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Green Book Covers: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-green-book-covers/

#TopTenTuesday #StPatricksDay #Books

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Book cover for The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Image on cover shows a pale-skinned woman wearing a glamorous, silky green gown that shows off a little cleavage. She’s lying back and gently stretching out her arms.

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Books About Life Without Fossil Fuels

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" ‘If you do something for long enough, the world will accept it,’ a former senior Israeli military lawyer declared ahead of a previous assault on #Gaza. ‘We invented the #targetedAssassination thesis and we had to push it. [Now] it is in the centre of the bounds of legitimacy’ – as international acquiescence to the actions of #Israel and the US against Iran has now demonstrated."

#AndrewCockburn on #OperationWrathOfGod - and #Mossad assassinations

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n06/andrew-cockburn/beware-the-mattress
#books @bookstodon

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📚 And Now, Back to You by: B.K. Borison

Jackson Clark and Delilah Stewart have had their fair share of run-ins over the years, often ending in disaster. While Jackson thrives on routine and organization from the comfort of his radio booth, Delilah loves the spontaneity and adventure out in the field. When they’re partnered again...

https://bookblabla.com/book/and-now-back-to-you

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#books #reading #libraries #fiction #romance #workplacefiction #contemporary

Jackson Clark and Delilah Stewart have had their fair share of run-ins over the years, often ending in disaster. While Jackson thrives on routine and organization from the comfort of his radio booth, Delilah loves the spontaneity and adventure out in the field. When they’re partnered against their will to cover a historic snowstorm, they find themselves scrambling to figure out how to work together.

Eager to be taken seriously as a journalist, Delilah offers Jackson a deal: If he can help her ace this assignment, she’ll help him rediscover his long-lost fun side. With unexplored chemistry burning beneath their clashes, the unlikely partnership quickly tumbles into an easy and surprising friendship.

But when other feelings start to enter the equation, can Jackson and Delilah withstand the storm? Or does what happens in the mountains stay in the mountains?

Promises plenty of Borison's signature banter, emotional nuance, and snowed-in charm. New York Times.

Two competing meteorologists are forced to find common ground in this opposites attract, When Harry Met Sally inspired romance, from #1 New York Times bestselling author B.K. Borison.

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Our local independent bookshop has a monthly ‘mystery book’ subscription. The staff have hand-crafted teeny tiny editions of each title they’ve included so far. Each book cover is a faithful rendition of the real one. Amazon could never. AI could never.

#Books
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Short version: book display with tiny books. Fuller description: Close-up of a hand-made display at family-run independent bookshop Kristian F Møller in Aarhus, Denmark. It advertises the Bookpack monthly subscription at 149 kroner per month – great value in a country where one book usually costs about 250 kr or 300 kr (€35 or €40). Surrounded by colourful coffee mugs and books and gift cards,there is a tiny wooden bookshelf about the size of an average paperback. On each of its two shelves, about twenty teeny colourful matchbox-sized ‘books’, each with the author name clear on the spine. The covers are faithful to the real book covers. Author names include Helle Helle. RE Kuang. Patti Smith. Bonnie Garmus. Murakami. Katrine Marie Guldager. Bernadine Evaristo. Douglas Stewart. Thomas Mann. Ann Patchett. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

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Kicking and screaming is the only way I go anywhere, but the boring dystopia we're heading towards has earned it more than most 🤔😂

@webcomics
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#CalvinAndHobbes
#BookMemes #Meme #Humor #Humour #Funny
#ReadingMemes #Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity
#Litterature #Novel #Bookshelf
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Four panel Calvin and Hobbes comic.

Calvin: YESTERDAY DAD WENT UT TO BUY A HARDCOVER NOVEL.

HE SAID HE WANTED TO READ SOMETHING LONG, RICH, AND THOUGHT- PROVOKING FOR A CHANGE, AND HE WANTED A CLOTH BINDING SO HIS BOOK COULD BE CARRIED AROUND AND REREAD LATER.

THEN HE SAID HE WAS GOING TO BUY THE BOOK WITH CASH SO NOBODY COULD TRACE THE PURCHASE TO HIM AND EXPLOIT HIS INTERESTS FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES.

Hobbes: YOUR DADS GOING INTO THE FUTURE KICKING AND SCREAMING. ISN'T HE?

Calvin: WHAT IF HES TURNING INTO SOME KIND OF SUBVERSIVE?

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How Einstein revolutionized the meaning of “where” and “when”

Even space and time are relative in Einstein's universe. That means our old notions of "where" and "when" no longer apply on cosmic scales.

by Ethan Siegel

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/einstein-revolutionized-where-when/?utm_source=nautilus.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=are-we-all-doomed-to-develop-ai-psychosis&_bhlid=c8e74783f471d1d0672424048a5359c94a883770

Einstein at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1630

#books #science #physics

Dr. Albert Einstein writes out an equation for the density of the Milky Way on the blackboard at the Carnegie Institute, Mt. Wilson Observatory headquarters in Pasadena, Calif., Jan. 14, 1931.

A black-and-white photograph of Einstein with wild white hair and a thick moustache, wearing a tweed jacket, writing on a blackboard with chalk. He turns his head toward the camera with a lively, alert expression. The equation R_ik = 0 is written in large chalk letters on the dark board behind him, with additional partially visible equations above.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#/media/File:Albert_Einstein_writing_on_a_blackboard_in_Pasadena_(1931).jpg

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25% off @ Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1667520

The Hunter seeks peace and quiet to mourn the loss of her best friend in a world that seems bound and determined to make that task impossible. Enemies attack when she’d rather be alone, allies can’t take a hint and the arch-demon Wrath seeks the Hunter’s hand in marriage, even though she’d sooner kill him.

@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #actionadventure #fiction #books

(Left) The cover of She Seeks Peace, by Owen Tyme.

The background is a snow-capped, craggy mountain with green, grassy hills at its base, which feature yellow and blue flowers.

The foreground is dominated by the round symbol for peace, in gold. Along the bottom of it are two olive branches. At the top is a dove in flight. Arranged on the lower three spokes of it are three figures based on the AIGA symbol for a woman. The figure on the right is blue. The one in the middle is a very dark gray, bordering on black, which includes a top hat. The figure on the left is red and has horns, like a demon.

(Right) The background is a view from the interior of a gun's barrel, with the rifling very apparent and the following quote over the top:

Reggie looked down the barrel of one of his own pistols, which the girl held in both hands, because the M1911 was a little large for someone so small.

There was a long, silent moment as the girl giggled and met his gaze. The murderous look was gone, replaced by something more playful, like a cat toying with a mouse.

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

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Why Lacan Loved Harpo Marx

A surprising encounter between high theory and Hollywood farce reshapes how we think about laughter and desire.

By: Angelica Frey

https://daily.jstor.org/why-lacan-loved-harpo-marx/

Humor & Comedy at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/44
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=comedy

#books #literature #art #culture

Lobby card for Monkey Business (1931) with Chico (left) and Harpo (right)

The card shows Chico on the left in his trademark shabby suit and felt hat, and Harpo on the right in his iconic curly red wig, battered top hat, and characteristically mismatched, oversized clothing. The man in the middle is one of the supporting cast members.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpo_Marx#/media/File:Monkey_Business_lobby_card_1931.JPG

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Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/TheThirdWish

Spies, aliens, trolls, wizards and a disowned prince use a time machine, to improve their place in history, but Levi Jacobs stands in their way, despite having just lost his parents in war. Will he stop them or will the time travelers kill his father at a pivotal moment, on which the fate of the galaxy hangs?

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#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #sciencefantasy #scifi #actionadventure #fiction #books

(Left) The cover of The Third Wish, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

A wizard in a black robe that glitters with hints of gold stands on a mountain and looks down at a city of sky scrapers covered in greenery. In his shadow lurks a creature with glowing red eyes.

In the background, the sun is setting and stars are becoming visible.

(Right Background) Four images separated by black lines, with the silhouette of a woman wielding two swords laid over them. She's outlined in black and her interior is yellow clock-based imagery that spirals outward from the center.

The upper left quarter is a queen in a red, furred robe, wearing a gold and diamond crown. She has dark eyebrows and blond hair.

Upper right is a planet seen from orbit.

Lower left is a symbolic wire frame representation of the view inside a wormhole, in green and yellow.

Lower right is dandelions among grass.

The angle of the planet, one of the woman's swords, the yellow highlights of the wormhole and some of the dandelions form a line that draws the eye along a sweeping curve.

(Right Foreground) The following quote:

He admired the flawless beauty of the insane swordswoman’s fluid movements as Ida took desperate step after step, backwards!

He felt waves of mental energy pour off the panic-stricken troll, but the energy bounced right off of Nicole’s mind, as though she’d shut herself inside a solid, red-hot, steel box of rage!

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

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It may seem like it, but buying things just for the sake of buying them is not happiness. Instead enjoy the things you already have 😊

And I say that as someone who has a book for sale 😁

@reading @bookstodon @books @humor @humor@lemmy.world @aiop

#TomGauld
#BookMemes #Meme #Memes #Humor #Humour #Funny
#ReadingMemes #Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity
#Litterature #Novel #Novels #Bookshelf
#Books #Bookstodon

A six panel comic by Tom Gauld with a little man sitting infront of his laptop.

1: YOUR ORDER HAS BEEN RECEIVED!
2: YOUR ITEM HAS BEEN DISPATCHED!
3: YOUR PACKAGE HAS BEEN DELIVERED!
4: YOUR BOOK HAS BEEN NEGLECTED: LEFT ON THE SHELF, UNREAD AND FORGOTTEN, GATHERING DUST FOR SEVERAL MONTHS.
5: The little man looks concerned.
6: YOUR ORDER HAS BEEN RECEIVED!

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Recommend me books on Sumerian history and culture

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25% off @ Smashwrods: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1657116

After encountering the worst life has to offer, including the death of his wife and child, destruction of his home world, an addiction forced on him by the one responsible and a third of the galaxy falling under the heel of that tyrant, Levi Jacobs, a wizard, seeks to unravel the secrets of time and fate.

@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #sciencefantasy #scifi #actionadventure #fiction #books

(Left) The cover of The Inverted Glass, by Owen Tyme.

The Background is a pink and purple nebula in space.

The foreground is largely line art, in white, with a black shadow outline.

At the center is an hourglass. The bottom has black sand, with a white figure standing in it. The top has is an inverted mirror image of the bottom, with a black figure in white sand.

The hourglass serves as the balance point for a set of scales, which hold a heart and a feather. The heart is on the left and the feather on the right. The heart is lower than the feather.

(Right) Lying in blue sand is a heart made of the same sand, full of cracks. It glows from the inside in a warm, yellow color. Over that is the following quote:

Nicole felt an extreme kind of loss, realizing she’d been stolen away from the afterlife, just before finding out if she deserved punishment or not!

“How dare you do this to me? Why?”

“I’m always in need of strong spirits and I’ve seen none stronger. You have unique talents I refuse to see go to waste.”

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

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📚 Alien Clay by: Adrian Tchaikovsky

Professor Arton Daghdev has always wanted to study alien life in person. But when his political activism sees him exiled to the planet Kiln, condemned to work under an unfamiliar sky until he dies, his idealistic wish becomes a terrible reality.

Kiln boasts a ravenous, chaotic ecosystem. Its monstrous alien life means Arton wil...

https://bookblabla.com/book/alien-clay

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Professor Arton Daghdev has always wanted to study alien life in person. But when his political activism sees him exiled to the planet Kiln, condemned to work under an unfamiliar sky until he dies, his idealistic wish becomes a terrible reality.

Kiln boasts a ravenous, chaotic ecosystem. Its monstrous alien life means Arton will risk death on a daily basis – if the camp’s oppressive regime doesn’t kill him first. But, if he survives, Kiln’s lost civilization holds a wondrous, terrible secret. It will redefine life and intelligence as he knows it – and might just set him free.

They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind...
Alien Clay is a thrilling tale of alien encounter – from the acclaimed Arthur C. Clarke Award-winner Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Unputdownable – Stephen Baxter, author of Proxima

Heart-in-the-mouth fantastic – New Scientist

Restlessly brainy and utterly involving – Daily Mail

The perfect gateway into what makes Tchaikovsky great – SciFiNow

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Anyone read REAMDE? I've been re-reading, and would love to see another sequel, one focused on Csongor and Marlon. Anyone else want a Neal Stephenson buddy story?

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Audiobooks I’ve Enjoyed: https://lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-audiobooks-ive-enjoyed/

#WednesdayWeeklyBloggingChallenge #Books

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Five hardcover books standing up on a white surface. They are held upright and together in place by a pair of headphones that are wrapped around them in the same way you’d see a person wear headphones.

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Ebook and print: https://books2read.com/SheGoesToWar

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.

@bookstodon
#indieauthor #writing #fantasy #actionadventure #fiction #books

(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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The Captivating Saga Behind the Only Known Portrait of the Brontë Sisters

The only known painting of the three Brontë sisters together was painted by their brother, Branwell, and was long thought lost.

by Katie White

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/bronte-sisters-portrait-history-2748843

Brontë sisters at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=bront%C3%AB+sisters

#books #literature #womenHistoryMonth

The Brontë sisters, painted by Branwell Brontë (in order: Anne, Emily and Charlotte).

An oil portrait of the Brontë sisters grouped closely together against a dark background, with a pale yellowish column or pillar visible behind the central figure. All three have dark auburn curly hair and pale complexions with direct, serious expressions. Anne wears grey-blue; Emily, set slightly back, wears green; Charlotte wears dark brown-black with a grey collar. A book or papers rest on a surface in the foreground.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB#/media/File:The_Bront%C3%AB_Sisters_by_Patrick_Branwell_Bront%C3%AB_restored.jpg

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#OTD 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.

https://lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-march-5-2026/

Books by Charlotte Bronte at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/408

#books #literature #womenshistory

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

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What Is the Dominant Emotion in 400 Years of Women’s Diaries?

A new anthology identifies frustration as a recurring theme in journals written between 1599 and 2015

by Sarah Gristwood

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

Women literature at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=women+literature

#books #literature #WomenHistoryMonth

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I guess a re- #introduction is in order. I'm back on Mastodon!

I've been away for a while, but I missed being here.

I'm an earthling living in the Netherlands. I like #photography, reading #books and #blogs, and #travel. I have been online for quite some time and I love the internet.

Not sure what else to add, but you can find more about me here:
https://blog.pcora.eu/about/

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RE: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediFollows/116303274173990292

In case you missed it, here's a very long thread of accounts about #books to follow for #WorldBookDay

Click the thread below to open it in full 🙂

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Happy #Caturday!

T.S. Eliot's 1939 collection of whimsical light poems, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, is entirely dedicated to felines and served as the basis for the musical Cats.

#poetry #poem #kitty #cat #cats #poet #eliot #tseliot #catsOfMastodon #books #reading #literature #bookstodon @bookstodon #books #books #booksky #booktok #bookwyrm #bookstagram #feline #today #cartoon #catsOfFediverse