<p>Dutch-Swiss mathematician and physicist Daniel Bernoulli was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1700.</p><p>He is particularly remembered for his applications of mathematics to mechanics, especially fluid mechanics, and for his pioneering work in probability and statistics. His name is commemorated in the Bernoulli's principle, a particular example of the conservation of energy.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Bernoulli" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Bernoulli"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_B</span><span class="invisible">ernoulli</span></a></p><p>Books by Daniel Bernoulli at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/41345" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/41345"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/41345</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/mathematics/" rel="tag">#mathematics</a> <a href="/tags/physics/" rel="tag">#physics</a></p>
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<p>Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1832.</p><p>An interesting comment from one proofreader at <span class="h-card"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@DProofreaders" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>DProofreaders</span></a></span> : "It is said that Queen Victoria enjoyed the Alice books so much that she sent for all the author's works, and was then appalled to find herself confronted by mathematics."</p><p>"Curiosa mathematica, Part I: A new theory of parallels" by Dodgson, Charles L. coming soon at PG.</p><p>Lewis Carroll at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/7</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/mathematics/" rel="tag">#mathematics</a></p>
<p>A Review of Five Miles Out Of Black Creek: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-five-miles-out-of-black-creek/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-five-miles-out-of-black-creek/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-fi</span><span class="invisible">ve-miles-out-of-black-creek/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtq/" rel="tag">#LGBTQ</a> <a href="/tags/horror/" rel="tag">#Horror</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>
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<p>I have to say I feel we're missing a few steps towards an explanation of how "for suppository use only" got in the mix of approprite warning lables 🤔😂 </p><p>@libraries@literature.cafe <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@Libraries" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Libraries</span></a></span> @library <a href="https://lemmy.world/u/books" rel="nofollow">@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> <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> @humor@lemmy.world @aiop </p><p><a href="/tags/library/" rel="tag">#Library</a> <a href="/tags/librarymemes/" rel="tag">#LibraryMemes</a> <a href="/tags/meme/" rel="tag">#Meme</a> <a href="/tags/memes/" rel="tag">#Memes</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#Libraries</a> <a href="/tags/librarians/" rel="tag">#Librarians</a> <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/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/litterature/" rel="tag">#Litterature</a> <a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#Novel</a> <a href="/tags/novels/" rel="tag">#Novels</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></p>
<p>📚 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by: Haruki Murakami</p><p>In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat—and then for his wife as well in a netherworld beneath the city's placid surface. As these searches intersect, he encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists. Gripping, prophetic, an...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-wind-up-bird-chronicle" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-wind-up-bird-chronicle"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-wind-u</span><span class="invisible">p-bird-chronicle</span></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/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/contemporary/" rel="tag">#contemporary</a></p>
<p>On Being Ill at 100: Virginia Woolf’s ‘best essay’ still shapes how we read sickness</p><p>Woolf argues that illness is ‘the great confessional’ which is never talked about in literature.</p><p>by Lucyl Harrison</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/on-being-ill-at-100-virginia-woolfs-best-essay-still-shapes-how-we-read-sickness-274061?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20January%2026%202026%20-%203655137341&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20January%2026%202026%20-%203655137341+CID_adf3f1b5c74478478c0668be85d67378&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=On%20Being%20Ill%20at%20100%20Virginia%20Woolfs%20best%20essay%20still%20shapes%20how%20we%20read%20sickness" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/on-being-ill-at-100-virginia-woolfs-best-essay-still-shapes-how-we-read-sickness-274061?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20January%2026%202026%20-%203655137341&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20January%2026%202026%20-%203655137341+CID_adf3f1b5c74478478c0668be85d67378&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=On%20Being%20Ill%20at%20100%20Virginia%20Woolfs%20best%20essay%20still%20shapes%20how%20we%20read%20sickness"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/on-being-i</span><span class="invisible">ll-at-100-virginia-woolfs-best-essay-still-shapes-how-we-read-sickness-274061?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20January%2026%202026%20-%203655137341&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20January%2026%202026%20-%203655137341+CID_adf3f1b5c74478478c0668be85d67378&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=On%20Being%20Ill%20at%20100%20Virginia%20Woolfs%20best%20essay%20still%20shapes%20how%20we%20read%20sickness</span></a></p><p>Virginia Woold 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></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>"You've come, have you? – You've come, you source of tears to many mothers. It is long since I saw you; but as I see you now you are much more terrible, for I see you brandishing the downfall of my country."<br>William of Malmesbury, Gesta regum Anglorum</p><p>Halley’s comet may need a new, medieval name</p><p>Astronomers suggest the honor should go to an 11th century monk known for a disastrous flying attempt.</p><p>by Andrew Paul</p><p><a href="https://www.popsci.com/science/halleys-comet-new-name/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.popsci.com/science/halleys-comet-new-name/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.popsci.com/science/halleys</span><span class="invisible">-comet-new-name/</span></a></p><p>At PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=halley+comet" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=halley+comet"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=halley+comet</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#astronomy</a></p>
<p>Take a chance on one of my otherworldly novels about people who risk everything for the friendship, trust, & love. You also get heaps of humor, whimsy, sarcasm, & optimism. Sometimes gritty but never grim.</p><p>Paperbacks & DRM-free ebooks via my website: <br><a href="https://kmherkes.com/the-bookshop1" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>kmherkes.com/the-bookshop1</a></p><p>kindle: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/K.M.-Herkes/author/B00GRLYEL2" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.amazon.com/stores/K.M.-Herkes/author/B00GRLYEL2"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.amazon.com/stores/K.M.-Her</span><span class="invisible">kes/author/B00GRLYEL2</span></a></p><p>Nook, Kobo etc here: https://<br>books2read.com/kmherkes</p><p>(DRM-free where possible) </p><p><a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/bookpromo/" rel="tag">#BookPromo</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#SciFi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/hopepunk/" rel="tag">#hopepunk</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a></p>
<p>Benedetto il falegname: la nuova edizione da oggi è su Amazon. </p><p><a href="https://mybook.to/Benedettoilfalegname" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>mybook.to/Benedettoilfalegname</a></p><p>Cartaceo e digitale. Se non l'hai ancora letto, questo è il momento: l'anno del falegname è appena cominciato. Se l'hai già preso, regalane una copia a qualcuno che se la merita, nel bene e nel male. In ogni caso, se entri, compra e non fare troppe storie, che farsi cacciare da Benedetto è un attimo.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/libri/" rel="tag">#libri</a> <a href="/tags/livros/" rel="tag">#livros</a> <a href="/tags/libros/" rel="tag">#libros</a> <a href="/tags/книги/" rel="tag">#книги</a></p>
<p>Trip. By Amie Barrodale.</p><p>You are the mother of an autistic teenager, and when you accidentally die at a conference for afterlife studies, you find you have an unexpected chance to maybe fix some things you think you did wrong, though your impact on the living is slight, brief and unwieldy.</p><p>4 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈 </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> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/death/" rel="tag">#death</a> <a href="/tags/autism/" rel="tag">#autism</a> <a href="/tags/parenting/" rel="tag">#parenting</a> <a href="/tags/teenagers/" rel="tag">#teenagers</a></p>
<p>📚 The Day of the Triffids by: John Wyndham</p><p>When a freak cosmic event renders most of the Earth’s population blind, Bill Masen one of the lucky few to wake up with his sight—finds himself trapped in a London packed with sightless mobs who prey on those who can still see. With civilization in chaos, the tr...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-day-of-the-triffids" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-day-of-the-triffids"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-day-of</span><span class="invisible">-the-triffids</span></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/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/apocalypticpostapocalyptic/" rel="tag">#apocalypticpostapocalyptic</a></p>
<p>This week's <a href="/tags/newbooks/" rel="tag">#NewBooks</a> at the library: I adopted damaged copies of The Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Plants (look out for a review in the near future) and David Attenborough's Life Trilogy Boxset.</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/paleobotany/" rel="tag">#Paleobotany</a> <a href="/tags/palaeobotany/" rel="tag">#Palaeobotany</a> <a href="/tags/plants/" rel="tag">#Plants</a> <a href="/tags/botany/" rel="tag">#Botany</a> <a href="/tags/naturalhistory/" rel="tag">#NaturalHistory</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> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@princetonupress" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>princetonupress</span></a></span></p>
<p>7 Out-of-This-World Facts About Ray Bradbury’s ‘The Martian Chronicles’</p><p>The fix-up novel, which turns 75 this year, would become one of Bradbury’s most famous books—and inspire future scientists.</p><p>By Lorna Wallace</p><p><a href="https://www.mentalfloss.com/ray-bradbury-martian-chronicles-book-facts" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.mentalfloss.com/ray-bradbury-martian-chronicles-book-facts"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.mentalfloss.com/ray-bradbu</span><span class="invisible">ry-martian-chronicles-book-facts</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>In February 1929.</p><p>The first of Margery Allingham's crime novels to feature Albert Campion, The Crime at Black Dudley (U.S. title: The Black Dudley Murder), is published in the UK. It introduces Albert Campion, her misleadingly vapid detective, who would go on to appear in another 18 novels and many short stories over the next 30 years.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crime_at_Black_Dudley" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crime_at_Black_Dudley"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crim</span><span class="invisible">e_at_Black_Dudley</span></a></p><p>Books by Margery Allingham at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Margery+Allingham&submit_search=Search" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Margery+Allingham&submit_search=Search"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=Margery+Allingham&submit_search=Search</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>Prophet Song by Paul Lynch. This is a very well written book but geez is it bleak. Honestly I think it will age well as a record of modern war but right now it’s not exactly what I want for my recreational <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a>. If you have or love children prepare to have your heart ripped out <a href="/tags/bookerprize/" rel="tag">#BookerPrize</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>
<p>"I did not think; I investigated."</p><p>German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1923.</p><p>On 8 November 1895, he produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays or Röntgen rays, an achievement that earned him the inaugural Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. The non-SI unit of radiation exposure, the roentgen (R), is also named after him.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_R%C3%B6ntgen" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_R%C3%B6ntgen"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_</span><span class="invisible">R%C3%B6ntgen</span></a></p><p>Books about Röntgen at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=R%C3%B6ntgen&submit_search=Search" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=R%C3%B6ntgen&submit_search=Search"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=R%C3%B6ntgen&submit_search=Search</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/physics/" rel="tag">#physics</a></p>
<p>From February to August 1929.</p><p>Voltaire's Candide (1759) is held to be obscene by the United States Customs Service in Boston.</p><p>Immediately after its secretive publication, the book was widely banned because of its religious blasphemy, political sedition, and intellectual hostility hidden under a thin veil of naivety.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candide" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candide</a></p><p>Candide at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/19942" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/19942</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>This month's Distributed Proofreaders' (DP) Blog talks about the book "Famous Old Receipts." In this case Receipts means recipes. Read all about this cookbook and see the delicious looking dish our brave blogger tried from it.</p><p><a href="https://blog.pgdp.net/2026/02/01/famous-old-receipts/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blog.pgdp.net/2026/02/01/famous-old-receipts/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.pgdp.net/2026/02/01/famou</span><span class="invisible">s-old-receipts/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/dp/" rel="tag">#dp</a> <a href="/tags/dpblog/" rel="tag">#dpblog</a> <a href="/tags/cooking/" rel="tag">#cooking</a> <a href="/tags/food/" rel="tag">#food</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>
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<p>A History of Existential Anxiety</p><p>From medieval theology to modern philosophy, dread has long been a guide for living ethically.</p><p>By: Livia Gershon </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/a-history-of-existential-anxiety/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/a-history-of-existential-anxiety/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/a-history-of-e</span><span class="invisible">xistential-anxiety/</span></a></p><p>Original article:<br><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/44017151?mag=a-history-of-existential-anxiety&seq=1" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.jstor.org/stable/44017151?mag=a-history-of-existential-anxiety&seq=1"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.jstor.org/stable/44017151?</span><span class="invisible">mag=a-history-of-existential-anxiety&seq=1</span></a></p><p>Kierkegaard, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe at PG: <br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/46682" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/46682"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/46682</span></a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/47157" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/47157"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/47157</span></a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Margery+Kempe" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Margery+Kempe"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=Margery+Kempe</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> <a href="/tags/religion/" rel="tag">#religion</a></p>
<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&q=https://reviewdb.app/book/3KbaJj5K06P6oemmvQHWBX" rel="nofollow">The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 <br>Essays on the author's experience of schizophrenia (along with bipolar, PTSD & chronic Lyme!) in the US. Fascinating & unsettling view into psychiatric hospitals, mental health 'support' in Ivy League colleges, and what the hell a psychotic break feels like. Blimey.</p><p><a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/essays/" rel="tag">#Essays</a> <a href="/tags/autobiography/" rel="tag">#Autobiography</a> <a href="/tags/mentalhealth/" rel="tag">#MentalHealth</a> <a href="/tags/schizophrenia/" rel="tag">#Schizophrenia</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://aus.social/@wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>WildWoila</span></a></span> @wildwoila@wyrms.de<br></p>
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<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&q=https://reviewdb.app/book/31A3VctllNRj4jGY1Md6Qh" rel="nofollow">My Cat Yugoslavia</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 <br>by Pajtim Statovci.</p><p>Interleaves the story of a young Albanian refugee in Finland, excluded & traumatised, with that of his mother's wedding & her hopes for a future filled with love. The symbolism of the cats & snakes is a bit weird but I think I finally got my head around it. Mostly interesting for its depictions of Albanian culture and Finnish xenophobia.</p><p><a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://aus.social/@wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>WildWoila</span></a></span> @wildwoila@wyrms.de<br></p>
Read This Book on a Silent Hill: Meditations, that they won't tell you
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