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Prison goose.

Today I review GLENCROW SUMMER, by C. Litka. The latest in Mr. Litka's series of pleasant, light-hearted fantasy tales. ruinedchapel.com/2025/03/14/b... #booksky

@carrierubin.bsky.social Just finished "Malignant Assumptions" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ My review should pop-up on Amazon in a couple of days and, hopefully, GoodReads. That doesn't always happen, so I may have to cut and paste. Now only two dozen or so books left on my TBR pile. 😉 #BookSky a.co/d/552aWJz

Stumbled across while doing my WiP research: Who flies around during Christmas from house to house, jumping down chimneys with a sack full of treats for good children and coal for the bad ones? (Psst. It’s not Santa.) Meet the broom-flying witch, Befana: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Befana

At the other place right now:

Aw yeah @geofcooper.bsky.social, author of the Brad and Karen thrillers, is on this site now! Read his books! Give him a follow! Let's GOOOOOO! www.amazon.com/dp/B08XNYX62...

Today I review WINTER JOURNEYS, Audrey Driscoll's latest book. A haunting, melancholic story of a woman slowly losing herself in a world of wintry Romanticism. Possibly Audrey's greatest work. ruinedchapel.com/2025/03/07/b... #booksky

We need to stop getting hung up on issues that divide us (policies that help you) and focus on the common good (policies that help me, ideally at your expense)

Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like @adambertocci.bsky.social, at least, will get this:

Learning today that there was a whole "Tragedy of Darth Plagueis"-esque backstory between Wilhelm Alexander (master) and Bob Ross (apprentice).

Audrey Driscoll's new book, WINTER JOURNEYS, is out today! A haunting story rich with pathos. Full review coming this week on my blog. www.amazon.com/Winter-Journ...

>hey guys we are going into battle >ok cool do I get a gun > no you have to carry a statue of a golden eagle and you'll get in trouble if you drop it > > >...wtf

Today I review THE PLAGIARISM PLOT by Geoffrey Cooper. (It's not actually out on Kindle until next week, but is available in paperback already.) #booksky ruinedchapel.com/2025/02/28/b...

“Attack of the Crypto Porn Bots” - could be the book title of my final days on Twitter.

This is how free speech usually works in practice.

Today I review THE MARTIAN GENERAL'S DAUGHTER by Theodore Judson. Is it as good as Judson's masterpiece FITZPATRICK'S WAR? Well... ruinedchapel.com/2025/02/21/b... #booksky

Tangential but as I've said before, any politician from any party who stressed being Tough On Crime with scamming/phishing/preying-on-the-computer-illiterate etc., promising to track those guys down and lock them up in the most crude and hamfisted way you can think of, would win in a landslide

I think everyone who follows me here knows this already, but just in case you missed it, I have a new book out: www.amazon.com/John-Nuclear...

I can't believe I just watched this. And I especially can't believe that it was actually kinda good.

This is a really sweet romantic short story by @adambertocci.bsky.social, and it's currently FREE. Perfect for Valentine's Day! (Okay, so it's set at Halloween, but still, it's a romance! Really!) ❤️🎃https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B07643QWT5/

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IDK what this is, but I had to share and tag @carrierubin.bsky.social 🤣

Today I review IN LOVE WITH ELEANOR RIGBY by Stacey Cochran. It's a thoughtful literary short story... but you might not guess that from the cover.🤨 #booksky ruinedchapel.com/2025/02/14/b...

According to Dante, the entrance to Hell is inscribed with: "Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here" You call that evil? Pfft. If it were up to me, I'd have inscribed it with "There's still hope!" Now that's evil.

Corporations love depicting their internal structure as a pyramid. “We want you, our employees, to picture yourselves as part of the world’s largest tomb.”

I support this kind of AI.

I post this every year because I imagine this is how most non-football fans on social media feel on this day. 😁https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNxLxTZHKM8

You just can't beat these red, black, and yellow fin de siècle posters.

In the 1970s, the richest man in the world was expected to help Wonder Woman fight crime. cc @lyndacarter.bsky.social

@mpaxson.bsky.social There is a great disturbance in the Force.