Lavonnia Moore, a 45-year-old library manager, who had worked at the Georgia library for 15 years, was fired after displaying When Aidan Became a Brother, a children's book about a transgender boy.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/christian-extremists-get-librarian-fired-for-displaying-book-about-transgender-child/
#politics #USpol #Georgia #books #bookstodon #censorship #LGBTQIA #trans #transphobia #library
"The Hole in Your Life by Dr. Bob Rich is a heartfelt, practical guide to understanding grief, and healing from it."
#books #grief #wellness
http://bobswriting.com/psych/griefbook.html
Anthropic wins a major fair use victory for AI — but it’s still in trouble for stealing books.
@theverge reports: "Judge William Alsup determined that Anthropic training its AI models on purchased copies of books is fair use."
#Anthropic #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Technology #Books
I gave up air travel nine years ago, and I wrote about it in this new essay on Substack.
Give it a read and a share. I think I've managed to not sound too self-righteous ;)
'What I’ve realised is that flying isn’t just a seriously carbon-intensive mode of transport, It’s a story we’re sold about what it means to live well.'
https://kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/grounded-what-i-gained-by-giving-up-air-travel
#Environment #Scotland #Writing #Books #Climate #Sustainable #Article #Writingcommunity
Book recommendation!
I want to buy a print copy so I can hug this book. It retells a myth with deep empathy, eloquence, and attention to delightful detail. It takes the story of WHY Herakles had to do labors, making it a story of healing from unimaginable trauma, and found family.
It is narrated both by Hera and Herakles. Herakles is not the usual hypermasculine macho, but rather a gentle, naive tragic hero. Hera is complex and human.
I loved everything about this.
Rick Steves Italy
https://amzn.to/46cOkme
(Rick Steves Travel Guide)
#Books #Tourist #Destinations #Travel #MuseumsGuide #Italy #TravelGuide #DiningReference #Europe #Florence
Is he still alive? The mystery of DB Cooper – the hijacker who disappeared https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/24/mystery-db-cooper-hijacker-who-disappeared #Truecrime(Podcasts) #Television&radio #Washingtonstate #Truecrimebooks #UStelevision #Airtransport #WestCoast #UScrime #Culture #MadMen #Books #FBI
I interviewed Jaroslav Olša, Jr. about his new book Dreaming of Autonomous Vehicles: Miloslav (Miles) J. Breuer: Czech-American Writer and the Birth of Science Fiction (2025) https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/06/23/exploration-log-10-interview-with-jaroslav-olsa-jr-author-of-dreaming-of-autonomous-vehicles-miloslav-miles-j-breuer-czech-american-writer-and-the-birth-of-science-fiction-2025/
Breuer was the 1st regular writer of original SF for Gernsback's magazines.
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
Fae Reviews makes video book reviews, especially about romantasy books (romantic stories with a fantasy setting). You can follow at:
They've already uploaded 17 videos, you can browse them all at https://makertube.net/a/faereviews/videos
#FeaturedPeerTube #Books #BookReviews #Romantasy #Romance #Fantasy #PeerTube #PeerTubers
In which online shops beside Amazon/Apple/Google do you buy your ebooks?
At which online book sellers do you buy your physical books?
I am interested do stores all over the world, so please let me know. Furthermore please do not answer when you do not(!) buy books online. I know people do that :D
With one week left of Pride Month, I've taken time from my busy summer schedule of messily sweating in the horrific heat to bring you my latest blog post!
This entry features both extremely good news and a clumsy attempt at visual art!
Aquí os dejo una colección de relatos de terror que es una absoluta maravilla 🖤🖤🖤
#books #libros #literatura #literature #horror #shortstories #relatos
From the archives, for #Pride month: “It’s a girl,” the nurse said, softly. My mother smiled big, then nodded in silence. That was the first sentence of a book that describes my undoing. That was the first story someone else told for me. https://www.texasobserver.org/memoir-pretty-kb-brookins-excerpt/
#LGBTQIA+ #books #trans #transgender #memoir #culture #bookstodon
ICYMI: This week's episode is an interview with @jesswalter.bsky.social on his new novel "So Far Gone."
Watch on YouTube or listen via A Line Around Your Thoughts on Spotify & Apple Podcasts.
BookWyrm is a Fediverse alternative to Amazon Goodreads. BookWyrm has a built-in book catalogue you can choose details from, but if you can't find a particular book you can add it to BookWyrm manually:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-manually-add-a-book-on-bookwyrm
This guide also answers some common questions about adding books manually.
If you're unfamiliar with BookWyrm and want to find out more about it, there's a general guide to it at:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-network-for-people-who-enjoy-reading
Nearly at the end of "The Mandibles" by Lionel Shriver. It's shocking, prescient and gripping. Someone reccommended it to me to read after the 2 Octavia Butler novels. #books
Rome has really stepped up the book game since I was last here. My favorite bookstores had SHELVES of diverse (and local) folklore and mythology, an entire new series of folklore and one on specific Italian cultural history topics, women's history selections, and other assorted goodness. They even published a new book series on the Forum, Colosseum and Domus Aurea which are pretty good.
My wallet is sad but it made me very happy 😅
Wishing peace to the family and friends of Rod Nordland, a war reporter who brought humanity to stories he told. He died of brain cancer.
A book he wrote, “The Lovers,” on a young couple from Afghanistan that married for love.
http://www.publishersweekly.com/9780062378828
COVER REVEAL for TOWER OF THE ROSEWATER GOBLET, a planetary romance (sci-fantasy) collection which gathers together most of my published Sesen short stories, plus a novella, two novelettes, and some other stories. Gorgeous cover by @addisoncs ! Still not over it!
(release date: November 2025)
#Bookstodon #books #sciencefiction #sciencefantasy #writingcommunity
Can anyone recommend a good fantasy book (series preferably). Specifically I'm looking for good world building that is not just a retread of tolkien-esque tropes but not just medieval with magic either. Not romance, and I've already read most of Brandon Sanderson's stuff #books #fantasybooks
Barnes &Noble just made me laugh with this line from their July email ad:
"Did you know that a growing TBR is a sign of high ambition? "
They see me.
I'm reading this book rn. It's about Jim a runaway slave with his friend huck finn.
Really makes y'all understand how whites treated black people. Not just in plantations but everywhere so degrading. Got to the bit about mistrels what tf 😒 . Book takes you on his journey thru towns and what he faces. That why we celebrate #juneteenth 👊🏾
#books #blackmastodon
The Brothers Karamatzov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky. trans by Constance Garnett.
You are one of (arguably) 4 brothers, sons of an unlikable gentleman, and it being 19th century Russia, social class and gender makes your brothers mostly assholes as well; you are giving a shot at being a monk, but ensuing family events cast doubt on God as an effective father figure also.
4 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈.
CW: antisemitism
@bookstodon #books #reading #bookstodon #russia #religion #crime #family
