I have finished reading:
I am now reading:
66: Si Clarke - Livid Skies.

I am now reading:
67: Geoff Ravenhall - Trusty, The All British Tractor.

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The sun is starting to set and it’s dim in the living room so I lit my candles to make a cosy glow.

I’m now reading Actually, I’m a Murderer by Terry Deary (of Horrible Histories fame). It’s a fairly light but clever mystery where the murderer and his victim are revealed in the opening chapters but the how and the why take some telling in a plot going back to events in 1973.

It’s not my usual sort of read. I think my cousin would enjoy it, she’s mad for those Richard Osman mysteries. I’ll pop it in the post to when I’ve finished.

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“All love stories are the same. You meet, and that’s it. Heartbreak can take years, splintering, cracking, flickering. The kinds of questions that form and turn back in on you before splitting out in all directions to explain why and how. Love doesn’t have an explanation. Heartbreak, you don’t need to prove.”

—Souvankham Thammavongsa, Pick a Color

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The Whole Town's Talking by Fannie Flagg wasn't the best ending to this series. 150 years of the town, everything superficial, and weird purgatory in cemetery...a "cozy mess" that went nowhere, but it at least had a few crows...#Bookstodon

@overholt Oh, what a fascinating work! 🤩 Making art books myself, I am always amazed to see ancient forms of books or the "Breverl" as a popular form of book amulets. https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/early-book-collections/reliquary-book-amulet/

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Reading update
Finished a while back - We'll Prescribe You a Cat, by Syou Ishida
Up next - Before We Say Goodbye, by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

We'll Prescribe You a Cat was recommended to me based off the Before the Coffee Gets Cold books. I like me a cat story as much as the next cat-lover, but it ended up a bit weird for me. I don't think I'll read the sequel.

Before We Say Goodbye is the fourth book of the Coffee series but chronologically second. That'll be confusing.

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Good news, everyone!

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Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Alphabet Soup by A. Gregory Frankson (Rare Machines): https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459750333-alphabet-soup & The Bare Bones of Our Alphabet by Irene Marques (Mawenzi House): https://www.mawenzihouse.com/product/the-bare-bones-of-our-alphabet/ See alt-text.

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Zadie Smith:

"It's through other people's novels, other people's paintings, other people's poems and other people's music that I am made aware that everybody is not like anyone else, and yet we are all stuck inside these flesh cages, experiencing what we imagine to be a shared reality through a radically singular medium: consciousness" ('Dead and Alive,' p. 286).

#SundaySentence #empathy #reading @bookstodon #bookstodon

Celebrating 35 Years of SNES

The Super Famicom was released 35 years ago this month.

Check out our collection of SNES books: https://www.bitmapbooks.com/collections/snes-books

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Recent butch/femme fiction new releases through November 23, 2025.
#newreleases #lesfic #sapphicbooks #bookstodon #readingcommunity #butchfemme #lesbian #lgbtq #lgbtqia
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Benefits by Zoë Fairbairns

Mother's Benefits become the means by which British governments provide British women with the same benevolent management Britain once provided to India, Ireland, and Africa.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/on-nursery-hill
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From The Marginalian by @mariapopova , an essay on Linnaeus and "The Tree," by John Fowles.

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https://www.themarginalian.org/2025/11/21/john-fowles-tree/

Oferecer livros a crianças com a esperança que eles se tornem pequenos revolucionários, sim. Sempre.

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@thefalcon Really good book! Thanks for recommending the series. 📚

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Penguin Classics Essays and Aphorisms (Penguin Pocket Hardbacks) by Arthur Schopenhaue . #hachybots #books #livres #libros #bookstodon

I've finished: Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

As someone who has recently finished T. Kingfisher's back catalog I was glad to discover Heather Fawcett's work. It scratches a similar itch.

I loved the academic angle, it takes me back to my years at university.

I do wish the solutions Emily finds were based on events we were told about in advance rather then a moment of inspiration. She has a vast amount of knowledge that comes in handy, but I want to see her work towards a solution using the clues she found along the way.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/1735e2b1-a9df-4923-bbbf-825297721654

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'Drive your Plough Over the Bones of the Dead'

Racist old dog-nutter has the temerity to complain about other peoples hypocrisy.
1/5
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I’ve just finished listening to the audiobook I’ve had on the go for absolutely ages (Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis) and I’m feeling very emotional. This book has big feels and is darkly humorous.

From The Storygraph: DESCRIPTION

A wickedly funny and audacious debut novel following an academic who flees from heartbreak and lands in Iraq with an insane job offer—only to be forced to do the work of confronting herself.

I would give it

⭐️⭐️⭐️ for quality of writing

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ for plot

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ for humour (I sometimes genuinely laughed out loud)

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ for characters/feels

I’ve bought a copy for my stepdaughter for Christmas.

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