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What book has caused this reaction in you? 🤔

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Three panel comic by theoddisout on Tumblr.

First Panel: One figure is asking a reading figure, "Do you like the book I loaned you?"
Second: The reader turns and screams at the top of their lungs.
Third: "Oh, you're at that part."

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TL;DR: No it wasn't. Yes you should.

#reading #books #writing #socialMedia

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Just one entry for #MurderEveryMonday this week, the nationality itself "burnt up" long ago. Another one from Dean Street Press
#Reading #Mystery #bookstodon
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https://crossexaminingcrime.com/murdereverymonday-theme-list/

cover of "The Case of Burnt Bohemian" by Christopher Bush, book 42 in the Ludovic Travers series

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📚 Tremendous Things by: Susin Nielsen

We all have moments that define us. For the comically clueless Wilbur, his moment happened on the first day of middle school, when someone shared his private letter with the entire student body. It revealed some of Wilbur's innermost embarrassing thoughts that no one else should ever know.

Now it's the start of...

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#books #reading #libraries #socialthemes #humorous #general

We all have moments that define us. For the comically clueless Wilbur, his moment happened on the first day of middle school, when someone shared his private letter with the entire student body. It revealed some of Wilbur's innermost embarrassing thoughts that no one else should ever know.

Now it's the start of ninth grade and Wilbur hasn't been able to escape that major humiliation. His good friend Alex stuck by him, but Alex doesn't have as much time since he started dating Fabrizio. Luckily, Wil can confide in his best friend: his elderly neighbor Sal. Also, Wil's in the school band, where he plays the triangle. They're doing an exchange program with students from Paris, and Wilbur's billet, Charlie, a tall, chic young woman who plays the ukulele and burps with abandon, captures his heart. Charlie likes him, but only as a friend. So Alex, Fabrizio and Sal host a Queer Eye-style intervention to get Wil in shape and to build his confidence so he can impress Charlie when their band visits Paris, and just maybe replace humiliation with true romance in the City of Love.

From Governor General's Literary Award--winning author Susin Nielsen comes a funny and heartfelt story about learning how to rise above your most embarrassing moment with humor, best friends and a killer triangle solo.

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65d

Book Promotion: First #book in a series on #KindleUnlimited

A collection of 118 #books for you. Read my #spaceopera

#ku #spaceship #magic #aliens #kindle #fedibookfair #boost #amreading #writing #dwarfs #readers #rogue #heroes #bookwyrm #reading #goodbooks #space #time #dwarves #dystopia #sorcery #monsters #futurism #planets #sciencefiction #science #scifi #writing #young #newadults #teen #teens #ya #books #booktoot #booksky #bookfunnel #bookstagram @bookstodon

https://books.bookfunnel.com/kureads-jul/ja5y034d96

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Book Promotion: Choose a #book on #Kindle Unlimited

A collection of 117 #books for you. Read my #spaceopera

#ku #spaceship #magic #aliens #legendary #fedibookfair #boost #amreading #writing #dwarfs #readers #rogue #heroes #bookwyrm #reading #goodbooks #space #time #dwarves #dystopia #sorcery #monsters #futurism #planets #sciencefiction #science #scifi #writing #young #newadults #teen #teens #ya #books #booktoot #booksky #bookfunnel #bookstagram @bookstodon

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#WritersCoffeeClub 7/15 Do you read a lot outside of your comfort zone?

Not anymore.

For most of my life, I read whatever I could grab. Thrillers, mysteries, hist fic, fantasy, SF, YA, adventures, some romance.

These days, I read my comfort books, often several times, cycling through them. They are where I go to rest my mind and my soul.

The world has become so taxing and chilling, I don't need to stretch myself in reading. I go for feel-good books now.

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Today's book promo: My First Series.
It's science fiction, but the friendly kind.
Heroes beaten down by the new order team up to save a philanthropist targeted for assassination bc he wants to change the system from within.
Hiinks ensue.
2 novels, a novella & a wee prequel.

DRM free ebooks & print direct:
https://kmherkes.com/the-bookshop1
kindle:
https://amazon.com/author/kmherkes
other vendors:
https://books2read.com/KMHerkes/

#bookstodon #reading #ScienceFiction #scifi #books #hopepunk #technothriller

Promo graphic with the covers of all four Stories Of the Restoration novels shown on a white background with the statement "Move Slow Fix Things on a green band in the center, and a scatter of descriptive keywords all around them.
Books:
Controlled Descent, Flight Plan, Weaving In The Ends, and Novices.
Keywords:
Social justice
heists
so much swearing
feisty heroines
kinda gritty
chosen families
unexplained superpowers
mystery, science fiction, suspense, romance, sorta hopepunk.
Controlled Descent shows an image of two figures on a snowfield hiking toward a futuristic city. Flight Plan shows a silhouette of a city against a burning orange smoky sky, Weaving In The Ends has the image of two hands knitting blue yarn against a moody dark background, and Novices shows two boys silhouetted by a rising sun near a ruined city.

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62d

The Rose Field. Philip Pullman.
(Book 3 of a trilogy)

You are a young woman whose animal familiar has left her, so she goes searching for him, as well as the doorway to another world which is also the target of religious authorities; you are trying to figure out what makes life worth living, but that is elusive.

2 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈.

@bookstodon #bookstodon #books #reading #fantasy #religion #capitalism

Book cover with a desert scene with yellow sky.

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61d

#Business #Launches
HyperTexting · Your social timeline powered by the open web https://ilo.im/16egjb

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#App #iOS #Publishing #Reading #Content #RSS #SocialWeb #OpenWeb #IndieWeb #SmallWeb

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63d

Gonna write down ALL the words! 😂

#BookMemes #Meme #Humor #Humour #Funny #NotOC #ReadingMemes #Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity #Litterature #Novel #Bookshelf #Dictionary #Books #Bookstodon

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55d

Everything's more fun if it's a vice!😂

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My best tip for anyone trying to get back into reading is to remember that you can read books to avoid other responsibilities in your life, and it can become a vice if you play your cards right.

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57d

Join thousands of library supporters taking action nationwide.

#library #libraries #read #reading #book #books #librarianship #lit

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56d

I would've thought that was the printing press but what do I know 😂

But know all industries are dirty and corrupt, so buy Indie when you can...

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@philosophy
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A generic figure reading on top of a pile of books.
Caption: Philosophy was invented by Big Book to sell more book.

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📚 The New People by: Andrea Uptmor

A newly married couple move into a flipped foreclosure, unaware that the former homeowners are still living in the attic. A striking and intimate debut about motherhood, loss and the true cost of starting over. After the housing crash in 2008, Emma and Rachel move into a charming little house in a ...

https://bookblabla.com/book/the-new-people

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#books #reading #libraries #fiction #lgbtq #gayfiction #lesbianfiction #romance

A newly married couple move into a flipped foreclosure, unaware that the former homeowners are still living in the attic. A striking and intimate debut about motherhood, loss and the true cost of starting over. After the housing crash in 2008, Emma and Rachel move into a charming little house in a conservative college town, hoping for a fresh start after a painful miscarriage.
Emma finds herself struggling in the shadow of her wife's success: tenure-track professor and now bestselling novelist. Desperate to build something of her own, and without Rachel's knowledge, Emma pursues IVF.

The house becomes a refuge from the town Emma is convinced is set against her - until strange occurrences make her question whether she and Rachel are truly alone.
They aren't.
Charlotte and Dirk, the former homeowners displaced by the recession, are secretly living above Emma and Rachel's attached garage.

As Charlotte listens to the interlopers below, her growing resentment pushes her into small acts of defiance, eventually full-blown sabotage.
But when her campaign to drive out the couple goes too far, Charlotte's and Emma's stories converge in an explosive climax that will reveal the lengths people will go to reclaim what they've lost.
'Andrea Uptmor's The New People is a delicate exploration of humanity in all its forms, touching on infertility, addiction, grief, and love with real awareness and pathos'
Loretta Rothschild, bestselling author of Finding Grace

'This is a book of

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55d

Off to the Tamar Valley Author's Market today to sell my books. It's a local farmer's market, but they have little themes for the mid-month market. Apparently, there will be at least two writers present. Head a long to Beaconsfield in the extremely unlikely event you read this and live in Northern #Tasmania.

#Books #Reading #writing #Bookstodon

Books. Get HBO programming ten years before everyone else.

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读过大灭绝时代 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
作者和译者文笔都很不错，朴实无华但引人入胜，从十三种不同生物入手见微知著讲了第六次大灭绝的几个侧面。看多了有些 depressing，但像很多科普读物一样结尾又带出了许多人类努力下有在变好的示例。读到本书突然觉得这种实地到全球跟着深爱科研和自然的科研工作者深入现场采访了写科普来给提升大众认知的书（类似的还有《Bitch》）的作者生活好棒啊！颇有种战地/调查记者 but for nature 的感觉，并且结合与有趣的人深度交流及深入浅出科普写作，简直是集我的所有 dream job 于一身了，钱不是问题的话大概会想去锻炼自己的身体和写作能力去干这个吧。

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I'm only 8% into #Reading it, but already the book in the attached photo is on track to be only my second 5-star read at #TheStoryGraph for 2026. It's proving to be so much MORE than a I expected - not just a #poetry anthology, but a defence of #Urdu a primer on the language and its poetic culture. AND it has a name that make smile every time I say it:
The Hindavi word humsafar means "companion" (on a journey). In the last 20+ years I've sung it more often than I could count in the line "ना तो humsafar की तलाश है" - "I'm not looking for a humsafar".

It turns out, I was wrong. 😂
#bookstodon @bookstodon

cover of the book "Humsafar - The World of Urdu Poetry" by Hitesh Gupta Aadil

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60d

Are we living through the end of reading?

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/11/nx-s1-5886268/are-we-living-through-the-end-of-reading

#books #reading

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54d

A Short Stay In Hell. Steven Peck.

You just died, and the hell assigned to you - it’s temporary the demon explains- is an endless library that contains all the books that ever could be written, and all you have to do is find the book that describes your life; you initially muse that things could be worse, but are soon forced to reconsider that.

4 of 5 library cats 📕 📕 📕 📕.

#bookstodon #books #library #libraries #reading #hell #religion #literature #amreading @bookstodon

Book cover featuring a sketchy drawing of very tall bookshelves

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#Summer is here with Will Boast, Elaine Vilar Madruga translated by Samantha Luna, EC Osondu, Zhenya Oliinyk and Robin Munby, plus Luke Healy on the secret of #writing a romcom.

Catch them all at https://fictionable.world

#books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast #bookstodon

The contributors for Fictionable's Summer 2026 issue, from top left: Will Boast, EC Osondu, Samantha Luna, Elaine Vilar Madruga, Zhenya Oliinyk, Luke Healy and Robin Munby

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I read a lot. Mostly SF and fantasy. Something which has been 'taking over' a lot of online communities about those genres (probably also in other genres) in recent years is the concept of #reading challenges.

I finally figured out something which bothers me about them. They turn reading specific #books into something which you do because you're extrinsically motivated!

For me, reading has always been something I do because I'm intrinsically motivated, but I recently caught myself thinking far too much on how to make books fit into such challenges, including picking up books which I didn't actually feel like.

I'm all in favor of people reading more - and more broadly - than they would've done without these challenges, but I already was reading exactly as much as I want to!

Going forward, I'm going to stay far away from the inherent reward-loop from these challenges, and just read what I feel like, when I feel like it. Much healthier for my brain, which is far too susceptible to such things.