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273d

What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? January 20

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272d

My #bookreview is brief/won't spoil, to spread good, great, and spectacular #horror #books far and wide.

The tropes and subtext in THE NIGHT SHIP could be both trite & unceasingly grim but Alex Woodroe's deft & elegant writing makes this weird, cosmic horror tale of survivors battling the forces of darkness a suspenseful, thrilling, life-affirming adventure of determination & grit. (Flame Tree)

#book #review #bookstodon #CosmicHorror @bookstodon #mothersuspiriareview #MSReview @bookstodon@toot.community

The Night Ship by Alex Woodroe

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273d

📚 The Strange House (Manga) Vol. 4 by: Uketsu, Kyo Ayano

As Yuzuki and I investigate the Katabuchi family home, our unease grows. What dark secrets has her family been hiding? The mysteries deepen, but at least one has been solved: the identity of You-chan's murderer. Yet that is only the beginning of the strange, disturbing truth...

https://bookblabla.com/book/the-strange-house-manga-vol-4

#books #reading #libraries #manga #horror

As Yuzuki and I investigate the Katabuchi family home, our unease grows. What dark secrets has her family been hiding? The mysteries deepen, but at least one has been solved: the identity of You-chan's murderer. Yet that is only the beginning of the strange, disturbing truth...

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The Case for Aesthetic Education

Why Friedrich Schiller believed art belongs at the heart of education—and why it matters for equal opportunity today.

By: Marco Elvis Joven Domínguez

https://daily.jstor.org/the-case-for-aesthetic-education/

Books by Friedrich Schiller at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/289

#books #literature #pedagogy

Still Life with Apples by Paul Cézanne.

A green ceramic jar, a wine bottle wrapped in wicker, a wicker-wrapped jug, a small floral-patterned sugar bowl, and a bowl of red and yellow apples, all arranged on a table draped with a patterned blue cloth and white fabric.

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Meaning beyond definition

In science our concepts have neat, hard edges. In poetry our concepts stretch and expand. Both are necessary for knowledge

by James Camien McGuiggan

https://aeon.co/essays/in-poetry-clarity-comes-through-ambiguity-not-definitions?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=765c91975b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_04_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972

Poetry & Knowledge at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=poetry+%2B+knowledge

#books #literature #poetry #knowledge

Transcription:

003—La cravate et la montre

[cravate]

la cravate douloureuse que tu portes et qui t'orne ô civilisé ôte-la
si tu veux bien respirer
[montre, remontoir]

comme l'on s'amuse bien
[bord droit de la montre]

la beauté de la vie passe la douleur de mourir
[heures]

mon cœur
les yeux
l'enfant
Agla
la main
Tircis
semaine
l'infini redressé par un fous de philosophe
les Muses aux portes de ton corps
le bel inconnu
et le vers dantesque luisant et cadavérique
les heures
[aiguilles]

Il est – 5
Et tout sera fini

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/55569/pg55569-images.html

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80d

Revisiting Vonnegut, who satirised *right now* back in the mid-60s:
Fascism, racism, communism & absurd, confused ideas of patriotism in contemporary USA.
And how ruthless lawyers and the establishment try to frame a billionaire as insane because he wants to help people and share his wealth.

#books #bookstodon

2 books by Vonnegut: Mother Night and God Bless You, Mr Rosewater

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1y

When #SHTF, I'm sure you will need #community, #solidarity and stable #relationships at a local level a little more than you'll need a 2y supply of freeze-dried meals.

Though it can't hurt to download #books and #information now that you once believed would be treasured as heritage of humankind – and never be burned, or rewritten to suit the needs of fanatics with fragile egos.

Start here:

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1y

From January till September 1905.

L. Frank Baum's Animal Fairy Tales appear in The Delineator magazine.

For several decades in the twentieth century, the collection was a "lost" book by Baum; it resurfaced when the International Wizard of Oz Club published the stories in one volume in 1969.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Fairy_Tales

The Animal Fairy Tales at Delineator:
https://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=hearth1891092_64_2#page/106/mode/1up

#books #literature

Animal Fairy Tales published in Vol. 64, No. 2, August, 1905: The Delineator.

Drawings by Charles Livinstone Bull.

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1y

German poet and novelist Achim von Arnim was born #OTD in 1781.

He is best known as one of the key figures of German Romanticism. His works were collected, with an introduction by Wilhelm Grimm, in twenty volumes (1839–48). He influenced late Romantics and Realists such as Eduard Mörike, Heinrich Heine, Ludwig Uhland and Theodor Storm, particularly through the Wunderhorn.

Books by Achim von Arnim at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/848

#books #literature

Portrait of Achim von Arnim by Peter Edward Stroehling, 1803.

Stroehling, known for his detailed and refined portrait style, presents Arnim as a young man, with a confident and intellectual demeanor befitting his literary status.

The portrait showcases Arnim in early 19th-century attire.

Stroehling's technique emphasizes realism, using soft lighting and delicate brushwork to bring out the subject's facial features and character.

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272d

📚 Fauves by: Melissa Da Costa

Je veux jouer avec le feu, trembler, sentir la morsure de la mort. Défier les instincts les plus brutaux, les plus sauvages, et les dépasser.

Comment s'échapper de sa cage ? C'est l'obsession des fauves mais aussi celle de Tony, dix-sept ans, lorsqu'il rejoint un cirque itinérant après avoir fui la violence de son père. Faire face aux bê...

https://bookblabla.com/book/fauves

#books #reading #libraries #fiction #general

Je veux jouer avec le feu, trembler, sentir la morsure de la mort. Défier les instincts les plus brutaux, les plus sauvages, et les dépasser.

Comment s'échapper de sa cage ? C'est l'obsession des fauves mais aussi celle de Tony, dix-sept ans, lorsqu'il rejoint un cirque itinérant après avoir fui la violence de son père. Faire face aux bêtes, affronter ses propres démons...

Le nouveau roman de Mélissa Da Costa nous propulse au coeur de l'arène, où l'ivresse du danger fait oublier la mort. Une fresque magistrale, portée par une écriture tendue et charnelle.

Mélissa Da Costa relève hautement le défi de cet audacieux roman. Le Parisien WE

C'est tout un univers de brutes et d'audacieux, de femmes endurantes et bouleversantes, l'envers du chapiteau que conte brillamment Mélissa Da Costa. Adrénaline garantie. Elle
Fauves séduit par la complexité de ses personnages, rendant le roman addictif et difficile à lâcher. Huffington Post

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273d

Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/TheThirdWish

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?

@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #sciencefantasy #scifi #actionadventure #fiction #books

(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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1y

"Poet, never chase the dream.
Laugh yourself and turn away.
Mask your hunger, let it seem
Small matter if he come or stay;..."

#OTD in 1918.

The English poet Robert Graves marries the painter Nancy Nicholson in London. The wedding guests include Wilfred Owen, whose first nationally published poem appears three days later ("Miners" in The Nation). He will die by the end of the year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Graves

Robert Graves at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/628

#books #literature #poetry

Portrait of Robert Graves in 1919.

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1y

Three women translators who bridged cultures

Stories of Birgitte Thott, Sarah Austin, and Émilie du Châtelet

by Małgorzata Szynkielewska via @europeana (from the archives)

https://www.europeana.eu/en/stories/three-women-translators-who-bridged-cultures

Books by or translated by Émilie du Châtelet at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=%C3%89milie+du+Ch%C3%A2telet&submit_search=Search

#books #translators #womeninart

Birgitte Thott (1610–1662) used her remarkable linguistic abilities to bring foreign knowledge to her native Denmark.

Sarah Austin (1793–1867) was an English translator and editor who played a pivotal role in introducing British audiences to German authors. Sarah’s translations were linguistic accomplishments and also acts of cultural mediation, helping to bridge intellectual divides between Britain and continental Europe.

Émilie du Châtelet (1706–1749) was a French natural philosopher and mathematician.

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1y

American journalist Nellie Bly died #OTD in 1922.

She was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg, & for an exposé in which she worked undercover to report on a mental institution from within. Bly was also an inventor, receiving U.S. patent 697,553 for a novel milk can & U.S. patent 703,711 for a stacking garbage can.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly

Nellie Bly at PG
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/9648

#books #literature

A woodcut image of Nellie Bly's homecoming reception in Jersey City printed in Frank Leslie's Illustrated News on February 8, 1890.

Caption reads: "Around the world in seventy-two days and six hours - reception of Nellie Bly at Jersey City on the completion of her journey." Includes two vignettes (inset) titled: "Presenting the Globe-Girdler a Golden Globe" and "The Arrival in Philadelphia."

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226d

Wit, courage and guile: ten literary heroines to inspire you on International Women’s Day

Whether courageous and confident or quietly subversive, literary heroines can inspire us in our everyday lives.

by Amy Wilcockson

https://theconversation.com/wit-courage-and-guile-ten-literary-heroines-to-inspire-you-on-international-womens-day-277607?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=International%20Womens%20Day%202026&utm_content=International%20Womens%20Day%202026+CID_03740b2982c8e57598d1dcb20bdec6c2&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Wit%20courage%20and%20guile%20ten%20literary%20heroines%20to%20inspire%20you%20on%20International%20Womens%20Day

Women fiction at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=women+fiction

#books #literature #womenhistoryMonth

The Wife of Bath's Tale in the Ellesmere manuscript of The Canterbury Tales, c. 1405–1410.

A illuminated manuscript page with dense Gothic cursive text in two sections, separated by a decorative rubric line in red. The left and bottom margins are bordered by an elaborate acanthus and ivy-leaf vine decoration in blue, gold, and red, with small coloured flowers and curling tendrils. A small miniature illustration in the right margin depicts a figure in a wide-brimmed hat riding a horse, rendered in warm reds, blues, and browns. A large decorative initial capital begins the lower text block. The rubric midpage reads "Heere endeth the Wyf of Bathe hir prologe and biginneth hir tale." The page is cream-coloured with age, and a folio number is visible in the upper right corner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wife_of_Bath%27s_Tale#/media/File:Wife-of-Bath-ms.jpg

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82d

Happy reading! 😊

@reading @bookstodon @books @humor @humor@lemmy.world @aiop @joinin

#ReadingMemes #Meme #Humor #Humour #Funny #Geek #Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity #AmReading #Novel #Books #Fiction #Bookstodon

Meme with five photos of a man looking increasingly ecstatic.
Captions:
1: You start a new book
2: You're off the next day
3: All chores and errands are done; and there's leftovers in the fridge
4: The blanket is warm
5: All of the sudden starts raining and there's thunder in the distance

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189d

The Death of Washington Post Book World and Why Criticism Still Matters

the-death-of-book-world-and-why-criticism-still-matters

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1y

"And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted — nevermore!"

#OTD in 1845.

Edgar Allan Poe first publishes the narrative poem "The Raven", under his own name in The Evening Mirror of New York, of which he is a staff critic until February. It is rapidly reprinted across the United States and appears in book form by the end of the year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raven

The Raven at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/14082
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/17192

#books #literature #poetry

The raven perches on a bust of Pallas Athena, a symbol of wisdom meant to imply the narrator is a scholar.

Illustration by Édouard Manet for Stéphane Mallarmé's translation, Le Corbeau (1875).

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226d

Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Bookshelf

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270d

"#DOGE did NOT reduce spending – at all. But it did reduce federal employment; 271,000 people lost their jobs in the federal government"

#StartMakingSense talks w/ #SashaAbramsky, author of #AmericanCarnage: How #Trump, #Musk and DOGE butchered the US Government

https://www.thenation.com/podcast/archive/sms-012026/

#USpol #USpolitics #DOGEbags #SiliconValleyRight #austerity #tech #BigTech #TechBros #books @bookstodon

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1y

In Febraury 1895.

The Bookman (New York), a monthly, is first published by Dodd, Mead and Company with Harry Thurston Peck as editor. It publishes the first bestseller list, which is headed by Frank R. Stockton's novel The Adventures of Captain Horn. A sequel, Mrs. Cliff's Yacht, was released in 1897.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Captain_Horn

The Adventures of Captain Horn at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12190

#books #literature

Original publication of The Adventures of Captain Horn by Frank R. Stockton in The bookman v.1 1895 Feb-Jul.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015030005394&view=1up&seq=492&skin=2021

Opening lines:
It is not altogether with a feeling of satisfaction that we lay down Mr. Stockton's "departure" in fiction, nor are we quite disappointed. Perhaps this impression has been induced by the puff preliminary, for though “it is unlike any novel"-we quote from the publisher's advertisement-" that has hitherto appeared from this popular writer's pen," it is not "a romance of the most adventurous kind," and it seems extraordinary to us that after Treasure Island, King Solomon's Mines, and other stories obviously brought to mind in this category, any one should deem the events born of Mr. Stockton's imagination" as "wholly extraordinary.”

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"The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as “The Styles Case” has now somewhat subsided."
Opening lines

#OTD in 1920.

Agatha Christie’s first novel is published in the U.K. The Mysterious Affair at Styles is the first detective novel by Dame Agatha Christie, introducing her fictional detective Hercule Poirot. It was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916.

The Mysterious Affair at Syles at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/863

#books #literature

The publication “The Mysterious Affairt at Styles,” published by John Lane in 1920.

Dustjacket illustration of the first edition in both the UK and the US.

The atmospheric painting shows figures in a dimly lit interior. The figures appear to be examining something, setting the tone for a mystery investigation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Affair_at_Styles#/media/File:American_cover_of_%C2%ABThe_Mysterious_Affair_at_Styles%C2%BB.png

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1y

Seit November ist unser Buchladen ganz schön gewachsen. Deswegen müssen wir heute ein paar Schränke neu arrangieren. Gar nicht so einfach für uns Quereinsteiger. 😅 Seht ihr Bücher die Euch besonders gefallen haben, oder die ihr unbedingt noch lesen wollt. Gibt es Bücher die wir unbedingt noch dahaben sollten?
Liebe Grüße aus #chemnitz
#bücher #lesen #bookstodon #bookwyrm #books

Ein Bild von Bücherschränken in der Buchhandlung am Brühl, die gerade neu arrangiert werden. Einige prominente Titel sind: Olive Otele: Afrikanische Europäer, Timothy Snider: Über Tyrranei, Casta Diva: Der Schwule Opernführer, Davi Kopenawa/Bruce Albert: Der Sturz des Himmels, Frauka Greyken: Freya von Moltke, Eva Strittmatter/Erwin Strittmatter: Du bist mein zweites Ich.

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272d

I'd like to replace that last one with, "Books where you can figure out the end after reading the first few pages." 😜😁

@reading @bookstodon @books @humor @humor@lemmy.world @aiop

#Book #Books #BookMemes #Meme #Memes #Humor #Humour #Funny
#ReadingMemes #ReadAllTheBooks #Reading #Readers #ReadersOfMastodon #ReadingCommunity
#Litterature #Novel #Novels #Bookshelf #Mastobooks #BooksofMastodon #Bookstodon #Bookworm #Bookwyrm #Bookstodon #BookLove

Types of headached memes showing four heads with diffrent amounts of red to indicate severity.
1: Some red, Migrane
2: Some red, Hypertension
3: Some red, Stress
4: Full red all over head, book doesn't end how you thought it should

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1y

How an Obscure German Noblewoman Influenced the Way Anne Frank Wrote Her Diary

Biographer Ruth Franklin on the Value of a Careful Eye and Fresh Perspective

https://lithub.com/how-an-obscure-german-noblewoman-influenced-the-way-anne-frank-wrote-her-diary/

#books #literature #biography

The last known photograph of Anne taken in May 1942, taken at a passport photo shoot. (Photo collection Anne Frank House, Amsterdam. Public Domain Work)]

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