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<p>My <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#bookreview</a> is brief/won't spoil, to spread good, great, and spectacular <a href="/tags/horror/" rel="tag">#horror</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> far and wide.</p><p>The family trauma that pervades THE DAY OF THE DOOR is horrifying, but coupled w the intensely creepy events that occur, this story encapsulates HORROR in a masterful, terrifying way. Laurel Hightower has written a beautiful, dark story about the Things that haunt our hearts. (Thunderstorm Bks & Ghoulish Pub)</p><p><a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#review</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a><br><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/mothersuspiriareview/" rel="tag">#mothersuspiriareview</a> <a href="/tags/msreview/" rel="tag">#MSReview</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://toot.community/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon@toot.community</span></a></span></p>

Hardcover of THE DAY OF THE DOOR by Laurel Hightower

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<p>Black History Month: What is it and why is it important?</p><p>Black History Month is an opportunity to understand Black histories.</p><p>By Alem Tedeneke (from the archives)</p><p><a href="https://www.weforum.org/stories/2024/02/black-history-month-what-is-it-and-why-do-we-need-it/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.weforum.org/stories/2024/02/black-history-month-what-is-it-and-why-do-we-need-it/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.weforum.org/stories/2024/0</span><span class="invisible">2/black-history-month-what-is-it-and-why-do-we-need-it/</span></a></p><p>Index of Project Gutenberg Works on Black History by Various edited by David Widger is available online:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58975" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58975</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/blackhistorymonth/" rel="tag">#blackhistorymonth</a></p>

Photograph of Frederick Douglass, circa 1879.

Douglass is dressed formally in a dark suit with white shirt and bow tie, with his distinctive wild gray hair and beard. The dignified portrait captures him at approximately age 61, during the period when he served as U.S. Marshal for the District of Columbia and continued his work for civil rights and social justice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass#/media/File:Frederick_Douglass_(circa_1879)_(cropped).jpg

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<p>"People are deeply imbedded in philosophical, i.e., grammatical confusions. And to free them presupposes pulling them out of the immensely manifold connections they are caught up in." </p><p>~Ludwig Wittgenstein (26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951)</p><p>Ludwig Wittgenstein at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1861" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1861"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1861</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/philosophy/" rel="tag">#philosophy</a></p>

Moriz Nähr, Ludwig Wittgenstein. Portrait for the conferment of the Trinity College scholarship 1929, 1928/29.

Wittgenstein is shown seated, facing slightly to the side but with his gaze sharply directed toward the camera. His expression is deeply serious, almost severe, with tightly pressed lips and piercing, contemplative eyes — as if caught mid-thought in an intense inner dialogue.

He wears a modest, slightly rumpled jacket over a simple shirt, open at the collar without a tie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein#/media/File:Ludwig_Wittgenstein_1929.jpg

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Blaze it. Happy 420 c/books

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<p>Polar Plunge: An Exploration of Antarctic Publishing</p><p>In 1901, a small crew of sailors, meteorologists, biologists, and other scientists embarked on a three-year journey of polar exploration known as the British National Antarctic Expedition.</p><p>by: Callie Beattie</p><p><a href="https://blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/2026/01/14/polar-plunge-an-exploration-of-antarctic-publishing/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/2026/01/14/polar-plunge-an-exploration-of-antarctic-publishing/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/2026</span><span class="invisible">/01/14/polar-plunge-an-exploration-of-antarctic-publishing/</span></a></p><p>Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/8188" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/8188"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">ct/8188</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/antarctica/" rel="tag">#Antarctica</a></p>

Frontispiece “A sledging experience”, illustrated by Dr. E. A. Wilson. South Polar Times, Volume 1. 1907. Rare Book and Special Collections Division.

The atmospheric illustration depicts two figures struggling to pull a sledge with flags through a fierce Antarctic blizzard, their forms barely visible against the swirling snow and wind.

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<p>If you're going to go to hell anyway, why not go laughing 😂 </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@reading" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>reading</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://lemmy.world/u/books" rel="nofollow">@books</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@humor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>humor</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://lemmy.world/c/humor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>humor@lemmy.world</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://lemmy.world/c/aiop" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>aiop</span></a></span> <br> <br><a href="/tags/theexorcist/" rel="tag">#TheExorcist</a> <a href="/tags/horror/" rel="tag">#Horror</a> <a href="/tags/evil/" rel="tag">#Evil</a><br><a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#Book</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookmemes/" rel="tag">#BookMemes</a> <a href="/tags/memes/" rel="tag">#Memes</a> <a href="/tags/humor/" rel="tag">#Humor</a> <a href="/tags/humour/" rel="tag">#Humour</a><br><a href="/tags/readingmemes/" rel="tag">#ReadingMemes</a> <a href="/tags/memes/" rel="tag">#Memes</a> <a href="/tags/readallthebooks/" rel="tag">#ReadAllTheBooks</a> <a href="/tags/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/litterature/" rel="tag">#Litterature</a> <a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#Novel</a> <a href="/tags/novels/" rel="tag">#Novels</a> <a href="/tags/bookshelf/" rel="tag">#Bookshelf</a> <a href="/tags/mastobooks/" rel="tag">#Mastobooks</a> <a href="/tags/booksofmastodon/" rel="tag">#BooksofMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/bookworm/" rel="tag">#Bookworm</a> <a href="/tags/bookwyrm/" rel="tag">#Bookwyrm</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>

Years ago, my Mother-in-law began reading, "The Exorcist". She said it was the most evil book she ever read. So evil in fact, she couldn't finish it, took it over to the beach and threw it into the ocean off a fishing pier.

| went and bought another copy, ran the faucet over it and left it in the night table drawer by her bed. My Father-in-law said that night was the first time she ever screamed and fainted.

I'm going to Hell, but I'll go laughing.

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<p>I want things that are above my reading level, that's how I get better at reading 🤔😁 </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@reading" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>reading</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://lemmy.world/u/books" rel="nofollow">@books</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@humor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>humor</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://lemmy.world/c/humor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>humor@lemmy.world</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://lemmy.world/c/aiop" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>aiop</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/readingmemes/" rel="tag">#ReadingMemes</a> <a href="/tags/memes/" rel="tag">#Memes</a> <br><a href="/tags/readallthebooks/" rel="tag">#ReadAllTheBooks</a> <a href="/tags/humor/" rel="tag">#Humor</a> <a href="/tags/humour/" rel="tag">#Humour</a><br><a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> <a href="/tags/readers/" rel="tag">#Readers</a> <a href="/tags/readersofmastodon/" rel="tag">#ReadersOfMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#ReadingCommunity</a><br><a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#Book</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#Novel</a> <a href="/tags/novels/" rel="tag">#Novels</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#Fiction</a> <br><a href="/tags/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> <a href="/tags/readinglevel/" rel="tag">#ReadingLevel</a> <a href="/tags/level/" rel="tag">#Level</a></p>

Comic from Unshelved about a boy asking librarian about what books he can check out and the librarian telling him he can check out any book. The teacher says it's above the child's reading level and they have a policy. The librarian replies he loves the sound of a breaking policy breaking.

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The Literary Ecosystem Is Dying

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The Literary Ecosystem Is Dying

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The Literary Ecosystem Is Dying

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<p>The Medieval Manuscript That Features “Yoda”, Killer Snails, Savage Rabbits & More: Discover The Smithfield Decretals</p><p><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2025/04/the-medieval-manuscript-that-features-yoda-killer-snails-mischievous-devils.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.openculture.com/2025/04/the-medieval-manuscript-that-features-yoda-killer-snails-mischievous-devils.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.openculture.com/2025/04/th</span><span class="invisible">e-medieval-manuscript-that-features-yoda-killer-snails-mischievous-devils.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

Crouching Rabbit by Antoine-Louis Barye - bronze sculpture

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<p>I've just finished Michiko Aoyama's "What You Are Looking for Is in the Library" and quite enjoyed its series of vignettes about various people's insights following their fateful visits to the local library. Definitely a cozy read. Though now that I've seen the title of the French translation (La bibliothèque des rêves secrets) I cannot help but wonder what the original Japanese title was.</p><p><a href="/tags/cozyreads/" rel="tag">#cozyreads</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

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<p>📚 This House Will Feed by: Maria Tureaud</p><p>County Clare, 1848: In the scant few years since the potato blight first cast its foul shadow over Ireland, Maggie O'Shaughnessy has lost everything—her entire family and the man she trusted with her heart. Toiling in the Ennis Workhouse for paltry rations, she can see no futur...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/this-house-will-feed" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/this-house-will-feed"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/this-house</span><span class="invisible">-will-feed</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/gothicfiction/" rel="tag">#gothicfiction</a> <a href="/tags/historical/" rel="tag">#historical</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/horror/" rel="tag">#horror</a></p>

County Clare, 1848: In the scant few years since the potato blight first cast its foul shadow over Ireland, Maggie O'Shaughnessy has lost everything—her entire family and the man she trusted with her heart. Toiling in the Ennis Workhouse for paltry rations, she can see no future either within or outside its walls—until the mysterious Lady Catherine arrives to whisk her away to an old mansion in the stark limestone landscape of the Burren.

Lady Catherine wants Maggie to impersonate her late daughter, Wilhelmina, and hoodwink solicitors into releasing Wilhelmina’s widow pension so that Lady Catherine can continue to provide for the villagers in her care. In exchange, Maggie will receive freedom from the workhouse, land of her own, and the one thing she wants more than either: a chance to fulfill the promise she made to her brother on his deathbed—to live to spite them all.

Launching herself into the daunting task, Maggie plays the role of Wilhelmina as best she can while ignoring the villagers tales of ghostly figures and curses. But more worrying are the whispers that come from within. Something in Lady Catherine's house is reawakening long-buried memories in Maggie of a foe more terrifying than hunger or greed, of a power that calls for blood and vengeance, and of her own role in a nightmare that demands the darkest sacrifice.

Amidst the devastation of Ireland's Great Famine, a young woman is salvaged from certain death when offered a mysterious position at a

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<p>What Are Wilkie Collins’ Contributions to Victorian Literature?</p><p>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.</p><p>By Lauren Jones</p><p><a href="https://www.thecollector.com/wilkie-collins-contribution-to-victorian-literature/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/wilkie-collins-contribution-to-victorian-literature/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thecollector.com/wilkie-co</span><span class="invisible">llins-contribution-to-victorian-literature/</span></a></p><p>Wilkie Collins at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/98" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/98"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/98</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

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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[NEW] The Great Pretense: A Tour Through the Boneyard of the CIA's War For Drugs

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<p>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.</p><p>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!</p><p>Also, if you're curious about my voice, there are free samples of all the books in their store listings, too.</p><p><a href="https://adaraastin.ck.page/87de3a4c9f" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>adaraastin.ck.page/87de3a4c9f</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@audiofiction" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>audiofiction</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/audiobook/" rel="tag">#Audiobook</a> <a href="/tags/audiobooks/" rel="tag">#Audiobooks</a> <a href="/tags/audiofiction/" rel="tag">#Audiofiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/romance/" rel="tag">#Romance</a> <a href="/tags/erotica/" rel="tag">#Erotica</a></p>

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<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/FeyFighters" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/FeyFighters</a></p><p>Two soldiers on opposite sides, pixie Commander Stargazer Candleflash and human Sergeant Edwin Harris, find their fates forever entwined, first by revenge, but as they crash together in a dangerous rainforest, they’re forced to work together, just to survive. Will they make it or will their bickering get them killed?</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 Fey Fighters, by Owen Tyme.

The background is the stars of space, with nebula-like clouds, in blue. This has been divided into jigsaw puzzle pieces by dark lines marking the lines between pieces.

The foreground features an enormous, stylized phoenix, which is composed of fire. The phoenix looms over an Earth-like world heavily obscured by cloud cover.

(Right) The same world from the cover orbits a purple gas giant, with a stream of flame above it, which may be the phoenix, with the following text over the top:

“We’re in a human-made, goblin-enchanted spacecraft, powered by a dryad that’s under the mistaken impression she’s a nuclear reactor, half-piloted by a pixie and half-piloted by a human.”

“Is there anywhere we can go we won’t be shot on sight?”

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

Sample chapter from Fey Fighters.

Sample chapter from Fey Fighters.

Sample chapter from Fey Fighters.

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Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work

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<p>It's time for the Trans Rights Readathon this month! I'm looking forward to my third time paticipating. It starts the 17th and ends the 31st. <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/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/transrightsreadathon/" rel="tag">#transrightsreadathon</a> <a href="https://transrightsreadathon.carrd.co/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>transrightsreadathon.carrd.co/</a></p>

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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - Anna’s Archive

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<p>18th-Century Portuguese Library Has Bats That Protect the Priceless Books Housed Inside</p><p>By Eva Baron </p><p><a href="https://mymodernmet.com/biblioteca-joanina-bats-pest-control/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mymodernmet.com/biblioteca-joanina-bats-pest-control/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mymodernmet.com/biblioteca-joa</span><span class="invisible">nina-bats-pest-control/</span></a></p><p>The Bat, a poem by D.H. Lawrence at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/60337/pg60337-images.html#BAT" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/60337/pg60337-images.html#BAT"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6</span><span class="invisible">0337/pg60337-images.html#BAT</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/library/" rel="tag">#library</a></p>

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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<p>"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."</p><p>Quote in his Letter (no. 155), June 1880.</p><p>~Vincent van Gogh, born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1856.</p><p>Van Gogh's letters are available online at:<br><a href="https://vangoghletters.org/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>vangoghletters.org/</a></p><p>Books by Van Gogh at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Vincent+van+Gogh&submit_search=Search" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Vincent+van+Gogh&submit_search=Search"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=Vincent+van+Gogh&submit_search=Search</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

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

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1885.</p><p>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.</p><p>At PG<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/76" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/76</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

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

E. W. Kemble (1861–1933)

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<p>📚 Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by: Stephen King</p><p>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...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/rita-hayworth-and-shawshank-redemption" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/rita-hayworth-and-shawshank-redemption"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/rita-haywo</span><span class="invisible">rth-and-shawshank-redemption</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/horrorfiction/" rel="tag">#horrorfiction</a> <a href="/tags/thrillers/" rel="tag">#thrillers</a> <a href="/tags/suspensefiction/" rel="tag">#suspensefiction</a> <a href="/tags/mediatiein/" rel="tag">#mediatiein</a></p>

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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