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<p>50% off @ <a href="/tags/smashwords/" rel="tag">#Smashwords</a>: <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1657116" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smashwords.com/books/view/1657116"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smashwords.com/books/view/</span><span class="invisible">1657116</span></a></p><p>After experiencing the death of his wife and child, destruction of his home world, an addiction forced on him by the one responsible and a third of the galaxy falling under the heel of that tyrant, Levi Jacobs, a wizard, seeks to unravel the secrets of time and fate.</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 The Inverted Glass, by Owen Tyme.

The Background is a pink and purple nebula in space.

The foreground is largely line art, in white, with a black shadow outline.

At the center is an hourglass. The bottom has black sand, with a white figure standing in it. The top has is an inverted mirror image of the bottom, with a black figure in white sand.

The hourglass serves as the balance point for a set of scales, which hold a heart and a feather. The heart is on the left and the feather on the right. The heart is lower than the feather.

(Right) Lying in blue sand is a heart made of the same sand, full of cracks. It glows from the inside in a warm, yellow color. Over that is the following quote:

Nicole felt an extreme kind of loss, realizing she’d been stolen away from the afterlife, just before finding out if she deserved punishment or not!

“How dare you do this to me? Why?”

“I’m always in need of strong spirits and I’ve seen none stronger. You have unique talents I refuse to see go to waste.”

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

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[question] Searching for a book where a group of friends hunts people (thriller)

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<p>Leave the Internet Archive alone!</p><p>Except for book publishers, the Internet Archive has done no one any harm. But that hasn't stopped hackers from beating up on the site over and over again.</p><p><a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3593110/leave-the-internet-archive-alone.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.computerworld.com/article/3593110/leave-the-internet-archive-alone.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.computerworld.com/article/</span><span class="invisible">3593110/leave-the-internet-archive-alone.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/digitallibrary/" rel="tag">#digitallibrary</a></p>

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<p>"[...] people always live for ever when there is any annuity to be paid them."</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1811.</p><p>Jane Austen publishes her first novel: Sense and Sensibility at her own expense in 3 volumes, priced at 15 s., in Thomas Egerton's Military Library.</p><p><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/161" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/161</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>In November 1868.</p><p>Robert Browning's narrative poem The Ring and the Book begins four-part publication by Smith, Elder & Co. in London. It is a major commercial and critical success.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50954" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50954</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>

This is the cover of The Ring and the Book, circa 1868.

2 ⁄ 7 More details First page of Robert Browning's manuscript of The Ring and the Book (1868)

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<p>O come, let all 4,850 of us adore him</p><p>In 1925 the Associated Glee Clubs of America put on a concert like no other. 15 choral groups, with over 850 singers in all, came together in New York's Metropolitan Opera House to sing a program broadcast on radio across America.<br> <br>By John Mark Ockerbloom</p><p><a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/25/o-come-let-all-4850-of-us-adore-him/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/25/o-come-let-all-4850-of-us-adore-him/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everybodyslibraries.com/2025/1</span><span class="invisible">2/25/o-come-let-all-4850-of-us-adore-him/</span></a></p><p>About Adeste Fideles:<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Come,_All_Ye_Faithful" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Come,_All_Ye_Faithful"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Come,_</span><span class="invisible">All_Ye_Faithful</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a></p>

The earliest surviving manuscript of Adeste fideles, without attribution, attributed to John Francis Wade, dated to the 1740s.

It depicts a page from an aged music manuscript, displaying hand-copied musical notation on a staff system. The paper has a cream or beige tone characteristic of 18th-century documents, with some visible aging and wear.

The manuscript uses square notation on a four-line staff system, typical of plainchant and early sacred music notation. Black square and diamond-shaped notes are positioned on the lines and spaces, with various time values indicated by the note shapes. The music is written in what appears to be sections or verses, with multiple staves running down the page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Come,_All_Ye_Faithful#/media/File:Adeste,_fideles_(earliest_version).jpg

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<p>Archimedes Manuscript Yields Secrets under X-ray Gaze</p><p>For five days in May, the ancient collided with the ultra-modern at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), bringing brilliant, long-hidden ideas to light with brilliant X-ray light.</p><p>By Heather Rock Woods (from the archives)</p><p><a href="https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2005-06-16-archimedes-manuscript-yields-secrets-under-x-ray-gaze" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2005-06-16-archimedes-manuscript-yields-secrets-under-x-ray-gaze"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/20</span><span class="invisible">05-06-16-archimedes-manuscript-yields-secrets-under-x-ray-gaze</span></a></p><p>Archimedes at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=archimedes" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=archimedes"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=archimedes</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/xray_imaging/" rel="tag">#xray_imaging</a></p>

One page of Archimedes Palimpsest, On Floating Bodies.

It despicts an opened ancient manuscript with two facing pages. The parchment is heavily aged, displaying a mottled yellowish-brown, golden-tan coloration with significant staining, discoloration, and deterioration throughout. The edges are darkened and worn, indicating centuries of age and handling.

This is a palimpsest, meaning the parchment was recycled—the original text was partially scraped off and written over with new content. You can see layers of text at different angles and in different states of visibility, which is characteristic of such manuscripts. The underlying Archimedes text runs in one direction, while later overwritten religious texts (Byzantine prayer book) run perpendicular to it.

The pages contain dense columns of Greek text written in dark brown or black ink. On the left page, there are visible geometric diagrams—line drawings showing mathematical figures and proofs typical of Archimedes' work on geometry and physics. These diagrams include straight lines, angles, and geometric constructions that would have accompanied his mathematical reasoning about floating bodies and buoyancy.

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

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<p>Book Review: Making History by K. J. Parker<br>Another novella set in Parker's mainline secondary universe, about a group of academics tasked with a seemingly impossible task by a tyrant. <br>@princejvstin.com has our Boxing Day review<br><a href="http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/book-review-making-history-by-k-j-parker.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/book-review-making-history-by-k-j-parker.html"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/</span><span class="invisible">book-review-making-history-by-k-j-parker.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#review</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> @bookstodon</p>

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<p>A Review of A Happy Christmas Ceilidh: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/a-happy-christmas-ceilidh-by-zoe-tasia/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/a-happy-christmas-ceilidh-by-zoe-tasia/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/a-happy-christ</span><span class="invisible">mas-ceilidh-by-zoe-tasia/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</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 A Happy Christmas Ceilidh by Zoe Tasia. Image on cover is a drawing of a snowperson that’s doing a handstand outside in the snow beside some fir trees. Its stick arms are leaning down to touch the snow and its scarf is falling down onto the snow.

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<p>50% off @ <a href="/tags/smashwords/" rel="tag">#Smashwords</a>: <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1604529" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smashwords.com/books/view/1604529"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smashwords.com/books/view/</span><span class="invisible">1604529</span></a></p><p>On a world long thought to have no moon, its sudden appearance inspires wonder and terror. Hasty research links it to catastrophe and the so-called ‘Harbingers of Doom’, creatures that harvest souls. Can everyone survive or will they become part of the dark harvest?</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 dark moon, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

In the foreground, a redheaded witch and a dark haired wizard fight back to back, holding some rather large pistols. The witch is in a black dress and the wizard is in a black robe with golden decorations. Both looked a bit purple, due to the lighting. The witch's hair blows on the wind and she wears a necklace of bone beads.

Behind them, there's dust, mist and fog lit by twilight as a moon rises, framing their heads. Objects that look like shooting stars fall from the moon and there's a few visible impacts.

(Right) A white moon, on a background of the stars of space, with the following quote over the top of it:

“Idiot! You’ve likely killed us both, leaving us stuck out in the open like this.”

“We’ve got incoming. I know you’re angry and I suppose you’ve got every right to be, but we need to defend ourselves.”

“ ‘The enemy of my enemy is my friend’, for now, and then we decide what to do about the conflict between us.”

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

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Kafka Inc.

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<p>How Colette Was Inspired By Her Many Cats</p><p>Susannah Fullerton on the French Writer’s Feline Muses</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/how-colette-was-inspired-by-her-many-cats/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/how-colette-was-inspired-by-her-many-cats/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/how-colette-was-ins</span><span class="invisible">pired-by-her-many-cats/</span></a></p><p>Books by Colette at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2065" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2065"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/2065</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/animals/" rel="tag">#animals</a></p>

Photograph of Colette

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1938.</p><p>Orson Welles broadcasts a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing a massive panic in some of the audience in the United States.</p><p>The War of the Worlds at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/36" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/36</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Photo of Orson Welles meeting with reporters in an effort to explain that no one connected with the War of the Worlds radio broadcast had any idea the show would cause panic.

Cover page of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. Martians discharging Heat-Rays in the Thames Valley. Illustration by Henrique Alvim Corrêa.

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<p>Becoming Beatrice</p><p>Dante adored her so much that he cast her as his guide in the Divine Comedy. But who was Beatrice Portinari?</p><p>By: Emily Zarevich </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/becoming-beatrice/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/becoming-beatrice/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/becoming-beatr</span><span class="invisible">ice/</span></a></p><p>Divine Comedy at PG<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1004" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1004</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>Ebook omnibus 25% off: <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1733647" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smashwords.com/books/view/1733647"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smashwords.com/books/view/</span><span class="invisible">1733647</span></a></p><p>Levi Jacobs always dreamed of being like his father, the greatest wizard in the world, but had no understanding what it would be like. Follow Levi’s journey from bumbling teen to a great hero, while the young wizard learns to master magical powers that are initially completely beyond him and barely under control.</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>

The ad flyer for the series The Wizard's Scion.

(Background) View of a planet from space.

(Top Center) A black flying saucer surrounded by this text:
Trolls, boogeymen and witches, oh my!
Just another day for a young wizard.

(Top Left) The cover of Troll Song displays a woman in battered, muddy armor with her two swords crossed against the neck of a dwarf.

(Lower Left) The cover of Forgotten Legends displays a child reading in bed as a black, smoky monster with red eyes peeks out from under the bed.

(Lower Center Left) The cover of The Third Wish displays a wizard on top of a mountain, looking to the sunset, over a city of sky scrapers that have plants growing on them. In his shadow is the red eyed creature from Forgotten Legends.

(Lower Center Right) The cover of Dark Moon displays a witch and wizard fighting back to back, holding pistols, while objects fall around them, with the moon behind their heads.

(Lower Right) The cover of The Inverted Glass displays a line art hourglass with a white figure in black sand at the bottom, with a black figure in white sand upside-down in the top. Balanced on a scale are a heart and a feather.

(Upper Right) The cover of The Wizard's Scion: The Complete Series displays several figures in silhouette representing the main characters, as they traverse a wormhole. Behind them is a red-eyed octopus.

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<p>All language is weird, but I sometimes wonder if English isn't the weirdest 🤔 </p><p>Also, does that technically make liguistics a Weird Science 😁 </p><p>P.S Never spell how it sounds 😜 </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@linguistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>linguistics</span></a></span> <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> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@writingcommunity" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>writingcommunity</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@writingbooks" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>writingbooks</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@joinin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>joinin</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/linguisticmemes/" rel="tag">#LinguisticMemes</a> <a href="/tags/meme/" rel="tag">#Meme</a> <a href="/tags/memes/" rel="tag">#Memes</a> <a href="/tags/linguistics/" rel="tag">#Linguistics</a> <br><a href="/tags/language/" rel="tag">#Language</a> <a href="/tags/words/" rel="tag">#Words</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> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a></p>

A handwritten note on a marble countertop.

"How do you console an English teacher?"
"There, their, they're..."

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Inheritance of Magic – Plans for 2026 | Benedict Jacka

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<p>In November 1848.</p><p>William Makepeace Thackeray's novel The History of Pendennis begins its serial publication. The publication was paused for 3 months following the author’s illness after the September 1849 part.</p><p>The History of Pendennis at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/7265" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/7265</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

First edition title-page with an illustration drawn by Thackeray himself (1850)

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<p>📚 The Mercy of Gods by: James S. A. Corey</p><p>How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is about to end.<br>The Carryx - part empire, part hive - have waged wars of conquest for centuries, destroying or enslaving species across the galaxy. Now, they are facing a great and deathless enemy. The ke...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-mercy-of-gods" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-mercy-of-gods"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-mercy-</span><span class="invisible">of-gods</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/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/spaceexploration/" rel="tag">#spaceexploration</a></p>

How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is about to end.
The Carryx - part empire, part hive - have waged wars of conquest for centuries, destroying or enslaving species across the galaxy. Now, they are facing a great and deathless enemy. The key to their survival may rest with the humans of Anjiin.

Caught up in academic intrigue and affairs of the heart, Dafyd Alkhor is pleased just to be an assistant to a brilliant scientist and his celebrated research team. Then the Carryx ships descend, decimating the human population and taking the best and brightest of Anjiin society away to serve on the Carryx homeworld, and Dafyd is swept along with them.

They are dropped in the middle of a struggle they barely understand, set in a competition against the other captive species with extinction as the price of failure. Only Dafyd and a handful of his companions see past the Darwinian contest to the deeper game that they must play to survive: learning to understand - and manipulate - the Carryx themselves.

With a noble but suicidal human rebellion on one hand and strange and murderous enemies on the other, the team pays a terrible price to become the trusted servants of their new rulers.

Dafyd Alkhor is a simple man swept up in events that are beyond his control and more vast than his imagination. He will become the champion of humanity and its betrayer, the most hated man in history and the guardian of his people.

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<p>New <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> on my <a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#blog</a>: "Alchemy and Mysticism: the Hermetic Museum." <br><a href="https://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/12/book-review-alchemy-and-mysticism.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/12/book-review-alchemy-and-mysticism.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.co</span><span class="invisible">m/2025/12/book-review-alchemy-and-mysticism.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/itinerantlibrarian/" rel="tag">#ItinerantLibrarian</a> <a href="/tags/reviews/" rel="tag">#reviews</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/hermeticism/" rel="tag">#hermeticism</a> <a href="/tags/mysticism/" rel="tag">#mysticism</a> <a href="/tags/occult/" rel="tag">#occult</a> <a href="/tags/esoterica/" rel="tag">#esoterica</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <br>💙📚</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>

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<p>“To Eat This Big Universe as Her Oyster”</p><p>Margaret Fuller and the First Major Work of American Feminism</p><p>By Randall Fuller via <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>publicdomainrev</span></a></span><br><a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/margaret-fuller-and-the-first-major-work-of-american-feminism/?utm_source=newsletter" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="publicdomainreview.org/essay/margaret-fuller-and-the-first-major-work-of-american-feminism/?utm_source=newsletter"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">publicdomainreview.org/essay/m</span><span class="invisible">argaret-fuller-and-the-first-major-work-of-american-feminism/?utm_source=newsletter</span></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>In the public domain soon, in libraries now</p><p>The Penn Libraries, where I work, has first editions of many of the works featured in my <a href="/tags/publicdomaindaycountdown/" rel="tag">#PublicDomainDayCountdown</a> . From today through Public Domain Day, the Libraries social media will feature photos of some distinctive books from 1930.<br> <br>By John Mark Ockerbloom</p><p><a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/26/in-the-public-domain-soon-in-libraries-now/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/26/in-the-public-domain-soon-in-libraries-now/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everybodyslibraries.com/2025/1</span><span class="invisible">2/26/in-the-public-domain-soon-in-libraries-now/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/publicdomaindaycountdown/" rel="tag">#publicDomainDayCountdown</a></p>

Artistic Rendering of the Library of Alexandria, based on some archaeological evidence.

The scene shows a grand interior space with impressive classical Egyptian-influenced architecture. A massive column dominates the center of the composition, featuring what appears to be a Hathor capital (a column top with the face of the goddess Hathor), characteristic of ancient Egyptian temple architecture.

Several figures dressed in classical robes and togas are shown engaged in scholarly activities:

In the foreground left, two or three figures are seated around a table, appearing to read or discuss texts together;

In the center-right, a standing figure in robes appears to be studying or reading while standing near shelving;

Another figure is seated on steps or a platform in the middle distance;

A figure in the lower right foreground is bent over, possibly organizing or retrieving materials from lower storage

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

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1850.</p><p>Charles Dickens's novel David Copperfield concludes serial publication and on November 14 appears complete in book form from Bradbury and Evans in London.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/766" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/766</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Cover of serial, "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens

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<p>The 29 Best (Old) Books We Read in 2025</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/the-29-best-old-books-we-read-in-2025/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/the-29-best-old-books-we-read-in-2025/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/the-29-best-old-boo</span><span class="invisible">ks-we-read-in-2025/</span></a></p><p>"Wuthering Heights" at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Wuthering+Heights" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Wuthering+Heights"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=Wuthering+Heights</span></a></p><p>"The Country of the Pointed Firs" at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=The+country+of+the+pointed+firs" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=The+country+of+the+pointed+firs"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=The+country+of+the+pointed+firs</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

A stack of books.

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<p>This week's <a href="/tags/newbooks/" rel="tag">#NewBooks</a> at the library (the last one for 2025!): Three second-hand copies of Atlas of the Galilean Satellites from Cambridge University Press; the absolutely massive Fire and Mud: Eruptions and Lahars of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines from the University of Washington Press; and <a href="/tags/charlesdarwin/" rel="tag">#CharlesDarwin</a>, Geologist from Cornell University Press which I might well review sometime soon in the new year in light of an upcoming Darwin biography...</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/scicomm/" rel="tag">#Scicomm</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#Astronomy</a> <a href="/tags/cosmology/" rel="tag">#Cosmology</a> <a href="/tags/volcanoes/" rel="tag">#Volcanoes</a> <a href="/tags/volcanology/" rel="tag">#Volcanology</a> <a href="/tags/geology/" rel="tag">#Geology</a> <a href="/tags/earthsciences/" rel="tag">#EarthSciences</a> <a href="/tags/historyofscience/" rel="tag">#HistoryOfScience</a> <a href="/tags/sciencehistory/" rel="tag">#ScienceHistory</a> <a href="/tags/histsci/" rel="tag">#HistSci</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>

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, standing up, Atlas of the Galilean Satellites, showing a composite photo of four of Jupiter's large moons shown in crescent view, arranged left to right from small to large: Callisto, Ganymede, Europa, and Io, showing a tiny sulfur dioxide-rich volcanic plume in deep purple erupting from its surface.

In the middle, lying down, Fire and Mud, a very thick hardback book, showing a colour photo of an agricultural field with in the foreground the tiny figures of an ox pulling a plough, followed by a human holding the reins. The background shows various white-roofed buildings against a background of hills. The top 80% of the photo shows the sky in which an enormous eruption cloud blossoms skywards. The dust jacket explains this is an early pre-climactic eruption at 0851h, June 12, 1991. In the middle, towards the bottom, is an inset colour photo showing a house surrounded by felled trees, all covered in a thick layer of volcanic ash.

On the right, standing up, Charles Darwin, Geologist, showing a period black-and-white photo of a seated, middle-aged, balding Charles Darwin circa 1855, wearing a waistcoat. The bottom third of the photo shows a fold-out colour plate with three colourful cross-sections through the Cordilleras of the South American Andes mountains. The writing is too small to read.

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