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SimonRoyHughes 🌹 · @SimonRoyHughes
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Well the vote is in, and the biggest voting bloc is correct: the Amazonian dogheaded cyclops-monopod cannibals were Scandinavian. More specifically, they were Swedes (who have subsequently done much to improve their image).

@histodons

#history #medieaval #literature #chronicles

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Moreau Vazh · @Taskerland
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My review of Caitlin r. Kiernan's Black Helicopters (or 'Why I can't stand the writings of Gene Wolfe) tasker.land/2023/09/12/review-

#horror #sff #review #literature

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conputer dipshit · @davidcrespo
435 followers · 901 posts · Server hachyderm.io
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5yo texting or finnegans wake?

#literature

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joe•iuculano :mastodon: · @iuculano
766 followers · 21036 posts · Server masto.ai

@fawfulfan

effing wow.
I guess they would ban "the Odd Couple", too. Two guys living together.
And Moby Dick. I mean, it was all men on that boat. And that title!
*eyeroll*

#satire #bannedbooks #literature

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findo von findosbuecher.com · @findosbuecher
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#wordpress #blogger #blog #buch #book #NatureWriting #erzaehlung #roman #climatechange #JohnIronmonger #literature #literatur #rezension

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Assoc for Scottish Literature · @scotlit
1106 followers · 1044 posts · Server mastodon.scot

Exile & Expatriates in Robin Jenkins’ Novels
Études Écossaises 13 (2010)

Prof Bernard Sellin examines Robin Jenkins’ 9 novels & short story collections inspired by the author’s own experiences as a teacher in Afghanistan, Catalonia & Malaysia

@litstudies

journals.openedition.org/etude

#20thcentury #literature #scottish

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Assoc for Scottish Literature · @scotlit
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Robin Jenkins (1912–2005), one of Scotland’s most prolific & acclaimed 20th-century novelists, was born , 11 Sept. In this paper from 2012, Dr Linden Bicket argues that Jenkins anticipates the urban realist fictions of Galloway, Kelman & Welsh

asls.org.uk/robin-jenkins-a-ce

#20thcentury #literature #scottish #otd

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Mark Cantrell · @Man0Words
28 followers · 149 posts · Server newsie.social

#author #literature #books #festivals #authors #readers #Sheffield #yorkshire

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Yahia Lababidi · @EgyptianAphorist
1296 followers · 7651 posts · Server mindly.social
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‘This should be consumed in tiny pieces, thoughtfully, savoring each delicious morsel in small bites, allowing the sumptuous flavors to come alive.

“True #, like mystics, are messenger pigeons,” says Labadidi. He is at heart a poet who will appeal to anyone interested in short and memorable sayings to live by.

Quarantine Notes is a book of for the universal spirit.’

@bookstodon

#book #poets #hope #books #bookstodon #wisdom #literature #review #poetry #WritingCommunity

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Damon Young · @damonyoung
1976 followers · 183 posts · Server mas.to

Buenos dĂ­as, amigos.

Si puedes leer en español, esto es un articulo sobre mi libro nuevo: FILOSOFÍA EN EL JARDÍN. es.ara.cat/estilo/antiguos-fil

#espanol #spanish #literatura #books #literature #gardens #jardines #filosofia #philosophy

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Stitched Ink Media · @StitchedInkMedia
75 followers · 593 posts · Server flipboard.social
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Walking on Stones, A Novel
by Chris Handrahan

The inseparable body and mind of all life.
A novel about the consciousness of life and existence.

Books inspire more books.

#stitchedinkmedia #stitchedinkbooks #books #writingcommunity #writing #consciousness #creativity #fiction #fediart #mastodonart #bookstodon #artistofmastodon #art #mystery #drama #suspense #novel #fedibook #literature

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Eph (they,them) · @Eph
35 followers · 118 posts · Server fediphilosophy.org
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Guess we’ll forever be all nose, forehead, and horrid.

#philosophy #literature #oscarwilde

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Alberto Chimal · @albertochimal
1842 followers · 1992 posts · Server mstdn.mx
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#EjerciciosDeEscrituraCreativa #writing #escritura #creativewriting #escrituracreativa #creativity #creatividad #writersofmastodon #ejerciciosdeescritura #writingexercises #writenow #escritoresdemastodon #writingwednesday #writingcommunity #writingprompts #boletin #newsletter #substack #literatura #literature

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Woodchaz · @Woodchaz
373 followers · 3030 posts · Server social.vivaldi.net

lateboomersden.blog/2023/09/10
Trying to get some more Shakespeare under my belt without going to a play or reading Shakespeare. I'm an English major, but sometimes I did use the Cliff's Notes.
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#culture #literature #movies #shakespeare

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Assoc for Scottish Literature · @scotlit
1106 followers · 1044 posts · Server mastodon.scot
London Review of Books - Jonathan Coe · Gray’s Elegy · LRB 8 October 1992

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“…the novel’s fizzing exuberance derives from the fun of watching Gray’s keen authorial intelligence finding layer upon layer of unexpected possibility in his one ingenious narrative conceit.”

—Jonathan Coe reviews Alasdair Gray’s POOR THINGS in the London Review of Books, 8 October 1992

lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v14/n19/jo

#poorthings #alasdairgray #literature #scottish

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Assoc for Scottish Literature · @scotlit
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YouTube - Poor Things: Alasdair Gray reads from his novel Poor Things

Yorgos Lanthimos’s adaptation of Alasdair Gray’s novel POOR THINGS (1992) has won the Golden Lion at the 2023 La Biennale di Venezia. In a series of recordings made in the last year of his life, Gray talks about the novel & reads extracts – & discusses works which influenced him, from Thomas Love Peacock’s NIGHTMARE ABBEY (1818) to Mel Brooks’ YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974)

@bookstodon

youtube.com/playlist?list=PLor

#poorthings #cinema #film #alasdairgray #gothic #literature #scottish

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Der Leiermann · @DerLeiermann
897 followers · 130 posts · Server troet.cafe

Wer Ăźbrigens nach einem schĂśnen Geschenk fĂźr Kulturinteressierte sucht, sollte einmal einen Blick auf unseren Buchclub werfen!


verlag.der-leiermann.com/der-l

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Annette C. Boehm · @ferngirl
124 followers · 417 posts · Server det.social
Outside of a Cat - Happy People All Around: Wole Soyinka’s “Chronicles”

I just published a new post on my book blog, about Wole Soyinka's novel Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth. @bookstodon
outsideofacat.wordpress.com/20

#Nigeria #literature #fiction #bookstodon #book

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Annette C. Boehm · @ferngirl
124 followers · 417 posts · Server det.social

I just published a new post on my book blog, about Wole Soyinka's novel Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth.

outsideofacat.wordpress.com/20

#Nigeria #literature

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Jan Bartosik · @janbartosik
108 followers · 880 posts · Server witter.cz
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Demon in White, The Sun Eater series by Christopher Ruocchio.

bookwyrm.social/book/743470/s/

A survivalist's guide to interstellar conflicts of gigantic proportions. Lord Marlowe, you weasel!
Two more books in the series, can't wait ⏲️


@bookstodon @scifi

#books #amreading #reading #kindle #literature #bookwyrm #booktoot #book #knihy #sff #scifi

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