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24d

I never remember my dreams, so I'm going to assume this is what I dream about all the time! Dogs who read 😁

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Post by Daniel Spenser

Last week I had a dream and the only thing I remembered about the dream
was a poster on a wall so I made the poster and put it on a wall and it was the fastest I have ever made a dream come true and it felt exhilarating like I had solved a mystery.

Poster of a dog reading a book titled Bones held by a human hand. With the repeated caption EVERYBODY READS! in the background.

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56d

This post puts words to my favourite experience as a reader 😊

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Post by angelica chong

there is something incredibly satisfying about reading the first page of a book, and immediately something in your brain sits up and goes 'oh, i'm going to like this' — and then every subsequent page proves you right

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22d

In case you needed to dislike JK Rowling even more:

"Neil Blair established High Line Publishing Studio to help Jewish and Israeli literary figures who are being 'shunned.' Blair represents such leading literary lights as JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series."

https://www.washingtonjewishweek.com/jk-rowlings-agent-fights-back-against-silent-boycott-of-jewish-writers/

@bookstodon #books #bookstodon #reading #Israel #Palestine

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If a book hasn't been banned somewhere is it even worth reading? 🤔😁

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Picutre of a bookshelf with a sign saying,
Banned Books: Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
-Isaac Asimov
The shelf features books and has signs explaining what each one was banned for.

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22d

As a middle-aged man I still identify with Alice in Wonderlands "required to play along with adult nonsense" 🤔

I'd like to suggest the subtitle: "10-years-old and already sick of your bullshit." 😂

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Post by roach-works

look, here’s the thing: alice in wonderland’s enduring fucking charm is that
it perfectly captures the vibe of being a very tired and annoyed child who
is nonetheless required to play along with adult nonsense.

alice is dragged from place to place without warning, forced to play stupid
games with no good prizes, grilled over her schooling and manners and
recitation and dress, scolded, judged, insulted to her face, sent away,
given gifts she didn’t ask for and doesn’t like, corrected incorrectly, been
subject to shifting and arbitrary rules, and then when she gets snappish
with all this bullshit everyone acts like a little girl’s temper is the end of the
fucking world.

alice in wonderland isn’t a drug trip or a nightmare or a metaphor, that’s
just what being ten years old is LIKE. that’s why kids love it so much. even
if they can’t quite articulate how, they recognize themselves in it.

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1y

That's my favorite part of the holidays! 😂

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Post by Fran
Two paintings of women in nice dresses reading books.
Caption: My favourite category of painting is “portrait of an introvert who snuck out of the party she was forced to attend to go read in a quiet room somewhere” also known as me every holiday season.

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22d

finished reading Legends & Lattes: The Graphic Novel
I love the expressions in this book. Tandri's face when Amity first shows up was hilarious.

This was every bit as excellent as the original novel. Strongly recommended.

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21d

Four stars:

Hen Fever by Olivia Waite (2022) is a romance about two middle aged women finding love as they rescue a rare breed of chicken. Lydia Wraxhall meets Harriet Boyne when she accidentally trespasses on Harriet's property in search of her rooster.

https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_10/hen_fever.html

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19d

Five stars:

Never Say Die by Ke Huy Quan (2026) is a memoir of a life as a Chinese refugee from Viet Nam and the ups and downs of being an actor. Recently he's best known for playing Wayland in Everything Everywhere All at Once. Before that it was Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Data in The Goonies

https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_10/never_say_die.html

#bookstodon #audiobook #memoir #nonfiction
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21d

I’ve written a few thoughts on Five Little Pigs, 1942, by Agatha Christie, where Poirot embarks on a True Crime book to investigate a case! An excellent read #bookstodon #BookReview #reading #Storygraph #Braille @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/759a70f7-6cde-439e-b392-b52fbe53a8a8

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25d

Are all Job Creators also Dark Lords, or is it just most? 🤔😜

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Three panel meme with images from The Lord of the Ring movies.
1: Good guy Sauron, gave out gifts. Picture of the Ringwraiths.
2: Developed industry. Picture of Orcs and a furnace.
3: Created thousands of jobs. Picture of the plains of Mordor burning with troops.

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23d

I feel sorry for librarians in the era of tech-bro controlled social media 😒

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One panel comic of a library with a patron saying, "I FIND THIS BOOK OFFENSIVE!" and the librarian replying, "Cool. Given it back so I can lend it to someone who doesn't."

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48d

As an opening line this is hard to beat 😂

#DouglasAdams
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Photo of the Chapter 1 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Post by Dunwall:
this is my favourite quote ever

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21d

In 19th-century Dublin, a disillusioned doctor and a fallen woman cross paths, sparking a forbidden love that defies society's judgments.

Amazon - https://mybook.to/ascarletwoman
Other Retailers - https://lornapeel.com/fitzgeralds/a-scarlet-woman

#BooksByLornaPeel #Books #Ireland #HistoricalRomance #BookSeries #HistoricalFiction #KindleUnlimited #Bookstodon #Romance @bookstodon

Promotional graphic for A Scarlet Woman, an Irish historical fiction novel, and book one in The Fitzgeralds of Dublin series, an Irish family saga by Lorna Peel. Headline reads: “Begin The Fitzgeralds of Dublin series with A Scarlet Woman.” An image of the A Scarlet Woman Kindle cover is displayed on a tablet. Text reads: “Escape to 19th-century Ireland for a story of scandal, sacrifice, and a love that changes everything.” Bottom text reads: “Kindle | Kindle Unlimited | Paperback” followed by the link: mybook.to/ascarletwoman

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27d

Currently #Reading and enjoying Vaseem Khan's Quantum of Menace but disappointed to see him peddling the tiresome and utterly wrong conflation of non-standard orthography with non-standard grammar. The spelling of FITE DA POWA is non-standard, but there is nothing at all questionable about the completely standard grammar. #bookstodon
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Text on an e-reader as follows.

Though he had once bought a t-shirt with the slogan, FITE DA POWA, he hadn't actually worn it because, A, he hated the questionable grammar, and B, he looked a bit of a tit in it.

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21d

This week's #NewBooks at the library: some books I hope to review soon!
- I received a review copy of Jessica Riskin's The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste #Lamarck, published by Riverhead Books. This will be the finale of an upcoming Lamarck-review-extravaganza.
- I received my preorder of Cody Dahler's The State of This! A Thicky Thicky Dumb Dumb's Guide to #BritishPolitics, published by Bonnier Books. This was supposed to be, but through some miscommunications ended up not being, a signed copy. Cody, let us know if you're ever in Devon on a speaking engagement, and I'll make an effort to come out and remedy that! :)
- Lastly, happy publication day to @parismarx Hyperscale: Ambition, Power and the Relentless Rise of Data Empires, published by Profile Books!

#Books #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #EvolutionaryBiology #Evolution #Lamarckism #Politics #AI #NoToAi #ArtificialIntelligence #DataCenters #Scicomm @bookstodon

A photo of three books standing on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books.

On the left, The Power of Life, showing a cream-coloured hardback with the left-hand side showing a column of colourful period illustrations of animal heads and torsos, as well as flowers, grasses, ferns, and coral, all facing to the right. From top to bottom, there is a giraffe, a black bird with an iridescent bib (identity unknown, a howler monkey, a tiger, a fish (likely a salmon), and a caterpillar.

In the middle, The State of This!, showing a yellow hardback with a photo collage. A man with a buzzcut and a white T-shirt is seated at a table with a plate and cutlery in front of him. The plate contains a miniature of part of the Palace of Westminster in London. He is pulling a face that expresses a mix of disgust and consternation. Behind him, a photo collage of various famous British politicians is all looking at him. From left to right, we have Margaret Thatcher, Nigel Farage, Tony Blair, and Andy Burnham.

On the right, Hyperscale, showing a black hardback with a tangle of fibre optic cables fanning out from a narrow bunch at the bottom to a splayed-out bunch towards the top of the cover.

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48d

Just finished Welcome to the Kokoro Cat Clinc, by Syou Ishida. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4/5 stars

It started out cozy, but then each successive story took on a sharper edge than the one before it. There's more emotional depth than I had anticipated, and the last story really got to me. The author does a good job of allowing the characters to see what changes they need to make, based on the lessons they learn from the mysterious Kokoro Clinic for the Soul. There's plenty of social commentary here. #books #bookstodon @bookstodon

Slightly blurry image of the book cover, featuring a Sismese cat peeking down from above, a calico leaping out of frame from the top of an oversized prescription bottle, and centered, a black cat wearing a doctor's headgear, staring with golden eyes, paws up on the counter where a stethoscope is laid. An all-white cat is crawling out of a large prescription bottle on the counter as well.

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52d

Several of you recommended The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell. I am 100 pages in, and completely invested! I love the story, the characters, the science, the way it unfolds in alternating time periods, the way details are slowly revealed, all of it. Magnificent storytelling. From the first few pages, I have been bracing to be torn apart and profoundly disturbed, but the suspense keeps me firmly in place.

Excellent rec!

#books #bookstodon #IAmReading #SciFi @bookstodon

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51d

Bardzo czekałem na możliwość przeczytania tej książki, a jednocześnie bałem się, że nie będzie to to, czego oczekuję. Ale nie zawiodłem się, a do tego czyta się szybko, przyjemnie, mimo że nastrój i treść nie są przyjemne. Miks kryminału z literaturą piękną (bardziej to drugie), książka z gatunku tych wartościowych. Nie bójcie się, jeśli nie przetrawiliście np. "Biegunów" naszej noblistki.

https://lubimyczytac.pl/ksiazka/prowadz-swoj-plug-przez-kosci-umarlych/opinia/101180038

@ksiazki @bookstodon #książki #czytam #bookstodon #FediKsiążki #ksiązkodon #Readlist2026PL

Okładka e-booka "Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych" autorstwa Olgi Tokarczuk. E-book ma 212 stron.

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47d

Five stars:

Murder at the Toy Soldier by Maddie Day with Rachel Dulude (Narrator) (2026) is the eighth book in the Cozy Capers Book Group mystery series. Mac and Tim are busy now as the adoptive parents of Ella and Luca. There's a murder at the toy shop where Mac had purchased a birthday gift for Ella.

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

#bookstodon #audiobook #mystery
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24d

I've finished: The Dritty Doesen: Some of the Least Reasonable Stories of Matthew Sanborn Smith

I like short story collections with commentary by the author. It gives more meaning and depth to the stories and helps me appreciate them more.

As someone who knows Mathew Sanborn Smith from his wacky Beware the Hairy Mango podcast, these stories are not as out there as the title suggests. Accept the title story itself.

I enjoy Sanborn's work and themes of social justice are always at the forefront of his work.

I read it for the r/fantasy 2026 reading challenge, as my choice for the: Small Press or Self Published, prompt.

Mathew is now on feedie and his podcast is the most beige party media I know.

@upwithgravity

Beware the Hairy Mango:

https://bewarethehairymango.com/

The Dritty Doesen is available on SmashWords:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/987326

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37d

For anyone who's been waiting...

I now have three chapters or ten scenes left to edit before The Last Philosopher: Part Two will be available 😁

Progress is slow, but I'm getting there... 😊

Here's some fanart of Lyeasrakardsul to reward your patience.

@reading @books @fantasy @bookstodon

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#FantasyBooks #Fantasy #Satire #Humor #Humour #Comedy
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Fanart of Lyeasrakardsul reading by candlelight in his penthouse apartment.

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19d

Pure Men. By Mohamed Mbougar Sarr; transl Lara Vergnaud.

You are a Senegalese man, who has a lot of straight sex, but you are also a literature professor who teaches gay French poets, and if that is not bad enough, you comfort a woman who’s (probably) gay son’s body was exhumed by an angry mob…and this is just the start of people’s grievances with you.

3 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈.

CW: extreme anti-gay bias

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