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Strange Brew | P. N. Elrod

#BookspinBingo November 2024!

TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looks fantastic!! 3d

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bookish_wookish

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology | Shane Hawk, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

Thank you!!! @Ellie_H I love everything!

Im such a nerd for local ghost stories! I can‘t wait to read both books! I love all the pumpkin scented items too. I just realized the bracelet didn‘t make it in the picture but i love that you made it! Thank you again!

#hhs24 @wanderinglynn

wanderinglynn Fantastic! 🧡🎃🖤👻 5d

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Octoberwoman

A Christmas kiss | Caroline Bourne, Ann LaFarge

I‘m posting one book a day from my massive collection. No description, no reason for why I want to read it (some I‘ve had so long I don‘t even remember why!). Feel free to join in!

#ABookADay2024

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Robotswithpersonality

The Best American Travel Writing 2021 | Padma Lakshmi, Jason Wilson

The most succinct, emotionally resonant description I've encountered in 4 years. 😔

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Robotswithpersonality

Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction | Grace L. Dillon

so-so

The fact that this book sent me into a reading slump kind of says it all. Of the 19 'stories' included in this anthology, 13 of them are excerpts from larger works, not full short stories or even chapters, just moments. Each entries prefaced by a page and a half discussing and introducing the material, and the overall structure is divided into themes discussed further in the introduction. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? All of which leads me to conclude this would have worked better as an essay/thesis that discussed and referenced the works, than it does as an anthology. Regrettably, I didn't really come away with the need to follow up on any of the stories excerpted, perhaps I'm the kind of reader who can't get a good feel for things even with extra context provided, I want to start at the start! 2w

Robotswithpersonality 3/? Perhaps the content, understandly, universally grim, just doesn't invite further reading in my current headspace. Social commentary is an important part of storytelling and Indigenous stories reflecting lived experience is something the publishing world needs more of; I'll admit to a bias for hopeful if not happy narratives, and if an entire collection doesn't shift mood at any point from the more dire predictions and speculations 2w

Robotswithpersonality 4/4 I find it more difficult to stay engaged in the material. I'd like to speak more about the creativity and the range indicated by the writing, but that 'cut off' sense the excerpts provided left me feeling like I didn't really have a handle on any of them. 🤷🏼‍♂️

⚠️racism, child abuse, SA 2w

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Sleepswithbooks

The Grim Reader | Maura Spiegel

#HauntedShelf
DeadSerious

OriginalCyn620

OriginalCyn620 True! 😂 2w

Gissy 😂 2w

DogMomIrene So I play the Sims and their latest expansion coming on Halloween is called Life & Death, where I think I‘ll be able to be an intern for the Grim Reaper. I haven‘t kept up with all the press releases but the trailer featuring Grim hooked me. Because I love the wackiness of the Sims. 2w

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RamsFan1963

Classic Science Fiction Stories | Adam Roberts

The voting is now open for #ClassicLSFBC selections for November & December. As we have done previously, the book with the most votes will be November's selection and the runner-up with be for December. Voting ends on Halloween. #ClassicLSFBC @Bookwomble @Ruthiella @TheSpineView @BookmarkTavern @wanderinglynn @Readergrrl @Johanna414

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RamsFan1963 @MerlinTheSlightlyAwkward @Books_et_al @rwmg @tokorowilliamwallace @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm @rretzler @RaeLovesToRead @The_Literary_Jedi @KathyWheeler @Lesliereadsalot @AnishaInkspill 2w

The_Literary_Jedi Nov: The Centauri Device & Dec: Ringworld 2w

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Ruthiella I vote for

Ringworld

MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm I vote Ringworld. 2w

Bookwomble Argh! Three of these I really want to read! I'll vote 1st Centauri Device as I nominated it, and I've been meaning to re-read the Ringworld novels for a while, and as it's already garnering support, I'll vote that 2nd. It's good to have a such a string field to pick from 😊 2w

rwmg My vote goes to Doomsday Book and Herland, in either order 2w

CatLass007 Doomsday Book gets a great big YES from me. I will give a regular-size yes to Ringworld. I already own both of them but have never read either. 2w

Deblovestoread Herland and Ringworld 2w

TheSpineView FYI, Herland is the 2nd book of a series. These may need to be read in order. 2w

TheSpineView My vote is: Doomsday Book and Ringworld 2w

julesG I'm going to sit back and see what the outcome is going to be. 😉 2w

kwmg40 Ringworld and Herland 2w

Larkken Doomsday book 2w

AnishaInkspill Herland and Doomsdaybook, Herland I have, and I just had a look and maybe able to get Doomsday Book 1w

Bookwomble @TheSpineView I've read Herland, and it can be read as a standalone novel, though the third in the "trilogy" is a direct sequel to it. The idea of it being part of a trilogy arose in retrospect when critical analysis of Gilman's works identified a feminist utopian strand starting in an earlier work that wasn't narratively connected to the other two. ? 1w

TheSpineView @Bookwomble Good to know. Thanks! 1w

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Oryx

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology | Shane Hawk, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

My LA bookhaul - I don't know where to start

mrp27 What stores did you hit while in LA? I hope you made it to The Last Bookstore, it‘s one of my favorites (edited) 2w

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OutsmartYourShelf

The Gate - 13 Tales of Isolation and Despair | David McAfee, David Dalglish, J. L. Bryan, Mercedes M. Yardley, Daniel Pyle, Robert J. Duperre, Joel Arnold, Michael Crane, Dawn McCullough-White, Steven Pirie, D. P. Prior, K. Wood, Benjamin Wretlind

I'm posting the #BookScavengerHunt prompts in order & today is 'Gate'.

A collection of 13 “dark & odd tales“.

#Flerken #HauntedShelf @puddlejumper #Gate

PuddleJumper 🖤🧡🖤 2w

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