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Hello everyone,
Mastodonbooks has a new home on this server as well as a new website.
Say hello to Book!BlaBla, a curated list of amazing books by creative authors from around the world. This is just a new chapter in an endless love for books and creative writing.
I will start the transfer shortly to our new home at:
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See you there,
Roger
📚 Lessons in Chemistry by: Bonnie Garmus
Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality....
https://bookblabla.com/book/lessons-in-chemistry
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #feministfiction #humorous #generalfiction #literary
📚 Hole in the Sky by: Daniel H. Wilson
On the Great Plains of Oklahoma, in the heart of the Cherokee Nation, a strange atmospheric disturbance is noticed by Jim Hardgray, a down-on-his-luck single father trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter, Tawny. At NASA’s headquarters in Houston, Texas, astrophysicist Dr. ...
https://bookblabla.com/book/hole-in-the-sky
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #sciencefiction #thrillers #suspensefiction #indigenous
📚 Wonder by: R. J. Palacio
I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.
August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid—but his new classmates can’t get...
📚 Flesh by: David Szalay
Teenaged István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. Shy and new in town, he is a stranger to the social rituals practiced by his classmates and is soon isolated, drawn instead into a series of events that leave him forever a stranger to peers, his mother, and himself. In the y...
https://bookblabla.com/book/flesh
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #literaryfiction #familylife #generalfiction #friendship
📚 Enshittification by: Cory Doctorow
Enshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.
We’re living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit. It’s frustra...
https://bookblabla.com/book/enshittification
#books #reading #libraries #businesseconomics #internet #popularculture
📚 1Q84 by: Haruki Murakami
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.
A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84, Q is for question mark. A world that bears a question.” Meanwhile, an as...
https://bookblabla.com/book/1q84
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #literaryfiction #dystopian
To the Moon and Back (Reese's Book Club) by: Eliana Ramage
A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK: “A breathtaking debut about family, identity, and love across generations.” —REESE WITHERSPOON
“Eliana Ramage will break your heart and take you to the stars. From painfully accurate depictions of adolescence to effortless jumps through time and space—I loved it all.”...
https://bookblabla.com/book/to-the-moon-and-back-reeses-book-club
𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗯𝗶𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗯𝘆: An Yu
As the sun starts slowly disappearing, the residents of a remote town in the desert find themselves undergoing shocking transformations in this dazzlingly eerie and bewitching novel...
𝗔 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗧𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝘀 by J.B. Kish
A swarm of American honey bees migrates its way across the US. Without warning, the mass begins descending upon unknowing residences, trapping entire families inside their homes. With three families dead, nobody knows exactly who's next. No one, that is, except Hugh Sistard. In fact, Hugh’s fairly certain the swarm is heading his way...
https://bookblabla.com/book/a-wall-for-teeth-and-stingers-a-novel
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