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<p>My all-time best selling romance audiobook is...</p><p>Taken by the Mountain Man, by Kelsie Calloway, which I narrated as Eden Cavell.</p><p>A divorced single mom starting over in a small mountain town takes a shot at a second chance at love with her brother's hot best friend.</p><p>It's a big-hearted romance that is also super hot, with a female lead who's not afraid to go after what she wants, and the kind of hunky mountain man she absolutely deserves. </p><p>Translation: I get to play Yet Another Mountain Man in this audiobook! (There are a few in my catalogue.)</p><p>If you like second chance romance, sizzling sex scenes or happily ever afters, this is the audiobook for you.</p><p>It's available as an audiobook and also as an ebook.</p><p><a href="https://geni.us/TBTMM" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>geni.us/TBTMM</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@audiofiction" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>audiofiction</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> </p><p><a href="/tags/audiobooks/" rel="tag">#Audiobooks</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/romance/" rel="tag">#Romance</a> <a href="/tags/bbw/" rel="tag">#BBW</a> <a href="/tags/bbwromance/" rel="tag">#BBWRomance</a></p>

A Kindle lies at an angle on the left. It displays the audiobook cover of "Taken by the Mountain Man", which shows a muscular, shirtless man. On the right, text says: "Kelsie Calloway. Taken by the Mountain Man: Mountain Men Love Curves. Narrated by Eden Cavell." A diagonal yellow banner across the bottom right corner says, "Now in audio".

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<p>I can't say I've done this personally, but I understand the sentiment 😁 </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> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://lemmy.world/c/humor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>humor@lemmy.world</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://lemmy.world/c/aiop" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>aiop</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/readingmemes/" rel="tag">#ReadingMemes</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><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> <a href="/tags/boostingissharing/" rel="tag">#BoostingIsSharing</a></p>

Drawn image of two old ladies in a cosy room, one climbing a ladder with a stack of books to put in a shelf, the other sitting in a chair built of books reading a book.

Caption: I won't buy any more books until I've read all the ones I've got. I said. Then I laughed and laughed.

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<p>"The Gift & The Legacy: African American Philanthropy as Power, Purpose and Promise, Taroue W. Brooks reframes the conversation, reminding us that philanthropy is not confined to financial contributions but encompasses time, talent, ties, testimony, treasure, and trust." By Staff Heart &Soul Magazine 9.16.25<br><a href="https://www.heartandsoul.com/culture/the-heart-of-philanthropy/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.heartandsoul.com/culture/the-heart-of-philanthropy/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.heartandsoul.com/culture/t</span><span class="invisible">he-heart-of-philanthropy/</span></a><br><a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#Blackmastodon</a> <a href="/tags/blackfedi/" rel="tag">#BlackFedi</a></p>

Book cover of The Gift & The Legacy: African American Philanthropy as Power, Purpose and Promise, by Taroue W. Brooks. An abstract drawing of vibrant colors of green, orange, blue, red, and yellow.

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<p>What Is Aristotle’s Divine Blueprint for the Cosmos?</p><p>The divine is at the heart of Aristotle’s model of the cosmos, responsible for the intricate motions of the heavens and the Earth.</p><p>by Maysara Kamal</p><p><a href="https://www.thecollector.com/aristotle-cosmos-blueprint/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/aristotle-cosmos-blueprint/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thecollector.com/aristotle</span><span class="invisible">-cosmos-blueprint/</span></a></p><p>Aristotle at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2747" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2747"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/2747</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/philosophy/" rel="tag">#philosophy</a></p>

A traveller peers through an opening in the firmament in this illustration from Camille Flammarion's L'atmosphère : météorologie populaire (Paris: Hachette, 1888), p. 163.

The Flammarion engraving is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in Camille Flammarion's L'Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888). The image depicts a man crawling under the edge of the sky, depicted as if it were a solid hemisphere, to look at the mysterious Empyrean beyond. The caption underneath the engraving (not shown here) translates to "A medieval missionary tells that he has found the point where heaven and Earth meet..."

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k408619m/f168.image

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flammarion_engraving#/media/File:Flammarion.jpg

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1910.</p><p>Halley's comet reappears after 76 years, and Mark Twain dies at his home, Stormfield, the day after the comet's perihelion. In his autobiography, Twain wrote, "I came in with Halley's comet in 1835. It's coming again next year (1910), and I expect to go out with it. The Almighty has said no doubt, 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'"</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#astronomy</a></p>

Halley in April 1910, from Harvard's Southern Hemisphere Station, taken with an 8-inch Bache Doublet

Harvard College Observatory - http://dasch.rc.fas.harvard.edu/gallery.php

Portion of Plate b41215 of Halley's comet taken on April 21, 1910 from Arequipa, Peru with the 8-inch Bache Doublet, Voigtlander. The exposure was 30 minutes centered on 23h41m29s R.A. and +07d21m09s Declination.

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<p>6 Badass Librarians Who Changed History<br>They will not be shushed.</p><p>BY APRIL WHITE<br>APRIL 5, 2024 via @atlasobscura</p><p>LIBRARIANS HAVE NEVER BEEN A quiet bunch: Information, after all, is power. To mark National Library Week—typically celebrated the second full week of April, fittingly, went into the archives to find our favorite stories of librarians who have fostered cultural movements, protected national secrets, and fought criminals.</p><p><a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/famous-librarians-who-changed-history" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.atlasobscura.com/articles/famous-librarians-who-changed-history"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.atlasobscura.com/articles/</span><span class="invisible">famous-librarians-who-changed-history</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/nationallibraryweek/" rel="tag">#nationallibraryweek</a></p>

A party on the roof of Regina Anderson’s home at 580 St. Nicholas Avenue in New York City. Attendees included Langston Hughes (second from left) and other important Harlem Renaissance figures, such as poet Clarissa Scott and sociologist E. Franklin Frazier. SCHOMBURG CENTER/NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

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Wanderer (2025) – Adedapo Adeniyi

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<p>American novelist, humorist, and critic Mark Twain died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1910.</p><p>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, often called "the Great American Novel," is particularly noted for its vivid depiction of people and places along the Mississippi River. Twain's other notable works include The Prince and the Pauper, Life on the Mississippi, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, & his autobiography, which was published posthumously.</p><p>Books by Mark Twain at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/53" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/53"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/53</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

A portrait of the American writer Mark Twain taken by A. F. Bradley in New York, 1907.

Cover of Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

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Any good psychological horror novels?

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<p>📚 First-Time Caller by: B.K. Borison</p><p>Aiden Valentine has a secret: he’s fallen out of love with love. And as the host of Baltimore’s romance hotline, that’s a bit of a problem. But when a young girl calls in to the station asking for dating advice for her mom, the interview goes viral, thrusting Aiden and Heartstrings into the...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/first-time-caller" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/first-time-caller"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/first-time</span><span class="invisible">-caller</span></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/romance/" rel="tag">#romance</a> <a href="/tags/workplacefiction/" rel="tag">#workplacefiction</a> <a href="/tags/contemporary/" rel="tag">#contemporary</a></p>

Aiden Valentine has a secret: he’s fallen out of love with love. And as the host of Baltimore’s romance hotline, that’s a bit of a problem. But when a young girl calls in to the station asking for dating advice for her mom, the interview goes viral, thrusting Aiden and Heartstrings into the limelight.

Lucie Stone thought she was doing just fine. She has a good job; an incredible family; and a smart, slightly devious kid. But when all of Baltimore is suddenly scrutinizing her love life—or lack thereof—she begins to question if she’s as happy as she believed. Maybe a little more romance wouldn’t be such a bad thing.

Everyone wants Lucie to find her happy ending…even the handsome, temperamental man calling the shots. But when sparks start to fly behind the scenes, Lucie must make the final decision between the radio-sponsored happily ever after or the man in the headphones next to her.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A hopeless romantic meets a jaded radio host in this cozy, Sleepless in Seattle–inspired love story from beloved author B.K. Borison.

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I picked up these 4 Pratchett books! Haven't read him before; recommendations for them?

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<p>Wrapping up 2025 with gratitude to the many people who supported me this year while I was launching The Expert of Subtle Revisions. Thank you for reading the book, for buying the book, for checking it out from the library (I just learned it was a top check out from the Mechanics' Institute Library this year!) for sharing it with friends and online, for showing up at events, for your kind notes, your kind reviews, your attention. My year-in-review features moments I photographed--the book launch at Bookshop West Portal with Lilian Van Cleve, Book Passage with Allison Bainbridge, Symposium Books with Tanya Young, That was Then at Page Street, a New York City book store tour with Meredith Davis, a Boston book store tour with Daphne Kalotay, Sebastopol LitCrawl, and Kepler's Story is the Thing--but many important moments have no image to accompany them. They will always remain with me as well. Thank you!</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/writersofmastodon/" rel="tag">#writersofmastodon</a> <a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</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><p><a href="https://youtu.be/7zfOlSfED28" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>youtu.be/7zfOlSfED28</a></p>

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<p>B-Sides: Stendhal’s “Love”</p><p>Are you a banker or a manufacturer or an industrialist? If so, Stendhal doesn’t want you to read “Love” («De L’amour,» 1822); you wouldn’t understand. But if you are a dreamer, if you are tender, if Mozart moves you, if you nod solemnly when asked, “Have six months of your life ever been made miserable by love?,” this book is for you.</p><p>By Naomi Levine</p><p><a href="https://www.publicbooks.org/b-sides-stendhals-love/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01K60KSFYX4DKTA8KA7N9MAPY4&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.publicbooks.org/b-sides-stendhals-love/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01K60KSFYX4DKTA8KA7N9MAPY4&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.publicbooks.org/b-sides-st</span><span class="invisible">endhals-love/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01K60KSFYX4DKTA8KA7N9MAPY4&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER</span></a></p><p>At PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60882" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60882</a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53720" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53720</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Cover page of the book

Stendhal: De l'Amour, Erstausgabe Paris: Mongie, 1822.

This is the title page of the first edition (1822) of Stendhal’s De l’Amour.

Title: At the top, in large type, it reads De l’Amour with a decorative flourish on the “L” giving it an ornate style.

Beneath the title: Par l’auteur de l’Histoire de la peinture en Italie; et des vies de Haydn, Mozart et Métastase (By the author of History of Painting in Italy and the Lives of Haydn, Mozart, and Metastasio).

A quotation follows in smaller type, attributed to Tasso, Discours sur le Tasse, page 57.

Tome Premier (First Volume).

At the bottom it states:
Paris, Librairie Universelle, de P. Mongie l’aîné, Boulevard Poissonnière, no. 18, et rue Neuve de Montmorency, no. 3, 1822.

Stamp: A round library stamp (“BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE LA VILLE DE GRENOBLE”) is visible in the center of the page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_l%27amour_(Stendhal)#/media/File:Stendhal_L_Amour.jpg

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<p>📚 The Nightingale: A Novel by: Kristin Hannah</p><p>With courage, grace, and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of World War II and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women's war. The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking o...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-nightingale-a-novel" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-nightingale-a-novel"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-nighti</span><span class="invisible">ngale-a-novel</span></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></p>

With courage, grace, and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of World War II and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women's war. The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France―a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.

Goodreads Best Historical Novel of the Year • People's Choice Favorite Fiction Winner • #1 Indie Next Selection • A Buzzfeed and The Week Best Book of the Year

A #1 New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year, and soon to be a major motion picture, this unforgettable novel of love and strength in the face of war has enthralled a generation.

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<p>An Ancient Greek Philosopher Was Exiled for Claiming the Moon Was a Rock, Not a God</p><p>2,500 years ago, Anaxagoras correctly determined that the rocky moon reflects light from the sun, allowing him to explain lunar phases and eclipses</p><p>By David Warmflash via @SmithsonianMag</p><p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ancient-greek-philosopher-was-exiled-claiming-moon-was-rock-not-god-180972447/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ancient-greek-philosopher-was-exiled-claiming-moon-was-rock-not-god-180972447/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smithsonianmag.com/science</span><span class="invisible">-nature/ancient-greek-philosopher-was-exiled-claiming-moon-was-rock-not-god-180972447/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#astronomy</a> <a href="/tags/philosophy/" rel="tag">#philosophy</a></p>

Anaxagoras, who lived in the fifth century B.C., was one of the first people in recorded history to recognize that the moon was a rocky, mountainous body. Eduard Lebiedzki / Public Domain

A close-up of a classical painting depicting Anaxagoras in a red and ochre robe holding a celestial sphere with his left hand and gesturing with his right hand toward the sphere. The painting is highly detailed with visible brush strokes and rich, deep colors.

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<p>German philosopher Immanuel Kant was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> 300 years ago!</p><p>Kant’s most famous work, the "Critique of Pure Reason", is often considered one of the most significant works in the history of philosophy. In this book, he introduced the concept of a priori synthetic judgments, arguing that our ability to perceive & understand the world is shaped by the ways our mind structures experiences.</p><p>Books by Immanuel Kant at PG:<br>The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant</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>

Immanuel Kant, painted portrait, c1790. Kant (1724-1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers.

A classic painting depicting Immanuel Kant with white, curly hair wearing an 18th-century style dark coat with a white shirt visible at the collar. The background is dark, providing a strong contrast with the lighter elements of the figure's attire.

Cover of The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant.

"The Critique of Pure Reason" (Kritik der reinen Vernunft), published in 1781 and revised in 1787, is Immanuel Kant’s seminal work and one of the most influential texts in the history of philosophy. In this book, Kant endeavors to analyze the faculties of human reason and to establish the capabilities and limits of pure reason.

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<p>Open Book Fountain</p><p>This sculpture was created by Kelecsenyi Gergely & engineer Jozsef Szita.<br>The fountain uses water to create the illusion of turning pages, and serves as a reminder of the importance of physical books. </p><p>Location: Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. On Egyetem Square, in front of the university.</p><p><a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#Art</a> <a href="/tags/arte/" rel="tag">#Arte</a> <a href="/tags/streetart/" rel="tag">#StreetArt</a> <a href="/tags/kunst/" rel="tag">#Kunst</a> <a href="/tags/straatkunst/" rel="tag">#Straatkunst</a> <a href="/tags/scupture/" rel="tag">#Scupture</a> <a href="/tags/escultura/" rel="tag">#Escultura</a> <a href="/tags/scultura/" rel="tag">#Scultura</a> <a href="/tags/creative/" rel="tag">#Creative</a> <a href="/tags/creativetoots/" rel="tag">#Creativetoots</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#Book</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/boeken/" rel="tag">#Boeken</a> <a href="/tags/boek/" rel="tag">#Boek</a> <a href="/tags/livre/" rel="tag">#Livre</a> <a href="/tags/lezen/" rel="tag">#Lezen</a> <a href="/tags/design/" rel="tag">#Design</a> <a href="/tags/creativetoot/" rel="tag">#Creativetoot</a> <a href="/tags/lire/" rel="tag">#Lire</a></p>

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<p>📚 Yellowface by: Rebecca F. Kuang</p><p>Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena's a literary darling. June Hayward is literally nobody. Who wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks.</p><p>So when June witnesses Athena's death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/yellowface" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/yellowface</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/psychologicalfiction/" rel="tag">#psychologicalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/thrillers/" rel="tag">#thrillers</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a></p>

Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena's a literary darling. June Hayward is literally nobody. Who wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks.

So when June witnesses Athena's death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena's just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers during World War I.

So what if June edits Athena's novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publisher rebrand her as Juniper Song--complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? Doesn't this piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller? That's what June claims, and the New York Times bestseller list seems to agree.
But June can't get away from Athena's shadow, and emerging evidence threatens to bring June's (stolen) success down around her. As June races to protect her secret, she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.

With its totally immersive first-person voice, Yellowface grapples with questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation, as well as the terrifying alienation of social media. R.F. Kuang's novel is timely, razor-sharp, and eminently readable.

White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences... Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn't write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American--in this chilling and

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<p>Great piece by Ilana Masad on making art and marketing it:</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/booksky/" rel="tag">#booksky</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/writersofmastodon/" rel="tag">#writersofmastodon</a> <a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</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><p><a href="https://electricliterature.com/artists-shouldnt-need-to-become-content-creators-to-get-fair-pay/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="electricliterature.com/artists-shouldnt-need-to-become-content-creators-to-get-fair-pay/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">electricliterature.com/artists</span><span class="invisible">-shouldnt-need-to-become-content-creators-to-get-fair-pay/</span></a></p>

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<p>I just read the two-part graphic novel "My Brother's Husband" by Gengoroh Tagame. It's set in Japan, where a single dad gets to know his deceased identical twin's Canadian husband. It's a mix of a young girl's enthusiasm over a surprise uncle and an adult's struggle with his culture's (and his own) view of gayness. Lots of layers, as he's also divorced and raising his daughter mostly on his own. They all develop a broader sense of family.</p><p><a href="/tags/graphicnovel/" rel="tag">#GraphicNovel</a> <a href="/tags/queer/" rel="tag">#queer</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtq/" rel="tag">#lgbtq</a> <a href="/tags/japan/" rel="tag">#japan</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <br><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>'To live wonder-smitten with reality is the gladdest way to live. But with our creaturely capacity for wonder comes a responsibility to it—the recognition what reality is not a singularity but a plane. Each time we presume to have seen the whole, the plane tilts ever so slightly to reveal new vistas of truth and new horizons of mystery, staggering us with the sudden sense that we had been looking at only a fragment, framed by our parochial point of view.' -- from 'The Universe in Verse' by Maria Popova</p><p><a href="/tags/wednesdaybookquote/" rel="tag">#WednesdayBookQuote</a> <a href="/tags/readingjournal/" rel="tag">#ReadingJournal</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</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>Gen Z but two centuries ago</p><p>A generation of young people with ‘full hearts in an empty world’ sought hope in the face of insurmountable malaise</p><p>by Emily Herring</p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/young-people-now-and-the-mal-du-siecle-of-19th-century-france?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=005d93b4ed-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_05_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="aeon.co/essays/young-people-now-and-the-mal-du-siecle-of-19th-century-france?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=005d93b4ed-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_05_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/essays/young-people-no</span><span class="invisible">w-and-the-mal-du-siecle-of-19th-century-france?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=005d93b4ed-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_05_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972</span></a></p><p>Some authors from Gen Z at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1341" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1341"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1341</span></a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7255" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7255"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/7255</span></a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5450" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5450"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/5450</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a></p>

Akseli Gallen-Kallela's painting Symposium made in 1894. From left: Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Oskar Merikanto, Robert Kajanus and Jean Sibelius.

Four brooding Finnish intellectuals gathered at a moonlit table strewn with wine and bottles. A swooping eagle looms left.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symposium_(Gallen-Kallela)#/media/File:Gallen_Kallela_Symposion.jpg

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<p>Swedish astronomer, physicist, and mathematician Anders Celsius died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1744.</p><p>In 1742, Celsius introduced the temperature scale that bears his name. His original scale was actually the reverse of what we use today: it set the boiling point of water at 0 degrees & the freezing point at 100 degrees. However, shortly after his death, the scale was reversed by Carl Linnaeus, resulting in the 0 degrees for freezing & 100 degrees for boiling that we are familiar with.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/physics/" rel="tag">#physics</a></p>

"Observationer om twänne beständiga grader på en thermometer" [Observations about two stable degrees on a thermometer]. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar (Proceedings of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences) (in Swedish). 3: 171–180. 1742.

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Assata: An Autobiography

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<p>Italian inventor and electrical engineer Guglielmo Marconi was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1874.</p><p>He is best known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. He is often credited as the inventor of radio, and he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun for their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy.</p><p>Books about Guglielmo Marconi at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Guglielmo+Marconi&submit_search=Go%21" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Guglielmo+Marconi&submit_search=Go%21"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=Guglielmo+Marconi&submit_search=Go%21</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a></p>

Guglielmo Marconi, portrait, head and shoulders, facing left.

A vintage black and white portrait of Guglielmo Marconi wearing a dark suit, white dress shirt, and a light-colored necktie. The individual's attire suggests a formal context. The photo appears aged with some textural wear, indicative of its historical nature.

A black and white photograph of an early 20th-century telegraph communication setup with a paper sheet hung on the wall, a telegraph key, and a receiving device on a wooden table connected by wires.

Marconi's first transmitter incorporating a monopole antenna. It consisted of an elevated copper sheet (top) connected to a Righi spark gap (left) powered by an induction coil (center) with a telegraph key (right) to switch it on and off to spell out text messages in Morse code.

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