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<p>📚 Seascraper by: Benjamin Wood</p><p>Twenty-year-old Thomas Flett lives a slow, deliberate life with his mother in Longferry, Northern England, working his grandpa’s trade as a shanker. He rises early to take his horse and cart to the drizzly shore to scrape for shrimp, and spends the afternoon selling his wares, trying to wash...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/seascraper" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/seascraper</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/historical/" rel="tag">#historical</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/familylife/" rel="tag">#familylife</a></p>

Twenty-year-old Thomas Flett lives a slow, deliberate life with his mother in Longferry, Northern England, working his grandpa’s trade as a shanker. He rises early to take his horse and cart to the drizzly shore to scrape for shrimp, and spends the afternoon selling his wares, trying to wash away the salt and sea-scum, pining for his neighbor, Joan Wyeth, and playing songs on his guitar. At heart, he is a folk musician, but this remains a private dream.

Then a mysterious American arrives in town, and enlists Thomas's help in finding a perfect location for his next movie. Though skeptical at first, soon Thomas starts to trust the stranger, Edgar, and, shaken from the drudgery of his days by the promise of Hollywood glamour, begins to see a different future for himself. But how much of what Edgar claims is true, and how far can his inspiration carry Thomas?

Haunting and timeless, from one of the finest British novelists of his generation (The Times) Seascraper tells the story of a quiet existence upturned over the span of one day, and a young man hemmed in by his circumstances, striving to achieve fulfilment far beyond the world he knows.

Longlisted for the Booker Prize, this cinematically plotted, radiant (The New York Times) novel follows shanker Thomas Flett as his quiet life in a small English coastal town is forever changed over the course of one fateful day.

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<p>wants to read <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&q=https://eggplant.place/book/30HPbbpeklE8KBoLcMHOhl" rel="nofollow">Estação Perdido</a> <br><a href="/tags/livros/" rel="tag">#Livros</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#SciFi</a> <a href="/tags/newweird/" rel="tag">#NewWeird</a> <a href="/tags/chinamieville/" rel="tag">#ChinaMieville</a> </p><p><a href="/tags/neodb/" rel="tag">#NeoDB</a></p>

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<p>So I guess it's time for an <a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#introduction</a>. Well, I'm a 30 something <a href="/tags/black/" rel="tag">#Black</a> <a href="/tags/queer/" rel="tag">#queer</a> woman. I love to read <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a>. I love the <a href="/tags/nyknicks/" rel="tag">#NYKnicks</a>. I like <a href="/tags/bicycles/" rel="tag">#bicycles</a> even though, it's not my primary mode of transportation. I like refurbishing and upgrading old electronics, specifically <a href="/tags/ipods/" rel="tag">#iPods</a> and <a href="/tags/laptops/" rel="tag">#laptops</a>. <a href="/tags/tv/" rel="tag">#TV</a> and music have kept me going more than anything else. I'm branching into <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a> and getting more familiar with <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#FOSS</a>. I am a <a href="/tags/blogger/" rel="tag">#blogger</a> and I have linked my blog in my bio.</p>

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1859.</p><p>German scholar Constantin von Tischendorf identifies portions of the mid-4th century Codex Sinaiticus (an uncial manuscript of the Greek Bible) at Saint Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai in the Khedivate of Egypt and arranges for its presentation to his patron, Tsar Alexander II of Russia at Saint Petersburg.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Sinaiticus" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Sinaiticus"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Si</span><span class="invisible">naiticus</span></a></p><p>Tischendorf.IV.Monumenta Sacra Inedita. 1857-1870 at TIA:<br><a href="https://archive.org/details/Tischendorf.iv.monumentaSacraInedita.newcollection.subscript.6vols.1857-1870/01.MonumentaSacraInedita.NCVA.FragEvangLucLibGen.v1.Tischendorf.Subsc.1857./mode/1up" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="archive.org/details/Tischendorf.iv.monumentaSacraInedita.newcollection.subscript.6vols.1857-1870/01.MonumentaSacraInedita.NCVA.FragEvangLucLibGen.v1.Tischendorf.Subsc.1857./mode/1up"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/Tischendor</span><span class="invisible">f.iv.monumentaSacraInedita.newcollection.subscript.6vols.1857-1870/01.MonumentaSacraInedita.NCVA.FragEvangLucLibGen.v1.Tischendorf.Subsc.1857./mode/1up</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/oldmanuscript/" rel="tag">#oldmanuscript</a></p>

New Testament manuscript.

Book of Esther.

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<p>From March 1 to October 15, 1919. </p><p>Publication runs of the American pulp magazine The Thrill Book are oriented towards the fantasy genre or science fiction. It includes the serialization of The Heads of Cerberus, written by Gertrude Barrows Bennett as Francis Stevens, with its early thematic use of an alternate time-track, or parallel worlds.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thrill_Book" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thrill_Book"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thri</span><span class="invisible">ll_Book</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heads_of_Cerberus" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heads_of_Cerberus"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Head</span><span class="invisible">s_of_Cerberus</span></a></p><p>The Thrill Books is available at LibriVoX:<br><a href="https://librivox.org/group/676?primary_key=676&search_category=group&search_page=1&search_form=get_results&search_order=alpha" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="librivox.org/group/676?primary_key=676&search_category=group&search_page=1&search_form=get_results&search_order=alpha"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">librivox.org/group/676?primary</span><span class="invisible">_key=676&search_category=group&search_page=1&search_form=get_results&search_order=alpha</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/pulpfiction/" rel="tag">#pulpfiction</a></p>

The cover of the first issue, dated March 1, 1919. The artwork, by Sidney H. Riesenberg, is "shabby and second-rate", according to Richard Bleiler.

The illustration portrays a dramatic scene with a man in a suit and bowtie, appearing startled as he gestures toward a glowing globe or orb on a small table.

Behind him, a dark figure, possibly a creature or a cloaked person, looms menacingly.

The background consists of shadowy forms and a mysterious atmosphere, aligning with the magazine's focus on thrilling and supernatural fiction.

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1616.</p><p>Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair#Inquisition_and_first_judgment,_1616" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair#Inquisition_and_first_judgment,_1616"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_</span><span class="invisible">affair#Inquisition_and_first_judgment,_1616</span></a></p><p>Galileo Galilei at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=galileo+galilei&submit_search=Search" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=galileo+galilei&submit_search=Search"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=galileo+galilei&submit_search=Search</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#astronomy</a></p>

Galileo before the Holy Office, a 19th-century painting by Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury

Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury - https://respvblica.com/galileo-galilei-before-the-holy-office-in-the-vatican-by-robert-fleury/

The artwork depicts the famous moment when the Italian astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei stands before the Roman Catholic Inquisition, facing trial for his support of the heliocentric theory, which proposed that the Earth orbits the Sun.

The scene is rendered with dramatic realism, characteristic of 19th-century historical painting.

Galileo, an elderly man with a long white beard, appears dignified yet weary as he stands before a panel of stern-faced inquisitors. He is dressed in dark robes, a symbol of his scholarly status, while the members of the tribunal, seated in a semicircle, wear elaborate garments reflecting their authority.

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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? April 14

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<p>How George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four predicted the global power shifts happening now</p><p>Orwell is feted for the farsightedness of his geopolitical vision as long ago as the 1940s. But a lot of writers were thinking along similar lines.</p><p>by Emrah Atasoy</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/how-george-orwells-nineteen-eighty-four-predicted-the-global-power-shifts-happening-now-273122?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Weekender%20-%203653437321&utm_content=The%20Weekender%20-%203653437321+CID_43c6452557555cbd4df21443bb065cc9&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/how-george-orwells-nineteen-eighty-four-predicted-the-global-power-shifts-happening-now-273122?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Weekender%20-%203653437321&utm_content=The%20Weekender%20-%203653437321+CID_43c6452557555cbd4df21443bb065cc9&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/how-george</span><span class="invisible">-orwells-nineteen-eighty-four-predicted-the-global-power-shifts-happening-now-273122?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Weekender%20-%203653437321&utm_content=The%20Weekender%20-%203653437321+CID_43c6452557555cbd4df21443bb065cc9&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk</span></a></p><p>Dystopias at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/3316" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/3316"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">ct/3316</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

The first edition cover of George Orwell's book, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984).

This iconic cover design is simple but striking, with bold handwritten-style typography on a dark green background.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#/media/File:1984_first_edition_cover.jpg

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<p>Is This the Best of All Possible Worlds? Leibniz vs. Voltaire</p><p>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.</p><p>By Mirjana Jojić</p><p><a href="https://www.thecollector.com/is-this-best-all-possible-worlds-leibniz-voltaire/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/is-this-best-all-possible-worlds-leibniz-voltaire/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thecollector.com/is-this-b</span><span class="invisible">est-all-possible-worlds-leibniz-voltaire/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/philosophy/" rel="tag">#philosophy</a></p>

Portrait of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Ludwig Bechstein - from the book Zweihundert deutsche Männer in Bildnissen und Lebensbeschreibungen (Two hundred German men in portraits and biographies), Leipzig 1854, edited by Ludwig Bechstein

Portrait c. 1720s, the Musée Carnavalet

François-Marie Arouet (1694–1778), known as Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher

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<p>People always say you shouldn't rush growing up, so I'm saving my adulthood for when they put me in the incinerator 😜😂 </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@reading" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>reading</span></a></span> <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="https://lemmy.world/u/books" rel="nofollow">@books</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@humor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>humor</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://lemmy.world/c/humor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>humor@lemmy.world</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://lemmy.world/c/aiop" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>aiop</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://lemmy.world/c/worldbuilding" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>worldbuilding</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/speculativefiction/" rel="tag">#SpeculativeFiction</a> <a href="/tags/fantasybooks/" rel="tag">#FantasyBooks</a><br><a href="/tags/fantasymemes/" rel="tag">#FantasyMemes</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#Fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/tolkien/" rel="tag">#Tolkien</a> <a href="/tags/lotr/" rel="tag">#LotR</a> <a href="/tags/hobbit/" rel="tag">#Hobbit</a><br><a href="/tags/readingmemes/" rel="tag">#ReadingMemes</a> <a href="/tags/meme/" rel="tag">#Meme</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/funny/" rel="tag">#Funny</a><br><a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> <a href="/tags/readers/" rel="tag">#Readers</a> <a href="/tags/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#ReadingCommunity</a><br><a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#Novel</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#Fiction</a> <br><a href="/tags/bookwyrm/" rel="tag">#Bookwyrm</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a></p>

Post by ohsalome:
Me, aged 14, reading Tolkien: Hobbits are considered
chuldren until they are 30? How funky! Fantasy
worldbuilding! This is so different from us humans!
Me, aged 25: Oh i get it now
Reply by roguebelle:
Me, aged 34: Actually the Hobbits might be rushing
things a bit.

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<p>Ebook: <a href="https://books2read.com/TheWizardsScion" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/TheWizardsScion</a></p><p>Levi Jacobs always dreamed of being like his father, the greatest wizard in the world, but had no understanding what it would be like. Follow Levi’s journey from bumbling teen to a great hero, while the young wizard learns to master magical powers that are initially completely beyond him and barely under control.</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><br><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></p>

The cover for the omnibus edition of The Wizard's Scion.

The background is a symbolic representation of a wormhole, hinting at the time-travel elements of the series.

The foreground consists of four figures, in silhouette, each filled with a different texture and behind them is a black octopus with red eyes and a menacing, red aura.

The central figure is a wizard in the midst of casting a spell, with his arms and robe outstretched. The texture used is black, with patches of mottled gold, overlaid with eight pointed stars. He's surrounded by a golden aura.

To the immediate left of the wizard is a girl. The texture used has a black background, overlaid with symbols for music, in green, cyan and white. She's surrounded by a green aura.

Standing just ahead of the wizard, but also slightly to the left is a woman wielding a pair of short swords in a combat-ready pose. The texture used is of blood spatter on a black background. She's surrounded by a dark red aura.

Ahead and to the right of the wizard is another woman with short swords, in a more relaxed stance than the other dual-wielder. The two woman are very similar in appearance, hinting at the fact that the one is a clone of the other. The texture used for this figure is a combination of a golden sunrise and translucent parts of clocks, hinting that the clone was made by time travelers. She's surrounded by a dark golden aura.

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<p>This week's <a href="/tags/newbooks/" rel="tag">#NewBooks</a> at the library:<br>- I finally bought <a href="/tags/terrygoodkind/" rel="tag">#TerryGoodkind</a>'s "The Children of D'Hara" bundle from Head of Zeus to replace the individual novellas I had.<br>- Plus a second-hand copy of James Delbourgo's "Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of <a href="/tags/hanssloane/" rel="tag">#HansSloane</a>" from Allen Lane.<br>- and a second-hand copy of "Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose?" by the ever-thoughtful Michael Ruse, published by Harvard University Press.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/scicomm/" rel="tag">#Scicomm</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#Fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/historyofscience/" rel="tag">#HistoryOfScience</a> <a href="/tags/sciencehistory/" rel="tag">#ScienceHistory</a> <a href="/tags/histsci/" rel="tag">#HistSci</a> <a href="/tags/evolution/" rel="tag">#Evolution</a> <a href="/tags/evolutionarybiology/" rel="tag">#EvolutionaryBiology</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></p>

A photo of three books standing on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books and part of the beech-coloured laminate floor.

On the left, The Children of D'Hara, showing a slate-grey cover with the title against the backdrop of what could be a solar eclipse, with the silhouettes of two birds of prey in flight.

In the middle, Darwin and Design, showing a colour drawing of a bird's nest with three eggs lying on top of a grey brick wall. The background shows a hedge. Above the nest is the silhouette of a bird in flight against a blue sky with white fluffy clouds. The silhouette is filled in with the same pattern as the hedge underneath. This is the lithograph Le Printemps by René Magritte.

On the right, Collecting the World, showing several black and white drawings. Along the top, several cocoa plant fruits hang from their branch. At the bottom, a 1715 engraving of a large manor with a fancy garden with planted trees, statues, and a fountain in the centre. This is the façade of Montagu House, looking across the forecourt, which would later become the British Museum. The left half of the cover is coloured red, starting wide at the top and becoming narrower towards the bottom. The remainder of the cover is coloured in a light blue.

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<p>'The truth is she did the right thing': The mystery of why Jane Austen's letters were destroyed – by her own sister</p><p>By Neil Armstrong</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250129-the-mystery-of-why-jane-austens-letters-were-destroyed-by-her-own-sister" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250129-the-mystery-of-why-jane-austens-letters-were-destroyed-by-her-own-sister"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.bbc.com/culture/article/20</span><span class="invisible">250129-the-mystery-of-why-jane-austens-letters-were-destroyed-by-her-own-sister</span></a></p><p>Books by Jane Austen at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/68" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/68"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/68</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

This pencil and watercolour portrait of Jane by Cassandra is the only authenticated picture of the novelist.

The sketch is somewhat unfinished, with detailed attention given to Jane Austen's face while the rest of the figure remains lightly outlined. The portrait is often referenced in discussions about Austen’s life and works, though some have debated whether it truly captures her likeness. It is now housed in the National Portrait Gallery in London.

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<p>📚 Pines by: Blake Crouch</p><p>One way in. No way out.</p><p>Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho, with a mission: locate two federal agents who went missing in the bucolic town one month earlier. But within minutes of his arrival, Ethan is involved in a violent accident. He comes to in a hospital, with no ID, n...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/pines" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/pines</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/thrillers/" rel="tag">#thrillers</a> <a href="/tags/technologicalfiction/" rel="tag">#technologicalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/horror/" rel="tag">#horror</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a></p>

One way in. No way out.

Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho, with a mission: locate two federal agents who went missing in the bucolic town one month earlier. But within minutes of his arrival, Ethan is involved in a violent accident. He comes to in a hospital, with no ID, no cell phone, and no briefcase.

As the days pass, Ethan's investigation turns up more questions than answers: Why can't he get any phone calls through to his wife and son in the outside world? Why doesn't anyone believe he is who he says he is? And what is the purpose of the electrified fences surrounding the town? Are they meant to keep the residents in? Or something else out?

Each step closer to the truth takes Ethan farther from the world he knew, from the man he was, until he must face a horrifying fact—he may never get out of Wayward Pines alive.

The nail-bitingly suspenseful opening installment in Blake Crouch’s blockbuster Wayward Pines trilogy, Pines is at once a brilliant mystery tale and the first step into a genre-bending saga of suspense, science fiction, and horror.

The first book of the smash-hit Wayward Pines trilogy, from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter, Recursion, and Upgrade

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1913.</p><p>Claudio Monteverdi's last opera L'incoronazione di Poppea was performed theatrically for the first time in more than 250 years.</p><p>Two versions of the musical score of L'incoronazione exist, both from the 1650s. The first was rediscovered in Venice in 1888, the second in Naples in 1930. The Naples score is linked to the revival of the opera in that city in 1651. </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27incoronazione_di_Poppea" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27incoronazione_di_Poppea"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27inco</span><span class="invisible">ronazione_di_Poppea</span></a></p><p>Books about Monteverdi at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=monteverdi&submit_search=Search" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=monteverdi&submit_search=Search"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=monteverdi&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/opera/" rel="tag">#opera</a></p>

Title page of the 1656 libretto of L'incoronazione di Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi and Giovanni Francesco Busenello.

The large "1642" is the year the opera premièred, not the year of publication of the libretto.

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<p>📚 Pachinko by: Min Jin Lee</p><p>Yeongdo, Korea, 1911. Teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a fisherman, falls for a wealthy yakuza. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant, and that her lover is married, she refuses to be bought.</p><p>Facing ruin, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle minister passing thro...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/pachinko" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/pachinko</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/romance/" rel="tag">#romance</a> <a href="/tags/historical/" rel="tag">#historical</a></p>

Yeongdo, Korea, 1911. Teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a fisherman, falls for a wealthy yakuza. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant, and that her lover is married, she refuses to be bought.

Facing ruin, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle minister passing through on his way to Japan. Following a man she barely knows to a hostile country where she has no friends, Sunja will be forced to make some difficult choices. Her decisions will echo through the decades.

Spanning nearly 100 years of history, Pachinko is an unforgettable story of love, sacrifice, ambition and loyalty told through four generations of one family.

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

- The million-copy bestseller
- National Book Award finalist
- A New York Times Bestseller
- Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club
- Selected for The Queen's Reading Room

This is a captivating book. Min Jin Lee's novel takes us through four generations and each character's search for identity and success. It's a powerful story about resilience and compassion' BARACK OBAMA.

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1920.</p><p>An inaugural meeting of the Bloomsbury Group's Memoir Club is arranged by Mary MacCarthy in London.</p><p>Among the people involved in the group were Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, Vanessa Bell, and Lytton Strachey.</p><p>Virginia Woolf at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/89</span></a><br>John Maynard Keynes:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/6280" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/6280"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/6280</span></a><br>E. M. Forster:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/975" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/975"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/975</span></a><br>Lytton Strachey:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/576" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/576"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/576</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bloomsbury/" rel="tag">#bloomsbury</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Left to right: Lady Ottoline Morrell, Maria Nys (neither members of Bloomsbury), Lytton Strachey, Duncan Grant, and Vanessa Bell.

Lady Ottoline Morrell – A patron of the arts and literature, she was known for her connections with the Bloomsbury Group but was not a formal member. She is elegantly dressed, reflecting her aristocratic background.

Maria Nys – A Belgian woman who later married Aldous Huxley, she was also not a member of the Bloomsbury Group but was part of their social circle.

Lytton Strachey – A writer and critic, famous for his ironic biographies and a key member of Bloomsbury. He is typically depicted with his distinctive beard and lean, intellectual look.

Duncan Grant – A prominent painter and designer, he was deeply associated with Bloomsbury and had a long relationship with fellow member Vanessa Bell.

Vanessa Bell – A painter and interior designer, sister of Virginia Woolf, and a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group. She is likely dressed in an artistic, bohemian style.

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<p>"Years of not fitting in and being afraid of being busted takes it's toll. I have had a lifetime of being unsure of how to conduct myself and being baffled by others' behaviour. For many years I thought my only choice was to be constantly on the move. I have lost track of the times I have given all my belongings away and melted into the night."</p><p><a href="/tags/anissaljanta/" rel="tag">#AnissaLjanta</a>, Wild of Brain, 2024</p><p><a href="https://www.wildofbrain.com/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.wildofbrain.com/</a></p><p>OMG this is so me!</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/neurodivergence/" rel="tag">#neurodivergence</a></p>

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<p>I just discovered this. The biography is a little weird but not totally inaccurate. It's always odd to read about yourself on the interwebz. And it does have all the books in the right order.</p><p><a href="https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/joyce-lionarons/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.bookseriesinorder.com/joyce-lionarons/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.bookseriesinorder.com/joyc</span><span class="invisible">e-lionarons/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/mybooks/" rel="tag">#MyBooks</a></p>

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<p>Robert Burns and Mary, Queen of Scots: how the poet shaped the enduring cultural legacy of the executed monarch</p><p>The queen was the source of much debate among 18th-century thinkers.</p><p>by Kate Kane</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/robert-burns-and-mary-queen-of-scots-how-the-poet-shaped-the-enduring-cultural-legacy-of-the-executed-monarch-273950?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Weekender%20-%203653437321&utm_content=The%20Weekender%20-%203653437321+CID_43c6452557555cbd4df21443bb065cc9&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/robert-burns-and-mary-queen-of-scots-how-the-poet-shaped-the-enduring-cultural-legacy-of-the-executed-monarch-273950?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Weekender%20-%203653437321&utm_content=The%20Weekender%20-%203653437321+CID_43c6452557555cbd4df21443bb065cc9&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/robert-bur</span><span class="invisible">ns-and-mary-queen-of-scots-how-the-poet-shaped-the-enduring-cultural-legacy-of-the-executed-monarch-273950?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Weekender%20-%203653437321&utm_content=The%20Weekender%20-%203653437321+CID_43c6452557555cbd4df21443bb065cc9&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk</span></a></p><p>Robert Burns at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/583" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/583"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/583</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>

Portrait of Burns by Alexander Nasmyth, 1787, Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

This half-length portrait of Burns, framed within an oval, has become the most well-known and widely reproduced image of the famous Scottish poet. Nasmyth's painting, commissioned by the publisher William Creech, was to be engraved for a new edition of Burn's poems. He is shown fashionably dressed against a landscape, evoking his rural background in Alloway, Ayrshire. Burns and Nasmyth had become good friends, having been introduced to one another in Edinburgh by a mutual patron, Patrick Miller of Dalswinton. Nasmyth, pleased to have recorded Burns' likeness convincingly, decided to leave the painting in a slightly unfinished state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns#/media/File:PG_1063Burns_Naysmith.jpg

François Clouet - Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-87)

Mary wears a pink gown decorated with vertical gold striping and small jeweled embellishments. The bodice is tightly fitted and fastened down the center with a line of pearls or gemstone buttons. A crisp white ruff collar frames her neck. Her sleeves are full and carefully tailored.

Her hair is light brown and drawn back smoothly, partially covered by a jeweled headband adorned with pearls. She wears modest jewelry, including a pearl necklace, small earrings, and a ring. Her hands are delicately posed at her waist, fingers gently touching.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary,_Queen_of_Scots#/media/File:Fran%C3%A7ois_Clouet_-_Mary,_Queen_of_Scots_(1542-87)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

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<p>Why does fiction matter? </p><p>Because stories can sharpen the way we understand other people. </p><p>A meta-analysis found that reading fiction has a small but positive effect on social cognition. Including our ability to interpret emotions, motives, and inner lives. </p><p>In other words: novels may help us practice empathy.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/mentalhealth/" rel="tag">#mentalhealth</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/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a></p>

Reading matters

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<p>"<a href="/tags/julianbravenoisecat/" rel="tag">#JulianBraveNoisecat</a>’s debut memoir, <a href="/tags/wesurvivedthenight/" rel="tag">#WeSurvivedTheNight</a> [...] begins with an act of literary resistance in the face of colonial erasure. NoiseCat’s father was born and then abandoned as an infant at St Joseph’s Mission, an Indian boarding school in Canada now known to be the site of generations of systemic state violence against <a href="/tags/indigenous/" rel="tag">#Indigenous</a> children and their families." </p><p><a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/julian-brave-noisecat-memoir-sugarcane-leila-nadir-interview/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lareviewofbooks.org/article/julian-brave-noisecat-memoir-sugarcane-leila-nadir-interview/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lareviewofbooks.org/article/ju</span><span class="invisible">lian-brave-noisecat-memoir-sugarcane-leila-nadir-interview/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/firstnations/" rel="tag">#FirstNations</a> <a href="/tags/nativeamericans/" rel="tag">#NativeAmericans</a> <a href="/tags/oraltraditions/" rel="tag">#oralTraditions</a> <a href="/tags/coyotestories/" rel="tag">#coyoteStories</a> <a href="/tags/memoirs/" rel="tag">#memoirs</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</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></p>

Tricksters and the Spirit World

Julian Brave NoiseCat discusses ‘We Survived the Night,’ his genre-bending revival of the ‘Coyote epic,’ with Leila Nadir.

By Leila NadirJanuary 24, 2026

[tags] CULTURAL STUDIES ENVIRONMENT

image: photo of author and cinéaste Julian Brave Noisecat

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<p>Did Edison accidentally make graphene in 1879?</p><p>Rice University chemists replicated Thomas Edison’s seminal experiment and found a surprising byproduct.</p><p>by Jennifer Ouellette</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/01/did-edison-accidentally-make-graphene-in-1879/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="arstechnica.com/science/2026/01/did-edison-accidentally-make-graphene-in-1879/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/science/2026/0</span><span class="invisible">1/did-edison-accidentally-make-graphene-in-1879/</span></a></p><p>Thomas Edison at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3325" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3325"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/3325</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a></p>

Edison carbon filament lamps, early 1880s.

There are four glass bulbs mounted upright on a base, each with slightly different shapes and proportions.The bulbs have:

Rounded, bulbous glass envelopes, some more spherical than others

Visible carbon filaments inside (thin, looped or arched)

Darkened glass near the tops, likely from carbon deposits caused by early filament evaporation

Primitive bases and sockets

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<p>📚 Departure by: A. G. Riddle</p><p>En route to London from New York, Flight 305 suddenly loses power and crash-lands in the English countryside, plunging a group of strangers into a mysterious adventure that will have repercussions for all of humankind.</p><p>Struggling to stay alive, the survivors soon realize that the worl...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/departure" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/departure</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/dystopianfiction/" rel="tag">#dystopianfiction</a> <a href="/tags/thrillers/" rel="tag">#thrillers</a> <a href="/tags/technologicalfiction/" rel="tag">#technologicalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/suspensefiction/" rel="tag">#suspensefiction</a></p>

En route to London from New York, Flight 305 suddenly loses power and crash-lands in the English countryside, plunging a group of strangers into a mysterious adventure that will have repercussions for all of humankind.

Struggling to stay alive, the survivors soon realize that the world they’ve crashed in is very different from the one they left. But where are they? Why are they here? And how will they get back home?

Five passengers seem to hold clues about what's really going on: writer Harper Lane, venture capitalist Nick Stone, German genetic researcher Sabrina Schröder, computer scientist Yul Tan, and Grayson Shaw, the son of a billionaire philanthropist.

As more facts about the crash emerge, it becomes clear that some in this group know more than they’re letting on answers that will lead Harper and Nick to uncover a far reaching conspiracy involving their own lives. As they begin to piece together the truth, they discover they have the power to change the future and the past to save our world... or end it.

A wildly inventive and propulsive adventure full of hairpin twists, Departure is a thrilling tale that weaves together power, ambition, fate, memory, and love, from a bold and visionary talent.

From the author of the #1 bestselling The Atlantis Gene comes a new novel in which the world’s past and future rests in the hands of five unwitting strangers in this definitive edition of A. G. Riddle's time-traveling, mind-bending speculative thriller.

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<p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/khayyam/" rel="tag">#Khayyam</a> <a href="/tags/omarkhayyám/" rel="tag">#OmarKhayyám</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></p>

Omar Khayyam

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