I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman is neither a self-defence of heteronormativity nor a salacious lesbian romp. I finished reading this over the weekend.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/i-who-have-never-known-men

The piece is a critique of the book. I liked and very much recommend it, but it had some challenges.

#philosophy #literature #writing #reading #critique #harpman #humancondition #speculativefiction #fiction #sciencefiction #scifi #psychology #sociology

You know what you mean, right? Of course you do? Or do you?

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/i-know-what-i-mean

In this piece, I riff on Alfred Whitehead and Michael Reddy with guest appearances by Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, reluctantly Steven Pinker and even a Heidegger cameo.

#philosophy #language #meaning #instrumentality #blog #substack #nature #reading #communication #understanding #podcast

A quotation from Carlyle

The Book had in a high degree excited us to self-activity, which is the best effect of any book.

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 1, ch. 4 (1834)

More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/33303…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #action #book #excitement #inspiration #motivation #reading #spur

Reading for pleasure is linked with structural brain changes and a laundry list of positive effects, including improved mental health and reduced risk of cognitive decline. A survey of evidence for the benefits of cracking a book also notes that starting young is linked to better attention, memory, executive function, academic achievement and fewer mental health problems. The key, says neuropsychologist Barbara Sahakian, is pleasure. “Read for enjoyment, as you will read more often and longer.”

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2589065-reading-for-pleasure-boosts-memory-attention-and-mental-health/

#Books #Reading #Health #Libraries #Bookstadon #Librarians #Read #Psychology #Science #Nature

Q: What places feel like home?

A: Anywhere I hear the Spanish of the US-Mexico border.

Dive into this week's Longreads Questionnaire with ESPN writer Roberto José Andrade Franco: https://longreads.com/2026/09/17/questionnaire-roberto-jose-andrade-franco/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Longreads #Reading #Writers #Journalists #Mexico #ElPaso #Latino

📚 I assembled 10 fiction novel recommendations and decided to make a post on Substack.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/fiction-recommendations?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Then I asked Z.ai to profile me based on the results. It was a nice exercise. I chose GLM because I don;t interact with it as much, so it doesn't already have an established profile.

#reading #books #recommendations #nobokov #ishiguro #sylviaplath #fictionbooks #blog #substack #podcast #novels

"When the World Sleeps: Stories, Words, and Wounds of Palestine" by Francesca Albanese. My rating: 5 out of 5 stars. Published in 2026.

Book description: The first woman to serve as United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories conveys the soul of a people through ten unforgettable stories of resilience and humanity. The spirit of a place lies in the people who inhabit it, in the stories that intertwine through its streets. And this is especially true of a land like Palestine, the witness to defining historical transitions and stage to one of the most painful chapters in contemporary history.

These stories are compelling and bring out the human experience and trauma. They helped to broaden my understanding. I'm so glad I read this book.

#nonfiction #Palestine #genocide #inhumanity #WarCrimes #books #reading @bookstodon

Put Whitehead's Science and the Modern World to bed. It has some good ideas, especially for its placement in time (1925), but he ends up too mired in indefensible metaphysics.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Hl38sR9htBKpdwOlT7yD8?si=7yAdqZQ-SGCxiK0rZ_aSxA

I discuss him in the context of other thinkers.

#philosophy #language #reading #writing #blog #substack #whitehouse #benatar #ligotti #zapffe #teleology #optimism #pessimism #metaphysics #cats #existentialism #nihilism #science #podcast

"The public commons is a place people stop at on their way somewhere else. Everyone eats the same value meal because there’s nothing else to eat."

An excerpt from Gabe Bullard’s new book, AGAINST CONVENIENCE:
https://longreads.com/2026/09/15/convenience-friction-eating-alone/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Longreads #Books #Reading #Technology #Culture

“Modern food delivery promises to make any food into something you can eat at home. But not every dish, and not every restaurant, is built for this.”

An excerpt from Gabe Bullard’s new book, AGAINST CONVENIENCE, out now from Hanover Square Press: https://longreads.com/2026/09/15/convenience-friction-eating-alone/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Longreads #Reading #Books #Technology #Apps #Convenience #Food

A little cheery news for this wet Tuesday morning.

Whether it be War and Peace or The Very Hungry Caterpillar, according to a study from the University of Cambridge, regardless of “what or how we read”, sitting down with a book is linked to improved health and problem solving. Benefits include lowering stress and reducing the risk of dementia, and span all types of reading, from comic books to classic novels or hefty non-fiction tomes.

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

#Reading #Bookstodon #GoodNews

Been reading Whitehead on Quantum Theory. It's over 100 years old, and it shows. Still, it provided food for thought regarding the fundamental behaviour of electrons.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/whitehead-the-electron-and-the-persistence?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#physics #reading #philosophy #ontology #mediation #encounters #Whitehead #reality #history #science #debate #quantum #theory

So, our local library network has an adult reading challenge through the end of October.

I pretty much only read comics, manga, or graphic novels these days, so guess I'm going to have to complete the challenge with the power of comics!

Huzzah!

#ComicBook #Manga #Reading #GraphicNovel

🔖📗📘📕📖📚📙📜📒💁🏼*The 7 Reading Habits of Intelligent People👉

#Reading #Habits

The 7 Reading Habits of Intelligent People
https://theebookclubx.substack.com/p/the-7-reading-habits-of-intelligent

"The only way to know that orphans in Gabon were being saved, he thought, was to save them himself."

An excerpt from the new Atavist issue by Matthew Wolfe, about a robber with a conscience: https://longreads.com/2026/09/08/austria-robbery-atavist-magazine/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Longreads #TrueCrime #Nonfiction #Reading #Robbery #Thief #Austria

"The translucent corona is a white-gold halo—a hypnotic vortex drawing me into the black disk."—Rudi Zygadlo for Dispatch

https://dispatch-media.com/on-tour-with-the-eclipse-chasers/?src=longreads

#longreads #solar #eclipse #astronomy #reading #writing

My mom, absolutely out of nowhere, asked me if I had any recommendations for a sci-fi book to read. I think she made a friend on her trip who told her sci-fi is actually pretty good and talks a lot about human nature and morals and worldviews and the things beyond cool aliens and lasers (though I love those too)

I felt a side of her was a little judgy with me because of my liking for that instead of non-fiction works, but I guess she doesn't mind now!

I of course had many options to offer, but not many physical books in Spanish, which is what she reads.

So she's going to read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley now. I hope she gets it because I actually haven't read it myself either LOL

I should make a blogpost about this

#ScienceFiction #Reading #Books #Bookstodon #SciFi

Not a flattering review given the lens chosen. IDGAF. My copy gets here today and I'm looking forward to it. Pun intended.

"A few days after I started #reading #DaraHorn’s new #book, I was called a “#kike” for the first time to my face.

It was a sunny afternoon and I was wearing my Newsguild shirt. A person on the sidewalk, deshabille, possibly collecting junk, asked what union I was in. Against my better judgment I engaged, believing them to be a fellow worker. I said I was a journalist. They then decided I was a “fascist” and “complicit.”

“Do you like writing about the #genocide in #Palestine? The war in #Iran?” they asked me, trailing me past a #Judaica store in a very #Jewish neighborhood.

[...]

#Horn’s The #FinalSolution to #theJewishQuestion: A Love Story for the Living, her latest provocatively-titled #nonfiction book is a survey of #antisemitism past and present and the ways #Jews explain ourselves to the world. At its heart, it is about #education."

https://forward.com/culture/books/847643/the-final-solution-jewish-question-dara-horn-review/

River dolphins and trading cards and brain organoids, oh my! In this week's Top 5:
• Bad medicine | The New Yorker
• Imperfect sound forever | Bitter Southerner
• Know when to fold 'em | Business Insider
• Brainiacs | WIRED
• Call of the wild | Aeon
https://longreads.com/2026/08/28/top-5-623/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social #longreads #reading #curation #magazines #journalism

When you open a book, imagination takes flight on wings.

Spring Forth from a Book - https://chrystyne-novack.pixels.com/featured/spring-forth-from-a-book-chrystyne-novack.html

#AYearforArt #Imagination #Butterfly #Butterflies #Hope #Stories #BuyIntoArt #Inspiration #MastoArt #symbolism #reading #read #fotografie #photography #art

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A photograph of a butterfly resting on a white daisy that appears to be growing out of the center of an open book. Sharp eyes will notice that on one page of the open book is a poem about butterflies. Part of a series of conceptual work with insects back in 2013. Yes, the butterfly is real and alive. It was let go after the photo shoot was done.

"Dad got his gun from the City of Cleveland. That’s where Mom got hers, too. Both are tools of policing, the Cooper family business."

In our excerpt from THE BLACK SHIELD, Wilbert L. Cooper recounts how his mother Gayle joined the police force: https://longreads.com/2026/08/25/the-black-shield-wilbert-l-cooper/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Longreads #Reading #Books #Cleveland #Police #Memoir #Policing

The urge to keep all the tabs open is not a recent thing.
Pictured: a 300-year-old library tool that enabled a researcher to have seven books open at once, yet conveniently nearby (Palafoxiana Library, Puebla)
@unmlawlibrary #globalmuseum #library #libraries #reading #history

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300-year-old library tool. Palafoxiana Library, Puebla

"Literature, like youth, is wasted on the young."

#literature #Education #books #bookstodon #liberalarts #humanities #reading #poll

I chat about chapters 1 & 2 of Stoner by John Williams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIezmXemJOc

#philosophy #books #author #reading #existentialism #camus #video #youtube #shorts #RidleyPark

A quotation from Montesquieu

To delight in reading is to trade life’s dreary moments for moments of pure joy.
 
[Aimer à lire, c’est faire un échange des heures d’ennui que l’lon doit avoir en sa vie contre des heures délicieuses.]

Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689–1755) French political philosopher
Pensées Diverses [Assorted Thoughts], # 1632 / 1143 (1720-1755) [ed. Guterman (1963)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/78314/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #pensees #books #boredom #delight #dreariness #ennui #entertainment #joy #meme #pleasure #reading

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Montesquieu quote

The Sorcerer's Apprentice prefigures the perils of Modernity.
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/sourcery-of-modernity
#philosophy #modernity #history #literature #writing #reading #blog #podcast #magic #disney #fantasia #competence

What if we use emoji in Yugioh card text? https://korawichmawinkavee.medium.com/what-if-we-use-emoji-in-yugioh-card-text-ee83783f64bb/share/korawichmawinkavee #Yugioh #NaturalLanguage #Grammar #Reading

LFG

#reading #history

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A photograph of the front cover of a book. The top two-thirds features an illustration in a traditional Indian miniature painting style on an orange background, depicting several figures with blue and light skin tones intertwined among green leaves and gold floral motifs, beneath a blue and white patterned border. The bottom third is off-white and contains text in blue and black capital letters. The text reads: "THE HINDUS AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY", followed by a small red four-pointed star, then "WENDY DONIGER".

Our Top 5:

ㆍTriplets, unclaimed (New York)
ㆍDeath, unreported (Science/Retraction Watch)
ㆍDe-extinction, disputed (MIT Technology Review)
ㆍChildren, ferried (Fernando Pinho)
ㆍButterflies, tracked (The Atlantic)

https://longreads.com/2026/08/14/top-5-621/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_content=t5-2026-08-14

#Longreads #Reading #Journalism #Nonfiction #Science #Medicine #Technology

"A novel about rewilding and climate activism in Britain has been named this year’s winner of the Arthur C Clarke award for science fiction.

When There Are Wolves Again by EJ Swift is an “ambitious study in the power of long-term hope in the face of climate breakdown”, said the award’s director, Tom Hunter."
#climate #books #reading #sff https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/12/ej-swift-wins-the-2026-arthur-c-clarke-award-for-science-fiction

"I can still remember the thrill of holding that much-anticipated cone, taking my first lick . . . then watching the scoop roll off its biscuity throne to the sidewalk."

A very satisfying new #Longreads reading list from Elizabeth Blackwell:

https://longreads.com/2026/08/13/reading-list-ice-cream-summer/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social

#summer #reading #essays #lists #icecream #desserts

Can you please recommend some books for me to read (with audiobooks) based on these list of books I struggled to finish and others I loved?

Didn’t enjoy or DNF:
Dark Matter
Red Rising
The Left Hand of Darkness (I know, I know!)
Scythe (trilogy)
Babel
The Once and Future Witches

Books I’ve read multiple times or really enjoyed:
Piranesi
Mistborn series
Project Hail Mary
Atmosphere
Blood Over Bright Haven
The Mortal Instruments (series)
1984, Fahrenheit 451
The Awakening

Thanks 🤗

#books #reading #bookstodon

I work in #infosec and consider myself pretty well educated on what’s happening with #AI.

But I’m about 33% of the way through @emilymbender and Alex Hanna’s book, “The AI Con”, and I’ve really learned a lot more.

If you’re skeptical or curious about AI, this is a must-read. I’m recommending it to everyone I know.

“The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want”, by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

Edit: Added text in this post with the title and authors. It's also in the image's ALT text. Sorry!

#books #bookstodon #reading #AI #technology #nonfiction

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“The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want”, by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

#library #datacenter #water #books #reading #water

https://follow.coryd.dev/users/cory/statuses/117068314410259929

This is less what I am reading than what I've just finished, but you can check out what I'm up to by following the link to Goodreads.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/08/10/what-am-i-reading/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

That I am reading a book is neither a recommendation nor an endorsement. There tends to be an overrepresentation of fiction titles because I listen to these when I work out and to fall asleep, which in each case burns through many chapters. They also tend to be shorter.

#reading #writing #blog #books #goodreads #diversity

This week's #longreads Top 5 includes:

-Behind the blockade (Associated Press)
-Splendid scribbles (Eater)
-Greenest green (The New Yorker)
-New nuptials norm (New Lines Magazine)
-Tasteless tomatoes (Offrange)

https://longreads.com/2026/08/07/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-620/?utm_source=x&utm_medium=social

#longreads #top5 #reading #writing #essays

"I never asked Auntie Zou why all the books were torn, without title pages and back pages. In those days, asking too many questions could get you in trouble."

Zhang Er for China Books Review: https://chinabooksreview.com/2026/07/23/the-missing-pages

#Longreads #Reading #Books #China #BannedBooks

August is Black Business Month. Here’s a great opportunity to support a Black-owned business…

Do you use Goodreads? If so, you can migrate to @thestorygraph. You can even import all of your Goodreads data.

Nadia Odunayo is the founder and sole developer. Together with her small team, they’re making a great product that’s slowly improving over time.

So go support Nadia and co. instead of a fascist billionaire.

https://thestorygraph.com

#BlackBusinessMonth #BlackMastodon #Books #Reading #TheStoryGraph #Goodreads

@kurtsh @mookie
I reread many books multiple times. Here are four that I've read many times.
1. Hogfather Terry Pratchett
2. Catch-22 Joseph Heller
3. The Last Coin James P. Blaylock
4. The Doomsday Book Connie Wells

And one more
The 1956 Betty Crocker Cookbook
I've read it cover to cover at least twice, but have opened and referenced recipes from it regularly for 60 some odd years. Not a novel, but a well loved book nonetheless.
#books #reading

@mookie Like most people I've got a bunch, but here are some of the ones I most want to share:

1. Balanced on the Blade's Edge by Lindsay Buroker
2. The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
3. The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
4. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

with some notes:
1. The whole Dragon Blood series that starts with Balanced on the Blade's Edge, and the followup series Heritage of Power, are my favorite books and I will reread them all the time
2. I've made multiple passes through the first half-ish of the Wheel of Time series, but it's a chonker and I only made it all the way to the end once
3. Of course LOTR as well, but everyone is naming that

#books #reading

Yup! In multiple forms too -- including a reinterpretation.

It's such a classic story -- and honestly, it's a short read so worth a read .

The first time I read it was as a reinterpretation. A friend of author Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park) thought Beowulf was boring and challenged Crichton to make it exciting. Crichton wrote the book Eaters of the Dead based on the challenge and the book follows the story of Beowulf, but from the point of view of a third party. The book was later made into the movie 13th Warrior starring Antonio Banderas as that third party.

In university, I took an English course where I read Beowulf in the original language, Old English (aka Anglo-Saxon) in its original format: Verse (aka a poem). It's great!

Because Beowulf is written in Old English, it has many translations. The translation into verse by Burton Raffel is particularly good. But the best verse translation into Modern English is by Seamus Heaney the book contains the Old English version right next to the new English translation.

I've read multiple prose translations. The best prose translation of Beowulf is Donaldson's and worth a read if it's your first time reading. Beowulf was also translated into prose by J.R.R. Tolkien.

If you can't tell, I love this story and think everyone should read it at lease once.

#books #reading #beowulf #poetry

Mine are:

• Beowulf by Unknown Author
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
• The Martian by Andy Weir

"The real world is both tiring and tiresome for him, Lewis went on to explain: too many unwritten rules, too many norms that don’t quite make sense." —Eve Livingston for Dispatch

https://dispatch-media.com/meet-britains-hikikomori/?src=longreads

#longreads #introvert #autism #anxiety #reading #writing #family

"Whatever the reason, it’s now de rigueur to be regular."—Linni Kral for Taste

https://tastecooking.com/this-too-shall-pass/?src=longreads

#longreads #poop #BM #diet #influencer #reading #writing

#books #reading #warhammer #warhammer40000 #warhammer40k

This is interesting news.

Swedish education officials are investing heavily again in traditional printed textbooks.

The national strategy aims to phase out digital devices for children under the age of six entirely, following a drop in international reading assessment scores.

Research indicates that the physical act of handwriting activates complex neural networks governing motor skills, vision, memory, and language-cognitive benefits that are largely lost on a keyboard.
#Education #Reading

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This image features a photograph of a young, blonde boy sitting at a desk in what appears to be a classroom setting. The boy, wearing a dark navy blue zip-up jacket, is leaning over his desk, focused attentively as he writes on a piece of paper using a wooden pencil. The background shows a soft-focus classroom environment with another child sitting at a desk in the distance. Prominently overlaid across the bottom portion of the photo is bold text in a light yellow/orange font that reads: "Sweden is officially reversing its use of digital technologies in education and returning to handwriting and books"

"This is surely the most exciting development in the field of ancient history in many years." —Carlos Noreña for Aeon

https://aeon.co/essays/uncovering-a-global-ancient-history-beyond-greece-and-rome?src=longreads

#longreads #greece #rome #ancienthistory #reading #writing

Good news for many of us here:

Your pending pile (your books-to-read pile) is contributing to your well-being.... it represents an anticipation of pleasure to come & as such sports good mental health.

Just as well as my pending pile of books never goes down (yes, that's my problem in buying more books that look/sound interesting).

#books @books #reading #MentalHealth #tsundoku

https://theconversation.com/why-you-keep-buying-books-you-dont-read-and-why-it-feels-so-good-286801

#BurgeonLab #WeekNotes 034 is out!

2026: Week 29/52 (Jun 13 – Jul 19)

➡️ https://burgeonlab.com/weeknotes/2026/w29/

A weeknote about writing, books, #bookwyrm and #indiebookclub, a #micropub app by @gregorlove.com

This is post 69 of #100DaysToOffload
📈 https://burgeonlab.com/tags/100daystooffload/

#indieweb #indiekit #hugo #hongkong #hk #frontend #books #reading #booktracker #blogging #blogs #smallweb #weeknote #personalBlog #PersonalSites #BloggingCommunity

Reading The Social Construction of Reality:
A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
https://philosophics.blog/2026/07/17/the-social-construction-of-reality-a-treatise-in-the-sociology-of-knowledge/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #knowledge #sociology #audiobook #Audible #reading

Honestly, I think we are both emerging from our own personal Château d'Ifs.

#literature #reading #classiclit #countofmontecristo #bookish
#bookclub #ebook #publicdomain

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A public domain image of the James brothers posing for a Kodak in matching coats and hats in hand. Meme text reads,"When bro and you are reading the same old book."

Q: Where do you do your best thinking?

A: On the EGYPTAIR flight home. . . . There is no better place to think than somewhere over the Atlantic after Egypt has scrambled your brain.

This week's Longreads Questionnaire, with BECOMING BABA author Aymann Ismail: https://longreads.com/2026/07/15/questionnaire-aymann-ismail/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

#Longreads #Books #Egyptian #Egypt #Writers #Journalists #Reporting #Reading #Interviews

#read #reading #book #books #audiobook #audiobooks

COMING SOON: The Nerd Reich by Gil Durán (@gilduran)

https://social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc44-606a-5416-9e63-b78152956776

#technology #bookstagram #SiliconValley #reading #PeteThiel #DarkEnlightenment #NeoReactionary #NRx #cameralism #CurtisYarvin #NetworkState #NeoFascism #TechnoFeudalism #book

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SCREENSHOT: Post by Gil Durán Sunday, July 12, 2026 a 3:23 PM PHOTO: A cardboard box with muliple copies of a hardcover book, one of which is being held. The cover is red with a circuit board tracing faintly laid over it. "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fasscism and the War on Democracy" by Gil Durán TEXT: Yesterday two mysterious boxes arrived. And here in my hand is my life's work: "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fasscism and the War on Democracy". It tells the story of how a cult of billionaires became radicalized against democracy. And it exposes their plan to use AI and crypto to wipe the United States off the face of the earth. Coming 8/18. Pre-orders make a huge difference! Make a fascist sweat -- pre-order today! (See links below.)

Are we living through the end of reading?

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/11/nx-s1-5886268/are-we-living-through-the-end-of-reading

#books #reading

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In Federico Zandomeneghi's painting "Girl reading a book," a young girl with bright red hair is shown in profile, looking to the left. She is holding an open book and wears a light blue dress with a ruffled collar. The background is filled with warm shades of orange, red, and soft yellow.

Our Top 5 this week:

ㆍConcrete memories, Places Journal
ㆍGrief science, The New Yorker
ㆍCaptive cats, The Narwhal
ㆍRelentless pain, The Common
ㆍMyth meets reality, The Atlantic

https://longreads.com/2026/07/10/top-5-616/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=email

#Longreads #Reading #Storytelling #Essay #Journalism

A corner of our new library at our downsized ranch house--this library exists on the walls of our two car garage. Barbie's 50's hula-hoop, covered with sisal, serves as herb-drying rack, and holiday decor is stored in the basket stack. #doityourself #home #homeproject #homeprojects #doityourselfer #doityourselfers #storage #modernstorage #efficentstorage #garage #garages #garagestorage #space #spacesolutions #smallspacesolutions #book #books #library #libraries #reading #reader #readers

🤗☁️🌈☁️📖📜✝️👑🕊️💦🏩💒❤️‍🔥🛐🫂💛💜💗🩵🩷🧡🤔🧐🥸😎🤓🧠🤗*(The plans of the heart belong to man!*but the answer of the tongue is from the LORD!)*[All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes!*but the LORD👉

(Proverbs 16:1-3*& 8-9)
#Wisdom #Proverbs #Beloved #Friends #Bible #Interesting #Reading #Devotional #Lord #GOD #Jesus #Christ #Holy #Spirit #Savior #Light #World #People #Pray #Believe #Christian #Heaven #Hope #Peace #Faith #Truth #Goodness #Kindness #Hospitality #Gentleness #Understanding #Unity #Love #One #Another

🤗☁️🌈☁️📖📜✝️👑🕊️💦🏩💒❤️‍🔥🛐🫂💛💜💗🩵🩷🧡🤔🧐🥸😎🤓🧠🤗(IN THE “BIBLE” YOU CAN FIND THE WRITINGS OF “Proverbs” TO HELP GAIN WISDOM!*& WHEN I GET A CHANCE TO READ SOME OF THEM I THINK THEY MAKE GREAT ADVICE!*& PERFECT SENSE!*AMEN!†*& HERE ARE A FEW I SHARE WITH YOU ALL!)👉

(Proverbs 16:1-3*& 8-9)
#Wisdom #Proverbs #Bible #Interesting #Reading #Lord #GOD #Jesus #Christ #Holy #Spirit #Savior #Light #World #Pray #Christian #Heaven #Hope #Peace #Faith #Truth #Goodness #Kindness #Gentleness #Understanding #Unity #Love

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(Proverbs 16:1-3*& 8-9)
#Wisdom #Proverbs #Beloved #Friends #Bible #Interesting #Reading #Devotional #Lord #GOD #Jesus #Christ #Holy #Spirit #Savior #Light #World #People #Pray #Believe #Christian #Heaven #Hope #Peace #Faith #Truth #Goodness #Kindness #Hospitality #Gentleness #Understanding #Unity #Love #One #Another

🤗☁️🌈☁️📖📜✝️👑🕊️💦🏩💒❤️‍🔥🛐🫂💛💜💗🩵🩷🧡🤔🧐🥸😎🤓🧠🤗THE “BIBLE Proverbs” TO HELP GAIN WISDOM!*& GREAT ADVICE!*& PERFECT SENSE!*AMEN!]†🤗📖📜✝️👑🕊️💦🏩💒❤️‍🔥🛐🫂💛💜💗🩵🩷🧡☁️🌈☁️🤔🧐🥸😎🤓🧠🤗👉

(Proverbs 16:1-3*& 8-9)
#Wisdom #Proverbs #Beloved #Friends #Bible #Interesting #Reading #Devotional #Lord #GOD #Jesus #Christ #Holy #Spirit #Savior #Light #World #People #Pray #Believe #Christian #Heaven #Hope #Peace #Faith #Truth #Goodness #Kindness #Hospitality #Gentleness #Understanding #Unity #Love #One #Another

☁️🌈☁️💒🛐💦🏩❤️‍🔥😎👓📚🫂🕊️📖✝️👑❤️‍🔥💦🌐🌏🩷💁🏿‍♀️*[DEAR BELOVED FRIENDS ACROSS THE WORLD IN THE “BIBLE” YOU CAN FIND THE WRITINGS OF “Proverbs” TO HELP GAIN WISDOM!*& WHEN I GET A CHANCE TO READ SOME OF THEM I THINK THEY MAKE GREAT ADVICE!*& PERFECT SENSE!*AMEN!]†👉

(Proverbs 16:1-3*& 8-9)
#Wisdom #Proverbs #Bible #Interesting #Reading #Devotional #Lord #GOD #Jesus #Christ #Holy #Spirit #Savior #Light #World #Pray #Believe #Christian #Heaven #Hope #Peace #Faith #Truth #Goodness #Kindness #Understanding #Unity #Love

💜🩷🩵💦🌞😎🩴🩴👙🐚🏖️🌊⛱️⛲🍉🏄🏼‍♀️🤽🏼‍♀️🍋⛵🪂🐦🐈🐕🐠🐟🎣🦦🚣🏼‍♀️🍥🌴🤸🏼‍♀️🌏🌐💛💁🏼‍♀️*DEAR BELOVED BLESSED!*& ESPECIALLY GIFTED!*& BRIGHT!*& LOVING SPIRITED FRIENDS GOOD FRIDAY MORNING!🌞*& I AM SHARING WITH YOU ALL MY👉

(Proverbs 16:1-3*& 8-9)
#Wisdom #Proverbs #Beloved #Friends #Bible #Interesting #Reading #Friday #Devotional #Lord #GOD #Jesus #Christ #Holy #Spirit #Savior #Light #World #People #Pray #Believe #Christian #Heaven #Hope #Peace #Faith #Truth #Goodness #Kindness #Hospitality #Gentleness #Understanding #Unity #Love #One #Another

Foliate is a free, open-source eBook reader for Linux with support for EPUB, MOBI, PDF, CBZ, FB2, and more.

It includes dark mode, annotations, dictionary lookup, text-to-speech, bookmarks, and reading progress, all without requiring an account or sending your reading data to the cloud.

More details: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=foliate

#OpenSource #Linux #eBooks #Privacy #FOSS #Reading

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"Yehor stepped and knelt and spun and raised his arms into the emptiness where Masha should have been. In the footage playing behind him, she was still the star." —Siobhán O’Grady and Liubov Sholudko for The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/world/europe/russia-ukraine-prom.html/?src=longreads

#longreads #prom #ukraine #russia #war #reading #writing

"The extremely obvious truth (which is barely even veiled) is that at least most of these hustlebros are faking it." —Jason Koebler for 404 Media

https://www.404media.co/how-i-bought-a-private-jet-by-selling-10-subscriptions-to-404-media/?src=longreads

#longreads #hustle #scam #socialmedia #reading #writing

@kirschner, president of @fsfe, is coming to DWeb Camp to read “Ada & Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream”

https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/83EYB7/

🍦 We will be serving organic ice cream for free after the reading 😋

➡️ Full schedule here: https://dwebcamp.org/schedule

#DWeb #DWebCamp #FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #FSFE #Berlin #camp #reading

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In deference to US Independence Day, I was thinking about books with a counterfactual historical take – speculative history. I wrote about it.

👉https://philosophics.blog/2026/07/03/un-discovering-america/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

#philosophy #books #blog #podcast #spotify #video #youtube #short #history #reading #america #europe

"What set of circumstances favored an animal that weighs up to 600 pounds, moves at four miles a day, and takes a quarter of a century to reach sexual maturity?" —Helen Lewis for The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/writers-way-galapagos-charles-darwin-travel/687480/?src=longreads

#longreads #darwin #evolution #originofspecies #reading #writing

"Tully Gets Hooked on #Books is a delightful new #picturebook for #frum families. #Written and #illustrated by #GoldieGolding, the #story follows Tully the worm as he travels through the forest and encounters several animal friends: Ollie Owl, Shimmy Sloth, Faigy Flamingo, and Talia Turtle.

Remarkably, each of these new friends is #reading a #book when Tully meets them, which in turn inspires him to want to #learn to #read, too."

https://jewishpress.com/a-tale-for-reluctant-readers/

"To call it a speck is generous. At first, I mistake it for a particle of dust. But then, it catches the sun and sparkles undeniably." —Eve Livingston for Dispatch

https://dispatch-media.com/the-brits-panning-for-gold/?src=longreads

#longreads #gold #hobbies #subculture #reading #writing

Judeo-Christian

"Among the many #faiths practiced by millions of #Texas #students, a new statewide required #reading list that includes #biblical passages draws from just two traditions: #Protestant #Christianity and #Judaism.

Yet Texas #rabbis say #Jews had no role in shaping how #Judaism appears in the #curriculum, and they disagree with how the lone #Jewish text is presented. Rather than teaching about Judaism on its own terms, they argue, the lessons filter Jewish texts through a #Christian perspective.

The #readinglist, which is expected to go into effect in 2030, will have #publicschool students across the state reading passages from the #NewTestament and mostly Christian #translations of the #Hebrew Bible alongside #literary classics. Of the curriculum’s six #HebrewBible readings, just one uses a Jewish #translation."

https://forward.com/news/834539/texas-bible-curriculum/

Riffing on the idea of identity and selfhood after reading Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/metaphysical-projection?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#philosophy #books #reading #ishiguro #identity #selfhood #perception #heuristic #video #podcast #substack #blog #souls #metaphysics #astronomy #essence

"The appeal of dog neuroscience is not limited to understanding their adolescence, indeed it kicks in as soon as you take a new puppy home." —William Davies for The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/25/what-training-my-chaotic-dog-taught-me-about-power-control-and-human-beings/?src=longreads

#longreads #dogs #dogtraining #sociology #control #reading #writing

I have a couple of Warhammer 40,000 games in both my GoG and Steam libraries, but I haven't really engaged with them fully because I don't have an understanding of the lore.

Little did I know that the lore is so deep! OMG. I watched this 15 minute YouTube video to get started on it. And also found this guide for Warhammer 40,000 books -- there are so many books in the series! I'm going to start reading the book Horus Rising by Dan Abnett to dip my toes into the universe.

Any Warhammer 40,000 fans out there?

#warhammer #warhammer40000 #warhammer40k #gaming #videogames #books #reading

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I wrote this book a while ago to inspect the nature of time travel.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/impossibility-of-time-travel?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#philosophy #time #phenomenology #epistemology #writing #reading #fiction #books #blog

Read about it while it lasts folks.

"Over the years, I collected a handful of favorites that not only drew the #kids into #Jewish worlds but also merged Jewish experiences into the #American #story. This 250th-anniversary-friendly list includes #books with Jewish takes on American life going back to the #Pilgrims and the #AmericanRevolution, and Jewish holidays entwining themselves with what’s most American about #America, whether it’s baseball, boxing or welcoming (or being) the stranger. Some of the books are old and hard to find, while others came along recently, after my #school-#reading days were long past. All carry the message that #Jews are deeply enmeshed in the American story and are also part of what moves that story forward."

https://momentmag.com/american-jewish-childrens-books/

What’s on your reading table? #booksaboutmusic #coffeetablebooks #music #musicthemedbooks #musicalbooks #reading #stanstewart #wondersofjazz #webstories https://muz4now.com/web-stories/whats-on-your-reading-table

A New Partnership is Formed with Weightless Books

Adamsdesk expands with a new partnership that provides value to those seeking e-books that respect your freedom while supporting independence.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/partnership-weightless-books/

#books #reading #blog #BlogPost #bookstodon

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A stack of colourful books sit next to a e-book reader with a bold title above that says, 'A New Partnership Is Formed'.

Hey. Bookshop.org is hosting Anti-Prime Day this week: 6/23–6/26.

https://bookshop.org/info/anti-prime-day

#Books #Reading #Bookshop #AntiPrime #Amazon #Indie

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Was Hobbes Right in Leviathan? Only partially.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/hobbes-was-right?r=pvxh5

#philosophy #blog #history #reading #substack #monarchy #democracy #history #books #politics #governance #empire #nature #foundation #anarchy #Leviathan #Hobbes #violence

"David was a crazy workaholic, just like my dad. They were both people who were used to being creative every waking moment of their life. So for David, doing Labyrinth was like being on vacation." —Ann Lee's oral history for The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/16/david-bowie-workaholic-labyrinth-at-40-oral-history/?src=longreads

#longreads #labyrinth #bowie #film #cultclassic #reading #oralhistory

"But follow an obsession long enough, and the joke changes. Excess becomes craft, even service."

In our new reading list, Dr. Dinesh Kumar Jangra celebrates the fixated:

https://longreads.com/2026/06/18/reading-list-amateur-experts/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#longreads #amateurs #hobby #obession #reading #writing

It's my first novel's birthday month, so I'm having a wee sale. DRM-free ebooks are $0.99 on my website because it's mine and I do what I want:
https://kmherkes.com/the-bookshop1/p/controlled-descent-ebook-1

It's a scifi adventure in a future more optimistic than dystopian, where people risk everything for the sake of friendship, trust, & love. Humor, whimsy, sarcasm, & more. Sometimes gritty, never grim.

Prefer kindle? Cool. I gotta link for that & other vendors too:
https://books2read.com/ControlledDescent

#books
#reading
(boosts welcomed)

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[for your address book]

A Fediverse group for sharing your papers and preprints.

https://soc.octade.net/papers/

#Papers #Writing #Preprints #Authors #Research #Reading #groups #fedigroups #fediverse

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