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E-resources librarian in Appalachia.

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jillrhudy , to bookstodon
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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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Five stars: Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher (2023) is a novella retelling of Sleeping Beauty. The story was inspired in the process of writing a different retelling, namely, Hamster Princess: Harriet the Invincible (2016), written under the actual name, Ursula Vernon

http://pussreboots.com/blog/2023/comments_12/thornhedge.html

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@pussreboots @bookstodon 5 stars absolutely 🙌🏻 https://jillsreads.com/thornhedge-and-flipped-fairytales/

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I loved The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk and I'm reading an ARC of her second rare-books-library mystery, That Night in the Library (June 2024). It started off a little slow but now it's getting gooooooood.
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Dion Graham’s narration of The Wager is awesome. Just riveting.
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@bookstodon Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern is probably my favorite book this year. It didn’t always make sense, but it also didn’t have to.

This book has some of the best setups and payoffs I have read in a very long time! Something innocuous mentioned in the first half can have a massive result in the second. 

Above all, it made me feel so cozy.

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@ClaymoreII @bookstodon yup yup! I wanted to climb right into the book and live there!

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recommend me a book! i like fantasy, paranormal romance, sci-fi, queer fiction. i need 12 recommendations from other people for a 2024 reading challenge :blobcatblep:

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@sunflower @bookstodon In the Lives of Puppets, TJ Klune

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I gave Happiness Falls to a library guest to borrow and then realized I hadn’t finished it and that I didn’t know the solution to the mystery, but that I no longer cared. HF was a lot of consciousness raising, and in the time it took me to read that novel (except for the last two chapters) I could have read both a better mystery and some better nonfiction to get my consciousness raised on the primary topic. Mysteries need structure.
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One area in which the USA is excelling: the quality of novels being published. 2023 killed it. Absolutely excellent books. 2024, from what I’ve foretasted of winter and spring fiction, will be as great. We have that much to be proud of. @bookstodon

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4/5
@thestorygraph for "Winter and Rough Weather" by D.E. Stevenson, book 5/15 for my I liked it, except for the bits I didn't 🙃
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https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/d612cbf1-1d1b-4f17-bb01-ba04b2768844

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@ronsboy67 @thestorygraph @bookstodon I wish I could do with you! There are a bunch of them on the hoopla app. My December reading is already devoted to so maybe next year!

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Stuart Turton has another winner on his hands! Turton did such a fantastic job of blending both mystery and sci-fi in this exciting new suspenseful mystery that will have you engrossed from beginning to end.

Like his others, it's a book I can't stop thinking about, and after you read it, you won't either.

You will have to wait a while for this book because it comes out in May 2024 but trust me, it's worth the wait!

https://cupofteawiththatbookplease.com/2023/12/04/last-murder-at-the-end-of-the-world/

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@tabbyjones @bookstodon got an ARC backlog but will get to this one soon!

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I've finished: The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher

In time of war and stress I turn again to T. Kingfisher for some soothing escapism.

How can a blue beard re-imagining full of body horror be relaxing? Leave that to T. Kingfisher.

You just know that Rhea will get all the support she needs to succeed.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/6996bdfa-2184-4156-b61d-8ff993d713d5

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@charism8 @zkrisher @bookstodon 🤣 how awesome is @ursulav getting ready to read my ARC of What Feasts At Night this week

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So here is a question to the @bookstodon community: what is the best book you have read this year?

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@DavidTanner @TarkabarkaHolgy @bookstodon as a Pymphomaniac for at least the past 12 years I desperately need to read this.

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@TarkabarkaHolgy @bookstodon What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo

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In December and January I typically read books that my buddies (librarians and booksellers) thought were great but I didn’t get around to. Just finished C Pam Zhang’s Land of Milk and Honey and it was incredible. Reading Happiness Falls by Angie Kim now and then will read North Woods by Daniel Mason. What were your best reads published this year?
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Quiz: which member of the Thursday Murder Club are you?: 47% - You are mainly Joyce! "You are the heart of the group. You’re the glue that keeps everyone together, and your disarming friendliness can help open doors that would otherwise be firmly locked." https://penguin.co.uk/articles/2023/11/quiz-which-member-thursday-murder-club-richard-osman @bookstodon

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@KrisBock @bookstodon I am Elizabeth but I love Joyce so much

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Listen up fans of the ! THE FAMILIAR by Leigh Bardugo is as excellent as I expected! Set in Spain around 1590. Five star review: https://jillsreads.com/the-familiar/
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@princelysum @bookstodon She is Jewish, born in Israel.

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The movie will never be better than the book. I’ll say it again for those in the back. Star picks up megaphone star “the movie will never be better than the book!“ @bookstodon @romancelandia @alttextgroup

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@The_BookishWolf @bookstodon @romancelandia @alttextgroup two words: Forrest and Gump

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I have an of Leigh Bardugo’s next book, THE FAMILIAR (April 9, 2024). I’ll be telling you fans my impressions soon! @bookstodon

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"It was a beautifully illustrated copy of 'Treasure Island'. "

Reading my Dean Street Press edition of Young Mrs Savage, my TENTH novel by D.E. Stevenson, and come across the very first reference in any them to one of her famous cousin's works. @bookstodon

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@ronsboy67 @bookstodon @sarahmatthews Dean Street Press is wonderful

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In case anyone is wondering if there is any engagement on here— this is the list of every book recommended after I asked if you’d share one book you enjoyed this year. You can scroll underneath the original post to see these, but I think seeing them all together shows the true awesomeness of the people on here.

Thanks for being pretty darn great ❤️
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@lynfox @Likewise @bookstodon Isn’t there another one about how she Must Not Be Crossed?

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@lynfox @Likewise @bookstodon thank you for letting me know! I love the new trend of seniors getting up to things and being detectives!

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@lynfox @Likewise @bookstodon yes! And I have lots more recommendations on my blog too https://jillsreads.com/aging-disgracefully/

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Another book that brought me so much pleasure that I now must read everything written by the author since: THE UNLIKELY ESCAPE OF URIAH HEEP by H. G. Parry (2019)
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Stayed up late to read The Secret Countess (1981, original title The Countess Below Stairs) by Eva Ibbotson, a Cinderella story, and it was such a delight that I have a massive book hangover.
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Tell me a good book you’ve read this year that you’d recommend.

I’ll start: Crow Mary by Kathleen Grissom
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@Likewise @bookstodon really enjoyed Mother-Daughter Murder Night

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Happy to System Collapse by @marthawells 🥳 here is my blog and review from June! https://jillsreads.com/murderbot/
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On "David Small, the Master" and his 2024 graphic novel THE WEREWOLF AT DUSK https://jillsreads.com/david-small-the-master/
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@madrobin @bookstodon I think so? I need to go back and look, and I don’t know what today’s kids can handle graphic novel-wise! Probably more than I think!

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You know the drill, @bookstodon Whatcha reading this weekend? ❤📚👀

I finished WE ARE THE CRISIS, the excellent second installment of Cadwell Turnbull's Convergence Saga. NO GODS, NO MONSTERS was the first book.

I'm currently reading Ed Park's bizarro SAME BED DIFFERENT DREAMS.

Next up: THE FUTURE, by Naomi Alderman, author of THE POWER.

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@kimlockhartga @Abibliophobia @bookstodon I love it, and also The Good Lord Bird and his latest, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. Huge McBride fangirl.

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I couldn't agree more! 😁

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@NickEast @bookstodon @libraries @librarians @publiclibraries @reading wish Owl! would come to Masto

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Jason Reynolds will be the keynote speaker for the Virginia Library Association Conference next week so today I read Long Way Down (powerful) and Ain’t Burned All the Bright (poignant). @bookstodon @librarians

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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon @librarians I’m looking forward to it!

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Last night I dreamt I went to Cold Comfort again. https://jillsreads.com/cold-comfort-farm/ @bookstodon

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@lilliassh @bookstodon that's a follow! Those who are friends of my very most cherished books are friends of mine!

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Last night I dreamt I went to Cold Comfort again. https://jillsreads.com/cold-comfort-farm/ @bookstodon

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Finished Legends and Lattes this morning. The last 20-30 pages really picked up the pace and boosted the book's overall rating from 3.5 to 4. A very fun and relaxing read, without too much depth or plot. But that can be allright too!

Maybe I'll pick up the new book by the same author too. Anyone started with that already?

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@weebdeluxe @bookstodon I read an ARC awhile back. It will be out Nov. 7. I rated it four stars but I think the audiobook will be five! He’s such a great narrator.

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I've read 11 books so far in October, including five by Octavia E. Butler! Still need to read Kindred and Fledgling and possibly some of her short fiction to reach my goal for
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If you go down to the woods today, be sure to listen to Kell Woods talk about her Hansel and Gretel all grown up dark fairytale for adults in this https://www.darkmatterzine.com/kell-woods/
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@kimlockhartga @DarkMatterZine @bookstodon it’s a standout!

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@DarkMatterZine @kimlockhartga @bookstodon I don’t think I rated it five stars but I totally liked it enough to buy a copy! I need more bookshelves first!

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@DarkMatterZine @kimlockhartga @bookstodon I can’t seem to get rid of any. I had two that I was determined to donate but then I thought one is getting a sequel and what if I need to skim it before I read the sequel? And the other one might be fun for Christmas. So I brought them right back home.

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@DarkMatterZine @kimlockhartga @bookstodon I rarely get print ARCs unless to pass along for library book club consideration, because I have no idea what I would do with them all! I just get dARCs on my Kindle.

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Hey fans of There will be a sequel to THE HOUSE IN THE CERULEAN SEA in fall 2024 https://read.macmillan.com/lp/somewhere-beyond-the-sea-by-tj-klune/
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Mma Makutsi on in No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency book 23 😄 @bookstodon

AparnaSachdev , to random

"Ableism is more than just bias: it's the entire idea that anything can or should be perfect in this universe of entropy and chaos, applied at the level of human bodies and ways of being." - Ashley Shew, Against Technoableism: Rethinking who needs Improvement.

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@AparnaSachdev she just visited our library! Her book and work are amazing. This is her in the middle. I’m on the right.

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Someone in the other place got me onto sharing 1 randomly selected kindle book a day from my enormous collection. Here are my first three.

The Conductors by Nicole Glover is superb. Magical, mystery, historical & a romance all rolled into a fantastic package.

The Twisted Tree by Rachel Burge is a nordix YA horror & it's fantastic.

A Spirited Tail by Leighann Dobbs is book 2 in the cozy Mystic Notch series & features cats who talk to each other & an oblivious ghost-seeing MC.

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@law_geek Ordering this today at the Betterworld Books sale!

jillrhudy ,
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@law_geek this is how I use the Bookmark function in Mastodon—bookmark book posts! @bookstodon

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10 out of 10. THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE by James McBride is my favorite book of 2023 so far. It's a saga, a mystery, & a tale about racism and ableism. From Penguin Random House on August 8. @ewgc @bookstodon

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@miki_lou @ewgc @bookstodon still my favorite!

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