Can anyone help me find a novel I enjoyed years ago, set in a village on the rocky Cornish coast?
The main character had come to live there and finds himself drawn quietly into the community. He owns a small boat, moored on a river that opens into a bay which is guarded at the sea-edge by dangerous rocks where ships have been lost, and where one historical tragedy in particular is scored into local memory. Eventually, there's the need for a rescue to be attempted.
My Pride Street paranormal cozies are the queerest of them all, plus… corgi sleuths! They aren’t for sale on my site yet, but like all my books, are on all retailers. You can also request from your library.
@thorncoyle@lgbtqbooks@bookstodon These were lots of fun. Love Marsha P. Johnson, corgi detective. The whole gang in that Portland Gayborhood sounds like a fun place to live.
@hugo@bookstodon it’s an amazing creation, and a precarious survival. I wrote some words about it (as well as about the Erasmus - Moore friendship underpinning Utopia itself) in my own book, North Sea Crossings.
Since I joined Mastodon in 2022, my library hold request list has constantly been maxed out because you all read such interesting books. Thanks for all the excellent recommendations #bookstodon 😄
@helenclayton@louisa_ if you don't know about it, follow the Bookstodon group @bookstodon People will tag the account in book posts and rebroadcast to all the followers.
Hey team. Where’s #BookMastodon at? Looking for the #booklover and people into self improvement really fast. Anyone have any suggestions for anyone into this phase of their life/career? Taking all suggestions. #books #bookstodon
@ErickaSimone do you know about tagging @bookstodon? Then your message is broadcast to all 6000+ followers. I don't have suggestions for that genre but someone probably will!
Does anyone have sci-fi book suggestions that are more sci-fi utopia and world building?
I have grown up on sci-fi dystopia and I love it but since we're currently living in one I want to read something uplifting. Collection of short stories would be awesome too!
@shom@leapingwoman@bookstodon Yeah I definitely don't want to yuck anyone's yum and HHWGITD is a GREAT book but it's got some tough parts especially for (some) parents and I always try to point it out.
@jessamyn@shom@bookstodon now that I think about it, there were some parts where I wasn't sure I wanted to continue because of that content. I don't remember whether it had a content warning up front, but if not, it could have used one.
@fluffypaws anything by margaret storey, if you can find them- hey @neilhimself could you use your influence to get them reprinted? that would be lovely
@hallenbeck@lastwordonsport@bookstodon Excellent list These are books that stay with you. Just finished The Salt Path last week. It was a celebration of courage and determination in the face of injustice and bad luck.
Treated myself to a new book today. I would never have discovered it if it hadn't been for the wonderful @neilhimself . Can't wait to start reading it but I have The Dark Is Rising sequence to finish first. #Bookstodon#Books
@Yorkslass70@neilhimself I love all of Zelazny's work but A Night in the Lonesome October is one of my favorites! I got to hear him read the whole thing to us at a Con over three nights. Every so often he would stop and make notes in the manuscript he was reading from.
I have several friends who read this every October chapter-by-chapter, day-by-day; I don't have that level of discipline; if I start it, it's getting finished same day!
Zelazny was a very underrated writer; I sometimes think he's omitted a lot in libraries, who always seem to have a lot of Asimov, simply because of his alphabetical positioning.
It's the first picture of the new Arboreality in the wild! The new version has a silky matte cover, gold foil title text, and aged and distressed Ursula K Le Guin Prize and Philip K Dick awards medallions + more!
My whole life I’ve been into geography and yet — after 50+ trips around the Sun — it was like two weeks ago that I learned that Appalachia is pronounced Appa-LATCH-ia … not Appa-LAY-chia 🤦🏾♂️
Also, Y’ALL (Young Appalachian Leaders and Learners) apparently got issues with JD Vance’s best-selling #book “Hillbilly Elegy”
@seanalan I read Hillbilly Elegy several years ago. I am interested in your thoughts on the response. On my TBR list! Thanks for posting about it! @bookstodon#books