Neo-nazi Nato’s Proxy War Against Russia – Good book on what actually happening in Ukraine
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#Librarians are still out there fighting the good fight! 💪📚
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. https://books2read.com/blossoming
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 #solarpunk utopia.
Read a sample: https://www.ododopress.com/novellas/the-blossoming-of-the-big-tree/
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
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
Ebook omnibus 25% off: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1742997
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.
@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #actionadventure #fiction #books
Climate change to identity: The vital lessons in Metamorphoses, Ovid's 2,000-year-old poem
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.
by Cath Pound
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 :)
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.
Dus: lees ze.
Read banned books.
@bookstodon
#books #boeken #BannedBoeks #VerbodenBoeken #ReadBannedBooks #LGBTQ #Queerbrarians
Typing for Love or Money
The Hidden Women’s Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpieces
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/typing-for-love-or-money/
At PG:
"The Story of the Typewriter":
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60794
Books by Henry James:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/113
"Henry James at Work" by Theodora Bosanquet:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63377
Books by T. S. Eliot:
A Review of The Visitor: https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-the-visitor/
Radcliffe Acquires a Black Feminist’s Archive
An architect of Black women’s studies, Barbara Smith introduced the concepts of “identity politics” and “intersectionality.”
by Lydialyle Gibson
Black fiction & Feminism at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=black+fiction
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=feminism
The Real Count of Monte Cristo Was Alexandre Dumas’ Father, a Trailblazing Black General
Ahead of the March 22 premiere of a new TV adaptation, learn about the life of Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, the French Army officer who inspired the beloved novel
by Joel Sams
The Count of Monte Cristo at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1184
"The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose."
The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire
The Chronicler of Decline
Is it too late for our republic to learn from Gibbon’s epic history of Rome’s collapse?
by Ed Simon
https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/the-chronicler-of-decline
Gibbon at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/375
Elizabeth Gaskell: The Unsung Author Jane Austen And Brontë Fans Will Love
The Victorian writer had the wit of one, and the friendship of the other.
By Amy Glover
Gaskell at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/220
#OTD in 1892, Vita Sackville-West is born.
"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."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vita_Sackville-West
Books by Sackville-West at PG:
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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!
Time-Wasting, Truth-Wasting Exercises | Los Angeles Review of Books
Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/WrathOfTheSky
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.
@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #sciencefantasy #scifi #actionadventure #fiction #books
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/03/book-review-misheard-world-by-aliya.html
The Misheard World feels, at every moment, intensely carefully crafted, and it is a delight to be left unsettled by it, all the way to the last says
@chloroform_tea
at the NOAF blog:
What we can learn from scientific analysis of Renaissance recipes
Multispectral imaging, proteomics, historical texts yield new insights into 16th-century medical manuals.
by Jennifer Ouellette
The Pleasures of the Table by George H. Ellwanger at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/419
My first podcast ever. Recorded with Dennis McKenna (who would say?). Words fail to express my gratitude and respect for this gentleman. zenjoy!
A revolution in time
Once local and irregular, time-keeping became universal and linear in 311 BCE. History would never be the same again
by Paul J Kosmin
Cosmology at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/7398
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Upcoming new release IMAGINE A FRIEND by David Quantick is “really lovely” and is a perfect all-ages novella for changes in season and life. Out Tuesday, March 10! Order from your favorite bookseller.
#fantasy #fantasybooks #books #nostalgia
https://www.starsandsabers.com/books/imagine-a-friend/
In the Film Death in Venice, Music Is the Narrator
A haunting score shapes the rise and fall of a writer consumed by infatuation.
By: Angelica Frey
https://daily.jstor.org/in-the-film-death-in-venice-music-is-the-narrator/
Death in Venice at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66073
How Women Researchers Changed Our Understanding of Women’s Economic Lives
How can better data drive economic change? ‘We Do Declare’ uses oral histories to reveal how women collected evidence, reframed the conversation about money, and shaped lasting policy and economic opportunity.
by Rachel F. Seidman
Women’s Economic Lives & Women economy at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68759
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=women+economy
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57913
