Why do fascists love yoga? Stewart Home has written a book, "Fascist Yoga: Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists, and the New Order in Wellness," looking at how white supremacy and wellness came to be connected in the west, and continue to be linked today via movements like QAnon. The Observer talked to him and other experts on the subject. “I ... think there’s a broad overlap,” podcaster Travis View says, “between the hyper-individualism of the far right and new age wellness thinking. There’s a distrust of, for example, public health measures and a belief that you have a moral obligation to take care of your own health entirely. This is why there’s so much overlap in anti-vaccine belief; it’s a far-right belief, but also something you’d see in crunchy yoga circles.”

https://flip.it/ooF53m

#Yoga #Wellness #QAnon #Books @bookstodon #Bookstodon #Lifestyle

We had some great news today, and were over the moon to see my wife's book, 'The House At The Edge of Magic' shortlisted for the Barnes & Noble Children's & YA Book Awards! A huge honour.
Congratulations to all the other authors and illustrators of course!
#bookstodon #books #kidlit #childrensbooks

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Shortlist awards announcement for the Barnes & Noble Children's and Y.A. Book Awards in the Young Readers category. A vague patterned background with a dark orange to dark yellow vertical fade is behind the text and images of the book covers. The books shortlisted and shown are: The House At The Edge of Magic by Amy Sparkes; illu'd by Ben Mantle Vanya and the Wild Hunt by Sangu Mandanna The Flicker by H.E. Edgmon Away by Megan E. Freeman The Other Side of Tomorrow: A Graphic Novel by Tina Cho; illu'd by Deb JJ Lee Afia in the Land of Wonders by Mia Araujo

My current book. I naively believed I understood that the world is largely conceived by men for men. This is eye-opening. Thanks to Nairn Public Library for having it in a prominent position on their shelves. #bookstodon

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The red and blue cover of the book "Invisible Women - Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men. Caroline Criado-Perez

This is amazing.
Dan Pelzer died at 92, leaving a 109-page list of all the books he read since 1962, while serving in the Peace Corps in Nepal.
https://what-dan-read.com

https://people.com/man-92-leaves-behind-109-page-list-of-thousands-of-books-he-read-11776729
#books #bookstodon

Pleased to announce that my book, Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media, is now available online, and will be out in print in a couple weeks!
https://moveslowlybuildbridges.com
That site has more stuff, too -- links to related articles, some notes about how I researched it, and a contact form in case you want to talk about the fediverse with me! (I'd be happy to chat with journalists about it!)
#academicChatter #bookstodon #fediverse #mastodon

I’m looking for books critiquing the US’s permanent war footing since WWI. Any recommendations? #bookstodon

The absolutely incredible 'Stoner' is currently on offer on Kobo for just 99p.

If you've never read it, please do so. It's a beautiful examination of a mundane life.

https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/stoner-6

#Bookstodon #Kobo

Underlying mood of every day of my life.

#Bookstodon

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Oil painting of a red-haired woman in a white shift, burying her face into a red velvet stool. On the far side of the room is an open chest, with letters spread on the floor. Caption reads: "Are you okay?" Me: No. I don't have a bookshelf with a rolling ladder.

#OverUnder 029 with @liztai !

She shared her views on:

- #DigitalGardens
- #RSS
- #SocialMedia
- #Books
- #Tea

#blog #fediverse #mastodon #bookstodon

#100DaysToOffload : 075/100

https://lazybea.rs/ovr-029

"One Thursday, one of the last of the dog days, Moomintroll caught a small dragon in the pond to the right of Moominpappa’s hammock tree.

Of course, he hadn’t dreamed of catching a dragon. He had been hunting for a few of those small wobbly things that were rowing about in the bottom mud, because he wanted to know how they moved their legs when swimming, and whether they always swam backward. But when he lifted his glass jar against the light there was something altogether different in it.

'By my everlasting tail,' Moomintroll whispered, overawed. He held the jar between both paws and could only stare.

The dragon was no bigger than a matchbox, and it swam around with graceful strokes of its transparent wings that were as beautiful as the fins of a goldfish.

But no goldfish was as splendidly golden as this miniature dragon. It was sparkling like gold; it was knobbly with gold in the sunlight, the small head was emerald green, and its eyes were lemon yellow.

The six golden legs each had a little green paw, and the tail turned green toward the tip. It was a truly wonderful dragon.

Moomintroll screwed the lid on the jar (there were airholes) and carefully put it down in the moss. Then he stretched himself out beside the jar and took a closer look.

The dragon swam close to the glass wall and opened its small jaws. They were packed with tiny white teeth.

'It’s angry,' Moomintroll thought. 'It’s angry even if it’s so very small. What xan I do to make it like me? And qhat does it eat? What do dragons feed on?'

A little worried and anxious, he lifted the jar in his arms and started homeward, cautiously, so as not to make the dragon hurt itself against the glass walls. It was so very small and delicate.

'I’ll keep you and pet you and love you,' Moomintroll whispered. 'You can sleep on my pillow. When you grow up and start liking me, I’ll take you swimming in the sea.'”

from 'Tales from Moominvalley', by Tove Jansson

#MoominMonday #BeMoreMoomin #Bookstodon

Has anyone read The Mercy Of Gods by James S.A. Corey? I just finished it and am still kind of processing. I’m blown away by the potential scale this series is going to have, and it’s already gone places I don’t think I’ve seen. Fantastic stuff by the authors of The Expanse series. #SciFi #bookstodon

What percentage of your book purchases are aspirational?

(I.e when you buy a book, what’s the chance that you will actually read it in the next year.)

#books #bookstodon

📖 **Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget**

"_Read or download for free_"

🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22.

#ProjectGutenberg #Thesaurus #Read #Download #Book #Ebook #Bookstodon @bookstodon

Book 31 - The Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne

Needed something that needed less brain power and this did the trick. A Norse inspired fantasy, full of action and explores loss, othering and revenge. Told from three perspectives, two of which were easy to latch onto.

#Bookstodon @bookstodon

Book 30 - The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin

Definitely a book of ideas more than story, however the conversation around what an androgynous society would look like and the machinations of patriotism were fascinating to explore in this.

#Bookstodon @bookstodon

Oh, gross. I totally missed this story but I've used Unbound in the past, and used to listen to the associated podcast, Backlisted.

Of all things, for an independent book publisher to waste a million quid that wasn't even theirs on AI to help them make more money, and leave their authors tens of thousands of pounds out of pocket.

It's still trading btw - under a different name (Boundless). I'm not putting a link to their site here.

Times: "Crowdfund publisher rebrands after collapse leaves authors unpaid"

https://archive.is/wDlL7

#Bookstodon #News #FuckAI