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Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/JigsawCity
Nicole’s brain is slowly being taken over by an ancient, magical artifact, a small fragment of a magic city. She seeks a cure, before the city can destroy her sanity and then eventually, take her life by replacing her mind. Racing against time, she gathers pieces of the city, hoping to find an answer among them.
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Building a Library in Wartime Paris
Photos from the American Library in Paris reveal how librarians brought books to US troops during World War I.
By: April White
https://daily.jstor.org/building-a-library-in-wartime-paris/
Original article:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4307216?mag=building-a-library-in-wartime-paris
"American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857" by Sally Denton. My rating: 5 out of 5 stars. Published in 2007.
Book description: In September 1857, a wagon train passing through Utah was attacked. Approximately 140 people were slaughtered; only 17 children under the age of eight were spared. This incident in an open field called Mountain Meadows has ever since been the focus of passionate discussion. Is it possible that official Mormon dignitaries were responsible for the massacre? Sally Denton makes a fiercely convincing argument that they were.
This massacre is one I did not read about in the history books, probably because the Norman church wanted it buried. The detail, gleaned from historical records, is astounding and also very graphic.
#nonfiction #history #religion #zealotry #books #reading @bookstodon
"They’re afraid because we exist, she says. There’s nothing we did to provoke their fear, other than exist. There’s nothing we can do to earn their approval, except stop existing—so we can either die like they want, or laugh at their cowardice and go on with our lives."
— N. K. Jemisin: The Stone Sky
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Anne Dacier, translator of Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey
Anne Dacier (1645–1720), French scholar and translator best known for the prose translation of the Homeric epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey.
by Marie Lebert
https://www.literaryladiesguide.com/author-biography/anne-dacier-translator/
Books about Anne Dacier at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39843
How to be a word detective
Etymology unravels the mysteries of language and the hidden webs that link people across the world. Here’s how to dive in
by Danny Bate
Books about English language -- Etymology at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/2993
"The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century" by Scott Miller. My rating: 4 out of 5 stars. Published in 2011.
Book description: In 1901, as America tallied its gains from a period of unprecedented imperial expansion, an assassin’s bullet shattered the nation’s confidence. The shocking murder of President William McKinley threw into stark relief the emerging new world order of what would come to be known as the American Century. The President and the Assassin is the story of the momentous years leading up to that event, and of the very different paths that brought together two of the most compelling figures of the era: President William McKinley and Leon Czolgosz, the anarchist who murdered him.
Not only was this book a well told story, but it also brought into clear focus much not detailed in history textbooks I experienced.
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A Review of The Corner of My Eye: https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-the-corner-of-my-eye/
Picture Books About Pumpkins: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-picture-books-about-pumpkins/
📚 Greatest Hits by: Harlan Ellison
A collection of award-winning short stories, including the viral “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison, an eight-time Hugo Award winner, five-time Bram Stoker Award winner, and four-time Nebula Award winner.
As one of the great writers of speculative fiction of the twentieth century, Harlan Elliso...
📚 The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by: Matt Dinniman
Earth has been transformed into the set of the galaxy’s most watched game show: Dungeon Crawler World, a nightmarish, multilevel, video game–like dungeon filled with traps, monsters, and mind-bending puzzles. Carl and Donut have survived so far, but this fourth level is unlike a...
https://bookblabla.com/book/the-dungeon-anarchists-cookbook
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"The last man! Yes I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me..."
Lessons for the 21st century from a 200‑year‑old book by ‘Frankenstein’ author Mary Shelley
by Eileen Hunt
The Last Man by Mary Shelley at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18247
Due parole su Luciano De Crescenzo
I've always loved reading but for the past 10/15+ years I just mostly... Haven't read.
I gave Dad a novel a couple of months ago and after he read it he brought it back to me so I could read it.
I read it about a month ago and that kick started me reading again. I've read 10 novels in the last two weeks.
Talking to Dad today, he told me that the book I had given him made him rediscover his love of reading, and in the last two weeks he's also read a dozen novels.
New review: A potent mixture of cartoons and palaeontology, these giftable hardbacks show that humour can be an important component of science communication.
https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2026/09/10/book-review-speed-thief-volume-i-volume-ii/
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In 19th-century Dublin, a disillusioned doctor and a fallen woman discover that some meetings change everything.
The Fitzgeralds of Dublin series is a sweeping Irish family saga following Will and Isobel through hardship, secrets, and the choices that shape their lives in a changing Ireland.
Begin with A Scarlet Woman - free to read in Kindle Unlimited - http://mybook.to/ascarletwoman
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"But beauty is set apart,
beauty is cast by the sea,
a barren rock,
beauty is set about
with wrecks of ships...."
Hymen (ed. 1921)
~H.D. was born #OTD in 1886.
Books by H. D. at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/33478
I wanted to read a good nonfiction book, this year, around the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, to remember the people who were killed. So, this morning, I started reading "Fall and Rise" by Mitchell Zuckoff. Published in 2019. It is an excellent read. I especially like it because it is a chronology of events as to what people on the ground and people in the air did that day.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42654305
Six years ago, I read "The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11" by Garrett M. Graff. That is also an excellent book.
Boy, Y'all weren't kidding when you said that The Sparrow was brilliant written, but would also destroy me.
Is the sequel equally devastating?
Gods damnit! Am thinking I will have to delete one of my manuscripts because it was very close to this, even though mine is gay and disability first. I don't mind because I have a whole litany of ideas and romance plots I want to do, but I would recommend checking this one out because it's really fun! https://share.libbyapp.com/title/11881316 #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
This post puts words to my favourite experience as a reader 😊
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With the change/rebrand to the Kindle Unlimited now Plus program, I see that subscribers can now drown in AI audiobooks as well as AI ebooks. Yay?
The one upside of Amazon being the dominant party in this market is that Kobo Plus (who had that name first, just saying) is relatively unscathed by slop so far.
My new book HYPERSCALE is finally out this week!
Yesterday I went on MS NOW’s The Beat with Ari Melber to talk about data centers, AI, and the threats that come of how tech billionaires have shaped the technology to benefit themselves at everyone else’s expense.
Get your copy today: https://hyperscalebook.com
#tech #artificialintelligence #generativeai #datacenters #books #elonmusk #reading
In case you needed to dislike JK Rowling even more:
"Neil Blair established High Line Publishing Studio to help Jewish and Israeli literary figures who are being 'shunned.' Blair represents such leading literary lights as JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series."