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<p>The definition of a good day 😁 </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> @humor@lemmy.world @aiop </p><p><a href="/tags/readingmemes/" rel="tag">#ReadingMemes</a> <a href="/tags/meme/" rel="tag">#Meme</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> <a href="/tags/funny/" rel="tag">#Funny</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/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> <a href="/tags/fantasybooks/" rel="tag">#FantasyBooks</a></p>

My boss told me to have a good day so I went home to read..

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<p>In Praise of E. H. Shepard’s Illustrations</p><p>What makes Pooh Pooh? The answer lies not only in author A.A. Milne’s prose, but also in the quiet genius of E. H. Shepard’s original illustrations. With Shepard’s work now in the public domain, it’s the perfect opportunity to revisit how these deceptively simple drawings became cultural touchstones.</p><p>by Sterling Dudley</p><p><a href="https://blog.archive.org/2025/12/10/e-h-shepards-illustrations/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blog.archive.org/2025/12/10/e-h-shepards-illustrations/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.archive.org/2025/12/10/e-</span><span class="invisible">h-shepards-illustrations/</span></a></p><p>At PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67098" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67098</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Here's a picture of Christopher Robin, Rabbit, Rabbit's firends and relations, Piglet, some mice and even a hedgehog, all pulling together on Pooh, still stuck.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/67098/pg67098-images.html

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<p>‘He was just trying to earn a few kopecks’: how newly translated stories reveal Chekhov’s silly side</p><p>With daft jokes and experimental wordplay, the first comprehensive translations of his lesser-known stories show Anton Chekhov in a new light</p><p>By Viv Groskop</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/nov/23/he-was-just-trying-to-earn-a-few-kopecks-how-newly-translated-stories-reveal-chekhovs-silly-side" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/nov/23/he-was-just-trying-to-earn-a-few-kopecks-how-newly-translated-stories-reveal-chekhovs-silly-side"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/culture/20</span><span class="invisible">25/nov/23/he-was-just-trying-to-earn-a-few-kopecks-how-newly-translated-stories-reveal-chekhovs-silly-side</span></a></p><p>Chekhov at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/708" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/708"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/708</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Anton Chekhov in 1893.

Chekhov stands outdoors in front of a wooden structure with ornate balusters. He is dressed in a long, light-colored overcoat and a dark hat, with a full beard and a calm, direct expression. Surrounding him are bare branches and foliage, giving the scene a slightly austere atmosphere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Chekhov#/media/File:Chekhov_ht.jpg

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<p>The copyright and the public good</p><p>Ross’s 1930 The Right and the Good introduced an ethics of balancing intuitive “prima facie” duties rather than strict rules or outcomes. In 38 days, it enters the U.S. public domain for free reuse.<br> <br>By John Mark Ockerbloom </p><p><a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/11/24/the-copyright-and-the-public-good/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everybodyslibraries.com/2025/11/24/the-copyright-and-the-public-good/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everybodyslibraries.com/2025/1</span><span class="invisible">1/24/the-copyright-and-the-public-good/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/publicdomaindaycountdown/" rel="tag">#publicDomainDayCountdown</a></p>

The Right and the Good (book cover)

The cover is simple and scholarly in appearance, using a plain, solid background with minimal ornamentation. The title The Right and the Good appears in clear, straightforward lettering near the top, with W. D. Ross listed as the author beneath it. The design emphasizes a formal academic style—unembellished, text-focused, and likely printed in a traditional serif font. There are no illustrations or decorative elements, giving the cover a restrained and classic.

W. D. Ross - https://archive.org/details/rightgood0000ross/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_and_the_Good#/media/File:The_Right_and_the_Good_(book_cover).jpg

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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? November 25

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<p>Another newly released book under my pen name Jai Baidell.<br>This is a spinoff from my detective series. Not at all originally, my detective and his colleague quit the police and set up a private agency, Mallay Investigations. Their first case is looking for a boy who has been missing for 10 years.</p><p>Available from Apple, Kobo, Kindle and others.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/newrelease/" rel="tag">#newrelease</a></p>

ebook cover. A young boy, standing up, speeds along on a bicycle. He wears a red shirt which streams out behind him and colourful jeans. The ground is bright green and the sky pale blue with white clouds. Text in black. Janni. Text in white. Mallay Investigations 1. Jai Baidell.

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<p>📚 You Like It Darker by: Stephen King</p><p>“You like it darker? Fine, so do I,” writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life—both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, abou...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/you-like-it-darker" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/you-like-it-darker"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/you-like-i</span><span class="invisible">t-darker</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/thrillers/" rel="tag">#thrillers</a> <a href="/tags/suspensefiction/" rel="tag">#suspensefiction</a></p>

“You like it darker? Fine, so do I,” writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life—both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to read. King writes to feel “the exhilaration of leaving ordinary day-to-day life behind,” and in You Like It Darker, readers will feel that exhilaration too, again and again.

“Two Talented Bastids” explores the long-hidden secret of how the eponymous gentlemen got their skills. In “Danny Coughlin’s Bad Dream,” a brief and unprecedented psychic flash upends dozens of lives, Danny’s most catastrophically. In “Rattlesnakes,” a sequel to Cujo, a grieving widower travels to Florida for respite and instead receives an unexpected inheritance—with major strings attached. In “The Dreamers,” a taciturn Vietnam vet answers a job ad and learns that there are some corners of the universe best left unexplored. “The Answer Man” asks if prescience is good luck or bad and reminds us that a life marked by unbearable tragedy can still be meaningful.

“King’s skills as a storyteller remain undimmed” (The Minnesota Star Tribune) and his ability to surprise, amaze, and bring us both terror and solace is unsurpassed. “T

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<p>How Robert Frost summoned a classic from life’s timeless moments</p><p>Perhaps the most famous work by the US poet Robert Frost, ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ (1923) exemplifies his style with its vivid scenery and accessibility.</p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/videos/how-robert-frost-summoned-a-classic-from-lifes-timeless-moments?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a5fbf00b6b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_12_08&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="aeon.co/videos/how-robert-frost-summoned-a-classic-from-lifes-timeless-moments?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a5fbf00b6b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_12_08&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/videos/how-robert-fros</span><span class="invisible">t-summoned-a-classic-from-lifes-timeless-moments?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a5fbf00b6b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_12_08&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972</span></a></p><p>Frost at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1091" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1091"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1091</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>

Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing forward.

From the Library of Congress collection, the image captures the young Frost during the period when he wrote some of his most celebrated poems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stopping_by_Woods_on_a_Snowy_Evening#/media/File:Robert_Frost,_1910s.jpg

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<p>📚 Earthlings by: Sayaka Murata</p><p>As a child, Natsuki doesn't fit in with her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut, who talks to her. He tells her that he has come from the planet Popinpobopia on a special quest to help her save the Earth. One summer, on vacation with her family and her cousin...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/earthlings" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/earthlings</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/magicalrealism/" rel="tag">#magicalrealism</a></p>

As a child, Natsuki doesn't fit in with her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut, who talks to her. He tells her that he has come from the planet Popinpobopia on a special quest to help her save the Earth. One summer, on vacation with her family and her cousin Yuu in her grandparents' ramshackle wooden house in the mountains of Nagano, Natsuki decides that she must be an alien, which would explain why she can't seem to fit in like everyone else. Later, as a grown woman, living a quiet life with her asexual husband, Natsuki is still pursued by dark shadows from her childhood, and decides to flee the "baby factory" of society for good, searching for answers about the vast and frightening mysteries of the universe--answers only Natsuki has the power to uncover.

Dreamlike, sometimes shocking, and always strange and wonderful, Earthlings asks what it means to be happy in a stifling world, and cements Sayaka Murata's status as a master chronicler of the outsider experience and our own uncanny universe.

From the beloved author of cult sensation Convenience Store Woman, which has now sold more than one million copies worldwide and has been translated into thirty-three languages, comes a spellbinding and otherworldly novel about a woman who believes she is an alien

Sayaka Murata's Convenience Store Woman was one of the most unusual and refreshing bestsellers of recent years, depicting the life of a thirty-six-year-old

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<p>🏳️‍🌈 📖 Queer Romance Club December vote 📖 🏳️‍🌈 </p><p>Theme is winter/holiday vibes.</p><p>Christmas for Commitmentphobes by Rhoda Baxter - f/f contemporary set in a cosy Yokshire village. (part of a series but stand-alone)</p><p>The Holly Groweth Green by Amy Rae Durreson - m/m historical set in a cosy Yorkshire-- no wait! A cosy Hampshire cottage :)</p><p>The Merriest Misters by Timothy Janovsky - contemporary m/m (with fantasy elements) </p><p>Within My Reach by Amy Blythe - f/f contemporary re-telling of Persuasion, because the end-of-year holiday season is not necessarily in winter...</p><p>More about the club here - TL; DR: open to all, read and comment.<br><a href="https://mastodon.au/@wendypalmer/113144943004145104" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mastodon.au/@wendypalmer/113144943004145104"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.au/@wendypalmer/11314</span><span class="invisible">4943004145104</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/queerromanceclub/" rel="tag">#QueerRomanceClub</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@queerromanceclub" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>queerromanceclub</span></a></span> <br><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> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/bookclub/" rel="tag">#bookClub</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtqbooks/" rel="tag">#LGBTQBooks</a></p> <div class="poll"> <h3 style="display: none;">Options: </h3> <ul> <li> <label class="poll-option"> <input style="display:none" name="vote-options" type="checkbox" value="0"> <span class="poll-number" title="0 votes">0%</span> <span class="poll-option-text">Christmas for Commitmentphobes</span> </label> </li> <li> <label class="poll-option"> <input style="display:none" name="vote-options" type="checkbox" value="0"> <span class="poll-number" title="0 votes">0%</span> <span class="poll-option-text">The Holly Groweth Green</span> </label> </li> <li> <label class="poll-option"> <input style="display:none" name="vote-options" type="checkbox" value="0"> <span class="poll-number" title="0 votes">0%</span> <span class="poll-option-text">The Merriest Misters</span> </label> </li> <li> <label class="poll-option"> <input style="display:none" name="vote-options" type="checkbox" value="0"> <span class="poll-number" title="0 votes">0%</span> <span class="poll-option-text">Within My Reach</span> </label> </li> </ul> <div class="poll-footer"> <span class="vote-total">0 votes</span> — <span class="vote-end">Ended 151d ago</span> <span class="todo">Polls are currently display only</span> </div> </div>

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<p>In October 1843.</p><p>Anna Atkins begins publishing Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, a collection of contact printed cyanotype photograms of algae, "by placing the unmounted dried-algae original directly on the cyanotype paper" to form the first book illustrated with photographs.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Atkins" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Atkins"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Atk</span><span class="invisible">ins</span></a></p><p>New York Public Library provides scans of 285 pages of its copy online:<br><a href="https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/photographs-of-british-algae-cyanotype-impressions#/?tab=navigation&scroll=3" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/photographs-of-british-algae-cyanotype-impressions#/?tab=navigation&scroll=3"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">digitalcollections.nypl.org/co</span><span class="invisible">llections/photographs-of-british-algae-cyanotype-impressions#/?tab=navigation&scroll=3</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/botany/" rel="tag">#botany</a> <a href="/tags/photography/" rel="tag">#photography</a> <a href="/tags/womeninstem/" rel="tag">#womeninSTEM</a></p>

A cyanotype photogram made by Atkins which was part of her 1843 book, Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions

A photogram of Algae, made by Anna Atkins as part of her 1843 book, Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, the first book composed entirely of photographic images. At http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?419608

Cyanotype photogram of Wood Horsetail from the 1853 book Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns by Atkins and Dixon

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<p>🏳️‍🌈 📖 Queer Romance Club DECEMBER selection — The Holly Groweth Green 📖 🏳️‍🌈</p><p>***<br>It’s Christmas 1946. Lost in the Hampshire countryside on a snowy Christmas Eve, ex-military doctor Laurence stumbles across lonely Mistle Cottage and its owner: Avery.</p><p>***</p><p>Another tie-breaker needed. I've picked the m/m one as we've had quite a few f/f through the year. (Feel free to read one of the others on the list instead or as well, or recommend your own favourite holiday reads!)</p><p>This one looks like a short, sweet read to end the year :)</p><p>It's on <a href="/tags/koboplus/" rel="tag">#KoboPlus</a> for those with subscriptions but will be also available wide.</p><p>QRC is open to all, read at your own pace over the month and post about it under the <a href="/tags/queerromanceclub/" rel="tag">#QueerRomanceClub</a> and <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@queerromanceclub" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>queerromanceclub</span></a></span> tags (that's a fedi.groups group, not the dead gup.pe group).</p><p>No rules: let’s hear reactions, theories, reviews, favourite quotes etc, any time throughout the month or whenever you read it. CW for spoilers appreciated.</p><p>More about QRC here:<br><a href="https://mastodon.au/@wendypalmer/113144943004145104" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mastodon.au/@wendypalmer/113144943004145104"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.au/@wendypalmer/11314</span><span class="invisible">4943004145104</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/christmasreads/" rel="tag">#ChristmasReads</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><br><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookclub/" rel="tag">#bookClub</a> <a href="/tags/gayromance/" rel="tag">#GayRomance</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtq/" rel="tag">#lgbtq</a></p>

The title in swirly writing in the centre of a snowy scene of a man in a old-time suit walking across a snow-covered field, snowflakes falling around him. Holly with lots of red berries provides a frame on top and bottom.

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<p>📚 The Bad Weather Friend by: Dean Koontz</p><p>Benny Catspaw's perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée, and his favorite chair. He's not paranoid. Someone is out to get him. He just doesn't know who or why. Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he's never heard of: a gia...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-bad-weather-friend" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-bad-weather-friend"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-bad-we</span><span class="invisible">ather-friend</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/thrillers/" rel="tag">#thrillers</a> <a href="/tags/suspensefiction/" rel="tag">#suspensefiction</a> <a href="/tags/supernatural/" rel="tag">#supernatural</a></p>

Benny Catspaw's perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée, and his favorite chair. He's not paranoid. Someone is out to get him. He just doesn't know who or why. Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he's never heard of: a giant crate and a video message. All will be well in time.

How strange though it's a blessing, his uncle promises. Stranger yet is what's inside the crate. He's a seven-foot-tall self-described "bad weather friend" named Spike whose mission is to help people who are just too good for this world. Spike will take care of it. He'll find Benny's enemies. He'll deal with them. This might be satisfying if Spike wasn't such a menacing presence with terrifying techniques of intimidation.

In the company of Spike and a fascinated young waitress-cum-PI-in-training named Harper, Benny plunges into a perilous high-speed adventure, the likes of which never would have crossed the mind of a decent guy like him.

Benny is so nice they feel compelled to destroy him, but he has a friend who should scare the hell out of them in this breathtaking new kind of thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz.

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<p><a href="https://www.booksns.com/175586/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.booksns.com/175586/</a> Starship Troopers and Operant Conditioning- Would You Like to Know More? <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein is a seminal scifi novel that takes place in the distant future. It's about a young man, Juan (Johnnie) Rico who joins the Army and becomes a proud member of the Mobile Infantry (MI) which is the future version of paratroopers. It is mostly known for four things: Being turned</p>

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<p>Paperback now available: <a href="https://books2read.com/TheNextHorizon" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/TheNextHorizon</a></p><p>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…</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></p>

(Left) The cover of The Next Horizon, by Owen Tyme.

The black silhouette of a man and woman hugging and kissing. The woman has lifted one leg, while the man leans toward her. They stand atop the dark side of a planet or moon in space, which has a slim crescent along the right side. The background in the stars of space, but some have been highlighted with a heat shape that surrounds the kissing couple. Everything is in shades of blue.

(Right) Deep space, displaying the edge of an orange and blue gaseous cloud from a nebula, while most of the stars appear golden in color. Floating in space is a square, red leather book with the image of a newt stamped on the cover. Over the top of everything is the following text:

“You can back down and cooperate, right now, or Marta will hit you so hard, you should reach a tenth the speed of light…”

“No one will ever find you again, but even if someone does, there’s no way they’ll have the capacity to safely slow you down, before you’re gone to them!”

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

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<p>A cat called Good Fortune</p><p>The Cat Who Went to Heaven is among the early Newbery medalists that have aged the best over nearly a century<br> <br>By John Mark Ockerbloom</p><p><a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/14/a-cat-called-good-fortune/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/14/a-cat-called-good-fortune/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everybodyslibraries.com/2025/1</span><span class="invisible">2/14/a-cat-called-good-fortune/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/publicdomaindaycountdown/" rel="tag">#publicDomainDayCountdown</a></p>

Elizabeth Coatsworth & Lynd Ward (illustrator), “The Cat Who Went to Heaven

The 1930 Newbery Medal winner features distinctive artwork depicting a Japanese-inspired scene, characteristic of Ward's celebrated illustration style for this touching tale about a poor artist, his cat, and Buddha.

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

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<p>Arthur Conan Doyle explored men’s mental health through his Sherlock Holmes stories</p><p>Many of Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories examine male characters facing emotional catastrophe, betrayal and moral dilemmas.</p><p>by Emma Linford</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/arthur-conan-doyle-explored-mens-mental-health-through-his-sherlock-holmes-stories-246728?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20November%2026%202025%20-%203594036692&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20November%2026%202025%20-%203594036692+CID_fa1700c951d65f231bfdf9e15bf4362e&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Arthur%20Conan%20Doyle%20explored%20mens%20mental%20health%20through%20his%20Sherlock%20Holmes%20stories" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/arthur-conan-doyle-explored-mens-mental-health-through-his-sherlock-holmes-stories-246728?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20November%2026%202025%20-%203594036692&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20November%2026%202025%20-%203594036692+CID_fa1700c951d65f231bfdf9e15bf4362e&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Arthur%20Conan%20Doyle%20explored%20mens%20mental%20health%20through%20his%20Sherlock%20Holmes%20stories"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/arthur-con</span><span class="invisible">an-doyle-explored-mens-mental-health-through-his-sherlock-holmes-stories-246728?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20November%2026%202025%20-%203594036692&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20November%2026%202025%20-%203594036692+CID_fa1700c951d65f231bfdf9e15bf4362e&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Arthur%20Conan%20Doyle%20explored%20mens%20mental%20health%20through%20his%20Sherlock%20Holmes%20stories</span></a></p><p>Conan Doyle at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/69" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/69"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/69</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Arthur Conan Doyle in 1914

by Walter Benington

Conan Doyle is seen from the chest up, seated and angled slightly to his left while looking directly at the camera.

He wears a dark suit with a high-collared shirt and tie, and his neatly groomed mustache is prominent. His hair is combed back, and the lighting highlights the contours of his face.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle#/media/File:Arthur_Conan_Doyle_by_Walter_Benington,_1914.png

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<p>“No-one in the room but the corpse”</p><p>Charles Williams, a lesser-known Inkling who influenced Lewis, Tolkien, and Eliot, debuted with War in Heaven, a supernatural thriller mixing mystery, Christian themes, and a mystical quest for a powerful artifact.<br> <br>By John Mark Ockerbloom </p><p><a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/11/26/no-one-in-the-room-but-the-corpse/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everybodyslibraries.com/2025/11/26/no-one-in-the-room-but-the-corpse/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everybodyslibraries.com/2025/1</span><span class="invisible">1/26/no-one-in-the-room-but-the-corpse/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/publicdomaindaycountdown/" rel="tag">#publicDomainDayCountdown</a></p>

Charles Walter Stansby Williams

Williams is shown from the chest up, seated and facing slightly to his right while looking toward the camera with a thoughtful expression. He wears round spectacles, a dark suit, and a neatly knotted tie. His hair is combed back, slightly tousled on top.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Williams_(British_writer)#/media/File:Charles_Walter_Stansby_Williams.jpg

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1914.</p><p>Arthur Machen's short story "The Bowmen" is published in The Evening News (London).</p><p>In this story, written and published during World War I, the ghosts of archers from the battle of Agincourt, led by Saint George, come to the aid of British troops. This is cited as the origin of the Angels of Mons legend.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Machen" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Machen"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_M</span><span class="invisible">achen</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_of_Mons" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_of_Mons"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_o</span><span class="invisible">f_Mons</span></a></p><p>The Angels of Mons: The Bowmen and Other Legends of the War at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14044" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14044</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

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<p>One of the World’s Oldest Calculators Was Up for Auction. Then, Scientists Rallied and Temporarily Blocked Its Sale</p><p>French scholars argued that the 17th-century Pascaline should go to a public collection and stay within the country. But a Paris court may take months to make a final decision on the device’s fate</p><p>by Margherita Bassi </p><p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/one-of-the-worlds-oldest-calculators-was-up-for-auction-then-scientists-rallied-and-temporarily-blocked-its-sale-180987748/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/one-of-the-worlds-oldest-calculators-was-up-for-auction-then-scientists-rallied-and-temporarily-blocked-its-sale-180987748/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-n</span><span class="invisible">ews/one-of-the-worlds-oldest-calculators-was-up-for-auction-then-scientists-rallied-and-temporarily-blocked-its-sale-180987748/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550</span></a></p><p>Origin of modern calculating machines by J. A. V. Turck at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69386" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69386</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/calculating_machines/" rel="tag">#calculating_machines</a></p>

Photo of a 'Pascaline', the mechanical calculator invented and manufactured by French scientist Blaise Pascal between 1642 and 1652.

Pascaline made for French currency which once belonged to Louis Perrier, Pascal's nephew. The least significant denominations, sols and deniers, are on the right

The machine is a rectangular brass box with a row of circular dials set into its top surface. Each dial has a central window displaying a numeral and is surrounded by a toothed wheel marked with digits. The wheels increase in size from right to left, reflecting the denomination system: the least significant units—sols and deniers—are on the right, with larger currency units to the left.

Small metal tabs or spoked pointers allow the user to rotate each wheel, triggering the internal gear mechanism that performs addition (and limited subtraction). The front edge of the device shows slots and indicator openings related to the carry mechanism.

From J. A. V. Turck (1921) Origin of Modern Calculating Machines, Western Society of Engineers, Chicago, USA, p.10, fig.1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascaline#/media/File:Pascaline_calculator_front.png

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<p>A Review of Come December: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-come-december/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-come-december/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-co</span><span class="invisible">me-december/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/paranormal/" rel="tag">#Paranormal</a> <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/christmas/" rel="tag">#Christmas</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>

Book cover for Come December by Holly Schindler. Image on cover is a closeup photo of a tree whose branches are covered in snow. The ground, too, is covered in a thick layer of snow. The title is written in a fancy red font which stands out nicely against the black, brown, and white background.

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<p>📚 Black-Owned by: Char Adams</p><p>Longtime NBC News reporter Char Adams writes a deeply compelling and rigorously reported history of Black political movements told through the lens of Black-owned bookstores, which have been centers for organizing from abolition to the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter.</p><p>In Black-Owned, Char Adams cel...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/black-owned" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/black-owned"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/black-owne</span><span class="invisible">d</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/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/entrepreneurshiphistory/" rel="tag">#entrepreneurshiphistory</a> <a href="/tags/socialhistory/" rel="tag">#socialhistory</a></p>

Longtime NBC News reporter Char Adams writes a deeply compelling and rigorously reported history of Black political movements told through the lens of Black-owned bookstores, which have been centers for organizing from abolition to the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter.

In Black-Owned, Char Adams celebrates the living history of Black bookstores. Packed with stories of activism, espionage, violence, community, and perseverance, Black-Owned starts with the first Black-owned bookstore, which an abolitionist opened in New York in 1834, and after the bookshop’s violent demise, Black book-lovers carried on its cause. In the twentieth century, civil rights and Black Power activists started a Black bookstore boom nationwide. Malcolm X gave speeches in front of the National Memorial African Book Store in Harlem—a place dubbed “Speakers’ Corner”—and later, Black bookstores became targets of FBI agents, police, and racist vigilantes. Still, stores continued to fuel Black political movements.

Amid these struggles, bookshops were also places of celebration: Eartha Kitt and Langston Hughes held autograph parties at their local Black-owned bookstores. Maya Angelou became the face of National Black Bookstore Week. And today a new generation of Black activists is joining the radical bookstore tradition, with rapper Noname opening her Radical Hood Library in Los Angeles and several stores making national headlines when they were overwhelmed with demand in the Black

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Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo was disappointing

<p>With the release of the Netflix series adapting Bardugo’s Grishaverse (side note, I kinda hate “verse” terms) to the screen, I had been reading a lot of praise for the world and the written series, in particular the Six of Crows duology. Sure enough, popular review sites seem to back that hype up. It is very well reviewed.</p><p>After trudging my way through the Shadow & Bone trilogy, I thought I would finally get to the payoff: Six of Crows, pretty much universally praised fantasy heist book with a great cast of characters. What’s not to love?</p><p>Well… A lot, I found out. I acknowledge that I’m probably just not the right audience for this, I guess. I know it’s targeted at YA, but the praise is so universal, even my like-aged fantasy reading nerd friends recommended it. But it fell so short of expectations for me.</p><p>Now, I didn’t hate it. I’ve read worse. And there’s definitely things I liked about the book, and Bardugo’s world. But not nearly enough to like as much as everyone else seems to.</p><p>I constantly found it very difficult to believe, even in a world of fantastical magic, that a group of 15 to 18 year olds had the breadth and depth of skills and knowledge the main cast do. And found myself constantly asking in the second half of the book how this palace could possibly be described as impregnable as it had been when the crew seemed to pretty much have the run of the place.</p><p>The timings of the flashbacks were jarring to me, the romances were shallow and unbelievable, and for probably half of the chapters I asked myself, “did we really need to change character POVs for this?”</p><p>I ultimately landed on a 2.75/5 - still above average, but a far cry from the consensus. Ultimately I was disappointed that this was a teen drama with a flimsy heist backdrop rather than a heist with background romance.</p> <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://sh.itjust.works/post/50575405">See Original Page</a> </small>

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<p>A Review of Cosmophobia: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-cosmophobia/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-cosmophobia/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-co</span><span class="invisible">smophobia/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</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>

Book cover for Cosmophobia by George Saoulidis. Image on cover shows a computer-generated drawing of the sort of probe scientists have been sending to places like Jupiter. It’s gold-coloured, oblong shaped, and has two wings that look like they also double as solar panels.

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<p>📚 The Will of the Many by: James Islington</p><p>I tell them my name is Vis Telimus. I tell them I was orphaned after a tragic accident three years ago, and that good fortune alone has led to my acceptance into their most prestigious school. I tell them that once I graduate, I will gladly join the rest of civilized soci...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-will-of-the-many" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-will-of-the-many"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-will-o</span><span class="invisible">f-the-many</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/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/epicfiction/" rel="tag">#epicfiction</a> <a href="/tags/historicalfiction/" rel="tag">#historicalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a></p>

I tell them my name is Vis Telimus. I tell them I was orphaned after a tragic accident three years ago, and that good fortune alone has led to my acceptance into their most prestigious school. I tell them that once I graduate, I will gladly join the rest of civilized society in allowing my strength, my drive, and my focus—what they call Will—to be leeched away and added to the power of those above me, as millions already do. As all must eventually do.

I tell them that I belong, and they believe me.

But the truth is that I have been sent to the Academy to find answers. To solve a murder. To search for an ancient weapon. To uncover secrets that may tear the Republic apart.

And that I will never, ever cede my Will to the empire that executed my family.

To survive though, I will still have to rise through the Academy’s ranks. I will have to smile, and make friends, and pretend to be one of them, and win. Because if I cannot, then those who want to control me, who know my real name, will no longer have any use for me.

And if the Hierarchy finds out who I truly am, they will kill me.

At the elite Catenan Academy, a young fugitive uncovers layered mysteries and world-changing secrets in this “brilliant and gut-churning masterpiece” (Library Journal, starred review) by the internationally bestselling author of The Licanius Trilogy, James Islington.

The Catenan Republic—the Hierarchy—may rule the world now, but they do not know everything.

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