<p>Speculative Fiction: Beyond a Novel’s Entertainment Value</p><p>The classroom is a place to equip students to better understand the world as it was and is. Speculative fiction can help.</p><p>By: Camille Tinnin</p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/speculative-fiction-beyond-a-novels-entertainment-value/?utm_source=mcae&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jstordaily-09112025" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/speculative-fiction-beyond-a-novels-entertainment-value/?utm_source=mcae&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jstordaily-09112025"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/speculative-fi</span><span class="invisible">ction-beyond-a-novels-entertainment-value/?utm_source=mcae&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jstordaily-09112025</span></a></p><p>Speculative fiction at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/3772" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/3772"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">ct/3772</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
books
Uncover How Your Employer’s Power Flows
<small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None">
Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://slrpnk.net/post/26826275">See Original Page</a>
</small>
<p>How Libraries Stand the Test of Time</p><p>The digital era builds upon millennia of librarianship as humans strive to preserve our cultural heritage.</p><p>By: Maria Papadouris </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/how-libraries-stand-the-test-of-time/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01K38VBY17C01MM7PB4EYV7J51&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/how-libraries-stand-the-test-of-time/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01K38VBY17C01MM7PB4EYV7J51&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/how-libraries-</span><span class="invisible">stand-the-test-of-time/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01K38VBY17C01MM7PB4EYV7J51&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER</span></a></p><p>Libraries at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/10467" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/10467"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">ct/10467</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a></p>
Uncover How Your Employer’s Power Flows
<small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None">
Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.world/post/35233685">See Original Page</a>
</small>
<p>started listening <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&q=https://reviewdb.app/podcast/episode/2MNqwf5VoK24qDkVMUObEb" rel="nofollow">- Pride and Prejudice Audiobook (Part 1) - Down To Sleep #122</a><br>by Jane Austen. 4.5 stars.</p><p>Long-time viewer (BBC only, thank you), but first-time reader (well, listener), and it did not disappoint. If anything the Bennetts are even nuttier. Love Lizzie's snark, and the frission with D'Arcy is frustratingly delectable. Really doesn't work as a <a href="/tags/sleepstory/" rel="tag">#SleepStory</a> though!</p><p><a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodo/" rel="tag">#Bookstodo</a> <a href="/tags/audiobook/" rel="tag">#AudioBook</a> <a href="/tags/romance/" rel="tag">#Romance</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://aus.social/@wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>WildWoila</span></a></span> @wildwoila@wyrms.de</p><p></p>
What books shaped you in high school? Here's what you said
<small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None">
Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.world/post/35256228">See Original Page</a>
</small>
<p>A while ago, I had the pleasure and privilege of reading One Night Only, a Doctor Who novella featuring Fela Kuti, written by Tade Thompson. </p><p>You can now read my spoiler-free review over on the blog. </p><p><a href="https://www.julietemckenna.com/one-night-only-a-doctor-who-novella-from-tade-thompson/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.julietemckenna.com/one-night-only-a-doctor-who-novella-from-tade-thompson/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.julietemckenna.com/one-nig</span><span class="invisible">ht-only-a-doctor-who-novella-from-tade-thompson/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/sf/" rel="tag">#SF</a> <a href="/tags/doctorwho/" rel="tag">#DoctorWho</a></p>
<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/TymeDarkMoon" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/TymeDarkMoon</a></p><p>On a world long thought to have no moon, its sudden appearance inspires wonder and terror. Hasty research links the full moon and catastrophe, revealing the existence of the so-called ‘Harbingers of Doom’, creatures from the moon 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></p>
<p>How Close Did We Come to Losing Beowulf Forever?</p><p>Robert Bartlett on a Vital Work of the Western Canon That Barely Survived Multiple Disasters</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/how-close-did-we-come-to-losing-beowulf-forever/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01K79M748M3MD2TD26V5CEP1Y5&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/how-close-did-we-come-to-losing-beowulf-forever/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01K79M748M3MD2TD26V5CEP1Y5&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/how-close-did-we-co</span><span class="invisible">me-to-losing-beowulf-forever/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01K79M748M3MD2TD26V5CEP1Y5&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER</span></a></p><p>Beowulf at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=Beowulf" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=Beowulf"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">cts/search/?query=Beowulf</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/old_manuscripts/" rel="tag">#old_manuscripts</a></p>
<p>The Nation’s First Black Female Doctor Blazed a Path for Women in Medicine. But She Was Left Out of the Story for Decades</p><p>After earning a medical degree in 1864, Rebecca Lee Crumpler died in obscurity and was buried without a headstone</p><p>By Ella Jeffries</p><p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-nations-first-black-female-doctor-blazed-a-path-for-women-in-medicine-but-she-was-left-out-of-the-story-for-decades-180986328/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-nations-first-black-female-doctor-blazed-a-path-for-women-in-medicine-but-she-was-left-out-of-the-story-for-decades-180986328/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smithsonianmag.com/history</span><span class="invisible">/the-nations-first-black-female-doctor-blazed-a-path-for-women-in-medicine-but-she-was-left-out-of-the-story-for-decades-180986328/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550</span></a></p><p>Rebecca Lee Crumpler at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Rebecca+Lee+Crumpler&submit_search=Search" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Rebecca+Lee+Crumpler&submit_search=Search"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=Rebecca+Lee+Crumpler&submit_search=Search</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#medicine</a> <a href="/tags/womeninscience/" rel="tag">#womeninscience</a></p>
<p>How Ancient Receipts Ushered in the Dawn of the Written Word</p><p>Moudhy Al-Rashid on the Earliest Forms of Writing</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/how-ancient-receipts-ushered-in-the-dawn-of-the-written-word/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01K3ZYGG3XWVBD76518FBBFB0S&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/how-ancient-receipts-ushered-in-the-dawn-of-the-written-word/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01K3ZYGG3XWVBD76518FBBFB0S&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/how-ancient-receipt</span><span class="invisible">s-ushered-in-the-dawn-of-the-written-word/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01K3ZYGG3XWVBD76518FBBFB0S&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>
<p>Aye Write 2025<br>6–16 November, Glasgow</p><p>Tickets are now on sale for Aye Write, which celebrates its twentieth anniversary this year with a packed programme featuring 180 writers from Scotland & around the world</p><p><a href="https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/whats-on/aye-write" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.glasgowlife.org.uk/whats-on/aye-write"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.glasgowlife.org.uk/whats-o</span><span class="invisible">n/aye-write</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookfestival/" rel="tag">#bookfestival</a> <a href="/tags/glasgow/" rel="tag">#Glasgow</a> <a href="/tags/ayewrite/" rel="tag">#AyeWrite</a></p>
<p>That's our Emily! Cheerful as always. </p><p><a href="/tags/amreading/" rel="tag">#AmReading</a> <a href="/tags/amwriting/" rel="tag">#AmWriting</a> @bookstodon <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <br><a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="/tags/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#ReadingCommunity</a> <a href="/tags/emilybronte/" rel="tag">#EmilyBronte</a> <a href="/tags/victorian/" rel="tag">#Victorian</a> @romancelandia</p>
<p>Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie Humaine is a Hindu mandala</p><p>Balzac’s realism is not merely descriptive but architectural: a literary mandala of modern society</p><p>By Harsh Trivedi</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/honore-de-balzacs-la-comedie-humaine-is-a-hindu-mandala-262151?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20August%2030%202025%20-%203501835679&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20August%2030%202025%20-%203501835679+CID_60b46bbc765e5b5e7094f351d239b461&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Honor%20de%20Balzacs%20La%20Comdie%20Humaine%20is%20a%20Hindu%20mandala" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/honore-de-balzacs-la-comedie-humaine-is-a-hindu-mandala-262151?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20August%2030%202025%20-%203501835679&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20August%2030%202025%20-%203501835679+CID_60b46bbc765e5b5e7094f351d239b461&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Honor%20de%20Balzacs%20La%20Comdie%20Humaine%20is%20a%20Hindu%20mandala"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/honore-de-</span><span class="invisible">balzacs-la-comedie-humaine-is-a-hindu-mandala-262151?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20August%2030%202025%20-%203501835679&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20August%2030%202025%20-%203501835679+CID_60b46bbc765e5b5e7094f351d239b461&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Honor%20de%20Balzacs%20La%20Comdie%20Humaine%20is%20a%20Hindu%20mandala</span></a></p><p>La Comédie Humaine at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=La+Com%C3%A9die+humaine" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=La+Com%C3%A9die+humaine"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=La+Com%C3%A9die+humaine</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
Which is the best Police Book you ever read ?
<small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None">
Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://startrek.website/post/28583996">See Original Page</a>
</small>
Be Gay, Do Crime in Publishers Weekly
<small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None">
Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://slrpnk.net/post/26907642">See Original Page</a>
</small>
Be Gay, Do Crime in Publishers Weekly
<small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None">
Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.world/post/35311172">See Original Page</a>
</small>
<p>📚 <img src="https://eggplant.place/media/emoji/qoto.org/youtube.png" class="emoji" alt=":youtube:" title=":youtube:"> **find a book you actually like in under 3 minutes**</p><p><a href="/tags/video/" rel="tag">#Video</a> length: two minutes and forty-nine seconds. </p><p>🔗 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjickmuG0vU" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjickmuG0vU"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjickm</span><span class="invisible">uG0vU</span></a>. </p><p><a href="/tags/advice/" rel="tag">#Advice</a> <a href="/tags/tips/" rel="tag">#Tips</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> @bookstodon</p>
<p>A little reminder that the paperback editions of all eight books set along The Nod/Wells Timelines are available via Bookshop(dot)org. That means just about any book store can order and benefit from their sale!</p><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/lists/the-nod-wells-timelines" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookshop.org/lists/the-nod-wells-timelines"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookshop.org/lists/the-nod-wel</span><span class="invisible">ls-timelines</span></a></p><p>@bookstodon @specfic @scifi @horrorbooks </p><p><a href="/tags/specfic/" rel="tag">#specfic</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/horror/" rel="tag">#horror</a> <a href="/tags/thriller/" rel="tag">#thriller</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookshop/" rel="tag">#bookshop</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/booktodon/" rel="tag">#booktodon</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/amazonalternative/" rel="tag">#amazonalternative</a></p>
<p>“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”</p><p>- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>
<p>The First Angsty Telepath: George Eliot’s “The Lifted Veil”</p><p>The double-whammy curse of clairvoyance and telepathy may be too much for a sensitive Victorian soul...</p><p>By Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth</p><p><a href="https://reactormag.com/the-first-angsty-telepath-george-eliots-the-lifted-veil/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01K3RBABKENS84DQBASVYSTQ3G&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="reactormag.com/the-first-angsty-telepath-george-eliots-the-lifted-veil/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01K3RBABKENS84DQBASVYSTQ3G&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">reactormag.com/the-first-angst</span><span class="invisible">y-telepath-george-eliots-the-lifted-veil/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01K3RBABKENS84DQBASVYSTQ3G&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER</span></a></p><p>The Lifted Veil at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2165" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2165</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>American artist, author, translator, and illustrator Wanda Gág was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1893.</p><p>"Millions of Cats" (1928), tells the story of an old man and an old woman who decide to get a cat. The book's unique illustrations, which Gág created using lithographic crayon, made it a classic of children's literature. Gág wrote and illustrated several other children's books, including "The Funny Thing" and "Snippy and Snappy."</p><p>"Millions of cats" will be available at PG pretty soon.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>I mean, would it kill you to let Cathy tell you about her ferrets?</p><p><a href="/tags/library/" rel="tag">#library</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a> <a href="/tags/reader/" rel="tag">#reader</a> <a href="/tags/readers/" rel="tag">#readers</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="/tags/ferrets/" rel="tag">#ferrets</a> <a href="/tags/humor/" rel="tag">#humor</a> <a href="/tags/humour/" rel="tag">#humour</a></p>