In which 'Winnie-the-Pooh' turns 100
by Samantha Balaban
Winnie-the-Pooh at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67098
books
This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- Two second-hand copies of The Correspondence of #CharlesDarwin, covering the years 1858–1860, published by Cambridge University Press.
- A new copy of The Catskill Fossil Forest, published by Gilboa Historical Society Press. A local curiosity for sure, but a fascinating little booklet about the discovery of petrified trees from the Devonian.
#Books #Bookstodon #Scicomm #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Evolution #Trees #Wood #Forests #Plants #Botany #Paleobotany #Palaeobotany #Fossils #Paleontology #Palaeontology @bookstodon
In 19th-century Ireland, a disillusioned doctor and a woman living on the margins of society cross paths in a city shaped by hardship and tradition.
The Fitzgeralds of Dublin series is a sweeping Irish family saga exploring loyalty, resilience, and choices that echo across generations.
Begin with A Scarlet Woman - free to read in Kindle Unlimited - Amazon - http://mybook.to/ascarletwoman
#Books #BooksByLornaPeel #Ireland #HistoricalFiction #KindleUnlimited #HistoricalRomance #Romance @bookstodon
Hygge Reads: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-hygge-reads/
Tonight I finished up reading “We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir” by Samra Habib.
It was thought provoking and relatable. I liked it a lot, especially the sections where the author talked about discovering her sexual orientation without having the right vocabulary to describe her feelings at that point.
Thank you, @pawpower, for recommending this book earlier this summer. You have good taste!
World's largest open library calls for volunteers to scan and preserve physical books as AI companies buy, scan, and destroy them — Anna's Archive says ‘time is running out’ as ‘knowledge is permanent
cross-posted from: kbin.earth/m/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com/t/3120649
As AI tech companies increasingly buy and destroy books to feed to their AI models, Anna’s Archive is calling for volunteers to help preserve them for the public record.
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cross-posted from: kbin.earth/m/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com/t/3120649
As AI tech companies increasingly buy and destroy books to feed to their AI models, Anna’s Archive is calling for volunteers to help preserve them for the public record.
World's largest open library calls for volunteers to scan and preserve physical books as AI companies buy, scan, and destroy them — Anna's Archive says ‘time is running out’ as ‘knowledge is permanent
World's largest open library calls for volunteers to scan and preserve physical books as AI companies buy, scan, and destroy them — Anna's Archive says ‘time is running out’ as ‘knowledge is permanent
cross-posted from: kbin.earth/m/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com/t/3120649
As AI tech companies increasingly buy and destroy books to feed to their AI models, Anna’s Archive is calling for volunteers to help preserve them for the public record.
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· lemmy.dbzer0.com
cross-posted from: kbin.earth/m/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com/t/3120649
As AI tech companies increasingly buy and destroy books to feed to their AI models, Anna’s Archive is calling for volunteers to help preserve them for the public record.
World's largest open library calls for volunteers to scan and preserve physical books as AI companies buy, scan, and destroy them — Anna's Archive says ‘time is running out’ as ‘knowledge is permanent
What three female figures in the Bayeux tapestry reveal about medieval women
by Natasha R. Hodgson
The women of the Bayeux tapestry tell a story as compelling and important as the main depiction of the battle.
Books about Bayeux tapestry (including La Tapisserie de la Reine Mathilde by A. Levé) at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/4445
Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/TymeStarwitch
Audiobook: https://owentyme.bandcamp.com/album/the-book-of-newts-starwitch
The undead queen of the space pirates kidnapped Amelia’s sisters and damaged her ship, leaving her with little fuel. Amelia’s a dead woman without her sisters, forced to attack the pirate’s mountain-sized star ship, despite how slim the odds are…
@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #sciencefantasy #scifi #actionadventure #fiction #books #audiobook
"Marmee & Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother" by Eve LaPlante. Your rating: 4 out of 5 stars. Published in 2012.
Book description: A moving portrait of Louisa May Alcott and her mother, the real “Marmee.” This biography is based on the Alcotts’ intimate diaries and other private papers, some recently discovered in a family attic and others thought to have been destroyed, to revive this remarkable daughter and mother. Abigail May Alcott—long dismissed as a quiet, self-effacing background figure—comes to life as a gifted writer and thinker. A politically active feminist firebrand, she fought for universal civil rights, an end to slavery, and women’s suffrage.
I was totally captivated by this book. Not only does it present a portrait of the characters, but it also paints a vivid picture of the times in which they lived on this earth. My life is richer for having read this book.
These Plays Are Now in the Public Domain. Theatres Should Take Advantage
by Chris Peterson
Books by Noël Coward (Private lives coming pretty soon) at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/32147
A Review of Catch-All Drawer: https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-catch-all-drawer/
Most Challenged Books
Every year, the American Library Association compiles a list of the books most frequently targeted by censors based on reports from the field and media coverage.
https://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10
Banned books at PG:
Ooh @NickEast_IndieWriter 's book is 99p on Kobo. https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the-last-philsopher-part-one
It would be rude not to
#books #bookstodon
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Okay people, new instance, new #Introduction!
I'm Andre, a (mostly) backend software engineer and accessibility specialist from Ukraine living in Strasbourg, France.
I'm married and happy, we have two cats.
My main interests are #Technology, #Books, #Music, #Languages, #Accessibility.
I'm blind from birth, if it matters (it may, because I will ask for image descriptions if you send me images without alt text).
My operating system of choice is #Windows, my AI coding assistant is #ClaudeCode, my smart speaker assistant is #AmazonAlexa.
I use my phone far more seldom than 99% of you, preferring my laptop.
I love various kinds of music, especially renaissance and traditional folk music of most peoples of the world.
I'm Pagan, but I revere Jesus christ and his Mother Mary (it might sound complicated, so ask if interested, I'm open to such discussions), so Christians won't see any blasphemy in my posts.
I like talking politics also, but in our times it becomes tougher and tougher, as many people tend to take bold actions if you disagree with them politically. Long story short: I'm pro-Occidental, pro-American, pro-European, leaning right.
I'm in the beginning of develloping our small business (together with my wife, of course). We have some smaller pieces of software and libraries, also my wife has finished a hexalogy (six-book series) of fantasy novels, for now in Russian, but I hope we'll find ways to translate at least into English and French.
That was long already, so ask for more. Oh yeah, I'm a language nerd!
This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- I adopted a damaged copy of Ian Newton's second edition of The Migration #Ecology of #Birds, published by Academic Press
I bought two books by Cambridge University Press second-hand
- Patricia A. McAnany & Norman Yoffee's Questioning #Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire,
- and The #Atmosphere and #Climate of #Mars in their Cambridge #PlanetaryScience series
#Books #Bookstodon #Scicomm #Ornithology #Astronomy @bookstodon
Kingdom Rising — Build, Raid, Rule
I’m excited to share Kingdom Rising — a free strategy game where you build your kingdom, train your army, strengthen your defenses, raid real players, and compete for the top of the leaderboard.
Invite your friends, challenge each other, and see who can build the strongest kingdom. 🏰⚔️
🎮 Play in your browser: kingdomrising.sbs
📱 Also available on the App Store: apps.apple.com/us/app/…/id6796983706
I’d really appreciate your support and feedback. Hope you enjoy playing!
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I’m excited to share Kingdom Rising — a free strategy game where you build your kingdom, train your army, strengthen your defenses, raid real players, and compete for the top of the leaderboard.
Invite your friends, challenge each other, and see who can build the strongest kingdom. 🏰⚔️
🎮 Play in your browser: kingdomrising.sbs
📱 Also available on the App Store: apps.apple.com/us/app/…/id6796983706
I’d really appreciate your support and feedback. Hope you enjoy playing!
Kingdom Rising — Build, Raid, Rule
UK mathematician debunks myth around Parthenon’s optical illusions
Study challenges belief that temple’s curves were designed to correct optical illusions that would have ruined its clean lines
by Ian Sample
Original article:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article/13/9/rsos260999/483304/The-illusion-of-illusions-there-are-no-optical
📚 We Are All Made of Molecules by: Susin Nielsen
Thirteen-year-old Stewart is academically brilliant but socially clueless. Fourteen-year-old Ashley is the undisputed "It" girl in her class, but her grades stink. Their worlds are about to collide when Stewart and his dad move in with Ashley and her mom. "The Brady Bunch" it isn't. Stewart is trying to be 89.9% happy abou...
If you are looking for a way to honor Dolly Parton right now, might I suggest a donation to whatever organization in your community (or a community near yours) that sponsors the Imagination Library. This program is expensive and the orgs will most definitely put your $$ to good use.
In my community, the Literacy Council sponsors the Imagination Library.
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[REVIEW] bell hooks - The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/74524484
I’m having trouble putting my feelings about this book into words.
How do I go about describing the shattering of a window I didn’t know I was peeking through? A slap in the face from someone I didn’t know could exist?
My Kindle melted in my hands as I read. The plastic softened and turned to skin and the screen bent and twisted into eyes and a mouth and a nose, a face. I stared at the eyes, and as the words flickered and tears welled, I heard the mouth move to whisper and then speak and then scream, and I know it was the truth what it said.
bell hooks was a witch; of that, at least, I’m sure.
The Will to Change is honest, sober, and painfully aware of what it is that makes men men, and the systems that rip their nature from them. It describes the iron grip that crushes and shapes boys into loveless archetypes, writhing in a sea of needles that keeps them from being truly human; that same hand that puppeteers their mothers and sisters and lovers, and their fathers and brothers and friends, the same hand that sews their mouths shut as it rips their minds to shreds and chokes their hearts. This book is an indictment of patriarchy not just because of what it does to women, but especially for what it does to men; what it takes from them and the promises it shatters and the silence it demands.
That being said, every word is loving. It is a deep, powerful, raw yearning for love, for healing, for companionship and community. Every chapter begs men to reconsider, to change, to choose love and forego their pain and hurt, to choose to be people instead of dominators and patriarchs, to choose peace instead of violence and war. The Will to Change looks men in the eye and sees past the stoic veneer patriarchy demands and offers release: release from loveless marriages, release from unfulfilling sex, release from violence and grief, release from endless work, release from the burden of living according to a diseased and corrosive script instead of according to our needs and desires. Even as it ravages traditional notions of masculinity and maleness, the feminism of The Will to Change is a hand outstretched and a warm embrace; a guide and a tutor for a new kind of man that can live free and truly love.
And that’s what I loved most about it. Anyone can point out the issues, and in fact many do: the male loneliness epidemic, men are unhappy, the sexual marketplace is a mess, nothing is good for men… Any struggling man or boy will find that their issues are recognized, that their strife is known and acknowledged, but the answers are always unsatisfying. You need to be more violent, more isolated, more hateful. Distrust, deny, control, dominate. Those are the answers you hear so very often. Then, as was already the case when the book was first published over 20 years ago, things got worse for the men that stuck with the old system, that corrosive and hateful system named with such a dreadfully misconstrued word as patriarchy. But The Will to Change is different: it offers a solution rooted in love and compassion. It moves away from the destruction that pervades traditional masculinity and describes a better future for men. It shows a glimpse of a nurturing masculinity, a kind masculinity, a passionate masculinity; it shows men that there’s a path forward where the promises of the patriarchy, of pleasure and wholeness and self, can be fulfilled, away from pain and domination. The lonely man, the angry man, the hurt man, they all can read this book and find a guiding light.
bell hooks saw men and she makes a feminism that saves them. She truly saw and understood and loved, even as men hated and raged and hurt she loved, and as they thrashed around sightless and deaf and lost she loved, and she loved, and she loved, and she says that, to love, men need the will to change. Ultimately, I agree.
I only wish, one day, I can love as she so dearly hoped I would.
Rating: READ IT NOW
Check it out here!
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cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/74524484
I’m having trouble putting my feelings about this book into words.
How do I go about describing the shattering of a window I didn’t know I was peeking through? A slap in the face from someone I didn’t know could exist?
My Kindle melted in my hands as I read. The plastic softened and turned to skin and the screen bent and twisted into eyes and a mouth and a nose, a face. I stared at the eyes, and as the words flickered and tears welled, I heard the mouth move to whisper and then speak and then scream, and I know it was the truth what it said.
bell hooks was a witch; of that, at least, I’m sure.
The Will to Change is honest, sober, and painfully aware of what it is that makes men men, and the systems that rip their nature from them. It describes the iron grip that crushes and shapes boys into loveless archetypes, writhing in a sea of needles that keeps them from being truly human; that same hand that puppeteers their mothers and sisters and lovers, and their fathers and brothers and friends, the same hand that sews their mouths shut as it rips their minds to shreds and chokes their hearts. This book is an indictment of patriarchy not just because of what it does to women, but especially for what it does to men; what it takes from them and the promises it shatters and the silence it demands.
That being said, every word is loving. It is a deep, powerful, raw yearning for love, for healing, for companionship and community. Every chapter begs men to reconsider, to change, to choose love and forego their pain and hurt, to choose to be people instead of dominators and patriarchs, to choose peace instead of violence and war. The Will to Change looks men in the eye and sees past the stoic veneer patriarchy demands and offers release: release from loveless marriages, release from unfulfilling sex, release from violence and grief, release from endless work, release from the burden of living according to a diseased and corrosive script instead of according to our needs and desires. Even as it ravages traditional notions of masculinity and maleness, the feminism of The Will to Change is a hand outstretched and a warm embrace; a guide and a tutor for a new kind of man that can live free and truly love.
And that’s what I loved most about it. Anyone can point out the issues, and in fact many do: the male loneliness epidemic, men are unhappy, the sexual marketplace is a mess, nothing is good for men… Any struggling man or boy will find that their issues are recognized, that their strife is known and acknowledged, but the answers are always unsatisfying. You need to be more violent, more isolated, more hateful. Distrust, deny, control, dominate. Those are the answers you hear so very often. Then, as was already the case when the book was first published over 20 years ago, things got worse for the men that stuck with the old system, that corrosive and hateful system named with such a dreadfully misconstrued word as patriarchy. But The Will to Change is different: it offers a solution rooted in love and compassion. It moves away from the destruction that pervades traditional masculinity and describes a better future for men. It shows a glimpse of a nurturing masculinity, a kind masculinity, a passionate masculinity; it shows men that there’s a path forward where the promises of the patriarchy, of pleasure and wholeness and self, can be fulfilled, away from pain and domination. The lonely man, the angry man, the hurt man, they all can read this book and find a guiding light.
bell hooks saw men and she makes a feminism that saves them. She truly saw and understood and loved, even as men hated and raged and hurt she loved, and as they thrashed around sightless and deaf and lost she loved, and she loved, and she loved, and she says that, to love, men need the will to change. Ultimately, I agree.
I only wish, one day, I can love as she so dearly hoped I would.
Rating: READ IT NOW
[REVIEW] bell hooks - The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
Why the places we love in books can never quite be found in real life
by Rebecca Hutcheon
From Hardy’s Wessex to Brontë country, literary tourists may be chasing places that never quite existed as they imagine them.
Book Promotion: First #book in a series on #KindleUnlimited
A collection of 89 #books for you. Read my #spaceopera
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A sweeping saga of family, loyalty, and secrets that shape generations.
Set against the rich backdrop of 19th-century Ireland, The Fitzgeralds of Dublin series explores love, sacrifice, and the ties that bind.
📚️️️️️️ Books 1–9 available in box sets
📖 Free with Kindle Unlimited
Discover the series - http://mybook.to/FitzgeraldsBoxSets
#Books #BooksByLornaPeel #Ireland #BookSeries #HistoricalFiction #FamilySaga #KindleUnlimited @bookstodon
I just finished “The Ruins” by Scott Smith and I’m very mad
Spoiler alert:
Please don’t read this post if you haven’t read the books yet.
Tap for spoilerI feel robbed. It’s not fair that he killed off all the characters. I’m like heartbroken right now. I was waiting for an ending that would ease all the stress I went through, but nope, the author had to keep it that way for me.
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Spoiler alert:
Please don’t read this post if you haven’t read the books yet.
I feel robbed. It’s not fair that he killed off all the characters. I’m like heartbroken right now. I was waiting for an ending that would ease all the stress I went through, but nope, the author had to keep it that way for me.
I just finished “The Ruins” by Scott Smith and I’m very mad