Bookstodon

Book lovers are posting about reading Sally Hepworth's novel Mad Mabel, describing it as a current read alongside reflections on personal projects and gratitude for friends who take time to listen. The posts carry a warm, contemplative Friday mood, mixing reading updates with small moments of thankfulness under the bookstodon tag.

Book readers online are sharing what they are reading tonight, with one reader starting a book by rwg and saying they are looking forward to it. The post circulated in book-focused communities under the bookstodon tag, where readers regularly swap current reads and recommendations.

Jim Harmon's classic science fiction short work 'The Upside-Down Captain' is available as a free ebook on Project Gutenberg. Readers in book-loving online communities are sharing the link alongside its vintage pulp cover art, celebrating retro science fiction and mid-century book cover design. The story is part of the growing archive of golden-age sci-fi that Gutenberg has digitised for public access.

Authors and readers are taking part in the weekly LesFicFriday social media theme, this time built around the word 'glance'. One participating writer shared an excerpt from 'In the Shadow of the Past', the first book in the Shadow Series, a work of historical lesbian fiction available in audiobook form narrated by Abby Craden. The recurring hashtag gives writers of women-loving-women fiction a regular space to post teasers and promote their books to the Bookstodon community.

Book bloggers on Mastodon are taking part in the monthly Six Degrees of Separation challenge, which links books from a chosen starting title. The October 2026 edition begins with a Rachel Cusk novella suggested by participant Kate W, and is themed around DNF books — titles readers did not finish. One blogger admitted the starting book defeated them despite its short length.

Queen of Swords Press, a small queer-focused publisher, is reminding readers that its titles can be bought not only on Kobo and KoboPlus but also on Tolino and other ebook platforms outside the United States. The nudge went out under the Fridayreads tag in the book-loving community, pointing readers to a specific title on Kobo.

Author Susan Kaye Quinn, known for her solarpunk, hopepunk and young adult novels, is starting a SolarPunk book club. The announcement is being shared among readers and writers in the bookstodon community, with members thanking Quinn for organising it. The club invites fans of optimistic, climate-focused fiction to read and discuss solarpunk works together.

A line from Wisława Szymborska's poem 'Psalm' — 'Only what is human can truly be foreign' — is being shared in book and poetry communities, paired with a photograph by Ovidiu Șelaru. Readers are quoting the Polish Nobel laureate's meditation on estrangement and shared humanity, keeping her work in circulation among poetry lovers.