I never expected it to happen... But I think I love Dracula. It's a more entertaining read than I thought it would be!
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From author to anime hero: the unlikely revival of a Japanese literary star
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From author to anime hero: the unlikely revival of a Japanese literary star
Ernest Hemingway’s Personal Library Contained Thousands of Books—Here Are Some of the Authors
From Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf, these are just a few of the legendary writers that lined Hemingway's bookshelves.
All of these authors are at PG:
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
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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.
Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/LegacyOfNewts
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…
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#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #IdaSusser to discuss her book #TheYellowVestsAndTheBattleForDemocracy:
Taking to the Streets of Paris in the 21st Century
the book is available for free download here: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003534518/yellow-vests-battle-democracy-ida-susser
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Jules Verne’s Empty Dream of Spaceflight
In “From the Earth to the Moon,” scientific advancement is treated as destiny — but no one quite asks why.
By: Malka Older
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/jules-vernes-empty-dream-of-spaceflight/
From the Earth to the Moon at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/83
Ice Cream Trucks on Covers: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-ice-cream-trucks-on-covers/
August reading recommendations: books about France in English
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Celebrating 250 Years of the USA
To 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.
Browse 5.8 million works of art at the Last Museum
by Rob Beschizza
https://boingboing.net/2026/06/29/browse-5-8-million-works-of-art-at-the-last-museum.html
Last Museum:
https://lastmuseum.com/
Books in Art at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/11
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)
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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)
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?
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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!
What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? August 04
Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/TheInvertedGlass
Series Ebook omnibus: https://books2read.com/TheWizardsScion
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.
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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.
https://www.kobo.com/ebook/the-blossoming-of-the-big-tree-1
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📚 Whistler by: Ann Patchett
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 ye...
Time for a mental health break. Enjoy some fantasy fiction.
Witch's Familiar & Whimsical Stories includes a sardonic talking cat and a cross-dressing witch:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CVQTPYSS/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.tfQoz8HnKf2VombwqWN6ceNs9aoSJw0fCg6SP_N95VaUXN9mBlHPTh43SnuWTlJZ8GUmJmEgUtqkTU54yC0ofnkSLHBRIr3cSPU4yYu8mY_03qVChv-WFP3p2X5DIs528wt14gm8wp2njj9s8TQuljFTydNwLkI5v1lThRBvCc15NqXMD1hBUT-MEkyVjK-dHbGFc8c1EgXbYbxWM00ahQ.NAHE-CcYMjQsp3w8LXhwxz0aJlYUf40fxJbxXqYq7cc&qid=1725151995&sr=8-1
#Witches #cats #fantasyfiction #whimsy #LGBTQIA #acecharacters #asexual #asexualcharacters #feministfiction #fantasy #cozyfantasy #Halloween #Samhain #whimsical #whimsicalfiction #Wicca #WritingCommunity #fiction #writing #indiebooks #bookish #books #booksbooksbooks #witchbooks
« Ce qui empêche néanmoins de prononcer ou d'écrire ce mot sans l’entourer de guillemets relève d’un ordre discursif complexe et historiquement sédimenté qui exclut de considérer les #Palestiniens comme les victimes potentielles d’un #génocide [...]
Déconstruire cet ordre discursif est l'objet des recherches actuelles de #NadiaAbuElHaj et de son prochain livre, intitulé #TheImpossibleGenocide. »
https://www.diagrammes.fr/fr/folders/le-genocide-impensable
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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Our 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
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:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/79146
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.
What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? April 28