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Celebrating 250 Years of the USATo honor the 250th anniversary of the United States of America, The History Reader has put together a list of top Revolutionary War-era books published over the last two decades. <a href="https://www.thehistoryreader.com/us-history/celebrating-250-years-of-the-usa/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=celebrating-250-years-of-the-usa" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thehistoryreader.com/us-history/celebrating-250-years-of-the-usa/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=celebrating-250-years-of-the-usa">https://www.thehistoryreader.com/us-history/celebrating-250-years-of-the-usa/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=celebrating-250-years-of-the-usa</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/ushistory/" rel="tag">#USHistory</a>

An American flag at the top of a flagpole. The camera is looking up towards the flag which is blowing in the breeze. There is a blue sky around it.

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility email registration required by 404 media Page · reddthat.com email registration required by 404 mediaWe Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility<a href="https://reddthat.com/post/71506363" rel="nofollow">https://reddthat.com/post/71506363</a>

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RE: <a href="https://flipboard.com/@ign/comic-book-news-7vhp5bdcz/-/a-luzUO6hoRSiE6rYfyFd3kw%3Aa%3A4274664-%2F0" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="flipboard.com/@ign/comic-book-news-7vhp5bdcz/-/a-luzUO6hoRSiE6rYfyFd3kw%3Aa%3A4274664-%2F0">https://flipboard.com/@ign/comic-book-news-7vhp5bdcz/-/a-luzUO6hoRSiE6rYfyFd3kw%3Aa%3A4274664-%2F0</a>I find the fandom’s pressure on George R.R. Martin to finish his saga quite problematic—and controversial. People forget that authors are human beings dealing with personal challenges. Ever since Lester del Rey, the Fantasy publishing industry has treated art purely as a commodity. We need to bring more empathy and humanity back into how we treat writers.<a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a>

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Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/TheInvertedGlass" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="books2read.com/TheInvertedGlass">https://books2read.com/TheInvertedGlass</a> Series Ebook omnibus: <a href="https://books2read.com/TheWizardsScion" rel="nofollow">https://books2read.com/TheWizardsScion</a>After the death of his wife and child, destruction of his home world, an addiction forced on him by the one responsible and a third of the galaxy falling under the heel of that tyrant, Levi Jacobs, a wizard, seeks to unravel the secrets of time and fate.<a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefantasy/" rel="tag">#sciencefantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a>

(Left) The cover of The Inverted Glass, by Owen Tyme.

The Background is a pink and purple nebula in space.

The foreground is largely line art, in white, with a black shadow outline.

At the center is an hourglass. The bottom has black sand, with a white figure standing in it. The top has is an inverted mirror image of the bottom, with a black figure in white sand.

The hourglass serves as the balance point for a set of scales, which hold a heart and a feather. The heart is on the left and the feather on the right. The heart is lower than the feather.

(Right) Lying in blue sand is a heart made of the same sand, full of cracks. It glows from the inside in a warm, yellow color. Over that is the following quote:

Nicole felt an extreme kind of loss, realizing she’d been stolen away from the afterlife, just before finding out if she deserved punishment or not!

“How dare you do this to me? Why?”

“I’m always in need of strong spirits and I’ve seen none stronger. You have unique talents I refuse to see go to waste.”

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Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/LegacyOfNewts" rel="nofollow">https://books2read.com/LegacyOfNewts</a>The undead witch that rules the space pirates, known as the Dead Queen, has finally been defeated. That only makes it worse for the witches that pulled it off. She’s livid and coming for them, at least once she gets her star ship back under control…<a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefantasy/" rel="tag">#sciencefantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a>

(Left) The cover of Legacy of Newts, by Owen Tyme.

In the background dawn, as seen from space, above a blue world.

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 of the line drawing has been filled with the image of a spiral galaxy in red, orange and yellow, with a blue color that shades to white at the center, which lines up with the newt's head. The galaxy almost looks like fire.

(Right) The background is a blue and orange nebula, with the following text over it:

“You gotta be real strong, real bright, real quick, or real lucky to survive drawing *attention*. Which are you?”

“I’m quick, Amelia is bright, Marta is strong and all three of us have been lucky, after a fashion: if we didn’t have bad luck, then I suppose we wouldn’t have any luck at all.”

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August reading recommendations: books about France in English Page · reddthat.com August reading recommendations: books about France in English<a href="https://reddthat.com/post/70572440" rel="nofollow">https://reddthat.com/post/70572440</a>

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Today is August 4, 2026 (an appropriate time to read this Ray Bradbury short story) Link for There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury (written May 1950) Page · pawb.social Link for There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury (written May 1950)Today is August 4, 2026 (an appropriate time to read this Ray Bradbury short story)<a href="https://pawb.social/post/48125752" rel="nofollow">https://pawb.social/post/48125752</a>

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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? August 04 Finished When Moon Hits the Eye by John Scalzi. The book is divided so that each chapter is a new day, and it’s from perspective of new people. So there is no story of certain people, rather it’s about the “event” and we see things from different people’s point of view throughout the book. I didn’t know that, so it took some getting used to, but once I had come to terms with that it was a very interesting book. Highly recommended for soft sci-fi fans. What about all of you, what have you been reading or listening to lately? Check Official Bingo Challenge Post and the accompanying Recommendations Post for our Bingo for 2026! Page · discuss.online Finished <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/32111115" rel="nofollow">When Moon Hits the Eye</a> by John Scalzi.The book is divided so that each chapter is a new day, and it’s from perspective of new people. So there is no story of certain people, rather it’s about the “event” and we see things from different people’s point of view throughout the book.I didn’t know that, so it took some getting used to, but once I had come to terms with that it was a very interesting book.Highly recommended for soft sci-fi fans.What about all of you, what have you been reading or listening to lately?Check <a href="https://lemmy.world/post/46300888" rel="nofollow">Official Bingo Challenge Post</a> and the accompanying <a href="https://lemmy.world/post/46300898" rel="nofollow">Recommendations Post</a> for our Bingo for 2026!What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? August 04<a href="https://discuss.online/post/43580512" rel="nofollow">https://discuss.online/post/43580512</a>

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Free Book Alert!So my book is on promotion on Kobo, discounted to $0 from 3rd to 9th August, but I think it's only available in these locations: CA, US, UK, AU, NZ. It's being featured on the Free Page of Diverse Stories, so hoping it gets some more attention. Help spread the word!Here is a link to get it. <a href="https://www.kobo.com/ebook/the-blossoming-of-the-big-tree-1" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.kobo.com/ebook/the-blossoming-of-the-big-tree-1">https://www.kobo.com/ebook/the-blossoming-of-the-big-tree-1</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/solarpunk/" rel="tag">#solarpunk</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a>

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📚 Whistler by: Ann PatchettWhen Daphne Fuller and her husband Jonathan visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they notice an older, white-haired gentleman following them. The man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, who had been married to her mother for a little more than year when Daphne was nine. Now fifty-three, Daphne hasn’t seen Eddie for many ye...<a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/whistler" rel="nofollow">https://bookblabla.com/book/whistler</a><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a><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/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/literary/" rel="tag">#literary</a>

When Daphne Fuller and her husband Jonathan visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they notice an older, white-haired gentleman following them. The man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, who had been married to her mother for a little more than year when Daphne was nine. Now fifty-three, Daphne hasn’t seen Eddie for many years, not since the fateful event that changed the direction of both their lives. Meeting again, time falls away; while their relationship was brief, it had a profound impact on them both, and now that they are reunited, they have no intention of ever being separated again.

Whistler is a story about two adults looking back over the choices they made, and the choices that were made for them. It’s a story about bravery, memory, the often small yet consequential moments that define our lives, and the endless stream of loss that in time comes for us all. Beautiful in its simplicity, it is ultimately about how love endures, and how the feeling of being known by one other person, even for a short period of time, can change everything.

A Katie Couric Book Club Pick / One of President Obama's '26 Summer Reading List Picks / A Good Housekeeping Book Club Pick / A GoodReads Most Anticipated Book of Summer
“Ann Patchett’s new novel is a rare phenomenon in contemporary fiction: a novel both majestic and intimate, original and masterful in its structure, crystalline in its prose, revelatory in its insights, utterly devastating yet ultima

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overgrown reading nook (2024)<a href="/tags/illustration/" rel="tag">#illustration</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/commissionsopen/" rel="tag">#commissionsOpen</a>

2024 full color commission

a nonplussed chameleon glances up at the viewer from their book. around them, plant life grows beyond the borders of their pots.
commissioned for a book worm with an impressive indoor garden.

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How Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” Defined Old English LiteratureGeoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales have come to define Old English literature and offer a unique window into life in medieval England.<a href="https://www.thecollector.com/chaucer-canterbury-tales/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/chaucer-canterbury-tales/">https://www.thecollector.com/chaucer-canterbury-tales/</a>Chaucer at PG:<a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=+The+Canterbury+Tales" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=+The+Canterbury+Tales">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=+The+Canterbury+Tales</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a>

Walter Appleton Clark created this illustration in 1904 for Percy MacKaye’s modern version of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. The image shows a group of medieval pilgrims riding together on horseback. In the center, a heavy-set pilgrim wears a thick purple hooded habit with white trim and rides a large brown horse. To his right, a woman in a dark hat and a white wimple over a mauve dress rides alongside him. Next to her, a broad-faced man in dark clothes looks her way. On the left edge, someone in a bright yellow tunic and a large blue headwrap looks ahead. On the far right, a monk or friar rides with another companion.

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I'm a monster. (I've done every one of these except neutral good.)<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/bookmark/" rel="tag">#bookmark</a> <a href="/tags/alignmentchart/" rel="tag">#alignmentChart</a> <a href="/tags/humor/" rel="tag">#humor</a> <a href="/tags/humour/" rel="tag">#humour</a>

bookmark alignment chart
lawful good: book ribbon
neutral good: sentence pointer
chaotic good: scrap paper, receipts
lawful neutral: ebook
true neutral: proper bookmark
chaotic neutral: leaf
lawful evil: memorising the page number
neutral evil: leaving the book face down
chaotic evil: dog ear

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Goddess, he writes so beautifully.<a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/tadwilliams/" rel="tag">#tadwilliams</a> <a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a>

“As the weather had changed during their strange journey, so, too, had the vegetation: the evergreens and low shrubs in which Simon had been snowbound and lost had given way to oak and birch and white ash, their interlaced branches bound with flowering creepers, making an overhead canopy colorful as a stained glass ceiling but far more delicate. Ferns and wood sorrel blanketed the stones and fallen trees, covering Aldheorte’s floor with a bumpy counterpane of green. Mushrooms crouched hiding in pools of shadow like deserting soldiers, while other pale but oddly beautiful fungi clung to the trunks of trees like the steps of spiraling staircases. The morning sun sprinkled all with a light like fine silver and gold dust.”

From Tad Williams’ “Stone of Farewell”

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<a href="/tags/speakingoutofplace/" rel="tag">#SpeakingOutOfPlace</a> welcomes <a href="/tags/idasusser/" rel="tag">#IdaSusser</a> to discuss her book <a href="/tags/theyellowvestsandthebattlefordemocracy/" rel="tag">#TheYellowVestsAndTheBattleForDemocracy</a>: Taking to the Streets of Paris in the 21st Century <a href="https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/19545890-ida-susser-on-creating-a-new-historical-bloc-reimagining-the-commons-and-the-yellow-vests-in-france" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/19545890-ida-susser-on-creating-a-new-historical-bloc-reimagining-the-commons-and-the-yellow-vests-in-france">https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/19545890-ida-susser-on-creating-a-new-historical-bloc-reimagining-the-commons-and-the-yellow-vests-in-france</a>the book is available for free download here: <a href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003534518/yellow-vests-battle-democracy-ida-susser" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003534518/yellow-vests-battle-democracy-ida-susser">https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003534518/yellow-vests-battle-democracy-ida-susser</a><a href="/tags/yellowvestmovement/" rel="tag">#YellowVestMovement</a> <a href="/tags/frenchpolitics/" rel="tag">#FrenchPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/giletsjaunes/" rel="tag">#GiletsJaunes</a> <a href="/tags/mouvementdesgiletsjaunes/" rel="tag">#MouvementDesGiletsJaunes</a> <a href="/tags/nuitdebout/" rel="tag">#NuitDebout</a> <a href="/tags/socialmovements/" rel="tag">#socialMovements</a> <a href="/tags/mouvementssociaux/" rel="tag">#mouvementsSociaux</a> <a href="/tags/polfr/" rel="tag">#polFr</a> <a href="/tags/macronie/" rel="tag">#Macronie</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/livres/" rel="tag">#livres</a> <a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/@MusiqueNow" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@MusiqueNow</a>

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Dorothy Crowfoot HodgkinOur July POTM looks at the life of Nobel Prize-winning crystallographer Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, who lived most of her adult life with rheumatoid arthritis.by Elizabeth Wood<a href="https://www.aip.org/library/ex-libris-universum/dorothy-crowfoot-hodgkin?mcid=81301bd1cc&utm_source=AIP_newsletter&utm_source=email" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.aip.org/library/ex-libris-universum/dorothy-crowfoot-hodgkin?mcid=81301bd1cc&utm_source=AIP_newsletter&utm_source=email">https://www.aip.org/library/ex-libris-universum/dorothy-crowfoot-hodgkin?mcid=81301bd1cc&utm_source=AIP_newsletter&utm_source=email</a>Quoted by Dorothy Hodgkin during her 1964 Nobel Prize Lecture, W. H. Bragg's "Concerning the Nature of Things" (Bragg's work influenced a young Dorothy Crowfoot to pursue science) is available on PG: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/79146" rel="nofollow">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/79146</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/cristallography/" rel="tag">#cristallography</a> <a href="/tags/womeninstem/" rel="tag">#WomenInStem</a>

Dorothy Mary Hodgkin (12 May 1910 – 29 July 1994).

Dorothy Mary Hodgkin is shown smiling, wearing a dark blazer and pearl necklace.

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<a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> Just finished Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, by David Wallace-Wells. It's accessibly informative about climate science. I did not agree with every assertion the author made about either the social sciences or political science, but those were minor quibbles. I would definitely recommend this book. Even though it was published in 2019, the information is just as salient right now. If anything, the timeline of climate accelerated events has sped up more quickly than he anticipated, which is important in itself. I had to take breaks, not because the author was too pessimistic. On the contrary, he seemed too optimistic. He predicted that we will work together to slow down the carbon we are putting in the atmosphere, with wholesale changes by entire countries. There was a lot of academic discussion towards the end of the book, but the first part was my focus: what can we expect, how will it continue to unfold, and what do we need to demand to do something about it? Turns out that individual effort, though not nothing, will do little to slow down the worsening of the Climate Crisis. We need entire countries to divest from fossil fuels. Some are already doing that now, but we need the biggest countries, the major contributors to the problem, to convert to cleaner energy sources. We are in for a world of hurt, but we could make it hurt a lot less.<a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/climatecrisis/" rel="tag">#ClimateCrisis</a>

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What’s the most you’ve ever spent on a book? Excluding textbooks for classes, I bought this for ~$300 (several several years ago as a special treat) Most of my collection is thrifted/bought from garage sales (for a quarter to a dollar usually) but I do have a handful of nicer ones. Page · lemmy.world Excluding textbooks for classes, I bought this for ~$300 (several several years ago as a special treat)Most of my collection is thrifted/bought from garage sales (for a quarter to a dollar usually) but I do have a handful of nicer ones.What’s the most you’ve ever spent on a book?<a href="https://lemmy.world/post/50307629" rel="nofollow">https://lemmy.world/post/50307629</a>

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Love getting lost in a historical fiction series?Set in 19th-century Ireland, The Fitzgeralds of Dublin series follows one family through hardship, secrets, and choices that echo across generations.📚️️️ Books 1–9 available as box sets 📖 Read free in Kindle UnlimitedAmazon - <a href="https://mybook.to/FitzgeraldsBoxSets" rel="nofollow">https://mybook.to/FitzgeraldsBoxSets</a><a href="/tags/booksbylornapeel/" rel="tag">#BooksByLornaPeel</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/familysaga/" rel="tag">#FamilySaga</a> <a href="/tags/historicalfiction/" rel="tag">#HistoricalFiction</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/ireland/" rel="tag">#Ireland</a> <a href="/tags/kindleunlimited/" rel="tag">#KindleUnlimited</a> <a href="/tags/dublin/" rel="tag">#Dublin</a> <a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a>

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 showing characters from the series and photographs of 19th-century Dublin, Ireland.

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📚 The World Jones Made by: Philip K. DickFloyd Jones has always been able to see exactly one year into his future, a gift and curse that began one year before he was even born. As a fortune-teller at a post-apocalyptic carnival, Jones is a powerful force, and may just be able to force society away from its paralyzing Relativism...<a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-world-jones-made" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-world-jones-made">https://bookblabla.com/book/the-world-jones-made</a><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a><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/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/literary/" rel="tag">#literary</a>

Floyd Jones has always been able to see exactly one year into his future, a gift and curse that began one year before he was even born. As a fortune-teller at a post-apocalyptic carnival, Jones is a powerful force, and may just be able to force society away from its paralyzing Relativism. If, that is, he can avoid the radioactively unstable government hitman on his tail.

Precognition; a world ruled by Relativism; giant alien jellyfish. The World Jones Made is a classic Philip K. Dick mash-up, taking deep philosophical musings and infusing them with wild action.

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AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/27795833 In a study published in the journal Judgment and Decision Making, 1,682 adults were asked to read one of six short stories, three of which were written by humans and three by ChatGPT. Each AI story had a similar theme to one of the human-authored works. The team told participants whether their story was written by a human or AI, but this information was not always correct. The researchers then asked participants to rate how absorbing and engaging they found the story, and its quality. Participants who read an AI-generated story rated it as more absorbing and of higher quality than those who read a story written by a human. However, participants gave higher ratings to stories they had been told were written by people. Dr Deena Skolnick Weisberg, a senior author of the research from Villanova University in Pennsylvania, said: “AI systems can already generate short stories that are seen as being at least as good as – if not better than – human-written stories. We should update our views of AI’s abilities accordingly.” However, Weisberg, who is herself a creative writer, said that did not mean writing should be left to AI, noting that novels produced by tech were probably going to be different from those written by humans. “We may need to make room for AI-generated novels, and for AI/human co-written novels, but that doesn’t mean that there’s no longer space for us to appreciate the process of human creativity,” she said. Page · lemmy.dbzer0.com cross-posted from: <a href="https://beehaw.org/post/27795833" rel="nofollow">beehaw.org/post/27795833</a>In a study published in the journal Judgment and Decision Making, 1,682 adults were asked to read one of six short stories, three of which were written by humans and three by ChatGPT. Each AI story had a similar theme to one of the human-authored works.The team told participants whether their story was written by a human or AI, but this information was not always correct. The researchers then asked participants to rate how absorbing and engaging they found the story, and its quality.Participants who read an AI-generated story rated it as more absorbing and of higher quality than those who read a story written by a human. However, participants gave higher ratings to stories they had been told were written by people.Dr Deena Skolnick Weisberg, a senior author of the research from Villanova University in Pennsylvania, said: “AI systems can already generate short stories that are seen as being at least as good as – if not better than – human-written stories. We should update our views of AI’s abilities accordingly.”However, Weisberg, who is herself a creative writer, said that did not mean writing should be left to AI, noting that novels produced by tech were probably going to be different from those written by humans.“We may need to make room for AI-generated novels, and for AI/human co-written novels, but that doesn’t mean that there’s no longer space for us to appreciate the process of human creativity,” she said.AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds<a href="https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/73458967" rel="nofollow">https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/73458967</a>

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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? April 28

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Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/TrollSong" rel="nofollow">https://books2read.com/TrollSong</a> Series Ebook omnibus: <a href="https://books2read.com/TheWizardsScion" rel="nofollow">https://books2read.com/TheWizardsScion</a>Having an abusive assassin for a sister was bad enough, but when Lyra’s older sister, Nicole, becomes obsessed with killing the teenage troll, her life becomes a special kind of nightmare. Will she escape, or become just another victim of the unstoppable woman?<a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefantasy/" rel="tag">#sciencefantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a>

(Left) The cover of Troll Song, by Owen Tyme, Illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

There's a woman in mud spattered white, leather armor crossing a pair of short swords against the neck of a terrified, shirtless dwarf.

The woman has white hair and a darker skin tone on the left side of her face. Her left eye is green and her right eye is blue.

The dwarf's hair and beard are blond.

The background is a green forest, with some flowers among the tall grass.

(Right) The background is a snow-covered forest, with a pair of dark silhouettes in it, one small and the other large, like a giant. The smaller silhouette is of a young woman walking away and the interior is filled with musical symbols, in green, white and two shades of blue. The larger silhouette is a woman wielding two swords and the interior is full of blood spatter. The larger one appears to be chasing the smaller one.

The following text is laid over the scene:

“I can’t die until Lyra takes her last breath! She’ll regret betraying her sisters!”

“There’s no price I won’t pay to see that happen, no pain I won’t endure and I’d sacrifice the whole world to seal her fate!”

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

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<a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> Bonfire <a href="http://bonfirenetworks.org/" rel="nofollow">http://bonfirenetworks.org/</a> sounds like it could be great for the book community, though the name itself makes me a little nervous in this context. 🔥<a href="/tags/bonfire/" rel="tag">#Bonfire</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a>

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Pavlos Roufos – A Happy Future Is a Thing of the Past: The Greek Crisis and Other Disasters Search on Anna’s Archive (they only have pdfs) Neutral and specific, which is really the best form a book like this can come in. Page · lemmy.ml <a href="https://annas-archive.pk/search?q=a+happy+future+is+a+thing+of+the+past" rel="nofollow">Search on Anna’s Archive</a> (they only have pdfs)Neutral and specific, which is really the best form a book like this can come in.Pavlos Roufos – A Happy Future Is a Thing of the Past: The Greek Crisis and Other Disasters<a href="https://lemmy.ml/post/51023079" rel="nofollow">https://lemmy.ml/post/51023079</a>

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