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SusannaAuthor

I love snark and sarcasm. Every week on my Substack, I share some notable quotes I've come across in my reading. Here's an example, and you can see more at susannasullivanauthor.substack

#AmReading #Mystery #CozyMystery

Quote from THE WINTER MYSTERY by Faith Martin
Jul 21, 2025, 18:12 · · 0 · 0
Kazue Mino

Another delightful read from Taiwan. The story revolves around an old shared flat, a Japanese-era building & its 5 flatmates (4 graduate school students & a live-in landlord). They're like the symbols of Taiwan, w/ diverse ethnic backgrounds, & often discordant senses of identity. Yet they are trying to help one another & live together (sometimes w/ success, & sometimes…?). It’s fun, humorous yet heart-wrenching at times. Total respect to this greatly talented author. #amreading

The cover of the said book. It's bibliographical information is as follows: Yang Shuang Zi. Shi’i-gai ichi-gō ni kurasu gonin [The Five who Live in 1 Siwei Street]. Translated by Miura Yūko. Chūō kōron shin-sha, 2025. It is beautifully illustrated, the five main characters (a girl with an old book, a girl resting her chin on her hand, a lady helping herself with some wine, a girl with a teacup, and a girl with glasses writing novel with her laptop) and a door, and branches of mango tree.
Jul 21, 2025, 16:54 · · 2 · 0
MDMRN

New Manga Read - Bomba!

Legendary manga creator Osamu Tezuka wrote the single volume story Bomba! in 1970. It's...a giant trigger warning.

The story involves an abused teenage boy who becomes obsessed with his middle school teacher and summons the ghost of a horse (Bomba) from his father's days in the Japanese military during World War II to kill those he hates.

When he realizes that he was delusional, he hates himself. Bomba comes for him...

It's a lot. Also, ghost horse murders of hundreds of people isn't really delved into as our main character learns to love himself and gets a happy ending.

Uhm...no thanks.

#Manga #MangaReview #Mangagram #MangaCommunity #MangaPost #MangaRecommendation #InstaManga #MangaLover #MangaReader #AmReading #LibraryFinds #Bookstodon #OsamuTezuka #Bomba

Photograph of a white person's hand holding a book against a light colored wall. The book has a black cover with the words "Bomba!" and "Tezuka" in blue, text above and below a black and white teenage boy's face with a red silhouette of a horse shown within it.
Jul 21, 2025, 14:16 · · 1 · 0
roboticus lastius (not a bot)

I'm reading Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino. It's like someone smashed a regular-joanne life story novel with an alien's anthropological reporting. Insightful. Tender. Always approaching, never landing.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty

#books #bookstodon @bookstodon #AmReading

Beautyland - Wikipedia

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Jul 20, 2025, 22:51 · · 1 · 0
Excessively Diverting

It's here! My presentation for #VirtualJaneCon2025 is now live! In this presentation, I speak on the beginning of Austenmania and why Janeites are so obsessed with owning Jane. You can find my video 👉🏻 youtu.be/b013KsmrFCo.

The full Virtual Jane Con can be found 👉🏻 youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMw.

#VirtualJaneCon #AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #JaneAusten @romancelandia

Beech wood bookshelf. On the shelf is a stack of Austen books, there Austen inspired Funko Pops, an Austen cande, a tube of Austen lip balm, and a coffee cup that says, "Pride and Prejudice" on it.
Jul 20, 2025, 13:17 · · 1 · 0
jiujensu🇵🇸

copaganda: how the police and the media manipulate our news

by Alec Karakatsanis

@bookstodon
#books #amreading #bookcommunity #bookstodon #defundpolice #prisonaboliition #anticapitalist

"Liberal democracies in the West were generally run for the benefit of the top, say, 20 percent of the wealth and income distribution. The trick...to keeping this scheme running smoothly has been to convince, especially at election time, the next 30 to 35 percent of the income distribution to fear the poorest half more than they envy the richest 20 percent." --James C. Scott --copaganda by Alec Karakatsanis
Jul 18, 2025, 21:13 · · 3 · 0
TheNudeSurrealist

1/10

Today I finally finished reading the novel Moshi Moshi by Banana Yoshimoto, which I started reading months ago and never finished.

I'm proud of myself for having finished it. I haven't been reading a lot lately, since I've started working from home. Previously I had done all my reading on the bus during my commute, so I don't have a "reading space" at home. My Youtube addiction also doesn't help, and reading in bed just makes me fall asleep.

#bookstodon #JapaneseLit #AmReading

Jul 18, 2025, 19:54 · · 0 · 0
MDMRN

New Manga Read - Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Volume 12

So wow. Volume 12.

The entire volume is set in an alternate past as Frieren is sent back in time to the party of heroes. She admits she's from the future without telling them anything about the future.

The whole volume tracks them trying to help Frieren find a way back to 80+ years in the future.

The ending, though, of the volume was unexpected and is entirely in Himmel the Hero's head...kind of. And I did not expect THAT to be one of his deep fantasies.

So yea...got to get Volume 13 soon.

#Manga #MangaReview #Mangagram #MangaCommunity #MangaPost #MangaRecommendation #InstaManga #MangaLover #MangaReader #AmReading #フリーレン #Frieren #SousouNoFrieren #KanehitoYamada #TsukasaAbe #AbeTsukasa #LibraryFinds #Bookstodon

Photograph of a white person's hand holding Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, volume 12. Image shows the titular Frieren centralized peeking through some branches with a party of adventurers visible behind her.
Jul 18, 2025, 15:13 · · 1 · 0
Zivan - Childless Cat Guy

I've finished: City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett

General Mulaghesh, the grizzled veteran is at the center of this Divine Cities novel.

This one is about the horrors of war, and the harm it does to the perpetrators as well as the victims.

As ancient and modern warfare come to ahead, can the cycle of violence be broken?

app.thestorygraph.com/books/a3

@bookstodon @audiobooks
#fantasy #RobertJacksonBennett #amReading #bookstodon #AudioBooks

City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett

The city of Voortyashtan was once the home of the goddess…

app.thestorygraph.com
Jul 18, 2025, 14:22 · · 3 · 0
Starry Time Podcast

Currently reading "Accidental Astronomy: How Random Discoveries Shape the Science of Space" by @Chrislintott & really enjoying it (and the footnotes--they are👌)

Strong recommend for others who enjoy popular science #astronomy content!

🔗 /📷 : hachettebookgroup.com/titles/c

#AstroDon #Space #science #AmReading #Reading #BooksOfMastodon #SciComm #Books #reading #PopularScience

Book cover of Accidental Astronomy: How random Discoveries Shape the Science of Space by Chris Lintott. Along with white text with the title, subtitle, and author, the cover has stylized Saturn-like rings in the center amid a star-like sky.
Jul 17, 2025, 23:38 · · 2 · 0
SusannaAuthor

#AmReading: THIS MURDER IS NACHO BUSINESS by DC Owens. Josie's back home in her small town after losing her job. Then she finds the business owner next to her dad's cafe dead, after a public fight with her dad. Oops!

susannasullivanauthor.substack

#Mystery

This Murder is Nacho Business cover
Jul 17, 2025, 16:19 · · 0 · 0
Anne

“Truth is not found in fixed stillness, but in ceaseless change and movement. Isn’t this the quintessential core of what stories are all about?”

- Haruki Murakami, afterward, The City and Its Uncertain Walls

#AmReading

Jul 17, 2025, 16:10 · · 0 · 0
Anne

I just saw the word “twilit” in the book I’m reading and I am so delighted. I can’t remember the last time I’ve seen that word and I’m not sure I’ve ever heard anyone say it. I’m saying it to myself. Twilit. Twilit. #words #AmReading #twilit

Jul 17, 2025, 15:15 · · · 0 · 0
Tiffany E. Taylor

Stressed? Feeling overwhelmed? Why not give your frazzled nerves a warm, literary hug and melt your worries away for a while? This week’s Butch/Femme Fiction Therapy Thursday theme: Second Chance.

#romanceafter50 #therapythursday #butchfemmefiction #lesfic #sapphicbooks #amreading #bookstodon #readingcommunity #butchfemme #lesbian #lgbtq #lgbtqia
@lgbtqbookstodon @bookstodon @sapphicbooks

Eight book covers on a background of a woman reading in a tub filled with warm water and scented flowers for Therapy Thursday on 07/17/25. Theme: Second Chance.
Jul 17, 2025, 15:00 · · 1 · 0
SusannaAuthor

#AmReading THE SUMMER GUESTS by Tess Gerritsen. Retired CIA spook Maggie lives in a small Maine town. . . Antagonism between full-time and part-time residents flares when a visiting teen goes missing and a local farmer is suspected.

Beautifully written.
#Mystery #Thriller
susannasullivanauthor.substack

The Summer Guests cover
Jul 16, 2025, 22:45 · · 0 · 0
Branwen OShea (she/her)

Found this great review of The Calling on the Before We Go blog.🎉
The beginning had some spoilers, so I screen shot the end where he talks in more general terms.
#amreading #reading #writing #amwriting #aithor #authors #scifi #hopepunk

Overall, despite the icy starkness of the world, the violence, the controversial eugenics, the bigotry and mistrust of other cultures, OShea ultimately gives the reader hope for the future of the world she has created, if different factions can overcome their worse instincts, and come together for the common cause of survival. The book starts off as a slow-burn, setting the scene, with some fantastic world-building, as the reader is introduced to the different cultures above and below Earth's surface. But the plot explodes into plenty of great action pieces in the mid and later parts of the book. The confrontations, including with the various creatures, like wolverine-type menaces, were amazing. Sci-fi fans will be treated to some neat technological aspects, combined with the feeling of primal clashes, which only added to the heart-pounding aspect of the combat scenes. There are some devastating loses in those battles, where the reader will feel sadness, and dreat triumnhe that the reader will find beforewegoblog.com
Typically in the book, we are given at least a few chapters consecutively of one POV, before it switches to another. Only to increase the dramatic tension, do we get the more abrupt back and forths between POVs, and for me it worked great! The characters are very well drawn, yet Rana was definitely my favourite. Like the rest of the players, she is composed in a realistic fashion by OShea: flawed, but likable. And you know I love my baddies, so OShea tossed in some malevolence in one POV. Having the POV of a threatening character is always completely awesome, and really ramps up the sense of dread. Compelling themes in The Calling include love, prejudice, eugenics, patriarchy, environmentalism, human relationships with nature and animal life, apocalypse, and more. There were some interesting takes on these themes by OShea, and I have the strong feeling she is setting readers up for even deeper exploration of these concepts in future novels. beforewegoblog.com
Let's discuss the characters first, including how many POVs there are in The Calling. Protagonists Bleu and Rana get the lion's share of the narrative, but Atsushi's, Kern's, and Kahali's voices are also heard. I have read some reviews that note, there were a lot of POVs to absorb in the book. I completely understand that opinion, and I am someone who prefers first-person, single POV books. Yet for me, I did not find it too much at all (compare reading something like ASOIAF - which of course I love - where each book in GRRMs series averages ten POVs per novel!). And, I found the POV switches extremely well-handled by OShea, and I had no issues whatsoever with keeping track of the characters, where they were located, what they were doing, and what their relationships with the other characters were. beforewegoblog.com
battles, where the reader will feel sadness, and great triumphs, that the reader will find exhilarating. And, for YA fans, what YA book would be complete without some teen angst, yearning, and a juicy love triangle? The Calling has all that, and driven by OShea's accessible writing, engrossing plot, and intriguing themes, I found this book to be thoroughly enjoyable. It's a thick book, with my version being just under 500 pages, but it read quickly for me. As I noted earlier, this book is definitely an "under-the-radar" one that needs more love, and I am very glad I decided to read The Calling. Highly recommended, and I give it a 4.75 star rating out of five. BUY IT HERE! beforewegoblog.com
Jul 16, 2025, 12:48 · · 0 · 0
The Aforementioned W

#WhatchaReading ? I'm enjoying Alicia Thompson's latest, Never Been Shipped, which is about former best friends who were in a band that busted up dramatically. They're reunited for a fan cruise They both have seeeecrets...

It's loosely linked to With Love, From Cold World.

#AmReading
#RomanceBooks
@romancebooks

Jul 16, 2025, 00:38 · · 1 · 0

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