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Hello, everyone! More often than I wish to, I act as a leader for groups of people. I act as the de-facto manager organising a group of friends, uni projects etc. due to the usual lack of innecitive on the side of other members. Not really into this role, to be honest, but since this is happening often enough, I might as well...

The text is available here:theanarchistlibrary.org/…/errico-malatesta-anarch…...

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I’ve just finished Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam and was incredibly impressed. I haven’t read anything in a while that captures what it might actually be like faced with the collapse of society....

I am reading Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined and i was wondering if there are other books that have a similar love story/development of their relationship, I don’t care if the story is about vampires, i am just interested in the romance but I prefer a fantasy background if possible

This book is definitely more enjoyable than the previous one (Fortune’s Favorites) probably because the plot is more streamlined and well paced. The focus of the narrative is more on political intrigue rather than military campaigns, making it more interesting than previous books, in my opinion. Caesar comes across as...

Book #6 was released earlier this week, with the final #7 due next year....

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Looking for recommendations for books about off grid living, and ideally, earthship biotecture.

BEST NOVEL: We Need to Talk About Kevin...

Small Gods: A masterful comic satire on Religious Institutions and Fundamentalism Small Gods is a fantasy comic satire on religious institutions, religious fundamentalism, philosophy, and the weaponisation of religious fanaticism for political power set in the Discworld. It explores how religious beliefs and faith shift and...

I started a new campaign after many many years and the setting is so beautiful, tropical island fighting pirates who’s business is drugs and human trafficking

I’m not sure how useful this’ll be to people, but on the off-chance that like me, you like to track your pages read daily (into something like Storygraph or Goodreads) and you happen to have an ereader, I’ve created a spreadsheet that may be useful....

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Hi everyone, I’ve always had a special interest in linguistics and have informally studied a couple of different languages from all around the world. The different writing systems such as radicals in Chinese, Kurdish scripts and reading from right to left, to Inuit glyphs are all fascinating in themselves....

Been on a theology kick for the past year and looking to read more into the philosophy because that’s the interesting part for me. I would say I’m not a beginner but not an intermediate. Would love some recommendations

(Here You can listen to audio version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCdlph835qc )...

I have compiled various works on smell, fragrance, and perfumery for anyone seeking more in-depth information on the matter. The following are links to titles themselves or podcast episodes from the New Books Network wherein a host interviews the author of a new book whose topic relates to fragrance or scent....

A year ago, I read the Masters of Rome series, written by Colleen McCullough. Before reading this series I only vaguely knew about Julius Caesar (thanks to Shakespeare) and had no idea about Roman history. These books introduced me to characters that felt like real flesh and blood people I know so well, involved in delightfully...

Specifically M/F romance.

I am looking forward to this novel. I love this character and look forward to reading another case with her as the lead....

I’ve recently gotten a small obsession with the idea of a single African currency or a single BRICS currency forming as a fuck you to NATO and the west. As a result i’ve spent far to much time this week reading wikipedia articles on the history of currency in colonial and post colonial Africa....

I’m heavily debating which of the two, I should purchase....