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Just got this ad on FB.
To quote someone who did write:

WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS

#books #bookstodon #authors #writing #writingcommunity
Screen shot from a video ad. A blonde white woman in a beige sweater is facing the camera, talking. The caption on the ad says "How I sell 1,000's of books each month without writing them. So go ahead, click that link."
#writing #writingcommunity #books #bookstodon #authors

Nothing to see here, just a perfectly ordinary writer at work.

#writing #writer #writingcommunity #books #book #bookstodon #sff #SF #WIP #humor #humour #funny
b&w photo of a serviceman of some kind sitting at a typewriter while wearing a breathing apparatus and a weird glass helmet with vacuum tubes and wire around the outside of it
#funny #book #wip #writing #humour #humor #writingcommunity #books #bookstodon #sff #writer #sf

The cover of my new book that's coming out in a few weeks 😊 Art by Viktória Hitka.

Seven-legged horses and kind witches: Magical folktales from Csík

It's a selection of folktales from Csíkszentdomokos, Transylvania, from a collection done in the 1940s. It was an awesome set of tales to work with.

#folklore #folktales #bookstodon #books #CoverReveal
Colorful book cover, with the title written in yellow at the bottom. The illustration on the cover features a golden-haired girl, with the sun on her forehead. She is riding a pale blue, seven-legged horse who has a mane reminiscent of a cloud, and the crescent moon on its neck. The background is green, depicting a forest of pine trees.
#books #bookstodon #folklore #folktales #coverreveal

@bookstodon folks, what’s a book you read once and then revisited many years later? did it hold up? or age like milk?

brought to you by my reread of The Sparrow, which made me feel bonkers.

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#books @bookstodon group

Water Outlaws by @slhuang is out today. Two chapters in, already hooked. I needed his genderbent wuxia Water Margin in my life.

#books #bookstodon #AmReading
#books #bookstodon #amreading @slhuang

The Fraud by Zadie Smith review – from Victorian London to slavery in Jamaica https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/aug/16/the-by-zadie-smith-review-from-victorian-london-to-slavery-in-jamaica #books
#books

The feeling when you are counting down the days until a long-awaited book comes out and you can read it 😊

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

This book really sounds awesome, and I would love it if the project got funded.

Hugh Lupton is a stellar storyteller, and he is generously sharing the best of his folktale repertoire.

See here:
https://unbound.com/books/fifty-tales-or-the-heart-of-the-matter/

#folklore #folktales #storytelling #books #bookstodon #storytellers @bookstodon

Fifty Tales, or The Heart of the Matter

Hugh Lupton reaches into world mythology and shares fifty tales from the heart of his repertoire.
Unbound
#books #bookstodon #folklore #storytelling #folktales #storytellers @bookstodon group

#HolidayReading I just discovered Italian author (and former anti-maffia judge and former senator) Gianrico Carofiglio. I have binge read 6 novels in a row about lawyer Guido Guerrieri. Great stuff! I admit that I’m a legal nerd https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianrico_Carofiglio #books #law #italy

Italian novelist

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#Italy #books #law #holidayreading

All in all, I love this reading challenge, and I did not regret picking up any of these books. I loved the topics and the places they took me. 📚

You can do your own version of this challenge if you like nonfiction :) Have fun!

#nonfiction #ReadingChallenge #books #bookstodon
#books #bookstodon #nonfiction #readingchallenge

And here's another book I’ve just finished, for anyone who has studied (or is studying) maths. It’s a lovely gallop through the parts of mathematical history that we don’t hear about, steering away from the stories that focus on the “Great Men” of the white western world, and digging around in a far more global and diverse view of how mathematics was developed. Especially highly recommended for anyone teaching maths at any level. It’s out in a couple of weeks. #maths #books #history
Snapshot of a page showing how our written numbers evolved from West Mediterranean Arabic to today, and a photo of the front cover of the book: The Secret Lives of Numbers
#maths #history #books

Shankari Chandran wins Miles Franklin Literary Award for 'Trojan horse' novel that explores the national identities of Sri Lanka and Australia https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-25/miles-franklin-2023-winner-shankari-chandran/102643924 via @ABCaustralia #books #publishing

Shankari Chandran wins Miles Franklin Literary Award for 'Trojan horse' novel that explores the national identities of Sri Lanka and Australia

Shankari Chandran was told her debut novel was not 'Australian' enough to find an audience; her latest novel, exploring what it means to be Australian, has just won the country's highest literary accolade.
Dee Jefferson (ABC News)
#publishing #books

I'm reading a book about the Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra that was founded in 1940 (because women were generally not considered fit to be performing musicians in orchestras at the time). It is inspiring and fascinating, and goes on my "how is this not a prestige TV show yet?" list.

#bookstodon #AmReading #WomensHistory #music #feminism #books #Canada

https://secondstorypress.ca/adult/from-kitchen-to-carnegie-hall

From Kitchen To Carnegie Hall: Ethel Stark and the Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra — Second Story Press

By Maria Noriega Rachwal   The all-women symphony orchestra that revolutionized music in Canada. In the 1940s it was unheard of for women to be members of a professional orchestra, let alone play “masculine” instruments like the bass or trombone…
Second Story Press
#music #feminism #canada #books #bookstodon #amreading #womenshistory

In Germany, teaching the Holocaust is mandatory.

It includes visits to concentration camp, museums, etc. They don't shy away from their own ugly history. Yet the kids aren't damaged; they're strengthened, matured, humbled. The U.S. needs to do same with slavery.

Not that complicated.

#history #books #education #politics #democrats
#politics #history #education #books #democrats

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