#Thomas Dunne Books

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Review: The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

Author: Alan WeismanPublisher: Thomas Dunne BooksReleased: July 10, 2007Received: Own Goodreads | More Fiction Reviews Book Summary: What would happen to the world if humans suddenly disappeared? This is hardly a new question, but Alan Weisman has set out to answer this question once and for all. In writing this novel, Weisman approached experts from all sorts of fields to create an evocative…

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Mid-August riff; some books acquired, etc.

The last two weeks flew by. My kids went back to school this week; they are attending the same school for the first time since elementary school, my own dear mother, that school, and I am relieved, if only temporarily from driving duties. We are making pizzas in an hour or two to celebrate the first Friday of their school year (we make pizzas every Friday as a nifty fridge clearing activity, but…

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part 2 of the 2023 version of this post: young adult books!

part 1: middle grade books | part 3: adult books

this is a very incomplete list, as these are only books I've read and enjoyed. not all books are going to be for all readers, so I'd recommend looking up synopses and content warnings. feel free to message me with any questions about specific representation!

list of books under the cut ⬇���

aces wild by amanda dewitt

the chandler legacies by abdi nazemian

bruised by tanya boteju

juliet takes a breath by gabby rivera

picture us in the light by kelly loy gilbert

when we were magic by sarah gailey

iron widow by xiran jay zhao

the rise of kyoshi by f.c. yee

jane unlimited by kristin cashore

summer of salt by katrina leno

the wicker king by k. ancrum

the dead and the dark by courtney gould

wilder girls by rory power

i kissed shara wheeler by casey mcquiston

her royal highness by rachel hawkins

tell me how you really feel by aminah mae safi

the weight of the stars by k. ancrum

you should see me in a crown by leah johnson

last night at the telegraph club by malinda lo

the grief keeper by alexandra villasante

crier's war by nina varela

how to excavate a heart by jake maia arlow

imogen, obviously by becky albertalli

in other lands by sarah rees brennan

carry on by rainbow rowell

cemetery boys by aiden thomas

felix ever after by kacen callendar

i wish you all the best by mason deaver

little thieves by margaret owen

technically you started it by lana wood johnson

the gentleman's guide to vice and virtue by mackenzi lee

the infinite noise by lauren shippen

bonds of brass by emily skrutskie

the darkness outside us by eliot schrefer

simon vs. the homo sapiens agenda by becky albertalli

what if it's us by becky albertalli and adam silvera

aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe by benjamin alire sáenz

like a love story by abdi nazemian

different for boys by patrick ness

history is all you left me by adam silvera

twelfth grade night by molly horton booth, stephanie kate strohm, and jamie green

across a field of starlight by blue delliquanti

heartstopper by alice oseman

check, please! by ngozi ukazu

bloom by kevin panetta and savanna ganucheau

laura dean keeps breaking up with me by mariko tamaki and rosemary valero-o'connell

the princess and the grilled cheese sandwich by deya muniz

if you'll have me by eunnie

on a sunbeam by tillie walden

the girl from the sea by molly knox ostertag

always human by ari north

rust in the root by justina ireland

dread nation by justina ireland

pet by awkwaeke emezi

the darkest part of the forest by holly black

elatsoe by darcie little badger

i was born for this by alice oseman

loveless by alice oseman

i hate everyone but you by gaby dunn and allison raskin

you know me well by nina lacour and david levithan

the black flamingo by dean atta

spinning by tillie walden

dreadnought by april daniels

a lesson in vengeance by victoria lee

all the bad apples by moira fowley-doyle

clap when you land by elizabeth acevedo

summer bird blue by akemi dawn bowman

the miseducation of cameron post by emily m. danforth

we are okay by nina lacour

radio silence by alice oseman

we used to be friends by amy spalding

a neon darkness by lauren shippen

i hope you get this message by farah naz rishi

are you listening? by tillie walden

alone in space by tillie walden

all out edited by saundra mitchell

out now edited by saundra mitchell

out there edited by saundra mitchell

[dk-thrive]

There is a time in late September when the leaves are still green, and the days are still warm, but somehow you know that it is all about to end, as if summer was holding its breath, and when it let it out again, it would be autumn.

— Sharyn Mccrumb, King’s Mountain (Thomas Dunne Books, September 24, 2013

[aroaessidhe]

An employee within the marketing department of Wednesday Books, an imprint of St Martins Press, which is an imprint of Macmillan, has made numerous posts with racist and Islamophobic rhetoric amid the genocide of Palestinians, and the publisher has been silent for months. This employee is also in charge of sending arcs to influencers, and a number of people have noticed a pattern of Arab and Muslim readers not receiving arcs, which is potentially related.

Readers are asking for the publisher to address and denounce the racist remarks from the employee and offer tangible steps for how they are going to mitigate the harm, and until they do so we are boycotting St Martins Press and its imprints: Wednesday Books, Griffin, Minotaur, Castle Point Books, Thomas Dunne Books, and SMP Swerve.

This means not posting about or reviewing these books, though you can still buy and read them.

And more recently, and the reason for my specific post today, sign the petition to make clear the number of community members who are demanding action!

If you want to use a US zip code, why not use 10271 - where the SMP Marketing Department is.

You can find more info/updates at readersforaccountability

[theelderhazelnut]

Character Inspiration

I was tagged by @justasmolbard and another one of my moots that I don’t remember rn I’m sorry 😭

Game Taglist: (I know I’m doing this pretty late so forgive me for any double tags) @elderglocks @voidika @cloudofbutterflies92 @vivilovespink @captastra

@sinclxirx @isacoremeow @inafieldofdaisies @strangefable @bihanspookies

@cassietrn @carlosoliveiraa @simonxriley @confidentandgood @takiisieju-moved

@thedeadthree @icecutioner @imogenkol @scentedcandleibex

Thomas Shelby - Peaky Blinders: He’s a huge inspiration for her personality AND body language. He’s an intelligent leader, basically an introvert with social skills. He’s also outspoken and straightforward. AND I thought it’d be cool if Ombra had a signature overcoat like him. Plus, I imagine she has a monotonous tone just like him.

Lady Esdeath - Akame ga kill: Another intelligent leader. She’s also a dominant lady in every way. She’s stubborn and determined. She’s a huge inspiration for Ombra’s powers and fighting style, even though she has ice powers.

Amy Dunne - Gone Girl: She’s a calculated psychopath who observes and reads people like open books. She has no remorse for what she’s doing. She manipulates people with a nonchalant demeanor. AND she has no empathy when it comes to what she wants.

Eren Yeager - Attack on Titan: He’s mainly an inspiration for Ombra’s motivation. He wanted revenge and stayed determined for that for years. And in the end, he took things too far. That’s what Ombra’s wrath look like.

Hannibal Lecter - Hannibal: Mad psychiatrist. That’s it.

Magneto - X-men: An inspiration for Ombra’s powers. Remember that scene in Apocalypse in which he placed his palm on the ground and messed with the Earth’s magnetic field? Yup, that’s totally Ombra.

Bonus:

Silco - Arcane:

I imagine Ombra’s personality gradually becomes similar to his as we get to the end of the story. Do you see the exhaustion? Yup, that’s what I’m talking about.

Falkus’s analysis is under the read more.

Joker - Joker: Falkus wears the mask of a friendly and cheerful man, but beneath that he’s just a broken god. I also imagine that he has the same hysteric laughs.

Jinx - Arcane: Immature and chaotic. The way she talked to her guns and hallucinations? Haha that’s him.

Makshima Shogo - Psycho-pass: Chaotic psychopath. He has no remorse and no empathy for others. Stubborn when it comes to his goals. He’s also quite strong.

Maria Grayson - I Care a Lot: Manipulative, and pretends like she CARES and has sympathy while all she’s doing is for her own benefit.

Willy Wonka - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Creepy and random, and sometimes comes across as dry. Falkus gives dry responses sometimes, meaning he failes at hiding his true self a little.

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Current Reads + Book Reviews

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last updated April 5th, 2024

Current Reads

Queering Your Craft: Witchcraft from the Margins by Cassandra Snow

Queer Magic: Power Beyond Boundaries edited by Lee Harrington and Tai Fenix Kulystin

The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft by Ronald Hutton

A History of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics, and Pagans by Jeffrey Burton Russell

Elemental Witchcraft: A Guide to Living a Magickal Life Through the Elements by Michelle Heron

The Black Arts: A Concise History of Witchcraft, Demonology, Astrology, Alchemy, and Other Mystical Practices Throughout the Ages by Richard Cavendish

Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America by Margot Adler

New World Witchery: A Trove of North American Folk Magic by Cory Thomas Hutcheson

Condensed Chaos: An Introduction to Chaos Magic by Phil Hine

Weather or Not: Two Books About the Magic of Timing & the Timing of Magic by Katrina Rasbold

Coven Craft: Witchcraft for Three or More by Amber K

Read Recently + Reviews

The Everyday Witch's Coven: Rituals and Magic for Two or More by Deborah Blake

Traditional Witchcraft for Urban Living by Melusine Draco

Urban Magick: A Guide for the City Witch by Diana Rajchel

Postmodern Magic: The Art of Magic in the Information Age by Patrick Dunn

The Crooked Path: An Introduction to Traditional Witchcraft by Keldon

Psychic Witch: A Metaphysical Guide to Meditation, Magick and Manifestation by Mat Auryn

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What r some books that r close to uu

Ohhhh this is so difficult. There are so many. So I’m gonna go with whatever pops into my head.

Books I first read a long time ago that are close to me: On the Road by Jack Kerouac, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, Girl Goddess #9 by Francesca Lia Block, the Dangerous Angels series by Francesca Lia Block, Sassafras Cypress and Indigo by Ntozake Shange, The Early Diaries of Anaïs Nin, Angel Maker by Sara Maitland, Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing by Jamie Schweser & Abram Shalom Himmelstein, Foxfire by Joyce Carol Oates, Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe, Fatal Interview by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery, Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh, A Girl’s Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings from the Girl Zine Revolution, Memoirs of a Beatnik by Diane Di Prima, Written On the Body by Jeanette Winterson, Pussy King of the Pirates by Kathy Acker, A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon, The Night Country by Stewart O’Nan, Why Things Burn by Daphne Gottlieb, Geek Love by Katherine Dunn, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, etc. etc., etc.

Books I’ve read more recently that already feel close to me: The Girl in the Green Silk Gown by Seanan McGuire, The Wendys by Allison Benis White, frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss, Saint 1001 by Daphne Gottlieb, The Collected Poems of Lynda Hull, Juno Loves Legs by Karl Geary, I Love You So Much It’s Killing Us Both by Mariah Stovall, Some Strange Music Draws Me In by Griffin Hansbury, First Love by Lilly Dancyger, Romantic Comedy by James Allen Hall, Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart and Other Stories by GennaRose Nethercott. Etc.

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saw this on bookstagram from @beffynicolereads + wanted to spread the word on tumblr too —

st. martin's press have now spent over a week ignoring concerned voices in the bookish world about their racist employee, who had numerous documented posts with honestly, disgusting rhetoric. this employee is one of the ones in charge of sending out arcs to readers and have now been called out for having a pattern of not sending any requested arcs to brown and muslim readers.

st. martin's silence cannot go unanswered. the actions of this employee and the company are inexcusable. today starts day one of the boycott until they take appropriate actions and create a comprehensive plan for how they will address these issues and prevent further harm.

it is encouraged that all readers and reviewers participate in this boycott.

boycott guidelines:

Books from St. Martin's Press and it's imprints will be boycotted, including Wednesday Books, Griffin, Minotaur, Castle Point Books, Thomas Dunne Books, and SMP Swerve

Books can still be bought and read under this imprint

However these books will not be platformed

for more information:

vivafalastinleen on tiktok (original video)

beffynicolereads on instagram (language for this post)

expertbooksmuggler on instagram + additional info/graphics

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August 2023 Reads

The Annotated Persuasion - Jane Austen

Nothing But the Truth - Holly James

The Last Word - Katy Birchall

The Deja Glitch - Holly James

Love, Theoretically - Ali Hazelwood

The Dane of My Existence - Jessica Martin

They Hate Each Other - Amanda Woody

Mister Magic - Kiersten White

Stars, Hide Your Fires - Jessica Mary Best

Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree

The Study of Poisons - Maria V. Snyder

This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

His Majesty's Dragon - Naomi Novik

Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. John Mandel

The Brothers Hawthorne - Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Give Me a Sign - Anna Sortino

Rewind - Lisa Graff

Tuesdays at the Castle - Jessica Day George

Mice Skating - Annie Silvestro

The Rock from the Sky - Jon Klassen

Ancient Night - David Bowles

Fangirl, Vol 1 - Sam Maggs, Rainbow Rowell

Fangirl, Vol 2 - Sam Maggs, Rainbow Rowell

Family Style - Thien Pham

It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth - Zoe Thorogood

Congratulations, the Best is Over - R. Eric Thomas

Strong Female Character - Fern Brady

Everything I Know About Love - Dolly Alderton

Sipping Dom Perignon Through a Straw - Eddie Ndopu

Organizing for the Rest of Us - Dana K. White

You Just Need to Lose Weight - Aubrey Gordon

Vibrant - Stacie Stephenson

How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids - Jancee Dunn

Allergic - Theresa MacPhail

Generations - Jean M. Twenge

Enough - Shauna M. Ahern

Sensitive - Jenn Granneman

The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness - Sarah Ramey

Dressing Barbie - Carol Spencer

Goblin Mode - McKayla Coyle

How to Resist Amazon and Why - Danny Caine

The Artist's Way - Julia Cameron

Bold = Highly Recommend Italics = Worth It Crossed out = Nope

Thoughts: 

Some really good reads this month, and some disappointments. I really enjoyed They Hate Each Other and was surprised by how much I liked the Fangirl manga. I also finally found an Ali Hazelwood book that I didn't DNF, lol.

Goodreads Goal: 289/400 

2017 Reads | 2018 Reads | 2019 Reads | 2020 Reads | 2021 Reads| 

2022 Reads | 2023 Reads

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some of my fave fave books i think everyone should read (i know approximately 3 people will see rhis but i just wanted to make it for fun)

☆ braiding sweetgrass - robin wall kimmerer

☆ all about love - bell hooks

☆ the new life - orhan pamuk

☆ watership down - i forfot the author 💀

☆ earthlings - sayaka murata

☆ dark ecology - timothy morton

☆ the beauty of everyday things - soetsu yanagi

☆ after lockdown - bruno latour

☆ the mushroom at the end of the world - anna tsing

☆ speculative everything - anthony dunn and fiona raby

☆ how to do nothing - jenny odell

☆ im like a pdf but a girl girlblogging as a nomadic pedagogy - ester frieder

☆ the Tao te Ching

☆ Entangled Life - Merlin Sheldrake

☆ Dog Songs - Mary Oliver

☆ Radical Love - Omar Sadif

☆ No God but God - Reza Aslan

☆ Breasts and Eggs - Mieko Kawakami

☆ Masks - Fumiko Enchi

☆ Crying in Hmart - Michelle Zauner (japanese breakfast)

☆ The Sorrow of War - Bao Ninh

☆ The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon

[bugthebard]

do you have any reading recs for someone who wants to learn about bugs?

Oh absolutely! There are so many lovely popular science entomology books. I'll name a few, but there are tons more for specific bugs you might be interested in if you search around! I've got four in mind that I've read that I think provide some nice variety.

Buzz, Sting, Bite by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson

I so enjoyed this book. It's not about any specific insect, but it's a delightful tour of a bunch of cool adaptations and the like in the arthropod world. I think it'd be a good choice if you're new to the whole thing as it's fun, light, and has lots of different groups represented. I learned about a wild interaction between ground-nesting bees and blister beetles from this one that I ended up making a little video on.

Never Home Alone by Rob Dunn

I love the household ecosystem! This book isn't just arthropods — it also covers bacteria and other organisms you might find in your home. But it's so neat! And tonally it's refreshing because it doesn't attempt to scare you about what's in your house. Rather, it invites you to engage with your fellow home inhabitants.

Honeybee Democracy by Thomas D. Seeley

This is such an interesting deep dive into honey bee behavior. I think a lot of people know bees are smart but don't quite realize how complex their social behavior gets. I also am charmed by any book that includes a chapter on incorporating another animal's behavior as a lesson to our own human society (the last chapter is basically "what can we learn from the voting system of honey bees?", an adorable thought).

The Sting of the Wild by Justin O. Schmidt

The Schmidt pain scale is a bit infamous. Dr. Schmidt made a whole collection of insects sting him, and rated them on a scale based on the pain he felt. With descriptions like "someone has fired a staple into your cheek," it's definitely not the most objective, but it is a good time. And following his journey getting stung by everything (including his grad students that followed in his footsteps in some very funny ways) is entertaining.

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Any recs for English-language queer fiction that's not published in the U.S.? Trying to figure out what I should buy from Book Depository before it closes.

Sure! I've personally bought Queen of Coin and Whispers by Helen Corcoran and Dangerous Remedy by Kat Dunn from there. There's some Simon James Green work coming out in the US now, but I think he still has some titles that haven't sold here. Songs That Sound Like Blood by Jared Thomas is YA from Australia that I don't believe has been published here. Starring Kitty by Keris Stainton is very cute on the border between MG and YA in a way that books generally aren't in the US. And actually, after writing all this, I realized this page might be helpful: https://lgbtqreads.com/young-adult/oz-and-uk-ya/

That's all YA; I'm not as up on Adult, because I usually find out about it once it's coming here. I was going to mention Laura Kay, but it looks like you can get all her books here now. Anyone else have recs?

Also, I should mention that even once Book Depository closes, you should still be able to order books from Blackwells - they build the shipping cost into the price and it's still generally very reasonable to ship to the US!

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23 books in 2023

I was tagged by @motherofkittens94 Thank you very much! I really like reading, but I have a tendency to avoid books if I decided to read them. Now the year is closer to the end and I can give an almost certain list about what I read and what I want to read. I read the first 16 books (and some comics and other things) and I plan to read the books between 17-23

A. N. Wilson: Victoria: A Life

Tracy Borman: Matila: Queen of the Conqueror

Agatha Christie: They Do it with Mirrors

Alexander Larman: The Crown in Crisis

Nicola Tallis: Uncrowned Queen: The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort

Daisy Dunn: In th Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny

Fannie Flagg: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Maggie O’Farrel: Hamnet

Giles Tremlett: Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen

Charles Dickens: Bleak House

Sylvia Barbara Soberton: Forgotten Tudor Women, Margaret Douglas, Mary Howard, Mary Shelton

Thomas Penn: Winter King, The Dawn of Tudor England

Jane Austen: Persuassion

Dan Jones: Summer of Blood, The Peasant's Revolt of 1381

Simone St. James: The Sun Down Motel

Sarah Gristwood: Arbella: England’s Lost Queen

Rivka Galchen: Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch

Philomena Cunk: Cunk on Everything: The Encyclopedia Philomena

Jon Klassen: The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale

Derek Wilson: In the Lion’s Court: Power, Ambition, and Sudden Death in the Reign of Henry VIII

Agatha Christie: Murder ont he Orient Express

Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None

Henry James: The Turn of the Screw

So far my favourite is In the Shadow of Vesuvius, can't recommend it enought, beautifully written history.

I am tagging @leer-reading-lire @mrs-storm-andrews @we-artemis-atenea and of course everyone else who would like to do this list :).

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Music Safari NYC, continued . . .

[Covers the week of January 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 & 7.]

On January 1, Neal and I got the best seats in the house for The Anderson Brothers' presentation of a few of Irving Berlin's greatest hits.

That's Molly Ryan, Will Anderson and Peter Anderson. (Or maybe it's Molly, Peter and Will.) It wasn't too late to sing "White Christmas."

On Tuesday (Jan 2), it was Mona's.

The house band was Jared Engel, Jon Thomas, Josh Dunn (back of head), Aurora, and Tomas Majcherski (not shown above, see below).

A bunch of great musicians showed up for the second set.

That's Jared Engel in the foreground, with Matt Munisteri, Aidan Grant (bartender extraordinaire), David Ostwald (if you squint), unknown and unknown looking on.

Rafael Halvorson-Castillo and Neal Siegal were in for the night.

Jan 3 was a night off . . .

On Thursday, January 4, Paula and I had great seats at Dizzy's for the Mathis Picard Sound Orchestra.

It was big, big sound - definitely one of the major highlights of this music safari.

Mathis was joyful. He's been working hard on this, and it showed.

At his last Dizzy's gig, Mathis got married in the middle of the set, right on stage!

After Mathis, I booked it down to the Village Vanguard to hear the Chris Potter trio.

He's a great player, but I must confess that the jazz he played was too abstract for my taste.

On Friday, January 5, Neal and I headed over to Barbés to catch VickiKristinaBarcelona.

VKB is a project by Mamie Minch, Rachelle Garniez and Amanda Homi that reimagines the songs of Tom Waits. I don't know as much as I should about Tom Waits, given how important he seems to be to musicians I admire, but I'm guessing the emphasis is on, "reimagine."

In a set full of surprises, the most surprising performance of the evening involved Rachelle ringing tuned ceramic hand bells - precisely and skillfully - to play a melody.

On Saturday, January 6, it was raining and the 1-2-3 subway was not running due to a derailment, so I opted to stay closer to home.

Neal and I caught yet another set of "Miss Maybell and the Jazz Age Artistes," at the Motto Hotel (by Hilton) on 24th street. That's Charlie Judkins on the keys, Brian Nalepka on bass and Miss Maybell strummin on the old banjo.

Margaret Batiuchok was dancing up a storm to Miss Maybell. She got this young dancer going . . . very charming!

On Sunday, January 7, the usual crowd was at The Ear - and the more regular players in the Ear-Regulars. Maestro Kellso on trumpet, the beard of reeds-player Scott Robinson, Matt Munisteri on guitar extrordinaire, and Pat O'Leary on bass (see below).

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Title: A Gathering of Ravens | Author: Scott Oden | Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books (2017)