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**Samuel Hess** @hess_photo@mastodon.social · 3 Min.

**Project Gutenberg** @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social · 1 Std.

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social

On publishing Charlotte Brontë’s miniature book of poems for the first time.

By R.B. Russell

https://lithub.com/on-publishing-charlotte-brontes-miniature-book-of-poems-for-the-first-time/

Charlotte Brontë at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/408

Portrait of Charlotte Brontë by George Richmond (1850, chalk on paper)

Charlotte is shown in three-quarter or frontal view, composed in a calm, contemplative pose. The head is often tilted slightly or framed in a way that draws attention to the eyes.

The expression is typically serene, thoughtful, and dignified, with a clear focus on the sitter’s intellect or inner life. Facial details are finely rendered, while clothing and background are often loosely sketched or left minimal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB#/media/File:CBRichmond.png

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**The Inquisitive Biologist** @inqbiol@scicomm.xyz · 1 Std.

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The Inquisitive Biologist @inqbiol@scicomm.xyz

YES.

https://profilebooks.com/work/slow-down-or-die/

@timparrique's book is finally appearing in English translation. I have "threatened" to talk about #degrowth for a while now on my blog. Seems I have been given the excuse I need

Profile BooksSlow Down or Die - Profile Books

#Economics #EnvironmentalEconomics #Books

**Athena** @Climatehistories@mastodon.social · 1 Std.

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Athena @Climatehistories@mastodon.social

This is bold.

Not just a book review but a cultural critique to address something much larger: the persistent silence, stigma, and marginalisation surrounding menopause.

https://open.substack.com/pub/marginalspace/p/silence-stigma-and-a-story-that-could?r=28pz0f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

open.substack.comSilence, Stigma, and a Story That Could Have Been MoreReading 'All Fours' by Miranda July – Weird and Frustrating.

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**Buchhandlung am Brühl** @Buchhandlung_am_Bruehl@mastodon.social · 2 Std.

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Buchhandlung am Brühl @Buchhandlung_am_Bruehl@mastodon.social

"Die betroffenen Arten spüren den Wetterumschwung immer ein bisschen früher. Sie sind wie Vögel“, schreibt Mely Kiyak. Seit 15 Jahren warnt sie vor dem Aufstieg des Faschismus. Sie schreibt mal wütend, mal witzig, mal polemisch, mal zynisch (ein Lachen am Abgrund), aber immer seismographisch genau in der Beobachtung und geschliffen im Wort.
Diese Beiträge von Kiyak tun weh zu lesen. Und das ist gut so. #Bücherwabe #bucher #books #livre #politics #politik #chemnitz #antifa #Faschismus #melykiyak

Zu sehen ist das Coverbild des Buches "Werden sie uns mit FlixBus deportieren?" von Mely Kiyak. In weißer Schrift stehen auf einem orangefarbenen Leineneinband der Name der Autorin und der Titel des Buches. In dem Band sind ausgewählte Kolumnen aus den Jahren 2013 bis 2020 versammelt. Das Buch ist im Hanser Verlag erschienen.

**Neil Brown** @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk · 2 Std.

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Neil Brown @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

New blogpost: "DRM: Digital Restrictions Management Damages Reading Magic"

There was an interesting discussion on the fediverse last night about DRM (digital restrictions management, a form of copy protection designed to limit how you can read the books you buy) and ebooks.

My thoughts about DRM, paying authors, and how, while I very much dislike DRM on the books I want to buy, I can see why an author might be concerned about someone asking how to buy their books without it.

https://neilzone.co.uk/2025/04/drm-digital-restrictions-management-damages-reading-magic/

Photo of me, a white man with a short dark beard, and dark hair, smiling at the camera, while sitting in front of a vintage terminal with green text on the screen.

neilzone.co.ukDRM: Digital Restrictions Management Damages Reading Magic

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**Thin Line** @thin_line@mamot.fr · 2 Std.

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Thin Line @thin_line@mamot.fr

@urlyman

Then read Log Off: why Posting and Politics (Almost) Never Mix, by Katherine Cross

#read #reading #books

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**earthling** @appassionato@mastodon.social · 2 Std.

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@bifouba

Concentration Camps: A Very Short Introduction by Dan Stone, 2019

Concentration camps are a relatively new invention, a recurring feature of twentieth century warfare, and one that is important to the modern global consciousness and identity.

Over the course of the twentieth century they have become defining symbols of humankind's lowest point and basest acts.

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Although the most famous concentration camps are those under the Nazis, the use of concentration camps originated several decades before the Third Reich, in the Philippines and in the Boer War, and they have been used again in numerous locations, not least during the genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda. Over the course of the twentieth century they have become defining symbols of humankind's lowest point and basest acts.
In this Very Short Introduction , Dan Stone gives a global history of concentration camps, and shows that it is not only "mad dictators" who have set up camps, but instead all varieties of states, including liberal democracies, that have made use of them. Setting concentration camps against the longer history of incarceration, he explains how the ability of the modern state to control populations led to the creation of this extreme institution. Looking at their emergence and spread around the world, Stone argues that concentration camps serve the purpose, from the point of view of the state in crisis, of removing a section of the population that is perceived to be threatening, traitorous, or diseased. Drawing on contemporary accounts of camps, as well as the philosophical literature surrounding them, Stone considers the story camps tell us about the nature of the modern world as well as about specific regimes.

**JuneSim63** @junesim63@mstdn.social · 2 Std. *

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"One can only imagine the horror the late Iain Banks would have felt on learning his legendary Culture series is a favourite of Elon Musk. The Scottish author was an outspoken socialist who could never understand why rightwing fans liked novels that were so obviously an attack on their worldview"

Excellent from Sam Freedman.

#SciFi #ElonMusk #Books #USPolitics #TechBros

The big idea: will sci-fi end up destroying the world? | Science fiction books | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/14/the-big-idea-will-sci-fi-end-up-destroying-the-world

The Guardian · 23 Std.The big idea: will sci-fi end up destroying the world?Von Sam Freedman

**Fictionable** @fictionable@mastodon.social · 2 Std.

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Fictionable @fictionable@mastodon.social

Twenty-five writers from 18 countries. Here's the Commonwealth short story prize 'shortlist' for 2025:

https://commonwealthfoundation.com/short-story-prize

#books #reading #writing #ShortStories #translation #bookstodon @bookstodon

Commonwealth FoundationCommonwealth Short Story Prize - Commonwealth FoundationThe Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (2,000–5,000 words). The competition is free to enter and open to any citizen of a Commonwealth country who is aged 18 and over.

**Reading Recluse** @reading_recluse@c.im · 3 Std.

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Reading Recluse @reading_recluse@c.im

"Life Ceremony" by Sayaka Murata, translated from Japanese into English by Ginny Tapley Takemori

If Sayaka Murata's books have a million fans, then I'm one of them.
If Sayaka Murata's books have one fan, then I'm that one.
If Sayaka Murata's books have no fans, I'm sorry, that means I'm no longer on this earth (maybe I'm visiting Popinpobopia).

Memes aside, I loved this short story collection. Sometimes they're subtly connected and they even link back to other books. They touch on alienation, what it means to be normal or abnormal, trauma, and the absurdity of human society.

In a "wow, that's messed up"-scale from 1 (Convenience Store Woman) to 10 (Earthlings) I'd rate this a 7, so go in prepared.

I'm hesitant to conclude this after 'only' reading three of her works, but I think Sayaka Murata is slowly entering the list of my favorite authors. I only have Vanishing World left, which releases today. I kind of don't want to read it, because then there'll be nothing new left until the next of her works get translated.

Book cover of 'life ceremony'. It's a bright blue cover with a picture of a round candy in a wrapper, but it's an eye ball. The title is in black in the middle, the author's name in white above it.

#WomenInTranslation #books #ShortStories

**brettezeleliquide** @brettezeleliquide@h4.io · 3 Std.

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brettezeleliquide @brettezeleliquide@h4.io

la nuit du chasseur

Vladimir Nabokov / Charles Laughton, The Night of the Hunter, 1955
#photography #movies #sport #books

Vladimir Nabokov les mains sur les hanches dans la campagne, en bermuda et casquette blanche, armé d'un filet à papillons

**Ken Lussey** @KenLussey@mastodon.scot · 4 Std.

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Ken Lussey @KenLussey@mastodon.scot

When the past comes back to haunt you. ‘The Danger of Life’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Scotland during World War Two. It uses many real settings, transported eight decades back in time.

This modern image gives a glimpse of Achnacarry Castle in Lochaber. The castle was the focal point of the Commando Basic Training Centre during the war and much of the story is set here.

Find out more on my website:
http://www.kenlussey.com/dol/index.html

The image shows a view across a pasture that has two trees in it that are just starting to leaf. The nearest, on the right, has a fence surrounding it. In the background, through the trees and beyond hedges, are glimpses of a grey stone mansion which is two storeys in height. The ground rises behind it to a skyline at the top left of the frame. The scene is in sunlight. The front cover of ‘The Danger of Life’ is shown in the top right corner.

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**earthling** @appassionato@mastodon.social · 5 Std.

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In contrast to both of these attitudes, he places history:
Both of these positions, inevitability and eternity, are antihistorical. The only thing that stands between them is history itself. History allows us to see patterns and make judgments. It sketches for us the structures within which we can seek freedom. It reveals moments, each one of them different, none entirely unique. To understand one moment is to see the possibility of being the cocreator of another. History permits us to be responsible: not for everything, but for something. The Polish poet Czesław Miłosz thought that such a notion of responsibility worked against loneliness and indifference. History gives us the company of those who have done and suffered more than we have.
Id. at 822-827

In his peroration, he exhorts young people especially (although it applies to all of us):

One thing is certain: If young people do not begin to make history, politicians of eternity and inevitability will destroy it. And to make history, young Americans will have to know some.

This is not the end, but a beginning. “The time is out of joint. O cursed spite,/That ever I was born to set it right!” Thus Hamlet. Yet he concludes: “Nay, come, let’s go together.”

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**earthling** @appassionato@mastodon.social · 5 Std.

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@mistergibson
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In addressing what he terms "the politics of inevitability," he notes:

Until recently, we Americans had convinced ourselves that there was nothing in the future but more of the same. The seemingly distant traumas of fascism, Nazism, and communism seemed to be receding into irrelevance. We allowed ourselves to accept the politics of inevitability, the sense that history could move in only one direction: toward liberal democracy. After communism in eastern Europe came to an end in 1989–91, we imbibed the myth of an “end of history.” In doing so, we lowered our defenses, constrained our imagination, and opened the way for precisely the kinds of regimes we told ourselves could never return.
Snyder, Timothy. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century . Crown/Archetype.

But he then addresses the converse attitude, what he calls "the politics of eternity." About this attitude, he states:
In the politics of eternity, the seduction by a mythicized past prevents us from thinking about possible futures. The habit of dwelling on victimhood dulls the impulse of self-correction. Since the nation is defined by its inherent virtue rather than by its future potential, politics becomes a discussion of good and evil rather than a discussion of possible solutions to real problems. Since the crisis is permanent, the sense of emergency is always present; planning for the future seems impossible or even disloyal. How can we even think of reform when the enemy is always at the gate?

**Marcos** @glitch25@clacks.link · 6 Std.

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Marcos @glitch25@clacks.link

I have neither the brain nor the reading ability, but I feel like this entire list is something I would read if I could.

These were 381 #books that were removed from the US #NavalAcademy #Library as promoting #DEI

https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/Press-Releases/display-pressreleases/Article/4146516/list-of-books-removed-from-usna-library/

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**earthling** @appassionato@mastodon.social · 7 Std.

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Apparently it's illegal to display certain book covers in Netherlands.

Some books covers by the Israeli historian Ilan Pappe:

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The myths—and reality—behind the state of Israel
In this groundbreaking book, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Occupation, the outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel.
The "ten myths" that Pappe explores—repeated endlessly in the media, enforced by the military, accepted without question by the world's governments—reinforce the regional status quo. He explores the claim that Palestine was an empty land at the time of the Balfour Declaration, as well as the formation of Zionism and its role in the early decades of nation building. He asks whether the Palestinians voluntarily left their homeland in 1948, and whether June 1967 was a war of "no choice." Turning to the myths surrounding the failures of the Camp David Accords and the official reasons for the attacks on Gaza.

Renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe's groundbreaking book revisits the formation of the State of Israel. Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint.

Denied for almost six decades, had it happened today it could only have been called "ethnic cleansing". Decisively debunking the myth that the Palestinian population left of their own accord in the course of this war, Ilan Pappe offers impressive archival evidence to demonstrate that, from its very inception, a central plank in Israel’s founding ideology was the forcible removal of the indigenous population. Indispensable for anyone interested in the current crisis in the Middle East.

The devastation of 7 October 2023 and the horrors that followed astounded the world. But the Israel–Palestine conflict didn't start on 7 October. It didn't start in 1967 either, when Israel occupied the West Bank, or in 1948 when the state of Israel was declared. It started in 1882, when the first Zionist settlers arrived in what was then Ottoman Palestine. Ilan Pappe untangles the history of two peoples, now sharing one land. Going back to the founding fathers of Zionism, Pappe expertly takes us through the twists and turns of international policy towards Israel–Palestine, Palestinian resistance to occupation, and the changes taking place in Israel itself.

A History of the Palestinians in Israel
For more than 60 years, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have lived as Israeli citizens within the borders of the nation formed at the end of the 1948 conflict. Occupying a precarious middle ground between the Jewish citizens of Israel and the dispossessed Palestinians of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Palestinians have developed an exceedingly complex relationship with the land they call home; however, in the innumerable discussions of the Israel-Palestine problem, their experiences are often overlooked and forgotten. In this book, historian Ilan Pappé examines how Israeli Palestinians have fared under Jewish rule and what their lives tell us about both Israel's attitude toward minorities and Palestinians' attitudes toward the Jewish state. Drawing upon significant archival and interview material, Pappé analyzes the Israeli state's policy towards its Palestinian citizens, finding discrimination in matters of housing, education, and civil rights. Rigorously researched yet highly readable, The Forgotten Palestinians brings a new and much-needed perspective to the Israel-Palestine debate.
2011

**The Vulgar Tongue** @TheVulgarTongue@zirk.us · 7 Std.

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The Vulgar Tongue @TheVulgarTongue@zirk.us

JIBBER THE KIBBER. A method of deceiving seamen, by fixing a candle and lanthorn round the neck of a horse, one of whose feet is tied up; this at night has the appearance of a ship's light. Ships bearing towards it, run on shore, and are plundered by the inhabitants.

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

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JIBBER THE KIBBER. A method of deceiving seamen, by fixing a candle and lanthorn round the neck of a horse, one of whose feet is tied up; this at night has the appearance of a ship's light. Ships bearing towards it, run on shore, and are plundered by the inhabitants.

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

**Leanpub** @leanpub@mastodon.social · 8 Std.

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Leanpub @leanpub@mastodon.social

Manifest Android Interview: The ultimate guide to cracking Android technical interviews https://leanpub.com/manifest-android-interview by Jaewoong is the featured book on the Leanpub homepage! https://leanpub.com #ComputerProgramming #Android #Kotlin #Engineering #Software #SoftwareEngineering #books #ebooks #newreleases

Find it on Leanpub!

**earthling** @appassionato@mastodon.social · 11 Std.

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Auschwitz A Doctor's Eyewitness Account by Miklos Nyiszli, 2011

Auschwitz was one of the first books to bring the full horror of the Nazi death camps to the American public; this is, as the New York Review of Books said, "the best brief account of the Auschwitz experience available."

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