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Rolling my eyes at Cory Doctorow

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Life is short. Read more.

#books #bookstodon @bookstodon #reading

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Bay Area peeps! What are you doing this weekend? Why not join me and a bunch of other amazing authors at the Bay Area Book Festival?? It's all happening in downtown Berkeley! I'll be there Saturday and Sunday! www.baybookfest.org

PLUS!! If you love science fiction, fantasy, and horror, there is a special
@Locusmag festival for the Locus Awards on Friday and Saturday during BABF, so be sure to check that out too! https://locusmag.com/2026-locus-awards-weekend/

#books #scifi #sfba

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Something understood. How to read poetry.

"I want to be the sort of person who reads poetry, but I don’t always understand it."

by Henry Oliver

https://www.commonreader.co.uk/p/something-understood-how-to-read

Books in Poetry at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/60

#Books #Literature #Poetry

The Blue Poetry Book

Editor: Andrew Lang

Illustrator: H. J. Ford & Lancelot Speed

The central illustration is a dark, swirling Romantic vignette of a reclining female figure surrounded by turbulent, dreamlike forms.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/46515/pg46515-images.html

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Ian Fleming (May 28, 1908 — August 12, 1964) didn’t invent James Bond out of nowhere. During World War II, he worked in British Naval Intelligence and saw from the inside how real secret operations were planned.

#IanFleming #JamesBond #books #reading #writers #author #readers #today #onthisday #BookTok #bookstodon @bookstodon #booksky #bookstagram #literature #spyware #intelligence #book

Ian Fleming

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148d

A Review of Afterglow - Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors: https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-afterglow-climate-fiction-for-future-ancestors/

#SolarPunk #HopePunk #Books #ScienceFiction #LGBTQ

Book cover for Afterglow - Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors by Grist. Image on cover is a drawing of an alien with a small, curled snout who is holding a shovel and standing on a pink, blue, and yellow surface that seems to have vegetation of those colours, too.

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148d

On the Literary Afterlife of Japan's First Working Woman Writer

Translator Bryan Karetnyk Considers the Work of Higuchi Ichiyō

https://lithub.com/on-the-literary-afterlife-of-japans-first-working-woman-writer/

Books about Japanese literature at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/20407

#Books #Literature #WomenInArt

Portrait of Higuchi Ichiyou, a Japanese writer. (1872 – 1896)

A black-and-white photograph of a young Japanese woman with her dark hair swept up in a traditional Meiji-era style. She wears a kimono and gazes directly at the camera with a composed, serious expression.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichiy%C5%8D_Higuchi#/media/File:Higuchi_Ichiyou.png

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148d

Love Language

The undying dream of Esperanto

by Katie Thornton

https://harpers.org/archive/2026/06/love-language-katie-thornton-esperanto/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KSQ7JVHVABAKFRY3CGXJYDZ0&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER

Books in Esperanto at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/34

#Books #Literature

The Esperantist, Complete

Editor: H. Bolingbroke Mudie

The cover of The Esperantist, Vol. I (Nov. 1903 – Dec. 1904), published at Norfolk Street, Strand, London. The ornate black-and-white design features a central star — the symbol of the Esperanto movement — surrounded by circular medallions depicting the continents of the world. A small portrait, likely of L.L. Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto, appears at the centre bottom.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/38240/pg38240-images.html

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125d

This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- The last of the books from the NHBS January sale: Michael Ruse's The #Philosophy of Human #Evolution, published by Cambridge University Press
- A lovely version of Humphrey Carpenter's highly praised J. R. R. #Tolkien: A Biography, published by HarperCollins
- A second-hand copy of Ant Ecology, published by Oxford University Press

#HumanEvolution #Anthropology #Fantasy #LOTR #LordOfTheRings #Myrmecology #Ecology #Insects #Entomology #Books #Bookstodon #Scicomm @bookstodon

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43 of the Most Iconic Short Stories in the English Language
From Washington Irving to Kristen Roupenian

by Emily Temple

https://lithub.com/43-of-the-most-iconic-short-stories-in-the-english-language/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KVN7055WWMVWMPK8VZ5RACV2&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER

Some Iconic Short Stories at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60976
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2148
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11231
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/375
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1952
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/209
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27411
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12122
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7256
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2814
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5200

#Books #Literature

Cover image of the book Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and translated by David Wyllie.

It features an illustration of a distressed man covering his face near an open door, evoking the story's themes of horror and alienation.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5200/pg5200-images.html

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Just finished this one.

A couple of factual inaccuracies (no, 'G' in physics does not mean 100 times your weight - it is earth's gravitational constant 'g' in this context, and yes, chimps do actually teach one another), plus some idiocy no fault of the author (chimps don't understand 'zero' dear researchers, true, but neither did humans until a millennium or so ago)...

But overall, a well-researched informative read - highly recommend.

#science #nature #literature #books #chimpanzee

The cover of Jon Cohen's 'Almost Chimpanzee' subtitled 'Redrawing the Lines that Separate Us from Them'.

The title and subtitle are cream and red respectively, displayed over the image of a chimp seen from behind, his dark fur shimmering in silhouette against a black background, the formidable compact musculature of his neck and shoulders as striking as the pale tips of his ears.

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RE: https://mendeddrum.org/@Pratchat/116610861214203983

Pratchat has a whole back catalogue of excellent discussions about #TerryPratchett and #Discworld, but they don't understand the importance of overusing #hashtags in the #fediverse, so you might have missed them.

#books #fantasy #reading #satire

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A sweeping saga of family, loyalty, and secrets that shape generations.

Set against the rich backdrop of 19th-century Ireland, The Fitzgeralds of Dublin series explores love, sacrifice, and the ties that bind.

📚 Books 1–9 available in box sets
📖 Free with Kindle Unlimited

Discover the series → http://mybook.to/FitzgeraldsBoxSets

#Books #BooksByLornaPeel #Ireland #BookSeries #HistoricalFiction #FamilySaga #KindleUnlimited @bookstodon

Promotional image for the Fitzgeralds of Dublin series - an Irish historical fiction series by Lorna Peel, featuring three box sets: Books 1–3, Books 4–6, and Books 7–9. The text reads: "Love, trust, family ties and secrets... The Fitzgeralds of Dublin Series. Books 1–3 Box Set, Books 4–6 Box Set, Books 7–9 Box Set. Out now on Kindle and Kindle Unlimited." Each box set is shown with individual book covers. Background includes a grayscale photo of Georgian townhouses on Merrion Square in Dublin, Ireland.

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Thank you to my 5/23 Fine Art America client from Newport Beach, CA. for their purchase of a 500 piece jigsaw puzzle of "Vanity Fair." I hope you enjoy it very much!!

At my website: https://lois-bryan.pixels.com/featured/vanity-fair-lois-bryan.html

And at #FineArtAmerica: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/vanity-fair-lois-bryan.html

#art #giftideas #JigsawPuzzle #puzzles #digitalhandpainting #CorelPainter #VanityFair #books #roses #LoisBryan #NotAi

An old, old copy of Vaniety Fair rests on a soft white blanket. A lovely dried white rose, slightly faded, rests on the book. The image was digitally hand painted from one of my own photographs, not from stock or public domain, in Corel Painter.

Thank you to my 5/23 Fine Art America client from Newport Beach, CA. for their purchase of a 500 piece jigsaw puzzle of "Vanity Fair." I hope you enjoy it very much!!

At my website: https://lois-bryan.pixels.com/featured/vanity-fair-lois-bryan.html

And at #FineArtAmerica: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/vanity-fair-lois-bryan.html

#art #giftideas #JigsawPuzzle #puzzles #digitalhandpainting #CorelPainter #VanityFair #books #roses #LoisBryan #NotAi

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122d

The Encyclopedia of Women Philosophers: A New Web Site Presents the Contributions of Women Philosophers, from Ancient to Modern

via @openculture

https://www.openculture.com/2026/06/encyclopedia-of-women-philosophers.html

Encyclopedia of Encyclopedia of Women Philosophers
https://ecc.historyofwomenphilosophers.org/#hwps

Books in WomenInSteam at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/706

#Books #WomenInStem

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198d

Seeking a multi-book eReader for Android (tablet), that can open 4 (or more) books at the same time. Mostly EPUB or MOBI, or PDF if I must.

Can you help? Can you boost to someone who can? 🙏👍😀

#FediBook #eReader #epub #books #reading

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As my days are absorbed in edits, now’s a great time to read my first book ahead of the next release!

#CrownOfHorns is a political fantasy (think 1984 meets The Witcher). Art and ingenuity are all that stand in the way as a nation descends into tyranny.

Inspired by history and myth of Ukraine, every sale means a donation to the Canada-Ukraine foundation, with $2000 raised last year.

Check out https://www.crownofhorns.com
Available through most booksellers in paper, ebook, and audiobook.
#books

A stack of books. The book in question? Crown of Horns written by F. David Schultz and illustrated by Audra Balion. The cover features a sharp, goat-eyed woman glowering at the reader, with bright red paint streaked across her face.

A bespectacled woman in traditional Ukrainian clothes reads Crown of Horns.

The Squid Pope poses behind a stack of Crown of Horns. Yes, the Squid Pope. A jolly fellow with a big red squid hat, a white cape, and a staff.

A fellow in a Phantom of the Opera hat holds up a copy of Crown of Horns.

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The Private Worlds of Charlotte Brontë and Octavia E. Butler

Behind The Huntington Library’s glass cases, the layers of motherhood, career, friendship, family, and loss are revealed in personal objects.

by Hannah Benson

https://hyperallergic.com/the-private-worlds-of-charlotte-bronte-and-octavia-e-butler/?ref=weekly-newsletter

Books by Charlotte Brontë at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/408

#Books #Literature #WomenInArt

A delicate pencil or chalk portrait of a pale, serious-faced Charlotte Brontë with centre-parted hair drawn back, wearing a lace-collared dress. The caption reads "Charlotte Brontë (Mrs. Arthur Bell Nicholls)", noted as being from the portrait by George Richmond, in the possession of Mr. A. B. Nicholls. The heliogravure is credited to F. Jenkins, Paris.

Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle

by Clement K. Shorter

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/19011/19011-h/19011-h.htm

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#books #cartoon #freedom #reading #ideas #humor

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🧠🇸🇪 Swedish #education officials are scaling back digital device usage in schools after reports indicated a decline in basic #literacy skills.

The new strategy prioritizes printed #books and handwriting to support cognitive focus and deep #reading. #Research suggests that physical materials enhance memory retention and reading comprehension compared to digital screens.

👉 https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/sweden-goes-back-to-basics-swapping-screens-for-books-in-the-classroom/

#sweden #neuroscience #technology #tech #learning #teaching #psychology

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anyone have a preferred version of the count of monte cristo in english? went looking for my copy and can't find it, and looks there are about a bazillion different annotated versions out there, but also that the original might be like 1800 pages long?! def not the copy i had, and now i'm curious! #books #bookstodon

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218d

What's stronger than "Strongly Agree" 😜😂

@reading @bookstodon @books @humor @humor@lemmy.world @aiop @joinin

#Book #Books #BookMemes #Meme #Memes
#ReadingMemes #Meme #Memes #ReadAllTheBooks #Humor #Humour #Funny
#Reading #Readers #ReadersOfMastodon #ReadingCommunity
#Book #Books #Novel #Novels #Fiction
#Bookwyrm #Bookworm #Bookstodon #BookLove

The original image looked slightly diffrent: https://medium.com/@GuillemBruix/f-ck-social-media-read-books-242b54f1c250

Photo of a sign in a bookshop window. In large white letters on a black background it says:
FUCK SOCIAL MEDIA.
MARRY BOOKS.
KILL AI.

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Books on My Summer 2026 To-Read List: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-books-on-my-summer-2026-to-read-list/

#TopTenTuesday #Books #TBR #AmReading #LGBTQ

Book cover for My Name Was Baby: An Intersex Memoir by Chris M. Arnone. Image on cover shows a drawing of two newborn human footprints against an off-white background. The last word of the title is written in a blue cursive font that looks like it could a name.

Book cover for Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt by Ben Reeves. Image on cover shows the sun rising over a night sky that has a sliver of moon in it. Below, three large flowers grow and a cat prowls in the night.

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The definition of a good day 😁

@reading @bookstodon @books @humor @humor@lemmy.world @aiop

#ReadingMemes #Meme #Memes #ReadAllTheBooks #Humor #Humour #Funny
#Reading #Readers #ReadersOfMastodon #ReadingCommunity
#Book #Books #Novel #Novels #Fiction
#Bookwyrm #Bookworm #Bookstodon #BookLove #FantasyBooks

My boss told me to have a good day so I went home to read..

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I didn't know basic dickheads knew how to read, good for them! 😜😂

@reading @bookstodon @books @humor @humor@lemmy.world @aiop

#Book #Books #BookMemes #Meme #Memes #Humor #Humour #Funny
#ReadingMemes #ReadAllTheBooks #Reading #Readers #ReadersOfMastodon #ReadingCommunity
#Litterature #Novel #Novels #Bookshelf #Mastobooks #BooksofMastodon #Bookstodon #Bookworm #Bookwyrm #Bookstodon #BookLove

Cover a book I assume doesn't actually exist, with a 1950s looking picture of a young man pointing at an engine.
Title: Everything I don't like is WOKE, a book for basic dickheads
The young man saying: This engine is woke.

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