💙📚 The Popular Library PBs with artwork by the amazing William Teason
(There are other editions, and I have some, but this is the complete set of the ones with this font) A labor of love that was finally completed w the help of a very generous, lovely author 🖤
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THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE, VARIOUS EDITIONS
(Centipede Press, Folio, a BAM w a glow-in-the-dark cover, 2 rare vintage paperbacks, Penguin Horror w into by GDT, a tie-in to that awful 90s movie)
If you've got some, share them! I love seeing different ones!
I loved The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk and I'm reading an ARC of her second rare-books-library mystery, That Night in the Library (June 2024). It started off a little slow but now it's getting gooooooood. #mystery#bookstodon@bookstodon
Pointing out that @everylibrary has joined the fedi.
If you care about US public and school libraries -- if you want to see library censorship stop -- give 'em a follow, and some spare bucks if you have 'em.
@bookstodon Highly recommend the long-running (and still running...i.e. not finished) After Cilmeri series by Sarah Woodbury. It's historical fiction/alternate history set in medieval Wales, where Wales is never consumed by England. Fairly light reading and quite fun!
This evening we'll light 8 candels in our Hanukkah Mennora's.
On this occasion I've decided to highlight the 8 books that made an impression on me in the past year.
Emissaries from the Dead by Adam-Troy Castro
Adam-Troy Castro is such a catchy name, I was sure I've read somehting by him before, but apparently this was by firs Adam-Troy Castro novel.
Emissaries from the Dead is a novel about the interaction between humanity and a god like AI taking place on a cylindrical space station / artificial world.
In places it echoes John Varley's, Titan.
It is an engaging murder investigation and no one is entirely innocent.
But ultimately it is a study of free will in an unjust universe.
Inspired by
having the Niven biography "The Other Side of the Moon' for #DeanStreetDecember 2024, I've decided to honour my Dad by adding to my 2024 TBR bios of 3 comics he introduced me to when I was FAR too young to really get them. Recs please for the best bios of
Sellers
Secombe
Milligan #AmReading#ReadersOfMastodon#ebooks@bookstodon#bookstodon
"The much anticipated follow-up to Canticle Creek, The Wiregrass is set in the temperate rainforest area of Victoria in the fictional town of Satellite."
On my vlog, “Your Surprising Ministry,” Nici Ahrenholz, founder of The Blessed Day, expert in devotional journaling. Discover YOUR surprising ministry!
A debut author has lost her book deal after she admitted to "review bombing" competitors on Goodreads, largely targeting women of color. In a letter posted to X, Cait Corrain blamed her behavior on mental-health struggles and addiction. Here's more from the Mary Sue.
#BookReview The Dower House Mystery by Patricia Wentworth
Read as e-book using a mix of Braille and TTS
Dean Street Press
Pub. 1925
I’ve been meaning to read Dean Street Press for ages as their books sound so enjoyable, so #DeanStreetDecember was the nudge I needed.
I loved the setup of this one; Amabel Grey takes a peculiar job to earn enough money to send her daughter on a chance of a lifetime trip abroad (to snag a rich husband!), thinking she’s a capable woman who doesn’t believe in ghosts and all will be fine. How hard could it be to be paid by the owner of a house to live there for 6 months to quash the local rumours that it’s haunted, which have made it impossible to rent out?
But of course as soon as she arrives strange and unsettling things start to happen, all of which sound ridiculous when explained out loud; someone laughing, a cat mewing, doors that were bolted at night being wide open in the morning, the feeling that someone is following you up the stairs. And all manner of other creepy little details to add to the tension:
“The house was very still, but twice the stillness was broken by that sound of light footsteps, jenny of course, moving about downstairs. She turned a page and forced her mind to follow the words. They remained words to her, separate words, no connecting thought to string them together. On other nights there had been a hundred sounds; the wind in the chimneys, the pattering of the rain, the unkempt ivy buffeting the windowpane, the faint scuttering of mice. Tonight there were none of these sounds, the house was very still. It was like the hush before a storm.”
The solution was a little absurd and I saw it coming but I didn’t mind as I was enjoying the main characters and the eerie atmosphere of the house so much, I just went with it!
A fortune teller, a past love, a mysterious missing girl and two dogs that run away in terror all make for a thoroughly entertaining read. #Bookstodon#DeanStreetDecember23@bookstodon
I've finished: The Stranger Times by C.K. McDonnell
It was recommended to me here on Mastodon' though I don't remember by who.
I hadn't heard of C.K. McDonnell before and am glad to have found such a talented comedy writer.
The Stranger Times is over the top sitcom urban fantasy.
There aren't many good funny fantasy writers. Many try to hard and it shows. McDonnell's characters go all the way across the line into caricature, thus avoiding the uncanny valley between the real and the absurd.