<p>📚 Circle of Days by: Ken Follett</p><p>A FLINT MINER WITH A GIFT</p><p>Seft, a talented flint miner, walks the Great Plain in the high summer heat, to witness the rituals that signal the start of a new year. He is there to trade his stone at the Midsummer Fair, and to find Neen, the girl he loves. Her family lives in prosperity and offer Seft an escape...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/circle-of-days" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/circle-of-days"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/circle-of-</span><span class="invisible">days</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/sagasfiction/" rel="tag">#sagasfiction</a> <a href="/tags/historical/" rel="tag">#historical</a> <a href="/tags/ancient/" rel="tag">#ancient</a></p>
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<p>📚 The Last Family in England by: Matt Haig</p><p>Meet the Hunter family: Adam, Kate, and their children Hal and Charlotte. And Prince, their Labrador.</p><p>Prince is an earnest young dog, striving hard to live up to the tenets of the Labrador Pact (Remain Loyal to Your Human Masters, Serve and Protect Your Family at Any Cost). Other dogs, led by the Springer Spanie...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-last-family-in-england" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-last-family-in-england"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-last-f</span><span class="invisible">amily-in-england</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/general/" rel="tag">#general</a></p>
<p>German poet Georg Herwegh was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1817.</p><p>Herwegh's poetry is characterized by its passionate advocacy for freedom and democracy. He became famous with his collection "Gedichte eines Lebendigen", published in 1841. This work was widely acclaimed for its revolutionary zeal and critique of the existing social and political order.</p><p>Books by Georg Herwegh at Projekt Gutenberg-DE:<br><a href="https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/autoren/namen/herwegh.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.projekt-gutenberg.org/autoren/namen/herwegh.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.projekt-gutenberg.org/auto</span><span class="invisible">ren/namen/herwegh.html</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>
<p>📚 A Sudden Light by: Garth Stein</p><p>Twenty-three years after the fateful summer of 1990, Trevor Riddell recalls the events surrounding his fourteenth birthday, when he gets his first glimpse of the infamous Riddell House. Built from the spoils of a massive timber fortune, the legendary family mansion is constructed of gi...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/a-sudden-light" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/a-sudden-light"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/a-sudden-l</span><span class="invisible">ight</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/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/ghostfiction/" rel="tag">#ghostfiction</a> <a href="/tags/literaryfiction/" rel="tag">#literaryfiction</a> <a href="/tags/familylife/" rel="tag">#familylife</a></p>
<p>Medieval chess was more inclusive than the world around it</p><p>Black, white, Muslim, or Christian: Players found common ground across the board.</p><p>by Andrew Paul</p><p><a href="https://www.popsci.com/science/chess-medieval-race/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.popsci.com/science/chess-medieval-race/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.popsci.com/science/chess-m</span><span class="invisible">edieval-race/</span></a></p><p>Chess at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/1677" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/1677"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">ct/1677</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/chess/" rel="tag">#chess</a></p>
<p>Jane Austen and theory of mind: how literary fiction sharpens your ‘mindreading’ skills</p><p>by Carmen Barajas and Noelia López-Montilla</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/jane-austen-and-theory-of-mind-how-literary-fiction-sharpens-your-mindreading-skills-266920?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Europe%20Newsletter%20-%203542436115&utm_content=Europe%20Newsletter%20-%203542436115+CID_490379ce8ca78e5d84d84d9e08fb5b81&utm_source=campaign_monitor_europe&utm_term=Jane%20Austen%20and%20theory%20of%20mind%20how%20literary%20fiction%20sharpens%20your%20mindreading%20skills" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/jane-austen-and-theory-of-mind-how-literary-fiction-sharpens-your-mindreading-skills-266920?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Europe%20Newsletter%20-%203542436115&utm_content=Europe%20Newsletter%20-%203542436115+CID_490379ce8ca78e5d84d84d9e08fb5b81&utm_source=campaign_monitor_europe&utm_term=Jane%20Austen%20and%20theory%20of%20mind%20how%20literary%20fiction%20sharpens%20your%20mindreading%20skills"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/jane-auste</span><span class="invisible">n-and-theory-of-mind-how-literary-fiction-sharpens-your-mindreading-skills-266920?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Europe%20Newsletter%20-%203542436115&utm_content=Europe%20Newsletter%20-%203542436115+CID_490379ce8ca78e5d84d84d9e08fb5b81&utm_source=campaign_monitor_europe&utm_term=Jane%20Austen%20and%20theory%20of%20mind%20how%20literary%20fiction%20sharpens%20your%20mindreading%20skills</span></a></p><p>Austen at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/68" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/68"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/68</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>"Taking the Civil War as his starting point for this trenchant survey of the <a href="/tags/americanleft/" rel="tag">#AmericanLeft</a>, Hartman offers us dozens of portraits of <a href="/tags/marxism/" rel="tag">#Marxism</a>’s main protagonists [...] and charts their triumphs and travails all the way up to the present." </p><p>Robin Blackburn reviews <a href="/tags/andrewhartman/" rel="tag">#AndrewHartman</a>'s <a href="/tags/karlmarxinamerica/" rel="tag">#KarlMarxInAmerica</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/society/karl-marx-in-america-marxism-in-us/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thenation.com/article/society/karl-marx-in-america-marxism-in-us/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thenation.com/article/soci</span><span class="invisible">ety/karl-marx-in-america-marxism-in-us/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/marx/" rel="tag">#Marx</a> <a href="/tags/americanmarxism/" rel="tag">#AmericanMarxism</a> <a href="/tags/usleft/" rel="tag">#USleft</a> <a href="/tags/ushistory/" rel="tag">#UShistory</a> <a href="/tags/americanhistory/" rel="tag">#AmericanHistory</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USpolitics</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>
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<p>Alphabets From The Zanerian School of Penmanship, c.1910</p><p>These satisfying handwritten alphabets are from the 1900 and 1910 editions of penmanship guides, The New Zanerian Alphabets.</p><p>by Sheldon D.</p><p><a href="https://flashbak.com/alphabets-by-the-zanerian-school-of-penmanship-478686/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=alphabets-by-the-zanerian-school-of-penmanship" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="flashbak.com/alphabets-by-the-zanerian-school-of-penmanship-478686/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=alphabets-by-the-zanerian-school-of-penmanship"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">flashbak.com/alphabets-by-the-</span><span class="invisible">zanerian-school-of-penmanship-478686/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=alphabets-by-the-zanerian-school-of-penmanship</span></a></p><p>Alphabets at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=alphabets" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=alphabets"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">cts/search/?query=alphabets</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/alphabet/" rel="tag">#alphabet</a> <a href="/tags/calligraphy/" rel="tag">#calligraphy</a></p>
<p>Spanish dramatis, writer and poet Pedro Calderón de la Barca died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1681.</p><p>His plays have been divided thematically: religious comedies (La devoción de la cruz), historical-legendary (El sitio de Breda), comedies of intrigue (Casa con dos puertas, mala es de guardar), comedies of honor (El médico de su honra), philosophical (El gran teatro del mundo), mythological (Eco y Narciso) and sacramental acts (A Dios por razón de estado).</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/970" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/970"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/970</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>
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<p>Bird Grove review – George Eliot’s true story embellished in a tender drama</p><p>Elizabeth Dulau is terrific in Alexi Kaye Campbell’s new play as the young woman set to become a daring pioneer in fiction and real life</p><p>by Arifa Akbar</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/feb/25/bird-grove-review-hampstead-theatre-londong-eorge-eliot" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/feb/25/bird-grove-review-hampstead-theatre-londong-eorge-eliot"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/stage/2026</span><span class="invisible">/feb/25/bird-grove-review-hampstead-theatre-londong-eorge-eliot</span></a></p><p>George Eliot at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/90" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/90"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/90</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/theatre/" rel="tag">#theatre</a></p>
<p>📚 The Berry Pickers by: Amanda Peters</p><p>A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a mystery that will haunt the survivors, unravel a family, and remain unsolved for nearly fifty years</p><p>"A stunning debut about love, race, brutality, and the balm of forgiveness." —People, A Best New Book<br>...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-berry-pickers" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-berry-pickers"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-berry-</span><span class="invisible">pickers</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/indigenousfiction/" rel="tag">#indigenousfiction</a> <a href="/tags/familylife/" rel="tag">#familylife</a> <a href="/tags/siblings/" rel="tag">#siblings</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1788, Sarah Josepha Hale was born.</p><p>"Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (October 24, 1788 – April 30, 1879) was an American writer, activist, and editor of the most widely circulated magazine in the period before the Civil War, Godey's Lady's Book.[1] She was the author of the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Hale famously campaigned for the creation of the American Thanksgiving holiday...."</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Josepha_Hale" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Josepha_Hale"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Jo</span><span class="invisible">sepha_Hale</span></a></p><p>Hale's works at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Sarah+Josepha+Hale" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Sarah+Josepha+Hale"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=Sarah+Josepha+Hale</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/magazines/" rel="tag">#magazines</a></p>
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<p>American writer, historian and poet Elizabeth Fries Ellet died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1877.</p><p>She is best known for her works on women’s contributions to American history, particularly during the American Revolutionary War. Her extensive research and writings helped to highlight the often overlooked roles that women played in significant historical events.</p><p>Books by Elizabeth F. Ellet at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/45321" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/45321"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/45321</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/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>
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<p>Here are a few thoughts on Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin, 1978. This was the perfect change of pace for me after a dark read, with touching scenes, sharp observations, and plenty of witty dialogue <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/audiobooks/" rel="tag">#audiobooks</a> <a href="/tags/storygraph/" rel="tag">#Storygraph</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <br><a href="https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/2a6b271f-ff49-433b-b4e0-87d24c964db4" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/2a6b271f-ff49-433b-b4e0-87d24c964db4"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/</span><span class="invisible">2a6b271f-ff49-433b-b4e0-87d24c964db4</span></a></p>
<p>"It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them."<br>Daddy-Long-Legs</p><p>American writer Jean Webster (pen name of Alice Jane Chandler Webster) died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1916.</p><p>Webster's first novel, "When Patty Went to College" (1903), was based on her experiences at Vassar and reflected her humor and insight into college life. Her most known novels are "Daddy-Long-Legs" (1912) and its sequel "Dear Enemy" (1915).</p><p>Books by Jean Webster at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/99" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/99"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/99</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>I’m currently reading “Born: A History of Childbirth ” by Lucy Inglis and thought you all might find this amusing. </p><p>There is a section in the book that talks about how some ancient Egyptian physicans believed that migraines were caused by wandering wombs. </p><p>The treatment: rub oil on the patient and blow incense smoke at her to encourage her womb to move back into proper position. 😂</p><p><a href="/tags/nonfiction/" rel="tag">#NonFiction</a> <a href="/tags/migraine/" rel="tag">#Migraine</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#Medicine</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</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>📚 Roadkill by: Dennis E. Taylor</p><p>Jack Kernigan is having a bad day…a bad year…a bad life. After being booted out of MIT, he’s back in his Ohio hometown, working for the family business, facing a life of mediocrity. Then one day, out on a delivery, his truck hits…something. Something big…furry…invisible. And, it turns out, something not of this Earth.</p><p>Fate can play funny tricks. ...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/roadkill" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/roadkill</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a></p>
<p>"All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between them by the attempt."</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1924.</p><p>E. M. Forster's novel A Passage to India is published in the U.K. He will write no further fiction in the remaining 46 years of his life. </p><p>A Passage To India at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/61221" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/61221</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1917.</p><p>The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first for biography (for Julia Ward Howe), Jean Jules Jusserand the first for history with With Americans of Past and Present Days, and Herbert B. Swope the first for journalism for his work for the New York World.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38648" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38648</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39954" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39954</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&q=https://reviewdb.app/book/2ewVge8BQU6X82TcfJkLIF" rel="nofollow">Enemy of God</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 <br>by Bernard Cornwell.</p><p>The Saxons threaten to overrun Briton; a search for a legendary artifact to bring back the Old Gods; a little blissful romance; Lancelot is a backstabbing, cowardly bastard; oaths, what are they good for? A touch more magic than in the first book, but just as hard, dirty & cynical.</p><p><a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/historicalfiction/" rel="tag">#HistoricalFiction</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#Fantasy</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://aus.social/@wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>WildWoila</span></a></span> @wildwoila@wyrms.de<br></p>
<p>It is that time of year, so I thought I’d mention that my book YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION is very much a thing you can buy for any tech workers in your life. Or yourself!</p><p>You can buy it just about anywhere books are sold, or ask your library to grab a copy! <a href="https://ethanmarcotte.com/books/you-deserve-a-tech-union/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="ethanmarcotte.com/books/you-deserve-a-tech-union/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ethanmarcotte.com/books/you-de</span><span class="invisible">serve-a-tech-union/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/1u/" rel="tag">#1u</a> <a href="/tags/ydatubook/" rel="tag">#YDATUbook</a></p>
<p>📚 In Her Boots by: KJ Dell'Antonia</p><p>Sometimes you have to go big to go home.</p><p>Rhett Gallagher’s adventurous life is imploding. Just as she turns the big 4-0, her long-term relationship collapses and her gran’s death draws her back to the family farm. The only silver lining is that Rhett’s inspirational book, The Modern Pioneer Girl’s Guide to Life—written under a pseudonym—ha...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/in-her-boots" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/in-her-boots"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/in-her-boo</span><span class="invisible">ts</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a></p>
<p>When Alice Gooblar-Perovic, Aahana Gupta, and Lydia Cruce were freshmen at Iowa City West High School, they learned that thousands of books, including "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Nineteen Minutes," were going to be pulled from classrooms across their state. This was in order to comply with Senate File 496, which said books and school materials must be "age appropriate." So they started a Banned Book Club. Two years later, the club is still going and growing, and the law is in trouble — the part of it that affected school libraries was temporarily blocked by a federal judge, while enforcement of book restrictions remains frozen under a second temporary injunction. <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@npr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>npr</span></a></span>'s Iowa Public Radio spoke with the three girls, who are now juniors, about how their goals have changed, and the community they've built.</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/1vgO9k" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>flip.it/1vgO9k</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> @bookstodon <a href="/tags/bookbans/" rel="tag">#BookBans</a> <a href="/tags/iowa/" rel="tag">#Iowa</a> <a href="/tags/thekidsarealright/" rel="tag">#TheKidsAreAlright</a> <a href="/tags/highschool/" rel="tag">#HighSchool</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a></p>
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A Tiny Typo May Explain a Centuries-Old Mystery About Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' and 'Troilus and Criseyde'
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Do well written books just not get published these days?
<p>I haven’t read much read stuff that has been published after 2000s and have barely liked what I have.</p><p>I ask this bcz most of the time I look up ‘Best new books’ or ‘popular books’, the recommendations are mostly smut, fantasy smut or cheap romance.</p><p>Idk if I just keep getting the wrong books recommended or that’s how today’s books are.</p><p>Also, recommend me some more recent books with good prose, well written characters, medium/slow paced.</p>
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![A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a mystery that will haunt the survivors, unravel a family, and remain unsolved for nearly fifty years
"A stunning debut about love, race, brutality, and the balm of forgiveness." —People, A Best New Book
July 1962. A Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family’s youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister’s disappearance for years to come.
In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, her mother frustratingly overprotective. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. As she grows older, Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her parents aren’t telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she will spend decades trying to uncover this family secret.
For readers of The Vanishing Half and Woman of Light, this showstopping debut by a vibrant new voice in fiction is a riveting novel about the search for truth, the shadow of trauma, and the persistence of love across time.
"A harrowing tale of Indigenous family separation . . . [Peters] excels in writing characters for whom we can’t help rooting . . . With The](/proxy/post_attachment/886404/d1d876103b.jpg "A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a mystery that will haunt the survivors, unravel a family, and remain unsolved for nearly fifty years
\"A stunning debut about love, race, brutality, and the balm of forgiveness.\" —People, A Best New Book
July 1962. A Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family’s youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister’s disappearance for years to come.
In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, her mother frustratingly overprotective. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. As she grows older, Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her parents aren’t telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she will spend decades trying to uncover this family secret.
For readers of The Vanishing Half and Woman of Light, this showstopping debut by a vibrant new voice in fiction is a riveting novel about the search for truth, the shadow of trauma, and the persistence of love across time.
\"A harrowing tale of Indigenous family separation . . . [Peters] excels in writing characters for whom we can’t help rooting . . . With The")
