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finished reading Storm Front
It was all right. Nothing much to say about it really. I think I would've liked it more had I read it twenty years ago, but somehow it just doesn't feel like what I'm looking for today, though I'd be hard-pressed to explain exactly why. Still, I'll probably pick up more from the series should I happen across them in thrift shops, just as I did with this one.

#Books #Bookstodon

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84d

The Tanuki

this is my first self-published short novel, written from the perspective of an urban kid living in Atlanta circa 2014, whose life changes forever after meeting the owner of an import store. it’s a loose spiritual successor to the movie Pom Poko, inspired by I-novels, video games, hip-hop, and my observations growing up in Atlanta.

hope you enjoy it.

link contains epub, for ereaders. can provide other formats.

artwork by @Comicfarm

#AmWriting #Bookstodon

https://drive.proton.me/urls/QQP7WRVJW4#xn2MPgoVPSJo

The Tanuki book cover. The words “The Tanuki” are written in tan, graffiti lettering, with “by Forrest G.” in plain font underneath. The artwork depicts the storefront of a Japanese import store, with various signs on the windows. One of the signs says “SAWP USA.” In front of the store are statues of a tanuki and a lucky cat.

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77d

This week's #NewBooks at the library: Several new books bought at bargain prices:
- The Nile Basin: Quaternary #Geology, #Geomorphology and Prehistoric Environments by Martin Williams, published by Cambridge University Press.
- A Pipeline Runs Through It: The Story of #Oil from Ancient Times to the First World War by Keith Fisher, published by Allen Lane.
- The Great Paradox of #Science: Why Its Conclusions Can Be Relied Upon Even Though They Cannot Be Proven by Mano Singham, published by Oxford University Press.

#Books #Bookstodon #Scicomm #EarthSciences #FossilFuels #Energy #History #Philosophy @bookstodon

A photo of three books standing on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books and part of the beech-coloured laminate floor.

On the left, The Nile Basin, showing a hardback with a colour photo of a sand-filled desert landscape with stone ruins in the background against a cloudless blue sky.

In the middle, A Pipeline Runs Through It, showing a hardback with a black-and-white period photo of a landscape full of old-timey oil pumps and various sheds. In the foreground is a row of people posing for the photographer, some on horseback, and one in an early nineteenth-century open-topped automobile.

On the right, The Great Paradox of Science, showing a hardback with three coloured bands running from dark to very light teal. In the top section is an upturned Penrose triangle, an optical illusion of an impossible triangle.

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54d

Book Review: This Is Where The Future Bleeds by Mike Brooks
Quality fantasy romp with a side of anti-capitalist fury
@DrEddieClark has a meaty review to start your work week at the NOAF blog:
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/09/book-review-this-is-where-future-bleeds.html

#bookstodon @bookstodon

book-review-this-is-where-future-bleeds.html

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57d

#lispyGopherClimate #announcement .

Nathaniel Borenstein (of MIME / email)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Borenstein

will be on the show live Tuesday-evening-in-the-Americas next week talking about his new #bookstodon, The Spirit of a Cyborg (still reading my review copy of).

https://ipubcloud.org/products/the-spirit-of-a-cyborg

He shares an autobiographical view of what happened with internet and email (and AI) viz what is happening with AI and the need for focus on #ethics in #AI now and the (humans-surviving) future.

#boost please.

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76d

Książka godna polecenia i wartościowa, mimo że jako powieść średnio mi się podobała i trochę zmęczyła. Ale to dobra lekcja historii Polski z mało poruszanego okresu i w fabularnej formie.

https://lubimyczytac.pl/ksiazka/korona-sniegu-i-krwi/opinia/100641301

@ksiazki @bookstodon #książki #czytam #FediKsiażki #Książkodon #Bookstodon #Readlist2026PL #historia

Okładka e-booka "Korona śniegu i krwi" autorstwa Elżbiety Cherezińskiej. E-book ma 689 stron.

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75d

Five stars:

Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture by Aria S. Halliday (2022) is the most recent volume in the Feminist Media Studies series. Through four slices of Black female consumerism, this book looks at how pop culture both influences and is influenced by Black women.

#bookstodon #nonfiction #FeministMediaStudies
@bookstodon

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finished reading Bookshops & Bonedust 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
by Travis Baldree.

A worthy prequel to Legends & Lattes. New friends come together to reinvigorate a bookshop, with a couple of baddies dealt with along the way. Loved Satchel the animated skeleton. Moist!

#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #SFF #Fantasy #CosyFantasy

@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de

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52d

Five stars:

A Murderer's Guide to Mardi Gras by Ellen Byron with Amy Melissa Bentley (Narrator) (2026) is the fifth book in the Vintage Cookbook mystery series. It's Mardi Gras season and Ricki Dames-Diaz has been roped into participating in a krewe because her boyfriend is the krewe of Chew king this year. And then the krewe leader is murdered and Ricki's friend is the prime suspect!

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

#bookstodon
@bookstodon

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75d

Do you need more FREE vampire and shifter books in your life? These authors have you covered!

https://books.bookfunnel.com/free-vampire-shifters-aug-sept/vh0trr7e7a

#bookstodon #vampires #shifters #werewolves #freebooks @bookstodon @books @Books@mstdn.social

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53d

Here are a few thoughts on High Rising by Angela Thirkel, 1933, where a spinster is accused of trying to marry her boss, I really enjoyed this one #bookstodon #BookReview #reading #Storygraph #SpinsterSeptember @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/c8269f77-78e9-4e93-b38d-329d9fa4fa27

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88d

Fun with edu-fuckin-cation, am I doing it right? 😂

@linguistics @humor @humor@lemmy.world @aiop

#Rules
#LinguisticMemes #Meme #Linguistics
#Language #Words #Humor #Humour #Funny
#Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity
#Novel #Books #Fiction #Bookstodon

Post by @matchatia
This was the most valuable information I learned at UCLA:

Photo of a presentation:
All Spoken Language has Rules!
fanTAstic -> fan fuckin tastic
Rule: 'fucking can be inserted only before a stressed syllable

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76d

#lispyGopherClimate very haphazard Sunday-morning-in-Europe #peertube #live weekly #technology #podcast

@alexshendi #lisp and possibly @jhlagado we are going to meet up in #lambdaMOO and on the livestream and talk about lisp and retrocomputing and modern computing.

https://toobnix.org/w/g2AftRUaBvEVGfJYMY1MHr

John Hardy's git feat. vintage game tape WAV https://github.com/jhlagado

and @ramin_hal9001 ! And @rat in-MOO!

Computer origins, #xlisp, #z80, #formalMethods ..! #bookstodon #neuromancer #godelEscherBAch

Lispy gopher climate get Sandewalled banner ! Actually 8UTC toobnix.org.

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73d

An anthology of recent (2012-23) short space opera, a genre defined by editor #JonathanStrahan in an interesting introduction as "romantic adventure set on space and told on grand scale". This is a high quality collection by a diverse group of big names in modern SF, even if some (especially the Ann Leckie) don't seem to quite fit the genre. The standout to me was 'The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir' by Karin Tidbeck (who I don't believe I've read before) and my other favourites were by Alastair Reynolds, T. Kingfisher, and Seth Dickinson. @bookstodon #bookstodon

New Adventures in Space Opera, edited by Jonathan Strahan

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23d

Finished YesterYear and this is a satirical book that begs to be talked about, and I was so profoundly tired of it that I do not wish to talk about it in depth. The twist at the end was very boring and it's old and it's been done 10 million times. The protagonist is an unreliable narrator because she is actually mentally ill and just suffering a psychotic episode at the end of the book. I'm so bored of ableism and mental illnesses being plot twists.

Everyone is talking about this book because it needs to be the center of attention. It's written in such a way as to where it is not just satire. It is provocative simply because it desires to be talked about.

That is boring to me.

#Books #Bookstodon

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73d

New Report from PEN: Out of Circulation

"It’s not just books: Public libraries are increasingly censorship battlegrounds, leading to interference with book displays, improper reshelving mandates, and disruptions of events."

#books #bookstodon #libraries @bookstodon

https://pen.org/report/out-of-circulation/

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72d

Hmmm, no book reviews in August. Do you still have a pulse?

Yes, dear readers, I might have mentioned that once I get my teeth stuck in Darwin's Descent of Man, they would remain firmly lodged there. Here is a progress shot as I am grinding my way through over 700 pages of Victorian English and effectively a separate book of dense annotations. No shortcuts here, just reading books cover to cover before writing a review, so I beg your patience.

And those books on the left? I am settling in for a deep dive into this topic.

#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #Evolution #SexualSelection #CharlesDarwin #HistSci #Scicomm @bookstodon @princetonupress @princetonnature

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71d

Five stars:

Witch Hat Atelier, Volume 5 Kamome Shirahama with Stephen Kohler (Translator) (2019) ends the arc of the second test. It also examines the consequences of transformative magic through two different scenarios.

Years of being trapped as sentient golden statues (see also Ozma of Oz (1907) and The Yellow Knight of Oz (1930) have created an entire population bent on revenge. Lessons learned by escaping the dragon in the maze are creatively applied here as a means of escape.

https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_09/witch_hat_atelier_5.html

#bookstodon #manga #fantasy
@bookstodon

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72d

https://mastodon.art/@adhemara/117161175746692302

Est-ce qu'on aurait 160 personnes francophones fans de SF qui voudraient s'offrir une super bédé indé ?

🔁 Il reste trois jours, si tu peux faire tourner le lien de la campagne, ça serait vraiment super ! (pitié)

https://fr.ulule.com/dissension-jim182/

#bookstodon #scienceFiction

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23d

#books #bookstodon @bookstodon

Authors cannot help the fact that they share the same name, but to head off confusion these are three separate people:

KATE QUINN:

Historical Fiction

The Alice Network
The Rose Code
The Huntress
The Diamond Eye, etc.

CATE QUINN:

Historical Fiction
(Travel and Lifestyle journalist, as well)

Black Widows
Blood Sisters
The Clinic

KATHERINE QUINN:

Fantasy/Romance

Stolen Midnights series
Mistlands series
The Azantian trilogy

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223d

I fear I'm not nice enough to swear to h*ck, but I kind of wish I was that has to count for something 😇😂

@bookstodon @books
@worldbuilding @humor @humor@lemmy.world @aiop

#SpeculativeFiction #FantasyBooks
#FantasyMemes #SciFiMemes #Fantasy #SciFi #Meme #Memes #Humor #Humour #Funny
#Low #Urban #High #Epic #Science #Opera #Hard #Soft #CottageCore #SolarPunk #Comedic
#Novel #Books #Bookstodon #BookMastodon

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| swear to h*ck, if I have to explain the difference between Science Fiction and Fantasy again, I will literally be so glad to help because learning is awesome and those two genres are my favorite.

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268d

It's almost like publishers don't know the Spice of Life when they see it 😜😂

@bookstodon @books
@worldbuilding @humor @humor @humor@lemmy.world @aiop

#Dune
#SpeculativeFiction #FantasyBooks
#FantasyMemes #SciFiMemes #Fantasy #SciFi #Meme #Memes #Humor #Humour #Funny
#Low #High #Epic #Science #Opera #Hard #CottageCore #SolarPunk #Comedic #Whatever #GiveMeAllYouveGot
#Book #Books #Novel #Novels #Bookstodon #Bookworm #Bookwyrm #BookLove

Two panel meme of a person being uplifted by an angel.
Panel one: Frank Herbert getting rejected by every credible publisher.
Panel two: A company that specializes in car repair manuals thinking his story about giant worms and space drugs is kinda neat.

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70d

Family haul from #Canberra 's wonderful #LifelineBookfair second hand book (and DVD, puzzle, etc) sale. Did we win? @bookstodon #Bookstodon

21 books, 9 DVDs, and a puzzle laid out on the floor, with multiple appearances by Stephen Hawking, Georgette Heyer, Katharine Kerr, Phillip Pullman, Sherlock Holmes in book and film form, and David Suchet as Poirot.

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70d

Książka o treści dokładnie takiej, jaką widać w tytule - jest krótka i jest o historii psychologii. Pozwala uporządkować sobie wiele spraw, jest raczej dla laików, całkiem przyjemna, ale też nie znajdziecie tutaj za dużo więcej. Na rozszerzenie horyzontów jak znalazł.

https://lubimyczytac.pl/ksiazka/krotka-historia-psychologii/opinia/100772568

@ksiazki @bookstodon #ksiażki #czytam #Bookstodon #FediKsiązki #Ksiazkodon #Readlist2026PL