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amgine , 9 months ago to bookstodon

My beloved vector shared a virus, as toddlers are wont to do. And I am not up to reading something new. I pulled #PatriciaMcKillip's Ombria in Shadow from the shelf and read it today.

No, it is not a favourite in her oeuvre, but it had some shivering resonances with our current events. A #fantasy tale about memory and perception, before and after, and how culture, society, identity, has complex interconnections between fable and fact.

Plus romance.

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amgine , 9 months ago to bookstodon

Discovered in a random #usedBookStore on #VancouverIsland: "Lisette", by Eglanton Thorne and published by The Religious Tract Society, London, some time before 1890 (probably printed 1889)

A simplistic morality tale set in earlier 19th century France. The story is not the point, but rather what it says about the late-19th century English and how they viewed their world and their place in it.

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Barros_heritage , 11 months ago to libraries

OPEN ACCESS BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.

Over 7400 books available.

https://www.loc.gov/collections/open-access-books?loclr=blogsig

For example, "Exhibiting atrocity : memorial museums and the politics of past violence" by Amy Sodaro (Rutgers University Press, 2018).

https://www.loc.gov/item/2018024519/

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