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S.T. Veje

Finished reading Grains of Gold - An Anthology of Occitan Literature by James Thomas.

It’s essentially a history of the Occitan language, from the earliest troubadours to its modern writers, and definitely made me appreciate how much more there is to Occitan than Mistral and the félibrige. Not that I didn’t know before, but it really opened my eyes.

As, for example, expressed by Miquèu Miniussi below 😆

Page of a book, highlighted text: "Leave in railway bookshops Catharism, the Crusade, Montsegur, Simon de Montfort, the Inquisition and all those horrors. Leave the troubadours to Romanists and other distinguished scholars. Leave to the félibres childhood in the village and happy days gone by with grandpa who spoke such lovely patois and the closed factory and the land that is dying but wants to live and scorn for the language and the senhal and all that nonsense." Extract from "Towards an Occitan Poetic Art", 1989 by Miquèu Miniussi.
#Occitan#Literature#Book
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Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

🅰️ 📖 🖋️ **The Market Place, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's “The Scarlet Letter”**

“This image responds to chapter 2, where Hester leaves prison to endure public humiliation on the town scaffold. The text describes women resentful of Hester's beauty, who find her punishment too lenient–figures shown here below the steps.”

Felix Octavius Carr Darley | The Market Place, from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 'The Scarlet Letter' | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1879). metmuseum.org/art/collection/s.

#OpenAccess #PublicDomain #Image #History #Fiction #Book #Bookstodon #Literature #TheScarletLetter #NathanielHawthorne #HesterPrynne @literature @bookstodon

Title: The Market Place, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" Artist: Felix Octavius Carr Darley (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1822–1888 Claymont, Delaware) Date: ca. 1879
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Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

🇺🇸 📖 **The Age of the Borderlands: Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790–1850**

“_Isenberg takes readers to the contested borders of Spanish Florida, Missouri, New Mexico, California, Texas, and Minnesota at critical moments in the early to mid-nineteenth century, demonstrating that the architects of American expansion faced significant challenges from the diverse groups of people inhabiting each region._”

🔗 uncpress.org/book/978146968505.

#Nonfiction #History #ManifestDestiny #USA #UnitedStates #Book #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon

University of North Carolina PressThe Age of the Borderlands | Andrew C. Isenberg | University of North Carolina PressIn The Age of the Borderlands, acclaimed historian Andrew C. Isenberg offers a new history of manifest destiny that breaks from triumphalist narratives of US...
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Mother Suspiria :autism:

My #bookreview is brief/won't spoil, to spread good, great, & spectacular #horror #books far & wide.

Darkly unsettling, unique, and deeply weird, SHAKY PICTURES OF VANISHED FACES contains the horrifying, the haunting, and the wryly humourous. D. Matthew Urban has crafted an excellent, disquieting assortment of eldritch fables where nightmarish, uncanny characters and scenarios abound. (Cursed Morsels Press)

#book #review #bookstodon @bookstodon #mothersuspiriareview @horror @horrorbooks

Paperback of SHAKY PICTURES OF VANISHED FACES by D. Matthew Urban
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Windspeaker.com

“I think the biggest thing for me, what I see from this book, is it's not just telling the story, but it can also be a how-to for other communities who are choosing to go down their own path, because it's not an easy road to go down. But once you begin down that path, you can find success.”

#Indigenous #Métis #book

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Windspeaker.comFort McKay Métis community stands strong in its history“We've always said that, in this community, to be able to understand where you want to go, you need to know where you come from. I think this book is a cornerstone in that,” said Ron Quintal, past president of the Fort McKay Métis Nation. Quintal was one of a number of people that non-Indigenous author Peter Fortna relied on to write The Fort McKay Métis Nation: A Community History. It was published last month by the University of Calgary Press. The book project was funded by the Fort McKay Métis Nation and the Alberta government.
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littlemiao :jewish_pride_flag:

I finally wrote my reading reflection for The Slave by Isaac Bashevis Singer, which I read a couple of months ago. It is a beautiful book, sad, haunting. I’m glad I read it. Of course, the whole time I was reading it I was thinking about Jews currently in captivity and how this seems to be an inescapable part of our history.

#Bookstodon #MiaoReads #Books #Book #BookReview #Jewish #Mazeldon

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Book cover for The Slave by Isaac Bashevis Singer
app.thestorygraph.comReview by littlemiao - The Slave This is the first novel-length story I have read by Isaac Bashevis Singer. It takes place in t...
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