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106d

Gonna write down ALL the words! 😂

#BookMemes #Meme #Humor #Humour #Funny #NotOC #ReadingMemes #Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity #Litterature #Novel #Bookshelf #Dictionary #Books #Bookstodon

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Study Uses Mathematics to Reveal When Homer Wrote the Iliad

Scholars study when Homer composed the Iliad using pottery art, contemporary texts, and internal poem clues, with one recent study even applying mathematics to pinpoint the date.

By Caleb Howells

https://greekreporter.com/2026/09/11/mathematical-study-homer-wrote-iliad/

Original article is available online:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bies.201200165

The Iliad by Homer at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6130

#books #linguistics #mathematics

Triumphant Achilles dragging Hector’s body around Troy, from a panoramic fresco of the Achilleion. by Franz Matsch.

Achilles rides a chariot pulled by black horses, dragging Hector's body around the walls of Troy, while soldiers and onlookers watch from the ramparts.

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106d

Rudyard Kipling’s Buddhism

By Livia Gershon

Long read as an imperial novel, Kim also reflects Britain’s changing ideas about Buddhist thought and spiritual practice.

https://daily.jstor.org/rudyard-kiplings-buddhism/?utm_source=mcae&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jstordaily_07092026

Books by Rudyard Kipling at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2226

#books #literature #imperialism #buddhism

Image from the book Kim, by Rudyard Kipling, illustrated by J. L. Kipling.

A photographic reproduction of a bas-relief sculpture depicting two figures — an elderly robed lama wearing beads and a distinctive hat, with a younger figure behind him — set within an ornate decorative floral border, captioned "Kim & the Lama" in the upper left.

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106d

Reading for pleasure builds empathy in children, but fewer kids are picking up books just for the fun of it

by William Dee Nichols and Michelle Kearney

https://theconversation.com/reading-for-pleasure-builds-empathy-in-children-but-fewer-kids-are-picking-up-books-just-for-the-fun-of-it-285784

Books in Children's Literature at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/20

#books #literature #empathy

Illustration from THE LILAC FAIRY BOOK by Andrew Lang.

A colored fantasy illustration depicting a long-haired woman in flowing green robes dancing or swaying among a swirl of sea creatures — crabs, eels, and fish — while a red-haired boy plays bagpipes on the rocky shore behind her.

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105d

I finished reading the final installment of Cadwell Turnbull's fantasy Convergence Saga trilogy. It was very good, and I recommend it, particularly if you are tired of what I call "formulaic fantasy." This is different by a mile.

It's always an advantage when a trilogy is finally available in its entirety. This was not easy to keep up with, in long breaks between installments coming out.

The books explore themes that are closely tied to current events: marginalization, othering, the process of deciding who is a "monster," the evolution of power and its effects on others and those who wield it, the function of community, and also much wider questions about the cosmos, how we got here, our place, our purpose. Turnbull is a highly intelligent and imaginative author who crafts an entire allegory around these big questions.

Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror combine to create a memorable reading experience.

Book 1: No Gods, No Monsters*
Book 2: We Are the Crisis
Book 3: A Ruin, Great and Free

*a little confusing at first, to say the least, but much easier to follow as you go along.

@bookstodon #books #bookstodon #Fantasy #Horror #SFF

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The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll - What am I missing? I was recommended this book on another website and reviews seemed overwhelmingly positive so I picked it up. I was looking for some other latam lit after reading 100 Years Of Solitude (great) Love in the Time of Cholera (good) and 2666 (great) and had high hopes. I’m now done with 3/4 and boy is it a stinker, I really push myself to finish books no matter what but this is an absolute slog. Every story feels like Dr. Evil’s description of his childhood (www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTJj4wbmAhk). Protagonist goes to some far away location and gets involved in some niche scheme (which seem interchangeable with one another) where he meets a beautiful woman who has lots of sex with him. Then she dies and he escapes. Rinse and repeat. The author seems to name drop for the sake of it. Anyone else read and enjoy this one? Page · lemmy.zip

I was recommended this book on another website and reviews seemed overwhelmingly positive so I picked it up. I was looking for some other latam lit after reading 100 Years Of Solitude (great) Love in the Time of Cholera (good) and 2666 (great) and had high hopes.

I’m now done with 3/4 and boy is it a stinker, I really push myself to finish books no matter what but this is an absolute slog. Every story feels like Dr. Evil’s description of his childhood (www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTJj4wbmAhk). Protagonist goes to some far away location and gets involved in some niche scheme (which seem interchangeable with one another) where he meets a beautiful woman who has lots of sex with him. Then she dies and he escapes. Rinse and repeat. The author seems to name drop for the sake of it. Anyone else read and enjoy this one?

The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll - What am I missing?

https://lemmy.zip/post/68374497

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97d

50% off @ #Smashwords : https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1604529
Series Ebook omnibus: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1733647

On a world thought to have no moon, its sudden appearance inspires wonder and terror. Research links the full moon and catastrophe, revealing the existence of ‘Harbingers of Doom’, creatures that harvest souls. Can everyone survive or will they be reaped like wheat?

@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #sciencefantasy #scifi #actionadventure #fiction #books

(Left) The cover of dark moon, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

In the foreground, a redheaded witch and a dark haired wizard fight back to back, holding some rather large pistols. The witch is in a black dress and the wizard is in a black robe with golden decorations. Both looked a bit purple, due to the lighting. The witch's hair blows on the wind and she wears a necklace of bone beads.

Behind them, there's dust, mist and fog lit by twilight as a moon rises, framing their heads. Objects that look like shooting stars fall from the moon and there's a few visible impacts.

(Right) A white moon, on a background of the stars of space, with the following quote over the top of it:

“Idiot! You’ve likely killed us both, leaving us stuck out in the open like this.”

“We’ve got incoming. I know you’re angry and I suppose you’ve got every right to be, but we need to defend ourselves.”

“ ‘The enemy of my enemy is my friend’, for now, and then we decide what to do about the conflict between us.”

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

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The ad flyer for the series The Wizard's Scion.

(Background) View of a planet from space.

(Top Center) A black flying saucer surrounded by this text:
Trolls, boogeymen and witches, oh my!
Just another day for a young wizard.

(Top Left) The cover of Troll Song displays a woman in battered, muddy armor with her two swords crossed against the neck of a dwarf.

(Lower Left) The cover of Forgotten Legends displays a child reading in bed as a black, smoky monster with red eyes peeks out from under the bed.

(Lower Center Left) The cover of The Third Wish displays a wizard on top of a mountain, looking to the sunset, over a city of sky scrapers that have plants growing on them. In his shadow is the red eyed creature from Forgotten Legends.

(Lower Center Right) The cover of Dark Moon displays a witch and wizard fighting back to back, holding pistols, while objects fall around them, with the moon behind their heads.

(Lower Right) The cover of The Inverted Glass displays a line art hourglass with a white figure in black sand at the bottom, with a black figure in white sand upside-down in the top. Balanced on a scale are a heart and a feather.

(Upper Right) The cover of The Wizard's Scion: The Complete Series displays several figures in silhouette representing the main characters, as they traverse a wormhole. Behind them is a red-eyed octopus.

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99d

10 Small Towns for Bookworms in the United States

The United States has many must-visit small towns for all bookworms, aspiring writers, and lovers of literature alike.

https://www.thecollector.com/small-towns-bookworms-united-states/

Many of these authors are at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/

#travel #books #literature

Emily Dickinson’s house in Amherst, Massachusetts, is now a museum. The building features Federal-style or Greek Revival architecture and is made of yellow brick. Its windows have dark green wooden shutters, and three narrow arched windows sit at the top. The front porch is covered and supported by white columns, while a second porch is on the right side. Two light-colored chimneys rise from the roof. The house stands on a grassy lawn with trees behind it.

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61d

Without looking it up, are you familiar with the literary form "drabble?" I was today years old when I learned this term.

#books #bookstodon @bookstodon

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"Intermittent Fasting Basics: Your Guide to the Essentials of Intermittent Fasting--and How It Can Work for You!" by Lindsay Boyers. My rating: 4 out of 5 stars. Published in 2019.

Book description: You don’t have to read a huge tome about what intermittent fasting is, how it works, and what you need to do to follow it. This book provides easy-to-understand explanations and tips, tricks, and advice for quickly adapting intermittent fasting to your needs.

Intermittent fasting has worked well for me, but it's been several years since I read about the basics, so I read this book for a refresher. But it is also easily read by someone new to the subject.

#nonfiction #IntermittentFasting #health #books #reading #literature @bookstodon

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If you're as #bibliophile like me, old #books are a treasure

But if you're a gluttonous entity that has no concern for anything but strip mining human existence to monetize it and sell it back to us in a manipulated articificial form; to make us dependent, not physically like most #capitalist schemes, but cognitively, socially...

" #AI Companies Are Buying #Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale"

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-destroying-rare-books

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93d

On Alt Text Image Description as Literary Practice

M. Leona Godin Considers the Mundane, Profound Act of Translating a Picture

https://lithub.com/on-alt-text-image-description-as-literary-practice/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KY4VNQG4DXEQGZFBRP6FR4VA&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER

Alt-text as Poetry project:
https://alt-text-as-poetry.net/

#books #accessibility #alttext

We see Pooh, still hanging from the balloon, nose to nose with some bees.

Title: Winnie-the-Pooh

Author: A. A. Milne

Illustrator: Ernest H. Shepard

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93d

The Amberlough Dossier, by Lara Elena Donnelly
A clear-eyed, relevant exploration of the tragic humanity of flawed people, flawed countries, and how impotence does not excuse wrongdoing
@ergative has our series review:
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/07/review-amberlough-dossier-by-lara-elena.html

@bookstodon #bookstodon #books

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99d

Shit. This is on the calendar, and yes, it is the national book banning bill. https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7661/text #Censorship #Books #Book #Bookstodon

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97d

Oldest had a stall at a book fair at the Victorian Pride Centre in nearby St Kilda, so stayed at our place overnight & I went down with them & helped set it up.

I hadn’t been there before -lovely venue. And smaller event than the one in Jeff’s Shed, but they had more sales.

#Books
#LGBTIQA
#Neurodivergent
@autistics

Author sitting behind a table, exhibiting their wares. (One fantasy trilogy, set in an ancient world, non-binary protagonist. First 2 books in a sci-fi series, non-binary, asexual characters.)

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#RadioWarNerd welcomes #AdamJohnson to talk about his new book #HowToSellAGenocide: The #Media's Complicity in the Destruction of #Gaza, all royalties from which go to Middle East Children's Alliance

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-rerbx-2f7ac4c4
#GazaCoverage #Palestine #Israel #PalestineCoverage #USmedia #USpol #mediaCriticism #MSM #books @bookstodon

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Earth's oldest evidence of life is written in stone—but it's at risk of disappearing

by Heidi Jane Allen

https://phys.org/news/2026-10-earth-oldest-evidence-life-written.html

Original article is available online:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03115518.2026.2718451

#books #paleontology

Precambrian fossilized stromatolites in the Siyeh Formation, Glacier National Park.

A close-up photo of a rock outcrop with wavy, layered laminations in blue-gray tones, curving into dome-like ripples.

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107d

My summar readings:

Already read:
Nothvolt fallet (The fall of Northvolt) - great book

Reading:
Freedom - Angela merkel memoarer

To read:
Hans Rosling - Hur jag lärde mig att förstå världen (How I learn to understand the world)

Power and Progress - One thousand year struggle over technology and prosperity

Want to read:
A fiction book from like john grisham , a light read.

Any recommendation from your reading list?

#books #bookstodon #book #summerreading #Bookwyrm

The cover of two books: power and progress and Hans Rosling: how i learn to understand the world

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94d

Recommend me weird fiction books, please! Enjoy weird fiction overall, sci-fi and “horror” (in a very general sense). I like some Lovecraft, VanderMeers, Ballard, China Miéville, Samanta Schweblin, late William Gibson, Mariana Enríquez… what recent books or writers caught your eye that may loosely fit the term or are similar to works of the above authors? Can be in English, Portuguese or Spanish. Page · lemmy.world

Enjoy weird fiction overall, sci-fi and “horror” (in a very general sense). I like some Lovecraft, VanderMeers, Ballard, China Miéville, Samanta Schweblin, late William Gibson, Mariana Enríquez… what recent books or writers caught your eye that may loosely fit the term or are similar to works of the above authors? Can be in English, Portuguese or Spanish.

Recommend me weird fiction books, please!

https://lemmy.world/post/49730152

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98d

As wars destroyed schools and libraries across Italy, one Roman official began copying ancient books and helped save centuries of knowledge from disappearing

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/as-wars-destroyed-schools-and-libraries-across-italy-one-roman-official-began-copying-ancient-books-and-helped-save-centuries-of-knowledge-from-disappearing/articleshow/132454952.cms

The Letters of Cassiodorus at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18590

#books #old_Manuscripts

Frontispiece showing Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus (seated opposite Theodoric), fol. 2r of Leiden ms. vul. 46 (Gesta Theodorici), Manuscript on vellum. 186 ff., 220 x 125 mm. Fulda, dated 1176/7.

A medieval manuscript illustration labeled "Cassiodor. Senator" showing Cassiodorus seated on an ornate throne, wearing a cap and cloak, holding an open book inscribed with Latin text, with one hand raised in a gesture of instruction or address.

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105d

50% off @ #Smashwords : https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1789471
Audiobook: https://owentyme.bandcamp.com/album/the-book-of-newts-starwitch

The undead queen of the space pirates kidnapped Amelia’s sisters and damaged her ship, leaving her with little fuel. Amelia’s a dead woman without her sisters, forced to attack the pirate’s mountain-sized star ship, despite how slim the odds are…

@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #sciencefantasy #scifi #actionadventure #fiction #books #audiobook

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(Left) The cover of Starwitch, by Owen Tyme.

In the background is a red, orange and white nebula.

In the foreground is a line drawing of a red spotted newt, in white. The lines of the newt are outlined in black, to help it stand out. The interior is red, with an appearance similar to stained glass.

(Right) In the background is a red and orange galaxy, with a blue core, which bears a resemblance to an eye. It has the following text over it:

“First you turn my dog against me, then you steal my ship’s core? What’s next, pulling my teeth?”

“We didn’t ask for this! You attacked us! Why don’t you just let us go?”

“I might as well cover myself in tartar sauce, then go swimming in shark infested waters! My lieutenants would tear me to shreds, just the same!”

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

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101d

The anguish of choice

In the shattered aftermath of war, Sartre delivered a formidable lecture on freedom and meaning. Its urgency remains

by Skye C Cleary

https://aeon.co/essays/re-reading-sartres-lecture-existentialism-is-a-humanism?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=67e66a245e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_07_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972

#books #philosophy #existentialism

Sketch of Sartre for The New York Times by Reginald Gray, 1965

A pen-and-ink newspaper portrait sketch of Jean-Paul Sartre by Reginald V. Gray, published in The New York Times, showing the philosopher's face with his characteristic glasses in a loose, cross-hatched drawing style.

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98d

Everything's more fun if it's a vice!😂

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

#ReadingMemes #Humor #Humour #Funny #Geek #Vice
#Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity
#Books #Bookstodon

Post by love drops

My best tip for anyone trying to get back into reading is to remember that you can read books to avoid other responsibilities in your life, and it can become a vice if you play your cards right.

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100d

Join thousands of library supporters taking action nationwide.

#library #libraries #read #reading #book #books #librarianship #lit

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59d

Scott Hawkins, the author of The Library at Mount Char, finally has something new coming out on September 1st. It's called Blacktail. I can't believe it. I didn't think he was ever going to get back to writing. Such a nice surprise! Now if we could just get Erin Morgenstern to throw us a bone.

#books #bookstodon @bookstodon

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