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Dag 165 / Day 165
Gamla ord, gammal värld. / Old words, old world.
#gammalbok #historia #vägmärken #antik #läsning #oldbook #history #antique #vintage #reading #blackandwhite #literature #bookcover #sverige #swedish #collectible #darkacademia #photography #bibliophile #365project
Kerry Ferrand makes book review videos about a wide range of fiction and non-fiction. You can follow their review account at:
➡️ @kerry_ferrand
They've already published over 60 videos. If these haven't federated to your server yet you can browse them all at spectra.video/a/kerry_ferrand/…
#FeaturedPeerTube #Books #BookReviews #Fiction #NonFiction #Literature #Bookstodon #PeerTube
Kerry Ferrand
Another loathsome Gen-Xer in New Zealand. Buys lots of books and reads a few of them.Spectra Video
Today in Labor History May 10, 1933: The Nazis staged massive public book burnings, beginning in Berlin, with students from Humboldt University, destroying thousands of titles. German poet, Heinrich Heine, said back in the early 1800s, "Where one burns books, one will soon burn people." They burned books written by Jewish, half-Jewish, communist, socialist, anarchist, liberal, pacifist, lgbtq and sexologist authors. The first books burned were those of Karl Marx and Karl Kautsky. Many of the books that were burned were seized from the library of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, director of the Institute for Sexual Science (Institut für Sexualwissenschaft), which the Nazis raided in Berlin on May 6, 1933.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #nazis #fascism #censorship #BookBurning #HeinrichHeine #poetry #literature #fiction #books #students #homophobia #transphobia #lgbtq #magnushirschfeld #karlmarx #anarchism #socialism #antisemitism @bookstadon
Daniel Kraus Wins 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with Angel Down as a “breathless novel of World War I, a stylistic tour-de-force that blends such genres as allegory, magical realism and science fiction into a cohesive whole, told in a single sentence.”
#books #Pulitzer #PulitzerPrize #literature #book #bookstodon @bookstodon #Kraus #author #DanielKraus #AngelDown #reading #readingcommunity #booksky #bookstagram #writers #booktok
John Hollander’s poem Kitty and Bug is self-explanatory in its simplicity. The cat’s unpunctuated, almost stream-of-consciousness thoughts fit into a physical ‘cat’ shape, while the bug – in sharp contrast – is but a 3-letter word near the edge of the page.
Happy #Caturday !
#poetry #poem #cat #cats #kitty #catsOfMastodon #books #reading #literature #bookstodon @bookstodon
New copy of earliest poem in English language discovered by researchers in Rome
An early ninth-century manuscript containing a text of the first known poem in the English language has been discovered in Rome by researchers from Trinity College Dublin.
phys.org/news/2026-04-earliest…
"Caedmon's Hymn" at PG:
Today is Harper Lee’s 100th birthday.
Born in a small town in Alabama, where her father worked as a lawyer, Lee loved #books. One of her childhood friends was Truman Capote, who spent time in #Monroeville as a boy. Years later, she turned the world she knew into a novel about the difficult bravery of doing what is right when the world refuses to do so.
Do you like her novel To Kill a Mockingbird?
#writers #HarperLee #reading #literature #bookstodon #booksky
@bookstodon
"The em-dash was not invented last November in a Silicon Valley server farm. It has been a staple of English prose since roughly the seventeenth century, and a darling of the literary canon for nearly as long. Laurence Sterne built Tristram Shandy on it. Lord Byron reached for it to grieve."
~ Chitown Kev
#EmDash #SiliconValley #AI #language #writing #literature
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dailykos.com/stories/2026/4/26…
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: The aftermath isn’t aftermath-ing…in some respects
Heather Cox Richardson writes at her “Letters from an American” Substack about Trump’s comments to White House Correspondents Dinner attendees following shots…Chitown Kev (Daily Kos)
