Looking for your next book on Project Gutenberg? Benjamin Laird has some suggestions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjVnReMlGHo&list=WL&index=8&t=41s
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The Cherokee Bible, one of the language’s first books, is a window between worldviews
By Margaret Bender and Tom Belt
Books about Cherokee Indians -- History at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/26692
The Bayeux Tapestry tells only the winner’s story – but the other side can be found in old English texts
The story of the losers is full of meaningful silences and William of Normandy’s terror.
by Catherine Clarke
Bayeux tapestry at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/4445
Today is Daphne du Maurier’s birthday!
Few #writers could create an atmosphere like Daphne du Maurier. Her #stories begin elegantly, then something shifts. A beautiful house can become a prison, love can turn into possession, and silence can be more frightening than a scream. Suddenly you are #reading faster than you planned.
Have you read any of her #novels?
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Ebook omnibus: https://books2read.com/TheWizardsScion
Levi Jacobs always dreamed of being like his father, the greatest wizard in the world, but had no understanding what it would be like. Follow Levi’s journey from bumbling teen to a great hero, while the young wizard learns to master magical powers that are initially completely beyond him and barely under control.
@bookstodon
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A New Language: On Primo Levi’s Translation of Kafka
Maïa Hruska Considers the Act of Writing and Translating After Auschwitz
Books by Kafka (including Metamorphosis) at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1735
If possible, please try and go to this site of mine for ebooks I wrote and tried to self published.
Last night, I finished reading the Jeff Flake/Rob Hart collab DETOUR. I did enjoy it, despite its flaws, but I have a few caveats:
1) It is the first in the series, and apparently they did not promote it as such, so many readers were irritated about the abrupt ending.
2) The story reads as if it is being optioned as a TV series, and apparently, it was.
3) The characters are laughably one-note creations. Ex: I am a smart but awkward female scientist who lacks confidence.
4) The story is not only clichéd and burdened by stereotypes, but also spends a very long time to get to space and then spends almost no time there.
You may enjoy this, too. It was fun, very light fare, and honestly, sometimes you are in the mood for that.
finished reading Where the Dark Stands Still 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
by AB Poranek.
A girl enters a spirit wood to rid herself of her magic, but instead finds power, purpose & love. Based on Polish fairytales, so reminiscent of Katherine Arden's The Bear and the Nightingale. Fairly simple YA story with one plot line and few surprises, but well realised and doesn't take the easy way out.
How Virginia Woolf broke the rules of storytelling | David Epstein
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fv6bTqIIHPA
Woolf at PG:
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The Free Palestine Reading List of Pluto Press:
"As the genocide continues, we continue to publish books exposing Israel for what it is, a state built on extreme settler colonialism. Here is a list of our books published both before and after October 7th. Free Palestine!"
https://www.plutobooks.com/free-palestine-reading-list/
9 Supernatural Creatures in the Works of Oscar Wilde
Mermaids, giants, and witches are some of the supernatural characters readers encounter in the words of the brilliant writer Oscar Wilde.
https://www.thecollector.com/supernatural-creatures-oscar-wilde/
Wilde at PG:
The English poet Roger McGough sends readers’ eyes travelling to and fro the way a tennis ball would across a net when they read 40-Love. Indeed, the poem itself – like the “middle aged couple” he writes about – is split by such a ‘net.’
#poetry #reading #Love #poem #poet #McGough #graficpoem #poems #bookstodon @bookstodon #books #book #poemaday #poetrycommunity #pictures #readers #readersofmastodon #booksky #bookish #BookTok #bookclub #readit #Bookwyrm #tennis #booklovers
Escape to 19th-century Ireland with The Fitzgeralds of Dublin series, a sweeping family saga of forbidden love, betrayal, and secrets that shape generations.
Read FREE with Kindle Unlimited - https://mybook.to/FitzgeraldsBoxSets
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To say I’m excited about the impending publication of the new novel, The End of Everything, by M. John Harrison would be something of an understatement.
“Phillip Tennent makes his living at the tideline, collecting artefacts that wash up from the Channel. It's been years since the crisis changed everything, but its exact nature remains obscure. Government barely functions, the seas are full of new creatures, Europe has been mislaid. It feels like the end.
Now Phillip has fished out of the water an object he can't keep. A creature that keeps changing. An artefact he must take inland, before it destroys everything he thinks he knows.”
I love that cover design, the sickly way the “Everything” in the title collapses towards the bottom of the page, a metaphor for decay, runoff, entropy or perhaps something much worse.
As another (connected) Mike once asked “What is the exact nature of the catastrophe?”
#MJohnHarrison #TheEndOfEverything #SpeculativeFiction #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
Disappearing Scrapbooks
The fate of Willa Cather’s archives, real and fictional.
By Liz Cettina
Books by Willa Cather at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/22
Etaski writes Sister Seekers: #Mature #EpicFantasy with an ever broadening scope
#FoundFamily is a core theme with #D&D #TTRPG #Worldbuilding
#DarkFantasySeries begins underground with an isolated race of #DarkElves. #Horror to #Hope #GritToGladness - NOT for the faint of heart #EroticHorror
#Books #DarkElf #Drow #dnd #Demon #Dragon #Writing #Sapphic #Bisexual #Lesbian #lgbtqia #polycule #polyamorous
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This week's #NewBooks at the library: Who is excited about the next few books he will be reviewing?
- After an impressive debut, I am looking forward to reading Cal Flyn's second book, The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness, published by HarperCollins.
- Time for another deep dive into the history of my favourite discipline, #EvolutionaryBiology. I really enjoyed Costa's annotated version of Wallace's notebook, and am very excited about delving into this annotated version of #CharlesDarwin's The Descent of Man, beautifully published here by @princetonupress. Expect me to go dark for a while, it's over 760 pages!
- And for context, I will be adding a review of Jeremy DeSilva's A Most Interesting Problem: What #Darwin’s Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong about #HumanEvolution, published a few years back, also by Princeton.
#Books #Bookstodon #Scicomm #Evolution #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci @bookstodon
Why Beatrix Potter’s Stories Still Delight Generations
Defined by their colorful cast of characters and breathtaking illustrations, the storybooks of Beatrix Potter have brought joy to children around the world.
"Everything you see in me is not mine, it's yours. Mine is what I see in you."
Erich Maria Remarque (June 22, 1898 - September 25, 1970)
#reading #books #quotes
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The Guardian's 2026 list of the 100 best novels of all time: https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/may/12/the-100-best-novels-of-all-time
"The most striking difference between this list and its predecessors is an increase in female writers: 36 out of 100 compared with 21 in 2015 and a paltry 16 in 2003, with only Jane Austen’s Emma and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in the top 10 of both previous lists. The number of women rises as the decades go by; half of the contemporary writers are female. This might not announce the decline of the great white male, but it does signal a much-needed reset."
#books #bookstodon @bookstodon
https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/may/16/story-behind-100-best-novels-all-time
Book Promotion: Sci-Fi & Fantasy books on Kindle Unlimited
A collection of 44 #books for you to read free on KU. My book is DRM-free.
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Book Review: Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade
Come for the lightsabers, stay for the intense analysis of alienation
Alex Wallace has our review at the Blog
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/05/book-review-inquisitor-rise-of-red-blade.html
Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/SheSeeksPeace
The Hunter seeks peace and quiet to mourn the loss of her best friend in a world that seems bound and determined to make that task impossible. Enemies attack when she’d rather be alone, allies can’t take a hint and the arch-demon Wrath seeks the Hunter’s hand in marriage, even though she’d sooner kill him.
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📚 Impossible Creatures by: Katherine Rundell
The day that Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever.
It’s the day he learned about the Archipelago—a cluster of unmapped islands where magical creatures of every kind have thrived for thousands of years, until now. And ...
https://bookblabla.com/book/impossible-creatures
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