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2025 Nobel Prize winner, Laszlo Krasznahorkai writes about collapse, fear, absurdity, and the strange comedy of human behavior when the world feels close to breaking apart.
His novels are famous for their long hypnotic sentences.
A perfect place to start is Satantango or The Melancholy of Resistance.
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From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award–winning author T. Kingfisher comes an enthralling contemporary …
She practiced what to say to the driver in her head. *Thank you for the ride. You were right, it would have been a long walk.* That sounded pretty good. That was a normal thing somebody would say, right?
— Snake-Eater by T. Kingfisher
the struggle is real
Books may do more than entertain us.
A large study using Health and Retirement Study data found that people who read #books had a survival advantage compared with non-book #readers, even after adjusting for factors like age, #education, health, and wealth.
Strong evidence that #reading is associated with living better and longer.
Source: A chapter a day: Association of book reading with #longevity.
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From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award–winning author T. Kingfisher comes an enthralling contemporary …
Selena picked her new home for no better reason than the dog laid down on the porch.
— Snake-Eater by T. Kingfisher
This is a book about five different people fighting over who gets to slaughter the goose that lays golden eggs.
It's very much "the middle book in a trilogy" - lots of stuff happens, but almost nothing is resolved. The author keeps introducing new, cool parts of the setting and new, horrible characters. The stakes are ratcheted way up and the mysterious backstory is unraveled further. I'm looking forward to the next installment.
This is a book about five different people fighting over who gets to slaughter the goose that lays golden eggs.
It's very much "the middle book in a trilogy" - lots of stuff happens, but almost nothing is resolved. The author keeps introducing new, cool parts of the setting and new, horrible characters. The stakes are ratcheted way up and the mysterious backstory is unraveled further. I'm looking forward to the next installment.
Ender’s Game is a brilliant #ScienceFiction about relationships - brothers and sisters, children and adults, group dynamics… and #loneliness
A war that begins because they cannot simply talk to each other.
And love for the enemy, without which true victory is impossible.
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If you can get 1 percent better each day for one year, you’ll end up thirty-seven times better by the time you’re done.
Conversely, if you get 1 percent worse each day for one year, you’ll decline nearly down to zero.
What starts as a small win or a minor setback accumulates into something much more.
James Clear, Atomic Habits
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A STARFARING COZY MYSTERY combines echoes of Golden Age detective fiction, queer sensibility, a touch of screwball comedy, and a far-future generation ship on its way to settle New Earth. Lots of fun, some sharp insights about tech and ethics. B PLUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/nobodys-baby-olivia-waite/1147243822?ean=9781250342263
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A STARFARING COZY MYSTERY combines echoes of Golden Age detective fiction, queer sensibility, a touch of screwball comedy, and a far-future generation ship on its way to settle New Earth. Lots of fun, some sharp insights about tech and ethics. B PLUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/nobodys-baby-olivia-waite/1147243822?ean=9781250342263
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My #bookreview is brief/won't spoil, to spread good, great, and spectacular #horror #books far and wide.
Folk-horror tinged, strange stories of compulsions, sacrifices, and the uncanny, COME SING FOR THE HARROWING is filled with uniquely sinister, striking, & spooky tales. Dan Coxon masterfully weaves stories wrought with atmosphere and ambiguity that leave you pondering and unsettled. (Clash Books)
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My #bookreview is brief/won't spoil, to spread good, great, and spectacular #horror #books far and wide.
Folk-horror tinged, strange stories of compulsions, sacrifices, and the uncanny, COME SING FOR THE HARROWING is filled with uniquely sinister, striking, & spooky tales. Dan Coxon masterfully weaves stories wrought with atmosphere and ambiguity that leave you pondering and unsettled. (Clash Books)
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There was more killing to be done, he decided. Not because he wanted to, but because it simply had to happen.
2026 world leader vibe
Libraries: full of dangerous ideas like trees, empathy, and history.
Oppose the Federal Book Ban Bill.
https://action.everylibrary.org/hr_7661 #library #libraries #read #reading #book #books #politics #breakingnews #author #authors #government
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I love @bookwyrm #BookWyrm
It's not perfect, but it's good enough, and the community there is full of lovely people who are for the most part genuinely interested in sharing their love of #books and helping each other find something worthwhile to read.
The occasional communal gushing around especially excellent #books is also quite nice.
And it's one of the only social reading spaces where I feel like I can actually trust the #reviews, whether positive, negative, or neutral. For that matter, it's one of the few places online outside of dedicated book review blogs which actually contains a high proportion of thoughtful reviews.
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I love @bookwyrm #BookWyrm
It's not perfect, but it's good enough, and the community there is full of lovely people who are for the most part genuinely interested in sharing their love of #books and helping each other find something worthwhile to read.
The occasional communal gushing around especially excellent #books is also quite nice.
And it's one of the only social reading spaces where I feel like I can actually trust the #reviews, whether positive, negative, or neutral. For that matter, it's one of the few places online outside of dedicated book review blogs which actually contains a high proportion of thoughtful reviews.
#socialReading #reading #bookworm #bookstodon #bookreview #bookreviews #bookworms #bibliophile #bibliophiles #bibliophilia #book
My #bookreview is brief/won't spoil, to spread good, great, and spectacular #horror #books far and wide.
Another masterpiece of #CosmicHorror and terror, THIS'LL MAKE THINGS A LITTLE EASIER seeps and seethes with dread and unease. Attila Veres' newest collection is a dazzling foray into various Hells; a bleak, dark delight of utterly unique, unforgettable new nightmares that will haunt you. (Valancourt Books)
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My #bookreview is brief/won't spoil, to spread good, great, and spectacular #horror #books far and wide.
Another masterpiece of #CosmicHorror and terror, THIS'LL MAKE THINGS A LITTLE EASIER seeps and seethes with dread and unease. Attila Veres' newest collection is a dazzling foray into various Hells; a bleak, dark delight of utterly unique, unforgettable new nightmares that will haunt you. (Valancourt Books)
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@bookstodon@fedigroups.social #mothersuspiriareview #MSReview @bookstodon@toot.community
Freedom™, the sequel to Daemon, is the second of a two-part novel, by the author …
once again thinking about a federated reputation system (ala Freedom™️)
"A new program unites West Coast readers for stories of Japanese American incarceration"
www.opb.org/article/2026/04/11/one-book-one-coast-japanese-american-incarceration/
"Libraries across Washington, Oregon and California have selected George Takei’s (@georgetakei ) graphic memoir 'They Called Us Enemy' for the 'One Book, One Coast' program."
I've read this book - highly recommended! 😁
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"A new program unites West Coast readers for stories of Japanese American incarceration"
www.opb.org/article/2026/04/11/one-book-one-coast-japanese-american-incarceration/
"Libraries across Washington, Oregon and California have selected George Takei’s (@georgetakei ) graphic memoir 'They Called Us Enemy' for the 'One Book, One Coast' program."
I've read this book - highly recommended! 😁
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