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ten novels:
●●●○○ The Tumultuous Lives of Karl Strong {Middle Falls 18} - Shawn Inmon (2023)
●●●◐○ Murder in the Buff {Jesse Montgomery 02} - Greg Kauffman-Starkey (2021)
●●●◐○ It All Falls Down {Behold: Humanity! 21} - Ralts Bloodthorne (2026)
●●●●○ The Eleventh Artifact {Artifact 11} - David Collins (2026)
●●○○○ Lest We Forget Thee, Earth - Robert Silverberg (1958)
●●●◐○ Not Till We Are Lost {Bobiverse 5} - Dennis E. Taylor (2024)
●●◐○○ Tarnished Utopia - Malcolm Jameson (1956)
●●●◐○ The Case of the Washed Up Wordsmith {Miles Grant 23} (2022)
●●●○○ Antediluvian - Wil McCarthy (2019)
●●●○○ The White Widows - Sam Merwin, Jr. (1953)

one novella:
●●●○○ The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich - Fritz Leiber (1936)

one novelette:
●●●●◐ The Machine Stops - E. M. Forster (1909)

▓▓▓▓ short stories:
●●●○○ Same Time, Same Place - Mervyn Peake (1963)
●●○○○ Beneath the City of the Ancients - Brian Terence (2025)
●●●○○ Blockade Runner {Bullard 03} - Malcolm Jameson (1941)
●●◐○○ A Day of Skin and Squalls - Mel Cowan (2025)
●●○○○ The Carver - Jake Berry Ellison, Jr. (2018)
●●●◐○ The Voice in the Night - William Hope Hodgson (1907)
●●●○○ From the Dark Halls of Hell - G. G. Pendarves (1932)
●●●◐○ Critical Analysis {Blood Bank 8} - Tanya Huff (2006)
●○○○○ The Words of the Sole - Brian Terence (2006)
●●●○○ Slacker's Paradise {Bullard 4} - Malcolm Jameson (1941)
●●●○○ Now You Know How I Feel - Steven Green (2021)
●●●◐○ Crescendo - Margaret St. Clair (1955)
●●●●○ Metal Lark - Margaret St. Clair (1948)
●●◐○○ The Horror of the Heights - Arthur Conan Doyle (1913)
◐○○○○ Final Dispatch from the Blue Moon - Jake Berry Ellison, Jr. (2018)
●●●◐○ So This Is Christmas {Blood Bank 9} - Tanya Huff (2006)
●●●○○ Are We Really Doing This - Dave Zigzag (2021)
●●●◐○ Devil's Powder {Bullard 5} - Malcolm Jameson (1941)
●●●○○ The Comet - W. E. B. Du Bois (1920)
●●●◐○ Autumn After Next - Margaret St. Clair (1960)
●●●◐○ Return of the Ritual {Dr. Taverner 02} - Dion Fortune (1922)
●●●○○ Never Mess with the Cleaner - Brian Terence (2025)
●●●◐○ Exposed to the Moon - P.A. Choi (2020)
●●●○○ Bullard Reflects {Bullard 6} - Malcolm Jameson (1941)
●●●◐○ Stonewall Rising - Vince A. Liaguno (2010 ss)
●●●●○ The Hounds of Tindalos - Frank Belknap Long (1929)
●●●○○ Prott - Margaret St. Clair (1953)
●●◐○○ Havenwood - Mel Cowan (2025)
●●◐○○ The Oldest Story in the World - Murray Leinster (1925)
●●◐○○ Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Die - Rob Rosen (2010)
●●●◐○ Out in the Field - P.A. Choi (2020)
●●●◐○ Disruptors - Jake Berry Ellison Jr (2018)

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No more repeating descriptions of the novels, it just makes for a very long post. You can look at previous posts for that info. Search for hashtag BokBooks.
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2026-07: 32 ss | 01 nvt | 01 nva | 10 nov
2026-06: 34 ss | 02 nvt | 01 nva | 10 nov
2026-05: 31 ss | 01 nvt | 05 nva | 10 nov
2026-04: 29 ss | 01 nvt | 02 nva | 10 nov
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#JulyReads. | Tag to mute: #BokBooks

I read 6 books in July! Wow! That is way more than I thought I read, especially since I took 2 full weeks off to listen to a new album and didn't read at all.

4 of the books are #2026debuts:
A Prince Among Pirates by Katie Abdou
Mirrorwoven by Bori Cser
All Her Ghosts by Cynthia Prith
Alex, by Proxy by Karen Myna Cantor

Two other books I couldn't resist ARC for:
The Lord of the Wood by E.M. Anderson
Fancy Dogs by Tini Malina

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Thirteen novels:
●●●●○ A Half-Built Garden - Ruthanna Emrys #hopepunk
●●●◐○ Murderer Invisible - Philip Wylie #vintage
●●●◐○ Vengeance - Jennifer Foehner Wells {Confluence 5}
●●●◐○ The Crossing {Assiti Shards} - Kevin Ikenberry
●●●○○ Survivors - Terry Nation
●●●◐○ Dark Futures {New John Connor Chronicles 1} - Russell Blackford
●●●●○ Up-Time Pride and Down-Time Prejudice {Ring of Fire} - Mark H. Huston
●●●○○ The Invaders {Invaders 1} - Keith Laumer #TieIn
●●●●○ The Surrogate Affair {Stewart Grant 01} - Jack Dearborn #detective
●●●◐○ An Evil Hour {New John Connor Chronicles 2} - Russell Blackford
●●●●○ Lock In {Lock In 1} - John Scalzi
●●●●○ Miles Grant, Private Investigator {Miles Grant 01}- Jack Dearborn #mystery
●●●◐○ Enemies from Beyond {Invaders 2} - Keith Laumer #TieIn

One novella:
●●●○○ Unlocked {Lock In 0.5} - John Scalzi

One novelette:
●●◐○○ Project Time Machine {Agent Adams 1} - Tim Tolbert

Twenty-four stories:
●●◐○○ Death and the Senator - Arthur C. Clarke
●●●○○ Martian Quest - Leigh Brackett
●●●○○ At the Bottom of New Lake {Warmer 6} - Sonya Larson
●●●◐○ Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-TAH-Tee - Fritz Leiber #classic
●●●◐○ Seventh Victim - Robert Sheckley
●●●○○ The Little Man Who Wasn't All There - Robert Bloch {Lefty Feep}
●●●○○ The Hillside - Jane Smiley {Warmer 7}
●●●○○ Naked Ghost Story - P.A. Choi
●●●○○ Old Ventures, New Partners - Nicolas Wilson
●●●◐○ Never Stop to Pat a Kitten - Miriam Allen deFord
●●●◐○ One Long Ribbon - Florence Engel Randall
●●●○○ The Golden Opportunity of Lefty Feep - Robert Bloch
●●●○○ A Big Man with the Girls - Judith Merril and Frederik Pohl
●●●◐○ Ugly Earthling - Elizabeth Chater
●●●◐○ The Maze - A. Bertram Chandler
●●●●◐ Small Moments in Time - Jack Campbell [John Hemry]
●●●○○ Second Variety - Philip K. Dick
●●●○○ A Naked Wish - P.A. Choi
●●●◐○ The Case of the Dow Twins - Edward Page Mitchell #proto
●●●○○ Poor Little Saturday - Madeleine L’Engle
●●●◐○ Youth - Isaac Asimov
●●○○○ 108 Stitches - Tony Bertauski
●●●○○ Lefty Feep and the Sleepy-Time Gal - Robert Bloch
●●●◐○ Helen O'Loy - Lester del Rey

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2025-07: 24 ss | 01 nvt | 01 nva | 13 nov
2025-06: 26 ss | 03 nvt | 00 nva | 12 nov
2025-05: 24 ss | 06 nvt | 01 nva | 13 nov
2025-04: 29 ss | 06 nvt | 00 nva | 11 nov
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The Miles Grant and Stewart Grant detective novels are interesting, in that they seem to be doing a "case worthy of a book" per year, and after 24 years, Miles retires and Stewart takes over as detective.

The number of novels per month is going up. It used to hover around nine: two per week, with one in the partial week. But I've been reading some shorter books lately, which has boosted the number. Novellas remain rare.

Finally finished all the stories in Pioneering Women of Science Fiction, Christopher Broschell's collection of stories from the 1940s and 1950s.

#JulyReads

CLIMBERS, M. John Harrison
THE SHEPHERD IN SHADOW, M. Daniel McDowell
THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST, Premee Mohamed
FLAME & CRIMSON, Brian Murphy
THE MEMORY POLICE, Yoko Ogawa
PROFANE ALTARS, Sam Richard, ed.
SWORDS & DARK MAGIC, Jonathan Strahan and Lou Anders, eds.

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#SwordAndSorcery

#JulyReads

- THE SWORD OF THE LICTOR, Gene Wolfe
- EVERYTHING THE DARKNESS EATS, Eric LaRocca
- COMPANIONS ON THE ROAD, Tanith Lee
- THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS, Poul Anderson
- THE OWL KILLERS, Karen Maitland
- XENIA IN THE COURT OF THE WINDS, Scott Oden

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#Horror
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I apparently didn't read anything in June (oops), but here are my #JulyReads

-A Contract in Sol Forne by Elan Marche & Christopher Warman
-Numbers Game by Rebecca Rode

After nothing read in June, it was nice to get back on the horse and get a couple books read!

#Books #Bookstodon #Reading @bookstodon

2. Jujutsu Kaisen 12 by Gege Akutami

I read these chapters in simulpub, but I decided to reread since S2 is airing. Also, as a Nanami stan, I guess I like hurting myself. LOL

#JulyReads #manga

1. After the Rain 1 by Jun Mayuzuki

I've skipped this one for a long time because I'm not a fan of age gap romances & this one features a pairing with a huge one, but it turns out this isn't like that at all. Akira was the star of her high school track team until she was injured & Kondo is a divorced single father. She has a crush on him & he knows she's off-limits. Less a romance & more a picking up the pieces to move on. (And I'm glad for it!)

#JulyReads #manga

It's been a while, but to commemorate my return to Masto, I'm starting a reading thread for the month! It's silly but writing these mini-reviews encourages me to read more! Let's go! ✨

#JulyReads

Hello and I hope you are all having a #happysunday doing whatever floats your boat! I shall be reading again for most of the day, I’m now onto The Falcon by Isabella Maldonado. I finished Book of Night by Holly Black last night so I’ll be working on that review later! I’ve just bought a couple of book logs to try out, to see if it helps me with my blog reviews…only trouble is that there isn’t enough room for my notes, so I’m having to supplement it with extra sheets of paper clipped in!! Anyone else have that issue with their book logs? Do you even use them? Let me know in the comments below!

Have a great #sunday…hope your #monday won’t be too brutal!

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