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Some flowers for anyone not feeling their best today

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me wanting to build my own library at home:

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blessed with good bread and creatures once again

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Actually Vetinari would do numbers on Tumblr. People would reblog the hell out of "the tincture of night began to suffuse the soup of the afternoon".

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Floral border design (1799). Manufactured by Millet, Paris.

Bibliothèque nationale de France.

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Dracula Daily sketch for June 5th

In which Dr Seward begins his study in earnest.

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"Book Collector with Six Cats (one hidden)" by Edward Gorey

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My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books

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Looking for some of the best science fiction and fantasy coming out of Africa right now? Here's a list of recommendations from Wole Talabi, Lauren Beukes and T.L. Huchu, from their 2024 Glasgow Worldcon panel "Through an African Lens".

The list

Rosewater - Tade Thompson

Lagoon - Nnedi Okorafor

Mermaid Fillet - Mia Arderne

Dazzling - Chikodili Emelumadu

The First Murder On Mars - Sam Wilson

The Theory of Flight - Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu

Triangulum - Masande Ntshanga

The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years - Shubnum Khan

Ghostroots - 'Pemi Aguda

Womb City - Tlotlo Tsamaase

The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction - Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Chinaza Eziaghighala (ed)

Zoo City - Lauren Beukes

The Library of the Dead - T. L. Huchu

Drinking from Graveyard Wells - Yvette Lisa Ndlovu

Digging Stars - Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

Glory - Noviolet Bulawayo

Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon - Wole Talabi

Intruders - Mohale Mashigo

AfroSF - Ivor Hartmann (ed)

It Doesn't Have To Be This Way - Alistair Mackay

Azotus the Kingdom - Shadreck Chikoti

Dazzling - Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ

Online, they also suggest The African Books Collective, the Sauutiverse, and AfricanSFS.

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Manicule thumb war?

So many manicules! These little drawn hands are a favorite annotation that points to something of note in the text. We found a bunch in this 1531 copy of Christopher Saint Germain’s The Secunde Dyalogue in Englyssh bytwene a Doctour of Dyvynytye (divinity) and a Student in the Lawes of England.

What we really want to know is what do you think is happening in the second image? A thumb war? Or just a handshake?

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New evening light from longer sunsets stretching over the books

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If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

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"If you use em dash in your works, it makes them look AI generated. No real human uses em dash."

Imaging thinking actual human writers are Not Real because they use... professional writing in their works.

Imagine thinking millions of people who have been using em dash way before AI becomes a thing are all robots.

REBLOG IF YOU'RE A HUMAN AND YOU USE EM DASH

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light of my life