_Rapport_, a new (free) Murderbot universe novelette
books
From the Ashes to the Dustbin: The Making and Un-Making of a Personal Library
Peter Wortsman on the Ever-Difficult Task of Saving and Discarding Beloved Books
https://lithub.com/from-the-ashes-to-the-dustbin-the-making-and-un-making-of-a-personal-library/
Personal library at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=personal+library
Tolstoy’s Christian Anarchism
A fateful visit to a market in Moscow entirely upended Tolstoy’s view on life and society—and changed the trajectory of his work and purpose.
By: Ben Woollard
https://daily.jstor.org/tolstoys-christian-anarchism/
Tolstoy at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/136
Nineteen Eighty-Four might have been inspired by George Orwell’s fear of drowning
By Nathan Waddell
Nineteen Eighty-Four filled with references to sinking ships, drowning people and the dread of oceanic engulfment
Waiting for Godot Has Been Translated Afrikaans
What took so long?
By: Rick de Villiers
This 2,200-Year-Old Chinese Medical Text May Be The Oldest Human Anatomy Chart In History
By Natasha Ishak
The discovery of the text written on silk sheds light on the significant advances in medicine that led to the development of acupuncture in ancient China.
Ancient Medicine at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/4630
The Sky Trap, by Frank Belknap Long
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Why America Can’t Get Enough of The Wizard of Oz
Hazel Gaynor Celebrates the Films, Prequels, Sequels, and More
https://lithub.com/why-america-cant-get-enough-of-the-wizard-of-oz/
Wizard of Oz at PG
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55
Sigrid Nunez on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
https://lithub.com/sigrid-nunez-on-f-scott-fitzgeralds-the-great-gatsby/
The Great Gatsby at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64317
Finding Briseis: On Resurrecting a Forgotten Woman from Homer’s Iliad
Emily Hauser Explores Ancient Greek Visions of Gender
https://lithub.com/finding-briseis-on-resurrecting-a-forgotten-woman-from-homers-iliad/
The Iliad at PG:
Even Better the Second (or Third, or Fourth…) Time: In Praise of Re-Reading - Literary Hub
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finished reading Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
by Tim Harford.
The importance of randomness & spontaneity in creativity & problem-solving. Plans, order & rationality are often counter-productive! So don't beat yourself up about meeting simplistic measures of performance. The tech discussion is a bit dated, but the principles are extremely relevant to AI. Ginormous gender blind-spot.
#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #Nonfiction #Productivity #Creativity
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How Four Literary Icons Chose the Pen Names That Made Them Famous
Kirsty McHugh and Ian Scott Explore the Reasoning Behind Some Very Well Known Pseudonyms
By Kirsty McHugh and Ian Scott
The Missing 11th of the Month - David R Hagen
On November 28th, 2012, Randall Munroe published an xkcd comic that was a calendar in which the size of each date was proportional to how often each date is referenced by its ordinal name (e.g. "October 14th") in the Google Ngrams database since 2000. Via @DProofreaders
can’t sleep again, read all of Leila Mottley’s new book in one go. I had the problem where there are three POV characters and I only really cared about one of them. #books
Writing Advice and Literary Wisdom from the Great E.B. White
“I think writing is mainly work.”
By Sam Weller
Children's literature at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/8
How French ‘merveilleux-scientifique’ fiction reframed reality
By Fleur Hopkins-Loferon
https://aeon.co/essays/how-french-merveilleux-scientifique-fiction-reframed-reality
Maurice Reynard at PG:
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? July 15
Publication of The Salt Path author’s new book is delayed amid scandal
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The end of the road? What The Salt Path scandal means for the nature memoir
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📖 📻 **Does listening to an audiobook count as reading?**
🔗 https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/2025-07-12/does-listening-to-an-audiobook-count-as-reading.
_What do you think?_
#Reading #Audiobooks #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
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