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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>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>

Book cover for Mandela By Rudolph Kohn. Image on cover shows a white, slightly square-shaped dodo egg sitting on the floor of a forest filled with ferns and trees.

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<p>There can be no sin committed from love – the radical ethics of Héloïse</p><p>by Prashanti Aswani, Adam D’Arpino, Abigail Tulenko</p><p><a href="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" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="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"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/videos/there-can-be-no</span><span class="invisible">-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</span></a></p><p>Books by Abelard and Heloïse at PG<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5441" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5441"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/5441</span></a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/38039" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/38039"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/38039</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/philosophy/" rel="tag">#Philosophy</a></p>

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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<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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<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>

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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>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>

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<p>A new list of “The 100 Best Novels” is out from The Guardian, it’s a list chosen by prominent authors, but they don’t say if they gave any criteria for what constitutes ‘best’, which is my pet peeve about these lists. What does best mean?</p><p>Anyway, the top 50 is about what you’d expect, but 50-100 is more unusual, with a lot more contemporary works, and some totally new authors to me. </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/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/novels/" rel="tag">#novels</a> <a href="/tags/lists/" rel="tag">#lists</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/may/12/the-100-best-novels-of-all-time" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/may/12/the-100-best-novels-of-all-time"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/books/ng-i</span><span class="invisible">nteractive/2026/may/12/the-100-best-novels-of-all-time</span></a></p>

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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>The Short But Magical Life of John Keats</p><p>Poet John Keats, in his short life, wrote some of the most beloved poems in the English language.</p><p><a href="https://www.thecollector.com/john-keats-english-poet/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/john-keats-english-poet/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thecollector.com/john-keat</span><span class="invisible">s-english-poet/</span></a></p><p>Books by Keats at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/935" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/935"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/935</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

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

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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>"Marx Prestige" ep 1</p><p><a href="/tags/andrewhartman/" rel="tag">#AndrewHartman</a>, author of <a href="/tags/karlmarxinamerica/" rel="tag">#KarlMarxInAmerica</a>, discusses "how <a href="/tags/karlmarx/" rel="tag">#KarlMarx</a> understood the United States as a testing ground for capitalism and democratic development in the nineteenth century." </p><p><a href="https://americanprestige.supportingcast.fm/listen/american-prestige-1/marx-prestige-episode-1-the-civil-war-and-american-capitalism" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="americanprestige.supportingcast.fm/listen/american-prestige-1/marx-prestige-episode-1-the-civil-war-and-american-capitalism"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">americanprestige.supportingcas</span><span class="invisible">t.fm/listen/american-prestige-1/marx-prestige-episode-1-the-civil-war-and-american-capitalism</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/marx/" rel="tag">#Marx</a> <a href="/tags/marxism/" rel="tag">#Marxism</a> <a href="/tags/americanmarxism/" rel="tag">#AmericanMarxism</a> <a href="/tags/usleft/" rel="tag">#USleft</a> <a href="/tags/ushistory/" rel="tag">#UShistory</a> <a href="/tags/americanhistory/" rel="tag">#AmericanHistory</a> <a href="/tags/americanleft/" rel="tag">#AmericanLeft</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USpolitics</a> <a href="/tags/americanlabormovement/" rel="tag">#AmericanLaborMovement</a> <a href="/tags/americansocialism/" rel="tag">#AmericanSocialism</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>Happy International Women's Day! To celebrate it, Project Gutenberg created a new bookshelf titled Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/706" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/706"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/books</span><span class="invisible">helf/706</span></a></p><p>More information about these magnificent women can be foud in PG´s March Newsletter:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/newsletter/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/newsletter/</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/womeninstem/" rel="tag">#womeninstem</a> <a href="/tags/womenhistorymonth/" rel="tag">#womenhistoryMonth</a></p>

Mary Somerville [Fairfax]. Lithograph after J. Phillips.

A lithograph portrait of Mary Somerville shown from the chest up, in early 19th-century dress. She has elaborately styled curly hair piled high with ringlets framing her face. She wears a ruffled white lace collar and a dress with feathered or fur trimming at the shoulders, fastened with a circular brooch. Her expression is calm and self-possessed, her gaze slightly averted.

https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/9200579/mraqxra2

Maria Gaetana Agnesi. Line engraving by E. Conquy after M. Longhi.

A line engraving portrait ofMaria Gaetana Agnesi shown bust-length within a softly shaded oval vignette. She has powdered or light curly hair loosely styled, small drop earrings, and wears a fur-trimmed garment over a light dress with a ribbon bow at the shoulder. Her expression is composed and direct.

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A portrait from the Welsh Portrait Collection at the National Library of Wales. Depicted person: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne – English aristocrat, prolific writer, and scientist. By George Kellaway

A stipple or line engraving portrait of a woman shown from the chest up against a densely cross-hatched dark background. She has long, loosely curled hair falling to her shoulders, a small decorative crown or coronet at the top of her head, and wears a pearl necklace and a low-cut dress with a draped sash. Her expression is placid and direct. The caption below reads Margaret, D. of Newcastle. The engraver's name Kellaway sc. appears at lower right.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Margaret,_D._of_Newcastle_(4670217).jpg

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<p>Typing for Love or Money<br>The Hidden Women’s Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpieces</p><p><a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/typing-for-love-or-money/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="publicdomainreview.org/essay/typing-for-love-or-money/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">publicdomainreview.org/essay/t</span><span class="invisible">yping-for-love-or-money/</span></a></p><p>At PG:</p><p>"The Story of the Typewriter":</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60794" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60794</a></p><p>Books by Henry James:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/113" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/113"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/113</span></a></p><p>"Henry James at Work" by Theodora Bosanquet:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63377" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63377</a></p><p>Books by T. S. Eliot:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/599" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/599"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/599</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/womenhistorymonth/" rel="tag">#womenhistoryMonth</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Lillian Sholes demonstrating a prototype typewriter invented by her father, Christopher Latham Sholes, 1872

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<p>A Review of The Visitor: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-the-visitor/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-the-visitor/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-th</span><span class="invisible">e-visitor/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtq/" rel="tag">#LGBTQ</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 The Visitor by Neil Shooter. Image on cover is a photo taken of a one-story ranch-style house after dusk. You can see the road bend in front of the house, some trees on the left, and the house itself sitting quietly, but all of this is shrouded in the darkness of night that obscures most details about any of them.

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