finished reading Skyward Flight: The Collection: Sunreach / ReDawn / Evershore 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
by Brandon Sanderson & Janci Patterson.
While the hero of the series is lost in the Nowhere, her fellow pilots get on with being awesome and taking the fight to the oppressors. Decent YA fare with lots of dogfights, light humour and a little romance. The hyperslugs are adorable.
📚 The Do-Over by: Lynn Painter
After living through a dumpster fire of a Valentine’s Day, Emilie Hornby escapes to her grandmother’s house for some comfort and a consolation pint of Ben & Jerry’s. She passes out on the couch, but when she wakes up, she’s back home in her own bed—and it’s Valentine’s Day all over again. And the ne...
https://bookblabla.com/book/the-do-over
#books #reading #libraries #family #romance #sciencefiction #timetravel
Public Domain Stories
Explore Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original Sherlock Holmes adventures — preserved and shared by https://www.gutenberg.org/.
Distributed Proofreaders has posted its 50,000th unique title! It is "A Dictionary of the Art of Printing."
Read about it here:
https://blog.pgdp.net/2025/12/07/celebrating-50000-titles/
Book at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77410
Congratulations to all who worked on it.
Into the Wardrobe: THE GHOST OF FOSSIL GLEN by Cynthia D. DeFelice
@Reading1KLives has the newest
@skiffyandfanty review
https://skiffyandfanty.com/blog/wardrobe-ghost-of-fossil-glen-by-defelice/
"This is a book that deserves to stay in circulation for kids and adults to both continue enjoying and learning from."
📚 Solito: A Read with Jenna Pick by: Javier Zamora
A young poet tells the inspiring story of his migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this “gripping memoir” (NPR) of bravery, hope, and finding family.
Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction • One of the New Yo...
https://bookblabla.com/book/solito-a-read-with-jenna-pick
#books #reading #libraries #biographyautobiography #emigrationimmigration
A Review of I Found a Lost Hallway in a Dying Mall: https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-i-found-a-lost-hallway-in-a-dying-mall/
The First Canadian Novel
Often considered the first Canadian novel, The History of Emily Montague revealed its author’s true feelings about colonial Quebec.
By: Emily Zarevich
Frances Brooke at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/6606
📚 Labyrinth by: A.G. Riddle
Alan Norris has lost everything. Except for his daughter. And he's willing to do anything to protect her.
The day of his wife's funeral, as he's walking to give the eulogy, the ringing in his ears starts. His tinnitus began when he was in the Marines, the day a roadside bomb went off. Us...
https://bookblabla.com/book/labyrinth
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #sciencefiction #thrillers #suspensefiction #technologicalfiction
American illustrator, author, youth leader Daniel Carter Beard died #OTD in 1941.
In 1905, Beard founded an organization called "The Sons of Daniel Boone," which aimed to teach boys outdoor skills, woodcraft, and self-reliance. This organization was one of the first to emphasize the importance of outdoor education and adventure for youth. The Sons of Daniel Boone was later merged with the Boy Scouts of America.
Books by Daniel Carter Beard at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/8612
Many thanks to Goodreads editor Sharon for including THE EXPERT OF SUBTLE REVISIONS among the "New Voice Alert: Promising 2025 debut novels." Check out the full list of book recommendations in the December editors' picks column!
#books #writing #writersofmastodon #WritingCommunity #bookstodon @bookstodon
https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/3034-goodreads-editors-get-bossy-about-book-recommendations
Why are algorithms called algorithms? A brief history of the Persian polymath you’ve likely never heard of.
Over 1,000 years before the internet and smartphone apps, Persian scientist and polymath Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī invented the concept of algorithms.
By Debbie Passey. via @ConversationUK
finished reading The Cruel Stars 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
by John Birmingham.
Action space opera that doesn't take itself too seriously. Humanity has become a diverse species dangerously dependent on digital & genomic enhancement - a zealous puritan strain plans to change that. A few too many characters to begin with - none of them I connected with, and many of whom die - but they come together nicely.
“It’s devastating for us to know that these kids who put in hundreds of hours of hard work had that torn away from them because of the objections of a single parent,” says Picoult... "I had 20 books banned in one school district in Florida alone because of a single parent’s objection and she admitted she had not read any of the books...She said that they were banned for ‘mature content and sexuality.’ There were books of mine that did not even have a single kiss in them.”
#books #writing #writersofmastodon #WritingCommunity #bookstodon @bookstodon
"When a young man came up to him in Zurich and said, 'May I kiss the hand that wrote Ulysses?' Joyce replied, somewhat like King Lear, 'No, it did lots of other things too.'"
Let's celebrate, today is Bloomsday!
Read the whole article in our June newsletter:
https://www.gutenberg.org/newsletter/
Ulysses by James Joyce at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4300
Thanks for hosting #Writephant, @neve
My books, low-key fantasy with romance, mostly queer, are currently in the annual end of year #Smashwords sale — they’re already affordable but now they’re extra affordable, all 25% off:
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/wendylpalmer
but you’ll also find them on #KoboPlus or #Hoopla, or any of your favourite ebook retailers. They’re not for everyone…but the readers who like them…REALLY like them 😊
@bookstodon #books #reading #GayRomance #IndieAuthor #HolidayReading
Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/TheNextHorizon
Amelia and The Book of Newts are in conflict. She wants to explore her feelings. It wants to explore space, taking back the gift for mathematics and piloting it gave her. She’s left unable to plot a direct course home. She’s desperate to see the man she loves, lest she lose him forever and The Book is in her way…
@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #sciencefantasy #scifi #actionadventure #fiction #books
Italian philosopher, poet, essayist, and philologist Giacomo Leopardi died #OTD in 1837.
Around 1816, Leopardi experienced what he called his "literary conversion," shifting his focus from philological studies to poetry and philosophical reflection. His early lyrical poems, or "canti," began to reflect his developing philosophical ideas. In 1816 the idylls Le rimembranze and Inno a Nettuno were published.
Books by Giacomo Leopardi at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/8593
#OTD in 1822.
Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society.
The difference engine is based on the method of divided differences, a way to interpolate or tabulate functions by using a small set of polynomial co-efficients. Some of the most common mathematical functions are built from logarithmic & trigonometric functions, which can be approximated by polynomials, so a difference engine can compute many useful tables.
📚 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by: Stieg Larsson
The disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden, gnaws at her octogenarian uncle, Henrik Vanger. He is determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder.
He hires crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist, recently at the wrong end of a lib...
![Beard's frontispiece for Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
Daniel Carter Beard - Library of Congress[1]
"Knight in armor tilting at man in modern dress in tree onto which a man in modern dress has climbed for refuge", "Published as frontispiece in: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / Samuel Clemens. New York : Charles L. Webster & Co., 1889. ", "1 drawing : pen and ink over graphite underdrawing ; sheet 36 x 57.1 cm."](/proxy/post_attachment/250779/0a6872f0d1.jpg "Beard's frontispiece for Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
Daniel Carter Beard - Library of Congress[1]
\"Knight in armor tilting at man in modern dress in tree onto which a man in modern dress has climbed for refuge\", \"Published as frontispiece in: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / Samuel Clemens. New York : Charles L. Webster & Co., 1889. \", \"1 drawing : pen and ink over graphite underdrawing ; sheet 36 x 57.1 cm.\"")
