Book 19 was Rhythm of the Hart by Ryan Ramirez Webb (narrated by Jonathan Robbins Leon).

Exes with chemistry 💕
Three’s company🔥
Bi awakening 🩷💜💙
We need a Christmas miracle 🎄

Get it in #KoboPlus: https://www.kobo.com/en/audiobook/rhythm-of-the-hart-1

#bookstodon #queerbooks

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Rhythm of the Hart by Ryan Ramirez Webb (narrated by Jonathan Robbins Leon).

Ich glaube ich werde Alt.
An meinem #Geburtstag wollte ich einfach nur ein wenig Ruhe und an verschiedenen Orten #lesen.

#bookstodon #lesenmachtglucklich
#Ostfriesland #ostfriesenkrimi

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Im Vordergrund ein Buch (nicht im Fokus) Dahinter eine grüne Lamdschaft, die ins Meer mündet.

Everything's more fun if it's a vice!😂

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

#ReadingMemes #Humor #Humour #Funny #Geek #Vice
#Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity
#Books #Bookstodon

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Post by love drops My best tip for anyone trying to get back into reading is to remember that you can read books to avoid other responsibilities in your life, and it can become a vice if you play your cards right.

Book 18 was The Woman Who Met Herself by Laura Pearson (narrated by Julie Maisey).

The Parent Trap … but with old people 👵👵
Friendship 🤝
Yay, divorce ❌💍

On sale at #LibroFM: https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781836034636-the-woman-who-met-herself

#bookstodon

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The Woman Who Met Herself by Laura Pearson (narrated by Julie Maisey). My listening supports The Portal Bookshop Libro.fm

Book Review: https://73pctgeek.com/hickory-dickory-dock-by-agatha-christie/

Hickory Dickory Dock by Agatha Christie

Something strange is happening at the boarding house run by Miss Lemon’s sister, Poirot decides to find the answers.

Unsatisfying mystery with unnecessary twists, almost no Poirot, and can probably win the award for most tenuously titled Christie novel. It’s.… not good, rapidly deteriorating into an inane, tedious mess. ★★☆☆☆

#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon

TZAG fedi! Today's my stop on the blog tour for A Fugitive's History of the Known Universe. Read my review of this compelling, inventive, and well put-together sci-fi sequel: https://www.draliceviolett.com/blog-tour-a-fugitives-history-of-the-known-universe/ #bookstodon #BookMastodon

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Blog tour graphic for A Fugitive's History of the Known Universe by Nadia Afifi, featuring the book's cover (showing a person in a spacesuit floating above a planet in a turquoise sky) and the words 'blog tour' and the Flame Tree Press logo on a red dusty backdrop

Book 17 was Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells (narrated by David Cui Cui and a full cast).

Everyone’s favourite SecUnit is back again 📺
Feelings are icky 🫷
Oh, Mikki 🤖

Murderbot is in #KoboPlus! This is not a drill! https://www.kobo.com/en/audiobook/rogue-protocol-dramatized-adaptation

#bookstodon

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Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells (narrated by David Cui Cui and a full cast).

Book 16 was Hometown Space Pirate by C.G. Harris (narrated by Adam Verner).

Ben can see space people 👽
But nobody believes him 🙈
The fate of an innocent creature ,(and maybe more) is at stake 🦑

On sale at Libro-fm: https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781965927090-hometown-space-pirate

#bookstodon

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VIRAQUIN VOYAGE book 1 Hometown Space Pirate by C.G. Harris My listening supports The Portal Bookshop Libro.fm

RE: https://literatur.social/@Frohmann/116969169860593731

Der Verlag der PGExplaining braucht die Community.

#Buchstodon #Bookstodon #Lesen #ReadIndie #Verlegerinnenverlage

Much of the camp infrastructure we see today was es­tablished in the Obama years. In 2014, as more families fled violence and poverty and headed toward the United States, the Obama administration reverted to using detention as an attempted means of deterrence.
https://www.texasobserver.org/excerpt-how-to-close-a-camp/

#books #bookstodon #immigration #ICE #history #politics #USpol

Puffin says that even if you don't like the story, the paperback makes for a good face scratching post

#Cats
#CatsOfMastodon
#Books
#Bookstodon

Links to the series in case you're curious:

https://a.co/d/0esYBlHI

https://a.co/d/08y5oO1L

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A brown tabby cat scratches her face on the book I Guess We're Heroes

Book 15 was Mister Magic by Kiersten White (narrated by Rebecca Lowman).

A children’s TV show that everyone remembers but no one can prove 📺
A survivor who can’t remember 🧠
An exvangelical allegory ⛪️

#bookstodon #queerbooks

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Mister Magic by Kiersten White (narrated by Rebecca Lowman).

Re: the "cats are nice" Discworld quote. One of my favourite ongoing themes from the books is Death's affectionate relationship with cats.

I think it's deeply representative of Pratchett's talent. Apart from his trademark caustic humour, he managed to make the embodiment of the Grim Reaper a complex, sympathetic, even arguably kind character. Death is someone who genuinely cares about people, carries a fierce sense of justice, experiences loneliness, and ultimately forms a deeply caring bond with cats.

This has always been one of my favourite officially licensed Discworld illustrations by Boris Sokolovsky, which I think depicts that angle of Death perfectly.

#Discworld #TerryPratchett #Books #Bookstodon #art #MastoArt #Cat #Cats

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An illustration of Death from Discworld, with his trademark black hood, a skull for a face, with blue orbs as eyes, holding a large scythe, he has two kittens tenderly held against his chest, one with closed eyes gently putting a paw on him as the other is curiously staring downwards. At the bottom of the picture there are several piled up books, a kitten on the left is curiously extending a paw and touching an hourglass, while another kitten on the right is watching. At the bottom there's a scroll with the words "cats, cats are nice" quote written on it.

Book 14 was Work For It by Talia Hibbert (narrated by Shane East & Chance Thoreau).

Weirdo farmer x weirdo posh boy🪴💰
Traumatised idiots in love 💕
Not as much spice as the cover would have you believe🌶️

Get it in #LibroFM: https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781666558050

#bookstodon #queerbooks

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Work For It by Talia Hibbert (narrated by Shane East & Chance Thoreau). My listening supports The Portal Bookshop Libro.fm

"The British pretended, and perhaps some of them even believed, that the establishment of a national home for the Jews could be carried out without hurting the Arabs. But, of course, that was impossible. From the start there were then only two possibilities: that the Arabs defeat the Zionists or that the Zionists defeat the Arabs. War between the two was inevitable."

from 'Empireworld', by Sathnam Sanghera

#Bookstodon #FreePalestine #SettlerColonialism

book review: The Odyssey by Homer ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Sex, drugs, booze and ultra-violence. Slavery, torture and murder. Monsters and gods delay the hero on his way home for 10 years.

They would have got home a lot sooner if they didn't stop to bathe/weep/sacrifice/feast every five minutes.

https://felix.gripe/blog/the-odyssey-by-homer/

#bookstodon

I’m reading a strange and interesting graphic novel called A Castle in England, written by Jamie Rhodes. It’s episodes from the history of Scotney Castle in Kent, based on what was happening politically and socially in England during the respective periods. Each episode is illustrated by somebody different. I’ve read a section about the Peasants’ Revolt and now I’m reading about Elizabethan era religious persecution. Each episode comes with the family tree of the castle’s inhabitants for that era. An unusual concept.

#comics #graphicnovel #amreading #books #bookstodon

"The Greenland shark is the planet's oldest vertebrate, reckoned to be somewhere between 272 and 512 years old. They are slow, as befits a fish so venerable. They live deep-down and secret lives.

I am glad not to be a Greenland shark; I don't have enough thoughts to fill five hundred years. But I find the very idea of them hopeful. They will see us pass through whichever spinning chaos we may currently be living through, and the crash that will come after it, and they will live through the currently unimaginable things that will come after that: the transformations, revelations, the possible liberations.

That is their beauty, and it's breathtaking; they go on. These slow, half-blind creatures are perhaps the closest thing to eternal this planet has to offer."

from 'The Golden Mole and Other Hidden Treasures', by Katherine Rundell

#Nature #Bookstodon #Oceans #Poetry

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Picture of a Greenland shark

New definition of terrorism just dropped

“He kept repeating that I was causing fear and alarm, people could be placed in a state of fear and alarm because I was reading out this poem about dead babies, dead children,” the activist went on.

“He said if you do that again, you'll be arrested. I said, well, hang about till 1.30 because it'll be getting read out again.”

https://www.thenational.scot/news/26290837.scottish-pro-palestine-activist-arrested-for-reading-poem/?ref=twtrec

#UKPolitics #Poetry #Bookstodon #FreePalestine

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EXCLUSIVE Scottish pro-Palestine activist arrested 'for reading poem about Gaza'

Tonight we sail the wine dark sea at the Filmhouse, in glorious 70mm film print format...

I will make libations to the gods first; I have no wish for my bus home at night to take ten years...

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#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #film #cinema #books #livres #TheOdyssey #Homer #ChristophetNolan #FilmhouseEdinburgh #Mythology #bookstodon

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Film poster for The Odyssey, Odysseus in armour, with a huge, flaming wooden horse behind him

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Cover for Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey, with a fresco of Greek figures above the title

Book 13 was The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change, written and read by Rebecca Solnit.

It’s easy to look around the world and feel overwhelmed by how awful things seem to be. This book walks you through some of the ways the world has changed for the better.

Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/b81ad8e6-d92c-421f-b824-c4318ef88c8c?redirect=true

#bookstodon

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The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change, written and read by Rebecca Solnit.

Book 12 was The Voice of Wild Places by Noah Hawthorne (narrated by Sam Stark & Cesar Brasil).

Queers on a quest 🥾🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Second chance 💕
Meddling family 🫷
The dogs lives 🐕

Get it in #KoboPlus: https://www.kobo.com/en/audiobook/voice-of-wild-places-the

#bookstodon #queerbooks

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The Voice of Wild Places by Noah Hawthorne (narrated by Sam Stark & Cesar Brasil).

I love these books: Yokomizo’s mysteries with detective Kosuke Kindaichi.

I forgot that I had pre-ordered this latest translation, originally published in 1948, which has been sitting on my ebook reader since May. #bookstodon

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Seishi Yokomizo A classic Japanese mustery from the author of The Nonjin Murders and, Murder at the Black Cat Cafe SHE WALKS AT NIGHT

As a forensic scientist, I'm a sucker for detective fiction where the author includes forensics.
Here's a review of Murder in Edinburgh.
https://vanessajknipe.wixsite.com/vanessa-knipe/post/murder-cannot-be-long-hid
#bookstodon

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An advert for a book review. Edinburgh castle looms over the city in this black and white photograph from about 1865. Text reads: New Book Review. Murder in Edinburgh.

Book 11 was Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke (narrated by Rebecca Lowman).

Trad wife influencer gets a taste of her own medicine 🖕
Horrible people all around 🤬
Seriously, everyone is awful 🤮

Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/3558b12f-a538-4bed-933c-c6e880768fcc

#bookstodon

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Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke (narrated by Rebecca Lowman).

Book 10 was Winging It by Morgan James & Ashlyn Kane (narrated by Nick J. Russo).

Closeted hockey player 🏒
Bi-awakening 🩷💜💙
Dat ass 🍑
*Almost* everyone is supportive

Get it in #KoboPlus: https://www.kobo.com/en/audiobook/winging-it-43

#bookstodon #queerbooks

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Winging It by Morgan James & Ashlyn Kane (narrated by Nick J. Russo).

For those new to my page, I post a little about writing, and a lot about my family's cats.

My first series, I Guess We're Heroes, is a sci-fi/thriller available in paperback, audiobook, and ebook (including Kindle Unlimited). Links to both books are at the bottom of this post.

My next series is in the works, and will be fantasy/LitRPG!

https://a.co/d/0esYBlHI

https://a.co/d/08y5oO1L

#Books
#Bookstodon
#Cats
#CatsOfMastodon

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A brown tabby cat lays next to the book I Guess We're Heroes

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An orange tabby cat sits behind the book Out of the Fire Into the Furnace

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A team of scientists discover intelligent alien life, and start a dangerous race to capitalize on the opportunity. As the decades pass, however, first contact fades from living memory, and is mysteriously absent from any official historical records. For the next five centuries humanity ventures out to the stars, their various political factions leaving no shortage of problems for an enterprising crew to make a living off of. The mercenaries of Specialized Support Contractors were only looking for small jobs befitting their fledgling company, but soon find themselves forced into the limelight when their employer’s ambitions place an ancient alien weapon in their possession. Digging deeper into the origins of their cargo brings even more heat from vested interests who want the truth of humanity’s first contact with alien life to be kept secret. With entire planets caught in the crosshairs of a looming interstellar war, any choice the mercenaries make could have catastrophic consequences.

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A 5 star review that says: Fast and fun! Take a deep breath before you start reading, because this story moves FAST! While jumping between two timelines, the author is able to keep a clear focus and maintain a high energy. You won't get lost and you won't want to put it down! While there are a lot of details that help to real ground the story in a gritty world, the details don't come at the expense of the flow. There are none of George Martin's length asides to describe elaborate meals or give detailed descriptions of fancy outfits. Don't worry about the food and the clothes - this book takes you straight to the action!

Today’s charity shop purchases:

- I read Homage to Catalonia 30 yrs ago, but I fancy reading more about the Spanish Civil War again and it seems a decent place to start. It’ll be interesting now, knowing his wife was there all the time and basically doesn’t get mentioned.

- The Dandy 50th anniversary poster mag, now 39 years old (!), was 99p, is on nice thick paper and is for my kid. I might see if I can put it in a cheap frame.

- I’ve not read any Scalzi but he’s on here, innie. #bookstodon

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HOMAGE TO CATALONIA GEORGE ORWELL DANDY GIANT SOUVENIR Poster THE COMIC THAT'S SO YEARS YOUNG... Features a picture of the superstring cowboy Desperate Dan holding the fold out poster. JOHN SCALZI THE KAIJU PRESERVATION SOCIETY

There were some Adrian Tchaikovsky books too, and I know a lot of you like him, but they were the size of telephone directories (when you could say that and it meant something). #bookstodon

If anyone wants to recommend a really good book about the Spanish Civil War, I would be interested. Note however that I usually do not give half a shit about “military history”. I’m more interested in the politics. #bookstodon

What’s the best book you’ve read recently? #reading #bookstodon

Book 9 was Space Dragons: Luxorian's Crew, written and read by Veo Corva.

Space-faring dragons 🐉 🚀
Inclusive found family 👐
Assembling a crew 👭👬

Get it direct from the author: https://veocorva.xyz/books/space-dragons-luxorians-crew-by-veo-corva/

#bookstodon

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Space Dragons: Luxorian's Crew, written and read by Veo Corva.

Book 8 was The Little Book of Data, written and read by Justin Evans.

People who loved Freakonomics would do better to read this instead.

Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/2bf8f52f-7e16-40d8-8463-30033751de5e

#bookstodon

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The Little Book of Data: Understanding the Powerful Analytics that Fuel AI, Make or Break Careers, and Could Just End Up Saving the World Justin Evans

Hugless Douglas looks quite content, slouching in his deck chair, snoozing under my Panama hat.

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#photography #photographie #books #livres #hat #chapeau #HuglessDouglas #bookstodon

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Cuddly Hugless Douglas teddy bear, slouched in a deck chair, with a Panama hat over his eyes, as if snoozing

Otter's Tale Books is so close to its Kickstarter goal with one day left! If you can pitch in for a new queer-owned and -centered indie bookstore in southern Oregon, please do!

(I have no connection with these folks. I honestly put in a little money because I like the idea and I love the logo.)

#bookstodon

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/otbooks/otters-tale-books/description

"When ninety percent of the solar system's wealth belongs to only one percent of its inhabitants, you only have so many options if you want to survive"

Happily working my way through @garethlpowell 's Jitterbug, & feeling the (welcome) Iain Banks influence. Which is, as my fellow SF readers will suspect already, a big compliment.

#books #livres #ScienceFiction #bookstodon

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A page from the novel Jitterbug

@alice

Puffins and Penguins are here on the fediverse.

They are the ones behind the #Bookstodon hash-tag shenanigans.

Puffin and Pabu want to know if they can interest you in a sci-fi thriller series on this fine #Caturday

Book 1 is out now, and book 2 is available for pre-order!

#Cats
#CatsOfMastodon
#Books
#Bookstodon

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Two cats lay on a bed next to two books

Congrats to Hachette and University of Chicago Press workers for their successful union efforts!

#bookstodon

https://lithub.com/both-university-of-chicago-press-and-hachette-book-group-have-voted-to-unionize/

I keep seeing authors telling other authors not to read their reviews. And, sure, I get that it can be hard on the ego. But let me tell you: you’re missing out.

If you’re sensitive, don’t read them yourself. Get someone else to do it for you. But one person’s hate-read is another person’s new favourite.

#author #bookstodon

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Bad reviews sell more books

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1 star. ‘Woke agenda. 1 star. ‘Lgbqaeiou’ 1 star. ‘Lesbian lifestyle’ 1 star. ‘contains swears’

Short books as opposed to short stories

I was interested in this list - as a start. The only ones I have read are the McEwan, Spark and the Solzhenitsyn (in translation and a school text which I have re read and still have the school copy - whoops). Do others have recommendations for ‘short’ reads as opposed to short stories?

https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/jul/11/pressed-for-time-20-brilliant-books-you-can-read-in-a-day

#Bookstodon #Reading #ShortFiction #Fiction