Book 2 was Your Behavior Will Be Monitored by Justin Feinstein (narrated by a full cast).

What if the AI systems were more ethical than the humans who designed them?
Unique structure ✅
Complex characters ✅
Fantastic story ✅

On sale: https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9798228824522-your-behavior-will-be-monitored

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Your Behavior Will Be Monitored by Justin Feinstein (narrated by a full cast). My listening supports The Portal Bookshop Libro.fm

YAY my copy of Tom Cox's new short story collection arrived #bookstodon #BookMastodon

New month, new book thread! First up is Scoring Position by Morgan James & Ashlyn Kane (narrated by Nick J. Russo).

New teammates ⛸️
The team sucks 👎
Something shady going on 🌒
They definitely won’t fall in love, nope 🏒

#KoboPlus: https://www.kobo.com/en/audiobook/scoring-position-9

#bookstodon #QueerBooks

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First up is Scoring Position by Morgan James & Ashlyn Kane (narrated by Nick J. Russo).

Book 27 – and my final for August – was Impossible Match by Rochelle Wolf (narrated by August Roy).

Sapphic arranged marriage 💍
Help! I think I’m falling for my wife 🩷
She’s rich … but her wife is RICH 💰

#KoboPlus: https://www.kobo.com/en/audiobook/impossible-match-3

#bookstodon #QueerBooks

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Impossible Match by Rochelle Wolf (narrated by August Roy).

Okay #Bookstodon I need your help with a birthday present for my 12 year old niece. She is currently really into the Twilight series and I'd really like to lure her away to something that doesn't normalise controlling relationships. She also really likes the Hunger Games.

She seems to prefer long series and has reached the age where she prefers to think of herself as a young adult rather than a child so likes female main characters in their late teens and early twenties and won't read things with young children as main characters. A bit of dystopia or, apparently, vampires is fine, but she seems to prefer things mostly based in the real world and the modern era, not so much straight up fantasy, speculative fiction or historical. She also rather likes animals and nature but not obsessively, and wants to be an architect when she grows up.

I'm considering the Noughts and Crosses series, but it's a bit bleak and ideally I'd prefer something where not everyone dies.

Any suggestions?

@CultureDesk @AssociatedPress
There’s not enough I could say about him to do him justice,”... [his daughter Mary Berry] told The Associated Press.
#books #bookstodon #WendellBerry
@morgan

My mom, absolutely out of nowhere, asked me if I had any recommendations for a sci-fi book to read. I think she made a friend on her trip who told her sci-fi is actually pretty good and talks a lot about human nature and morals and worldviews and the things beyond cool aliens and lasers (though I love those too)

I felt a side of her was a little judgy with me because of my liking for that instead of non-fiction works, but I guess she doesn't mind now!

I of course had many options to offer, but not many physical books in Spanish, which is what she reads.

So she's going to read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley now. I hope she gets it because I actually haven't read it myself either LOL

I should make a blogpost about this

#ScienceFiction #Reading #Books #Bookstodon #SciFi

Book 26 was 7-Figure Fiction: How to Use Universal Fantasy to Sell Your Books to Anyone, written and read by T Taylor.

The way to write books people want to read is to load them up with “universal fantasies” that everyone wants.
Most of the universal fantasies listed repel and horrify me.
I suppose that explains my (lack of) sales.

#KoboPlus: https://www.kobo.com/en/audiobook/7-figure-fiction-1

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7-Figure Fiction: How to Use Universal Fantasy to Sell Your Books to Anyone, written and read by T Taylor.

The Global Museum posted a video of this gorgeous 19th-century book that expands open to depict the Rhine Valley as a 3D vista

https://mastodon.online/@globalmuseum/115651509600693866
#history #bookstodon

Book 25 was Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk (narrated by January LaVoy).

1950s Chicago, but make it magic ✨
Tragic magical lesbians 🩷🤍🧡
I did not know the end 😮

#KoboPlus: https://www.kobo.com/en/audiobook/even-though-i-knew-the-end-1

#bookstodon #QueerBooks

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Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk (arrated by January LaVoy).

Book 24 was Black Trans Feminism by Marquis Bey.

The author argues that to be feminist requires one to be pro-Black and pro-trans (and all the vices versa).

Targeted more to academic readers rather than casual readers.

#bookstodon #QueerBooks

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Black Trans Feminism by Marquis Bey.

@skinnylatte "very Anglo fear of #mushrooms and #fungus" ...ahem, may I introduce you to a Brit who makes music with #fungi and cooked/ate his wonderful book about #fungi? Merlin Sheldrake ... and British #cuisine https://youtu.be/JJfDaIVl-tE?si=1FPvcFdbCWhzxURb
BTW, one of the best books about fungi. But not a cookbook. 🤭

#bookstodon #MushroomMonday #mushtodon

Book 23 was Knowing You by E.M. Lindsey (narrated by Kirt Graves).

Klepto toddler steals prosthetic leg🦿
Single dad x nanny 👶
Bi-awakening 💙💜🩷
Disability rep

#KoboPlus: https://www.kobo.com/en/audiobook/knowing-you-12

#bookstodon #QueerBooks

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Knowing You by E.M. Lindsey (narrated by Kirt Graves).

Book 22 was Under Her Roof by Allison Temple (narrated by Emily Woo Zeller).

Trapped on an island 🏝️
With her ex-girlfriend 💔
Who’s just admitted to being a spy 🕵️
Oh no … a murder 🔪

#KoboPlus: https://www.kobo.com/en/audiobook/under-her-roof-6

#bookstodon #QueerBooks

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Under Her Roof by Allison Temple (narrated by Emily Woo Zeller).

Book 21 was Ordinary Saints by Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin (narrated by Róisín Rankin).

What’s a lesbian supposed to do when the Catholic Church wants to canonise her dead brother?

#bookstodon #QueerBooks

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Ordinary Saints by Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin (narrated by Róisín Rankin).

Book 20 was The Holiday Party Pretense by Skye Kilaen.

Bi 4 bi 💙💜🩷
Christmas party 🎄
Accidental encounter
Fake dating

Get it direct from the author: https://payhip.com/b/UfwAi

#bookstodon #QueerBooks

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FIRST, DATES AFTER FORTY THE HOLIDAY PARTY PRETENSE SKYE KILAEN Juliet just got stood up. Adrian just got dumped. Partners in crime for one night? a queer romance short story

Finished!

From an editing perspective, I would have liked some footnotes to explain Japanese or Korean terms and expressions that weren't always straightforward.

However it is an impressive work. The amount of research the author has carried out is stunning, as she covered almost a century of Korean immigration in Japan and beyond.

Every story is realistic. The only unconvincing plot development concerns Noah, IMHO.

#Pachinko #이민진 #MinJinLee #bookstodon #book

Ooohhhh pretty.
#bookstodon #retrocomputing

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A grey book held in a hand called "bootstrapping computing"

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Inside page showing a colourful flowchart

RE: https://cupoftea.social/@Maker_of_Things/113844190013144501

First book of 2026.

I am now reading:
01: Jung Chang - Wild Swans.

#Books #Reading #Bookstodon

OK, I am going to stop reading:
01: Jung Chang - Wild Swans.
From her first hand experience, my Mum had already told me about the Japanese atrocities, and the suffering in the cultural revolution, inflicted upon Chinese people.
I am finding it very painful and distressing to read about it.

I am now reading:
02: Ryka Aoki - Light From Uncommon Stars.

#Books #Reading #Bookstodon

I have finished reading:
02: Ryka Aoki - Light From Uncommon Stars.

I am now reading:
03: Kate Mascarenhas – The Psychology of Time Travel.

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I have finished reading:
03: Kate Mascarenhas – The Psychology of Time Travel.

I am now reading:
04: Kate Mascarenhas – The Thief On A Winged Horse.

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I have finished reading:
05: Kate Mascarenhas - Hokey Pokey.

I am now reading:
06: Becky Chambers - The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet.

#Books #Reading #Bookstodon

I have finished reading:
06: Becky Chambers - The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet.

I am now reading:
07: Becky Chambers - A Closed And Common Orbit.

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I have finished reading:
07: Becky Chambers - A Closed And Common Orbit.

I am now reading:
08: Becky Chambers - Record Of A Space Born Few.

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I have finished reading:
08: Becky Chambers - Record Of A Space Born Few.

I am now reading:
09: Becky Chambers - The Galaxy, And The Ground Within.

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I have finished reading:
09: Becky Chambers - The Galaxy, And The Ground Within.

I am now reading:
10: Mary Bradford Whiting - The Treasure House.

#Books #Reading #Bookstodon

I have finished reading:
10: Mary Bradford Whiting - The Treasure House.

I am now reading:
11: Isaac Asimov - The Gods Themselves.

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I have finished reading:
11: Isaac Asimov - The Gods Themselves.

I am now reading:
12: Andy Weir - Artemis.

#Book #Reading #Bookstodon

I have finished reading:
12: Andy Weir - Artemis.

I am now reading:
13: Martha Wells - All Systems Red.

#Book #Reading #Bookstodon

I have finished reading:
13: Martha Wells - All Systems Red.

I am now reading:
14: @drlucyrogers - Up.

#Book #Reading #Bookstodon

I have finished reading:
14: @drlucyrogers - Up.
It is an excellent book and well worth a read. I thought I was good at looking up, but it seems there is so much I haven't been looking at, or noticing. A real eye-opener.

I am now reading:
15: Martha Wells - Artificial Condition.

#Books #Reading #Bookstodon

I have finished reading:
15: Martha Wells - Artificial Condition.

I am now reading:
16: Martha Wells - Rogue Protocol.

#Books #Reading #Bookstodon

I have finished reading:
16: Martha Wells - Rogue Protocol.

I am now reading:
17: Martha Wells - Martha Wells - Exit Strategy.

#Books #Reading #Bookstodon

I have finished reading:
17: Martha Wells - Martha Wells - Exit Strategy.

I am now reading:
18: Martha Wells - Fugitive Telemetry.

#Books #Reading #Bookstodon

I have finished reading:
18: Martha Wells - Fugitive Telemetry.

I am now reading:
19: Martha Wells - Network Effect.

#Books #Reading #Bookstodon

I have finished reading:
19: Martha Wells - Network Effect.

I am now reading:
20: Martha Wells - System Collapse.

#Books #Reading #Bookstodon

I have finished reading:
20: Martha Wells - System Collapse.

I am now reading:
21: Nick Cook - The Signal.

#Books #Reading #Bookstodon

I have finished reading:
21: Nick Cook - The Signal.

I am now reading:
22: Nick Cook - Earth Song.

#Books #Reading #Bookstodon

I have finished reading:
22: Nick Cook - Earth Song.

I am now reading:
23: Nick Cook - Earth Cry.

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I have finished reading (on 14th May):
23: Nick Cook - Earth Cry.

I am now reading:
24: Nick Cook - Earth Shout.

#Books #Reading #Bookstodon

I have finished reading (On 22nd May):
24: Nick Cook - Earth Shout.

I am now reading:
25: Nick Cook - Earth Howl.

#Books #Reading #Bookstodon

I have finished reading:
25: Nick Cook - Earth Howl.

I am now reading :
26: Nick Cook - Earth Yell.

#Books # Reading #Bookstodon

I have finished reading:
26: Nick Cook - Earth Yell.

I am now reading:
27: Nick Cook - Earth Scream.

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I have finished reading:
27: Nick Cook - Earth Scream.

I am now reading:
28: Nick Cook - Earth Roar.

#Books #Reading #Bookstodon

I have finished reading:
28: Nick Cook - Earth Roar.

I am now reading:
29: Ann Leckie - Radiant Star.

#Books #Reading #Bookstodon

I have finished reading:
29: Ann Leckie - Radiant Star.

I am now reading:
30: Philip Pullman - Ruby In The Smoke.

#Books #Reading #Bookstodon

I have finished reading:
30: Philip Pullman - Ruby In The Smoke.

I am now reading:
31: Philip Pullman - Shadow In The North.

#Books #Reading #Bookstodon