I've just finished reading "Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium". A really fun read if you're already familiar with the setting and are in for something with a good "chuckles per page" ratio. Not slapstick at all, but funny and a fun read.

https://bookwyrm.mei-home.net/user/mmeier/review/8215

#Bookstodon #WH40k

Book 6 was Cross the Line by Lucky Hart (narrated by Julio Maxwell & Javi Wilder).

Basically, I loved the characters, liked the writing, but the relationship gave me the willies. YMMV. 🤷

Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/7a702201-7d7e-4f11-b776-a7b41303e8d2?redirect=true

My listening supports
The Portal Bookshop
Libro.fm

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Cross the Line by Lucky Hart (narrated by Julio Maxwell & Javi Wilder). My listening supports The Portal Bookshop Libro.fm

Book 5 was Genocide Bad: Notes on Palestine, Jewish History, and Collective Liberation, written and read by Sim Kern.

I want to be more educated and vocal about Palestine. This book was an excellent starting point.

Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/f0d323f4-c12c-4a89-88cb-eacd2d5e9089

#bookstodon #FreePalestine

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Genocide Bad: Notes on Palestine, Jewish History, and Collective Liberation, written and read by Sim Kern. My listening supports The Portal Bookshop Libro.fm

Next week starts in CRICKHOWELL ends in CHIPPENHAM and fits Pontypridd, Market Harborough, Stoke on Trent and Lincoln in between www.robinince.com #poetry #comedy #bookstodon #books

We’re talking…
Romance 💕
Happy ending 😁
Hurt/comfort ☕️
Awkward humour 😬
Traumatised idiots in love 🧠
Queer 🏳️‍🌈
Little bit of spice 🌶️

#bookstodon #AmWriting

While my editor works on my next novel, I'm working on a short story. I'm trying to figure out what genre it is. The best I can come up with is rom-traum.

Two traumatised people falling in love. With funny bits.

Is rom-traum a genre? And if not, can it be?

#bookstodon #AmWriting

Does this happen to anyone else, you visit a bookshop, browse some books, and somehow they follow you home like lost puppies?

#Bookstodon

As far as I can tell whoever I choose I will be rescued, so the real question is who do I most want to hang out with 🤔😁 And that is a toss up between Vimes, Susan, and Esme...

@fantasy @bookstodon @books
@humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop

#Discworld #TerryPratchett #Pratchett #SpeculativeFiction #FantasyBooks
#FantasyMemes #Fantasy #Meme #Memes #Humor #Humour #Funny
#Comedic
#Novel #Books #Bookstodon

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Nine characters from Terry Pratchett's Discworld with the caption, "You've been kidnapped. You can only call one person here to rescue you."

Book 4 was Rink Rash by Santana Knox (narrated by Tempest Mensah & Olivia Wright).

Trainspotting without the humour 💉
More lesbians 💄
Also, roller derby 🛼

Get it in #KoboPlus: https://www.kobo.com/en/audiobook/rink-rash-1

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Rink Rash by Santana Knox (narrated by Tempest Mensah & Olivia Wright).

#Spotted at a Secondhand Bookfair in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A teen radiating maximum ennui is slouched in the poetry aisle next to Mum. Heaving a sigh, she asks: "Ugh. What are you trying to PROVE?"
Mum continues idly browsing, unruffled: "I dunno. That a book can be used as a murder weapon?"

A tiny new human (months?) is MOST upset.
Her face screws up,
She emits a clucky little cry.
She inhales, ready to get on with some MIGHTY wails...
BUT WAIT!
What is this?!
Big Sister (3?) doing a happy dance to cheer her up?
Hmm.
Maybe she's not so upset after all.

Two women (50s?) are having an extraordinarily good gossip in the $1 fiction aisle.
Talking over each other excitedly, they're covering half the town's medical emergencies (gasp!) and a mystery woman called Maude's AWFUL new kitchen renovation. (Quel horreur!)

A tiny human (1?) in a blue onesie has decided that the best place to get a drink of water is this nice puddle here.
Mum spotting him just as he crouches down, head lowering.
Sprinting and scooting him up in one movement.
SAVED!

A VERY sneaky small human (4?), crouched beneath the history book table, is whisper-bellow explaining to a passerby that her: "IMAGINARY BEST FRIEND IMOGEN IS OVER THERE AND I'M SPYING ON HER!"
It seems Imogen the Imaginary Best Friend is quite wily and one must keep an eye on her at ALL TIMES!

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Book 3 was Unmasked, written and read by Ellie Middleton.

For late-diagnosed neurodivergent folks still trying to figure out how to live authentically as their whole selves.

Very short review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/d51fc715-ba7f-41a3-af85-c198902be150

#bookstodon #AuDHD

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Unmasked, written and read by Ellie Middleton.

Book 2 was Holding Still for as Long as Possible by Zoe Whittall (narrated by a full cast).

A love rhombus between a trans man, a spoilt princess, a former pop star, and a disillusioned social worker. But the real main character is early 2000s Queen West in Toronto.

On sale: https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781666551372-holding-still-for-as-long-as-possible

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Holding Still for as Long as Possible by Zoe Whittall (narrated by a full cast). My listening supports The Portal Bookshop Libro.fm

Very sad news today: we lost Marjane Satrapi, author, artist & film-maker, and far too damned early. I've recommended her honest, emotional autobiographical Persepolis so many times to readers, for some it's their first graphic novel experience.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/obituaries/article/2026/06/04/marjane-satrapi-author-of-persepolis-dies-at-56_6754122_15.html#

#books #livres #MarjaneSatrapi #comics #BandeDessinee #GraphicNovels #bookstodon

Partway through the hours long chemo drip infusion, finished one book, of course I was prepared with another.

They can pump poison into my veins, but it takes more than that to stop me reading. They'll take my books from my cold dead hands. The zombie me will eat their brains and go back to reading.

Loved Emily's magnificent translation of The Odyssey, looking forward to this.

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#books #livres #bookstodon #AmReading #EmilyWilson #CrossingTheWineDarkSea #translation

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Paperback copy of Crossing the Wine Dark Sea by Emily Wilson, a Classical Greek trireme on rolling waves made of mosaic tiles

New month, new book thread! My first book for June was Love, Lies, and Cryptids, written & read by M.L. Nolan.

He’s grieving; they’re an an anxious mess 💕
A supernatural publisher where no one believes 👻
The worst boss 🕺

Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/f3d7b332-3516-47d9-a09b-56df40480cd2

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Love, Lies, and Cryptids, written & read by M.L. Nolan.

Book 29 (and my final for May) was Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler (narrated by Emily Beresford).

Favourite quote: Without the idea of gender, there would be no gender at all.

Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/c4980648-5a54-4443-bffc-8b7544e8a25a

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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler (narrated by Emily Beresford).

Book 28 was Bromantasy by Máire Roche (narrated by Mark Sanderlin).

Idiots to lovers (but still idiots) 💕
And they were roommates 🛏️
Accidental quest 🐴
Adorably vicious baby dragon🐲
Phteven 🤣

Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/4676934c-8e00-4182-babc-d7c39d9d57bf?redirect=true

#bookstodon #queerbooks

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Bromantasy by Máire Roche (narrated by Mark Sanderlin). My listening supports The Portal Bookshop Libro.fm

This book was gripping. The author, Christine Kuehn, discovers as an adult that her grandparents were Nazi spies who played key role in attack on Pearl Harbor. Her dad, 15 in 1941, hadn’t known but testified against his dad & broke with family, keeping secret until his daughter found out on her own.
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Family of Spies: A World War II Story of Nazi Espionage, Betrayal, and the Secret History Behind Pearl Harbor. By Christine Kuehn

Book 27 was Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner (narrated by Zim Avaltrades & Dana Varden).

Undiagnosed ADHD x undiagnosed autism 🧠
RR’s Time to Shine but make it sapphic football 👩‍❤️‍👩⚽️
Idiots to lovers (but sleeping together the whole time) 💕

Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/fac87596-210c-4012-ba44-11893b104252

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Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner (narrated by Zim Avaltrades & Dana Varden).

I love these artists (and the authors they have work with are pretty good as well). I think the kids have examples of all of them.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/30/i-am-very-serious-about-being-silly-childrens-illustrators-on-the-art-of-storytelling

#Illustration #Books #Bookstodon #Art

Do you want to read about an ex-vangelical and his drag queen boyfriend solving a m*rder in space?

Of course you do.

Pre-order M*rder at Donut Station now.

https://whitehartfiction.co.uk/donuts

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Book 26 was Platform Decay by Martha Wells (narrated by Kevin R. Free).

The worst (best?) thing about Murderbot is I always get so absorbed in its reactions to people, places, and things – any nouns, really. Anyways, I inevitably lose track of what’s happening.

Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/00d63125-209e-4e5f-aa90-312915d089ee

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Platform Decay by Martha Wells (narrated by Kevin R. Free).

Book 25 was The Lost World of the Dinosaurs: Uncovering the Secrets of the Prehistoric Age by Armin Schmitt (narrated by Shaun Grindell).

I enjoyed the chapter that walks through the mathematical calculations of how many T-rexes ever lived.

Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/2485e2f5-93df-43b2-b9a1-799c84a444e4?redirect=true

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The Lost World of the Dinosaurs: Uncovering the Secrets of the Prehistoric Age by Armin Schmitt (narrated by Shaun Grindell). My listening supports The Portal Bookshop Libro.fm

Dundee Book Festival 2026 https://dundeebookfestival.com #Books #Bookstodon #Dundee

Book 16 was The Last Bookstore On Earth by Lily Braun-Arnold (narrated by Bailey Carr).

After the world ends, Liz carries on at a bookshop. The odd person comes in for new books, trading goods or news, occasionally sharing their own stories.

Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/42b4a4db-9de2-435a-b4a7-b58c92d02063

#bookstodon #lgbtbooks

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The Last Bookstore On Earth by Lily Braun-Arnold (narrated by Bailey Carr)

With everything going on in the world it’s nice to escape into a (vaguely) possible future where the universe might be a more positive and accepting place.

I’m sure it’s not everyone’s cup of tea but for me it’s comforting exactly like a perfect cup of tea…

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