Amalia Zeichnerin<p>I wish I could talk about a new book for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RandomBookClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RandomBookClub</span></a>, but atm, I have zero capacities for reading in my leisure time, because I have to read a lot professionally, for editing jobs. Meanwhile, my book wishlist keeps growing and I have no idea when to read all of that. 🙈 </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a></p>
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v_i_o_l_a<p>sommerleseempfehlungen aus dem newsletter vom <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://openbiblio.social/@bibverband" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bibverband</span></a></span>: <br>Summer 2025 Picks for Adults der New York Public Library:<br><a href="https://www.nypl.org/books-more/recommendations/staff-picks/adults" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nypl.org/books-more/recommenda</span><span class="invisible">tions/staff-picks/adults</span></a><br>Sommerbücher 2025 von dzb lesen:<br><a href="https://www.dzblesen.de/buchtipps-sommer-2025" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dzblesen.de/buchtipps-sommer-2</span><span class="invisible">025</span></a><br>und eine nette liste der NYT:<br><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DKZxCqxROID/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">instagram.com/p/DKZxCqxROID/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/RandomBookClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RandomBookClub</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/fedibooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fedibooks</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/booksofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>booksofmastodon</span></a></p>
v_i_o_l_a<p>bücher 4–6/2025: <a href="https://www.x-v-x.de/blog/?p=14714" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">x-v-x.de/blog/?p=14714</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/2025reads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>2025reads</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/RandomBookClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RandomBookClub</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/fedibooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fedibooks</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a></p>
Columbia<p>New 📚 <a href="https://literatur.social/tags/bookinthefridge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookinthefridge</span></a>: Kaliane Bradley – The Ministry of Time. </p><p>Eine zeitüberspannende Romanze eingebettet in einen bürokratischen Behördenthriller, historische Figuren beim Einleben in die moderne Zeit, Verflechtung von unterschiedlichen Perspektiven auf das Thema Zeitreisen. Eine wilde Mischung, die unterhält und gleichzeitig nachdenklich stimmt.</p><p><a href="https://booksinthefridge.at/2025/07/05/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">booksinthefridge.at/2025/07/05/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://literatur.social/tags/2025reads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>2025reads</span></a> <a href="https://literatur.social/tags/RandomBookClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RandomBookClub</span></a></p>
Columbia<p>New 📚 <a href="https://literatur.social/tags/bookinthefridge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookinthefridge</span></a>: Walter Mosley – Devil in a Blue Dress.</p><p>Ein Roman Noir, dessen Handlung sich 1948 in Los Angeles abspielt, was ihn zu einem guten Rechercheobjekt für mich machte. Ein interessanter Protagonist, gleichzeitig moralisch, menschlich und fehlbar. Mit Fortsetzungen ;-)</p><p>Im Anhang der Buchbesprechung ein Bericht zu den aktuellen Ausstellungen des Zentrums für Kunst und Medien (ZKM) in Karlsruhe mit vielen Fotos.</p><p><a href="https://booksinthefridge.at/2025/06/28/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">booksinthefridge.at/2025/06/28/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://literatur.social/tags/2025reads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>2025reads</span></a> <a href="https://literatur.social/tags/RandomBookClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RandomBookClub</span></a></p>
Amalia Zeichnerin<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RandomBookClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RandomBookClub</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Summerween" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Summerween</span></a> edition:</p><p>"The Carrow Haunt" by Darcy Coates<br>This is a rather long novel, but I felt highly entertained. Some choices the characters make are a bit questionable, in other cases I could hardly stop my suspension of disbelief, but all in all this was okay in my eyes. <br>My only point of critique is the romance which was shoe-horned in here, it was very unnecessary and not very believable imho.<br>The author's page of the book:<br><a href="https://darcycoates.com/books/the-carrow-haunt/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">darcycoates.com/books/the-carr</span><span class="invisible">ow-haunt/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>horror</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hauntedhouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hauntedhouse</span></a></p>
Amalia Zeichnerin<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RandomBookClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RandomBookClub</span></a> </p><p>Finished "Dead Lake" by Darcy Coates today, a novel with ca. 250 pages. Since I started yesterday, I could hardly put it down. I expected a murder mystery/thriller, which it is, but there are also some supernatural elements. And I won't say more because of spoilers. It was really suspenseful to me. 😊 Only point of critique: I noticed a few logical mistakes. (I work as an editor.) But they were small & didn't kill my joy of reading this.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/2025reads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>2025reads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/thriller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thriller</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>horror</span></a></p>
Amalia Zeichnerin<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RandomBookClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RandomBookClub</span></a> <br>Book recommendation: You want to read about witches, but not the over-the-top spectacular fantasy ones, instead depicted rather realistically, modern witches? With <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/diversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diversity</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>queer</span></a> characters and activism topics?<br>I can recommend the series "The Witches of Portland" by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@thorncoyle" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>thorncoyle</span></a></span> </p><p>More details: <a href="https://www.thorncoyle.com/series/the-witches-of-portland" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thorncoyle.com/series/the-witc</span><span class="invisible">hes-of-portland</span></a></p><p> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/witch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>witch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/witchesInFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>witchesInFiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/witchcraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>witchcraft</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UrbanFantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UrbanFantasy</span></a></p>
Monk<p>Contento. Estos primeros capítulos transmiten un vacío increíble al nivel de civilización, también es interesante ver líneas evolutivas diferentes. <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/clubdelectura" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>clubdelectura</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/bookclub" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bookclub</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/randombookclub" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>randombookclub</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>scifi</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bookstodon.thestorygraph.com/@thestorygraph" class="u-url mention">@<span>thestorygraph</span></a></span> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Neiva" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Neiva</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bookstodon</span></a></p>
Amalia Zeichnerin<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ni.hil.ist/@mutinyc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mutinyc</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.wurzelmann.at/@mimrma" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mimrma</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> </p><p>Yes, thanks for mentioning it - <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RandomBookClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RandomBookClub</span></a> is now open for every day of the week, but so far, not many people use it (at least as I have seen so far). Michaela, feel free to share your reviews with this hashtag, if you like.</p>
Monk<p>Acá retomando e imaginando lo esencial de nuestros recuerdos para nuestra identidad. Bienvenidos al buddy read <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/bookclub" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bookclub</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/clubdelectura" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>clubdelectura</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/randombookclub" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>randombookclub</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://app.thestorygraph.com/buddy_reads/2be1e692-0a47-4fb0-8580-a17f842fafad" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">app.thestorygraph.com/buddy_re</span><span class="invisible">ads/2be1e692-0a47-4fb0-8580-a17f842fafad</span></a></p>
v_i_o_l_a<p>"while the light lasts". a collection of short stories by agatha christie. not all of them are crime novels. and the last one, giving the book its title, has "haunted" me for a while – "While the light lasts I shall remember, and in the darkness I shall not forget” ...<br><a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/2025reads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>2025reads</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/RandomBookClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RandomBookClub</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/fedibooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fedibooks</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a></p>
Amalia Zeichnerin<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RandomBookClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RandomBookClub</span></a> </p><p>I started reading "Silver Nitrate", a horror novel by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, set in Mexico City in den 1990s.<br>I got curious about it when a bookblogger recommended it.</p><p>More about the novel:<br><a href="https://silviamoreno-garcia.com/writing/silver-nitrate/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">silviamoreno-garcia.com/writin</span><span class="invisible">g/silver-nitrate/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/2025reads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>2025reads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SilverNitrate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SilverNitrate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>book</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/horrornovel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>horrornovel</span></a></p>
Amalia Zeichnerin<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RandomBookClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RandomBookClub</span></a> </p><p>I finished "The Broken Girls" by Simone St. James and can recommend it. It's a very atmospheric mystery, set in two timelines (1950 in a boarding school for girls and 2014 in a small town in Vermont).<br>In my eyes, it also has some gothic-novel-ish vibes because there is a supernatural element included.</p><p>More about the book:<br><a href="https://www.simonestjames.com/broken-girls" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">simonestjames.com/broken-girls</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mystery</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gothicnovel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gothicnovel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gothic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gothic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/2025reads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>2025reads</span></a></p>
Amalia Zeichnerin<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RandomBookClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RandomBookClub</span></a> </p><p>I started reading the thriller "The Broken Girls" by Simone St. James. So far, my impression is good.</p><p>(Blurb in the next toot)</p><p>1/2<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/2025reads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>2025reads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/thriller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thriller</span></a></p>
Amalia Zeichnerin<p>I have now read ca. 73 % of "Home Before Dark" by Riley Sager and there is a good plot twist. However, a thing I do not like: Strange, inexplicable things happen at the haunted house (as can be expected in this genre). But then, they keep happening again and again and at some point, to me this feels rather repetitive and not scary anymore.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RandomBookClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RandomBookClub</span></a></p>
Amalia Zeichnerin<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RandomBookClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RandomBookClub</span></a> </p><p>I started reading "Home Before Dark" by Riley Sager yesterday, a Haunted House novel and so far, I am enjoying it (blurb in the picture).<br>You might argue it's not really the season for scary stories, but I am a goth and I like my horror and ghost stories and such all year long. 👻 </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/goth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>goth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HauntedHouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HauntedHouse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HorrorNovel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HorrorNovel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/2025reads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>2025reads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/readingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>readingcommunity</span></a></p>
v_i_o_l_a<p>today I started reading "Death on the Down Beat: An Orchestral Fantasy of Detection", a novel from the British Library Crime Classics colleection. it is constructed as a epistolary novel, which makes for an interesting change to "normal" crime novels.<br><a href="https://shop.bl.uk/products/death-on-the-down-beat-an-orchestral-fantasy-of-detection" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">shop.bl.uk/products/death-on-t</span><span class="invisible">he-down-beat-an-orchestral-fantasy-of-detection</span></a><br><a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/RandomBookClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RandomBookClub</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/2025reads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>2025reads</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/cozycrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cozycrime</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/musicinliterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>musicinliterature</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/fedibooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fedibooks</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a></p>
Monk<p>Excelente libro, un final tipo 100 Mt planos. <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/asimov" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>asimov</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/bookclub" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bookclub</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/clubdelectura" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>clubdelectura</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/randombookclub" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>randombookclub</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>scifi</span></a></p>
Mauricio<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/asimov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>asimov</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/findelaeternidad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>findelaeternidad</span></a> excelente por ahora! Veremos si aterriza igual!!! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bookclub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookclub</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/clubdelectura" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>clubdelectura</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/paradox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>paradox</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RandomBookClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RandomBookClub</span></a></p>
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