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Life in Jane Austen’s Goshen

“This is Goshen,” my mother and father would frequently say. The idea was simple, perhaps, but it said as much about my parents’ perceptions of the outside world as it did about their vision for our home.

By Caleb Gayle

Mansfield Park at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/141

#books #literature

Illustration for ch.7 of Mansfield Park, in the Series of English Idylls, published by J.M Dent & Co. (London) and E.P. Dutton & Co. (New York). " While Fanny cut the roses ".

The scene is pastoral and gentle, set in a lush garden or estate landscape typical of the English countryside.

Fanny Price, the novel’s shy and thoughtful heroine, is depicted outdoors, cutting roses from a blooming bush.

Fanny wears a long, flowing Regency-era dress, modest and light-colored, with gentle folds and period-appropriate details like a sash or high waistline.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mansfield_Park_(C._E._Brock)#/media/File:Mp-Brock-06.jpg

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71d

Book Nanoreviews: Heaven's Graveyard, The Infinite State, and The Demon Star
@DrEddieClark has our three of short reviews today at the NOAF blog:

http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/08/book-nanoreviews-heavens-graveyard.html

#books #review #bookstodon @bookstodon

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72d

I'm a combo of Neutral Good, Chaotic Neutral, and Lawful Evil, a little bit of everything 🤔 Nerds are gonna nerd I guess 😂

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

#GeekMemes #Geek #Meme
#Science #Books #Theatre #Math #History #Gaming #Computer #Sport #Anime #Humor #Humour #Funny
#Alignment #Chart

Nerd Alignment Chart

LAWFUL GOOD: Science Nerds
NEUTRAL GOOD: Book Nerds
CHAOTIC GOOD: Theatre/Art/Music Nerds
LAWFUL NEUTRAL: Math Nerds
TRUE NEUTRAL: History Nerds
CHAOTIC NEUTRAL: D&D/Gamer Nerds
LAWFUL EVIL: Computer Nerds
NEUTRAL EVIL: Sports Nerds
CHAOTIC EVIL: Anime Nerds

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71d

Elvish, Klingon and Pig Latin: what can invented languages teach us about the human brain?

From pidgins to Tolkien and Esperanto, humans have created entirely new languages for many different reasons.

By Inka Romero-Ortells Labrada, Jon Andoni Duñabeitia and Manuel Perea

https://theconversation.com/elvish-klingon-and-pig-latin-what-can-invented-languages-teach-us-about-the-human-brain-288629?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=How%20polarised%20is%20European%20politics%20%20Finance%20jobs%20widening%20inequalities%20-%203906139804&utm_content=How%20polarised%20is%20European%20politics%20%20Finance%20jobs%20widening%20inequalities%20-%203906139804+CID_690e6318290719ebb3e527d755d7e7bc&utm_source=campaign_monitor_europe&utm_term=Elvish%20Klingon%20and%20Pig%20Latin%20what%20can%20invented%20languages%20teach%20us%20about%20the%20human%20brain

#books #language #neuroscience

The first stanza of Tolkien's Quenya poem "Namárië", written in his Tengwar script.

This shows the first stanza of "Namárië" written in Tengwar, the elvish script created by J.R.R. Tolkien for his Middle-earth languages .

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78d

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair;
Hover through the fog and filthy air."
Witches, Scene I

This Week in Literary History: William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is Performed for the First Time (Probably)

Toil and Trouble

https://lithub.com/this-week-in-literary-history-william-shakespeares-macbeth-is-performed-for-the-first-time-probably/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KZ3Y4R24JD84TJKRTY97KA54&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER

Macbeth by William Shakespeare at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1533

#books #literature

The title page of Macbeth, printed in the Second Folio of 1632.

It is showing the opening scenes with the three witches and King Duncan receiving news of battle, printed in early modern typography with decorative header ornamentation, on page 151.

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87d

Cover reveal! So finally getting ready to finally share this book with you in a day or two, and in this blog I give hints on what inspired the cover artwork. (I don't know if it is an improvement from the previous version, but hope you enjoy it!)

https://www.ododopress.com/blog/cover-reveal-myths-and-legends-of-the-bantu-and-other-african-people/

PS. I'll release the book for free to subscribers of our newsletter by 1st August, so be sure to sign up!

#blog #writing #writingcommunity #book #books #bookstodon #mythology #folklore

The front cover of a book, Myths and Legends of the Bantu and Other Africans, Revised and Edited by Dilman Dila, written by Alice Werner. It has earth brown tones, and the main image on the front cover has two creatures that are colorful like moths, with blueish tones, and they are half-people, with only one arm, one leg, and one eye.

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71d

A Review of Seed: https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-seed/

#BookReview #Books #ScienceFiction

@bookstodon

Book cover for Seed by P.B. Cannon. Image on cover is a drawing of a double helix strand of DNA, presumably of the seed that mentioned in the story.

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"Yesteryear" by Caro Claire Burke (spoiler-free) I just finished “Yesteryear” by Caro Claire Burke. Prima facie, it’s satirical commentary on influencer culture, the glossy facade hiding the cesspool of social media brands, and the tradwife movement. More deeply, the novel draws attention to a wide array of points: the challenges of balancing our public and inner personae the lies we tell ourselves when things go well or go badly the myth of the self-made person (basically “lies,” above) the immense weight borne by women in traditional gender roles the fundamentally man-child aspects of the manosphere the disinformation campaigns of the rural vs urban lifestyles the cognitive dissonance required to be a tradwife influencer I do some computer and video editing work for a couple far less sanctimonious social media brands. Burke captures and perfectly characterizes the mental toll and physical toil of maintaining a specific public image. Even when not lying about the nature of reality, there is still a huge amount of work involved in just making things camera-ready. For example, clutter tends to look bad on camera, getting the lighting right so that things show up properly is a perennial struggle, editing for an enjoyable flow is complex work, etc. These aspects get a good amount of ink. As if on cue, NYT suggested this article this morning (gift link): nytimes.com/…/ex-tradwife-influencer-bernadine-bl… Page · lemmy.world

I just finished “Yesteryear” by Caro Claire Burke. Prima facie, it’s satirical commentary on influencer culture, the glossy facade hiding the cesspool of social media brands, and the tradwife movement. More deeply, the novel draws attention to a wide array of points:

the challenges of balancing our public and inner personae
the lies we tell ourselves when things go well or go badly
the myth of the self-made person (basically “lies,” above)
the immense weight borne by women in traditional gender roles
the fundamentally man-child aspects of the manosphere
the disinformation campaigns of the rural vs urban lifestyles
the cognitive dissonance required to be a tradwife influencer

I do some computer and video editing work for a couple far less sanctimonious social media brands. Burke captures and perfectly characterizes the mental toll and physical toil of maintaining a specific public image. Even when not lying about the nature of reality, there is still a huge amount of work involved in just making things camera-ready. For example, clutter tends to look bad on camera, getting the lighting right so that things show up properly is a perennial struggle, editing for an enjoyable flow is complex work, etc. These aspects get a good amount of ink.

As if on cue, NYT suggested this article this morning (gift link): nytimes.com/…/ex-tradwife-influencer-bernadine-bl…

"Yesteryear" by Caro Claire Burke (spoiler-free)

https://lemmy.world/post/52761207

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85d

Coming to stores August 14: https://books2read.com/SheConsumesPoison

Shime Yasu, a New York homicide cop, once impressed a group of monster hunters, known as the Ashen Blades, and one of them gave her their card, for the day she might be ready to see the real truth of the world. Unable to sleep and tired of being blind to the real world, Yasu calls the number and she’s brought in for training.

@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #actionadventure #fiction #books

The cover of Scarlet Eye: She Consumes Poison, by Owen Tyme.

The perspective if from the darkness within a mouth with long fangs, the teeth appearing as a dark silhouette along the top and bottom. The background is a scene centering on a factory polluting the environment, putting out smoke and dumping chemicals into water. The water includes fish skeletons, to demonstrate how deadly the chemicals are. There are also some dead trees in frame, further hinting at the deadliness.

The foreground is a rather good looking and shiny red apple, which has the black silhouette of a spider on it, an indication of its hidden, toxic nature.

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70d

In 19th-century Dublin, a disillusioned doctor and a fallen woman cross paths, sparking a forbidden love that defies society's judgments.

Amazon - https://mybook.to/ascarletwoman
Other Retailers - https://lornapeel.com/fitzgeralds/a-scarlet-woman

#BooksByLornaPeel #Books #Ireland #HistoricalRomance #BookSeries #HistoricalFiction #KindleUnlimited #Bookstodon #Romance @bookstodon

Promotional image for the Irish historical fiction novel A Scarlet Woman by Lorna Peel, book one in The Fitzgeralds of Dublin series, an Irish family Saga. The image features an e-reader displaying the book cover, which shows a young woman in a pale blue dress looking downward against a faded Dublin cityscape background. Large text at the top reads, “Begin The Fitzgeralds of Dublin series with A Scarlet Woman.” On the right, text describes the story as an escape to 19th-century Ireland, featuring scandal, sacrifice, and a love that changes everything. At the bottom, the available formats are listed: Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and Paperback.

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70d

Another great interview w/ author/illustrator #MollyCrabapple on #AmericanPrestige pod about her new book #HereWhereWeLiveIsOurCountry: The Story of the #JewishBund

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYjrgZ9BBRE
#Bund #bundism #JewishLabourBund #JewishHistory #JewishLeft #antizionism #antifascism #Holocaust #Poland #EasternEurope #Palestine #PalestineQuestion #memoirs #books @bookstodon

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70d

Ebook and paperback (New Release): https://books2read.com/SheConsumesPoison

Shime Yasu, a New York homicide cop, once impressed a group of monster hunters, known as the Ashen Blades, and one of them gave her their card, for the day she might be ready to see the real truth of the world. Unable to sleep and tired of being blind to the real world, Yasu calls the number and she’s brought in for training.

@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #actionadventure #fiction #books

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68d

In 19th-century Ireland, a chance encounter between a disillusioned doctor and a fallen woman begins a story of love, loyalty, and choices that will shape their lives.

Amazon - https://mybook.to/ascarletwoman
Other Retailers - https://lornapeel.com/fitzgeralds/a-scarlet-woman

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

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70d

📚 Elsewhere by: Gabrielle Zevin

Welcome to Elsewhere. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are beautiful. It's quiet and peaceful. You can't get sick, and you can't get older. In Elsewhere, death is only the beginning...

Elsewhere is where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she is killed in a hit-and-run accident. It is a place so like E...

https://bookblabla.com/book/elsewhere

@bookstodon

#books #reading #libraries #socialtopics #family #fantasy #general

Welcome to Elsewhere. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are beautiful. It's quiet and peaceful. You can't get sick, and you can't get older. In Elsewhere, death is only the beginning...

Elsewhere is where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she is killed in a hit-and-run accident. It is a place so like Earth, yet completely different. Here Liz will age backward from the day of her death until she becomes a baby again and returns to Earth. But Liz wants to turn sixteen, not fourteen again. She wants to get her driver's license. She wants to graduate from high school and go to college. And now that she's dead, Liz is being forced to live a life she doesn't want with a grandmother she has only just met. And it is not going well. How can Liz let go of the only life she has ever known and embrace a new one? Is it possible that a life lived in reverse is no different from a life lived forward?

Full of the most ingenious detail and woven around the most touching and charming relationships, this is a novel of hope, of redemption and rebirth. It is a novel that tells of sadness with heartbreaking honesty, and of love and happiness with uplifting brilliance.

From the acclaimed author of Sunday Times bestseller Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. A novel of hope, love and redemption in Liz's life after life.
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ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME
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“Every so often a book comes along with a premise so fresh and

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85d

DNA and Archeological Research Reveal the Overlooked History of Japan’s Women Warriors

By Sage Helene

https://mymodernmet.com/japan-women-samurai-archaeology/?utm_source=convertkit&utm_campaign=daily-digest&utm_content=link&utm_term=07292026&utm_medium=email

Books about Japanese fiction at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/36794

#books #literature #history

"Hangakujo". The female warrior samurai Hangaku Gozen by Yoshitoshi (1839-1892). From the series "Yoshitoshi mushaburui: A series of warriors by Yoshitoshi." Published in "The Floating world of Ukiyo-e," essays by Sandy Kita, New York, 2001, no. 72, p. 135. Exhibited at "The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows, dreams and substances," organized by the Library of Congress, 2001.

A woodblock print depicting an onna-musha (female samurai warrior) mounted on a rearing white horse. She wears red and black lacquered armor with a quiver of arrows on her back, and holds a bow.

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88d

Have you prepared your bug out bookbag? 🤔
Books emergencies bore several people yearly! Don't let it happen to you! 😜

@libraries @Libraries@fedigroups.social @library @books @bookstodon @humor @humor@lemmy.world @aiop @joinin

#Book #Emergency #Bugoutbag
#Library #LibraryMemes #Meme #Libraries #Librarians #Humor #Humour #Funny
#Bookstodon #FantasyBooks #Books

Post but Elizabeth Queen of the North

Overheard in the library: "you have 15 books! 15! We are coming back later
this week, it will be okay."
9 year old girl: "You don't know that. Something could happen. These are my emergency books."

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71d

"I really enjoyed reading this, so utopian and dystopian at the same time"

Here is a selection of what readers are saying about The Blossoming of the Big Tree. We will keep adding more to this page as they come along, and we hope it can convince you to read this story, about an old woman who has to coordinate the defense of her decentralized nation when a colonizer invades, though she is the reclusive type of person.

https://www.ododopress.com/blog/praise-for-the-blossoming-of-the-big-tree/

#books #bookstodon #solarpunk #sff #sciFi

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39d

Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/FeyFighters

Two soldiers on opposite sides, pixie Commander Stargazer Candleflash and human Sergeant Edwin Harris, find their fates forever entwined, first by revenge, but as they crash together in a dangerous rainforest, they’re forced to work together, just to survive. Will they make it or will their bickering get them killed?

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

(Left) The cover of Fey Fighters, by Owen Tyme.

The background is the stars of space, with nebula-like clouds, in blue. This has been divided into jigsaw puzzle pieces by dark lines marking the lines between pieces.

The foreground features an enormous, stylized phoenix, which is composed of fire. The phoenix looms over an Earth-like world heavily obscured by cloud cover.

(Right) The same world from the cover orbits a purple gas giant, with a stream of flame above it, which may be the phoenix, with the following text over the top:

“We’re in a human-made, goblin-enchanted spacecraft, powered by a dryad that’s under the mistaken impression she’s a nuclear reactor, half-piloted by a pixie and half-piloted by a human.”

“Is there anywhere we can go we won’t be shot on sight?”

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

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40d

Libraries are a lifeline, new research finds

Public libraries play a vital role in communities, helping people connect, access support and improve wellbeing through everyday interactions.

https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_1290826_en.html

Books about Public libraries at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/19136

#books #literature #libraries

ONE OF THE SPECIAL READING ROOMS
(Genealogy and Local History)

Title: Handbook of The New York Public Library

Author: New York Public Library

Interior view of a large library reading room, early 20th century. Long tables with individual lamps line the space, patrons reading and a librarian standing near a card catalog. Bookshelves fill the walls, with a skylight ceiling and hanging chandelier illuminating the room.

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39d

An interesting story with cozy-ish elements, though probably a bit more stakes and teeth to be called cozy. I’m a sucker for found family, food, and second chances, so this is spot on for me.

It was an effortless read that never felt too slow and I never had to pause to reread or figure out where things were at. I’d pick up a sequel if the author ever decided to follow Tytli’s journey from the end of the book or a coming-of-age tale about Astra.

#Bookstodon #GoodReads #Books #Fantasy

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#OTD in 1321, Dante Alighieri dies. He "was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Alighieri

Dante at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/507

#books #literature

This engraved, hand-colored portrait shows Dante Alighieri from the waist up. He wears a dark red chaperon hood over his shoulders and a teal-blue garment underneath. A green laurel wreath sits atop the hood. He holds an open book with both hands, as if he has just paused while reading.

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📚️ #IndependentPublishers to follow:

@canongatebooks - Award-winning independent publisher, Margaret Atwood, Yann Martel, Irvine Welsh etc
@bwjewishhistory - Small indie Jewish history press
@ArachnidPress - Indie publishers based in Scotland, thriller & mystery fiction
@WTPress - Indie sci-fi & fantasy press in Wales
@ododopress - Speculative fiction press based in Uganda
@StelliformPress - Indie literary press, sci-fi, fantasy, horror on environmental crisis

#Publishers #Books #Fiction

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86d

A Review of Outopos: https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-outopos/

#Books #BookReview #FiveStars #ScienceFiction

@bookstodon

ook cover for Outopos by Rudolph Kohn. Image on cover is a drawing of a closeup of the brain of a computer. Various chips in it are glowing in the darkness.

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85d

Half off at #Smashwords : https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1667520

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.

@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #actionadventure #fiction #books

(Left) The cover of She Seeks Peace, by Owen Tyme.

The background is a snow-capped, craggy mountain with green, grassy hills at its base, which feature yellow and blue flowers.

The foreground is dominated by the round symbol for peace, in gold. Along the bottom of it are two olive branches. At the top is a dove in flight. Arranged on the lower three spokes of it are three figures based on the AIGA symbol for a woman. The figure on the right is blue. The one in the middle is a very dark gray, bordering on black, which includes a top hat. The figure on the left is red and has horns, like a demon.

(Right) The background is a view from the interior of a gun's barrel, with the rifling very apparent and the following quote over the top:

Reggie looked down the barrel of one of his own pistols, which the girl held in both hands, because the M1911 was a little large for someone so small.

There was a long, silent moment as the girl giggled and met his gaze. The murderous look was gone, replaced by something more playful, like a cat toying with a mouse.

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

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154d

Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/SkyChildren

With a strange virus giving colonists magic powers, they call for government aid, but much to their surprise, warships packed to the gills with nuclear ordnance arrive! They run for the hills, not knowing why, totally terrified for their lives as their city is struck down as if by the wrath of an angry God!

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

(Left) The cover of Sky Children, by Owen Tyme.

The background is a nuclear explosion and its mushroom cloud, in some distant hills. There's a dirt road along some rocky hills leading away from it.

The foreground is dominated by the dark silhouettes of another hill, some tall grass and a family of five holding hands, going left to right: girl, mother, girl, boy and father. The mother and father look down at the children, while they look up at their mother. The tallest of the children appears to be a boy in shorts, while the other two are girls of the same height, indicating they may be twins. The girls have pony tails and wear dresses. The mother wears a skirt and the father wears pants. The family holds hands.

The silhouettes are highlighted by the orange light of the explosion.

(Right) An explosion is fiery and bright. Someone hold up their left hand to block the light, but the light is so intense, their flesh only tinges the light a pinkish-red shade and their bones are visible, outlined with dark red lines. The following text is laid over that:

He shielded his eyes with his hands, but even with his eyes closed, he could see the shadows of his finger bones, as highlighted by the monstrous, nuclear light!

Temporarily blinded, tears fell from his eyes.

*What more could I have done? Could we have saved more people somehow? How could I have known the consequences of setting up the navigation beacon? Why is this happening?*

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

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