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It‘s time, it‘s here! The poll for next year‘s #AuthorAMonth challenge! I‘ll leave it up for a week, the new list will be announced on the 12th. Who do you most hope to see on the list?

https://forms.gle/rhjGCu4rosz1j9Qc8

October #bookspin summary:

18 Books
2 Bingos
2 Graphic Novels
7 Middle Grade
1 YA
9 Audiobooks
✅ #bookspin
✅ #doublespin
✅ #authoramonth

@thearomaofbooks

Welcome to November #AuthorAMonth readers! Time to pull out our Joan Didion books. What are you planning to read?

We‘re getting close to the end of the year! If you haven‘t started your Google form yet here‘s the link:

https://forms.gle/r6EydHX3GmrfYenA8

If you haven‘t started it you‘ll want to edit your copy in your Google drive.

Poll for 2026 authors is in the works! Last minute nominations can be added to my last post on this title.

#Read2025

Catching up on reviews. I had planned to read a couple of #OctaviaButler books for #AuthorAMonth October but ran out of time. I did relisten to Kindred which I first listened to back in 2017. The lapse in time between readings did not lessen the power of Butler‘s story & its weight on my soul. Not an easy listen, it is very intense & haunting with more than its share of triggers; slavery, violence, sexual assault, etc. but excellent.

I think I have my November #bookspinbingo list together, but I probably will still be working on October for the next couple of weeks. The month was just too quick! I‘ll tag my November books in the comments.

This book finishes the trilogy in which aliens have recovered and healed the earth and its few survivors from a devastating war. Having mated with humans, no human has given birth to a member of species of the “sexless” aliens, the ooloi, until Lilith has Jodahs. Jodahs is far from a sexless ooloi, and this final book is almost entirely about finding mates, mating, and convincing hard-headed humans that mating with aliens is just hunky-dory. ⬇️

repost for @Soubhiville

It‘s time again, unbelievably, to think about next year‘s #AuthorAMonth! Please nominate authors you would like to see highlighted in the comments. I will organize them into genre categories again, I felt like that worked well for this year, so if you are inclined you can include the genre you think the author fits best (you don‘t have to, I will look them up if necessary)

Poll to follow in a week or so!

Akin is the first male human-alien, with super-human/alien abilities—such as talking and adult-level comprehension at two months old. Anyone who has refused to mate with the aliens—resisters—are sterile. So on earth, kidnapping children is rampant. Akin is kidnapped by resisters and forced to live with a resister couple. Once he‘s recovered a year later, he has come to know and sympathize with the resisters. But he‘s still alien with all their ⬇️

To be blunt, this trilogy is about human/alien hanky-panky. It‘s for folks who are comfortable with kind-of creepy ménage a trois.

Humans have finally destroyed earth in an all-out war. Aliens have saved the world and recovered and put to sleep the few remaining survivors until the aliens have healed the planet. Then the aliens have made the humans sterile, unless the humans will mate with them. ⬇️ #authoramonth