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The Case for Child Liberation Through Children‘s Books - Lit Hub Takahe has limited support for this type: See Original Page

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Moby Dick by Herman Melville - Free ebook download

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#OTD in 1944 Ida Tarbell died. She "was an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer, and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers and reformers of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was a pioneer of investigative journalism"

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

Books by Tarbell at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4022

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New Review - I highly recommend this anthology exploring the many talents of the Indian SFF scene Between Worlds - The IF Anthology of New Indian SFF Vol 1 edited by Gautam Bhatia out now https://www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/1/6/between-worlds-the-if-anthology-of-new-indian-sff-vol-1-edited-by-gautam-bhatia #Books

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The Zinn Ed Project welcomes historian #NedBlackhawk to discuss his book #TheRediscoveryOfAmerica: #NativePeoples and the Unmaking of #USHistory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdWVO4vwDjM

#Indigenous #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanHistory #AmericanHistory #AmericanRevolution #SevenYearsWar #colonialism #colonialViolence #decolonialStudies #books @bookstodon

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Ancient Math Is Hidden in 8,000-Year-Old Floral Pottery Patterns

Long before numbers were written down or equations were formalized, human beings were already thinking mathematically; not on tablets or scrolls, but in clay.

By Sage Helene

https://mymodernmet.com/geometric-floral-pottery/?utm_campaign=daily-digest&utm_content=link&utm_source=convertkit&utm_term=01032026&utm_medium=email

Original article:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10963-025-09200-9?cjdata=MXxZfDB8WXww&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=commission_junction&utm_campaign=CONR_BOOKS_ECOM_PBOK_ALWYS_DEEPLINK_GL&utm_content=textlink&utm_term=PID100092945&CJEVENT=d282c6e9eae611f0826f00430a18b8fb

At PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/27943

#books #mathematics #antropology #archeology

KYLIX BY DURIS. THE LABOURS OF THESEUS.
(British Museum).

A kylix is a shallow, wide drinking cup with two horizontal handles and a stem with a foot. This photograph shows the vessel photographed from above and displayed in a way that reveals both the central tondo (circular medallion in the interior bottom of the cup) and the exterior decorative bands. The presentation shows the cup as if flattened out, with the circular interior scene in the center and the two curved exterior panels (from opposite sides of the cup) arranged above and below.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/48154/pg48154-images.html

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📚 Audition by: Katie Kitamura

Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’s attractive, troubling, young—young enough to be her son. Who is he to her, and who is she to him? In this compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel, two competing ...

https://bookblabla.com/book/audition

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Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’s attractive, troubling, young—young enough to be her son. Who is he to her, and who is she to him? In this compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel, two competing narratives unspool, rewriting our understanding of the roles we play every day – partner, parent, creator, muse and the truths every performance masks, especially from those who think they know us most intimately.

Taut and hypnotic, Audition is Katie Kitamura at her virtuosic best.

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A tightly wound family drama that reads like a psychological thriller. NPR

Bold, stark, genre-bending, Audition will haunt your dreams.The Boston Globe

One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilizing Möbius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love.

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Chapter 40: The sinking of Aphrodite (Spanish novel) -"El hundimiento de Afrodita".

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📚 Strange Pictures by: Uketsu

A pregnant woman's sketches on a seemingly innocuous blog conceal a chilling warning.
A child's picture of his home contains a dark secret message.
A sketch made by a murder victim in his final moments leads an amateur sleuth down a rabbithole that will reveal a horrifying reality.

Str...

https://bookblabla.com/book/strange-pictures

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#books #reading #libraries #fiction #horror #generalfiction #literaryfiction #mysterydetective

A pregnant woman's sketches on a seemingly innocuous blog conceal a chilling warning.
A child's picture of his home contains a dark secret message.
A sketch made by a murder victim in his final moments leads an amateur sleuth down a rabbithole that will reveal a horrifying reality.

Structured around these nine childlike drawings, each holding a disturbing clue, Uketsu invites readers to piece together the mystery behind each and the over-arching backstory that connects them all. Strange Pictures is the internationally bestselling debut from mystery horror YouTube sensation Uketsu—an enigmatic masked figure who has become one of Japan's most talked about contemporary authors.

A great read for spooky-season nights
A perfect addition to any Halloween reading list

Translated from the Japanese by Jim Rion.
Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

A BARNES AND NOBLE BEST BOOK OF 2025
Uketsu’s strange riddles are chilling and addictive – I couldn’t put it down. Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface

Delightfully macabre and fiendishly clever. Seemingly unconnected stories tie themselves into a complicated knot, which Uketsu masterfully unravels. G. T. Karber, author of the national bestseller Murdle

Wonderfully complex and carefully crafted... Uketsu keeps readers guessing until the very end. New York Times Book Review
The spine-tingling "triumphant international debut" (Publishers Weekly starred review) tha

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Marshland - Otohiko Kaga

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I can't believe that Project Gutenberg has 74k+ FREE ebooks that I can just download if I want 😃

Pretty amazing 😁

#books #reading #ProjectGutenberg #ebooks #PublicDomain

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Many thanks to Walter Cummins and The California Review of Books for reviewing THE EXPERT OF SUBTLE REVISIONS

"When Hase and her dad were active together, one of their major amusements was creating fictitious identities that enable them to contribute entries to Wikipedia, delete others, and revise the information in still others. This creation and manipulation of supposed reality, while a seeming hobby, is symptomatic of what is happening to the people of the novel, emulating the power of the music box.

Menger-Anderson’s success for readers, beyond her strengths in creating people and realities, depends on winning over their credulity to accept varying identities, the musical essence of human lives, and the doubling patterns of human existence. The richness of her imagination contributes to our acceptance her sometimes wild premises."

#books #writing #writersofmastodon #WritingCommunity #bookstodon @bookstodon

https://calirb.com/the-expert-of-subtle-revisions-by-kristen-menger-anderson/

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Connecting the Dots

Some linguistics scholars theorize that those born before the advent of texting utilize ellipsis as a space-saving method for informality or shifting sentiment.

by Madeline Cash

https://granta.com/connecting-the-dots/

#books #punctuation #grammar

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The Wonderful Public Domain of Oz

https://blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/the-wonderful-public-domain-of-oz/

Baum's books at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/42

Ruth Plumly Thompson's books at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/34661

#books #literature

Cover to the original 1900, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Pictures by W. W. Denslow. The cowardly lion is wearing glasses.

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I loved every moment of this book. Best thing I’ve read in a long time.

THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DIVISION by qntm
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Genre: cosmic horror / high-concept sci-fi / SCP spinoff
Similar to: Control (2019 video game)

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/783041/there-is-no-antimemetics-division-by-qntm/

#books #SciFi #horror #SCP

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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? November 18

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📚 The Book of Records by: Madeleine Thien

Lina and her father arrive at an enclave called The Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions. In this mysterious and shape-shifting place, a building made of time, pasts and futures collide. Lina befriends her neighbors: Bento, a Jewish schola...

https://bookblabla.com/book/the-book-of-records

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#books #reading #libraries #fiction #literaryfiction #historical #generalfiction #sciencefiction

Lina and her father arrive at an enclave called The Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions. In this mysterious and shape-shifting place, a building made of time, pasts and futures collide. Lina befriends her neighbors: Bento, a Jewish scholar in seventeenth-century Amsterdam; Blucher, a philosopher in 1930s Germany fleeing Nazi persecution; and Jupiter, a poet of Tang Dynasty China.

Memory, political revolution, generational change, and the ethical imagination are at the heart of Lina’s illuminating conversations with her fellows in the Sea: how we come to believe what we believe, and how every person is an irreplaceable, unique vessel of history. Through the guidance of these great thinkers, Lina equips herself to reckon with difficult questions of guilt, responsibility, and the possibility of redemption when her ailing father begins to reveal his role in their family’s tragic past.
As Lina confronts her father’s troubling admissions, she begins to reconceptualize the world around her, gaining a deeper understanding of how our individual futures are shaped by our political circumstances, and she relies on the collective joy of art and intellectual endeavors to carry her through difficulty. A novel that voyages between centuries, generations, and ideas, The Book of Records is an indelible testament to the migratory nature of humanity and our ceaseless search for a home—in the physical world, in cyberspace, in history, and in the imagin

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In September 1923.

T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land (1922) is first published in the United Kingdom in book form, complete with notes, in a limited edition by the Hogarth Press of Richmond upon Thames. The firm is run by Eliot's Bloomsbury Group friends Leonard and Virginia Woolf, and the type handset by Virginia (completed in July).

The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1321

#books #literature

The waste land by T.S. Eliot published by Hogarth Press of Richmond upon Thames

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The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem has to be the most far-out book I've ever read. It feels like super-human writing. And for all its inventiveness it makes no effort to justify itself. Reading this was an experience I'll never forget, but I am looking forward to returning to the human plane of reading.

https://khleedril.org/dale-mellor/bookblog/?review=the-cyberiad

#scifi #books #reading @bookstodon @books

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This week's #NewBooks at the library: second-hand copies of...
- Charles Lyell: The Years to 1841: The Revolution in Geology. Having reviewed Radical by Nature two years ago made me want to read up on other historical natural historians of this time period. There is no good recent book on the early geologist Charles Lyell. The standard is still the two books written by Leonard G. Wilson, which are the first two parts of an unfortunately unfinished trilogy. I obtained the second book some time ago, and now managed to buy the first part at a very decent price via eBay.
- The Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History
- Biominerals and Fossils Through Time. Reviewing Fossilization made me want to understand more about the physical basis of fossilisation.

#Geology #EarthSciences #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #NaturalHistory #Fossils #Fossilisation #Mineralogy #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon

A photo of three books standing on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books and part of the beech-coloured laminate floor.

On the left, Charles Lyell: The Years to 1841: The Revolution in Geology, showing a black-and-white portrait drawn (possibly) in charcoal of a young Charles Lyell in 19th-century garb, showing him from the chest up.

In the middle, lying down, The Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History, showing a drawing of an old-fashioned glass bell jar with a taxidermic oddity, a fake mermaid that has the lower body of a fish and the arms and head of a small man. The head is contorted in a grotesque scream, and he has his arms raised to cover his ears with his hands.

On the right, Biominerals and Fossils Through Time, showing a close-up colour photo of a sectioned fossil under a microscope, displaying abstract blue and gold shapes. The figure legend explains that this is a calcareous skeleton of a fossil sponge observed under a polarising microscope.

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📚 Finding My Way by: Malala Yousafzai

This is not the story you think you know. It’s the one I’ve been waiting to tell.

Thrust onto the public stage at fifteen years old after the Taliban’s brutal attack on her life, Malala Yousafzai quickly became an international icon known for bravery and resilience. But away from the cameras and crow...

https://bookblabla.com/book/finding-my-way

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This is not the story you think you know. It’s the one I’ve been waiting to tell.

Thrust onto the public stage at fifteen years old after the Taliban’s brutal attack on her life, Malala Yousafzai quickly became an international icon known for bravery and resilience. But away from the cameras and crowds, she spent years struggling to find her place in an unfamiliar world. Now, for the first time ever, Malala takes us beyond the headlines in Finding My Way—a vulnerable, surprising memoir that buzzes with authenticity, sharp humor, and tenderness.

Finding My Way is a story of friendship and first love, of anxiety and self-discovery, of trying to stay true to yourself when everyone wants to tell you who you are. In it, Malala traces her path from high school loner to reckless college student to a young woman at peace with her past. Through candid, often messy moments like nearly failing exams, getting ghosted, and meeting the love of her life, Malala reminds us that real role models aren’t perfect—they’re human.

In this astonishing memoir, Malala reintroduces herself to the world, sharing how she navigated life as someone whose darkest moments threatened to define her narrative—while seeking the freedom to find out who she truly is. Finding My Way is an intimate look at the life of a young woman taking charge of her destiny—and a deeply personal testament to the strength it takes to be unapologetically yourself.

A USA TODAY MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK
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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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Bookstore haul! We went to Tsunami to nibble at my credit after the last time I sold back seventeen (probably a real number) bags of books.

1. Syntax of the River by Barry Lopez

2. Mindfulness Meditations for Anxiety by Michael Smith (a plethora of different angles into meditation, lots of exercises, excited to dive into this one)

3. Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer

@bookstodon #books #TsunamiBooks #bookstodon

A hand holding the three books mentioned in post. Behind hand is a chair with a quilt over it, and a light-up moon making everything bright.

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#OTD in 1921.

The Cervantes Theatre (Buenos Aires) opens with a production of Lope de Vega's La dama boba (The Foolish Lady, 1613). It is one of the earliest examples of the "comedia palatina" subgenre. De Vega completed it on 28 April 1613, as shown by a surviving manuscript copy in his own hand.

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

Books by Lope Vega at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/25752

#books #literature #theatre

Reproducción digital facsímil del impreso original conservado en la Biblioteca Nacional de España. Sig. T/15003-020

https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra/la-dama-boba-2/