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maybe i'm just a mean old lady like the paperboy said.//
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lunalein, to books
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April reads (asterisks for my favorites, but there was nothing I didn't like this month):

Wandering Stars - Tommy Orange
Ordinary Human Failings - Megan Nolan*
Lost on Me - Veronica Raimo
The Appeal - Janice Hallett
Learned by Heart - Emma Donoghue
This Is Amiko, Do You Copy? - Natsuko Imamura
Behind You is the Sea -- Susan Muaddi Darraj*
The Rainbow - Yasunari Kawabata
Pay As You Go - Eskor David Johnson*
A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine*
I Who Have Never Known Men - Jacqueline Harpman*
The Extinction of Irena Rey - Jennifer Croft
The Hollow Places - T Kingfisher
The Tainted Cup - Robert Jackson Bennett*

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lunalein,
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The Tainted Cup was a really good fusion of fantasy and Holmesian mystery. RIYL The Goblin Emperor. Thanks to @shoesforall for recommending it!

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lunalein, to books
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The Extinction of Irena Rey made me look up more words than any book i’ve read in probably decades. Which is fair, since it contains so many different books within itself. Puzzling in the best way. . @bookstodon

kimlockhartga, to books
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@bookstodon I am making a very long list of suggested book pairings, and I wondered if you all had any interest in them? These are read-alikes specifically in the sense of "If you liked this book, you 𝙢𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 also like this other book." I plan to alphabetize them by the titles of the first books in the pairings, so you can easily look for your favorites.

My criteria are my own (I even match up traditional books with graphic novels or short story collections) and it's super subjective, just by definition. But, you would be able to add your own book pairings as well. Books can be alike in (sub) genre, style, subject, thematic elements, even in ways that are not readily apparent.

lunalein,
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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon i would love to see this list and contribute

lunalein, to books
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“Down below in Skyler Square the trouble was passing quickly from door to door, mothers telling mothers, not speaking aloud but somehow saying: baby gone, bad man, wild animal.”

  • the knockout first line of Ordinary Human Failings, by Megan Nolan. @bookstodon
lunalein, to books
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If anyone’s thinking about reading Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange, I highly recommend reading/rereading There, There first. I didn’t revisit it, and while the new book is beautifully written, it relies heavily on the it’s predecessor for story cohesion. I definitely didn’t remember enough detail to get the most out of it. @bookstodon

CultureDesk, (edited ) to books
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In celebration of the 50th birthday of Stephen King's first novel, "Carrie," NPR polled its readers on their favorite King books. Here's what they chose. Which is your top pick? Tell us in the comments if there's a gem that didn't make the cut.

https://flip.it/f9sriI

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lunalein,
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@bookstodon @CultureDesk my big Stephen King era was a long time ago, and maybe because i was a kid at the time, It was the one I went back to over and over.

lunalein,
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@CultureDesk he was sneaky with that title!

lunalein,
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@CultureDesk @bookstodon @Npars01 Dolores Claiborne is truly underrated’

inkishkingdoms, to books
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Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

33% so first love the French vacations. Second I hate her father and stepmother 🙄🙄 third they talk in French and I understood 🥹🥹🥹 @bookstodon

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/f459f9b4-8cef-41fd-aee9-2311fa8bd3de

lunalein,
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@bookstodon @inkishkingdoms this book was straight up charming.

lunalein, to books
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March read (* for favorites of the month):
Cursed Bunny - Bora Chung
Hot Springs Drive - LIndsay Hunter
The Forbidden Territory of a Terrifying Woman - Molly Lynch*
Here in Avalon - Tara Isabella Burton
The Hunter - Tana French
Confidence - Rafael Frumkin
Filterworld - Oksana Vasyakina
Where You End - Abbott Kahler
The Berry Pickers - Amanda Peters
What Feasts at Night - T. Kingfisher
The Nigerwife - Vanessa Walters
Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer*
Nightbloom - Peace Adzo Medie
Womb City - Tlotlo Tsamaase
Anita de Monte Laughs Last - Xochitl Gonzalez
Big Time - Ben H Winters
The Lost Daughter - Elena Ferrante
Rainbow Black - Maggie Thrash*
North Woods - Daniel Mason*

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lunalein,
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North Woods is a lovely combo of nature writing and ghost story. RIYL Lauren Groff's The Vaster Wilds or...is there such a thing as a cozy haunted house? @bookstodon

lunalein,
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Rainbow Black is a thriller-slash-queer-coming of age story set during the Satanic Panic, and if you're anything like me, you now want to read it immediately. You won't be disappointed. @bookstodon

timrichards, to books
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A fun bit I just read in The Mating Season by PG Wodehouse...

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lunalein,
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@timrichards @bookstodon “my heart stood stiller” is such a simple and excellent funny line

golgaloth, to writing
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26/03
In your opinion, name a book, movie or TV show where the ending spoils the story.

I mean, are we all just going to dogpile on Game of Thrones?

Does anyone remember ALF? This funny, cat-eating alien kids show. And one season ended with him getting carted off by the government for experiments. Then the show got cancelled and that was actually the horrific, dark ending of the entire show.

lunalein,
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@golgaloth it’s not as dark as the end of Dinosaurs.

Schnuckster, to books
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The Emmett Till book has got me needing to explore Black history from an American perspective, beyond my usual X and King hinterland. Remember, Black history is for every month. 📖📚 @bookstodon

lunalein,
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@Schnuckster @bookstodon Get yourself some bell hooks.

lunalein, to books
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February read (* for favorites this month):

The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac - Louise Kennedy*
Hard by a Great Forest - Leo Vardiashvili
Hazardous Spirits - Anbara Salam
Pet - Catherine Chidgey
Mobility - Lydia Kiesling
And Don't Look Back - Rebecca Barrow
How We Named the Stars - Andrés N. Ordorica
Ordinary Notes - Christina Sharpe*
The Haunting of Alejandra - V. Castro
Filthy Animals - Brandon Taylor*
Rouge - Mona Awad
My Nemesis - Charmaine Craig
Cahokia Jazz - Francis Spufford*
Martyr! - Kaveh Akbar*
Winter in Sochko - Elisa Shua Dusapin*

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lunalein,
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@bookstodon Ordinary Notes is a profound collage of history/memoir/thoughts on blackness, whiteness, grief, and memory, devastating but beautiful.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60784727-ordinary-notes

lunalein,
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@bookstodon I can't stop thinking about Cahokia Jazz, a noir mystery set in an alternate 1920s, in a mostly-Indigenous city on the Mississippi River. The plot is a slow burner, the hardboiled cops and femmes fatales are classic, and it's almost overstuffed with worldbuilding, but what a world.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75584918-cahokia-jazz

kimlockhartga, to bookstodon
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@bookstodon There's an upcoming virtual book launch event on Wednesday March 6, 2024, hosted by The Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale, AZ. Time of event is MST (2 hours earlier than EST). The title of the new book is BIG TIME.

VIRTUAL EVENT: Ben Winters
https://calendar.time.ly/9plshfqx/event/77065838

lunalein,
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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon i really liked his Last Policeman trilogy!

lunalein,
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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon Just finished reading Big Time. A gripping read for sure, and i really liked the main characters! i feel like it could have used a bit more fleshing out; i would happily have read a version that was, say, 50 pages longer.

whitneymcn, to bookstodon
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@bookstodon I've burned through all of the Brother Cadfael books in the past couple of months, and I have a question: I've Googled this a bunch, but I still can't find anybody online who is connecting the dots to prove that Cadfael himself was the reason that there were so many murders in a relatively few years, in this tiny 12th century English town.

That kind of analysis HAS to be a thing, doesn't it?

lunalein,
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@bookstodon @whitneymcn are you telling me he’s an ancient ancestor of Jessica Fletcher?

RickiTarr, to random
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Type "Women are..." and/or "Men are..." and let predictive text finish the sentence.

lunalein,
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@RickiTarr women are the best people to be in this country because of their love of women

men don’t know the meaning and value in their own body parts

booktweeting, to books
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SISTERS, CLINGING TOGETHER after a family tragedy leaves one with profound brain injuries and the other with responsibilities she can barely handle, find separate ways through crises. Lovely mix of Trinidadian legends and European fairy tales.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-princess-of-thornwood-drive-khalia-moreau/1142902677?ean=9781538725269

@bookstodon

lunalein,
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@booktweeting @bookstodon i enjoyed this one; the writing’s lovely and the internal world entwined with the bleak reality is done so well. the “reality” gets a little bit thriller-tropey later in the game.

lunalein, to books
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2023 in , inspired by https://shereads.com/traci-thomas-best-books-of-2023/ and I'd love to see other people answer these, too!

Two books I loved, part 1: Honeybees and Distant Thunder by Riku Onda, which is about four entrants in a classical piano competition in Tokyo, and the characters are all interesting and charming but best of all it just has wonderful writing about music -- like the title itself as a description of how a particular player makes a particular piece sound. It's beautiful, and unlike many books with multiple POVs, I loved all the protagonists equally and was never annoyed by a switch at the wrong time. Just beautiful stuff.

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lunalein,
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@bookstodon @miki_lou so glad you read it, one of my favorites of last year!

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