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Because of the new book coming out Tuesday centering my favorite character in the series, I started catching up with the last couple InCryptid books.

10% through Aftermarket Afterlife and really liking Mary as narrator. Also, the end of this drive I'm sure is going to see some stuff hit the fan.

- Change of Perspective! -

A Punkrock Women's Day read, Punk as F*ck, , 2022
https://www.ventil-verlag.de/titel/1927/punk-as-fck

50 female authors share their experiences from a FLINTA perspective in the punk scene

What does FLINTA stand for?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLINTA*

Picture taken by me Ā© arnica montana

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Someone wearing Doc Martens, tights, and a miniskirt is sitting on a reddish tiled staircase, with a green book with yellow lettering on their lap: Punk as F*ck. The cover shows two people wearing tights and Doc Martens on a staircase.

Guten Morgen, Freunde.

This morning, I went to add a blog post to my store, the first ever. It was fun to actually set it up and make it visible.

Anyway, in it I'm talking about Steps of Courage (this is the short version, I promise) and how it is Book of the Month, with a coupon deal for the store (50% off).

Enjoy!

https://shop.hannah-steenbock.de/blog/book-of-the-month/steps-of-courage-book-of-the-month-3-2026



My little dragon familiar Ember (a small red plushie with tiny purple wings) is looking at my print proof of Steps of Courage, Mages of the Twin Worlds Book 1. Both dragon and book sit on a wooden board (my kitchen table). The cover shows a landscape of a meadow and a chain of mountains in the background, with light pink and teal as dominating colors. Right in the middle of the cover, a planet hovers in the sky where you'd usually expect a full moon. A drawn circle surrounds the planet (yes, my attempt to indicate there are portals in this book), wide enough to extend across the mountain range. The book seems to be a solid size (trade paperback).

But even then I think TV and movies based on books are often better than a lot of other TV or movie writing, so perhaps it's not all bad? šŸ¤”šŸ˜

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Side by side photos of a bannister with a horse on the end. The Book: A horse beautifully carved directly into the bannister. The Movie: A plastic horse toy hung on the end of the bannister with a string.

šŸ“š Lost Lambs by: Madeline Cash

The Flynn family is coming undone. Catherine and Bud's open marriage has reached its breaking point as their daughters spiral in their own chaotic orbits: Abigail, the eldest, is dating a man in his twenties nicknamed War Crime West Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an onlin...

https://bookblabla.com/book/lost-lambs

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The Flynn family is coming undone. Catherine and Bud's open marriage has reached its breaking point as their daughters spiral in their own chaotic orbits: Abigail, the eldest, is dating a man in his twenties nicknamed War Crime West Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an online terrorist; the brilliant youngest, Harper, is being sent to wilderness reform camp due to her insistence that someoneā€”or somethingā€”is monitoring the townā€™s citizens. Casting a shadow across their lives, and their small coastal town, is Paul Alabaster, a billionaire shipping magnate. Rumors of corruption circulate, but no one dares dig too deep. No one except Harper, whose obsession with a mysterious shipping container sends the family hurtling into a criminal conspiracyā€”one that may just bring them closer together. Irreverent and addictive, pinging between the voices of the Flynn family and those of the panorama of characters around them, Madeline Cashā€™s Lost Lambs is a debut novel of quick-witted observation and surprising tenderness. With it, Cash has crafted a family saga for the twenty-first century, all held together with crazy glue. National bestseller. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by Vulture, Bustle, Good Housekeeping, Playboy, The Times (UK), Our Culture, Vol. 1 Brooklyn and Harper's Bazaar. A Book Club Pick from Belletrist, Bustle, and Good Housekeeping. "If the Royal Tenenbaums were middl

I can't say this has ever happened to me, but I understand some readers worry about getting to the end? šŸ¤”

P.S If you know where this is from let me know so I can add credit.

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Two drawings of a woman reading with arrows indicating her attitude is going around in circles. Top: "I'm dying to know how it ends!!" Bottom: NO!! I have to read slowly, I DON'T want it to end!"

3/6 If you have several stories, which one should a new reader start with?

Humor fantasy: Book 1 of the "Hilda the Wicked Witch" series (28 books so far)

Scifi Alien Encounters: "Wanted: hero"

Historic time travel: ĀØThe Magic of the Bull"

Scifi time travel: "From Time to Time".

I think that covers the start. I have 'a few more' books out.

I've used a variety of digital tools for keeping track of owned and read books over the years; LibraryThing, GoodReads, The Story Graph, Calibre etc, but while many of them are excellent I've often been left wanting or concerned about data gathering and privacy.
So I'm seriously considering setting up a physical catalogue. One with index cards, possibly combined with a journal.
It's flexible, low-tech (I don't need more hours in front of a screen) and nostalgic.

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Hello! I've moved here from hosting my own solo instance. Looking forward to making more friends.

I tend to use Mastodon for the things I love and enjoy, and I'll include a few of them in the hashtags.

Also I'm neurodivergent, genderfluid, and my pronouns are she/they.

Black and white photo. A woman with dark hair and a septum piercing is looking to the side of the camera. Her chin is slightly tucked into her black hoodie which has an embroidered Dustrial patch which reads, Hi-Tech, Lo-Life.

"ā€¦reading a book is a considerable commitment of not only time but also thought and even emotion, especially when you have so many books you have brought into the house, when you seem to buy books even compulsively, out of a hunger for yet another book, and havenā€™t yet read most of them, when you have acquired so many that although you have many bookcases, in many rooms, there are still books piled on the floor."

--Lydia Davis

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https://www.sevenstories.com/books/4716-a-genocide-foretold

Free ebook! Don't snooze on this, the book is only available for free for a short while.

This is 'A Genocide Foretold' by Chris Hedges. It's his latest book.

'With a searing urgency, Chris Hedges brings readers face to face with Israelā€™s devastation of Gaza. A Genocide Foretold is a scathing denunciation of the long violence of the Zionist project and its U.S. and European backers. The writing reflects his deep experience as a correspondent from Central America to Bosnia and his passionate moral outrage against both war and the hypocrisy that justifies it. Fast-paced and dazzling, the book gives first-hand accounts of the horrors of war and the courage of those resisting it.'

ā€“ Aviva Chomsky

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