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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.

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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

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

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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!

#bookstodon #vampirebooks @books @books@newsmast.community @bookstodon

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

#books #review #bookreview #fantasy #bookstodon @bookstodon

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

#RolloverFiles #bookstodon #reading #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #scifi #books #Fedibookshop @bookstodon

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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.

#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #SFF #YoungAdult

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Five stars:

Rosie and Michael by Judith Viorst and Lorna Tomei (Illustrations) (1974) is a picture book celebration of a solid, life-long relationship. Rosie and Michael take turns in this book explaining the hows and whys of their friendship. Each of their examples are then illustrated in intricate pen and ink drawings.

https://pussreboots.com/blog/2025/comments_09/rosie_and_michael.html

#reading #PictureBook #bookstodon
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Five stars:

The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts by Kim Fu (2026) is a modern day spin on Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House. Eleanor Fan is a video therapist who works from home. Her mother has recently died after a painful decline due to cancer and with her inheritance Eleanor is looking to own her own home.

https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_03/valley_of_vengeful_ghosts.html

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Do you want to see me read my short story “Book of Shadows”? https://youtu.be/60na1zBCbpw?si=BL9TCr1dZFud6ynG

#bookstodon #fantasy #shortStory #authorreads @bookstodon @books @books@newsmast.community

On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder is a valuable thing to have by your side in these times of increasing fascism.

Each chapter begins with a short bit of advice as it's title, followed by a sentence or two on it's potential importance. The rest of the chapter provides concrete historical examples.

Each chapter is short, and the book is only 126 pages. Possibly the most valuable thing that you could ever read.

I'm going to be posting the first page of each chapter, because of how important I think it is to share these ideas. Please boost if you feel them useful.

#bookstodon #resist

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"The Gift & The Legacy: African American Philanthropy as Power, Purpose and Promise, Taroue W. Brooks reframes the conversation, reminding us that philanthropy is not confined to financial contributions but encompasses time, talent, ties, testimony, treasure, and trust." By Staff Heart &Soul Magazine 9.16.25
https://www.heartandsoul.com/culture/the-heart-of-philanthropy/
#bookstodon #books #Blackmastodon #BlackFedi

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Wrapping up 2025 with gratitude to the many people who supported me this year while I was launching The Expert of Subtle Revisions. Thank you for reading the book, for buying the book, for checking it out from the library (I just learned it was a top check out from the Mechanics' Institute Library this year!) for sharing it with friends and online, for showing up at events, for your kind notes, your kind reviews, your attention. My year-in-review features moments I photographed--the book launch at Bookshop West Portal with Lilian Van Cleve, Book Passage with Allison Bainbridge, Symposium Books with Tanya Young, That was Then at Page Street, a New York City book store tour with Meredith Davis, a Boston book store tour with Daphne Kalotay, Sebastopol LitCrawl, and Kepler's Story is the Thing--but many important moments have no image to accompany them. They will always remain with me as well. Thank you!

#books #writing #writersofmastodon #WritingCommunity #bookstodon @bookstodon

https://youtu.be/7zfOlSfED28

A premise so good that it tricked me into reading it twice. The writing tho was not great. So dnfed it for a second time. Anyone have a good book with a throuple of magicians/witches please let me know. #romancebooks #books #bookstodon @bookstodon

finished reading The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
by Robert Louis Stevenson.

When our baser urges are allowed to run free, they end up dominating. Disturbing, even if the 'science' is a bit amusing.

https://downtosleep.podbean.com/e/jekyll-and-hyde-complete-audiobook-with-relaxing-fire-sounds-down-to-sleep/

#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #SleepStory

@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de

Fascinating article that gets at how translation can be a tricky business. The whole meaning can change - and often to the opposite meaning the author intended!

#books #bookstodon #translation #literature @bookstodon

From: @publicdomainrev
https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/115264769615001777

Opinions on whether to add a book to Kindle Unlimited (which makes it Amazon exclusive for at least 90 days), or to keep the option to make it available through other stores during that time?

I'm asking for my new spicy novella, "Seducing Audrey". I already put the complementary short story, "Free Market Audrey", on KU.

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My all-time best selling romance audiobook is...

Taken by the Mountain Man, by Kelsie Calloway, which I narrated as Eden Cavell.

A divorced single mom starting over in a small mountain town takes a shot at a second chance at love with her brother's hot best friend.

It's a big-hearted romance that is also super hot, with a female lead who's not afraid to go after what she wants, and the kind of hunky mountain man she absolutely deserves.

Translation: I get to play Yet Another Mountain Man in this audiobook! (There are a few in my catalogue.)

If you like second chance romance, sizzling sex scenes or happily ever afters, this is the audiobook for you.

It's available as an audiobook and also as an ebook.

https://geni.us/TBTMM

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#Audiobooks #Books #Bookstodon #Romance #BBW #BBWRomance

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So close! 24 followers!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/villyard/immortal-gifts-hardcover-paperback-and-audiobook

If you like historical fantasy, beautiful books with interior art, and multi-narrator audiobooks, this might be for you!

#bookstodon #historicalfantasy #vampirebooks @books @books@newsmast.community

Great piece by Ilana Masad on making art and marketing it:

#books #booksky #writing #writersofmastodon #WritingCommunity #bookstodon @bookstodon

https://electricliterature.com/artists-shouldnt-need-to-become-content-creators-to-get-fair-pay/

Would you like to hear the official Immortal Gifts audiobook sample?

https://youtu.be/hxos8tFSr08?si=xWVXPC7hP5btH958

Certain vendors (*cough cough*) keep telling me that I can have a free AI-narrated audiobook in half an hour. This is an audiobook that was worth the wait.

#bookstodon #vampirebooks @books @books@lemmy.ml @Books@mstdn.social

Five stars:

We'll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida, E. Madison Shimoda (Translator) (2023) is a collection of interrelated stories about people who find themselves at an unusual health clinic when they are at their wits end. Instead of counseling they are sent home with a cat, gear, and care instructions.

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Who is that, so insistently tapping at my chamber door?

Something suitably spooky is coming to https://inquisitivebiologist.com this #Halloween... For now, here is a quick progress shot while you all wait for the next #BookReview to drop. I'm about halfway in.

#Literature #Biography #Gothic #Horror #Scicomm #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon

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Happy new year, @bookstodon! #bookstodon #reading https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:oflombnj6v6xyohhatfkbzyd/post/3mblswvrlas2c

I've finished: The Siege of Burning Grass by Premee Mohamed

The Siege of Burning Grass has an interesting premise: It offers us the pacifist option for resistance against a fascist regime during a brutal war.

A very relevant subject in 2025.

Sadly the protagonist needs a hell of allot of narrative armor to live through many of the situations he faces.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/authors/ada8d54c-bb72-4c53-9a12-67f4afbe07a5

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#pacifism #ScienceFiction #bookstodon #AudioBooks