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Via #TheGuardian @ 5:26pm ET on Mar 26, 2025

A #Yale professor who studies #fascism is leaving the #US to work at a #Canadian #university because of the current US political climate, which he worries is putting the US at risk of becoming a “#FascistDictatorship”.

#JasonStanley, who wrote the 2018 #book How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, has accepted a position at the University of Toronto’s #MunkSchool of #GlobalAffairs and #PublicPolicy.

#USpoli #CANpoli

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The Guardian · Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in CanadaBy Rachel Leingang
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For those that don’t know, the Fear Street series and the Goosebumps series were published by different houses, which explains why Stine didn’t end the original GB run with a kid moving to Fear Street or even Shadyside (where Fear Street sits).

My conjecture here is that the lawsuits from Scholastic left a bad taste in his mouth and he tried to get a GB-ish series off the ground as a spin-off called Ghosts of Fear Street.

And there were other spin-offs as well. Fear Street, Ghosts of Fear Street, 99 Fear Street, Fear Street Saga, etc.

But at some point, Stine stopped writing them. Some sources say that it’s because they just weren’t selling well anymore.

Stine sat.

And waited.

And then he came back with a vengeance and new Fear Street books. They were longer and more graphic than the Fear Street books of the 90s.

This is one of those new books (published in 2018).

And it was a lot of fun, it feels like Stine riffing on The Shining (movie). Room 237 is mentioned, it mostly takes place in a hotel in Colorado that has a sort of time warp and curse attached to it, and there was even a photo from 1924 that had people from modern times.

It might be unfair of me to compare Stine’s stories to King’s so often (I did it with at least two Goosebumps books) but I’ve read a lot of King and he’s been around for so long - has written so much - that it’s tough not to see similarities and call them out.

His changes to the series (longer and more violent) are plenty visible and I didn’t mind the additional violence but this book did stretch on a bit and felt a little bloated. Stine can write tight stories and pack a punch. Sometimes this feels like there’s character development lacking, but the extra length here isn’t exactly adding to it - it’s just making the book longer. There’s more repetition and, in some books’ cases, a couple different chances to end it.

All that said, it was still fun to read and I’m glad I did.

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Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

🔴 📖 **Beyond the River, Under the Eye of Rome**

“_Hart delves into the cultural and political impacts of Rome's interactions with Transdanubian peoples, emphasizing the Sarmatians of the Hungarian Plain, whose long encounter with the Roman Empire, he argues, created a problematic template for later dealings with Goths and Huns based on misapplied ethnographic and ecological tropes._”

🔗 doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11453670.

#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Read #Nonfiction #Book #Ebook #Bookstodon #History #Histodon #Histodons #Europe #Romans #Academia #UniversityPress @bookstodon @histodon @histodons

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doi.orgBeyond the River, Under the Eye of Rome<I>Beyond the River, Under the Eye</I> of Rome presents the Danube frontier of the Roman empire as the central stage for many of the most important political and military events of Roman history, from Trajan's invasion of Dacia and the Marcomannic Wars, to the humbling of the Roman state power at the hands of the Goths and Huns. Hart delves into the cultural and political impacts of Rome's interactions with Transdanubian peoples, emphasizing the Sarmatians of the Hungarian Plain, whose long encounter with the Roman Empire, he argues, created a problematic template for later dealings with Goths and Huns based on misapplied ethnographic and ecological tropes.<I> Beyond the River, Under the Eye of Rome</I> explores how Roman stereotypical perceptions of specific Danubian peoples directly influenced some of the most politically significant events of Roman antiquity. <BR /><BR /> Drawing on textual, inscriptional, and archaeological evidence, Hart illustrates how Roman ethnic and ecological stereotypes were employed in the Danubian borderland to support the imperial frontier edifice fundamentally at odds with the region's natural topography. Distorted Roman perceptions of these Danubian neighbors resulted in disastrous mismanagement of border wars and migrant crises throughout the first five centuries CE. <I>Beyond the River </I>demonstrates how state-supported stereotypes, when coupled with Roman military and economic power, exerted strong influences on the social structures and evolving group identities of the peoples dwelling in the borderland.
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Dailyklappentext

Für Donnerstag, den 27.03.25 schon mal ein kurzer Spoiler:

Guten Morgen! In dieser kurzen Episode möchte ich dich mit in meine kleine Bibliothek nehmen und dir erzählen, welche Bücher ich gerade lese, wie weit ich mit dem Lesen bin und woran ich gerade für den Podcast arbeite. :)

Ab 07:00 kannst Du unter dem unterstehenden Link dir die aktuelle Folge anhören. :)

Eine kurze Folge aber vollgepackt mit schönen Inhalten. Lass Dich überraschen.

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Aktueller Lesestand Bücherstapel Unten Rechts: Talk Neue Podcast Episode am 27.03.25 Dailyklappentext auf Spotify Täglicher Buchpodcast
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Broken Spark

Broken Spark, Chapter 7 is now available to read or listen to at rdmp.org/spark. The senior officers are doubling-down hard on their sub-commanders under the impression that they are misbehaving and the cause of jeopardy to the ship. But there is a nasty virus going round and the problems might actually be with the seniors themselves....

#books #book @bookstodon #scifi #scifireading #brokenspark #reading #fiction

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