21b299
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