#books2026 — Public Fediverse posts
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My first book read (in just 2 days) on my #XteinkX4 was Chrono Trigger by Michael P. Williams
The second of the #BossFightBooks series, a memoir, critique and analysis of my favourite game of all time.
To be honest it was a bit less technical or historical than I'd like, but I enjoyed it nonetheless and the interviews with Ted Woosley and Tom Slattery were a highlight for me. A good read and kinda short too
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Familiengeheimnisse, erste Liebe, Verantwortung –
eine Geschichte über das Erwachsenwerden.
Sehr sensibel erzählt und absolut lesenswert!https://anettsbuecherwelt.blogspot.com/2026/03/mein-jahr-hat-dreizehn-monate-vera.html?m=1
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Dieses Buch hat mich wirklich überrascht!
Platte 317 von Rayna Breuer erzählt von Menschen in einem Plattenbau in Sofia nach dem politischen Umbruch – vielschichtig, berührend und manchmal richtig emotional.https://anettsbuecherwelt.blogspot.com/2026/03/platte-317-rayna-breuer.html?m=1
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Eine berührende Geschichte über Flucht entlang der Donau und die Frage, was Heimat eigentlich bedeutet.
Ein Jugendbuch, das auch Erwachsene unbedingt lesen sollten.https://anettsbuecherwelt.blogspot.com/2026/03/die-wasserwandler-sabine-zaplin.html?m=1
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Happy to report that book I wrote with Ahmed Alwishah, on the Liar Paradox in the Islamic World, is finally out!
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-final-word-9780197609941
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Happy to report that book I wrote with Ahmed Alwishah, on the Liar Paradox in the Islamic World, is finally out!
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-final-word-9780197609941
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Happy to report that book I wrote with Ahmed Alwishah, on the Liar Paradox in the Islamic World, is finally out!
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-final-word-9780197609941
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Happy to report that book I wrote with Ahmed Alwishah, on the Liar Paradox in the Islamic World, is finally out!
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-final-word-9780197609941
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Happy to report that book I wrote with Ahmed Alwishah, on the Liar Paradox in the Islamic World, is finally out!
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-final-word-9780197609941
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💫 Das Mädchen aus der schwebenden Welt | Axie Oh 💫
Koreanische Mythologie, Dämonen und eine wunderschöne Welt zwischen Himmel und Unterwelt.
Absolute Leseempfehlung!#books2026 #bookreview #bookies #buchblogger #buchtipp
#bookstodon #Bookwyrmhttps://anettsbuecherwelt.blogspot.com/2026/03/das-madchen-aus-der-schwebenden-welt.html?m=1
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women who are neither delicate flowers nor die-hard badasses. The Minnesotan winter setting was also neat and I suspect Minneapolis natives will enjoy it a lot more than I did.
The story was... a little too easily resolved in my opinion. Satisfying but too easy. And I have other minor worldbuilding quibbles; I'm not buying the US dominance here.
(4/n)
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The setting feels very familiar if you've read William Gibson: weak governments, lawless places, ethical hackers, feudal structures with the very rich doing what they like while everyone else is on their own; shiny nanotechnology and the subsequent rise in value for naturally grown materials like wood.
(The latter is particularly nicely shown-not-told by characters always noticing wooden objects.)
But the characters are a nice fresh spin on Gibson's characters:
(3/n)
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the victim's body has been decomposed into raw materials using reprogrammed nanites.
Their investigation leads them to a conspiracy involving the inventor of the nanites technology, the military, and the two largest local (which means Minneapolis) companies. It leads them to posh corporate goons and lawless parts of the city and into Satya's traumatic experiences during a recent war, which include being half dissolved by nanites.
(2/n)
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So, "Nameless" by Zoe Ann Wendler. Cyberpunk, nanites, crime, an odd pair, and queer main characters, fuck yeah!
In a world where almost everything can be "made" from raw materials using nanites, we meet our main characters: war veteran, makershop owner and government contractor Satya and lawful good newly-minted homicide detective Dan. They're trying to solve a near-perfect crime:
(1/n)
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This is your fault @mms
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Book 6 : 2026
Robin of Sherwood: Sanctuary
(aka Richard Carpenter's Robin of Sherwood: Sanctuary by Paul Birch)I have a deep fondness for the early 1980's British TV show "Robin of Sherwood". One of 22 official original novels feat characters from show.
T'was okay, but I wouldn't recc to anyone not already a fan of the show. Short - only 75 pages - POD issues, and often read more like a teleplay than a book.
https://dice.camp/@Faintdreams/116091918079430906
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/c262a295-447c-4610-aca5-31e0d7a0fa29
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CW: Major spoiler "Nameless"
I still can't decide whether I like that even the cat lives (because obviously, that's how it should be) or find the ending cloyingly sweet (happily ever after, all loose ends nearly tied, even the cat lives).
I like it when things end well, but it's a fine line, apparently.
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Developing a very obviously potentially harmful technology is fine, but forging consent forms makes you want to quit?
Wow.
Realistic, maybe. People are like that, and Nat willfully ignored what other uses the tech could have. But, wow.
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Die Freiheit so weit von Theresa Kern (Teil 2 von 2)
Dieses Buch hat mein Herz gebrochen und wieder zusammengesetzt 💔
Wenn ihr emotionale Geschichten mit Familiengeheimnissen liebt: Unbedingt lesen!
#books2026 #books #bookies #buchbubble #BookReview #bookstodon #Bookwyrm
https://anettsbuecherwelt.blogspot.com/2026/02/die-freiheit-so-weit-theresa-kern.html?m=1
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"The chaotic, shifting light from the neon signs made it hard to even identify the gender of each, to say nothing of their ethnicities or facial features."
That might be because only one of these things can be identified by visual inspection, eh.
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"Everyone forgets that what one person wants is basically the same as what everyone else wants. Comfort, warmth, food, and a little privacy. You think of lawless places and imagine blasted-out hellholes. People are people."
Something to remember, heading into apocalyptic times.
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"The relative warmth inside was welcome, even if it was still only fifty degrees or so."
Argh it's always the same!
Me: *reads "only fifty degrees"*
Me: 🤔 "only"?!
Me: 💡ah yes. Fahrenheit. 🙄
Me: *does conversion*
Me: okay, ten degrees Celsius, yeah, not that warm
(Apparently, even though this isn't the US but a united North America, the non-SI units persist)
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"These are our most precious secrets, and they exist nowhere in any digital format. Part of my job, in point of fact, is to protect them." "I don't get it," Satya said. Dan shook her head a bit in amazement. "It's the oldest form of security there is," Dan said. "Quantum computing makes digital security unreliable at best"
Hah. I love it.
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Interesting focus on *materials*: there's the nanotech, of course, like Gibson's or Stephenson's, building all kinds of things from pure carbon and other raw materials. There's the body, stripped to component materials. But there are also a lot of wooden things: desks, chairs.
Is having wooden stuff, not made by a maker but naturally grown, a status marker?
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"It's not a design," Satya said. "It's calligraphy." She paused for a bit, then continued, "It says 'a love of cats is an aspect of faith.' More or less. It’s hadith. It's better in Arabic."
💙
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"You know, they gave me a file to read about you before I came out.” "Anything interesting?" Satya asked. "I dunno. Outed you in the first two sentences, so I just stopped reading. Nobody who cares that much about someone being queer has anything useful to say about them"
True 👍🏻
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"<$ave0RDi3>: they're claiming the unemployment rate's 60.4%
<$ave0RDi3>: real data's at 67.8
<C3r3al_K|llr>: shit
<flutterbye>: wow
<Anonymous User 13>: they cook the books?
<$ave0RDi3>: have done for years <$ave0RDi3>: keeping the rate below 62 or something is supposed to be good for reelection"Ouch and also nice worldbuilding here with the absurdly high number!
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New book: "Nameless" by Zoe Ann Wendler (@Impossible_PhD)!
Impulse-bought because queer cyberpunk in Minnesota, what's not to like?!
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Book 5 of 2026
Currently on chapter 5 of 28 of 'Kaiju Preservation. Society' by John. Scalzi - so far so freaking GOOD.
I really don't know how Scalzi makes each book he writes so very Scalzi and yet each one is so definitively different, but it is a breathtaking slight of hand every time.
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Book 2 & 3 of 2026:
Alpha Warlock's Kala West Series 2-3 of 5 by Auirella Skye
[Reverse Harem, Modern Fantasy, Erotica(?)]Do not recommend.
Books 2 and 3 = book 1 , just with more chapters
Soooo not going to even glance at books 4 & 5 in the series.
Cannot figure out if this is a Me problem of the way these books get published problem
It's probably me? 🤔
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Book 2 & 3 of 2026:
Alpha Warlock's Kala West Series 2-3 of 5 by Auirella Skye
[Reverse Harem, Modern Fantasy, Erotica(?)]2: 11 chapts approx 1.5 hours to read. 3: 14 chapters 1.7 hours to read
DNF either - Book 2, skimmed last 2 chapts, and last 4 chapts in book 3 Because it was just bad (in my opinion) porn. Scenes, suspiciously almost an exact template of book 1
Do not recommend. Books 2 and 3 = book 1 , just with more chapters
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Book 1 of 2026:
The Alpha Warlock's Claim - Alpha Warlocks Kala West Story 1 of 5
[Reverse Harem, Modern Fantasy, Erotica(?)]
Only 8 short chapts, with bare minimum of plot / world building, this feels very 'Minimal Viable product'. Characters are briefly intro'd, physically described, meet via some highly convoluted scenario, then have graphic sex. That's it. Took 45 mins from start to finish, my reading speed = 250 - 300 words per min
https://dice.camp/@Faintdreams/115803424806036882
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Well, here's my review for #Overscan, long overdue. A fantastic collection of short stories from many authors.
A book by the Fediverse, for the Fediverse that I highly recommend to anyone here. This is day 15 of #100DaysToOffload
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Wir Jungs vom Prinzenpark - Dennis Schröder
Eine inspirierende Geschichte über Freundschaft, Familie und große Träume.
Absolute Leseempfehlung für sportbegeisterte Kids ab 8 Jahren 💛
#books #bookreview #bookies #buchblogger #buchtipp #bookstodon #buchbubble #books2026
https://anettsbuecherwelt.blogspot.com/2026/02/wir-jungs-vom-prinzenpark-dennis.html?m=1
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Bad Actors - der 8. Band der Slow Horses von Mick Herron
Abgestellte MI5-Agenten, schwarzer britischer Humor und ein Fall, der im Chaos endet – natürlich.
#books2026 #books #bookies #buchbubble #Bookwyrm #bookstodon #bookreview
https://anettsbuecherwelt.blogspot.com/2026/02/bad-actors-ein-fall-fur-die-slow-horses.html?m=1
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Came across a nice video on my feed. I am generally not that big of a reader, but I try to be. I do like the advise to move on when you are not interested on a book or topic, as well as affirming that speed reading is kind of a scam. Generally when I read its non fiction and often something I am learning about. I've always had to take time with the material and it feels like being an odd one out if you are not getting something right away or as quickly.
(video) Give me 16 minutes and I'll teach you how to read like a PRO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA6kJoUEqPY
#youtube #video #reading #SelfGrowth #selfimprovment #books #books2026
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Unter dem Hashtag #Buchbeginn poste ich hier hintereinander meine gelesenen Bücher für 2026 📚. Mal schauen, wieviel zusammen kommen und was es für eine bunte Mischung wird.
"Die Neonlichter der Tankstelle flackern und der Kaffee in meiner Hand ist mittlerweile kalt."
Between Bridges | Annemie Lang
1/2026
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@drahsturgis so far I'm aware of:
- Ada Hoffmann - Ignore All Previous Instructions
- Gwendolyn Kiste - The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own
- Tana French - The Keeper
- TJ Klune - We Burned So Bright
- A.G. Slatter - A Forest, Darkly
- A.G. Slatter - The Sourdough Companion
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What forthcoming #books are you most looking forward to in 2026? Here's an incomplete list of mine, roughly in publication order (a.k.a. "What I've Preordered"):
The Coming Storm by #OddArneWestad - #CurrentEvents #History
The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton by #JenniferNBrown - #DarkAcademia #Mystery
The Brothers McKay by #CraigJohnson - #Mystery #Western
Jules Verne and the Invention of the Future by #LaurenceBergreen - #Biography #History #ScienceFiction
The Peacemakers by @UnaMcCormack - #StarTrek #ScienceFiction
Edge of the Abyss by #RebeccaRoanhorse - #StarWars #ScienceFiction
The Velvet Knife by @maureenjohnson - #Mystery #YoungAdult #DarkAcademia
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Jahresausblick: Hier mein aktueller #Tsundoku Stapel. Ist etwas zusammengeschrumpft... im kommenden Jahr werde ich den Rat von Umberto Eco beherzigen (https://chaos.social/@darkmind/115810723718487507 - Danke an @darkmind !)
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I wonder what my first finished book of 2026 will be?
I'm guessing it will either be more Witch Hat Atelier or another run through of Night at Vampire Castle
Whats you''re first finished book of 2026 likely to be?
