reading

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"Time has a tendency to switch around. It’s as cunning as a fox, and it can be malicious. It can flow in one direction and simultaneously in the opposite one. We only think it’s always flowing along with us, and that our life sets its boundaries. Nothing could be further from the truth. It pulls us where it will. Backwards, to when we didn’t yet exist, and forwards to where we’ll no longer be there. It plays with us, fully aware that there’s nothing we can do about it. It’s not hard to play with human beings." -- from 'Needle's Eye' by Wiesław Myśliwski; trans. Bill Johnston

#WednesdayBookQuote #books #reading @bookstodon

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But technically free wifi can mean free books in places where no other free books are available 🤔
It always surprises me how many places there are to read for free online! 😊

@reading @bookstodon @books

#BookMemes #Meme #Memes
#ReadingMemes #Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity
#Litterature #Novel #Novels #Bookshelf
#Books #Bookstodon #FantasyBooks

Drawing of two doors one packed with people and the other empty.
Empty door: Free Books
Full door: Free Wifi

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“Without #libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.”
-Ray Bradbury

#books #reading #bookstodon #writers #RayBradbury #quotes #quote #book #booksky #BookTok #booklovers #Bradbury
@bookstodon

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Five stars:

A Gentle Noble's Vacation Recommendation, Volume 5 by Misaki, Momochi (Artist), Sando (Character Design) (2021) is the how and why Lizel eventually says yes to Eleven joining the team.

https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_04/gentle_nobles_vacation_recommendation_5.html

#bookstodon #reading #manga
@bookstodon

Cover art

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136d

The Testaments. By Margaret Atwood.

You are a teen girl, living in Canada after the Christo-fascist takeover of the US, when you learn that your true identity is that of a famously “abducted” US baby; and so you are thrust into a role you never asked for, and have to understand anew what ‘family’ means.

3 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈.
Note: sequel to The Handmaids Tale

@bookstodon #bookstodon #books #reading #women #sexism #fascism #politics #handmaidstale

Book cover featuring a green and white illustration of a woman in a cowl

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161d

After less than a month on Threads, I finally got banned.

Permanently, with no right to appeal.

I genuinely don’t understand what for - just occasional posts about books and writers, same as here and across nine other social networks.

Their AI could not even explain the exact reason, only vague generic wording… so I can only assume my IQ was slightly above what the platform is built to tolerate.

#threads #books #reading #bookstodon #booksky #socialmedia
@bookstodon

Stupid Ban on Threads

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122d

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

#quotes #CarlJung #power #love #psyche #psychology #politics #quote #books #literature #book #bookstodon @bookstodon #author #reading #readingcommunity #booksky #readers #booklover #booklovers #bookstagram #writers #booktok #bookwyrm #booktwt

Carl Jung

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📚 The Director by: Daniel Kehlmann

G.W. Pabst, one of cinema’s greatest directors of the 20th century, was filming in France when the Nazis seized power. To escape the horrors of the new and unrecognizable Germany, he fled to Hollywood. But now, under the blinding California sun, the world-famous director suddenly loo...

https://bookblabla.com/book/the-director

#books #reading #libraries #fiction #historical #20thcentury #literaryfiction #worldliterature

G.W. Pabst, one of cinema’s greatest directors of the 20th century, was filming in France when the Nazis seized power. To escape the horrors of the new and unrecognizable Germany, he fled to Hollywood. But now, under the blinding California sun, the world-famous director suddenly looks like a nobody. Not even Greta Garbo, the Hollywood actress whom he made famous, can help him.

When he receives word that his elderly mother is ill, he finds himself back in his homeland of Austria, which is now called Ostmark. Pabst, his wife, and his young son are suddenly confronted with the barbaric nature of the regime. So, when Joseph Goebbels—the minister of propaganda in Berlin—sees the potential for using the European film icon for his directorial genius and makes big promises to Pabst and his family, Pabst must consider Goebbels’s thinly veiled order. While Pabst still believes that he will be able to resist these advances, that he will not submit to any dictatorship other than art, he has already taken the first steps into a hopeless entanglement.

An artist’s life, a pact with the devil, and the dangerous illusions of the silver screen.

Kehlmann’s latest oeuvre explores the complicated relationships and distinctions between art and power, beauty and barbarism, cog and conspirator.

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR • AN NYPL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A Washington Post NOTABLE BOOK • A Late Show with St

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Via @PrincetonUPress, releasing today, Laura B. McGrath's _Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction_

"A revealing account of how agents have shaped book publishing and the literary canon from the 1950s to today in the U.S. (23 June for UK)

#Writing #Reading #Publishing #TraditionalPublishing @bookstodon

Order your copy:
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691256160/middlemen

The cover for Laura B. McGrath's _Middlement: Literary Agents and the Maging of American Fiction_; the title spreads over the cover, which is a light, not quite baby pink field; a few white pages drift from top to bottom in a gentle wave.

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134d

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.

#reading #scifi #sciencefiction #books #bookstodon #robots #AI #booksky #bookstagram #BookTok #literature #future @bookstodon

AI future

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135d

Today is Harper Lee’s 100th birthday.

Born in a small town in Alabama, where her father worked as a lawyer, Lee loved #books. One of her childhood friends was Truman Capote, who spent time in #Monroeville as a boy. Years later, she turned the world she knew into a novel about the difficult bravery of doing what is right when the world refuses to do so.

Do you like her novel To Kill a Mockingbird?

#writers #HarperLee #reading #literature #bookstodon #booksky
@bookstodon

Harper Lee

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135d

Things That Keep Me From Reading: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-things-that-keep-me-from-reading/

#TopTenTuesday #Books #Reading

A pair of black-rimmed glasses lying on an opened book.

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Just been catching up on the #WomensPrize for Fiction 2026 longlist and for the first time ever I’ve actually already read 2 of the books - Heart the Lover by Lilly King which I enjoyed very much but didn’t love, and Audition by Katie Kitamura which I was perplexed by but also found to be a brilliant read that readers interpret in many ways. Looking forward to reading some more from this year’s list!

#bookstodon #reading @bookstodon
https://lithub.com/heres-the-longlist-for-the-2026-womens-prize-for-fiction/

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📚 The Alchemist by: Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different—and far more satisfying—than he ever imagined. Santiago's journey teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts...

https://bookblabla.com/book/the-alchemist

#books #reading #libraries #fiction #literaryselfhelp

Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different—and far more satisfying—than he ever imagined. Santiago's journey teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, of recognizing opportunity and learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, most importantly, to follow our dreams.

A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho.

Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations.

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Well, I don't know about "Best Book", but it's at least in the running for "Best Book Dedication" 😂

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

#BookMemes #Meme #Humor #Humour #Funny
#ReadingMemes #Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity
#Litterature #Novel #Bookshelf
#Books #Bookstodon #FantasyBooks

Photo of a dedication in a book.

"I want to thank everyone who helped me create this book, except for that guy who yelled at me in Kmart when I was eight because he thought I was being “too rowdy.” -You're an asshole, sir"

Caption: BEST BOOK EVER

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📚 When the Storm Passes by: Manel Loureiro

In the summer, the Isle of Ons is a vacation paradise. But in the winter, when nature is unpredictable and supply boats are rare, Ons is far less inviting.

Yet the off season is perfect for Roberto Lobeira, who hopes to find peace and inspiration to write his new novel....

https://bookblabla.com/book/when-the-storm-passes

#books #reading #libraries #fiction #thrillers #suspensefiction #crimefiction #psychological

In the summer, the Isle of Ons is a vacation paradise. But in the winter, when nature is unpredictable and supply boats are rare, Ons is far less inviting.

Yet the off season is perfect for Roberto Lobeira, who hopes to find peace and inspiration to write his new novel. Instead, the island's few permanent residents give Roberto an unnerving and cautionary welcome. There are even warnings of chilling Galician folklore that keep him on edge--and on watch at night. Then when Roberto finds a mysterious bundle floating near the shore, the contents trigger in the residents old family feuds, scores to settle, and an unspeakable thirst for revenge.

As a palpable sense of dread grows more threatening, a violent storm portends even worse to come. With all communication to the outside world shut down, Roberto must face not only the forces of nature but forces he has yet to comprehend on an island where people will do anything to survive.

For a writer seeking sanctuary, a seductive island off the Galician Atlantic coast induces a primal fear in a prize-winning shocker by the international bestselling author of the Apocalypse Z series.

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Speaking of Kelly Jensen's work! On sale this week for US$2.99 wherever you buy your digital reading material.

As Kelly herself said (on Bluesky), "that's less than half a gallon of gas!"

#SALE #Reading #MentalHealth @bookstodon

Cover for _(Don't) Call Me Crazy: 33 voices start the conversation about mental health_, edited by Kelly Jensen. The title occupies the left two-thirds of the cover, with the contributors listed in a column on the third-right. The background for all is dark lilac with many small designs in lighter purple, giving it a very busy appearance.

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📚 Une unique lueur by: Fred Vargas

- Vous avez regardé les photos, Danglard ? De la scène du crime ? Demanda Adamsberg.
- Cela va de soi.
- Et donc ? Cela vous dit quelque chose ? Parce qu’à moi, oui.
- Tiens. Et cela vous raconte quoi ?
- Mais justement, rien. C’est quelque chose que je ne sais pas alors que cela me di...

https://bookblabla.com/book/une-unique-lueur

#books #reading #libraries #fiction #thrillers #generalfiction #crimefiction #crime

- Vous avez regardé les photos, Danglard ? De la scène du crime ? Demanda Adamsberg.
- Cela va de soi.
- Et donc ? Cela vous dit quelque chose ? Parce qu’à moi, oui.
- Tiens. Et cela vous raconte quoi ?
- Mais justement, rien. C’est quelque chose que je ne sais pas alors que cela me dit quelque chose. Donc ?
- Aucune idée.
- Faites un effort, nom d’un chien.
- Désolé commissaire, dit Danglard avec une pointe d’indifférence.
- Bien. Réunion plénière dans quinze minutes. Il nous faut comprendre.
- Comprendre quoi ?
- Mais le quelque chose, commandant. On commence par là.

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📚 Son of Nobody by: Yann Martel

Harlow Donne has devoted his life to the Classical world. When a chance comes up to study an obscure collection of papyrus fragments at Oxford University, he seizes it. Though it means leaving his daughter and fracturing marriage back home in Canada, this is the kind of career break he desperately needs.

In ...

https://bookblabla.com/book/son-of-nobody

#books #reading #libraries #fiction #literaryfiction #alternativehistory

$Harlow Donne has devoted his life to the Classical world. When a chance comes up to study an obscure collection of papyrus fragments at Oxford University, he seizes it. Though it means leaving his daughter and fracturing marriage back home in Canada, this is the kind of career break he desperately needs. In the depths of the Bodleian Library, Harlow discovers a lost account of the Trojan War, a glimpse into the founding of Western civilization itself. He names the epic poem The Psoad, after its protagonist, a Greek commoner identified as Psoas of Midea, but known to all as son of nobody. As sole translator and interpreter of The Psoad, Harlow dedicates the poem and its footnotes to his daughter, Helen. Under his gaze, the text unlocks echoes of Ancient Greece into the present day, and a personal message to his beloved child appears. Despite the two-thousand-year gap between the two, a thread hasn’t frayed: the universal song of homesickness and regret, of ambition, love, and grief. In this masterpiece of myth, history, and domesticity, Son of Nobody explores how stories become facts, the price we pay to share them, and how we live—then, now, and always. Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by Esquire • Marie Claire • Art+ • The Times • The Guardian • The Observer • The Financial Times • BBC • The Sydney Morning Herald • A Globe and Mail Spring 2026 Read • Featured in The American Booksellers Association's Spring 2026 Preview • Oprah Dail$

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I think it's time for a #reintroduction post. I've been on Mastodon since 2024 and hanging out at The Mended Drum for over a year, and I'm doing a bit of remodeling on my feed. I'd love to make some new friends, and I would also appreciate any hashtag recommendations to follow!

I'm a cis woman of the Oregon Trail Generation living in #Raleigh, #NC, US. Currently a freelance proofreader specializing in deposition transcripts. I'm (lazy) #plantbased, unattached, #nonreligious, sober-ish, and #childfree.

Likes: #reading, #concerts, #animals (especially #cats), #photography, glamping, dragons, spreadsheets, pockets, bubbles, word games/puzzles, #solarpunk, #sustainability, a little light yoga, and the Oxford comma.

Dislikes: patriarchy, bigotry, billionaires, cars, fossil fuels, ads, #misophonia, #perimenopause, summer, basketball (see: misophonia), cooking, running, clothes shopping, phone calls, and glitter.

I'll expound on some of my favorite authors, artists, genres, and titles in a thread.

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152d

Yes, yes, I finally made it to my favorite graphic novel shop to pick up the book "Spent" by the fantastic Alison Bechdel.

Now just a cup of tea, and it’s time to start reading…

@bookstodon
#Books #Bookstodon #IAmReading #boeken #GraphicNovel #reading #LGBTQ #Queerbrarians

Cover of the graphic novel "Spent" by Alison Bechdel. The book has a bright blue background with the title in large yellow letters. Below, two illustrated characters stand side by side: one wearing glasses, a pink headband, and a yellow patterned dress, and the other with short gray hair, glasses, a red jacket, and overalls, holding a pitchfork. Foto by Ronja Biernat

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Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923– December 12,1999)

Before writing Catch-22, Joseph Heller served as a bombardier in World War II and flew 60 combat missions over France and Italy.

That experience became the seed of one of the most famous anti-war novels of the 20th century - a book where war is shown not as noble glory, but as a terrifying system of fear, paperwork, commands, and absurd rules.

#books #writers #reading #catch22 #JosephHeller #Heller #book #bookstodon @bookstodon

Joseph Heller

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Here are a few thoughts on Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont, 1971, by Elizabeth Taylor, a book I loved! It’s an unflinching and poignant portrayal of ageing, blending the harsh realities with darkly comedic observations and hopeful moments #bookstodon #BookReview #audiobook #reading #Storygraph @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/ee819667-3e65-45f9-b9dd-e8b4458e328d

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#introduction
Hello everyone, my name is Ili and I enjoy #drawing usually in #digitalart , my style is #spicy #lewd #nsfw and #pinup
I love #horrorgames #movies and #reading as of recently I am into #splatterpunk
I have a #substack where I do #reviews and have a #isekai #romance story I did and also am working with my hubby @Btph called The Dominant Ones.
I'm happy you found me and hope you stick around for more things to come!

Red hair woman with a micro bikini with a sweater like covered

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Patrick Süskind’s Perfume is about a gifted boy and a cruel world. It offers a glimpse of French history, the perfume industry, and, most of all, the strange, intoxicating universe of scents: streets, flowers, human bodies, and even feelings.

This is a novel you can almost smell.

#books #reading #bookstodon @bookstodon #booksky #bookstagram #book #literature #Süskind #Perfume #bookreview #amreading #readingcommunity #PatrickSüskind

Patrick Süskind’s Perfume

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