Martha Steele

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A radio professional, Podcaster with 3 Book Girls, extreme book lover, sci fi geek, and compassionate sweary old broad. I'm a happily married atheist blue dot OKC in a red state. Newbie to this platform #books #reading #read #audiobook #3BookGirls #podcast #amreading #MoreBooksPlease #booktoot #fossils #geology

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My 2022 Books of the year by genre: (thread)

Best Overall: Thrust, Lidia Yuknavitch
Mystery Thriller: Jackal, Erin E. Adams
Historical Fiction (tie):
Hester, Laurie Lico Albanese
Four Treasures of The Sky, Jenny Tinghui Zhang
Fantasy: Babel, R.F. Kuang
Sci-fi: Goliath, Tochi Onyebuchi
Horror: The Fervor, Alma Katsu
Humor: Shit Cassandra Saw, Gwen E. Kirby
Satire: No One Left to Come Looking for You, Sam Lipsyte
Nonfiction: Allow Me to Retort, Elie Mystal

I am enjoying everyone's lists of "Six books to get to know me."
Mine:

1) Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
2) Slade House, David Mitchell
3) St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised by Wolves, Karen Russell
4) The Broken Earth Trilogy, NK Jemisin
5) Exhalation, Ted Chiang
6) The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami

#books #bookstodon #fiction #reading

At Possum Woods Nature Area, in St Louis County. That's the Meramec River in between the trees.
Please enjoy this AI-generated portrayal of Krampus and Santa Claus in a passionate, manly embrace. This is the energy we need to carry us into the holidays.
Since I have not told this story on Mastodon, and have never told it threaded:

Welcome to the latest edition of

The Tolkienist's Tolkienists List [TTTL] 😂

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Updates as the occasion arises!

Here, have a photo of me unboxing the German 'Hobbit' radio play vinyl edition. 😇

Reading and Tooting in bed this morning. Still home sick. But hey, READING! Made myself a brown sugar cinnamon latte in my Cirque cup too. 🥰 Happy Friday everyone!

#AmReading #Bookstodon #FridayFeeling #Coffee #TGIF

@raccoonformality I literally looked like this while doing that last night.
I think this stubby squid (Rossia pacifica) will do nicely as a first post:

Today my darlings
see the good reasons for life
let them dwell in you

~~~~~

The smoke of old fires
can no longer burn your eyes
way ahead is clear

#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #NativeAmericanMemorialDay #AmericanThanksgiving #Reclamation #BIPOC #Indigenous #NativeAmerican #NDN #FirstNation #haiku #senryu #poetry