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The Infernals, John Connolly
May 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The Handmaid's Tale; Margaret Atwood; pg.308
January 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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A reminder that T. S. Eliot had the problems of today figured out 103 years ago in his essay and poetry collection "The Sacred Wood."
December 14, 2024 at 1:26 AM
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love’s austere and lonely offices

Robert Hayden, ‘Those Winter Sundays’
December 8, 2024 at 11:51 AM
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"The ranks of the betrayed had grown. Our new common ground was the dirt kicked in our faces."

-- THEY KNEW (2022)

static.macmillan.com/static/fib/s...
December 7, 2024 at 3:50 PM
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but you don't need to justify your reading preferences and choices to anyone. Audiobooks count as reading. Also, you don't have to finish books you don't enjoy. Don't read to impress, read for yourself. Life's too short, love yourself, ok?

Signed, a librarian.
December 7, 2024 at 3:51 PM
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For years, I have been keeping an annotated guide to science fiction based on reasonable astronomy. It's organized by topic: black holes, Jupiter, etc. It makes no claim to be complete, but may lead you to stories you didn't know: bit.ly/astronomyscifi
#astronomy #sciencefiction #astroedu #scifi
December 6, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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"A regular stunt was to throw himself from tall buildings into the water below, such as the three-storey Abbey Warehouse in Penzance harbour." —Duncan Leatherdale for BBC News #longreads

www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
The Death and Life of Jacob Cockle
www.bbc.co.uk
December 6, 2024 at 6:18 PM
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“We don’t even travel anymore, we’re too afraid of the water,” says Anne Marie. “What are we going to do if it rains, turn the airplane around?” @dubstein1.bsky.social @placesjournal.bsky.social #longreads

placesjournal.org/article/in-t...
In the Wake of the Water
In the suburbs of Providence, Rhode Island, homes are at high risk of flooding due to climate change. Residents remain reluctant — or unable — to leave.
placesjournal.org
December 5, 2024 at 2:36 PM
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I got hooked on the first page of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - more than two decades ago 😂 #booksky
December 2, 2024 at 5:47 AM
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obsessed that LeGuin wrote a whole essay decryingTolstoy’s “unhappy families” quote
December 1, 2024 at 2:10 AM
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I've been pawing through old work as I get ready to relaunch my website, and unearthed this story I wrote a few years back about a shipwreck and the hundreds-year-long quest to figure out what happened. A very Oregon offering for your holiday weekend: magazine.atavist.com/the-ghost-hu...
The Ghost Hunter - The Atavist Magazine
For hundreds of years, there were rumors of a shipwrecked treasure on the Oregon coast. But no one found anything, until Cameron La Follette began digging.
magazine.atavist.com
November 27, 2024 at 5:24 PM
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“There are whole books on psychology that don't get anywhere near this paragraph from Dostoevsky,” says Dylan o’Sullivan
November 30, 2024 at 5:45 AM
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“Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeling that the story evokes, the questions that rise to your mind, rather than the fictional events described. They should teach you this in school, but they don’t.” —Sigrid Nunez, THE VULNERABLES
November 29, 2024 at 8:30 PM
For Whom The Bell Tolls; Ernest Hemingway
November 27, 2024 at 4:19 PM
Killing Patton; by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
November 25, 2024 at 8:35 PM
The Great Influenza; John M. Barry
November 24, 2024 at 4:57 PM
The Great Influenza; John M. Barry
A nation at war with itself. Sept. 12, 1886.
November 22, 2024 at 6:01 PM
On abortion: The Cider House Rules, by John Irving
November 21, 2024 at 2:57 AM