The Infernals, John Connolly

The Handmaid's Tale; Margaret Atwood; pg.308

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."

love’s austere and lonely offices

Robert Hayden, ‘Those Winter Sundays’

"The ranks of the betrayed had grown. Our new common ground was the dirt kicked in our faces."

-- THEY KNEW (2022)

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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.

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

"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

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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

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I got hooked on the first page of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - more than two decades ago 😂 #booksky

obsessed that LeGuin wrote a whole essay decryingTolstoy’s “unhappy families” quote

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...

“There are whole books on psychology that don't get anywhere near this paragraph from Dostoevsky,” says Dylan o’Sullivan

“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

For Whom The Bell Tolls; Ernest Hemingway

Killing Patton; by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard

The Great Influenza; John M. Barry

The Great Influenza; John M. Barry
A nation at war with itself. Sept. 12, 1886.

On abortion: The Cider House Rules, by John Irving