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“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
Carl Jung
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In The Defense, Nabokov’s language is, as always, rich, sharp, and full of vivid imagery and wordplay.
The characters, however, feel strangely soulless and do not inspire sympathy. It even seems that the author treats them with a kind of superiority bordering on contempt.
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Niccolo Machiavelli (May 3, 1469 – June 21, 1527) wrote The Prince after prison, torture, and exile, with the cold clarity of someone who had seen power from the inside.
This is not just a book about rulers but about fear, ambition, loyalty, betrayal, and the dangerous people who believe they are born to command others.
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Bamboo can barely be seen for the first five years as it builds extensive root systems underground before exploding ninety feet into the air within six weeks.
James Clear
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Keep good company,
Read good books,
Love good things,
and cultivate soul and body
as faithfully and wisely as I can.
Louisa May Alcott
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Don't Panic!
Remember, you are safe in this Galaxy, as long as you know exactly where your towel is.
Happy Towel Day!
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Reading for pleasure in childhood may shape later development in remarkable ways.
A recent large-scale study found associations between early pleasure reading and better cognitive performance, improved mental well-being, and even differences in brain structure in adolescence.
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My first novel, How to Surf a Hurricane, is available today! I'm honored to share two years of challenging, stimulating and creative work with you.
The book is a heist, it's true (if you liked Ocean's Eleven, you'll love this).
It's also a well-researched look at what the future might be like in 2040 (if you liked The Martian, you'll enjoy this).
But most importantly, it's a story of hope and action. If you're tired of stories of doom and gloom, that the future will be a hopeless dystopia... if you want to fan the fire inside of you that we can take the future into our own hands... you'll want to read this!
Happy #Caturday!
T.S. Eliot's 1939 collection of whimsical light poems, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, is entirely dedicated to felines and served as the basis for the musical Cats.
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Ender’s Game is a brilliant #ScienceFiction about relationships - brothers and sisters, children and adults, group dynamics… and #loneliness
A war that begins because they cannot simply talk to each other.
And love for the enemy, without which true victory is impossible.
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2025 Nobel Prize winner, Laszlo Krasznahorkai writes about collapse, fear, absurdity, and the strange comedy of human behavior when the world feels close to breaking apart.
His novels are famous for their long hypnotic sentences.
A perfect place to start is Satantango or The Melancholy of Resistance.
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Books may do more than entertain us.
A large study using Health and Retirement Study data found that people who read #books had a survival advantage compared with non-book #readers, even after adjusting for factors like age, #education, health, and wealth.
Strong evidence that #reading is associated with living better and longer.
Source: A chapter a day: Association of book reading with #longevity.
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#Reading can support mental health too.
A systematic review of randomized clinical trials found that #bibliotherapy (structured reading used in treatment) can reduce depressive symptoms and may have lasting benefits.
#Books are not a replacement for care when someone needs help, but they can be a real part of healing.
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“Without #libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.”
-Ray Bradbury
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Where love rules, there is no will to power;
And where power predominates, love is lacking.
The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl Jung
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Classic sci-fi imagined machines taking care of the boring and dangerous work, so humans could spend more time creating, reading, and connecting.
And somehow, we ended up with the opposite.
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Happy International Tea Day!
It's always tea time.
Lewis Carroll,
Alice in Wonderland
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Daniel Kraus Wins 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with Angel Down as a “breathless novel of World War I, a stylistic tour-de-force that blends such genres as allegory, magical realism and science fiction into a cohesive whole, told in a single sentence.”
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Book Promotion: First #book in a series on Kindle Unlimited
A collection of 102 #books for you. My book is DRM-free.
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Reading a Storybook by James Tissot (1878-79)
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Edited 82d ago
Let's test a new feature on #Mastodon
Collection of #bookish accounts -
https://mastodon.social/collections/116554424839753061
Let's help book content spread on the #fediverse
Thanks for all the follows, stars and boosts!
p.s. If you post mainly about books - write a comment and I will add you to this #collection.
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A little patch of land.
Bread on the table.
A dear friend you can talk to.
A small house you can call Home.
Rabbits…
Such a modest dream. And yet so impossibly out of reach.
Which character from this story stayed with you the most?
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The English poet Roger McGough sends readers’ eyes travelling to and fro the way a tennis ball would across a net when they read 40-Love. Indeed, the poem itself – like the “middle aged couple” he writes about – is split by such a ‘net.’
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"Everything you see in me is not mine, it's yours. Mine is what I see in you."
Erich Maria Remarque (June 22, 1898 - September 25, 1970)
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