Dear #bookstodon-friends, I've been thinking about doing some sharepic-style mini-reviews of books (mostly #horror/ #suspense/ #litfic) that I've been reading - I tried by best with the tools available on my phone and this is the result. Pretty enough? Sufficient info? Anything else I should/could add? #frauenlesen #iamreading @bookstodon
finished reading The Tainted Cup 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
by Robert Jackson Bennett.
A murder mystery fantasy novel - why is this a first for me?! Fairly standard whodunnit which escalates to political intrigue, made distinctive by very cool world-building: an empire built to defend against leviathans attacking from the sea, whose bodily fluids enable a raft of fantastical bio-enhancements. Interesting characters and the potential for more fleshing out give the series much promise.
#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #MurderMystery #CrimeFiction #Fantasy #SFF
@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de
finished reading Nervous Conditions 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
by Tsitsi Dangarembga.
Becoming a familiar refrain in African literature: girl fights for education & freedom against patriarchy & colonialism. This one, set in pre-independence Zimbabwe, might be the original (?) and the best, with carefully crafted & evolving characters. Ends very suddenly, though.
#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #Zimbabwe #AfricanLiterature
@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de
#sapphicfictionsaturday
I’m reading An Unlikely Partnership by Katie Trapp. What’s in your hands today? 📖
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BKH4WBLL
IG/Threads: @katietrappauthor
Bluesky: @katietrappauthor.bsky.social
#whatareyoureading #sapphicbooks #cozymystery #policeprocedural #forcedproximity #grumpysunshine #magic #butchfemme #lesfic #bookstodon #readingcommunity #lesbian #lgbtq #lgbtqia
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I love that Stephen Graham Jones pulls no punches, and names his Blackfeet main character "Good Stab."
He reminds us that true horror is perpetrated by people, and that blood will cry out for justice forever.
THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER is a great title.
@bookstodon
#books #bookstodon #Horror @horror #BooksWorthReading
Library-pub, add a book quiz and a non-alcoholic bar and I'm in 😁
@libraries @librarians @bookbubble @bookstodon @humour
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Dear #bookstodon, I'm looking for #recommendations - what's a book of short stories or a short(ish) novel you've enjoyed recently, in the genres of sci-fi / speculative or literary fiction? No big names please. Women / queer / neurodiverse writers interest me especially.
#lovetoread #bookrecommendations #actuallyAutistic @bookstodon
#wipwednesday
From Whimsical Tigress, book 8 of the Whimsical Dreams series.
https://www.tiffanyetaylor.com/bookshelf
#wipwednesday #romanticsuspense #embezzlement #dangerinperil #bodyguard #graphicartist #butchfemme #lesfic #sapphicbooks #bookstodon #writingcommunity #butchfemme #lesbian #lgbtq #lgbtqia
@lgbtqbookstodon @bookstodon @sapphicbooks
sometimes you have to choose a book by its cover. found this one while reshelving at the library this morning and greatly looking forward to reading it.
Reading Never Whistle At Night edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. I really have loved this book, I have a little over 100 pages left. The stories are amazing.
However, I do suggest not reading before going to sleep at night. I woke up this morning saying "what the motherfucking hell" after the dreams I had.
@bookstodon
#books #bookstodon
#sapphicfictionsaturday
I’m reading Tarnished Gold by Ann Aptaker. What’s in your hands today? 📖
https://www.goodreads.com/book/24693894-tarnished-gold/get_a_copy
Bluesky: @annaptaker.bsky.social
IG: @ann_aptaker
Website: http://www.annaptaker.com/
#whatareyoureading #sapphicbooks #mystery #historical #noir #murder #criminal #butchfemme #lesfic #bookstodon #readingcommunity #lesbian #lgbtq #lgbtqia
@lgbtqbookstodon @bookstodon @sapphicbooks
finished reading Every Secret Thing 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
by Marie Munkara.
Mission mob vs bush mob in the Top End. Crude & cutting humour, with occasional glimpses of the raw, traumatic truth of dispossession & cultural genocide.
#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #IndigenousLiterature
@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de
Today at the NOAF blog,
@princejvstin.com
reviews BIRTH OF A DYNASTY: A Novel by Chinaza Bado
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/05/book-review-birth-of-dynasty-novel-by.html
Butch/Femme fiction books currently in pre-order status on Amazon as of 05/13/25.
#comingsoon #lesfic #sapphicbooks #bookstodon #readingcommunity #butchfemme #lesbian #lgbtq #lgbtqia
@lgbtqbookstodon @bookstodon @sapphicbooks
Butch/Femme fiction Books on $ale on 05/15/25.
#booksonsale #lesfic #sapphicbooks #butchfemme #bookstodon #writingcommunity #lesbian #lgbtq #lgbtqia
@lgbtqbookstodon @bookstodon @sapphicbooks
You’re reading this because you want to see the wholesome green flag vampire husband… and his cats.
https://youtube.com/shorts/p0Na0HZHuo0?si=FuE1CHRO6gIFsTVd
#bookstodon #vampirebooks #immortalgifts @fantasy @bookstodon@a.gup.pe @bookstodon
#lesficfri
*** DARE ***
“I literally stayed up all night reading this book cover to cover. I want my own Armstrong Protection Services.”
https://www.tiffanyetaylor.com/whimsical-haven
#romanticsuspense #stalker #dangerinperil #bodyguardsecurity #graphicdesigner #loveatfirstsight #butchfemme #lesfic #sapphicbooks #bookstodon #writingcommunity #lesbian #lgbtq #lgbtqia
@lgbtqbookstodon @bookstodon @sapphicbooks
To celebrate Jane Austen's 250th, Austen Connection (https://austenconnection.substack.com) hosts a read-a-long all year. They are currently in the midst of Pride and Prejudice! For the full schedule, go to https://austenconnection.substack.com/p/the-great-jane-austen-read-along. #AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #JaneAusten @romancelandia
“In 2019, I went on a tour of Chernobyl. The Ukrainian guide who explained what led to the nuclear accident said something that stuck in my mind. “Americans grow up with the idea that questions lead to answers,” he said. “But Soviet citizens grew up with the idea that questions lead to trouble.”
Excerpt From
Nexus
Yuval Noah Harari
Recent butch/femme fiction new releases through June 1, 2025.
#newreleases #lesfic #sapphicbooks #bookstodon #readingcommunity #butchfemme #lesbian #lgbtq #lgbtqia
@lgbtqbookstodon @bookstodon @sapphicbooks
Just shared the final cover art for 'Invasive Species' with Patreon supporters.
Releases 8/28/25.
Available for Pre-order now
https://johnwilker.com/book/invasive-species/
#scifi @scifi #bookstodon @bookstodon #alieninvasion #scifibooks #supportindieauthors
Recent butch/femme fiction new releases through July 6, 2025.
#newreleases #lesfic #sapphicbooks #bookstodon #readingcommunity #butchfemme #lesbian #lgbtq #lgbtqia
@lgbtqbookstodon @bookstodon @sapphicbooks
"Cutter's Deep" is my personal favorite but if you like creepy and unsettling horror, you really can't go wrong with any book or story from Ronald McGillvray. As far as I'm concerned, this is an empirical fact. 📚🙂👍
https://amazon.com/author/ronaldmcgillvray
@bookstodon @specfic @horrorbooks
#horror #book #books #booksofmastodon #bookrec #bookrecs #readersofmastodon #reading #readingcommunity #whattoread #bookstodon #booktodon
I've finished: A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys
A Half-Built Garden is the most Fediversial novel I've read.
The anarchists have won. The corporations and nation states have been sidelined. Most of the world is under the control of egalitarian communities that use an alternative network to achieve consensus and work to rehabilitate the climate change ravaged earth.
This is very much a slice of life novel in the vain of Becky Chambers, centered around a communal lgbtqia+ household. But as opposed to most slice of life novels there is a major crisis, and it falls upon this community to save the day.
Aliens have made first contact and they insist that the only way for technological species to survive is to leave their biospheres behind and build Dyson Swarms.
As their way of life comes under threat from without and within, Will the dandelion network survive? Will the power of decisions through discussion and consensus overcome manipulation and coercion.
A special aspect of the aliens is the importance they place on the place of children in society.
PS:
I didn't expect this novel to be so Jewish, what a delight.
@bookstodon @audiobooks
#ScienceFiction #FirstContact #Anarchism #lgbtq #Jewish #ClimateChange #bookstodon #AudioBooks
Curious how many folks get or would consider getting ebooks from itch.io?
Color commentary welcome in comments.
Boosts appreciated.
@scifi @bookstodon
#books #bookstodon #scifi
