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<p>📚 Because It Is My Blood by: Gabrielle Zevin</p><p>Since her release from Liberty Children's Facility, Anya Balanchine is determined to follow the straight and narrow. Unfortunately, her criminal record is making it hard for her to do that. No high school wants her with a gun possession charge on her rap sheet. Plus, all the people in her life have moved on: Natty ...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/because-it-is-my-blood" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/because-it-is-my-blood"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/because-it</span><span class="invisible">-is-my-blood</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/romance/" rel="tag">#romance</a> <a href="/tags/general/" rel="tag">#general</a></p>

Since her release from Liberty Children's Facility, Anya Balanchine is determined to follow the straight and narrow. Unfortunately, her criminal record is making it hard for her to do that. No high school wants her with a gun possession charge on her rap sheet. Plus, all the people in her life have moved on: Natty has skipped two grades at Holy Trinity, Scarlet and Gable seem closer than ever, and even Win is in a new relationship.

But when old friends return demanding that certain debts be paid, Anya is thrown right back into the criminal world that she had been determined to escape. It's a journey that will take her across the ocean and straight into the heart of the birthplace of chocolate where her resolve--and her heart--will be tested as never before.

In this thrilling novel about a reluctant mobster, Anya tries to shatter the ties that bind--with deadly consequences. Because It Is My Blood is the second stunning novel in Gabrielle Zevin's Birthright series.

Every time I think I'm out, they pull me back in.
Michael Corleone, The Godfather

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<p>A Review of I Found the Boogeyman Under My Brother’s Crib: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-i-found-the-boogeyman-under-my-brothers-crib/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-i-found-the-boogeyman-under-my-brothers-crib/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-i-</span><span class="invisible">found-the-boogeyman-under-my-brothers-crib/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/halloween/" rel="tag">#Halloween</a> <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/horror/" rel="tag">#Horror</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>

Book cover for I Found the Boogeyman under My Brother’s Crib by Ben Farthing. Image on cover shows two glowing red eyes underneath a crib at night. It has a sinister vibe to it.

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<p>Here comes another spicy audiobook for spooky season! 🎃</p><p>The Mirror by Amber Collins is a red-hot story of erotic revenge!</p><p>When Nick and Katy inherit a haunted mirror, they can make their biggest wishes come true. But will they go too far to humiliate the hot couple that torments them?</p><p>If you have ever wanted to put a bully in their place, this story is for you. </p><p>Content advisory follows in the next post! </p><p>Get yourself in the Halloween spirit with this spicy story. 💋</p><p>Available in audiobook format on Amazon, Audible an Apple Books. Also available in ebook format on Amazon. </p><p><a href="https://geni.us/TMir" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>geni.us/TMir</a></p><p>1/n</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@audiofiction" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>audiofiction</span></a></span> <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/nsfw/" rel="tag">#NSFW</a> <a href="/tags/audioook/" rel="tag">#Audioook</a> <a href="/tags/audioobooks/" rel="tag">#Audioobooks</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/halloween/" rel="tag">#Halloween</a> <a href="/tags/erotica/" rel="tag">#Erotica</a> <a href="/tags/sizefantasy/" rel="tag">#SizeFantasy</a> <a href="/tags/shrinking/" rel="tag">#Shrinking</a> <a href="/tags/magic/" rel="tag">#Magic</a> <a href="/tags/witch/" rel="tag">#Witch</a> <a href="/tags/halloween/" rel="tag">#Halloween</a></p>

On the left, an antique oval mirror with an ornate silver frame displays a spooky skull made of smoke, the drifts out of the frame.

On the right, text says: "The Mirror. By Amber Collins. Narrated by Adara Astin. A Size Erotica Revenge Story. Revenge is a dish best served... big."

A diagonal yellow banner across the bottom right corner says: "Now in audio."

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<p>I have three spooky audiobooks for you for a spicy Halloween trick-or-treat! 🎃</p><p>The Cauldron is about a witch who runs a rare book store (and eats people to achieve immortal youth). It's fun, light, campy, and sexy.<br><a href="https://geni.us/TheCauldron" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>geni.us/TheCauldron</a></p><p>My Wife, The Witch is about a witch who turns the tables on her too-large husband by shrinking him and dominating him in the night of his wildest dreams and nightmares.<br><a href="https://geni.us/MWTW" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>geni.us/MWTW</a></p><p>The Mirror is about a couple who inherit an enchanted antique that transforms their lives and lets them seek revenge on their bullies (in a spicy way).<br><a href="https://geni.us/TMir" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>geni.us/TMir</a></p><p>All three books are available as audiobooks (narrated by yours truly) on Amazon, Audible and Apple Books, and also available on Amazon as Kindle ebooks.</p><p>Go on, get yourself a Halloween treat! 💋</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@audiofiction" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>audiofiction</span></a></span> <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/halloween/" rel="tag">#Halloween</a> <a href="/tags/happyhalloween/" rel="tag">#HappyHalloween</a> <a href="/tags/nsfw/" rel="tag">#NSFW</a> <a href="/tags/audiobook/" rel="tag">#Audiobook</a> <a href="/tags/audiobooks/" rel="tag">#Audiobooks</a> <a href="/tags/audiofiction/" rel="tag">#Audiofiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/erotica/" rel="tag">#Erotica</a> <a href="/tags/macrophilia/" rel="tag">#Macrophilia</a> <a href="/tags/witches/" rel="tag">#Witches</a> <a href="/tags/magic/" rel="tag">#Magic</a> <a href="/tags/sizefantasy/" rel="tag">#SizeFantasy</a> <a href="/tags/giantwoman/" rel="tag">#GiantWoman</a> <a href="/tags/giantess/" rel="tag">#Giantess</a> <a href="/tags/tinyman/" rel="tag">#TinyMan</a> <a href="/tags/groupsex/" rel="tag">#GroupSex</a></p>

Riding High (1958) by Gil Elvgren. It shows a pin-up style illustration of a "witch" flying across a paper moon on a wooden broom held up by wires. She wears an orange traffic cone on her head, a black lace-up merry widow, sheer black thigh high stockings held up by a garter belt, and a see-through negligee blown open by the wind. She straddles the broomstick with her body twisted toward the viewer, one hand raised in a salute. It's saucy, campy, cheeky cheesecake fun.

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<p>The Distributed Proofreaders' blog this month is about another Edgar Allan Poe book at PG: "The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe."</p><p><a href="https://blog.pgdp.net/2025/11/01/nevermore/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blog.pgdp.net/2025/11/01/nevermore/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.pgdp.net/2025/11/01/never</span><span class="invisible">more/</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>

Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe from 1849.

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<p>Ancient Library in Tibet Creating Digital Archive of Its 84,000 Scriptures.</p><p>Tibet's Sakya Monastery is home to many wonders. Founded in 1073, its collection includes some of the oldest Tibetan artwork, as well as 84,000 ancient manuscripts and books.</p><p>By Regina Sienra via @mymodernmet </p><p>Photo taken at Sakya Monastery Library.<br>(Richard Mortel via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0)</p><p><a href="https://mymodernmet.com/sakya-monastery-library/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mymodernmet.com/sakya-monastery-library/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mymodernmet.com/sakya-monaster</span><span class="invisible">y-library/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/library/" rel="tag">#library</a> <a href="/tags/manuscripts/" rel="tag">#manuscripts</a></p>

Photo taken at Sakya Monastery Library.
(Photo: Richard Mortel via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0)

The bookcase shown in the picture is made of solid, hand-painted wood and consists of at least four shelves full of books stacked on top of each other and probably old manuscripts, but it is not possible to visually identify each item individually. Other unidentifiable objects also appear at the top of some of these shelves.

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<p>Who Was Marie Curie? Learn More About This Pioneering Nobel Prize Winner</p><p>By Madeleine Muzdakis</p><p><a href="https://mymodernmet.com/marie-curie/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>mymodernmet.com/marie-curie/</a></p><p>Mme Curie at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/39174" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/39174"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/39174</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/womeninstem/" rel="tag">#womeninstem</a></p>

At the first Solvay Conference (1911), Curie (seated second from right) confers with Henri Poincaré. Standing nearby are Rutherford (fourth from right), Einstein (second from right), and Paul Langevin (far right).

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1911_Solvay_conference.jpg

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LARB Staff’s Book Favorites | Los Angeles Review of Books <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://sopuli.xyz/post/41797877">See Original Page</a> </small>

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Is there a translation of the bible that is accurate?

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<p>📚 Shadow Ticket by: Thomas Pynchon</p><p>Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labor-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a onetime strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks h...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/shadow-ticket" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/shadow-ticket"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/shadow-tic</span><span class="invisible">ket</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/literaryfiction/" rel="tag">#literaryfiction</a> <a href="/tags/mysterydetective/" rel="tag">#mysterydetective</a> <a href="/tags/noir/" rel="tag">#noir</a></p>

Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labor-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a onetime strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he’s found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune who’s taken a mind to go wandering. Before he knows it, he’s been shanghaied onto a transoceanic liner, ending up eventually in Hungary where there’s no shoreline, a language from some other planet, and enough pastry to see any cop well into retirement—and of course no sign of the runaway heiress he’s supposed to be chasing. By the time Hicks catches up with her he will find himself also entangled with Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians, practitioners of the paranormal, outlaw motorcyclists, and the troubles that come with each of them, none of which Hicks is qualified, forget about being paid, to deal with. Surrounded by history he has no grasp on and can’t see his way around in or out of, the only bright side for Hicks is it’s the dawn of the Big Band Era and as it happens he’s a pretty good dancer. Whether this will be enough to allow him somehow to Lindy-hop his way back again to Milwaukee and the normal world, which may no longer exist, is another question.

The new novel from Thomas

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<p>"Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."<br>Phase the Fifth: The Woman Pays, ch. XLIII</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1891.</p><p>Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles is serialized in expurgated form in the weekly illustrated newspaper The Graphic (London); in November the first (unexpurgated) book edition is published in London.</p><p>Tess of the d'Urbervilles at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/110" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/110</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Tess d'Urbervilles : a pure woman.

Faithfully presented by Thomas Hardy. - London : James R. Osgood : McIlvaine and Co., 1891. - 263 p. . Frontespizio

Hardy, Thomas - Available in the BEIC digital library and uploaded in partnership with BEIC Foundation.

"He jumped up from his seat... and went quickly toward the desire of his eyes." 1891 illustration by Joseph Syddall.

Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Illustration for The Graphic, 5 September 1891. 1891 illustration by Joseph Syddall for Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

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<p>Halloween Stories</p><p>Why are Victorians the default haunted house, what do ghosts have to do with the imagination, and why do we like to be scared?</p><p>By The Editors</p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/editors-picks-halloween/?utm_source=mcae&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jstordaily_10302025" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/editors-picks-halloween/?utm_source=mcae&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jstordaily_10302025"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/editors-picks-</span><span class="invisible">halloween/?utm_source=mcae&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jstordaily_10302025</span></a></p><p>Halloween at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=halloween" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=halloween"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">cts/search/?query=halloween</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

A Thrilling Hallowe'en." (Three black cats flying through the air with Jack-o-lanterns.

It depicts three black cats are shown flying through the air, their fur bristling and tails arched as if caught mid-leap or magically soaring. Each cat is accompanied by or carrying a glowing Jack-o’-lantern, the carved pumpkins casting a warm, orange light that contrasts with the dark background.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22A_Thrilling_Hallowe%27en.%22_(Three_black_cats_flying_through_the_air_with_Jack-o-lanterns).jpg

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<p>Bite or Flight: Ranking Classic Vampire Strengths and Weaknesses</p><p>Different vampires have different rules — how do your favorites measure up?</p><p>By Rachel Ayers</p><p><a href="https://reactormag.com/bite-or-flight-ranking-classic-vampire-strengths-and-weaknesses/?utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-99fqCNMVtcqKqAkA1ONHzCKSXZ5VFE-zyuzhkXiiLOrSszvIwpWINCTJ8BBH22k4EUayigArmR-mY2uet0UDTIvpoLYw&_hsmi=387512835&utm_content=387512835&utm_source=hs_email" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="reactormag.com/bite-or-flight-ranking-classic-vampire-strengths-and-weaknesses/?utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-99fqCNMVtcqKqAkA1ONHzCKSXZ5VFE-zyuzhkXiiLOrSszvIwpWINCTJ8BBH22k4EUayigArmR-mY2uet0UDTIvpoLYw&_hsmi=387512835&utm_content=387512835&utm_source=hs_email"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">reactormag.com/bite-or-flight-</span><span class="invisible">ranking-classic-vampire-strengths-and-weaknesses/?utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-99fqCNMVtcqKqAkA1ONHzCKSXZ5VFE-zyuzhkXiiLOrSszvIwpWINCTJ8BBH22k4EUayigArmR-mY2uet0UDTIvpoLYw&_hsmi=387512835&utm_content=387512835&utm_source=hs_email</span></a></p><p>The Vampyre by Polidori at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6087" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6087</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

The Vampyre by John William Polidori - Il vampiro sorte dal nulla.

The engraving depicts a dramatic nocturnal scene set in a graveyard:

On the left, a vampire figure rises from a tomb, holding a torch. His expression is intense and predatory, suggesting he has emerged from the grave to prey upon the living.

To the right, a bearded man in flowing robes gestures toward him, possibly representing a holy or moral authority attempting to repel or banish the creature.

In the foreground, a young woman lies unconscious or asleep, her pale face and limp posture indicating vulnerability—she is likely the vampire’s intended victim.

Surrounding them are tombs and weeping willows, contributing to the eerie, gothic atmosphere.

The Italian caption below translates roughly to:
“The vampire, driven by the fever of the grave, rises above the sleeping Miss Aubrey... but he does not reach her; a celestial power drives away the shadow of this infernal being, compelling him to abandon his prey.”

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:The_Vampyre_(Polidori)#/media/File:The_Vampyre_by_John_William_Polidori_-_Il_vampiro_sorte_dal_nulla.jpg

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<p>Joking is serious business... 😁 </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@reading" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>reading</span></a></span> <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="https://lemmy.world/u/books" rel="nofollow">@books</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@humor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>humor</span></a></span> @humor@lemmy.world @aiop</p><p><a href="/tags/interpretation/" rel="tag">#Interpretation</a> <a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#Author</a><br><a href="/tags/readingmemes/" rel="tag">#ReadingMemes</a> <a href="/tags/memes/" rel="tag">#Memes</a> <a href="/tags/readallthebooks/" rel="tag">#ReadAllTheBooks</a> <a href="/tags/humor/" rel="tag">#Humor</a> <a href="/tags/humour/" rel="tag">#Humour</a> <a href="/tags/comedy/" rel="tag">#Comedy</a><br><a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> <a href="/tags/readers/" rel="tag">#Readers</a> <a href="/tags/readersofmastodon/" rel="tag">#ReadersOfMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#ReadingCommunity</a><br><a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#Book</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#Novel</a> <a href="/tags/novels/" rel="tag">#Novels</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#Fiction</a> <br><a href="/tags/bookwyrm/" rel="tag">#Bookwyrm</a> <a href="/tags/bookworm/" rel="tag">#Bookworm</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/booklove/" rel="tag">#BookLove</a></p>

Post by prokopetz

Death of the author: Treating the author's stated
interpretation of their own work as merely one opinion
among many, rather than the authoritative Word of God.
Disappearance of the author: Treating the context and
circumstances of the work's authorship as entirely
irrelevant with respect to its interpretation, as though
the work had popped into existence fully formed just
moments ago.

Taxidermy of the author: Working backwards from a
particular interpretation of the work to draw
conclusions about what the context and circumstances
of its authorship must have been.

Undeath of the author: Holding the author personally
responsible for every possible reading of their work,
even ones they could not reasonably have anticipated
at the time of its authorship.

Frankenstein's Monster of the author: Drawing
conclusions about authorial intent based on elements
that are present only in subsequent adaptations by
other authors.

Weekend at Bernie's of the author: Insisting that the
author would personally endorse your interpretation of
the work if they happened to be present.

Reply by bugbastard

| thought this was going to be a joke, but these are all
very real things you see people do.

Reply by prokopetz

I'm never more serious than when I'm joking.

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<p>Map of the Sojurut continent in the Age of displacement.</p><p>On the off chance that someone has a question about the places on the map, feel free to ask 😁 </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@reading" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>reading</span></a></span> @fantasy <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> @worldbuilding <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@joinin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>joinin</span></a></span> <br> <br><a href="/tags/fanartfriday/" rel="tag">#FanArtFriday</a> <a href="/tags/fanart/" rel="tag">#FanArt</a> <a href="/tags/map/" rel="tag">#Map</a> <a href="/tags/maps/" rel="tag">#Maps</a><br><a href="/tags/amwriting/" rel="tag">#AmWriting</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#IndieAuthor</a> <br><a href="/tags/specualtivefiction/" rel="tag">#SpecualtiveFiction</a> <a href="/tags/fantasybooks/" rel="tag">#FantasyBooks</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#Fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/worldbuilding/" rel="tag">#WorldBuilding</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#SciFi</a> <a href="/tags/satire/" rel="tag">#Satire</a> <br><a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#Book</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#Novel</a> <a href="/tags/novels/" rel="tag">#Novels</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/bookwyrm/" rel="tag">#Bookwyrm</a> <br><a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> <a href="/tags/readers/" rel="tag">#Readers</a> <a href="/tags/readersofmastodon/" rel="tag">#ReadersOfMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#ReadingCommunity</a></p>

The digital version of this map was drawn from my pencil scribbling, which I guarantee you don’t want to see, by https://www.wattpad.com/user/edoggypaws

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1947. The Diary of a Young Girl is published.</p><p>The book was written while Anne Frank was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The family was apprehended in 1944, & Anne died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. Anne's diaries were retrieved by Miep Gies & Bep Voskuijl. Miep gave them to Anne's father, Otto, the family's only survivor, just after the World War II was over.</p><p><a href="https://www.annefrank.ch/en/diary" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.annefrank.ch/en/diary</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Frank in May 1942, two months before she and her family went into hiding.

Unknown photographer - Anne Frank, 1942

The last known photograph of Anne taken in May 1942, taken at a passport photo shoot. (Photo collection Anne Frank House, Amsterdam. Public Domain Work)]

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<p>Look who has come knocking for Halloween...</p><p>Fascinating and most informative, this detailed and deeply researched biography draws on previously unavailable correspondence to present a fuller picture of the life of Edgar Allan Poe.</p><p><a href="https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/10/31/book-review-edgar-allan-poe-a-life/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/10/31/book-review-edgar-allan-poe-a-life/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/</span><span class="invisible">10/31/book-review-edgar-allan-poe-a-life/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/edgarallanpoe/" rel="tag">#EdgarAllanPoe</a> <a href="/tags/eapoe/" rel="tag">#EAPoe</a> <a href="/tags/biography/" rel="tag">#Biography</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a> <a href="/tags/goth/" rel="tag">#Goth</a> <a href="/tags/gothic/" rel="tag">#Gothic</a> <a href="/tags/horror/" rel="tag">#Horror</a> <a href="/tags/halloween/" rel="tag">#Halloween</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>Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” Read by Christopher Walken, Christopher Lee & Vincent Price</p><p><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2025/10/edgar-allan-poes-the-raven-read-by-christopher-walken-christopher-lee-vincent-price.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.openculture.com/2025/10/edgar-allan-poes-the-raven-read-by-christopher-walken-christopher-lee-vincent-price.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.openculture.com/2025/10/ed</span><span class="invisible">gar-allan-poes-the-raven-read-by-christopher-walken-christopher-lee-vincent-price.html</span></a></p><p>The Raven at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17192" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17192</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Engraving from The Raven at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17192

Caption "Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he." Engraved by R. Staudenbaur

Shows the Raven flying in the window about the man's head.

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<p>“Everyone’s afraid of being caught in the sorting machine of history, ending up in the wrong pile. It’s hard to blame them. The way it’s going, it won’t matter what you believe, what you do. It will be a question of what someone in charge decides you did. Witch trials in this century…I didn’t imagine we’d go backward so fast.” ~~ from '33 Place Brugmann' by Alice Austen</p><p><a href="/tags/bookquote/" rel="tag">#BookQuote</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</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>New <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> on my <a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#blog</a>: "The Secret History of Bigfoot." <br><a href="https://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/10/book-review-secret-history-of-bigfoot.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/10/book-review-secret-history-of-bigfoot.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.co</span><span class="invisible">m/2025/10/book-review-secret-history-of-bigfoot.html</span></a></p><p>Author seeks to answer why Bigfoot and the lore and legends about it remain so appealing.</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/review/" rel="tag">#review</a> <a href="/tags/bigfoot/" rel="tag">#Bigfoot</a> <br>💙📚</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>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/TheNextHorizon" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/TheNextHorizon</a></p><p>Amelia and The Book of Newts are in conflict. She wants to explore her feelings. It wants to explore space, taking back the gift for mathematics and piloting it gave her. She’s left unable to plot a direct course home. She’s desperate to see the man she loves, lest she lose him forever and The Book is in her way…</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 Next Horizon, by Owen Tyme.

The black silhouette of a man and woman hugging and kissing. The woman has lifted one leg, while the man leans toward her. They stand atop the dark side of a planet or moon in space, which has a slim crescent along the right side. The background in the stars of space, but some have been highlighted with a heat shape that surrounds the kissing couple. Everything is in shades of blue.

(Right) Deep space, displaying the edge of an orange and blue gaseous cloud from a nebula, while most of the stars appear golden in color. Floating in space is a square, red leather book with the image of a newt stamped on the cover. Over the top of everything is the following text:

“You can back down and cooperate, right now, or Marta will hit you so hard, you should reach a tenth the speed of light…”

“No one will ever find you again, but even if someone does, there’s no way they’ll have the capacity to safely slow you down, before you’re gone to them!”

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

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<p>In July 1816.</p><p>Lord Byron, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley & John Polidori, who have gathered at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva in a rainy Switzerland in this 'Year Without a Summer', tell each other tales. This spawns two classic Gothic narratives, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Polidori's The Vampyre. Byron also writes the poem Darkness. </p><p>Frankenstein<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/41445" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/41445</a></p><p>The Vampyre<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/6087" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/6087</a></p><p>Darkness<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20158" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20158</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>

Title page of first edition of Frankenstein, Volume I.
Author Mary Shelley; publisher Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones

Title page for The Vampyre; A Tale (London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1819) by John William Polidori, 1795-1821. EC8.P7598.819va (A), Houghton Library, Harvard University

"Darkness:, an 1816 poem by Lord Byron, first published in the 1816 The Prisoner of Chillon and Other Poems collection, page 27, published in London in 1816 by John Murray.

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<p>📚 Service by: John Tottenham</p><p>What's this book about? Is there a restroom? Do you have gluten-free bagels? Do you work here? Do you have a restroom? Do I buy books or rent books or what?</p><p>Still a bookseller in his late forties, Sean knows that the worst thing about a bookshop is the customers. Then there's the gift-wrapping, the invoicing, the Yelp reviews. The overwhelming ...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/service" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/service</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>

What's this book about? Is there a restroom? Do you have gluten-free bagels? Do you work here? Do you have a restroom? Do I buy books or rent books or what?

Still a bookseller in his late forties, Sean knows that the worst thing about a bookshop is the customers. Then there's the gift-wrapping, the invoicing, the Yelp reviews. The overwhelming sense of self-loathing after another day of not writing a novel yourself.

While Sean's book remains unfinished, his city has changed around him. As have friends and acquaintances, at least the ones who keep in touch. The service industry is different, too. But what, or whom, is he serving anyway? Biting, hilarious and self-aware, John Tottenham's debut novel is a razor-sharp dissection of gentrification, friendship, jealousy and the role of literature in a digital age.

'Highly accomplished, deeply satisfying ... I marked up almost every page' TLS

'Laugh-out-loud funny' DAILY MAIL

'My favourite nihilistic romantic' RACHEL KUSHNER

'A brutally honest, insightful, intelligent and absolutely hilarious novel' MICHAEL IMPERIOLI

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1923.</p><p>A riot breaks out at the re-staging of Tristan Tzara's Dadaist play The Gas Heart at the Théâtre Michel, Paris, between those aligned with André Breton and those aligned with Tzara. The conflict leads to a permanent split in the Dada movement and the founding of Surrealism as an alternative.</p><p>Francis Picabia at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/49071" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/49071"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/49071</span></a></p><p>Tristan Tzara at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/48499" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/48499"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/48499</span></a></p><p>André Breton at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=andr%C3%A9+breton&submit_search=Go%21" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=andr%C3%A9+breton&submit_search=Go%21"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=andr%C3%A9+breton&submit_search=Go%21</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Dada artists, group photograph, 1920, Paris. From left to right, Back row: Louis Aragon, Theodore Fraenkel, Paul Eluard, Clément Pansaers, Emmanuel Fay (cut off). Second row: Paul Dermée, Philippe Soupault, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes. Front row: Tristan Tzara (with monocle), Celine Arnauld, Francis Picabia, André Breton.

The Dada group poses facing the camera, in various attitudes, most of them smiling. They are dressed in dark jackets and white shirts, the men wearing ties.

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<p>Famous Medieval Words and Their Surprising Origins</p><p>Words like castles, Vikings, and even medieval itself instantly evoke the Middle Ages. Some of these terms were used by people of the time, while others were coined centuries later to describe their world. Each carries traces of history, revealing how language has preserved — and reimagined — the medieval past.</p><p><a href="https://www.medievalists.net/2025/10/medieval-words-origins/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.medievalists.net/2025/10/medieval-words-origins/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.medievalists.net/2025/10/m</span><span class="invisible">edieval-words-origins/</span></a></p><p>Medieval words at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=medieval+words" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=medieval+words"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=medieval+words</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

The Squire in the Ellesmere manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.

The image shows a finely dressed young man riding a prancing horse. The rider, The Squire, is adorned in elegant, elaborately patterned garments wears a blue hat with white decorations, a dark, elaborately embroidered tunic, and white hose. His short blond hair curls outward under his hat, reflecting the fashionable style of the late 14th century. A richly patterned cloak drapes over his shoulders, flowing behind him as the horse rears gracefully.

The horse is light brown with a well-groomed mane and tail, decorated with red and white harness straps in an ornamental pattern.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Squire_-_Ellesmere_Chaucer.jpg

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