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<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&amp;q=https://reviewdb.app/book/3DfEwwgl21CYyxmyL7nuri" rel="nofollow">The Erratics</a> 🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑 <br>by Vicki Laveau-Harvie.</p><p>Two sisters deal with the aging of their estranged parents, the mother psychopathically unhinged and the father cowed &amp; abused. Morbidly fascinating but scattered and purposeless.</p><p><a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/autobiography/" rel="tag">#Autobiography</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://aus.social/@wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>WildWoila</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://wyrms.de/user/wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>wildwoila@wyrms.de</span></a></span><br></p>

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<p>My latest read: &quot;Fleet of Knives&quot; by Gareth L. Powell - See my Goodreads review for details but if you enjoyed &quot;Embers of War&quot; and like yourself some full-blown space opera action and adventure, this one&#x27;s definitely worth a look!</p><p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7783350308" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.goodreads.com/review/show/7783350308"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.goodreads.com/review/show/</span><span class="invisible">7783350308</span></a></p><p>@bookstodon @specfic @scifi </p><p><a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#bookreview</a> <a href="/tags/bookreviews/" rel="tag">#bookreviews</a> <a href="/tags/bookrec/" rel="tag">#bookrec</a> <a href="/tags/bookrecs/" rel="tag">#bookrecs</a> <a href="/tags/bookrecommendation/" rel="tag">#bookrecommendation</a> <a href="/tags/bookrecommendations/" rel="tag">#bookrecommendations</a> <a href="/tags/booksofmastodon/" rel="tag">#booksofmastodon</a> <a href="/tags/readersofmastodon/" rel="tag">#readersofmastodon</a> <a href="/tags/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#readingcommunity</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/booktodon/" rel="tag">#booktodon</a></p>

<p>ALT Book Fringe 2025<br>4–29 August, Edinburgh</p><p>Entirely run &amp; curated by three of Scotland’s leading indie bookshops – Argonaut Books, Lighthouse – Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop, &amp; Typewronger – ALT Book Fringe is a free, alternative August literary festival</p><p><a href="https://www.lighthousebookshop.com/events/book-fringe-2025-alt-edition-returns" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.lighthousebookshop.com/events/book-fringe-2025-alt-edition-returns"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.lighthousebookshop.com/eve</span><span class="invisible">nts/book-fringe-2025-alt-edition-returns</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/edinburgh/" rel="tag">#Edinburgh</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookfestival/" rel="tag">#bookfestival</a></p>

<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&amp;q=https://reviewdb.app/book/6lMRfaFP54ZHHjtprjY6nR" rel="nofollow">Question 7</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 <br>by Richard Flanagan.</p><p>An exploration of life &amp; death, love &amp; fate, encompassing everything from his family history to HG Wells and the development of the atomic bomb. Damn he can write! The description of his near-death experience is mesmerising. Didn&#x27;t fully come together for me, but suspect it will benefit from a revisit.</p><p><a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://aus.social/@wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>WildWoila</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://wyrms.de/user/wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>wildwoila@wyrms.de</span></a></span><br></p>

<p>📚 The Boy on The Bridge by: M. R. Carey </p><p>One exceptional clever boy journeys into the ashes of society to find the cure for a devastating plague in a riveting post-apocalyptic world, a land blighted by terror.</p><p>The people thought the boy could save them, so they opened their gates and sent him out...</p><p>To where the monsters lived.</p><p>From the author of USA Today bestsell...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-boy-on-the-bridge" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-boy-on-the-bridge"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-boy-on</span><span class="invisible">-the-bridge</span></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/subjects/" rel="tag">#subjects</a></p>

<p>When I was ten, my brother-in-law&#x27;s dad gave me a set of <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a>. He wrote this inscription in the first one.</p><p><a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> @bookstodon</p>

<p>How reading books regulates your nervous system</p><p>Books don’t just stimulate the mind — they trigger physiological changes throughout the body.</p><p>by Anne-Laure Le Cunff</p><p><a href="https://bigthink.com/mind-behavior/how-reading-books-regulates-your-nervous-system/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bigthink.com/mind-behavior/how-reading-books-regulates-your-nervous-system/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bigthink.com/mind-behavior/how</span><span class="invisible">-reading-books-regulates-your-nervous-system/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Story structure can be good, it can also make it painfully obvious. Personally I prefer not being able to guess the ending after the first chapter... 🤔😁 </p><p>@bookstodon @fantasybookstodon @bookbubble @humour @reading</p><p><a href="/tags/tomgauld/" rel="tag">#TomGauld</a> <a href="/tags/and/" rel="tag">#And</a> <a href="/tags/the/" rel="tag">#The</a> <a href="/tags/story/" rel="tag">#Story</a> <a href="/tags/of/" rel="tag">#Of</a> <a href="/tags/the/" rel="tag">#The</a> <a href="/tags/structure/" rel="tag">#Structure</a><br><a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#Book</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookmemes/" rel="tag">#BookMemes</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/novel/" rel="tag">#Novel</a> <a href="/tags/novels/" rel="tag">#Novels</a> <a href="/tags/bookshelf/" rel="tag">#Bookshelf</a> <br><a href="/tags/mastobooks/" rel="tag">#Mastobooks</a> <a href="/tags/booksofmastodon/" rel="tag">#BooksofMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/bookworm/" rel="tag">#Bookworm</a> <a href="/tags/bookwyrm/" rel="tag">#Bookwyrm</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/booklove/" rel="tag">#BookLove</a> <a href="/tags/boostingissharing/" rel="tag">#BoostingIsSharing</a> <br><a href="/tags/repost/" rel="tag">#Repost</a> <a href="/tags/from/" rel="tag">#From</a> <a href="/tags/old/" rel="tag">#Old</a> <a href="/tags/account/" rel="tag">#Account</a></p>

<p>A well-thought-out piece on Austen, her influence, and where to start reading her works. The author is cognizant that where to start with Austen is super subjective so she breaks down what book you should read and why. </p><p>[Gift link] <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/article/jane-austen-books.html?unlocked_article_code=1.aE8.UNBI.9PUoDXstXstI&amp;smid=url-share" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nytimes.com/article/jane-austen-books.html?unlocked_article_code=1.aE8.UNBI.9PUoDXstXstI&amp;smid=url-share"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nytimes.com/article/jane-a</span><span class="invisible">usten-books.html?unlocked_article_code=1.aE8.UNBI.9PUoDXstXstI&amp;smid=url-share</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> <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> <a href="/tags/janeausten/" rel="tag">#JaneAusten</a> @romancelandia</p>

<p>Christiaan Huygens and the Scientific Secrets of Saturn</p><p>Seventeenth-century science was so competitive that Christiaan Huygens used a cipher to conceal his Saturn observations when sharing them with interlocutors.</p><p>By: Danny Robb </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/christiaan-huygens-and-the-scientific-secrets-of-saturn/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/christiaan-huygens-and-the-scientific-secrets-of-saturn/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/christiaan-huy</span><span class="invisible">gens-and-the-scientific-secrets-of-saturn/</span></a></p><p>Christiaan Huygens at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5648" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5648"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/5648</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#Astronomy</a></p>

<p>Whatever Happened to London’s “Little America”?</p><p>Since the time of John Adams, the first US Ambassador to the Court of St. James, Grosvenor Square has been the locus of the American government in Britain.</p><p>By: Matthew Wills </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/whatever-happened-to-londons-little-america/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/whatever-happened-to-londons-little-america/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/whatever-happe</span><span class="invisible">ned-to-londons-little-america/</span></a></p><p>John Adams at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4660" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4660"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/4660</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>

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<p>&quot; <a href="/tags/tennessee/" rel="tag">#Tennessee</a> <a href="/tags/library/" rel="tag">#library</a> director ousted after refusing to remove <a href="/tags/lgbtq/" rel="tag">#LGBTQ</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a>&quot;</p><p>There are 2 types of people</p><p>1. People who get sad at this story, do nothing, and then speak about how worse is sure to happen while offering no <a href="/tags/resistance/" rel="tag">#resistance</a></p><p>2. People who get mad at this story, show up, agitate, make their voices heard. And punish those responsible with a <a href="/tags/vote/" rel="tag">#vote</a>. And demand their new reps put in safeguards</p><p>Be the second kind of person</p><p><a href="/tags/cynicism/" rel="tag">#Cynicism</a> is acceptance of <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#fascism</a></p><p><a href="https://wpln.org/post/tennessee-library-director-ousted-after-refusing-to-remove-lgbtq-books/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="wpln.org/post/tennessee-library-director-ousted-after-refusing-to-remove-lgbtq-books/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wpln.org/post/tennessee-librar</span><span class="invisible">y-director-ousted-after-refusing-to-remove-lgbtq-books/</span></a></p>

<p>Hear Albert Camus’ Grateful Letter to His Teacher After Winning the Nobel Prize</p><p>In 1924, two decades before the publication of The Stranger, author Albert Camus was a boy growing up in poverty in Algeria. Noticing his potential, a teacher named Louis Germain took him under his wing, even giving him free lessons to help him secure a scholarship.</p><p>By Regina Sienra </p><p><a href="https://mymodernmet.com/albert-camus-letter-teacher/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mymodernmet.com/albert-camus-letter-teacher/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mymodernmet.com/albert-camus-l</span><span class="invisible">etter-teacher/</span></a>?</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a></p>

<p>In <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a>: It’s typical of José Skinner’s approach that his main protagonist is not some self-assured reflection of his own qualifications, but rather Quigley, a dopey gringo vacillating between colonial-gaze fascination and fear of a world he doesn’t understand. <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/the-search-committee-border-literary-canon/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.texasobserver.org/the-search-committee-border-literary-canon/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.texasobserver.org/the-sear</span><span class="invisible">ch-committee-border-literary-canon/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/southtexas/" rel="tag">#SouthTexas</a> <a href="/tags/border/" rel="tag">#border</a> <a href="/tags/culture/" rel="tag">#culture</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#education</a></p>

<p>6 Authors Who Hated Their Most Popular Books</p><p>From Agatha Christie to Franz Kafka, these authors were not fans of their most beloved creations.</p><p>By Paul Anthony Jones</p><p><a href="https://www.mentalfloss.com/entertainment/literature/authors-who-hated-their-most-popular-books" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.mentalfloss.com/entertainment/literature/authors-who-hated-their-most-popular-books"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.mentalfloss.com/entertainm</span><span class="invisible">ent/literature/authors-who-hated-their-most-popular-books</span></a></p><p>Louisa May Alcott, Agatha Christie, Conan Doyle, Kafka, MIlne at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/102" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/102"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/102</span></a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/451" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/451"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/451</span></a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/69" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/69"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/69</span></a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1735" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1735"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1735</span></a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/730" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/730"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/730</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Collecting The Most Beautiful Books<br>22 Aug, Mount Stuart House, Rothesay – £8.50–£11</p><p>Kelsey Jackson Williams will explore armorial bookbindings in the Bute Collection &amp; tell how aristocratic pride, the bookbinders&#x27; art, &amp; subsequent tastes in collecting came together to form an exceptional but unknown assemblage of book-art in the Mount Stuart libraries.</p><p><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/collecting-the-most-beautiful-books-august-talk-tickets-1529153030879" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/collecting-the-most-beautiful-books-august-talk-tickets-1529153030879"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/collect</span><span class="invisible">ing-the-most-beautiful-books-august-talk-tickets-1529153030879</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookbinding/" rel="tag">#bookbinding</a> <a href="/tags/bookhistory/" rel="tag">#bookhistory</a> <a href="/tags/bute/" rel="tag">#Bute</a> <a href="/tags/rothesay/" rel="tag">#Rothesay</a></p>

<p>Nietzsche vs. Schopenhauer’s Views on Life, Suffering, and the Will</p><p>Is suffering something that hinders us, or helps us along? Schopenhauer looks for a way out, while Nietzsche insists we make good use of it.</p><p>by Viktoriya Sus</p><p><a href="https://www.thecollector.com/nietzsche-vs-shopenhauer/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/nietzsche-vs-shopenhauer/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thecollector.com/nietzsche</span><span class="invisible">-vs-shopenhauer/</span></a></p><p>Schopenhauer and Nietzsche at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3648" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3648"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/3648</span></a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/779" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/779"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/779</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/philosophy/" rel="tag">#Philosophy</a></p>

Warsaw Treaty New Initiatives - Documents of the Meeting of the Political Consultative Committee of the Member States of the Warsaw Treaty Organization

40 Years of the Life and Struggle of the Jordanian Communist Party : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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