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<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></p><p>After encountering the worst life has to offer, including 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>

(Left) The cover of The Inverted Glass, by Owen Tyme.

The Background is a pink and purple nebula in space.

The foreground is largely line art, in white, with a black shadow outline.

At the center is an hourglass. The bottom has black sand, with a white figure standing in it. The top has is an inverted mirror image of the bottom, with a black figure in white sand.

The hourglass serves as the balance point for a set of scales, which hold a heart and a feather. The heart is on the left and the feather on the right. The heart is lower than the feather.

(Right) Lying in blue sand is a heart made of the same sand, full of cracks. It glows from the inside in a warm, yellow color. Over that is the following quote:

Nicole felt an extreme kind of loss, realizing she’d been stolen away from the afterlife, just before finding out if she deserved punishment or not!

“How dare you do this to me? Why?”

“I’m always in need of strong spirits and I’ve seen none stronger. You have unique talents I refuse to see go to waste.”

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

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<p>📚 The Wilderness by: Angela Flournoy</p><p>Desiree, Danielle, January, Monique, and Nakia are in their early twenties and at the beginning. Of their careers, of marriage, of motherhood, and of big-city lives in New York and Los Angeles. Together, they are finding their way through the wilderness, that period of...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-wilderness" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-wilderness"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-wilder</span><span class="invisible">ness</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/literaryfiction/" rel="tag">#literaryfiction</a> <a href="/tags/friendshipfiction/" rel="tag">#friendshipfiction</a> <a href="/tags/psychologicalfiction/" rel="tag">#psychologicalfiction</a></p>

Desiree, Danielle, January, Monique, and Nakia are in their early twenties and at the beginning. Of their careers, of marriage, of motherhood, and of big-city lives in New York and Los Angeles. Together, they are finding their way through the wilderness, that period of life when the reality of contemporary adulthood—overwhelming, mysterious, and full of freedom and consequences—swoops in and stays.

Desiree and Danielle, sisters whose shared history has done little to prevent their estrangement, nurse bitter family wounds in different ways. January’s got a relationship with a “good” man she feels ambivalent about, even after her surprise pregnancy. Monique, a librarian and aspiring blogger, finds unexpected online fame after calling out the university where she works for its plans to whitewash fraught history. And Nakia is trying to get her restaurant off the ground, without relying on the largesse of her upper middle-class family who wonder aloud if she should be doing something better with her life.

As these friends move from the late 2000’s into the late 2020’s, from young adults to grown women, they must figure out what they mean to one another—amid political upheaval, economic and environmental instability, and the increasing volatility of modern American life.

The Wilderness is Angela Flournoy’s masterful and kaleidoscopic follow-up to her critically acclaimed debut The Turner House. A generational talent, she captures with disarming wit and el

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<p>English poet Rupert Brooke died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1915.</p><p>He is known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially "The Soldier". Rupert Brooke’s promising literary career was cut short when he died in April 1915 from sepsis resulting from an infected mosquito bite while he was part of the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force.</p><p>Books by Rupert Brooke at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/148" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/148"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/148</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>

Image of Rupert Brooke (frontispiece) from For remembrance: soldier poets who have fallen in the war

Arthur St. John Adcock - https://archive.org/details/forremembranceso00adco

Vintage sepia-toned photograph of Rupert Brooke with neatly combed hair wearing a light-colored shirt with arms crossed; one of the sleeves appears to be rolled up slightly.

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<p>American mathematical physicist J. Willard Gibbs died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1903.</p><p>Gibbs' most celebrated contributions were in the field of thermodynamics, particularly concerning the phase rule, chemical potential, and Gibbs free energy—a concept named after him. The Gibbs free energy is particularly critical in predicting the direction of chemical reactions and phase changes. His book, "Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics," laid the foundation for modern statistical mechanics.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/physics/" rel="tag">#physics</a></p>

Portrait of American mathematical physicist J. Willard Gibbs, taken about 1895

Photograph taken around 1895. According to his student Lynde Wheeler, of the existing portraits, this is the most faithful to Gibbs's kindly habitual expression.

Unknown author - Scanned from the frontispiece for Raymond J. Seeger, Men of Physics: J. Willard Gibbs, American Mathematical Physicist par excellence, (Oxford and New York: Pergamon Press, 1974). Used also as the frontispiece for Lynde P. Wheeler, Josiah Willard Gibbs, The History of a Great Mind, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951). No copyright notice or attribution is given in either book.

Maxwell's sketch of the lines of constant temperature and pressure, made in preparation for his construction of a solid model based on Gibbs's definition of a thermodynamic surface for water (see Maxwell's thermodynamic surface)

James Clerk Maxwell (1831 – 1879) - P. M. Harman (ed.), The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, vol. 3, 1874-1879, (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002), p. 232, plate IV.

J. C. Maxwell's sketch of the thermodynamic surface for a water-like substance, based on a theoretical construct proposed by J. W. Gibbs. The curves are "isothermals and isopiestics drawn by help of the Sun."

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<p>New on my YouTube channel: 'Fulfillment: an Under 5 Review." <br><a href="https://youtu.be/DpanUg3jcH0?si=UB3mLHLdlz8RUtDO" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="youtu.be/DpanUg3jcH0?si=UB3mLHLdlz8RUtDO"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/DpanUg3jcH0?si=UB3mLH</span><span class="invisible">Ldlz8RUtDO</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/under5reviews/" rel="tag">#Under5Reviews</a> where I tell you about a book and help you decide if you want to read it or not in under 5 minutes. </p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/itinerantlibrarian/" rel="tag">#ItinerantLibrarian</a> <a href="/tags/vlog/" rel="tag">#vlog</a> <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#review</a> <a href="/tags/badeconomy/" rel="tag">#BadEconomy</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#business</a> <a href="/tags/thisisamerica/" rel="tag">#ThisIsAmerica</a> <a href="/tags/exploitation/" rel="tag">#exploitation</a> <a href="/tags/corruption/" rel="tag">#corruption</a> <a href="/tags/video/" rel="tag">#video</a> 💙📚</p><p>@bookstodon@a.gup.pe <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>"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."<br>Essays: First Series</p><p>American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1882. He led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century, such as in "Nature". He is best known for his essays, which were initially delivered as lectures. "Self-Reliance" and "The American Scholar" are among his most influential. </p><p>Books by Ralph Waldo Emerson at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1071" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1071"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1071</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1880 albumen print copied by J.J. Hawes from an 1857 daguerreotype by J.J. Hawes.

A vintage sepia-toned photograph of Ralph Waldo Emerson wearing a formal suit with a bow tie. The suit jacket has broad lapels and the white shirt underneath is visible. The person stands against a dark backdrop, and only the clothing and hairstyle are discernible.

Cover of a book titled "Miscellanies" by Ralph Waldo Emerson, with a drawing of a pine tree, published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge in Boston and New York.

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<p>📚 What We Can Know by: Ian McEwan</p><p>2014: At a dinner for close friends and colleagues, renowned poet Francis Blundy honors his wife’s birthday by reading aloud a new poem dedicated to her, ‘A Corona for Vivien’. Much wine is drunk as the guests listen, and a delicious meal consumed. Little does anyone gathered around the cand...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/what-we-can-know" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/what-we-can-know"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/what-we-ca</span><span class="invisible">n-know</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/dystopianfiction/" rel="tag">#dystopianfiction</a> <a href="/tags/literary/" rel="tag">#literary</a></p>

2014: At a dinner for close friends and colleagues, renowned poet Francis Blundy honors his wife’s birthday by reading aloud a new poem dedicated to her, ‘A Corona for Vivien’. Much wine is drunk as the guests listen, and a delicious meal consumed. Little does anyone gathered around the candlelit table know that for generations to come people will speculate about the message of this poem, a copy of which has never been found, and which remains an enduring mystery.

2119: Just over one hundred years in the future, much of the western world has been submerged by rising seas following a catastrophic nuclear accident. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost. In the water-logged south of what used to be England, Thomas Metcalfe, a lonely scholar and researcher, longs for the early twenty-first century as he chases the ghost of one poem, ‘A Corona for Vivian’. How wild and full of risk their lives were, thinks Thomas, as he pores over the archives of that distant era, captivated by the freedoms and possibilities of human life at its zenith. When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the elusive poem’s discovery, a story is revealed of entangled loves and a brutal crime that destroy his assumptions about people he thought he knew intimately well.

What We Can Know is a masterpiece, a fictional tour de force, a love story about both people and the words they leave behind, a literary detective story which reclaims the present

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<p>There is one week to go till my new poetry collection "Dracula in the Colonies" is launched! You and your favourite friends (or even your random acquaintances) are warmly invited to the launch at Unity Books Wellington on Wednesday 1 October, starting 6pm.</p><p>Full details including a couple of lovely book endorsements: <a href="https://www.timjonesbooks.co.nz/blog/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.timjonesbooks.co.nz/blog/</a><br>Facebook event: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1159319136008748/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.facebook.com/events/1159319136008748/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.facebook.com/events/115931</span><span class="invisible">9136008748/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#Poetry</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> @bookstodon <a href="/tags/aotearoa/" rel="tag">#Aotearoa</a></p>

Front cover of Tim Jones' new poetry collection "Dracula in the Colonies", showing a map of Aotearoa / New Zealand in a 19th-century style against a yellow background with the title of the collection and author name in red.

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<p>Austrian Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1899.</p><p>In Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, he attempted to delineate the limits of language. The book is structured around a series of numbered propositions and sub-propositions, which build on each other to create a dense, almost mathematical argument. In Philosophical Investigations, he introduced the concept of how words take their meanings from their function in various forms of life and activities.</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>

Moriz Nähr, Ludwig Wittgenstein. Portrait for the conferment of the Trinity College scholarship 1929, 1928/29

A black and white photo showing Ludwig Wittgenstein wearing a tweed jacket over a collared shirt with a lapel pin. The individual's hairstyle is not visible.

Cover of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Book cover of "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" by Ludwig Wittgenstein with abstract blue and pink geometric shapes and the words "Project Gutenberg" at the bottom.

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<p>Online event hosted by <a href="/tags/meaction/" rel="tag">#MEAction</a></p><p>Discussion and Q&A with Brian Buckbee, author of We Should All Be Birds.</p><p>Wednesday, October 1st<br>3 pm Eastern/noon Pacific</p><p>More details here:</p><p><a href="https://www.meaction.net/event-details/q-a-with-author-brian-buckbee" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.meaction.net/event-details/q-a-with-author-brian-buckbee"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.meaction.net/event-details</span><span class="invisible">/q-a-with-author-brian-buckbee</span></a></p><p>You must register in advance in order to get the Zoom link for the event.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@mecfs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mecfs</span></a></span> <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><a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/memoir/" rel="tag">#Memoir</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/mecfs/" rel="tag">#MEcfs</a> <a href="/tags/chronicillness/" rel="tag">#ChronicIllness</a></p>

Announcement for the event with this text: "Q & A with author Brian Buckbee, Wednesday, October 1st, at 12 pm PT / 3 pm ET."
It includes the cover for his book - We Should All Be Birds: A Memoir - which includes a close-up view of a pigeon.

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<p>German physicist Arnold Sommerfeld died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1951.</p><p>In 1916, he introduced the idea of elliptical orbits for electrons, and he also introduced additional quantum numbers which included the azimuthal quantum number and magnetic quantum number. He also introduced a dimensionless physical constant known as the fine-structure constant. This constant characterizes the strength of the electromagnetic interaction between elementary charged particles.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16264" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16264</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/physics/" rel="tag">#physics</a></p>

Sommerfeld c. 1922–1923
Bain News Service, publisher - Library of Congress Catalog: https://lccn.loc.gov/2014715010.

A vintage black and white portrait of a person in a dark jacket and collared shirt with the top of the image labeled "A. SOMMERFELD" and "38777" on the right side. The edges of the photograph are irregular and worn, adding to the aged appearance.

Title page of the book "Atomic Structure and Spectral Lines" by Arnold Sommerfeld, translated by Henry L. Brose, with 125 figures, published by Methuen & Co. Ltd., London.

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<p>“Les pensées et maximes sont un genre épuisé et un genre futile.”<br>Les contemporains</p><p>French critic and dramatist Jules Lemaître was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1853.</p><p>His literary studies were collected under the title of Les Contemporains (7 series, 1886–99), and his dramatic feuilletons as Impressions de Théàtre (10 series, 1888–98). Lemaître found Zola's naturalism to be excessively deterministic and pessimistic.</p><p>Books by Jules Lemaître at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5505" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5505"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/5505</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

French critic and playwright Jules Lemaître (1853-1914) in his house in Tavers (Loiret).

Jules Lemaître in a dark suit sitting at a desk holding a book with shelves full of books in the background.

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Finished *Frankenstein* this morning. The hell was that?!

<p>(editing an earlier post)</p><p>Just finished this morning! Spoilers below. If you intend to read the book, do NOT go any further. You need to take this ride with no hint of what’s coming.</p><p>Nothing from the movies or pop-culture prepared me for this mess of a book.</p><p>We don’t get a solid description of the monster, but apparently he’s horrifying to behold. What? Did Frankenstein make him ugly on purpose?! We’re not told where or how he came up with the biological material, no grave robbing mentioned. An 8-foot humanoid just sorta appears on Frankenstein’s work bench.</p><p>So the monster wakes up (we’re not told what caused this), Frankenstein is horrified at what he’s created…</p><p>Let us pause a moment. Frankenstein knows what the fuckin’ thing looks like, he made it! He set out to create artificial life and accomplished it. And now he’s scared shitless the moment his goal comes together?! Y’all, he had plenty of time to think on this.</p><p>…runs out in the street for 2 days, his bff spies him and takes him home. Frankenstein (who’s not a doctor BTW, he’s a college kid) runs upstairs and is relieved the monster has ambled off.</p><p>“Oh thank Heavens that 8-foot abomination before God is wandering around loose. Not my problem! LOL!”</p><p>The monster spends over 2 years in a shed outside of a exiled, French family’s shack in Switzerland. And in all that time no one ever looked in there?! Monster has a tiny peephole to watch the family and learns French by listening to them. So where did he learn the English he later uses?! Also, he learned to read from the family teaching a beautiful Arab girls that shows up. Whole 'nother story there.</p><p>Frankenstein is such a panicky little bitch that every time he gets upset he goes into a fugue and goes nuts for months on end. He does this at least 3 times, if not more. “Boo!” “I have to go to the sanatorium.”</p><p>The monster has already killed Frankenstein’s little brother and framed a family friend, getting her hanged. He threatens Frankenstein to continue fucking his world up if he doesn’t make him a bride companion. Frankenstein and bff are going to Scotland where Frankenstein is going to secretly do this thing. He takes nearly a fucking year touring about. “We spent 3 weeks looking at cobblestones.” “Hadn’t you better hustle up in case the monster gets impatient?”</p><p>Frankenstein spies the monster watching him work on the bride, freaks out and destroys her right in from of him. Um, I would not piss off an 8-foot monster with superhuman speed and strength. Monster says, “Catch you on your wedding night! K I love U bye bye!” Frankenstein, while looking around the house for the monster on his wedding night, sends his bride upstairs, alone. Guess what? Chicken butts.</p><p>The core of the story is Frankenstein and his monster making the same exact mistakes, over and over and over again. Then they lament for 10-pages about how sorry they are. Then they do it again. “Lather, Rinse and Repeat.”</p><p>So much more weirdness. And BTW, I think Frankenstein should have married his bff instead of his cousin, seemed way more into that guy than her.</p><p>tl;dr: Every single person in the book is a drama queen. 150 pages of drama queen. Makes one wonder what young Shelly was like IRL.</p><p>One more thing. Why did Shelly blank out the dates? August, 8th, 17__? 1701 was a very different time than 1799. What was that woman hiding?!</p>

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<p>Love Junkie. Robert Plunket.</p><p>It’s the early 80’s and you are a middle aged straight housewife who moves to NYC, and you find yourself unexpectedly (and initially, somehow unknowingly) in the middle of the A-list gay scene; fortunately, you are somewhat adaptable…mainly since you are able to delude yourself about almost anything.</p><p>3 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 <br>CW: a few racist jokes; one inexplicable hate word</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/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/gay/" rel="tag">#gay</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtq/" rel="tag">#lgbtq</a> <a href="/tags/1980s/" rel="tag">#1980s</a> <a href="/tags/nyc/" rel="tag">#nyc</a></p>

Book cover featuring a phot of the rear of a pair of men’s red jockey briefs.

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<p>Bookish and blogging friends, The 2026 Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge blog hop topics are available now. The first one happens on January 7. </p><p>I made a post to transcribe all 50 topics as the original image didn’t have alt-text. Hope to see you all around at Long and Short Reviews this year: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/the-2026-wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-topics/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/the-2026-wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-topics/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/the-2026-wedne</span><span class="invisible">sday-weekly-blogging-challenge-topics/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="/tags/blogging/" rel="tag">#Blogging</a> <a href="/tags/wednesdayweeklybloggingchallenge/" rel="tag">#WednesdayWeeklyBloggingChallenge</a> <a href="/tags/longandshortreviews/" rel="tag">#LongAndShortReviews</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstagram/" rel="tag">#Bookstagram</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>

A graphic that shares all 50 Wednesday Weekly Blogging challenge topics for 2026. I will transcribe them in the post as there isn’t space here. Above the list in this image you can see an opened laptop on a wooden table.

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<p>American writer Willa Cather died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1947.</p><p>Cather's first novel, Alexander's Bridge (1912), was a departure from her later work, but it was with her Prairie Trilogy — O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918) — that she established her reputation as a major American novelist. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I.</p><p>Books by Willa Cather at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/22" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/22"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/22</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Photograph of Willa Cather by Van Vechten; smiling; looking toward the camera.

Willa Cather wearing a dark fur coat, a shimmering top, and a hat with a spiky adornment, standing in front of a bookshelf filled with books. The background behind the bookshelf appears to have a faint image of a painting or drawing of a horse-like figure. The photograph has a vintage quality to it. There is a label at the bottom that reads "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten."

The cover of the book "My Ántonia" by Willa Cather, featuring a bright green background with abstract blue lines and shapes, and the text "Project Gutenberg" at the bottom.

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<p>My current Halloween reread is The Lost Girls<br> by Sonia Hartl. </p><p>I enjoy the way it takes the 100+ year old vampire falling in love with an innocent teenage girl trope to its disturbing but logical conclusions.</p><p>We need a film version of it someday. </p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/filmmastodon/" rel="tag">#FilmMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#Fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/vampire/" rel="tag">#Vampire</a> <a href="/tags/horror/" rel="tag">#Horror</a> <a href="/tags/halloween/" rel="tag">#Halloween</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>

Book cover for The Lost Girls by Sonia Hartl. Image on the cover is a drawing of a teenaged white girl dressed in 1980s fashion, including a choker, a blue and black striped blouse, and crimped black hair.

She is a vampire, and so her fangs are showing and there is a small dribble of blood dripping down the corner of her mouth.

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<p>New research may rewrite origins of the Book of Kells, says academic</p><p>Author challenges assumption monks on Iona created manuscript, instead positing its origins are Pictish</p><p>By Dalya Alberge</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/sep/26/new-research-may-rewrite-origins-of-the-book-of-kells-says-academic?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/books/2025/sep/26/new-research-may-rewrite-origins-of-the-book-of-kells-says-academic?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/books/2025</span><span class="invisible">/sep/26/new-research-may-rewrite-origins-of-the-book-of-kells-says-academic?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/old_manuscripts/" rel="tag">#old_manuscripts</a></p>

Book of Kells, Folio 292r, Incipit to John. In principio erat verbum.

The page opens with the large, elaborately decorated words IN PRINCIPIO. The “I” and “N” are monumental, filled with complex interlace and spiral motifs.

Each letter is not just a character but an artistic composition, heavily ornamented with Celtic knotwork, spirals, animal interlace, and stylized foliage.

Rich tones of red, yellow, green, blue, and black are used.

Within and around the letters, one can find zoomorphic designs.

After the monumental decorated opening, the rest of the text (“erat verbum”) continues in smaller, though still carefully calligraphed, script.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Kells#/media/File:KellsFol292rIncipJohn.jpg

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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? September 30

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1852.</p><p>Roget's Thesaurus, created by retired British physician Peter Mark Roget, is first published as Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Classified and Arranged so as to Facilitate the Expression of Ideas and Assist in Literary Composition in London.</p><p>Roget's Thesaurus at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10681" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10681</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/dictionary/" rel="tag">#dictionary</a></p>

Title: Thesaurus of English Words, so Classified and Arranged as to Facilitate the Expression of Ideas and Assist in Literary Composition

Author: Peter Mark Roget

Printed: Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1854

First American Edition

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<p>Book Covers That Give Off Fall Vibes: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-book-covers-that-give-off-fall-vibes/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-book-covers-that-give-off-fall-vibes/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesda</span><span class="invisible">y-book-covers-that-give-off-fall-vibes/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/toptentuesday/" rel="tag">#TopTenTuesday</a> <a href="/tags/cover/" rel="tag">#Cover</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/autumn/" rel="tag">#Autumn</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>

Closeup photo of a few reddish-orange maple leaves still clinging to their tree. They’ll fall away soon!

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<p>"<a href="/tags/howardfrench/" rel="tag">#HowardFrench</a>’s stunning new book, <a href="/tags/thesecondemancipation/" rel="tag">#TheSecondEmancipation</a>, is an epic of the 20th century’s most consequential years with <a href="/tags/africa/" rel="tag">#Africa</a>’s sudden <a href="/tags/decolonisation/" rel="tag">#decolonisation</a> intertwined with the US <a href="/tags/civilrightsmovement/" rel="tag">#civilRightsMovement</a>, through the many layered portrait of <a href="/tags/ghana/" rel="tag">#Ghana</a>’s visionary independance leader <a href="/tags/kwamenkrumah/" rel="tag">#KwameNkrumah</a>." </p><p><a href="https://afriquexxi.info/Nkumah-s-epic-from-Ghana-to-Harlem" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="afriquexxi.info/Nkumah-s-epic-from-Ghana-to-Harlem"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">afriquexxi.info/Nkumah-s-epic-</span><span class="invisible">from-Ghana-to-Harlem</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/blackhistory/" rel="tag">#BlackHistory</a> <a href="/tags/ushistory/" rel="tag">#UShistory</a> <a href="/tags/africanhistory/" rel="tag">#AfricanHistory</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USpolitics</a> <a href="/tags/africanpolitics/" rel="tag">#AfricanPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/panafricanism/" rel="tag">#panafricanism</a> <a href="/tags/decolonialstruggles/" rel="tag">#decolonialStruggles</a> <a href="/tags/nkrumah/" rel="tag">#Nkrumah</a> <a href="/tags/decolonization/" rel="tag">#decolonization</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</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>

[rubric] INTERVIEW
Nkrumah's epic from Ghana to Harlem
VICTORIA BRITTAIN
background image (photo): President John F. Kennedy Meets with the President of the Republic of Ghana, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Washington, 8th of March 1961. ©Abbie Rowe. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston

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<p>English essayist, poet, playwright Joseph Addison was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1672.</p><p>In 1711, he co-founded "The Spectator" with Steele. Unlike their earlier venture, "The Tatler," which Steele had begun in 1709, "The Spectator" was more focused and systematic. His plays, such as "Cato, a Tragedy" (1713), also left a mark on English literature, influencing figures such as Voltaire and George Washington. </p><p>Books by Joseph Addison at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1024" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1024"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1024</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/theatre/" rel="tag">#theatre</a></p>

Portrait of Joseph Addison with flowing long hair, gazing into the distance.

Cover of The Tatler, Volume 2 by Sir Richard Steele and Joseph Addison.

Edited with Introduction & Notes
by George A. Aitken
Author of
"The Life of Richard Steele," &c.

Vol. II

New York
Hadley & Mathews
156 Fifth Avenue
London: Duckworth & Co.
1899

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<p>📚 A Court of Wings and Ruin by: Sarah J. Maas</p><p>Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin's actions and learn what she can about the invading king threatening to bring her land to its knees. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit. One slip could bring doom no...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/a-court-of-wings-and-ruin" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/a-court-of-wings-and-ruin"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/a-court-of</span><span class="invisible">-wings-and-ruin</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/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/epicfiction/" rel="tag">#epicfiction</a> <a href="/tags/paranormalfiction/" rel="tag">#paranormalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/romancefiction/" rel="tag">#romancefiction</a></p>

Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin's actions and learn what she can about the invading king threatening to bring her land to its knees. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit. One slip could bring doom not only for Feyre, but for everything-and everyone-she holds dear.

As war bears down upon them all, Feyre endeavors to take her place amongst the High Fae of the land, balancing her struggle to master her powers-both magical and political-and her love for her court and family. Amidst these struggles, Feyre and Rhysand must decide whom to trust amongst the cunning and lethal High Lords, and hunt for allies in unexpected places.

In this thrilling third book in the #1 bestselling series from Sarah J. Maas, the fate of Feyre's world is at stake as armies grapple for power over the one thing that could destroy it.

The epic third novel in the #1 bestselling Court of Thorns and Roses series by global phenomenon Sarah J. Maas.

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My Heart Breaks for My Children… We Only Need $100 🙏💔

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