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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? October 14

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<p>A Review of The Last of What I Am: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-the-last-of-what-i-am/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-the-last-of-what-i-am/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-th</span><span class="invisible">e-last-of-what-i-am/</span></a></p><p> <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/civilwar/" rel="tag">#CivilWar</a> <a href="/tags/paranormal/" rel="tag">#Paranormal</a></p>

Book cover for The Last of What I Am: A Novel by Abigail Cutter. Image on cover shows a figure standing in the second story window of an old wooden farmhouse. There is a light on in that room that is illuminating everything and obscuring the figure’s features. It is dusk outside and you can see the last bit of light fading away as a few birds fly through the sky.

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Dan Brown Returns With a Hyperactive Testament to the Power of Books <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.world/post/35765496">See Original Page</a> </small>

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<p>Breaking the chain</p><p>The role of the conscious observer has posed a stubborn problem for quantum measurement. Phenomenology offers a solution</p><p>By Steven French</p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/why-quantum-mechanics-needs-phenomenology?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=12e10a8cc1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_09_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="aeon.co/essays/why-quantum-mechanics-needs-phenomenology?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=12e10a8cc1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_09_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/essays/why-quantum-mec</span><span class="invisible">hanics-needs-phenomenology?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=12e10a8cc1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_09_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972</span></a></p><p>Quantum theory at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/20207" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/20207"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">ct/20207</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/philosophyofscience/" rel="tag">#philosophyofscience</a></p>

The 1927 Solvay Conference in Brussels was the fifth world physics conference.

1927 Solvay Conference on Quantum Mechanics. Photograph by Benjamin Couprie, Institut International de Physique Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. From back to front and from left to right : Auguste Piccard, Émile Henriot, Paul Ehrenfest, Édouard Herzen, Théophile de Donder, Erwin Schrödinger, Jules-Émile Verschaffelt, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, Ralph Howard Fowler, Léon Brillouin, Peter Debye, Martin Knudsen, William Lawrence Bragg, Hendrik Anthony Kramers, Paul Dirac, Arthur Compton, Louis de Broglie, Max Born, Niels Bohr, Irving Langmuir, Max Planck, Marie Skłodowska Curie, Hendrik Lorentz, Albert Einstein, Paul Langevin, Charles-Eugène Guye, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Owen Willans Richardson.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics#/media/File:Solvay_conference_1927.jpg

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<p>Books I Read on Someone’s Recommendation: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-books-i-read-on-someones-recommendation-2/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-books-i-read-on-someones-recommendation-2/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-week</span><span class="invisible">ly-blogging-challenge-books-i-read-on-someones-recommendation-2/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/wednesdayweeklybloggingchallenge/" rel="tag">#WednesdayWeeklyBloggingChallenge</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>

Closeup photo of someone’s hands as they hold open a book with two hands and read it.

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The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://reddthat.com/post/50465450">See Original Page</a> </small>

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<p>📚 Exiles by: Mason Coile</p><p>The human crew sent to prepare the first colony on Mars arrives to find the new base half-destroyed and the three robots sent to set it up in disarray—the machines have formed alliances, chosen their own names, and picked up some disturbing beliefs. Each must be interrogated. But one of them is...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/exiles" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/exiles</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/psychologicalfiction/" rel="tag">#psychologicalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a></p>

The human crew sent to prepare the first colony on Mars arrives to find the new base half-destroyed and the three robots sent to set it up in disarray—the machines have formed alliances, chosen their own names, and picked up some disturbing beliefs. Each must be interrogated. But one of them is missing.

In this barren, hostile landscape where even machines have nightmares, the astronauts will need to examine all the stories--especially their own--to get to the truth.

Exiles is a terrifying, taut, one-sitting read, and Mason Coile once again blends science fiction and psychological horror to engage some of humanity’s deepest questions.

A terrifying locked-room mystery from the author of William--this time set on a remote outpost on Mars.

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<p>📚 The Long Walk by: Stephen King</p><p>In a dystopian near-future, America has fallen on hard times. Sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty is about to compete in the annual grueling match of stamina and wits known as the Long Walk. One hundred boys must keep a steady pace of four miles per hour day and night, without ever stopping. </p><p>...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-long-walk" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-long-walk"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-long-w</span><span class="invisible">alk</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/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/thrillers/" rel="tag">#thrillers</a></p>

In a dystopian near-future, America has fallen on hard times. Sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty is about to compete in the annual grueling match of stamina and wits known as the Long Walk. One hundred boys must keep a steady pace of four miles per hour day and night, without ever stopping.

The winner gets “The Prize”—anything he wants for the rest of his life. But the rules of the Long Walk are harsh and the stakes could not be higher. There is no finish line—the winner is the last man standing.

Contestants cannot receive any outside aid whatsoever. Slow down under the speed limit and you’re given a warning. Three warnings and you’re out of the game—forever.

Written by King when he was a college student and published in 1979 under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, The Long Walk is an unforgettable and timeless masterpiece that showcases King’s genius for character building and his visionary storytelling.

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

The brilliant and chilling first novel Stephen King ever wrote tells the tale of the contestants of a diabolically cruel competition where 100 boys start the “long walk” and there is only one winner—the one that survives.

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<p>"Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls."</p><p>Swiss writer Robert Walser was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1878.</p><p>One of Walser's most notable works is his collection of short prose pieces titled "Der Spaziergang" (1917). Walser's writing fell out of favor after his death in 1956, but experienced a revival in the late 20th century, thanks in part to the efforts of literary scholars and translators. </p><p>Books by Robert Walser at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/26294" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/26294"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/26294</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Robert Walser, in Zürich, around 1900.

Cover of Der Spaziergang by Robert Walser

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<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&q=https://reviewdb.app/book/4GWlGIkQuWE35qljwi7tCf" rel="nofollow">The Sound of the Mountain</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 <br>by Yasunari Kawabata.</p><p>In post-war Japan, an aging man grapples ineffectually with the autumn of his life, the failure of his children's marriages, and his slightly inappropriate relationship with his daughter-in-law. Calmly mellow & unfocussed, much like old age might be.</p><p><a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/japaneseliterature/" rel="tag">#JapaneseLiterature</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<br></p>

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<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&q=https://reviewdb.app/book/1lRzL8BnoQxMULGEIWX5xo" rel="nofollow">The Lathe of Heaven</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 <br>by Ursula Le Guin.</p><p>A man's dreams shape reality, and his therapist uses him as a tool to fix the wrongs in the world. But if utopia lacks free will, diversity & creativity, is it still utopia?</p><p><a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#SFF</a> <a href="/tags/ursulaleguin/" rel="tag">#UrsulaLeGuin</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<br></p>

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Good ebook editor software?

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<p>📚 Betting on You by: Lynn Painter</p><p>When seventeen-year-old Bailey starts a new job at a hotel waterpark, she is less than thrilled to see an old acquaintance is one of her coworkers. Bailey met Charlie a year ago on the long flight to Omaha, where she moved after her parents’ divorce. Charlie’s cynicism didn’t mix well with Bailey’s carefully ...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/betting-on-you" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/betting-on-you"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/betting-on</span><span class="invisible">-you</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/romance/" rel="tag">#romance</a> <a href="/tags/socialthemes/" rel="tag">#socialthemes</a> <a href="/tags/friendship/" rel="tag">#friendship</a></p>

When seventeen-year-old Bailey starts a new job at a hotel waterpark, she is less than thrilled to see an old acquaintance is one of her coworkers. Bailey met Charlie a year ago on the long flight to Omaha, where she moved after her parents’ divorce. Charlie’s cynicism didn’t mix well with Bailey’s carefully well-behaved temperament, and his endless commentary was the irritating cherry on top of an already emotionally fraught trip.

Now, Bailey and Charlie are still polar opposites, but instead of everything about him rubbing Bailey the wrong way, she starts to look forward to hanging out and gossiping about the waterpark guests and their coworkers—particularly two who keep flirting with each other. Bailey and Charlie make a bet on whether or not the cozy pair will actually get together. Charlie insists that members of the opposite sex can’t just be friends, and Bailey is determined to prove him wrong.

Bailey and Charlie keep close track of the romantic progress of others while Charlie works to deflect the growing feelings he’s developed for Bailey. Terrified to lose her if his crush becomes known, what doesn’t help his agenda is Bailey and Charlie “fake dating” in order to disrupt the annoying pleasantries between Bailey’s mom and her mom’s new boyfriend. Soon, what Charlie was hoping to avoid becomes a reality as Bailey starts to see him as not only a friend she can rely on in the midst of family drama—but someone who makes her hands shake and

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<p>This week's <a href="/tags/newbooks/" rel="tag">#NewBooks</a> at the library: Some classic literature that I bought second-hand.<br>- A Plague of Sheep: Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico, published by Cambridge University Press (which was removed from the holdings of the University of Plymouth Charles Seale-Hayne Library just down the road from me!)<br>- Carl Safina's classic Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas, published by Henry Holt<br>- and Extinctions in Near Time: Causes, Contexts, and Consequences, published by Springer.</p><p><a href="/tags/extinction/" rel="tag">#Extinction</a> <a href="/tags/biodiversity/" rel="tag">#Biodiversity</a> <a href="/tags/palaeontology/" rel="tag">#Palaeontology</a> <a href="/tags/paleontology/" rel="tag">#Paleontology</a> <a href="/tags/naturalhistory/" rel="tag">#NaturalHistory</a> <a href="/tags/naturewriting/" rel="tag">#NatureWriting</a> <a href="/tags/environmentalhistory/" rel="tag">#EnvironmentalHistory</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/scicomm/" rel="tag">#Scicomm</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</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>

A photo of three books standing on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books.

On the left, A Plague of Sheep, showing a black cover with the title in large font.

In the middle, Song for the Blue Ocean, showing a colour photo of a calm ocean with a breaching dolphin.

On the right, Extinctions in Near Time, showing a black cover with the title in white front and a white diagram of a world map with small drawings of various species of now extinct megafauna dotted around the map.

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<p>📚 Beartown by: Fredrik Backman</p><p>By the lake in Beartown is an old ice rink, and in that ice rink Kevin, Amat, Benji, and the rest of the town’s junior ice hockey team are about to compete in the national semi-finals—and they actually have a shot at winning. All the hopes and dreams of this place now rest on the shoulders of a handful of teenage bo...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/beartown" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/beartown</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/literaryfiction/" rel="tag">#literaryfiction</a> <a href="/tags/sportsfiction/" rel="tag">#sportsfiction</a></p>

By the lake in Beartown is an old ice rink, and in that ice rink Kevin, Amat, Benji, and the rest of the town’s junior ice hockey team are about to compete in the national semi-finals—and they actually have a shot at winning. All the hopes and dreams of this place now rest on the shoulders of a handful of teenage boys.

Under that heavy burden, the match becomes the catalyst for a violent act that will leave a young girl traumatized and a town in turmoil. Accusations are made and, like ripples on a pond, they travel through all of Beartown.

This is a story about a town and a game, but even more about loyalty, commitment, and the responsibilities of friendship; the people we disappoint even though we love them; and the decisions we make every day that come to define us. In this story of a small forest town, Fredrik Backman has found the entire world.

Now an HBO Original Series

“You’ll love this engrossing novel.” —People

Named a Best Book of the Year by LibraryReads, BookBrowse, and Goodreads

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anxious People, a dazzling and profound novel about a small town with a big dream—and the price required to make it come true.

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<p>French philosopher, an influential early socialist thinker, and one of the founders of utopian socialism Charles Fourier was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1772.</p><p>He developed a comprehensive system of societal organization known as Fourierism which influenced many writers and thinkers such as Dostoevsky, André Breton, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse and many others. He is is credited with having originated the word feminism in 1837.</p><p>About Fourier at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=charles+fourier&submit_search=Go%21" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=charles+fourier&submit_search=Go%21"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=charles+fourier&submit_search=Go%21</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/philosophy/" rel="tag">#philosophy</a></p>

Portrait de Charles Fourier, fondateur du Phalanstère.
Toile, école de Jean Gigoux, 1835.

Lithograph, "Vue d’un phalanstère, village français [composé] d’apres la théorie sociétaire de Ch. Fourier", H. Fugère. Date uncertain, but from 19th century. 860.05, Houghton Library, Harvard University

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Scifi that starts normal then goes cosmic

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<p>📚 The West Passage by: Jared Pechaček</p><p>When the Guardian of the West Passage died in her bed, the women of Grey Tower fed her to the crows and went back to their chores. No successor was named as Guardian, no one took up the fallen blade; the West Passage went unguarded.</p><p>Now, snow blankets Grey in the height of summer, foretelling the coming of th...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-west-passage" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-west-passage"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-west-p</span><span class="invisible">assage</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/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a></p>

When the Guardian of the West Passage died in her bed, the women of Grey Tower fed her to the crows and went back to their chores. No successor was named as Guardian, no one took up the fallen blade; the West Passage went unguarded.

Now, snow blankets Grey in the height of summer, foretelling the coming of the Beast. The too-young Mother of Grey House and the Guardian's unnamed squire set out to save their people.

Their narrow shoulders bear a heavy burden. Before them lies the West Passage, home to horrors and delights that defy imagining. None can say if they'll reach their destinations, but one thing is for sure: the world is about to change.

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

THE LADIES REIGN. THE PALACE ROTS. THE BEAST RISES.

Five starred reviews from Kirkus, Booklist, BookPage, Library Journal, and Shelf Awareness.

The West Passage is a dangerous book of secrets. Travis Baldree, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Legends & Lattes

A weird and wonderful tale, rich with imagination and utterly unique. Sunyi Dean, author of The Book Eaters

One of the finest fantasies of this decade, a sweeping swarm of fiercely human creativity. Indrapramit Das, author of The Devourers

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<p>"Hypotheses, treated as mere poetic fancies in one age, scouted as scientific absurdities in the next — preparatory only to their being altogether forgotten — have often, when least expected, received confirmation from indirect channels, and, at length, become finally adopted as tenets, deducible from the sober exercise of induction."</p><p>Michael Faraday <a href="/tags/botd/" rel="tag">#BOTD</a> in 1791.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5541" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5541"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/5541</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a></p>

Michael Faraday by Thomas Phillips oil on canvas, 1841-1842.

Faraday wears formal black attire with a crisp white shirt. His expressive face, framed by wavy dark hair. Faraday’s gaze is direct yet thoughtful.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M_Faraday_Th_Phillips_oil_1842.jpg#/media/File:M_Faraday_Th_Phillips_oil_1842.jpg

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New Books Network

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<p>I'm trying to decide who to read next. I've got a Joshua Whitehead novel for some Indigiqueer representation. I've also recently acquired some Andrea Gibson poetry, Charlie Jane Anders new book, and an older Alice Hoffman novel.</p><p>Choices, choices. Whatcha reading these days? And are you having any concentration issues? </p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</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>From the Miller’s Tale to King Lear’s roaring sea, a history of flooding in literature</p><p>by Stewart Mottram</p><p>Chaucer and Shakespeare lived through periods of weird weather not unlike what we are seeing today. So what can we learn from their writing?</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/from-the-millers-tale-to-king-lears-roaring-sea-a-history-of-flooding-in-literature-270947?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%204%202025%20-%203604936800&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%204%202025%20-%203604936800+CID_9dfc34c270e32b22d602076f3a77bd64&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=From%20the%20Millers%20Tale%20to%20King%20Lears%20roaring%20sea%20a%20history%20of%20flooding%20in%20literature" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/from-the-millers-tale-to-king-lears-roaring-sea-a-history-of-flooding-in-literature-270947?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%204%202025%20-%203604936800&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%204%202025%20-%203604936800+CID_9dfc34c270e32b22d602076f3a77bd64&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=From%20the%20Millers%20Tale%20to%20King%20Lears%20roaring%20sea%20a%20history%20of%20flooding%20in%20literature"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/from-the-m</span><span class="invisible">illers-tale-to-king-lears-roaring-sea-a-history-of-flooding-in-literature-270947?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%204%202025%20-%203604936800&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%204%202025%20-%203604936800+CID_9dfc34c270e32b22d602076f3a77bd64&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=From%20the%20Millers%20Tale%20to%20King%20Lears%20roaring%20sea%20a%20history%20of%20flooding%20in%20literature</span></a></p><p>Chaucer & Shakespeare at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/144" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/144"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/144</span></a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/65" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/65"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/65</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/meteorological/" rel="tag">#Meteorological</a> _history</p>

Cropped image from the title Page of an 1884 reprint of A true report of certaine wonderfull ouerflowings of Waters, now lately in Summerset-shire, Norfolke and other places of England..., originally printed in London 1607.

A 17th-century woodcut illustration from a 1607 flood pamphlet (reprinted 1884) depicting catastrophic flooding in England. The scene shows people clinging to trees, a partially submerged church steeple, drowning livestock, and desperate survivors in boats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1607_Bristol_Channel_floods#/media/File:Somerset.gif

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<p>Mary Wollstonecraft, The Woman Who Laid the Foundation for Feminism</p><p>Think 18th-century feminism must be outdated? Think again—there is still so much to learn from the life and writing of Mary Wollstonecraft.</p><p>by Dr. Victoria C. Roskams</p><p><a href="https://www.thecollector.com/mary-wollstonecraft-woman-laid-foundation-feminism/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/mary-wollstonecraft-woman-laid-foundation-feminism/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thecollector.com/mary-woll</span><span class="invisible">stonecraft-woman-laid-foundation-feminism/</span></a></p><p>Wollstonecraft at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/61" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/61"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/61</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Mary Wollstonecraft by John Opie .

The painting depicts Wollstonecraft, a pioneering writer and advocate for women’s rights, in a calm and thoughtful pose. She is shown in a white dress with soft lighting that highlights her face.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Wollstonecraft#/media/File:Mary_Wollstonecraft_by_John_Opie_(c._1797).jpg

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