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When you're reading and someone assumes that means you're doing nothing and they can interrupt you.<a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a>

At Vespers by Halle. A young woman looks up from reading a book. It's probably some religious thing, but I've cropped out the cross and I just like the intensity on her face.

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Felix Salten: the Jewish author and hunter who created BambiBambi is a beloved story which has entertained people for decades. Though the tale of the deer's life has been enjoyed by generations, many do not know the name of its author. by Adrian Murphy<a href="https://www.europeana.eu/en/stories/felix-salten-the-jewish-author-and-hunter-who-created-bambi?mtm_campaign=europeanathemed-animation-nov2025" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.europeana.eu/en/stories/felix-salten-the-jewish-author-and-hunter-who-created-bambi?mtm_campaign=europeanathemed-animation-nov2025">https://www.europeana.eu/en/stories/felix-salten-the-jewish-author-and-hunter-who-created-bambi?mtm_campaign=europeanathemed-animation-nov2025</a>Salten at PG: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/35122" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/35122">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/35122</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a>

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A Review of A Very Uncanny Christmas: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-a-very-uncanny-christmas/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-a-very-uncanny-christmas/">https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-a-very-uncanny-christmas/</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/christmas/" rel="tag">#Christmas</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#Fantasy</a> <a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a>

Book cover for A Very Uncanny Christmas - A Jack Hansard Short Story by Georgina Jeffery. Image on cover is a drawing of four small bottles of potions, one purple, one pink, one red and one white, left by a brick fireplace. In the centre of the display of potions is a light blue glowing potion in a glass jar that’s attached to a large red container.

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Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/FeyFighters" rel="nofollow">https://books2read.com/FeyFighters</a>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?<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 Fey Fighters, by Owen Tyme.

The background is the stars of space, with nebula-like clouds, in blue. This has been divided into jigsaw puzzle pieces by dark lines marking the lines between pieces.

The foreground features an enormous, stylized phoenix, which is composed of fire. The phoenix looms over an Earth-like world heavily obscured by cloud cover.

(Right) The same world from the cover orbits a purple gas giant, with a stream of flame above it, which may be the phoenix, with the following text over the top:

“We’re in a human-made, goblin-enchanted spacecraft, powered by a dryad that’s under the mistaken impression she’s a nuclear reactor, half-piloted by a pixie and half-piloted by a human.”

“Is there anywhere we can go we won’t be shot on sight?”

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

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Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/TheThirdWish" rel="nofollow">https://books2read.com/TheThirdWish</a>Spies, aliens, trolls, wizards and a disowned prince use a time machine, to improve their place in history, but Levi Jacobs stands in their way, despite having just lost his parents in war. Will he stop them or will the time travelers kill his father at a pivotal moment, on which the fate of the galaxy hangs?<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 Third Wish, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

A wizard in a black robe that glitters with hints of gold stands on a mountain and looks down at a city of sky scrapers covered in greenery. In his shadow lurks a creature with glowing red eyes.

In the background, the sun is setting and stars are becoming visible.

(Right Background) Four images separated by black lines, with the silhouette of a woman wielding two swords laid over them. She's outlined in black and her interior is yellow clock-based imagery that spirals outward from the center.

The upper left quarter is a queen in a red, furred robe, wearing a gold and diamond crown. She has dark eyebrows and blond hair.

Upper right is a planet seen from orbit.

Lower left is a symbolic wire frame representation of the view inside a wormhole, in green and yellow.

Lower right is dandelions among grass.

The angle of the planet, one of the woman's swords, the yellow highlights of the wormhole and some of the dandelions form a line that draws the eye along a sweeping curve.

(Right Foreground) The following quote:

He admired the flawless beauty of the insane swordswoman’s fluid movements as Ida took desperate step after step, backwards!

He felt waves of mental energy pour off the panic-stricken troll, but the energy bounced right off of Nicole’s mind, as though she’d shut herself inside a solid, red-hot, steel box of rage!

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

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Was once again reminded of Ursula K. Le Guin's daily schedule, and why this woman was an icon on every single level.<a href="/tags/ursulakleguin/" rel="tag">#UrsulaKLeguin</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#Writing</a> <a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#WritingCommunity</a>

Ursula Le Guin‘s daily schedule

5:30 a.m. - wake up and lie there and think.
6:15 a.m. - get up and eat breakfast (lots).
7.15 a.m. - get to work writing, writing, writing.
Noon - lunch.
1:00-3:00 p.m. - reading, music.
3:00-5:00 p.m. correspondence, maybe house cleaning.
5:00-8:00 p.m. make dinner and eat it.
After 8:00 p.m. - I tend to be very stupid and we won't talk about this.

This was Le Guin's daily schedule first appeared in an interview she gave in 1988 (and more recently reappeared in Ursula Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations).

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"Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote "The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swych licour Of which vertu engendred is the flour..." Opening lines. The Canterbury Tales~Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – October 25, 1400)<a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a>

More details Portrait of Chaucer as a Canterbury pilgrim, Ellesmere manuscript of The Canterbury Tales. The Tale of Melibee „A yong man called Melibeus, myghty and riche, bigat upon his wyf, that called was Prudence, a doghter which that called was Sophie. Upon a day bifel that he for his desport is went into the feeldes hem to pleye. His wyf and eek his doghter hath he left inwith his hous...

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Happy Public Domain Day 2026 (Jan. 1) from Duke Law School's Center for the Study of the Public Domain. To read more about the public domainvia Duke University School of Law<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh9f_k7fQPA&t=33s" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh9f_k7fQPA&t=33s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh9f_k7fQPA&t=33s</a>More information here: <a href="https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2026/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2026/">https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2026/</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/publicdomaindaycountdown/" rel="tag">#publicDomainDayCountdown</a>

Public domain day 2026 montage.

A collage celebrating Public Domain Day 2026, featuring iconic 1930 works entering the public domain: "All Quiet on the Western Front," Marx Brothers' "Animal Crackers," early Mickey Mouse cartoons, "The Little Engine That Could," "As I Lay Dying," Nancy Drew mysteries, "The Cat Who Went to Heaven," "King of Jazz," "The Maltese Falcon," Betty Boop cartoons, "I Got Rhythm," "The Murder at the Vicarage," "Dream a Little Dream of Me," "Ash Wednesday," Blondie comics, and "Morocco" starring Marlene Dietrich.

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2026/

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📚 Sky Full of Elephants by: Cebo CampbellOne day, a cataclysmic event occurs: all of the white people in America walk into the nearest body of water. A year later, Charlie Brunton is a Black man living in an entirely new world. Having served time in prison for a wrongful conviction, he’s now a professor of electric and solar power systems at Howard University when he receive...<a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/sky-full-of-elephants" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/sky-full-of-elephants">https://bookblabla.com/book/sky-full-of-elephants</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>

One day, a cataclysmic event occurs: all of the white people in America walk into the nearest body of water. A year later, Charlie Brunton is a Black man living in an entirely new world. Having served time in prison for a wrongful conviction, he’s now a professor of electric and solar power systems at Howard University when he receives a call from someone he wasn’t even sure existed: his daughter Sidney, a nineteen-year-old left behind by her white mother and step-family.

Traumatized by the event, and terrified of the outside world, Sidney has spent a year in isolation in Wisconsin. Desperate for help, she turns to the father she never met, a man she has always resented. Sidney and Charlie meet for the first time as they embark on a journey across a truly “post-racial” America in search for answers. But neither of them are prepared for this new world and how they see themselves in it.

Heading south toward what is now called the Kingdom of Alabama, everything Charlie and Sidney thought they knew about themselves, and the world, will be turned upside down. Brimming with heart and humor, Cebo Campbell’s astonishing debut novel is about the power of community and connection, about healing and self-actualization, and a reckoning with what it means to be Black in America, in both their world and ours.

Bold and imaginative. Tananarive Due
This stunning allegory will spark much discussion. Publishers Weekly (starred review)
A truly powerful and riveting story. Bo

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A psychoanalyst’s desire for a saner worldIn Civilization and its Discontents, Sigmund Freud turned his psychoanalytic attention from the troubles of the individual to those of the world. By John Mark Ockerbloom<a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/16/a-psychoanalysts-desire-for-a-saner-world/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/16/a-psychoanalysts-desire-for-a-saner-world/">https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/16/a-psychoanalysts-desire-for-a-saner-world/</a>Freud at PG: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/391" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/391">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/391</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/psychoanalysis/" rel="tag">#psychoanalysis</a>

Sigmund Freud in a portrait photograph by Ferdinand Schmutzer, 1926

The black and white image shows the elderly psychoanalyst in formal attire with his distinctive white beard, intense gaze, and contemplative expression, seated with a watch chain visible across his vest—an iconic representation of the founder of psychoanalysis.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud#/media/Datei:Sigmund_Freud_1926.jpg

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My 2025 Reading

Clearly I read a lot, I haven’t posted this stuff here but I thought I’d give it a go. I’ve been intentionally reading more and keeping track since 2002, so longer than some of my children have been alive.My top 10 takeaways in 2025:We don’t rise to the level of our ambition but fall to the level of our systems. From Great by Choice If you get a result from the majority of people the majority of the time it’s not the people it’s the system. From Learning Systems Thinking Leaders who share in the risks they create don’t just earn trust, they sharpen their judgment. From Skin in the Game If you don’t prioritize your life someone else will. From Essentialism How we frame the problem determines what we see and what we don’t. From Clear Thinking If you’re still making every decision, checking every detail, and solving every problem, you haven’t built a team. You’ve built a bottleneck with your name on it. From Product Driven Instead of trying to get customers to say you exceeded my expectations, you are trying to get them to say you made that easy. From The Effortless Experience It doesn’t feel like something to being wrong, it feels like being right. From Being Wrong You are a story you tell yourself. From You Are Not So Smart Effective leadership is more akin to gardening than chess. From Team of TeamsI also read a lot of fiction, stand outs are finishing the Hyperion series and starting the Expanse series. I also decided to read the rest of the Cosmere books from Brandon Sanderson which was a delight. Lots of ups, some downs. The surprising book that has lived rent free in my head is Tender is the Flesh. Disturbing to the core, and not for everyone.I’m sharing because I keep thinking I need to participate in this community more, so nothing like starting the year off by contributing what I loved last year. Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.world/post/41291080">See Original Page</a>

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So, putting the book down where you finish reading it until it organically evolves into a pile of books doesn't count as "arranging"? Rude! 😜😂 <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/book/" rel="tag">#Book</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookmemes/" rel="tag">#BookMemes</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/novel/" rel="tag">#Novel</a> <a href="/tags/novels/" rel="tag">#Novels</a> <a href="/tags/bookshelf/" rel="tag">#Bookshelf</a> <a href="/tags/mastobooks/" rel="tag">#Mastobooks</a> <a href="/tags/booksofmastodon/" rel="tag">#BooksofMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/bookworm/" rel="tag">#Bookworm</a> <a href="/tags/bookwyrm/" rel="tag">#Bookwyrm</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/booklove/" rel="tag">#BookLove</a> <a href="/tags/fantasybooks/" rel="tag">#FantasyBooks</a>

A meme with pictures of six diffrent bookshelves.

Caption: How do you arrange your books?

1. HEIGHT
2. PERSONAL SIGNIFICANCE
3. COLOR
4. STACKED
5. ALPHABETICAL
6. CHRONDLOGIAL

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The ratio of words written by Kafka to words written about Kafka is estimated to be about 1:10,000,000. Is anything left to say?by Jared Marcel Pollen<a href="https://libertiesjournal.com/online-articles/kafkainc/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="libertiesjournal.com/online-articles/kafkainc/">https://libertiesjournal.com/online-articles/kafkainc/</a>Kafka at PG: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1735" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1735">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1735</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a>

First page of Kafka's Letter to His Father.

The document shows aged paper with a cream or beige tone, typical of early 20th-century stationery that has yellowed over time. The page appears to be standard letter-size paper with some visible wear, creases, and aging marks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka#/media/File:De_Kafka_Brief_an_den_Vater_001.jpg

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<a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1922.T. S. Eliot founds The Criterion magazine, with the first appearance of his poem The Waste Land. This will be first fully published in book form by Boni & Liveright in New York in December.Eliot's goal was to make it a literary review dedicated to the maintenance of standards and the reunification of a European intellectual community.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Criterion" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Criterion">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Criterion</a>The Waste Land at PG: <a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1321" rel="nofollow">https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1321</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>

Title page of the first book edition (December 1922) of The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot.

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Killing Stella. By Marlen Haushofer. 1958. (Translated by Shaun Whiteside) In 1950s Austria, you are a housewife with kids, when an acquaintance dumps her 19 year old daughter with you for a year; the daughter is innocuous but your household is so fragile, and you are managing your own internal storm of mundane familial relationships, that the friends’ daughter is caught in the invisible crossfire.4 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈 <a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/women/" rel="tag">#women</a> <a href="/tags/austria/" rel="tag">#austria</a>

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"Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow."<a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1848.Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life is published anonymously by Chapman & Hall in London in two volumes.Gaskell was paid £100 for the novel. The publisher Edward Chapman had had the manuscript since the middle of 1847.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Barton" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Barton">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Barton</a>Mary Barton at PG: <a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2153" rel="nofollow">https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2153</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a>

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Genres I Want to Read More of This Year: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-genres-i-want-to-read-more-of-this-year/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-genres-i-want-to-read-more-of-this-year/">https://lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-genres-i-want-to-read-more-of-this-year/</a><a href="/tags/wednesdayweeklybloggingchallenge/" rel="tag">#WednesdayWeeklyBloggingChallenge</a> <a href="/tags/nonfiction/" rel="tag">#Nonfiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a>

Simple black and white sketch of how protons and electrons move around an atom. There appears to be three protons or neutrons in total, but it doesn’t give more information than that.

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📚 Norwegian Wood by: Haruki MurakamiToru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Toru begins to adapt to campus life and the loneliness and isolation he faces ther...<a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/norwegian-wood" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/norwegian-wood">https://bookblabla.com/book/norwegian-wood</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/literaryfiction/" rel="tag">#literaryfiction</a> <a href="/tags/mediatiein/" rel="tag">#mediatiein</a>

Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Toru begins to adapt to campus life and the loneliness and isolation he faces there, but Naoko finds the pressures and responsibilities of life unbearable. As she retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself reaching out to others and drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman.

Stunning and elegiac, Norwegian Wood first propelled Haruki Murakami into the forefront of the literary scene.

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Think you know Hans Christian Andersen? Four experts pick his weirdest fairy tales to read this ChristmasBy Ane Grum-Schwensen, Holger Berg, Jacob Bøggild and Sarah Bienko Eriksen<a href="https://theconversation.com/think-you-know-hans-christian-andersen-four-experts-pick-his-weirdest-fairy-tales-to-read-this-christmas-270725?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%2015%202025%20-%203618036937&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%2015%202025%20-%203618036937+CID_56e9e58f2a4c2b638ff45c2b60003d5f&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Think%20you%20know%20Hans%20Christian%20Andersen%20Four%20experts%20pick%20his%20weirdest%20fairy%20tales%20to%20read%20this%20Christmas" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/think-you-know-hans-christian-andersen-four-experts-pick-his-weirdest-fairy-tales-to-read-this-christmas-270725?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%2015%202025%20-%203618036937&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%2015%202025%20-%203618036937+CID_56e9e58f2a4c2b638ff45c2b60003d5f&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Think%20you%20know%20Hans%20Christian%20Andersen%20Four%20experts%20pick%20his%20weirdest%20fairy%20tales%20to%20read%20this%20Christmas">https://theconversation.com/think-you-know-hans-christian-andersen-four-experts-pick-his-weirdest-fairy-tales-to-read-this-christmas-270725?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%2015%202025%20-%203618036937&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%2015%202025%20-%203618036937+CID_56e9e58f2a4c2b638ff45c2b60003d5f&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Think%20you%20know%20Hans%20Christian%20Andersen%20Four%20experts%20pick%20his%20weirdest%20fairy%20tales%20to%20read%20this%20Christmas</a>Andersen at PG: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2298" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2298">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2298</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a>

The superstitious mother was an archetype, but Andersen’s depiction is shaped by memories of his own mother, Anne Marie Andersdatter. Illustration by Lorenz Frölich. The Hans Christian Andersen Centre.

This illustration by Lorenz Frölich depicts a scene from Hans Christian Andersen's writing, showing the archetype of the superstitious mother - a characterization influenced by Andersen's own mother, Anne Marie Andersdatter. The historical artwork is held at The Hans Christian Andersen Centre and represents the personal biographical elements that shaped Andersen's literary work.

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Ancient by Luke Barley review – the secret history of Britain’s woodlands Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://sopuli.xyz/post/41848766">See Original Page</a>

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📚 The Ghost Brigades by: John ScalziJared Dirac is the only human who can provide answers... A superhuman hybrid, created from Boutin's DNA, Jared's brain should be able to access Boutin's electronic memories. But when the memory transplant appears to fail, Jared is given to the Ghost Brigades.At first, Jared is a perfe...<a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-ghost-brigades" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-ghost-brigades">https://bookblabla.com/book/the-ghost-brigades</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/militaryfiction/" rel="tag">#militaryfiction</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a>

Jared Dirac is the only human who can provide answers... A superhuman hybrid, created from Boutin's DNA, Jared's brain should be able to access Boutin's electronic memories. But when the memory transplant appears to fail, Jared is given to the Ghost Brigades.

At first, Jared is a perfect soldier, but as Boutin's memories slowly surface, Jared begins to intuit the reason's for Boutin's betrayal. As Jared desperately hunts for his "father," he must also come to grips with his own choices. Time is running out: The alliance is preparing its offensive, and some of them plan worse things than humanity's mere military defeat...

The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF's toughest operations. They're young, they're fast and strong, and they're totally without normal human qualms.

The universe is a dangerous place for humanity—and it's about to become far more dangerous. Three races that humans have clashed with before have allied to halt our expansion into space. Their linchpin: the turncoat military scientist Charles Boutin, who knows the CDF's biggest military secrets. To prevail, the CDF must find out why Boutin did what he did.

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#2 The Ghost Brigades
#3 The Last Colony
#4 Zoe’s Tale
#5 The Human Division
#6 The End of All Things
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English poet and novelist Letitia Elizabeth Landon died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1838.Her first major breakthrough came with The Improvisatrice and thence she developed the metrical romance towards the Victorian ideal of the Victorian monologue, influencing fellow English writers such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson and Christina Rossetti.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letitia_Elizabeth_Landon" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letitia_Elizabeth_Landon">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letitia_Elizabeth_Landon</a>Books about Letitia Elizabeth Landon at PG: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56166" rel="nofollow">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56166</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>

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838); variation of the original painting by Daniel Maclise.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L.E.L.) was a renowned English poet and novelist of the early 19th century, known for her Romantic works. In the portrait by Daniel Maclise, she is depicted with a delicate and refined appearance, typical of Romantic portraiture of the time. The original shows her seated gracefully, with soft curls framing her face, gazing thoughtfully into the distance. Her attire consists of elegant 19th-century clothing, with rich textures and details.

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E-readers: Kobo vs Boox?

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Apuleius was a 2nd-century Roman writer whose most famous work, The Golden Ass (also known as Metamorphoses), still feels vivid, and surprisingly modern.It is the only ancient Roman novel in Latin to survive complete.Inside the novel is also the famous tale of Cupid and Psyche, one of the most beautiful love stories to come down from antiquity.The Golden Ass is one of the best gateways into the ancient world.<a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/apuleius/" rel="tag">#Apuleius</a> <a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a>

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From PEN America: Top 52 Banned Books: The Most Banned Books in U.S. Schools "The 52 most banned books of the last four school years include National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winners, bestsellers, and beloved books by authors including Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, and Judy Blume."<a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/writersofmastodon/" rel="tag">#writersofmastodon</a> <a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="https://pen.org/top-52-banned-books-since-2021/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="pen.org/top-52-banned-books-since-2021/">https://pen.org/top-52-banned-books-since-2021/</a>

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