@getbookshelves@mastodon.social avatar getbookshelves , to random

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@bradleybravard@mastodon.social avatar bradleybravard , to random

"Life was great and life was terrible and life could not be one without the other, that I knew, which don't mean I understood this or approved it."

-Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen

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@NickEast_IndieWriter@mastodon.art avatar NickEast_IndieWriter , to AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND

Suck it linguists I'll make my own grammar rolls 😜😂

@linguistics @humor [email protected]@kbin.earth [email protected]@kbin.earth @writingcommunity @writingbooks




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@SceNtriC@101010.pl avatar SceNtriC , to random Polish

Jeśli lubicie książki Adama Przechrzty i fantastykę osadzoną w historii, a także nie boicie się naprawdę mocnych (pod kątem tematyki) śledztw, to powinniście być usatysfakcjonowani. Aczkolwiek traktuję tę książkę nie jak coś głębszego, tylko czystą rozrywkę.

https://lubimyczytac.pl/ksiazka/szepty-ciemnosci/opinia/96666622

@ksiazki

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@pronouncedlahra@wandering.shop avatar pronouncedlahra , to random

This Story Hour started with the terrifying true story of guest host Rebecca Gomez Farrell's allergies...and continued with fiction! Gordon B. White read a juicy wedding horror story, and Somto Ihezue read one of his signature fantasy/horror stories. You can still watch! @RebeccaGomezFarrell Ihezue https://youtu.be/qdgH7yOj1Zs

@signs@kinkycats.org avatar signs , to random

Margot about to do some evening reading

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@georgepenney@sunny.garden avatar georgepenney , to random

Hello lovely people, just in case you need to snatch up a small moment of happiness today, you can find Tiny Moments of Joy here in both print and ebook form.

https://www.swashbucklerpress.com/tiny-moments-of-joy

Link is for direct purchase and the big retail stores. The site is in New Zealand dollars, so much much cheaper in most other currencies, including Narnian Lions😊

@NickEast_IndieWriter@mastodon.art avatar NickEast_IndieWriter , to AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND

Completly misunderstanding how society works is what tech bros do best! 😂

@bookstodon @books @joinin
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@Clundoff@wandering.shop avatar Clundoff , to random

From Queen of Swords Press: Member of LA Con or Seattle Worldcon? You can nominate works for the Hugo Awards ballot! Know what we, a tiny press in the heart of Minneapolis, published? A Hugo Award-eligible series! Please consider nominating the Astreiant Series by Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnett! https://queenofswordspress.com/product/complete-astreiant/

Book cover for The Complete Astreiant

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@archesofscratch73@zirk.us avatar archesofscratch73 , to random

How do you feel about Umberto Eco's novels? Any book, any period. Specific comments welcome.

@kelidanovus@hachyderm.io avatar kelidanovus , to random

It begins…

@Impossible_PhD

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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt avatar Natasha_Jay , to random

What is a REAL book? 📚

by Tom Gauld

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@NickEast_IndieWriter@mastodon.art avatar NickEast_IndieWriter , to AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND

An older but very nice review of my story The Last Philosopher 😊

Free eBook version of Part One:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tynp5wgkwr0dkvmf3dzp3/The-Last-Philosopher-Part-One.epub?rlkey=n61zknkz05eakr809gcs19kzd&dl=0

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@Nickiquote@mstdn.social avatar Nickiquote , to random

I’ve just sat up finishing “One Day I Shall Astonish The World” by Nina Stibbe and just wanted to emphasise that she is an incredibly funny author and if you haven’t read her you’re missing out.

I’ve also found with Nina that her books work best on the page, there’s a sort of comic cadence in my head that even the best audiobook readers don’t seem to quite get. Or maybe that’s a me thing.


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@bobonbooks@mindly.social avatar bobonbooks , to random

Question of the Day: Where would you rather be, in a well-stocked, chain bookstore, or an old used bookstore with miles of shelves?

@scottrossi@mastodon.social avatar scottrossi , to random

i'm not gonna give the title of the cuz spoilers but last night i read a book where rage femicide trump let jd vance fornicate with his "neckussy" it was droll, juvenile and amazing! i gave the book 5 stars and emailed the author i loved it!

@Readbean@pixelfed.social avatar Readbean , to random
@ater@flipping.rocks avatar ater , to random

My books are now on bookshop.org! Support your local bookstore today!

Here's roach: a love story

A cockroach awakes one morning to find themselves transformed into a monstrous human. This is only the first in a series of increasingly disconcerting events for the now human teenager. It will not be long before Roach has firsthand knowledge of many aspects of the human experience, including: broken bones, broken hearts, bigotry and sadness; but also: Love, which in humans comes in many forms. So, that's nice, but will love be enough to make it all worth it?

https://bookshop.org/p/books/roach-liz-boysha/95cd771dd3ce0e4a?ean=9798224675418

(you can also get it free elsewhere, including on my website (https://ater.neocities.org/books/mybooks), it's all the same to me)

@ShaulaEvans@zirk.us avatar ShaulaEvans , to random

What is one book that positively shaped who you are as a person and how did it influence you? At what point in your life did you read it?

Fiction, non-fiction, graphic novel, audiobook: however you define "book" for yourself is fine with me.

@bookstodon

@DelilahTech@tech.lgbt avatar DelilahTech , to random

So, I picked up this audiobook; Blank: The First Number

At 37 minutes, I thought it would be a quick read for the night before starting a larger book for the commute tomorrow

Unfortunately, couldn't get past the first chapter

The Introduction alone was a quasireligious celebration of an unknown quantity, complete with the full gamut of deitic descriptions ranging from nothing to infinity, alfpha and omega, et nauseum

I feel myself wishing for the last six minutes of my life back

Thankfully, I did not actually pay money for this...

@jonobie@social.coop avatar jonobie , to random

Just finished "Four Lost Cities: A secret history of the urban age", by Annalee Newitz. Delightful book - I stumbled across it because it covers Cahokia, an ancient city full of giant pyramids that is near modern day East St. Louis. I'd learned about Cahokia in "Native Nations" and wanted to know more. (Never heard of it? Me neither, probably because the US pretends that native people didn't have big cities of 30k+ with evidence of organized religion before European colonizers showed up.)

Highly recommend -- it's a quick and engaging read. In addition to Cahokia, it covers Pompeii, Angkor, and Çatalhöyük. All three had fascinating cultures that are so different both from each other and from modern life. Absolutely wild to read about.

@colorblindcowboy@mastodon.art avatar colorblindcowboy , to random

“Seven Gothic Tales” (1937) by Isak Dinesen is a masterful tapestry of storytelling. Though it’s deceptively named. There must be, through its digressively nested narratives, some 30 or more tales, to say nothing of the folklore, histories, fairy tales, poems, and novels referenced. It’s a heady work, the stories long, but so sumtuously written, I found myself pulled along into narratives of opera singers, sea farers, and unhappy aristotcrats ...

1/?

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@LornaPeel@mastodon.ie avatar LornaPeel , to random

It's 1894, and the Fitzgerald family and their circle face crises that test their futures, finances, and relationships.

Amazon - https://mybook.to/aperfectsolution
Other Retailers - https://books2read.com/APerfectSolution


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@AllysonShaw@wandering.shop avatar AllysonShaw , to random

Reading this One Yellow Eye right now & it’s the perfect grief ridden, plague era Zombie valentine. What are you reading this weekend?

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