My #bookreview is brief/won't spoil, to spread good, great, & spectacular #horror#books far & wide.
THE LONGEST SUMMER is a novel about a boy and it's a marvel: tragic and filled w pathos but also exhilarating and joyous. It's the blackest of comedies about possibility & inevitability. It's a dizzying account of life and youth, identity, queerness, time: it's radiant. (CLASH)
Today's queer release: Mere Rain's fantasy romance (gay, gender fluid, mpreg) Elias and the Egg:
Trajan is descended from dragons. He mostly passes for human, except when it comes to reproduction. His kind don’t take mates, finding partners only long enough to incubate their eggs.
A few days ago I finished the 9th book of Kirsten Beyer's Full Circle series. Just one left. I have been fighting the temptation to just read the next one in the series, one after another. I don't want my brain to get too used to #StarTrek fiction. I'm mostly a non-fiction reader. So I've been reading 1-3 books between each Beyer book. Architects of Infinity was really damn good, though. I still have an untouched stack of #DS9 books that I will also take my time with. #bookstodon#books
One the subject of non-fiction, part of my brain has been trying to convince the rest of my brain not to get too deeply involved in any new studies or writing project until I read every book I own. I can't overstate what a feat that would be. My personal library is very much excessively large. Like seriously life changing large. Yes, I have read a good deal of my library, but there is still so much more to get to. My brain might burst. #books#bookstodon
Like many, Collins is a good storyteller, but there is more to writing than storytelling. The end felt very rushed. This was Dr Gaul's plan? Where did that come from? Maybe Collins remembered Book 1 and needed to get Snow back to the Capitol.
I planned to reread 1, then read 2 and 3. But now, we'll see if I ever go back to Panem (not that I ever thought it was great writing, just interesting ideas).
📕Hide and Seek by Ken Lussey 📕
📚Published by Arachnid Press
Here we are again - World War Two & Scotland, two of my favourite things to read about. This is the fifth in the series, I have only read the previous two, but it would read well as a standalone & it does not disappoint.
Taut writing & a great pace. Well researched, which makes this an informative as well as an exciting read. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Be it Bookwyrm or storygraph: both tools are worthless if you read books in any language but English. Since I read books in four languages, even goodreads fails to be able to track all of them. Guess I go back to just keeping notes on my smartphone.
#SwordAndSorcery and #EpicFantasy#readers check out this two week promo with a gift card giveaway attached! This collection of 100 books might contain your next read, with books ranging from fantasy westerns to gryphons and dragons!
I know Krista D Ball's The Demons We See is excellent, and my book Between Starfalls is in here as well. See any others you know/enjoy? Shout them out!
Today's indie author review! Elias and the Egg by Mere Rain:
"Trajan is a dragon... Elias is sweet and gentle, dealt a crappy hand... a delightful story, with a nice twist on the usual mpreg stories. I consumed this book in an embarrassingly short amount of time..."
"In the author's notes at the back of A DISAPPEARANCE IN FIJI, Nilima Rao provides background to the thinking behind this novel, including the structure of the Indian indentured servitude program, established by the British overseen, Indian government, coming into its own when slavery was abolished."
This is a substack (I know--hate me!) I wrote about the problems of sacrificing characters and what can happen when you first let them live.
And now I'm wondering... How do YOU draw the outlines of loss? How do you give shape to the hole that is left, making a real ghost and not just a vague nothing?
@bookstodon I've worked in a used books store for over ten years, over time my visits to the local library have dropped to zero. I used to go often, but between buying online and picking up stuff at work I didn't really keep that up.
So I decided to renew my library card and spent a while just browsing the unfamiliar shelves. I'd almost forgotten how much fun that is, just going from a-z (or a-ö, in my case). I picked up two novels by Japanese authors I hadn't read before #Libraries#bookstodon
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy Sayers. Another Lord Wimsey mystery with an interesting concept and puzzle (including the big plot twist in the middle). I'm never quite sure that these are particularly plausible mysteries, but the characters are always interesting to follow. A fun read. #bookstodonhttps://www.librarything.com/work/book/242443638
[a surprising new book about life after death by the most winningest Jeopardy contestant and the show's current co-host. He seems to be wittily canvassing the various claims and art-based imagery about the afterlife...]
100 Places to See After You Die: A Travel Guide to the Afterlife
Thought I'd start a thread for the books I read during this year, to keep track and share what I've been spending my time with. Happy for recommendations along the way, but do already have a decent-sized to be read pile (and ebook library). #books#reading#bookstodon
People Of The Sacred Valley, by Paul Eastham
A collection of local history tales from the NW of Cumbria and the #LakeDistrict. Some interesting stories in here, especially in how the politics of previous eras affected the area, but a bit disorganised in the telling. Some parts a bit unfocused and others little more than summaries of information, but enough in there to make me glad I picked it up at the bookshop in Keswick. #books#bookstodonhttps://www.fletcherchristianbooks.com/Sacred_Valley/p5921133_21146598.aspx
What a fabulous psychological thriller this was.Told from the POVs of the main female characters & varying from first & third person, this really is a tale of tightening the screws.
A brilliant opening grabs you & just doesn’t let you go. Great plotting & the interspersed letters were an inspired addition. An easy writing style took me down the ‘just one more chapter’ rabbit hole. Cracking read.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️