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🎃 Wicked, wise and wild. Historically, women were branded as witches or outcasts simply for being inconvenient to the establishment, telling uncomfortable truths, or possessing strength outside traditional social expectations. #Halloween youtu.be/4C1BjItbV3k?si=PFRG…

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🎃 Full-length Halloween Special book club podcast with The Future of Skills. A SEA-UK-Europe exchange. Fear in small doses: Discussing horror short stories. You can join our Wednesday Live next time on Substack 🥳 youtu.be/mFs_M04lJrA?si=YMIQ…

When elders refuse to speak of the horrors they witnessed, the silence doesn't clear the air. It leaves a void. The next generation fills that silence with stories, to process the historical trauma. Fear in small doses: Discussing horror short stories. youtube.com/shorts/KR_orlA6h…

Book club host Nadya Birca recalls her grandmother's experience as a child during a wartime bomb raid. 🕷 Fear in small doses: Discussing horror short stories. youtube.com/shorts/9aml6-bWJ…

🕷 Sharing horror stories. We don't gather in the dark to invite monsters in. We gather in the dark to remind ourselves that when the sun comes up, we're still here. Fear in small doses: Discussing horror short stories. youtube.com/shorts/94_tP0-yi…

An author can shift their narrative from helplessness to empowerment. A woman facing systemic barriers can claim complete power within a vampire narrative, effectively reclaiming her agency. Fear in small doses: Discussing horror short stories. youtube.com/shorts/vkM-BQl2l…

🕷 In Japan, the horror season arrives in the dead of summer. The logic is wonderfully practical. A terrifying story gives you the chills, which physically cools you down during sweltering nights. Fear in small doses: Discussing horror short stories. youtube.com/shorts/77rYhUz-0…

In Western traditions, Halloween marks the thinning of the veil between the living and the dead. Writer Anne Rottie recalls leading children on horse riding trips, telling stories and eating pancakes. Fear in small doses: Discussing horror short stories. youtube.com/shorts/faD5sRsMe…

🕷 Author @salinachristmas explains how a grim discovery by her father, a military man, inspired a piece of short horror fiction that she later expanded into a novel. 🎃 Fear in small doses: Discussing horror short stories. youtube.com/shorts/H9vjPbN-O…

The Future of Skills & Story of Books are inviting you to our weekly Book Club series. On Weds 14 we'll discuss Book Characters that Teach us Kindness🥳💫 Join in! 🗓 Wednesday 14 October 2026 UK: 1pm -1.30pm // MYT: 8pm - 8.30pm Register here: luma.com/arujfvrt?tk=4N2Adp

We read a haiku against the backdrop of the haze in Kuala Lumpur. The air quality index hits 175, with schools being closed all over Malaysia. 📚 Seasons: A Collection of Personal Haiku and Tankas by Wilson Khor, Working Desk Publishing. youtube.com/shorts/Ok5bZGmoo…

We folded. We joined Substack. It’s hard to explain ourselves when we’re so much better at explaining everyone else. Follow the crow 🐦‍⬛ storyofbooks.substack.com/p/…

In the first podcast episode, The Future of Skills and Story of Books discussed the decline of literacy and comprehension skills due to digital noises. In the second episode, we move on to discussing the first steps to recover our attention as readers. storyofbooks.co.uk/2026/09/2…

📚 How Japan approaches reading culture differently. During out visit Tokyo, we discovered that some books are designed to suit the lifestyle of daily commuters. They're small enough to fit coat pockets and to be read while standing on the train. 🎙 youtu.be/dJQzhTJo_-4?si=EeVw…

📚 Some bookstores in Asia offer premium experiences for visitors. In Taiwan, Japan and Southeast Asia, bookstores are emerging as premium spaces to enjoy reading; from luxurious flagship outlets to charming boutique bookshops. 🎙youtu.be/dJQzhTJo_-4?si=ns08…

📚 Third spaces are essential to foster reading habits. Libraries, bookshops and parks are essential for to support reading habits and should be a priority in town planning policy. 🎙 youtu.be/dJQzhTJo_-4?si=qTB-…

Destroying a book destroys its context within the human experience. Destroying a text is the first step in dehumanisation: it erases the proof that the people who wrote it – or felt reflected by it – had a valid human experience worth preserving. youtube.com/shorts/qjE1jBUX-…

Every book is a time capsule containing layers of human experience. It's a time capsule of the anxieties, blind spots, moral frameworks and hopes of its era. Lose the text and you lose the ability to understand why people thought the way they did. youtube.com/shorts/kKX6qIWm9…

Anthropic spent millions buying rare books just to shred, scan and feed them to AI. A federal judge, however, ruled that digitising legally purchased print books for LLM training is fair use. Book Club Podcast Ep.2: Preparing our minds for reading. youtube.com/shorts/xFtBOkLLf…