Some excellent books here! Of Barbara Pym: ‘I see in her characters spinsters of the type I aspire to be: incisive, busy, and fine with or without a partner. Pym was ahead of her time…So ahead, in fact, that we haven’t yet caught up to her’ | Eight Booker Prize-nominated books that celebrate ‘spinster lit’ | The Booker Prizes
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Just in case, like me, you're in need of something wholesome to start a new week: Betty's Reading Room by the dock in Tingwall, Orkney.
Apparently set up by a couple in memory of their late friend Betty Prictor - a place for folk to hang out while waiting for the Rousay ferry and really just the loveliest memorial I can imagine.
📚 Skirting Danger by: Kay Keppler
Suspended for a hunch gone wrong, CIA language analyst Phoebe Renfrew is desperate to get her job back. But when she uncovers a terrorist plot at a Las Vegas start-up car company owned by famed ex-quarterback Chase Bonaventure, no one listens to her.
The CIA doesn't care, the FBI is too busy, and th...
https://bookblabla.com/book/skirting-danger
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #generalfiction #romance #romanticcomedy
📚 The Road to Roswell: A Novel by: Connie Willis
When level-headed Francie arrives in Roswell, New Mexico, for her college roommate's UFO-themed wedding—complete with a true-believer bridegroom—she can’t help but roll her eyes at all the wide-eyed talk of aliens, which obviously don’t exist. Imagine her surprise, then, when she is abducted by one.
Odder still, he...
On the Calculation of Volume, III. By Solvege Balle (trans by S Smith and J Russell)
part 3 of 7 - spoilers if you haven’t read prior ones!
You are still trapped repeating the same day in November, now for three plus years, and you can’t bear to interact with your unaware loved ones and friends; when suddenly you meet another entrapped person, you are joyful, but then it gets complicated.
4 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈
Thank you, Dolly Parton! ❤️
"Dolly Parton-led program has mailed 4 million free books to Oregon children"
"Oregon’s version of Imagination Library, an initiative launched by superstar Dolly Parton to send a free book each month to babies and preschoolers, recently mailed its 4 millionth book to an Oregon child."
There were two fantastic things about that day.
The first was that she stumbled upon a new author she had never read before, and loved what was written.
The second was that she had an entire day to immerse herself in reading.
Afternoon with a Book art print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/afternoon-with-a-book-steve-henderson.html
#reading #book #art #artwork #drawing #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #relaxing #woman #beauty #decor #artist
Breakfast time: I am reading the book "The Last Goddess" by Kateřina Tučková.
(Translated from Czech by Andrew Oakland)
And it touches me because the book begins with themes that have also influenced my life - women, health care and intelligence service. I won't say any more so as not to spoil anything ;)
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So, they say Abercrombie's The Devils is absolutely worth it?
https://joeabercrombie.com/books/the-devils/
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"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
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Multitasking is a lie.
Singletasking is a lie.
Tasking is a lie.
Edited 1y ago
Book number 9 for the year finished!
This time I read The Rainfall Market by You Yeong-Gwang. It was quite good! I loved all the characters and the different shops in the market! It was a very chill book with surprising action. I also appreciated the twists and turns at the end. I even teared up a little bit!
I give this book a 4.5 out of 5!
Only 26 books left until my goal!
📚 This Book Is Full of Spiders by: Jason Pargin, David Wong
Warning: You may have a huge, invisible spider living in your skull. THIS IS NOT A METAPHOR.
You will dismiss this as ridiculous fear-mongering. Dismissing things as ridiculous fear-mongering is, in fact, the first symptom of parasitic spider infection, the ...
https://bookblabla.com/book/this-book-is-full-of-spiders
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![Warning: You may have a huge, invisible spider living in your skull. THIS IS NOT A METAPHOR.
You will dismiss this as ridiculous fear-mongering. Dismissing things as ridiculous fear-mongering is, in fact, the first symptom of parasitic spider infection, the creature stimulates skepticism, in order to prevent you from seeking a cure. That's just as well, since the "cure" involves learning what a chainsaw tastes like. You can't feel the spider, because it controls your nerve endings. You won't even feel it when it breeds. And it will breed.
Just stay calm, and remember that telling you about the spider situation is not the same as having caused it. I'm just the messenger. Even if I did sort of cause it. Either way, I won't hold it against you if you're upset. I know that's just the spider talking.
"Like an episode of AMC's The Walking Dead written by Douglas Adams of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...Imagine a mentally ill narrator describing the zombie apocalypse while drunk, and the end result is unlike any other book of the genre. Seriously, dude, touch it and read it." –Washington Post
Kevin Smith's Clerks meets H.P. Lovecraft in this exceptional thriller... [Jason Pargin] is a fantastic author with a supernatural talent for humor. If you want a poignant, laugh-out-loud funny, disturbing, ridiculous, self-aware, socially relevant horror novel than This Book is Full of Spiders: Seriously Dude, Don't Touch It is the one and only book for you. SF Signal
F](/proxy/post_attachment/995241/3496befafc.jpg "Warning: You may have a huge, invisible spider living in your skull. THIS IS NOT A METAPHOR.
You will dismiss this as ridiculous fear-mongering. Dismissing things as ridiculous fear-mongering is, in fact, the first symptom of parasitic spider infection, the creature stimulates skepticism, in order to prevent you from seeking a cure. That's just as well, since the \"cure\" involves learning what a chainsaw tastes like. You can't feel the spider, because it controls your nerve endings. You won't even feel it when it breeds. And it will breed.
Just stay calm, and remember that telling you about the spider situation is not the same as having caused it. I'm just the messenger. Even if I did sort of cause it. Either way, I won't hold it against you if you're upset. I know that's just the spider talking.
\"Like an episode of AMC's The Walking Dead written by Douglas Adams of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...Imagine a mentally ill narrator describing the zombie apocalypse while drunk, and the end result is unlike any other book of the genre. Seriously, dude, touch it and read it.\" –Washington Post
Kevin Smith's Clerks meets H.P. Lovecraft in this exceptional thriller... [Jason Pargin] is a fantastic author with a supernatural talent for humor. If you want a poignant, laugh-out-loud funny, disturbing, ridiculous, self-aware, socially relevant horror novel than This Book is Full of Spiders: Seriously Dude, Don't Touch It is the one and only book for you. SF Signal
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The book "A Life on Our Planet" is a hard (as in "tough") read, but well worth the effort. In fact, you should read it!
Sir David Attenborough recently turned 100. He has seen the world around him change. Not just in the general sense, but from an environmental, social, and financial perspective.
#davidattenborough #planet #ourplanet #earth #climate #motherearth #book #books #goodread #reading
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This start of The Myth of Sisyphus is some of the best writing these little eyes have ever seen, and yes I do imagine Sisyphus happy 😁
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Don't Panic!
Remember, you are safe in this Galaxy, as long as you know exactly where your towel is.
Happy Towel Day!
#TowelDay #onthisday #HitchhikersGuide #novel #writer #DouglasAdams #author #authors #scifi #sciencefiction #books #literature #today #Towel #Galaxy #dontpanic #reading #fiction #readers #bookstodon @bookstodon #booksky #booktok #bookwyrm #bookstagram #readingcommunity #writers #Adams
What better time to try and promote horror than on Monday morning?
Human Nature and Other Stories is available now through most outlets if you want some of the good horror, the fake stuff, as opposed to the weird Stephen King novel we all seem to have fallen into lately. Horror so Scottish it should be deep fried.
https://books2read.com/HumanNatureAndOtherStories
I also have a freebie (on most sites, still trying to fix a few)...
ICYMI: The Kindle edition of "8: Tales of The Big Men from The Nod/Wells Timelines" is on sale until July 22 in the US and the UK via Amazon.
✅ Unique
✅ Speculative Fiction
✅ Sci-Fi
✅ Horror
✅ Thriller
✅ Universe
US: https://amazon.com/dp/B0D26NHT3J
UK: https://amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D26NHT3J
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📚 **Oliver Sacks: Why the Oxford English Dictionary is the most ‘coveted and desirable book in the world’**
🔗 https://flashbak.com/oliver-sacks-books-476320/.
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This is such a great initiative, but it's also deeply sad that a library of banned books is necessary.
Read banned books.
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Thanks for sharing @ULB_MS_FachInfo
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Edited 85d ago
📖 📻 **Does listening to an audiobook count as reading?**
🔗 https://www.npr.org/2025/07/12/nx-s1-5454723-e1/does-listening-to-an-audiobook-count-as-reading.
_What do you think?_
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#Image attribution: Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler / Grid Engine, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AudiobookLibrary.jpg.
