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New 📚 #bookinthefridge: Tom Chesshyre – Slow Train.

Eine Erkundungsfahrt durch Europa auf Schienen mit vielen Orten, die ich selbst bereits besucht habe. Geschichtlicher Hintergrund trifft persönliche Erfahrungen, ein Ansporn, die Welt von den Schienen aus zu erkunden und sich auch mal ohne Plan treiben zu lassen.

https://booksinthefridge.at/2025/05/23/

#2025reads #RandomBookClub

@mutinyc @mimrma @bookstodon

Yes, thanks for mentioning it - #RandomBookClub is now open for every day of the week, but so far, not many people use it (at least as I have seen so far). Michaela, feel free to share your reviews with this hashtag, if you like.

#RandomBookClub
Read any book you like, any time.
Fiction or nonfiction, all genres are welcome.
On any day of the week, talk about
the current book(s) you are reading,
using the hashtag. What do you like about it?
What not? Do you have a nice quote,
or anything else to share about it?

@mimrma @bookstodon

@amalia12 started #RandomBookClub but has opened it to be any day of the week.

https://mastodon.social/@amalia12/114284529711371028

Acá retomando e imaginando lo esencial de nuestros recuerdos para nuestra identidad. Bienvenidos al buddy read #bookstodon #bookclub #clubdelectura #randombookclub

https://app.thestorygraph.com/buddy_reads/2be1e692-0a47-4fb0-8580-a17f842fafad

"while the light lasts". a collection of short stories by agatha christie. not all of them are crime novels. and the last one, giving the book its title, has "haunted" me for a while – "While the light lasts I shall remember, and in the darkness I shall not forget” ...
#2025reads #RandomBookClub #fedibooks #bookstodon

cover of the book "while the light lasts" by agatha christie in the 2016 harper collins edition

#RandomBookClub

I started reading "Silver Nitrate", a horror novel by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, set in Mexico City in den 1990s.
I got curious about it when a bookblogger recommended it.

More about the novel:
https://silviamoreno-garcia.com/writing/silver-nitrate/

#reading #2025reads #SilverNitrate #books #book #horrornovel

This bookcover is in red, silver, black and white. There is an image like from an old movie: a woman with wide, anxious eyes

#RandomBookClub

I finished "The Broken Girls" by Simone St. James and can recommend it. It's a very atmospheric mystery, set in two timelines (1950 in a boarding school for girls and 2014 in a small town in Vermont).
In my eyes, it also has some gothic-novel-ish vibes because there is a supernatural element included.

More about the book:
https://www.simonestjames.com/broken-girls

#mystery #gothicnovel #gothic #books #reading #2025reads

The bookcover shows an eerie image of two girls running through a forest, seen from behind

#RandomBookClub

I started reading the thriller "The Broken Girls" by Simone St. James. So far, my impression is good.

(Blurb in the next toot)

1/2
#2025reads #thriller

On this bookcover, there are some trees in a forest and two girls running hand in hand, away from the viewer.

I have now read ca. 73 % of "Home Before Dark" by Riley Sager and there is a good plot twist. However, a thing I do not like: Strange, inexplicable things happen at the haunted house (as can be expected in this genre). But then, they keep happening again and again and at some point, to me this feels rather repetitive and not scary anymore.

#RandomBookClub

I started reading "Home Before Dark" by Riley Sager yesterday, a Haunted House novel and so far, I am enjoying it (blurb in the picture).
You might argue it's not really the season for scary stories, but I am a goth and I like my horror and ghost stories and such all year long. 👻

#goth #HauntedHouse #HorrorNovel #2025reads #readingcommunity

The bookcover is very dark and reddish, there is an old house in it, some bushes, a moth and a red full moon

Blurb of "Home before Dark" by Riley Sager

What was it like? Living in that house.

Maggie Holt is used to such questions. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into a rambling Victorian estate called Baneberry Hall. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a memoir called House of Horrors. His tale of ghostly happenings and encounters with malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon.

Now, Maggie has inherited Baneberry Hall after her father's death. She was too young to remember any of the events mentioned in her father's book. But she doesn't believe a word of it. Ghosts, after all, don't exist.

But when she returns to Baneberry Hall to prepare it for sale, her homecoming is anything but warm. People from the pages of her father's book lurk in the shadows, and locals aren't thrilled that their small town has been made infamous. Even more unnerving is Baneberry Hall itself - a place that hints of dark deeds and unexplained happenings.

As the days pass, Maggie begins to believe that what her father wrote was more fact than fiction. That, either way, someone - or something - doesn't want her here. And that she might be in danger all over again . . .

today I started reading "Death on the Down Beat: An Orchestral Fantasy of Detection", a novel from the British Library Crime Classics colleection. it is constructed as a epistolary novel, which makes for an interesting change to "normal" crime novels.
https://shop.bl.uk/products/death-on-the-down-beat-an-orchestral-fantasy-of-detection
#RandomBookClub #2025reads #cozycrime #musicinliterature #fedibooks #bookstodon

Reading: The Accursed Share, Volume 1, by Georges Bataille.

An interesting thesis, that all societies develop a surplus which they must then destroy. Well-written with many good observations, but while it is descriptive of its idea, that idea itself does not seem generative of deeper insights. (In other words, it lacks a "so what?")

There exist many, many good quotes, but this one is a favorite:
"A genuine luxury requires the complete contempt for riches, the somber indifference of the individual who refuses to work and makes his [sic] life on the one hand an infinitely ruined splendor, and on the other, a silent insult to the laborious life of the rich.... [H]enceforth no one can rediscover the meaning of wealth, the explosiveness that it heralds, unless it is in the splendor of rags and the somber challenge of indifference."

#RandomBookClub

The cover of The Accursed Share Volume 1 by Georges Batallie. It is a slightly mottled red with its title in yellow, but otherwise very plain.

#RandomBookClub I'm reading a classic erotica novel called "Diplomatic Secrets," which was translated from French into English. It has the same feel as a cheesy romance novel, which I have an appreciation for. Interestingly, I found out that the publisher was known for publishing controversial works (like The Anarchist Cookbook), so that's not surprising!

#readingcommunity #RandomBookClub

I have two largely unknown books I've been promoting for years. Today I'll talk about "Maia", by Richard Adams. It's faux fantasy set in the Beklan empire, which is roughly analogous to Rome. +iron, -horses. It's basically Game of Thrones but writ in 1984 and with more sex, less violence. "Maia" tells the story of a beautiful, kindhearted girl whose mother sells her into slavery because her stepdad seduces her. She ends up the concubine of the spymaster in the main city and leads a very adventuresome life.

Unlike Game of Thrones, she's always operating from decent motives. She's an ingenue all the way through, while most of her contemporaries have long since knifed their morality in the belly and left it lying in the gutter to bleed out. The book was just too raunchy for its day, but it should fly today. Adams knows how to do worldbuilding and political intrigue very well. He's the guy who wrote "Watership Down" if you read that one.

I can highly recommend "Maia". Beware--it's a tome. If you want to speed it up, you can generally skip the descriptive paragraphs. He devotes a lot of time to, admittedly beautifully, describing the natural world, but it doesn't add to the story. If you skipped the hobbit songs, skip the descriptive paragraphs in "Maia".

#asimov #findelaeternidad excelente por ahora! Veremos si aterriza igual!!! #bookclub #clubdelectura #bookstodon #paradox #RandomBookClub

#readingcommunity
Let me tell you about #RandomBookClub and feel free to join the fun, using the hashtag. Tell us what you are currently reading, how you like it and if you would recommend it. You can also share your reviews.

Please boost. Thanks.

#reading #fedibooks #bookstodon #2025reads #bookish

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I am late to the party, but finally, I am reading my first book by N. K. Jemisin, a SFF short story collection: "How Long 'til Black Future Month".
The first story, "The Ones Who Stay and Fight" starts of with a seemingly utopia, but there is also a dystopia build in it.
There are 22 short stories in this book.

The author's website:
https://nkjemisin.com/writing-type/short-story-collections/

#reading #2025reads

The bookcover show a photo of a Black woman who wears some ornate orbs in her hair.

#RandomBookClub

I am currently reading "One Left Alive" by Helen Phifer, a mystery/thriller novel set in the Lake District in England. This is the first book in a series. It's well written and quite suspenseful. I am reading the German translation ("Die Überlebende").

#mystery #thriller #mysterynovel #crimenovel

The bookcover shows a single house in a rural surrounding and it has bright colours.

Decided to open the #RandomBookClub for any day of the week:

Read any book you like, any time. Fiction or nonfiction, all genres are welcome. On any day of the week, talk about the current book(s) you are reading, using the hashtag. What do you like about it. What not? Do you have a nice quote, or anything else to share about it?

Feel free to use the hashtag, follow it and join the fun. Please boost this. Thanks. 🙏

#fedibooks #bookstodon #reading #books #fiction #nonfiction

Decorative image with plants and the text about the Random Book Club which you can also read in the toot.

#RandomBookClub
Read any book you like, any time. Fiction or nonfiction, all genres are welcome.
On Wednesdays, talk about the current book(s) you are reading, using the hashtag. What do you like about it? What not? Do you have a nice quote, or anything else to share about it?

#reading #fedibooks #bookstodon

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