Finished #reading the Very Long (38 hr) #audiobook of The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy. Dramatically building into a near nuclear war, this classic #book is both timely and out of date all at once. It’s also critical to the development of Jack Ryan as a character. (The #books and the television series are completely separate, they do not reflect the same story lines.) #read #booksofmastadon #thriller

https://amzn.to/46w2Fbc

#read Baki by Ella Maven. This is a novella from the Outcasts of Corin series. Quick and entertaining #book if you’re already familiar with this world. I liked it. TW for a bit of weed. #books #reading #booksofmastadon https://amzn.to/3NzQNMH

#read via #audiobook Impestuous Innocent by Stephanie Laurens. This #regency #romance is one of her earliest #books, and it’s a sweet one, with very little to no love/sex scenes. #book #reading #booksofmastadon https://amzn.to/447DlXi

One of my favorite Bastion Club #historical #romance #books is Beyond Seduction by Stephanie Laurens. Despite the kidnappings late in the #book this is a fairly straight love story with the shades of treason and treachery limited to the plot, mostly separate from the main characters. #audiobook #reading #books #booksofmastadon https://amzn.to/3NlVfOQ

If you haven’t explored chapbooks, I highly recommend “maybe this is what I deserve” by Tucker Leighty-Phillips. Tucker’s stories evoke, they conjure, they stir. They get etched into memory.

Tucker is at the beginning of his writing. His first collection “maybe this is what I deserve,” is the first of what I hope will be many books to come. Check it out!

#amreading #southernfiction #booksofmastadon #chapbooks #smallfiction #newauthors @bookstodon

It's a reading day in the Outer Hebrides.

#outerhebrides #robertmacfarlane #underland #booksofmastadon

Time does not heal. At it's best time helps forget, provided repeated incidents/triggers don't happen. Retrospection and corrective action #heals. #Compassion heals. ❤️ 💙 💜

From "A path with heart" by Jack Kornfield

#books #bookrecommendations #quotes #weekendvibes #booksofmastadon @bookstodon

Don't know how old she was when she wrote this. But, wow. I still don't have the confidence to assert, "I m sure I m not a bad person". But it is nearly there. Wow Anne. #annefrank #books #bookrecommendations #bookreviews #booksofmastadon @bookstodon

Vividly portrays how being close to someone on drug would be. Again a gentle reminder to keep yourself happy healthy and peaceful first. At the end of the day, it is left to every individual to honour and bring the best of their life. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5468820420

#books #goodreads #bookrecommendations #booksofmastadon #weekend #weekendvibes @bookstodon @thestorygraph

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4534485-claudia-and-mean-janine Raina Telegemeier's work has always been #goodreads #books #booksofmastadon #bookrecommendations #bookreview

Feel good, uplifting and relatable. ❤️

@bookstodon @thestorygraph

#BookReview Hoofin' It was a 99p #BookBub deal & I couldn't resist the title, cover & blurb...

🤯 The most repetitive writing I've ever encountered. I cannot overstate how repetitive it is!
🤷🏻‍♀️ Baffling sex trafficking plot in what is meant to be a COMEDY! I mean, what's funnier?!
👎 Author is firmly from the "tell don't show" school. Many important events happen "off the page."
👎 MC is meant to be 27yr old ex-cop but acts 17. All characters have the exact same voice and humour.
👎 Alpaca side-kick is false advertising!
💀 I'm afraid this was a DNF 42%

Full rant/review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5317516122

Anyone else read this? 😂

#Books #ReadingCommunity #Bookstadon #Reading #BooksofMastadon #HoofinIt

@likewise @bookstodon The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers!
#booktoot #booksofmastadon #read #question

If you could recommend one #book that you really enjoyed, what would it be?
C'mon, be quick--1st one that pops into your head. I'll start: The Godfather by Mario Puzo #booktoot #booksofmastadon #read #question @bookstodon

Hoofin' It was a 99p BookBub deal & I couldn't resist the title, cover & blurb...

🤯 The most repetitive writing I've ever encountered
🤷🏻‍♀️ Baffling sex trafficking plot in what is meant to be a COMEDY!
👎 Author is firmly from the "tell don't show" school.
👎 MC is meant to be 27yr old ex-cop but acts 17.
👎 Alpaca side-kick is false advertising! I want my 99p back!
💀 DNF 42%

Full rant/review on Goodreads/alice_digest!
Anyone else read this? 😂

#BookReview #Bookstadon #Reading #BooksofMastadon

#reading #books #bookreview #bookthoughts #druidry #booksofmastadon https://adruidinthedesert.wordpress.com/2023/01/25/book-review-the-flowering-wand-rewilding-the-sacred-masculine/

"When people ask me if I went to film school, I tell them, ‘No, I went to films.’” – Quentin Tarantino

Super excited about this one, which I recently picked up at M. Judson Booksellers . #booksofmastadon @booksofmastadon Book 7 of my book #Challenge2023 @bookstodon

Looking forward to these! #books #reading #booksofmastadon #bookstadon #MarkManson #fuck

My #Top4Books of 2022

All of these books share a common theme of displacement, diaspora, the human struggle for normalcy even against all odds. Those odds being, of course, the pain and horrors human beings inflict on each other and usually on innocent people, for nothing more than a sense of superiority.

But then, there is the human need for community and how community comes around the table, sharing the flavors of home. Even in abject poverty, food unites.

1. Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
2. The Beekeeper if Aleppo by Christie Lefteri
3. Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
4. The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

#books #freePalestine #diaspora  #Cyprus #CivilWar #read #historical #Fiction #booklover #BooksOfMastadon #reader #ForcedSterilization #HistoryOfRacism #Syria #Refugees

#7Books #BooksofMastadon
In no particular order:
1. David Copperfield
2. Lord of the Rings
3. Pride and Prejudice
4. Bleak House
5. Jane Eyre
6. The Code of the Woosters
7. 1984

#7books to know me... Great idea #booksofmastadon Hmmm... in no particular order...

- The Wasp Factory - I. Banks
- Consider Phlebas - I. M. Banks
- Cryptonomicon - N. Stephenson
- All Systems Red - M. Wells
- The Fifth Season - N. K. Jemisin
- Wolf Hall - H. Mantel
- [Anything] - T. Pratchett

Honourable mentions, cos 7 is not enough:

- The Baroque Cycle - N. Stephenson (cheating here as it's a trilogy 😉)
- Dune - F. Herbert
- Necromancer - W. Gibson
- The Tao of Pooh - B.Hoff