finished reading Home Fire 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
A British-Pakistani family gets caught (& distraught) on the three horns of identity, politics & jihad. Deeply immersive for a range of perspectives.
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I don't typically post about non fiction but I finished Meditations last month and it is one of my first forays into philosophical literature. It's very much worth your time to read, learning about the mentality and inner thoughts of how one of the foremost Roman Emperors managed to keep his head about him and work through his problems.
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The Jungle. By Upton Sinclair.
It’s Chicago, almost to the start of the 20th century, and you’re a brand new Lithuanian immigrant trying to support a new wife, child, and relatives by working in the stockyards, but the system is structured to wear you down, trap you in poverty, and when things are worst, replace you with new immigrants.
4 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈
CW: anti-semitism
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Are all Sherlock Holmes books like 'A Study in Scarlet'?
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📚 Outrage: Why the Fight for LGBTQ+ Equality Is Not Yet Won and What We Can Do About It by: Ellen Jones
An eye-opening and essential look at the discrimination still faced by LGBTQIA+ people today, woven throughout with moving and jaw-dropping personal accounts, plus practical steps anyone can take to help change things...
https://bookblabla.com/book/Outrage-why-the-fight-for-LGBT
#books #reading #libraries #nonfiction #lgbtq #socialscience #discrimination
If you haven't read this book, read it. It will change your outlook on food forever.
https://khleedril.org/dale-mellor/bookblog/?review=ultra-processed-people
George Orwell called for a new way of thinking about science
In October 1945, George Orwell responded to a letter from Mr J. Stewart Cook in the leftwing weekly newspaper Tribune calling for more science education.
By Robert Colls
https://theconversation.com/george-orwell-called-for-a-new-way-of-thinking-about-science-274447
Science education at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=science+%2Beducation
📚 Otherworldly by: Dwain Worrell
Cleo Xavier is a renowned astronaut and explorer, not an addict. At least, that's what she tells herself. She's always been able to navigate the isolation and loneliness that come with space exploration, which makes her a perfect candidate to join four other astronauts on a mission to Orbis Alius, the farthest planet in the ...
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#OTD in 1862.
The first two volumes of Victor Hugo's epic historical novel Les Misérables appear in Brussels, followed on April 3 by Paris publication, with the remaining volumes on May 15. The first English-language translations, by Charles Edwin Wilbour, are published in New York on June 7, and by Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall, in London in October.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables
Les Misérables at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Les+Mis%C3%A9rables&submit_search=Search
📚 The Faith of Beasts by: James S. A. Corey
Release date April 14, 2026.
The monstrous Carryx empire was built by subjugation and war. Thousands of species are bound to their Sovran's command in an endless, blood-soaked test: be useful in the eternal conflict or be slaughtered.
Dafyd Alkhor, highest among their human captives, is feare...
https://bookblabla.com/book/the-faith-of-beasts
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Software Design for Flexibility : How to Avoid Programming Yourself Into a Corner - Anna’s Archive
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - book of my choice for cross Atlantic trip
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Quick last minute reminder: I'm going to reboot my email-only newsletter, Sawdust. Sign up for the main newsletter, the monthly-ish Wingback Workshop, to get Sawdust dispatches weekly, outside the prying digital eyes of AI. This is where I share what I'm reading, what I'm writing, and how my editing projects are going.
Free for all! Paid subscriptions available if you have the means! Thanks for supporting my little literary life in either case.
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finished reading Record of a Spaceborn Few 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
Centuries after sending colonies into space as insurance against Earth's collapse, humans have integrated into alien civilisation. But now what purpose do those colonies serve, and what happens to their distinctive communal culture? Good premise & great world-building but not much plot, with a few too many characters.
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Black History Month: What is it and why is it important?
Black History Month is an opportunity to understand Black histories.
By Alem Tedeneke (from the archives)
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2024/02/black-history-month-what-is-it-and-why-do-we-need-it/
Index of Project Gutenberg Works on Black History by Various edited by David Widger is available online:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58975
My #bookreview is brief/won't spoil, to spread good, great, and spectacular #horror #books far and wide.
The family trauma that pervades THE DAY OF THE DOOR is horrifying, but coupled w the intensely creepy events that occur, this story encapsulates HORROR in a masterful, terrifying way. Laurel Hightower has written a beautiful, dark story about the Things that haunt our hearts. (Thunderstorm Bks & Ghoulish Pub)
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I want things that are above my reading level, that's how I get better at reading 🤔😁
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📚 Is This a Cry for Help? by: Emily Austin
Darcy's life turned out better than she could have ever imagined. She is a librarian at the local branch, while her wife Joy runs a book binding service. Between the two of them, there is no more room on their shelves with their ample book collections, various knickknacks and bobbles...
https://bookblabla.com/book/is-this-a-cry-for-help
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #lgbtq #lesbianfiction #humorous #literary
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