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The New York Times recommends THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER among "The Best Historical Fiction Novels to Read Right Now." @nytimes.com suggests the novel, a finalist for the National Book Award, for the reader who says, "I'd like an affecting, surprising family drama."
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November 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The New York Times recommends THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER among "The Best Historical Fiction Novels to Read Right Now." @nytimes.com suggests the novel, a finalist for the National Book Award, for the reader who says, "I'd like an affecting, surprising family drama."
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Annoucing A Year with #IrisMurdoch for 2026! #irismurdoch26 #irishliterature 746books.com/2025/11/14/a... via @cathy746books
Annoucing A Year with Iris Murdoch for 2026!
I’m delighted to once again join forces with Kim from Reading Matters during 2026 for a Year With Iris Murdoch! This will be our fourth year jointly exploring the work of one Irish writer…
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November 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Annoucing A Year with #IrisMurdoch for 2026! #irismurdoch26 #irishliterature 746books.com/2025/11/14/a... via @cathy746books
#HYH26: Hundred Years Hence Reading Challenge
#TBR #books published in 1926!
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#TBR #books published in 1926!
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#HYH26: Hundred Years Hence Reading Challenge
This year saw the launch of the a Reading Challenge hosted by me. Time to announce the second edition of the Hundred Years Hence challenge for 2026. Things are the same. All you have to do to parti…
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November 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
#HYH26: Hundred Years Hence Reading Challenge
#TBR #books published in 1926!
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#TBR #books published in 1926!
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[Insider] Japan's Kōmeitō and its Soka Gakkai base had long felt underappreciated by the LDP. In national races, Soka Gakkai volunteers campaigned for LDP candidates where Kōmeitō had none. Over time, that reciprocity began to fray.
[Insider] The LDP/Kōmeitō Breakup: How Japan Fell Into Political Freefall - Unseen Japan
After 26 years together, the LDP and Kōmeitō have split. That leaves the looming question: What comes next?
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November 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
[Insider] Japan's Kōmeitō and its Soka Gakkai base had long felt underappreciated by the LDP. In national races, Soka Gakkai volunteers campaigned for LDP candidates where Kōmeitō had none. Over time, that reciprocity began to fray.
#SciFiMonth2025 #bookhooks
#scifimonth
#firstlineFriday
#bookbeginnings
#Friday56
The Hopkins Manuscript, by #RCSherriff #scifi
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#scifimonth
#firstlineFriday
#bookbeginnings
#Friday56
The Hopkins Manuscript, by #RCSherriff #scifi
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#SciFiMonth 2025: Friday Book Hooks #1
The Friday Book Hooks #1 #bookhooks #scifimonth 2025 #firstlineFriday #bookbeginnings #Friday56 📚 📚 📚 I used to particpate in First Line Friday, Book Beginnings, and Friday 56. Adele @ Adele Bound…
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November 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM
#SciFiMonth2025 #bookhooks
#scifimonth
#firstlineFriday
#bookbeginnings
#Friday56
The Hopkins Manuscript, by #RCSherriff #scifi
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#scifimonth
#firstlineFriday
#bookbeginnings
#Friday56
The Hopkins Manuscript, by #RCSherriff #scifi
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#scifimonth #scifimonth2025 #scifi
Nov 13 prompt: Add to Ship’s Library, my biggest rec at the moment
The Hopkins Manuscript by #RCSherriff wordsandpeace.com/2025/11/09/b...
Nov 13 prompt: Add to Ship’s Library, my biggest rec at the moment
The Hopkins Manuscript by #RCSherriff wordsandpeace.com/2025/11/09/b...
Book review: The Hopkins Manuscript
MY VERDICT: More than a science fiction novel about a lunar catastrophe, The Hopkins Manuscript is a profound exploration of what makes us human—for better and for worse.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
#scifimonth #scifimonth2025 #scifi
Nov 13 prompt: Add to Ship’s Library, my biggest rec at the moment
The Hopkins Manuscript by #RCSherriff wordsandpeace.com/2025/11/09/b...
Nov 13 prompt: Add to Ship’s Library, my biggest rec at the moment
The Hopkins Manuscript by #RCSherriff wordsandpeace.com/2025/11/09/b...
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Happy Thursday! In honor of #SciFiMonth2025, today's neglected Books From The Backlog is Blade Dancer by S.L. Viehl. Have you read this book or would you recommend it to me? #booksky #bookblogger @scifimonth.bsky.social never-anyone-else.blogspot.com/2025/11/scif...
November 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Happy Thursday! In honor of #SciFiMonth2025, today's neglected Books From The Backlog is Blade Dancer by S.L. Viehl. Have you read this book or would you recommend it to me? #booksky #bookblogger @scifimonth.bsky.social never-anyone-else.blogspot.com/2025/11/scif...
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Celebrating Robert Louis Stevenson today! His exploration of the duality within us is haunting yet beautiful. It reminds me to embrace all parts of ourselves. Stories like his are a refuge. #WriterSky #BookSky #BOTD
It is Robert Louis Stevenson's birthday.
He was among the first storytellers to write about the duality of individuals - and how horrific that duality can be:
#WriterSky #BookSky #BOTD
He was among the first storytellers to write about the duality of individuals - and how horrific that duality can be:
#WriterSky #BookSky #BOTD
November 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Celebrating Robert Louis Stevenson today! His exploration of the duality within us is haunting yet beautiful. It reminds me to embrace all parts of ourselves. Stories like his are a refuge. #WriterSky #BookSky #BOTD
#nonficnov #Book #review: Entangled Life: How #Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures by #MerlinSheldrake #mushrooms #nonfiction wordsandpeace.com/2025/11/13/b...
Book review: Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures
MY VERDICT: Mind-blowing fungi science meets gorgeous nature writing. You will learn something fascinating on every page.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
#nonficnov #Book #review: Entangled Life: How #Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures by #MerlinSheldrake #mushrooms #nonfiction wordsandpeace.com/2025/11/13/b...
#WWWWednesday
Last #book I finished: La Guerre des mouches, by #JacquesSpitz
#Amreading: A Streetcar Named Desire, by #TennesseeWilliams
#Amlistening to: Slan, by #AEvanVogt
#TBR Reading next: The Secret Life of the Owl, by #JohnLewisStempel
Last #book I finished: La Guerre des mouches, by #JacquesSpitz
#Amreading: A Streetcar Named Desire, by #TennesseeWilliams
#Amlistening to: Slan, by #AEvanVogt
#TBR Reading next: The Secret Life of the Owl, by #JohnLewisStempel
November 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
#WWWWednesday
Last #book I finished: La Guerre des mouches, by #JacquesSpitz
#Amreading: A Streetcar Named Desire, by #TennesseeWilliams
#Amlistening to: Slan, by #AEvanVogt
#TBR Reading next: The Secret Life of the Owl, by #JohnLewisStempel
Last #book I finished: La Guerre des mouches, by #JacquesSpitz
#Amreading: A Streetcar Named Desire, by #TennesseeWilliams
#Amlistening to: Slan, by #AEvanVogt
#TBR Reading next: The Secret Life of the Owl, by #JohnLewisStempel
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Happy #MusicMonday! Today I'm featuring my favorite pieces from the soundtrack of #Murderbot on Apple TV+ for #SciFiMonth. @scifimonth.bsky.social #musicsky #bookblogger never-anyone-else.blogspot.com/2025/11/sci-...
Sci-Fi Month 2025 - Music Monday: Murderbot
Happy Music Monday everyone! In honor of SciFi Month 2025 (Image credit: Artwork by Yuriy Nedopekin ) , all this November I'm sharin...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Happy #MusicMonday! Today I'm featuring my favorite pieces from the soundtrack of #Murderbot on Apple TV+ for #SciFiMonth. @scifimonth.bsky.social #musicsky #bookblogger never-anyone-else.blogspot.com/2025/11/sci-...
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Day 10: the friends we made on the way - damn right your co-captains would like to take this excuse to say a huge LOVE YOU to our crew past and present who’ve celebrated #ScifiMonth with us over the years 💖🚀
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Day 10: the friends we made on the way - damn right your co-captains would like to take this excuse to say a huge LOVE YOU to our crew past and present who’ve celebrated #ScifiMonth with us over the years 💖🚀
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This year's #ScifiMonth read-along is Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. I'm excited to revisit the Imperial Radch - this week, we're discussing the first 6 chapters
Ancillary Justice: week one
This year, we're returning to Ann Leckie's much-awarded debut for our ScifiMonth read-along. The Justice of Toren is a Radchaai troop carrier, bringing her cargo of ancillaries - once-human soldiers, now mere bodies slaved to her consciousness - to its new conquests. Trouble is stirring at the empire's edges that will one day lead to sole ancillary leaving the Radch in search of a weapon that can kill its millennia-long leader Anaander Mianaai.
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November 11, 2025 at 10:23 AM
This year's #ScifiMonth read-along is Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. I'm excited to revisit the Imperial Radch - this week, we're discussing the first 6 chapters
#SciFiMonth 2025: #ScienceFiction A-Z
#toptentuesday sort of!
Have you read any of these #scifi?https://wordsandpeace.com/2025/11/11/scifimonth-2025-science-fiction-a-z/
#toptentuesday sort of!
Have you read any of these #scifi?https://wordsandpeace.com/2025/11/11/scifimonth-2025-science-fiction-a-z/
#SciFiMonth 2025: Science-Fiction A-Z
Science-Fiction A-Z #scifimonth 2025 📚 📚 📚 Disclaimer: I post this on a Tuesday, it doesn’t completey work for Top Ten Tuesday, not even double 10 lol. Still, some Top Ten Tuesday readers ma…
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November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
#SciFiMonth 2025: #ScienceFiction A-Z
#toptentuesday sort of!
Have you read any of these #scifi?https://wordsandpeace.com/2025/11/11/scifimonth-2025-science-fiction-a-z/
#toptentuesday sort of!
Have you read any of these #scifi?https://wordsandpeace.com/2025/11/11/scifimonth-2025-science-fiction-a-z/
On the importance of the #Eucharist in our spiritual life.
youtu.be/q98DKZv-CHY?...
Based on St #Nicodemos: Concerning Frequent Communion;
on Father Alexander #Schemann's Holy Things for the Holy.
Links to these books posted here, check November 9, 2025:
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Based on St #Nicodemos: Concerning Frequent Communion;
on Father Alexander #Schemann's Holy Things for the Holy.
Links to these books posted here, check November 9, 2025:
saintinnocent.net/audio-resour...
Father Michael, on the importance of the Eucharist in our spiritual life
YouTube video by SaintInnocentOrthodoxChurch
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November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
On the importance of the #Eucharist in our spiritual life.
youtu.be/q98DKZv-CHY?...
Based on St #Nicodemos: Concerning Frequent Communion;
on Father Alexander #Schemann's Holy Things for the Holy.
Links to these books posted here, check November 9, 2025:
saintinnocent.net/audio-resour...
youtu.be/q98DKZv-CHY?...
Based on St #Nicodemos: Concerning Frequent Communion;
on Father Alexander #Schemann's Holy Things for the Holy.
Links to these books posted here, check November 9, 2025:
saintinnocent.net/audio-resour...
#MurderEveryMonday
The Man/The Woman: 2 titles in French, 2 in English
Check my reviews here: wordsandpeace.com/2025/11/10/m...
The Man/The Woman: 2 titles in French, 2 in English
Check my reviews here: wordsandpeace.com/2025/11/10/m...
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
#MurderEveryMonday
The Man/The Woman: 2 titles in French, 2 in English
Check my reviews here: wordsandpeace.com/2025/11/10/m...
The Man/The Woman: 2 titles in French, 2 in English
Check my reviews here: wordsandpeace.com/2025/11/10/m...
#Scifimonth #ccbookreviews #Book #review The Hopkins Manuscript by #RCSherriff
MY VERDICT:
More than a science fiction novel about a lunar catastrophe, The Hopkins Manuscript is a profound exploration of what makes us human—for better and for worse.
wordsandpeace.com/2025/11/09/b...
MY VERDICT:
More than a science fiction novel about a lunar catastrophe, The Hopkins Manuscript is a profound exploration of what makes us human—for better and for worse.
wordsandpeace.com/2025/11/09/b...
Book review: The Hopkins Manuscript
MY VERDICT: More than a science fiction novel about a lunar catastrophe, The Hopkins Manuscript is a profound exploration of what makes us human—for better and for worse.
wordsandpeace.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
#Scifimonth #ccbookreviews #Book #review The Hopkins Manuscript by #RCSherriff
MY VERDICT:
More than a science fiction novel about a lunar catastrophe, The Hopkins Manuscript is a profound exploration of what makes us human—for better and for worse.
wordsandpeace.com/2025/11/09/b...
MY VERDICT:
More than a science fiction novel about a lunar catastrophe, The Hopkins Manuscript is a profound exploration of what makes us human—for better and for worse.
wordsandpeace.com/2025/11/09/b...
#scifimonth2025
Nov 8 prompt: #scifi you’ve read since last #scifimonth
Cyborg Fever, by #LaurieSheck wordsandpeace.com/2025/05/30/b...
Nov 8 prompt: #scifi you’ve read since last #scifimonth
Cyborg Fever, by #LaurieSheck wordsandpeace.com/2025/05/30/b...
Book review: Cyborg Fever
MY VERDICT: Labyrinthine fever dreams meet hard science. Real genius minds, AI, cyborgs, and the ultimate question: what is the meaning of it all? A mind-bending and eye-opening tour de force.
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November 8, 2025 at 11:20 PM
#scifimonth2025
Nov 8 prompt: #scifi you’ve read since last #scifimonth
Cyborg Fever, by #LaurieSheck wordsandpeace.com/2025/05/30/b...
Nov 8 prompt: #scifi you’ve read since last #scifimonth
Cyborg Fever, by #LaurieSheck wordsandpeace.com/2025/05/30/b...
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#NonfictionNovember is underway! Join in the week 2 fun #ChoosingNonfiction is hosted by Frances @ Volatile Rune #NonficNov #Nonfiction #read#nonficbooks #readingchallenge #ReadNonFicChal #books #bookreview #bookblogger #BookSky
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Nonfiction November 2025: Choosing Nonfiction
Dates: 11/3-11/9Host: Frances at Volatile RuneTitle: Choosing NonfictionThere are many topics to choose from when looking for a nonfiction book. For example: Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, Tra…
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November 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
#NonfictionNovember is underway! Join in the week 2 fun #ChoosingNonfiction is hosted by Frances @ Volatile Rune #NonficNov #Nonfiction #read#nonficbooks #readingchallenge #ReadNonFicChal #books #bookreview #bookblogger #BookSky
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In the mail: very excited to see ARC of 𝑆𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑑: 𝐸𝑥𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑦𝑤𝑜𝑜𝑑, a "mock epic" (yes, it's in verse !), by Alexander Voloshin (tr. @bdralyuk.bsky.social ), coming from @pauldrybooks.bsky.social (4/2026) www.pauldrybooks.com/products/sid...
Sidetracked: Exile in Hollywood
Translation and Introduction by Boris Dralyuk98-page paperback / 5.5" x 8.5" / ISBN 9781589882126Publication Date: 4/21/2026 (available for preorder)The first English translation of a 1953 mock epic o...
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November 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
In the mail: very excited to see ARC of 𝑆𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑑: 𝐸𝑥𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑦𝑤𝑜𝑜𝑑, a "mock epic" (yes, it's in verse !), by Alexander Voloshin (tr. @bdralyuk.bsky.social ), coming from @pauldrybooks.bsky.social (4/2026) www.pauldrybooks.com/products/sid...
#nonficnov #Book review: A Little Tour in #France #nonfiction #travelogue by #HenryJames wordsandpeace.com/2025/11/08/b...
Book review: A Little Tour in France
MY VERDICT: Witty and brutally honest travelogue in France. It’s like traveling with your most cultured, judgmental friend.
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November 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
#nonficnov #Book review: A Little Tour in #France #nonfiction #travelogue by #HenryJames wordsandpeace.com/2025/11/08/b...
#NonficNov Choosing #nonfiction
No real plan except reading all of Mary Oliver's poetry right now. Otherwise, it's what I see at the library e.g. in GN nonfic, or interest of the moment (mushrooms, birds).
In 2026, hoping to listen to more nonfiction - see what's available from my TBR at my library
No real plan except reading all of Mary Oliver's poetry right now. Otherwise, it's what I see at the library e.g. in GN nonfic, or interest of the moment (mushrooms, birds).
In 2026, hoping to listen to more nonfiction - see what's available from my TBR at my library
November 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
#NonficNov Choosing #nonfiction
No real plan except reading all of Mary Oliver's poetry right now. Otherwise, it's what I see at the library e.g. in GN nonfic, or interest of the moment (mushrooms, birds).
In 2026, hoping to listen to more nonfiction - see what's available from my TBR at my library
No real plan except reading all of Mary Oliver's poetry right now. Otherwise, it's what I see at the library e.g. in GN nonfic, or interest of the moment (mushrooms, birds).
In 2026, hoping to listen to more nonfiction - see what's available from my TBR at my library
#scifimonth #scifimonth2025 #scifi
Nov 6 prompt: Critters
#amreading a scifi novel with #flies used as killers!
Nov 6 prompt: Critters
#amreading a scifi novel with #flies used as killers!
November 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
#scifimonth #scifimonth2025 #scifi
Nov 6 prompt: Critters
#amreading a scifi novel with #flies used as killers!
Nov 6 prompt: Critters
#amreading a scifi novel with #flies used as killers!