<p>📚 Finding My Way by: Malala Yousafzai</p><p>This is not the story you think you know. It’s the one I’ve been waiting to tell.</p><p>Thrust onto the public stage at fifteen years old after the Taliban’s brutal attack on her life, Malala Yousafzai quickly became an international icon known for bravery and resilience. But away from the cameras and crow...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/finding-my-way" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/finding-my-way"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/finding-my</span><span class="invisible">-way</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/biographyautobiography/" rel="tag">#biographyautobiography</a> <a href="/tags/socialactivists/" rel="tag">#socialactivists</a></p>
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<p>The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem has to be the most far-out book I've ever read. It feels like super-human writing. And for all its inventiveness it makes no effort to justify itself. Reading this was an experience I'll never forget, but I am looking forward to returning to the human plane of reading.</p><p><a href="https://khleedril.org/dale-mellor/bookblog/?review=the-cyberiad" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="khleedril.org/dale-mellor/bookblog/?review=the-cyberiad"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">khleedril.org/dale-mellor/book</span><span class="invisible">blog/?review=the-cyberiad</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</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> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://newsmast.community/@books" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>books</span></a></span></p>
<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/FeyFighters" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/FeyFighters</a></p><p>Two soldiers on opposite sides, pixie Commander Stargazer Candleflash and human Sergeant Edwin Harris, find their fates forever entwined, first by revenge, but as they crash together in a dangerous rainforest, they're forced to work together, just to survive. Will they make it or will their bickering get them killed?</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>
<p>Bookstore haul! We went to Tsunami to nibble at my credit after the last time I sold back seventeen (probably a real number) bags of books. </p><p>1. Syntax of the River by Barry Lopez</p><p>2. Mindfulness Meditations for Anxiety by Michael Smith (a plethora of different angles into meditation, lots of exercises, excited to dive into this one) </p><p>3. Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer</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/tsunamibooks/" rel="tag">#TsunamiBooks</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1921.</p><p>The Cervantes Theatre (Buenos Aires) opens with a production of Lope de Vega's La dama boba (The Foolish Lady, 1613). It is one of the earliest examples of the "comedia palatina" subgenre. De Vega completed it on 28 April 1613, as shown by a surviving manuscript copy in his own hand.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_dama_boba" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_dama_boba"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_dama_</span><span class="invisible">boba</span></a></p><p>Books by Lope Vega at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/25752" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/25752"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/25752</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/theatre/" rel="tag">#theatre</a></p>
<p>Why Tolkien thought “sub-creation” was the secret to great fantasy and science fiction</p><p>According to Tolkien, fantasy requires a deep imagination known as “sub-creation.” And the genre reflects a fundamental truth of being human.</p><p>By Jonny Thomson</p><p><a href="https://bigthink.com/mini-philosophy/tolkien-fantasy-science-fiction/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bigthink.com/mini-philosophy/tolkien-fantasy-science-fiction/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bigthink.com/mini-philosophy/t</span><span class="invisible">olkien-fantasy-science-fiction/</span></a></p><p>Fantasy books at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/138" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/138"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">ct/138</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>“They’re about more than mystery”</p><p>Harriet Vane, tried for murder in Strong Poison, meets Lord Peter Wimsey, who loves her though she resists. Across later novels they grow into equal partners, enriching Sayers’ mystery series.<br> <br>By John Mark Ockerbloom</p><p><a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/11/18/theyre-about-more-than-mystery/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everybodyslibraries.com/2025/11/18/theyre-about-more-than-mystery/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everybodyslibraries.com/2025/1</span><span class="invisible">1/18/theyre-about-more-than-mystery/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/publicdomaindaycountdown/" rel="tag">#PublicDomainDayCountdown</a></p>
<p>📚 The Long Shoe by: Bob Mortimer</p><p>Bathroom salesman Matt is at a crossroads. He has lost his job, he is about to be made homeless and his girlfriend has left him. He wants his luck to change and he wants things to go back to how they were. </p><p>Out of the blue he is offered a job that comes with a free luxury apartment. He hopes this might be enough to tempt her back. But...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-long-shoe" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-long-shoe"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-long-s</span><span class="invisible">hoe</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/general/" rel="tag">#general</a></p>
<p>📚 The Antidote by: Karen Russell</p><p>The Antidote opens on Black Sunday, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing—not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the dust bowl drought but beneath its own violent histories. The Antidote follows a "Prai...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-antidote" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-antidote"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-antido</span><span class="invisible">te</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/historical/" rel="tag">#historical</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/visionarymetaphysical/" rel="tag">#visionarymetaphysical</a></p>
<p>Last Stand on a Dying World<br>Semper Audacia, 99¢ Space Opera <br><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/mpaxauthor/p/semper-audacia-99-space-opera?r=40xifa&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="open.substack.com/pub/mpaxauthor/p/semper-audacia-99-space-opera?r=40xifa&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/mpaxauth</span><span class="invisible">or/p/semper-audacia-99-space-opera?r=40xifa&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true</span></a> <br><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="/tags/readers/" rel="tag">#readers</a> <a href="/tags/booklovers/" rel="tag">#booklovers</a></p>
<p>"Maps are to geography what notation is to music."</p><p>British writer, geographer, historian, journalist, cartographer, and inventor John Francon Williams died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1911.</p><p>In 1881, Williams's seminal book The Geography of the Oceans was published. This book focuses on topics such as: General Geography of the Oceans, Physical Geography of the Oceans, the Geography of Particular Oceans. It was the first book to cover with such intensity the geography of the oceans.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/geography/" rel="tag">#geography</a> <a href="/tags/oceanography/" rel="tag">#oceanography</a></p>
<p>Book promotion: Move slow, fix things. Heroes beaten down by the system team up to fight for a philanthropist targeted by shadowy enemies in this science fiction adventure about a future more optimistic than dystopian.<br>DRM-free ebook direct price $0.99 <a href="https://kmherkes.com/sale-bookshop/p/controlled-descent-ebook1" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="kmherkes.com/sale-bookshop/p/controlled-descent-ebook1"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kmherkes.com/sale-bookshop/p/c</span><span class="invisible">ontrolled-descent-ebook1</span></a></p><p>Other vendors & formats here:<br><a href="https://books2read.com/ControlledDescent" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="books2read.com/ControlledDescent"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">books2read.com/ControlledDesce</span><span class="invisible">nt</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/fedibookshop/" rel="tag">#Fedibookshop</a><br><a href="/tags/fedifiction/" rel="tag">#Fedifiction</a><br><a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a><br><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a><br><a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a><br><a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a><br><a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#ScienceFiction</a><br><a href="/tags/technothriller/" rel="tag">#Technothriller</a><br><a href="/tags/restorationseries/" rel="tag">#RestorationSeries</a></p>
<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&q=https://reviewdb.app/book/3lwIKeSfEQzXhCriEByKnS" rel="nofollow">The Scar</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 <br>by China Mieville.</p><p>An exuberant, barely believeable steampunk world with cactus & mosquito people, underwater & floating cities, and mysterious powers. Very very long, and rather too serious.</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/sff/" rel="tag">#SFF</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>An End to Kings, 1776</p><p>by Jack Kelly</p><p>"Author Jack Kelly of Tom Paine’s War shares with The History Reader the crucial role Thomas Paine (author of Common Sense) played in encouraging Americans to overthrow King George in 1776."</p><p><a href="https://www.thehistoryreader.com/historical-figures/an-end-to-kings-1776/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=an-end-to-kings-1776" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thehistoryreader.com/historical-figures/an-end-to-kings-1776/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=an-end-to-kings-1776"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thehistoryreader.com/histo</span><span class="invisible">rical-figures/an-end-to-kings-1776/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=an-end-to-kings-1776</span></a></p><p>"Common Sense" at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/147" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/147</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/ushistory/" rel="tag">#ushistory</a></p>
<p>"It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you."</p><p>~Taylor Caldwell (September 7, 1900 – August 30, 1985)</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
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<p>"The sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and hope."</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1844.</p><p>Alexandre Dumas père's near-recent historical adventure story Le Comte de Monte-Cristo begins serialization in the Paris newspaper Journal des débats, and continues through to January 1846. Book publication also begins this year.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coun</span><span class="invisible">t_of_Monte_Cristo</span></a></p><p>The Count of Monte Cristo at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Le+Comte+de+Monte-Cristo&submit_search=Go%21" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Le+Comte+de+Monte-Cristo&submit_search=Go%21"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?q</span><span class="invisible">uery=Le+Comte+de+Monte-Cristo&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>
<p>American educator Prudence Crandall was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1803.</p><p>She ran the Canterbury Female Boarding School, which became the 1st school for black girls in the United States. The decision to admit Black students led to intense opposition. Local residents passed a law specifically targeting her school, known as the Black Law, which made it illegal to operate a school for Black students from out of state without local permission.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prudence_Crandall" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prudence_Crandall"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prudence</span><span class="invisible">_Crandall</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49765" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49765</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#education</a></p>
<p>“The Crocodile,” Dostoevsky’s Weirdest Short Story.</p><p>Why being eaten by a crocodile named Little Karl is really a lesson in the dangers of foreign capital.</p><p>By: Emily Zarevich via @JSTOR_Daily </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/the-crocodile-dostoevskys-weirdest-short-story/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/the-crocodile-dostoevskys-weirdest-short-story/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/the-crocodile-</span><span class="invisible">dostoevskys-weirdest-short-story/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>German music historian and critic Friedrich Chrysander died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1901.</p><p>His most significant achievement was the publication of the "Händel-Gesellschaft" edition, a monumental 105-volume collection of Handel’s complete works. He was one of the founders of the Vierteljahrsschrift für Musikwissenschaft, one of the first scholarly journals devoted to the study of music history and theory.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Chrysander" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Chrysander"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedric</span><span class="invisible">h_Chrysander</span></a></p><p>Books about Handel at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=George+Frideric+Handel&submit_search=Search" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=George+Frideric+Handel&submit_search=Search"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=George+Frideric+Handel&submit_search=Search</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>