I recently received a Pocketbook E-book reader and I'm surprised by how much I like it.
Actually, I've written a whole blog post about it, which you can find here:

https://www.horizontalpitch.com/2025/03/e-book-reader/

"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Pt. I, ch. 1

#OTD in 1873.

Leo Tolstoy begins his novel Anna Karenina, which is serialized in Russkiy Vestnik (Moscow) between 1873 and 1877, but the last part appearing in the periodical The Russian Messenger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina

Anna Karenina at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1399

Book Review: The Witch Roads
The first part of Elliott’s newest fantasy series that hits the power chords of her themes.
@princejvstin.com has the review at the NOAF blog
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/03/book-review-witch-roads.html

#books #bookstodon @bookstodon

Started rereading IT this morning for the first time in about 35 years. And goddamn not only does it hold up, but it's better than I remember. The characters, the attention to detail in Derry, and even the prose really show off Stephen King's strengths as a storyteller.

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

https://lithub.com/musical-storytelling-librettist-gene-scheer-on-transforming-novels-into-operas?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Lit%20Hub%20Daily:%20March%2017%2C%202025&utm_term=lithub_master_list

Linda reviews "The Wolf and His Alien" by A. Williams:

"This was a very short story, but nevertheless it was interesting. Lodon is to be the Alpha after his father is gone, and is supposed to find his fated mate, who apparently isn’t in his pack... 4 stars."

https://www.queeromanceink.com/2025/03/17/review-the-wolf-and-his-alien-a-williams/

#SciFi #ScienceFiction #Paranormal #BookReview #GayRomance #MMBookstodon @MMbookstodon #Gay #LGBTQBookstodon @LGBTQBookstodon @diversebooks #bookstodon @bookstodon #books #Aliens #Werewolves

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

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

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".

https://www.youtube.com/live/IcqeN79Dd0E

GSBCW - Global Silent Book Club Week starts next Monday - Feb 24 2025 – Silent Reading from 12-1PM Pacific. https://inkican.com/global-silent-book-club-week/

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

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

"You shall stay here till you choose," they said. "And if you will not choose, then you shall die in prison." https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/21865
#books

Library workers deserve protection, not prosecution https://georgiarecorder.com/2025/03/17/library-workers-deserve-protection-not-prosecution/ #Books #Libraries #Fascism

Books scare some people because some don’t know the difference between fact and fiction.

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!

#books #SciFi @bookstadon

William Gibson (1948-) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?172

L, James Warhola, 1984; R, Rich O'Donnell, 1986
#scifi #sciencefiction #books

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 .

@bookstodon #books #reading #bookstodon #dystopia #fire

“She gives me a wide, disarming smile that seems to brighten the dull day. 'Hello, Dr. Wright, I’m Livia Lindberg. It’s nice to meet you,' she says in a melodious voice that is as pretty as her face.”

It's Monday and spring flu is going around, but cure is on its way: This week’s I Heart SapphFic reading challenge for "Medical" has begun!
My own #novel Returning Home to Her and nine other #sapphic #books are on sale March 17-21:

https://iheartsapphfic.com/2025/03/17/2025-i-heart-sapphfic-reading-challenge-week-eleven-10-books-on-sale/

Happy #queer #reading!