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  1. Book 31of 2026.

    Pretty not bad, but you won't really learn anything at all.

    I listened to this one on audible.
    #book #bookstadon

  2. Look what I just put on my car!! I'm old enough to remember when a library card catalog was my datacenter...

    #SupportTheLibrary #LibrariesRule #AmReading #bookstadon

  3. Book Review: Oddbody by Rose Keating

    Rose Keating’s debut short story collection, Oddbody features macabre body horror tales with funny, dark and unexpected twists and turns.

    Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

    Genre: Simon & Schuster

    Publisher: Short Stories, Horror, Literary Fiction, Speculative Fiction

    Review in one word: Macabre

    The title Oddbody is a strong signal about what lies between the covers as this collection of short stories: macabre body horror with funny and unexpected twists and turns. In the title story, a woman navigates a codependent relationship with a ghost. In “Squirm,” a daughter must tend to her father who is a man-sized squishy worm devouring himself from the inside out. If this sounds super weird…well it really is…but in a fascinating kind of way I can guarantee you!

    “Pineapple” introduces a woman who makes the startling choice to have feather wings surgically attached to her back. In “Eggshells,” a waitress gives birth to an egg during her breakfast shift. These narratives are weird, fun, playful forms of body horror that anyone who loves weird fiction will savour and really love. I don’t think I’ve ever read a book quite like this, and it’s a unique and fresh take on the weird that draws me in here.

    The overarching theme of Oddbody is the body itself—as a corporeal site of horror, desire, transformation, and liberation. Keating puts a powerful lens on the body anxieties that women and men have and she’s brutally honest and creepy in a way about it all. The stories are vividly rendered and enjoyable. I found this collection to be masterfully crafted, funny and so much fun to read! I would highly recommend you read it.

    Rose Keating is a writer from Waterford, Ireland. She is a recipient of the Curtis Brown Prize and the Marian Keyes Young Writer Award. This collection Oddbody is a bold and surreal descent into a strange netherworld with characters who are grotesque, strange and the tender all at once. I highly recommend this collection if you want to disappear into strange corporeal places you never imagined existed!

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  4. A little patch of land.
    Bread on the table.
    A dear friend you can talk to.
    A small house you can call Home.
    Rabbits…

    Such a modest dream. And yet so impossibly out of reach.

    Which character from this story stayed with you the most?

    #Steinbeck #books #fiction #shortstory #OfMiceandMen #story #JohnSteinbeck #book #bookstodon @bookstodon #tragedy #loneliness #literature #discussion #classic #booksky #BookDiscussion #BookTok #bookstagram #bookstadon #bookstack #friends

  5. I need to recommend a book on S&M to help a patient better understand their urges.
    It’s literally been decades since I read on the subject. Can anyone help with suggestions?
    #Bookstadon #Domination #Masochism #Kink something more accessible than encyclopaedic.

  6. Another #goodread... Black By Design by The Selecter's Pauline Black. Not just for the 2-Tone fans, this excellent book is a potted social history of the latter half of the 20th and early 21st century told via Pauline's experiences - and all the things wrong in the UK. Not always easy reading but what a strong, talented woman.

    #books #bookworm #musicbook #autobiography #2Tone #2toneska #ska #reggae #socialhistory #acting #adoption #blackbydesign #paulineblack #blackartists #bookstadon

  7. We have Morag Hood for a very special Under Fives Storytime in the bookshop today!!! We love Morag's books and read them frequently at Storytime, real treat to have the creator reading from them to packed bookshop full of young readers

    #MoragHood #DidDigDigger #PictureBooks #ChildrensBooks #books #livres #bookshop #librarie #Bruntsfield #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #UnderFivesStorytime #bookstadon #photography

  8. NEW BLOG REVIEW

    It's publication day for #TheLindberghNanny by #MariahFredericks

    A story which blends fact and fiction about the 1930's kidnapping of baby Lindbergh in the US, as told from the perspective of his nanny, Betty Gow.

    My thoughts on are on my blog today - I really enjoyed this one.

    myreadingcorner.co.uk/2022/11/

    #BookReview #BookStadon #BookCommunity #BookBlogger

  9. Favorite authors for #bookstadon! I consider it a fav if I want to read anything they publish.

    #BeckyChambers
    #SayakaMurata
    #NaomiNovik (thank you for helping build AO3!)
    #NaomiKritzer
    #VESchwab
    #HollyBlack

    I’m getting into Octavia E Butler but haven’t read enough yet.

    @bookstodon
    #bookstodon

    Do people use bookstodon or bookstadon? 😂