"I don’t leave the room when we take a timeout to draw up a final play; I pace, I cry, I rage, I wail. But I stay. I will watch the game through."

Rachel Dlugatch's new reading list on the love of basketball features stories exploring community, identity, and hope.

https://longreads.com/2025/07/29/dimes-dunks-and-devotion-a-basketball-reading-list/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#sport #basketball #NBA @WNBA #readinglist #writing #nonfiction

The Vogue Business sustainable summer reading list https://www.byteseu.com/1203655/ #activism #AnimalWelfare #business #fashion #latest #ReadingList #recommendations #Sustainability #SystemsChange

Hey Apple users... do you use the native Apple Reading List in Safari?

**Political Bibliography**

For those interested in a reading list that incorporates academic articles concerning the politics of the European far right, please look no further than: https://fediscience.org/@kaiarzheimer/114847310894179596, complied by @kaiarzheimer.

**The Association of University Presses: ‘Essential Reading’ on Immigration**

"_The movement of people from one place of residence to another is as old as humankind itself. So how and why does human migration collide with geopolitics periodically, resulting in the demonization of human beings who have chosen to migrate or been forced to flee?_"

https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/07/the-association-of-university-presses-essential-reading-on-immigration/.

#Immigration #Migration #Reading #ReadingList #List #Books #Bookstodon #UniversityPress @bookstodon

2 Books

Finished reading 2 very different books recently by 2 very different authors

Shadows on the Hudson by Nobel Prize winning author Isaac Beshevis Singer, about a circle of Holocaust survivors establishing new lives in America after the trauma of war.

Summer by Pulitzer winning author Edith Wharton (Also nominated for the Nobel Prize 3 times) about a young woman's yearning to escape the constraints of her small town New England life.

I found both of these books fascinating ...

This is my summer reading list, in no particular order…

What’s yours?

Passing

Just read this 1929 novel by American author Nella Larsen. The story centers on the reunion of two childhood friends + the discovery that one is 'passing' in a mixed race marriage.

Born in Chicago, Larsen was part of the Harlem Renaissance of the 20s + 30s. She wrote 2 novels during this time.

Photographs are by Carl Van Vechten

A film adaption of the novel was made in 2021 by Rebecca Hall.

Finished two great books this month:

Fathers & Sons (1862) by Ivan Turgenev - explores the generational clash between fathers and their radical sons during a time of great social change in Russia.

The Nine (2021) by Gwen Strauss - follows the escape of 9 women, resistance fighters, out of Nazi Germany

A.I.-Generated #ReadingList in #ChicagoSunTimes Recommends Nonexistent Books

A summer reading insert recommended made-up titles by real authors such as #IsabelAllende and #DeliaOwens. The Sun-Times and The #PhiladelphiaInquirer have apologized.
#ai #hallucination

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/business/media/chicago-sun-times-ai-reading-list.html

**How an AI-generated summer reading list got published in major newspapers**

“_Only five of the 15 titles on the list are real._”

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/20/nx-s1-5405022/fake-summer-reading-list-ai.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Fake #ReadingList #Books #Bookstodon @ai @bookstodon

Another Country

Finished reading this 1962 novel by James Baldwin and it has found a place among my favorite titles of all time

Another Country

Finished reading this 1962 novel by James Baldwin and it has found a place among my favorite titles of all time - including Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz, A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, The Blood of Others and The Mandarins, both by Simone de Beauvoir and The Children of Violence Series by Doris Lessing ... The thread that I find binds these works is a collection of characters who are fully realized by the authors and are making decisions amid the turmoil of their given times and environment, based on their individual traits, rather than simply as a vehicle for a story the writer wants to tell.
#anothercountry #jamesbaldwin #readinglist #books #Booklist #book #mybooklist #mybookshelf #authors #novels #writers #literature #livres #buch #bücher #roman #ecrivain

Hello Fediverse!

I've been working on a personal website and blog over the past few months. I'd been wanting to get back into writing for while, as well as spend more time doing web design, so it seemed like a natural combination of the two.

I've just published the second article today, my Reading List for last year. You might say that two and a half months into the year is a bit late for this, and I'd be the first to agree, but better late than never goes the saying.

https://formularsumo.co.uk/articles/2025/reading-list-2024/

Last month I also published the first new(ish) entry, an article giving a fairly broad overview of the different forms of encryption, and why and when they should be used.

https://formularsumo.co.uk/articles/2025/encryption/

Enjoy!

Finished #reading the fascinating #novella #TheDaylighGate, #author #JeanetteWinterson's retelling of the #PendleWitchTrials of 1612 in England, when 12 men + women were charged with the murders of 10 people by the use of #witchcraft. Winterson reimagines this world adding passion + magic to the sad + tragic events of that time.

Statue is #AliceNutter, the central character in Winterson's story

Looking for #booksuggestions to celebrate #blackhistorymonth what do you recommend?

Finished the last 2 #books in Vilhelm Moberg's #TheEmigrantNovels - The Settlers & The Last Letter Home. Loved this entire series about a Swedish family homesteading in late 1800s Minnesota - Also the basis for two great films. Highly recommended

Fediverse Queer Reading List

Recently I asked for recommendations for books that featured Queer Romances and were either Young Adult, Science Fiction, or Fantasy. The Fediverse responded with an avalanche of titles, which I have compiled into a neat little list and divided into the following sections:

Fediverse Authors
Authors of Color
Genderqueer Authors
Standalone Stories
Books in a Series
(Library Resources)

Thread

#ReadingList #Bookstodon #AskFedi @bookstodon #FediReads