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Love this sign on the road up to Dennistoun Public Library in the East End of Glasgow (the building in the background of the photo).

#glasgow #dennistoun #library #libraries #dennistounpubliclibrary #sign #streetart #books

A sign on the road up to a Glasgow public library which reads Caution Mind-expanding Stories Ahead.

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Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng- by Kylie Lee Baker is fucking brilliant. I still have 3 chapters left, but I am on the edge of my seat. The writing is very well done. The story line is phenomenal even as it is disturbing. Trigger warnings for racism, hate crimes, gore, violence. It's a definite 5 star read for me thus far.

@bookstodon
#books #bookstodon

Cover of Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker. Cover is black with a bat and dried flowers around it.

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"Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million #NorthCaucasianMuslims fled to the #OttomanEmpire. Some, like the #Circassians, ran from a Russian perpetrated genocide. Others, like #Chechens, #Dagestanis, and others the violence of #RussianColonization."

#EurasianKnot welcomes #VladimirHamedTroyansky to discuss his book #EmpireOfRefugees

https://www.euraknot.org/muslim-refugees-in-the-ottoman-empire/

#OttomanHistory #RussianHistory #colonialViolence #NorthCaucasus #CircassianGenocide #books @histodons @bookstodon @russia

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A Past Most Queer: Remembering Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Radical Gay Historical Fiction

B. Pietras on Queering “Flint Anchor,” LGBTQ Historical Stories, and Finding the Present in the Past

https://lithub.com/a-past-most-queer-remembering-sylvia-townsend-warners-radical-gay-historical-fiction/

Sylvia Townsend at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=sylvia+townsend

#books #literature #lgbt

Photo of Sylvia Nora Townsend Warner.

She is depicted seated in a modest setting, dressed in simple yet elegant clothing typical of the early to mid-20th century, with her hair neatly styled, parted at the side.

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

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Among Newly Discovered Ocean Species, a Baby Colossal Squid Is Filmed for the First Time

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/05/schmidt-ocean-institute-new-species-colossal-squid/

Illustration from "20,000 Leagues under the Sea" by Jules Verne at PG

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/164

#oceanography #animals #books

Caption says: "One of these long arms glided through the opening." Black and white drawing shows the tentacles of the giant squid coming below deck. A sailor has an axe raised to attack tentacles. Other sailors watch.

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Circe in The Odyssey: The Enchantress Who Defied a Hero

A goddess, a witch, a sorceress—Circe in The Odyssey has been called many things.

By Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney

https://www.thecollector.com/circe-the-odyssey-enchantress/

The Odyssey at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1727

#books #literature #mythology

Circe Offering the Cup to Odysseus by John William Waterhouse.

The painting depicts the enchantress Circe, seated regally on a golden throne, clad in a flowing, deep-blue gown. She holds a golden cup aloft in her right hand, offering it to Odysseus, whom she has attempted to seduce and enchant.

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

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Hey, it's Friday! Mr. Lisa and I are going to get mani/pedis tomorrow (Saturday), and then it's asparagus season so a local library is doing a poetry event with asparagus as the theme called Ode to Asparagus. Also, probably some gardening if the weather holds.

What are you doing this weekend?

#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #JaneAusten @romancelandia

Image of Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy from 1995 version of Pride and Prejudice looking pensively to the camera. To the left it says, "I do so ardently wish you a most joyful weekend."

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‘Do you know what we should do
what turns over in my mind?
Begin to sing old songs!
Lend voice to our runes.’

Reading the Kalevala

By Lyonel Perabo

https://wildhunt.org/2025/06/reading-the-kalevala.html

Kalevala at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/5186

#books #literature #poetry

Inside front title page of The "Old" Kalevala, Finnish national epos, collection of old Finnish poems, by Elias Lönnrot. First edition; volume 1, 1835.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevala#/media/File:Kalevala1.jpg

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My #bookreview is brief/won't spoil, to spread good, great, and spectacular #horror #books far and wide.

THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER is both a stunning, unique epistolary novel and a subversive, sly nod to the most famous one. Stephen Graham Jones again shows his mastery as a storyteller by crafting a genuine modern Classic filled with Horror, Tragedy, Truth, and Blood. It should be required reading.

#book #review #bookstodon
@bookstodon #mothersuspiriareview #MSReview @bookstodon@toot.community

Hardcover of THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER. A buffalo is on the cover.

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#MarkethingMonday

What better time to try and promote horror than on Monday morning?

Human Nature and Other Stories is available now through most outlets if you want some of the good horror, the fake stuff, as opposed to the weird Stephen King novel we all seem to have fallen into lately. Horror so Scottish it should be deep fried.

https://books2read.com/HumanNatureAndOtherStories

I also have a freebie (on most sites, still trying to fix a few)...

https://books2read.com/anatomyofaviolin

#Reading #books #HorrorCommunity #horror

Cover for Human Nature and Other Stories by J M Taylor, painting of a stag in moonlight on a moor with Celtic decorations at each corner.

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Cover for Anatomy of a Violin by J M Taylor. Painting of a blindfolded violinist, bow poised over the strings, on a yellow background with faint music score visible beneath billowing red stains that could be blood.

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‘A steamy wrestle’: Guardian article inspires play on Shakespeare and Marlowe collaboration

Exclusive: Born With Teeth by Liz Duffy Adams, coming to West End, imagines rival dramatists working together

By Dalya Alberge

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/may/26/guardian-article-inspires-rsc-play-shakespeare-marlowe

Shakespeare and Marlowe at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/65
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/410

#books #literature #literarycriticism

William Shakespeare by John Taylor.

Shakespeare is depicted with a high forehead, dark eyes, and a trimmed moustache and goatee. His dark, curled hair is shoulder-length, and he wears a black doublet with a soft white collar and a gold earring in his left ear—a detail that adds a touch of artistic flair and Elizabethan style.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare#/media/File:William_Shakespeare_by_John_Taylor,_edited.jpg

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Anonymous portrait, possibly of Marlowe, at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

It depicts a young man, thought by some scholars to be Marlowe, at the age of 21, wearing a richly patterned black doublet embroidered with gold thread in a swirling vine motif—typical of late 16th-century fashion.

The subject has dark, curled hair, a fine complexion, and a direct, confident gaze.

Above the figure, a Latin inscription reads: "Quod me nutrit me destruit" (“That which nourishes me destroys me”)—a phrase associated with dangerous intellect and intense passion, further fueling speculation that the portrait may represent Marlowe.

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

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The Morgan is in NYC, and now that I know it has an extensive collection of Austen letters, it might be worth the visit!

https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/new-exhibition-celebrating-jane-austen-250th-anniversary-morgan

#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #JaneAusten @romancelandia

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The Outcasts of Zion | review essay by #BenjaminBalthaser

"The manufacturing of Jewish Zionist consensus lies at the heart of #AmericanLiberalism’s identity crisis."

#books discussed:

#BeingJewishAfterTheDestructionOfGaza
#TheThresholdOfDissent
#Doppelganger
#Unsettled
#OurPalestineQuestion

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-outcasts-of-zion/

#JewishAmericanPolitics #JewishAmericanHistory #JewishAmericanLeft #UShistory #USpol #USleft #Palestine #Gaza #PalestineQuestion @palestine @israel @histodons @bookstodon

review essay in today's Boston Review

text (at right)

POLITICS
The Outcasts of Zion
The manufacturing of Jewish Zionist consensus lies at the heart of American liberalism’s identity crisis.

Benjamin Balthaser

[tags] Books & Ideas, History, Israel and Palestine, U.S.

image (photo, at left): Don Peretz, second from left, in Palestine in February 1949 with fellow American Friends Service Committee volunteers. The group was distributing aid to Arabs displaced during the Nakba. Image: Courtesy of Deb Peretz

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New sapphic audiobook review: Reverence by Milena McKay, narrated by Abby Craden

https://judeinthestars.com/2025/05/27/reverence-by-milena-mckay-narrated-by-abby-craden/

Video review: https://www.instagram.com/p/DKKK5GkxyoX/

#book #books #LGBTBooks #lgbt #sapphic #BookLover #BookAddict #BookRecommendations #wlw #SapphicReads #BookReview #lesfic #BookReviewer #SapphicBookReview #QueerLit #BookToot #Bookstodon #SapphFic

@sapphicbooks @bookstodon

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Friends!

Today, I present to you the cover of Convergence of Connection!

Isn’t it stunning? 🤩 🥰

Check out my latest blog post for an in-depth look at what’s on the cover, and to read the blurb. (NOTE: The blurb talks about what happens in book three; naturally, that means there are spoilers for books one and two.)

Blog post: https://sarahjhoodlet.com/blog/cover-reveal-convergence-of-connection/

#CoverReveal #Books #ComingSoon #Fantasy #RomanticFantasy #Readers #WritingCommunity #SelfPublishing #IndieAuthor #Author

The cover of Convergence of Connection, the third book in The Way of the Wielder series.

Featured is a young woman standing in an active pose, her arms out before her, with four elemental spheres floating in the air at her side (green, gray, red, and blue). Behind her is a green and golden misty background, with leaves around the edges.

Between the title and the author’s name is a vignette of an angelic figure hovering above a glass-like surface, staring out into a starlit sky. The vignette is in golden tones, which blends into the background above.

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The Wrong Side and The Right Side (of History) - Albert Camus On Being 'Human and Simple'

By Paul Sorene

https://flashbak.com/albert-camus-the-wrong-side-and-the-right-side-475865/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=albert-camus-the-wrong-side-and-the-right-side

More information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Camus

#books #literature #history

Albert Camus, Nobel prize winner, half-length portrait, seated at desk, facing left, smoking cigarette.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Camus#/media/File:Albert_Camus,_gagnant_de_prix_Nobel,_portrait_en_buste,_pos%C3%A9_au_bureau,_faisant_face_%C3%A0_gauche,_cigarette_de_tabagisme.jpg

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Died this Day:

Murray Leinster (June 16, 1896 – June 8, 1975), an American writer of science fiction. He is best known for “First Contact,” which won the 1996 Retro-Hugo Award for Best Novelette. Leinster also won the 1956 Hugo Award for “Exploration Team” and is honored by the Sidewise Award, named after his story “Sidewise in Time”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Leinster
#Literature
#SciFi
#ScienceFiction
#books
#bookstodon
#coverart
#MurrayLeinster

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We are all Mrs Dalloway now

For Virginia Woolf, stream of consciousness was a method. Now, it’s a way of life.

By George Monaghan

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2025/06/we-are-all-mrs-dalloway-now

Mrs. Dalloway at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71865

#books #literature

First edition dust jacket of Mrs. Dalloway, 1925; cover art by Vanessa Bell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs_Dalloway#/media/File:Mrs._Dalloway_cover.jpg

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I’m looking for a sensitivy/authenticity reader. And it’s been super hard to find someone that fits the requirements:

1) Spanish-fluency
2) Mexican heritage
3) Female
4) Familiarity with gothic literature (a fan is even better)
5) Open to reading potentially traumatic (but not graphic) situations

I’m looking for someone who does this for a living (so does invoices, contracts, and has experience with this kind of reading).

If you have leads, let me know!

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Why H.G. Wells’ “The Time Machine” Is a Timely Warning to the World

Wells turned the future around in his novel.

https://www.thecollector.com/hg-wells-time-machine-eternal-timeliness/

Books by H. G. Wells at PG

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=h.+g.+wells

Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 by Edward Bellamy at PG

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/624

#books #literature #sciencefiction

Cover of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells with a sphinx.

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If you live in the New Haven, CT area, Yale University Library is presenting a 35mm cut of 2005 Pride & Prejudice this Thursday (June 12) at 7 p.m. The event is FREE and open to the public.

Now, the 12th is my birthday so if you go, think of me enjoying the film along with you!

https://web.library.yale.edu/film/treasures

#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #JaneAusten @romancelandia

Image of Kiera Knightly as Elizabeth Bennet and Matthew Macfadyen as Mr. Darcy. Macfadyen is holding Knightly's hand as he helps her into the carriage.

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An inside look at how the Internet Archive saves the web

The non-profit organisation based in San Francisco gathers billions of web pages in a huge digital archiving project to preserve our internet history from being erased. It also stores and catalogue millions of books, records and videos from around the world.

By Lily Jamali

https://www.bbc.co.uk/reel/video/p0ld1bpd/an-inside-look-at-how-the-internet-archive-saves-the-web?at_campaign_type=owned&at_medium=emails&at_objective=awareness&at_ptr_type=email&at_ptr_name=salesforce&at_campaign=essentiallisttu&at_email_send_date=20250527&at_send_id=4372638&at_link_title=https%3a%2f%2fwww.bbc.com%2freel%2fvideo%2fp0ld1bpd%2fan-inside-look-at-how-the-internet-archive-saves-the-web&at_bbc_team=crm

#digitallibrary #digitalarchive #books

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#OTD The Irish writer and poet Thomas Moore was born in 1779. He was "widely regarded in the late Georgian era as Ireland's "national bard."

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

Thomas Moore at PG

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2185

#books #poetry #literature

Painting of Thomas Moore by Thomas Lawrence.

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If books could kill: The poison legacy lurking in libraries

The Poison Book Project tested books and drew up a list of titles which are potentially harmful to humans.

By Pauline McLean

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g2y9xq58no

Poison Book Project:
https://sites.udel.edu/poisonbookproject/

#books #health #technology

This edition of Tallis's history and description of the Crystal palace, and the Exhibition of the world's industry in 1851 has been identified as having arsenical material in the bookcloth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tallis%27s_history_and_description_of_the_Crystal_palace,_and_the_Exhibition_of_the_world%27s_industry_in_1851;_(IA_tallisshistoryde01tall).pdf

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An Unforgettable Journey: Who was Vera Brittain?

Vera Mary Brittain was a British writer, feminist and pacifist who is most known for her 1933 memoir, A Testament Youth, which recounts her experiences during the First World War.

by Sarah Magowan

https://www.thecollector.com/an-unforgettable-journey-who-was-vera-brittain/

Feminist fiction at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/2603

#books #feminism