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<p>📚 I'm Not the Only Murderer in My Retirement Home by: Fergus Craig</p><p>Carol is delighted to be leaving her tiny prison cell behind to take her place in a luxury retirement home. She's hoping her past as a serial killer won't come to light so she can make a few friends and find some murder-free hobbies. But it's...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/im-not-the-only-murderer-in-my-retirement-home" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/im-not-the-only-murderer-in-my-retirement-home"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/im-not-the</span><span class="invisible">-only-murderer-in-my-retirement-home</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/mysterydetective/" rel="tag">#mysterydetective</a> <a href="/tags/humorous/" rel="tag">#humorous</a> <a href="/tags/general/" rel="tag">#general</a></p>

Carol is delighted to be leaving her tiny prison cell behind to take her place in a luxury retirement home. She's hoping her past as a serial killer won't come to light so she can make a few friends and find some murder-free hobbies. But it's not long before a fellow resident who happens to be a former police commissioner drops dead, and Carol's true identity is leaked—making catching up over daily activities of bingo and baking rather awkward.

Just her luck, Carol soon realizes that the victim wasn't the only former law enforcement officer at Sheldon Oaks, it's filled to the brim with former cops, barristers, and government representatives, her newfound friends included. And everyone thinks Carol's guilt is a no brainer, but she is ready to prove them dead wrong...without killing anyone, for once.

After a decades long stint in prison, former serial killer Carol is looking to kick back and relax in her new retirement home...until a fellow resident drops dead and Carol has to prove she actually didn't do it this time....

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<p>This French Physician’s Career Could Be Defined by the Word ‘Ectoplasm’</p><p>by Joe Schwarcz PhD</p><p>Charles Richet wrote plays and poetry, published articles on hypnosis, anorexia nervosa, the body’s thermoregulation, psychology, pacifism and paranormal phenomena.</p><p><a href="https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history-did-you-know/french-physicians-career-could-be-defined-word-ectoplasm" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history-did-you-know/french-physicians-career-could-be-defined-word-ectoplasm"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/hist</span><span class="invisible">ory-did-you-know/french-physicians-career-could-be-defined-word-ectoplasm</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#medicine</a></p>

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<p>Another instance of an event I cannot attend because I don't live in the UK. But yes, 150 years of illustrations for Austen books? Yes, please! </p><p><a href="https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/jane-austens-illustrators-celebrated-new-anniversary-exhibition" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/jane-austens-illustrators-celebrated-new-anniversary-exhibition"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine</span><span class="invisible">-books-news/jane-austens-illustrators-celebrated-new-anniversary-exhibition</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> @romancelandia <a href="/tags/janeausten/" rel="tag">#JaneAusten</a></p>

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Nonfiction book that had facts that shocked you

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<p>📚 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by: Gabrielle Zevin</p><p>On a bitter cold day, in the December of his Junior Year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn’t heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collab...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-a-novel" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-a-novel"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/tomorrow-a</span><span class="invisible">nd-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-a-novel</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></p>

On a bitter cold day, in the December of his Junior Year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn’t heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. They borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo: a game where players can escape the confines of a body and the betrayals of a heart, and where death means nothing more than a chance to restart and play again. This is the story of the perfect worlds Sam and Sadie build, the imperfect world they live in, and of everything that comes after success: Money. Fame. Duplicity. Tragedy.

Spanning over thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel that examines the multifarious nature of identity, games as artform, technology and the human experience, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. Yes, it is a love story, but it is not one you have read before.

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • Sam and Sadie—two college friends, often in love, but never lovers—become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video g

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<p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/cartoon/" rel="tag">#cartoon</a> <a href="/tags/freedom/" rel="tag">#freedom</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/ideas/" rel="tag">#ideas</a> <a href="/tags/humor/" rel="tag">#humor</a></p>

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Iain M Banks, culture series.

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Need help with comprehending the last line of this excerpt

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<p>📖 <img src="https://eggplant.place/media/emoji/qoto.org/youtube.png" class="emoji" alt=":youtube:" title=":youtube:"> **The ONE Thing All Great Authors Share (It's Not What You Think**</p><p><a href="/tags/video/" rel="tag">#Video</a> length: thirty-eight minutes and thirty-six seconds. </p><p>🔗 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDYqyhILfsE" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDYqyhILfsE"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDYqyh</span><span class="invisible">ILfsE</span></a>. </p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> @bookstodon</p>

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<p>The Dust of Her Bones: An Interview with Inés Bellina, Alejandra C. Quintana Arocho, and Anne Freeland on Gabriela Mistral’s Queerness</p><p>by Alton Melvar M Dapanas</p><p><a href="https://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/08/07/the-dust-of-her-bones-an-interview-with-ines-bellina-alejandra-c-quintana-arocho-and-anne-freeland-on-gabriela-mistrals-queerness/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01K24P5V404FDAM95TV63BRB8F&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/08/07/the-dust-of-her-bones-an-interview-with-ines-bellina-alejandra-c-quintana-arocho-and-anne-freeland-on-gabriela-mistrals-queerness/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01K24P5V404FDAM95TV63BRB8F&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/</span><span class="invisible">2025/08/07/the-dust-of-her-bones-an-interview-with-ines-bellina-alejandra-c-quintana-arocho-and-anne-freeland-on-gabriela-mistrals-queerness/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01K24P5V404FDAM95TV63BRB8F&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/translation/" rel="tag">#Translation</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#Poetry</a></p>

Gabriela Mistral en 1922.

Desconocido - http://www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/602/w3-article-69686.html

Gabriela Mistral appears captured in a composed and dignified pose a head-and-shoulders view. She has short, straight hair and is wearing a jacket with a white blouse underneath with a sort of bow tie.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriela_Mistral#/media/Archivo:Gabriela_Mistral_(1922).jpg

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<p>The Real Science Experiments That Inspired Frankenstein</p><p>All of the experiments to revive dead people led Shelly to the idea of a story of creating life.</p><p><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2025/07/the-real-science-experiments-that-inspired-frankenstein.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.openculture.com/2025/07/the-real-science-experiments-that-inspired-frankenstein.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.openculture.com/2025/07/th</span><span class="invisible">e-real-science-experiments-that-inspired-frankenstein.html</span></a></p><p>"Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus" at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/84" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/84</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

"Promotional photo of Boris Karloff from The Bride of Frankenstein as Frankenstein's monster." - picryl.com

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<p>Books on My Spring 2026 To-Read List: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-books-on-my-spring-2026-to-read-list/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-books-on-my-spring-2026-to-read-list/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesda</span><span class="invisible">y-books-on-my-spring-2026-to-read-list/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/toptentuesday/" rel="tag">#TopTenTuesday</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/nonfiction/" rel="tag">#Nonfiction</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#Fiction</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>

Book cover for Phases: a Memoir by Brandy Norwood. Image on cover is a close-up photo of her face as she wears a blue silk garment and gazes thoughtfully off into the distance.

Book cover for Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke. Image on cover shows a train travelling along a train track next to a field of wheat. The image is warped, though, and has an unnatural bend to it.

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<p>This week's <a href="/tags/newbooks/" rel="tag">#NewBooks</a> at the library: Three more books I bought during my employer's January sale of overstock: <br>- Saurian: A Field Guide to Hell Creek (<span class="h-card"><a href="https://sauropods.win/@Tomozaurus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Tomozaurus</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mojoceratops" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mojoceratops</span></a></span>), <br>- Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error<br>- and Rock, Bone, and Ruin: An Optimist's Guide to the Historical Sciences from <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.mit.edu/@themitpress" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>themitpress</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/geology/" rel="tag">#Geology</a> <a href="/tags/archaeology/" rel="tag">#Archaeology</a> <a href="/tags/massextinction/" rel="tag">#MassExtinction</a> <a href="/tags/fossils/" rel="tag">#Fossils</a> <a href="/tags/paleontology/" rel="tag">#Paleontology</a> <a href="/tags/palaeontology/" rel="tag">#Palaeontology</a> <a href="/tags/dinosaurs/" rel="tag">#Dinosaurs</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 and part of the beech-coloured laminate floor.

On the left, Saurian: A Field Guide to Hell Creek, showing dark grey / blue hardcover book with a colour illustration of Tyrannosaurus rex, here reconstructed as a beefy dinosaur with a bulging skull, rather than a skinny reconstruction that shows the contours of bones.

In the middle, Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error, showing a white hardback with a colour photo of a polar bear across the bottom and a trilobite fossil across the top.

On the right, Rock, Bone, and Ruin, showing a yellow hardback with. Each word of the title is cut out of a black-and-white photo of a rock, the bones of a tail, and a ruin (what looks to be the Colosseum) .

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<p>My latest read: "A Bleak Remedy" by DS LaLonde - See my Goodreads review for details but if you're looking for a meaty horror novel with a fresh take on vampires, this one's sure to satisfy!</p><p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7815169569" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.goodreads.com/review/show/7815169569"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.goodreads.com/review/show/</span><span class="invisible">7815169569</span></a></p><p>@bookstodon @specfic @scifi @horrorbooks </p><p><a href="/tags/specfic/" rel="tag">#specfic</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/horror/" rel="tag">#horror</a> <a href="/tags/vampire/" rel="tag">#vampire</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#bookreview</a> <a href="/tags/booksreviews/" rel="tag">#booksreviews</a> <a href="/tags/bookrec/" rel="tag">#bookrec</a> <a href="/tags/bookrecs/" rel="tag">#bookrecs</a> <a href="/tags/booksofmastodon/" rel="tag">#booksofmastodon</a> <a href="/tags/readersofmastodon/" rel="tag">#readersofmastodon</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#readingcommunity</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/booktodon/" rel="tag">#booktodon</a> <a href="/tags/vampires/" rel="tag">#vampires</a></p>

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<p>Quotes About Reading: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-quotes-about-reading/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-quotes-about-reading/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesda</span><span class="invisible">y-quotes-about-reading/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/toptentuesday/" rel="tag">#TopTenTuesday</a> <a href="/tags/quotes/" rel="tag">#Quotes</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</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>

A tiny green cactus in a tiny white planter that is sitting on a white hardcover book on a wooden table.

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<p>"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced."</p><p>James Baldwin, ‘As Much Truth<br>as One Can Bear’, 1962"</p><p>Source:<br>Planet on Fire.<br>A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown</p><p><a href="/tags/quotes/" rel="tag">#quotes</a> <br><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <br><a href="/tags/nonficiton/" rel="tag">#nonficiton</a> <br><a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a></p>

A radical manifesto for how to deal with environmental breakdownIn the age of environmental breakdown, breakdown, the political status quo has no answer to the devastating and inequitably distributed consequences of the climate emergency. We urgently need an alternative to bring about the rapid transformation of our social and economic systems. As we rebuild our lives in the wake of Covid-19 and face the challenges of ecological disaster, how can the left win a world fit for life? Planet on Fire is an urgent manifesto for a fundamental reimagining of the global economy. It offers a clear and practical road map for a future that is democratic and sustainable by design. Laurie Laybourn-Langton and Mathew Lawrence argue that it is not enough merely to spend our way out of the crisis; we must also rapidly reshape the economy to create a new way of life that can foster a healthy and flourishing environment for all. Planet on Fire offers a detailed and achievable manifesto for a new politics capable of tackling environmental breakdown.

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<p>The Madrid Codices: Leonardo da Vinci's treasure trove digitised by Spain's National Library</p><p>On 13 February 1967, the Spanish National Library announced the discovery of the Madrid I and II codices, two manuscripts by Leonardo da Vinci that had remained poorly catalogued for more than a century. But they are being digitised to make them accessible to the public.</p><p>By Lucia Blasco</p><p><a href="https://www.euronews.com/culture/2026/02/20/the-madrid-codices-leonardo-da-vincis-treasure-trove-digitised-by-spains-national-library" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.euronews.com/culture/2026/02/20/the-madrid-codices-leonardo-da-vincis-treasure-trove-digitised-by-spains-national-library"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.euronews.com/culture/2026/</span><span class="invisible">02/20/the-madrid-codices-leonardo-da-vincis-treasure-trove-digitised-by-spains-national-library</span></a></p><p>Leonardo da Vinci at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1629" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1629"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1629</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/culture/" rel="tag">#culture</a> <a href="/tags/library/" rel="tag">#library</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>

Leonardo da vinci, Double manuscript page on the Sforza monument.

The left page is devoted to mechanical studies — five carefully rendered technical drawings arranged vertically, each showing wooden joining or clamping mechanisms in three-quarter perspective. They appear to depict interlocking beams, bolt fastenings, and timber joints of increasing complexity, with short annotating notes flanking each drawing on both sides.

The right page is dominated by a large, commanding drawing of what appears to be the lower torso and hindquarters of a horse rendered as a structural armature — a grid of horizontal and vertical ribs forming a curved, basket-like framework that captures the swelling volume of the animal's form. The gridded surface suggests a mold or internal scaffolding for casting, with the waist cinching inward before flaring out again at the haunches. Dense blocks of mirror-script text surround the drawing on the left and bottom, and a folio number — 157 — is visible in the upper right corner. A faint institutional stamp appears near the bottom center.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Madrid_(Leonardo)#/media/File:Leonardo_da_vinci,_Double_manuscript_page_on_the_Sforza_monument.jpg

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<p>I do all of these, which one I use seems to motly depend on the quality of the book 🤔 </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> <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@joinin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>joinin</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/readingmemes/" rel="tag">#ReadingMemes</a> <a href="/tags/meme/" rel="tag">#Meme</a> <a href="/tags/memes/" rel="tag">#Memes</a> <a href="/tags/readallthebooks/" rel="tag">#ReadAllTheBooks</a> <a href="/tags/humor/" rel="tag">#Humor</a> <a href="/tags/humour/" rel="tag">#Humour</a> <a href="/tags/funny/" rel="tag">#Funny</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></p>

READING STYLES:
SCAN: look over quickly
READ: absorb content
SKIM: read selectively]
BROWSE: look for something interesting
PERUSE: read thoroughly
REFLECT: think deeply about what you read

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<p>How Medieval Women Expressed Their ‘Forbidden’ Emotions</p><p>Upper-class women used letters and embroidery to reflect on their inner lives</p><p>by Pragya Agarwal (from the archives)</p><p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-medieval-women-expressed-their-forbidden-emotions-180983953/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-medieval-women-expressed-their-forbidden-emotions-180983953/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smithsonianmag.com/history</span><span class="invisible">/how-medieval-women-expressed-their-forbidden-emotions-180983953/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550</span></a></p><p>Medieval women at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=medieval+women" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=medieval+women"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=medieval+women</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/womeninart/" rel="tag">#womeninart</a></p>

Marie de France, from an illuminated manuscript now in the Bibliothèque nationale de France: BnF, Arsenal Library, Ms. 3142 fol. 256.

A woman is depicted standing and leaning slightly forward over an open book resting on an elegant white lectern with a decorative pedestal base. She wears a flowing pale cream or white robe that pools softly at her feet, with blue sleeves visible beneath, and a white veil or wimple covering her hair. Her face small, calm features with a downward gaze directed at the page. One hand reaches toward the open book as if reading or writing. The lectern stands on a terracotta-red bench or platform. Behind her, a trefoil arch frames the scene.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_de_France#/media/File:Marie_de_France_1.tif

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The Burnout Society: Why so tired? <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.ml/post/43499220">See Original Page</a> </small>

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<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/TymeDarkMoon" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/TymeDarkMoon</a></p><p>On a world long thought to have no moon, its sudden appearance inspires wonder and terror. Hasty research links the full moon and catastrophe, revealing the existence of the so-called ‘Harbingers of Doom’, creatures from the moon that harvest souls. Can everyone survive or will they become part of the dark harvest?</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 dark moon, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

In the foreground, a redheaded witch and a dark haired wizard fight back to back, holding some rather large pistols. The witch is in a black dress and the wizard is in a black robe with golden decorations. Both looked a bit purple, due to the lighting. The witch's hair blows on the wind and she wears a necklace of bone beads.

Behind them, there's dust, mist and fog lit by twilight as a moon rises, framing their heads. Objects that look like shooting stars fall from the moon and there's a few visible impacts.

(Right) A white moon, on a background of the stars of space, with the following quote over the top of it:

“Idiot! You’ve likely killed us both, leaving us stuck out in the open like this.”

“We’ve got incoming. I know you’re angry and I suppose you’ve got every right to be, but we need to defend ourselves.”

“ ‘The enemy of my enemy is my friend’, for now, and then we decide what to do about the conflict between us.”

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

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<p>'In Mishra’s case, his book was not ablutionary so much as an effort to uphold Karl Jaspers’s idea of “metaphysical guilt”: that humans are bound by a solidarity “that makes each co-responsible for every wrong and injustice in the world, especially for crimes committed in his presence or with his knowledge.” '</p><p>Shaan Sachdev explores <a href="/tags/pankajmishra/" rel="tag">#PankajMishra</a>’s <a href="/tags/theworldaftergaza/" rel="tag">#TheWorldAfterGaza</a> </p><p><a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-gaza-generation/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-gaza-generation/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lareviewofbooks.org/article/th</span><span class="invisible">e-gaza-generation/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/gaza/" rel="tag">#Gaza</a> <a href="/tags/gazagenocide/" rel="tag">#GazaGenocide</a> <a href="/tags/palestine/" rel="tag">#Palestine</a> <a href="/tags/palestinesolidarity/" rel="tag">#PalestineSolidarity</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> @bookstodon @palestine @israel</p>

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<p>📚 FDR Drive by: James Comey</p><p>After a stint in the private sector, working at the largest hedge fund in the world, Nora Carleton has returned to her former role as a New York City federal prosecutor. And she's arrived just in time to face one of the most dangerous domestic terror attacks in the history of the city. A threat is bu...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/fdr-drive" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/fdr-drive</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/thrillers/" rel="tag">#thrillers</a> <a href="/tags/politicalfiction/" rel="tag">#politicalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/mysterydetective/" rel="tag">#mysterydetective</a> <a href="/tags/legal/" rel="tag">#legal</a></p>

After a stint in the private sector, working at the largest hedge fund in the world, Nora Carleton has returned to her former role as a New York City federal prosecutor. And she's arrived just in time to face one of the most dangerous domestic terror attacks in the history of the city. A threat is building in the city, with far right extremism powered by internet demagogues and funded by shadowy organizations. Together with legendary investigator Benny Dugan and aided by colleagues at the FBI, Nora builds a case against one of the key players in this burgeoning movement, arguing before a jury that some speech is actually a deadly crime. But the menace taking root is far bigger than any courtroom, and as the militants target an upcoming United Nations rally, Nora and her team must race to disrupt the plans and minimize casualties.

At once a fast-paced legal thriller and a close look at the very real perils of political extremism, FDR Drive harnesses former FBI director James Comey's life experience to tell an authentic and compelling narrative that readers won't soon forget.

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<p>Just spotted a new book that managed to climb on top of the one that should not be named in the Wizards & Witches category 📚<br><a href="https://bydonmartin.com/verity-vox-1" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bydonmartin.com/verity-vox-1</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/foxfire/" rel="tag">#Foxfire</a> <a href="/tags/verityvox/" rel="tag">#VerityVox</a></p>

VERITY VOX AND THE CURSE OF FOXFIRE

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<p>My latest read was The Vegetarian by Han Kang. It is surreal. It is confronting. It is harrowing. </p><p>It is always tricky to engage with a novel that itself so clearly engages with a different society and its problems (in this case, misogyny in South Korea), but I felt the writing was very well maintained in translation. The novel certainly packed a punch in English. </p><p><a href="/tags/feminism/" rel="tag">#feminism</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> </p><p>Full <a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#review</a> on the <a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#blog</a> here: <a href="https://write.as/the-casual-critic/the-vegetarian-becoming-ungovernable" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="write.as/the-casual-critic/the-vegetarian-becoming-ungovernable"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">write.as/the-casual-critic/the</span><span class="invisible">-vegetarian-becoming-ungovernable</span></a></p>

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