#Books

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earthlingBuddhist Ethics: A Very Short Introduction by Damien Keown, 2005 Damien Keown illustrates how Buddhism might approach a range of fascinating moral issues ranging from abortion and suicide to cloning. <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nonfiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Buddhism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Buddhism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ethics</a>

Jon Sparks<a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> 26/3: Is there live theatre in your world? Do your characters engage with it? Q1: yes, definitely, live theatre and live music, it’s an era before broadcast or recorded media. Q2: yes, but I haven’t included it in the narrative. Except the Dawnsong, of course, which is pure theatre. <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/writersofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writersofmastodon</a>

Jon Sparks<a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritersCoffeeClub</a> 26/3: About which format or style choices are you the most uncertain? I’m intrigued to see how people react to the framing narrative of the next book in the series, ‘The Silence of Numikès’, but you’ll have to wait till August, though I do say more here: <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/theshatteredmoon/p/ive-been-framed?r=jh5v5&utm_medium=ios" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://open.substack.com/pub/theshatteredmoon/p/ive-been-framed?r=jh5v5&utm_medium=ios</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/writersofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writersofmastodon</a>

cm0002Science: the Fanfiction – When We Cease to Understand the World (2020) by Benjamín Labatut <a href="https://lemmy.world/post/27403484" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lemmy.world/post/27403484</a>

thkampenBlack <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/translations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#translations</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#publishing</a> - 1 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Chinese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chinese</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/translation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#translation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/%C3%9Cbersetzungen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Übersetzungen</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Heishu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Heishu</a>Schwarze Bücher, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/interne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#interne</a> Dokumente und geheime Übersetzungen: Die Werke von Otto Braun, Peter Wladimirow und Zheng Chaolin in der VR China In den letzten fünf Jahren sind in der Volksrepublik China eine Reihe von interessanten "schwarzen" Büchern erschienen. Schwarz sind die Einbände. Das besondere an dieser Reihe ist, daß die Werke nur intern <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NEIBU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NEIBU</a> vertrieben werden. <a href="https://www.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/sinologie/shan/nl-archiv/2008_NL25.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/sinologie/shan/nl-archiv/2008_NL25.html</a>

LibrariesMuswell Hill Library, library in Muswell Hill, London. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muswell_Hill_Library" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muswell_Hill_Library</a><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#libraries</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/map" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#map</a>

featherstoneScience: the Fanfiction – When We Cease to Understand the World (2020) by Benjamín Labatut <a href="https://lemm.ee/post/59489365" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lemm.ee/post/59489365</a>

Paul SemelStarted reading Tarfia Faizullah's Seam: Poems." <a href="https://amzn.to/4hPFsWQ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/4hPFsWQ</a> 📖🖊️ Liked a bunch in the first 20 pages. And there's 44 more to come. <a href="https://toot.community/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poems</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a>

BOOKSNS<a href="https://www.booksns.com/125761/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.booksns.com/125761/</a> How to take notes on books? <a href="https://channels.im/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> I’m new to reading fiction, mainly have read non-fiction exclusively in my life, but want to change that. I have Enduring Love by Ian McEwan and Inferno by Dante to start off. But in other areas of my life, I keep notes on everything I do. Theoretical topics I’m learning, experiences I have, skills and …

tootbrutei'm currently reading 3 incredible but completely different books:<ul><li>James by Percival Everett</li><li>Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams</li><li>Howling Dark by Christopher Ruocchio</li></ul><a href="https://fedi.arkadi.one/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://fedi.arkadi.one/tags/currentlyreading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CurrentlyReading</a> <a href="https://fedi.arkadi.one/tags/nowreading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NowReading</a>

Wordy Words on WordsIf there was ever a toe-in-the-water to the Fear Street series, this is it. It’s also the only copy of a classic Fear Street in size, cover, and price at my local Books-A-Million and I can’t help but feel that’s because it doesn’t bring the scares (or, really, much of anything). The story centers on a douche of a dude who is so self-centered and full of himself that he challenges himself to date twins within a specific time frame. They both fall in love with him and begin to play off each other while a third sister - an EVIL sister - is thrown into the mix. The only thing I kept thinking throughout the whole book is that SURELY sisters would talk to each other more. I mean, I wasn’t particularly close to my brother when we were teenagers, but we knew who each other was dating. It wasn’t a dumb book per se, but it wasn’t anything special. <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bookstagram?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstagram</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/book?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#book</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/books?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bookreview?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookreview</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bookrecommendation?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookrecommendation</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bookrecommendations?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookrecommendations</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/booklover?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#booklover</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/booknerd?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#booknerd</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bookaddict?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookaddict</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bookcover?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookcover</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/read?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#read</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/wordywordsonwords?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wordywordsonwords</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/readmore?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#readmore</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/readmorebooks?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#readmorebooks</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/readersofinstagram?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#readersofinstagram</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/reader?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reader</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/constantreader?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#constantreader</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/rlstine?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rlstine</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/rlstinebooks?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rlstinebooks</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/fearstreet?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fearstreet</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/rlstinefearstreet?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rlstinefearstreet</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/fearstreetbooks?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fearstreetbooks</a>

Jonathan EmmesediSerious thinkers about ethics and lives worth living should spend less time on the trolley problem and more on "Middlemarch".<a href="https://c.im/tags/Ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Ethics</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Philosophy</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MoralPhilosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MoralPhilosophy</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Literature</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/TrolleyProblem" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#TrolleyProblem</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Middlemarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Middlemarch</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/GeorgeEliot" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#GeorgeEliot</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Books</a> Dr Lydgate and Rosamond<a href="https://victorianweb.org/authors/eliot/gallery/11.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://victorianweb.org/authors/eliot/gallery/11.html</a>

earthlingA Balcony Over Jerusalem by John Lyons, 2017A gripping memoir of life in Jerusalem from one of Australia's most experienced Middle East correspondents. <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nonfiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/memoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memoir</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Israel</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Jerusalem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jerusalem</a>

earthling<a href="https://mstdn.social/@carrieberry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@carrieberry</a> There's another book, a graphic novel about women astronauts:Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier by Jim Ottaviani & Maris Wicks, 2020In the graphic novel Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier , Jim Ottaviani and illustrator Maris Wicks capture the great humor and incredible drive of Mary Cleave, Valentina Tereshkova, and the first women in space. <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astronauts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronauts</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#women</a>

Wendy PalmerAPRIL selection for the Queer* Romance Club — Ocean’s Echo by Everina MaxwellAs is fairly standard for QRC, the voting ended in a tie, so I’ve deployed my coordinator tie-breaker to go for Ocean’s Echo (the one I would have voted for, if I took part in the poll).This should be widely available at libraries. Though it’s in the same world as Maxwell’s first book, Winter’s Orbit, it is a stand-alone. I’m looking forward to this one :) *** Blurb:“Change begins with the meeting of the minds”When Tennal - a rich socialite, inveterate flirt, and walking disaster - is caught using his telepathic powers for illegal activities, the military decides to bind his mind to someone whose coercive powers are strong enough to control him.Enter Lieutenant Surit, the child of a disgraced general. Out of a desperate need to restore a pension to his other parent, Lieutenant Surit agrees to be bound to Tennal and keep him conscripted in the army, a task that seems impossible even for someone with Surit's ability to control minds.Tennal just wants to escape, but Surit isn't all that he seems. And their bond may just be the key to their freedom.***QRC is open to all, read at your own pace over the month and post about it under the <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/QueerRomanceClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#QueerRomanceClub</a> and <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/queerromanceclub" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@queerromanceclub</a> tags.No rules: let’s hear reactions, theories, reviews, favourite quotes etc, any time throughout the month or indeed whenever you happen to read it. CW for spoilers if going into details but general observations can be open.Or let us know what else you’re reading in the <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/queerRomance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#queerRomance</a> genre. One of the other titles on the voting list? An undiscovered gem? An old favourite?More about the club here <a href="https://mastodon.au/@wendypalmer/113144943004145104" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mastodon.au/@wendypalmer/113144943004145104</a><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/RomanceReads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RomanceReads</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/bookclubs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookclubs</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/lgbtqbookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@lgbtqbookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LGBTQRomance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LGBTQRomance</a> *I realised I typoed in the voting to Queen Romance Club. Which would have had quite different selections ;)

Of Bookish ThingsWomen Played a More Important Role in Producing Medieval Manuscripts Than Previously ThoughtNew research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and 1500 C.E.<a href="https://c.im/tags/Medieval" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Medieval</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Manuscripts" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Manuscripts</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MedievalBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MedievalBooks</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MedievalScribes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MedievalScribes</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MedievalWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MedievalWomen</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MedievalManuscripts" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MedievalManuscripts</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Women_Scribes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Women_Scribes</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MedievalHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MedievalHistory</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Between400And1500CE" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Between400And1500CE</a><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/women-played-a-more-important-role-in-copying-medieval-manuscripts-than-previously-thought-180986294/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/women-played-a-more-important-role-in-copying-medieval-manuscripts-than-previously-thought-180986294/</a>

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The Vulgar TongueCRINKUMS. The foul or venereal disease.A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)-- <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/dictionaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dictionaries</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#society</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/slang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#slang</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@histodons</a>

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