📖 📻 **Does listening to an audiobook count as reading?**
🔗 https://www.npr.org/2025/07/12/nx-s1-5454723-e1/does-listening-to-an-audiobook-count-as-reading.
_What do you think?_
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Traffic makes beasts of us all, but that's too far, way too far 😂
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The story of Nastenka: Why 'White Nights' is taking the world by storm
by Aakanksha Sharma
White Nights at PG:
New body size database for marine animals is a “library of life”
Marine Organizational Body Size (MOBS) database fills a crucial gap in understanding ocean biodiversity.
by JENNIFER OUELLETTE
Marine animals at PG:
Take a Look at the ‘Extraordinary’ 19th-Century Portraits Made With Some of the Earliest Methods of Photography
A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery traces three different 1800s forms of photo-making: daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes
by Kaila Philo
Photography at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/117
New Pin
If a MMF triad romance in a queer-normative fantasy world sounds like your thing, you can find the cover copy and up-to-date purchase links for my sweet polyamorous romantasy The Harmony of Falling Snow here:
https://andorabrokaw.com/the-harmony-of-falling-snow/
I'm compiling a list of resources for reading with ADHD for my community, The Cozy Reading with ADHD Club (http://bit.ly/readADHD).
These could be YouTube channels, blogs, podcasts - anything helpful/ of interest for readers with ADHD!
Know of any, or have one yourself? Please let me know! ❤️
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finished reading The Mark 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
by Frida Isberg.
An attempt to enforce empathic behaviour creates stark divisions at all levels of society. Very effectively conveys the ambiguous ethics and the entrenched positions taken by opposing sides. Strong parallels with toxic masculinity and vaccination.
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What Is Serendipity?
We often credit unexpected events to serendipity. But who amongst us knows The Three Princes of Serendip, the tale from which the word derives?
By: Emily Zarevich
https://daily.jstor.org/what-is-serendipity/
The Three Princes of Serendip:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Princes_of_Serendip
Why Did René Descartes Say “I Think, Therefore I Am”?
“I think, therefore I am” is not only Renê Descartes’ most quoted declaration, but one that caused a paradigm shift and profoundly influenced modern philosophy.
https://www.thecollector.com/rene-descartes-i-think-therefore-i-am-cogito-ergo-sum/
Descartes at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/44
Do you think Charlotte made the right move in marrying Mr. Collins?
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Exhumed and Exhaled
Charles Babbage breathes in the past.
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/memory/exhumed-and-exhaled
Charles Babbage at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/556
Great news! My book SHADOW OF THE ELDERS, a low, dark, and epic fantasy is going wide in August. If you've been waiting until the book left Amazon to read it, your wait is about to end! Details to come.
If, however, you use Amazon, then what are you waiting for? Its available now! Check it out. https://a.co/d/9WRy4Bt
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BookWyrm is a Fediverse alternative to Amazon Goodreads. BookWyrm has a built-in book catalogue you can choose details from, but if you can't find a particular book you can add it to BookWyrm manually:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-manually-add-a-book-on-bookwyrm
This guide also answers some common questions about adding books manually.
If you're unfamiliar with BookWyrm and want to find out more about it, there's a general guide to it at:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-network-for-people-who-enjoy-reading
My newest book is a fantasy short story collection. Contents include whimsy, gargoyles, heroic aunties, brave doggos, & evil bureaucrats who always lose.
https://books2read.com/RelicsFromATravelingShow
Reviewers like it. You might, too!
In ebook & print, also on Hoopla, Libby, and Biblioboard, therefore available on request from your local public library in print OR ebook. (In the US, anyhow)
Who Was J.M.W. Turner and Why Was He So Important?
The son of a barber, Turner (1775–1851) entered London’s Royal Academy Schools in 1789, where he spent his time copying plaster casts of classical sculptures before moving on to life studies of male nudes.
By Kelly Presutti
https://www.artnews.com/feature/who-was-j-m-w-turner-why-so-important-british-artist-1234745218/
J.M.W. Turner at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/24796
My latest read: "One Day All This Will Be Yours" by Adrian Tchaikovsky - See my Goodreads review for details but if you enjoy time-travel stories, or even if you don't, this one's worth a look!
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7803015204
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"Office Hours" is just one of 12 new stories in "8." This potent blend of science fiction and terror from The Nod/Wells Timelines has a lot to offer fans and newcomers alike. The Kindle edition of "8" is on sale in the US & the UK until July 22 via Amazon!
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Dear Deirdre: The Japanese American Agony Aunt
Using the nom de plume Deirdre, California-born writer Mary “Mollie” Oyama Mittwer offered advice on changing gender roles and cross-ethnic relationships.
https://daily.jstor.org/dear-deirdre-the-japanese-american-agony-aunt/
Japanese literature at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=Japanese+literature
Is This the Best of All Possible Worlds? Leibniz vs. Voltaire
What does it mean for this world to be the “best possible world,” even with the obvious existence of evil? Leibniz and Voltaire weigh in.
https://www.thecollector.com/is-this-best-all-possible-worlds-leibniz-voltaire/
Voltaire and Leibniz at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/913
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7168
