Here’s my review of One Fine Day, 1947, by Mollie Panter-Downes, just released on audio… a gentle look at a typical day for a middle class family, reflecting societal changes brought by the war #bookstodon #BookReview #reading #Storygraph #audiobook @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/e2d8043d-a4e5-468a-bb8a-5eb7a1d6fad4
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This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- I found a much reduced copy of Contesting Earth's History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860–1935: Believers and Visionaries on the Borderlines of #Geology and #Palaeontology, published by Oxford University Press
- I was so taken with Guillermo del Toro's visual take on #Frankenstein, I bought the book on the making of the movie by Sheila O'Malley, published by Titan Books.
- I found a second-hand copy of The Spirit of System: #Lamarck and #EvolutionaryBiology, published by Harvard University Press, which should come in handy for a future review on Lamarck.
#Books #Bookstodon #Paleontology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Evolution #Scicomm @bookstodon
Yesterday, proofs came of my new novella, The Blossoming of the Big Tree, and it got me a bit excited. I have got print copies of my books before, but not one I designed from scratch. I was worried about how the cover would look like, and also because I used LibreWriter for typesetting, if the font was the right one, etc, but it all looks nice and cute. Proud of myself. 😊
Get the ebook or pre-order print here
https://www.ododopress.com/novellas/the-blossoming-of-the-big-tree/
Book Review: The Feywild Job by C. L. Polk
@DrEddieClark has our review to round out the week at Nerds of a Feather
#bookstodon #books @bookstodon
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/07/book-review-feywild-job-by-c-l-polk.html
Tego się pewnie po mnie nie spodziewaliście. Ale fakt, ostatnio postanowiłem trochę się poprawić fizycznie i, jak to ja, gdy się czymś zafascynuję, nie tylko zacząłem ćwiczyć, co czytać o całej teorii wokół tego. Tak trafiłem na darmowe e-booki od ekipy Warszawskich Koksów i powiem tak - nawet, gdyby nie były za darmo, to byłyby całkiem fajne dla początkujących. Krótkie, konkretne, luźne (ale bez wulgaryzmów - Owca i Saker trzymają rezon jako autorzy) i bardzo merytoryczne. Minus taki, że widać, iż jest to raczej materiał szykowany dla osób chcących wejść mocniej w ten świat i np. interesujących się kulturystyką, ale taki normik jak ja też coś tutaj znajdzie. W sumie polecam, bo naprawdę krótkie (razem ok. 180 stron).
1. https://lubimyczytac.pl/ksiazka/fundamenty-odzywiania/opinia/99589962
2. https://lubimyczytac.pl/ksiazka/fundamenty-treningu-silowego/opinia/99694860
@ksiazki #książki #bookstodon @bookstodon #FediKsiążki #Ksiażkodon #Bookstodon #Readlist2026PL #gym #siłownia #dietetyka #WK #Owca #Saker
The Summer War. Naomi Novik.
You are a 12 year old sorceress and future princess enamored of your older gay brother, and when he says he’s leaving your abusive father to find love, you curse him to never find love and force him to live a life of killing others in battle; eventually you manipulate him to secure power for yourself.
0 of 5 library cats. (My first 0 rating ever!)
@bookstodon #bookstodon #books #reading #fantasy #magic #queerbaiting
Four stars:
Follow the Wind by Alvin Tresselt and Roger Duvoisin (Illustrator) (1950) is a philosophical exercise wrapped up as a picture book. What is wind? What is more powerful than the wind?
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_07/follow_the_wind.html
Check out this guide for buying DRM free ebooks in 2026 😁
https://getbookshelves.app/guides/drm-free-ebook-stores/
And go follow the writers of the guide at https://mastodon.art/@getbookshelves@mastodon.social
@reading @bookstodon @books @worldbuilding
#Recommendation
#AmWriting #IndieAuthor #eBook #eBooks
#Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity
#Litterature #Novel #Novels #Bookshelf
#Books #Bookstodon #FantasyBooks
When someone asks, "What is it?" and someone else answers, "It's a mystery!" I sincerly hope this is what they're talking about 😂
@reading @bookstodon @books @humor @humor@lemmy.world @aiop
#BookMemes #Meme #Memes #Mystery #Humor #Humour #Funny
#Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity
#Litterature #Novel #Bookshelf #BookStore #Books #Bookstodon
So, does this mean that in the postmodern era the Author is God? 🤔
Because I already have more hubris than I'll ever be able to use 😜😂
@reading @joinin @bookstodon @books @humor @humor@lemmy.world @aiop
#BookMemes #Meme #Memes #Humor #Humour #Funny
#ReadingMemes #Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity
#Litterature #Novel #Novels #Bookshelf
#Books #Bookstodon #FantasyBooks
"To polish understanding with the soiled cloth of clarity has been my destiny and my horror" (Deborah Levy, 'My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein,' pp. 158f.
New at my blog, a review of Seers in a Broken Season by Jonathan Olfert!
An Ice Age tale of Stone & Sorcery starring a warrior wooly mammoth!
(As always, boosts are appreciated!)
https://robinmarx.writeas.com/review-seers-in-a-broken-season-by-jonathan-olfert
#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #Booksky #Fantasy #SwordAndSorcery #StoneAndSorcery #Blog #SmallWeb #IndieWeb @bookstodon
For those new to my page, I post a little about writing, and a lot about my family's cats.
My first series, I Guess We're Heroes, is a sci-fi/thriller available in paperback, audiobook, and ebook (including Kindle Unlimited). Links to both books are at the bottom of this post.
My next series is in the works, and will be fantasy/LitRPG!
#Summer is here with Will Boast, Elaine Vilar Madruga translated by Samantha Luna, EC Osondu, Zhenya Oliinyk and Robin Munby, plus Luke Healy on the secret of #writing a romcom.
Catch them all at https://fictionable.world
#books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast #bookstodon
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My webpage has been edited to include more information on my upcoming release: Season of the Bluebonnets. BOOK I will soon be available free to read on my site in weekly installments.
Also, for those of you who like to purchase your ebooks from Itch, I have added more to my shop.
A "Something old, something new" theme for #MurderEveryMonday this week, so I'm pleased I also have something blue. Something DSP too, though that murders any metre. 🤣 #Bookstodon #Mystery #Reading
https://crossexaminingcrime.com/murdereverymonday-theme-list/
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Five stars:
Picture Perfect Frame by Lynn Cahoon and Susan Boyce (Narrator) (2021) is the twelfth book in the Tourist Trap mystery series. After attending a sip and paint event at a local gallery one of the attendees, a particularly drunk one, is found dead back at the gallery the next morning. Jill feels compelled to investigate the woman's death while also juggling her store and Amy's upcoming wedding.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_08/picture_perfect_frame.html
Just a small update to whom it may concern, @FandaSin I'm looking at you... 😊
I have started the putting the final touches on The Last Philosopher: Part Two. Proofreading, adding images, and avoiding making new glorious mistakes 😂
If you want to be notified when it's out, go here: https://books2read.com/author/nick-east/subscribe/1/2326916/
1€ ebook of Part One: https://books2read.com/b/m0pJYA
#Ebook #Ebooks #IndieBooks #Author #IndieAuthor #Indie #Writers #Writing #AmWriting #Reading #Bookstodon
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Astonishing how so many e-book retailers and e-bookstores are just unnecessarily bloated. I know a lot of developers are on my timeline, so let me give you a little bit of a secret. If you make a literal DRM free only bookstore retailer that only sells DRM free e-books, you would hit a gold mine without even trying to do so, and you must accept all genres. I know Smashwords exists, but there’s a reason why independent authors continue to publish work via Kindle. It’s easy. In fact, it’s so easy that even the upload process doesn’t need a lot of formatting involved. This is the key. Make it very easy to host e-books, and let authors set their prices and let publishers set their prices, and you would have a money making machine. Also, make it global. Even if publishers want to Geo restrict it. The design doesn’t have to be a torture either. Have an HTML page from the 90s that displays the book cover, the title, some buttons that do various things like choose a book format, E pub, PDF, about the book, about the author, reviews, and that’s it. It doesn’t need anything more than that. Anything more and it’s just a bloated waste of code #WebDev #Bookstodon
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New review: The Inquisitive Biologist reaches back in time and finally reads The Ascent of Birds to find a fascinating foray into bird evolution and the many different mechanisms of speciation.
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Birds #Ornithology #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #Scicomm @bookstodon
Five stars:
Dandadan, Volume 2 by Yukinobu Tatsu (2021) covers the initial fallout from Okarun and Momo's misadventure with the aliens and Turbo Granny, including their first day back to school.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_09/dandadan_2.html
Five stars:
Snake-Eater by T. Kingfisher (2025) is Gothic desert horror set in a fictional Quartz Creek that is somewhere in the liminal space that is Four Corners adjacent. Selena arrives by train with her dog, her meager possessions and about $22 dollars to her name. She's come to stay with her aunt, only to learn that her aunt passed away the year before.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_07/snake_eater.html
Short and easy to read, very gory, and not very engaging.
It's a good poolside book, but nothing more than that.
Why Shakespeare? I don't know.
The Daylight Gate, Jeanette Winterson
5/10
#bookstodon #britishhorror #daylightgate
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It's #SPAAW or #SelfPublishedAuthorsAppreciationWeek, a creation of Witty & Sarcastic Bookclub, a reader and great supporter of indies at https://wittyandsarcasticbookclub.home.blog!
And even though no one follows me over here, on the off chance that someone sees this, I'm gonna tell you about some of my favourite self-published SFF authors. There are 25+ of them. Buckle up!
