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impacts of being around narcissists. I ambushed the kid a couple of times talking about the book. Luckily, the kid is resilient and was OK.

#JustFinished Katabasis by R.F. KuangKuang's writing is lovely, and her focus on academia resonates with me. The characters were realistic. I was disappointed in this story. The narration was quite well done. Spoliers in the full review. https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/48eddf22-34dd-4be8-99b7-c728cb88dcdf#Fantasy #books #bookstodon #audiobook

@cocaine_owlbear yeah, that's weird. Why not something short like Carrie or Cujo?

Interestingly, there was a lot of talk about the pacing during the book club meeting. Apparently, many people don't like it. I recognize there was ebb and flow and it wasn't the usual way to do it. Personally, I saw it as rebuilding the tension and leaving us to steep in the mystery of what was happening.

@SJohnRoss @bookstodon That's awesome! I was a wine drinker for a while, and I'd have run away, laughing, at "hint of lemon Pledge"! Certainly not a selling point for me.

#JustFinished The Refrigerator Monologues by @Catvalente Ho. Lee. Fuck! That was amazing! I honestly didn't know what the stories were. I just read it because I love Valente's work. This was an excellent send-up of women in comics & how they're used as set dressing for the male characters' lives and motivations. Painful, harsh, gorgeous & starkly feminist. I wanted to stand & cheer at the end!There are legit trigger warnings on the book. That's the point.#comics #Bookstodon #Books

Is there any non-fiction book about spy women — be it in modern or ancient times — or the role of women in war — any war — out there?#bookstodon

I was thinking of @Forestofglory and a conversation we had a while back about cultural histories of the Tang. It made me remember this lesser known one.This book is a cultural history of the city of Chang'An through the collected tales of failed examinees, women and foreigners. Also one of the books that sent me on the rabbit hole of foreigners and intercultural marriage in Tang China@medievodons @histodons @bookstodon #China #history #bookstodon #bookrec #histodons #medieval

A question: What nonfiction books about #WWII can you recommend which are sold as non-DRM epub files?#histodon #bookstodon

I approve this message** apart from Fedi, obvs#Bookstodon #FuckAI

@Veronique_D I'm so glad I helped you find an enjoyable book! Thanks for letting me know.

Got this one through Netgalley. Was so excited when approval came. Jim C. Hines has been one of my favorite writers since I stumbled into a signing one pay day and picked up all the Libriomancer books. The Buffy X Golden Girls comp just sold it EVEN MORE #Bookstodon #SlayersOfOld #UrbanFantasy(comment on Slayers of Old)

I think this is the most badass photo I have ever seen.Lucy Schwob, alias Claude Cahun, French-Jewish genderfluid surrealist artist, in her 50s, after being released from Nazi prison. For years during the occupation of Jersey she ran a covert pamphlet campaign with her girlfriend.She is holding a German eagle between her teeth. She got it from a German soldier who tore it off his uniform.From Paper Bullets by Jeffrey H. Jackson#image #resistance #history #queer #lgbtq #books #bookstodon

So I am really liking PageBound so far, as a Goodreads alternative. The community is nice, and it has lots of fun features. Plus it's an indie, women-led, no-AI platform.Edit: my username is Storyteller if you want to follow #Pagebound #books #bookstodon #reading

Just finished reading the first of the John Silence stories by Algernon Blackwood, A Psychical Invasion.Totally see what's meant when I read stuff talking about Silence as a proto-Kolchak and proto-Mulder. Doctor doing pro Bono work going and investigating the weird spiritual complaints of patients and cataloging and solving them.Looking forward to the other five stories.#Bookstodon #AlgernonBlackwood #JohnSilence

'The City We Became' is a wonderfully written contemporary urban fantasy that redraws the map of good vs. evil to reflect the state of early 21st century politics.https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/623bf75b-20e0-4835-bf02-9f57fd0b8c82#fantasy #urbanfantasy #nkjemisin #thecitywebecame #books #bookstodon @bookstodon

TONIGHT (Thursday)*September* #Solarpunk #Bookclub!We're reading *Lost Cause* by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic 9.25, 8pm ETJitsi Meethttps://meet.jit.si/SolarpunkBookclubSept2025Solarpunk Future! Discord https://discord.gg/XpsknjmhGet bookclub reminders, links, and recapshttps://www.subscribepage.com/solarpunk_bookclub#bookstodon #SFF #books #hopepunk

Reading info on this one, looks like a proto-Mulder. I like the supernatural detective trope and it looks like this is one of the originators of the trope. #Bookstodon #JohnSilence #AlgernonBlackwood(comment on The complete John Silence stories)

Pig beast aliens? Are they aliens? Whatever they are, these things are definitely creepy. #Bookstodon #HouseOnTheBorderland(comment on William Hope Hodgson's The house on the borderland)

This is a fun one to read for bedtime. Language is pretty dense (19th Century prose) but the 7 year old seems to follow along pretty well. #bookstodon #AlicesAdventuresInWonderland(comment on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, p. 35)