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Looking for some soft, comfy reading to ring out this hard old year? You're sure to find something delightful in my whimsical fantasy story collection. Elves, gargoyles, mischievous young magicians, heroic aunties, brave doggo, and much more.
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Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DK2DG8T8
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Bookshop
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📚 The Match by: Harlan Coben

After months away, Wilde has returned to the Ramapo Mountains in the wake of a failed bid at domesticity that confirms what he's known all along: He belongs on his own, free from the comforts and constraints of modern life.

Suddenly, a DNA match on an online ancestry database brings Wilde clo...

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📚 Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick by: Jason Pargin, David Wong

Zoey Ashe is like a fish so far out of water that it has achieved orbit. After inheriting a criminal empire, the twenty-three year-old finds herself under threat from all sides as a rogue's gallery of larger-than-life enemies think they smell w...

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I'm now about halfway through Adrian Tchaikovsky's "Children of Ruin" after having read his "Children of Time" and I'm enjoying it a lot! Can't quite put my finger on how he does it, but somehow he just reads very comfortably despite using quite a few words I have to look up. David Brin's uplift novels also had switching between characters, but that still felt very different. I suspect it has something to do with how he constructs his sentences. Has anyone analyzed how he manages that?

A friendly reminder; Humble Bundle has a deal on Murderbot ebooks. I personally love the series and can't wait for the next one to arrive next year.

Ugh! Feelings.

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/martha-wells-murderbot-and-more-tor-books-encore

📚 Vanishing World by: Sayaka Murata

Amane is ten years old when she discovers she's not like everyone else. Her school friends were all conceived the normal way, by artificial insemination, and raised in the normal way, by parents in 'clean', sexless marriages. But Amane's parents committed the ultimate taboo: they fell...

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📚 Service by: John Tottenham

What's this book about? Is there a restroom? Do you have gluten-free bagels? Do you work here? Do you have a restroom? Do I buy books or rent books or what?

Still a bookseller in his late forties, Sean knows that the worst thing about a bookshop is the customers. Then there's the gift-wrapping, the invoicing, the Yelp reviews. The overwhelming ...

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If someone (why would you think it's me? I'm really asking for a fried) thought that "Uprooted" and "The Goblin Emperor" were perfect vacation comfort reads, what other book will this person like?

Personal recommendations please based on the above two. [Standalones or books that can be read as standalones preferred but not required.]

Boosts very welcome.

📚 Project Hail Mary: A Novel by: Andy Weir

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.

Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.

All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very,...

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Thanks for hosting , @neve

My books, low-key fantasy with romance, mostly queer, are currently in the annual end of year sale — they’re already affordable but now they’re extra affordable, all 25% off:
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/wendylpalmer

but you’ll also find them on or , or any of your favourite ebook retailers. They’re not for everyone…but the readers who like them…REALLY like them 😊

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