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jillrhudy

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E-resources librarian in Appalachia.

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Was up very VERY late reading Gods of the Wyrdwood by RJ Barker. MC is a combination of Legolas and Gabriel Oak but with loads of magical power that he tries hard not to use. 🌳

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jillrhudy , to libraries
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As a librarian who has had to work lots of circulation recently, I have developed what can only be described as manilaenvelopephobia. Person walks in with only a Manila envelope, this is never a good thing.
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jillrhudy , to bookstodon
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The actual NORTHERN LIGHTS showed up in Virginia and I was too engrossed in a book to notice. @bookstodon @librarians

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@bookbubble @lesekreis @bookstodon
Midnight library seems to be the of this generation. Or just for people with a short attention span.

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@norniel @bookbubble @lesekreis @bookstodon oh definitely. I can’t stand Haig or Coelho.

jillrhudy , to bookstodon
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Do you know what fantasy fiction set this is from the photo? I haven’t completely unwrapped it yet!
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Ngaio Marsh
Dorothy L. Sayers
Margaret Atwood
T. C. Boyle
Miss Read
Terry Pratchett
Rhys Bowen
Patricia Wentworth
Naomi Novik
Georgette Heyer

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I spoke this morning with a bookseller in England and had a very hard time getting off the phone. He was so charming. I felt like a modern-day Helene Hanff. The limited edition of the double-signed box set I wanted sold out in seven minutes! @bookstodon

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Two things:
The House in the Cerulean Sea will have a sequel
I have it 😛
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@bookstodon Hey, I love me some Penguin Random House as much as the next reader, but I'm also interested in the indies, which are usually more daring than the Big Five.

Favorite indie publishers? Please add to my list:

Two Dollar Radio
Bluemoose
Unnamed Press
Coffeehouse
Small Beer
Graywolf
Catapult
Driftwood
Black Spot
Future Tense
Copper Canyon
Tin House
Dzanc
Melville House
Quirk
Blackwater
Red Hen
City Lights
Algonquin
Black Rose
Hellbound
Wakefield
Fledgling

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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon aren’t Tin House and Algonquin distributed by Big Five publishers tho?

kimlockhartga , to bookstodon
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@bookstodon I have added some wee friends to my bookshelves:

A sculpture of a woman reading, seated criss cross applesauce, with one up, so that she can rest her head on her right palm.
Sculpture of a woman lounging, resting her head on her right arm. She is stretched out on her side, reading a book.

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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon love those 💕

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Stoked that Louis Bayard, author of The Pale Blue Eye, has a novel coming out about Oscar Wilde and his wife. I had no idea Wilde was married and had two sons! THE WILDES: A NOVEL IN FIVE ACTS will be released September 17 by Algonquin and Hachette.
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Listening to Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart by Gennarose Nethercott and reading The Honey Witch by Sidney J. Shields and Flint and Mirror by John Crowley. What about you guys?
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@patchworkbunny @bookstodon I’ve always loved Jasper Fforde! Tempest of Tea looks wonderful.

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@boxofdelights @bookstodon I need to try Leckie!

jillrhudy , to bookstodon
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After an online training on for Millennials and Generation Z, I made a mega list on Libby called “Romantasy” and ended up needing arthritis cream on my wrist today with all the mouse work. Overdrive findability is tough. Metadata is scant. Neither author nor genre searches recovered most of these. It’s almost like they want to bury your old content licences.

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beecycling , to bookstodon
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I finished R.F. Kuang's Babel yesterday. Bloody great book. I feel like something lighter now, so starting Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett.

Oh and the current audiobook I have going is Starling House by Alix E. Harrow. I believe all these books are ones I got tipped off too by Reading Glasses podcast, which seems to be influencing me a lot lately. 📚 @bookstodon

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@beecycling @bookstodon impeccable choices. Off to look for this pod.

patchworkbunny , to bookstodon
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Finished What Feasts at Night - T. Kingfisher always delivers! This was extra creepy because I have a thing about moths. When I was a kid, someone convinced me they would nest in my hair...
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@patchworkbunny @bookstodon I enjoyed this but felt like she could have made the moths a lot scarier

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Everyone should go out and read Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement by Ashley Shew. Thank you @jillrhudy for the recommendation. Loved it.

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@CindySue @bookstodon She has some spunk! I love her whole bead on things.

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I've finished: Re Side Story by Jasper Fforde.

It has been a while since Shades of Gray. What I remember is that it was not what I expected from Fforde. While it had some of Ffordes humer, It was darker, sadder… It was also a dystopia with no rhyme or reason. A satire on an imagined British mix of Communism and Classism that didn't go anywhere.

Red Side Story fixes this. Eddie and Jane are trying to find out the why to this dystopia and their world will never be the same.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/866b04bd-f46d-437f-9779-3d539520b6de

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@zkrisher @bookstodon I feel as though I need to re-read Shades of Gray first and I am 10 DRCs behind so I may be reading Red Side Story in the distant future!

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@kimlockhartga @zkrisher @bookstodon I don’t know! It’s making Libby acquisitions impossible within budget!

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Just finished “: and Profit in the City,” by Matthew Desmond

He says it’s not his intent to unduly villainize any particular group, and I believe him. But it brought back a lot of memories from my chaotic youth in trailer parks and I’m pretty ready to hate some fucking landlords

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@Sophie @bookstodon it’s great and so is Poverty, By America

CindySue , to bookstodon
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@bookstodon Help me pick my next book. I am almost finished with Black Tudors. I have Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity by Donald Yacovone, River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the SIlk Roads by Cat Jarman, Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement by Ashley Shew, and Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth. Which do I choose? I do intend to read all four.

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@CindySue @bookstodon I’ve met Ashley Shew and her book is audacious so I recommend it!

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The ActivityPub plugin on my Wordpress blog is working and my entire blogs are posting in full text to Mastodon, links and all. Footnotes are a bit wonky; may need to change the code on those. Finally got my custom Gravatar to come through too. Check it out at @jillminor
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I want to read good books and
help other people discover good books. That’s my passion. It’s (mostly) not how I make money as a librarian. I’m okay with that. I am starting a Readers Circle at the library in April so my passion and my job align a bit more.
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I can’t possibly be expected to do housework when the vampires could get Nena and Néstor any minute.

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LADY MACBETH: Gothic fantasy by Ava Reid coming out in August! Reid wrote The Wolf and the Woodsman and Juniper and Thorn, both of which I loved.
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Book jackets should say less.
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@Sarahw @bookstodon Definitely. Sometimes even the ending! What is the point of reading it if the insert already provided a full summary of the entire contents?

jillrhudy , to bookstodon
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Just found out T. Kingfisher is publishing a Grimm-inspired book in August and the title is "A Sorceress Comes to Call." Have I downloaded a DRC? YASSS @ursulav
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@timgatewood @drawnonglass @ursulav @bookstodon I missed this whole discussion! Yes, I am fortunate in that regard. I get digital galleys from a bunch of publishers. I’ve been sending reviews for six years.

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Picked up a bunch of books to read the first page, and the one that grabbed me and pulled me in was Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See @bookstodon

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I really don’t mean to be a snob about indie and self-publishing but professional editing makes an immense difference and I can feel its absence within about three pages. Editors at the big 5 are very good at their jobs. 🫣 @bookstodon

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@failedLyndonLaRouchite @bookstodon it’s a thought! I need to put a professional photo on my blog first and then I’ll look for an editor.

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@failedLyndonLaRouchite @bookstodon I insist upon paying the programmer and photographer; the editor would be paid.

jillrhudy , to bookstodon
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All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby has been optioned, the author said yesterday on that other site (without more specifics). Can't wait to see Titus Crown brought to life on any screen, big or small. @bookstodon

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@Mollarom @bookstodon I was hoping so much for an adaptation. The character is amazing.

jillrhudy , to bookstodon
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Happy to Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett!
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A round up of my year in books, my top 5 reads and a look ahead to what I've got lined up for the new year.

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https://conversationsaboutbooks5.wordpress.com/2023/12/23/my-round-up-of-2023-in-books/

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@LincolnRamirez @bookstodon really want to read the Poppy War books!

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this is an interesting read on the struggle new, non-celebrity, authors are facing via The Walrus | “a self-fulfilling prophecy: the authors expected to attract the most attention and resources from consumers are given the most attention and resources by their publishers (which in turn helps them attract the most attention and resources from consumers).” @bookstodon
https://thewalrus.ca/how-do-you-even-sell-a-book-anymore/#content

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@sarahmatthews @bookstodon A few points I would make as a recipient of adult fiction marketing:

  1. Truly spectacular books such as Demon Copperhead are quite rare.
  2. Agents and marketers in the publishing industry are talented when it comes to discovery, editing, and promotion.
  3. While print may be declining, audiobooks are exploding in popularity.
  4. Scads of debut authors are getting published.
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New book review on my blog of What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher https://jillsreads.com/what-feasts-at-night/
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@CharleneTeglia @bookstodon February 13

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Last night I finished Starling House by Alix Harrow. I had no idea what it was about when I started it, but I loved it. It's hard to describe without spoilers, but it's a complex story of families and poverty and bad luck woven into a great haunted house story. It wasn't scary, just creepy. Alix Harrow is now one of my favorite authors, she's brilliant. @bookstodon

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@Jennifer @bookstodon you MUST read all of her work!

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@Jennifer @bookstodon Gobble up her little Fractured Fables! Quick and satisfying!

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Today, I met my reading goal for the year. For 2024, I am going to set more MODEST goals. Still working on a Best of 2023 list. @bookstodon

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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon can’t wait to see your picks!

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I re-read Nicola Griffith's Hild a couple of weeks ago and edited that review. I made even more edits today, then added comments about the second book, Menewood. Both get my highest of recommendation. This link is for the full page.

http://templetongate.net/hild.htm

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@templetongate @bookstodon I read the whole thing and am determined to read them both!

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99% of children’s books in a chain bookstore are garbage. It took me 15 minutes to find these for my great niece.
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Book 2: “Cat Burglar Black” by .

I saw some of his art online and thought it looked like “Invisible Hands” from Liquid Television, which I LOVED. Same artist! This didn’t have quite the same level of twisted, creepiness as that animated series, but I was so happy to find his work in comic form. There’s more too.

Someone stitched together all the “”. The voice acting is 🤌🏽 https://youtu.be/n5sP4yRb8Mw

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Panel 1, someone in bed, their head covered in bandages, eyes staring and teeth bared. A weak whisper: "Come closer, Katherine. Let me see you..." Panel 2 a severe looking older woman with her hands around the shoulders of a tentative, white-haired teen: "Don't be shy. Say hello to your aunt."

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@ottsatwork @bookstodon I need to read this series! Love Monk & Robot.

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@Susan_calvin @ottsatwork @bookstodon something to look forward to!

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