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Book 14 was We Could Be Heroes by PJ Ellis (narrated by Elliot Fitzpatrick).
Notting Hill but make it gay. Super gay. With drag queens. And throw in some historical comic book creators.
Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/8ce720db-5a60-40d3-91e2-f520528a71e8?redirect=true
Book 13 was Best Men by Sidney Karger (narrated by Curtis Michael Holland).
Max’s is the Gay of Honour for his best friend’s wedding. His partner/competition in this is Chasten, a man with whom he recently had a disastrous, abortive one-night stand.
Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/a8fdbc64-4952-409f-9713-801fa7ad90f1
Delighted to see my chum and former colleague Caden win the Scottish Independent Bookshop of the Year award https://theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2026/03/newington-bookshop-wins-at-british-book-awards/
I know when they worked with us, setting up their own romance-themed bookshop was their dream. In a year and a half they & their team & supporters have really built it into a community space.
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #books #livres #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon
Great idea: "Thousands of #authors including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman have published an “empty” #book to protest against #AI firms using their work without permission.
About 10,000 #writers have contributed to Don’t Steal This Book, in which the only content is a list of their names. Copies of the work are being distributed to attenders at the London #BookFair " https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/10/thousands-authors-publish-empty-book-protest-ai-work-copyright
#bookstodon #writersLife #books #DontSteelThisBook #copyright
Book 12 was The Purity Culture Recovery Guide: The Shame-Free Sex Education You Deserve by Erica Smith (narrated by Patricia Rodriguez).
Think of this book as sex-ed for adults who have a lot to unlearn.
Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/48f45b72-ca35-417c-af00-a840f79db569?redirect=true
@krajamine „Wild wuchern“, von Katharina Köller.
Ich fand das auf so vielen Ebenen schön, vielschichtig, klug und wichtig für unsere Zeit. (Und die Umschlaggestaltung von Sara Lavelle ist fantastisch.)
https://www.penguin.de/buecher/katharina-koeller-wild-wuchern/buch/9783328603924
RE: https://mastodon.social/@standardebooks/116205727881651456
Hey #Bookstodon - this is one of the best sources for well formated ebooks. Highly recommended!
Book 11 was On The Right Path by Rian Birch (narrated by Nina Nikolic).
Jess is stuck in a rut; something is missing from her life but she’s not sure what. Then along comes Remi.
Overall, I enjoyed it, but the power imbalance felt a bit iffy.
Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/3e7eecdd-0861-4acc-80ae-93c6958b7343?redirect=true
“THE FIRST ATTEMPT to drill through the Greenland ice sheet was made in the early nineteen-sixties at a U.S. Army outpost called Camp Century. Some fifty years later, the camp remains far and away the biggest thing ever built on—or, really, under the Greenland ice. Camp Century had a bar, a chapel, a barbershop, a movie theater, and a nuclear reactor. All were housed in a network of snow tunnels like those at EGRIP [the East Greenland Ice-Core Project], but extending for miles. The ostensible purpose of the base was to promote Arctic science, but in the nineteen-nineties an investigation by the Danish government revealed this to be a ruse. What the army had really been up to was developing a new system for storing intercontinental ballistic missiles. Its plan was to install a subglacial railway and shuttle ICBMs around in a Cold War shell game. The code name for the scheme was Project Iceworm.” - A passage from the chapter, A Song of Ice Greenland Is Melting from the book, Life On A Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World by Elizabeth Kolbert (2025) which I am reading.
#Greenland #Denmark #Bookstodon #Climate #Science #Nature #Environment
Book 10 was The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag, written and read by Sasha Velour.
Digs into the history of drag, what it is, and why it’s so important. Definitely worth a read.
Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/689181cb-bbff-45be-918d-80fb619c5c4c?redirect=true
Book 9 was Money Shot by Saxon James, & Eden Finley (narrated by Tim Paige & Liam DiCosimo).
I’m new to spicy books and I’m still figuring out where my limits are. This one was too much for me – and that’s okay.
But you know what? I like these idiots.
Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/d6d65deb-f449-4ced-9cdf-6ff9283bfa29
„Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.“
- David Foster Wallace
Pssst… Want books?
How about free sci-fi and fantasy books?
Check out what's available here: https://books.bookfunnel.com/fantasy-march/cp7lh1wsg3
Book 8 was Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole (narrated by Karen Chilton).
When work takes Likotsi to NYC for a few days, she posts on an app looking for a short fling. She meets Fab and the two women fall ‘a little bit in love’. When her stay is extended, Fab disappears. Six months later, they meet up again.
Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/d067e756-f1f9-47d0-b36c-2682974120e1
Book 7 was Fries and Alibis by Trixie Silvertale (narrated Coleen Marlo).
Mitzy hates her job and she’s behind on rent. And then along comes a mysterious inheritance.
Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/8c2d985a-5625-4186-b4f1-0bf0d8798705
I just saw Becky Chambers' announcement for her new book and release date! It's called As You Wake, Break the Shell, coming in October: https://www.otherscribbles.com/news/2026/3/2/introducing-my-next-book
The announcement says it'll be the first of two forthcoming books in a new setting, involving "giant spacefaring animals and bootleg botany hacks", and is "equal parts a space story and a love story." Yes please!
Ebook pre-orders are open on bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/p/books/as-you-wake-break-the-shell-a-novel-becky-chambers/b6777f7965f00b29
Book 6 was Romancing the Beat by Gwen Hayes (narrated by Natalie Duke).
There’s so much good stuff in here, but I think it’s tough to implement it in this format.
Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/ee274da2-5cc4-4348-8b84-c34344018cec?redirect=true
Book 5 was Better Than People by Roan Parrish (narrated by James Cavenaugh).
When Jack is injured, he needs help caring for his many dogs and cats. Enter Simon, who loves animals, but can’t cope with people.
Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/44c572cb-f9c9-40af-95a0-1b58395ce02d
I see that Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Strife is out later this month. I have to admit to having been unimpressed with Children of Memory, so I’m hoping this is a return to form for the series.
It’s gonna have to wait a while, anyways, as I’m still working my way through my re-read of The Laundry Files 😎 #bookstodon
Side note: it’s adorable and ridiculous that The Shots You Take (2025, also by RR) is basically fanfic of a specific scene from The Long Game. Reid wrote fanfic of her own fiction. I love it.
Book 4 was The Long Game by Rachel Reid (narrated by Cooper North).
After a decade, Shane and Ilya are finally in a real relationship. Things are far from perfect, but both men know beyond any doubt that their love is real.
Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/2bc4e1ee-729f-4fa9-8af6-15b6efb984c1?redirect=true
A book and a beach, a delightful combination
https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/55129435095/in/photostream/lightbox/
#Portobello #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #Photography #Photographie #StreetPhotography #PeopleWatching #BlackAndWhitePhotography #books #livres #bookstodon #PortobelloBeach #Beach #Plage
RE: https://cupoftea.social/@Maker_of_Things/113844190013144501
First book of 2026.
I am now reading:
01: Jung Chang - Wild Swans.
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.
I have finished reading:
02: Ryka Aoki - Light From Uncommon Stars.
I am now reading:
03: Kate Mascarenhas – The Psychology of Time Travel.
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.
I have finished reading:
05: Kate Mascarenhas - Hokey Pokey.
I am now reading:
06: Becky Chambers - The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet.
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.
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.
Book 3 was How We End by LM Juniper (narrated by Savy Des-Etages and Nathaniel Priestley).
Jake is on the Tube, heading meet his fiancée so she can dump him, when the world ends.
Features an adorable lump of a dog.
Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/966820a8-ee2d-4d3d-bd93-949cad8cf492
I finished reading Man Made Monsters last night. The last story had me sobbing hard. ❤️ #books #readindigenous #Cherokee #fiction #diversebooks #bookstodon
This struck me as a lovely idea. A citywide book club for people who read on the bus. The Dublin Bus book club selects a book by an Irish author every six weeks.
Also a lovely idea: instead of partnering with a company like Amazon, they’ve partnered with a beloved local independent book store, Chapters, for discounted books and events for the book club members.
My second book was Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis (narrated by Lauryn Allman).
The many guests and residents of the Grand Abeona Hotel are dealing with many small mysteries. The characters criss-cross and overlap, dipping in and out of one another’s stories.
Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/fb01bc6e-30b8-43db-ae5f-a342276cb090
New month, new book thread! My first book for March was More to Love by Georgina Kiersten.
Following a divorce, former Olympic Wrestler Emmy moves to Texas for a fresh start. Jamir doesn’t have time for a relationship; he’s been too busy since inheriting his grandparent's bookstore.
Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/c544532a-33af-4b87-8eba-cf3f57276683?redirect=true
February reading roundup… I read 29 books, a few I didn’t really enjoy, but plenty of absolute bangers.
Book 29 (and my final for Feb) was Absolutely No Thoughts Of Pounding During My Fun Day With This Kind T-Rex Because I'm Aromantic And Asexual And That's A Wonderfully Valid Way Of Proving Love Is Real by Chuck Tingle (narrated by Georgia Bird).
This was bloody brilliant and a perfect way to end the month.
Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/f062495e-5d2f-45e2-a420-b90f1d72357c?redirect=true
This whole newsletter is excellent, as Cassie Mannes Murray always is, but the pith is near the end: "That rabbit hole of human imagination sells books."
#books #bookstodon
https://pinestatepublicity.substack.com/p/who-brought-rocco
Book 28 was After Purity: Race, Sex, and Religion in White Christian America by Sara Moslener (narrated by Melanie Carey).
I grew up steeped in purity culture. I wasn’t one of the people interviewed for this study, but I could have been. I’ve been working to unpack and unlearn everything I was taught. But it’s not easy.
Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/9e24c1aa-7fe5-4fd3-a201-6a7de9b07397?redirect=true
This week's #FridayBookRecs is full of Black women authors. This made me realize that I mostly read literary fiction by Black women, but I've got some fantasy, horror, and thriller recommendations, too! #books #bookstodon
Book 27 was Salvagia by Tim Chawaga (narrated by Amy McFadden).
Near-future sci-fi murder mystery.
I’m not sure if this was a case of wrong book for me or just wrong book for right now.
Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/1a9b36e2-da39-42cd-8390-efd63f75a8aa
Book 26 was Role Model by Rachel Reid (narrated by Cooper North).
Well. What a week to read this one.
The more this series progresses, the more we see that the NHL, its dickbag commissioner, and hockey culture are the real villains. I really want to kick Dallas K*nt right in the bollocks.
Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/39eb6c67-bf91-4c10-abe1-e12d7f035b5c
So I wrote a book called The Complete History (and Fistory) of Underspace, about a girl who finds the doorway to another world on the roof of her school
You could buy it - but who the hell am I?
Fortunately, we’re also releasing it as a podcast (with no ads!) so you can listen for free (search your podcast app for FISTORY)
Here’s a pic of my cats listening. Norbert's excited to see what happens next, but Max is so bored he's falling asleep
Book 25 was Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle.
I felt confident I knew what sort of vibe and mood to expect from Chuck Tingle. Yet, the reality was so much darker than I expected. If it had been my first read by him, it would probably be my last, which would have been a shame.
Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/258e5577-8c06-456d-a740-27c678f83bde
Book 24 was The Wild Robot by Peter Brown (narrated Kate Atwater).
I was expecting a sort of child’s take on Monk and Robot. Ends on a bit of a darker note than I expected, though.
Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/243745ab-d775-4634-b888-aaf9237fe606