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When Boys Stop Reading, Something Else Fills the Void Page · lemmy.dbzer0.com

When Boys Stop Reading, Something Else Fills the Void

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/76856521

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A book I've been waiting for is now in my digital library.

"Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech's Data Empires" by Paris Marx. Published in 2026.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/246855828

I'm looking forward to reading it, and I'm so pleased that it is already in the Bookshare collection.

#books #reading @bookstodon

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Here’s What the Biggest and Most Interesting Book Clubs are Reading in October 2026 https://bookriot.com/biggest-book-club-picks-october-2026/ #Books #Bookstodon #BookClub

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📚 The Great Alone by: Kristin Hannah

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.

Cora will do anything for the man sh...

https://bookblabla.com/book/the-great-alone

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#books #reading #libraries #fiction #womenfiction #familylife #thrillers #domestic

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.

Cora will do anything for the man she loves, even if means following him into the unknown. Thirteen-year-old Leni, caught in the riptide of her parents’ passionate, stormy relationship, has little choice but to go along, daring to hope this new land promises her family a better future.

In a wild, remote corner of Alaska, the Allbrights find a fiercely independent community of strong men and even stronger women. The long, sunlit days and the generosity of the locals make up for the newcomers’ lack of preparation and dwindling resources.

But as winter approaches and darkness descends, Ernt’s fragile mental state deteriorates. Soon the perils outside pale in comparison to threats from within. In their small cabin, covered in snow, blanketed in eighteen hours of night, Leni and her mother learn the terrible truth: they are on their own.

#1 New York Times Instant Bestseller

In Kristin Hannah’s The Great Alone, a desperate family seeks a new beginning in the near-isolated wilderness of Alaska only to find that their unpredictable environment is less threatening than the erratic behavior found in human nature.

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Head over to StoryGraph for a chance to win a copy of The Expert of Subtle Revisions! Now through September 18 (US only)

AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A thrilling historical mystery about a young woman searching for her father, a young man trying to solve an impossible problem, and the quest for the power to transcend time.

“From Vienna to San Francisco, I was swept away by this fascinating search for family and for answers.”—Janet Skeslien Charles, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Library and Miss Morgan’s Book Brigade

https://app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/50e04d18-4b3e-476d-9450-ed1f60c1196c

#books #writersofmastodon #bookstodon @bookstodon

The Expert of Subtle Revisions by Kirsten Menger-Anderson

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Owen Jones welcomes journalist #AkbarShahidAhmed to discuss his book #CrossingTheRedLine: #Biden, His Advisors, and #Israel's War in #Gaza

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duTm2Tz65ww
#Palestine #USpol #USpolitics #GenocideJoe #GazaGenocide #shitlibs #BlueMAGA #USforeignPolicy #USMiddleEastPolicy #niOubliNiPardon #books @bookstodon

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In 19th-century Dublin, a disillusioned doctor and a fallen woman discover that some meetings change everything.

The Fitzgeralds of Dublin series is a sweeping Irish family saga following Will and Isobel through hardship, secrets, and the choices that shape their lives in a changing Ireland.

Begin with A Scarlet Woman - free to read in Kindle Unlimited - http://mybook.to/ascarletwoman

#Books #BooksByLornaPeel #FamilySaga #HistoricalFiction #KindleUnlimited #Ireland #BookSeries @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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Product placement seems to have found a way into books. Culturally significant or common household names always found a way into literature but it is the first time I find two mentions of brands so blatantly placed that the only conclusion I’m led to reach is of paid product placement. The book in question is “The House in the Woods”, by Mark Dawson. In the very first few paragraphs there is a mention to Hello Fresh, with a not so subtle description of the service, along with an admission of a character on how the instructions to prepare a meal are so simple even they can follow it, and a mention to Spotify. Deeper into the book I’ve already noticed a mention of Nescafé instant coffee. None of these mentioned brands needed to be there. The writer seems proficient enough to be able to write without resorting to such name placements. The story telling is fluid, with a smooth but dense tone to it, which is something I enjoy in crime/drama/mistery novels. Has this been a thing for a long time and only now I’m noticing the elephant in the room or is this a rising trend? Everyone needs and deserves to make a living but not like this. Page · sopuli.xyz

Culturally significant or common household names always found a way into literature but it is the first time I find two mentions of brands so blatantly placed that the only conclusion I’m led to reach is of paid product placement.

The book in question is “The House in the Woods”, by Mark Dawson. In the very first few paragraphs there is a mention to Hello Fresh, with a not so subtle description of the service, along with an admission of a character on how the instructions to prepare a meal are so simple even they can follow it, and a mention to Spotify. Deeper into the book I’ve already noticed a mention of Nescafé instant coffee.

None of these mentioned brands needed to be there. The writer seems proficient enough to be able to write without resorting to such name placements. The story telling is fluid, with a smooth but dense tone to it, which is something I enjoy in crime/drama/mistery novels.

Has this been a thing for a long time and only now I’m noticing the elephant in the room or is this a rising trend?

Everyone needs and deserves to make a living but not like this.

Product placement seems to have found a way into books.

https://sopuli.xyz/post/50488394

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Jonathan Swift v. AI

Three hundred years ago, the satirist warned of a world in which reading and writing are replaced by the flashy simulation of human knowledge. Can he help us fix it?

by Dónal Gill

https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/schools-teachers-artificial-intelligence

Books by Jonathan Swift at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/326

#books #literature

The title page to Swift's 1735 Works, depicting the author in the Dean's chair, receiving the thanks of Ireland. The Horatian motto reads, Exegi Monumentum Ære perennius, "I have completed a monument more lasting than brass." The "brass" is a pun, for William Wood's halfpennies (alloyed with brass) lie scattered at his feet. Cherubim award Swift a poet's laurel.

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Good morning 😁
Time for another chapter starting quote of The Last Philosopher: Part Two...

P.S If you ask me these Knomes sound like they're on to something about technology 😂

Buy Part One: https://books2read.com/b/m0pJYA

@reading @books @fantasy @bookstodon

#WIPWednesday #WorkInProgress
#Quote #Quotes #BookQuote
#AmWriting #IndieAuthor #eBook
#FantasyBooks #Fantasy #WorldBuilding #SciFi #Satire #Humor #Humour #Comedy
#Novel #Books #Bookstodon
#Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity

Opening from the eight chapter of The Last Philosopher: Part Two

The stench of a Knome

“Technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.”
-Knome administrator saying

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Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/e-nesbit/beautiful-stories-from-shakespeare #Books #Bookstodon

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Ebook and print: https://books2read.com/SheGoesToWar
Also in Ebook omnibus (volumes 1-3): https://books2read.com/AshenBladesOpenWounds

With the return of her arch-nemesis to the world in 1972, the Hunter literally goes to war, finding herself drawn to Vietnam, once more backed up by her demon-hunting allies, but as all that faced the horrors of the Vietnam War, she finds her time there trying and emotionally difficult.

@bookstodon
#indieauthor #writing #fantasy #actionadventure #fiction #books

(Left) The cover of She Goes to War, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

Three people dressed in tiger-stripe camouflage crouch near the edge of a jungle, in Veitnam. The jungle is a mixture of bamboo and ferns.

The first is a girl with brown hair and blue eyes. She wears a dress, top hat and elbow-length fingerless gloves. She points out of the jungle.

The second is a hispanic man and his skin is covered in greasepaint, to make him blend in even better. He wears a military uniform, including a hat with a round brim and leans on an AK-47 for support. His vest has pouches large enough for spare magazines for his weapon. He looks through a pair of binoculars at what the girl is pointing at.

The third is huge and has the head of a cat, with black fur and green eyes. He wears a military uniform.

(Right) The view from the back of a military cargo plane, with the rear hatch open, in flight, while cargo is dropped for descent via parachute, with the following quote over the top:

“Did you see that?”

“No! I officially *never* saw that crate! I *did not* see the flash of a sword cut the crate apart and *very specifically* didn’t see it explode into a shower of thousands of dinner rolls, with a teenage girl in the middle!”

“Good! I was afraid I was the only one that hadn’t seen that!”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/SheGoesToWar

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Recommendation for on book about menopause. Hi all, So my wife and I have been told yesterday that the return of her breast cancer is incurable and so the treatment options are all going to involve trying to keep it at bay. As such the first thing that they will be doing is effectively switching off her ovaries and forcing an early menopause. I know barely anything about menopause, what that is going to entail for her both physically and mentally or things to expect. Can anyone recommend any books for me to check out that can explain and help me to understand what she is about to go through with this so that I can better help support her? Page · lemmy.dbzer0.com

Hi all,

So my wife and I have been told yesterday that the return of her breast cancer is incurable and so the treatment options are all going to involve trying to keep it at bay.

As such the first thing that they will be doing is effectively switching off her ovaries and forcing an early menopause. I know barely anything about menopause, what that is going to entail for her both physically and mentally or things to expect.

Can anyone recommend any books for me to check out that can explain and help me to understand what she is about to go through with this so that I can better help support her?

Recommendation for on book about menopause.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/76929456

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🎉new book release!🎉

My latest book, Rogue & Vagabond, is now available everywhere* in ebook and print.

Gabe Ward, tasked with protecting a young girl, hides out at an isolated Northamptonshire estate – and comes face to face with the man he spent a pleasant evening with at the Rogue and Vagabond eight months ago.

It already has a very nice, organic review, here (mild spoilers):
https://everybookadoorway.com/sunday-soupcons-53/

Find it at your favourite retailer (also Kobo Plus and Everand):
books2read.com/roguevagabond

At bookshop.org
https://bookshop.org/p/books/rogue-vagabond-wendy-palmer/18bee960397171a7

Or direct from me:
https://wendypalmer.au/bookshop/

It's also on Hoopla, and you can request it from your library.

Check content warnings here:
https://wendypalmer.au/content-warnings/

#books #mmRomance #ReadingCommunity #NewReleases #IndieBooks
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*except Amazon, because that special little 800-pound gorilla won’t even *begin* publishing D2D-distributed books until release date, so it’s still working its way through the AI-flooded queue over there.
(And except the Google store, since they're so hard to work with D2D gave up even trying.)

Surrounded by a curlicued black border, Rogue & Vagabond is written in large letters in the centre. Rogue is in a rough newspaper-type font, and a dark-haired smirking man in a brown coat is half-leaning on the E. Vagabond is in an elegant swishy font, the line of the V paralleling the arm of a tall blond man in a burgundy coat. Behind the & is a little gnome, staring out blankly at us.

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📚 Where There Was Fire by: John Manuel Arias

Costa Rica, 1968. When a lethal fire erupts at the American Fruit Company’s most lucrative banana plantation burning all evidence of a massive cover-up, and her husband disappears, the future of Teresa’s family is changed forever.

Now, twenty-seven years later, Ter...

https://bookblabla.com/book/where-there-was-fire

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#books #reading #libraries #fiction #sagasfiction #literaryfiction #womenfiction #familylife

Costa Rica, 1968. When a lethal fire erupts at the American Fruit Company’s most lucrative banana plantation burning all evidence of a massive cover-up, and her husband disappears, the future of Teresa’s family is changed forever.

Now, twenty-seven years later, Teresa and her daughter Lyra are picking up the pieces. Lyra wants nothing to do with Teresa, but is desperate to find out what happened to her family that fateful night. Teresa, haunted by a missing husband and the bitter ghost of her mother, Amarga, is unable to reconcile the past. What unfolds is a story of a mother and daughter trying to forgive what they do not yet understand, and the mystery at the heart of one family’s rupture.

Brimming with ancestral spirits, omens, and the anthropomorphic forces of nature, John Manuel Arias weaves a brilliant tapestry of love, loss, secrets, and redemption in Where There Was Fire.

A lush and atmospheric novel about three generations of a Costa Rican family wrestling with a deadly secret, from rising literary star John Manuel Arias

“An exciting new voice with a prowess for lyricism.” ―Publishers Weekly

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A B&N DISCOVER PICK * A GMA BUZZ PICK * MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023: CrimeReads, Debutiful, Good Morning America, Library Journal, Zibby Mag, The San Francisco Chronicle, and more!

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"1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation" by Andrew Ross Sorkin. My rating: 5 out of 5 stars. Published in 2025.

Book description: A New York Times Notable Book of 2025. This book is a narrative of the most infamous stock market crash in history—one with ripple effects that still shape our society today. In 1929, the world watched in shock as the unstoppable Wall Street bull market went into a freefall, wiping out fortunes and igniting a depression that would reshape a generation. But behind the flashing ticker tapes and panicked traders, another drama unfolded—one of visionaries and fraudsters, titans and dreamers, euphoria and ruin. Andrew Ross Sorkin takes readers inside the chaos of the crash, behind the scenes of a raging battle between Wall Street and Washington and the larger-than-life characters whose ambition and naïveté in an endless boom led to disaster. The dizzying highs and brutal lows of this era eerily mirror today’s world. of AI proliferation, and in my opinion, over investment, and a bubble which will one day burst.

This was an excellent read. I highly recommend this book.

#nonfiction #history #WallStreet #investment #StockMarketCrash #wealth #books #reading @bookstodon

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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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Work in progress wednesday is here again. So, I give you the opening quote of the 11th chapter of The Last Philosopher: Part Two 😁

1€ ebook of Part One: https://books2read.com/u/m0pJYA

#WIPWednesday #WorkInProgress
#Quote #Quotes #BookQuote
#AmWriting #IndieAuthor #eBook
#FantasyBooks #Fantasy #WorldBuilding #SciFi #Satire #Humor #Humour #Comedy
#Novel #Books #Bookstodon
#Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity

Trial and sentence

“Just because you re too dumb to understand that you're wrong doesn’t make you right.”
-Attercap Skvosip

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I need to see the rewritten version of this poem 😂

@reading @bookstodon @books @humor @humor@lemmy.world @aiop @joinin

#ReadingMemes #Meme #Poetry #Humor #Humour #Funny #Geek
#Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity #AmReading
#Novel #Books #Fiction #Bookstodon

A drawn picture of Edgar Allen Poe and his Raven.
Caption: The Passive Agressive Raven
Speech bubble from the Raven saying, 'Nevermind.'

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« FMEP President Lara Friedman speaks with historian and author Dr. #AssalRad about the #media's role in the #GazaGenocide, and about her newly-published book on this topic, " #DontSayPalestine: How the Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide." »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHAbHmtS_5A
#Gaza #warOnGaza #Palestine #GazaCoverage #PalestineCoverage #MSM #WesternMedia #mediaCritcism #books @bookstodon

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The coeds of 1894

In the 1890s, MIT alumnae weren’t expected to have meaningful careers. The women of the Class of 1894 proved that assumption wrong.

By Mackenzie White

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/23/1138330/the-coeds-of-1894/

Books in Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/706

#books #science #architecture #womenInStem

Marion Mahony Griffin and Walter Burley Griffin gardening in the backyard of "Pholiota", Heidelberg, Victoria, 1918.

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May 22 is International Sherlock Holmes Day — the birthday of Arthur Conan Doyle, the man who created the world’s most famous detective.

Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, a real physician who could read a patient’s profession, habits, and character from tiny details: a walk, an accent, worn sleeves, mud on shoes.

Doyle later tried to kill Holmes at Reichenbach Falls… but readers refused to let him go.

#books #writers #SherlockHolmes #ConanDoyle @bookstodon #bookstodon #reading #today

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Rare 300-Year-Old Book by Forgotten Dutch Master Resurfaces

The Van Eeghen Drawing Book, newly donated to the Rijksmuseum, holds works attributed to Rombout van Uylenburgh, the cousin of Rembrandt's wife.

by Vittoria Benzine

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/rijksmuseum-rombout-uylenburgh-van-eeghen-book-2799213

Books about Dutch art at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=dutch+art

#books #art_history #culture

A highlight of the Van Eeghen Drawing Book, titled Announcing to the Shepherds. Photo: courtesy of Rijksmuseum.

This is a monochromatic blue-toned drawing depicting what appears to be a religious or biblical scene, showing an angel appearing in the clouds above shepherds and their flock, surrounded by cherubs, with sheep and cattle visible in the foreground landscape below.

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The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and his mother). Rabih Alameddine.

You, an older, gay, Lebanese high school teacher, who’s been through an awful lot of bad personal and political history, have to figure out how to deal with your toxic mother (and other relatives who historically made your life miserable), so you capitulate to their hetero-normative views of family eventually.

1 of 5 library cats 🐈.

@bookstodon #bookstodon #books #reading #lgbtq #lebanon #mothers

Light blue book cover featuring a broken teapot

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Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/StoneProphet

Nicole seeks to collect the missing fragments of the magical city of Kurg from her home world, but the remaining pieces were deactivated and are hard to find. Luckily, she just found the first piece of the Seventh Sage, an ancient stone man that knows the future, which she hopes knows where to find them.

@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #sciencefantasy #scifi #actionadventure #fiction #books

(Left) The cover of Stone Prophet, by Owen Tyme.

At the center is a hexagonal coin with a golden appearance,. That bears a watercolor painting of a woman's face, which drips paint as if it were fresh.

Following the edges of the coin, the background is divided by a spiral of black lines into six images representing vital pieces of the titular stone prophet.

Upper right is an attractive woman with blue eyes and blond hair that's almost white. She stands in place of Memory.

Right is an eye with a blue iris surrounded by blue skin and golden decorations, representing Vision.

Lower right is a hooded woman in darkness, partially illuminated by a purple triangle that magically restrains her. She is Skill.

Lower left is a heart made of and resting in blue sand, with yellow light inside. That shines through cracks, hinting at fragility. This is Emotion.

Left is a gray sphere covered in black zeros and ones. More zeros and ones lay over the top, in blurred white. This is Reason.

Upper Left is a brass statue of justice, wearing a robe and blindfold. She holds a sword and scales. Behind her are the stars of space. This is Heart.

(Right) The same attractive woman from the upper right section of the cover, looking right at the viewer. The following quote frames her face, above and below:

“Does the Leader make the hard choices, or do the hard choices make the Leader?”

“Will she do what must be done, for the good of all?”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/StoneProphet

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