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<p>📚 Labyrinth by: A.G. Riddle</p><p>Alan Norris has lost everything. Except for his daughter. And he&#x27;s willing to do anything to protect her.</p><p>The day of his wife&#x27;s funeral, as he&#x27;s walking to give the eulogy, the ringing in his ears starts. His tinnitus began when he was in the Marines, the day a roadside bomb went off. Us...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/labyrinth" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/labyrinth</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/thrillers/" rel="tag">#thrillers</a> <a href="/tags/suspensefiction/" rel="tag">#suspensefiction</a> <a href="/tags/technologicalfiction/" rel="tag">#technologicalfiction</a></p>

<p>Many thanks to Goodreads editor Sharon for including THE EXPERT OF SUBTLE REVISIONS among the &quot;New Voice Alert: Promising 2025 debut novels.&quot; Check out the full list of book recommendations in the December editors&#x27; picks column!</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/writersofmastodon/" rel="tag">#writersofmastodon</a> <a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/3034-goodreads-editors-get-bossy-about-book-recommendations" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.goodreads.com/blog/show/3034-goodreads-editors-get-bossy-about-book-recommendations"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.goodreads.com/blog/show/30</span><span class="invisible">34-goodreads-editors-get-bossy-about-book-recommendations</span></a></p>

<p>Why are algorithms called algorithms? A brief history of the Persian polymath you’ve likely never heard of.</p><p>Over 1,000 years before the internet and smartphone apps, Persian scientist and polymath Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī invented the concept of algorithms.</p><p>By Debbie Passey. via @ConversationUK</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/why-are-algorithms-called-algorithms-a-brief-history-of-the-persian-polymath-youve-likely-never-heard-of-229286" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/why-are-algorithms-called-algorithms-a-brief-history-of-the-persian-polymath-youve-likely-never-heard-of-229286"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/why-are-al</span><span class="invisible">gorithms-called-algorithms-a-brief-history-of-the-persian-polymath-youve-likely-never-heard-of-229286</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/mathematics/" rel="tag">#mathematics</a> <a href="/tags/algorithm/" rel="tag">#algorithm</a></p>

<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&amp;q=https://reviewdb.app/book/6YHf25MPfgxyO4ukqfJJYM" rel="nofollow">The Cruel Stars</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 <br>by John Birmingham.</p><p>Action space opera that doesn&#x27;t take itself too seriously. Humanity has become a diverse species dangerously dependent on digital &amp; genomic enhancement - a zealous puritan strain plans to change that. A few too many characters to begin with - none of them I connected with, and many of whom die - but they come together nicely. </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/scifi/" rel="tag">#SciFi</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>📚 Little Secrets by: Jennifer Hillier</p><p>All it takes to unravel a life is one little secret...</p><p>Marin had the perfect life. Married to her college sweetheart, she owns a chain of upscale hair salons, and Derek runs his own company. They&#x27;re admired in their community and are a loving family—until their world falls apart the day their son...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/little-secrets" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/little-secrets"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/little-sec</span><span class="invisible">rets</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/thrillers/" rel="tag">#thrillers</a> <a href="/tags/crimefiction/" rel="tag">#crimefiction</a> <a href="/tags/psychological/" rel="tag">#psychological</a></p>

<p>Book Review: The Nameless Land by Kate Elliott<br>Elen’s story continues and finishes in a land of lost magic, royal intrigue and much more<br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@Princejvstin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Princejvstin</span></a></span> has our review at the NOAF blog<br><a href="http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/10/book-review-nameless-land-by-kate.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nerds-feather.com/2025/10/book-review-nameless-land-by-kate.html"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nerds-feather.com/2025/10/</span><span class="invisible">book-review-nameless-land-by-kate.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#review</a> @bookstodon</p>

<p>New <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> on our <a href="/tags/library/" rel="tag">#library</a> <a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#blog</a>: &#x27;White Poverty.&#x27; <br><a href="https://libraryguides.berea.edu/blogs/system/from-our-shelves-iwhite-povertyi" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="libraryguides.berea.edu/blogs/system/from-our-shelves-iwhite-povertyi"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">libraryguides.berea.edu/blogs/</span><span class="invisible">system/from-our-shelves-iwhite-povertyi</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/fromourshelves/" rel="tag">#FromOurShelves</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#review</a> <a href="/tags/poverty/" rel="tag">#poverty</a> <a href="/tags/christian/" rel="tag">#Christian</a> <a href="/tags/thisisamerica/" rel="tag">#ThisIsAmerica</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> <br>@bookstodon@a.gup.pe <br>@librarians</p>

<p>Thanks for hosting <a href="/tags/writephant/" rel="tag">#Writephant</a>, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@neve" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>neve</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/selfpromo/" rel="tag">#SelfPromo</a></p><p>My books, low-key fantasy with romance, mostly queer, are currently in the annual end of year <a href="/tags/smashwords/" rel="tag">#Smashwords</a> sale — they’re already affordable but now they’re extra affordable, all 25% off:<br><a href="https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/wendylpalmer" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smashwords.com/profile/view/wendylpalmer"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smashwords.com/profile/vie</span><span class="invisible">w/wendylpalmer</span></a></p><p>but you’ll also find them on <a href="/tags/koboplus/" rel="tag">#KoboPlus</a> or <a href="/tags/hoopla/" rel="tag">#Hoopla</a>, or any of your favourite ebook retailers. They’re not for everyone…but the readers who like them…REALLY like them 😊 </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/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/gayromance/" rel="tag">#GayRomance</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#IndieAuthor</a> <a href="/tags/holidayreading/" rel="tag">#HolidayReading</a></p>

<p>📚 The Reformatory by: Tananarive Due</p><p>Gracetown, Florida.</p><p>June 1950.</p><p>Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens Jr. is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie’s journey further into the terrors of th...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-reformatory" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-reformatory"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-reform</span><span class="invisible">atory</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/historical/" rel="tag">#historical</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/horrorfiction/" rel="tag">#horrorfiction</a></p>

<p>📚 Ghost Tamer by: Meredith R. Lyons</p><p>Death is one thing, it&#x27;s what you do afterward that matters.</p><p>Aspiring-comedian Raely is the sole survivor of a disastrous train wreck. Faced with the intense grief of losing her best friend, she realizes that someone is following her—and has been following her all her life. Trouble is, no one else can see...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/ghost-tamer" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/ghost-tamer"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/ghost-tame</span><span class="invisible">r</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/ghostfiction/" rel="tag">#ghostfiction</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/paranormal/" rel="tag">#paranormal</a></p>

<p>📚 The Lost Bookshop by: Evie Woods</p><p>On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found...</p><p>For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives.<br>But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are ever...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-lost-bookshop" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-lost-bookshop"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-lost-b</span><span class="invisible">ookshop</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/historical/" rel="tag">#historical</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/romance/" rel="tag">#romance</a></p>

<p>&quot;Colour! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.... Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.&quot;<br>The writings of a savage </p><p>French painter and sculptor Paul Gauguin was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1848.</p><p>Paul Gauguin at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=gauguin" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=gauguin"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=gauguin</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/painting/" rel="tag">#painting</a> <a href="/tags/sculpture/" rel="tag">#sculpture</a></p>

<p>In July 1917</p><p>Siegfried Sassoon issues a &quot;Soldier&#x27;s Declaration&quot; against prolonging World War I. He is sent by the military (with assistance from Robert Graves) to Edinburgh&#x27;s Craiglockhart War Hospital, where Wilfred Owen introduces himself on August 18. At Sassoon&#x27;s urging, Owen writes his two great war poems, &quot;Anthem for Doomed Youth&quot; and &quot;Dulce et Decorum est&quot;, although like almost all his poetry they remain unpublished until after his death in action next year. </p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Medieval Inventions We Still Can’t Fully Recreate Today</p><p>The Middle Ages were a time of remarkable innovation, when new technologies flourished. Yet the knowledge behind many of these inventions has been lost. Here are several medieval technologies that remain impossible to fully recreate, even with modern science.</p><p><a href="https://www.medievalists.net/2025/10/medieval-inventions-we-still-cant-fully-recreate-today/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.medievalists.net/2025/10/medieval-inventions-we-still-cant-fully-recreate-today/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.medievalists.net/2025/10/m</span><span class="invisible">edieval-inventions-we-still-cant-fully-recreate-today/</span></a></p><p>Medieval science at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=medieval+science" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=medieval+science"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">cts/search/?query=medieval+science</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/inventions/" rel="tag">#inventions</a></p>

<p>The Lessons of Due Process in Julius Caesar</p><p>Shakespeare’s tragedy offers a telling parable about the administration of justice—and rife mishandling thereof—in our day.</p><p>By: Philip Goldfarb Styrt </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/the-lessons-of-due-process-in-julius-caesar/?utm_source=Klaviyo&amp;utm_medium=campaign&amp;utm_id=01K87ETKMS0EZD48BZ10CE3FVQ&amp;_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/the-lessons-of-due-process-in-julius-caesar/?utm_source=Klaviyo&amp;utm_medium=campaign&amp;utm_id=01K87ETKMS0EZD48BZ10CE3FVQ&amp;_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/the-lessons-of</span><span class="invisible">-due-process-in-julius-caesar/?utm_source=Klaviyo&amp;utm_medium=campaign&amp;utm_id=01K87ETKMS0EZD48BZ10CE3FVQ&amp;_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER</span></a></p><p>Julius Caesar at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1522" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1522</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Read an Ebook Week starts today!</p><p>If you like queer SFF, my stuff is mostly 25% off this week. Check it out on Smashwords and Itchio:</p><p><a href="https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/JessMahler1449" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smashwords.com/profile/view/JessMahler1449"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smashwords.com/profile/vie</span><span class="invisible">w/JessMahler1449</span></a><br><a href="https://itch.io/s/181015/read-an-ebook-week" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="itch.io/s/181015/read-an-ebook-week"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">itch.io/s/181015/read-an-ebook</span><span class="invisible">-week</span></a><br><a href="/tags/queer/" rel="tag">#queer</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/ebookweek26/" rel="tag">#ebookweek26</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1822.</p><p>Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society.</p><p>The difference engine is based on the method of divided differences, a way to interpolate or tabulate functions by using a small set of polynomial co-efficients. Some of the most common mathematical functions are built from logarithmic &amp; trigonometric functions, which can be approximated by polynomials, so a difference engine can compute many useful tables.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71292" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71292</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

What are some good books on Emotional Intelligence? <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.world/post/37843401">See Original Page</a> </small>

<p>I think I can</p><p>In 24 days, we can finally reuse a more familiar version of The Little Engine That Could, as retold by Watty Piper and illustrated by Lois Lenski.<br> <br>By John Mark Ockerbloom</p><p><a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/08/i-think-i-can/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/08/i-think-i-can/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everybodyslibraries.com/2025/1</span><span class="invisible">2/08/i-think-i-can/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/publicdomaindaycountdown/" rel="tag">#publicDomainDayCountdown</a></p>

<p>&quot;Our national epic has yet to be written.&quot;</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1904.</p><p>Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called &quot;Bloomsday&quot; in honour of the novel&#x27;s main character Leopold Bloom.</p><p>Happy Bloomsday Day!</p><p>Ulysses is available at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4300" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4300</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>