#bloomscrolling I was at Orchidophilia yesterday. It was beautiful.

Non fiction. A ambling wander through the mushrooms the author had met and thier natural history. British. Not a mushroom guide. #booksky

Fantasy. Confusing. Covering maybe 100,000+ years or more of souls time and different lives travelling through earth, space, and maybe alternate worlds. Deamons, gods, humans, the dead, and reincarnation. #booksky

Fantasy. A short fun romp with a surprisingly high body count. A group of goblin soldiers accidentally end up elven and human lands. They try to get home but chaos ensues. Also, unicorn midwifery and magic. #booksky

Novella. Horror. Idunn is exhausted. She has been waking up feeling like she has been up doing unspeakable things all night. Because she has. She doesn't know what or why. And she can't stop it. Translated from icelandic. #booksky

Non-fiction. History of Ottawa as a city rather than as Canada's capital. #booksky

How to make dye, pigment, and paint from mushrooms. How to identify those mushrooms. What those dyes look like. Also a very pretty book. #booksky #fungi

About marketing and how trying psych-logical and irrational things can work. #booksky

Short book by a jewish author for jews about how Isreal justifies its treatment of Gaza and how that came to be. #booksky

Novella. Horror and queer love. Sarah is a midwife apprentice and "strange". London is in the throws of many "strange" births and something terrible looms. Sarah must figure out what is happening and what side she is on. #booksky

Speculative fiction. Nora decises to kill heself as her life falls apart. As she hovers between life and death she finds herself in a mysterious library full of books on the different lives she has, could have, and might yet live. She has to find one she wants to live in or die. #booksky

Science & fiction. Exprrimental archeology combined with short fiction stories about how people lived in ancient civilizations. #booksky

Art book. Many modern paleoartists paint and draw dinosaurs and other paleo critters. Gorgeous artwork. #booksky

Magical realism. Selena has escaped from a bad relationship to her aunts house in the desert only to find she died. Selena heals while dealing with the consequences of her aunt's relationship with a roadrunner god. I love Grandma Billy and Father Aguirre so much. Author: @tkingfisher.com #booksky

Pretty

Fantasy. The diary entries of a strange man who lives in an endless house with oceans on the first floor and the sky in the third floor as he figures out the reality of his life. #booksky

The baby pineapple is starting to look like a pineapple.

I thought this was a cookbook. It isn't a cookbook. It is a history of cooking onions. Historical recipes. #booksky

In India, a werewolf hires a historian to transcribe stories of an encounter between a shapeshifter and a human woman and the consequences thereof. Bloody and violent. The language paints a picture for the senses. #booksky

Ahhhh! My pineapple plant is growing a pineapple!

Memoir & nature. Entwined stories of mourning for her suddenly dead husband w And how she coped by learning mushroom foraging. Good intro book to mushroom foragers. A lovely book overall. Very appoachable. Translated from Norwegian. #booksky #fungi

Tech history. The problem of inputting and outputting chinese writing electronically. The development of chinese specific computer devices and hypographic techniques. #booksky #chinese

A canadian compares China's "engineering society" to USA's "lawyer society". Mostly about modern china. Looks into the one child policy and what happened during covid. Lots about building. Speculates on the future. #booksky

Loaded with photos it talks about trees. Beautiful and a quick and easy read. #booksky

I'm looking for positive, funny, or pleasantly cozy science fiction or fantasy short stories to read at my short story group. Suggestions? Anyone?

True crime. A man who is part of a tantric cult ends up dead on a mountain. What lead there. Folliws the people involved. Some history of Tibetan Buddhism in tibet, india, and USA. #booksky

Self-help. How to know if your an introvert and how to network as an introvert. More reassuring than groundbreaking. Excellent if you are an introvert feeling pressured to act like an extrovert. Otherwise some good tips on boundaries and preparation. #booksky

Cozy fantasy. A runaway fortune teller, a warrior, a former thief, and a travelling baker look for the warrior's missing daughter. Well telegraphed happy ending for people who just want to read something pleasant without surprises. Everyone gets happily ever after. Low stakes. #booksky

Reference. Huge book of to scale tree drawings, shade info, details, english/french/latin names, seasonal info for people designing parks. Authors were architects. Scale measurement bookmark. #booksky

Dark fantasy. Decadent, violent and very biological. Opera, perfume, and a strange tree city. The stories of an exterminato and a perfumer intertwine with political plotting and a man looking for his missing brother. . Slow growing layered worldbuilding. #booksky

Fantasy. An elemental master of earth and her shape shifter cousin move from America to England after the American Civil War to help with their family's buisness. Mostly domestic and manners. Very little plot. Pleasant. #booksky

Tabletop rpg. You are raccoons trying to spruce up your junkyard by breaking into suburban houses in your space ship and stealing sleeping humans' stuff. #booksky #rpg

Examples of parts of artist sketchbooks. Lots of pictures and some explaination. #booksky

Horror. The practical and traumatized crew once again gets into trouble trying to help someone. They find an ancient and horrifying creature in a mine. Author @tkingfisher.com #booksky

It is very pretty outside this morning.

The devil and his entourage come to Moscow to perform a magic show. Margarita hopes to rescue her missing lover, the author of a book about Pontius Pilot. Everything goes to hell. Stalin era Soviet magical realism satire. Translated from Russian. #booksky

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