books
Books for Armchair Travelers: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-books-for-armchair-travelers/
Why America Can’t Get Enough of The Wizard of Oz
Hazel Gaynor Celebrates the Films, Prequels, Sequels, and More
https://lithub.com/why-america-cant-get-enough-of-the-wizard-of-oz/
Wizard of Oz at PG
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55
Sigrid Nunez on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
https://lithub.com/sigrid-nunez-on-f-scott-fitzgeralds-the-great-gatsby/
The Great Gatsby at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64317
Finding Briseis: On Resurrecting a Forgotten Woman from Homer’s Iliad
Emily Hauser Explores Ancient Greek Visions of Gender
https://lithub.com/finding-briseis-on-resurrecting-a-forgotten-woman-from-homers-iliad/
The Iliad at PG:
finished reading Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
by Tim Harford.
The importance of randomness & spontaneity in creativity & problem-solving. Plans, order & rationality are often counter-productive! So don't beat yourself up about meeting simplistic measures of performance. The tech discussion is a bit dated, but the principles are extremely relevant to AI. Ginormous gender blind-spot.
#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #Nonfiction #Productivity #Creativity
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How Four Literary Icons Chose the Pen Names That Made Them Famous
Kirsty McHugh and Ian Scott Explore the Reasoning Behind Some Very Well Known Pseudonyms
By Kirsty McHugh and Ian Scott
The Missing 11th of the Month - David R Hagen
On November 28th, 2012, Randall Munroe published an xkcd comic that was a calendar in which the size of each date was proportional to how often each date is referenced by its ordinal name (e.g. "October 14th") in the Google Ngrams database since 2000. Via @DProofreaders
can’t sleep again, read all of Leila Mottley’s new book in one go. I had the problem where there are three POV characters and I only really cared about one of them. #books
Writing Advice and Literary Wisdom from the Great E.B. White
“I think writing is mainly work.”
By Sam Weller
Children's literature at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/8
How French ‘merveilleux-scientifique’ fiction reframed reality
By Fleur Hopkins-Loferon
https://aeon.co/essays/how-french-merveilleux-scientifique-fiction-reframed-reality
Maurice Reynard at PG:
📖 📻 **Does listening to an audiobook count as reading?**
🔗 https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/2025-07-12/does-listening-to-an-audiobook-count-as-reading.
_What do you think?_
#Reading #Audiobooks #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
#Image attribution: Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler / Grid Engine, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AudiobookLibrary.jpg.
📖 📻 **Does listening to an audiobook count as reading?**
🔗 https://www.npr.org/2025/07/12/nx-s1-5454723-e1/does-listening-to-an-audiobook-count-as-reading.
_What do you think?_
#NPR #Reading #Audiobooks #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
#Image attribution: Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler / Grid Engine, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AudiobookLibrary.jpg.
Traffic makes beasts of us all, but that's too far, way too far 😂
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The story of Nastenka: Why 'White Nights' is taking the world by storm
by Aakanksha Sharma
White Nights at PG:
New body size database for marine animals is a “library of life”
Marine Organizational Body Size (MOBS) database fills a crucial gap in understanding ocean biodiversity.
by JENNIFER OUELLETTE
Marine animals at PG:
Take a Look at the ‘Extraordinary’ 19th-Century Portraits Made With Some of the Earliest Methods of Photography
A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery traces three different 1800s forms of photo-making: daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes
by Kaila Philo
Photography at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/117
📚 Young Jane Young by: Gabrielle Zevin
This is the story of five women...
Meet Rachel Grossman.
She’ll stop at nothing to protect her daughter, Aviva, even if it ends up costing her everything.
Meet Jane Young.
She’s disrupting a quiet life with her daughter, Ruby, to seek political office for the first time.
Meet Ruby Young.
She th...
https://bookblabla.com/book/young-jane-young
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![This is the story of five women...
Meet Rachel Grossman.
She’ll stop at nothing to protect her daughter, Aviva, even if it ends up costing her everything.
Meet Jane Young.
She’s disrupting a quiet life with her daughter, Ruby, to seek political office for the first time.
Meet Ruby Young.
She thinks her mom has a secret. She's right.
Meet Embeth Levin.
She’s made a career of cleaning up her congressman husband’s messes.
Meet Aviva Grossman.
The internet won’t let her or anyone else forget her past transgressions.
It’s brilliant and hilarious. It has a heart. And a spine. It’s exactly what we need more of right now. —Chicago Tribune
Splendid [Zevin’s] vibrant and playful writing, and the fully realized characters taking turns as narrator, bring the story a zestful energy. Booklist
From the author of the international bestseller The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry:
Named a Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction of 2017
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
A Chatelaine Best Fall Reads pick
#1 on the August Library Reads list
An Entertainment Weekly’s 13 Books to Read in August
An Amazon’s 'Best Books of the Month' for August
A Barnes & Noble “August’s Best New Fiction” pick
#3 on the September Indie Next List
A smart, intersectional feminist tour de force. Washington Times
From Gabrielle Zevin, beloved author of the international bestsellers Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and The Storied Life of A. J.](/proxy/post_attachment/996199/7f01c187d8.jpg "This is the story of five women...
Meet Rachel Grossman.
She’ll stop at nothing to protect her daughter, Aviva, even if it ends up costing her everything.
Meet Jane Young.
She’s disrupting a quiet life with her daughter, Ruby, to seek political office for the first time.
Meet Ruby Young.
She thinks her mom has a secret. She's right.
Meet Embeth Levin.
She’s made a career of cleaning up her congressman husband’s messes.
Meet Aviva Grossman.
The internet won’t let her or anyone else forget her past transgressions.
It’s brilliant and hilarious. It has a heart. And a spine. It’s exactly what we need more of right now. —Chicago Tribune
Splendid [Zevin’s] vibrant and playful writing, and the fully realized characters taking turns as narrator, bring the story a zestful energy. Booklist
From the author of the international bestseller The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry:
Named a Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction of 2017
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
A Chatelaine Best Fall Reads pick
#1 on the August Library Reads list
An Entertainment Weekly’s 13 Books to Read in August
An Amazon’s 'Best Books of the Month' for August
A Barnes & Noble “August’s Best New Fiction” pick
#3 on the September Indie Next List
A smart, intersectional feminist tour de force. Washington Times
From Gabrielle Zevin, beloved author of the international bestsellers Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and The Storied Life of A. J.")
