Three #Iowa City West #highschoolers founded a #bookclub that reads some of the country's most frequently #banned #books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced. #bannedbooks #libraries #librarians #students #education #reading #maga #legislation #laws #booklaw https://www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/2025-10-15/banned-books-iowa-city-high-school-student-club #democracy #censorship

Three #Iowa City West #highschoolers founded a #bookclub that reads some of the country's most frequently #banned #books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced. #bannedbooks #libraries #librarians #students #education #reading #maga #legislation #laws #booklaw https://www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/2025-10-15/banned-books-iowa-city-high-school-student-club #democracy #censorship

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The Lady of the Lake by Jean Menzies - 7/10

This book took me a little be surprise. With its YA feel, I didn't expect the writing to be so mature or the plot deal with some heavy topics such as SA.

But, it was a good surprise. I enjoyed this read and felt my skin crawling, as intended, with the mythologically correct Merlin character.

The pacing was a little off but it was a fun read and I'd recommend it to anyone into fantasy.

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TONIGHT (Thursday)
*September* #Solarpunk #Bookclub!

We're reading *Lost Cause* by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic

9.25, 8pm ET

Jitsi Meet
https://meet.jit.si/SolarpunkBookclubSept2025

Solarpunk Future! Discord https://discord.gg/Xpsknjmh

Get bookclub reminders, links, and recaps
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*September* #Solarpunk #Bookclub Thursday!

We're reading *Lost Cause* by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic

9.25, 8pm ET

Jitsi Meet
https://meet.jit.si/SolarpunkBookclubSept2025

Solarpunk Future! Discord https://discord.gg/Xpsknjmh

Get bookclub reminders, links, and recaps
https://www.subscribepage.com/solarpunk_bookclub

#bookstodon #SFF #books #hopepunk

TONIGHT (Thursday)
*September* #Solarpunk #Bookclub!

We're reading *Lost Cause* by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic

9.25, 8pm ET

Jitsi Meet
https://meet.jit.si/SolarpunkBookclubSept2025

Solarpunk Future! Discord https://discord.gg/Xpsknjmh

Get bookclub reminders, links, and recaps
https://www.subscribepage.com/solarpunk_bookclub

#bookstodon #SFF #books #hopepunk

*September* #Solarpunk #Bookclub Thursday!

We're reading *Lost Cause* by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic

9.25, 8pm ET

Jitsi Meet
https://meet.jit.si/SolarpunkBookclubSept2025

Solarpunk Future! Discord https://discord.gg/Xpsknjmh

Get bookclub reminders, links, and recaps
https://www.subscribepage.com/solarpunk_bookclub

#bookstodon #SFF #books #hopepunk

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab - 5/10

All summer I had been waiting to read this but held off to save it for my holiday. Well, I finally had that holiday and, unfortunately, ended up really disappointed.

Maybe my expectations for this were too high and I'm being unfair, but this just didn't do anything for me.

The structure was complicated and detracted from the story and the ending felt incredibly rushed and pointless. In the rush, the character who we come to know and follow through most of the story is suddenly cast aside as soon as moral conflict arises.

A shame.

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Has anyone read North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell? I am reading it now, only 100 pages to go, and I'm liking it very much. I don't know anybody who knows it and I'd like to comment it with someone.
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Has anyone read North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell? I am reading it now, only 100 pages to go, and I'm liking it very much. I don't know anybody who knows it and I'd like to comment it with someone.
#reading #books #bookclub

I wonder if Bookwyrm or book clubs are for me.

I don't want to track what I read. It's deeply personal. And just because I read something doesn't mean I liked something. I want reading to remain that cozy shelter I go to whenever I want, to feel whatever I want, alone.

But I also read my favorite books after asking recommendations and talking about what I like. Nothing as broad as a genre. I talked about what I wanted to feel. What I liked in other books.

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Last year, the book club read & loved Lindsay King-Miller's zombie novel "The Z Word" which is what possessed us jump on this new work of queer exorcism horror. Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of "Manhunt" calls it "a brutal, brilliant story of motherhood, memory, and religion, deviously simple and terribly clever. King-Miller has become one of my must-read authors."

Each meeting of this book club is structured to encourage deep engagement with the themes of the text, as well as facilitate connection among the participants. If you are looking to meet other queer people and/or horror lovers this is the book club for you! This month, we will also be welcoming Lindsay King-Miller for a virtual Q&A for the second half of the book club discussion! So bring all of your questions, your musings, and your religious trauma 🙏

Use promo code YIKES to save 10% at checkout.

https://firestorm.coop/events/3446-skeletons-in-the-closet-queer-horror-book-club.html

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I finished Some Desperate Glory over the weekend.

I think it's worth considering this novel as a dystopia.

What happens in a sci-fi future when the alt-right separate from the rest of humanity?

7.5/10

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