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@HamonWry Some other nonsense would take its place.

Guy Carleton, British governor of the colony of Canada, showed mercy to American invaders when they abandoned their siege of Quebec City on May 6 and fled into the woods. #OTD May 10, 1776, he instructed the militia to search for these “deluded subjects,” who were likely suffering from wounds and were “in great danger of perishing for want of proper assistance.”“Afford them all necessary relief and convey them to the general hospital, where proper care shall be taken of them,” he proclaimed. “And lest a consciousness of past offences should deter such miserable wretches from receiving that assistance which their distressed system may require, I hereby make known to them, that as soon as their health is restored they shall have free liberty to return to their respective provinces.”#hedidnotconquer #canada #history #books #quebec #americanrevolution

@jkirkendall Sorry, Canadians--looks like we're not listed.

James Baldwin ️️️ #art #mastart #book #books #bookstodon #author #reading #readers

MEDLAR. A fruit, vulgarly called an open arse; of which it is more truly than delicately said, that it is never ripe till it is as rotten as a t--d, and then it is not worth a f--t.A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)--#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

@gutenberg_org @wikipedia floriduh banned this one so my mom got my kids a copy

@tsutrav I do, but I got burnt out of my field notes/cluttering up my journal. So I'm building a digital one with the intent of making a public book that people can find new reads/watches. It's kind of my favorite way I can anti-doomscroll with.

"The pretense of knowledge is our most dangerous vice, because it prevents us from getting any better." — Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy (2016)A commonplace book is just a place to keep the words that will not leave you alone.Built one if you want to start. Visit locuscommunis.com#bookstodon #commonplace #books #stoicism

Having brushed her tragic past behind a twisted sense of humour, Lieutenant Estellia Highlander lives to be the best. When a god-like vampire returns fifty years after nearly destroying the Alley, the military division assigns Estellia to the team charged with killing him. Their hopes to prevent another war lies within the powerful mutation she carries, a mutation that makes her more like the target she hunts than the Innocents she protects.The mission takes Estellia deep into vampire society where she discovers something far more sinister than the Paragon vampire Michael Bayne is emerging. If she and Michael cannot work together to defeat the rising darkness, humanity could be lost.#writing #books

@Una_Verdandi We're going to miss Renaissance.

@elena Thanks for the book recommendation, added it to my "to read" list on Bookwyrm.

Harriet Clark spent a lifetime visiting her mother, an ex-Weather Underground member, in prison: ‘The US has always used family separation to destabilize’Clark was an infant when her mother was arrested. Her debut novel asks what it’s like for children who have only ever known a parent in prison In Harriet Clark’s debut novel, The Hill, a nun explains what it’s like fo...https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/may/05/harriet-clark-the-hill-book-prison#Books #USprisons #USnews #Culture #Family #TheGuardian(Tue, 5 May 2026 15:00:44 +0000)

Gun-toting drunks, boy-eating sharks and bloodsucking babies: the violent, brilliant stories of Eric WalrondTropic Death – 10 blistering, astonishing stories about racist, exploitative outrages in Caribbean ‘paradises’ – won him a Guggenheim award. Why did this star of the Harlem Renaissance die such a sad and lonely death? How does a writer disappear? This year marks six decades since the death...https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/05/tropic-death-eric-walrond-harlem-renaissance-caribbean#Books #Culture #TheGuardian(Tue, 5 May 2026 14:21:04 +0000)

The Given World by Melissa Harrison review – a stunning tale of rural life for an era of ecological crisisEerie omens haunt this absorbing group portrait set over six months in an English village Sitting stoned on a hill above his village, a young man muses on his place in the world. Connor is proud to have fenced pastures while his mates have been away at university. But it’s overwhelm...https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/05/the-given-world-by-melissa-harrison-review-a-stunning-tale-of-rural-life-for-an-era-of-ecological-crisis#Books #Fiction #Culture #TheGuardian(Tue, 5 May 2026 06:00:46 +0000)

The Given World by Melissa Harrison review – a stunning tale of rural life for an era of ecological crisisEerie omens haunt this absorbing group portrait set over six months in an English village Sitting stoned on a hill above his village, a young man muses on his place in the world. Connor is proud to have fenced pastures while his mates have been away at university. But it’s overwhelm...https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/05/the-given-world-by-melissa-harrison-review-a-stunning-tale-of-rural-life-for-an-era-of-ecological-crisis#Books #Fiction #Culture #TheGuardian(Tue, 5 May 2026 06:00:46 +0000)

Gardening can be expensive but a new book by designer Mark Lane shows you how to save pennies and the planet. You can read my review on the blog: https://bit.ly/4cRQaMv Thanks to Quarto Books for the review copy.(Ad Sent review copy. Not paid to post.)Sarah Cuttle #gardens #gardening #GardeningTips #GardeningHacks #books #BookReview #BlogPost #UKGardening

I found one way reading #books on a tablet is inferior to a dead tree book. If you fall asleep, the tablet falls on your face. A rude awakening, and kinda hurts!

@sassdawe I ordered the whole set yesterday.

@Star12Mt bobiverse by Dennis Taylor.

@Natasha_Jay Fahrenheit over 9000!