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These are the first set of books I'll read in 2026:

Argonautika is one of the two books this month for #StorySpins
Brave New World, first sci-fi book of the year that I've always been meaning to read #ClassicLSFBC
Hannibal Rising, first book of my Long Reads Workout part of the #3BookChallenge2026
The Chocolate Box, (loved the title) first short story for #26Shorts2026
War Music, along with these is one of the books I am reading for #2026Reads

repost for @RamsFan1963

Hi everybody!! I hope everyone had a great Christmas, got lots of books and book related gifts. So, we're restarting #ClassicLSFBC for 2026, and it's time to ask for books to be nominated. It will go from now until Dec. 31st and I'll announce the first #ClassicLSFBC 2026 selection on Jan. 1st. Since it's a new year, and maybe a new world, my selection is Huxley's Brave New World. I read it in high school some 40 years ago

Hi everybody!! I hope everyone had a great Christmas, got lots of books and book related gifts. So, we're restarting #ClassicLSFBC for 2026, and it's time to ask for books to be nominated. It will go from now until Dec. 31st and I'll announce the first #ClassicLSFBC 2026 selection on Jan. 1st. Since it's a new year, and maybe a new world, my selection is Huxley's Brave New World. I read it in high school some 40 plus year ago, it's time ⬇️⬇️

Hi everyone!! I'm very sorry that I've dropped the ball the last two months with the #ClassicLSFBC. Between work and some recent health issues, I haven't been on Litsy as much as I'd like and things got away from me. Unless someone else wants to take over, I figured we'd let the book club pause the rest of 2025, and start anew in January. Let me know what's the general consensus. Thanks and Happy Thanksgiving (a little early)

#2025reads #ClassicLSFBC @RamsFan1963 #sciencefiction

This is sad, beautiful, funny, warming as it is unsettling. And in the midst of all this there is wonderful imagery like this:

“There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit, or become a children‘s playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an architecture of food and pleasure, that was a tree.”

quote fr “December 2001 The Green Morning”

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl #2025reads #ClassicLSFBC @RamsFan1963 #sciencefiction

Short story by Ray Bradbury, a parody of Poe‘s “House of Usher“.

I‘ve finished reading Martian Chronicles for the second time this year, but this time I read “Usher II” separately. It turns out I didn‘t need to, I didn‘t know my eBook had an update, so I updated it and it now includes “April 2036 Usher II” and “May 2034 Wilderness”. ️⬇️

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl #2025reads #ClassicLSFBC @RamsFan1963 #sciencefiction

reading this for the second time this year (and making up for all the years this has been on my TBR).

This isn't the opening lines of MC but it is the first line of one of my favourite stories from here. This made me laugh, and is a really nice contrast to the story about Ylla.

This was my second Dick (I loved Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep!). I read this one for the #ClassicLSFBC .
I liked how it started, but the second half of the book had too many unreliable narrators and characters so it got kind of confusing for me. Fortunately there were a lot of humorous moments.
🏺🏺🏺

Thank you @RamsFan1963 !

🌧️ Photo taken last Saturday morning. I got to read on the porch while it rained - such a nice fall experience!

(1969) Joe Fernwright is a repairer of pottery in a future world where most pots worth repairing have been repaired already. Joe is recruited by a near-godlike being to join a project that goes to raise a sunken cathedral (with lots of broken pots) on a distant planet. It's a strange, surreal story with themes of transformation and imperfect information. It's fascinating and disorienting, in the way of an alchemical allegory.

#ClassicLSFBC