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Belushi / Timeline: A Visual History of Our World – Cool Tools

This issue's first entry reviews Belushi: On a Mission from God, a graphic novel biography by Alberto Schiavone and Matteo Manera, arguing that the book deliberately sidesteps the "why" of John Belushi's drug use in favor of his distinctive absurd-yet-comforting comedy and his meteoric rise. The second entry is Mark Frauenfelder's and Lora Poser-Brown's companion piece on Timeline: A Visual History of Our World, a children's picture-spread history by Peter Goes praised for its minimalist, two-accent color palettes, curving text, and surprising historical tidbits such as Mont Blanc's old name, "Mon Maudit." Together they form a short roundup of books that the reviewers think are best experienced in print.

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10 Best Sci-Fi Books Of The Last 10 Years

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www.vice.com

I Wrote an Ebook to See How Much Easy Money I Could Make Online

The author self-published a short ebook about making money online and tracked whether it could generate genuine profits without existing fame or marketing resources. Despite reaching the top of Amazon's niche categories during a free promotional period and securing a blog post feature that temporarily tripled daily sales, the book averaged only a few paid sales per day at £2.99, making it marginally profitable only because the author had existing writing experience and access to professional design. The piece reveals that self-publishing success depends far less on writing quality than on marketing expertise, paid advertising budgets, and existing audience size—advantages the author lacked and most hopeful self-publishers won't have either.

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The New Yorker

What to Read This Fall | The New Yorker

This is The New Yorker's Fall Books Issue featuring coverage of major literary releases and the staff's most anticipated autumn reads. The issue includes profiles of authors like Barbara Kingsolver, reviews of forthcoming novels by Hernan Diaz and Tom Brady biographer Lars Anderson, and essays on topics ranging from punctuation to reasons people choose not to have children. Staff writers and editors highlight their most-looked-forward-to books, from Marlon James's epic about gay love in 1980s Jamaica to Kim Stanley Robinson's new novel revisiting a South Pole expedition memoir.

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archive.org

Internet Archive: Johnny Cash

Archive of old Johnny Cash variety shows. Want to watch some of the musical performances. Dillon episode should be a gem.

The Internet Archive is a digital library offering free access to books, movies, music, and historical web pages through the Wayback Machine.

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Esquire

The Best Kindle and E-book Readers of 2026

This Esquire buyer's guide reviews e-readers across different price points and use cases, comparing Amazon Kindles (Paperwhite, Colorsoft, and standard model), Kobo devices (Libra Colour and Clara), and specialty options like the Boox Palma Pro 2. The guide emphasizes that Kindles dominate the market for their reliable ecosystem and battery life, while Kobo offers better note-taking and library borrowing features, and niche devices like Boox provide unique form factors for specific needs. The reviewer prioritizes comfort, long battery life, e-paper displays, and content access as the key criteria for choosing an e-reader.

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ComicBook.com

These 3 Upcoming Sci-Fi Books Have Us So Excited We Need an Adaptation (And One Is Already In The Works)

Three upcoming science fiction novels—*The Fist of Memory* by Wole Talabi, *Under Story* by Chloe Benjamin, and *Exit Party* by Emily St. John Mandel—are generating excitement for their potential as screen adaptations even before publication. *The Fist of Memory* combines hard sci-fi with a first-contact narrative featuring an assassin, witchdoctor, and astronomer racing to understand mysteriously silent alien spacecraft; *Under Story* is a character-driven love story set in Antarctica that explores parallel universes and second chances through the reunion of estranged scientists; and *Exit Party*, already in development as a television series with Emma Stone's production company attached, follows a woman navigating fractured timelines and doppelgangers in a post-collapse Los Angeles. All three exemplify how science fiction can tackle both grand concepts and intimate human stories in ways that translate compellingly across media.

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The Beatles Complete Chords Songbook | Lyrics Collection for Acoustic and Electric Players | 194 Song Guitar Chord Songbook for Beginners Students and Fans | Strumming Guide Music Book: Beatles, The: 9781705167892: Amazon.com: Office Products

A complete guitar songbook collecting all 194 Beatles compositions transcribed in their original keys, each with full lyrics, chord names, and diagrams, plus a playing guide and discography for reference. It's pitched at players of any level—self-taught beginners, students, teachers running lessons, or fans wanting sing-along material—rather than offering critical commentary or historical analysis of the band. Worth keeping as a practical reference/practice resource rather than a piece of music writing.

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collider.com

25 Best Books of All Time

A rundown that pits centuries-old canon against pulpy favorites and openly acknowledges its own snubs, ranking works from Nineteen Eighty-Four and Dracula down through pop staples like Infinite Jest, A Storm of Swords, and Hitchhiker's Guide. It's notable for slipping in two nonfiction picks—Empire of Pain on the Sackler opioid scandal and Nicholas Pileggi's Wiseguy, the basis for Goodfellas—alongside the usual literary heavyweights, treating them as equally worthy "books" rather than a lesser category. Worth keeping for its blunt, personal-taste-driven commentary rather than a consensus-driven list.

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inews.co.uk

The 14 best dystopian novels of all time

A rundown roster of essential dystopian fiction, framed by The Handmaid's Tale and its sequel The Testaments as touchstones, tracing the genre from Zamyatin's We and Kafka's The Trial through Cold War-era and postmodern entries to recent works like Station Eleven, Submission and Little Eyes. Each brief entry sketches the premise and argues for why the book endures or unsettles, whether through Ballard's collapsing tower block, McCarthy's scorched-earth father-son journey, or Alderman's gender-power reversal. Worth keeping as a ready-made syllabus of the genre's key preoccupations — totalitarianism, technology, ecological collapse, and patriarchy — spanning a century of imagined catastrophe.

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collider.com

10 Sci-Fi Books That Are Better Than 'Dune'

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www.theatlantic.com

Review: ‘The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity’

Graeber and Wengrow's *The Dawn of Everything* dismantles the conventional linear narrative of human history—from egalitarian hunter-gatherers through agriculture to inevitable state hierarchies—by drawing on recent archaeological evidence to show that pre-industrial societies were far more politically complex, varied, and deliberately organized than assumed, with populations regularly choosing between different social forms rather than passively following technological determinism. The authors argue that human beings have long possessed the freedom to disobey, relocate, and create alternative social arrangements, and that this freedom, rather than inevitable progress toward bureaucratic states, should define what we consider "civilization." The book, posthumously published after Graeber's death, frames human history as one of political experimentation and possibility rather than predetermined stages, suggesting that our current "stuck" condition in hierarchical states was neither inevitable nor necessary.

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coolmaterial.com

50 Books Every Man Should Read Before He’s 50

A sprawling 50-book reading list pitched as a personal-development curriculum for men, mixing school-canon classics (The Odyssey, Catcher in the Rye, Crime and Punishment) with genre picks, graphic novels, and contemporary literary fiction (Between the World and Me, Infinite Jest, A Visit from the Goon Squad). Each entry gets a punchy one-paragraph pitch on why it matters or what lesson it teaches, framed around the gimmick of finishing all 50 before turning 50. Worth keeping as a ready-made, annotated to-read list rather than a single argument.

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BOOK RIOT

10 of the Best Historical Science Fiction Books

Historical science fiction merges speculative and scientific concepts with historical settings, creating narratives that reimagine the past or explore what might have been—a genre that includes steampunk and retro-futurism alongside alternate histories. The piece provides ten examples spanning different eras and themes: *The Calculating Stars* follows a female mathematician fighting for space exploration after a 1952 meteorite, *The Difference Engine* imagines an early computer revolution during the Industrial Age, *Everfair* reimagines Congo colonialism with socialist and African American resistance, and others like *Phoenix Extravagant*, *Radiance*, and *The Haunting of Tram Car 015* blend historical periods with supernatural or advanced technology elements.

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