<p>Was The Importance of Being Earnest the most scandalous opening run of all time? How Oscar Wilde’s greatest play kicked off his tragic fall from grace</p><p>By Ben Jureidini</p><p><a href="https://www.tatler.com/article/the-importance-of-being-earnest-opening-run-scandal" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.tatler.com/article/the-importance-of-being-earnest-opening-run-scandal"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.tatler.com/article/the-imp</span><span class="invisible">ortance-of-being-earnest-opening-run-scandal</span></a></p><p>The Importance of Being Earnest at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/844" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/844</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a> <a href="/tags/theatre/" rel="tag">#Theatre</a></p>
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<p>A well-thought-out piece on Austen, her influence, and where to start reading her works. The author is cognizant that where to start with Austen is super subjective so she breaks down what book you should read and why. </p><p>[Gift link] <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/article/jane-austen-books.html?unlocked_article_code=1.aE8.UNBI.9PUoDXstXstI&smid=url-share" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nytimes.com/article/jane-austen-books.html?unlocked_article_code=1.aE8.UNBI.9PUoDXstXstI&smid=url-share"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nytimes.com/article/jane-a</span><span class="invisible">usten-books.html?unlocked_article_code=1.aE8.UNBI.9PUoDXstXstI&smid=url-share</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/amreading/" rel="tag">#AmReading</a> <a href="/tags/amwriting/" rel="tag">#AmWriting</a> @bookstodon <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="/tags/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#ReadingCommunity</a> <a href="/tags/regency/" rel="tag">#Regency</a> <a href="/tags/georgian/" rel="tag">#Georgian</a> <a href="/tags/janeausten/" rel="tag">#JaneAusten</a> @romancelandia</p>
Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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<p>Christiaan Huygens and the Scientific Secrets of Saturn</p><p>Seventeenth-century science was so competitive that Christiaan Huygens used a cipher to conceal his Saturn observations when sharing them with interlocutors.</p><p>By: Danny Robb </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/christiaan-huygens-and-the-scientific-secrets-of-saturn/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/christiaan-huygens-and-the-scientific-secrets-of-saturn/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/christiaan-huy</span><span class="invisible">gens-and-the-scientific-secrets-of-saturn/</span></a></p><p>Christiaan Huygens at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5648" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5648"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/5648</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#Astronomy</a></p>
<p>Whatever Happened to London’s “Little America”?</p><p>Since the time of John Adams, the first US Ambassador to the Court of St. James, Grosvenor Square has been the locus of the American government in Britain.</p><p>By: Matthew Wills </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/whatever-happened-to-londons-little-america/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/whatever-happened-to-londons-little-america/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/whatever-happe</span><span class="invisible">ned-to-londons-little-america/</span></a></p><p>John Adams at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4660" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4660"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/4660</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>
<p>Reading deeper into Virginia Woolf’s vicious diary entry</p><p>Maggie Humm says the author’s recollection of encountering a group of learning-disabled people is surely a defence mechanism and projection</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/27/reading-deeper-into-virginia-woolfs-vicious-diary-entry" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/27/reading-deeper-into-virginia-woolfs-vicious-diary-entry"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/books/2025</span><span class="invisible">/jul/27/reading-deeper-into-virginia-woolfs-vicious-diary-entry</span></a></p><p>Virginia Woolf at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/89</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a> <a href="/tags/biography/" rel="tag">#Biography</a></p>
<p>Okay Mastodon, do your thing!</p><p>I'm looking for recommendations for audiobooks 😁 </p><p>Preferably simple enough that I can keep up while doing other stuff at the same time, but not so simple that I get bored,</p><p>The last series was Skullduggery Pleasant, if that helps.</p><p><a href="https://lemmy.world/u/books" rel="nofollow">@books</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@reading" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>reading</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> <a href="/tags/readers/" rel="tag">#Readers</a> <a href="/tags/readersofmastodon/" rel="tag">#ReadersOfMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#ReadingCommunity</a><br><a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#Book</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#Novel</a> <a href="/tags/novels/" rel="tag">#Novels</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#Fiction</a> <br><a href="/tags/recommendation/" rel="tag">#Recommendation</a> <a href="/tags/bookrecommendation/" rel="tag">#Bookrecommendation</a> <a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#Review</a> <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#Bookreview</a><br><a href="/tags/bookwyrm/" rel="tag">#Bookwyrm</a> <a href="/tags/bookworm/" rel="tag">#Bookworm</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/booklove/" rel="tag">#BookLove</a> <a href="/tags/fantasybooks/" rel="tag">#FantasyBooks</a></p>
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<p>" <a href="/tags/tennessee/" rel="tag">#Tennessee</a> <a href="/tags/library/" rel="tag">#library</a> director ousted after refusing to remove <a href="/tags/lgbtq/" rel="tag">#LGBTQ</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a>"</p><p>There are 2 types of people</p><p>1. People who get sad at this story, do nothing, and then speak about how worse is sure to happen while offering no <a href="/tags/resistance/" rel="tag">#resistance</a></p><p>2. People who get mad at this story, show up, agitate, make their voices heard. And punish those responsible with a <a href="/tags/vote/" rel="tag">#vote</a>. And demand their new reps put in safeguards</p><p>Be the second kind of person</p><p><a href="/tags/cynicism/" rel="tag">#Cynicism</a> is acceptance of <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#fascism</a></p><p><a href="https://wpln.org/post/tennessee-library-director-ousted-after-refusing-to-remove-lgbtq-books/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="wpln.org/post/tennessee-library-director-ousted-after-refusing-to-remove-lgbtq-books/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wpln.org/post/tennessee-librar</span><span class="invisible">y-director-ousted-after-refusing-to-remove-lgbtq-books/</span></a></p>
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<p>Smashwords - Free Scifi Summer - My short stories are FREE from Smashwords July 1-31, 2025! Grab a free story from any of the eighteen below:</p><p><a href="https://inkican.com/smashwords-free-scifi-summer/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="inkican.com/smashwords-free-scifi-summer/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inkican.com/smashwords-free-sc</span><span class="invisible">ifi-summer/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/freestuff/" rel="tag">#freestuff</a> <a href="/tags/free/" rel="tag">#free</a> <a href="/tags/freebies/" rel="tag">#freebies</a> <a href="/tags/giveaway/" rel="tag">#giveaway</a> <a href="/tags/frugal/" rel="tag">#frugal</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#Sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/booksforkids/" rel="tag">#booksforkids</a></p>
<p>📚 Flashlight by: Susan Choi</p><p>One summer night, Louisa and her father take a walk on the breakwater. Her father is carrying a flashlight. He cannot swim. Later, Louisa is found on the beach, soaked to the skin, barely alive. Her father is gone. She is ten years old.</p><p>Louisa is an only child of parents who have severed themselves from the past. ...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/flashlight" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/flashlight</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/literaryfiction/" rel="tag">#literaryfiction</a> <a href="/tags/familylife/" rel="tag">#familylife</a> <a href="/tags/general/" rel="tag">#general</a></p>
<p>📚 Misery by: Stephen King</p><p>Bestselling novelist Paul Sheldon thinks he’s finally free of Misery Chastain. In a controversial career move, he’s just killed off the popular protagonist of his beloved romance series in favor of expanding his creative horizons. But such a change doesn’t come without consequences. </p><p>After a near-fatal car accident in rural Colorado leaves his body broken, Pau...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/misery" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/misery</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a></p>
<p>For some time I had been wondering what was up with one of my favorite authors - it had been so long since I last heard any news. <br>So I went to her website - <a href="https://www.otherscribbles.com/news/2025/4/25/monk-and-robot-omnibus-and-some-other-tidbits" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.otherscribbles.com/news/2025/4/25/monk-and-robot-omnibus-and-some-other-tidbits"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.otherscribbles.com/news/20</span><span class="invisible">25/4/25/monk-and-robot-omnibus-and-some-other-tidbits</span></a> - and read the most delightful news: she's about to publish a new book! This post was from April 25, so it shouldn't be long now🤞🤞🤞</p><p><a href="/tags/beckychambers/" rel="tag">#BeckyChambers</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> @bookstodon <a href="/tags/boeken/" rel="tag">#Boeken</a> @boeken <a href="/tags/solarpunk/" rel="tag">#SolarPunk</a></p>
<p>Hear Albert Camus’ Grateful Letter to His Teacher After Winning the Nobel Prize</p><p>In 1924, two decades before the publication of The Stranger, author Albert Camus was a boy growing up in poverty in Algeria. Noticing his potential, a teacher named Louis Germain took him under his wing, even giving him free lessons to help him secure a scholarship.</p><p>By Regina Sienra </p><p><a href="https://mymodernmet.com/albert-camus-letter-teacher/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mymodernmet.com/albert-camus-letter-teacher/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mymodernmet.com/albert-camus-l</span><span class="invisible">etter-teacher/</span></a>?</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a></p>
<p>In <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a>: It’s typical of José Skinner’s approach that his main protagonist is not some self-assured reflection of his own qualifications, but rather Quigley, a dopey gringo vacillating between colonial-gaze fascination and fear of a world he doesn’t understand. <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/the-search-committee-border-literary-canon/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.texasobserver.org/the-search-committee-border-literary-canon/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.texasobserver.org/the-sear</span><span class="invisible">ch-committee-border-literary-canon/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/southtexas/" rel="tag">#SouthTexas</a> <a href="/tags/border/" rel="tag">#border</a> <a href="/tags/culture/" rel="tag">#culture</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#education</a></p>
<p>16 to go in the next 5 months!</p><p><a href="https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/honzin" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="app.thestorygraph.com/profile/honzin"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">app.thestorygraph.com/profile/</span><span class="invisible">honzin</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/amreading/" rel="tag">#amreading</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/kindle/" rel="tag">#kindle</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/booktoot/" rel="tag">#booktoot</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/knihy/" rel="tag">#knihy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/ebook/" rel="tag">#ebook</a> @bookstodon @knihy</p>
<p>This week's <a href="/tags/newbooks/" rel="tag">#NewBooks</a> at the library:<br>- For my birthday back in December, I treated myself to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein from The Folio Society.<br>- A review copy of Simon Lamb's The Oldest Rocks on Earth: A Search for the Origins of Our World from Columbia University Press (a review is forthcoming).<br>- A second-hand copy of Peter Godfrey-Smith's Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection from Oxford University Press. This one was withdrawn from the holdings of the nearby Devon Libraries, but has found a welcome home with me.<br><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/scicomm/" rel="tag">#Scicomm</a> <a href="/tags/geology/" rel="tag">#Geology</a> <a href="/tags/earthsciences/" rel="tag">#EarthSciences</a> <a href="/tags/evolution/" rel="tag">#Evolution</a> <a href="/tags/evolutionarybiology/" rel="tag">#EvolutionaryBiology</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
<p>Why is a cowboy writer from Ohio venerated in a small Aussie beach town? The incredible story of Zane Grey</p><p>The dentist-turned bestselling author had a caravan park named after him after making a killer shark movie in 1930s Australia. A swashbuckling new biography unspools the unlikely tale</p><p>By Beejay Silcox</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/29/big-sharks-coded-love-letters-a-movie-fiasco-the-strange-australian-chapter-of-celebrity-cowboy-writer-zane-grey" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/29/big-sharks-coded-love-letters-a-movie-fiasco-the-strange-australian-chapter-of-celebrity-cowboy-writer-zane-grey"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/books/2025</span><span class="invisible">/jul/29/big-sharks-coded-love-letters-a-movie-fiasco-the-strange-australian-chapter-of-celebrity-cowboy-writer-zane-grey</span></a></p><p>Zane Grey at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/212" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/212"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/212</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a></p>
<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/TrollSong" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/TrollSong</a></p><p>Having an abusive assassin for a sister was bad enough, but when Lyra’s older sister, Nicole, becomes obsessed with killing the teenage troll, her life becomes a special kind of nightmare. Will she escape, or become just another victim of the unstoppable woman?</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefantasy/" rel="tag">#sciencefantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>