FYI: Here are the initial pre-order options for the paperback edition of "The Nod/Wells Timelines - Volume 3"
Barnes & Noble:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-nod-wells-timelines-volume-3-michael-shotter/1149710630?ean=9798233032653
Walmart:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/The-Nod-Wells-Timelines-The-Nod-Wells-Timelines-Volume-3-Book-3-Paperback/19959018969
More to come!
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Finished reading Greenblatt's THE SWERVE.
Finished reading Greenblatt's THE SWERVE. It's good, but not as good as it started out. The first half is quite superb, but the second half is far less interesting. Many good historical tidbits in there, but it does suffer from a terribly myopic view of history and scientific development while pretending to possess a grand scope of things. Not so much actually. Still worth the read. [...]
https://ganzeer.today/finished-reading-greenblatts-the-swerve
FYI: I've updated my "Speculative-Fiction Showcase" over at Bookshop(dot)org with some of my recent reads that are available there:
https://bookshop.org/lists/michael-shotter-s-speculative-fiction-showcase
If you're not familiar with it, Bookshop is a great way to buy online while supporting local bookstores.
BTW: You can also find all of my books there if you're so inclined. 📚🙂👍
https://bookshop.org/lists/the-nod-wells-timelines
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"In 1378, two years before Poggio's birth, the seething resentment of these...
“In 1378, two years before Poggio's birth, the seething resentment of these miserable day laborers, the populo minuto, had boiled over into a full-scale bloody revolt. Gangs of artisans ran through the streets, crying, 'Long live the people and the crafts!' and the uprising briefly toppled the ruling families and installed a democratic government. But the old order was quickly restored, and with it a regime determined to maintain the power of the guilds and the leading families.” [...]
https://ganzeer.today/in-1378-two-years-before-poggios-birth-the-seething-resentment-of-these
First time for me to hear of this revolt. Also from Stephen Greenblatt's THE SWERVE, which covers so much ground. "Poggio's way of fashioning letters was a move away from the intricately interwoven and angular writing known as Gothic hand. The demand for more open, legible handwriting had already been voiced earlier in the century by Petrarch (1304-1374). Petrarch complained that the writing then in use in most manuscripts often made it extremely difficult to decipher the text, 'as though it had been designed,' he noted, 'for something other than reading.'" Extremely my shit on so many levels this book. reads...
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