Book Microreview: The Nightland Express by J. M. Lee
A journey across the dividing lines of American society
@carturo222 has our review for your Friday
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/06/book-review-nightland-express-by-j-m-lee.html
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Bluets. By Maggie Nelson.
You are recovering from losing the love of your life, so you turn, of course, to considering the color blue. It takes the next four years, but it seems to help.
4 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈 .
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Do you know Tracy Hayes, Brooklyn waitress turned an almost capable P.I.? Read series starter Tracy Hayes, Apprentice P.I. today!
Universal link: https://books2read.com/u/bw9oOy
AZ: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MU10OON
Sample chapter: https://www.susannashore.com/apprenticepi.html
Reading a Storybook by James Tissot (1878-79)
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Is there any hope
You asked me
The hope, perhaps, that we can find hope
If something like that can also be called hope
Then I, too, have some hope
— Han Kang, ‘Light and Thread’
#bookstodon @bookstodon #hope #SundaySentence
Let's test a new feature on #Mastodon
Collection of #bookish accounts -
https://mastodon.social/collections/116554424839753061
Let's help book content spread on the #fediverse
Thanks for all the follows, stars and boosts!
p.s. If you post mainly about books - write a comment and I will add you to this #collection.
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Reading Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet and just loving it! Got it in a book box, sorry, Jamie Ford! @bookstodon #Bookstodon
Satantango. By László Krasznahorkai. translated by George Szirtes.
You are villagers in a very small Hungarian community and you all distrust each other, including your spouses, to the point that you pin all your hopes and plans on a stranger you also don’t trust, but since he has a tiny bit more power than you all do, you are willing to do whatever he says.
3 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈.
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Five stars:
The Antiquarian's Object of Desire by India Holton (2026) is the third and final book in the Love's Academic series. Amelia Tarrant and Caleb Sterling are forced by Victorian mores to act as rivals in the Antiquarian academic community. Despite that, they are best friends and both, though neither is willing to say it, want more.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_05/antiquarians_object_of_desire.html
Happy National Limerick Day!
A limerick is a five-line humorous poem with a distinct AABBA rhyme scheme and a bouncy rhythm.
Edward Lear (born today) popularised the form in the 19th century, frequently using them in his #Book of Nonsense.
What is your favourite limerick? Feel free to share 😉
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Book Review: Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade
Come for the lightsabers, stay for the intense analysis of alienation
Alex Wallace has our review at the Blog
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/05/book-review-inquisitor-rise-of-red-blade.html
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Tracy Hayes, Apprentice P.I., the first P.I. Tracy Hayes mystery, is only 0.99 everywhere until the end of month. This doesn't happen often, so grab it while you can!
AZ: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MU10OON
Universal Link: https://books2read.com/u/bw9oOy
Are you in Wyoming? Do you want to read my book for free? I’m in the Wyoming Virtual Library! https://virtuallibrary.overdrive.com/virtuallibrary-80-234/content/media/11081870
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Today is Daphne du Maurier’s birthday!
Few #writers could create an atmosphere like Daphne du Maurier. Her #stories begin elegantly, then something shifts. A beautiful house can become a prison, love can turn into possession, and silence can be more frightening than a scream. Suddenly you are #reading faster than you planned.
Have you read any of her #novels?
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The Night Ship by Alex Woodroe
A young woman's bid to escape Nicolae Ceaușescu’s Romania is complicated by apocalypse.
https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/apr%C3%A8s-moi
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A little patch of land.
Bread on the table.
A dear friend you can talk to.
A small house you can call Home.
Rabbits…
Such a modest dream. And yet so impossibly out of reach.
Which character from this story stayed with you the most?
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Last night, I finished reading the Jeff Flake/Rob Hart collab DETOUR. I did enjoy it, despite its flaws, but I have a few caveats:
1) It is the first in the series, and apparently they did not promote it as such, so many readers were irritated about the abrupt ending.
2) The story reads as if it is being optioned as a TV series, and apparently, it was.
3) The characters are laughably one-note creations. Ex: I am a smart but awkward female scientist who lacks confidence.
4) The story is not only clichéd and burdened by stereotypes, but also spends a very long time to get to space and then spends almost no time there.
You may enjoy this, too. It was fun, very light fare, and honestly, sometimes you are in the mood for that.
Five stars:
Paris is Always a Good Idea by Jenn McKinlay and Brittany Pressley (Narrator) (2020) is a novel about self love and grief. Chelsea Martin can't accept that her father is marrying a woman he's only known for two weeks. She can't move on from the gaping hole in her heart from her mother's death due to stage four cancer seven years earlier. She decides the only way to move on is to revisit her gap year boyfriends.
#bookstodon #romance #audiobook
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https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_05/paris_is_always_a_good_idea.html
Currently reading:
- Ignore All Previous Instructions - Ada Hoffman (ebook on computer)
- In Between Days - Camryn Garrett (audiobook)
- True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color - Kory Stamper (ebook on phone)
- OverLondon - George Penney (ebook on phone and computer)
- Short Story America Anthology, Volume 1 - edited by T.D. Johnston (via Internet Archive)
- Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz - Ruth Plumly Thompson (via Project Gutenberg)
Of these - OverLondon, True Color, and In Between Days are my main focus.
finished reading Where the Dark Stands Still 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
by AB Poranek.
A girl enters a spirit wood to rid herself of her magic, but instead finds power, purpose & love. Based on Polish fairytales, so reminiscent of Katherine Arden's The Bear and the Nightingale. Fairly simple YA story with one plot line and few surprises, but well realised and doesn't take the easy way out.
I've finished: Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
This was the 40th anniversary edition of Woman on the Edge of Time and I was listening to it on it's 50th anniversary.
What amazed me was how many of the social and environmental ideals proposed for a better future are the same ones I see today.
So many of the progressive ideas we are fighting for today were already proposed more than 50 years ago and the progress is so slow, even going backwards in the past decade.
I was especially intrigued by the introduction of diverse pronouns in a 1976 novel, an idea I only became aware of in the past decade or so through contemporary works of SF&F.
I loved the ending and how it elevates Connie's role as more than just a tourist visiting from the bad old days.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/d291fbda-e6c3-40e7-91d1-f86c8be8cf1e
#TimeTravel #ScienceFiction #SocialJustice #amReading #bookstodon #AudioBooks
Fresh in for #FossilFriday, a new review! In Search of Sea Dragons is an engrossing tale of fossils and obsession.
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Do you like novels about rich screwed-up American families? Are you frustrated that there are not enough rich screwed-up lesbians represented in those stories. Well Like Family by Erin White is for you. I enjoyed it a lot once I got my head around how all the entwined lives fitted together. #bookstodon @bookstodon #KeefsReads
Magic can give you just one thing. Choose wisely:
Knowledge?
Courage?
Love?
Or simply more time at home?
You will receive it today, because today is L.Frank #Baum’s birthday - the #author of The Wonderful #Wizard of #Oz.
Repost if you think the world needs a little more #magic & great #books
#WizardofOz #LFrankBaum #literature #book #today #birthday #onthisday #reading #readingcommunity #reader #fantasy #tale #readers #bookstodon @bookstodon #booksky #bookstagram #writer #authors #writers
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Baby’s first audiobook? https://www.katherinevillyard.com/2026/05/15/babys-first-audiobook/ #fantasy #bookstodon @bookstodon #audio #audiobook
