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Still reading The Tyrant Baru Cormoran. This stuff is dense and rich, and takes time to digest. Also, only so much of certain types of body horror I can take in one go. So while I usually read a book in one or two days, this one's taking me a lot longer, started on the 20th and I'm about 4/5 done. Needless to say, I think it's a great book.
#Reading The Tyrant Baru Cormoran.
So far I'm about a third, and it's a great book, putting together a lot of what came before and making sense of quite a few of the mysteries. However... Either I've gotten soft or the amount of body horror in this book is a lot higher than for the previous ones.
#TIL that in 1929, JM Barrie, the author of Peter Pan, gifted his work's copyright to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.
"Through this gift, Peter Pan’s magic made an unprecedented leap from the realm of fiction into reality and the hospital began to receive royalties every time a production of the play was on, as well as from the sale of Peter Pan books and other products."
gosh.org/about-us/peter-pan/hi…
#history #literature #books #bookstodon #PeterPan #philanthropy
Can I have some fleeting passions with a somewhat changeable base of continuity? Please, and thank you... 😂
@bookquote @bookstodon @bookbubble @books
#BookQuote #Books #Bookstodon #Bookworm #Bookwyrm #Bookstodon #BookLove #BoostingIsSharing
This one arrived yesterday 😊 Looking forward to reading it!
#AmReading #books #bookstodon #China #literature
Philostratus keeps on giving:
A huge part of the book is about Palamedes, the Greek hero who got himself completely written out of the Iliad.
For dissing Odysseus too much.
No wonder Odysseus was pissed, there are some great one-liners in there :D
Oh, and the guy invented writing, numbers, and dice. In case you needed a #pagan patron of #DnD players.
"Instead of the perfect human, Frankenstein created a monster."
#OTD in 1910.
The first movie version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) is released in the U.S. by Edison Studios. One of the first horror films, it features unbilled the actor Charles Ogle as Frankenstein's monster, & Mary Fuller as the doctor's fiancée.
The short film Frankenstein is available at @internetarchive
archive.org/details/frankenste…
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/41445
#books #literature #movie
Frankenstein (1910) [Restored] : J. Searle Dawley : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Months ago, i learned about the restoration of the first film version of Frankenstein carried out by the Library of Congress and noticed that the picture...Internet Archive
In March 1907. The Diamond Sūtra, a woodblock printed Buddhist scripture dated AD 868, is discovered by Aurel Stein at the Mogao Caves near Dunhuang in China. It is said to be "the earliest complete survival of a dated printed book".
It is also the first known creative work with an explicit public domain dedication, as its colophon at the end states that it was created "for universal free distribution". via @wikipedia
The Diamond Sutra at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/64623
![Front line of the Chinese Diamond Sūtra, printed in the 9th year of the Xiantong era of the Tang dynasty, i.e. 868 CE, the oldest known dated printed book in the world. British Library.
The colophon, at the inner end, reads: Reverently [caused to be] made for universal free distribution by Wang Jie on behalf of his two parents on the 13th of the 4th moon of the 9th year of Xiantong [i.e. 11th May, CE 868 ].](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/527308 "Front line of the Chinese Diamond Sūtra, printed in the 9th year of the Xiantong era of the Tang dynasty, i.e. 868 CE, the oldest known dated printed book in the world. British Library.
The colophon, at the inner end, reads: Reverently [caused to be] made for universal free distribution by Wang Jie on behalf of his two parents on the 13th of the 4th moon of the 9th year of Xiantong [i.e. 11th May, CE 868 ].")
The Diamond Sutra (Chin-Kang-Ching) or Prajna-Paramita by Unknown
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
Just finisihed this & it's brilliant: Katalin Kariko's story of her life. She was convinced that mRNA therapies could work decades ago & did the foundation work, all while being ignored, never promoted & struggling for jobs.
Today, millions are vaccinated with mRNA vaccines & she has a Nobel prize.
It's a great story, and leaves a lot for the scientific system to think about. Highly recommended.
#books #mRNA #science #biography
1/? 🧵 My #Solarpunk Link Collection
I’ll use this post to collect Links to resources (and people) within the solarpunk movement.
Podcasts: mastodon.floe.earth/@lex/11187…
Youtube Channels: mastodon.floe.earth/@lex/11187…
Authors here on Mastodon: mastodon.floe.earth/@lex/11187…
Free online stories I liked: mastodon.floe.earth/@lex/11187…
#climatecrisis #art #activism #books #bookstodon
Lex (@lex@floe.earth)
#Solarpunk Podcasts: The Fire These Times https://thefirethesetimes.com/ @firethesetimes@bird.makeup Solarpunk Presents https://www.solarpunkpresents.com/ @solarpunkpresents@climatejustice.rocks Solarpunk Futures https://solarpunkmagazine.floe.earth Mastodon
Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days #OTD in 1890.
In 1888, Bly suggested to her editor at the New York World that she take a trip around the world, attempting to turn the fictional Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) into fact for the1st time. November 14, 1889, and with two days' notice, she boarded the Augusta Victoria, a steamer of the Hamburg America Line, and began her 40,070 kilometer journey. via @wikipedia
Nellie Bly at PG
gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/96…
#books
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Books by Bly, Nellie (sorted by popularity)
Project Gutenberg offers 72,713 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.Project Gutenberg
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#MLKday #DrMartinLutherKingJr #Books #Libraries #InternetArchive
Lebanese writer, poet and visual artist Kahlil Gibran was born #OTD in 1883. He is best known as the author of The Prophet, which was first published in the United States in 1923 and has since become one of the best-selling books of all time, having been translated into more than 100 languages. His principal works in English (besides the above mentioned) are The Madman, The Forerunner, Sand and Foam, and Jesus, the Son of Man.
Kahlil Gibran at PG:
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Books by Gibran, Kahlil (sorted by popularity)
Project Gutenberg offers 72,562 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.Project Gutenberg
La Biblioteca Nacional de España digitaliza 1.033 obras de 137 autores que pasan a dominio público este año
Leer más en Publishnews
#libros #books #Booktodon #Bookstodon #literaverso #literatura
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La Biblioteca Nacional de España digitaliza 1.033 obras de 137 autores que pasan a dominio público este año - Publishnews
La Biblioteca Nacional de España ha puesto a disposición de los usuarios 1.033 obras de 137 autores españoles cuya obra pasa a dominio públicoRedacción Publishnews (Publishnews)
I found some more traveling libraries! These are from the Finnish Seafarers' Union from the 1920s and are, I believe, to be brought aboard boats. From (yes I am at work today) Flickr Commons. #libraries #books #finland
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Leisure / Vapaa-aika - Kulutusosuuskuntien Keskusliitto
Images of urbanisation, industrialisation and the emergence of consumer culture and the welfare state – the familiar 20th century story of the upheavals of Finnish society. This time, however, the vantage point is that of the working class.Flickr
I've read 51 books so far in 2023. That's fewer than last year, but still about a book a week: reading.chatterjee.net/
Some of my favorite reading memories this year include book festivals in Kolkata and Berkeley, exploring new-to-me indie bookstores (Champaca, Borderlands, and Perelandra), writing gushing reader fan mail, and so many long walks powered by audiobooks.
Of of the books I read this year, here are the ones that will stick with me…
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#Books #Bookstodon #NowReading #BestOf2023
Anirvan Chatterjee: What I've been reading
Books that Anirvan Chatterjee has read recentlyreading.chatterjee.net
Artificial Divide, edited by Robert Kingett and Randy Lacey (Audiobook Excerpt)
This is a preview of the digital audiobook of Artificial Divide, edited by Robert Kingett and Randy Lacey, available on Libro.fm at libro.fm/audiobooks/9781990086…
Artificial Divide
By: Robert Kingett, Randy Lacey, Alice Eakes, Anita Haas, Ann Chiappetta, Ben Fulton, Eunice Cooper-Matchett, Felix Imonti, Heather Meares, Jameyanne Fuller, Jamieson Wolf, Lawrence Gunther, M. Leona Godin, Melissa Yuan-Innes, Niki White, Rebecca Blaevoet & Tessa Soderberg
Narrated by: Nathan Frechette, Jameyanne Fuller, Alice Eakes, Anita Haas, M. Leona Godin & Niki White
Length: 6 hours 32 minutes
Description:
Step into a world of rogue screen readers, Braille in fantasy worlds, a friend meeting an acquaintance after several years, and more.
This #OwnVoices anthology features fiction by Blind and visually impaired authors showing readers how they thrive, hurt, get revenge, outsmart bullies, or go on epic adventures. Artificial Divide is an own-voices story collection that captures the many layers of Blindness and, for once, puts visually impaired protagonists in the driver's seat, letting us glimpse their lives.
When we think about it, we're not really divided.
Hey there!
I'm CKMo, and I'm a taiwanese high fantasy indie author. I'm trying to bring more works with #eastasian influences into western culture via my novels.
You can find all my publishing sites, social media, and discord server in my bio!
#indieauthor #indiebooks #indiefantasy #fantasy #selfpublished #webnovelist #writing #novel #fantasyauthor #taiwanese #asian #asiancreator #writers #book #books #fantasybook #bookstodon #webnovel #highfantasy @bookstodon
"No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be."
Dracula
Irish novelist and critic, who created Count Dracula, Bram Stoker was born #OTD in 1847. Dracula is an epistolary novel, written as a collection of realistic but completely fictional diary entries, telegrams, letters, ship's logs, and newspaper clippings, all of which added a level of detailed realism to the story.
Bram Stoker at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/19…
audible.com/pd/B09GCBV1QG?sour…
#audible #literature #books #reading
Project Gutenberg partnered with Microsoft to make over 5000 new audiobooks.
They are freely available at
marhamilresearch4.blob.core.wi…
as well as popular podcast download sites. Read more about this effort, and see a video of Project Gutenberg CEO Greg Newby talking about it:
customers.microsoft.com/en-us/…
Project Gutenberg brings free audiobooks to the global community with AI-generated book narration
The oldest digital library and a leading distributor of free eBooks, Project Gutenberg wanted to make its collection more accessible to a broader community of members, including people who have visual impairments and those around the world who might …Microsoft Customers Stories
The Sakya Monastery in tibet has a library comprising some 84,000 books. Most are Buddhist scriptures, but there are works of literature, history, philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, agriculture, and art. They date back centuries.
In 2011 they began to digitize the library. All books are indexed and about 20% have been fully digitized.
More:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakya_Mo…
#Books #Library #Monastery #Tibet #History #Knowledge #Monks #Buddhism #Sakya
Вечное лето: Чайна Мьевилль. Посольский город (Embassytown)
Книги; Отзывы; Язык; Разумные расыoire.me
Mastodon has been an amazing source for #book recommendations. A few #books I've read since joining Mastodon that were excellent:
The High House by Jessie Greengrass simonandschuster.com/books/The…
The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber, David Wengrow us.macmillan.com/books/9780374…
Survival of the Richest by Douglas Rushkoff wwnorton.com/books/survival-of…
Factory Girls by Michelle Gallen barnesandnoble.com/w/factory-g…
Book details - Macmillan
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—fr...Macmillan
El #gato Primo y yo con la cara de #ElTerror.
#Primo the #cat and I see the face of #TheTerror.
😱
#Cats #Gatos #CatsOfMastodon #GatosDeMastodon #books #libros #bookstodon #libroverso #novelas #novels #DanSimmons
Antiguos Retratos - Almudena Grandes
Uno de los recuerdos que tengo de su casa es la cantidad de libros que había por todos lados: en las paredes, en las mesas, apilados en el suelo...
#fotografia #photography #retrato #portrait #libros #books #AlmudenaGrandes
"The face, which, duly as the sun,
Rose up for me with life begun,
To mark all bright hours of the day
With hourly love, is dimmed away —
And yet my days go on, go on."
De Profundis (1862)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning died #OTD in 1861. Her work had a major influence on prominent writers of the day, including Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson. via @Wikipedia
Books by Elizabeth Barrett Browning at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/78…
Books by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (sorted by popularity)
Project Gutenberg offers 70,990 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.Project Gutenberg
The book is available from Amazon in paperback & Kindle formats.
#HistoricalFiction #Rome #Writing #Books
The fine folks at Electric Lit have an interesting list of novels by Arab and Arab Diaspora writers focused on the concept of the storyteller. Includes the exceptional Naguib Mahfouz and a whole lot of folks new to us.
Let the reading commence. #books
electricliterature.com/7-arab-…
7 Arab and Arab Diasporic Novels about Storytellers - Electric Literature
Stories that counter-colonize the Western narrative and reclaim cultural agencyIntern Electric Lit (Electric Literature)
🌈✨ Na na na na na na na…! ✨🌈 Are you playing We Love Katamari REROLL + Royal Reverie? Get a copy of my book on the making of the original Katamari Damacy featuring interviews with Keita Takahashi and learn all about how this magical game came to be!
📗KATAMARI DAMACY by L.E. Hall (Boss Fight Books), available at a bookseller near you
#Books #BossFightBooks #Katamari #KatamariDamacy #WeLoveKatamari #WeLoveKatamariRerollRoyalReverie #Games #VideoGames #RetroGames
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Laura has authored two books: Katamari Damacy for Boss Fight Books, and Planning Your Escape: Strategy Secrets to Make You an Escape Room Superstar for Simon & Schuster’s Ti…Laura E. Hall
Little black cat in a big forest. An altered book by Isobelle Ouzman.
#art #books #BookCarving
Isobelle Ouzman | Altered Book Artist
Portfolio and online shop for Altered Book Artist, Isobelle Ouzman.Isobelle Ouzman