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<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&amp;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 &amp; mosquito people, underwater &amp; 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>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 &amp; 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>An End to Kings, 1776</p><p>by Jack Kelly</p><p>&quot;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.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.thehistoryreader.com/historical-figures/an-end-to-kings-1776/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;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&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;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&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=an-end-to-kings-1776</span></a></p><p>&quot;Common Sense&quot; 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>&quot;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.&quot;</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>&quot;The sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and hope.&quot;</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1844.</p><p>Alexandre Dumas père&#x27;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&amp;submit_search=Go%21" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Le+Comte+de+Monte-Cristo&amp;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&amp;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 &quot;Händel-Gesellschaft&quot; 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&amp;submit_search=Search" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=George+Frideric+Handel&amp;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&amp;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>

<p>In The Defense, Nabokov’s language is, as always, rich, sharp, and full of vivid imagery and wordplay. </p><p>The characters, however, feel strangely soulless and do not inspire sympathy. It even seems that the author treats them with a kind of superiority bordering on contempt.</p><p><a href="/tags/nabokov/" rel="tag">#Nabokov</a> <a href="/tags/thedefense/" rel="tag">#TheDefense</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#bookreview</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#novel</a> <a href="/tags/booksky/" rel="tag">#booksky</a> <a href="/tags/amreading/" rel="tag">#amreading</a> <a href="/tags/chess/" rel="tag">#chess</a> <a href="/tags/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#readingcommunity</a> <a href="/tags/booktok/" rel="tag">#BookTok</a> <a href="/tags/bookwyrm/" rel="tag">#Bookwyrm</a> <a href="/tags/bookish/" rel="tag">#bookish</a> <a href="/tags/booklovers/" rel="tag">#booklovers</a> <a href="/tags/readers/" rel="tag">#readers</a> <a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#review</a></p>

<p>📚 Pick a Colour by: Souvankham Thammavongsa</p><p>Ning is a retired boxer, but to the customers who visit her nail salon, she is just another worker named Susan. On this summer&#x27;s day, much like any other, the Susans buff and clip and polish and tweeze. They listen and smile and nod. But beneath this superficial veneer, Ning is a woman of rigorous intellect a...</p><p>Winner of the 2025 Giller Prize!</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/pick-a-colour" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/pick-a-colour"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/pick-a-col</span><span class="invisible">our</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/sports/" rel="tag">#sports</a></p>

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<p>📚 Lucky Seed by: Justinian Huang</p><p>Succession meets Crazy Rich Asians in this chaotic, darkly funny romp about the lengths a wealthy family will take to ensure the birth of a male heir from the gay black sheep of their clan.</p><p>The billionaire Sun Clan of Greater Los Angeles is your typical American family, with power-struggling aunties,...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/lucky-seed" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/lucky-seed</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/familylife/" rel="tag">#familylife</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/humorous/" rel="tag">#humorous</a> <a href="/tags/romance/" rel="tag">#romance</a></p>

<p>The patchwork canon of Oz</p><p>Essays highlight Oz’s rich public-domain roots and the new Wicked: For Good. Ruth Plumly Thompson’s The Yellow Knight of Oz enters the public domain soon, a quirky yet delightful outlier in the canon.<br> <br>By John Mark Ockerbloom</p><p><a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/11/20/the-patchwork-canon-of-oz/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everybodyslibraries.com/2025/11/20/the-patchwork-canon-of-oz/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everybodyslibraries.com/2025/1</span><span class="invisible">1/20/the-patchwork-canon-of-oz/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/publicdomaindaycountdown/" rel="tag">#publicDomainDayCountdown</a></p>

<p>Writing across the Pacific</p><p>Pearl S. Buck, raised in China, wrote early novels about Chinese life during a period of U.S. exclusion and discrimination. A 2008 essay notes how East Wind: West Wind echoed the writer’s own cross-cultural experiences.<br> <br>By John Mark Ockerbloom </p><p><a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/11/21/writing-across-the-pacific/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everybodyslibraries.com/2025/11/21/writing-across-the-pacific/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everybodyslibraries.com/2025/1</span><span class="invisible">1/21/writing-across-the-pacific/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/publicdomaindaycountdown/" rel="tag">#publicDomainDayCountdown</a></p>

<p>Rethinking where language comes from: Framework reveals complex interplay of biology and culture</p><p>by Max Planck Society</p><p><a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-11-rethinking-language-framework-reveals-complex.html#google_vignette" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="phys.org/news/2025-11-rethinking-language-framework-reveals-complex.html#google_vignette"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-11-rethinki</span><span class="invisible">ng-language-framework-reveals-complex.html#google_vignette</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/culture/" rel="tag">#culture</a> <a href="/tags/biology/" rel="tag">#biology</a> <a href="/tags/language/" rel="tag">#language</a></p>

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<p>📚 The Paris Express by: Emma Donoghue</p><p>Based on an 1895 disaster that went down in history when it was captured in a series of surreal, extraordinary photographs, The Paris Express is a propulsive novel set on a train packed with a fascinating cast of characters who hail from as close as Brittany and as far as Ru...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-paris-express" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-paris-express"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-paris-</span><span class="invisible">express</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/historical/" rel="tag">#historical</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/literaryfiction/" rel="tag">#literaryfiction</a> <a href="/tags/worldliterature/" rel="tag">#worldliterature</a></p>

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