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<p>Ebook and print: <a href="https://books2read.com/SheGoesToWar" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/SheGoesToWar</a></p><p>With the return of her arch-nemesis to the world in 1972, the Hunter literally goes to war, finding herself drawn to Vietnam, once more backed up by her demon-hunting allies, but as all that faced the horrors of the Vietnam War, she finds her time there trying and emotionally difficult.</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/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</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 She Goes to War, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

Three people dressed in tiger-stripe camouflage crouch near the edge of a jungle, in Veitnam. The jungle is a mixture of bamboo and ferns.

The first is a girl with brown hair and blue eyes. She wears a dress, top hat and elbow-length fingerless gloves. She points out of the jungle.

The second is a hispanic man and his skin is covered in greasepaint, to make him blend in even better. He wears a military uniform, including a hat with a round brim and leans on an AK-47 for support. His vest has pouches large enough for spare magazines for his weapon. He looks through a pair of binoculars at what the girl is pointing at.

The third is huge and has the head of a cat, with black fur and green eyes. He wears a military uniform.

(Right) The view from the back of a military cargo plane, with the rear hatch open, in flight, while cargo is dropped for descent via parachute, with the following quote over the top:

“Did you see that?”

“No! I officially *never* saw that crate! I *did not* see the flash of a sword cut the crate apart and *very specifically* didn’t see it explode into a shower of thousands of dinner rolls, with a teenage girl in the middle!”

“Good! I was afraid I was the only one that hadn’t seen that!”

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

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1839, Charlotte Bronte declines Reverend Henry Nussey’s marriage proposal, claiming that he would find her “romantic and eccentric” and not practical enough to be a clergyman’s wife. </p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-march-5-2026/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-march-5-2026/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-march</span><span class="invisible">-5-2026/</span></a></p><p>Books by Charlotte Bronte at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/408" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/408"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/408</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/womenshistory/" rel="tag">#womenshistory</a></p>

Thompson, John Hunter; Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855); Bronte Parsonage Museum; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/charlotte-bronte-18161855-21013

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<p>I guess a re- <a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#introduction</a> is in order. I'm back on Mastodon!</p><p>I've been away for a while, but I missed being here.</p><p>I'm an earthling living in the Netherlands. I like <a href="/tags/photography/" rel="tag">#photography</a>, reading <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> and <a href="/tags/blogs/" rel="tag">#blogs</a>, and <a href="/tags/travel/" rel="tag">#travel</a>. I have been online for quite some time and I love the internet.</p><p>Not sure what else to add, but you can find more about me here:<br><a href="https://blog.pcora.eu/about/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>blog.pcora.eu/about/</a></p>

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in the spirit of today's moon launch: A City on Mars

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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>

Book cover for Hearth Stories, Springtime Fare by B. Morris Allen, Erin Keating, Em Harriett, Erin France, and JM Cyrus. Image on cover is a painting of wild flowers growing in a meadow. There are tiny little pink, white, and blue flowers everywhere.

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<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>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>

Two drawings of a woman reading with arrows indicating her attitude is going around in circles.
Top: "I'm dying to know how it ends!!"
Bottom: NO!! I have to read slowly, I DON'T want it to end!"

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<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>

Title page of the book Memoirs and Posthumous Works of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Vol. 1

by Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin

A title page from a small 18th-century printed book on cream paper, text centred in varying type sizes: Memoirs and Posthumous Works of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. Below a ruled line: Dublin: Printed by Thomas Burnside, for J. Rice, 111, Grafton-Street. 1798.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/67847/pg67847-images.html

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<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>

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 online terrorist; the brilliant youngest, Harper, is being sent to wilderness reform camp due to her insistence that someone—or something—is monitoring the town’s citizens.

Casting a shadow across their lives, and their small coastal town, is Paul Alabaster, a billionaire shipping magnate. Rumors of corruption circulate, but no one dares dig too deep. No one except Harper, whose obsession with a mysterious shipping container sends the family hurtling into a criminal conspiracy—one that may just bring them closer together.

Irreverent and addictive, pinging between the voices of the Flynn family and those of the panorama of characters around them, Madeline Cash’s Lost Lambs is a debut novel of quick-witted observation and surprising tenderness. With it, Cash has crafted a family saga for the twenty-first century, all held together with crazy glue.

National bestseller. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by Vulture, Bustle, Good Housekeeping, Playboy, The Times (UK), Our Culture, Vol. 1 Brooklyn and Harper's Bazaar. A Book Club Pick from Belletrist, Bustle, and Good Housekeeping.

"If the Royal Tenenbaums were middl

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Neo-nazi Nato’s Proxy War Against Russia – Good book on what actually happening in Ukraine <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.ml/post/44122099">See Original Page</a> </small>

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<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>

Line luplau seen in the foreground on her daughter Marie Luplau's large group portrait painting From the Early Days of the Fight for Women's Suffrage (1897).

An oil painting depicting a large indoor gathering of men and women in late 19th-century dress. A central standing figure — an older woman in a long dark dress with a white lace collar — commands attention, appearing to address or preside over the assembled group. To her left sits a younger woman at a table with papers and a glass vessel. The crowd behind and around them is densely arranged, faces rendered individually. The setting appears to be a meeting hall with gas lamps visible on the wall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage#/media/File:Marie_Luplau_-_Fra_Kvindevalgretskampens_f%C3%B8rste_dage_(1897),.jpg

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<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>

The frontispiece engraving from Vernünfftige Gedancken von Gott, der Welt und der Seele des Menschen (first published in 1720) by Christian Wolff. The sun bursts out from clouds beneath the banner Lucem post nubila reddit (After a cloudy time He brings back the light).

https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_ONMAAAAAcAAJ/page/n4/mode/1up

Vernünfftige Gedancken von Gott, der Welt und der Seele des Menschen, auch allen Dingen überhaupt by Wolff, Christian von

A title page from an 18th-century German printed book, set in ornate blackletter (Fraktur) type in alternating black and red. The large decorative red letters spell Gott in elaborate calligraphic display type. The full title reads Vernünfftige Gedancken von Gott, der Welt und der Seele des Menschen, Auch allen Dingen überhaupt ("Rational Thoughts on God, the World, and the Soul of Man, and All Things in General"), by Christian Freyherrn von Wolff, with his extensive academic titles listed below. Published in Halle im Magdeburgischen, 1752, sold at the Rengerischen Buchhandl.

https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_ONMAAAAAcAAJ/page/n5/mode/1up

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<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>

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<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/LegacyOfNewts" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/LegacyOfNewts</a></p><p>The undead witch that rules the space pirates, known as the Dead Queen, has finally been defeated. That only makes it worse for the witches that pulled it off. She’s livid and coming for them, at least once she gets her star ship back under control…</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> <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 Legacy of Newts, by Owen Tyme.

In the background dawn, as seen from space, above a blue world.

In the foreground is a line drawing of a red spotted newt, in white. The lines of the newt are outlined in black, to help it stand out. The interior of the line drawing has been filled with the image of a spiral galaxy in red, orange and yellow, with a blue color that shades to white at the center, which lines up with the newt's head. The galaxy almost looks like fire.

(Right) The background is a blue and orange nebula, with the following text over it:

“You gotta be real strong, real bright, real quick, or real lucky to survive drawing *attention*. Which are you?”

“I’m quick, Amelia is bright, Marta is strong and all three of us have been lucky, after a fashion: if we didn’t have bad luck, then I suppose we wouldn’t have any luck at all.”

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

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<p>Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë is free to download. You don't have to buy it. <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/emily-bronte/wuthering-heights" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="standardebooks.org/ebooks/emily-bronte/wuthering-heights"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">standardebooks.org/ebooks/emil</span><span class="invisible">y-bronte/wuthering-heights</span></a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#Book</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>Ebook omnibus 25% off: <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1742997" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smashwords.com/books/view/1742997"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smashwords.com/books/view/</span><span class="invisible">1742997</span></a></p><p>The arch-demon, Pride, leads demon-kind in an ancient plan to open a gate between worlds, so vast demon armies might march forth and conquer, but opening a portal requires both energy equivalent to a nuclear explosion and the cooperation of a half-demon, to stabilize it. However, the only half-demon available has made it her life mission to kill all demons.</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/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

$(Background) A fractal pattern of red and orange that resembles a demonic portal. (Center) Pride needs a half-demon to stabilize the portal between worlds. There’s just one hitch: she hates him. One stubborn half-demon vs. all of demon-kind? It could go either way... (Top Left) The cover of She Hunts Demons, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson. Sitting on the roof of a building in New York City is a teenage girl with a Japanese short sword. The image is black and white, aside from a few details in blue. (Bottom Left) The cover of She Goes to War, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson. Three people in tiger-stripe camouflage crouch in the jungle, including a teen girl, a soldier and a huge cat-man with black fur. (Bottom Right) The cover of the novel, Demon for President!, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson. Two politicians (Democrat and Republican) shake hands, as if for a photo-op, while a city burns behind them and the flag of the United States waves in the smoke. (Top Right) The cover of the book bundle, Ashen Blades: Open Wounds, by Owen Tyme, which includes a Japanese sword, a pistol and a pineapple grenade on a wooden surface.$

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<p>Climate change to identity: The vital lessons in Metamorphoses, Ovid's 2,000-year-old poem</p><p>You might think that Ovid's Metamorphoses, an ancient compendium of the greatest Greek myths, would hold little relevance today. But its tales of desire and deceit reveal surprising parallels with contemporary concerns, from climate change and the refugee crisis to gender-based violence and identity.</p><p>by Cath Pound</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260317-metamorphoses-ovids-2000-year-old-poem-says-a-lot-about-2026" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260317-metamorphoses-ovids-2000-year-old-poem-says-a-lot-about-2026"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.bbc.com/culture/article/20</span><span class="invisible">260317-metamorphoses-ovids-2000-year-old-poem-says-a-lot-about-2026</span></a></p><p>At PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21765" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21765</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/culture/" rel="tag">#culture</a></p>

Lycian farmers changed into frogs: Latona changes Lycian farmers into frogs, because while they were weeding a marsh, they prevented her and her children from quenching their thirst (Ovid, Metamorphoses VI 369)

Claude Du Bosc / After Jean Jouvenet - Leto verandert de boeren in kikkers, Claude DuBosc, after Jean Baptiste Jouvenet, 1714 - Rijksmuseum

The scene depicts the goddess Leto — mother of Apollo and Artemis by Zeus — fleeing the wrath of Hera after giving birth. Exhausted and thirsty, she stops at a pond in Lycia to drink, but local peasants cruelly prevent her and her infant children from reaching the water, stirring up the mud to make it undrinkable. In fury, she calls upon Jupiter and transforms the peasants into frogs.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Metamorphoses_(Ovid)#/media/File:Claude_Du_Bosc_after_Jean-Baptiste_Jouvenet,_Leto_and_the_Lycian_Peasants,_1714,_Rijksmuseum_RP-P-1905-2842.jpg

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<p>Ik lees graag graphic novels en trakteerde mezelf op "Spinning" van Tillie Walden. Oorspronkelijk voor een jonger publiek. Walden kreeg er de Eisner Award voor, en terecht :) </p><p>In de VS staat het op de lijst van banned books - boeken met LGBTQIA+ thema’s, verhalen van POC’s of politieke onderwerpen, juist de verhalen die andere perspectieven laten zien.</p><p>Dus: lees ze.<br>Read banned books. </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/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/boeken/" rel="tag">#boeken</a> <a href="/tags/bannedboeks/" rel="tag">#BannedBoeks</a> <a href="/tags/verbodenboeken/" rel="tag">#VerbodenBoeken</a> <a href="/tags/readbannedbooks/" rel="tag">#ReadBannedBooks</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtq/" rel="tag">#LGBTQ</a> <a href="/tags/queerbrarians/" rel="tag">#Queerbrarians</a></p>

Het boek Spinning met op het cover een illustratie van meisjes die aan het kunstschaatsen zijn. Onderaan de pagina staat de titel van het boek en klein eronder de naam van de schrijfster en tekenares: Tillie Walden.

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<p>Elizabeth Gaskell: The Unsung Author Jane Austen And Brontë Fans Will Love</p><p>The Victorian writer had the wit of one, and the friendship of the other.</p><p>By Amy Glover</p><p><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/read-gaskell-if-you-like-bronte-austen_uk_69aaaff3e4b0bda876a8b99a" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/read-gaskell-if-you-like-bronte-austen_uk_69aaaff3e4b0bda876a8b99a"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry</span><span class="invisible">/read-gaskell-if-you-like-bronte-austen_uk_69aaaff3e4b0bda876a8b99a</span></a></p><p>Gaskell at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/220" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/220"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/220</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>

Elizabeth Gaskell: 1851 portrait by George Richmond.

A chalk portrait drawing of a Gaskell, shown from the chest up against a plain light background. She has dark hair parted centrally and drawn back smoothly, with loose strands falling at the sides. Her features are delicate and her expression gentle and slightly smiling. She wears a light dress with a dark brooch or bow at the neckline.

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1892, Vita Sackville-West is born. </p><p>"Sackville-West was a successful novelist, poet and journalist, as well as a prolific letter writer and diarist. She published more than a dozen collections of poetry and 13 novels during her life.... She was the inspiration for the protagonist of Orlando: A Biography, by her friend and lover Virginia Woolf."</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vita_Sackville-West" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vita_Sackville-West"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vita_Sac</span><span class="invisible">kville-West</span></a></p><p>Books by Sackville-West at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/34850" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/34850"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/34850</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

"Sackville-West around 1915, from The Life of V.Sackville-West by Victoria Glendinning" - wikipedia

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<p>RE: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/116211809285100124" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/116211809285100124"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/</span><span class="invisible">116211809285100124</span></a></p><p>This is the kind of love story I like around here, shut up I'm not crying, you're crying... 😊 </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@galacticwriters" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>galacticwriters</span></a></span> @writers <a href="https://lemmy.world/u/books" rel="nofollow">@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> <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><br>@keepwriting </p><p><a href="/tags/writingmemes/" rel="tag">#WritingMemes</a> <a href="/tags/meme/" rel="tag">#Meme</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/author/" rel="tag">#Author</a> <a href="/tags/authors/" rel="tag">#Authors</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#IndieAuthor</a> <a href="/tags/indiebooks/" rel="tag">#IndieBooks</a> <a href="/tags/amwriting/" rel="tag">#AmWriting</a> <a href="/tags/writerdons/" rel="tag">#Writerdons</a> <a href="/tags/writers/" rel="tag">#Writers</a> <a href="/tags/writer/" rel="tag">#Writer</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#Writing</a> <a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="/tags/writinglife/" rel="tag">#Writinglife</a> <a href="/tags/writersofmastodon/" rel="tag">#WritersOfMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a></p>

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<p>Happy to discover THE EXPERT OF SUBTLE REVISIONS on this list of greatest books (sharing a historical, speculative and science fiction category along with Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, Ilana Masad's Beings, and many more excellent books). Check out the full list!</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://thegreatestbooks.org/the-greatest/fiction,historical-fiction,metaphysical-visionary-fiction,science-fiction/books/since/1960" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="thegreatestbooks.org/the-greatest/fiction,historical-fiction,metaphysical-visionary-fiction,science-fiction/books/since/1960"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thegreatestbooks.org/the-great</span><span class="invisible">est/fiction,historical-fiction,metaphysical-visionary-fiction,science-fiction/books/since/1960</span></a></p>

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Time-Wasting, Truth-Wasting Exercises | Los Angeles Review of Books <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://sopuli.xyz/post/42343102">See Original Page</a> </small>

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<p>Lost page of the Archimedes Palimpsest identified in Blois, central France</p><p>via <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.numerique.gouv.fr/@InistCNRS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>InistCNRS</span></a></span> </p><p>edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Robert Egan</p><p><a href="https://phys.org/news/2026-03-lost-page-archimedes-palimpsest-blois.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="phys.org/news/2026-03-lost-page-archimedes-palimpsest-blois.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2026-03-lost-pag</span><span class="invisible">e-archimedes-palimpsest-blois.html</span></a></p><p>Archimedes at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2545" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2545"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/2545</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/archeology/" rel="tag">#archeology</a> <a href="/tags/mathematics/" rel="tag">#mathematics</a></p>

One page of Archimedes Palimpsest, On Floating Bodies

A photograph of two worn parchment pages showing a palimpsest — older text and diagrams visible beneath and alongside later overwriting. The pages are divided into columns of small Greek minuscule script, heavily faded and stained, with foxing and discolouration across the surface. On the right side of each page, geometric diagrams are visible — lines, angles, and labelled points — consistent with mathematical proofs. The parchment is damaged and warped, with the underlying and overlying texts creating a ghostly layered effect in brownish-grey tones.

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<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/WrathOfTheSky" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/WrathOfTheSky</a></p><p>Zechariah Jacobs has angered a vast empire that spans a third of the galaxy, which is far too much for his planet to stand against, but in a clash of wizards and magic versus technology, it’s hard to say which will win.</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 Wrath of the Sky, by Owen Tyme.

On a black background, a planet much like earth burns, set aflame. The flames are on the top and sides, but haven't yet reached the bottom.

(Right) An ogre stands on a rocky cliffside path, clearly quite upset, with both his head and arms raised as he cries out! The background is blue sky with white clouds. The following quote is laid over the top of the scene:

Winzon grinned evilly. With great slowness and ceremony, he undid the draw-string of his sack and up-ended it, dropping an ogre skull at the brute’s feet!

The massive ogre’s entire demeanor changed in an instant! He backed away, carefully stepping out of reach of Winzon’s ax, even though it was still strapped to his back!

The brute whispered, “Ogre-slayer!”

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

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