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<p>The Enduring Legacy of Suetonius, Rome’s Most Controversial Biographer</p><p>&quot;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?&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.thecollector.com/suetonius-roman-imperial-biographer/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/suetonius-roman-imperial-biographer/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thecollector.com/suetonius</span><span class="invisible">-roman-imperial-biographer/</span></a></p><p>Suetonius at PG</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2024" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2024"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/2024</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/romanhistory/" rel="tag">#romanhistory</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>

<p>Get to Know Venerable Bede, the Father of English History</p><p>&quot;The Venerable Bede was the foremost pre-Norman conquest intellectual in England, and perhaps the most important figure in Anglo-Saxon history.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.thecollector.com/venerable-bede-father-english-history/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/venerable-bede-father-english-history/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thecollector.com/venerable</span><span class="invisible">-bede-father-english-history/</span></a></p><p>&quot;Bede&#x27;s Ecclesiastical History of England&quot; at PG</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38326" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38326</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>This French Physician’s Career Could Be Defined by the Word ‘Ectoplasm’</p><p>by Joe Schwarcz PhD</p><p>Charles Richet wrote plays and poetry, published articles on hypnosis, anorexia nervosa, the body’s thermoregulation, psychology, pacifism and paranormal phenomena.</p><p><a href="https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history-did-you-know/french-physicians-career-could-be-defined-word-ectoplasm" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history-did-you-know/french-physicians-career-could-be-defined-word-ectoplasm"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/hist</span><span class="invisible">ory-did-you-know/french-physicians-career-could-be-defined-word-ectoplasm</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#medicine</a></p>

<p>Another instance of an event I cannot attend because I don&#x27;t live in the UK. But yes, 150 years of illustrations for Austen books? Yes, please! </p><p><a href="https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/jane-austens-illustrators-celebrated-new-anniversary-exhibition" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/jane-austens-illustrators-celebrated-new-anniversary-exhibition"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine</span><span class="invisible">-books-news/jane-austens-illustrators-celebrated-new-anniversary-exhibition</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/amreading/" rel="tag">#AmReading</a> <a href="/tags/amwriting/" rel="tag">#AmWriting</a> @bookstodon <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <br><a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="/tags/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#ReadingCommunity</a> <a href="/tags/regency/" rel="tag">#Regency</a> <a href="/tags/georgian/" rel="tag">#Georgian</a> @romancelandia <a href="/tags/janeausten/" rel="tag">#JaneAusten</a></p>

<p>Okay, I&#x27;ve read Les Miserables so I feel that I&#x27;m now entiteled to know what else Victor Hugo got up to 😁 </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@galacticwriters" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>galacticwriters</span></a></span> @writers <a href="https://lemmy.world/u/books" rel="nofollow">@books</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@joinin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>joinin</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@humor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>humor</span></a></span> @humor@lemmy.world @aiop</p><p><a href="/tags/victorhugo/" rel="tag">#VictorHugo</a> <a href="/tags/lesmiserables/" rel="tag">#LesMiserables</a><br><a href="/tags/writingmemes/" rel="tag">#WritingMemes</a> <a href="/tags/meme/" rel="tag">#Meme</a> <a href="/tags/memes/" rel="tag">#Memes</a> <a href="/tags/humor/" rel="tag">#Humor</a> <a href="/tags/humour/" rel="tag">#Humour</a> <br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#Author</a> <a href="/tags/authors/" rel="tag">#Authors</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#IndieAuthor</a> <a href="/tags/indiebooks/" rel="tag">#IndieBooks</a> <a href="/tags/amwriting/" rel="tag">#AmWriting</a> <a href="/tags/writerdons/" rel="tag">#Writerdons</a> <a href="/tags/writers/" rel="tag">#Writers</a> <a href="/tags/writer/" rel="tag">#Writer</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#Writing</a> <a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="/tags/writinglife/" rel="tag">#Writinglife</a> <a href="/tags/writersofmastodon/" rel="tag">#WritersOfMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a></p>

<p>📚 Planetfall by: Emma Newman</p><p>Renata Ghali believed in Lee Suh-Mi’s vision of a world far beyond Earth, calling to humanity. A planet promising to reveal the truth about our place in the cosmos, untainted by overpopulation, pollution, and war. Ren believed in that vision enough to give up everything to follow Su...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/planetfall" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/planetfall</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/psychologicalfiction/" rel="tag">#psychologicalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/crimemystery/" rel="tag">#crimemystery</a></p>

<p>Francis Bacon’s Essays explore the darker side of human nature. 400 years on, they still instruct and unnerve</p><p>By Matthew Sharpe</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/francis-bacons-essays-explore-the-darker-side-of-human-nature-400-years-on-they-still-instruct-and-unnerve-259051" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/francis-bacons-essays-explore-the-darker-side-of-human-nature-400-years-on-they-still-instruct-and-unnerve-259051"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/francis-ba</span><span class="invisible">cons-essays-explore-the-darker-side-of-human-nature-400-years-on-they-still-instruct-and-unnerve-259051</span></a></p><p>Francis Bacon at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/296" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/296"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/296</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a></p>

<p>The Confessions of Samuel Pepys by Guy de la Bédoyère review – journal of a predator</p><p>Newly decoded extracts expose the celebrated 17th-century diarist and naval administrator as a rapacious abuser</p><p>By Kathryn Hughes</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/04/the-confessions-of-samuel-pepys-by-guy-de-la-bedoyere-review-sex-and-the-city" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/04/the-confessions-of-samuel-pepys-by-guy-de-la-bedoyere-review-sex-and-the-city"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/books/2025</span><span class="invisible">/aug/04/the-confessions-of-samuel-pepys-by-guy-de-la-bedoyere-review-sex-and-the-city</span></a></p><p>Samuel Pepys at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1181" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1181"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1181</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Book Review: Ignore All Previous Instructions by Ada Hoffmann<br> Queer space pirates fighting the mundane evils of AI<br>Christine Baker , one of our new contributors, has our review at the NOAF blog</p><p><a href="http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/book-review-ignore-all-previous.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/book-review-ignore-all-previous.html"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/</span><span class="invisible">book-review-ignore-all-previous.html</span></a></p><p>@bookstodon <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#review</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/cartoon/" rel="tag">#cartoon</a> <a href="/tags/freedom/" rel="tag">#freedom</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/ideas/" rel="tag">#ideas</a> <a href="/tags/humor/" rel="tag">#humor</a></p>

<p>I recently read &quot;Lunar New Year Love Story&quot; by Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham. I&#x27;d picked it up as a good February read and then was quite surprised by all its twists and turns. What surprised me most, though, was how <a href="/tags/catholicism/" rel="tag">#Catholicism</a> was depicted. I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever seen such a realistic, well-rounded portrayal in fiction. I know people like all of these. I feel like the creators knew their material intimately. Very impressed.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/catholic/" rel="tag">#Catholic</a> <a href="/tags/lunarnewyear/" rel="tag">#LunarNewYear</a> <a href="/tags/graphicnovel/" rel="tag">#GraphicNovel</a> <a href="/tags/tet/" rel="tag">#tet</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

<p>Listen to ‘Moby Dick’ Read by Benedict Cumberbatch, Tilda Swinton, Sir David Attenborough, and More for Free</p><p>By Ava Linker </p><p><a href="https://mymodernmet.com/moby-dick-big-read-free-audiobook/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mymodernmet.com/moby-dick-big-read-free-audiobook/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mymodernmet.com/moby-dick-big-</span><span class="invisible">read-free-audiobook/</span></a>?</p><p>Moby Dick at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=moby+dick" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=moby+dick"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=moby+dick</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>New Project Explores the Craft of Writing in the Medieval Nordic World</p><p>A major Nordic research effort is taking a fresh look at the earliest written culture in medieval Finland—by studying not only what documents say, but what they are made of.</p><p><a href="https://www.medievalists.net/2026/03/new-project-explores-the-craft-of-writing-in-the-medieval-nordic-world/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.medievalists.net/2026/03/new-project-explores-the-craft-of-writing-in-the-medieval-nordic-world/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.medievalists.net/2026/03/n</span><span class="invisible">ew-project-explores-the-craft-of-writing-in-the-medieval-nordic-world/</span></a></p><p>Paleography at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=paleography" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=paleography"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">cts/search/?query=paleography</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/paleography/" rel="tag">#paleography</a> <a href="/tags/old_manuscripts/" rel="tag">#old_manuscripts</a></p>

<p>Hey! I&#x27;ve got eight <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> and <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> available for sale. Six of them are <a href="/tags/shortstory/" rel="tag">#shortstory</a> collections; two are novels.</p><p>You can get <a href="/tags/drmfree/" rel="tag">#DRMfree</a> copies at <a href="https://ko-fi.com/treelobsters/shop" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>ko-fi.com/treelobsters/shop</a></p><p>Or you can find them through your favorite vendor at <a href="https://books2read.com/ap/ng21bz/Steve-DeGroof" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="books2read.com/ap/ng21bz/Steve-DeGroof"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">books2read.com/ap/ng21bz/Steve</span><span class="invisible">-DeGroof</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/shamelessselfpromo/" rel="tag">#ShamelessSelfPromo</a></p>

<p>📖 <img src="https://eggplant.place/media/emoji/qoto.org/youtube.png" class="emoji" alt=":youtube:" title=":youtube:"> **The ONE Thing All Great Authors Share (It&#x27;s Not What You Think**</p><p><a href="/tags/video/" rel="tag">#Video</a> length: thirty-eight minutes and thirty-six seconds. </p><p>🔗 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDYqyhILfsE" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDYqyhILfsE"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDYqyh</span><span class="invisible">ILfsE</span></a>. </p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> @bookstodon</p>

<p>The Real Science Experiments That Inspired Frankenstein</p><p>All of the experiments to revive dead people led Shelly to the idea of a story of creating life.</p><p><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2025/07/the-real-science-experiments-that-inspired-frankenstein.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.openculture.com/2025/07/the-real-science-experiments-that-inspired-frankenstein.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.openculture.com/2025/07/th</span><span class="invisible">e-real-science-experiments-that-inspired-frankenstein.html</span></a></p><p>&quot;Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus&quot; at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/84" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/84</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

The Burnout Society: Why so tired? <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.ml/post/43499220">See Original Page</a> </small>

<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/TymeDarkMoon" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/TymeDarkMoon</a></p><p>On a world long thought to have no moon, its sudden appearance inspires wonder and terror. Hasty research links the full moon and catastrophe, revealing the existence of the so-called ‘Harbingers of Doom’, creatures from the moon that harvest souls. Can everyone survive or will they become part of the dark harvest?</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefantasy/" rel="tag">#sciencefantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

<p>&#x27;In Mishra’s case, his book was not ablutionary so much as an effort to uphold Karl Jaspers’s idea of “metaphysical guilt”: that humans are bound by a solidarity “that makes each co-responsible for every wrong and injustice in the world, especially for crimes committed in his presence or with his knowledge.” &#x27;</p><p>Shaan Sachdev explores <a href="/tags/pankajmishra/" rel="tag">#PankajMishra</a>’s <a href="/tags/theworldaftergaza/" rel="tag">#TheWorldAfterGaza</a> </p><p><a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-gaza-generation/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-gaza-generation/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lareviewofbooks.org/article/th</span><span class="invisible">e-gaza-generation/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/gaza/" rel="tag">#Gaza</a> <a href="/tags/gazagenocide/" rel="tag">#GazaGenocide</a> <a href="/tags/palestine/" rel="tag">#Palestine</a> <a href="/tags/palestinesolidarity/" rel="tag">#PalestineSolidarity</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> @bookstodon @palestine @israel</p>

<p>📚 FDR Drive by: James Comey</p><p>After a stint in the private sector, working at the largest hedge fund in the world, Nora Carleton has returned to her former role as a New York City federal prosecutor. And she&#x27;s arrived just in time to face one of the most dangerous domestic terror attacks in the history of the city. A threat is bu...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/fdr-drive" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/fdr-drive</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/thrillers/" rel="tag">#thrillers</a> <a href="/tags/politicalfiction/" rel="tag">#politicalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/mysterydetective/" rel="tag">#mysterydetective</a> <a href="/tags/legal/" rel="tag">#legal</a></p>

<p>Just spotted a new book that managed to climb on top of the one that should not be named in the Wizards &amp; Witches category 📚<br><a href="https://bydonmartin.com/verity-vox-1" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bydonmartin.com/verity-vox-1</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/foxfire/" rel="tag">#Foxfire</a> <a href="/tags/verityvox/" rel="tag">#VerityVox</a></p>

<p>My latest read was The Vegetarian by Han Kang. It is surreal. It is confronting. It is harrowing. </p><p>It is always tricky to engage with a novel that itself so clearly engages with a different society and its problems (in this case, misogyny in South Korea), but I felt the writing was very well maintained in translation. The novel certainly packed a punch in English. </p><p><a href="/tags/feminism/" rel="tag">#feminism</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> </p><p>Full <a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#review</a> on the <a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#blog</a> here: <a href="https://write.as/the-casual-critic/the-vegetarian-becoming-ungovernable" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="write.as/the-casual-critic/the-vegetarian-becoming-ungovernable"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">write.as/the-casual-critic/the</span><span class="invisible">-vegetarian-becoming-ungovernable</span></a></p>