#reading
Book 3, Broken Trust, arrives December 22nd.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CKVRTSQQ?binding=paperback
#amwriting
#books
#CKP
#Falstaff
#Reading
#sciencefiction
#Theogeny
#writers
#writerscoffeeclub
#fiction
#sf
#sff
#sciencefiction
#writing
#writer
#writers
#author
#writingcommunity
#writersOfMastodon
David is live any minute now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOdu_MgNgJA #reading #Books #GameofThrones #GRRMartin #Houseofthedragon
Let's learn more about the demons. Check out the newest episode of #Hachinan at https://infinitenoveltranslations.net/hachinan-tte-sore-wa-nai-deshou-volume-19-chapter-6-demon-reporter-lumi-carchs-part-1/
Enjoy~
#novel #reading #read #book #books #bookstodon #lightnovel #manga #anime #fantasy #harem #romance #strategy #war #fiction #marriage #silentsunday #sunday #magic #politics #childbirth #nobles #demons #isekai
Looking for a bite-sized romance? A Top Fave on #kindlevella #laterinliferomance #seasonedromance #bookstodon #reading
@bibliolater @bookstodon currently #reading "Human Kind — a Hopeful History" by Rutger Brekman
Currently #reading Professor Rob Iliff's 'Priest of Nature: The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton'.
#AmReading #Book #Books #Bookstodon #History #Science #HistSci #HistoryofScience #IsaacNewton #Newton #Religion #Faith #Christianity #EarlyModern @bookstodon @earlymodern
Teacher, author and scholar, Jose Luis Vilson offers some thoughts about what isn’t being discussed in the current round of reading debates. https://networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content/jose-luis-vilson-the-problem-with-how-you-discuss-reading/ #Reading
I #read Fang by Demelza Carlton (#book 1/Nyx Colony). Downloaded it because it was #free (not KU, free). It’s got to be the most ridiculous thing I’ve finished in a long time, with both MCs being naive beyond belief. There is a HEA. I can’t imagine paying for the other #books in the series. If you’re looking for a Vampire, alien, blackmail, dentist, forced pregnancy, billionaire #romance mashed into 200 pages, this is for you! #reading #books #romancelandia #romancebooks
https://amzn.to/3sTlbvl
A brilliant end to the original Earthsea Trilogy!
#Reading #books #BooksWorthReading #bookstodon @bookstodon
https://conversationsaboutbooks5.wordpress.com/2023/12/03/the-farthest-shore-ursula-k-le-guin/
'Like a man trying to push a heavy load up a hill, Yechiel-Nachman sweated and panted as he prayed.'
Etgar Keret responds to turmoil in the Middle East with a short story, Intention, translated by @JessicaHebrew in today's Observer:
#books #reading #writing #translation #ShortStories #israel #palestine #gaza
Have you read Detective Skye Dixon, The Trilogy yet? #bookaddict #reading #read #bookpromo #booklovers #kindleunlimited #goodbook #writingcommunity
#ReadersCommunity https://tinyurl.com/2p8kurm3
Keira Amherst had everything--until she didn't go along with her evil father's plans. Locked up in her bedroom for years, she had lost all hope, but one day she got her chance to escape...
Available on #KindleUnlimited, #Kindle, & paperback: https://amzn.to/2Uf7QX3
This is a complete stand alone story with suspense, military action, and an "open door" romance. The story may deal with serious topics but is fast-paced and has an HEA.
What’s your triathlon training plan for the weekend? ✏️ INFJoe #books #reading https://ebookfriendly.com/best-cartoons-for-booklovers/
Bought two $5 Captain Comics coins yesterday for my nephews' #Xmas2023. Somewhat more substantial chits from Rediscovered Bookshop, CupBop (Korean) , and Paddles Up Poké (Hawaii) forthcoming. The main gifts this year are signed copies of books friends wrote this year: Underground Theory by David McKerracher, Slavoj Žižek, Alenka Zupančič, Ann Snelgrove, et al. (https://theory-underground.com/store/ (and Amazon of course ), and Hacker Culture: A to Z by @crowgirl
get some!
THE SPIRAL and THE THREADS
Paperback & Hardcover - January 2nd, 2024
Kindle - February 2nd, 2024
The long-awaited "conclusion" of The Nod/Wells Timelines is almost here. Prepare yourself for a truly unique speculative fiction reading experience:
http://amazon.com/author/michaelshotter
#speculativefiction #speculative #fiction #specfic #scifi #sciencefiction #horror #paranormal #thriller #reading #reader #readers #readingcommunity #booksofmastodon #readersofmastodon #bookstodon #booktodon @bookstodon
I read today's free Sunday Morning Transport story by @TboneJenkins with my cat purring on my chest, and I highly recommend both parts: https://www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/deconstruction-in-the-form-of-a-cat
"What kind of reader do I wish for? The most unembarrassed, who forgets himself, me and the world, and lives only in the book." -- Goethe
Reading Glasses.
Charcoal Drawing.
[ Prints : https://james-mccormack.pixels.com/featured/reading-glasses-james-mccormack.html ]
Reading Glasses, a drawing of a pair of spectacles on a wooden table beside a book, drawn inblack and white, in charcoal.
#readingglasses #reading #glasses #spectacles
#Mastodaoine #jamesmccormackartist
#wooden #table #book #blackandwhite #charcoal #BuyIntoArt #Fedigiftshop
Oh, we will definitely be watching this on Christmas day! Mog's Christmas has been a family re-read for over a decade now - one of my favorite Christmas stories.
You can find a new kind of something, with "Pride, Prejudice, and Witches!"
As winter sets in and people try to keep warm, nothing beats getting under a thick blanket and curling up on the sofa with a good book.
Check out these links and let me know if you have you read any of these titles. They are all available in bookshops and will deepen your knowledge on Iraq.
'Join the journey to a different Iraq': https://iraq-solidarity.blogspot.com/2023/11/join-journey-to-different-iraq.html
'When the Middle East meets the West': https://iraq-solidarity.blogspot.com/2023/11/when-middle-east-meets-west-books-to.html
#manchester #iraq #books #reading #photography #literature #book #uk #news
Started reading Essa Hansen's "Ethera Grave: Book Three Of The Graven."
https://amzn.to/3QU4skM
📖🚀
Excited to see how this concludes this epic #SciFi #SpaceOpera story.
#books #reading #ScienceFiction
This one is really really good. Like top 5 detective stories I've ever read.
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/walter-s-masterman/the-wrong-letter
What kind of reader are you? This infographic lets you compare your reading habits with others #reading #survey #books #booksmatters https://readerupdated.com/2023/11/27/current-book-reading-habits-in-the-us/
The "biscuit" joke from So Long and Thanks for all the Fish by Douglas Adams is now one of my favourite jokes from the series
@bookstodon @bookstadon #solongandthanksforallthefish #douglasadams #books #reading #comedy #jokes #scifi #sciencefiction #comicscifi #humour
#reading The body beneath the willows by Nick Louth #bookstodon #books #CrimeFiction
The clash of armies draws near. Read the newest #ChronoWars at https://infinitenoveltranslations.net/records-of-chronos-wars-volume-4-chapter-4-conflagration-part-2/
Enjoy~
#isekai #novel #lightnovel #reading #books #book #bookstodon #romance #harem #wars #strategy #battles #fantasy #fiction #lewd #ecchi #manga #caturday #saturday #anal #elves #furries #drama #tragedy
For the last two months I have turned on Reader Mode for webviews in Ivory by default for all links I view in Fediverse posts.
This has made reading content on the internet far more pleasant and readable thanks to Apple’s font choices and the removal of pop-ups that get past my ad blocker.
Here's some #workinprogress #wip pics of a #painting that is being made at my friend Kem's #art studio and gallery downtown, check it out! ✨ This one's perfect for someone who likes reading, eastern spirituality and culture, and animals ✨ Msg me if interested! #artforsale #artists #artist #books #book #literature #read #reading #animals #elephant #elephants #artlover #artlovers #buddhist #buddha #buddhism #artmarket #artforsale #artfinder #paintings #decor #interiors #peace #artistsonmastodon
The pages are calling. Pick up that book you've been meaning to read and dive in. The adventures, characters, and ideas within those covers are waiting to unlock your imagination and expand your world. Let's read! #motivation #reading
REBEL DRAGON
Dragons in a unique fantasy (even the dragons are different). Epic fantasy from a personal viewpoint.
The four-book series is complete. It ends 👍
https://taupress.com/rebel-dragon?__src=M231202
Check out the review shown on my profile page:
Read in leapfrog with no.s 41-44 the 45th of my #BooksReadIn2023 could’ve been a (fairly short) article - but the author wanted to write a popular history book, so quickly rehashed most of post-Roman history through to the Conquest, which wasn’t news to me. Not an awful case for his preferred location for Brunanburh, but not hugely groundbreaking or 100% compelling. Not entirely sure why I persevered to the end.
#BooksOf2023 #Books #Reading #Bookstodon #MediaevalHistory #History
Today in Labor History December 2, 1867: British author Charles Dickens gave his first public reading in the United States at Tremont Temple in Boston. He described his impressions of the U.S. in a travelogue, “American Notes for General Circulation.” In Notes, he condemned slavery and correlated the emancipation of the poor in England with the abolition of slavery abroad. Despite his abolitionist sentiments, some modern commentators have criticized him for not condemning Britain’s harsh crackdown during the 1860s Morant Bay rebellion in Jamaica. During his American visit, he also spent a month in New York, giving lectures, and arguing for international copyright laws and against the pirating of his work in America. The press ridiculed him, saying he should be grateful for his popularity here.
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #slavery #abolition #fiction #books #novel #dickens #author #writer #reading @bookstadon
44th of my #BooksReadIn2023 - a dystopian fantasy trilogy. I liked that they were small stories of people looking out for themselves, or indeed a complete stranger, rather than to Save The World as is so often the case. Though it ends with the big bad thing being solved, I appreciated it not being a stereotypical Villain behind it all.
#BooksOf2023 #Books #Reading #Bookstodon #Fantasy #Dystopia #DystopianFantasy
#ColonialViolence in #Scandinavia countries and the religious and economic war on #Indigenous #Sami populations are the stories of such #books as Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius, The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen, and Forty Days Without Shadow by Olivier Truc. I just finished #reading Truc's book. Like the Americas, #Australia and everywhere else subjected to #colonialism, the #racism, #misogyny and #greed all look the same and have same outcomes.
#bookstodon #Arctic #historicalFiction
Read *Blood Sisters* by Vanessa Lillie: Important and page-turning mystery by enrolled Cherokee woman that depicts plight of #MMIWG2S (missing & murdered #indigenous women, girls, & two spirit people).
I just finished the novel and will add it to my recommended reads.
(I'd recommend even if Vanessa weren't in one of my writing groups! )
You have an affliction. A malady. Everything in the world, all its equipment and armaments, its slings and arrows, its sticks and stones, its words that always hurt you, that break your heart and your bones. Osteogenesis imperfecta. All your inner structures turn brittle, little, and weak.
https://duanetoops.substack.com/p/unsafe
#art #poetry #artwork #reading #writing #amwriting #writingcommunity #collage #creativity #collageart #books #mixedmedia #mixedmediaart #type #typography @bookstodon
So here is a question to the @bookstodon community: what is the best #nofiction book you have read this year?
Five stars: How Spider Saved Halloween by Robert Kraus (1973) was published the year I was born. I think I had it read to me way back when. I came across it again via social media — Instagram, I think. As it was coming up on Halloween, I though it was a good time to read or re-read it.
http://pussreboots.com/blog/2023/comments_12/how_spider_saved_halloween.html
Have you done all your #Christmas shopping yet?
Give the gift of a year's free access to the best #ShortStories and #comics from all around the world, with #fiction from Joyce Carol Oates, Etgar Keret, Ali Smith, Lizzy Stewart and lots, lots more in 2024…
Unlock knowledge and savor it like wine;
Defeat death and free yourselves from it!
— Ibn Arabi
https://www.youtube.com/@Yahia.Lababidi
Sculpture: Sylph/Azrael by Volodymyr Tsysaryk
#art #artist #quotes #philosophy #spirituality #religion #Islam #inspiration #reading #meditation #knowledge #death #life #books
It's always a good day when a new @tinaconnolly story is published, and "Stage Shows and Schnauzers" is effervescently sparkly and fun (and free to read online, too): https://future-sf.com/fiction/stage-shows-and-schnauzers/
My #Favorite #Books by #Black #Authors for 2023.
A #rock #legend's #memoir, a beautiful #book of #poems about #fatherhood and a #history#book that's #RealAF were some of my favorite books by #Black #authors this year.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TheArts #Literature #Books #Reading #Representation #Culture #BlackMastodon
https://www.theroot.com/my-favorite-books-by-black-authors-for-2023-1851062602
Imagine you're reading a fiction book by your favourite contemporary author.
It comes with a "director's commentary" - where the writer gives you an insight into the creative process, the themes they've developed, and what they had to cut etc.
How would you prefer to read such a commentary?
just read: Second-Stage Lensmen by Edward E. “Doc” Smith
(… escapist space opera that I find on the shelf and enjoy sometimes)
In case you missed it, the Fediverse has an alternative to Amazon's Goodreads called BookWyrm, which is a social reading platform.
Existing Goodreads users can import their data into BookWyrm.
BookWyrm's entry on fedi.tips is now updated with common questions answered:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-network-for-people-who-enjoy-reading/
Also see BookWyrm's official website at:
...and follow their official account at:
➡️ @bookwyrm
#BookWyrm #Books #Reading #GoodReads #Alternatives #Fediverse
#FridayReads
There are three books I'm reading at the moment and all have drawn me in in their different ways:
* Botticelli's Secret by Joseph Luzzi - an account of the commission the artist Sandro Botticelli was given by a member of Florence's powerful Medici family to illustrate all hundred cantos of Dante's Divine Comedy
* The Housekeepers by Alex Hay - a terrific revenge heist story pitting downstairs vs upstairs masterminded by a former housekeeper of a grand London Mayfair house who has a hidden agenda
* Into the Forest - an anthology of retellings of Baba Yaga stories by a wide range of horror and fantasy writers
It should be a good reading weekend!
#currentlyReading #amReading #books #reading #bookstodon @bookstodon
You put yourself together. Bit by bit. Part Sometimes you do it with clarity and precision. As if by a manual. As if provided with a step-by-step guide. At other times, in total darkness. In the midnight hour. Grappling with esoteric secrets. With hieroglyphics. An impenetrable mystery. Like Ikea instructions for building anything...
https://duanetoops.substack.com/p/some-assembly-required
#reading #writing #art #poetry #collage #collageart #artwork #blog #blogging #amwriting #writingcommunity #books @bookstodon #friday
“My Kissinger Obit for ‘Rolling Stone’” by Spencer Ackerman
https://foreverwars.ghost.io/my-kissinger-obit-for-rolling-stone/
#reading
ICYMI: In this recent blog post, I talk about my upcoming book, "The Spiral and The Threads" and how it "completes" The Nod/Wells Timelines. Give it a read!
https://vortex-1.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-spiral-and-threads-and-future-of.html
#speculativefiction #specfic #blogpost #NodWellsTimelines #TheNodWellsTimelines #NWT #reading #readingcommunity #FYI #ICYMI #readersofmastodon #bookstodon #booktodon @bookstodon
My Christmas reading begins NOW. I've just started A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens for the first time. (I had to read Hard Times at secondary school and that really put me off him, it was ghastly.) This wee illustrated book I have here is musty-smelling and old and used to belong to my mother, so I'll keep it for that reason alone, even if the book ends up sucking. #reading #books #bookstodon
'Flowers are useful to no one.' Catriona Bolt stitches a growing obsession in her mycological short story, Bloom.
Catch it exclusively at https://fictionable.world
Image: Pedro Nuno Caetano
#books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #comics #ShortStories @bookstodon
I'd make a great hobbit, what fictional characters do you identify with? 😁
@reading @bookstodon @bookbubble @books @humour
#Reading #Readers #ReadersOfMastodon #ReadingCommunity
#Tricked #To #Love #Yourself
#Bookwyrm #Bookworm #Bookstodon #BookLove #BoostingIsSharing
Like books?
Like food?
Likes books about food?
Check out December's Foodies Read
https://www.spiritblog.net/december-2023-foodies-read
#books #reading @bookstodon
Five stars: Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune (2021) is a slow, quiet, melancholy and sometimes funny look at life and death. Wallace dies unexpectedly, the day after firing a woman who desperately needs her job. Wallace, though, now has to contend with attending his own funeral and being stuck in a teashop with a reaper (Mei), a ferryman (Hugo), a ghost (Nelson), and a dog (Apollo).
http://pussreboots.com/blog/2023/comments_11/under_the_whispering_door.html
Another #reading tip: the acclaimed Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames is on sale at the US #Kindle store for $2.99.
https://amzn.to/3R1afUq (affiliate link)
Check out Daniel Greene's YT review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvDcv38fQlY
#reading tip: #StarWars Master & Apprentice by Claudia Gray is on sale at the US #Kindle store and on Google Play #books for only $1.99. I'm a huge fan of Claudia's other books, so I'm looking forward to reading this one!
https://amzn.to/46ChM1M (affiliate link)
“Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies” by Spencer Ackerman (Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/
A shout-out to all book lovers: This post kicks off #24books, my 2023's-best-reads-by-female-authors-advent-calendar-thread. If that's not your thing, this is your chance to mute the hashtag. All others: Welcome and let's have some fun until Christmas! Hopefully you feel inspired to give one or more of the titles a go after this. Genres will include: #litfic, #horror, #histfic, #fantasy as well as a bit of #satire and #crime. 🥰
@bookstodon #bookstodon #womenwriters #frauenlesen #books #reading
"Parenting advice" from #mostlyharmless by #douglasadams
(The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series)
@bookstodon @bookstadon #scifi #funny #books #quotes #reading #thehitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #douglasadams #jokes
What book are you reading right now? What’s it about?
Huh. It just occurred to me that not everyone reads all the time. Like, there’s a bunch of people without books they’re reading right now. That concept is so bizarre to me. I’ve always got several books going. Ebooks, audiobooks and physical copies of books. If you don’t read anymore, when and why did you stop? No judgement. I’m genuinely curious. @bookstodon #bookstodon #books #reading #amreading
I've recently started reading regularly and rather than it helping my TBR it seems to be making it worse.
Nonfiction books cite other nonfiction books a lot as a source and of course I need to add all of the books mentioned to my TBR. 😆
I've downloaded four samples on Apple Books in the last few days since I've started reading regularly. 😂 So my TBR has expanded by a lot.
Good read.
"The unbearable hubris of Musk and the billionaire tech bros.
Challenging each other to cage fights, building apocalypse bunkers – the behaviour of today’s mega-moguls is becoming increasingly outlandish and imperial."
#article #reading #billionaires #ElonMusk #MarkZuckerberg #tech #technology #BigTech
I've been so distracted by looking at Mastodon on phanpy.social I haven't gotten much reading done...time to read lol 😆 :blobcatread:
After finishing the 9th book in Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache cozy Quebec murder mystery series, it was time to get back to my roots… #SCIFI!!!
First up before re-re-reading the Murderbot series from @marthawells is The Terraformers by @annaleen 💕💕💕
Only 4% in but off to a super interesting good start!
🧵 1/5 Perhaps you know this feeling: unpleasant current events come thick and fast, #doom & #gloom & #ecogrief can almost paralyse us. What's really good then: immersing yourself in #deepTime,shifting perspectives. What was it like on this #planet between the ice ages and the greenhouses? Why was the #earth never empty even when it looked desolate? And how does #evolution work?
@bookstodon @reading
#book #bookstodon #reading #mustRead #paleobiology #biodiversity #earthHistory #histodon #science
"The Meaning of Melancholy"
Loved reading this. Very recognizable.
https://onthearts.com/p/the-meaning-of-melancholy
#psychology #emotions #article #reading #nostalgia #feelings
N. K. Jemisin is one of the best authors writing in speculative fiction today. Her imagination and world building are off the charts.
For example, her “Great Cities” duology?
A MUST-READ!
#scififantasy #scifi #fantasy #GoodReads #Reading #urbanfantasy
Apparently my replacement for not watching YouTube is reading nonfiction books, which I'm not complaining about. 😄
I'm getting so much reading done and discovering books I haven't heard of ever since my YouTube watch time has gone way down.
#YouTube #Google #tech #books #bookstodon #reading #nonfiction
@neilhimself Bookshop.org, which connects readers with independent booksellers all over the world, offers free shipping this weekend, and some Sandman titles have a discount » https://bookshop.org/search?keywords=The+Sandman+Neil+Gaiman
Shoppers can elect to support a selected bookstore, or contribute to all booksellers by not making a shop selection » https://bookshop.org/info/about-us
#Introduction
I'm Yuki, a #petite #short #lesbian girl. I'm going to #private #girls #boarding #school
I'm on the girls #gymnyastics and #swim teams. I'm also #modelling for several girl friends in the arts and fashion clubs.
I like #reading, #writing, binge watching #TV, #movies, #comics, #anime & #manga, #cosplay, #hentai, #yuri, #shojouai, #girls, trips to the #dayspa.
I have #diabetes, #celiac disease, #lactoseintolerance, and suffer from chronic #migraines due to multiple #concussions.
@bookstodon …such interesting #books you folks are #reading