An extra special Gratitoot for my birthday! 😊

For those who haven't seen Dr Alice Violett has written a very good review of my story The Last Philosopher.

And I think you should check out her blog even if you have no interest in my story 😁

https://www.draliceviolett.com/the-last-philosopher-part-1-and-2-by-nick-east/

@books @reading@fedigroups.sociall @fantasy @bookstodon @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop

#Mastodon #Gratitude #Celebration #Indie
#Reading #Readers
#Fiction #Fantasy #Comedy #SFF #Funny #Satire
#Bookstodon #FantasyBooks
#Review #Bookreview #Books

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In The Last Philosopher Part 1 and 2, by Nick East, we're introduced to the planet of Huom: home to long-lived sorcerers, imprisoned philosophers, ingenious “Knomes”, ordinary folk with varying proportions of human-ness, and all manner of other mix-and-match beings. Planetside, there are three storylines we follow: sorcerer Philrsep) fer Lyeasrakardsul, headmaster of the school of Dalcimir in the city of Pentakl, has recently been plagued by dreams of darkness and is on the brink of betraying his principles and asking the Knomes for help; philosopher Herschel is on the run after escaping the not-particularly-secure desert prison of Zig-Zig; and Earl Westman, marshal of the town of Stagna, is preparing to catch a notorious chicken thief (and alleged pervert) and bring him to justice.

This saddens me. I've wanted to start a Free Little #library SOOOOO bad, because I LOVE #books and sharing is caring! I'm about to go back to King Arthur. But this is a problem. Someone on one of my book groups said someone defaced all the C.S Lewis books she left with religious crap...not realizing....C.S LEWIS WAS A CHRISTIAN AUTHOR!!! My favorite author too. #news https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/woman-finds-numerous-religious-pamphlets-133023105.html

Ex-partner of disgraced author Craig Silvey speaks of 'great betrayal'
By Greig Johnston

The former partner of disgraced author Craig Silvey makes her first public statement since he was sentenced on child exploitation charges, describing his actions as a "great betrayal".

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-11-06/craig-silvey-ex-partner-clare-testoni-speaks-of-betrayal/107357996

#ChildSexualAbuse #Crime #Courts #Books #GreigJohnston

The Muppet Christmas Carol
Official Book of Crochet Amigurumi

https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-muppet-christmas-carol-drew-hill/book/9781800925571.html

#books #craft #fibrearts #fiberarts #crochet #muppets

Tsunami Books, a quirky & progressive new & used independent bookshop in Eugene, Oregon, is requesting donations so they can purchase the building they've been renting for ages.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/after-30-years-of-paying-rent-help-tsunami-buy-the-property?utm_campaign=pd_ss_icons&utm_content=amp30-control&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link&lang=en_US

#books #TsunamiBooks #indiebookstores #independentbookstores #bookshop #booksbooksbooks #booklovers #bookworms #bookworm #booklover #writingcommunity

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A photo of used books and a bookcase at Tsunami Books. The signs on the side of the bookcase: "Horror & Paranormal Romance" "Used Zombies" (which I always read as "used zombies")

True North by Paul Theroux review – an American’s view of Canada
By Blake Morrison

The veteran travel writer turns his eye for detail on his northern neighbour and its people

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/nov/06/true-north-by-paul-theroux-review-an-americans-view-of-canada

#PaulTheroux #Travelwriting #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #BlakeMorrison

Britain executed 14 rebels. Public mood flipped, and men once seen as cranks became heroes.
#books #bookreview #IrishIndependence #Nonfiction
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/easter-rising-book-review/

An announcement about our live show at Hunter College in New York City happening tomorrow night, Friday, November 6th.

tinyurl.com/TWOClive

#biketooter #podcast #books

Tomorrow night is our big LIFE AFTER CARS live show at Hunter College with special guest Janette Sadik-Khan! Another of our favorite things she did while leading DOT? Protected bike lanes!

Come celebrate the ongoing transformation of New York City.

Get tickets!

tinyurl.com/TWOClive

#biketooter #books #newyork

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Left: Prospect Park West with three lanes of traffic and parking on both sides. Right, the same street with two lanes of traffic and a protected bike lane on the left side of the street.

So I reached 200 book recommendations. Nice to reach that milestone! I still have books to recommend, though, so I won't be stopping yet. Although I might eventually take a few days off.

#Books #QuasitBookRecs

"The Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald: Eyewitness Accounts from the U.S. Coast Guard Hearings" by Michael Schumacher (Editor) My rating: 5 out of 5 stars. Published in 2019.

Book description: Drawn from testimony at the Coast Guard’s official inquiry, looks anew at one of the most storied, and mysterious, shipwrecks in American history, The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. One of the most famous shipwreck stories in Great Lakes history. It is also one of maritime lore’s great mysteries, the details of its disappearance as obscure now as on that fateful November day in 1975.

This book contains so much detail, and the full reports of the agencies that investigated this tragedy. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested.

#nonfiction #history #GreatLakes #shipping #books #reading @bookstodon

#TimeTravelAuthors 5: A character's favorite holiday food

Cayla does get to try some authentic Victorian pudding for the holidays, which is definitely a highlight. 🙂

#theeventidestochristmas #victorian #fantasy #books #bookstodon

Shallow Trenches/Open Skies features a cigarette-delivery French bulldog named Hubie (inspired by the real life Mutt!), as well as many scenes in wooded areas. With two dogs of my own, this posed a question my writer mind had to have an answer to!

#amwriting #amediting #books #bookstadon #scifi

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Cover for "Random Google Searches for my WIP Shallow Trenches/Open Skies: are their squirrels in Belgium?"

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Squirrels of Belgium: 1 squirrel species lives in Belgium. A single species. Eurasian Red Squirrel Sciurus vulgaris worldwidesquirrel.com/country/belgium esraye.com

First draft prose always has a certain odor.
A funk, if you will.

It's bad. I'm saying it's always bad. At least mine is.
But it gets the job done, and I do so love making it better.

#amwriting #amediting #writer #author #books

It just occurred to me that each of my favorites among the protagonists I've created have a particular go-to expletive that is a microcosm of their personalities and the worlds they inhabit.

Gus: "Tunk!"
Clayton Hart: “Fragebak!”
Lt. Bernard "Griz" Behr: "Blast it!"

#amwriting #writer #books #scifi #sciencefiction

An isolated cabin in the middle of nowhere? No power, no wifi, and no neighbors? Phoebe King’s dream come true.

Then a handsome stranger from the fire department shows up, warning of an impending wildfire. Ready to shatter her dreams and break her heart.

https://www.lianabrooks.com/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-a-cryptid/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Book-Socials
#Books 📚

Here are the new medieval books we have covered this week - check them out at https://www.medievalists.net/category/books/ #books #medieval

Quasit's Daily Book Recommendations: "V for Vendetta" (1995) by Alan Moore and David Lloyd

Age Range: 16 to adult
Genre: Science Fiction, Comics, Dystopia, graphic novel

"Remember, remember, the Fifth of November,
Gunpowder treason and plot;
I see no reason why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot."

I had planned another book for my 200th recommendation (which is what this is; 200 at last!). But today being Guy Fawkes day (technically 'night'), I can't help but recommend this book instead. If there's anyone out there who hasn't read "V for Vendetta", let me take this opportunity to recommend it to you strongly. Even (particularly) if you've seen the movie but not read the graphic novel.

It's the near future, after an •almost• universal nuclear war. Great Britain has survived thanks to timely de-nuclearization by a past Labor government, but in the aftermath corporations and right-wingers banded together to form "Norsefire", establishing a fascist dictatorship with widespread surveillance, secret police, death camps, and official propaganda.

And then a terrorist appears. Known only as "V", he has remarkable yet human abilities; knowledge of the system to an incredible level, skill with explosives and martial arts, and above all else planning, planning, planning.

He wears a Guy Fawkes mask.

The book is filled with references to "V", which is quite intentional. You'll probably be finding new ones every time you re-read it.

Now how can I put this? It's not one of your •simple• books. You could even say that it's complex. I know smart people who couldn't get through it. But I found it extremely readable and rewarding.

Best of all, you can read it online or download it freely from the Internet Archive in all the usual ebook formats, including PDF!

https://archive.org/details/v-for-vendetta-by-alan-moore-david-lloyd

Happy reading! 🤓📖

Here's a complete spreadsheet of all the books I've recommended on Mastodon to date (along with links to each post):

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSzubtaPojvprNwZCeR6N4xzCpZzMeb4xrrEHPtk6Bvx3RGj1Bxdg2KWY0CcjHjxUfMTGTF1eYpyoFn/pubhtml

#Books #Bookstodon #GraphicNovel #Comics #ScienceFiction #Dystopia #BookRecs #BookRecommendations #DailyBookRecs #QuasitBookRecs

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Book Cover: V FOR VENDETTA ALAN MOORE DAVID LLOYD with Steve Whitaker and Siobahn Dodds Image: A closeup of a Guy Fawkes mask worn under a dark hat. Pink cheeks, mustache and narrow goatee.

JASON'S FLEECE. A citizen cheated of his gold.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): JASON'S FLEECE. A citizen cheated of his gold. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

“A stack of books on a nightstand is called a magical thinking.” #bookstodon #books #toread

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/collective-nouns-for-librarians

Hi!, I'm a bot posting selections from Francis Grose’s 1785 “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue”, a compilation of slang terms, the coded language of the underclass and the demi-monde.

[18th-century-content warning: possible racism, animal cruelty, homophobia, sexism, slut-shaming. Let me know of any problems.]

#FollowFriday #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #crime #language #slang #18thCentury

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Last day to get Beta Max on sale for $2.99US!

What happens when the only man who can save the multiverse from non-existence is a ginger in a Hawaiian shirt? (Oh, and his annoying duplicates help.)

Amazon: https://mybook.to/BetaMax
Other Ebook Vendors: https://books2read.com/u/mdpg0d

#book #books #bookstodon #humor #humour #satire #darkhumor #sff #scifi

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cover art of beta max by mark a. rayner, on background of nebula with the quote: "Hijinks and humor continue in Beta Max!" (5 stars) –Lisa Timpf, The Seaboard Review of Books

Some more lovely reviews coming in for Beta Max:

"Beta Max brings humor and satire, the metaphysical with the multiverse, hidden gems and tidbits, but with a bit more heart and soul." -Scott on Goodreads

And it's on sale until midnight!

Amazon: https://mybook.to/BetaMax
Others: https://books2read.com/u/mdpg0d

#book #books #novel #satire #humor #humour #scifi #sciencefiction #bookstodon

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cover art for beta max by mark a. rayner

Well, we didn't crack the Amazon algorithm, but we did join some old friends (Kurt Vonnegut & Terry Pratchett) in the top 100 satire list!

Oh, it's still $2.99US until midnight tonight.

https://mybook.to/BetaMax

#Book #books #bookstodon #humor #humour #satire #scifi #novels

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screenshot from amazon top 100 satire: 87: beta max by mark a. rayner 88: breakfast of champions, by kurt vonnegut, 91: Vonnegut collection of novels and stories, 92: terry Pratchett Making MOney

RE: https://writing.exchange/@golgaloth/117560343612493632

Yeah, I was in two minds about the full special edition thingy. I might run that as a separate campaign in the middle of the year. Before I launch my next series at the end of the year.

#books #reading #WritingCommunity #writing

Highly amused by The Museum of Bums. The great terriers of art history... A cheeky wee read (sorry) 😋

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#books #livres #bookstodon #bums

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Art history book, Museum of Bums, showing a classical pair of statues, male & female, facing away from us, showing bare bottoms.

It's cover reveal day! Super happy to share the cover for my debut novel The Bloodsong Experiment, a dark Gothic romantasy about a mad scientist vampire obsessed with an Arab violinist on a planet without a sun as a god of nightmares laughs on.

#books #romancebooks #bookstodon #novel #darkfantasy

@bookstodon

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The cover of The Bloodsong Experiment by Mariam al-Masri which displays a girl whose face is obscured as she plays a violin while invaded in a bloody heart held by a masculine hand.

Speak of the Devil’s audiobook releases on May 5th!

#WritingCommunity #books #AmReading #romance #fantasy #bookstodon

I’ve finished reading ‘Calamity (The Reckoners #3)’ by Brandon Sanderson.

#Bookstodon #Books #Calamity #TheReckoners #BrandonSanderson

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A Kindle displays the cover of *Calamity* by Brandon Sanderson, showing an armed man before a ruined city.

HEN. A woman. A cock and hen club; a club composed of men and women.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): HEN. A woman. A cock and hen club; a club composed of men and women. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

WRINKLE. A wrinkle-bellied whore; one who has had a number of bastards: child-bearing leaves wrinkles in a woman's belly. To take the wrinkles out of any one's belly; to fill it out by a hearty meal.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

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Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): WRINKLE. A wrinkle-bellied whore; one who has had a number of bastards: child-bearing leaves wrinkles in a woman's belly. To take the wrinkles out of any one's belly; to fill it out by a hearty meal. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

Currently reading:

Project Kawayan - Randy Ribay

#books #bookstodon #BooksofMastodon

Currently reading:

Island Nation - Peter Heller

#books #bookstodon #BooksofMastodon

Currently reading:

Neon Lights - Manuel Gonzalez

#books #bookstodon #BooksofMastodon

Currently reading:

The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad

#books #bookstodon #BooksofMastodon

#Bookstodon and #Poetry folks --

What's your favorite book or essay on Emily Dickinson?

Can be a straight bio or something more akin to criticism. Any style, straightforward or more creative. Old or new, doesn't matter.

#EmilyDickinson #Books

Songs from the Firefront by Tim Winton review – climate urgency verges on panic, with moments of wonder too
By Susan Wyndham

The masterful Australian writer has become a kind of prophet – and his dramatic and moving new essay collection challenges us not to look away

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/nov/06/songs-from-the-firefront-by-tim-winton-review

#TimWinton #Books #Culture #Climatecrisis #Ningalooreef #Autobiographyandmemoir #Essays #TheGuardian #SusanWyndham

I'm in a reading slump.

I think forcing myself into horror novels wasn't such a great idea. Frankenstein was good, but I didn't like The Woman in Black, by Susan Hill. Kinda silly book, paper thin characters, lack of realistic motivations.

Overall I just think I'm not interested in genre fiction right now, and forcing it made me lose my momentum.

Bleak House is still staring at me from the side table...

#reading #books #horror #bookstodon

I've been on a spree of reading this series of murder-mysteries. They are easy to read, have a layer of humour, a cast of likable characters, and have just a bit of magic in the background.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/22e0aa0a-4207-4bf0-8d66-47a609f66e7c

#books #bookstodon #iamreading

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Book cover for "The Vampire Knitting Club" by Nancy Warren. A young woman with blonde wavy hair stands in a cobblestone street at sunset, holding balls of pink and blue yarn. A black cat sits on the ground beside her.

📚️ #eBook / #eBooks accounts to follow:

PUBLIC DOMAIN
@gutenberg_org (main) & @gutenberg_new (new uploads) - Massive selection of public domain eBooks
@standardebooks - High quality well-formatted public domain eBooks
@DProofreaders - Volunteers proofreading eBook versions of public domain books

BOOKSHOPS
@WeightlessBooks - Indie bookshop selling DRM-free eBooks
@scarletferret - Human-curated DRM-free ebooks by indie authors

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#Books #Reading

Follow us to stand up for libraries, defend the freedom to read, and fight for the funding our communities deserve.

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#library #libraries #read #reading #book #books #librarianship #lit

I just bought The Rouse by China Mieville for myself. As a little (1200 page) treat. #books

Buying books and reading them are different hobbies. #books

"7 October 1915. Standing at dawn on the fire-step opposite our dugout next to the sentry when a rifle bullet ripped through his forage cap without harming a hair on his head."
Ernst Jünger, Storm of Steel
#books #history #ww1 #bookstodon

Book Review: A Model for U.S.-Mexico Cross-Border Solidarity https://labornotes.org/2026/11/book-review-model-us-mexico-cross-border-solidarity #1u #Books #Mexico

How did libraries do at the polls last night? (Spoiler alert: Big wins in the stacks!) #books

https://lithub.com/how-did-libraries-do-at-the-polls-last-night-spoiler-alert-big-wins-in-the-stacks/

@bookstodon #books #bookstodon

Authors, I salute your patience with your readers.

I was reading a quick review of AS YOU WAKE, BREAK THE SHELL, by Becky Chambers, and the reader complained that it ended on a cliffhanger.

The book very clearly states that it is the first book in a series. To me, it would be like complaining that your coffee had milk in it, when it was clearly a latte that you ordered.

Sorry for the substack link, but this is unique information. The author is a library, particularly ebook/audiobook advocate, and got to interview the CEO of OverDrive, the company that runs Libby the library app and serves as a middleman between libraries and big publishers. If you want to be more informed about why your library pays 3 - 4 times as much as you do for an ebook or audiobook, it's essential reading. Several states are passing laws trying to improve the situation, but more concerted, widespread action is needed.

#Libraries #LibbyTheLibraryApp #audiobooks #ebooks #books @bookstodon

https://reciprocard.substack.com/p/fractured-access-how-state-lines?r=8ms1e3

Today in Labor History November 5, 1916: The Everett Massacre occurred in Everett, Washington. 300 IWW members arrived by boat in Everett to help support the shingle workers’ strike that had been going on for the past 5 months. Prior attempts to support the strikers were met with vigilante beatings with axe handles. As the boat pulled in, Sheriff McRae called out, “Who’s your leader?” The Wobblies answered, “We’re all leaders!” The sheriff pulled his gun and said, “You can’t land.” A Wobbly yelled back, “Like hell we can’t.” Gunfire erupted, most of it from the 200 vigilantes on the dock. When the smoke cleared, two of the sheriff’s deputies were dead, shot in the back by their own men, along with 5-12 Wobblies on the boat. Dozens more were wounded. The authorities arrested 74 Wobblies. After a trial, all charges were dropped against the IWW members. The event was referenced in John Dos Passos’s “USA Trilogy.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #anarchism #Everett #massacre #vigilantes #police #policebrutality #union #strike #books #fiction #novel #writer #author @bookstadon

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The Seattle Star November 6 1916 Front Page headline reads: 7 killed, 50 wounded is toll of Sunday’s I.W.W. battle. By The Seattle Star - The Seattle Star November 6 1916 Front Page, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=83684869

Has anyone out there read The Stonor Eagles by William Horwood? My co-host @rachel-mccarron says to trend it, but I don't know how trending works. It's a 1980s novel about sea eagles and a troubled artist, and how one species can carry another.
Well, not literally. That's a different book.

How's my trending so far?

https://litopia.com/rachel-mccarron/the-books-that-made-us/

#StonorEagles #Bookstodon #Books #Reading #Birds #TwoWaywardWriters #Podcast

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A well-worn paperback copy of the Stonor Eagles by William Horwood.

*Waves book aggressively*
How is this so hard to understand! 😜😂

@reading @joinin @bookstodon @books @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop

#BookMemes #Meme #Humor #Humour #Funny
#ReadingMemes #Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity
#Litterature #Novel #Bookshelf
#Books #Bookstodon #FantasyBooks

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'You don't mind waiting in the car?’ 'I have a book' 'You won't get bored' ‘I have a book' ‘I might be an hour!' *Waves book*

SAD DOG. A wicked debauched fellow; one of the ancient family of the sad dogs. Swift translates it into Latin by the words TRISTIS CANIS.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): SAD DOG. A wicked debauched fellow; one of the ancient family of the sad dogs. Swift translates it into Latin by the words TRISTIS CANIS. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

"[W]e speak to Prof. #EyalWeizman, Founding Director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths. His new book, ' #Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide,' illustrates how the Israeli state has sought for decades to reshape and upend the physical foundations of Palestinian society in #Gaza."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OfYvKq2Mu8
#Palestine #Israel #oPt #GazaGenocide #stateCrime #colonialViolence #books @bookstodon

Books finished in 2026:

45. The Ganymede Takeover by Philip K Dick and Ray Nelson (1967)
44. Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov (1953)
43. Men At Arms by Terry Pratchett (1993)
42. Full Circle: A Life in Rebellion by Ben Morea (2025)
41. Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov (1952)
40. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut (1962)
39. Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World (2005) Edited by Paul Buhle and Nicole Schulman with various authors
38. Foundation by Isaac Asimov (1951)
37. Clay’s Ark by Octavia E Butler (1984)
36. We Fight: Three Decades of Rebellion Against The Police 2nd Ed. by various authors (2020; 2025)
35. Rabbit, Run by John Updike (1960)
34. Mind Of My Mind by Octavia E Butler (1977)
33. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and The San Domingo Revolution by CLR James (1938)
32. Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett (1992)
31. Escape From Freedom by Erich Fromm (1941)
30. Walking With The Comrades by Arundhati Roy (2011)
29. Wild Seed by Octavia E Butler (1980)
28. Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline (2020)
27. The Last Hero: A Discworld Fable by Terry Pratchett (2001)
26. Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P Newton with J Herman Blake (1973)
25. The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney (1955)
24. Granny Made Me An Anarchist by Stuart Christie (2004)
23. The Day of The Triffids by John Wyndham (1951)
22. Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (1970)
21. Secolo Nuovo: Or the Times of Promise, A Novel by Fulvia Ferrari (2021)
20. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels (1880)
19. Working Class History: Everyday Acts of Resistance and Rebellion by Working Class History (2020)
18. The Diary of a Drug Fiend by Aleister Crowley (1922)
17. Small Gods by Terry Pratchett (1992)
16. The Red and The Black by Stendhal (1830)
15. The Book of Sand (1975) and Shakespeare’s Memory (1983) by Jorge Luis Borges
14. Anarchist Feminists In The Philippines From Etniko Bandido (~2016)
13. The Unseen by Nanni Balestrini (1989)
12. Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare: A Guide to the Armed Phase of the African Revolution by Kwame Nkrumah (1968)
11. Rights of Man by Thomas Paine (1792)
10. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (2011)
9. Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker (1911)
8. Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (1996)
7. Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett (1991)
6. The Nation On No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition by William C Anderson (2023)
5. baedan - journal of queer nihilism - issue one (2012)
4. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (1992)
3. They Will Beat The Memory Out Of Us: Forcing Nonviolence on Forgetful Movements by Peter Gelderloos (2024)
2. It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis (1935)
1. Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge (2006)

#bookstodon #books #read #reading #scifi #sciencefiction #nowreading #book #pkd

This novel is about a future Earth conquered by telepathic worms and divided by slavery and racism. Weird and druggy phase of PKD in full effect. Probably a bad choice to invent a slur for the future anti-Black racism and use it all the time. That aspect didn't age well, imo.

This focuses on telepathy and weird military weapons that affect the mind. Also has some quack psychiatry and solipsistic philosophy with a sensory deprivation tank involved.

It was pretty good but not amazing. Funny and strange, not mind-blowing.

Ray Nelson is best known for the cap with a propeller on top.

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A cover of the photo of The Ganymede Takeover shows a large disintegrating face with lights coming out of the eyes and being drawn back and up. The face is the type of chiseled male face with big chin and strong jaw that might be associated with looksmaxxing today.

I read quite a few Poul Anderson books, especially his time travel stories, but I don’t think I’ve picked one up in over thirty years. Do they still hold up? This Humble Bundle might be a good way of finding out:

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/100-years-poul-anderson-open-road-media-books

#Books #Reading #PoulAnderson #ScienceFiction #Fantasy

Aquí va otro libro interesante que he leído estos días 🖤

#books #libros #bookstodon #literatura #literature #novela #novel #spanish #castellano

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Fotografía en color del libro «La luz negra» de María Gainza

Timgad, The ‘Pompeii Of Africa’ That Spent 1,000 Years Buried In The Algerian Desert

By Natasha Ishak

Built by the Romans in 100 C.E., Timgad was effectively forgotten after it was abandoned in the 8th century — and its ruins remain incredibly well-preserved to this day.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/timgad

Books about Timgad at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=timgad

#books #archeology #history

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TIMGAD: ARCH OF TRAJAN Title: About Algeria: Algiers, Tlemçen, Constantine, Biskra, Timgad Author: Charles Thomas-Stanford A vintage black-and-white photograph of a ruined Roman triumphal arch, likely Trajan’s Arch at Timgad in Algeria. The weathered stone arch has Corinthian columns and three openings, with broken columns and rubble across the surrounding ancient site and a flat horizon beyond.

A Syllabus for Attention: Megan Mayhew on John Elder’s Reading Life

What will I read? What ideas will I live beside? What deserves rereading? What will I memorize? What will I allow to alter me?

https://lithub.com/a-syllabus-for-attention-megan-mayhew-on-john-elders-reading-life/

Books about Syllabus at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=syllabus

#books #literature #education #syllabus #culture

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Title: Middlemarch Author: George Eliot A green cloth cover of George Eliot’s “Middlemarch,” published by William Blackwood & Sons of Edinburgh and London. Black ornamental lettering sits under a banner of ivy, with a circular woodland vignette of a house and leafy vine borders down both sides.

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Title: The Brothers Karamazov Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Translator: Constance Garnett A book cover for “The Brothers Karamazov” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, in Constance Garnett’s translation. The title sits on white above brown-and-tan bands, with a portrait of a bearded man in a dark coat at center and a dark brown strip at the bottom.

Huh actually I never read ‘Alif Layla’!

I mean I saw versions of it. Or maybe read SOME excerpts. But never the whole thing #books

wait, so allegedly #booktok grognards are bleating that the romantasy genre is killing #literature. my brother in english, the literacy crises are actually killing literature, let the romantasy enjoyers have their pretend highbrow #smut in the 90s it was dragonlance, the death gate cycle and alternate history that was allegedly killing literature. ughhhhhhh #bookstodon #books

RIP #Janosch. Wir entdeckten ihn noch als Jugendliche für uns, meinen Kindern habe ich viel von ihm vorgelesen.

Das Besondere an seinen Figuren und Geschichten war, dass sie nicht nur "kindgerecht" waren, es ging um Sehnsucht und Schmerz, er konnte sogar Leidenschaft subtil andeuten. Immer spürte man einen bestimmten existenziellen Riss in allem, der sehr echt und anschlussfähig war. 🖤

#bookstodon #books #bücherliebe

I enjoyed (if that's the right word) the second series of This City is Ours, but I have to say that Cheryl is the least convincing bookseller I've seen on TV. for quite some time.

Its a lovely (university based?) shop she has, but she wanders in & out (taking days off) without worrying whether there are customers or not, seem uninterested in the stock & given it seems to be a 2/h shop has made no effort to but any books.

Still, perhaps she has some hidden staff?

#TV #TheCityIsOurs #books

Just finished #Eleven by #PatriciaHighsmith Indeed a classic collection of stories that explore the themes from which the author is known: social hierarchy, mental health, relationships, a pinch of grotesque and enough suspense. There’s a big contrast also in the representation of society those days, lots of interrelation and interdependence were much more apparent than nowadays #bookstodon #books #suspense #readinglist

La colección de relatos breves de #KoboAbe reunidos en #LosCuentosSiniestros estuvo bien pero no me pareció sobresaliente, en comparación a sus novelas que me han gustado muchísimo más. #lecturas #libros #books #bookstodon

A really nice #read was #TaiwanTravelogue by Yang Shuang-zi
It’s almost like a #JoseiManga but in a literary format. There’s a lot of food descriptions, translations, cultural nuances about colonial Taiwan under imperial Japanese rule, and an ingenious way to portrait fiction as onion layers of storytelling. #bookstodon #books

Read at last L'Étranger by #AlbertCamus which despite being a brief novel was able to keep my attention to the rumination storytelling. #bookstodon #books

Finished T. Kingfisher's What Stalks The Deep. It was an easy read, and I devoured it while on a very uncomfortable 12hr bus ride. I think that (mild spoiler) the goo monster is on a trend, especially if mixed in with a good deal of humour. I first saw it in Someone You Can Build A Nest In, by John Wiswell. Both make for a fun read.

#books #bookstodon #amreading #amreadingsff

When did #Goodreads start allowing for quarter, half, and three quarter stars? I missed that update announcement.

Is someone actually trying to make that site slightly better? (probably not)

#Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon

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Screenshot from Goodreads site showing a 2.75 star rating for Rejection (Fiction) by Tony Tulathmutte.

TO GRUBSHITE. To make foul or dirty.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

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Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): TO GRUBSHITE. To make foul or dirty. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

A discussion with author #AssalRad on her new book #DontSayPalestine: How the #Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d0T5svyId4&pp=ygUfamVydXNhbGVtIGZ1bmQgcGFsZXN0aW5lIGNlbnRlcg%3D%3D

#Gaza #GazaCoverage #PalestineCoverage #MSM #WesternMedia #Palestine #GazaGenocide #mediaCriticism #books @bookstodon

Who Are The Ainu People? Inside The Rich History And Culture Of The East Asian Indigenous Group

By Ella Spitz | Edited By Cara Johnson

The Ainu were hunter-gatherers who lived across Japan and into southeastern Russia, but centuries of forced assimilation have virtually eliminated their language and traditions.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/ainu

Books about Ainus at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/15285

#books #literature #folklore #indigenous_people #history #culture

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An Ainu family on “display” at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Nine adults and two children pose in front of a plain building, wearing traditional Ainu robes with bold swirling patterns. Some men have full beards, one wears a headband crown, and women wear beaded necklaces.

Untitled poem from Disremembering, my first volume of poetry, available now at http://nihtgengapress.com

#Books #Poetry #SelfPublish #Indie

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Cassiopeia With her arms open wide In the obsidian sky Far more beautiful than I've ever been, Beckons my bones Back to her throne Where I'll beg and I'll burn To begin Again.

How London’s 1838 ‘great stink’ created the modern vampire

Long before modern medicine could name the invisible terrors ravaging Victorian Britain, the public found a face for contagion: the vampire.

by Rae Gillibrand

https://theconversation.com/how-londons-1838-great-stink-created-the-modern-vampire-295391

Books about Vampires at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/2692

#books #literature #vampires #horror

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Title: The vision of hell. Author: Dante Alighieri Illustrator: Gustave Doré Translator: Henry Francis Cary A Gustave Doré engraving for Dante’s Inferno, captioned “Be none of you outrageous.” (Canto XXI, line 70). Two cloaked, wreathed figures stand on a rocky ledge as winged demons with pitchforks swarm and drag a pale, naked sinner through a stormy sky.

Book spotlight: Testing Einstein

A new open-access book examines the long history of efforts to confirm and measure effects predicted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity.

https://www.aip.org/history/testing-einstein?mcid=81301bd1cc&utm_source=AIP_newsletter&utm_medium=email

Books by Einstein at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1630

#books #science #physics #relativity #solareclipse

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Chart for Solar eclipse. A globe map labeled “SE1922Sep21T” showing the path of the total solar eclipse of 21 September 1922. A blue band with ovals sweeps from Africa across the Indian Ocean to Australia. Blue magnitude lines, green time lines, and points P1–P4 mark the greatest eclipse.

7 Best Museums for Renaissance Art Around the World

The Renaissance revolutionized the way the West looked at the world and created its art. Check out the seven museums where its greatest masterpieces live.

by Laura Pattara

https://www.thecollector.com/renaissance-art-museums/

Books about Renaissance at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/1534

#books #art #history #renaissance #museum #culture

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The Arnolfini Portrait, by Jan van Eyck, 1434. A man in a dark fur-trimmed robe and wide hat clasps hands with a woman in a green gown. A small dog stands between them, with a convex mirror, chandelier and red bed behind.

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Galerie d'Apollon du Louvre déserte (Paris). A grand, ornate gallery hall with a gilded, frescoed vaulted ceiling. Carved panels and framed portraits line the walls, and glass display cases sit behind rope barriers on a polished parquet floor, with tall windows at left.

Packing orders tonight and so thankful for your support. No AI is involved in either the written word or the cover art. I pack each order myself and send them out with love. A few copies of Disremembering and Threnody are available at http://nihtgengapress.com 🖤✨

#Books #SelfPublish #Indie #Poetry

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This Week in Literary History: Sinclair Lewis Wins the Nobel Prize in Literature

The First Writer from the United States to Do So

https://lithub.com/this-week-in-literary-history-sinclair-lewis-wins-the-nobel-prize-in-literature/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01M6CGDRCHCDAAN2K4WYV9665K&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER

Books by Sinclair Lewis at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/278

#books #literature #nobelprize #history #award

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Sinclair Lewis, Nobel laureate in Literature 1930. A vintage black-and-white close-up portrait of a man with slicked-back hair and a faint, wry smile, his head tilted and one hand raised beside his ear. He wears a light jacket, white shirt and striped tie against a dark background in a soft-focus studio style.

The Spooky Saga of the Icelandic Dracula

Was a strange, long-lost translation of Dracula written by Bram Stoker himself?

by Willa Paskin

https://slate.com/podcasts/decoder-ring/2026/10/dracula-bram-stoker-iceland-vampires-powers-of-darkness-translation-makt-myrkranna

Podcast:
https://shows.acast.com/696572d375c092ac4e159c27/6ae285865a3cc3c4c46cf4f2

Dracula at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/345

#books #literature #literaryCriticism #horror #gothic

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Henry Irving is widely considered to have inspired Dracula. John Bernard Partridge - The Lyceum "Faust." By Joseph Hatton ... with illustrations from drawings by W. Telbin, Hawes Craven, W. H. Margetson, J. Bernard Partridge, and Helen H. Hatton Taken from "The Ilustrated London News" A dramatic black-and-white engraving of a gaunt figure in medieval costume, a plumed cap, belted tunic, hose and flowing cloak. One arm is raised high and the other thrown out, his mouth open in alarm. He stands before a bare tree, a pale horizon and a moonlit, cloudy sky.

Reading for pleasure is linked to better brain health across the lifespan

by Eric W. Dolan

https://www.psypost.org/reading-for-pleasure-is-linked-to-better-brain-health-across-the-lifespan/

More information:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medicine/article/reading-and-associations-with-brain-health-cognition-wellbeing-and-mental-health/1A3565FA61831A975813113DE1AB2B09

Books about Psychiatry at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/21989

#books #brainhealth #mentalhealth #cognition #psychiatry

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Fig. 74.—Book fanned out to show forage painting in Mearne’s style. Title: The Book: Its History and Development Author: Cyril Davenport A black-and-white line drawing of a large open book lying flat, its blank pages gently curving. The thick page block’s fore-edge is decorated with intricate floral and scrollwork ornament, including a central flower motif, and a plain cover extends behind it.

“Wake” from Library on Fire, my second volume of poetry, now available at http://nihtgengapress.com! All orders ship tomorrow (11/2)!

Thank you for reading, sharing, and supporting an independent poet! 🖤✨

#Books #Poetry #Indie

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A poem from Library on Fire by Michelle Joy Gallagher Soffe. It reads: Wake Wake the Sleeping Violets. The end Has whispered New beginnings Into being, And for that You'll need To borrow Their bravery.

How H. P. Lovecraft Shaped the Horror That Still Dominates Pop Culture

H.P. Lovecraft’s legacy endures as the writer who turned personal tragedy into cosmic horror and transformed genre storytelling.

by Greg Beyer

https://www.thecollector.com/hp-lovecraft-shaped-horror/

Books by Lovecraft at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/34724

#books #literature #horror #pop #culture

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This is a photograph of H. P. Lovecraft that was probably taken in 1930. A stark black-and-white photograph of a man in a dark suit and tie sitting in an armchair, hands resting on the arms, staring at the camera. Harsh lighting casts his shadow on the curtained wall behind him, beside a radiator and a patterned rug.

Pulling Alfred Russel Wallace from Darwin's shadow

by Steve Harris

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c674pv2ej29yo

Books by Wallace at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/955

#books #evolution #biology #science #zoology #entomology #anthropology

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Wallace in 1895. A vintage black-and-white studio portrait of an elderly man with white hair, round wire-rimmed glasses and a long white beard. He sits cross-legged in a wooden armchair, wearing a dark velvet jacket, waistcoat and tie, with a white handkerchief in his pocket. A fern frond peeks in at right.

@publicdomainrev

The Hour of Meeting Evil Spirits by Matthew Meyer, 2015
An Encyclopedia of Mononoke and Magic (Yokai Series Book 2)

These spirits encompass every kind of supernatural creature; from malign to monstrous, demonic to divine, and everything in between. Most of them seem strange and scary—even evil—from a human perspective. They are known by myriad names: bakemono, chimimoryo, mamono, mononoke, obake, oni, and yokai.

#books
#nonfiction
#Japan
#folklore
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Yokai live in a world that parallels our own. Their lives resemble ours in many ways. They have societies and rivalries. They eat, sing, dance, play, fight, compete, and even wage war. Normally, we keep to our world and they keep to theirs. However, there are times and places where the boundaries between the worlds thin, and crossing over is possible. The twilight hour—the border between daylight and darkness—is when the boundary between worlds is at its thinnest. Twilight is the easiest time for yokai to cross into this world, or for humans to accidentally cross into theirs. Our world is still awake and active, but the world of the supernatural is beginning to stir. Superstition tells people to return to their villages and stay inside when the sun sets in order to avoid running into demons. This is why in Japanese the twilight hour is called omagatoki: "the hour of meeting evil spirits." This encyclopedia contains over 125 illustrated entries detailing the monsters of Japanese folklore and the myths and magic surrounding them.

Julie de Graag and her Charming Cats

Dutch printmaker Julie de Graag transformed ordinary cats into gorgeous works of art

by ByKaren Strike

https://flashbak.com/julie-de-graag-485805/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=julie-de-graag

Books about Cats at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/16673

#books #literature #cats #art #bookillustration #culture

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Title: Millions of cats Author: Wanda Gág A charming black-and-white woodcut-style vignette of a cat curled up asleep, nestled before a fan of large feathery leaves. A tall, curving stem with a small fuzzy flower arches overhead, with scroll flourishes at each end of the base and “WG” initials at right.

“Ancient Fire” from Threnody, my second volume of poetry, now available at http://nihtgengapress.com

Orders are going out first thing Monday (11/2)!

Thank you for reading, sharing, and supporting an independant poet! 🖤✨

#Books #Poetry #Indie

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A poem from Threnody, a book by Michelle Joy Gallagher Soffe. It reads: Ancient Fire Here the Sun wept Ancient fire, The light of One hundred Thousand Years Eulogized On your skin.

"Winter in the Morning: A Young Girl's Escape from the Warsaw Ghetto" by Janina Bauman. My rating: 5 out of 5 stars. Published in 2026.

Book description: Janina Bauman was a year older than Anne Frank when the Second World War broke out. When Hitler's decree forced her family into the Warsaw Ghetto, bright, lively Janina suddenly found herself in a cramped flat hiding with other Jewish families. At first, the curfews and casual cruelty meted out by the German occupiers could not dim her passion for books, boys and romance. Then came the raids, and Janina with her sister and mother, had to keep on the move, hiding in the ruins of the ghetto to avoid being one of thousands rounded up every day and deported to the camps. Their escape to the 'Aryan' side was followed by two years in hiding, taking shelter with those willing to help them and living in constant fear of betrayal, told through her teenage diaries.

I expected this book to be similar to "A Diary of a Young Girl, but this story is much different in perspective, and I loved it every bit as much, and the story does not end there, but continues on after the war. I highly recommend this book.

#nonfiction #memoir #history #Holocaust #WWII #persecution #jews #Books #reading @bookstodon

Miss Amy Sacker’s School of Decorative Design: Book Cover

Designs by Amy Maria Sacker (1872-1965)

by Meg Gray

https://blogs.loc.gov/preservation/2026/10/miss-amy-sackers-school-of-decorative-design-book-cover-designs-by-amy-maria-sacker-1872-1965/

Books illustrated by Amy Sacher at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/9242

#books #literature #bookcovers #illustration #art #culture

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1902 book binding designed by Amy Sacker; original held by the University of North Carolina Greensboro Library, Special Collections and Archives. Red and black art on olive cloth shows a young man and woman in a frame, flanked by laurel branches and open books, with an oil lamp below. A library label is on the spine.

New research challenges long-held beliefs about Robert Burns and Jamaica

edited by Swati Mestri, reviewed by Andrew Zinin

https://phys.org/news/2026-10-held-beliefs-robert-jamaica.html

More information:
https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/burns.2026.0157

Books by Robert Burns at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/583

#books #literature #poetry #history

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Robert Burns, 1759 - 1796. Poet (1828), by the artist Alexander Nasmyth A full-length 19th-century oil painting of a man in a black hat, brown coat, striped waistcoat and buff breeches, standing with arms crossed on a woodland path. A stone arched bridge, rolling countryside and a cloudy, darkening sky lie behind him.

Meet Montclair resident Eric Hellman (@gluejar), executive director of Project Gutenberg who shares his favorite local spots, love of running and more.

https://montclairlocal.news/2026/10/baristanet-profile-eric-hellman/

#ebooks #publicdomain #projectGutenberg

Medieval ghost stories featured rotten flesh, the walking dead and spoon-stealing spirits

by Alex Brown

Medieval ghosts shapeshifted, rose from their graves, and begged for help in making amends for their misdeeds.

https://theconversation.com/medieval-ghost-stories-featured-rotten-flesh-the-walking-dead-and-spoon-stealing-spirits-294984?utm_campaign=the-weekender-40141&utm_content=the-weekender-40141_uk%7C177%7C40141%7Cfe626953&utm_medium=email&utm_source=braze&utm_term=The+Conversation

Medieval ghosts at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=medieval+ghosts

#books #history #medieval #halloween #ghosts

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PLATE VII S. JAMES VISITS THE WARLOCK’S DEN. Breughel Title: The history of witchcraft and demonology Author: Montague Summers A chaotic engraving in the style of Bruegel: a haloed, robed saint with a staff stands calm amid grotesque demons, hybrid creatures and bubbling cauldrons. Witches ride through stormy skies above, and a ladder climbs a rooftop to the right.

“Eons” from Library on Fire, my third volume of poetry, now available at http://nihtgengapress.com!

Thank you for reading, sharing, and supporting an independent poet 🖤✨

#books #poetry #indie

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A poem from the book Library on Fire, by Michelle Joy Gallagher Soffe. It reads: Eons Only eons know The poetry of What water Asks of stone And what the Stone gives.

'Weizman says #Ungrounding is “a kind of destruction that we have not seen anywhere else,” with Israeli bulldozers “terraforming” the landscape to erase all traces of Palestinian life.'

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/10/30/forensic_architecture_eyal_weizman_gaza_genocice
#EyalWeizman #Gaza #GazaGenocide #Palestine #oPt #colonialViolence #stateCrime #counterforensics #books @bookstodon

Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto turned architecture into horror’s greatest weapon

by Peter Nelson Lindfield

Threateningly ill-defined buildings, enough for our imagination to fill in the gaps, seem to be the ideal catalyst to spark terror.

https://theconversation.com/horace-walpoles-the-castle-of-otranto-turned-architecture-into-horrors-greatest-weapon-295422?utm_campaign=the-daily-40143&utm_content=the-daily-40143_uk%7C2%7C40143%7C80348329&utm_medium=email&utm_source=braze&utm_term=Horace+Walpole%E2%80%99s+The+Castle+of+Otranto+turned+architecture+into+horror%E2%80%99s+greatest+weapon

The Castle of Otranto at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/696

#books #literature #gothic #halloween #architecture

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Horace Walpole by John Giles Eccardt, c. 1755. An 18th-century oil portrait of a young man with curled brown hair, in a dark blue velvet cloak with a pale blue sash and lace collar and cuffs. He rests one hand on a thick leather-bound book. A red curtain frames him, and a pale castle-like building shows through the window behind.

Halloween is almost here! Why not pick up one of our horror classics? Check out the 10 most downloaded books from our catalog. Happy reading!

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/84
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/345
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5200
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8492
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41445
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2148
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6087
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10007
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/209
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68283

PG's Horror bookshelf:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/42

#books #literature #horror #halloween

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Front cover of the book Dracula by Bram Stoker. The mustard-yellow cover of the 1897 first edition of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula.” The title and author’s name appear in bold red lettering at the top, with a thin red border framing an otherwise plain, empty cover.

"[W]e explore the rise and fall of #TheCommune with a special focus on the revolutionary vanguard often left out of the history books: the women of #Paris. Joining us is historian and modern #France expert Dr. #CarolynJEichner, author of #TheParisCommuneABriefHistory. Together, we unpack how these women took up arms, demanded radical labor and social reforms, and fought on the barricades for a new world."

https://youtu.be/DG7rTrLrAi8?si=10EYEYDpVXSnR0qa
#CommuneDeParis #LaCommune #communardes #histFr #books @bookstodon

#pagebound shows your % overlap with other users. i was excited to see a 15% but it was because that person only has like 30 books in their account. where are my heavy reading nerds!! i just wanna talk (about your back catalog)

#books #bookstodon

https://pagebound.co/users/aetataureate

“Rise” from Library on Fire, my third volume of poetry, back in stock now at http://nihtgengapress.com

#Poetry #Books #Indie

Thank you for supporting an independent poet! 🖤✨

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A poem from the book Library on Fire by Michelle Joy Gallagher Soffe. It reads: Rise The sun, Halfway Through its Lifespan, Burning Through its Hydrogen, Still rises And so Will

🧵 We're launching "Passages," a new, members-only series of essays about life-changing encounters with stories, each by one of our favorite writers. If you're a Longreads fan, we think you'll love this. #reading #writing #journalism #creativity #longreads #books #stories

The Colour That Revolutionized Chemistry

William Henry Perkin's discovery of mauve had an impact far beyond the fashion industry.

by Joe Schwarcz

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/medical-history-general-science/colour-revolutionized-chemistry

Books about Color (including Goethe's Theory of Colours) at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/3066

#books #colours #chemistry #science #syntetic_dyes #historyofscience

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Perkin in 1906 Unknown author - Scanned photograph from F. J. Moore's book, A History of Chemistry (1918). - Popular Science Monthly Volume 69. A black-and-white studio portrait of an elderly man with swept-back white hair and a full, bushy white beard. He wears a dark jacket and white collar, and gazes calmly at the camera. The dark background and soft lighting emphasize his weathered, dignified face.

I need to check if #HemlockBazaar has this book. Do you happen to know @ajroach42?

https://www.hemlockbazaar.com/staff-picks/

(Don't forget your optical drive)

"War is a Racket"
https://bookstore.ninja/merch/10

#book #books #war #SmedleyButler

The hidden hornbook: a handy educational tool from the Middle-Ages

by Ken Gibb

https://scolarcardiff.wordpress.com/2026/10/19/the-hidden-hornbook-a-handy-educational-tool-from-the-middle-ages/

Books about Education in middle ages at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=education+%2B+middle+ages

#books #history #hornbooks #education #rarebooks

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Woodcut from “Hornbye’s Hornbook” (1622) in which a schoolboy points out letters on a hornbook to his tutor. Resting on the desk is a birching rod which would be used to discipline a lazy student! (From Tuer’s “History of the Horn-Book”, 1897).

World-famous or local legend? New study investigates global and local forms of collective memory and group identity

by Adrian Chalifour

https://phys.org/news/2026-10-world-famous-local-legend-global.html

Original article:
https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/5/10/pgag308/8825253?login=false

Books about Political science at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/800

#books #history #socialsciences #politicalsciences

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Bonaparte au pont d'Arcole, par Antoine-Jean Gros (ca. 1801), musée du Louvre, Paris. A dramatic oil portrait of a young officer with tousled hair, in a dark gold-embroidered uniform with a tricolor sash, gripping a flagpole as the banner billows overhead. A sword hangs at his side, and smoke drifts over the stormy battlefield behind him.

An Abbey in France Discovered Previously Unknown Wall Sketches by Odilon Redon

by Maximilíano Durón

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/abbaye-de-fontfroide-rediscovered-odilon-redon-sketches-1234803456/

Books illustrated by Odilon Redon at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/44994

#books #literature #books_illustration #art #culture

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Odilon Redon Self-Portrait, 1880, Musée d'Orsay A moody oil portrait of a bearded man in a gray-green skullcap, shown close up and slightly turned, with a steady gaze. His face glows in warm red-orange tones against a dark blue-green background, and a white collar edge shows beneath his dark coat.

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Okay, so four of these. Not really interested in the others. How about you folkes?

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10 Great Books That Are Hard To Read Today

By Diego Pineda Pacheco

https://collider.com/best-books-hard-to-read-today/

You can download all of these books on our website:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/521
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/219
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/82
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2701
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/203
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2600
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6593
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/996
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Clarissa%2C+or%2C+The+History+of+a+Young+Lady

#books #literature #classics

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Joshua Reynolds’s Self-Portrait as a Young Man (also called Self-Portrait Shading the Eyes). A dramatic oil painting of a young man in a dark tricorn hat, one hand raised to shade his eyes. The hand casts a shadow across his upper face, while warm light picks out his nose, mouth and curled hair against a black background.

Gulliver’s Travels at 300: a satire of the Anglo-Irish and the folly of allegiance to empire

by Clíona Ó Gallchoir

Travel to England made Swift feel like an oppressed Irish colonial subject while at home he felt like a powerful civilising cog of that same empire.

https://theconversation.com/gullivers-travels-at-300-a-satire-of-the-anglo-irish-and-the-folly-of-allegiance-to-empire-295211?utm_campaign=the-daily-40115&utm_content=the-daily-40115_uk%7C2%7C40115%7C0547a0c9&utm_medium=email&utm_source=braze&utm_term=The+Conversation

We have this book in multiple editions and languages:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Gulliver%E2%80%99s+Travels

#books #literature #literaryCriticism #colonialism #irish_history

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Gulliver Exhibited to the Brobdingnag Farmer (from Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels) by Richard Redgrave. A cracked oil painting of a tiny man in a red coat and white breeches, hand on hip, peering at a giant face with round spectacles that looms from the right. Enormous faces fill the dark background, with a bowl, bread, grapes and dice below.

10 Great Books That Are Hard To Read Today

By Diego Pineda Pacheco

https://collider.com/best-books-hard-to-read-today/

You can download all of these books on our website:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/521
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/219
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/82
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2701
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/203
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2600
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6593
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/996
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Clarissa%2C+or%2C+The+History+of+a+Young+Lady

#books #literature #classics

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Joshua Reynolds’s Self-Portrait as a Young Man (also called Self-Portrait Shading the Eyes). A dramatic oil painting of a young man in a dark tricorn hat, one hand raised to shade his eyes. The hand casts a shadow across his upper face, while warm light picks out his nose, mouth and curled hair against a black background.

An untitled poem from Disremembering, my first volume of poetry. Back in stock now at http://nihtgengapress.com!

#books #poetry #indie

Thank you for for supporting an independent poet 🖤✨

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A poem from the book Disremembering by Michelle Joy Gallagher Soffe, it reads Time loses All meaning In the distance Between My sanity And your Dreams.

Were Two Ancient Chinese Astronomers Beheaded for Failing to Predict an Eclipse in 2134 B.C.E.? The Story May Be a Myth, but It Underscores the Real Risks of Interpreting Celestial Events

Experts say that an oft-circulated anecdote about two royal astronomers drunkenly failing to foresee an eclipse thousands of years ago contains hints of truth

by Georgia Michelman

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/were-two-chinese-astronomers-were-beheaded-for-failing-to-predict-an-eclipse-2134-bce-the-story-may-be-a-myth-but-it-underscores-the-real-risks-of-interpreting-celestial-events-180989715/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=20261021-daily&lctg=93133550&user_id=19f2988141aeef1ce3da2871b25613801e24297faaf654001575521d8c39910f

Books about Solar eclipses at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/21048

#books #astronomy #science #solareclipse

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Solar eclipse of October 22, -2137 BC A globe map centered on Asia and Australia showing a solar eclipse path: a thick red band of totality sweeps from central Asia across China and the Pacific. Blue and green contour lines and pink outlines mark partial-eclipse zones and timing.

A forgotten 1890 first edition of Sherlock Holmes novel The Sign of Four arrived among ordinary charity-shop donations in England; staff spotted its significance and it sold for £11,520

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/a-forgotten-1890-first-edition-of-sherlock-holmes-novel-the-sign-of-four-arrived-among-ordinary-charity-shop-donations-in-england-staff-spotted-its-significance-and-it-sold-for-11520/articleshow/135117224.cms

The Sign of Four at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2097

#books #literature #firstedition

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The 1892 cloth-bound cover of The Sign of Four after it was compiled as a single book. A red cloth book cover of Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Sign of Four,” with the title in orange-yellow lettering beside a sketched paper. A woman and a man lean over a table, examining an open treasure chest beneath a hanging lamp.

quick book review: Steve Jobs in Exile

- it delivers what it promises: a lot of backstory on how NeXT was created, how it barely survived through its multiple phases, and eventual sale to Apple
- the insider perspectives from several developers are more trustworthy than the only other book on the subject (Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing)
- the weakest parts of the book explored jobs himself as a person, his motivations and inner self; computing engineers are poor psychologists.
- it's long! i was surprised by how in-depth and well-researched it was
- if you're looking for discussions of hardcore hardware and software engineering principles than went into NeXT and NeXTStep, this ain't your book - i wanted so much more from the sections devoted to NeXTStep/OOP/Interface Builder

#books #bookstodon #retrocomputing #macintosh #vintageApple #next

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The front cover of Steve Jobs in Exile: The Untold Story of NeXT and the Remaking of an American Visionary by Geoffrey Cain. It shows a B&W photo of steve with his hands in front of his face.

12 of Theodore Roosevelt’s Favorite Books

He swore there was no such thing as a list of the best books, and yet never stopped telling people which ones he loved!

By Matt Hoffman

https://www.mentalfloss.com/literature/books/theodore-roosevelt-favorite-books

Some of Roosevelts' favorite books at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5999
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1468
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37106
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/580
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1129
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35402

#books #literature

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Official White House portrait of Roosevelt by John Singer Sargent in 1903. A full-length oil portrait of a mustached man in a dark frock coat, white shirt and tie, standing with one hand on his hip and the other resting on a wooden pedestal. Loose, painterly brushwork in muted gold and gray fills the background.

Seven mulberry leaves, silk, and a surprise in the stacks

A fragile 18th-century curiosity on the subject of sericulture, or silk farming, contained delicate botanical specimens. It can now be widely studied and viewed as a result of our conservation treatment and imaging work.

by Ayse Kaya

https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/seven-mulberry-leaves-silk-and-a-surprise-in-the-stacks

#books #sericulture #botany #preservation #herbarium

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Fig. 2.—No Two Leaves are Alike. Title: The botanist's repository for new and rare plants; vol. 08 [of 10] Author: active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews A black-and-white botanical line drawing of a branching twig with lobed, serrated leaves of varying sizes. Small spiky clusters are tucked into the leaf joints, and a short bare stem runs along the bottom.

FAT CULL. A rich fellow.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

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Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): FAT CULL. A rich fellow. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

Never Mind Ancient Authorities, Do the Experiment!

In the 16th century, science was rooted in studying and debating the works of ancient authorities like Aristotle and Galen—until Francis Bacon arrived to challenge this paradigm.

by Joe Schwarcz

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history-general-science/never-mind-ancient-authorities-do-experiment

Francis Bacon at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/296

#books #literature #philosophy #science #education

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Francis Bacon’s Monument in St. Michael’s Church. Title: Bacon and Shakespeare Author: Albert Frederick Calvert An engraving of a monument to Francis Bacon, per the inscription “Franciscus Bacon Baro de Verulam.” A seated statue in a ruff, hat and doublet rests his head on one hand inside an arched niche, above Latin inscriptions on the pedestal.

The lingering legacies of 'The Sun Also Rises' 100 years on

Ernest Hemingway's debut novel, about lost and wayward young people after World War I, turned 100 this week. We look at its legacy and how the book has aged.

by Andrew Limbong

https://www.npr.org/2026/10/23/nx-s1-5974093/the-lingering-legacies-of-the-sun-also-rises-100-years-on

The Sun Also Rises at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67138

#books #literature #culture

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First-edition dust jacket cover of The Sun Also Rises, the second novel by the American author Ernest Hemingway, published in 1926 by Scribner's, with dust jacket illustrated by Cleo Damianakes. A slumped figure in a draped tunic sits beneath bare branches before a dark circle, flanked by apples.

Restoring old books is an art with a sense of mission.
Much better than destroying them for the benefit of AI
#WainwrightBookBinding #bookbinding #globalmuseum #books

The Best Shakespeare Comedies
recommended by Heather Hirschfeld

For Shakespeare, comedy was not simply about laughter, but about conflict and confusion giving way to resolution and a happy ending — at least by the standards of the Elizabethan era.

https://fivebooks.com/best-books/shakespeare-comedies-heather-hirschfeld/

Shakespeare at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/65

#books #literature

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This image of William Shakespeare is the 17th-century engraving by Martin Droeshout. “Made originally to embellish the title page of the First Folio (1623), the image portrays Shakespeare with a prominent forehead, long hair covering his ears, a mustache and mouche (patch of hair below his lower lip). He wears a starched white collar, and a doublet adorned with lace or braid and fastened with covered buttons. Since the original image was approved by actor friends of Shakespeare, who edited the 1623 publication, and accompanied by a laudatory verse written another contemporary, Ben Jonson, it is considered a good likeness.” - metmuseum.org

So I'm behind on the #books I've read.

Adam Rutherford — A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

Long story short, it's basically "everything you didn't really know you wanted to know about genomics, but now that you know, you want more." It is one of the books that once you start reading, you keep going on whenever you can. I think the author managed to write a popular science book without sacrificing accuracy, with a bit of storytelling and mythbusting.

#bookstodon

Where Exactly Were the First Humans to Be Captured in a Photograph Standing? Three Obsessed Filmmakers Solved the Nearly 200-Year-Old Mystery

The sleuths spent two years digging into archives and building 3D models of 19th-century Paris. The location is now immortalized by a bronze plaque celebrating the historic site and the “poetic” early photograph

by Sonja Anderson

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/where-exactly-were-the-first-humans-to-be-captured-in-a-photograph-standing-three-obsessed-filmmakers-solved-the-nearly-200-year-old-mystery-180989727/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=20261021-daily&lctg=93133550&user_id=19f2988141aeef1ce3da2871b25613801e24297faaf654001575521d8c39910f

Books about Daguerreotype at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/3072

#books #art #photography #culture

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Boulevard du Temple, Louis Daguerre, 1838 taken at 8:00 AM. Boulevard du Temple, Paris, 3rd arrondissement, Daguerreotype. Made in 1838 by inventor Louis Daguerre, this is believed to be the earliest photograph showing a living person. It is a view of a busy street, but because the exposure lasted for 4 to 5 minutes the moving traffic left no trace. Only the two men near the bottom left corner, one apparently having his boots polished by the other, stayed in one place long enough to be visible. As with most daguerreotypes, the image is a mirror image.

Frankenstein, The Vampyre, and the Spirit of the Humanities

How one ghost story competition continues to haunt the humanities—just in time for Halloween.

By: Maria Papadouris

https://daily.jstor.org/frankenstein-the-vampyre-and-the-spirit-of-the-humanities/?utm_source=mcae&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jstordaily_10212026&utm_content=readmore

Books in Gothic Fiction at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/39

#books #literature #halloween #horror

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Henry Louis Stephens (American, 1824–1882). Vampyre from The Comic Natural History of the Human Race (1851). A hand-colored lithograph titled “Vampyre” showing a bat-bodied creature with a grotesque, tufted-eared human face and a red cravat, wings fully spread. A pale mask hangs from its chest. Credited to Rosenthal & Kraemer.

Josh Ruebner of the #IMEU Policy Project welcomes historian #AssalRad to discuss her new book, #DontSayPalestine: How the #Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide.

"[A] powerful meditation on the role of the media in a democratic society and how the media not only failed to uphold its professional code of conduct when it came to reporting #Israel's genocide of #Palestinians in #Gaza, but actually enabled it."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCGGXFm0uj8
#Palestine #GazaGenocide #mediaCriticism #books @bookstodon

Now that I'm technically an adult and don't have school assignments, I only read leisurely 😁

#ReadingMemes #Meme #Humor #Humour #Funny #Geek
#Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity #AmReading
#Novel #Books #Fiction #Bookstodon

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Post by khushi me : *reading a book* me : *realising i have school and lots of assignments that have to be done* me : *read book nervously*