Eggplant.place

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/116860757849700230

A great site for many of your #reading needs!

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The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s timeless masterpiece, has reached a historic milestone by becoming the world’s most translated book of fiction, with 600 translations to date!

#reading #TheLittlePrince #Exupery #books #literature #translation #novel #book #bookstodon #readingcommunity @bookstodon #bookstagram #BookTok #bookish #prince #littleprince #antoinedesaintexupery

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WTAF?? I had no idea this was going on. And in #Canada too?? Wow - #censorship is never good - #education and #freedomofchoice #books #reading #pride #PLFAG #LGBTQLibrarian fired after refusing to censor 2SLGBTQ+ books wins $700K US settlementwww.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

Librarian fired after refusing...

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A concerned #GracieofWales wondering if it's midnight snack time just yet. #caturday

#blackcatenergy #cat #cats #cateyes #katze #katzen #blackcat #schwarzekatze #blackcats #schwarzekatzen #housepanther #voidcat #catsofmastodon #catsofpixelfed #fedicats #catlovers #caturday #blackcatpropaganda #nosy #book #books #bookstodon #reading

A black cat with wide open bright yellow eyes and alert ears peeks inquisitively over the top of an open book. In the dim blurred background, cream tartan curtains are hanging closed under a dark hanging light fixture.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 — July 1, 1896) was a preacher’s daughter, a teacher, a wife, and a mother of seven.

In 1852, her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin became a sensation: about 10,000 copies were sold in the first week, and 300,000 before the end of the year.

Thirteen years later, #slavery was abolished in the US. One book did not end slavery by itself but #Stowe showed millions of readers the human pain behind it.

#bookstodon @bookstodon #books #writers #literature #author #reading

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151d

Via author Sandra Schwab:
The Gladiator's Passion is on sale for USD 2.99 for the summer!

If you like historical romances with unusual settings, grumpy/sunshine, moody cats, and itty-bitty dogs, then this book is for you!

Buy link: https://buy.bookfunnel.com/qzyg52t44f

The Gladiator's Passion is currently part of a showcase of historical romances written by indie authors or published by small presses. Check out the other books here:

https://books.bookfunnel.com/romanceforhistorynerds/dcmpryr36r

#SALE #Reading #Romancelandia @bookstodon

Promo image for Gladiator's Passion with the cover image in the middle. It shows a young, freckled man with red hair and something that resembles gladiatorial armor. To the left of the cover is a list with themes and tropes:
Roman antiquity
grumpy gladiator
sunshiny military doctor
seduction via boardgame
it's just sex, right? Right?!?!?
passionate kissing against doors
To the right of the cover is a snippet from a Kobo review: "The author's research draws you into her stories, then her wonderful characters and storylines completely steal your heart."

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151d

Black Bag. By Luke Kennard.

You are a struggling actor, and you take a gig where you wear a black bag and sit silently in a Psychology class twice a week, only you find you want to wear it more frequently, which of course leads to sexual encounters and a monetization scheme that maybe goes against the potential of black bag to reframe masculinity.

4 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈.

@bookstodon #bookstodon #books #reading #men #psychology #actors #bags

Green and blue book cover with a small black bag with human feet sticking out of it.

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I'm currently #Reading "The Islam Quintet" by Tariq Ali and "Ibn Fadlān and the Land of Darkness -Arab Travellers in the Far North"
After Ibn Fadlān's diary, is the travelogue of Abū Hāmid Al-Andalusī Al-Gharnātī and both those latter places feature prominently in Book 1 of the Islam quintet. As does Khwārazm - a city whose most enduringly famous and significant son even this mathphobe knows of😀

Ibn Fadlān wrote in the early 300s AH (~920CE) Abū Hāmid a couple of centuries later. This VERY disturbing passage reminded me that the past really IS a different place
#History #Nonfiction #bookstodon @bookstodon
#Kobo

Text on a Kobo Sage e-reader, as follows

A slave girl
I bought a slave girl who had already borne a child, and whose father, mother and brothers were still alive; I bought her from her owner for ten dīnārs. She was fifteen years old and as beautiful as the moon, with black hair and eyes, and skin as white as camphor. She knew how to cook, sew and embroider.

I also bought, for five dīnārs, another Greek slave girl, eight years old. One day I bought for half a dīnār two jars full of honeycomb with its wax and I said to her:

‘I want you to purify this honey and extract the wax.’

Then I went out and sat on a bench at the door of the house, where people were gathered. After sitting with them for a while, I went back into the house and saw five disks of wax as pure as gold and two jars full of liquid honey that seemed like rose water. The honey had been purified and returned to the two jars, all within an hour.

She had a child, but it died. I freed her and gave her the name Maryam.

I wanted to take her with me to Saqsīn, but I was afraid of the way she might be treated by the Turkish concubines who had borne children to me and whom I kept in Saqsīn.

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#SALE

Mimi Matthews' _The Governess and the Rogue_, the final book in her Somerset Stories series, is on sale in the U.S. for only 99 cents.

#MimiMatthews #Reading #SomersetStories @bookstodon

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It's my first novel's birthday month, so I'm having a wee sale. DRM-free ebooks are $0.99 on my website because it's mine and I do what I want:
https://kmherkes.com/the-bookshop1/p/controlled-descent-ebook-1

It's a scifi adventure in a future more optimistic than dystopian, where people risk everything for the sake of friendship, trust, & love. Humor, whimsy, sarcasm, & more. Sometimes gritty, never grim.

Prefer kindle? Cool. I gotta link for that & other vendors too:
https://books2read.com/ControlledDescent

#books
#reading
(boosts welcomed)

raphic of an e-reader against a yellow-gradient background with falling leaves. The tablet shows the cover of the book Controlled Descent by K. M. Herkes, next to a falling scatter of descriptive phrases: justice heists, gritty, chosen families, disability rep, hopepunk-y, science fiction. The cover image of the book shows two figures on a snowfield hiking through deep snow toward a futuristic city.

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I never knew reading could trick me into loving myself, what can't it do! 😂

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

#ReadingMemes #Meme #Memes #Humor #Humour #Funny
#Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity
#Novel #Books #Fiction
#Bookwyrm #Bookstodon

Post: Its unreal how all of my favorite characters have exactly the same traits and hobbies and diagnoses as me.

Reply: oh, have you been tricked into loving yourself?

Reply: oh my fucking god is that what just happened

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https://reviews.pivic.com/jamie-fisher-nobody-broke-your-heart

I've reviewed what is most likely the non-fiction book of the year: Jamie Fisher's 'Nobody Broke Your Heart: an intimate biography of Elliott Smith'.

This is a book that is greater than the sum of its parts. It actually widened my thought world about Smith's music, something I can say about very few music books.

Do not miss this book! Order a copy now.

#book #BookReview #JamieFisher #books #reading #ElliottSmith #music #MusicTips @bookstodon @bookstodon@fedigroups.social

The book cover: a photograph of Elliott Smith smiling, standing against a grey wall.

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129d

Very much time for summer reading and my modest pile feels appropriately eclectic 🤷‍♂️📚
Right this moment I feel optimistic so please tell me what I should add! 🤗

#bookstodon #summerreading #reading

A flat lay of four books on a wooden surface. The titles include "Air" by Christian Kracht, "The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI" by Cory Doctorow, "Ghost Stories: A Memoir" by Siri Hustvedt.

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I mean, I get it, it should be the other way around because Koontz is better than King 🤔😁

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

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

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When I worked at a bookstore, I learned that when an author like Dean Koontz signs his books, their resale value goes up. I also learned that when an author like Stephen King signs Dean Koontz's books, the price goes even higher and that Dean Koontz is not amused by this.

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spoilers / book review

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I installed an RSS reader on my phone now. Share with me your personal blogs that have RSS support and I will add them to my list.

#rss #blog #fedi #reading

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📚 Firestarter by: Stephen King

Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson were once college students looking to make some extra cash, volunteering as test subjects for an experiment orchestrated by the clandestine government organization known as the Shop. But the outcome unlocked exceptional latent psychic talents for the two of them—man...

https://bookblabla.com/book/firestarter

@bookstodon

#books #reading #libraries #fiction #horror #generalfiction #sciencefiction #thrillers

Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson were once college students looking to make some extra cash, volunteering as test subjects for an experiment orchestrated by the clandestine government organization known as the Shop. But the outcome unlocked exceptional latent psychic talents for the two of them—manifesting in even more terrifying ways when they fell in love and had a child.

Their daughter, Charlie, has been gifted with the most extraordinary and uncontrollable power ever seen—pyrokinesis, the ability to create fire with her mind. Now the merciless agents of the Shop are in hot pursuit to apprehend this unexpected genetic anomaly for their own diabolical ends by any means necessary...including violent actions that may well ignite the entire world around them as Charlie retaliates with a fury of her own...

Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic #1 New York Times bestselling thriller, “his highest Fahrenheit reading yet” (Time)—now featuring a stunning vintage cover!

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I'm saying he IS right, and I understand! 😂

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

#ReadingMemes #Meme #Humor #Humour #Funny #Geek
#Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity #AmReading
#Novel #Books #Fiction #Bookstodon

Mugshot of an elderly man in glasses.
Caption: MAN ARRESTED AFTER BREAKING INTO A BARNES AND NOBLE AT
MIDNIGHT TO FINISH A BOOK HE HAD BEEN READING IN-STORE FOR FOUR CONSECUTIVE DAYS AND NEEDED TO RESOLVE BEFORE SLEEPING

Reply by Matt
"I'm not saying he's right, but I understand"

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"The Litterati"

Sorry for the bad pun. As soon as I thought of it, I had to draw it... and subject everyone else to it. 😂

#sketchbook #puns #reading #cats

Two litter boxes with four cats sitting in them reading books and newspapers. Stink lines rise from the boxes.

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What book has caused this reaction in you? 🤔

@reading @joinin @bookstodon @books

#Book #Books #BookMemes #Meme #Memes
#ReadingMemes #ReadAllTheBooks #Reading #Readers #ReadersOfMastodon #ReadingCommunity
#Litterature #Novel #Novels #Bookshelf #Mastobooks #BooksofMastodon #Bookstodon #Bookworm #Bookwyrm #Bookstodon #BookLove

Three panel comic by theoddisout on Tumblr.

First Panel: One figure is asking a reading figure, "Do you like the book I loaned you?"
Second: The reader turns and screams at the top of their lungs.
Third: "Oh, you're at that part."

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Visiting the Fulwood Road/Tom Lane area of Sheffield, UK recently we came across an old phone box repurposed as The Hidden Library.
Some good reads in there, too.
#books #library #libraries #reading #freebooks #freeResources #sheffield

A redundant British red phone box repurposed as a miniature library. Books are piled up on metal shelving.

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TL;DR: No it wasn't. Yes you should.

#reading #books #writing #socialMedia

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One of Hans Christian Andersen‘s less-celebrated works, it’s a story about a young girl and her irritable bowels.

Seen at today’s North Star Auction.

#books #reading #vintage #antiques #auctions

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Just one entry for #MurderEveryMonday this week, the nationality itself "burnt up" long ago. Another one from Dean Street Press
#Reading #Mystery #bookstodon
@bookstodon

https://crossexaminingcrime.com/murdereverymonday-theme-list/

cover of "The Case of Burnt Bohemian" by Christopher Bush, book 42 in the Ludovic Travers series

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📚 Tremendous Things by: Susin Nielsen

We all have moments that define us. For the comically clueless Wilbur, his moment happened on the first day of middle school, when someone shared his private letter with the entire student body. It revealed some of Wilbur's innermost embarrassing thoughts that no one else should ever know.

Now it's the start of...

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#books #reading #libraries #socialthemes #humorous #general

We all have moments that define us. For the comically clueless Wilbur, his moment happened on the first day of middle school, when someone shared his private letter with the entire student body. It revealed some of Wilbur's innermost embarrassing thoughts that no one else should ever know.

Now it's the start of ninth grade and Wilbur hasn't been able to escape that major humiliation. His good friend Alex stuck by him, but Alex doesn't have as much time since he started dating Fabrizio. Luckily, Wil can confide in his best friend: his elderly neighbor Sal. Also, Wil's in the school band, where he plays the triangle. They're doing an exchange program with students from Paris, and Wilbur's billet, Charlie, a tall, chic young woman who plays the ukulele and burps with abandon, captures his heart. Charlie likes him, but only as a friend. So Alex, Fabrizio and Sal host a Queer Eye-style intervention to get Wil in shape and to build his confidence so he can impress Charlie when their band visits Paris, and just maybe replace humiliation with true romance in the City of Love.

From Governor General's Literary Award--winning author Susin Nielsen comes a funny and heartfelt story about learning how to rise above your most embarrassing moment with humor, best friends and a killer triangle solo.

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