Not my favorite, but When Among Crows by Veronica Roth wasn't bad by any means. I'm not a huge fantasy reader. I like middle grade fantasy much better than YA or adult fantasy. I did read this quickly though- took me a few hours altogether today. It was confusing at first because I had no clue what was happening, but it did come together to a satisfying end.
Scott's review of 101 Ways to Go Zero Waste - BookWyrm
I got alot out of this book. It is very approachable. Not to overwhelming. And not judgy like some environmentalism can be.
Something important to cover is that the book acknowledges that it's impossible to be totally 0 waste. 0 waste is the -goal- the movement sets for itself. But one must know full well is unattainable. But the effort is the most important. This isnt...
Prompt 39 - a classic you've never read - May 6, 2025 - this classic children's story is a delight to read. It has magic, mystery, and mayhem. There are plenty of twists throughout the novel, but it all turns out in the end. My 11 year old daughter loves it too.
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Marina Sofia's post this month is "a criss-crossing of oceans and time periods this month: the United States, Britain and Japan each appearing more than once."
#6Degrees #bookstodon #BookBlogger #reading
#SixDegrees of Separation May 2025 https://findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/05/04/sixdegrees-of-separation-may-2025/
#NowReading - Behind Enemy Lines: The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany
by Marthe Cohn
Marthe Cohn was awarded France's highest military honor, the Mdaille Militaire, age 80. At its heart, this remarkable #memoir is the tale of an ordinary human being who, under extraordinary circumstances, became the hero her country needed her to be.
Thanks to @MNSpy for bringing her story to my attention via
https://mastodon.online/@MNSpy/114330963941166330
i’ve been slowly finishing Careless People. i read the first 80-90% of it very quickly, but it’s been kind of a chore to finish.
i find the author, Sara Wynn-Williams, extremely unlikable and at times more than a little self-serving. it strains belief that she could still believe that facebook was a place to work as a force for moral good when she was ultimately hired in 2011. i understand that not everybody feels the same way about facebook, but i think it was pretty clear even then that it was not a “good” company.
i find too many of her anecdotes to be of the “this was bad and i was there and let me tell you how bad it was!” variety without much in the way of self-awareness or reflection.
in the table of contents, there is a chapter title “Myanmar,” which i imagined was going to deal with facebook’s enabling and promotion of the genocide that took place there. (see: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-facebooks-systems-promoted-violence-against-rohingya-meta-owes-reparations-new-report/) and it was, sort of, except a lot of it seemed to be focused on the workplace drama and annoyances around facebook’s lack of conscience and accountability, rather than focusing on the atrocities that occurred as a consequence.
after Sara Wynn-Williams buries the lede for a bit, she finally says:
“The unthinkable happens.”
despite the fact that she spent plenty of ink in the previous pages describing how very thinkable it was, but Facebook just didn’t believe it!
she continues:
“In late August, the military launches a campaign of atrocities against the Muslim population that the UN later describes as genocide and crimes against humanity.”
i mean…call it what it is. the whole section is weasel worded, as she dances around it by saying “the unthinkable” or “UN […] describes” without ever actually saying what she believes.
i have more critiques, but in general i think that this book reads more like a prosaic workplace memoir that just so happens to be about facebook than it does a speaking-truth-to-power bombshell whistleblower account.
Smart, suspenseful, and surprisingly tender, Hive is an exciting first entry in a series that asks: how far would you go to save the world and the person you love?
#gifted by #dl_orton ! #books #bookstodon
Under the Volcano. By Malcolm Lowry.
It’s Mexico between the world wars, and you are a minor British official whose alcoholism has reached a stage where fact and fantasy mix (poorly) throughout one very long day that’s supposed to be about fixing your broken relationship, but instead veers well off that path.
2 of 5 library cats 
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@bookstodon #bookstodon #books #reading #readingcommunity #alcoholism
Chapter 10 - "Even Killers Dream Of Freedom"
Namor Skenn waives his right to recuperation in order to get his interrogation with Schafer and Voight over and done with. During this interview, they both get a better idea of what kind of man this Skenn is, and feel both equal parts sympathy and loathing. There are also a few revelations that Skenn tosses into the mix just to add credence to his claims.
All the books I read in April 
most of these were for the #magicalreadathon 
Watch here:
https://youtu.be/Gw6U4WTk6-g
#bookstodon #booktube #amreading
Bird lovers will especially like Marg's #6Degrees post this month.
#bookstodon #BookBlogger #reading
SIx Degrees of Separaton: Rapture to The Swan Maiden http://www.theintrepidreader.com/2025/05/six-degrees-of-separaton-rapture-to.html
May is book's month in Uruguay, May 26th being National Book's Day. I promised to release my books freely in a #FediverseEdition proposal.
I expected to do that in their original language (Spanish).
Translation is a full time professional job which I am not prepared to do. However, some LLM helped me improve a bit my amateur translation attempt of my opera prima The Hungarian Soprano.
The main story is a nonlinear chronology which mirrors the dissonant harmonies of La Traviata.
Its structure forces the reader to become the investigator, piecing together a conspiracy the text refuses to spell out.
It is a historical fiction work covering espionage, arms traffic, government cover-ups spanning South America and Europe during the Yugoslavian wars.
The prose’s clinical tone (dates, decrees, serial numbers) sharpens the horror, making The hungarian soprano's death feel not like fiction, but like history’s darkest aria.
Six more parts await inside covering #fanaticism, #prejudice, #mystery, #psychedelia, #medicaldrama, #travel, #alcoholism, #friendship, #africa, #trans, #MedecinsSansFrontieres, #southamerica, #Brazil, and more.
Hope you enjoy it. If you feel like #commenting, #sharing or #rating it, thanks in advance.
Completely #free. 
This book is distributed under a Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
https://cloud.undernet.uy/s/jxozFDWGZcaNR3Q
Entirely written in #FOSS.
Another brief update on my second page devoted to October Daye, this time for the short story "Heaps of Pearl."
Today is Friends with Benefits‘ #bookbirthday : A swoony friends-to-lovers romance about fake vows, real feelings, and the price of following your dreams. #gifted by @celadonbooks ! #bookstodon #book @bookstodon
New Book Stuff on the #Blog!
10 Writers from the East Midlands
10 writers from the East Midlands.
The post 10 Writers from the East Midlands appeared first on The Wallflower Digest.
https://thewallflowerdigest.co.uk/books/top-ten-tuesday/10-writers-from-the-east-midlands/
Happy #book release day to THE ENEMY’S DAUGHTER by Melissa Poett!
This #YA reimagining of Tristan & Isolde is set in a #dystopian world woven w/magic—and it's available now across Canada & the U.S. wherever #books are sold!
Already gaining buzz, it's been selected as a much-anticipated spring read by CBC Books, Brit+Co, Yahoo, & Indigo and is part of the Book Sparks Summer Reading Challenge that starts now!
My Goodreads review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7140296330
Winners of the 2025 Pulitzer Prizes Revealed | Kirkus Reviews #pulitzer #pulitzerprize #books #bookstodon
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/winners-of-the-2025-pulitzer-prizes-revealed/
Jim Paul, Brendan Moynihan - Jak straciłem na giełdzie milion dolarów i czego mnie to nauczyło
Tytuł ”Jak straciłem na giełdzie milion dolarów i czego mnie to nauczyło” Jima Paula i Brendana Moynihana przypomina książkę w stylu “Jak zarobić milion? Napisz książkę o tym, jak zarobić milion i sprzedaj 10000 sztuk po 100 zł”. Ale czy to wrażenie jest trafne?
Link do wpisu 
https://xiegozbior.pl/zajawki/2025/05/06/jim-paul-jak-stracilem-na-gieldzie-milion-dolarow.html
#inwestowanie #FediKsiążki #bookstodon #bookstagram #książki #books2025 #trading
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