Wandering Adventure Party

#JustFinished Brigands & Breadknives by Travis BaldreeThese books just get better and better. A lovely story of growth and freedom.Fern has a mid-life crisis and ends up in some situations she never expected. Everyone learns to live happier lives. And the goblin steals the show! Among other things. #Fantasy #SFF #books #bookstodon

@ljwrites @dilmandila @Tooden Personally, I don't think it should be either expected or required for Ugandans to know all that much about white Europeans who have been dead for more than a century.I mean, how much do even educated white Europeans know about black Africans who have been dead for more than a century?

Are there any book clubs on Mastodon? The in-person ones around me keep petering out or are hard to get to, and the ones I’ve seen online are toooo big for my tastes. I have a slight preference for fantasy/sci-fi, but any genre is good. I just want to talk about books! #bookstodon #books #reading

@ljwrites @bookstodon My parents never really cared _what_ I borrowed from the library - they were just glad that I read a lot.

It’s the end of the year, so @thecontinent's Africans of the Year edition for 2025 is here! So many great Africans.That also means.... I got to pick my top 5 African reads of the year #bookstodon #books2025

#JustFinished Slow Gods by Clare NorthI read this twice in a row. I felt like I didn't give it the gravity it deserved the first time. This is largely a treatise on the limited but grand power of love and acceptance with a realistic exploration of what lies outside it.Or, a pilot who should be mad runs around known space as a natural disaster unfolds. He grows from a lost, bewildered, callous boy into ... well, more. You'll need to read it to find out.#SciFi #books #bookstodon #SFF

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.

@Lionesslady Good luck with your future efforts!

#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

@DejahEntendu Thank you Your review made me want to read it too and I really, really enjoyed it. I finished it yesterday evening. I particularly enjoyed the painting of a world, which I imagine could be the real world if we don't act on corporate greed and climate change.

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