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Today in Labor History April 6, 1919: The Bavarian Soviet Republic was declared. Novelist, B. Traven (Death Ship, Treasure of the Sierra Madre), served on its Central Council of Workers, Soldiers and Farmers. The socialist republic was quashed a month later by the Freikorps, which included Rudolf Hess and other future members of the Nazi party.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #soviet #socialism #communism #germany #nazis #btraven #fiction #fascism #writer #author #books @bookstadon
Still from the Youtube video, “Bavarian Soviet Republic - 1919 Economy and Reconstruction” showing a soldier, fist in the air, with a flame-filled sky in the background.
#fascism #germany #books #nazis #writer #author #socialism #soviet #fiction #communism #workingclass #LaborHistory #BTraven @bookstadon group

Yeaahh!!
I'm so with you …

When I was ten, I dreamed of being locked in our local library. They had lost all the keys! It was so wonderful, I had the library to myself all summer long...

#books #dreams #bookstodon
#books #bookstodon #dreams

Here’s why you should pre-order my book...

It’s very good

Alan Rickman in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves was my first crush

I'm anti-fascist af

My feet are pretty sexy

I believe that hits all the marketing highs? 🤣

Info here

https://kristie-de-garis.ghost.io/about-my-book-drystone-a-life-rebuilt/

#Books #WorkingClassWriting #AntiFascist #Scotland #NatureWriting #Publishing
A colour image of a book cover. There are five large stones coloured green, purple, ochre, grey and blue stacked in a pleasing way. On the green, ochre and blue stones are the words 'A Life rebuilt' The title is in black at the top of the image and says 'Drystone'. The authors name, at the bottom of the image, is Kristie De Garis.

About My Book 'Drystone - A Life Rebuilt'

I spent years running: from places, people, and parts of myself. But chaos always followed. Growing up in the shadow of my family’s brutal experiences of racism, I faced my own. I dodged racial slurs and had pennies thrown by school bullies.
Kristie De Garis (By Hand)
#publishing #books #scotland #antifascist #naturewriting #workingclasswriting

How I added more #reading with my #pomodoro method?

#blog #books #workout #remote #work

#100DaysToOffload : 39/100

https://lazybea.rs/par

Pomodoro, and reading

lazybea.rs
#100DaysToOffload #books #reading #blog #work #workout #remote #pomodoro

Spent the entire night in one continuous dream of exploring a giant 5-floor bookshop. It's a place I have visited before so I know where to find each section 😄

#books #dreams #bookstodon
#books #bookstodon #dreams

✅ Importance Score: 35 / 100

Greta Gerwig to Helm Netflix's 'Chronicles of Narnia' Adaptation Amidst Casting Speculation and Fan Concerns
Filmmaker Greta Gerwig, celebrate...
More » https://newsflash.one/2025/04/04/netflixs-woke-narnia-movie-sparks-fan-fury-as-meryl-streep-in-talks-for-aslan/?feed_id=917678&_unique_id=67eff12156ff0

#News #BreakingNews #LatestNews #Entertainment #Books #Media #Netflix

Netflix’s woke Narnia movie sparks fan fury as Meryl Streep in talks for Aslan

Importance Score: 35 / 100 🔵 Greta Gerwig to Helm Netflix’s ‘Chronicles of Narnia’ Adaptation Amidst Casting Speculation and Fan Concerns Filmmaker Greta Gerwig, celebrated for directing the blockbuster ‘Barbie’ movie which featured Ryan Gosling’s Ke…
News Flash
#news #books #media #entertainment #netflix #breakingnews #latestnews

Alrighty then. Finished The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons (audio) yesterday, and These Burning Stars (paperback) by Bethany Jacobs this morning. So starting two new books today. House of Suns by Alistair Reynolds (audio) and, for my book club next week, The Measure by Nikki Erlick (paperback.) #reading #books
#books #reading

“Colonialism demands history begin past the point of colonization precisely because, under those narrative conditions, the colonist’s every action is necessarily one of self-defense.” One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad #books #literature #gaza #genocide #occupation #palestine
#books #literature #genocide #palestine #occupation #gaza

📖 The Timeless Magic of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities at 50

https://lithub.com/the-timeless-magic-of-italo-calvinos-invisible-cities-at-50/

#books #fiction #media #postmodern

The Timeless Magic of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities at 50

Chesterland, Ohio, 1979 I’m six years old and watching my two older brothers roll dice on the orange linoleum tiles in the basement. If I move a muscle, I’ve been warned—if I speak so much as a sin…
Literary Hub
#books #media #fiction #postmodern

“When a white man kills dozens of people in a concert or a synagogue or a school, it’s a crime. A hate crime, sometimes. But terrorism requires a distance between state and perpetrator wide enough to fit a different kind of fear. The kind of fear that justifies the creation of entirely new laws, new modes of detention, new apparatuses of surveillance, anything, anything at all.” One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad #books #literature #gaza #genocide #occupation
#books #literature #genocide #occupation #gaza

https://www.europesays.com/de/3530/ Der ARD würde es gut anstehen, nicht noch ein weiteres Mal zu versagen #ARD #Books #Bücher #Deutschland #Entertainment #Germany #Journalist #öffentlichesFernsehen #Unterhaltung
Der ARD würde es gut anstehen, nicht noch ein weiteres Mal zu versagen

Der ARD würde es gut anstehen, nicht noch ein weiteres Mal zu versagen - Deutschland

Ob die ARD den Fall Mischke jetzt vielleicht zügiger aufarbeitet? Thilo Mischke hat erstmals selbst Stellung bezogen und der „Zeit“ ein Interview gegeben, in
Deutschland
#germany #books #entertainment #ard #journalist #deutschland #bucher #unterhaltung #offentlichesfernsehen

Review of Emily Feng's new book 'Let Only Red Flowers Bloom'

"Feng collects her decade of reporting on China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in a series of powerfully told, personal stories that chronicle a deterioration in China’s civil liberties and human rights."

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2025/04/03/2003834522

#China #Taiwan #books #journalism #中國 #台灣

Book review: Chinese identity with Xi Jinping characteristics

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan
台北時報
#taiwan #journalism #books #china #台灣 #中國

The decision to strip chapters from books that had already won the approval of the state’s Republican-controlled board of education represents an escalation in how local school boards run by ideological conservatives influence what children learn.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-cypress-fairbanks-removed-textbook-chapters?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Texas #Education #School #Diversity #DEI #Books
#news #education #books #diversity #texas #school #dei

“The argument that violence in any form debased us and marks the instant failure of all involved is much more difficult to make when the state regularly engages in or approves of wholesale violence against civilians and combatant alike.” One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad #books #literature #gaza #genocide #occupation #palestine
#books #literature #genocide #palestine #occupation #gaza

Currently reading (jacket blurb in image alt) Found on the cutout table at a local bookshop for 10 bucks (30 bucks original price). A good history of modern #protests, #insurrections, and an analysis of their failings/reversals, taken from his journalistic experience (finacial times and other high profile msm) and interviews with the 'little people' who made it happen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_We_Burn#:~:text=If%20We%20Burn:%20The%20Mass%20Protest%20Decade,journalism%20book%20by%20author%20and%20journalist%20Vincent #Books #RadicalBookshelf
IF WE BURN THE MASS PROTEST DECADE AND THE MISSING REVOLUTION VINCENT BEVINS THE STORY OF THE RECENT UPRISINGS THAT SOUGHT TO CHANGE THE WORLD-AND WHAT COMES NEXT From 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Yet we are not living in more just and democratic societies as a result. If We Burn is a stirring work of history built around a single, vital question: How did so many mass protests lead to the opposite of what they asked for? From the so-called Arab Spring to Gezi Park in Turkey, from Ukraine's Euromaidan to student rebellions in Chile and Hong Kong, acclaimed journalist Vincent Bevins provides a blow-by-blow account of street movements and their consequences, recounted in gripping detail. He draws on four years of research and hundreds of interviews conducted around the world, as well as his own strange experiences in Brazil, where a progressive-led protest explosion led to on extreme-right government that torched the Amazon. Careful investigation reveals that conven-fional wisdom on revolutionary change is gravely misguided. In this groundbreaking study of an extraordinary chain of events, protesters and major actors look back on successes and defeats, offering urgent lessons for the future.
#books #protests #radicalbookshelf #insurrections

#LARB Radio Hour talks with #PankajMishra about his new book, "#TheWorldAfterGaza: A History”

"[H]ow the legacy of the Holocaust has shaped the contemporary world order, including how it has shaped the government of #Israel, and the current war in #Gaza. The book grapples with how, within the relentless violence of the 20th century, #trauma can lead to #nationalism, and also how one #genocide can lead to another."

https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/pankaj-mishras-the-world-after-gaza-a-history/

#Palestine #books @bookstodon @israel @palestine
#books #israel #nationalism #genocide #palestine #gaza #trauma #pankajmishra #larb #theworldaftergaza @bookstodon group @palestine @israel

Aquí os comparto la foto de todo lo terminado de leer en marzo.

Podéis leer mis comentarios, sin spoilers, de cada obra en el blog. https://mcallus.net/2025/04/01/lecturas-de-marzo-2025/

#book #books #libro #libros #lectura #lecturas #comic #comics #cómic #cómics #blog #blogger
Una pila de libros y cómics sobre una mesa. En la parte superior hay tres libros: "Las Miradas de Medusa", "La Piedad de los Dioses" y "La Mujer de la Arena". Debajo hay dos cómics, uno parece ser de "Transformers", y otro sobre Scarlet, de la misma saga. Finalmente, en la parte inferior se encuentra un cómic de Marvel de Spider-Man y otro de las Ultimate. Se ven varios títulos y autores, así como portadas con ilustraciones.
#comics #comic #book #books #blog #blogger #libros #lecturas #libro #lectura

Hitting People in the Feels:
A quick roundup of some of the lovely reviews of The Gates of Polished Horn.

I'm really touched that this collection is working for readers. I was nervous to put some of these more serious and literary stories together with my usual blend of SFF and humor. But I guess it works. Thanks to @ilanderz for believing in the project!

https://markarayner.com/hitting-people-in-the-feels/

#review #reviews #book #books #bookstodon #SFF #literary #feels
cover art for The Gates of Polished Horn, a collection of stories, by Mark A. Rayner

Hitting People in the Feels » mark a. rayner

Mark does a roundup of reviews of The Gates of Polished Horn, which seems to be "hitting people in the feels."
Mark A. Rayner (mark a rayner)
#book #review #books #bookstodon #sff #reviews #literary #feels @Joe Mahoney

“Of all the epitaphs that may one day be written on the gravestone of Western liberalism, the most damning is this: *Faced off against a nihilistic, endlessly, cruel manifestation of conservatism, and somehow managed to make it close.*“ One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad #books #literature #gaza #genocide #occupation #palestine
#books #literature #genocide #palestine #occupation #gaza

No, people, you don't understand

The Animal Family is the most damn wholesome book I have ever read in my life.

Like seriously.

There are some many dawwwww moments in it I can't even.

Case in point: big awkward hunter falls in love with a mermaid. And she moves into his house. Except she hates that the house doesn't move. She can't sleep still. So he makes her a rocking chair.

And they adopt a bear. And a lynx. AND a baby.

And it is so beautifully written.

#books #bookstodon
#books #bookstodon

C’est l’heure de dresser le bilan du mois passé. Et comme je n’avais pas matière à en faire un en février, c’est un bilan de deux mois qui vous attend sur le blog. Si j’ai eu peu de lecture pour plein de raisons, j’ai pas mal joué et j’ai aussi un petit retour film et série à vous proposer.
Alors rendez-vous sur le blog pour tout ça: https://yuyine.be/node/1311

#blog #critique #critiquelitteraire #bookreview #book #books #livre #lecture #pixelbook #SFFF #Bilan #jeuxvideos #jeuxindé #nextfest #splitfiction #wildrobot #severance
Fond étoilé avec écrit « Bilan du mois février & Mars 2025 » avec dessous les images des 6 lectures du mois, du NextFest de Steam, du film Wild robot et du jeu Split fiction.

Bilan des mois de Février et Mars 2025

Mars tire sa révérence et comme je n'avais pas matière à vous faire un bilan en février, voici le bilan des deux derniers mois... Février et mars furent deux mois très calmes en termes de lecture pour plein de raisons.
Les critiques de Yuyine
#book #books #bookreview #blog #severance #lecture #livre #critique #critiquelitteraire #sfff #pixelbook #splitfiction #NextFest #jeuxvideos #bilan #jeuxinde #wildrobot

... so this is a book about an awkward, orphaned hunter and a cheerful mermaid moving in together and then adopting a bear, a lynx, and a baby boy, and it is all sweet and wholesome and how have I never heard about this before?!?!

#AmReading #bookstodon #books
#books #bookstodon #amreading

Today I discovered The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell and there goes my productivity for the day.

#AmReading #bookstodon #books #literature
#books #bookstodon #amreading #literature

“… The moral prohibition on siding with any administration that endorses genocide will force a different flavor of the exact same logic that centrist liberalism has depended on for so long: hold your nose and align with the least worst thing.“ One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad #books #literature #gaza #genocide #occupation #palestine
#books #literature #genocide #palestine #occupation #gaza

A blog post about my least favourite book covers, and why I hate them. (With charts!)
This one's been cooking for a while, and I hope you find it interesting. 📚💙

https://keeganleech.co.za/blog/book-cover-bias

#blog #books #reading #design #gender

Gendered bias in modern covers of classic books

Exploring some subtle but prevalent gendered biases to the colours used on the covers of classic books.
keeganleech.co.za
#books #reading #blog #design #gender

Manna Ken is the director of Combat Augment Security Enforcement. It doesn't matter how she feels about it, protecting the borders is her responsibility.
But, so is protecting Mira.

https://www.callersbooks.com/post/what-does-responsibility-mean-to-you

#callersbooks #blog #opinion #scifibooksky #fantasybooksky #books #bookstodon

What Does Responsibility Mean to You?

What does responsibility mean to us?Ok everybody, say it with me now. “With great power there must also come great responsibility.” - Uncle BenWe all know the saying. We all know what it means.
Xin Graves (Callers Books)
#books #bookstodon #blog #opinion #callersbooks #scifibooksky #fantasybooksky

“Whatever derangement currently occupies Conservative American politics is, at least, something of very real consequence: the minority groups they want to legislate out of every facet of society, the books they want to ban, the mechanisms of democracy they want to subvert – none of it is hypothetical.” One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad #books #literature #gaza #genocide #occupation #palestine
#books #literature #genocide #palestine #occupation #gaza

Just finished the novel I was reading by Dan Abnett and will read one by Dickens next. I have a rotation of: junky SF/fantasy/horror ⇝ Dickens ⇝ something literary ⇝ non-fiction going quite well. I’ve found that if I plan in too much detail beyond this “reading frame”, I get a bit demotivated. I still keep a list of books I want to read but it becomes such a productivity chore to try and work through in an organised fashion. (And I LOVE making lists!)
#blog #reading #books
#books #reading #blog

Finished reading The Sunbearer Trials and I really liked it! I haven't read YA in ages, but this was a good one. I liked teens behaving like actual teens, I liked that the MC was not a brooding loner but a likable guy with friends, and I absolutely adored all the detail and fun references that went into the world building. It is a colorful, exciting, likable book.
... that ends on a cliffhanger so now I gotta read the next one 😄

#TransRightsReadathon #bookstodon #books #YAlit #lgbt
Cover of The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas, featuring Theo, the main character, who is a brown-skinned, dark-haired trans boy with quetzal wings.
#LGBT #books #bookstodon #transrightsreadathon #yalit

Today in Labor History March 29, 1935: French illegalist anarchist Clément Duval died. He was a major influence on other illegalist anarchists of the era, including members of the Bonnot Gang. In 1886, Duval robbed the mansion of a Parisian socialite. He was condemned to death, but his sentence was later commuted to hard labor on Devil's Island, French Guiana, setting for the novel Papillon. According to Paul Albert, "The story of Clement Duval was lifted and, shorn of all politics, turned into the bestseller Papillon." In a letter printed in the November 1886 issue of the anarchist paper Le Révolté, Duval famously declared: "Theft is but restitution carried out by an individual to his own benefit, being conscious of another's undue monopolization of collectively produced wealth."

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #prison #devilsisland #papillon #clementduval #bonnotgang #novel #fiction #books #author #writer @bookstadon
Black and white sketch of Duval. By Unknown author - http://anarcoefemerides.balearweb.net/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4649237
#books #writer #author #prison #anarchism #fiction #novel #workingclass #LaborHistory #devilsisland #papillon #clementduval #bonnotgang @bookstadon group

“In the right-wing vision of America, every social interaction is an organ harvest, something vital snatched from the civic body, sold for one kind of profit or another. It’s a vision that produces an almost unmatched clarity in the base, and unmatched loyalty: *which side of this operation do you want to be on?*“ One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad #books #literature #gaza #genocide #occupation #palestine
#books #literature #genocide #palestine #occupation #gaza

This book on MBS’s “ruthless quest for global power” sadly seems an inspiration to those currently leading the U.S.
Let’s hope they don’t kill any journalists as MBS had Jamal Khashoggi brutally assassinated.
#dictators #strongmen #saudiarabia #journalism #books
Blood and Oil: Mohammed Bin Salman’s Ruthless Quest For Global Power - by Bradley Hope & Justin Scheck
#journalism #books #saudiarabia #dictators #Strongmen

Another lovely review of The Gates of Polished Horn! This book felt risky to me, because many of these stories are quite serious in tone, so it's nice to see long-time readers of my work appreciate it!

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7408191857

#review #reviews #book #books #bookstodon #SFF #literaryfiction
Slide showing cover art of The Gates of Polished Horn by Mark A. Rayner and a quote: A wonderful surprise! Rayner is showing his prowess as a genuine storyteller. The stories are at times subtle, at times dark, at times heartwarming and heartbreaking. He's got skills, and we as readers get to reap the benefits. Scott, on Goodreads markarayner.com/gates

Scott's review of The Gates of Polished Horn

5/5: Being accustomed to Mr. Rayner's flash fiction, which has helped grow his legend as a master of humor, absurdity, and satire, this short story collection was a wonderful surprise.
www.goodreads.com
#book #review #books #bookstodon #sff #reviews #literaryfiction

“It’s difficult to live in this country in this moment and not come to the conclusion that the principal concern of the modern American liberal is, at all times, not what one does or believes or supports or opposes, but what one is seen to be. From this outcome, everything is reverse-engineered.” One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad #books #literature #gaza #genocide #occupation #palestine
#books #literature #genocide #palestine #occupation #gaza

A Balcony Over Jerusalem by John Lyons, 2017

A gripping memoir of life in Jerusalem from one of Australia's most experienced Middle East correspondents.

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#memoir
#Israel
#Jerusalem
Israel has controlled the West Bank for more than 40 years. For 20 years, John Lyons has been writing about the occupation and the persistence of the conflict around the 'Settlements' - and their broader implications for world peace amid the growing turbulence in the Arab world and the emergence of the Islamic State. This is a book written from the battle-scarred heart of one of the world's most disputed territories. John Lyons lived in Jerusalem for six years, sending his son to a local school and befriending his Israeli neighbours. He has confronted Hamas officials about rockets fired into Israel and Israeli soldiers about tear gas shot at Palestinian children. He has been kidnapped in the line of work. By telling the story of his travels in the region he paints a vivid picture of daily life against the backdrop of the Arab-Israeli conflict, at times dazzling...
#books #israel #Jerusalem #nonfiction #memoir @bookstodon group

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