Taken this day, 2024, Kate Foster in conversation with Kristin Pedroja at the @TheEdinburghBookshop
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Currently suffering from that malady that all book lovers know all too well: I finished the last book in a series I was loving, and now I can't be in that world anymore.

It's bullshit.

The series was the Cerulean Chronicles, which begins with The House in the Cerulean sea, by TJ Klune. It's one of the most beautiful, hopeful books I've read in a good while.

https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-house-in-the-cerulean-sea-tj-klune/6827457?ean=9781529087949&next=t

#Bookstodon #AmReading

Book 22 was How We Began by LM Juniper (narrated by Frankie Porter).

During the zombie apocalypse, a wish who can’t remember herself escapes her prison with the help of her captor 🧟

Very short review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/b92becd2-31c5-4db1-a23d-178851c01a1e

#bookstodon #queerbooks

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How We Began by LM Juniper (narrated by Frankie Porter).

Book 21 was The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (narrated by Patricia Rodriguez).

‘Plot, plot, and plot! What is plot?’
Becky Chambers, probably

But what she lacks in plot, she makes up for in characters.

Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/01fbbd90-c1bd-40b7-9678-05f0a6964399?redirect=true

#bookstodon #queerbooks

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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (narrated by Patricia Rodriguez). true

A New Partnership is Formed with Weightless Books

Adamsdesk expands with a new partnership that provides value to those seeking e-books that respect your freedom while supporting independence.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/partnership-weightless-books/

#books #reading #blog #BlogPost #bookstodon

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A stack of colourful books sit next to a e-book reader with a bold title above that says, 'A New Partnership Is Formed'.

Reading Gentleman Jack and I know it's not helpful to put modern labels on historic figures but y'all, this is the diary of a trans man.

#Bookstodon #Pride #LGBTQ

I have had so many problems with WooCommerce lately that I took down the shop on my publishing company's website. There are so many great places to buy! Including an indie store near you!

So the Practical Fox website is super plain now, with easy link buttons to popular independent booksellers.

#bookstodon

https://www.practicalfox.com/

Finished one book, still plugged into the poison machine for a while. Of course I brought a second book, because even chemotherapy does not stop me reading.

They pump toxic drugs into my body, I fill my mind with words. The latter is much preferable...

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#books #livres #AmReading #bookstodon

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Green paperback advance proof of Ghost Month by Simon Wroe

I wouldn't say I hyperfixated, but Lord of the Rings was my first in a long line of fantasy crushes 😁

@reading @bookstodon @books @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop @joinin

#ReadingMemes #Meme #Memes #Humor #Humour #Funny
#Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity
#Novel #Books #Fiction
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Post by trish fuck ur zodiac sign, what book series did u hyperfixate on when u were growing up because u projected an escape fantasy into that world as an alternative to ur suburban life

Book 20 was Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto (narrated by Jolene Kim).

Space heist 🔫
Enby main character and queer ensemble cast 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Capitalism sucks 💸

Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/33d15526-6c1b-4cc2-99a4-103a766b6c7d

#bookstodon #queerbooks

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Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto (narrated by Jolene Kim).

Book 19 was Gay the Pray Away, written and read by Natalie Naudus.

Queer teens deconstructing from evangelicalism ⛪️
Purity culture is toxic 🚮
Sapphic first love👭

On sale at Libro-fm: https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9798874727499-gay-the-pray-away

#bookstodon #exvangelical

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Gay the Pray Away, written and read by Natalie Naudus.

Book 18 was The Salvage Crew by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne (narrated by Nathan Fillion).

An uploaded consciousness tries to keep its people alive on a hostile planet. 🪐 While writing poetry. ✨

Mumbled by Nathan Fillion 🤐

Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/5ae1fb7f-5a78-4182-9b56-d53346b2b7f0?redirect=true

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The Salvage Crew by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne (narrated by Nathan Fillion).

"New state law guarantees a free monthly book for Oregon children under 5"

https://www.opb.org/article/2026/06/19/free-books-dolly-parton-oregon/

"Gov. Tina Kotek joined youth advocates and supporters of the Dolly Parton Imagination Library on Thursday to sign the library program into state law."

#Oregon #Books #FreeBooks #Bookstodon #Education #Libraries #GoodNews

A former coworker has just published their first book!

On Goodreads it's being lauded as ""sexist toward men" and "liberalist neo-bourgeois propaganda".

Definitely a must-read!

Go support an independent author and buy a copy (or ask your library to do so). If resources/reading preferences won't allow that, please share this post so others can learn of the book.

https://gsvaliant.com

#Bookstodon

Book 17 was Nearlywed by Nicolas DiDomizio (narrated by Michael Crouch).

Ray and Kip hate each other. So, naturally, they’re getting married 💍
Lobsters🦞

Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/94a76ce2-e5b7-4131-83a2-3818440e74c1

#bookstodon

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Nearlywed by Nicolas DiDomizio (narrated by Michael Crouch). My listening supports The Portal Bookshop Libro.fm

My latest forensics for fairytales book review is live. Under the magnifying glass this time is The Dark Hiss of Magic by Helen Harper. Do they use proper forensics to reach the conclusion?
https://vanessajknipe.wixsite.com/vanessa-knipe/post/every-contact-tells-a-tail
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A hand drawn ginger cat, with tail up, ears pricked and whiskers held proudly, carries a black glove surrounded by a border of fish skeletons.

Just finished this eye-opening book by Khalida Popal, former player on Afghanistan National Women’s Soccer team. The physical and sexual violence, threats & insults these women faced - diff circumstances for each - is appalling. Life is even worse now for all women and girls under the Taliban.
#books #bookstodon #Soccer

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Riveting, heart-wrenching and incredibly important... an inspirational story for girls and women everywhere, but essential reading for everyone." -MALALA YOUSAFZAI, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate KHALIDA POPAL MY BEAUTIFUL SISTERS A Memoir of Courage, Hope, and the Afghan Women's Soccer Team

Book 16 was Guards! Guards! By Terry Pratchett (narrated by Jon Culshaw).

Human by birth; dwarf by identity 🥕
Vimes before Lady Sybil 🍻
How not to overthrow a government ❌

Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/bca7ab2d-0ce3-4c96-8abc-9013cb20d4b8

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Guards! Guards! By Terry Pratchett (narrated by Jon Culshaw).

Book 15 was Every Shade of Happy by Phyllida Shrimpton (narrated by Bronwen Price).

Rainbows on the cover … not queer ⁉️
97-year-old grump and his 15-year-old granddaughter 🤝
Twee 🎀

Not every book odd for every reader and that’s okay.

Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/f9576e34-da1f-4757-bd60-c2eb21c44dcd

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Every Shade of Happy by Phyllida Shrimpton (narrated by Bronwen Price).

Ooh @NickEast_IndieWriter 's book is 99p on Kobo. https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the-last-philsopher-part-one
It would be rude not to
#books #bookstodon

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Screen shot of the kobo app. The book is The Last Philsopher by Nick East. Nothing is Everything #1 The book cover is dark and mysterious with a hooded cloaked figure on a dark red skyline

RE: https://things.uk/@eclectech/116178775359400451

Jasper Fforde is doing a couple of talks in my local library on Friday, so yeah I get to go. I’m sure this is a contrast to the YouTube video showing him at a talk in New York’s library! #bookstodon

Ok hive mind, a gap in my knowledge has been shown, any recommendations on the History of Wales.

Ideally the period from the end of Roman occupation until the anglo norman one.

#Bookstodon #History #Wales

Book 14 was Goaltender Interference by Ari Baran (narrated by Keval Shah).

Autistic man adrift following the loss of all his routines 🫪
Exes who never got over each other💔
Hockey, but Montreal’s not full of bastards 🇨🇦

Libro-fm has it on sale: https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781666685756-goaltender-interference

#bookstodon #queerbooks

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Goaltender Interference by Ari Baran (narrated by Keval Shah). My listening supports The Portal Bookshop Libro.fm

Book 13 was Fool Proof Romance: Love Between the Beat Sheets by Christopher Downing.

An instructive how-to guide for plotting out a romance novel. ✍️💕

Really useful, but not without its issues.

Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/23ff2b76-d9fa-4d84-b519-1243fbd6b22a?redirect=true

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Fool Proof Romance: Love Between the Beat Sheets by Christopher Downing.

Out for Portuguese breakfast today - Tico’s Deli in Broughty Ferry is fab. Then a hefty book haul from the Bookhouse bookshop nearby and also Monifieth public library. Oops! #Books #Bookstodon #Dundee #Scotland

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8 books resting on a red sofa. At the top, standing up, are “Scotland’s Lost Branch Lines” about some of the Beeching railway cuts, then a graphic novel version of Dante’s Inferno, then “Pastels for the Absolute Beginner”. Down below are 5 books lying flat: “The Book of Coffee”, “The ABC’s of LGBTQ+”, “Tsundoku: The Japanese Art of Collecting Books”, “Bookshop Cats”, and “Publisher Not Found: A Decade of Disruption 404 Ink: 2016-2026”.

Book 12 was The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World by Mason Funk (narrated by a full cast).

Interviews with about 75 queer elders in the USA. Some changed their lives, some changed their communities, and some changed the world. But every one of them made a difference. 🏳️‍🌈✨🏳️‍⚧️

Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/d78c034b-b612-4976-ae9b-4ce8b7a4d0fd

#bookstodon #queerbooks

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The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World by Mason Funk (narrated by a full cast).

Book 11 was Conventionally Yours by Annabeth Albert (narrated by Kirt Graves & Joel Froomkin).

Everybody knows they hate each other 💕
Gamer geeks 🎲
Queer exvangelical 🏳️‍🌈
Road trip 🚘

On sale now: https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781666553710-conventionally-yours

#bookstodon #queerbooks

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Conventionally Yours by Annabeth Albert (narrated by Kirt Graves & Joel Froomkin). My listening supports The Portal Bookshop Libro.fm

Book 10 was The Stand-in Dad by Alex Summers (narrated by Candida Gubbins).

Her parents aren’t interested in her wedding 💒
His parents disowned him when he came out 🏳️‍🌈
Now they’re the best of friends 🪭

Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/afe39538-fc9a-4e46-aeac-492b5db88833?redirect=true

#bookstodon #queerbooks

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The Stand-in Dad by Alex Summers (narrated by Candida Gubbins).

Book 9 was The Nightmare Stacks by Charles Stross (narrated by Jack Hawkins).

Newly turned vampire x agent on a mission to destroy humanity 💕
Secret government agency 🕵️
Painfully awkward family dinner 🥙
Computational magic ✨

Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/38fd54f3-6d18-4b99-8232-e57086b41de3

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The Nightmare Stacks by Charles Stross (narrated by Jack Hawkins).

Books are 📚 ...

#bookstodon #Books

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"BOOKS ARE... MIRRORS WINDOWS SLIDING GLASS DOORS STEPPING STONES OVERCOATS ANCHORS SPRINGBOARDS ESCAPE HATCHES QUIET CORNERS WARM BLANKETS FLYING CARPETS BEACONS TO NEW READERS" GRANT SNIDER (AFTER RUDINE SIMS BISHOP)

Finished reading “Touched” by Walter Mosley.

Martin wakes up to cops with guns drawn. From there the story splits into something stranger: a possible alien alteration, a second consciousness sharing his body, and a man uncertain of his own sanity.

Reminded me of American Gods: mythic forces colliding with the mundane.

A blistering critique of qualified immunity. racist enforcement, and police militarism wrapped in a propulsive, strange novella.

4/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/137123578

#bookstodon

#Bookstodon

Trying to identify a novel or novella!

This is probably a very long shot.

I remember reading a book (I think it was in English class) when I was about 12 years old (which would be 1979-ish so it's older than that).

Setting was far northern #Australia, main characters were children. I think they were stranded, and I think the book ended with scenes of all of them walking along the beach, then later walking on the beach but there was one less, and so on, with the implication being that they gradually died.

I've heard of the #ArnhemLand novels by Ann E Wells and I wonder if it's one of those, but can't find any copies or even synopses to test my theory.

All ideas welcome!

#WhatsTheTitle #WhatsThatBook #FindABook #BookIdentification #StoryIdentification #BookFinder

Book 8 was Gay Britannia: Celebrating LGBTQ+ History in Britain, written and read by way too many people.

Weird collection of memoirs, historical biographies, personal interviews, history, and comedy. Very random. 🤷

#bookstodon #queerbooks

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Gay Britannia: Celebrating LGBTQ+ History in Britain, written and read by way too many people.

Finished “The Language of Liars” by S.L. Huang.

Ro is a linguist trained to jump into the mind of a Star Eater — a mysterious species whose ability to mine a critical element makes interstellar travel possible. When he succeeds, he finds a civilization far more complex than anyone prepared him for.

Colonial justifications corrupt everything they touch. Once the “lives are at stake” argument becomes available, there’s no moral high ground left.

4/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/231126905

#bookstodon

Book 7 was QueerSpec, edited by Emily Devereux.

Eight stories featuring a bisexual cowboy, the planet Neptune, a grumpy Scottish lesbian, post-apocalyptic teens, and accidental astronauts. 🤠💄🕷️👩‍🚀🏳️‍⚧️

Get it now to support trans rights in Alberta: https://books2read.com/QueerSpec

#bookstodon #queerbooks #transrights

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QueerSpec, edited by Emily Devereux.

Stopped on the walk home from work to rest a bit (glad I managed quite a few hours but tired now), a seat, drink, read.

Finished Emily Wilson's fascinating Crossing the Wine Dark Sea, now Ralegh, & The Quest For El Dorado by David Gibbins. & another drink. & Snack too, please.

#books #livres #AmReading #bookstodon

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A hardback of The Quest For El Dorado, showing a 17th century sailing vessel, on the right, on the left a paperback of Crossing the Wine Dark Sea, with an ancient Greek trireme sailing on a mosaic sea