#FridayReads #WeekendReads
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (Little Brown)
Gaining Ground by Joan Barfoot (Faber & Faber)
the lake-shaped excuse by Conyer Clayton (Wolsak and Wynn)
... and happy reading to you, too!
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Thomas Asbridge, The Black Death: A Global History; Clarkesworld 242 #FridayReads
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My #FridayReads includes this bouquet of the latest #poetry pamphlet offerings (Season 10!) from Opaat Press: https://annickmacaskill.com/2026/10/26/small-girl-by-francesca-ekwuyasi/
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Well, I DNFed Yesteryear. I was originally interested in the concept of the book (especially since time travel is very much in my reading wheelhouse) and then got even more interested because of how much people either seem to love it or hate it. Unfortunately, I'm siding with the haters because the book seems problematic and disturbing rather than an entertaining satire that was marketed.
So now for fiction I'm reading another book that was really popular the year it was released (but without the controversy) North Woods by Daniel Mason. And for nonfiction I'm continuing to read (and enjoy) The Emerson Circle by Bruce Nichols.
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I've started two new books: Yesteryear for fiction and The Emerson Circle for nonfiction.
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Colin Elliott, Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World #FridayReads
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It’s Friday Recommendation time! 📚
Mention a book you couldn’t put down recently.
Authors, feel free to drop your own title if it fits the vibe!
Boost this post so more bookworms can find their next read.
#BookRecommendations #BookToot #FridayReads #IndieBooks #Bookstodon #goodreads #goodreadsauthor
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I'm currently reading Speaker for the Dead with my son and After Hours at Dooryard Books for personal reading.
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Fear of the Dark is 0.99 until the end of the month (except on Amazon)! It's the first of a science-fantasy trilogy and, if it's not too vain of me to say, it's of passable quality.
Here is a collection of stock footage to pique something approaching interest.
#SciFi #SpaceOpera #BookTrailer #Bookstodon #IndieAuthor #FridayReads
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Patrick O’Brian, The Far Side of the World #FridayReads
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I'm also listening to 'When the Wolf Comes Home' by Nat Cassidy.
Not sure how much I like this book yet. It reminds me a bit of Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward in tone, although there is a lot more direct violence in Wolf so far.
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This Friday I'm reading 'Something Wicked This Way Comes' by Ray Bradbury.
This is for this month's staff book discussion, but also fits into #SpookyReads2026. I read this a long long time ago, and barely remember it. It's a nice paean to boyhood that leans to the darkness of growing up as opposed to the sweetness of youth presented in 'Dandelion Wine'.
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For this year's #Victober, I chose #Gaskell's "Mary Barton", a novel written earlier in the Victorian era than what I've usually been picking. Published in 1848, it gives is a picture of the struggles if thw working classes, and their fights for a worthy life.
I expect it to be a worthy reading, but if you want to hear about it from someone who already read it, @paulasimoes has been #GallivantingWithGaskell and wrote about #MaryBarton on her blog.
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I've only read 3 of her books, but Emily St. John Mandel has become one of my favorite authors and I was eagerly anticipating the release of Exit Party. What a pleasant surprise that it was just sitting there ready to download from the library! I thought I'd have wait at least a couple weeks.
From what I've seen with the other books of hers, there's usually a link or common thread between stories. Still looking for that here. #FridayReads #AmReading #Books #Bookstodon #Fiction @bookstodon
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I don't usually read two of the same type of books at the same time, but one is history and one is practical, so they're actually complementing each other pretty well. 🤓🛤️
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This week I'm reading Retro by Jessica M Goldstein for fiction and American Rambler by Isaac Fitzgerald for nonfiction.
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Clarkesworld 241; HyphenPunk 12; Richard Overy, The Birth of the RAF, 1918: The World's First Air Force #FridayReads
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I'm also still listening to 'King Sorrow' by Joe Hill.
I am enjoying this and the narrator is pretty excellent. There is also a dragon of thought and nightmares in it. I can be easily pleased sometimes.
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Since I finished that, I got to start 'The Red Sacrament' by Sara Hinkley.
The only thing I know about this book is that it focuses on a 19th century theater in Paris and vampires. We'll see if it is good.
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This week I was reading (finished today) 'A Plagued Sea' by Kim Bo-Young.
This very slim novelette is a Korean take on the Cthulhu myth and Lovecraft's 'The Shadow over Innsmouth' but more from the perspective of the villagers.
It also became a rather nuanced look at either the COVID-pandemic response (directly mentioned by the author) or the response to HIV/AIDS (my interpretation).
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Monday's Friday Reads | 28 September 2026
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://londonreconnections.com/mondays-friday-reads-28-september-2026/
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According to my log on #Goodreads, I read The Crossing by Howard Fast over a decade ago and gave it a healthy ⭐⭐⭐⭐ . (the 2000 A&E TV movie starring Jeff Daniels as George Washington was also very good) I feel like I'm overdue to read Bunker Hill by the same author, and since I was in the mood for something on the shorter side, this fits the bill rather well. #Bookstodon #FridayReads #AmReading #History #RevolutionaryWar #histodons @bookstodon
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And finally, I'm still coasting through 'King Sorrow' by Joe Hill on audio.
This had mixed reviews when I was considering it, but I'm really enjoying it. Mainly because I'm a big Steven King fan, and this could easily be one of his middle-quality works (I generally like Hill, but I feel he still has a way to go to compare to his father's greatest stuff).
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This means I'm also back to finishing up 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd' by Agatha Christie for a discussion next week.
It's interesting to read a mystery from the non-detective perspective. It is reminding me a lot of the way 'Knives Out' is structured, which makes sense since Rian Johnson draws a lot from Christie in that movie.
I know there is a big controversial twist/reveal in this book, but I don't know what it is yet
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Last night I finished 'An Impossibility of Crows' by Kirsten Koschak.
(I finished it after midnight, so it counts as #FridayReads).
This is probably going to be near the top of my list of favorite books for the year. It is what I look for in horror - it's creepy and ominous, but not out for cheap scares. It is more of a reflection of the darkness in the protagonist and how that presents itself in the world (as an enormous horse-sized crow).
Beautiful and sad.