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101d

Books I Want to Read by New to Me Authors: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-books-i-want-to-read-by-new-to-me-authors/

#Books #TopTenTuesday #NonFiction #LGBTQ #Disability

@bookstodon

Book cover for Trans and Disabled: An Anthology of Identities and Experiences by Alex Iantaffi (Editor) . Image on cover shows a curved row of blue, light pink, and dark pink flowers swooping up. They look like the trans pride flag. There is also a cane standing in front of them.

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Book cover for The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love by Alice Hoffman. Image on cover shows a simple drawing of a yellow dog who is holding his or her head up as if someone is about to pet them.

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TL;DR: No it wasn't. Yes you should.

#reading #books #writing #socialMedia

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The Fitzgeralds of Dublin series is a sweeping 19th-century Irish family saga. Follow Will and Isobel through struggles, secrets, and choices that test their love and loyalty in a changing Ireland.

Amazon - https://mybook.to/FitzgeraldsSeries
Other Retailers - https://lornapeel.com/fitzgeralds/a-scarlet-woman

#TheFitzgeraldsOfDublinSeries #Books #BooksByLornaPeel #FamilySaga #HistoricalFiction #Ireland #BookSeries #KindleUnlimited @bookstodon

Promotional image for The Fitzgeralds of Dublin series - an Irish historical fiction series by Lorna Peel. The tagline reads: "Love, trust, family ties and secrets…" followed by "Discover Lorna Peel’s gritty family saga set in 19th-century Ireland." The image displays ten book covers in two rows. The titles are:
Top row (left to right):

1. A Scarlet Woman
2. A Suitable Wife
3. A Discarded Son
4. A Forlorn Hope
5. A Cruel Mischief

Bottom row (left to right):
6. A Hidden Motive
7. A Minor Detail
8. A Pleasant Distraction
9. A Stark Prediction
10. A Perfect Solution

Each cover features characters in late 19th-century clothing, and 19th-century Dublin photographs.

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100d

Please sir, can I have some more, book based comedy 😁

#Funny #Books #fyp #Standup #NotOC

By BK Sharad

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131d

How prestigious is the PenMasters Global Award for Literary Excellence?

I haven't heard of this award. Wondered if some of you were familiar with it.

@bookstodon #books #bookstodon

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#QuestionOfTheDay what's a speech/line in fiction that is meaningful to you and you still think about a lot?

#writing #fiction #books #poetry #music #musicals #comics #comicbooks #movies #film #anime #manga #television #TV #videogames #CCGs #TTRPG #gaming #boardgames #scifi #fantasy

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109d

Writing As Spiritual Practice: Inside the World of Medieval Scribes

Joel Halldorf on the Monks Who Helped Preserve Generations of Cultural Heritage

https://lithub.com/writing-as-spiritual-practice-inside-the-world-of-medieval-scribes/

A student's history of education at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60113

#books #literature #old_Manuscripts

Fig. 7.—A monk in the scriptorium.

A woodcut illustration of a medieval monk or scholar seated at a writing desk, wearing robes and a tall cap, surrounded by open books on stands and shelves, carefully writing or copying a manuscript.

Title: A student's history of education

Author: Frank Pierrepont Graves

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101d

The End of Reading Is Here

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101d

The looting of science fiction

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Children’s books about Black people’s everyday, joyful lives are sometimes banned – but they help all kids explore what it means to be human

by Wintre Foxworth Johnson, Brooke Harris Garad, Jennifer D. Turner, Tiffany D. Meadows

https://theconversation.com/childrens-books-about-black-peoples-everyday-joyful-lives-are-sometimes-banned-but-they-help-all-kids-explore-what-it-means-to-be-human-283944

Books in Children´s Literature at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/20

#books #literature

“SHE SAW A WHOLE TROOP OF SPRIGGANS HOLDING AN ELFIN FAIR”

Title: The Book of Elves and Fairies for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Children's Own Reading

Author: Frances Jenkins Olcott

Illustrator: Milo Winter

A fairy-tale illustration by Milo Winter showing a tall witch-like old woman in a black top hat, plaid shawl, and red cloak with a basket on her arm, bending down to greet a group of tiny, elegantly dressed courtly figures gathered around a ribboned maypole amid tulips and toadstools.

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108d

Book Promotion: Epic Sci-Fi & #Fantasy books for #July

A collection of 75 #books for you to read. Read my #spaceopera

#kindle #spaceship #magic #aliens #legendary #fedibookfair #boost #amreading #writing #dwarfs #readers #rogue #heroes #bookwyrm #reading #goodbooks #space #time #dwarves #dystopia #sorcery #monsters #futurism #planets #sciencefiction #science #scifi #writing #young #newadults #teen #teens #ya #books #booktoot #booksky #bookfunnel @bookstodon

https://books.bookfunnel.com/sffjuly0002/pvnv9hgjkv

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108d

Book Promotion: First #book in a series on #KindleUnlimited

A collection of 118 #books for you. Read my #spaceopera

#ku #spaceship #magic #aliens #kindle #fedibookfair #boost #amreading #writing #dwarfs #readers #rogue #heroes #bookwyrm #reading #goodbooks #space #time #dwarves #dystopia #sorcery #monsters #futurism #planets #sciencefiction #science #scifi #writing #young #newadults #teen #teens #ya #books #booktoot #booksky #bookfunnel #bookstagram @bookstodon

https://books.bookfunnel.com/kureads-jul/ja5y034d96

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108d

Book Promotion: Choose a #book on #Kindle Unlimited

A collection of 117 #books for you. Read my #spaceopera

#ku #spaceship #magic #aliens #legendary #fedibookfair #boost #amreading #writing #dwarfs #readers #rogue #heroes #bookwyrm #reading #goodbooks #space #time #dwarves #dystopia #sorcery #monsters #futurism #planets #sciencefiction #science #scifi #writing #young #newadults #teen #teens #ya #books #booktoot #booksky #bookfunnel #bookstagram @bookstodon

https://books.bookfunnel.com/kureviews-jul/9kn5y7rgej

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77d

Today's book promo: My First Series.
It's science fiction, but the friendly kind.
Heroes beaten down by the new order team up to save a philanthropist targeted for assassination bc he wants to change the system from within.
Hiinks ensue.
2 novels, a novella & a wee prequel.

DRM free ebooks & print direct:
https://kmherkes.com/the-bookshop1
kindle:
https://amazon.com/author/kmherkes
other vendors:
https://books2read.com/KMHerkes/

#bookstodon #reading #ScienceFiction #scifi #books #hopepunk #technothriller

Promo graphic with the covers of all four Stories Of the Restoration novels shown on a white background with the statement "Move Slow Fix Things on a green band in the center, and a scatter of descriptive keywords all around them.
Books:
Controlled Descent, Flight Plan, Weaving In The Ends, and Novices.
Keywords:
Social justice
heists
so much swearing
feisty heroines
kinda gritty
chosen families
unexplained superpowers
mystery, science fiction, suspense, romance, sorta hopepunk.
Controlled Descent shows an image of two figures on a snowfield hiking toward a futuristic city. Flight Plan shows a silhouette of a city against a burning orange smoky sky, Weaving In The Ends has the image of two hands knitting blue yarn against a moody dark background, and Novices shows two boys silhouetted by a rising sun near a ruined city.

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79d

Behold my awesome short story collection. It has a little bit of everything, if everything is defined as fantasy AND science fiction. Even my cat likes it.

Gandalf the Grey Cat is not for sale, but you can buy Relics From a Traveling Show:

https://kmherkes.com/the-bookshop1/p/relics-from-a-traveling-show-ebook1

kindle (DRM free)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJWQRWGY
Kobo, Nook & more:
https://books2read.com/relicsfromatravelingshow

*also on bookshop.org, Hoopla, Overdrive & Biblioboard. Ask your local library to purchase it!

#books #reading #fantasy #bookpromo

Fluffy grey kitten lying on his back on a blue blanket in a “paint me like one of your French girls” pose. A paperback book Press on the blanket behind his right shoulder.The book is titled Relics From A Traveling Show and the front cover illustration shows a wizard sitting at a desk next to a bookcase.

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107d

This Week in Literary History: Ernest Hemingway is Wounded on the Italian Front

“When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you.”

https://lithub.com/this-week-in-literary-history-ernest-hemingway-is-wounded-on-the-italian-front/

Hemingway at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/50533

#books #literature

This is a photo of Ernest Hemingway from 1916, showing him from the waist up. He wears a dark suit jacket, a white shirt with a collar, and a tie. His short dark hair is neatly combed, and he looks serious.

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105d

The Rose Field. Philip Pullman.
(Book 3 of a trilogy)

You are a young woman whose animal familiar has left her, so she goes searching for him, as well as the doorway to another world which is also the target of religious authorities; you are trying to figure out what makes life worth living, but that is elusive.

2 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈.

@bookstodon #bookstodon #books #reading #fantasy #religion #capitalism

Book cover with a desert scene with yellow sky.

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97d

Step into 19th-century Ireland!

Forbidden love, family secrets, and a sweeping saga await in A Scarlet Woman.

Start reading The Fitzgeralds of Dublin series today in Kindle Unlimited.

Amazon - https://mybook.to/ascarletwoman
Other Retailers - https://lornapeel.com/fitzgeralds/a-scarlet-woman

#TheFitzgeraldsOfDublinSeries #Books #BooksByLornaPeel #Ireland #BookSeries #HistoricalFiction #KindleUnlimited #Romance #HistoricalRomance @bookstodon

Promotional image for the Irish historical fiction novel A Scarlet Woman by Lorna Peel, book one in The Fitzgeralds of Dublin series, a 19th-century Irish family saga. The image shows a Kindle device displaying the book cover, which shows a late 19th-century woman with dark hair and a pink flower on her white dress, looking down pensively. Text on the ad reads: “Love that defies society. Secrets that shape a family.” and “Step into 19th-century Ireland and meet the Fitzgeralds of Dublin. Start the series today! Free to read with Kindle Unlimited.” The background is a faded image of Georgian townhouses on Merrion Square in Dublin, Ireland.

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The Fitzgeralds of Dublin series is a sweeping 19th-century Irish family saga. Follow Will and Isobel through struggles, secrets, and choices that test their love and loyalty in a changing Ireland.

Amazon - https://mybook.to/FitzgeraldsSeries
Other Retailers - https://lornapeel.com/fitzgeralds/a-scarlet-woman

#TheFitzgeraldsOfDublinSeries #Books #BooksByLornaPeel #FamilySaga #HistoricalFiction #Ireland #BookSeries #KindleUnlimited @bookstodon

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107d

Same art, different name: would you see or hear it the same way?

A mislabelled concerto and other errors and tricks show that reputation affects how art is perceived, sometimes radically

by Rikki A Wolpowitz

https://psyche.co/ideas/same-art-different-name-would-you-see-or-hear-it-the-same-way

Books in Music at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/50

#books #art #musicology #culture

Haydn or Hofmann? Portrait of Franz Joseph Haydn (1770).

An 18th-century oil portrait of a middle-aged man with powdered white hair, wearing a dark coat with a white cravat, holding a quill pen and gazing thoughtfully to the side.

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106d

The Social Realism of Elizabeth Gaskell Who Went Against Outworn Victorian Values

Once pigeonholed as “Mrs Gaskell,” a representative of outworn Victorian values, Elizabeth Gaskell is a more radical writer than you might expect.

https://www.thecollector.com/elizabeth-gaskell-social-realism/

Gaskell at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/220

#books #literature

In the photograph, Elizabeth Gaskell sits in an ornate chair with books next to her. She is dressed in a dark, vertically striped Victorian dress with a white collar. A large, patterned paisley shawl covers her arms and lap, and a round brooch or locket is pinned at the center of her bodice.

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106d

A Review of Planeta: https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-planeta/

#Books #LGBTQ #ScienceFiction #Mystery #Romance

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Book cover for Planeta by Ana Oncina. Image on cover is a drawing of a Spanish woman who is standing behind a green-skinned person, possibly an alien, who is covering their eyes with their hands.

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106d

Sadly the world has lost a woman who never gave into fear, Shahrnush Parsipur was a blunt and outspoken voice for women in Iran and beyond. Imprisoned by both the shah's regime and the Islamic Republic, she immigrated to California in 1994. In her life and writing she kept asking what might happen if women stopped seeking permission to be free.
#ShahmushParsipur #RIP #books #WomensLives @bookstodon

https://theconversation.com/shahrnush-parsipur-iran-has-lost-one-of-its-bravest-and-boldest-literary-voices-287099

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"Dodge City" by Patrick deWitt. My rating: 4 out of 5 stars. Published in 2026.

Book description: "Dodge City" is a fictional novel about a young man on an amphetamine-fueled cross-country road trip, fleeing the draft for the safe haven of Canada, in 1967, during the Viet Nam war.

This is a short book, but it is filled with the mood of the times and the conflict and indecision faced by so many young men then.

#fiction #VietNamWar #books #reading @bookstodon