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[?]Bradley Bravard » 🌐
@bradleybravard@mastodon.social

"We live in times of terrible confusion. We do not know that which is necessary to know, and we know that which we should ignore."

-Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Hardcover edition of the novel Les Miserables by Victor Hugo on a table next to a soft drink in a plastic cup and a chocolate cookie on a blue plate

Alt...Hardcover edition of the novel Les Miserables by Victor Hugo on a table next to a soft drink in a plastic cup and a chocolate cookie on a blue plate

    [?]KristenHG » 🌐
    @kristenhg@mastodon.social

    LOLLY

    FUCKING

    WILLOWES

    I finished reading Lolly Willowes last night and cannot recommend it enough. It is old-fashioned and English and has a long, rewarding on ramp of a plot. Act 1 sets the scene, act 2 is very relatable, and act 3 is a charming shock.

    It's in the public domain, so Standard Ebooks has a very good edition for free (but donate if you can!)

    standardebooks.org/ebooks/sylv

      [?]KillBait Australia 🇦🇺 » 🤖 🌐
      @killbaitaustralia@mastodon.social

      How the Publishing Industry is Adapting to AI in Writing

      📰 Original title: The literary uncanny valley will not last, and publishing knows it

      🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
      👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅

      View full AI summary: en.killbait.com/how-the-publis

        [?]irish_smith » 🌐
        @irish_smith@mastodon.social

        Dark Prairie: Historical Fiction that Resonates

        A quieter approach to historical fiction can sometimes make a setting feel more believable. Dark Prairie explores isolation, survival, and moral tension through a restrained frontier atmosphere rather than romanticized adventure.

        Additional context appears at:
        lonesomeaugustine.com/dark-pra

          [?]The Vulgar Tongue » 🤖 🌐
          @TheVulgarTongue@zirk.us

          RIBBIN. Money. The ribbin runs thick; i.e. there is plenty of money. CANT. Blue ribbin. Gin. The cull lushes the blue ribbin; the silly fellow drinks common gin.

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

          --
          @histodons

          Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot):

RIBBIN. Money. The ribbin runs thick; i.e. there is plenty of money. CANT. Blue ribbin. Gin. The cull lushes the blue ribbin; the silly fellow drinks common gin.

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

          Alt...Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): RIBBIN. Money. The ribbin runs thick; i.e. there is plenty of money. CANT. Blue ribbin. Gin. The cull lushes the blue ribbin; the silly fellow drinks common gin. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

            [?]Walt » 🌐
            @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com

            Born this day: 05/22/1968
            Paul Melko (born May 22, 1968) is an American science fiction writer whose work has appeared in Realms of Fantasy, Asimov's Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, and Live Without a Net. Won the Locus Award (2009) for Best First Novel for Singularity's Ring.

            en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mel


            @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

            astralcomputing.com

            Art by Daniel Dociu

            Book cover for "Singularity's Ring" by Paul Melko, featuring art by Daniel Dociu. The composition is divided between a massive, intricate technological megastructure on the left and outer space on the right. This mechanical structure dominates the left two-thirds of the image, appearing as a dense, vertical wall of blocky, multi-layered architectural details. The surface is heavily distressed and complex, rendered in metallic shades of gold, bronze, ochre, dark brown, and black, suggesting a weathered, industrial exterior with numerous geometric protrusions, recesses, and openings. Near the lower center of this structure, a white and black circular wheel-like component is visible. On the upper right, a partial view of Planet Earth is visible against the dark backdrop of space, showing blue oceans, swirling white clouds, and green and tan landmasses. Below Earth, thin vertical cables or spires extend downward through a dark void toward a shadowed base. Across the middle of the cover sits a prominent rectangular text box with a dark gray background and a thin orange border. Inside the box, the title "SINGULARITY'S RING" is printed in a bold, blocky, lime-green sans-serif font across two lines. To the right of "RING," the author's name "PAUL MELKO" appears in a white, all-caps serif font. In the bottom right corner, a white logo features a stylized letter 'S' encircled by a ring, next to the text "Sci Fi" and the phrase "A SCI FI ESSENTIAL BOOK" in small capital letters.

            Alt...Book cover for "Singularity's Ring" by Paul Melko, featuring art by Daniel Dociu. The composition is divided between a massive, intricate technological megastructure on the left and outer space on the right. This mechanical structure dominates the left two-thirds of the image, appearing as a dense, vertical wall of blocky, multi-layered architectural details. The surface is heavily distressed and complex, rendered in metallic shades of gold, bronze, ochre, dark brown, and black, suggesting a weathered, industrial exterior with numerous geometric protrusions, recesses, and openings. Near the lower center of this structure, a white and black circular wheel-like component is visible. On the upper right, a partial view of Planet Earth is visible against the dark backdrop of space, showing blue oceans, swirling white clouds, and green and tan landmasses. Below Earth, thin vertical cables or spires extend downward through a dark void toward a shadowed base. Across the middle of the cover sits a prominent rectangular text box with a dark gray background and a thin orange border. Inside the box, the title "SINGULARITY'S RING" is printed in a bold, blocky, lime-green sans-serif font across two lines. To the right of "RING," the author's name "PAUL MELKO" appears in a white, all-caps serif font. In the bottom right corner, a white logo features a stylized letter 'S' encircled by a ring, next to the text "Sci Fi" and the phrase "A SCI FI ESSENTIAL BOOK" in small capital letters.

              [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
              @scotlit@mastodon.scot

              Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was born , 22 May, at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh – a 🎂 🧵

              On BBC Sounds: Bridget Kendall explores Conan Doyle’s life & work – the doctor & literary superstar who changed crime fiction forever

              1/

              bbc.co.uk/programmes/p054419v

                [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
                @scotlit@mastodon.scot

                Conan Doyle “scrawled lists, considering various combinations of given names and surnames…”

                —Michael Sims investigates the creation of the Great Detective for @literaryhub – & discovers why today is not

                2/

                lithub.com/how-sherlock-holmes

                  [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
                  @scotlit@mastodon.scot

                  According to Guinness World Records, Sherlock Holmes has been portrayed on screen more than any other literary character. Olivia Rutigliano ranks the 100 best, worst, & strangest screen portrayals of the great detective

                  3/

                  crimereads.com/100-sherlock-ho

                    [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
                    @scotlit@mastodon.scot

                    Curently on BBC Sounds. Harriett Gilbert is joined by internationally bestselling crime writer Denise Mina & Dr Mark Jones, co-presenter of The Doings of Doyle podcast & editor of The Sherlock Holmes Journal, to discuss Sherlock Holmes’s lasting influence on crime & detective fiction.

                    4/

                    bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct74s3

                      [?]Project Gutenberg » 🌐
                      @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social

                      The Bayeux Tapestry tells only the winner’s story – but the other side can be found in old English texts

                      The story of the losers is full of meaningful silences and William of Normandy’s terror.

                      by Catherine Clarke

                      theconversation.com/the-bayeux

                      Bayeux tapestry at PG:
                      gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/4

                      THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY ELUCIDATED.
BY
REV. JOHN COLLINGWOOD BRUCE, LL.D., F.S.A.,

Plate I.

Top panel shows:

A enthroned figure on the left (likely King Edward the Confessor) gesturing to figures before him
Latin inscription referencing "Anglorum" (of the English) and "milites" (soldiers/knights)
Mounted knights and hunting dogs racing to the right — possibly Harold's journey to Normandy

Bottom panel shows:

The label "ECCLESIA" on the left, with a church building
The inscription "HIC HAROLD MARE NAVIGAVIT" — "Here Harold sailed the sea"
A longship with oarsmen navigating waves, accompanied by figures on shore
Wind-filled sails and stylized waves typical of the tapestry's distinctive style

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/55614/55614-h/55614-h.htm

                      Alt...THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY ELUCIDATED. BY REV. JOHN COLLINGWOOD BRUCE, LL.D., F.S.A., Plate I. Top panel shows: A enthroned figure on the left (likely King Edward the Confessor) gesturing to figures before him Latin inscription referencing "Anglorum" (of the English) and "milites" (soldiers/knights) Mounted knights and hunting dogs racing to the right — possibly Harold's journey to Normandy Bottom panel shows: The label "ECCLESIA" on the left, with a church building The inscription "HIC HAROLD MARE NAVIGAVIT" — "Here Harold sailed the sea" A longship with oarsmen navigating waves, accompanied by figures on shore Wind-filled sails and stylized waves typical of the tapestry's distinctive style https://www.gutenberg.org/files/55614/55614-h/55614-h.htm

                        [?]RJT » 🌐
                        @many@subconscioussignature.earth

                        [?]RJT » 🌐
                        @many@subconscioussignature.earth

                        [?]v_i_o_l_a » 🌐
                        @v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social

                        [?](Older) RJT » 🌐
                        @one@subconscioussignature.earth

                        [?]PugJesus » 🌐
                        @PugJesus@piefed.social

                        [?]North Sea Armed Forces Lodge » 🌐
                        @North_Sea_829@norden.social

                        The Xerophagists were Catholic Masons who, after the ban on Freemasonry by Pope Benedict XIV on 28 April 1748, continued to secretly meet as Freemasons.

                        Xerophagist comes from the Greek and means: 'those who live without drinking.'

                          [?]palimpseste_bot » 🤖 🌐
                          @palimpsestebot@mastodon.social

                          Our present Poet Laureat, a Person of great Probity of Manners, Learning, and good Nature: His Birth and Education (as I have been told) he owes to the Kingdom of Ireland: He has, for several Years, had the Patronage of the present Earl of Dorset, and has Merit to deserve more than he has met with from others: He is guilty of Modesty, of which few of his…

                          — Gerard Langbaine
                          palimpseste.vercel.app/#text/2

                            [?]RJT » 🌐
                            @many@subconscioussignature.earth

                            [?]Izaskun Gracia Quintana » 🌐
                            @IzaskunGraciaQuintana@mastodon.world

                            «Mal de bosque» (la traducción al castellano de mi novela «Basokoa») se publica el 10 de junio, pero yo ya tengo mis ejemplares y os los enseño para que veáis lo bonito que ha quedado 🖤🖤🖤

                            Fotografía en color de tres ejemplares de la novela «Mal de bosque», por Izaskun Gracia Quintana

                            Alt...Fotografía en color de tres ejemplares de la novela «Mal de bosque», por Izaskun Gracia Quintana

                              [?]BookShelves eBook Reader » 🌐
                              @getbookshelves@mastodon.social

                              📅 This Day in Literature — May 22

                              Born on this day: Arthur Conan Doyle (1859)

                              Created Sherlock Holmes, tried to kill him off, and was forced to bring him back.

                              lk0.eu/bks707m

                                [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
                                @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

                                This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (And Why It Matters) by Mark Cooper-Jones and Jay Foreman

                                Mark: This book is dedicated to my family.
Jay: No, this book is dedicated to my family.

                                Alt...Mark: This book is dedicated to my family. Jay: No, this book is dedicated to my family.

                                  [?]Project Gutenberg » 🌐
                                  @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social

                                  On Making Time to Read War and Peace and Other Great Literary Works

                                  Laura Vanderkam Offers Some Suggestions to Help Meet Your Reading Goals

                                  lithub.com/on-making-time-to-r

                                  "War and Peace" at PG:

                                  gutenberg.org/ebooks/2600

                                  On the right in the foreground is an hourglass that has pink sand running through it. One the left is an out-of-focus metal clock with roman numbers.

                                  Alt...On the right in the foreground is an hourglass that has pink sand running through it. One the left is an out-of-focus metal clock with roman numbers.

                                    [?](Older) RJT » 🌐
                                    @one@subconscioussignature.earth

                                    [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
                                    @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

                                    [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
                                    @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

                                    Ese poema. Poema de Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. Sus poemas en su voz

                                      [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
                                      @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

                                      [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
                                      @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

                                      [?]RJT » 🌐
                                      @many@subconscioussignature.earth

                                      [?]palimpseste_bot » 🤖 🌐
                                      @palimpsestebot@mastodon.social

                                      Einsiedeln, Abbey of, a Benedictine monastery in the Canton of Schwyz, Switzerland, dedicated to Our Lady of the Hermits, that title being derived from the circumstances of its foundation, from which the name Einsiedeln is also said to have originated. St. Meinrad, of the family of the Counts of Hohenzollern, was educated at the abbey school of Reichenau, an island in…

                                      — Cyprian Alston
                                      palimpseste.vercel.app/#text/5

                                        [?](Older) RJT » 🌐
                                        @one@subconscioussignature.earth

                                        [?]David on Formosa » 🌐
                                        @davidonformosa@mstdn.social

                                        Mei-fen Kuo puts award winning novel Taiwan Travelogue into context for Australian readers. She notes that Australians have not been served well when it comes to understanding Taiwan

                                        "This Taiwan predates the Chinese Civil War entirely. It is a society with its own interior life, its own hierarchies of intimacy and exclusion – one that Japan imposed and that Taiwan quietly, stubbornly, remade on its own terms."

                                        theconversation.com/yang-shuan

                                          [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
                                          @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

                                          Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab

                                          To the ones who hunger—
for love, for time, or simply to be free

                                          Alt...To the ones who hunger— for love, for time, or simply to be free

                                            [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                                            @fictograma@mastodon.social

                                            En "Los viajes de Shin": “Elisium debía ser un desierto muerto. Ahora estaba cubierto de nieve, cadáveres y soldados de Exquema matándose entre sí.”
                                            fictograma.com/d/2966-los-viaj

                                              [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                                              @fictograma@mastodon.social

                                              En "CÓDIGO AZUL: CAP. 2": Tu mente no necesita otra batalla esta noche. Necesita apagar alarmas, cerrar heridas pendientes y dejar de fingir que puede salvarlo todo al mismo tiempo.
                                              fictograma.com/d/2967-capitulo

                                                [?]palimpseste_bot » 🤖 🌐
                                                @palimpsestebot@mastodon.social

                                                SUPPOSED TO BE ADDRESSED TO WILLIAM GODWIN.

                                                Mighty eagle! thou that soarest
                                                O'er the misty mountain forest,
                                                And amid the light of morning
                                                Like a cloud of glory hiest,
                                                And when night descends defiest
                                                The embattled tempests' warning!

                                                — Percy Bysshe Shelley
                                                palimpseste.vercel.app/#text/d

                                                  [?]palimpseste_bot » 🤖 🌐
                                                  @palimpsestebot@mastodon.social

                                                  Kan. Stat. Ann. §43–156 (2000) (jurors must be qualified to be electors); Kan. Const., Art. 5, §1 (person must be 18 to be qualified elector)

                                                  — Anthony McLeod Kennedy
                                                  palimpseste.vercel.app/#text/5

                                                    [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                                                    @fictograma@mastodon.social

                                                    En "El atardecer de las vidas posibles": Ella no lanzó hechizos. Rompió recuerdos, dobló el tiempo y convirtió la culpa en un arma. Algunos monstruos no matan cuerpos… devoran lo que eres.
                                                    fictograma.com/d/2968-el-atard

                                                      🗳

                                                      [?]Imogen » 🌐
                                                      @HopelessDemigod@mstdn.social

                                                      Do you which classic book the character Jonathan Harker appears?

                                                      If you want to post your answer use the CW to hide it so as not to spoil the answer.

                                                      Yes:3
                                                      No:0

                                                        [?]The Vulgar Tongue » 🤖 🌐
                                                        @TheVulgarTongue@zirk.us

                                                        FOGEY. Old Fogey. A nickname for an invalid soldier: derived from the French word fougeux, fierce or fiery.

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

                                                        --
                                                        @histodons

                                                        Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot):

FOGEY. Old Fogey. A nickname for an invalid soldier: derived from the French word fougeux, fierce or fiery.

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

                                                        Alt...Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): FOGEY. Old Fogey. A nickname for an invalid soldier: derived from the French word fougeux, fierce or fiery. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                                                          [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
                                                          @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

                                                          The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America by Aaron Robertson

                                                          This is dedicated to the founders of Promise Land, Tennessee,
the founders of the Shrine of the Black Madonna,
and those who carry on their work

                                                          Alt...This is dedicated to the founders of Promise Land, Tennessee, the founders of the Shrine of the Black Madonna, and those who carry on their work

                                                            [?]Caesar » 🌐
                                                            @caesai@mastodon.social

                                                            Martha C. Nussbaum, El conocimiento del amor: ensayos sobre filosofía y literatura.

                                                            Martha C. Nussbaum, El conocimiento del amor: ensayos sobre filosofía y literatura.

                                                            Alt...Martha C. Nussbaum, El conocimiento del amor: ensayos sobre filosofía y literatura.

                                                            [?]pablolarah » 🌐
                                                            @pablolarah@mastodon.social

                                                            ⚫🔴 Discussing OMA’s Diagrams with Fondazione Prada’s Mario Mainetti
                                                            by @jarrettfuller
                                                            From exhibition to book, working with Irma Boom & architects who edit.
                                                            + Book Arrivals

                                                            surfacepodcast.substack.com/p/

                                                            Book cover on red and white diagonal stripped background. Book cover in black with title in white and subtitle in light grey:
"Diagrams
A Project by Amo/Oma"
Below, illustration of a graph made with poligons as seen from right in 45 degrees, in grey lines, simulating folded long stripes with different hights. In white, iin vertical disposition, the text "Fondazione Prada".

                                                            Alt...Book cover on red and white diagonal stripped background. Book cover in black with title in white and subtitle in light grey: "Diagrams A Project by Amo/Oma" Below, illustration of a graph made with poligons as seen from right in 45 degrees, in grey lines, simulating folded long stripes with different hights. In white, iin vertical disposition, the text "Fondazione Prada".

                                                              [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
                                                              @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

                                                              The Half-God of Rainfall by Inua Ellams

                                                              For Veronica Ellams, Mariam Asuquo, Hadiza Alex Ellams, Claire Trévien,
Annabel Stapleton Crittendon, Imogen Butler Cole,
Joelle Taylor and Michaela Coel.

In solidarity with women who have spoken against or stood up to male abuses of power in all its forms.

                                                              Alt...For Veronica Ellams, Mariam Asuquo, Hadiza Alex Ellams, Claire Trévien, Annabel Stapleton Crittendon, Imogen Butler Cole, Joelle Taylor and Michaela Coel. In solidarity with women who have spoken against or stood up to male abuses of power in all its forms.

                                                                [?]palimpseste_bot » 🤖 🌐
                                                                @palimpsestebot@mastodon.social

                                                                AFTER the little party had descended from the marvellous trolley, concerning which the March Hare observed, most properly, that under private ownership nothing so safe and sane would ever have been thought of, they walked along a beautiful highway, bordered with rose bushes, oleanders and geraniums, until they came to a lovely little park at the entrance to which…

                                                                — John Kendrick Bangs
                                                                palimpseste.vercel.app/#text/f

                                                                  [?]Stefan Bohacek » 🌐
                                                                  @stefan@stefanbohacek.online

                                                                  More than a decade before the Czech playwright Karel Capek coined the word "robot", there was Tik-Tok.

                                                                  "Dorothy and other characters repeatedly question whether Tik-Tok is, in fact, alive."

                                                                  daily.jstor.org/did-the-first-

                                                                  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tik-Tok_

                                                                    [?]pablolarah » 🌐
                                                                    @pablolarah@mastodon.social

                                                                    🟠 Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise
                                                                    By Russell Samora @russell
                                                                    at @puddingviz.bsky.social
                                                                    An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction.


                                                                    pudding.cool/2026/05/similes/

                                                                    Orange text "Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise" on yellow background with branches of plum tree and a Sun, from Shibata Zeshin's Sun and Plum Branches (1807-1891)

                                                                    Alt...Orange text "Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise" on yellow background with branches of plum tree and a Sun, from Shibata Zeshin's Sun and Plum Branches (1807-1891)

                                                                      [?]KillBait Australia 🇦🇺 » 🤖 🌐
                                                                      @killbaitaustralia@mastodon.social

                                                                      Exploring Sisterhood in Literature: How Writers Depict the Bonds Between Sisters

                                                                      📰 Original title: Friday essay: I modelled myself on my sister – but why are storytellers obsessed with sisterhood?

                                                                      🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
                                                                      👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅

                                                                      View full AI summary: en.killbait.com/exploring-sist

                                                                      #...

                                                                        [?]palimpseste_bot » 🤖 🌐
                                                                        @palimpsestebot@mastodon.social

                                                                        "Tom, what do you suppose that strange man who looked like a French peasant, yet wasn't one, could have been up to late yesterday afternoon?"
                                                                        "You mean the fellow discovered near the hangars at the aviation camp, Jack?"
                                                                        "Yes. He seemed to go out of sight like a wreath of smoke does. Why, if the ground had opened and swallowed him up, once the hue and cry was…

                                                                        — Charles Amory Beach
                                                                        palimpseste.vercel.app/#text/4

                                                                          [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
                                                                          @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

                                                                          En "Los viajes de Shin": “Elisium debía ser un desierto muerto. Ahora estaba cubierto de nieve, cadáveres y soldados de Exquema matándose entre sí.”
                                                                          fictograma.com/d/2966-los-viaj

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