Rambling Readers

Gavin / G B Ralph

Another absolute highlight of 2024 was being involved in this fantastic – quite literally! – short story anthology.

Discover drama, treachery, love, and the unpredictable outcomes of our actions in The Law of Consequences which collects 20 tall tales from 20 talented authors! There’s even one from me: The Sand Witch’s Sandwich.

Keen to check it out yourself? https://gbralph.com/the-law-of-consequences/

#Fantasy #Anthology #Bookstodon

Top 10 writing highlights of 2024. My first short story in an anthology. The Law on Consequences.

MarvinFreeman

REVIEW: Harvest Season (The Old Bridge Inn Series) by Annick Trent
https://dearauthor.com/book-reviews/overall-b-reviews/b-plus-reviews/review-harvest-season-by-annick-trent/

#OfInterest #Culture #Books #Bookstodon

The Duchess of Spring :v_ace:

20 Books that have had an impact on who you are.
One book a day for 20 days.
No explanations, no reviews, just book covers.

Day 10/20

#20Books20Days #Bookstodon #Reading

The cover of the book "Swing Time" by Zadie Smith.

The author's name is in a black red block capital typeface, that also uses black diamond shapes to form some parts of the letters, against a yellow background.

Underneath, the title is in the same typeface

* Another Duchess of Spring Alt-text production ™

Libros de Babel 📖

“Si te gustó...”: Los periodistas de Babelia y Cultura de El País recomiendan a los lectores qué libros regalar en 2025

> Si te has propuesto leer más este año, críticos y especialistas en literatura responden a las peticiones de los lectores, aportando antes alguna pista

Leer más en El País

#libros #books #Booktodon #Bookstodon #literaverso #literatura

https://elpais.com/babelia/2025-01-11/si-te-gusto-los-periodistas-de-babelia-y-cultura-recomiendan-a-los-lectores-que-libros-regalar-en-2025.html

Arachnid Press

A game of secrets and lies. ‘Bloody Orkney’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Scotland, mainly in Orkney, during World War Two. It uses many real settings.

This tin cottage on the island of Hoy has an important part to play in the book as the story moves towards its dramatic climax.

Find out more on our website:
https://www.arachnid.scot/book-blork/index.html

#Books #Bookstodon

This modern image shows a tin cottage on the island of Hoy in Orkney. We are looking slightly downhill towards it over long grass. The cottage has green corrugated walls on a main section on the right with two white windows and a porch, and a smaller section on the left with two windows. The building is weatherbeaten, especially its red corrugated roof. There is water in the background and land in the distance. The front cover of ‘Bloody Orkney’ is shown in the bottom right corner.

Asanka Sayakkara

I finished reading this book today. It's the Sinhala translation of the book "Severn Years in Ceylon" by Mary and Margaret Leitch.
#bookstodon

A book held in hand. The book cover of the book says "Seven Years in Ceylon" by Mary and Margaret Leitch. In the background behind the book and the hand, there is greenery lit by bright sunlight.

Neve Maslakovic

A newsletter promotion for fans of mysteries set in sci-fi worlds! Sign up for an author newsletter and get a free book!

https://books.bookfunnel.com/sfmysteries01/2crsqkkrc4

#bookstodon #books #sciencefiction #mystery #sff #scifi

Coffee now

A 2024 reading round up
https://coffeenow.moomop.uk/post/2025/01/book-reviews-2024/

#BookReview #SF&F #FantasyLiterature #bookstodon

Here, I’m bringing together all 19 book reviews I’ve written for #fantasy books read in 2024, as originally published on my Bookwyrm account. With the exception of cookbooks, fantasy has always been my most prevalent #reading genre…

James Davis Nicoll

Again, Dangerous Visions (Dangerous Visions, volume 2) edited by Harlan Ellison

Ellison's second (and longer) foray into unconventional SF.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/played-this-scene-before
#bookstodon

MarvinFreeman

The Party by Tessa Hadley
https://jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/01/12/the-party-by-tessa-hadley/

#Books #Bookstodon #JacquiWineBlog

The Duchess of Spring :v_ace:

20 Books that have had an impact on who you are.
One book a day for 20 days.
No explanations, no reviews, just book covers.

Day 9/20

#20Books20Days #Bookstodon #Reading

The cover of the book "A Separate Reality (Conversations with Don Juan)" by by Carlos Casteneda.

The author's name is in a fancy white camel case typeface against a blue background at the top.
The title is in the same typeface at the bottom.

Between the two, is an illustration of a desert scene.
There is yellow sand with a river flowing down the centre in the foreground.
There is a cactus on the right of the river and blue mountains on the horizon.
The sky is blue and mauve / pink with yellow clouds.
Floating in the sky are a brown / black snake, a green tree and some sort of brown statue.

Superimposed over the river and the lower part of the sky is a translucent, gray silouhette of a man. His shoulders and head are filled with the night sky with white stars and a yellow crescent moon.

* Another Duchess of Spring Alt-text production ™

Ken Lussey

Relentless pursuit and a grisly murder. ‘Hide and Seek’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Stirling Castle and more widely across Scotland during World War Two. It uses many real settings, transported eight decades back in time.

This modern image shows the centre of Blairgowrie in Perthshire. In 1943 the town still had a railway station and is visited by three of the book’s characters as the story develops.

Find out more on my website:
http://www.kenlussey.com/has/index.html

#Books #Bookstodon

This modern image shows Wellmeadow in the centre of Blairgowrie in Perthshire. In the centre of the image is the tall war memorial with a paved area this side of it and grass beyond, with trees on two sides. The scene is in sunlight. The front cover of ‘Hide and Seek’ is shown in the top right corner.

Daniel Bellingradt

This might have been the moment when the recent TikTok trend "crying while reading" started, around 1800 in Germany, when this young man started crying reading a letter and a befriended copperplate engraver was nearby and took advantage of the moment ... #histodons #bookstodon

A young man is crying and reading a letter. This is a detail from a copperplate print from around 1800, and can be found here: http://diglib.hab.de?grafik=graph-a1-1224

Roy Adams replied to Roy Adams's status

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Brian Hawthorne

Okay, #Bookstodon friends, at the recommendation of Cory Doctorow, I just installed libro.fm on my iPhone so I can listen to audiobooks again. I’ve been boycotting Audible for years because of their DRM policy, so this is exciting!

And it made me wonder if there is a similarly enlightened book reader app on iOS. Any suggestions?