DUNAKER. A stealer of cows and calves.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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There are a lot of really good sounding novels and novellas in the Stories For the Trans Rights Readathon bundle over on itch.io
https://itch.io/b/2914/stories-for-the-trans-rights-readathon
itch.ioStories for the Trans Rights Readathon by Robin Jo Margaret and 42 othersStories for the Trans Rights Readathon: up to 73 items starting at $20.00
Spending a quiet evening jigsaw puzzling, while listening to Robert Lloyd Parry's reading of two short ghost stories by M.R. James, "Rats" and "An Evening's Entertainment".
A promotion for books that are crime stories AND science fiction and/or fantasy!
#books #fiction #bookstodon #sff #sciencefiction #scifi #fantasy
#mystery
https://books.bookfunnel.com/futurecrimemarch2025/ov5q6zw1ld
books.bookfunnel.comFuture Crime March 2025Searching for your next favorite story?
Look no further! These bestselling authors have teamed up to offer a delightful selection of new books. Available for a limited time.
In the #littlefreelibrary ! Featuring a comical cast of animal characters—plus a caterpillar sidekick with a BIG appetite for readers to find hidden on every page—this hardcover picture book about self-acceptance, friendship, and helping others is perfect for celebrating St. Patrick's Day! #gifted by #randomhousekids #booksky #kidlit #books #bookstodon @bookstodon @kidlit
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Fanzine Column: What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XX
Come join the discussion! https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/03/17/what-pre-1985-science-fiction-are-you-reading-update-no-xx/
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Recently, I asked which Austen/Bronte character you would interview, and I still maintain that it would be Wentworth for me.
#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon
#WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #JaneAusten @romancelandia
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This week I've been mainly reading, no. 217.
Sarah Perry's modern gothic novel Melmoth (2018) is a real treat; both a narrative of shame & a fictionalised dossier of accounts of Melmoth, a witness to the resurrection condemned to wander the world for eternity for denying what she saw (and finding those equally denying sin), it offers a modern take on the heroine explodes to a (here named) horror. The ending is a little weak, but by no means spoils a tour-de-force.
Books scare some people because some don’t know the difference between fact and fiction.
(she/her) Pre-orders live for the #solarpunk anthology I edited, releasing Earth Day (April 22)!
https://susankayequinn.com/books/bright-green-futures-2024-solarpunk-anthology
These hopeful #climatefiction stories each imagine a way for us to survive the future, together.
EBOOK: preorder on Amazon, Kobo, GPlay, Apple or Nook
PRINT: preorder on Bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble or Amazon
If you get the book from Bookshop.org, you support small bookstores!
Order at your local Barnes & Noble & you'll alert the bookstore to the book!
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"If only he had been able to think of her, he would not have needed to dream of her." —Samuel Beckett, Murphy
Chris Hemsworth as Thor as Mr Darcy? Yes, please!
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#WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #JaneAusten @romancelandia
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QSFer BL Maxwell has a new MM fantasy romance out: Trolling for Love.
Looking for love isn’t easy when you’re an antisocial troll.
Gunnar has existed near the border of the monster world in the wilds of Iceland for centuries only straying into the human world occasionally out of boredom. He finds many of their ...
https://www.queerscifi.com/new-release-trolling-for-love-bl-maxwell/
#Fantasy #GayRomance #Gay #MMBookstodon @MMbookstodon #LGBTQBookstodon @lgbtqbookstodon @diversebooks #bookstodon @bookstodon #Books #MonsterRomance
Yesterday I finished What It's Like in Words by Eliza Moss and I have no idea how to rate or review it, because I thought it was very well-written and it felt real, but it was one of the most un-fun and exhausting books I've ever read and I didn't enjoy it at all. I want to be fair to it but I don't know how to do that with my particular rating system. #books #bookstodon
'Picture Books in Winter' by Jessie Willcox Smith, for the book 'A Child's Garden of Verses', 1905
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Musical Storytelling: Librettist Gene Scheer On Transforming Novels Into Operas
Viviana Freyer Shares a Look Inside Two Current and Upcoming Literary Adaptations For the Stage
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Fahrenheit 451. By Ray Bradbury.
It’s the future, and your job is to burn books found in people’s homes, as they are illegal; you never questioned this because everyone is fine with this idea since books were replaced long ago with more entertaining visual media, but then something makes you want to read one of these books, and a different kind of flame is lit inside you.
4 of 5 library cats 
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Starting my GDC week off with a bang! I have just been notified that my contract at Rookery Interactive will not be renewed in 2 weeks, so I am suddenly #OpenToWork! Please keep me in mind for any writing or consulting roles. If you're at GDC & would like to meet, lmk!
I’m open to remote roles, or positions in Bangkok!
I've worked on a ton of games, comics and books, and am available for writing, consulting & editing outside of games.
#gamedev #comics #books #gdc
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On the @fictionable #podcast the writer Ben Sorgiovanni gives us his #philosophy of #fiction
Catch it at https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/ben-sorgiovanni-philosophical-tiger-short-story-fiction or via #ApplePodcasts #Spotify #Acast and more…
#books #reading #writing #ShortStories #bookstodon @bookstodon
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Congrats to Jennifer Bohnhoff for the great review of IN THE SHADOW OF SUNRISE, set in the Southwest in the Stone Age: " I LOVED IT!!! Every word... Jennifer Bonhoff has written a captivating story of life in ancient times filled with well-rounded characters and realistic happenings."
https://rosihollinbeck.com/2025/03/17/in-the-shadow-of-sunrise-review/
#kidlit #books @bookstodon
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