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<p>🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 📚 **10+ Best Bookshops in Edinburgh You Must Visit (Local Guide for Book Lovers)**</p><p>&gt;&gt;If you are ever in Edinburgh and in need of visiting a bookshop this is for you. </p><p>🔗 <a href="https://www.solosophie.com/best-bookshops-edinburgh/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.solosophie.com/best-bookshops-edinburgh/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.solosophie.com/best-booksh</span><span class="invisible">ops-edinburgh/</span></a>. </p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/edinburgh/" rel="tag">#Edinburgh</a> <a href="/tags/scotland/" rel="tag">#Scotland</a> @bookstodon</p>

<p>As you might expect, when Ronald McGillvray and I created The Post Mortem Report over three years ago, one of our goals was to inform readers about us and our work as authors but we also like to have fun, something I think comes across nicely in our latest trailer for the show. 🙂</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/5DBGUaoM7Rc" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>youtu.be/5DBGUaoM7Rc</a></p><p>@bookstodon @specfic @scifi @horrorbooks </p><p><a href="/tags/specfic/" rel="tag">#specfic</a> <a href="/tags/horror/" rel="tag">#horror</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/video/" rel="tag">#video</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a> <a href="/tags/authorcast/" rel="tag">#authorcast</a> <a href="/tags/trailer/" rel="tag">#trailer</a> <a href="/tags/teaser/" rel="tag">#teaser</a> <a href="/tags/sample/" rel="tag">#sample</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#readingcommunity</a> <a href="/tags/booktube/" rel="tag">#booktube</a> <a href="/tags/authortube/" rel="tag">#authortube</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a></p>

Ebooks? Or paper? What&#x27;s your preference? <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.world/post/33330278">See Original Page</a> </small>

<p>This is the kind of math we like around here 😜 </p><p>@bookstodon @fantasybookstodon @bookbubble @humour @reading</p><p><a href="/tags/math/" rel="tag">#Math</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/novel/" rel="tag">#Novel</a> <a href="/tags/novels/" rel="tag">#Novels</a> <a href="/tags/bookshelf/" rel="tag">#Bookshelf</a> <br><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/boostingissharing/" rel="tag">#BoostingIsSharing</a></p>

<p>My <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#bookreview</a> is brief/won&#x27;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>A cosmic horror coming-of-age story that is equally terrifying and touching, GOOD BOY is a perfect blend of mystery, monsters, love, and loyalty that is earnest, emotional, &amp; eerie. Neil McRobert has written a truly satisfying, stellar novella filled with Horror AND Heart. (Wild Hunt Books)</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>

<p>Early visions of Mars: Meet the 19th-century astronomer who used science fiction to imagine the red planet</p><p>Parisian astronomer Camille Flammarion brought used science fiction to bring Mars to life</p><p>By Matthew Shindell </p><p><a href="https://www.space.com/astronomy/mars/early-visions-of-mars-meet-the-19th-century-astronomer-who-used-science-fiction-to-imagine-the-red-planet" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.space.com/astronomy/mars/early-visions-of-mars-meet-the-19th-century-astronomer-who-used-science-fiction-to-imagine-the-red-planet"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.space.com/astronomy/mars/e</span><span class="invisible">arly-visions-of-mars-meet-the-19th-century-astronomer-who-used-science-fiction-to-imagine-the-red-planet</span></a></p><p>Camille Flammarion at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/8763" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/8763"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/8763</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#Astronomy</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#Sciencefiction</a></p>

<p>All my <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> are on <a href="/tags/sale/" rel="tag">#sale</a> during the</p><p><a href="/tags/smashwords/" rel="tag">#Smashwords</a> <a href="/tags/summerwintersale/" rel="tag">#SummerWinterSale</a> <img src="https://eggplant.place/media/emoji/mastodon.online/ablobcatrave.png" class="emoji" alt=":ablobcatrave:" title=":ablobcatrave:"> </p><p>Sister Seekers <a href="/tags/prequel/" rel="tag">#Prequel</a> and Book 1 are <a href="/tags/freebooks/" rel="tag">#FreeBooks</a> </p><p> The first <a href="/tags/trilogy/" rel="tag">#Trilogy</a> (not for the faint of heart 😈 ) is 75% off! 👛 </p><p><a href="https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/Corpusnexus" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smashwords.com/profile/view/Corpusnexus"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smashwords.com/profile/vie</span><span class="invisible">w/Corpusnexus</span></a></p><p>(If you&#x27;re looking for Book 2, the listing got orphaned... link here: <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1795345" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smashwords.com/books/view/1795345"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smashwords.com/books/view/</span><span class="invisible">1795345</span></a> )</p><p><a href="/tags/free/" rel="tag">#Free</a> <a href="/tags/booktoot/" rel="tag">#BookToot</a> <a href="/tags/darkfantasy/" rel="tag">#DarkFantasy</a> <a href="/tags/epicfantasy/" rel="tag">#EpicFantasy</a> <a href="/tags/erotichorror/" rel="tag">#EroticHorror</a> <a href="/tags/dnd/" rel="tag">#DnD</a> <br>@bookstadon @bookstodon @fantasy @horror @ttrpg @sffbookclub @lgbtqbookstodon</p>

<p>Excerpt from a book I&#x27;m reading, Slow Poison, by Mahmood Mamdani, father of Zorhan Mamdani.</p><p>&quot;FBI agents knocked on<br>my door...they asked what I thought of Marx. I said I had<br>never met him. Not surprisingly, this Ugandan Muyindi had never heard of Karl<br>Marx. “He’s dead.”</p><p>I said, “I&#x27;m sorry, what happened?”</p><p>“No, he died long ago.”</p><p>I wondered why, then, the question. “Why, then, are you asking me?”<br>Later, I would remind myself: the FBI introduced me to Karl Marx! &quot;<br><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a></p>

<p>How Medieval Literature Built the Arthurian Legend</p><p>King Arthur is one of the most famous figures to emerge from the Middle Ages, but the legend surrounding him was built over centuries of medieval storytelling. Writers across Britain and Europe transformed Arthur from a shadowy ruler into the centre of a vast literary tradition filled with knights, quests, romance, betrayal, and magic.</p><p><a href="https://www.medievalists.net/2026/05/medieval-literature-arthurian-legend/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.medievalists.net/2026/05/medieval-literature-arthurian-legend/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.medievalists.net/2026/05/m</span><span class="invisible">edieval-literature-arthurian-legend/</span></a></p><p>King Arthur at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/2433" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/2433"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">ct/2433</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a></p>

شهادة الاطفال في زمن الحرب / In Time of War: Children Testify : Mona Saudi : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.ml/post/43383914">See Original Page</a> </small>

<p>A Review of Medium Error: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-medium-error/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-medium-error/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-me</span><span class="invisible">dium-error/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/bookreviews/" rel="tag">#BookReviews</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</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>Escape from the Land of the Dead: On Leonora Carrington’s The Stone Door</p><p>&quot;Magic and ideology are both practices of belief.&quot;</p><p>By Celia Bell</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/escape-from-the-land-of-the-dead-on-leonora-carringtons-the-stone-door/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/escape-from-the-land-of-the-dead-on-leonora-carringtons-the-stone-door/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/escape-from-the-lan</span><span class="invisible">d-of-the-dead-on-leonora-carringtons-the-stone-door/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a> <a href="/tags/literarycriticism/" rel="tag">#literarycriticism</a> <a href="/tags/womeninart/" rel="tag">#WomeninArt</a></p>

<p>How Gustave Moreau’s Mystical Paintings Defined the Symbolist Movement</p><p>Gustave Moreau was the defiant visionary whose mystical paintings shaped a groundbreaking new movement in France and beyond.</p><p> by Kelsey Spicuzza</p><p><a href="https://www.thecollector.com/gustave-moreau-symbolist-movement/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/gustave-moreau-symbolist-movement/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thecollector.com/gustave-m</span><span class="invisible">oreau-symbolist-movement/</span></a></p><p>Symbolism in literature at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/7864" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/7864"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">ct/7864</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a> <a href="/tags/symbolism/" rel="tag">#Symbolism</a> <a href="/tags/art_criticism/" rel="tag">#Art_criticism</a></p>

<p>Hannah Arendt on Jews, Refugees And Suicide, 1943</p><p>“The comity of European peoples went to pieces when, and because, it allowed its weakest member to be excluded and persecuted.”</p><p>– Hannah Arendt, We Refugees, 1943</p><p>By Paul Sorene</p><p><a href="https://flashbak.com/hannah-arendt-on-jews-refugees-and-suicide-1943-476686/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=hannah-arendt-on-jews-refugees-and-suicide-1943" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="flashbak.com/hannah-arendt-on-jews-refugees-and-suicide-1943-476686/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=hannah-arendt-on-jews-refugees-and-suicide-1943"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">flashbak.com/hannah-arendt-on-</span><span class="invisible">jews-refugees-and-suicide-1943-476686/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=hannah-arendt-on-jews-refugees-and-suicide-1943</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/holocaust/" rel="tag">#Holocaust</a></p>

<p>The Origin of the Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs</p><p>The story of the doom-bringing rock may help us prevent a repeat catastrophe</p><p>BY SEAN RAYMOND</p><p>The end of the story is written, literally, in stone.</p><p><a href="https://nautil.us/the-origin-of-the-asteroid-that-killed-the-dinosaurs-889220/?utm_campaign=website&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=nautilus-newsletter" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="nautil.us/the-origin-of-the-asteroid-that-killed-the-dinosaurs-889220/?utm_campaign=website&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=nautilus-newsletter"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nautil.us/the-origin-of-the-as</span><span class="invisible">teroid-that-killed-the-dinosaurs-889220/?utm_campaign=website&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=nautilus-newsletter</span></a></p><p>Asteroids and Astrophysics at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/24464" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/24464"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">ct/24464</span></a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/40414" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/40414"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">ct/40414</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/astrophysics/" rel="tag">#Astrophysics</a></p>

<p>“Let us try then to recapture some actual experience, which seems to have a connection with the experience of reading these old books; to spring from poetry; to be interfused with the same emotion...” </p><p>Reading at Random with Virginia Woolf</p><p>By Frances Lindemann</p><p><a href="https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/02/18/reading-at-random-with-virginia-woolf/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/02/18/reading-at-random-with-virginia-woolf/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theparisreview.org/blog/20</span><span class="invisible">26/02/18/reading-at-random-with-virginia-woolf/</span></a></p><p>Virginia Woolf at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/89</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/literarycriticism/" rel="tag">#literarycriticism</a></p>

<p>Today&#x27;s the day. SHADOW OF THE ELDERS is available wide both in ebook and paperback! If you&#x27;ve been waiting until it left Amazon to check it out, now&#x27;s the time!</p><p><a href="https://books2read.com/shadowoftheelders" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="books2read.com/shadowoftheelders"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">books2read.com/shadowoftheelde</span><span class="invisible">rs</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#SFF</a> <a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#writingcommunity</a> @indieauthors @bookstodon</p>

<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&amp;q=https://reviewdb.app/book/5fucjESgkYJO494Jw8UuqP" rel="nofollow">The End and Everything Before It</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 <br>by Finegan Kruckemeyer.</p><p>A tangled weave of lives lived for love, community, place &amp; simple pleasures. Beautifully written. I didn&#x27;t quite grasp the ending, worth a revisit.</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> </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>

<p>Over at Netflix&#x27;s Tundum blog, they announce the complete casting of P+P. Rufus Sewell is Mr. Bennet! And my heart will not protest, nor lie, but I will be throwing Mr. Bennet a bit of my female gaze. </p><p><a href="https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/pride-and-prejudice-cast-photos-release-date-news" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/pride-and-prejudice-cast-photos-release-date-news"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.netflix.com/tudum/articles</span><span class="invisible">/pride-and-prejudice-cast-photos-release-date-news</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/amreading/" rel="tag">#AmReading</a> <a href="/tags/amwriting/" rel="tag">#AmWriting</a> @bookstodon <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <br><a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="/tags/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#ReadingCommunity</a> <a href="/tags/regency/" rel="tag">#Regency</a> <a href="/tags/georgian/" rel="tag">#Georgian</a> <a href="/tags/emilybronte/" rel="tag">#EmilyBronte</a> <a href="/tags/charlottebronte/" rel="tag">#CharlotteBronte</a> <a href="/tags/annebronte/" rel="tag">#AnneBronte</a> <a href="/tags/victorian/" rel="tag">#Victorian</a> @romancelandia <a href="/tags/janeausten/" rel="tag">#JaneAusten</a></p>

<p>Reading for pleasure in childhood may shape later development in remarkable ways. </p><p>A recent large-scale study found associations between early pleasure reading and better cognitive performance, improved mental well-being, and even differences in brain structure in adolescence. </p><p><a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</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> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/readers/" rel="tag">#readers</a> <a href="/tags/readersofmastodon/" rel="tag">#readersofmastodon</a> <a href="/tags/booksky/" rel="tag">#booksky</a> <a href="/tags/bookish/" rel="tag">#bookish</a> <a href="/tags/booktok/" rel="tag">#BookTok</a> <a href="/tags/bookclub/" rel="tag">#bookclub</a> <a href="/tags/readit/" rel="tag">#readit</a> <a href="/tags/bookwyrm/" rel="tag">#Bookwyrm</a> <a href="/tags/booklovers/" rel="tag">#booklovers</a></p>

<p>New Review - a good assortment of speculative takes awaits in Several Worlds edited by Kate MacDonald - lots of surprises and tales to enjoy </p><p><a href="https://www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/7/24/several-worlds-a-middleoak-anthology-edited-by-kate-macdonald" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/7/24/several-worlds-a-middleoak-anthology-edited-by-kate-macdonald"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.runalongtheshelves.net/blo</span><span class="invisible">g/2025/7/24/several-worlds-a-middleoak-anthology-edited-by-kate-macdonald</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a></p>

<p>🇺🇸 📖 **The Book That All Americans Should Be Reading Now**</p><p>&quot;_A nation’s prosperity is not a given. It is constantly shaped by the strength and character of its institutions. If you want to see how a country will do economically in the long run, look at its institutions.</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://www.zmescience.com/other/economics/the-book-that-all-americans-should-be-reading-now/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.zmescience.com/other/economics/the-book-that-all-americans-should-be-reading-now/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.zmescience.com/other/econo</span><span class="invisible">mics/the-book-that-all-americans-should-be-reading-now/</span></a>. </p><p><a href="/tags/economy/" rel="tag">#Economy</a> <a href="/tags/economics/" rel="tag">#Economics</a> <a href="/tags/nonfiction/" rel="tag">#Nonfiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> @economics @bookstodon</p>

<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&amp;q=https://reviewdb.app/book/6Z50tutUx6eh6zHsvHuAJX" rel="nofollow">Akarnae</a> 🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑 <br>by Lynette Noni.</p><p>Fairly derivative YA fantasy: teenage girl crosses into a parallel world, where she becomes a fish-out-of-water at a school for talented students, and discovers she&#x27;s the only one who can prevent the obliteration of humanity. Some ingrained patriarchy - why do female heroes always have to be hot? Totally needless. Nice enough but nothing special.</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/youngadult/" rel="tag">#YoungAdult</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#Fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#SFF</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>

<p>Terrifying vistas of reality</p><p>H P Lovecraft, the master of cosmic horror stories, was a philosopher who believed in the total insignificance of humanity</p><p>BY Sam Woodward</p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/the-terror-of-reality-was-the-true-horror-for-h-p-lovecraft?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=d2e8825be8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_07_23&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="aeon.co/essays/the-terror-of-reality-was-the-true-horror-for-h-p-lovecraft?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=d2e8825be8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_07_23&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/essays/the-terror-of-r</span><span class="invisible">eality-was-the-true-horror-for-h-p-lovecraft?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=d2e8825be8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_07_23&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972</span></a></p><p>H.P. Lovecraft at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/34724" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/34724"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/34724</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>