Eggplant.place

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Recommend me books on Sumerian history and culture

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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

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#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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Celebrating Women’s History Month

Celebrate Women’s History Month with JSTOR Daily. We hope you’ll find the stories below a valuable resource for classroom or leisure reading.

By The Editors

https://daily.jstor.org/womens-history-month-editors-picks/

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

#books #literature #WomenHistoryMonth

Wollstonecraft in 1790–1791, by John Opie

John Opie - Tate Britain

An oil portrait of Wollstonecraft against a near-black background. She has loosely curled ash-blonde hair held back by a white bandeau. Her gaze is direct and composed. She wears a deep teal draped garment with a white fichu at the neckline, and rests one hand on an open book. A quill and inkwell are visible to the upper left.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Wollstonecraft#/media/File:MaryWollstonecraft.jpg

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February Reading Progress

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

#WednesdayWeeklyBloggingChallenge #Books

@bookstodon

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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#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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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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Something else

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A Review of Hearth Stories, Springtime Fare: https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-hearth-stories-springtime-fare/

#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #Fantasy #LGBTQ #Romance

@bookstodon

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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There can be no sin committed from love – the radical ethics of Héloïse

by Prashanti Aswani, Adam D’Arpino, Abigail Tulenko

https://aeon.co/videos/there-can-be-no-sin-committed-from-love-the-radical-ethics-of-heloise?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=b64a312493-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_05_27_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972

Books by Abelard and Heloïse at PG
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5441
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/38039

#Books #literature #Philosophy

Transcription: Wherein are written how the scholar Peter Abelard forgot his learning and became a lover, altho the price he paid was great: and how the beautiful Heloise in desiring to acquire knowledge from Abelard learned of all lessons the greatest, from the greatest master of all, to wit, Love: and how she prized it most highly, altho it brought her both shame and sorrow.

The love letters of Abelard and Heloise

by Peter Abelard and Héloïse

Other: Ralph Fletcher Seymour

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/40227/pg40227-images.html

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What Oral Histories Reveal About Women’s Pursuit of Economic Independence

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.

by Rachel F. Seidman

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

Mary Wollstonecraft at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/84

#books #literature #womenhistoryMonth

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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Neo-nazi Nato’s Proxy War Against Russia – Good book on what actually happening in Ukraine

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Platform Decay. Martha Wells. (Book ~342 of a series)

You are a newishly self-aware security android who’d rather be watching TV, instead, you must rescue hapless humans from a corporate controlled ginormous space station; pretty much your average day.

3 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 .

@bookstodon #bookstodon #books #reading #scifi #androids

Book cover featuring an android floating near an airlock

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Female writers and readers have been challenging the patriarchy for more than 200 years

by Roberta Garrett

https://theconversation.com/female-writers-and-readers-have-been-challenging-the-patriarchy-for-more-than-200-years-276231

Suffrage at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/72

#books #literature #womenhistoryMonth

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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The great, forgotten Wolff

Written for laymen, read by women and kings, Christian Wolff’s mathematical method made him a key Enlightenment philosopher

by Michael Walschots

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

#books #mathematics #philosophy

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

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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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The Short But Magical Life of John Keats

Poet John Keats, in his short life, wrote some of the most beloved poems in the English language.

https://www.thecollector.com/john-keats-english-poet/

Books by Keats at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/935

#poetry #books #literature

Image of John Keats shows him sitting at a desk with an open book and his chin in his hand.

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

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…

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

(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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John Scalzi on “Indefinite Book Club Hiatus”

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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

@bookstodon

#books #reading #libraries #fiction #sciencefiction

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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Lost Archimedes Page from Medieval Manuscript Discovered in France

A page long thought lost from one of the most important surviving manuscripts of antiquity has now been identified in a French museum, offering fresh insight into both ancient science and medieval book culture.

https://www.medievalists.net/2026/03/lost-archimedes-page-from-medieval-manuscript-discovered-in-france/

#mathematics #books #literature #science

Archimedes the Thinker by the Italian painter Nicolò Barabino. It shows Archimedes sitting in a chair with his feet stretched out in front. His arms are resting on the high-backed chair. A table with a papyrus on it.

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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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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