History of the area around the Mediterranean based on connections and movement of trade goods, people, and knowledge. @josephinequinn.bsky.social #booksky

Fantasy. Retelling of snow white as seen from the point of view of the poison doctor who has to save the king's sick daughter. Author: @tkingfisher.com #booksky Her heros are pragmatic and her worldbuilding relentlessly logical. Even as they run off a cliff it makes sense how they got there.

My brain today: "The hamster is dead, the squirrels are in charge."

Horror novella. Anarchist friends on the run from physical and magical trouble (see previous novellas) stop to tell ghost stories about their dead friends. Author: @margaret.bsky.social #booksky

A look at the history of the chinese telecom company, Huawei, and the changing world that it grew in. Most interesting bit is about how its form changed through the decades. Also why telecom control matters. #booksky

Frog

Biology. Everything you didn't know about wasps and the study of wasps. I learned things and ended up with a more positive outlook on wasps. Author: @waspwoman.bsky.social #bookskt #invertebrates

Autumn

Novel. A lyft driver / twitch streamer is hired by a secretive woman to drive a large box from California to DC. Everyone - family, friends, strangers online, enemies, exFBI - lose thier colectice shit over what they think is in the box. #booksky

Stratigraphie. Geology. A look at how different stages in the earth's history happened and were recorded in geography. #booksky

Inside an abandoned mica mine. #cave

Birch polypores #fungifriends

Behold, my hoya is blooming extravagantly. Hence lens flare. #bloomsky

A guide to the trees in the central experimental farm (Ottawa, Canada). Formatted so that you can either take planned walks or look up individual tree names in english, french, or latin (scientific). It's a fun way to spend an afternoon. #booksky

I love watching the bees on the asters. #invertebrates

Scifi novella. A powerful genie wakes up from his millennia long imprisonment to a post-apocalyptic world. An old smiling gurkha with unfinished business gides him to a utopian city run by the AI Karma. They upset the balance of everything. #booksky

Art. Story of the artist's three years painting the same oak tree in all seasons. Lots of beautiful paintings. #booksky

Drawing instruction. Half the book is about trees and half flowers. Assumes experience with drawing materials. More about plant portaits than landscapes. #booksky

A meandering memoir entwined with explainations of unusual and unexpected aspects of the natural world. Explores the author's experiences with nature, adhd, queerness, and cultural history. #booksky

History of the development of facial reconstruction in the first world war. Not for the squeamish. Focuses on surgery but also talks about the nurses, dentists, and artists involved. Author: @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social #booksky

Graphic novel. Little people living in the corpse of a dead girl happily go on with their lives while dying gruesomely. #booksky

Sci-fi. The lifespan of an ensign on the Intrepid is not very long, and science doesn'tmake sense. The Narrative makes sure of that. A group of "redshirts" try to save their skin by finding out what is happening and stopping it. Author: @scalzi.com #booksky

Biology. Geology. There is way more life inside the earth than you think. Extremophiles. Microbes that live for thousands or millions of years. Microbes that breathe rocks. #booksky

Upper Canada village

I'm going for a walk in the woods.

Comic. After hunting down a stolen magical device, a dying fungi creature steals the soul of an ensorcelled human girl's leg. He vows to return it 3 fold and uses old magic to interact with her dimension. #booksky

Guide. Intro to mushroom foraging. Edible, sickeners, killers, medicinal, look-a-likes... how to identify and cook. #booksky

Manga series. Two real estate agents in Kowoon city fall in love. Science fictiony twist at the end of book 1. #booksky

True crim. Nominally about a forger who sold fake per-ban absinthe. More about the history of absinthe begore, during and after it was banned and the people who love it and all its memorabilia. #booksky Author: @evanrail.bsky.social

Science fiction. Earth has destroyed itself. Ark ship of the last humans looks for a new home. Accidentally exhaulted spiders grow thier society over generations. A partially mad AI protects them and tries to communicate. Humans aren't the heroes here. #booksky Author: @aptshadow.bsky.social

Beginner's guide to basic foraging of plants. Location unspecific but heavily American. Brief introductions to some easier to identify plants. How to forage, store and prepare. A few recipes. #booksky

How to do scientific drawing in 3D and 2D of geological structures and slices. Geological knowledge is useful. Exericises and examples. #booksky #geology

Horror fantasy. The students at Hellebore are trapped there with false promises of redemption. The faculty are going to eat them. Everyone are monsters to some degree. Very gory. Body horror. #booksky

Geology, ichnology and biology. There is a lot going on underground. How burrowing evolved and changed the world. Uses humour in descriptions. #booksky

Socializing puppies. This guy wants to chew on everything.

Helping socialize puppies

Manga series. Body horror. Gods appeared in Japan. Their presence poisons the ground, controls minds, and kills people. A woman seeking revenge for the death of her friend falls in with a research organization seeking the same. Unknown to anyone, she has a dead god inside her. #booksky

Behold! My garlic harvest!

Science fiction. When the moon turns to cheese for no discernable reason, people must deal with the consequences. Warm and amusing while contemplating the end of the world. Author: @scalzi.com #booksky

Self-help. Psychology of personal values baded money management. Will not teach you a spreadsheet. Suggestions and stories. Some good ideas. I skimmed the stories. #booksky

History and present of cold storage and transport of food. How cold storage changed the way we live. The things I never considered are way way more complicated than I would have guessed. #booksky

Manga series. He must protect her from assassins during her last year of high school. She doesn't know. Silly. Fighty. Teen drama. Light and fluffy. #booksky

Scooby-doo horror parody. The gang grew up. Traumatized by their last case, they return to the haunted house. Now escaped from dead-end job, prisons, and a mental hospital, they and their dog face alien creatures from the deep and necromancy. Good plot. Needs editting. #booksky

Ghost pipes

Having a nice day.