#best book of the year

[rebeccasthoughts]

The Will of the Many - James Islington (TL;DR)

Mini Book Reviews! originally from Top 5 books of July & August! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Goodreads Synopsis: The Catenan Republic – the Hierarchy – may rule the world now, but they do not know everything.I tell them my name is Vis Telimus. I tell them I was orphaned after a tragic accident three years ago, and that good fortune alone has led to my acceptance into their most prestigious school. I tell them…

[wttnblog]

The 30 Best Fiction Books of 2024

As we come to the end of 2024, it’s the perfect time to reflect on all of the incredible things we’ve done and the media we’ve consumed over the course of the past year. Today, as the very last part of our Best of series, we’re taking some time to chat about the best fiction books! To be eligible for this list, books had to be published for the first time in 2024 and read by at least one member…

[maxgicalgirl]

Being a “Fun Fact !” kind of autistic is all fun and games until you get halfway through sharing an interesting tidbit and realize that it probably wasn’t appropriate to share in polite company and now you have to deal with the consequences :(

[outskirtspress]

Your 2023 Best Book of the Year Winner is...

Congratulations to Sarah Sebring Binder, author of Pack Rat’s Lost and Found, the 2023 Outskirts Press Best Book of the Year. Pack Rat’s Lost and Found is illustrated by Virgil Pedro. Congratulations to them both! See the results of the poll below. The desert critters concoct a clever plan when Pack Rat’s wish is granted.Outskirts Press Best Book of the Year Winner and EVVY Gold Medal…

[nenoname]

Cute wholesome fics where Stan teaches Soos or Wendy how to drive were always so funny to me because...

And while he insists that everyone in town has ran over McGucket before, we also know he ran over Toby too and absolutely did not give a shit (understandable in that case)

But then again...

Also bless Mr Honeypants

And another detail I love is that his car is casually filled with parking tickets

How many tickets are in Ford's name...

[egophiliac]

like mother, like son, but less wholesome this time?

(I couldn't decide whether or not to put them together, so have them in all the different ways!)

[demigods-posts]

they're filming season two, but i'm thinking about the potential adaption of the mount tam scene in season three. you know, the one where annabeth could apologize for pushing percy out of the way and falling off the cliff in his place, and how she knows that sounds terrible but they didn't have time for another plan and she didn't want to lose him that way. but percy just engulfs her in a hug because he's so relieved that she's safe now and everything else be damned. and annabeth doesn't understand why he's snickering to himself after that last statement, but she melts into the hug anyway because she missed him. and thalia and grover stand in the background happy for their friends on the outside but internally mortified, because their friends are definitely falling for each other but fate may not allow them to see it through.

[isa-sketches]

“You see?” said Laurent. “He has forgiven me for the small matter of the whip. I have forgiven him for the small matter of killing my brother. All hail the alliance.”

[fictionadventurer]

We laugh at sci-fi for how it over-explains technology, but we also need to make fun of how Victorians describe any time period that takes place more than ten years before the book's publishing date.

It's like if we wrote like this about the '80s or '90s.

According to the curious fashions of the day, she wore a shirt of tie-dye print. It may seem quaint to our modern sensibilities, but such colorful styles were a common sight in any public street of those times.

At the time this story occurred, it was not uncommon for young men to wear their hair cropped closely around the face, but allow the hair behind the head to grow until it brushed the level of the shoulders.

In those days, the information superhighway was little more than a crude unpaved path, full of hazards and beset by brigands, so it is not strange that our heroine, instead of entering her query into the search bar on her browser, went to the public library and scoured the books on the shelves for the information she sought.

She and her friends went to the theater to see E.T. How strange to think that film was once at the heights of popularity and acclaim, as well-known in its day as films like The Hunger Games or The Avengers have become in the intervening time.

I get that the lack of video and audio recording made it harder for future generations to experience the details of the past, and that technology was changing their world at a faster rate than ever before, but also, dude, it was only, like, forty years ago, so maybe chill out a bit.

[outwither]

feels wrong that Dracula continues in November like this plot should culminate at Halloween what are we even doing

[ryuki-draws]

That's all that's left. Fifty-seven pages of research, two bottles of morphine and one ticket back to the Capital. The train departs at dusk.

An illustration for a Patho AU inspired by Bulgakov I'll probably never write properly but it's been worming in my brain for over two years now.

[rebeccasthoughts]

Top 5 books of July & August!

#5 – This is How They Tell Me the World Ends – Nicole Perlroth ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 Goodreads Synopsis: Zero day: a software bug that allows a hacker to break into your devices and move around undetected. One of the most coveted tools in a spy’s arsenal, a zero day has the power to silently spy on your iPhone, dismantle the safety controls at a chemical plant, alter an election, and shut down the electric…

[that-butch-archivist]

A recent acquisition originally published in 1965, and sure to be an interesting read ...

[uesp]

Truly amazing. In an incredible display of his power, the Dragon God of Time Akatosh has decided to grant us an additional day this year! Please be sure to pay your respects to Akatosh, as he may deign to grant us another additional day in a few years if you do!

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Last Day to Vote for the Best Book of the Year!

Last week, we announced the three finalists for the 2023 Outskirts Press Best Book of the Year awards. Today is the last day to vote on which of these talented authors have built an author platform and worked up the promotional muscle to earn top honors through a head-to-head-to-head competition! The Best Book of the Year Grand Prize winner and $1,500 Grand Prize that comes with it will be…

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

you are so whimsical i qant to check out this mdzs (..??) because of your whimsical nature thank you sorry im very high and your art moved me emotionally

This is simultaneously the sweetest and funniest thing someone has sent me, thank you.