Suck it linguists I'll make my own grammar rolls 😜😂
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📚 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...
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."
"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.
📚 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
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #horror #generalfiction #humorous #thrillers
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.
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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!
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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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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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📖 📻 **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?_
#NPR #Reading #Audiobooks #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
#Image attribution: Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler / Grid Engine, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AudiobookLibrary.jpg.
📚 Young Jane Young by: Gabrielle Zevin
This is the story of five women...
Meet Rachel Grossman.
She’ll stop at nothing to protect her daughter, Aviva, even if it ends up costing her everything.
Meet Jane Young.
She’s disrupting a quiet life with her daughter, Ruby, to seek political office for the first time.
Meet Ruby Young.
She th...
https://bookblabla.com/book/young-jane-young
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #womenfiction #familylife #general
The Nod/Wells Timelines speculative-fiction literary universe combines the best of science fiction, horror, and thrillers of all sorts.
Visit the official website: http://michaelshotter.com
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Currently reading:
- The Plot and the Pendulum by Jenn McKinlay with Allyson Ryan (Narrator)
- On Morrison by Namwali Serpell
- Asteroid Hunters by Carrie Nugent
- Stuntboy #2 (In-Between Time) by Jason Reynolds with Raúl the Third (Illustrator)
- Short Story America Anthology, Volume 1 edited by T.D. Johnston
The Kindle edition sale on "8" continues! Need some convincing? Check out this review from fellow speculative-fiction author Tony Travis:
https://www.tonytravis.com/post/tony-s-review-of-8-tales-of-the-big-men-from-the-nod-wells-timelines
Offer ends July 22!
US: https://amazon.com/dp/B0D26NHT3J
UK: https://amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D26NHT3J
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4.25/5 at The Storygraph for "City of Sin and Splendour:Writings on Lahore". A fascinating & challenging collection of memoirs, histories, poems and short fiction. Of the latter, my two favourites were at the end, "Air Conditioning" by Mohsin Hamid and "The Old Mansion" by Ikramullah Chaudry.
It was also fun to learn that landmarks and at least one thoroughfare in Lahore were, once upon a time, named after a distant relative who served as Viceroy of India.
#Reading #bookstodon
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As the Kindle edition sale on "8" comes to its end, a big thanks to everyone who participated, and a little reminder that there's a lot more to explore in The Nod/Wells Timelines speculative-fiction universe!
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📚 House of Earth and Blood by: Sarah J. Maas
Bryce Quinlan had the perfect life-working hard all day and partying all night-until a demon murdered her closest friends, leaving her bereft, wounded, and alone. When the accused is behind bars but the crimes start up again, Bryce finds herself at the heart of the investi...
https://bookblabla.com/book/house-of-earth-and-blood
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #fantasy #romancefiction #romance #fantasyfiction
My latest read: "The Forgotten War" by Adam Hulse - Author - See my Goodreads review for details but if you're a fan of multi-genre speculative fiction, this is a book you won't soon forget!
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7790752183
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As you might expect, when Ronald McGillvray and I created The Post Mortem Report over three years ago, one of our goals was to inform readers about us and our work as authors but we also like to have fun, something I think comes across nicely in our latest trailer for the show. 🙂
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Here are a few thoughts on Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym, 1977, a poignant novel centred around 4 London office workers in their 60s who are all facing decisions about their future #bookstodon #BookReview #reading #Storygraph #Braille @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/323185e6-f58e-4f29-937b-febe961b1c2e
Reading for pleasure in childhood may shape later development in remarkable ways.
A recent large-scale study found associations between early pleasure reading and better cognitive performance, improved mental well-being, and even differences in brain structure in adolescence.
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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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![This is the story of five women...
Meet Rachel Grossman.
She’ll stop at nothing to protect her daughter, Aviva, even if it ends up costing her everything.
Meet Jane Young.
She’s disrupting a quiet life with her daughter, Ruby, to seek political office for the first time.
Meet Ruby Young.
She thinks her mom has a secret. She's right.
Meet Embeth Levin.
She’s made a career of cleaning up her congressman husband’s messes.
Meet Aviva Grossman.
The internet won’t let her or anyone else forget her past transgressions.
It’s brilliant and hilarious. It has a heart. And a spine. It’s exactly what we need more of right now. —Chicago Tribune
Splendid [Zevin’s] vibrant and playful writing, and the fully realized characters taking turns as narrator, bring the story a zestful energy. Booklist
From the author of the international bestseller The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry:
Named a Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction of 2017
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
A Chatelaine Best Fall Reads pick
#1 on the August Library Reads list
An Entertainment Weekly’s 13 Books to Read in August
An Amazon’s 'Best Books of the Month' for August
A Barnes & Noble “August’s Best New Fiction” pick
#3 on the September Indie Next List
A smart, intersectional feminist tour de force. Washington Times
From Gabrielle Zevin, beloved author of the international bestsellers Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and The Storied Life of A. J.](/proxy/post_attachment/996199/7f01c187d8.jpg "This is the story of five women...
Meet Rachel Grossman.
She’ll stop at nothing to protect her daughter, Aviva, even if it ends up costing her everything.
Meet Jane Young.
She’s disrupting a quiet life with her daughter, Ruby, to seek political office for the first time.
Meet Ruby Young.
She thinks her mom has a secret. She's right.
Meet Embeth Levin.
She’s made a career of cleaning up her congressman husband’s messes.
Meet Aviva Grossman.
The internet won’t let her or anyone else forget her past transgressions.
It’s brilliant and hilarious. It has a heart. And a spine. It’s exactly what we need more of right now. —Chicago Tribune
Splendid [Zevin’s] vibrant and playful writing, and the fully realized characters taking turns as narrator, bring the story a zestful energy. Booklist
From the author of the international bestseller The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry:
Named a Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction of 2017
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
A Chatelaine Best Fall Reads pick
#1 on the August Library Reads list
An Entertainment Weekly’s 13 Books to Read in August
An Amazon’s 'Best Books of the Month' for August
A Barnes & Noble “August’s Best New Fiction” pick
#3 on the September Indie Next List
A smart, intersectional feminist tour de force. Washington Times
From Gabrielle Zevin, beloved author of the international bestsellers Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and The Storied Life of A. J.")
