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Do you have your citizenship to the land of knowledge? 😁

@libraries @Libraries@fedigroups.social @library @books @bookstodon

#Library #LibraryMemes #Meme #Libraries #Librarians #Humor #Humour #Funny
#Bookstodon #FantasyBooks

Two panel Peanuts comic.
1: LOOK! A library card! I've taken out a library card!
2: I have been given my citizenship in the land of knowledge.

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This dialogue strikes with intensity, carrying a raw realism that feels almost unsettling. It lays bare Earth’s complete inability to comprehend the Belters, exposing a world still shackled to a colonizer mindset—echoes of 19th‑century imperialism—coldly indifferent to the struggles and realities of the people it subjugates.

#books #reading #bookstodon #sff #scifi #sciencefiction @bookstodon

Quote from "Leviathan Wakes" by James S. A. Corey, discussing a conversation about social dynamics among different groups. Text is prominently displayed on a black background, emphasizing the dialogue's humorous tone. Tagged with #kindlequotes.

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This week's #NewBooks at the library: I went to DinoCon and treated myself to Sean Hennesy's Speed Thief Volumes 1 and 2, and two art portfolios by Steve White, Dread Sovereign and The Bone Cabin Chronicles

#Books #Bookstodon #Palaeoart #Paleoart #Dinosaurs #Scicomm @bookstodon

On the left, standing up, Speed Thief Volumes 1 and 2, showing two small hardbacks with a black-and-white cartoon dinosaur on them.

In the middle, lying down, The Bone Cabin Chronicles, showing a square hardback with a complex line drawing of a man sitting in his easy chair in front of a fire, surrounded by numerous dinosaurs.

On the right, standing up, Dread Sovereigns, showing a white hardback with a colour illustration of a carnivorous dinosaur with a bloody head resting against some tree stumps.

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Soon...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H3RC5PHM
https://books2read.com/u/3GBA7L
https://www.susannashore.com/perfectheist.html

#preorder #crimefiction #bookstodon

Ad for The Perfect Heist by Susanna Shore.

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Five stars:

The Great British Bump-Off by John Allison and Max Sarin (Illustrator) (2023) is a delightful comic book parody of the ridiculous numbers of murder mysteries inspired by The Great British Bake-Off and similar cooking competition shows.

https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_08/great_british_bump_off.html

#bookstodon #comic #mystery #reading
@bookstodon

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110d

Five stars:

Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham (Illustrator) (2024) is a YA love story centered on lion dancing with an Oakland setting and a lowkey Crazy Rich Asians vibe. Valentina Tran was named for Valentine's Day and until recently it was her favorite holiday. Now she believes she's cursed in love but a Valentine's heart given to her by a lion dancer has given her heart one last hopefully zing.

https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_07/lunar_new_year_love_story.html

#bookstodon #Oakland #GraphicNovel #romance
@bookstodon

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Reading the Hugos: Best Novella 2026
A roundup of this year's novella nominees.
@chloroform_tea has our roundup at the NOAF blog
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/07/hugo-award-shortlist-2026-novellas.html

#books #bookstodon @bookstodon

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Four stars:

What Can You Make of It? by Franz Brandenberg with Aliki (Illustrator) (1977) is about a family of field mice and their collection of recyclables. Things come to a head when the family is moving and five moving vans are needed to move their stuff and their rubbish.

https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_09/what_can_you_make_of_it.html

#bookstodon #picturebook
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#WhatWereReading : Joe found #Glasgow based Metaphrog's (John Chalmers and Sandra Marrs) new graphic novel for younger readers, Wilomina and the Land of Dreams and Nightmares, a total delight, both as a story, and visually, with some fabulous artwork.

A coming of age tale for a young girl, a heroic journey, talking cat, dragons, Easter Eggs for the adults to spot, this will charm our younger readers! Out now from Scholastic.

#books #livres #Wilomina #WilominaAndTheLandOfDreamsAndNightmare #BandeDessinee #comics #GraphicNovels #ChildrensBooks #LivresJeunesse #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon #RecommendedReading #JohnChalmers #SandraMarrs #Metaphrog

Bookseller Joe holding up a copy of a graphic novel for younger readers: Wilomin in the Land and Dreams and Nightmares, in front of the bookshelves of the Edinburgh Bookshop, the cover showing a young, determined looking girl with purpler hair marching towards the viewer.

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I've finished: I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger

While I Cheerfully Refuse hits most of the usual post apocalyptic genre tropes, it is no regular post apocalyptic adventure novel.

Rainy is a quietly competent protagonist, and viewing this dystopian world from his perspective is what setts this novel apart.

Reminiscent of Station 11, it is a more literary work.

Literally (Actually) pitting Rainy and Lark, with her used book shop, against the illiterate anti-intellectualists.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/73d19b03-b69f-476b-9e63-6e3d9f6ab14b

@bookstodon @audiofiction
#dystopia #postapocalyptic #literary #amReading #bookstodon #AudioBooks

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RE: https://wandering.shop/@kvillyard/116846583884805904

It’s ending soon! Grab them before July 31!

#bookstodon #smashwords #sffbooks #freebooks @Books @books@newsmast.community @bookstodon

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Delighted to receive an advance copy of Wilomina - the Land of Dreams & Nightmares from Scholastic.

I've adored Glasgow creators Metaphrog's work going back to the Louis books in the 90s, I'm sure I'm going to be recommending this to our younger readers in the bookshop.

#comics #BandeDessinee #books #livres #bookstodon #Wilomina #Metaphrog #GraphicNovels

Colourful cover to Wilomina and the Land of Dreams and Nightmares, with a young and very determined girl on the cover, marching towards us

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Interior page from the Wilomina graphic novel, showing a large, blue dragon

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The Wizards and the Warriors by Hugh Coock is out in audiobook format for the first time.

From: r/hughcook

[Announcement] The Wizards and The Warriors by Hugh Cook audio book now live! (Audible, Google Books and Kobo)

"Hey folks!

Morgan here, the fan narrator for Chronicles of an Age of Darkness.

I am super pleased to be able to announce that the audiobooks are now live and available for purchase!

Audible, Kobo, Google Books"

I also found it on LibroFM:

https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781963191424-the-wizards-and-the-warriors

@bookstodon @audiofiction
#HughCoock #fantasy #AudioBooks #libroFM #bookstodon #SFF #ChroniclesOfAnAgeOfDarkness

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109d

I have some reading to do....

#reading #NewBooks #bookstodon
@bookstodon

Screenshot of three email messages for preorders becoming available: Sea of Charms; Bubble, Bubble, Tea and Trouble; and All Abord for Murder.

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109d

Read top to bottom, these covers tell an unintentional story...

Read the alt tag for the story.

#currentlyReading #bookstodon
@bookstodon

Goodreads screenshot of Deadly Does It which is a red cover with a black older car driving towards the reader; Hungerstone which has a classical image of a woman in a swoon on a bed; Truly Madly Sheeply which shoes a pastoral meadow in a fictional New England town. Clearly the road tripers from the Abby Waxman book have run over Carmilla somewhere in New England.

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Me buying a discounted book here, splurging on a bulk sale there, all in the touching hope that someday I'll have time to read them all.

#bookstodon #amReading #somedayISwear

A gallery view of book covers on a dark background. The titles are Beyond Weird, The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack, The Light Eaters, I've Got a Home in Glory Land, The Witch Who Chases the Sun, When Sleeping Women Wake, Why Poetry, The Apache Wars, The Business of Being a Writer, Lakota America, Blossoming by Dilman Dila, Let This Radicalize You, Unbuild Walls, Class Struggle Unionism, and Elite Capture.

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Five stars:

Deadly Does It by Abbi Waxman with Patti Murin (Narrator) (2026) is the second book in the Mann & Mason mystery series. Mason's sponsor Alexa receives a series of threatening notes that are now culminating in the murders of her A.A. sponsees. Can Mason and Julia solve the mystery before Mason ends up one of the bodies?

#bookstodon #mystery #audiobook
@bookstodon

https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_08/deadly_does_it.html

Cover art of a classic car drawn in black against a red background. White papers are flying out of the car.

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Saw a book in Petrarchs Bookshop in Launceston that I thought my wife would like. She's not been feeling too good the past week, so I thought a gentle companion to her druidic texts. She is an ex-nurse, so there's that too.

I briefly had a look inside and it's fascinating, detailing local herbal remedies, which plants have which properties, useful implements, recipes etc, and all at a local level. Amazing!

#Books #Tasmania #lutruwita #bookstodon @bookstodon

Cover of "The Tasmanian Herbal Apothecary" by Christine Nicholson. It has a map of Tasmania under the title and drawings of flowers, plants, a book and some jars with a mortar and pestle.

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A romantasy about a secretly Jewish magician in inquisition-era Spain. I've not read #LeighBardugo before, and had mixed feelings about this, leaning positive. Her prose is elegant and pleasurable to read, and she balances the plausible and magical aspects very well, especially through the female characters. But the plot is bogged down in genre cliches, from the nature of the central romance, to the main driver of the story being a contest run by an oppressive government. @bookstodon #bookstodon

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109d

Załamujące są zasięgi na Insta, w sumie nie powinnam się dziwić. Niemniej człowiek chciałby czasem jakiegoś odzewu, a nie mówienia do ściany.
Tym razem wrzuciłam jeden z zaległych prezentów od przyjaciółek. To taki album czy mini leksykon o znanych wampirach. Posiada bardzo ładne, gotyckie ilustracje. Jeszcze się nie wczytywałam, ale to gratka dla miłośników wampirów i dobrej ilustracji (czyli dla mnie).
#ksiazkodon #bookstodon

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So, how do you manage #StandardEbooks in #Bookwyrm? Or #Goodreads? How do you add them manually?

#books #bookstodon @bookstodon

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108d

Five stars (with a caveat)

The Skeleton and the Cat by Brandon James Scott (2026) is about about a black cat asking to be let into the skeleton's very cozy home. Reluctantly she says yes. What follows are five short stories about a bookish skeleton learning how to live with a cat.

The blurb and the social media campaign is comparing the book to the Frog and Toad books by Arnold Lobel. I wish it didn't. Frog and Toad are queer icons; they have one of the healthiest, most charming, cozy, adorakable relationships in fiction. Scott's stories are about the cat distribution system and about an undead person learning about life from a cat.

https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_07/skeleton_and_the_cat.html

#bookstodon #PictureBook
@bookstodon