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What is one book that positively shaped who you are as a person and how did it influence you? At what point in your life did you read it?

Fiction, non-fiction, graphic novel, audiobook: however you define "book" for yourself is fine with me.

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#Bookstodon #Books #AskFedi

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What Are Wilkie Collins’ Contributions to Victorian Literature?

Wilkie Collins (1824 -1889) was a significant figure in Victorian Literary circles. He is perhaps best known today for his sensation novel The Woman in White as well as his influential detective novel The Moonstone.

By Lauren Jones

https://www.thecollector.com/wilkie-collins-contribution-to-victorian-literature/

Wilkie Collins at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/98

#books #literature

Carte-de-visite mounted albumen photograph of author Wilkie Collins. Dimensions, including mount: 11 x 7 cm

Adam Cuerden - Digital Commonwealth (Massachusetts) / Boston Public Library

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It occurs to me that I haven't been talking up the audiobooks I've narrated in a while. Other more urgent projects are at the front of the queue at the moment and there are only so many hours in the day.

But! That said, if you ever have questions about the books I've narrated or you'd like a free review copy (I always need reviewers), ask away!

Also, if you're curious about my voice, there are free samples of all the books in their store listings, too.

https://adaraastin.ck.page/87de3a4c9f

@audiofiction @bookstodon

#Audiobook #Audiobooks #Audiofiction #Books #Bookstodon #Romance #Erotica

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21d

I want a million-year picnic to Mars! - The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (Review)

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18th-Century Portuguese Library Has Bats That Protect the Priceless Books Housed Inside

By Eva Baron

https://mymodernmet.com/biblioteca-joanina-bats-pest-control/

The Bat, a poem by D.H. Lawrence at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/60337/pg60337-images.html#BAT

#books #library

Line art drawing of a bat.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bat_%28PSF%29.jpg

This work has been released into the public domain by its author, Pearson Scott Foresman.

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335d

"Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way."

Quote in his Letter (no. 155), June 1880.

~Vincent van Gogh, born #OTD in 1856.

Van Gogh's letters are available online at:
https://vangoghletters.org/

Books by Van Gogh at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Vincent+van+Gogh&submit_search=Search

#books #art #literature

"Van Gogh painted this self-portrait in the winter of 1887–1888, when he had been living in Paris for nearly two years. Since his arrival in the city he had devoted much study to the dotted Pointillist technique, thereby learning how he might apply it in his own fashion. His use of brushstrokes running in a variety of directions created a self-portrait with a halo-like circle round his head. This variation and the dynamics it created were Van Gogh’s own contribution to the new style of painting." (Van Gogh Museum notice)

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21d

"Mastered by desire impulsive,
By a mighty inward urging,
I am ready now for singing,
Ready to begin the chanting
Of our nation’s ancient folk-song..."

An epic border: Finland’s poetic masterpiece, the Kalevala, has roots in 2 cultures and 2 countries

by Thomas A. DuBois

https://theconversation.com/an-epic-border-finlands-poetic-masterpiece-the-kalevala-has-roots-in-2-cultures-and-2-countries-261444

Kalevala at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Kalevala

#books #literature #poetry

Mistress of the North, Louhi attacking Väinämöinen in the form of a giant eagle with her troops on her back. (The Defense of the Sampo, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, 1896), Turku Art Museum.

The scene depicts an episode from the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic, showing the sorceress Louhi (the Mistress of the North) transformed into a giant eagle attacking the hero Väinämöinen and his companions as they flee in a boat with the magical Sampo. Louhi carries her warriors on her back as she swoops down, her enormous wings spread across the green-gold sky. The heroes in the boat below defend themselves with weapons, fighting desperately to protect the Sampo.

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

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21d

RE: https://bookstodon.com/@bjvancheyson/116019986483024264

That leaves a lot of choices, I could be:
A grumpy old wizard,
A naive philosopher
A small town marshal
A couple of angry demi-gods
A constable magic apprentice
A murder suspect
A mentally unstable housewife
The Last Dragon Slayer

I think that's all of them... 😁

#Books #Bookstodon

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21d

The death of the mass market paperback, the people’s books

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20d

Once again I must repeat it—our world is populated by the sleeping, who have died and are dreaming that they are alive. That is why there are more and more people in the world, for it is populated by the sleeping dead who keep growing in number, while the real people living for the first time are few. In all this confusion none of us knows or can possibly know if he is someone who is only dreaming life or really living it. -- from 'House of Day, House of Night' by Olga Tokarczuk, trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones

#BookQuote #books #reading @bookstodon

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#OTD in 1885.

Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published in the US for the 1st time, in New York by Charles L. Webster, illustrated by E. W. Kemble, the 1st impression having been delayed for replacement of an unauthorized obscene alteration to one of the illustrative plates. Its first-person narrative in colloquial language is initially controversial but ultimately influential in the development of realism in American literature.

At PG
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/76

#books #literature

Cover of the book «Adventures of Huckleberry Finn» by Mark Twain, 1884

E. W. Kemble (1861–1933)

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20d

📚 Twelve Months by: Jim Butcher

Harry Dresden has been through a lot, and so has his city. After Harry and his allies narrowly managed to save Chicago from being razed to the ground, everything is different—and it's not just the current lack of electricity.

In the battle, Harry lost people he cared about. And th...

https://bookblabla.com/book/twelve-months

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#books #reading #libraries #fiction #fantasy #urbanfiction #mysterydetective #privateinvestigators

Harry Dresden has been through a lot, and so has his city. After Harry and his allies narrowly managed to save Chicago from being razed to the ground, everything is different—and it's not just the current lack of electricity.

In the battle, Harry lost people he cared about. And that's the kind of loss that takes a toll. Harry being Harry, he's doing his level best to help the city and his friends recover and rebuild. But it's a heavy load, and he needs time.

But time is one thing Harry doesn't have. Ghouls are prowling Chicago and taking out innocent civilians. Harry’s brother is dying, and Harry doesn't know how to help him. And last but certainly not least, the Winter Queen of the Fae has allied with the White Court of vampires—and Harry's been betrothed to the seductive, deadly vampire Lara Raith to seal the deal.

It's been a tough year. More than ever, the city needs Harry Dresden the wizard—but after loss and grief, is there enough left of Harry Dresden the man to rise to the challenge?

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
AN INSTANT USA TODAY AND INDIE BESTSELLER

Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, has always managed to save the day but, in this powerful entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files, can he save himself?

One year. 365 days. Twelve months.

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1y

"The name of the one was Obstinate and the name of the other Pliable."

#OTD in 1678.

The first part of English nonconformist John Bunyan's Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress, partly written while he was imprisoned for unlicensed preaching, is published in London.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pilgrim%27s_Progress

The Pilgrim's Progress at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/131

#books #literature

Title page of Pilgrim's Progress Date: 1678 Author: John Bunyan (1628-1688).

The text on the page includes the full title, which describes the work as an allegory delivered "under the Similitude of a Dream." The book details the journey of a Christian pilgrim from "this world" to "that which is to come," emphasizing spiritual struggles and redemption.

The title page also includes a biblical reference (Hosea 12:10) and publication details, indicating that the book was printed in London for Nathaniel Ponder.

Additionally, there is a handwritten inscription at the top of the page with the name "Joseph Middleton" and the year "1784," likely indicating a former owner of this copy.

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21d

#OTD in 1823 novelist Ann Radcliffe died.

She "was an English novelist who pioneered the Gothic novel, and a minor poet. Her fourth and most popular novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho, was published in 1794.... Her novels combine suspenseful narratives, exotic historical settings, and apparently-supernatural events."

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

Books by Radcliffe at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1147

#books #literature

"Emily discovering a body in Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)." - picyrl.

The drawing shows a woman holding a lantern. She is pulling back a curtain which reveals a dead man lying on a bed.

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23d

Majority Report welcomes #JamieHolmes, author of the #TheFreeAndTheDead, which tells the story of how a free Black American and an #Indigenous warrior resisted the US attack on the #Seminole nation in pre-statehood #Florida

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiuAwww07X8

#SouanaffeTustenukke #Osceola #NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAmericans #Seminoles #BlackSeminoles #SeminoleWars #SecondSeminoleWar #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #UShistory #AmericanHistory #forcedRemovals #colonialViolence #books @bookstodon

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290d

📚 **Are students reading less than we used to?**

David Wignall

_A few months ago, a professor told me that she had cut another book from her course’s assigned reading list. “When I started teaching at Williams,” she said, “I assigned a book per week. No way I could do that now.”_

🔗 https://williamsrecord.com/469974/opinions/are-students-reading-less-than-we-used-to/.

#Reading #Books #Bookstodon #Education #Learning @bookstodon

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337d

I send thanks to the buyer from Maryland who purchased an art print of

Light Reading -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/light-reading-steve-henderson.html?product=art-print

May the image transport you to a perfect day, one in which you immerse yourself in a most wonderful story, a book that you want to read to the end, but at the same time, never shut the covers to permanently close.

#reading #read #book #books #art #artwork #drawing #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #fedigiftshop #ayearforart #woman #home #peaceful #story

Art print of an original charcoal drawing depicting a woman reading a book.

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22d

If you’re looking to make your knowledge of the world more well rounded, the Oxford University Press’ Very Short Introduction series is a great place to start. The books are written by experts, usually 120-160 pages long (3-5 hours in audio) and generally at roughly a first year university subject level. They have books on an astounding range of subjects. I’m trying to read as many of them as possible, I’ve finished 25 so far

https://global.oup.com/academic/content/series/v/very-short-introductions-vsi/

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21d

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #AndrewRoss, author of #TheWeatherReport

'[W]e follow up Andrew’s claim that in #Palestine we find a “grisly future arriving there sooner than elsewhere.” The book focusses on the idea of population and scarcity, and argues that much of the policies that are based on the presumption of scarce resources are actually predicated on what Ross calls “bogus scarcity"...'

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/18536376-a-conversation-with-andrew-ross-the-weather-report-a-journey-through-unsettled-climates
#ecocide #WestBank #climate #climateJustice #books @bookstodon

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21d

Gen Z Arriving at College Unable to Read

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📚 Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by: Stephen King

Red's a guy who can get you whatever you want here in Maine's corrupt and hard-edged Shawshank State Penitentiary (for a price, of course), but the one thing he doesn't count on is an unexpected friendship forged with fellow inmate Andy Dufr...

https://bookblabla.com/book/rita-hayworth-and-shawshank-redemption

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#books #reading #libraries #fiction #horrorfiction #thrillers #suspensefiction #mediatiein

Red's a guy who can get you whatever you want here in Maine's corrupt and hard-edged Shawshank State Penitentiary (for a price, of course), but the one thing he doesn't count on is an unexpected friendship forged with fellow inmate Andy Dufresne—an inscrutable one-time banker perhaps falsely convicted of brutal, calculated murder who will go on to transform everyone’s lives within these prison walls.

Originally published in the 1982 collection Different Seasons, it was adapted into the 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. Nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, this modern classic has become one of the most beloved films of all time. A mesmerizing work of unjust imprisonment and strangely satisfying revenge, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption remains one of Stephen King’s most beloved and iconic stories.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King's beloved novella, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption—the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award–nominee The Shawshank Redemption—about an unjustly imprisoned convict who seeks a strangely satisfying revenge, is available as a standalone book.

Suspenseful, mysterious, and heart-wrenching, Stephen King's extraordinary novella, populated by a cast of unforgettable characters, tells a powerful tale of crushing despair and liberating hope through the eyes of Ellis Red Redding.

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21d

The Hidden Women’s Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpieces Takahe has limited support for this type: See Original Page

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This week's #NewBooks at the library: I bought second-hand copies of Animal Anomalies: What Abnormal Anatomies Reveal about Normal Development and The Correspondence of #CharlesDarwin, Volume 14: 1866, both from Cambridge University Press. I also adopted a damaged copy of the large-format English/German Elefantenreich: Eine Fossilwelt in Europa from Verlag Beier & Beran, which features some amazing fold-out plates. I hear it is basically out of print now.

#Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #Evolution #DevelopmentalBiology #EvoDevo #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Fossils #Mammoths #Paleontology #Palaeontology @bookstodon

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

On the left, Animal Anomalies, showing a prepared specimen of a frog. The body has been soaked in chemicals that make the flesh translucent and have stained the skeleton red and yellow. This particular frog has a mutation, resulting in its right hind leg splitting into two legs.

In the middle, Elefantenreich, showing a colour illustration of a mammoth in a parched yellow grassland with a herd of mammoths in the background. The individual in the foreground is facing the viewer, dramatically throwing its trunk back over its forehead, and has its mouth open.

On the right, The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 14: 1866, showing a hardback with a moss-green dust jacket with black and white lettering.

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Joseph Conrad’s Travel Stories Weren’t Black and White

Conrad’s celebration of imperial exploration is accompanied by an acknowledgment that such feats often go hand-in-hand with oppression and exploitation.

By: H.M.A. Leow

https://daily.jstor.org/joseph-conrads-travel-stories-werent-black-and-white/

#books #literature

Caricature of Joseph Conrad by David Low in Lions and Lambs, 1928.

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📚 The City and Its Uncertain Walls by: Haruki Murakami

Truth is not found in fixed stillness, but in ceaseless change/movement. Isn't this the quintessential core of what stories are all about? Haruki Murakami, from the afterword to The City and Its Uncertain Walls

The long-awaited new novel from Haruki Murakami, his ...

https://bookblabla.com/book/the-city-and-its-uncertain-walls

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#books #reading #libraries #fiction #literaryfiction #fantasy #contemporary