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Tommy Siegel

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I just think it would be neat if turkeys used the same technique to draw us

November 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM

Bookish Linda

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🎁 If you're in the UK and you need a fun little gift for a book lover, or someone you'd like to turn into a book lover, or even for yourself…Prudence and the Crow have got you covered! 📖💝

Prudence and the Crow @prudenceandthecrow.bsky.social · 4d

The PatC Yuletide Bundle 2025 is here!

Just £6 inc UK P&P: a vintage paperback in the genre of your choice, wrapped seasonally with a library card and a sweet or a tea - a perfect stocking filler, Secret Santa, or little winter treat for yourself 💙📚

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The Yuletide Bundle! Available until 1st December

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November 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM

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False Knees

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20% off all books in the False Knees store! store.falseknees.com

November 23, 2025 at 1:04 AM

Bookish Linda

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🇺🇦Today—November 21—is the anniversary of the start of Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity. If you'd like to know more about it, I highly recommend this book. It has enormous relevance for understanding the war in Ukraine today, and it's a great read! 🇺🇦

Bookish Linda @bookishlinda.bsky.social · 23d

Just read—The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of a Revolution by Marci Shore. A hard book to put down! After a brief recap of the causes, you're right there in the thick of the 2014 Revolution of Dignity, living it through the words of the protesters themselves. Phenomenal!

The book cover is a photograph of Independence Square in Kyiv, at night, during the 2014 revolution. Dimly seen tall buildings loom in the background. In the foreground the edge of large crowd is lit by several large fires burning on the Square. A few figures are in front of the crowd, close to the fires, in animated positions—maybe they're dancing? Large flags of Ukraine, blue over yellow, wave from poles held high over the crowd.

November 21, 2025 at 11:40 PM

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Angry Robot Books

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"Epic fantasy is not merely what Tolkien made it.

There are plenty of epics out there which feature people like me. Sundiata’s badass mother. Dihya, warrior queen of the Amazighs. The Rain Queens. The Mino Warriors. Hatshepsut’s reign. Everything Harriet Tubman ever did."

N.K. Jemisin

November 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM

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PseudoPod

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We promise you. It’s true.

Waterstones @waterstones.bsky.social · 12d

NEWS JUST IN! A new book will in fact solve all your problems

November 17, 2025 at 9:31 AM

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Debbie Gale Mitchell

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Nonfiction science new releases for November, 2025!
Which of these books are you adding to your TBR?

I am planning to read WHISPERS OF ROCK for science book club & I have already preordered GROWING PAPAYA TREES!

#nonfiction #booksky #science 🧪 #sciencebooks #womeninscience #nonfictionscience

A light-brown slide with the text "nonfiction science new releases November, 2025" along the top with a structure of morphine at the top right corner. 20 book covers are lined up in rows below the title:

GROWING PAPAYA TREES by Jessica Hernandez
THE NATURE OF FASHION by Carry Somers
THE WHISPERS OF ROCK by Anjana Khatwa
CRUSH by James Riordon
UNDER A METAL SKY by Phillip Marsden
THE BEaR AT THE BIRD FEEDER by Randi Minetor
SINK OR SWIM by Susannah Fisher
THE RANDOM UNIVERSE by Andrew Jaffe
THE GREAT BLACK SWAMP by Patrick Wensink
ELECTRIC LIFE by Sander Funneman
THE GREAT MATH WAR by Jason Socrates Bardi
HOW TO CHANGE A MEMORY by Steve Ramirez
DO ALIENS SPEAK PHYSICS by Daniel Whiteson
BETTERNOT BURN YOUR TOAST by Dr. Joe Schwarcz
THE SCIENCE OF PETS by Jay Ingram
TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES by Jonathan C Slaght
HIDDEN GUESTS by Lise Barncoud
THE BREATH OF THE GODS by Simon Winchester
NIGHTMARE OBSCURA by Michelle Carr
WHAT SHEEP THINK ABOUT THE WEATHER by Amelia Thomas

November 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM

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Mary

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Sunrise this morning. Cascade foothills. Have a beautiful day. 🧡

Sunrise. Deciduous tree bottom front with orange-yellow leaves and a dozen birds in the treetop, foggy landscape with layers of trees, rolling hills, a little cabin, mountains, orange-yellow sky with dark gray clouds mixed in.

November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM

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Tom Gauld

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My latest @newscientist.com cartoon.

p.s. my new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out now! Order from your local bookshop or online: www.tomgauld.com

Panel 1. Two scientists walking along. The first one says: I have opened a portal into an alternate universe that is an exact reflection of our own!

Panel 2. The second scientist looks into a technical portal and says WOW

Panel 3. A reflection of panel two. The reflected scientist's speech bubble still reads: WOW

Panel 4. A reflection of panel one. The text is all back to front.

November 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM

Bookish Linda

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So it turns out we really ARE living in a simulation—now what? Well, how about a road trip to view the “glitches”? When We Were Real by Daryl Gregory is a whole busload of fun with a slam-bang ending, and a lot to say about our (real) world. One of my top reads of 2025!
#ScifiMonth2025

Book cover: an illustration done in flat colors and very simple cartoony shapes. It depicts a black road winding across a flat salmon-pink plain, to end in a tunnel opening in some brown hills. A yellow sun is sinking behind the hills. The sky is the same pink color as the plain, and is dotted with white clouds. The plain itself is dotted with smaller white cloud shapes, but with four little black legs beneath each one—they look like fluffy sheep without heads or tails.

November 7, 2025 at 12:27 PM

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Thomas S Brown

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Good morning.
Kitty.
(also, books)

A vast gothic library overseen by a maine coon cat on a large stack of books. There is also a raven and the shadow of a dog. Pencil drawing with colour.

November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM

Bookish Linda

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The Fractured Europe series—five books!—is an all-time favorite, because it has everything I love most in a story: clever espionage, high-stakes sci-fi elements that become zanier as the series goes on, solid characters to root for, and thoughtful social commentary. Every re-read just gets better! 💖

Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 24d

So it’s the tenth birthday of Midnight, a book that was nearly but not quite a lot of things. Happy birthday, little book. Still looking good.

The cover of Europe at Midnight, by me. It’s blue and black and features two male profiles looking left and right either side of a railway line down which a train is approaching

November 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM

Bookish Linda

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Just read—The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of a Revolution by Marci Shore. A hard book to put down! After a brief recap of the causes, you're right there in the thick of the 2014 Revolution of Dignity, living it through the words of the protesters themselves. Phenomenal!

November 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM

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curious ordinary

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In honour of tonight's gorgeous full moon, here is one of my favourite Japanese prints 'Bat Before the Moon' by Biho Takashi (1910).
#JapaneseArt #FullMoon

A bat flies towards a huge full moon in the sky. The print has blue sky at the top that fades to white at the bottom.

August 19, 2024 at 11:08 AM

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Angry Robot Books

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"Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms."
Angela Carter

November 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM

Bookish Linda

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Ten science fiction titles off the top of my TBR. Laid out together this way, they look pretty inviting, don't they? So many spaceships!! 🚀
#ScifiMonth2025

A montage of covers of 10 science fiction books:
Hopeland by Ian McDonald
The Fourth Consort by Edward Ashton
Dark Space by Rob Hart and Alex Segura
Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Wreck of the River of Stars by Michael Flynn
A Pale Light in the Black by K. B. Wagers
The Martian Contingency by Mary Robinette Kowal
Ancient Shores by Jack McDevitt
Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds
Beyond the Hallowed Sky by Ken MacLeod
The Moon and the Other by John Kessel
The City Inside by Samit Basu

November 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM

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SciFiMonth

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Happy #ScifiMonth when we share our love of a favourite genre. It’s a casual cruise across galaxies and timelines this year, and we can’t wait to see where your travels take you!

As always we have daily prompts and Friday Fives plus a picture bingo and a read along of Ancillary Justice 🚀

November 1, 2025 at 8:29 AM

Bookish Linda

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‼️Shoutout to my mutuals around Puget Sound: with SNAP benefits (food stamps) about to be cut by the Trump administration, donations—of food, funds, or time—are greatly needed. Scroll to the bottom of this article for a good list of orgs you can donate to in our area.😇

As SNAP freeze looms, Washingtonians step up to help their neighbors

www.kuow.org

November 4, 2025 at 1:31 AM

Bookish Linda

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Book mail is the best mail! ✈️📦📚

Three books I really wanted to read that aren't published in the US, so I had to order them from the UK.

Photo of three hardcover books.
On the right is A Little Trickerie by Rosanna Pike. The cover features a shining golden sun against a rich blue background. The sun is made up of dozens of small faces surrounded by large golden halos. The faces are like those of angels or saints in medieval manuscripts, but dimly rendered in blue tones. One face stands out in full color, with golden hair, pale skin, and pink lips, looking off to the side (with a skeptical expression, I'd say).
Center book is Pagans by James Alastair Henry. A somewhat abstract illustration in black, white, and red, but the gist is a cityscape of tall buildings, with a rift down the center and a large red drop (of blood?) about to fall out of it onto two tiny silhouetted human figures. The blood drop contains a fragment of a Celtic knotwork design. Text under the title reads “Two cops. One killer. Hundreds of gods.”
Righthand book is Rainforest by Michelle Paver. Cover illustration is a view into a lush tropical forest, bright and colorful in the foreground but quickly fading into mysterious darkness farther in. The foreground includes ferns and flowers, a frog, a praying mantis, a blue butterfly, a blue, red, and yellow parrot…and a human skull with a green snake slithering out of one eyehole. Text above the title reads “The jungle watches. The dead remember.”

November 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM

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SciFiScavenger

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If you're not feeling like you've bought too many books, are you even doing it right?

November 2, 2025 at 8:51 AM

Bookish Linda

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We had some rain.

Joseph Renalds @josephrenalds.bsky.social · 27d

Snoqualmie Falls 📸

4PM yesterday VS 3PM today
#wawx

November 2, 2025 at 7:43 PM

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Pacer

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The sights and sound of November in the PNW, looking out a bedroom window facing our front yard.

Yellow tree leaves = Persian ironwood. Red/orange tree leaves = Red Sunset & Autumn Flame maples.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Autumn #PNW #November #Seattle #RakingLeaves #WaitingForThePowerToGoOutAgain