<p>Ello sweet and lovely (reading) Friendos <img src="https://eggplant.place/media/emoji/beige.party/blobcatbook.png" class="emoji" alt=":blobcatbook:" title=":blobcatbook:"></p><p>The last two months, I've been caught up reading again! At times where my body needed to relax, recharge, but my brain was still looking to be entertained... I got back to reading more again. 😊</p><p>Halfway through November, I learned about the new Dan Brown book in his Robert Langdon series. It had been a while since I read his books, so I set off, starting with Angels & Demons.<br>At the end of December, I finished the 6th book, the Secret of Secrets. I read another Dan Brown book after that, Deception Point.</p><p>I finished it yesterday. But now... As I started it at the end of December, is this my last finished book of 2025? Or is it the first one of 2026?</p><p>I've never really tracked my reading, but I thought it may be nice to make a thread this year, pinning 📌 it to my profile, and adding the books that I've managed to finish in 2026.</p><p>Maybe Deception Point was the last of 2025, maybe it's the first of 2026... But this is the first post of my <a href="/tags/booksin2026/" rel="tag">#BooksIn2026</a>. <img src="https://eggplant.place/media/emoji/beige.party/blobcatbook.png" class="emoji" alt=":blobcatbook:" title=":blobcatbook:"></p><p>I've now started a re-read of the Hunger Game series, which I'll read in the order of their release.</p><p>Books 📚 of 2026:<br>*January*<br>1. Deception Point - Dan Brown<br>2. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins<br>3. Catching Fire (the Hunger Games series, book 2) - Suzanne Collins <br>4. Mockingjay (the Hunger Games series, book 3) - Suzanne Collins <br>5. Storm Front (the Dresden Files, book 1) - Jim Butcher <br>6. Fool Moon (the Dresden Files, book 2) - Jim Butcher <br>*February*<br>7. Grave Peril (the Dresden Files, book 3) - Jim Butcher <br>8. The Ritual Bath (Decker/Lazarus series, book 1) - Faye Kellerman<br>9. Sacred and Profane (Decker/Lazarus series, book 2) - Faye Kellerman<br>10. Milk and Honey (Decker/Lazarus series, book 3) - Faye Kellerman<br>11. Day of Atonement (Decker/Lazarus series, book 4) - Faye Kellerman<br>12. False Prophet (Decker/Lazarus series, book 5) - Faye Kellerman<br>13. Grievous Sin (Decker/Lazarus series, book 6) - Faye Kellerman<br>14. Sanctuary (Decker/Lazarus series, book 7) - Faye Kellerman <br>*March*<br>15. Justice (Decker/Lazarus series, book 8) - Faye Kellerman<br>16. Prayers for the Dead (Decker/Lazarus series, book 9) - Faye Kellerman<br>17. Serpent's Tooth (Decker/Lazarus series, book 10) - Faye Kellerman <br>18. Jupiter's Bones (Decker/Lazarus series, book 11) - Faye Kellerman <br>*April*<br>19. Stalker (Decker/Lazarus series, book 12) - Faye Kellerman </p><p><img src="https://eggplant.place/media/emoji/beige.party/playstation.png" class="emoji" alt=":playstation:" title=":playstation:"> <img src="https://eggplant.place/media/emoji/beige.party/pixy_party.gif" class="emoji" alt=":pixy_party:" title=":pixy_party:"></p><p><a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</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></p>
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<p>If you're looking for a Christmas Romance audiobook, I've narrated a great one!</p><p>Lily is a single mom starting over in a small mountain town. Last Christmas, her brother's hot best friend Beckett kissed her under the mistletoe. This year she's newly arrived, newly divorced, and hoping for a second chance in more ways than one.</p><p>Lily is a great character: she is a woman who knows what she wants and is not afraid to go after it. And Becket is the hunky mountain man we all deserve: caring, together, and more than ready to appreciate a good woman who comes his way. </p><p>Taken by the Mountain Man by Kelsie Calloway is one of my top three best selling romance audiobooks of the year. At just 42 minutes long, you can listen in a single session!</p><p>If you like a story with a big heart and sizzling sex scenes, this one's for you. Go on and cozy up with a nice hot mountain man romance! </p><p>The books is available for Kindle and Kindle Unlimited from Amazon, and the audiobook is available from Amazon, Audible and Apple Books. </p><p><a href="https://geni.us/TBTMM" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>geni.us/TBTMM</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@audiofiction" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>audiofiction</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> </p><p><a href="/tags/audiobook/" rel="tag">#Audiobook</a> <a href="/tags/audiobooks/" rel="tag">#Audiobooks</a> <a href="/tags/audiofiction/" rel="tag">#Audiofiction</a> <a href="/tags/audiodrama/" rel="tag">#Audiodrama</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#Book</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/romance/" rel="tag">#Romance</a> <a href="/tags/romancebooks/" rel="tag">#Romancebooks</a> <a href="/tags/bbw/" rel="tag">#BBW</a> <a href="/tags/bbwromance/" rel="tag">#BBWRomance</a> <a href="/tags/mountainmanromance/" rel="tag">#MountainManRomance</a> <a href="/tags/christmas/" rel="tag">#Christmas</a> <a href="/tags/mistletoe/" rel="tag">#Mistletoe</a> <a href="/tags/kindle/" rel="tag">#Kindle</a> <a href="/tags/kindleunlimited/" rel="tag">#KindleUnlimited</a> <a href="/tags/audible/" rel="tag">#Audible</a></p>
<p>If you can get 1 percent better each day for one year, you’ll end up thirty-seven times better by the time you’re done. </p><p>Conversely, if you get 1 percent worse each day for one year, you’ll decline nearly down to zero. </p><p>What starts as a small win or a minor setback accumulates into something much more.</p><p>James Clear, Atomic Habits</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/nonfiction/" rel="tag">#nonfiction</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/jamesclear/" rel="tag">#JamesClear</a> <a href="/tags/atomichabits/" rel="tag">#AtomicHabits</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/amreading/" rel="tag">#amreading</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/readers/" rel="tag">#readers</a> <a href="/tags/quotes/" rel="tag">#quotes</a> <a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#quote</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>
<p>Let's celebrate, today is World Book Day (athough some countries celebrate in a different day)! It's also known as World Book or International Day of the Book.</p><p>What book are you currently reading? What's your favorite book so far?</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Book_Day" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Book_Day"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Bo</span><span class="invisible">ok_Day</span></a></p><p>You can find several interestings books in our catalogue:<br>www.gutenberg.org</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/worldbookday/" rel="tag">#worldbookDay</a></p>
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<p>Celebrating Women’s History Month</p><p>Celebrate Women’s History Month with JSTOR Daily. We hope you’ll find the stories below a valuable resource for classroom or leisure reading.</p><p>By The Editors</p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/womens-history-month-editors-picks/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/womens-history-month-editors-picks/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/womens-history</span><span class="invisible">-month-editors-picks/</span></a></p><p>Women literature at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=women+literature" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=women+literature"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">cts/search/?query=women+literature</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/womenhistorymonth/" rel="tag">#WomenHistoryMonth</a></p>
February Reading Progress
<p>If you know what NAMI is you can imagine the hard time my wife and I are having with our youngest, who turns out has BPD. They are med non compliant as is their partner the best we can tell.</p><p>The Skeptics Guide to the Universe, A Swim in a Pong in the Rain, and I Hate You - Don’t Leave Me would all have made the top list if I didn’t have an arbitrary limit of only two top books a month.</p><p>That said most of the books I read in February I loved. For the complete list:</p><p>Top:</p><p>Rules of Estrangement by Joshua Coleman PhD<br>Stop Walking on Eggshells for Parents by Randi Kreger and Christine Adamec</p><p>Great:</p><p>Stop Walking on Eggshells by Paul T. Mason MS, Randi Kreger<br>Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath<br>The Skeptics Guide to the Universe by Steve Novella, Bob Novella<br>A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders<br>The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide by David J. Miklowitz<br>I Am Not Sick I Don’t Need Help! by Xavier Amador<br>How To Become CTO by Aleks Kudic (Recommended by: Aleks Kudic (Asked to read for review purposes by the author)<br>Babylon’s Ashes by James S. A. Corey<br>I Hate You - Don’t Leave Me by Jerold J. Kreisman, Hal Straus<br>Nemesis Games by James S. A. Corey</p><p>Good:</p><p>Notes on a Small Island by Bill Bryson<br>Spook by Mary Roach</p><p>Okay:</p><p>Traction by Gino Wickman</p>
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<p>Now is the time, through March 31st, to nominate a book of imaginative fiction for this year's Ursula K. Le Guin prize, which anyone is encouraged to do. To find out what kind of books are considered, see what has been shortlisted in previous years, and find the form to make your nomination, here's further information.<br><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/ursulakleguin/" rel="tag">#UrsulaKLeGuin</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><p><a href="https://www.ursulakleguin.com/prize26" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.ursulakleguin.com/prize26</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.sevenstories.com/books/4716-a-genocide-foretold" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.sevenstories.com/books/4716-a-genocide-foretold"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.sevenstories.com/books/471</span><span class="invisible">6-a-genocide-foretold</span></a></p><p>Free ebook! Don't snooze on this, the book is only available for free for a short while.</p><p>This is 'A Genocide Foretold' by Chris Hedges. It's his latest book.</p><p>'With a searing urgency, Chris Hedges brings readers face to face with Israel’s devastation of Gaza. A Genocide Foretold is a scathing denunciation of the long violence of the Zionist project and its U.S. and European backers. The writing reflects his deep experience as a correspondent from Central America to Bosnia and his passionate moral outrage against both war and the hypocrisy that justifies it. Fast-paced and dazzling, the book gives first-hand accounts of the horrors of war and the courage of those resisting it.'</p><p>– Aviva Chomsky</p><p><a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/sevenstoriespress/" rel="tag">#SevenStoriesPress</a> <a href="/tags/ebook/" rel="tag">#eBook</a> <a href="/tags/free/" rel="tag">#free</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/chrishedges/" rel="tag">#ChrisHedges</a> <a href="/tags/avivachomsky/" rel="tag">#AvivaChomsky</a> <a href="/tags/gaza/" rel="tag">#Gaza</a> <a href="/tags/palestine/" rel="tag">#Palestine</a> <a href="/tags/freepalestine/" rel="tag">#FreePalestine</a> <a href="/tags/genocide/" rel="tag">#genocide</a></p>
Edited 59d ago
<p>Audiobooks I’ve Enjoyed: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-audiobooks-ive-enjoyed/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-audiobooks-ive-enjoyed/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-week</span><span class="invisible">ly-blogging-challenge-audiobooks-ive-enjoyed/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/wednesdayweeklybloggingchallenge/" rel="tag">#WednesdayWeeklyBloggingChallenge</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</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>The Captivating Saga Behind the Only Known Portrait of the Brontë Sisters</p><p>The only known painting of the three Brontë sisters together was painted by their brother, Branwell, and was long thought lost.</p><p>by Katie White</p><p><a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/bronte-sisters-portrait-history-2748843" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="news.artnet.com/art-world/bronte-sisters-portrait-history-2748843"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.artnet.com/art-world/bron</span><span class="invisible">te-sisters-portrait-history-2748843</span></a></p><p>Brontë sisters at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=bront%C3%AB+sisters" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=bront%C3%AB+sisters"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=bront%C3%AB+sisters</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/womenhistorymonth/" rel="tag">#womenHistoryMonth</a></p>
Edited 58d ago
<p>What Is the Dominant Emotion in 400 Years of Women’s Diaries?</p><p>A new anthology identifies frustration as a recurring theme in journals written between 1599 and 2015</p><p>by Sarah Gristwood</p><p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-is-the-dominant-emotion-in-400-years-of-womens-diaries-180983834/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-is-the-dominant-emotion-in-400-years-of-womens-diaries-180983834/?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">/what-is-the-dominant-emotion-in-400-years-of-womens-diaries-180983834/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550</span></a></p><p>Women literature at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=women+literature" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=women+literature"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">cts/search/?query=women+literature</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/womenhistorymonth/" rel="tag">#WomenHistoryMonth</a></p>
<p>RE: <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/@FediFollows/116303274173990292" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="social.growyourown.services/@FediFollows/116303274173990292"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">social.growyourown.services/@F</span><span class="invisible">ediFollows/116303274173990292</span></a></p><p>In case you missed it, here's a very long thread of accounts about <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> to follow for <a href="/tags/worldbookday/" rel="tag">#WorldBookDay</a> </p><p>Click the thread below to open it in full 🙂</p>
in the spirit of today's moon launch: A City on Mars
<p>…a book about how its actually a really really terrible idea. The authors (notably, the same authors of the webcomic <a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3920" rel="nofollow">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal</a>) started out with the intention of writing about how cool and necessary space colonization is… but over the course of their research, came to realize that it’s really not.</p>
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<p>A Review of Hearth Stories, Springtime Fare: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-hearth-stories-springtime-fare/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-hearth-stories-springtime-fare/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-he</span><span class="invisible">arth-stories-springtime-fare/</span></a></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/fantasy/" rel="tag">#Fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtq/" rel="tag">#LGBTQ</a> <a href="/tags/romance/" rel="tag">#Romance</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>"Acclaimed journalist and '<a href="/tags/empireofai/" rel="tag">#EmpireOfAI</a>' author <a href="/tags/karenhao/" rel="tag">#KarenHao</a> sat down with award-winning writer <a href="/tags/naomiklein/" rel="tag">#NaomiKlein</a> for a conversation on the precarious <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> moment we find ourselves in." </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1B__Efqacc" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1B__Efqacc"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1B__E</span><span class="invisible">fqacc</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/artificialintelligence/" rel="tag">#artificialIntelligence</a> <a href="/tags/agi/" rel="tag">#AGI</a> <a href="/tags/samaltman/" rel="tag">#SamAltman</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/bigtech/" rel="tag">#BigTech</a> <a href="/tags/openai/" rel="tag">#OpenAI</a> <a href="/tags/siliconvalley/" rel="tag">#SiliconValley</a> <a href="/tags/surveillance/" rel="tag">#surveillance</a> <a href="/tags/techfutures/" rel="tag">#techFutures</a> <a href="/tags/technosolutionism/" rel="tag">#technosolutionism</a> <a href="/tags/techworkers/" rel="tag">#techWorkers</a> <a href="/tags/labour/" rel="tag">#labour</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</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>A Review of Mendala: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-mendala/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-mendala/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-me</span><span class="invisible">ndala/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</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>I can't say this has ever happened to me, but I understand some readers worry about getting to the end? 🤔 </p><p>P.S If you know where this is from let me know so I can add credit.</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> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@humor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>humor</span></a></span> @humor@lemmy.world @aiop <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>
<p>What Oral Histories Reveal About Women’s Pursuit of Economic Independence</p><p>What does independence really mean for women? Through oral histories spanning generations, ‘We Do Declare’ explores how access to money, credit, and opportunity shaped women’s lives and the economic freedom that makes true independence possible.</p><p>by Rachel F. Seidman</p><p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-american-womens-history-museum/2026/03/02/we-do-declare-womens-voices-on-independence/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-american-womens-history-museum/2026/03/02/we-do-declare-womens-voices-on-independence/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/s</span><span class="invisible">mithsonian-american-womens-history-museum/2026/03/02/we-do-declare-womens-voices-on-independence/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550</span></a></p><p>Mary Wollstonecraft at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/84" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/84"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/84</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/womenhistorymonth/" rel="tag">#womenhistoryMonth</a></p>
<p>📚 Lost Lambs by: Madeline Cash</p><p>The Flynn family is coming undone. Catherine and Bud's open marriage has reached its breaking point as their daughters spiral in their own chaotic orbits: Abigail, the eldest, is dating a man in his twenties nicknamed War Crime West Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an onlin...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/lost-lambs" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/lost-lambs</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/familylife/" rel="tag">#familylife</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/librarians/" rel="tag">#Librarians</a> are still out there fighting the good fight! 💪📚</p><p><a href="https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/tennessee-library-director-refuses-to-remove-190-childrens-books/amp/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.wwlp.com/news/national/tennessee-library-director-refuses-to-remove-190-childrens-books/amp/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.wwlp.com/news/national/ten</span><span class="invisible">nessee-library-director-refuses-to-remove-190-childrens-books/amp/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/censorship/" rel="tag">#censorship</a> <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#fascism</a></p>
Neo-nazi Nato’s Proxy War Against Russia – Good book on what actually happening in Ukraine
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<p>So I figured out editing the universal book link so here is a URL with all stores where my new novella is listed for pre-order. <a href="https://books2read.com/blossoming" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/blossoming</a></p><p>It's about a 70yr old woman, probably autistic, who accepts to coordinate the defense committee of her decentralized country, a seemingly easy job responding to climate disasters, until a colonizer invades to steal the tech that makes their nation a <a href="/tags/solarpunk/" rel="tag">#solarpunk</a> utopia.</p><p>Read a sample: <a href="https://www.ododopress.com/novellas/the-blossoming-of-the-big-tree/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.ododopress.com/novellas/the-blossoming-of-the-big-tree/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.ododopress.com/novellas/th</span><span class="invisible">e-blossoming-of-the-big-tree/</span></a></p><p> <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/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a></p>
<p>Female writers and readers have been challenging the patriarchy for more than 200 years</p><p>by Roberta Garrett</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/female-writers-and-readers-have-been-challenging-the-patriarchy-for-more-than-200-years-276231" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/female-writers-and-readers-have-been-challenging-the-patriarchy-for-more-than-200-years-276231"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/female-wri</span><span class="invisible">ters-and-readers-have-been-challenging-the-patriarchy-for-more-than-200-years-276231</span></a></p><p>Suffrage at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/72" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/72"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/books</span><span class="invisible">helf/72</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/womenhistorymonth/" rel="tag">#womenhistoryMonth</a></p>
<p>The great, forgotten Wolff</p><p>Written for laymen, read by women and kings, Christian Wolff’s mathematical method made him a key Enlightenment philosopher</p><p>by Michael Walschots</p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/why-we-should-recover-the-philosophy-of-christian-wolff?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=794fa77cce-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_03_05&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="aeon.co/essays/why-we-should-recover-the-philosophy-of-christian-wolff?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=794fa77cce-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_03_05&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/essays/why-we-should-r</span><span class="invisible">ecover-the-philosophy-of-christian-wolff?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=794fa77cce-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_03_05&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/mathematics/" rel="tag">#mathematics</a> <a href="/tags/philosophy/" rel="tag">#philosophy</a></p>
<p>anyone have a preferred version of the count of monte cristo in english? went looking for my copy and can't find it, and looks there are about a bazillion different annotated versions out there, but also that the original might be like 1800 pages long?! def not the copy i had, and now i'm curious! <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a></p>
