I feel sorry for librarians in the era of tech-bro controlled social media 😒

#Library #LibraryMemes #Meme #Libraries #Librarians #Humor #Humour #Funny
#Bookstodon #FantasyBooks

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One panel comic of a library with a patron saying, "I FIND THIS BOOK OFFENSIVE!" and the librarian replying, "Cool. Given it back so I can lend it to someone who doesn't."

With The Left Hand of Darkness and The House on the Borderland out of the way, it's finally time for #DuneMessiah, and this one is in physical format!!

#Reading #Books2026 #Bookstodon #ScienceFiction #Dune #SciFi

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The title page of the paperback edition

This book is over 70 years old, and these pages have never been cut.

#Bookstodon

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A hand holds an open hardcover book at an angle. Two pages stand up in the center, still joined at the edge.

Pssst… Do you like books? What about books that are free? How about some sci-fi, fantasy, and horror?

Take your pick from this selection of books that are free and AI-free!

https://books.bookfunnel.com/sffh-10-2026/kim1fz6gnf

#bookstodon #scififantasy

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Collage of three images: a planet, a wolf howling at the moon, and flames. “No AI” icon. Text reads: Science fiction, fantasy and horror

Everyone loves shitting on the Romance genre, but quite frankly, if the men paid at all any spec of attention to the consent happening in those novels, the world would be a far better place. “is this comfortable? Can I touch you here? I need your full consent before we do this. Does that feel good? How do you feel?”

You can find all those empowering questions, and more, in Romance novels everyone hates so much.

#Romance #Bookstodon

I just wrote a review of a book that had a nameless narrator, and I too struggled with what that choice was supposed to convey to me as a reader (the review hasn't been published yet; I'll share a link when it is).

#books #bookstodon #literature

https://lithub.com/why-are-so-many-contemporary-novelists-not-naming-the-narrator/

"Sniff shot like an arrow into Moominhouse.

'What is it?' asked Moominmamma, stirring the jam. Sniff crept very close to her and hid his nose in her apron. 'A secret society is after me,' he whispered. 'It's coming to get me and ...'

'Not while I'm here,' said Moominmamma. 'Now, what about a nice saucepan to lick out?'

'I daren't,' whimpered Sniff. 'Not now. Perhaps never!'

A little later on he said: 'Well, perhaps just the edge. While I'm waiting.'"

#MoominMonday #Bookstodon

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Black and white sketch of Moominmamma sitting on a stool, stirring a large pot of jam. Sniff is hiding his head in her apron. Behind her is her handbag, and several pears are scattered on the ground in front of her.

Hello all you wonderful FOSS people.

Now I have my Surface Pro tablet running Zorin OS, I'm looking for a decent eReader for eBooks.

Any suggestions for Linux?

#Linux #ZorinOS #eBook #eBookReader #eReader #FOSS #Books #Bookstodon #Reading #Fosstodon

The good news I got this #SolarPunkSunday is that all the copies of my novella that I sent to PictCon sold out in two hours! I still have copies for you, and I think you'll enjoy this story set in a near future without capitalism, about a grumpy grandma who has to coordinate the defense of her decentralized nation against a colonizer, yet they have no army or weapons.

Read a sample and buy here: https://www.ododopress.com/novellas/the-blossoming-of-the-big-tree/

#solarpunk #books #bookstodon #sff #scifi

"There is a danger associated with growing up, of putting aside children’s books. We must be careful lest all we are left with is a world that is very much not alive, a natural world that is mere piles of stuff – stuff that people can use or not use, preserve or destroy, just as they want."

Lovely piece by Susanna Clarke, who HAS A NEW BOOK OUT ON THURSDAY!!! 📚

https://observer.co.uk/culture/books/article/susanna-clarke-in-defence-of-fantasy-fiction

#Bookstodon #Fantasy

Finished. Argh! And Aww!

This is beautiful beyond words. Not sure anymore if cozypunk applies, though. I mean, yes, there is that. At some points, it even gets VERY cozy, but there is so much more to this. It has grief and guilt, too - small and big.
So now I'm a bit anxious about the sequel, though that might go in a completely different direction, like the Wayfarer series did.

As We Wait, Hold Our Breaths ❤️

#Bookstodon #Boeken #Solarpunk #SolarpunkSunday #Cozypunk #Hopepunk #BeckyChambers

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Last page of As You Wake, Break the Shell: 'To be continued in As You Grow, Seek the Light'

You can now turn off AI content on Libby under content controls! #bookstodon #reading

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A screenshot from the Libby app showing how to turn off AI “authors”

My heart.
I was so psyched this book was finally out, I raced to the bookshop. Then I dared not read it, afraid it might disappoint (sometimes, high expectations do suck). Then I dived in and WOW. Halfway through I don't want to continue, because I do not want this story to end!

If you're going to read this book, and I wholeheartedly suggest you do, make sure to read the acknowledgements as well. Nothing but love for Becky ❤️

#Bookstodon #boeken #BeckyChambers
#Solarpunk #Cozypunk #HopePunk

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Book Becky Chambers - As You Wake, Break the Shell

Nice problem to have I guess... which one do I read first? 😅 #bookstodon #BookMastodon

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Four books laid out 2x2 on a blue patterned duvet: The Salt King by Natasha Pulley, As You Wake, Break The Shell by Becky Chambers, Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel, and Servants to the King by Marion Scott (aka Nina Allan)

Amateur radio history survives because people saved it. Much more has been lost in attics, basements, and forgotten files. 📻

Kay Savetz writes about recovering magazines, recordings, manuals, and materials for the Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications. 📚

📚 "Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications" by Savetz is in #VANISHINGCULTURE.

📖 Download & read, FREE: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/117

#DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #Bookstodon @dlarc #amateurradio #DLARC

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Teal graphic for the Vanishing Culture series with the headline 'Why does a century-old hobby have almost no archive?' and a quote from Kay Savetz, Curator & Enthusiast: "The people creating history don't always realize at the time that they're creating history." A column of pixels dissolves beside the quote.

Been struggling with #kobo. Although I want to like it, because not Amazon, I keep finding books in the store that change prices (usually but not always increases) when you actually try and checkout (very lucky I didn’t buy in one click). Kobo support at first tried to insist it’s tax, but as there is no tax on ebooks in the UK that’s just wrong. I now see they’ve fixed some examples I specifically gave them, but it’s clearly more widespread than just those. #bookstodon #rant #ebooks

FOR
FUCK'S
SAKE

🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬

https://societyofauthors.org/2026/10/14/creative-industries-launch-ethical-ai-charter/

#Bookstodon #FuckAI

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Headline from the press release attached WE'VE SIGNED THE CHARTER OF ETHICAL AI USE IN THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES

When an author who has written about international scams gets literary scam emails, you know she's going to dig and dig and dig and write a few thousand informative words about it.

#books #bookstodon

The Lucrative World of Literary Scams https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/ai-book-scams

The new Becky Chambers dropped today! #bookstodon #reading
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/34c908f8-980c-4ffa-b885-f3da548ecb6b

#Edinburgh foodies!

Join us on Tuesday 20th October for some Home Made, with Thom Bateman.

Details & tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/theed...

#books #livres #Edimbourg #cookery #ThomBateman #CookeryBooks #Cuisine #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon

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Poster for Thom Bateman's Home Made cookery book event in the Edinburgh Bookshop

What are your recommendations for:

• A fiction book or book series that is:
  • lighthearted,
  • wholesome,
  • and isn't The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy nor The Murderbot Diaries series.

📖👀

#AskFedi #Bookstodon #Scifi #Fantasy #Book

So this book has a great title and I went into it purposefully knowing no more than that and I'm not really going to say much else about it because it's probably best if you can do the same. It largely lives up to the title, I think, there is a lot of clever and novel invention here. It's very much ideas above characterisation etc. but I think it's brisk enough and sufficiently well written to get away with that. #bookstodon

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There Is No Anti Mimetics Division by qntm. A deer with four eyes looks out at is. It stands in a floor of rippled, abstract cloudy stuff. A large pale red sun rises over the horizon behind the deer, the floor is distorted as if by a lens in the part of the circumference of the sun behind the horizon. Silhouettes of birds are in flight beyond the deer.

If you want children to read more, the best way is to read more yourself 😊

@libraries@literature.cafe @Libraries@fedigroups.social @library @books @bookstodon @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop @joinin

#Library #LibraryMemes #Meme #Libraries #Librarians #Humor #Humour #Funny
#Bookstodon #FantasyBooks

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Post by ingathewriter A lady came into the library yesterday and asked if we had a particular book. I helped her find it and she was super happy. Her grandson is 12 and lives a plane ride away so she has started reading whatever book he's reading and then they have a weekly FaceTime where they discuss it. I just thought that was such a nice way to stay connected to a kid who lives far away.

RE: https://mas.to/@nnedi/117414695668124551

Read Nnedi Okorafor's essay on the distinction between *africanfuturism* and *afrofuturism* here: https://nnedi.blogspot.com/2019/10/africanfuturism-defined.html

Quote: "Africanfuturism is concerned with visions of the future, is interested in technology, leaves the Earth, skews optimistic, is centered on and predominantly written by people of African descent (black people) and it is rooted first and foremost in Africa. It's less concerned with "what could have been" and more concerned with "what is and can/will be". It acknowledges, grapples with and carries "what has been"."

The essay dives in more.

Both genre's are awesome and the distinction is very important.

After reading the essay, go read some books within both genre's. To get started with africanfuturism, look here: https://nnedi.com/books/

#africanfuturism #nnediokorafor #books #bookstodon #afrofuturism #solarPunk

“I think if you live long enough, you become a migrant from another timeline. There’s the world you learn to navigate as you enter adulthood, and then that world slips away from you by degrees, and after a while there’s nothing left of it, but you’re still here.”

Exit Party. Emily St. John Mandel.

#Books
#Bookstodon
#Fredagsbog

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Short version: library edition audiobook cover Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel. Fuller description: Book showing 6 hours 47 read, 5 hours 42 minutes to go. Starting "Part 2 B-side: Chapter 1'. Cover: illustrated image of an LA-style city skyline with palm trees above, then inverted below it, a Paris-style city skyline with Eiffel Tower and roofs. Merged, they resemble a Know Your Stripes graph that visualises climate-collapse temperature rises. Here, LA is blue and cool, Paris is orange and hot. Title and author name in discreet white text. Also: 'A novel', like we didn't know. And 'bestselling author of Station Eleven.'

If you like buying books directly from authors, and enjoy specualtive fiction that is queer-normative, then this blog is for you! 😊

https://elisecarlson.com/2026/08/09/queer-normative-scifi-fantasy-direct-from-authors/

@reading @bookstodon @books @fantasy

#Fantasy #SciFi #SFF
#Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity #Bookstodon #FantasyBooks

Seriously, what is wrong with readers? Rebecca Yaro’s dad passed away so she canceled a Barnes & Noble literary event. Absolutely justified in my opinion. Even so, readers just could not help themselves and they were angry at her for canceling the event. Even though this video explains it from the point of view of someone that does not like her or her work, it’s a good summary of the situation . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI08aHGw-XE&is=s2MOcFHD4eOjCWm2 #Bookstodon

Just finished 'The Ruby in the Smoke' by Philip Pullman.

Published ten years before 'Northern Lights'' and set in London during the Victorian era, this is an enjoyable YA novel with a plucky young heroine who finds herself enmeshed in a murder-filled mystery connected to the opium trade.

Apparently this was the first novel in a series, so will have to hunt the others down.

#bookstodon

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Paperback novel, 'The Ruby in the Smoke' by Philip Pullman - the cover text and illustration are suitably Victorian in style.

Book number 81 is a cozyish science fiction from the author of the Tomes and Tea series. 4.25⭐️ #reading #bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/1fdd1cdc-e2c8-4ded-8b7d-574793fd066c

New Becky Chambers in a week! #bookstodon #reading
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/34c908f8-980c-4ffa-b885-f3da548ecb6b

Obituary, Peter May

I came across The Coffin Road when my ever patient and lovely partner gave it to me in hospital; while recovering from surgery following a bungled climb (and she never said a word 🤣)

We have enjoyed his writing ever since.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/05/peter-may-obituary

#PeterMay #Fiction #Obituary #Bookstodon

My amazing Partner's debut graphic novel APOCALYPSE BABY is finished! And has been sent off to Her publisher to be released this fall!

Set in the midst of the zombie apocalypse, this is a queer romance story like no other! It's boy meets boy... meets ZOMBIE!! 🧟‍♂️

Check out Anna's official insta for more artwork and updates:
https://www.instagram.com/anna.sketches/

You can preorder the book right now!!
Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Apocalypse-Baby-Heartstopper-post-apocalyptic-adventure-ebook/dp/B0GSWZSDBJ?crid=ZLKNPX170TFB&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.bsBVyB8oxElI8oOsqxODvOkE-ZNEZVLntO7oQ58L-l82_qsbPCYKVcDKLv4WMaI2viqw_NJgYfXDBiOKyOMSANfi6a0K-9qXjKph6QEticjc5tJLZ3g75NtTYoRA6BEQFmQy04EE3m0b_hhtiFkfbwzlfF2ovUXudqdq9GbOcBB0XkgwSr3rx24EYyQcq9IJ69ZnzgSlJe9ZAnQLu8KloA.beQ-zQbMOCoqewtOObXVe2njirVSHtet3QlCmVVMLf4&dib_tag=se&keywords=apocalypse+baby&qid=1782939550&sprefix=apocalypse+baby%2Caps%2C203&sr=8-1
Bookshop:
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/apocalypse-baby-anna-penn/56fe6b983b125c6c?ean=9780702340482&bkshp-astro=t
Waterstones.com:
https://www.waterstones.com/book/apocalypse-baby/anna-penn/anna-penn/9780702340482

#books #bookstodon #apocalypsebaby #comics #graphicnovel #horror #romance #horrormance #lgbtqia #queerfiction #zombies #dystopian #fiction #autism #annasketches #imsofrickinproudofHer

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The cover art of Apocalypse Baby by Anna Penn. Artwork depicts two guys with a baby, wading through water while silhouettes of hands grasp at them. Below it says: "Out 8th October"

Here's a little Apocalypse Baby mood board, to give you a little teaser of what the book is about!!

Image by https://www.instagram.com/anna.sketches/

#apocalypsebaby #comics #graphicnovel #teaser #moodboard #horror #dystopianfiction #books #bookstodon

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A mood board with the cover art of Apocalypse Baby at its centre (see previous post for full description). Around it are 8 images: a church, a toy tiger plush, an overgrown building, rain on water, a man with a baby on his back, a woman with cracked skin around her eyes, a collection of grasping hands, and a cricket bat

Reading an advance copy of Finding Aladdin by Matthew Teller, and it's reminding me of Lotte Reiniger's glorious 1926 Adventures of Prince Achmed, when he goes and references this oldest surviving animated feature film, which the Filmhouse introduced me to, long ago

#books #livres #film #animation #bookstodon

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A page from Finding Aladdin, with text and an illustration from the amazing 1926 animated film, The Adventures of Prince Achmed

"Early one morning, Thingumy and Bob came walking over the mountain. They had come a very long way and were rather tired, so they rested for a bit and looked down over the Valley of the Moomins, where the smoke from Moominhouse was rising between the silver poplars and plum trees.

After a while, they wandered down the valley and very cautiously tiptoed up to the house. They stood shyly on the front steps. 'Shall we knock on the door?' asked Thingumy."

#MoominMonday #Bookstodon #BeMoreMoomin

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Colour image of Thingumy and Bob, two creatures with shocks of spiky hair, wearing dresses. One is wearing a red cone hat.

My oldest son asked for a book for his birthday. 😱

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24800.House_of_Leaves

#shockedparent #bookstodon

A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD comes out Tuesday 10/6, and that's when the Slime Mold Autumn book tour starts! @chanda praised the book as a "magnificent work of cosmic imagination" and CB Lee called it "beautiful." Yumei Kitasei said, "Single-celled eukaryotes have never been so sexy."

See me in San Francisco (10/6), Chicago (10/7), New York Comic-con (10/9), Boston (10/14), Burlington VT (10/15), and in Ottawa at Can*Con (10/17-18). #books #bookstodon #scifi #history #science

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Slime Mold Autumn October 2026 Book Tour This text surrounds a picture of me smiling gleefully next to a copy of A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD on my fancy new bookshelves. (Seriously these bookshelves are amazing, and they are floor-to-ceiling. One day I will post thirst trap pics of the whole setup, but they aren't quite finished.)

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Book Tour October 6 – San Francisco Book Launch Green apple books, with M.M. Olivas October 7&8 – Chicago 7th: Barnes & Noble @ West Diversey Parkway with Michi Trota October 9 – New York New York City Comic-Con October 14 – Boston Brookline Booksmith with Cecilia Tan October 15 – Burlington, VT Phoenix Books with Andrew Liptak October 16-18 – Ottawa Can*Con

Hey. Do you want to read books about older women baking treats, drinking tea, knitting up a storm … and enacting vengeance on local predators?

The #VigilauntieJustice series is available now.

https://whitehartfiction.co.uk/products/complete-vigilauntie

#femalerage #vigilantejustice #bookstodon

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conversation between two people. One says: We’re didn’t come here to k*ll him! The second replies: Didn’t we? Cover of A Bit of M*rder Between Friends by Elliott Hay.

Yaaaayyyy there is a new Becky Chambers coming out very soon! This makes me very happy #bookstodon #books

"The thing about fucking off to the woods is that unless you are a very particular, very rare sort of person, it does not take long to understand why people left said woods in the first place."

'A Prayer for the Crown-Shy', Becky Chambers

#Bookstodon #SundaySentence

I'm incognito today 😋

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#books #livres #photography #photographie #selfie #bookstodon

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Man holding a red hardback book that has two cartoon eyes on it, in front of his face

#BostonWeekend Sat BOOKS Copley Square #Boston #PublicLibrary hosts a book sale fundraiser https://www.citywidefriendsbpl.org #boston #libraries #bookstodon