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📚 You know what always hits me hard? When I discover a bookshelf still filled with books inside an abandoned house. Each collection is like a fingerprint, a unique reflection of their owner. Does anyone else feel sad when they see neglected books? #Story #Photography #Abandoned #LostPlaces #Books #Bookshelf #Bookstodon

Hi #Bookstodon 👋 I’m Levent, a former journalist and author of six books in Turkish. For years I’ve been trying one thing on the page: let the reader feel an emotion without ever naming it — through light, sound, temperature, movement. I write about show vs. tell, unreliable narrators and narrative distance. Which book made you feel something it never said out loud? #introduction #amreading #writing

Highly amused by The Museum of Bums. The great terriers of art history... A cheeky wee read (sorry) 😋 . #books #livres #bookstodon #bums

Just about the only thing I still use Amazon for is a book wish list (remember when Amazon was a bookshop?) that family look at when they want to buy me something. I have wish lists on BWB, Hive, Waterstones and WOB (and probably elsewhere) that I’ve added things to because I have spotted them when browsing that site. What I’d like is to create a single wish list of books that hooks up to BookFinder (or similar) that I can use instead, as a single point of reference & that lets purchasers cross things off without a likelihood of malicious or bot interference. Does anyone know if such a thing already exists? I can do it manually on my own webpages and cross things off myself upon receipt, but something a bit easier would be nice… #Books #Reading #Bookstodon

The banning of books in Texas and 10 commandments in schools will likely soon end. Not only has Gov. Greg Abbot lost and soon-to-be Senator-elect Talarico won, but… The Texas Tribune is reporting that Democrats have solid leads in all the statewide elected executive races: Lt. Governor, Attorney General, Comptroller, Ag Commissioner, General Land Commissioner, Railroad Commissioner, and 7 of 9 State Board of Education seats. The governor appoints our Secretary of State, so that will change, too. Texas is finally turning blue. #boostingIsSharing#Bookstodon #writersOfMastodon #writingCommunity #author #writer #uspol #bluewave #bluetsunami #democrats #elections #election

Hello, Mastodon! Happy to be here and connect with fellow book lovers, readers, and writers. I'm a bookworm, book reviewer, beta reader, editor, and cat lover. I enjoy discovering stories and supporting authors on their creative journeys. What are you currently reading or writing? #Introduction #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity #BookLovers #BetaReader

During the pandemic, Patrick Stewart recorded himself reading Shakespeare's sonnets. It seemed appropriate to post one this week. Here he is reading Sonnet 73. #ShakespeareSunday #PatrickStewart #RIP #Bookstodon

Happy Halloween, everyone! It's also LAUNCH DAY for my new novella, HE FORECLOSED ON MY HEART. The paperback is available on Amazon, and the ebook is available at most online bookstores. The book is a New Adult romance set in the exciting world of Beverly Hills real estate. A sheltered, naive college student gets an internship at a real estate firm during a summer break and falls in love at first sight with guess who? Yeah, the real estate tycoon boss. Nassim narrates her story, which is sometimes sweet, sometimes salacious, always sincere! Today I am also promoting my novel BEER POUR in a Book Funnel promo for author besties. Click on my BEER POUR cover to learn more: https://books.bookfunnel.com/authorbesties/pz9x31vzjk #Books #Bookstodon #Book #Novella #IndieAuthor #IndieAuthors #indiePub #Publishing #launch #promo #selfPromo #SelfPromoSaturday #promotion #Mastodon #beerpour #HeForeclosedOnMyHeart #writingCommunity #writer #readingCommunity #reading #read #readers #Amazon #Kobo #Bookshop #barnes&noble #smashwords #fediverse #writing #Saturday #BookFunnel #love #romance #romancelandia #romanceReaders #NewAdult #collegeStudent #fiction #story #storytelling #Graphics #Halloween2026 #Halloween #ScribesAndMakers #Introduction #NewBook #Author #AuthorLife #indieAuthor #AuthorsOfMastodon #writersCoffeeClub #writersLife #women #chicklit #womensfiction

🛸 "Wait... why is today the first time I am hearing of Mastodon?!" 🤔🪐 My tiny alien brain is officially short-circuiting! I’ve been broadcasting my art and videos out into the cold, algorithmic corporate void of the internet for YEARS just to get crushed by the algorithm... Only to find out there’s a whole cozy, ad-free, human-driven universe over here in the Fediverse?! 💫 WHAAA?!!! I am confused but highly enthusiastic. :3 If you are new here like me, or just want to adopt a friendly spacey artist into your feed, let’s connect! 🎨 Art is my full-time job, but I also drop daily video shorts, stream gaming shenanigans, and write cozy sci-fi lore! Please give this a Boost to help a new space-traveling indie creator find her community! 🔄💖 🛸🎨📚 #Introduction #NewHere #MastoArt #CreativeToons #ArtistOnMastodon #VTuber #IndieVTuber #Envtuber #Bookstodon #SciFiWriters

he’d kissed at Rosier’s cheek, then his neck, and said, ‘Let’s leave, darling.’ Wrapping an arm around him and squeezing firmly. ‘I’ll marry you again. There are some places left on Earth where we haven’t wed, and I don’t want to stop marrying you until every grain of dirt has known that I love you.’ Rosier, such a soft demon, surrendered to this, of course.

These two characters are a shining example of undying romantic love. It's truly adorable.

#AngelsAfterMan #AngelsTrilogy #RafaelNicolas #BookQuotes #Bookstodon

Question for #Bookstodon .... I'm looking to migrate away from Goodreads (luckily I didn't get too far into using it). Hoping for something very open/non-corporate. Thoughts on #Bookwyrm vs #Openlibrary ? Bookwyrm seems to be missing a lot of books. And the work to add them seems a waste when I can go upstream to OpenLibrary. OL lacks the social features but Bookwyrm seems very uh... basic & kinda ugly. 🤔 #reading #books

Absurd request: could I buy a physical audiobook for someone in the UK to rip for me? I'm trying to get the unabridged Stephen Briggs recording of Terry Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment in its UK edition - something that is no longer available digitally for sale except in its awful US edition that alters the meaning of the book. It's unsurprisingly difficult to buy a physical English language UK only audiobook that's >20 years old anywhere, but this one at least pops up in the UK once in a while, but I'm yet to ever see it on German sites or in second hand shops. Boosts OK #discworld #bookstodon

Yay! This #SolarPunkSunday I just learned that my novella, The Blossoming of the Big Tree, is the #SFFBookClub pick for November, so I'm excitedly waiting to see what discussions come up. It's the story of an old woman who coordinates the defense of her decentralized nation, which thrives in a post capitalist world. Read a sample and get it here, or in major stores. https://www.ododopress.com/novellas/the-blossoming-of-the-big-tree/ Here is the original announcement. https://weirder.earth/@picklish/117480960032544259 #book #bookstodon #book #solarpunk #sff

#introduction I'm Jason, in Kansas City. Literature grad. I wrote a monograph on John Hawkes and a novel called Masters X. Here for the postmodernists, the Gothic, Eco, and anything with an archive in it. Strangest book on my shelf: The Red Lion, by Mária Szepes. A 1946 alchemical novel the Hungarian regime ordered destroyed. Four copies survived; it circulated in samizdat. Tell me yours. #bookstodon #books #literature #WritersOfMastodon

Recieved my copy of #Monsterdon regular @LJ@zirk.us 's new book, Litany For A Broken World. Will be digging into it once this hectic harvest/prep the garden for winter season is done. Will be a good thing to cozy up with when the snow starts falling! #Bookstodon #Book

Queer books save lives. #books #bookstodon #reading #lgbtqiaplus

“'I can still order four different versions of Mein Kampf, though,' he added, which illustrates the 'absurdity' of the situation." https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/21/it-feels-quite-frightening-readers-rush-to-snap-up-sally-rooney-books-as-stocks-dwindle-amid-palestine-action-ban #UKPolitics #Bookstodon #FreePalestine #SavingLivesIsNotTerrorism

I feel sorry for librarians in the era of tech-bro controlled social media 😒 #Library #LibraryMemes #Meme #Libraries #Librarians #Humor #Humour #Funny #Bookstodon #FantasyBooks

Everyone loves shitting on the Romance genre, but quite frankly, if the men paid at all any spec of attention to the consent happening in those novels, the world would be a far better place. “is this comfortable? Can I touch you here? I need your full consent before we do this. Does that feel good? How do you feel?” You can find all those empowering questions, and more, in Romance novels everyone hates so much. #Romance #Bookstodon

So, I made a quilt… And now that quilt, completely sewn BY HAND, by me, over 3 years, could be yours! Every donation to award-winning author @rsagarcia@wandering.shop ‘s cancer GoFundMe, no matter how small, between now and October 31 has a chance of being drawn as the winner! I’d love for the winner to be you! More details and to enter, click this link: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a-garcia-pay-for-cancer-expenses #quilting #sff #writingcommunity #bookstodon