https://www.wacoca.com/media/661633/ ｢日本の新幹線が最良の手本｣と言いながら…習近平に乗り換えたベトナムが”10兆円の鉄道計画”で招いた大誤算 | PRESIDENT Online（プレジデントオンライン） #book #books #PRESIDENTOnline #プレジデントオンライン #ベトナム #書籍

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｢日本の新幹線が最良の手本｣と言いながら…習近平に乗り換えたベトナムが"10兆円の鉄道計画"で招いた大誤算 | PRESIDENT Online（プレジデントオンライン）

#QuestionOfTheDay #FavCharacterAtoZ

Who is your favourite fictional character from any work whose name (if they only have one) or first name begins with the letter "J"?

Please include the series/work the character is from and why they are your favourite.

Include the hashtag #FavCharacterAtoZ and #FavCharacterJ to it so that we can sort the answers easily.

NOTE: you can always participate in the previous letters too, don't feel like you "missed your chance" to list your A to Is. Their hashtags are #FavCharacterA #FavCharacterB, etc

#fiction #books #anime #manga #TTRPG #CCGs #VideoGames #superheroes #comics #comicbooks #superheroes #writing #webcomics #poetry #mythology #movies #film #television #tv #musicals #scifi #fantasy

this year's International Booker Prize winner seems interesting hmm

[ Taiwan Travelogue by Shuang-zi Yang ]

https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/taiwan-travelogue

#books #bookstodon

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Read Free with Kobo Plus

#romancereaders #bookish #readingcommunity #readerscommunity #kaleidoscoperomance #readersofmastodon #whattoread #bookstoread #readers
#books #romancebooks #romancereads #booklover #bookrecs #Bookstodon #romancelandia #writersofmastodon

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A graphic of a Siamese cat reading an open book. Text: Read Free with Kobo Plus

Karina soñaba con ser profesora, pero terminó aprendiendo algo más duro: a veces uno se encariña tanto que las despedidas dejan vacíos imposibles de llenar. Mateo se fue a Lima… y con él, una parte de ella. 💔
https://fictograma.com/d/2961-cuando-mateo-se-fue

#books #literature #writing

Friendly LamasChanden Sing and Mansing purifiedMansing's sarcasmPilgrims to Mansarowar and their privilegesFor luck!Outside the Gomba.
SEVERAL Lamas came to visit me in the morning, and professed to be
pleased to see us; in fact they asked me to go and pay them a visit in
the Lamasery and temple. They said there was much sickness in the
village, and as…

— Arnold Henry Savage Landor
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#lit #bookstodon #books #literature

Clones, quantum mechanics, and corpses... what could possibly go wrong?

THE DAY BEFORE

https://books2read.com/u/3nEBe9?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Book-Socials

#Books #SciFi #AmReading

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The cover for The Day Before - Yellow police tape across the foggy background hinting at a crime scene. The title is in black on the police tape. There are handcuffs in the foreground. The tagline reads "It's not a murder if there's no body."

https://www.wacoca.com/media/661651/ 『PRODUCE 101 JAPAN 新世界 FAN BOOK』2026年6月17日発売 タワレコ特典：ランダムカード1枚 #『PRODUCE101JAPAN新世界FANBOOK』2026年6月17日発売タワレコ特典：ランダムカード1枚 #book #books #CD #DVD #music #オンラインショッピング #タワーレコード #タワーレコードオンライン #タワレコ #書籍 #音楽

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PRODUCE 101 JAPAN 新世界 FAN BOOK

The book explores how beginning conversations with strangers and having deeper conversations rather than talking about the weather can increase our happiness.

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The book explores how beginning conversations with strangers and having deeper conversations rather than talking about the weather can increase our happiness.

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<p>The book explores how beginning conversations with strangers and having deeper conversations rather than talking about the weather can increase our happiness.</p>

Justice Samuel Alito has written major opinions that have ended the federal right to abortion and gutted sections of the Voting Rights Act.

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Justice Samuel Alito has written major opinions that have ended the federal right to abortion and gutted sections of the Voting Rights Act.

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<p>Justice Samuel Alito has written major opinions that have ended the federal right to abortion and gutted sections of the Voting Rights Act.</p>

🤝📚 Aaron visits his family's local #library and finds James and the Giant Peach missing, along with dozens of others.

He learns about book banning and the principle that people have the right to read widely and form their own opinions. The #FirstAmendment protects authors' rights to write what they want and readers' rights to read those #stories.

👉 Learn more https://seethis.tv/post/book-bans-censorship-first-amendment-kids-video

#animation #books #civics #communication #community #culture #literacy #ethics #government #humanrights #ideas #journalism #literature #kids #reading #religion #school #stopmotion #teaching #writing #constitution #USA #tksst #video

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Two puppet children look at a small talking book puppet with googly eyes in a classroom setting next to a tall stack of books.

--Il n'a jamais cessé de dormir, répliqua l'Italien, Le narcotique
était ù cluse convenable... Que voulez-vous faire de lui?

--Notre salut et ta vengeance, répondit la jeune femme.

Les yeux de l'italien brillèrent d'un feu sombre.

--Comtesse, prononça-t-il lentement, j'avais vingt-deux ans quand mon
frère est mort. Le lendemain de ce jour-là j'avais…

— Féval, Paul
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#gothic #poetry #nature #bookstodon #books #literature

Nothing At All by Wanda Gag broke my heart and blew my mind as a kid.

#childrensbooks #Books

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One page from the book w 2 illustrations. In the top one a white puppy has spots and eyes. In the the lower same dog, different pose now with nose and mouth. Text “By the fifth day, Nothing-At-All’s eyes were visible. By the sixth day, his nose and mouth could be seen."

Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics, 4-Volume Set (14th Edition) – eBook PDF eBook details Author: Frederick M. Azar MD, S. Terry Canale MD, James H. Beaty MD File Size: 136 MB Format:&hellip; https://quickreadebook.com/product/campbells-operative-orthopaedics-4-volume-set-14th-edition-ebook-pdf/ #Books #KindleStore #MedicalBooks #Medicine #Orthopedics

I'm slowly getting all my old #rare #books listed again at #eBay this year, and today I have an interesting one for you, a #signed #FirstPrinting of #JudithGuest's 1982 #SecondHeaven, her hotly anticipated follow-up to "Ordinary People," released just after the movie adaptation won the Best Picture Oscar. Just $40 or your best offer!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/157927108934

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The signed first printing of Judith Guest's 1982 "Second Heaven" I currently have for sale at eBay

Added some new ones...

#HappyMoments #Books

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Untidy stack of all kinds of books on a bedside table.

West End Neighborhood Library, public library in Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_End_Neighborhood_Library

#libraries #books #map

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A photo of or from a library from the linked website, overlaid on a cropped world map where it's located.

＜GTO＞鬼塚と働く教職員役6人のキャストを発表 近藤芳正演じる“学年主任”中丸浩司が28年たって教頭で再登場 – Yahoo!ニュース

＜GTO＞鬼塚と働く教職員役6人のキャストを発表 近藤芳正演じる“学年主任”中丸浩司が28年たって教頭で再登場  Yahoo!ニュース28年ぶり復活の連ドラ『GTO』「私立誠進学園」の教職員6人一挙発 [...]
#MAGMOE #JP #JAPAN #Celebrity #EntertainmentNews #books #entertainment #EntertainmentTopics #エンタメ #エンタメトピック #書籍
https://www.magmoe.com/2982903/entertainment-news/2026-05-20/

Freedom of Religion is the story of what happens when church attendance becomes mandatory under the law.
#books
Pick up a copy on Apple Books, B&N, Kobo, SmashWords, Gardners, Bookshop, and other bookseller sites.

https://books.apple.com/us/book/freedom-of-religion/id6759975224

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The initial phrase of the First Amendment to the Consitution is:Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. The premise of this book is to predict what might happen when this phrase is somehow subverted into the kind of law that states: "attend any church or house of worship you want, but you must attend.

Books are often traveling with us in our road trips and we end up relying a lot on public book exchanges (👏 red telephone booths in Norway!).

Unfortunately they're not always easy to find, so we added a new (free) layer on the GoodSpots map to show public book exchanges with details !

Currently available on the web and Android, and very soon on iOS.

#GoodSpots #Roadtrip #VanLife #Books #Exchange #Sharing #booklovers

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Screenshot of the GoodSpots Android app showing a "Show public bookcases" toggle.

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Screenshot of the GoodSpots app showing public book exchanges on the map, with a bottom sheet for more details.

Took a trip down Leith Walk to see my French chums who run the lovely La Belle Adventure European graphic novel shop for the first time in ages.

They've also been going through some upsetting stuff recently, so there was catch-up & hugs. And books.

#books #livres #Comics #BsndeDessinee #GraphicNovels #Bookstodon

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Dark blue shop front for a small, Indie bookshop, one window, filled with graphic novels in English and French

The Void - Dark sci-fi space opera.

S03E03 - Machine Gods

The Nova Sapien have been 'liberating' AI's from the organic species, and they are all drawn to the border of their space to elicit answers.

The machine civilization remains silent, but with so many species in close proximity to each other, the chances of mortal enemies running into each other rises.

This vigil will not remain peaceful.

https://www.ratchman.com/episodes/the-void-the-long-cold-dark-s03e03-machine-gods

#bookstodon #scifi #sciencefiction #scifibooks #books

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Illustration by Doodlenerve0116. Pirate Queen of Wild Space, Kang Si-Woo confronts her rival Duke Algus Clorin, a brutal and hateful marauder in his own right, and has her Dokkaebi hold him down while she menaces him with a sword, her knee in his back. Kang Si-Woo decides upon granting him an end like the one he promised her and so, with his rear end raised up in the air, she explains exactly where the sword will be going. Duke Clorin, understandably, is terrified of the impending punishment.

‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ Stars & Creators On Jinx’s Apology To Susie In Finale: “I Couldn’t Do It Without Crying”
#Books #News #AppleTV #DavidEKelley #EvaAnderson #Margo039sGotMoneyTroubles #NickOfferman

https://deadline.com/2026/05/margos-got-money-troubles-finale-jinx-apology-to-susie-1236917037/

Finished reading Mai Der Vang's "Primordial: Poems."
https://amzn.to/4rg7Fe9
📖🖊️
This was a rather good but intense read to, uh, read while waiting for brunch.
#books #reading #poems #poetry

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Finished reading Mai Der Vang's "Primordial: Poems." This was a rather good but intense read to, uh, read while waiting for brunch.

Of course I picked up some reading at La Belle Adventure, although for a change in English (usually buy French BD to practice my language skills). J.M. Dupont & Mezzo's Hendrix work, Vol 1, Kiss the Sky, & their book on equally legendary Robert Johnstone

#books #livres #comics #BandeDessinee #GraphicNovels #bookstodon

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Black, hardback, square format graphic novel Kiss the Sky, black, with purple lettering and a central monochrome drawing of a crowd outside a theatre venue

"A Family Grapples with a Mysterious Disappearance in CJ Green’s Record Lows" | 'People' Magazine https://people.com/cj-green-record-lows-cover-reveal-exclusive-11975275 #writers #books

And some of them they stumbled on the slippery summer grass,
And there they've left them lying with their faces to Alsace;
The others—so they'd tell you—ere the chestnut's decked for spring,
Shall march beneath some linden trees to call upon a King;
Flic flac, flic flac, to call upon a King.

— George Herbert Clarke
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Top story: These books make the case for rethinking strict bans on #transgender people in #sports. In our magazine, journalist Jessica Luther connect the dots between these policies and attacks on trans lives, and explains why we should pay attention. https://www.texasobserver.org/trans-athletes-inclusion-sports-culture/

#LGBTQIA #news #culture #trans #books #bookstodon #politics

A Baby to Tame the Wolfe by Heidi Rice #books #literature #dedication

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To my son Luca, who will never read this book, but whose childhood obsession with wolves and his gala performance in a Year 6 production of "Little Red Riding Hood" as the wolf led to my love of this particular fairy tale, and thus—eventually—my decision to write this story. I owe you one, my gorgeous boy—which unfortunately does not include a share of the royalties, just in case you were wondering!

Eine Hommage an die Spielkonsole, eine Erzählung über das Verschwinden.

Anthony Passeron: Jacky
Eine #rezension:
https://www.findosbuecher.com/?p=9340

#buchbubble #books #buch #roman #leseliebe #literatur #leben #literaturblog #piperverlag

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Anthony Passeron Buchcover Jacky Piper Verlag

Humble Tech Book Bundle: The Rust Systems Programming Bundle

Get Rust, Rust Web Programming, Creative Projects for Rust Programmers, and more!

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/rust-systems-programming-bundle-books

#humblebundle #humblebooksbundle #books

Amazon ended network support for Kindle devices released in 2012 or earlier, blocking downloads, purchases, and reactivation after resets 📚
The shutdown highlights long-term risks of software-tethered hardware, while open-source tools like Calibre remain device-independent alternatives 🔓

🔗 https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/amazon-pulls-the-plug-on-older-kindle-models/

#TechNews #Amazon #Kindle #Kobo #Calibre #OpenSource #DigitalRights #EReader #EReaders #Book #Books #EBook #Software #ConsumerRights #Privacy #Hardware #Technology #FOSS #DRM #Reading

And speaking of #AISlop. . .

> Book About AI’s Effects on the “Future of Truth” Found to Contain Slew of AI-Hallucinated Quotations https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/book-ai-truth-ai-hallucinated-quotes

#books #reading #sloperator #cogsucker

Book Promotion: First #book in a series on #Kindle Unlimited

A collection of 107 #books for you. My book is DRM-free.

#ku #spaceship #magic #aliens #legendary #fedibookfair #boost #amreading #writing #dwarfs #readers #rogue #heroes #bookwyrm #reading #goodbooks #space #time #dwarves #dystopia #sorcery #monsters #futurism #planets #sciencefiction #science #scifi #writing #young #newadults #teen #teens #ya #books #booktoot #booksky #bookfunnel #bookstagram @bookstodon

https://books.bookfunnel.com/kureads-may/wcwas7u14r

Three Banished Trees
https://archive.org/details/three-banished-trees-by-richard-j-tilley

Do Not Sell The Earth
https://archive.org/details/do-not-sell-the-earth-popular-selections-by-ricard-j-tilley

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when the White House asked to interpret my coalesced dream payments
https://subspacewagon.systems/when-the-white-house-asked-to-interpret-my-coalesced-dream-payments/

@poetry
@writingcommunity

#Poetry #PoemADay #PoetryCommunity #Poem #TodaysPoem #WritingCommunity #Literature #Songs #books #humanities #amwriting #CreativeWriting #WritersOfMastodon #writing #art #poetics #community #bookstodon #humanRights #disability

The Regrets of Tomorrow

https://subspacewagon.systems/the-regrets-of-tomorrow/

https://www.subspacewagon.io

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@writingcommunity

#Poetry #PoemADay #PoetryCommunity #Poem #TodaysPoem #WritingCommunity #Literature #Songs #books #humanities #amwriting #CreativeWriting #WritersOfMastodon #writing #art #poetics #critcalThinking #community #bookstodon #humanRights #disability #SmallWeb #SupportHumanArtists

Seven of the Greatest Farts in Western Literature

Elizabeth Zaleski Finds Famous Moments of Flatulence in Classic and Contemporary Works

https://lithub.com/seven-of-the-greatest-farts-in-western-literature/

At PG:

Canterbury Tales

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=+Canterbury+Tales

Inferno

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Inferno

Don Quixote

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Don+Quixote

#books #literature

Stored Sun: What a Book Actually Is

Ask ten readers what a book is and you will get ten metaphors and no definitions. A mirror, they say, or a door, or a passageway with footfalls behind it. The metaphors flatter the reader and obscure the object. None of them tell you what is sitting on your shelf, dark and patient, while you sleep. Here is the answer. A book is stored sun.

The metaphor is chemical before it is literary, and the chemistry has to be tracked first. Sunlight strikes a leaf. The leaf converts photons into glucose, glucose into cellulose, cellulose into the trunk of an oak. The oak is felled, pulped, pressed, and dried into paper. Onto the paper a writer presses ink, which is itself a colloidal suspension of carbon, and the carbon was once a forest, and the forest was once sunlight. The page in your hand is a sealed battery of solar energy, harvested over years and stacked into a form that can sit on a shelf for centuries without losing charge. An ebook does the same work on a different substrate, since the electricity behind a screen is also stored sun routed through coal, gas, photovoltaics, or rivers turning turbines. The storage changes form; the storage remains storage.

That much is the easy part. The harder part follows. A book stored on a shelf is sun stored in cellulose, though the book itself has not yet happened. The volume on the shelf is fuel waiting for ignition. Reading is the act of combustion. The reader spends attention, and attention is itself a metabolic process powered by glucose, which the reader’s body extracted from food, which was once a plant, which was once sunlight. So reading is the meeting of two solar archives: the one sealed into the page and the one circulating in the reader’s bloodstream. Two captured suns burn against each other for the duration of the reading, and what comes off the reaction is meaning.

Now you understand why a closed book on a shelf is silent. It is dark fuel. The performance has not begun. The score sits unplayed. Nelson Goodman argued in Languages of Art that a musical work exists only in performance, and the printed score is a set of instructions for triggering the work. He was right about music and he was right about books, though he did not press the case as far as it goes. A book is a score for a private performance held inside one consciousness at a time. No two performances match. The same reader cannot perform the same book twice in identical fashion. Hamlet at twenty and Hamlet at fifty are different Hamlets, played on different instruments by the same hand, and the score has not changed a syllable.

If a book is stored sun, then writing is the act of catching the light before it disperses, and reading is the act of releasing it years or centuries later. This explains the gravity of the encounter. When a reader in 2026 opens the Iliad, the photons that fed the wheat that fed the scribe who first wrote it down were burned in the Bronze Age. The energy that produced the original text has long since dissipated into entropy, and yet the pattern survives, copied across substrates, waiting. The reader’s attention strikes the dormant pattern and the pattern wakes up. Homer is dead. Homer’s sun is still warm.

What gives books their particular weight is the one-way structure of the encounter. A writer always precedes a reader, and a reader can never reply. You can receive a message from a Sumerian scribe. That scribe cannot receive your reply, and neither can Cervantes, and neither can your grandmother who left you her annotated copy of Middlemarch. Books let the dead argue. Living writers answer the dead in their own books, and so the long conversation of literature continues, but the original speaker never receives the reply. Joyce answered Homer; Homer never read Joyce. This asymmetry is what turns reading into something heavier than information transfer. It is communion across the only barrier no living person has crossed.

The implications should change how writers work. If you are a writer, you are sealing solar energy into a substrate that will wait for readers you will never meet. The act has a longer half-life than your career and a shorter one than the language you write in, and you have no control over when or whether the seal breaks. Most books go unread and the sun stays buried. A few books find readers and burn for centuries. You cannot know in advance which kind you are writing, and the question of whether your work was worth the cellulose is decided after you are dead, by people whose names you will never learn.

The implications should also change how readers read. A casual reader treats a book as a consumable. A serious reader treats a book as an inheritance. Every volume on your shelf is a deposit of energy that someone, somewhere, took the trouble to seal in for you, often at great personal cost, often without any expectation of reaching you in particular. To leave such a book unread is to leave the sun buried. To read it badly, distractedly, with half attention, is to burn the fuel without producing heat. The fault is the reader’s, and the loss belongs to the reader, and to the civilization that would have benefited from the reading.

A critic could press here. If a book is stored sun, then book burning is the literal release of that sun, and the metaphor has supplied the justification rather than the indictment. The objection collapses on inspection. Reading and burning both release stored solar energy from the substrate; they differ in what becomes of the pattern. Reading transfers the pattern into a living mind, where it can be re-stored, retransmitted, and read again by readers the burner will never meet. Burning converts the pattern into ambient heat that dissipates within hours and recovers nothing. The reader conserves; the burner wastes.

Book burning comes in two forms, and the difference matters. When the pattern exists in many copies, burning is theater: the Nazis at Opernplatz on May 10, 1933 burned tens of thousands of books while knowing copies survived in libraries across Europe and the Americas, so the fire was a performance for the watching crowd rather than an act of destruction. When the pattern exists in few copies or only one, burning is murder: Diego de Landa burned a great number of Mayan codices at Maní in 1562, and across all such purges only four pre-Columbian Mayan books are known to have survived anywhere in the world, so most of a written civilization went into smoke that afternoon and never came back. Both kinds of burning confirm the metaphor instead of refuting it. Theater burning recognizes that books carry power dangerous enough to be performed against. Murder burning recognizes that books carry knowledge worth eliminating. Heinrich Heine, whose own work burned at Opernplatz, had written more than a century earlier that where they burn books they will in the end burn people. He was right because the burner already understands what the metaphor proposes. The burner treats books as if they were alive, and the burner is correct that books are alive. About what to do next, the burner is wrong.

Return to the metaphors I started with and watch them collapse. A mirror lets the reader off the hook by suggesting the reader is the subject, when the reader is in fact the combustion chamber. Doors imply that the destination preexists the trip, when the destination is manufactured during the reading. The passageway with footfalls comes closest, because reading is haunted, though the metaphor still mistakes the book for architecture when the book is an event.

A book is stored sun. It sits on the shelf and waits for a reader willing to spend attention against it. When the reader arrives, the seal breaks, and the light that has been waiting for years or centuries enters a living mind for the duration of the reading. The reader closes the book, the seal reforms, and the light goes back into storage to wait for the next reader. A library is a solar archive. Reading is the only known method of releasing what is stored there. The dead cannot be answered, but they can be read, and reading is the closest thing the species has invented to bringing the dead back into the room.

Take care of your books. They are warmer than you think.

Layout 2Mr. George Farewell Jones, solicitor, a member of the firm of Soames, Edwards, and Jones, Lennox House, Norfolk-street, Strand, died yesterday at his residence at Mitcham after a short illness. Mr. Jones, who was 75 years of age, had been for many years a member of the Mitcham Urban District Council, and Farewell-place, a new road at Mitcham, was named…

— George Farewell Jones
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TO JOCK, or JOCKUM CLOY. To enjoy a woman.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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Oh, and this is me.
Whimsey that is not afraid of the dark - an illustrator in love with books.
https://thomassbrown.com/
#art #illustration #books

There are many great stores that sell my books. One of my favorites is Bookshop(dot)org, where you can find paperback editions of all of them, or eBooks of collections like "The Nod/Wells Timelines - A Primer" and "The Nod/Wells Timelines - Volume 1."

https://bookshop.org/lists/the-nod-wells-timelines

#specfic #scifi #speculativefiction #sciencefiction #book #books #reading #bookstodon #booktodon

I love Amie McNee and her art rebellion!! With her book We Need Your Art, she inspired me to keep creating and sharing my music ❤️🎶

📖 The We Need Your Art book: https://www.amiemcnee.com/order-we-need-your-art-book-amie-mcnee
🎧 My electronic altpop art: https://kayleighbeard.bandcamp.com/

#books #favouritebooks #amiemcnee #weneedyourart #author #inspiration #creative #creativity #artist #artists #artistsonpixelfed #womenartists #music #electronicmusic #alternativemusic #bandcamp #artquotes #art #artpop #music #painting #poetry

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A woman holding a sign saying: In a society that profits from you being stuck on your phone, giving your attention to making art is a rebellious act.

It's so beautiful 😍😍😍😍

#apocalypsebaby #books #bookstodon #lgbtq #graphicnovel #horror #zombies

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Cropped Screenshot of an Instagram post from Scholastic UK, with cover art from Apocalypse Baby by Anna Penn, with the caption "BOY meets BOY meets ZOMBIE"

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紀伊國屋書店：【新宿本店３階 アカデミック・ラウンジ】『進化と人間行動　第3版』刊行記念 長谷川寿一先生×長谷川眞理子先生×大槻久先生×香田啓貴先生トークイベント

Weird Tales vol 7 number 5 (May 1926) - featured story: THE GHOSTS OF STEAMBOAT COULEE by Arthur J. Burks

#Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
#ArthurJBurks
@books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

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Weird Tales vol 7 number 5 (May 1926) - featured story: THE GHOSTS OF STEAMBOAT COULEE by Arthur J. Burks The cover has a red border enclosing a white frame with art by Andrew Brosnatch. At the top, "Weird Tales" appears in white letters with black outlines; the subtitle "The Unique Magazine" is in black cursive below. Inside the white frame, red text reads "Don't Miss This Startling Thrill-Tale", followed by the title "THE GHOSTS OF STEAMBOAT COULEE" in black uppercase serif, and the author line "By Arthur J. Burks" in blue with gold outlines. The central artwork shows a dramatic struggle. On the right, a menacing man with a dark mustache lunges forward. He wears a blue-green coat over a red shirt, holding a curved white knife in his left hand while gripping a woman's shoulder with his right. The woman, wearing an orange-red sleeveless dress and having short black hair, looks terrified with wide eyes and an open mouth, raising her left hand defensively. In the foreground, a second man sits at a wooden table, looking back in shock. He wears a green jacket with white cuffs. On the table stands an oil lamp burning with a green-tinted flame, releasing a thin wisp of smoke. The background consists of dark brown shadows. In the lower right of the white frame, "May 1926" is in white with the price "25¢" in yellow below. At the bottom red border, black text reads: "THE DEVIL-RAY, a Startling Pseudo-scientific Story by Joel Martin Nichols, Jr., Begins in This Issue".

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: One Day, Hard and Clear by Anne Baldo, Dundurn & Vidal by Danila Botha, At Bay Press. See alt-text.

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Book cover for One Day, Hard and Clear by Anne Baldo, Dundurn: It’s 2004 and childhood friends Sami and Lucy are on the edge of adulthood. Lucy knows what she is going to do — she’s going to school and getting out. But Sami, caught in an endless loop with a boy, True, who is from a troubled family, can’t seem to get unstuck. The further Sami drifts from Lucy, the harder it is to not be guided and bound by her heartbreak for True, whose destructive presence continually interferes with Sami’s hope for stability and connection. As their paths begin to diverge, Sami must learn to navigate life in their small town — and the universe — without the one person she’s always counted on. Forthcoming in June. https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459756359-one-day--hard-and-clear

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Book cover for Vidal by Danila Botha, At Bay Press: Part Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, and Art Spiegelman’s Maus, Danila Botha’s powerful debut graphic novel, follows young Vidal who grows up in Tiberias (Ottoman Empire and then British Mandate Palestine) and moves to Paris to pursue his art and freedom and gets trapped there during World War II. Danila Botha traces the steps of Vidal’s life through Chagallian vignettes, from his Sephardic upbringing in Tiberias to studies in the Technion in Haifa, his artistic life in Paris, his work with the underground resistance, and his ultimate arrest and time in Auschwitz. Poignantly capturing the Sephardic Jewish experience, and Like Vidal and his family, the author’s family were fifth generation Moroccan Jews who grew up speaking both Hebrew and Arabic and coexisting with their neighbours and friends. https://atbaypress.com/books/detail/vidal