Okay #reading, #books, #bookstodon folks. Where do you get your DRM-Free ePubs?

Bookshop.org doesn't sell to Canadians (even though they'll kindly show the price in Canadian dollars).

I've been a fan of James Tynion IV's approach to mystery and supernatural horror ever since I got the first volume of 'The Woods' and I finally got around to reading the first omnibus of 'Something is Killing the Children', and it really did live up to the hype.

Full thoughts here ➡️ https://www.fringemagnet.net/2025/10/recent-read-something-is-killing.html

(CW for references to violence, gore, and harm coming to children as part of the plot.)

#Comics #ComicBooks #Horror #Bookstodon #Books #BookReview #Comic #SomethingIsKillingTheChildren

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Cover of the omnibus showing a dark forest with a young blond woman with a ponytail standing next to a bicycle, holding a sword as she is menacingly staring in front of her.

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illustration showing Erica Slaughter, a blond young woman standing in front of a menacing dark forest next to some damaged bicycles, holding a sword in her hand as she is staring in front of her where dozens of glowing eyes appear from behind the trees.

If you happen to have a cassette copy of Unicorn Variations by Roger Zelazny, read by Rene Auberjonois and can make an audio file for me, please let me know how we can make this happen. I used to have a copy and it died a horrible death many years ago.

The ISBN is 0886467365

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Book 22 was The Deadly Spark by Roxie Key (narrated by Imogen Wilde).

Eve has PTSD from a housefire, so working on an arson/murder case doesn’t thrill her. Anya’s the prime suspect when her girlfriend and step-daughter are murdered in a housefire.

Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/ecf57c7d-117d-4722-a452-a89fc69b11e4

#bookstodon @lgbtqbookstodon

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The Deadly Spark by Roxie Key (narrated by Imogen Wilde).

Another way to support us is to sign up for my newsletter, Impure Leftist, as a paid subscriber. Anarchist Book Club, anyone?

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signed @ka_so's copy of Move Slowly And Build Bridges: Mastodon, The Fediverse, And The Struggle For Democratic Social Media

aka that fedi book i was in!!!!! lol :3

#MoveSlowlyAndBuildBridges #bookstodon #books

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signed inner cover of Move Slowly And Build Bridges. it says "for kasanwa solane aster hope from vanta rainbow black :3" with my signature

Shout out to people who love ebooks but hate Amazon:

Bookshop.org has started doing eBooks! They have an app! They have classics for free! They have daily 99p deals!

Much excite!

#books #bookstodon

I have a big soft spot in my heart for anything related to the 'Peanuts' comic strip, and for Charles M. Schulz as a creator, so I was happy I got a chance to read "Manga Biographies: Charles M. Schulz - The Creator of Snoopy and Peanuts" by Yuzuru Kuki, and ended up finishing it in a single afternoon. The book starts with a little introductory info on Schulz and the 'Peanuts' characters before beginning to tell his story as a shy, socially anxious kid who grew up loving reading and drawing comics, and who also had a special bond with his childhood dog Spike.

It pretty much covers Schulz's entire life, from his early childhood experiences and him serving in WWII, to achieving his dream of becoming a cartoonist, his work process, his inspirations, his divorce, how he found love again at 50, and his special connection with his fans. There's also lots of interesting, and often touching, trivia included, like Snoopy and Charlie Brown's historical ties to the Apollo 11 moon landing, and the fact that 'Snoopy' is the name that his mum suggested they give their next dog, before she died.

Big thank you to UDON Entertainment for giving me a review copy.

Full review here ➡️ https://www.fringemagnet.net/2025/10/recent-read-manga-biographies-charles-m.html

#Snoopy #CharlesMSchulz #Peanuts #Review #BookReview #Manga #ComicStrip #Bookstodon #books

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Cover of the manga with a cartoon version of Charles Schulz showing to be drawing as several of his most well known characters including Snoopy, Charlie Brown, and Woodstock, have popped out of the pages and are dancing around him.

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Sample page from the manga showing several different trivia surrounding the success of the Peanuts comic strip and characters, the recognition Schulz received, and the eventual turn to animation with A Charlie Brown Christmas, the first Peanuts TV special.

Recent #reading.

Jenni Fagan is something of a genius. "The Panopticon" made me feel a lot of things, sometimes quite viscerally. Which is never a bad thing. And this is a book that earned its ending. Content warning for rape.

Her "The Sunlight Pilgrims" and "Luckenbooth" are also well worth the admission fee.

"Bound To Violence" will need a re-read before it settles in my brain, but it does what it says in the title, brutally at times.

#books #bookstodon

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Cover image for "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" by Gabrielle Zevin.

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Cover image for "The Panopticon" by Jenni Fagan.

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Cover image for "Moderation".

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Cover image for "Bound to Violence" by Yambo Ouologuem.

#Bloggers and books!

I've started asking my #OverUnder guests to recommend books.

Here are their suggestions:

#bookstodon #blog #blogging

#100DaysToOffload: 097/100

https://lazybea.rs/bbooks

Cc:

@amin @joel @rl_dane
@johnnydecimal
@jedda
@flamed @brianb @ellane @liztai
@thorstenzoeller @immarisabel
@KevinGimbel
@ctietze @artlung @cliffwade @amerpie @monospace @kzimmermann
@basil @srgower @zerok @dusan
@shellsharks @rubenerd @adamsdesk

Four people are still missing...

@ellane @monospace @basil @rubenerd

In the meantime, you can check other bloggers #books recommendations ⤵️

https://lazybea.rs/bloggersbooks

#blog #blogging #bookstodon #reading

#Bookstodon #Reading #books https://bookwyrm.social/user/jesse_saenz/generatednote/8728460

Speaking of godless hellbound sorts and funny authors, @bitterkarella’s debut horror novel arrived today and I can’t wait to read it.

Blurbs include: “A bizarre and fiercely original splatterpunk phantasmagoria of queerness, Moonflow is like a gay Jodorowsky film from hell.” - Eric Larocca

Sounds just like the cosy read I need right now.

@bookstodon #bookstodon

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Cover of Moonflow by Bitter Karella. Cover is a psychedelic image featuring mushrooms growing out of a woman’s face, a skull and twisted skeleton and other such psychedelic folderol. The author’s name and title are dripping like what blood does, oooooh.

Delighted to note that there's a new Wendell Berry / Port William book.

There are few book series more wholesome than Wendell Berry's Port William series, which essentially act as windows into a quiet Kentucky farming town over a number of years, between 1864 and 2021. And they're wonderful.

https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/marce-catlett-the-force-of-a-story

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An extract from the very excellent book which absolutely everyone should read: One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This, by Omar El-Akkad.

https://hiddencities.substack.com/p/omar-el-akkad-one-day-there-will?r=1yibj&triedRedirect=true

#GazaHolocaust #Bookstodon #FreePalestine

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One day there will be no more looking away. Looking away from climate disaster, from the last rabid takings of extractive capitalism, from the killing of the newly stateless. One day it will become impossible to accept the assurances of the same moderates who say with great conviction: Yes the air has turned sour and yes the storms have grown beyond categorization and yes the fires and the floods have made of life a wild careen from one disaster to the next and yes millions die from the heat alone and entire species are swept into extinction daily and the colonized are driven from their land and the refugees die in droves on the borders of the unsated side of the planet and yes supply chains are beginning to come apart and yes soon enough it'll come to our doorstep, even our doorstep in this last coddled bastion of the very civilized world, when one day we turn on the tap and nothing comes out and we visit the grocery store and the shelves are empty and we must finally face the reality of it as billions before us have been made to face the reality of it but until then, until that very last moment, it’s important to understand that this really is the best way of doing things. One day it will be considered unacceptable, in the polite liberal circles of the West, not to acknowledge all the innocent people killed in that long-ago unpleasantness.

Presenting my lovely partner Tony, the majestic manbeast who finished writing an epic science fiction novel today.

3 years in the writing, 15 countries passed through/lived in. Numerous primal screams into the void only for the void to yodel back. Many many, MANY coffees. Sooo many thumps on the head with a pillow by yours truly (purely for confidence boosting purposes I assure you.) A plethora of space facts inflicted at random intervals... usually over breakfast before caffeine.

I am so freakin' proud right now.

Also, so full of celebratory dinner. We ate all the dinner. So much dinner. Infinite dinner. (Why did I say yes to tiramisu?)

Big Angry Space Rocks will be out some time in the next year or so once edits happen.

Thank you for reading my monologue.

#bookstodon #books

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The boring version of this image description is that you're looking at a man sitting across a table, smiling with a glass of wine at his elbow. Okay, now that's out of the way. This man is my lovely partner Tony. Even though he's 46 he looks around 35 or so because he's Dorian Grey and somehow hasn't aged for a decade. He has dark brown soft curly hair, is quite slender with olive skin. He's grinning at the camera in a way that says I caught him just as he was laughing at something, not expecting a picture (I am very quick with my phone). He's wearing dark green framed glasses with fluro yellow highlights at right angles at the tops, bottoms and sides. His T-shirt is white and blue with tentacles all over it. The wine at his elbow is white. You know looking at this picture that this is a person who doesn't mind a tentacle monster. Is willing to baritone belly laugh at ridiculous things and is ridiculously intelligent when it comes to astrophysics to the point where he really should have studied that instead of spending half his career as a high flying engineer doing engineer things. This is a picture of a happy man. You know his book is going to be intelligent and fun and that the photographer adores him and is ridiculously proud. The end.

Anyway, today I'm reviewing The Colour of Memory by Christopher Bowden. Check out my review of this light, engaging, and interesting read: https://www.draliceviolett.com/blog-tour-the-colour-of-memory #bookstodon #BookMastodon

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Part cover of The Colour of Memory by Christopher Bowden, featuring the book's title and author on an abstract painted background of blue, grey, and beige

My review of Katabasis by RF Kuang https://vivdunstan.dreamwidth.org/727440.html #Books #Bookstodon

I just finished this book by Anthea Butler - White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America. It’s a hard-hitting, insightful read on the racism at the core of the U.S. evangelical movement, which also powers MAGA (along with the far-right segment of Catholicism). Definitely recommend.
#books #bookstodon #evangelical #racism

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White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America - by Anthea Butlet

In case you missed it, I posted some non-fiction books that even fiction lovers will get into: https://xoxo.zone/@Ashedryden/115351208940416439 #bookstodon

It's Friday, which means #FridayBookRecs! This week we are doing micro-histories, which are a social history of a specific thing. These are all written in a narrative-style, so if you're more of a fiction lover at heart, these will appeal to you, too. 📚 #bookstodon