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40 Years of the Life and Struggle of the Jordanian Communist Party : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Takahe has limited support for this type: See Original Page

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Syria : Syrian Arab Republic Ministry of Tourism Takahe has limited support for this type: See Original Page

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A Village Moves to Socialism - Supplement to “China Reconstructs” No. 10, 1956 : Sun Tan-Wei Takahe has limited support for this type: See Original Page

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Social Effects of the Scientific and Technological Revolution Under Capitalism : N. Gauzner Takahe has limited support for this type: See Original Page

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The bookends of time

Nothing lasts forever: not humanity, not Earth, not the Universe. But finitude confers an indelible meaning to our lives

by Thomas Moynihan

https://aeon.co/essays/how-humanity-moved-from-eternal-to-bookended-time?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=d7a6d9f4aa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_02_19&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972

Cosmology at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=cosmology

#books #literature #cosmology

From the British Museum: Title-page to Hobbes's 'Leviathan' (London: Andrew Cooke, 1651): an allegory of governance and the nature of civil and ecclesiastical authority. A crowned man whose body is made of numerous human bodies, emerges from a mountain at the foot of which is a city, holding a sword in his right hand and a crozier in in left hand; below is the title inscribed on a tapestry and surrounded by ten framed allegories: castle, crown, cannon, military trophies, battle on the left, church, bishop mitre, thunder, inscribed trident and forks, and assembly of magistrates;. 1651

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_(Hobbes_book)#/media/File:Leviathan_frontispiece_cropped_British_Museum.jpg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3207

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Viet Nam: a sketch Takahe has limited support for this type: See Original Page

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Ghana - Two Years of Transformation 1982~1983 Takahe has limited support for this type: See Original Page

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A little reminder that all of my books are available via bookshop(dot)org, which means that pretty much any local book store can stock them, and benefit from their sale online. If you haven't tried Bookshop, here's a great place to start!

https://bookshop.org/shop/michaelshotter

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"Cold in the earth—and the deep snow piled above thee,
Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave!
Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee,
Severed at last by Time's all-severing wave?"

How Wuthering Heights was shaped by Emily Brontë’s gothic poetry

Emily Brontë’s poetry is full of haunting love, grief and death.

by Claire O'Callaghan

https://theconversation.com/how-wuthering-heights-was-shaped-by-emily-brontes-gothic-poetry-275948?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20February%2019%202026%20-%203680937628&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20February%2019%202026%20-%203680937628+CID_615a3bba18c77b3d9714f9e409741922&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=How%20Wuthering%20Heights%20was%20shaped%20by%20Emily%20Bronts%20gothic%20poetry

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1019

#books #literature #poetry

Title page of the book Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Authors: Charlotte Brontë
Anne Brontë
Emily Brontë

A title page from an 1846 publication on aged cream paper. At the very top, a handwritten pencil inscription reads "Brontë Charlotte" in a casual, slightly slanted hand. The printed text is centered and typeset in a spare, classical style with generous spacing between elements.
Below a small decorative wavy rule, the publication details appear at the bottom:
LONDON:
SMITH, ELDER AND CO., 65, CORNHILL.
1846.

The layout is minimal and elegant, with wide margins and abundant white space giving it a restrained, dignified character typical of mid-Victorian book design.

https://archive.org/details/poemsbycurrerell00bron/page/n4/mode/1up

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Who is up for a nationwide book club? Can we start with this one? Takahe has limited support for this type: See Original Page

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This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- For my birthday back in December, I treated myself to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein from The Folio Society.
- A review copy of Simon Lamb's The Oldest Rocks on Earth: A Search for the Origins of Our World from Columbia University Press (a review is forthcoming).
- A second-hand copy of Peter Godfrey-Smith's Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection from Oxford University Press. This one was withdrawn from the holdings of the nearby Devon Libraries, but has found a welcome home with me.
#Books #Scicomm #Geology #EarthSciences #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #Bookstodon @bookstodon

A photo of three books standing on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books and part of the beech-coloured laminate floor.

On the left, standing up, Frankenstein, showing a black silhouette of a humanoid figure in shredded clothing against what would be white rocks. The book is bound in blue cloth and is standing in front of a blue marbled slipcase.

In the middle, lying down, The Oldest Rocks on Earth, a paperback showing a colour photo of a mountainous landscape (to be specific, a view of the Makhonjwa Mountains in northwest Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), Africa.

On the right, standing up, Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection, a hardback showing drawings of ammonites on a pale pink background, with a white-bordered square with an ammonite drawing on a pale orange background in the centre.

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Why is a cowboy writer from Ohio venerated in a small Aussie beach town? The incredible story of Zane Grey

The dentist-turned bestselling author had a caravan park named after him after making a killer shark movie in 1930s Australia. A swashbuckling new biography unspools the unlikely tale

By Beejay Silcox

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/29/big-sharks-coded-love-letters-a-movie-fiasco-the-strange-australian-chapter-of-celebrity-cowboy-writer-zane-grey

Zane Grey at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/212

#Books #Literature

Grey at Koala Park holding a koala during a visit to Australia in December 1935.

The image shows Grey gently holding a koala in his arms.

Dressed in a formal yet travel-appropriate suit and hat, Grey appears composed and curious, with a slight, reserved smile as he supports the animal.

The actress Lillian Pertka appears behind him and another man (also wearing a formal suit) is carressing the koala´s head.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zane_Grey#/media/File:Zane_Grey_in_Australia.jpg

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Do you annotate your #books?

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Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/TrollSong

Having an abusive assassin for a sister was bad enough, but when Lyra’s older sister, Nicole, becomes obsessed with killing the teenage troll, her life becomes a special kind of nightmare. Will she escape, or become just another victim of the unstoppable woman?

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(Left) The cover of Troll Song, by Owen Tyme, Illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

There's a woman in mud spattered white, leather armor crossing a pair of short swords against the neck of a terrified, shirtless dwarf.

The woman has white hair and a darker skin tone on the left side of her face. Her left eye is green and her right eye is blue.

The dwarf's hair and beard are blond.

The background is a green forest, with some flowers among the tall grass.

(Right) The background is a snow-covered forest, with a pair of dark silhouettes in it, one small and the other large, like a giant. The smaller silhouette is of a young woman walking away and the interior is filled with musical symbols, in green, white and two shades of blue. The larger silhouette is a woman wielding two swords and the interior is full of blood spatter. The larger one appears to be chasing the smaller one.

The following text is laid over the scene:

“I can’t die until Lyra takes her last breath! She’ll regret betraying her sisters!”

“There’s no price I won’t pay to see that happen, no pain I won’t endure and I’d sacrifice the whole world to seal her fate!”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/TrollSong

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It's almost like publishers don't know the Spice of Life when they see it 😜😂

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Two panel meme of a person being uplifted by an angel.
Panel one: Frank Herbert getting rejected by every credible publisher.
Panel two: A company that specializes in car repair manuals thinking his story about giant worms and space drugs is kinda neat.

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The Enduring Legacy of Suetonius, Rome’s Most Controversial Biographer

"The imperial biographer Suetonius is an important source for the lives of the Caesars, but how reliable are his accounts based on gossip and sensationalism?"

https://www.thecollector.com/suetonius-roman-imperial-biographer/

Suetonius at PG

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2024

#books #literature #romanhistory #history

Portrait of Caius Suetonius Tranquillus.

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📚 I'm Not the Only Murderer in My Retirement Home by: Fergus Craig

Carol is delighted to be leaving her tiny prison cell behind to take her place in a luxury retirement home. She's hoping her past as a serial killer won't come to light so she can make a few friends and find some murder-free hobbies. But it's...

https://bookblabla.com/book/im-not-the-only-murderer-in-my-retirement-home

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Carol is delighted to be leaving her tiny prison cell behind to take her place in a luxury retirement home. She's hoping her past as a serial killer won't come to light so she can make a few friends and find some murder-free hobbies. But it's not long before a fellow resident who happens to be a former police commissioner drops dead, and Carol's true identity is leaked—making catching up over daily activities of bingo and baking rather awkward.

Just her luck, Carol soon realizes that the victim wasn't the only former law enforcement officer at Sheldon Oaks, it's filled to the brim with former cops, barristers, and government representatives, her newfound friends included. And everyone thinks Carol's guilt is a no brainer, but she is ready to prove them dead wrong...without killing anyone, for once.

After a decades long stint in prison, former serial killer Carol is looking to kick back and relax in her new retirement home...until a fellow resident drops dead and Carol has to prove she actually didn't do it this time....

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Hey ho let's go - Pet Sematary by Stephen King (1983) Review

Listened to the audiobook version narrated beautifully by Michael C. Hall, this is the first Stephen King book I have listened to and the first by this narrator.

I don’t even know where I’m going to rank this book in the Stephen King canon but I know that the trademark touch of horror that leaps out of the page and whispers and settles into you is in this book. More scary and human than Misery, it does not compare to the freak of IT but somehow the rising tension of its last act reminded me of IT’s similar final act.

The best thing about Pet Sematary is how how it’s paced so openly, the Creed family gets to live and breath and be happy in many of its pages even when narratively it seems tiresome and boring, even when the promise of horror keeping it’s eye on the family begins to dull. When the shadow of death finally falls on this family, it almost seems unlike Stephen King, it feels accidental and natural too at some point. Like the characters in the book who think at various points that these things were meant to happen, we as a reader think these events were meant to happen to these characters in exactly this slow, tragic, sad and insane way. There are no big fireworks, yes a house burns down but nothing “spectacular” happens, Louis Creed our protagonist simply pays the price for what he bought.

And the narration is amazing, the way Michael C. Hall voices not only so many diverse characters from old people to kids but what’s amazing is how he consistently voices the elements of the book as well. One of my favorite examples of this is the scene where a dog is howling and the narrator doesn’t just say he barks but we get the actual sound. Of course now that I think about it it might just be the sound effect or recording of a dog but either way the sounds of this audiobook are beautiful and fitting. I think part of the way the novel felt so suspenseful and dreadful is helped by the sound production

Brilliant, scary, sad and altogether humane, Pet Sematary is a very very good Stephen King novel.

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Get to Know Venerable Bede, the Father of English History

"The Venerable Bede was the foremost pre-Norman conquest intellectual in England, and perhaps the most important figure in Anglo-Saxon history."

https://www.thecollector.com/venerable-bede-father-english-history/

"Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England" at PG

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38326

#books #literature

Painting "The Venerable Bede Translates John" by James Doyle Penrose (1862-1932)

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My latest read: "Colossus with a Poison Tongue" by Coy Hall - See my Goodreads review for details but if you're a fan of far-future post-apocalyptic sci-fi stories oozing with vivid depictions of horror and the occult, this one's for you!

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7804641794

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This French Physician’s Career Could Be Defined by the Word ‘Ectoplasm’

by Joe Schwarcz PhD

Charles Richet wrote plays and poetry, published articles on hypnosis, anorexia nervosa, the body’s thermoregulation, psychology, pacifism and paranormal phenomena.

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history-did-you-know/french-physicians-career-could-be-defined-word-ectoplasm

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Today at the Blog, @Princejvstin asks Ballad of the Bone Road author @acwise about her Six Books
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/six-books-with-ac-wise.html

#books #interview #horror #bookstodon @bookstodon

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Another instance of an event I cannot attend because I don't live in the UK. But yes, 150 years of illustrations for Austen books? Yes, please!

https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/jane-austens-illustrators-celebrated-new-anniversary-exhibition

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#WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian @romancelandia #JaneAusten

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Book Review: Coup de Grâce by Sofia Ajram
A tale of two men pulled off the ledge.
@spanishspy.bsky.social has our review at the NOAF blog
Content warning: this piece deals with both suicide in fiction and disclosure of a real suicide attempt

http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/08/book-review-coup-de-grace-by-sofia-ajram.html