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<p>If the universe as a fair place you'd live long enough to finish your reading list 😜😂 </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@reading" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>reading</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://lemmy.world/u/books" rel="nofollow">@books</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@humor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>humor</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://lemmy.world/c/humor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>humor@lemmy.world</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://lemmy.world/c/aiop" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>aiop</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/readingmemes/" rel="tag">#ReadingMemes</a> <a href="/tags/memes/" rel="tag">#Memes</a> <a href="/tags/readallthebooks/" rel="tag">#ReadAllTheBooks</a> <a href="/tags/humor/" rel="tag">#Humor</a> <a href="/tags/humour/" rel="tag">#Humour</a><br><a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> <a href="/tags/readers/" rel="tag">#Readers</a> <a href="/tags/readersofmastodon/" rel="tag">#ReadersOfMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#ReadingCommunity</a><br><a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#Book</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#Novel</a> <a href="/tags/novels/" rel="tag">#Novels</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#Fiction</a> <br><a href="/tags/recommendation/" rel="tag">#Recommendation</a> <a href="/tags/bookrecommendation/" rel="tag">#Bookrecommendation</a><br><a href="/tags/bookwyrm/" rel="tag">#Bookwyrm</a> <a href="/tags/bookworm/" rel="tag">#Bookworm</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/booklove/" rel="tag">#BookLove</a></p>

Picture of two lines, and a happy, little stickfigure reader.

The first longer line:
TIME IT WOULD TAKE TO GET THROUGH MY READING LIST

The second shorter line:
TIME LEFT BEFORE THE HEAT DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE

Reader: OOO, THIS BOOK LOOKS I SHOULD BUY IT

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<p>Very much enjoyed this talk of Adnan Husein with Alana Lentin.</p><p>Lentin makes a good case that Zionism is where Western racial fascism and colonialism have always been headed. Clarified a lot to me about the hasbara "the West is next" and the unconditional support of Western governments and the support of fascists for Zionism.</p><p>They talk about many things, like CRT, the antisemitism of anti-antisemitism, and how anti-colonial and anti-racism concepts/terminology are used in service of the colonialism and racism of the status quo. Sounds like a very interesting book, good analysis. </p><p><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3XK8g5U3DnM" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="m.youtube.com/watch?v=3XK8g5U3DnM"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">m.youtube.com/watch?v=3XK8g5U3</span><span class="invisible">DnM</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://lemmy.ml/c/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedibird.com/@palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>palestine@fedibird.com</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/anticolonialism/" rel="tag">#AntiColonialism</a> <a href="/tags/counterinsurgency/" rel="tag">#Counterinsurgency</a> <a href="/tags/racialcapitalism/" rel="tag">#RacialCapitalism</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/thenewracialregime/" rel="tag">#TheNewRacialRegime</a> <a href="/tags/zionism/" rel="tag">#zionism</a> <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#fascism</a> <a href="/tags/democracy/" rel="tag">#democracy</a></p>

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<p>‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde</p><p>Levy’s work was ‘ahead of her time’ and speaks to current debate around feminism, LGBTQ+ literature and Jewish identity, say researchers</p><p>By Nadia Khomami </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/nov/13/archives-amy-levy-queer-jewish-writer-admired-by-oscar-wilde-unsealed" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/books/2025/nov/13/archives-amy-levy-queer-jewish-writer-admired-by-oscar-wilde-unsealed"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/books/2025</span><span class="invisible">/nov/13/archives-amy-levy-queer-jewish-writer-admired-by-oscar-wilde-unsealed</span></a></p><p>Amy Levy at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/49112" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/49112"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/49112</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtq/" rel="tag">#lgbtq</a></p>

Amy Levy (1861-1889): english poetess and feminist who committed suicide when becoming deaf.

This is a black-and-white portrait of Amy Levy with a calm, serious expression. She has dark, wavy hair pulled back and wears a dress with an ornate, lace-like collar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Levy#/media/File:Amy_Levy_1.jpg

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<p>How a Book Marketing Ploy Almost Ruined Edgar Wallace, Literature’s “King of Thrillers”</p><p>Edgar Wallace wanted to promote his first novel with more than just traditional ads—but his brilliant idea almost became his downfall.</p><p>By Jane Alexander</p><p><a href="https://www.mentalfloss.com/literature/authors/edgar-wallace-four-just-men-contest-financial-ruin" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.mentalfloss.com/literature/authors/edgar-wallace-four-just-men-contest-financial-ruin"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.mentalfloss.com/literature</span><span class="invisible">/authors/edgar-wallace-four-just-men-contest-financial-ruin</span></a></p><p>Edgar Wallace at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/999" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/999"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/999</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Cover page of Room 13

Author: Edgar Wallace

Original publication: London: John Long, Limited, 1924

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/76168/pg76168-images.html

The cover features a dramatic, illustrated scene in a vintage 1920s art style.

In the foreground, a woman dressed in a tailored mauve suit and white blouse is shown in motion, pushing a door closed with a determined expression. Her short, wavy hairstyle and fashion reflect the modern 1920s “flapper” style. Her body language suggests urgency or fear, as if she is trying to keep someone out.

Behind the door, a man in a dark suit is partly visible, leaning through the opening, his expression alert and intent.

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<p>Stoking creative fires: Counting down to Public Domain Day 2026</p><p>Until I saw it performed earlier this month, I had doubts that one could successfully adapt an unthemed magazine issue into a stage play. But that’s what the New Classics Collective did with the first and only issue of <a href="https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=fire1926" rel="nofollow">Fire!!</a>, a literary magazine “devoted to younger Negro artists” published in Harlem in 1926. The <a href="https://www.quintessencetheatre.org/fire" rel="nofollow">play, which premiered at the Quintessence Theatre</a> in my Philadelphia neighborhood, laid a light dramatic frame over a set of performances of plays, poems, stories, drawings and essays from the magazine’s sole issue, including early work by authors like <a href="https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/who/Hughes%2c%20Langston%2c%201902%2d1967" rel="nofollow">Langston Hughes</a> and <a href="https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/who/Hurston%2c%20Zora%20Neale" rel="nofollow">Zora Neale Hurston</a> who are still known to many readers today.</p><p>As a <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/arts/theater/review-fire-quintessence-theatre-20251023.html" rel="nofollow">review in fhe Philadelphia Inquirer notes</a>, the play, like the magazine issue that inspired it, is a bit of a hot mess as a whole, but has a lot of talent going into its various parts, and it impressed a sold-out multiracial audience the night I went. The magazine itself perished after its first issue, after a fire destroyed the publication’s office. But both the then-new magazine and the new play that’s just been created from it are bold creative experiments, and I’m confident that the people who produced and experienced the play will go on to create more and better work, whether it’s new versions of what I saw in the play’s premiere, or other work inspired by it, just as the authors and artists in the magazine did.</p><p>Along with the people who produced it, we have the public domain to thank for the experience. All 1926 publications <a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2021/12/01/coming-soon-to-the-public-domain-in-2022/" rel="nofollow">joined the public domain in the United States</a> just a few years ago. That makes it possible for anyone who’s found an unburnt copy of Fire!! to digitize it and put it online without needing permission from anyone, as <a href="https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=fire1926" rel="nofollow">several online book collections now have done</a>. And it means that the New Classics Collective, or anyone else intrigued by the magazine’s content, can freely adapt and repurpose it as they like, without needing to work out deals with all of the creators whose works were adapted for the play. These new versions will have their own copyrights for a time, just as the original 1926 pieces did. But eventually, when they too join join the public domain, they will be free for all of us to remember, share, preserve, and renew as part of our common cultural heritage.</p><p>Fifty days from today, the public domain will grow further for many people around the world. In the United States, <a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2024/11/01/the-remainder-of-the-roaring-20s-about-to-join-the-public-domain/" rel="nofollow">the last copyrights for 1920s publications</a> (except for sound recordings) joined the public domain here last year. This coming January 1, a new wave of copyright expiration will reach the start of the 1930s, with all remaining publication copyrights from 1930 expiring (as well as 1925 sound recording copyrights). And starting tomorrow, I’ll be featuring selected works that will be joining the public domain here, in short daily posts that will appear on this blog, and also on some social media networks. On <a href="https://joinmastodon.org/" rel="nofollow">Mastodon</a> and other services on the “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse" rel="nofollow">fediverse</a>“, you can follow this blog by following the user <span class="h-card"><a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>everybodyslibraries.com</span></a></span>, or the hashtag <a href="/tags/publicdomaindaycountdown/" rel="tag">#PublicDomainDayCountdown</a>. I’ll also boost the posts from my own personal Mastodon account (<a href="https://mastodon.social/@JMarkOckerbloom" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mastodon.social/@JMarkOckerbloom"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@JMarkOckerblo</span><span class="invisible">om</span></a>). That account uses the Bridgy Fed service to connect to Blue Sky, where I believe you should be able to follow the user @JMarkOckerbloom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy. I’m not aware of any way to automatically get my posts on other large commercial social media, but folks relying on sites dependent on the likes of Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg may want to diversify their information sources in any case.</p><p>If you follow my posts, I hope you’ll hear about a number of works and creators you know and love, as well as ones you might not be familiar with. You can get an even more diverse and inclusive set of works and perspectives if you also check out other sources that will be promoting the public domain (which I expect to include <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_in_public_domain" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia</a>, the <a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/" rel="nofollow">Public Domain Review</a>, the <a href="https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/" rel="nofollow">Center for the Study of the Public Domain</a>, and the <a href="https://archive.org/" rel="nofollow">Internet Archive</a> as we get closer to the new year). Enjoy the countdown!</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/copyright/" rel="tag">#copyright</a> <a href="/tags/film/" rel="tag">#film</a> <a href="/tags/publicdomain/" rel="tag">#publicDomain</a> <a href="/tags/publicdomaindaycountdown/" rel="tag">#PublicDomainDayCountdown</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a></p>

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<p>"Sunlight is the life-blood of Nature."<br>Ch. 19.</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1889.</p><p>Jerome K. Jerome's comic fictional English travelogue set on the River Thames, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), is published in Bristol. Its sequel is Three Men on the Bummel (also known as Three Men on Wheels, 1900).</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Men_in_a_Boat" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Men_in_a_Boat"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Me</span><span class="invisible">n_in_a_Boat</span></a></p><p>Three Men in a Boat at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/308" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/308</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Frontpage Jerome Three Men in a Boat 1889

Titlepage of the first edition of Jerome K. Jerome (1889) Three Men in a Boat: (To Say Nothing of the Dog), Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith OCLC: 213830865.

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<p>50% off @ <a href="/tags/smashwords/" rel="tag">#Smashwords</a>: <a href="https://books2read.com/WrathOfTheSky" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/WrathOfTheSky</a></p><p>Zechariah Jacobs has angered a vast empire that spans a third of the galaxy, which is far too much for his planet to stand against, but in a clash of wizards and magic versus technology, it’s hard to say which will win.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><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> <a href="/tags/eoysale25/" rel="tag">#EOYSale25</a> <a href="/tags/ebook/" rel="tag">#ebook</a> <a href="/tags/sale/" rel="tag">#sale</a> <a href="/tags/books2read/" rel="tag">#books2read</a> <a href="/tags/indiebooks/" rel="tag">#indiebooks</a></p>

(Left) The cover of Wrath of the Sky, by Owen Tyme.

On a black background, a planet much like earth burns, set aflame. The flames are on the top and sides, but haven't yet reached the bottom.

(Right) An ogre stands on a rocky cliffside path, clearly quite upset, with both his head and arms raised as he cries out! The background is blue sky with white clouds. The following quote is laid over the top of the scene:

Winzon grinned evilly. With great slowness and ceremony, he undid the draw-string of his sack and up-ended it, dropping an ogre skull at the brute’s feet!

The massive ogre’s entire demeanor changed in an instant! He backed away, carefully stepping out of reach of Winzon’s ax, even though it was still strapped to his back!

The brute whispered, “Ogre-slayer!”

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

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<p>"I am not keeping back facts. Every fact that I know is in your possession. You can draw your own deductions from them."<br>Hercule Poirot</p><p>In October 1920.</p><p>Agatha Christie's first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, appears in the U.S., introducing her long-running Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in the setting of an English country house. </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Affair_at_Styles" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Affair_at_Styles"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myst</span><span class="invisible">erious_Affair_at_Styles</span></a></p><p>The Mysterious Affair at Styles at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/863" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/863</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Dustjacket illustration of the first edition in both the UK and the US

Edited 1y ago

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<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/SheSeeksPeace" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/SheSeeksPeace</a></p><p>The Hunter seeks peace and quiet to mourn the loss of her best friend in a world that seems bound and determined to make that task impossible. Enemies attack when she'd rather be alone, allies can't take a hint and the arch-demon Wrath seeks the Hunter's hand in marriage, even though she'd sooner kill him.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><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/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

(Left) The cover of She Seeks Peace, by Owen Tyme.

The background is a snow-capped, craggy mountain with green, grassy hills at its base, which feature yellow and blue flowers.

The foreground is dominated by the round symbol for peace, in gold. Along the bottom of it are two olive branches. At the top is a dove in flight. Arranged on the lower three spokes of it are three figures based on the AIGA symbol for a woman. The figure on the right is blue. The one in the middle is a very dark gray, bordering on black, which includes a top hat. The figure on the left is red and has horns, like a demon.

(Right) The background is a view from the interior of a gun's barrel, with the rifling very apparent and the following quote over the top:

Reggie looked down the barrel of one of his own pistols, which the girl held in both hands, because the M1911 was a little large for someone so small.

There was a long, silent moment as the girl giggled and met his gaze. The murderous look was gone, replaced by something more playful, like a cat toying with a mouse.

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

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<p>Keep watching the skies</p><p>Baker, longtime observatory director, educated generations with his astronomy texts. His debut, Astronomy: An Introduction, appeared in 1930 and even included Pluto’s discovery, then called the “Trans-Neptunian Planet.”<br> <br>By John Mark Ockerbloom </p><p><a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/11/17/keep-watching-the-skies/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everybodyslibraries.com/2025/11/17/keep-watching-the-skies/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everybodyslibraries.com/2025/1</span><span class="invisible">1/17/keep-watching-the-skies/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/publicdomaindaycountdown/" rel="tag">#PublicDomainDayCountdown</a></p>

Main Author: Baker, Robert Horace, 1883-

Published: New York, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1933.

Edition: 2d ed.
Subjects: Astronomy.
Physical Description:
xix, 522 p. front., illus., diagrs. 24 cm.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006607814

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<p>Exploring the World of Japanese Literature in 8 Must-Reads</p><p>"Japanese literature is rich and complex, with a unique style that endears it to many literary enthusiasts."</p><p><a href="https://www.thecollector.com/exploring-japanese-literature-must-reads/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/exploring-japanese-literature-must-reads/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thecollector.com/exploring</span><span class="invisible">-japanese-literature-must-reads/</span></a></p><p>"The Tale of Genji" at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66057" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66057</a></p><p>"The Pillow Book" at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76016" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76016</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

The Chureito Pagoda and Mount Fuji.

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<p>Medieval Friendships: No Girls Allowed</p><p>Medieval European elites inherited the classical concept of friendship as something possible only for men. Christine de Pizan and Margery Kempe beg to differ.</p><p>By: Livia Gershon </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/medieval-friendships-no-girls-allowed/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KE7BZ1KVYKEHGWMWN8H4X650&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/medieval-friendships-no-girls-allowed/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KE7BZ1KVYKEHGWMWN8H4X650&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/medieval-frien</span><span class="invisible">dships-no-girls-allowed/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KE7BZ1KVYKEHGWMWN8H4X650&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER</span></a></p><p>Christine de Pizan & Margery Kempe<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4613" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4613"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/4613</span></a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Margery+Kempe" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Margery+Kempe"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=Margery+Kempe</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/womenhistory/" rel="tag">#womenhistory</a></p>

Master of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pisan.

The illumination is divided into two main sections showing women engaged in the symbolic construction of the "City of Ladies." The scene depicts Christine de Pizan's allegorical vision of building an ideal city for virtuous women.

Inside an architectural space with elegant white arches and a tiled vaulted ceiling in warm orange/gold tones, a group of noble women are gathered.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meister_der_%27Cit%C3%A9_des_Dames%27_002.jpg

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<p>Blowfish's Oceanopaedia by Tom 'The Blowfish' Hird, 2017</p><p>291 Extraordinary Things You Didn't Know About the Sea</p><p>From luminous squid to invisible plankton, from sandy shorelines to the bone-crushing pressure of the deep, marine conservationist Tom "The Blowfish" Hird takes us on an incredible journey revealing what lurks beneath the waves. A treasure chest of fascinating facts, full-colour photos and vintage line drawings.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <br><a href="/tags/nonfiction/" rel="tag">#nonfiction</a> <br><a href="/tags/oceans/" rel="tag">#oceans</a> <br><a href="/tags/marinelife/" rel="tag">#MarineLife</a></p>

Blowfish's Oceanopedia is a stunningly beautiful guide to all we know about our oceans and the weird and wonderful creatures that inhabit them.

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<p>The Zinn Ed Project welcomes historian <a href="/tags/nedblackhawk/" rel="tag">#NedBlackhawk</a> to discuss his book <a href="/tags/therediscoveryofamerica/" rel="tag">#TheRediscoveryOfAmerica</a>: <a href="/tags/nativepeoples/" rel="tag">#NativePeoples</a> and the Unmaking of <a href="/tags/ushistory/" rel="tag">#USHistory</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdWVO4vwDjM" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdWVO4vwDjM"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdWVO4</span><span class="invisible">vwDjM</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/indigenous/" rel="tag">#Indigenous</a> <a href="/tags/nativeamericans/" rel="tag">#NativeAmericans</a> <a href="/tags/nativeamericanhistory/" rel="tag">#NativeAmericanHistory</a> <a href="/tags/americanhistory/" rel="tag">#AmericanHistory</a> <a href="/tags/americanrevolution/" rel="tag">#AmericanRevolution</a> <a href="/tags/sevenyearswar/" rel="tag">#SevenYearsWar</a> <a href="/tags/colonialism/" rel="tag">#colonialism</a> <a href="/tags/colonialviolence/" rel="tag">#colonialViolence</a> <a href="/tags/decolonialstudies/" rel="tag">#decolonialStudies</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

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"The CIA As Organized Crime : How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World" by Douglas Valentine

<p>Mr. Valentine is on Twitter. You can go there and you can see what a huge liberal he is, and how he essentially tripped over these ideas after he wrote The Phoenix Program, and got disgusted with Seymour Hersh’s take on his own ideas. That being said he’s the type of liberal which communists can certainly enjoy reading. (As his own critique of the alt media is easily led to himself and his curious story about being fed papers by a certain CIA officer. I’m not saying that Doug was tasked with distributing a limited hangout but there may have been even more unsavory stuff about the Phoenix program which we never find out from books like his and it would have been wise for a certain career as CIA officer or South Vietnamese policemen to sandbag other members of their organization without revealing too much of the really, really nasty stuff that you don’t want people to ever know that you’ve done like Unit 731 type shit.) When he’s not comparing the United States to the USSR, or complaining about gulags, he’s making very salient points about how the intellectual apparatus manages journalism, and how the CIA uses whistleblowers and other leverage over them to grant access to people like Daniel Ellsberg, Jeremy Skaill, Glenn Greenwald, and other darlings of the alt media, and make money off of them. Apologies for any dictation errors. Also, I am rather sleepy. I just wanted to give you a little bit of background on what the title means and why this book might be worth reading. I think it’s seriously underlooked. Also, I actually enjoy when a writer is a good scholar, but someone who I ideologically disagree with. So, his, little liberal sprinklings in there are fun to pick apart.</p>

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<p>Ancient Math Is Hidden in 8,000-Year-Old Floral Pottery Patterns</p><p>Long before numbers were written down or equations were formalized, human beings were already thinking mathematically; not on tablets or scrolls, but in clay.</p><p>By Sage Helene </p><p><a href="https://mymodernmet.com/geometric-floral-pottery/?utm_campaign=daily-digest&utm_content=link&utm_source=convertkit&utm_term=01032026&utm_medium=email" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mymodernmet.com/geometric-floral-pottery/?utm_campaign=daily-digest&utm_content=link&utm_source=convertkit&utm_term=01032026&utm_medium=email"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mymodernmet.com/geometric-flor</span><span class="invisible">al-pottery/?utm_campaign=daily-digest&utm_content=link&utm_source=convertkit&utm_term=01032026&utm_medium=email</span></a></p><p>Original article:<br><a href="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" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="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"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">link.springer.com/article/10.1</span><span class="invisible">007/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</span></a></p><p>At PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/27943" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/27943"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">ct/27943</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/mathematics/" rel="tag">#mathematics</a> <a href="/tags/antropology/" rel="tag">#antropology</a> <a href="/tags/archeology/" rel="tag">#archeology</a></p>

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.

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<p>📚 Audition by: Katie Kitamura</p><p>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 ...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/audition" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/audition</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><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/psychologicalfiction/" rel="tag">#psychologicalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/womenfiction/" rel="tag">#womenfiction</a> <a href="/tags/literary/" rel="tag">#literary</a></p>

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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Why it’s so hard to know what Jane Austen thought about slavery

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Thoughts on CJ Cherryh's Heavy Time

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<p>📚 Strange Pictures by: Uketsu</p><p>A pregnant woman's sketches on a seemingly innocuous blog conceal a chilling warning.<br>A child's picture of his home contains a dark secret message.<br>A sketch made by a murder victim in his final moments leads an amateur sleuth down a rabbithole that will reveal a horrifying reality.</p><p>Str...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/strange-pictures" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/strange-pictures"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/strange-pi</span><span class="invisible">ctures</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><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/horror/" rel="tag">#horror</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/literaryfiction/" rel="tag">#literaryfiction</a> <a href="/tags/mysterydetective/" rel="tag">#mysterydetective</a></p>

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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<p>Connecting the Dots</p><p>Some linguistics scholars theorize that those born before the advent of texting utilize ellipsis as a space-saving method for informality or shifting sentiment. </p><p>by Madeline Cash</p><p><a href="https://granta.com/connecting-the-dots/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="granta.com/connecting-the-dots/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">granta.com/connecting-the-dots</span><span class="invisible">/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/punctuation/" rel="tag">#punctuation</a> <a href="/tags/grammar/" rel="tag">#grammar</a></p>

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<p>The Wonderful Public Domain of Oz</p><p><a href="https://blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/the-wonderful-public-domain-of-oz/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/the-wonderful-public-domain-of-oz/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/th</span><span class="invisible">e-wonderful-public-domain-of-oz/</span></a></p><p>Baum's books at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/42" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/42"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/42</span></a></p><p>Ruth Plumly Thompson's books at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/34661" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/34661"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/34661</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

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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<p>I loved every moment of this book. Best thing I’ve read in a long time.</p><p>THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DIVISION by qntm<br>Publisher: Penguin Random House<br>Genre: cosmic horror / high-concept sci-fi / SCP spinoff<br>Similar to: Control (2019 video game)</p><p><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/783041/there-is-no-antimemetics-division-by-qntm/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/783041/there-is-no-antimemetics-division-by-qntm/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.penguinrandomhouse.com/boo</span><span class="invisible">ks/783041/there-is-no-antimemetics-division-by-qntm/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#SciFi</a> <a href="/tags/horror/" rel="tag">#horror</a> <a href="/tags/scp/" rel="tag">#SCP</a></p>

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

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<p>📚 The Book of Records by: Madeleine Thien</p><p>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...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-book-of-records" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-book-of-records"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-book-o</span><span class="invisible">f-records</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><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/literaryfiction/" rel="tag">#literaryfiction</a> <a href="/tags/historical/" rel="tag">#historical</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a></p>

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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