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bigcats-birds-and-books · 3 months

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Book Haul!: I Am Not Immune To Buy 3 Get 1 Free Sales.

These have all been on my list for a while--I knew the bookstore would have the Jemisin and Jackson books for sure (I'd seen them both there before), and I was hoping they'd have Chronister in paperback (because they had her in hardback). I was glad Turnbull was out in paperback, too! What a delightful evening of book shopping!

#books #book photography #book haul #my photography #nk jemisin #the world we make #the haunting of hill house #shirley jackson #desert creatures #kay chronister #no gods no monsters #cadwell turnbull #the jemisin and chronister are vaguely driscoll vibes #the jackson and turnbull are nano prep things!!#full disclosure i really was looking for HOUSE OF LEAVES and turnbull was a substitution because they didnt have HOL #but it's still on the list and therefore counts!!#AND DID I MENTION THAT I HAD A COUPON ON TOP OF THE SALE!!!#so desert creatures was Free from sale and then i had a BONUS $10 off!!!#WINNING AT BUDGETING I GUESS

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transbookoftheday · 4 months

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No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull

One October morning, Laina gets the news that her brother has been shot and killed by Boston cops. But what looks like a case of police brutality soon reveals something much stranger. Monsters are real. And they want everyone to know it.

As creatures from myth and legend come out of the shadows, seeking safety through visibility, their emergence sets off a chain of seemingly unrelated events. Members of a local werewolf pack are threatened into silence. A professor follows a missing friend’s trail of bread crumbs to a mysterious secret society. And a young boy with unique abilities seeks refuge in a pro-monster organization with secrets of its own. Meanwhile, more people start disappearing, suicides and hate crimes increase, and protests erupt globally, both for and against the monsters.

At the center is a mystery no one thinks to ask: Why now? What has frightened the monsters out of the dark?

The world will soon find out.

#no gods no monsters #convergence saga #cadwell turnbull #transmasc #trans book of the day #trans books #queer books #bookblr #booklr

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bookaddict24-7 · 2 months

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BOOKS ON MY TBR SHELVES BY BLACK AUTHORS:

Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman

American Dreamer by Adriana Herrera

Black Girl Unlimited by Echo Brown

The Roommate Risk by Talia Hibbert

Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers

Rosewater by Tade Thompson

Cool. Awkward. Black. by Various

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

No Gods. No Monsters. by Cadwell Turnbull

Tristan Strong Punches A Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia

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Have you read any of these books? Are any on your TBR?

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Happy reading!

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novelconcepts · 1 year

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Someone asked for my favorite books of the nearly 200 I read in 2022, so, in no particular order:

The story of a girl, a book, and secret doors. The sort of book you lose an entire evening to. Harrow is one of my favorite authors of late.

Police brutality through the lens of mythos. My review for this one was simply “I desperately need to know what comes next.”

This whole trilogy belongs on the list. Magic, family, and politics unspool in a world that leaps off the page. Rarely have I found a series so alive, I forget I’m reading.

A creepy tale of sisterhood. The eerie energy rendered this impossible to put down.

A much sadder tale of sisterhood. There are images in this book that are still haunting me months later.

A sapphic YA mystery with complex characters. Honestly, at this point, I’d read McQuiston’s grocery lists.

No best of list would be complete without Paper Girls. The comic story is much weirder and wilder than the show, but both are excellent at *getting* what it is to be a girl on the cusp of growing up.

Music, magic, and a battle for New Orleans. Fantastical storytelling at its best. I was utterly absorbed.

A mother who subsists on books fights to protect her much more complicated son. It has a dark fairy tale energy I couldn’t get enough of, and a sapphic romance to boot.

Part real-life story of a 1629 shipwreck, part invented tale of a young boy coping with grief in 1989. It’s absolutely brutal on about six different levels, but entrancing.

#long post #book recs #alix e. harrow #cadwell turnbull #fonda lee #krystal sutherland #lucy holland #casey mcquiston #brian k vaughan #alex jennings #sunyi dean #jess kidd #another round coming in a reblog. I forgot about tumblr being sassy about amount of images

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aroaessidhe · 5 months

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2023 reads / storygraph

We Are The Crisis

book two in the Convergence Saga, a contemporary fantasy/horror series

werewolves and other supernatural creatures have been revealed to the world, and the world is changing. They fight for safety and rights, but many are going missing and anti-monster militant groups are on the rise

told nonlinearly, follows a large cast of characters

community, activism & civil rights, complicated families

#we are the crisis #no gods no monsters #cadwell turnbull #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #i kinda forgot what happened in book 1 which is a me problem obv #I def lost track of some of the characters (though I think some were new haha)#however there's definitely lots of things I like about it!#I feel like it’s a bit disjointed until the very end when it brings things together in the same way as it did in book one #and reminded me about some of the cool sff things that I’d forgotten about since they’ve barely been brought up.#However I do appreciate that it is more focused on the complexity of people and activism.#It just feels like the multiverse stuff is a bit disconnected. Maybe it’ll come together better later in the series!#and one of the characters is ace though that’s not mentioned again in this book. also he is trans and has a wife who has a girlfriend #glad they're settling into their polyamory

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sarandipitywrites · 5 months

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What genre did you read the most of?

What’s the longest book you read?

What’s the fastest time it took you to read a book?

(Eep, can't remember the numbers, sorry!)

Thanks for the ask, Anna! (This is from the end of year book ask game, if anyone else wants to ask or answer some questions)

5. Looks like most of what i read could fall into speculative and fantasy fiction. I am not surprised at all lol

22. At 387 pages, my longest read this year was No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull. It was also one of my favorites: wonky timelines, civil rights for monsters, and people getting their hands bitten off. It's everything I like!

23. My quickest read was Every Heart A Doorway by Seanan McGuire at 4 hours. This one was fun - portal fantasy with a murdery twist 😉 loved the vibes

#bookblr #reading #end of year book tag #tag games #saran answers #no gods no monsters #cadwell turnbull #every heart a doorway #seanan mcguire #starlit hopes and dreams

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feywildfancypants · 4 months

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“Every moment is eternal. Every story carries a bit of the past with it, like a long poem, with stanzas and breaks and refrains.”

No Gods No Monsters. Cadwell Turnbull.

#books #no gods no monsters #cadwell turnbull

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expendablemudge · 5 months

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You liked NO GODS, NO MONSTERS? You want more? WE ARE THE CRISIS is here to scratch the itch for *good* identity-politics fiction, says my 4.5* #BookRecommendation:

#book blog #book review #book tumblr #booksgiving #gift ideas #christmas gift #cadwell turnbull #queer sff #sff #queer books #gay black man #gay author

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trutletruffle · 1 year

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so i read No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull and i really liked it. its one of those really chaotic books where nothing makes sense until the end and even then some stuff doesn’t make sense but it still works. dragon is my little baby and i want to keep him safe and i loved the omniscient narrator subversion where he is a character too and his omniscience is a whole thing and the other characters confront him about it. maybe i just wasn’t paying enough attention but i really liked how its not really clear what world this all happened in (like presumably all of the main events of the novel take place in one of the versions of earth) and even if it was all in the same one (i think it is but some stuff makes me think its not and a lot of it was in the same world but there’s also just stuff that happens in every world). anyways. i loved the wolves theyre very cool.

#on todays episode of i read a book and now need to wordvomit about it #no gods no monsters #no gods no monsters cadwell turnbull #cadwell turnbull

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book-quotes-and-moodboards · 1 year

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Every moment is eternal. Every story carries a bit of the past with it, like a long poem, with stanzas and breaks and refrains. The same is true across timelines, too. If the world is born a billion times in parallel, all those iterations will spring up like a forest of the same wood, repeating themselves up into their leaves and across the whole forest of worlds.

For someone standing in that forest, there would be no way out - in all directions, a mirror.

No Gods, No Monsters (by Cadwell Turnbull)

#no gods no monsters #cadwell turnbull #quote #book quotes

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quirkycatsfatstacks · 1 year

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Review: Lost Worlds and Mythological Kingdoms

Editor: John Joseph AdamsAuthors: James L. Cambias, Becky Chambers, Kate Elliot, C.C. Finlay, Jeffrey Ford, Theodora Goss, Darcie Little Badger, Jonathan Maberry, Seanan McGuire, An Owomoyela, Dexter Palmer, Cadwell Turnbull, Genevieve Valentine, Carrie Vaughn, Charles Yu, E. Lily Yu, Tobias S. BuckellPublisher: Grim Oak PressReleased: March 8, 2022Received: NetGalley Do you love stories of…

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eelhound · 1 year

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"How honeybees ventilate their nests is an emergent system.

Over time, the air in a nest can get really warm, which, if not managed, can cause significant harm to the developing brood. Honeybees are constantly going in and out of the nest opening. They fly off, gather resources, and bring them back. Guard bees linger at the entrance, looking for predators and defending the nest. If the temperature somewhere along the nest entrance rises above some threshold specific to the bee there, the bee will point its abdomen away from the nest and flap its wings.

One would think that flapping its wings would lower the air temperature, but that's not true. The bee is drawing air out of the nest and this warm, stale air from inside the nest actually warms the neighboring air. This is very important. Other bees will feel that heat and begin to flap their wings, not likely because they're paying attention to what the other bees are doing but because their temperature threshold is being triggered by local warming. One bee becomes five bees. Five become fifty.

Elsewhere, cool, fresh air will enter the nest, filling the vacuum. The bees at that entrance are less likely to flap their wings. Positive feedback where the bees are fanning. Negative feedback where there are fewer fanning bees. Spatial patterns emerge where certain regions have bees that are more effective at drawing out air. Over time, this process creates larger and larger clusters of bees that are fanning their wings until there's just one dominant group.

It is a trick: a marriage of evolution, emergence, and the physics of airflow.

The intermediary between an orchestrated event and chaos is manipulation. Bees are manipulators. They don't even have to know why they do what they're doing. No single actor has the whole picture of how everything works.

And that's the thing. No one can completely control the outcome of events. But any organism can learn a few tricks. Positive feedback where a trick works. Negative feedback where it doesn't.

Harry is too serious a researcher to consciously admit how deeply connected his interest in emergent patterns is with his interest in secret societies. He hates bee analogies. He hates even more the idea that his interests are anything more than academic. But no one's interests are ever strictly academic.

Here's the real point: Paranoia has a physics to it, and even with something as insubstantial as paranoia, over time it gains substance, has weight. Secret societies are a result of paranoia, not the cause. Someone else somewhere knows what's going on, anyone might think. I should too. Conspiracies are also a result, a sensing of heat. There is no way of knowing how many world changing events were precipitated by the phantom cause of paranoia, but the number is sure to be vast.

Anything with substance can be manipulated. One becomes ten, then a hundred. And pretty soon, the whole world flaps its wings."

- Cadwell Turnbull, from No Gods, No Monsters, 2021.

#cadwell turnbull #quote #quotations #bees #emergent systems #systems theory #feedback loops #behavior #paranoia #conspiracy theories #secret societies #causality

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beckysbook5 · 2 years

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No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull - ARC Review!

Happy book birthday to #NoGodsNoMonsters by Cadwell Turnbull! I loved this dark and thoughtful fantasy & I can't wait to get my hands on book two! Thanks to @TitanBooks for the review copy. #BookReview

One October morning, Laina gets the news that her brother was shot and killed by Boston cops. But what looks like a case of police brutality soon reveals something much stranger. Monsters are real. And they want everyone to know it. As creatures from myth and legend come out of the shadows, seeking safety through visibility, their emergence sets off a chain of seemingly unrelated events. Members…