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  1. Clarkesworld 236; Nicholas J Higham, How England Began: From Roman Britain to the Anglo-Saxons; HyphenPunk 7 #FridayReads

  2. I am also listening to 'The Hanging Tree' by Ben Aaronovitch.

    It is always good to be hanging with Peter Grant and the Rivers of London.

    #FridayReads
    @bookstodon

  3. This week I'm reading "Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King" by Caroline Bicks.

    If you have known me long enough, you know that I am a huge Stephen King fan, so this book being a dive into the archives of several of his earliest novels is right up my alley.

    #FridayReads
    @bookstodon

  4. I DNFed Buffalo Hunter Hunter due to the writing style just not working for me. Still reading Nell O'Dell Hates Quests to my son. For personal nonfiction reading I started The Common Uncommon: A Forest Journey by Bernd Heinrich.

    #FridayReads #books #bookstodon

  5. #FridayReads Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows is validating that systems thinking is how I typically view the world, but because I didn't have a formal understanding of it, it's making me realize why I sometimes have trouble communicating that approach to non-systems thinkers.

    The murder board makes total sense to me, but it seems chaotic and tangential when I have to explain it to someone else! 😅

    ☁️ ➡️ 🚦 📦 ➡️ 🚦 ☁️

  6. Laura Portwood-Stacer, Make Your Manuscript Work: A Guide to Developmental Editing for Scholarly Writers; The Aviation Historian Annual 1 #FridayReads

  7. #fridayreads and #MastoArt ,l want to ask you a simple question before commencing why do you think art is needed in #Gardening ??
    #TodayNews is all about taking you my #FollowFriday , permanent following and #Germany #generalmastodoni , that today l want to start showing on another side of our gardens since it is farms in schools we different farms today l want to show #lettuce #onions and #spinach
    We conserve the #Nature #ClimateChange and see our #naturephotography #permaculture

  8. I realize people hate AI, but I do use a site called GoArt.fotor to make my heroine on the Flicka's LOVERS book cover do stuff. I couldn't resist posting this one for the promo that the book is in. Even Flicka can't believe how hot this Book Funnel Promotion is--the Dirty Little Secrets promo running throughout May, which Flicka's LOVERS is featured in. CLICK ON FLICKA! books.bookfunnel.com/dirtylitt #secrets #promotion #books #bookfunnel #book #novel #novels #now #may #featured #fridayVibes #friday #fridayReads #booktok #mastodon #ai #aiArt #mastoArt #goodreads #romanceReaders #romancelandia #romance #love #loveStory

  9. I realize people hate AI, but I do use a site called GoArt.fotor to make my heroine on the Flicka's LOVERS book cover do stuff. I couldn't resist posting this one for the promo that the book is in. Even Flicka can't believe how hot this Book Funnel Promotion is--the Dirty Little Secrets promo running throughout May, which Flicka's LOVERS is featured in. CLICK ON FLICKA! books.bookfunnel.com/dirtylitt #secrets #promotion #books #bookfunnel #book #novel #novels #now #may #featured #fridayVibes #friday #fridayReads #booktok #mastodon #ai #aiArt #mastoArt #goodreads #romanceReaders #romancelandia #romance #love #loveStory

  10. I realize people hate AI, but I do use a site called GoArt.fotor to make my heroine on the Flicka's LOVERS book cover do stuff. I couldn't resist posting this one for the promo that the book is in. Even Flicka can't believe how hot this Book Funnel Promotion is--the Dirty Little Secrets promo running throughout May, which Flicka's LOVERS is featured in. CLICK ON FLICKA! books.bookfunnel.com/dirtylitt #secrets #promotion #books #bookfunnel #book #novel #novels #now #may #featured #fridayVibes #friday #fridayReads #booktok #mastodon #ai #aiArt #mastoArt #goodreads #romanceReaders #romancelandia #romance #love #loveStory

  11. I realize people hate AI, but I do use a site called GoArt.fotor to make my heroine on the Flicka's LOVERS book cover do stuff. I couldn't resist posting this one for the promo that the book is in. Even Flicka can't believe how hot this Book Funnel Promotion is--the Dirty Little Secrets promo running throughout May, which Flicka's LOVERS is featured in. CLICK ON FLICKA! books.bookfunnel.com/dirtylitt #secrets #promotion #books #bookfunnel #book #novel #novels #now #may #featured #fridayVibes #friday #fridayReads #booktok #mastodon #ai #aiArt #mastoArt #goodreads #romanceReaders #romancelandia #romance #love #loveStory

  12. Sometimes when I start a book by an author I like, I'll go in blind without really knowing anything about what's ahead. I'll avoid reading the book jacket so I can enjoy the story as it unfolds without any preconceptions. And yeah... I know there's a dragon on the cover of King Sorrow by Joe Hill. I didn't realize there would be an ACTUAL dragon in the story! I'm about a fifth of the way through and loving it. #Books #FridayReads #AmReading #Horror #Bookstodon #JoeHill @bookstodon

  13. This week I finished Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir and Killing Stella by Marlen Haushofer (translated by Shaun Whiteside).

    I would have bailed on Project Hail Mary, but it was the book I was reading to my son at his bedtime and he really enjoyed it.

    I loved Killing Stella. I've previously enjoyed The Wall by Haushofer / Whiteside. It looks like Whiteside is translating more books by Haushofer and I look forward to reading all of them when they are published in English.

    Currently reading: Nell O'Dell Hates Quests by Emily B Martin and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

    #books #bookstodon #FridayReads

  14. #DragonBall is the longest book saga I read: I've been reading it for more than 30 years now. On this #FridayReads I'm reading the volume 20 of Dragon Ball Super, released two years ago (so in perspective I'm not lagging behind much...)

    #bookstodon

  15. After a couple books marked DNF recently, it's good to be wrapping up one that is such a treat: Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher. SO GREAT. A delightful quest tale with a bit of magic, comic relief, a possessed hen, and... Bone Dog! (reminds me of Zero from Nightmare Before Christmas) It's making me curious about other books - there are quite a few - Kingfisher has written. On my TBR since 2023 and I wish I hadn't waited so long. #FridayReads #Bookstodon #Books #Fiction #AmReading @bookstodon

  16. I am also deep into 'The Use of Weapons' by Iain M. Banks on audio.

    I've mentioned this before, it's taken me about 4.5 books to feel like I grasp the mindset of the Culture books. And this book may turn out to be my current favorite because of that understanding because I'm greatly enjoying this book.
    The Culture books are usually presented as big space opera - but the books so far have been really intimate, deep in the thoughts of its characters.
    #FridayReads
    @bookstodon

  17. This week I'm reading 'The Faith of Beasts' by James SA Corey.

    This is the second book in their Captives War trilogy and its... okay. Despite this book and the previous 'The Mercy of Gods' getting laudatory reviews, I feel they're a big step down from The Expanse. They don't feel like they have the full-realized world (galaxy?) building that The Expanse had nearly from the beginning.

    #FridayReads
    @bookstodon

  18. Holger Hoock, Scars of Independence: America's Violent Birth #FridayReads

  19. Rick Atkinson, The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777; Clarkesworld 235; HypenPunk 7 #FridayReads

  20. #FridayReads include my current book, Fox by Dubravka Ugresic, an absolute treat for a reader. Underlying its various themes it's about stories and how they come into being. My current poetry read is the collected poems of the Chinese medieval poet Li Qingzhao, The Magpie at Night, which is a new translation of her work by Wendy Chen.

    Lined up next are Ursula K. Le Guin's Lavinia, a retelling of the Aeneid in Lavinia's voice, a voice that wasn't heard in Virgil's work, and Strong Roots, a memoir of family, Ukraine and food by chef Olia Hercules.

    #reading #books #libraries #ReadingJournal #bookstodon

  21. #FridayReads #WeekendReads
    Two Songs by Russell Thornton (Harbour Publishing) harbourpublishing.com/products
    The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai (Knopf Canada) npr.org/2025/10/03/nx-s1-55608

    + waiting in the wings:

    A Place For People Like Us by Danila Botha (Guernica Editions) guernicaeditions.com/products/
    The Instrument Must Not Matter by Christine Fischer Guy (Wolsak & Wynn) bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/pro
    Crossing Into Canada, edited by Alison Mountz (University of Alberta Press) ualbertapress.ca/9781772128284

  22. #FridayReads #WeekendReads
    Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI, Time Regained & poetry collection Off-Leash by Dorothy Mahoney

  23. #FridayReads #WeekendReads
    Good post-op company with Proust and #poetry by Eric Gansworth, Owen Sheers and edited by Jennifer LoveGrove

  24. #FridayReads #WeekendReads
    In the homestretch ...
    In Search of Lost Time Volume VI, Time Regained by Marcel Proust (in translation, The Modern Library Classics) bookaroundthecorner.com/2022/1