Strings Attached: Helen Haiman Joseph’s A Book of Marionettes (1920)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/book-of-marionettes/
"A Book of Marionettes" at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66391
Dryad and Two Fauns from the book
What Is an Artist According to Sigmund Freud?
According to Freud, artists have a unique quality of sublimating their desires into creative fantasies and sharing them with their audience.
by Anastasiia Kirpalov
https://www.thecollector.com/what-is-artist-according-sigmund-freud/
Books about Freud -- Views on art at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/10788
Convergence of Connection is here! 🥰 💚
This is the third book in The Way of the Wielder series, and it begins right where its prequel, Mysteries of the Material, ends.
For more about this book, what it means to me, and a PLAYLIST, check out today’s blog post: https://sarahjhoodlet.com/blog/convergence-of-connection-is-here/
(See comments for links to various marketplaces on Amazon for purchase.)
#books #BookRelease #fantasy #romance #EpicFantasy #reading #readers #SelfPromo #author #IndieAuthor #WritingCommunity #Writer
Pan-Asianism Redux, or Why We Think Japan Is Special
Observers have long hailed Japan’s aptitude for cultural synthesis. Is this characterization warranted, or does it reflect a collective fantasy about exceptionalism?
By: Waiyee Loh
https://daily.jstor.org/pan-asianism-redux-or-why-we-think-japan-is-special/
Japanese literature at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=japanese+literature
#OTD in 1883, Franz Kafka is born
Books by Kafka at PG
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1735
Cover of Der Prozess (German version of The Trial)
Armenia Is About To Put Its Ancient Manuscripts Online For Free
For many Armenians survivors, the easily hidden manuscripts were the only remnant of their nation that they were able to smuggle to safety.
By Amos Chapple
https://www.rferl.org/a/armenia-manuscripts-online-database-matenadaran-project-scans/33482728.html
Armenia at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=armenia
finished reading The Erratics 🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑
by Vicki Laveau-Harvie.
Two sisters deal with the aging of their estranged parents, the mother psychopathically unhinged and the father cowed & abused. Morbidly fascinating but scattered and purposeless.
ALT Book Fringe 2025
4–29 August, Edinburgh
Entirely run & curated by three of Scotland’s leading indie bookshops – Argonaut Books, Lighthouse – Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop, & Typewronger – ALT Book Fringe is a free, alternative August literary festival
https://www.lighthousebookshop.com/events/book-fringe-2025-alt-edition-returns
finished reading Question 7 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗
by Richard Flanagan.
An exploration of life & death, love & fate, encompassing everything from his family history to HG Wells and the development of the atomic bomb. Damn he can write! The description of his near-death experience is mesmerising. Didn't fully come together for me, but suspect it will benefit from a revisit.
📚 The Boy on The Bridge by: M. R. Carey
One exceptional clever boy journeys into the ashes of society to find the cure for a devastating plague in a riveting post-apocalyptic world, a land blighted by terror.
The people thought the boy could save them, so they opened their gates and sent him out...
To where the monsters lived.
From the author of USA Today bestsell...
Was The Importance of Being Earnest the most scandalous opening run of all time? How Oscar Wilde’s greatest play kicked off his tragic fall from grace
By Ben Jureidini
https://www.tatler.com/article/the-importance-of-being-earnest-opening-run-scandal
The Importance of Being Earnest at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/844
Christiaan Huygens and the Scientific Secrets of Saturn
Seventeenth-century science was so competitive that Christiaan Huygens used a cipher to conceal his Saturn observations when sharing them with interlocutors.
By: Danny Robb
https://daily.jstor.org/christiaan-huygens-and-the-scientific-secrets-of-saturn/
Christiaan Huygens at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5648
Reading deeper into Virginia Woolf’s vicious diary entry
Maggie Humm says the author’s recollection of encountering a group of learning-disabled people is surely a defence mechanism and projection
Virginia Woolf at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89
Okay Mastodon, do your thing!
I'm looking for recommendations for audiobooks 😁
Preferably simple enough that I can keep up while doing other stuff at the same time, but not so simple that I get bored,
The last series was Skullduggery Pleasant, if that helps.
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" #Tennessee #library director ousted after refusing to remove #LGBTQ #books"
There are 2 types of people
1. People who get sad at this story, do nothing, and then speak about how worse is sure to happen while offering no #resistance
2. People who get mad at this story, show up, agitate, make their voices heard. And punish those responsible with a #vote. And demand their new reps put in safeguards
Be the second kind of person
#Cynicism is acceptance of #fascism
https://wpln.org/post/tennessee-library-director-ousted-after-refusing-to-remove-lgbtq-books/
For some time I had been wondering what was up with one of my favorite authors - it had been so long since I last heard any news.
So I went to her website - https://www.otherscribbles.com/news/2025/4/25/monk-and-robot-omnibus-and-some-other-tidbits - and read the most delightful news: she's about to publish a new book! This post was from April 25, so it shouldn't be long now🤞🤞🤞
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Hear Albert Camus’ Grateful Letter to His Teacher After Winning the Nobel Prize
In 1924, two decades before the publication of The Stranger, author Albert Camus was a boy growing up in poverty in Algeria. Noticing his potential, a teacher named Louis Germain took him under his wing, even giving him free lessons to help him secure a scholarship.
By Regina Sienra
In #books: It’s typical of José Skinner’s approach that his main protagonist is not some self-assured reflection of his own qualifications, but rather Quigley, a dopey gringo vacillating between colonial-gaze fascination and fear of a world he doesn’t understand. https://www.texasobserver.org/the-search-committee-border-literary-canon/
16 to go in the next 5 months!
https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/honzin
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists 8 (Free) Books Every Intelligent Person Should Read
Many of these are at PG.
Illustration from Gulliver Travels at PG
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/17157/pg17157-images.html
![Photograph of Virginia Woolf with hand on face wearing a fur stole (10 x 15 centimeters).
This particular photograph is simply described as "Woolf Virginia [1927]". The verso of the photograph bears no mention allowing an identification of the photographer, but simply indicates - faintly pencilled - the portrait has been made in London.
The photograph was, according to the Smith College Library's web site, "used for promotion" by Harcourt Brace, the publisher of the American version of To the Lighthouse in 1927. In Virginia Woolf Icon (University of Chicago Press, 1999), Brenda Silver describes the photograph as an "(unidentified) studio photograph" and comments it "appear[ed] in in an number of Harcourt Brace ads and articles about Woolf and/or her works in the States during the late 1920s ans the 1930s" (p. 132).
It was in particular published with no copyright notice in a review of the book published by The New York Times on May 8, 1927 and another review published by The Bookshelf Review in June 1927. The photograph was exhibited in the show Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision at the National Portrait Gallery in London in 2014 with the following caption : "by Unknown photographer, 1927. Courtesy of the Mortimer Rare Book Room, Neilson Library, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf#/media/File:Virginia_Woolf_1927.jpg](/proxy/post_attachment/782040/218a299813.jpg "Photograph of Virginia Woolf with hand on face wearing a fur stole (10 x 15 centimeters).
This particular photograph is simply described as \"Woolf Virginia [1927]\". The verso of the photograph bears no mention allowing an identification of the photographer, but simply indicates - faintly pencilled - the portrait has been made in London.
The photograph was, according to the Smith College Library's web site, \"used for promotion\" by Harcourt Brace, the publisher of the American version of To the Lighthouse in 1927. In Virginia Woolf Icon (University of Chicago Press, 1999), Brenda Silver describes the photograph as an \"(unidentified) studio photograph\" and comments it \"appear[ed] in in an number of Harcourt Brace ads and articles about Woolf and/or her works in the States during the late 1920s ans the 1930s\" (p. 132).
It was in particular published with no copyright notice in a review of the book published by The New York Times on May 8, 1927 and another review published by The Bookshelf Review in June 1927. The photograph was exhibited in the show Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision at the National Portrait Gallery in London in 2014 with the following caption : \"by Unknown photographer, 1927. Courtesy of the Mortimer Rare Book Room, Neilson Library, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts\".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf#/media/File:Virginia_Woolf_1927.jpg")
