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Serbian inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist Nikola Tesla was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1856.Some of Tesla´s inventions and innovations: alternating Current (AC) system; induction motor; Tesla coil; wireless transmission of electricity; radio technology; remote control; neon and fluorescent lighting; X-Ray technology; Tesla turbine; oscillators and frequency generators.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla</a>Books by Nikola Tesla at PG: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5067" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5067">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5067</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a>

Nikola Tesla, with Rudjer Boscovich's book "Theoria Philosophiae Naturalis", in front of the spiral coil of his high-voltage Tesla coil transformer at his East Houston St., New York, laboratory.

Tesla is typically shown standing confidently, either holding the book or with it placed on a nearby table, symbolizing the connection between theoretical knowledge and practical application. He is dressed formally, reflecting his professional demeanor and the serious nature of his work.

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New on my <a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#blog</a>: "Books reviewed: October 2025." <a href="https://itinerantlibrarian.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/books-reviewed-october-2025/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="itinerantlibrarian.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/books-reviewed-october-2025/">https://itinerantlibrarian.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/books-reviewed-october-2025/</a>My monthly wrap up of <a href="/tags/reviews/" rel="tag">#reviews</a>. <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/alchemicalthoughts/" rel="tag">#AlchemicalThoughts</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> 💙📚<a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a>

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Agatha Christie: what made the world’s bestselling author so successful? Here’s a clueBesides wit, style and psychological insight, Christie had the capacity to generate a mood of ‘trustful mistrust’ and deceive her readers in a respectful fashion.by Gill Plain<a href="https://theconversation.com/agatha-christie-what-made-the-worlds-bestselling-author-so-successful-heres-a-clue-283347?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%2028%202026%20-%203784238755&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%2028%202026%20-%203784238755+CID_fc42dc4c9bab7c419e12dd4bb4483a9d&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Agatha%20Christie%20what%20made%20the%20worlds%20bestselling%20author%20so%20successful%20Heres%20a%20clue" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/agatha-christie-what-made-the-worlds-bestselling-author-so-successful-heres-a-clue-283347?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%2028%202026%20-%203784238755&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%2028%202026%20-%203784238755+CID_fc42dc4c9bab7c419e12dd4bb4483a9d&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Agatha%20Christie%20what%20made%20the%20worlds%20bestselling%20author%20so%20successful%20Heres%20a%20clue">https://theconversation.com/agatha-christie-what-made-the-worlds-bestselling-author-so-successful-heres-a-clue-283347?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%2028%202026%20-%203784238755&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%2028%202026%20-%203784238755+CID_fc42dc4c9bab7c419e12dd4bb4483a9d&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Agatha%20Christie%20what%20made%20the%20worlds%20bestselling%20author%20so%20successful%20Heres%20a%20clue</a>Books by Agatha Christie at PG: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/451" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/451">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/451</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a>

Agatha Christie as a young woman, in the 1910s.

A sepia-toned photograph of Agatha Christie leaning out of a leaded-glass window set in a stone wall, gazing upward with a dreamy. Her hair is loosely pinned up, and she wears a striped blouse with a patterned necktie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie#/media/File:Agatha_Christie_as_a_young_woman.jpg

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📚 Against the Machine by: Paul KingsnorthHow a force that’s hard to name, but which we all feel, is reshaping what it means to be humanIn Against the Machine, "furiously gifted" (The Washington Post) novelist, poet, and essayist Paul Kingsnorth presents a wholly original and terrifying account of the technological-cultural ...<a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/against-the-machine" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/against-the-machine">https://bookblabla.com/book/against-the-machine</a><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a><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/socialscience/" rel="tag">#socialscience</a> <a href="/tags/essaysphilosophy/" rel="tag">#essaysphilosophy</a> <a href="/tags/technologystudies/" rel="tag">#technologystudies</a>

How a force that’s hard to name, but which we all feel, is reshaping what it means to be human

In Against the Machine, "furiously gifted" (The Washington Post) novelist, poet, and essayist Paul Kingsnorth presents a wholly original and terrifying account of the technological-cultural matrix enveloping all of us. With masterful insight into the spiritual and economic roots of techno-capitalism, Kingsnorth reveals how the Machine, in the name of progress, has choked Western civilization, is destroying the Earth itself, and is reshaping us in its image. From the First Industrial Revolution to the rise of artificial intelligence, he shows how the hollowing out of humanity has been a long game—and how your very soul is at stake.

It takes effort to remain truly human in the age of the Machine. Writing in the tradition of Wendell Berry, Jacques Ellul and Simone Weil, Kingsnorth reminds us what humanity requires: a healthy suspicion of entrenched power; connection to land, nature and heritage; and a deep attention to matters of the spirit. Prophetic, poetic, and erudite, Against the Machine is the spiritual manual for dissidents in the technological age.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

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“It's not the barbarian who threatens us, it's civilization that frightens us.”Brazilian sociologist and journalist Euclides da Cunha died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1909.His most important work is Os Sertões (Rebellion in the Backlands), a non-fictional account of the military expeditions promoted by the Brazilian government against the rebellious village of Canudos, known as the War of Canudos.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclides_da_Cunha" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclides_da_Cunha">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclides_da_Cunha</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a>

Brazilian journalist and writer Euclides da Cunha.

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Cover of the book “Os Sertões” by Brazilian writer Euclides da Cunha, published in 1902 and therefore in the public domain due to its age.

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📚 Hole in the Sky by: Daniel H. WilsonOn the Great Plains of Oklahoma, in the heart of the Cherokee Nation, a strange atmospheric disturbance is noticed by Jim Hardgray, a down-on-his-luck single father trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter, Tawny. At NASA’s headquarters in Houston, Texas, astrophysicist Dr. ...<a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/hole-in-the-sky" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/hole-in-the-sky">https://bookblabla.com/book/hole-in-the-sky</a><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a><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/indigenous/" rel="tag">#indigenous</a>

On the Great Plains of Oklahoma, in the heart of the Cherokee Nation, a strange atmospheric disturbance is noticed by Jim Hardgray, a down-on-his-luck single father trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter, Tawny. At NASA’s headquarters in Houston, Texas, astrophysicist Dr. Mikayla Johnson observes an interaction with the Voyager 1 spacecraft on the far side of the solar system, and she concludes that something enormous and unidentified is heading directly for Earth. And in an undisclosed bunker somewhere in the United States, an American threat forecaster known only as the Man Downstairs intercepts a cryptic communication and sends a message directly to the president and highest-ranking military brass: 'First contact imminen't.

A gripping sci-fi thriller—and Native American First Contact story—from the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse, Daniel Wilson, who is a Cherokee Nation citizen and works as a threat forecaster for NASA.

This is where Daniel Wilson's fascinating novel begins. Heliopause is a real place—the very outer edge of our solar system where the sun's solar winds are no longer strong enough to keep debris and intrusions from bombarding our system. It is the farthest edge of our protected boundary (it was recently crossed by Voyager), and the line beyond which space experts look for extraterrestrial presences.

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Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/TheInvertedGlass" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="books2read.com/TheInvertedGlass">https://books2read.com/TheInvertedGlass</a>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.<a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <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>

(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 Background) 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.

(Right Foreground) She sacrificed her life,
To save everyone from strife.
Feather against the heart,
Not knowing does really smart.

The necromancer calls,
And it really galls.
Dead, but not forgotten,
She thinks the necromancer’s rotten.

Judgment day delayed,
So she could use her blade.
In agony of soul,
Good or evil is this troll?

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

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COVER REVEAL! 🚀📷 We are delighted to unveil SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL, a <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/romance/" rel="tag">#romance</a> novelette by award-winning author P.A. Cornell! Cover art by Kim Herbst! Launching February 3, 2026. Read all about this delightful book: <a href="https://www.starsandsabers.com/2025/10/30/cover-reveal-for-shoeshine-boy-cigarette-girl-by-p-a-cornell/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.starsandsabers.com/2025/10/30/cover-reveal-for-shoeshine-boy-cigarette-girl-by-p-a-cornell/">https://www.starsandsabers.com/2025/10/30/cover-reveal-for-shoeshine-boy-cigarette-girl-by-p-a-cornell/</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/romance/" rel="tag">#romance</a> <a href="/tags/scifiromance/" rel="tag">#scifiromance</a> <a href="/tags/2026books/" rel="tag">#2026books</a>

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How do you organize your shelves?

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<a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1856.Wilkie Collins' "Anne Rodway", a story in diary form about a needlewoman and her fiancé investigating the murder of a friend, appears in Household Words (first chapter), as the first English story to feature a woman as the main detective character.The story is set in mid-19th century London, depicting the harsh realities of life for the working poor.<a href="https://djo.org.uk/household-words/volume-xiv/page-1.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="djo.org.uk/household-words/volume-xiv/page-1.html">https://djo.org.uk/household-words/volume-xiv/page-1.html</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a>

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"Not uselessly employed, Might I pursue this theme through every change Of exercise and play, to which the year Did summon us in his delightful round."In July 1850.William Wordsworth's The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem, on which he has worked since 1798, is first published about three months after his death by Edward Moxon in London in 14 books, with the title supplied by the poet's widow, Mary.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prelude" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prelude">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prelude</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a>

Portrait of William Wordsworth.

The poet is depicted in his middle age, reflecting his maturity and established reputation in the literary world.

Wordsworth’s expression is contemplative and serene, capturing his introspective nature and profound connection to nature and human emotions.

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Reading Jane Austen’s Final, Unfinished NovelHow Jane Austen has remained a phenomenon for more than two centuries.By Martin Amis. December 31, 1995 via @NewYorker<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1996/01/08/jane-austen-martin-amis?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_SundayArchive_072124&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5be9f5f13f92a404693024dc&cndid=30015610&hasha=77a61bc26f54559166481694b71c1531&hashb=718757c50a9b4460125f14c36cdca40c3b44f9bd&hashc=19f2988141aeef1ce3da2871b25613801e24297faaf654001575521d8c39910f&esrc=frm_act_Daily_subs&mbid=mbid%3DCRMNYR012019&utm_term=TNY_SundayArchive" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.newyorker.com/magazine/1996/01/08/jane-austen-martin-amis?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_SundayArchive_072124&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5be9f5f13f92a404693024dc&cndid=30015610&hasha=77a61bc26f54559166481694b71c1531&hashb=718757c50a9b4460125f14c36cdca40c3b44f9bd&hashc=19f2988141aeef1ce3da2871b25613801e24297faaf654001575521d8c39910f&esrc=frm_act_Daily_subs&mbid=mbid%3DCRMNYR012019&utm_term=TNY_SundayArchive">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1996/01/08/jane-austen-martin-amis?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_SundayArchive_072124&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5be9f5f13f92a404693024dc&cndid=30015610&hasha=77a61bc26f54559166481694b71c1531&hashb=718757c50a9b4460125f14c36cdca40c3b44f9bd&hashc=19f2988141aeef1ce3da2871b25613801e24297faaf654001575521d8c39910f&esrc=frm_act_Daily_subs&mbid=mbid%3DCRMNYR012019&utm_term=TNY_SundayArchive</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a>

Depiction of Austen from A Memoir of Jane Austen (1871) written by her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh, and based on the sketch by Cassandra. All subsequent portraits of Austen are generally based on this, including on the reverse of the Bank of England £10 note introduced in September 2017.

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9 Misconceptions About ShakespeareThink you know everything about The Bard? Think again.By Meredith Danko<a href="https://www.mentalfloss.com/literature/authors/misconceptions-about-shakespeare" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.mentalfloss.com/literature/authors/misconceptions-about-shakespeare">https://www.mentalfloss.com/literature/authors/misconceptions-about-shakespeare</a>Shakespeare at PG: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/65" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/65">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/65</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a>

From farthest left to right: The Cobbe portrait (1610), The Chandos portrait (early 1600s) and the Droeshout portrait (1622): three of the most prominent of the reputed portraits of William Shakespeare.

An image showing direct comparisons between the Shakespeare of the Cobbe Portrait, the Chandos Portrait and the Droeshout Engraving.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portraits_of_Shakespeare#/media/File:Shakespeare_Portrait_Comparisons_2.JPG

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What Major Discoveries Did Isaac Newton Make?Sir Isaac Newton is one of the most celebrated English scientists. He was one of the key figures in the Scientific Revolution.by Mike Cohen<a href="https://www.thecollector.com/what-major-discoveries-did-isaac-newton-make/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/what-major-discoveries-did-isaac-newton-make/">https://www.thecollector.com/what-major-discoveries-did-isaac-newton-make/</a>Newton at PG: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/6288" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/6288">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/6288</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/physics/" rel="tag">#physics</a>

Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton. Frontispiece.

Title: Newton's Principia

The mathematical principles of natural philosophy

Author: Isaac Newton

Contributor: N. W. Chittenden

Translator: Andrew Motte

Newton's head slightly turned to his left (the viewer’s right) and his gaze directed upward.

The shoulders and upper chest are draped in classical robes rather than contemporary 17th-century clothing.

The facial expression is calm but determined: firm jaw, pronounced cheekbones, furrowed brow, and wide, intelligent eyes.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/76404/pg76404-images.html

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What's on your "stuck book" list?

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Eww, no thanks, to people and self-help books 😜😁 <a href="https://fedigroups.social/@reading" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@reading</a> <a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="https://lemmy.world/u/books" rel="nofollow">@books</a> <a href="https://fedigroups.social/@humor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@humor</a> @humor@lemmy.world @aiop <a href="/tags/introvertmemes/" rel="tag">#IntrovertMemes</a> <a href="/tags/introvert/" rel="tag">#Introvert</a> <a href="/tags/readingmemes/" rel="tag">#ReadingMemes</a> <a href="/tags/meme/" rel="tag">#Meme</a> <a href="/tags/memes/" rel="tag">#Memes</a> <a href="/tags/humor/" rel="tag">#Humor</a> <a href="/tags/humour/" rel="tag">#Humour</a> <a href="/tags/funny/" rel="tag">#Funny</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> <a href="/tags/readers/" rel="tag">#Readers</a> <a href="/tags/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#ReadingCommunity</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookwyrm/" rel="tag">#Bookwyrm</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a>

Two panel meme of a cat reading a book and looking shocked.

Title: Introverts reading self-help books
1: "Surrond yourself with people who-
2: Surround myself with people??

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Book Review: A Mouthful of Dust by Nghi Vo A deeply unsettling addition to the series, bringing the connecting thread of food up to the forefront of the story. <a href="https://mastodon.social/@chloroform_tea" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@chloroform_tea</a> has our review at the NOAF blog <a href="http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/book-review-mouthful-of-dust-by-nghi-vo.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/book-review-mouthful-of-dust-by-nghi-vo.html">http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/book-review-mouthful-of-dust-by-nghi-vo.html</a>@bookstodon <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#review</a>

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Postcards from Virginia WoolfBy Sarah Bochicchio <a href="https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/11/07/postcards-from-virginia-woolf/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/11/07/postcards-from-virginia-woolf/">https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/11/07/postcards-from-virginia-woolf/</a>Virginia at PG: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a>

Woolf in 1927.

"Studio photograph of Virginia Woolf (c. 1927) reprinted by permission of the Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College" (p. XII) [, the Smith College having been presented by Esther Cloudman Dunn another print of the same picture].

The photograph was, according to the Smith College Library's web site, "used for promotion" by Harcourt Brace, the publisher of the American version of To the Lighthouse in 1927. In Virginia Woolf Icon (University of Chicago Press, 1999), Brenda Silver describes the photograph as an "(unidentified) studio photograph" and comments it "appear[ed] in in an number of Harcourt Brace ads and articles about Woolf and/or her works in the States during the late 1920s ans the 1930s" (p. 132).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf#/media/File:Virginia_Woolf_1927.jpg

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Book Review: God's Junk Drawer by Peter Clines A story of expectations, the hazy memories of youth, and… oh yes, a plot and setting inspired by a famous TV show <a href="https://wandering.shop/@Princejvstin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Princejvstin</a> has our review at the NOAF blog <a href="http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/book-review-gods-junk-drawer-by-peter.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/book-review-gods-junk-drawer-by-peter.html">http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/book-review-gods-junk-drawer-by-peter.html</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#review</a> @bookstodon

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📚 The El by: Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.An ordinary day in August 1979 dawns hot and humid in Chicago. Teenager Teddy is living with his dad after being kicked out of his mom’s house due to his gang activity. But Teddy has thrived in the Simon City Royals, and today, he'll be helping to lead a posse of the group's younger members south across the city...<a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-el" rel="nofollow">https://bookblabla.com/book/the-el</a><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a><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/crimefiction/" rel="tag">#crimefiction</a>

An ordinary day in August 1979 dawns hot and humid in Chicago. Teenager Teddy is living with his dad after being kicked out of his mom’s house due to his gang activity. But Teddy has thrived in the Simon City Royals, and today, he'll be helping to lead a posse of the group's younger members south across the city to Roosevelt High School to attend a gathering of gangs forming “the Nation”—a bold new attempt at joining forces across racial lines. This holds particular importance for Teddy, as his branch’s only Indigenous member.

But when the meeting breaks up in gunshots and police sirens, Teddy must guide the Royals back across hostile territory, along secret routes and back alleys, and stop by stop on the thundering tracks of the El. In the face of violence from rival gangs and a secret Judas in the Royals’ ranks, Teddy is armed only with a potent combination of book smarts and street smarts, and by the guiding spirit of Coyote, who has granted him the power to glimpse a future only he may survive to see.

Immersed in the sights, sounds, and smells of the author’s beloved city, The El will transport you to that singular sun- and blood-soaked day in Chicago. It is a love letter to another time, to a city, and to a group of friends trying to find their place and make their way in a world that doesn’t want them.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CHIRBY AWARD IN FICTION - From the co-editor of the bestselling anthology Never Whistle at Night, a semi-autobiographical nov

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New on my <a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#blog</a>: "My 5 Warhammer 40,000 Starter Books" <a href="https://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/11/my-5-warhammer-40000-starter-books.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/11/my-5-warhammer-40000-starter-books.html">https://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/11/my-5-warhammer-40000-starter-books.html</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/wh40k/" rel="tag">#WH40K</a> <a href="/tags/itinerantlibrarian/" rel="tag">#ItinerantLibrarian</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/warhammer40k/" rel="tag">#Warhammer40K</a> 💙📚<a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a>

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"Read all about it: What to know ahead of the 2025 Portland Book Festival"<a href="https://theconversation.com/can-a-new-blood-test-really-detect-me-cfs-an-expert-unpacks-new-research-267099" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/can-a-new-blood-test-really-detect-me-cfs-an-expert-unpacks-new-research-267099">https://theconversation.com/can-a-new-blood-test-really-detect-me-cfs-an-expert-unpacks-new-research-267099</a>"Hosted by nonprofit Literary Arts, the festival covers all things literary..."Saturday, November 8, 10 am to 6 pm<a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/oregon/" rel="tag">#Oregon</a> <a href="/tags/pdx/" rel="tag">#PDX</a> <a href="/tags/portland/" rel="tag">#Portland</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/pdxbookfestival/" rel="tag">#PDXBookFestival</a>

The festival will run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. with events taking place at 10 stages across six venues in downtown Portland’s South Park Blocks.

Adult admission is $18 in advance and $25 on the day of, plus fees. Full-priced admission includes a $5 book voucher redeemable at the book fair on the day of the festival. Those aged 17 and younger can attend for free.

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A Review of For the Rest Of Us - 13 Festive Holiday Stories to Celebrate All Seasons: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-for-the-rest-of-us/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-for-the-rest-of-us/">https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-for-the-rest-of-us/</a><a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/holidays/" rel="tag">#Holidays</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtq/" rel="tag">#LGBTQ</a> <a href="/tags/youngadult/" rel="tag">#YoungAdult</a> <a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a>

Book cover for For the Rest of Us - 13 Festive Holiday Stories to Celebrate All Seasons by Dahlia Adler. Image on cover shows the title in a pink font against a dark blue background. Around each letter are various symbols of many different holidays and religious like a menorah, a bundle of grass tied up with a red ribbon, a box of Valentine’s Day chocolates, a lantern, and a Dia de Los Muertos sugar skull.

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📚 Lessons in Chemistry by: Bonnie GarmusChemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality....<a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/lessons-in-chemistry" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/lessons-in-chemistry">https://bookblabla.com/book/lessons-in-chemistry</a><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a><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/feministfiction/" rel="tag">#feministfiction</a> <a href="/tags/humorous/" rel="tag">#humorous</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/literary/" rel="tag">#literary</a>