<p>Ernest Hemingway’s Personal Library Contained Thousands of Books—Here Are Some of the Authors</p><p>From Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf, these are just a few of the legendary writers that lined Hemingway's bookshelves.</p><p><a href="https://www.mentalfloss.com/literature/authors/ernest-hemingway-personal-library-books?utm_source=RSS" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.mentalfloss.com/literature/authors/ernest-hemingway-personal-library-books?utm_source=RSS"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.mentalfloss.com/literature</span><span class="invisible">/authors/ernest-hemingway-personal-library-books?utm_source=RSS</span></a></p><p>All of these authors are at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
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<p>email registration required by 404 media</p><p>We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility</p><p><a href="https://reddthat.com/post/71506363" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>reddthat.com/post/71506363</a></p>
Today is August 4, 2026 (an appropriate time to read this Ray Bradbury short story)
Link for There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury (written May 1950)
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<p>Link for There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury (written May 1950)</p><p>Today is August 4, 2026 (an appropriate time to read this Ray Bradbury short story)</p><p><a href="https://pawb.social/post/48125752" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>pawb.social/post/48125752</a></p>
<p>RE: <a href="https://flipboard.com/@ign/comic-book-news-7vhp5bdcz/-/a-luzUO6hoRSiE6rYfyFd3kw%3Aa%3A4274664-%2F0" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="flipboard.com/@ign/comic-book-news-7vhp5bdcz/-/a-luzUO6hoRSiE6rYfyFd3kw%3Aa%3A4274664-%2F0"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">flipboard.com/@ign/comic-book-</span><span class="invisible">news-7vhp5bdcz/-/a-luzUO6hoRSiE6rYfyFd3kw%3Aa%3A4274664-%2F0</span></a></p><p>I find the fandom’s pressure on George R.R. Martin to finish his saga quite problematic—and controversial. People forget that authors are human beings dealing with personal challenges. Ever since Lester del Rey, the Fantasy publishing industry has treated art purely as a commodity. We need to bring more empathy and humanity back into how we treat writers.</p><p><a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</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> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a></p>
<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/TheInvertedGlass" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="books2read.com/TheInvertedGlass"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">books2read.com/TheInvertedGlas</span><span class="invisible">s</span></a><br>Series Ebook omnibus: <a href="https://books2read.com/TheWizardsScion" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/TheWizardsScion</a></p><p>After the death of his wife and child, destruction of his home world, an addiction forced on him by the one responsible and a third of the galaxy falling under the heel of that tyrant, Levi Jacobs, a wizard, seeks to unravel the secrets of time and fate.</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/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>
<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>
<p>📚 Whistler by: Ann Patchett</p><p>When Daphne Fuller and her husband Jonathan visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they notice an older, white-haired gentleman following them. The man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, who had been married to her mother for a little more than year when Daphne was nine. Now fifty-three, Daphne hasn’t seen Eddie for many ye...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/whistler" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/whistler</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/literary/" rel="tag">#literary</a></p>
<p>Goddess, he writes so beautifully.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/tadwilliams/" rel="tag">#tadwilliams</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>overgrown reading nook (2024)</p><p><a href="/tags/illustration/" rel="tag">#illustration</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/commissionsopen/" rel="tag">#commissionsOpen</a></p>
<p>Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin</p><p>Our July POTM looks at the life of Nobel Prize-winning crystallographer Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, who lived most of her adult life with rheumatoid arthritis.</p><p>by Elizabeth Wood</p><p><a href="https://www.aip.org/library/ex-libris-universum/dorothy-crowfoot-hodgkin?mcid=81301bd1cc&utm_source=AIP_newsletter&utm_source=email" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.aip.org/library/ex-libris-universum/dorothy-crowfoot-hodgkin?mcid=81301bd1cc&utm_source=AIP_newsletter&utm_source=email"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.aip.org/library/ex-libris-</span><span class="invisible">universum/dorothy-crowfoot-hodgkin?mcid=81301bd1cc&utm_source=AIP_newsletter&utm_source=email</span></a></p><p>Quoted by Dorothy Hodgkin during her 1964 Nobel Prize Lecture, W. H. Bragg's "Concerning the Nature of Things" (Bragg's work influenced a young Dorothy Crowfoot to pursue science) is available on PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/79146" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/79146</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/cristallography/" rel="tag">#cristallography</a> <a href="/tags/womeninstem/" rel="tag">#WomenInStem</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>Just finished Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, by David Wallace-Wells. </p><p>It's accessibly informative about climate science. I did not agree with every assertion the author made about either the social sciences or political science, but those were minor quibbles. </p><p>I would definitely recommend this book. Even though it was published in 2019, the information is just as salient right now. If anything, the timeline of climate accelerated events has sped up more quickly than he anticipated, which is important in itself. </p><p>I had to take breaks, not because the author was too pessimistic. On the contrary, he seemed too optimistic. He predicted that we will work together to slow down the carbon we are putting in the atmosphere, with wholesale changes by entire countries. </p><p>There was a lot of academic discussion towards the end of the book, but the first part was my focus: what can we expect, how will it continue to unfold, and what do we need to demand to do something about it? Turns out that individual effort, though not nothing, will do little to slow down the worsening of the Climate Crisis. We need entire countries to divest from fossil fuels. Some are already doing that now, but we need the biggest countries, the major contributors to the problem, to convert to cleaner energy sources. We are in for a world of hurt, but we could make it hurt a lot less.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/climatecrisis/" rel="tag">#ClimateCrisis</a></p>
AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/27795833
In a study published in the journal Judgment and Decision Making, 1,682 adults were asked to read one of six short stories, three of which were written by humans and three by ChatGPT. Each AI story had a similar theme to one of the human-authored works.
The team told participants whether their story was written by a human or AI, but this information was not always correct. The researchers then asked participants to rate how absorbing and engaging they found the story, and its quality.
Participants who read an AI-generated story rated it as more absorbing and of higher quality than those who read a story written by a human. However, participants gave higher ratings to stories they had been told were written by people.
Dr Deena Skolnick Weisberg, a senior author of the research from Villanova University in Pennsylvania, said: “AI systems can already generate short stories that are seen as being at least as good as – if not better than – human-written stories. We should update our views of AI’s abilities accordingly.”
However, Weisberg, who is herself a creative writer, said that did not mean writing should be left to AI, noting that novels produced by tech were probably going to be different from those written by humans.
“We may need to make room for AI-generated novels, and for AI/human co-written novels, but that doesn’t mean that there’s no longer space for us to appreciate the process of human creativity,” she said.
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<p>cross-posted from: <a href="https://beehaw.org/post/27795833" rel="nofollow">beehaw.org/post/27795833</a></p><p><p><p>In a study published in the journal Judgment and Decision Making, 1,682 adults were asked to read one of six short stories, three of which were written by humans and three by ChatGPT. Each AI story had a similar theme to one of the human-authored works.</p><p>The team told participants whether their story was written by a human or AI, but this information was not always correct. The researchers then asked participants to rate how absorbing and engaging they found the story, and its quality.</p><p>Participants who read an AI-generated story rated it as more absorbing and of higher quality than those who read a story written by a human. However, participants gave higher ratings to stories they had been told were written by people.</p><p>Dr Deena Skolnick Weisberg, a senior author of the research from Villanova University in Pennsylvania, said: “AI systems can already generate short stories that are seen as being at least as good as – if not better than – human-written stories. We should update our views of AI’s abilities accordingly.”</p><p>However, Weisberg, who is herself a creative writer, said that did not mean writing should be left to AI, noting that novels produced by tech were probably going to be different from those written by humans.</p><p>“We may need to make room for AI-generated novels, and for AI/human co-written novels, but that doesn’t mean that there’s no longer space for us to appreciate the process of human creativity,” she said.</p></p></p><p>AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds</p><p><a href="https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/73458967" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/73458967</a></p>
<p>Love getting lost in a historical fiction series?</p><p>Set in 19th-century Ireland, The Fitzgeralds of Dublin series follows one family through hardship, secrets, and choices that echo across generations.</p><p>📚️️️ Books 1–9 available as box sets<br>📖 Read free in Kindle Unlimited</p><p>Amazon - <a href="https://mybook.to/FitzgeraldsBoxSets" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>mybook.to/FitzgeraldsBoxSets</a></p><p><a href="/tags/booksbylornapeel/" rel="tag">#BooksByLornaPeel</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/familysaga/" rel="tag">#FamilySaga</a> <a href="/tags/historicalfiction/" rel="tag">#HistoricalFiction</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/ireland/" rel="tag">#Ireland</a> <a href="/tags/kindleunlimited/" rel="tag">#KindleUnlimited</a> <a href="/tags/dublin/" rel="tag">#Dublin</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>📚 The World Jones Made by: Philip K. Dick</p><p>Floyd Jones has always been able to see exactly one year into his future, a gift and curse that began one year before he was even born. As a fortune-teller at a post-apocalyptic carnival, Jones is a powerful force, and may just be able to force society away from its paralyzing Relativism...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-world-jones-made" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-world-jones-made"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-world-</span><span class="invisible">jones-made</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/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/literary/" rel="tag">#literary</a></p>
Pavlos Roufos – A Happy Future Is a Thing of the Past: The Greek Crisis and Other Disasters
Search on Anna’s Archive (they only have pdfs)
Neutral and specific, which is really the best form a book like this can come in.
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<p><a href="https://annas-archive.pk/search?q=a+happy+future+is+a+thing+of+the+past" rel="nofollow">Search on Anna’s Archive</a> (they only have pdfs)</p><p>Neutral and specific, which is really the best form a book like this can come in.</p><p>Pavlos Roufos – A Happy Future Is a Thing of the Past: The Greek Crisis and Other Disasters</p><p><a href="https://lemmy.ml/post/51023079" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>lemmy.ml/post/51023079</a></p>
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/74144681
The symbol for Amazon’s VGT3, the Las Vegas facility where it scans book for AI training data.
Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training data, and destroying them in the process.
A 404 Media investigation was able to reveal Amazon’s book buying operation, which hasn’t been previously reported, by placing a tracking device in a rare book we suspected would be acquired by an AI company for training data, and following it around the country to its final destination.
That final destination was an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, Nevada. Amazon employees who work at this location say all they do is receive massive shipments of printed books which they then cut the bindings off in order to scan the books more quickly. The printed book is destroyed in the process. The logo of the Amazon team that works at this warehouse, called VGT3, is a dinosaur, brandishing its teeth and with a book in its hands.
“Amazon purchases books through commercial channels to help develop and improve the products and services our customers use,” an Amazon spokesperson told me in a statement.
The world’s AI companies are constantly looking for, and spending extreme resources to locate, more material to train their AI models. With books, that sometimes means destroying them in the process, something that large parts of the public have spoken up against, and which we can now confirm Amazon is doing.
In July, I published a story about booksellers who reported a historical spike in sales starting in the past year. They suspected this spike in sales was due to AI companies acquiring any books they can in search of new training data. Printed books are valuable as training data because a lot of the text they contain is not readily available on the internet, which AI companies have already scraped. The data is also conveniently organized and, if the book was printed before 2022, is guaranteed to be free of AI-generated text, which can make any AI model that is trained on it worse via a recursive process called “model collapse.”
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Do you know work at a facility where you scan books? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at @emanuel.404. Otherwise, send me an email at emanuel@404media.co.
These booksellers suspected AI companies were behind these large bulk purchases because of the high number of books they were buying, the seemingly random choice of books, and the fact that these buyers, unlike libraries and universities, did not seem price sensitive at all. But booksellers couldn’t say for certain who was behind the large purchases because the marketplaces where they sell their books keep the buyers anonymous. When an order comes in, a bookseller ships the sold books to a warehouse operated by the marketplaces, where books are sorted and then sent to the buyer.
In July, one bookseller told me they received a very large order of around 1,000 books on Biblio, one of these marketplaces. The seller agreed to put an Apple AirTag provided by 404 Media in one of the books included in this order so we could see where the book was going. And by extension, which company, AI or otherwise, was behind this massive order.
404 Media granted the bookseller anonymity because they worried sharing this information would harm their business. Biblio did not respond to a request for comment.
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<p>cross-posted from: <a href="https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/74144681" rel="nofollow">lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/74144681</a></p><p><p>The symbol for Amazon’s VGT3, the Las Vegas facility where it scans book for AI training data.</p><p>Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training data, and destroying them in the process.</p><p>A 404 Media investigation was able to reveal Amazon’s book buying operation, which hasn’t been previously reported, by placing a tracking device in a rare book we suspected would be acquired by an AI company for training data, and following it around the country to its final destination.</p><p>That final destination was an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, Nevada. Amazon employees who work at this location say all they do is receive massive shipments of printed books which they then cut the bindings off in order to scan the books more quickly. The printed book is destroyed in the process. The logo of the Amazon team that works at this warehouse, called VGT3, is a dinosaur, brandishing its teeth and with a book in its hands.</p><p>“Amazon purchases books through commercial channels to help develop and improve the products and services our customers use,” an Amazon spokesperson told me in a statement.</p><p>The world’s AI companies are constantly looking for, and spending extreme resources to locate, more material to train their AI models. With books, that sometimes means destroying them in the process, something that large parts of the public have spoken up against, and which we can now confirm Amazon is doing.</p><p>In July, I published a story about booksellers who reported a historical spike in sales starting in the past year. They suspected this spike in sales was due to AI companies acquiring any books they can in search of new training data. Printed books are valuable as training data because a lot of the text they contain is not readily available on the internet, which AI companies have already scraped. The data is also conveniently organized and, if the book was printed before 2022, is guaranteed to be free of AI-generated text, which can make any AI model that is trained on it worse via a recursive process called “model collapse.”</p><p>📖Do you know work at a facility where you scan books? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at @emanuel.404. Otherwise, send me an email at emanuel@404media.co.</p><p>These booksellers suspected AI companies were behind these large bulk purchases because of the high number of books they were buying, the seemingly random choice of books, and the fact that these buyers, unlike libraries and universities, did not seem price sensitive at all. But booksellers couldn’t say for certain who was behind the large purchases because the marketplaces where they sell their books keep the buyers anonymous. When an order comes in, a bookseller ships the sold books to a warehouse operated by the marketplaces, where books are sorted and then sent to the buyer.</p><p>In July, one bookseller told me they received a very large order of around 1,000 books on Biblio, one of these marketplaces. The seller agreed to put an Apple AirTag provided by 404 Media in one of the books included in this order so we could see where the book was going. And by extension, which company, AI or otherwise, was behind this massive order.404 Media granted the bookseller anonymity because they worried sharing this information would harm their business. Biblio did not respond to a request for comment.</p></p><p>We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility</p><p><a href="https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/74145058" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/74145058</a></p>
Hidden Life by Madhuri Vijay - The New Yorker, August 24 issue
I have just started getting into reading magazines and specifically using Libby to read bits of articles here and there. I like the current political stuff and some media coverage but on the whole it hasn’t been a very interesting experience until I came across this short story
I didn’t even realize The New Yorker published short stories, at first I thought it was just an excerpt. It’s about an Indian girl who has to go live with her aunt for a little while while her mom and dad work through the grief of having gone through a miscarriage.
The mystery and intrigue builds up in little blocks, each paragraph showing us a little moment in Nidhi’s (our protagonist) life: her life with her parents, the going away to live with her aunt, meeting her aunt’s mentally handicapped daughter…
I thought it was really well-written and compelling and by the end of it it built such a well-realized cast of characters that each had shades of darkness and human qualities in them that I wanted to explore their stories more, to spend a little more time with their thoughts and personal griefs.
It’s a simple coming-of-age story that read like a thriller that was brilliantly paced and I would love it if other people learned about it as there wasn’t a lot of discourse online
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<p>I have just started getting into reading magazines and specifically using Libby to read bits of articles here and there. I like the current political stuff and some media coverage but on the whole it hasn’t been a very interesting experience until I came across this short story</p><p>I didn’t even realize The New Yorker published short stories, at first I thought it was just an excerpt. It’s about an Indian girl who has to go live with her aunt for a little while while her mom and dad work through the grief of having gone through a miscarriage.</p><p>The mystery and intrigue builds up in little blocks, each paragraph showing us a little moment in Nidhi’s (our protagonist) life: her life with her parents, the going away to live with her aunt, meeting her aunt’s mentally handicapped daughter…</p><p>I thought it was really well-written and compelling and by the end of it it built such a well-realized cast of characters that each had shades of darkness and human qualities in them that I wanted to explore their stories more, to spend a little more time with their thoughts and personal griefs.</p><p>It’s a simple coming-of-age story that read like a thriller that was brilliantly paced and I would love it if other people learned about it as there wasn’t a lot of discourse online</p><p>Hidden Life by Madhuri Vijay - The New Yorker, August 24 issue</p><p><a href="https://lemmy.ml/post/51532459" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>lemmy.ml/post/51532459</a></p>
<p>If you like to read books seasonly or set during certain holidays, I've added an index page that's sorted by different holidays / events.</p><p><a href="https://pussreboots.com/redirect/holiday.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="pussreboots.com/redirect/holiday.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pussreboots.com/redirect/holid</span><span class="invisible">ay.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</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>
<p>📚 The Great Alone by: Kristin Hannah</p><p>Alaska, 1974. Ernt Allbright came home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes the impulsive decision to move his wife and daughter north where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier.</p><p>Cora will do anything for the man sh...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-great-alone" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-great-alone"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-great-</span><span class="invisible">alone</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/womenfiction/" rel="tag">#womenfiction</a> <a href="/tags/familylife/" rel="tag">#familylife</a> <a href="/tags/thrillers/" rel="tag">#thrillers</a> <a href="/tags/domestic/" rel="tag">#domestic</a></p>
<p>Celebrating 250 Years of the USA</p><p>To honor the 250th anniversary of the United States of America, The History Reader has put together a list of top Revolutionary War-era books published over the last two decades. </p><p><a href="https://www.thehistoryreader.com/us-history/celebrating-250-years-of-the-usa/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=celebrating-250-years-of-the-usa" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thehistoryreader.com/us-history/celebrating-250-years-of-the-usa/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=celebrating-250-years-of-the-usa"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thehistoryreader.com/us-hi</span><span class="invisible">story/celebrating-250-years-of-the-usa/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=celebrating-250-years-of-the-usa</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/ushistory/" rel="tag">#USHistory</a></p>
<p>Browse 5.8 million works of art at the Last Museum</p><p>by Rob Beschizza </p><p><a href="https://boingboing.net/2026/06/29/browse-5-8-million-works-of-art-at-the-last-museum.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="boingboing.net/2026/06/29/browse-5-8-million-works-of-art-at-the-last-museum.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">boingboing.net/2026/06/29/brow</span><span class="invisible">se-5-8-million-works-of-art-at-the-last-museum.html</span></a></p><p>Last Museum:<br><a href="https://lastmuseum.com/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>lastmuseum.com/</a></p><p>Books in Art at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/11" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/11"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/books</span><span class="invisible">helf/11</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/culture/" rel="tag">#culture</a></p>
What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? August 04
Finished When Moon Hits the Eye by John Scalzi.
The book is divided so that each chapter is a new day, and it’s from perspective of new people. So there is no story of certain people, rather it’s about the “event” and we see things from different people’s point of view throughout the book.
I didn’t know that, so it took some getting used to, but once I had come to terms with that it was a very interesting book.
Highly recommended for soft sci-fi fans.
What about all of you, what have you been reading or listening to lately?
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<p>Finished <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/32111115" rel="nofollow">When Moon Hits the Eye</a> by John Scalzi.</p><p>The book is divided so that each chapter is a new day, and it’s from perspective of new people. So there is no story of certain people, rather it’s about the “event” and we see things from different people’s point of view throughout the book.</p><p>I didn’t know that, so it took some getting used to, but once I had come to terms with that it was a very interesting book.</p><p>Highly recommended for soft sci-fi fans.</p><p>What about all of you, what have you been reading or listening to lately?</p><p>Check <a href="https://lemmy.world/post/46300888" rel="nofollow">Official Bingo Challenge Post</a> and the accompanying <a href="https://lemmy.world/post/46300898" rel="nofollow">Recommendations Post</a> for our Bingo for 2026!</p><p>What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? August 04</p><p><a href="https://discuss.online/post/43580512" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>discuss.online/post/43580512</a></p>
<p>Free Book Alert!</p><p>So my book is on promotion on Kobo, discounted to $0 from 3rd to 9th August, but I think it's only available in these locations: CA, US, UK, AU, NZ. It's being featured on the Free Page of Diverse Stories, so hoping it gets some more attention. Help spread the word!</p><p>Here is a link to get it.<br><a href="https://www.kobo.com/ebook/the-blossoming-of-the-big-tree-1" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.kobo.com/ebook/the-blossoming-of-the-big-tree-1"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.kobo.com/ebook/the-blossom</span><span class="invisible">ing-of-the-big-tree-1</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/solarpunk/" rel="tag">#solarpunk</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a></p>
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<p><a href="/tags/speakingoutofplace/" rel="tag">#SpeakingOutOfPlace</a> welcomes <a href="/tags/idasusser/" rel="tag">#IdaSusser</a> to discuss her book <a href="/tags/theyellowvestsandthebattlefordemocracy/" rel="tag">#TheYellowVestsAndTheBattleForDemocracy</a>: <br>Taking to the Streets of Paris in the 21st Century </p><p><a href="https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/19545890-ida-susser-on-creating-a-new-historical-bloc-reimagining-the-commons-and-the-yellow-vests-in-france" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/19545890-ida-susser-on-creating-a-new-historical-bloc-reimagining-the-commons-and-the-yellow-vests-in-france"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.</span><span class="invisible">com/2084729/episodes/19545890-ida-susser-on-creating-a-new-historical-bloc-reimagining-the-commons-and-the-yellow-vests-in-france</span></a></p><p>the book is available for free download here: <a href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003534518/yellow-vests-battle-democracy-ida-susser" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003534518/yellow-vests-battle-democracy-ida-susser"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa</span><span class="invisible">-mono/10.4324/9781003534518/yellow-vests-battle-democracy-ida-susser</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/yellowvestmovement/" rel="tag">#YellowVestMovement</a> <a href="/tags/frenchpolitics/" rel="tag">#FrenchPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/giletsjaunes/" rel="tag">#GiletsJaunes</a> <a href="/tags/mouvementdesgiletsjaunes/" rel="tag">#MouvementDesGiletsJaunes</a> <a href="/tags/nuitdebout/" rel="tag">#NuitDebout</a> <a href="/tags/socialmovements/" rel="tag">#socialMovements</a> <a href="/tags/mouvementssociaux/" rel="tag">#mouvementsSociaux</a> <a href="/tags/polfr/" rel="tag">#polFr</a> <a href="/tags/macronie/" rel="tag">#Macronie</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/livres/" rel="tag">#livres</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> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://masto.ai/@MusiqueNow" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>MusiqueNow</span></a></span></p>