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JohnDavidBooks
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Here for the books and book people. #Booksky 💙📚

Twitterland emigre. Former educator. Desiderata. Gargantua and Pantagruel.

BookTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/nicholasofautrecourt

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/4357283-john-david
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JohnDavidBooks @johndavidbooks.bsky.social · Nov 29
When those in power rule through injustice, inequality, and inhumanity, live your life in defiance of that power.

(Photograph taken by Rahel Posner, 1931.)
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For Q4 of Historathon, we're spending October-December reading about everything related to nonfiction history written in or about 1820 to the present day. Come join us to toss around ideas!

#BookSky #Books #BookTube #Historathon 💙📚

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October 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Oh, what a tangled web is his weave! He is the only one deceived.

#RandPaul #KentuckyWhatIsYouDoinGirl
July 24, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Kafka slaying like the diva he was. #Booksky 💙📚

#BookSky #Books #BookTube 💅💅💅
July 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Anyone else pick up some @yalepress.bsky.social
books during their May sale?

#Historathon #BookSky #Books #BookTube 💙📚

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Yale University Press Book Haul!
YouTube video by John David (NicholasOfAutrecourt)
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June 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938-2025)

#BookSky #Books #BookTube 💙📚
May 28, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Tonight: Diving into Thomas Hardy's break-out success, "Far From the Madding Crowd". My first Hardy novel!

Are you a admirer? A hater? Let's spill some Victorian literary tea.

#BookSky #Books #BookTube 💙📚
May 7, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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My review of Dr. Selena Wisnom's (@lswisnom.bsky.social) wonderful cultural history of ancient Assyria, "The Library of Ancient Wisdom" (@uchicagopress.bsky.social). A brilliant reconstruction of what we can learn from Ashurbanipal's library at Nineveh!

#BookSky #Books 💙📚

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The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World by Selena Wisnom
YouTube video by John David (NicholasOfAutrecourt)
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May 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Oh, it's on like Donkey Kong!
yalepress.bsky.social Yale University Press @yalepress.bsky.social · Apr 30
Tomorrow marks the start of our May Savings event! All books published before April 30th are 50% with free shipping with code MAY25.

Check out the full list of terms here: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2025-may-sale/
May 1, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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What are you reading this weekend?

#BookSky #Books #BookTube #Historathon 💙📚

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Friday Reads | April 26, 2025
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April 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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A few pictures from my central Texas garden in late April:

How many million Aprils came
Before I ever knew
How white a cherry bough could be,
A bed of squills, how blue!

-Sara Teasdale, "Blue Squills"

#Gardening #NativePlantGarden #BookSky #Books #BookTube #Historathon 💙📚
April 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Now reading: Catherine Hanley's biography "Matilda: Empress, Queen, and Warrior" (from @yalepress.bsky.social).

Her father Henry I made her the heir, but his barons weren't on board - then her cousin Stephen of Blois swooped in and had himself crowned instead.

#BookSky #Books #BookTube 💙📚
April 17, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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On my nightstand: "The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages" by @saracharles.bsky.social (from @uchicagopress.bsky.social). Fascinating details about writing culture, script types, and - most importantly - de-romanticizing medieval life.

#BookSky #Books #BookTube #Historathon 💙📚
April 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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"There is something sinister about putting a leprechaun in a workhouse. The only solid comfort is that he certainly will not work." - G. K. Chesterton

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April 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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The look on my face when C.S. Lewis says in "The Discarded Image" that Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae is a "work of very mediocre intelligence."

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April 8, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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On the Historathon Discord, we're spending April-June reading about everything related to nonfiction history written in or about 500 A.D. - 1500 A.D. Come join us to toss around ideas!

Discord link: discord.gg/au9VHFts8k

#BookSky #Books #BookTube #Historathon 💙📚

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#Historathon2025 Pile of Possibilities/Recommendations for Quarter 2 (April-June)
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April 1, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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It's just one of those days.

#catsofbluesky #caturday
March 29, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Check out the four books I've been reading in March.

What are you reading this weekend?

#BookSky #Books #BookTube #Historathon 💙📚

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Friday Reads | March 28, 2025
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March 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Just started Francesca Wade's "Square Haunting" (@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social) detailing the lives of five intellectuals - Virginia Woolf, Jane Harrison, Eileen Power, H.D., and Dorothy Sayers - navigating politics, relationships, work, and personal independence.

#BookSky #Books #BookTube💙📚
March 26, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Thoughts on Joshua Cherniss's assessment of the great liberal political theorists of the 20th century: Weber, Aron, Camus, Niebuhr, and Berlin and their concept of "tempered liberalism" (@princetonupress.bsky.social).

#BookSky #Books #BookTube #Historathon 💙📚

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Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century by Joshua Cherniss
YouTube video by John David (NicholasOfAutrecourt)
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March 25, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Did anyone else miss that Emily Wilson (translator of the Iliad and the Odyssey) is A.N. Wilson's daughter? Or am I the only one who's not paying attention?

#BookSky #Books #BookTube 💙📚
March 24, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Thoughts on Ritchie Robertson's massive - and superb! -"The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790" (@harpercollins.bsky.social, 2020).

#BookSky #Books #BookTube #Historathon 💙📚

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Review of "The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790" by Ritchie Robertson
YouTube video by John David (NicholasOfAutrecourt)
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March 21, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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On March 20, 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte entered Paris after escaping from Elba and began his Hundred Days.

#OnThisDay #BookSky #Books #BookTube #Historathon 💙📚

Painting: "Napoleon Leaving Elba," Joseph Beaume (1836).
March 21, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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I can't say that I agree with the sentiment, but it's beautifully stated nonetheless.

#BookSky #Books #BookTube #Emerson #Transendentalism 💙📚
March 21, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Looking for an up-to-date primer on how to understand the ways the Chinese Communist Party interacts with civil society while maintaining power?

Check out Bruce Dickson's "The Party and the People" (@princetonupress.bsky.social)!

#BookSky #Books #BookTube #Historathon 💙📚

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Review of "The Party and the People: Chinese Politics in the 21st Century" by Bruce J. Dickson
YouTube video by John David (NicholasOfAutrecourt)
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March 18, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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#BookSky #Books #BookTube 💙📚
March 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM