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Today is the birthday of John Fowles, and it feels like a good moment to return to a writer who made novels feel intimate, troubling, and alive.His books do not leave the reader untouched. They linger. They raise questions about love, freedom, illusion, loneliness, and the stories people tell themselves just to keep going.If you have read him, which book stays with you most?<a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/writers/" rel="tag">#writers</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a>

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📚 About to Fall Apart by: Ashley Hickson-LovenceThis is the story of one man's weekend, a weekend in which everything could changeThese lines could change everything. He sips more of his tinny. Imagines a new life.Aidy's just punched a co-worker, but he hasn't got time to deal with the fallout. With a deadline fast looming he must get home, knuckle down an...<a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/about-to-fall-apart" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/about-to-fall-apart">https://bookblabla.com/book/about-to-fall-apart</a><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a><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/literary/" rel="tag">#literary</a>

This is the story of one man's weekend, a weekend in which everything could change

These lines could change everything.
He sips more of his tinny.
Imagines a new life.

Aidy's just punched a co-worker, but he hasn't got time to deal with the fallout. With a deadline fast looming he must get home, knuckle down and finish the story he's been working on, a story he hasn't been able to stop thinking about. It's the story of a falling plane and of a grieving mother.

Set across one weekend, About to Fall Apart is the exhilarating story of a man of mixed heritage living on the Irish border as he tries to stay positive, reconnect with his children and maybe, even, find his own birth mother.

To be released: April 9, 2026.

'Poignant and tender.' FERDIA LENNON
'A dynamic voice.' IRENOSEN OKOJIE
'Lushly written and formally audacious.' NICOLAS PADAMSEE

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Excerpt from my latest edited chapter "Disrespecting the afterlife". In this scene Lyeasrakardsul finds out why the Knomes don't mind the fumes surrounding their caverns... 😁 <a href="https://fedigroups.social/@reading" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@reading</a> <a href="https://lemmy.world/u/books" rel="nofollow">@books</a> @fantasy <a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> @worldbuilding <a href="https://fedigroups.social/@humor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@humor</a> @humor@lemmy.world @aiop <a href="/tags/wipwednesday/" rel="tag">#WIPWednesday</a> <a href="/tags/workinprogress/" rel="tag">#WorkInProgress</a> <a href="/tags/bookexcerpt/" rel="tag">#BookExcerpt</a> <a href="/tags/excerpt/" rel="tag">#Excerpt</a> <a href="/tags/amwriting/" rel="tag">#AmWriting</a> <a href="/tags/indie/" rel="tag">#Indie</a> <a href="/tags/ebook/" rel="tag">#eBook</a> <a href="/tags/specualtivefiction/" rel="tag">#SpecualtiveFiction</a> <a href="/tags/fantasybooks/" rel="tag">#FantasyBooks</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#Fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/satire/" rel="tag">#Satire</a> <a href="/tags/humour/" rel="tag">#Humour</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#Book</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/bookmastodon/" rel="tag">#BookMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> The Last Philosopher: <a href="https://books2read.com/b/m0pJYA" rel="nofollow">https://books2read.com/b/m0pJYA</a>

Spotting him, the small creatures both jumped up, falling over themselves to fold up a couple of chair-contraptions while waving excitedly at the same time. He had seen less entertaining comedy troupes. Once he was close enough, he saw they were wearing weird dark glasses, which looked even more bizarre than their regular eyes.

“Get back in the cave, someone might see!” He made shooing motions, and they obediently scurried off.

Close to the entrance, a bird flying overhead all of a sudden dropped out of the sky.

“What happened?”

“Is fumes master,” the shorter one answered, picking it up.

“What are you going to do with it?” He had forgotten this one’s name.

“Lunch!”

“Oh...eww.”

“Bird not important. We wait for master. Good Knomes sorry master upset we wait.” The taller one, Isath, came up and removed his glasses.

“Why were you waiting outside, and what’s with all the waving? People might get the wrong idea, you know!”

“We keep watch for master, give good news!”

“Have you been watching since I left?”

“Yes, master.”

“What if I didn’t return?”

“Good master leave note. Isath trust master.”

“It said ‘TF’! “If” things went well!” He was shouting; he hadn’t meant to shout.

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My Favourite Book Bloggers: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-favourite-book-bloggers/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-favourite-book-bloggers/">https://lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-favourite-book-bloggers/</a><a href="/tags/wednesdayweeklybloggingchallenge/" rel="tag">#WednesdayWeeklyBloggingChallenge</a> <a href="/tags/bookblogger/" rel="tag">#BookBlogger</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bloggingcommunity/" rel="tag">#BloggingCommunity</a> <a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a>

A green stack of paper is lying on a white table next to a fountain pen. In front of the pen and paper are four white cubes that have the word blog spelled on them with one letter on each cube.

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Days:Hours:Minutes:SecondsWe tried our best :'(April’s basic necessities were not fully met. <a href="https://ko-fi.com/post/Stabilise-Monthly-Essentials-W7W11WTQFO" rel="nofollow">The goal was $625</a>, but only $440 of that was met.The minimum for April was $375, but only $190 was received for April essentials. The rest of that $440 covered overdue March costs and groceries for the first weeks of April.Since April’s overdue utilities and internet were already handled, the remaining $185 is the groceries gap. That shortfall now carries into May.Total needed: $560🗒️ Breakdown: $185 — April groceries gap carrying into May $375 — May basic necessities • $250 groceries • $90 utilities + water • $35 internet + phone dataMonthly pledges are preferred due to disability and the constraints that come with it. However, one-off support also helps greatly.Aside from Ko-fi, other support options and social profiles are here: <a href="https://wrzky.com/links" rel="nofollow">https://wrzky.com/links</a>Support keeps this work alive. Scan the QR code or visit <a href="https://wrzky.com/links" rel="nofollow">wrzky.com/links</a> to help keep me fed, medicated, connected, and able to continue mutual aid and solidarity work. Monthly pledges are preferred; one-off support also helps greatly.This support helps keep me fed, connected, and able to continue sustaining a global mutual-aid network with comrades organising across borders.Every bit helps keep it going. Thank you.<a href="https://ovo.st/club/mutualaid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@mutualaid</a> <a href="https://fedigroups.social/@mutualaid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@mutualaid</a> <a href="https://ovo.st/club/disability" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@disability</a> @autistics@chirp.social <a href="https://fedigroups.social/@autistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@autistics</a> <a href="https://fedigroups.social/@actuallyadhd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@actuallyadhd</a>

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"Time has a tendency to switch around. It’s as cunning as a fox, and it can be malicious. It can flow in one direction and simultaneously in the opposite one. We only think it’s always flowing along with us, and that our life sets its boundaries. Nothing could be further from the truth. It pulls us where it will. Backwards, to when we didn’t yet exist, and forwards to where we’ll no longer be there. It plays with us, fully aware that there’s nothing we can do about it. It’s not hard to play with human beings." -- from 'Needle's Eye' by Wiesław Myśliwski; trans. Bill Johnston<a href="/tags/wednesdaybookquote/" rel="tag">#WednesdayBookQuote</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a>

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Hot Connections: Why Sexual Platforms Matter and What can we learn from including sexual platforms in definitions of social media

<a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052061/hot-connections/" rel="nofollow">Meta</a>.<a href="https://direct.mit.edu/books/book-media/6108/epubviewer/2590893" rel="nofollow">Web viewer</a>.A rethinking of “the social” in social media which includes the sexual.What can we learn from including sexual platforms in definitions of social media and, by extension, from including sex in definitions of “the social” itself? Hot Connections explores three locally operating sexual platforms: the Swedish Darkside, used by kink and BDSM practitioners; the Estonian Libertine Center, used mainly by nonmonogamous people; and the Finnish Alastonsuomi, used for a wide variety of nude and sexual displays of self-expression. What avenues do these platforms open for understanding the role that sexuality plays in people’s networked routines, social bonds, and forms of relating?Sexual social media affords freedom of worldmaking, belonging, and a right to sexually exist. While providing vital spaces for sexual self-expression—and indeed, hot connections—platform connectivity also involves friction as expectations, wishes, and desires clash and collide.Intervening in debates on the value of sexual social media, Hot Connections discusses what it means to research sexuality when sexual data is understood as sensitive by default, what platform governance may look like if viewed from the margins, and how sex and intimacy are not the same thing in networked sexuality. Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmus.org/post/21261498">See Original Page</a>

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Did Geoffrey Chaucer invent April Fool’s Day?Today, and every year on April the first, we curse Geoffrey Chaucer. Why? Because he is (supposedly) personally responsible for the two worst holidays (“holidays”) known to humankind/the internet. These, of course, are Valentine’s Day and today, April Fools’ Day.<a href="https://lithub.com/tag/chaucer/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KMVKDFT18P2CKKD0MVH2TF5N&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/tag/chaucer/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KMVKDFT18P2CKKD0MVH2TF5N&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER">https://lithub.com/tag/chaucer/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KMVKDFT18P2CKKD0MVH2TF5N&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER</a>Chaucer at PG: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/144" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/144">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/144</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a>

Portrait of Chaucer by William Blake.

Manchester City Gallery - Tempera on canvas c. 1800.

The bust-length portrait of Chaucer emerges from a wreath of laurel rendered in soft blue-greens against a pale aqueous background. The face is gentle and bearded, wearing a hood, and has a mild, benign expression.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Chaucer#/media/File:William_Blake_-_Geoffrey_Chaucer_-_Manchester_City_Gallery_-_Tempera_on_canvas_c_1800.jpg

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Today I finished All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. It was so beautifully written and I’ve been lost in it for days. I’m glad I read it, though I found the ending really difficult. Not badly written, it was the right ending. I just wanted characters I’d grown to love to have certain things. I had to keep reminding myself that it’s a book about war. As good as it was, a novel with such intensely emotive language about WWII…it was really hard to read right now. So, that's a warning for ya. There were days I was going between that and then watching Outlander (with the Jacobite Rebellion and the Battle of Culloden), and then I’d watch the news, and it was just TOO MUCH.Next up: It’s self care time! I’m going read A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Beck Chambers. Cozy scifi for the win! <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a>

The book's cover, all in moody blues, a photo of the French city of Saint Malo, where much of the book is set. Above the city is a long stretch of sky, filled with clouds.

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Charles Dickens Searched the Streets of London and Found Inspiration for His Evocative FictionA three-part BBC series will examine how real events shaped the 19th-century British author’s writing. The show is part of the National Year of Reading in the U.K.by Ryley Graham<a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/charles-dickens-searched-the-streets-of-london-and-found-inspiration-for-his-evocative-fiction-180988451/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/charles-dickens-searched-the-streets-of-london-and-found-inspiration-for-his-evocative-fiction-180988451/">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/charles-dickens-searched-the-streets-of-london-and-found-inspiration-for-his-evocative-fiction-180988451/</a>Dickens at PG: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a>

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Reformation of scienceProtestantism didn’t hold back science – it revolutionised its methods, its theoretical content and its social significanceby Peter Harrison<a href="https://aeon.co/essays/how-protestantism-influenced-the-making-of-modern-science?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=72289caf52-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_03_06_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="aeon.co/essays/how-protestantism-influenced-the-making-of-modern-science?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=72289caf52-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_03_06_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972">https://aeon.co/essays/how-protestantism-influenced-the-making-of-modern-science?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=72289caf52-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_03_06_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972</a>Protestantism at PG: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/4381" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/4381">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/4381</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a>

The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man (c1615) by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens. Early supporters of the Royal Society, founded in 1660, commonly spoke in theological terms about the new science recapturing a lost, pre-Fall human dominion over nature.

At centre-left, Eve reaches up to take the forbidden fruit from the coiled serpent in the Tree of Knowledge while Adam receives it from her hand.

Identifiable creatures include macaws and a blue-and-gold macaw in the branches, peacock, ostrich, turkey, heron, ducks, swans, rabbit, white lapdog, deer, lion, tiger, leopard, horse, elephant glimpsed in the distance, monkey, and many more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Eden_with_the_Fall_of_Man#/media/File:Jan_Brueghel_de_Oude_en_Peter_Paul_Rubens_-_Het_aards_paradijs_met_de_zondeval_van_Adam_en_Eva.jpg

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Silence: a brief literary historyby Kate McLoughlinWithout silences, we wouldn’t have the exquisite hush of medieval lullabies, the suspenseful secrets of the realist novel, or jagged modernist poetry.<a href="https://theconversation.com/silence-a-brief-literary-history-277903?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%201%202026%20-%203724038096&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%201%202026%20-%203724038096+CID_11bc9538c61be32abbf7da8bc43f3be9&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/silence-a-brief-literary-history-277903?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%201%202026%20-%203724038096&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%201%202026%20-%203724038096+CID_11bc9538c61be32abbf7da8bc43f3be9&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk">https://theconversation.com/silence-a-brief-literary-history-277903?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%201%202026%20-%203724038096&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%201%202026%20-%203724038096+CID_11bc9538c61be32abbf7da8bc43f3be9&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a>

When Children Are Asleep by Thomas Faed (1885).

A young mother or nursemaid sits by a fireside absorbed in reading a book. She wears a white cap, yellow neckerchief, grey bodice and green skirt. Through the half-open door behind her, a child lies sleeping in a box bed, cheek resting on folded hands.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Faed_(1825-1900)_-_When_Children_Are_Asleep_-_WAG_2816_-_Walker_Art_Gallery.jpg

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Why Is the Aeneid Important? Key Lessons and Impact of the Ancient Epic"Virgil’s Aeneid is one of the most famous and influential pieces of literature from the Roman world. What was its purpose, and what are the key lessons it conveys?"<a href="https://www.thecollector.com/aeneid-importance-founding-rome/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/aeneid-importance-founding-rome/">https://www.thecollector.com/aeneid-importance-founding-rome/</a>The Aeneid at PG:<a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Aeneid" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Aeneid">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Aeneid</a>Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus and Octavia<a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a>

Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus and Octavia. Oil painting by Angelica Kauffman. "It depicts a legend in Macrobius that Octavia the Younger fainted whilst Virgil was reading to her and Augustus a passage about her son Marcellus in the Book VI of his Aeneid." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_Reading_the_Aeneid_to_Augustus_and_Octavia#:~:text=Virgil%20Reading%20the%20Aeneid%20to%20Augustus%20and%20Octavia%20is%20an,is%20in%20the%20Royal%20Collection.

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April’s basic necessities were not fully met. <a href="https://ko-fi.com/post/Stabilise-Monthly-Essentials-W7W11WTQFO" rel="nofollow">The goal was $625</a>, but only $440 of that was met.The minimum for April was $375, but only $190 was received for April essentials. The rest of that $440 covered overdue March costs and groceries for the first weeks of April.Since April’s overdue utilities and internet were already handled, the remaining $185 is the groceries gap. That shortfall now carries into May.Total needed: $560🗒️ Breakdown: $185 — April groceries gap carrying into May $375 — May basic necessities • $250 groceries • $90 utilities + water • $35 internet + phone dataMonthly pledges are preferred due to disability and the constraints that come with it. However, one-off support also helps greatly.Aside from Ko-fi, other support options and social profiles are here: <a href="https://wrzky.com/links" rel="nofollow">https://wrzky.com/links</a>Support keeps this work alive. Scan the QR code or visit <a href="https://wrzky.com/links" rel="nofollow">wrzky.com/links</a> to help keep me fed, medicated, connected, and able to continue mutual aid and solidarity work. Monthly pledges are preferred; one-off support also helps greatly.This support helps keep me fed, connected, and able to continue sustaining a global mutual-aid network with comrades organising across borders.Every bit helps keep it going. Thank you.<a href="https://ovo.st/club/mutualaid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@mutualaid</a> <a href="https://fedigroups.social/@mutualaid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@mutualaid</a> <a href="https://ovo.st/club/disability" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@disability</a> @autistics@chirp.social <a href="https://fedigroups.social/@autistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@autistics</a> <a href="https://fedigroups.social/@actuallyadhd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@actuallyadhd</a>

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When Satirical Magazines Confront Real CrisesIn Chile and Argentina, satirical publications used humor to expose political crises overlooked by the mainstream press.By: Livia Gershon <a href="https://daily.jstor.org/when-satirical-magazines-confront-real-crises/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KMZ9109GNEMXT2KFANC9VNJF&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/when-satirical-magazines-confront-real-crises/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KMZ9109GNEMXT2KFANC9VNJF&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER">https://daily.jstor.org/when-satirical-magazines-confront-real-crises/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KMZ9109GNEMXT2KFANC9VNJF&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/satire/" rel="tag">#satire</a>

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Happy 100th birthday to Harper Lee! Let's celebrate it.April 28, 1926 saw the birth of Harper Lee, best known as the author of To Kill a Mockingbird. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, Lee achieved literary notoriety with a single book, then proceeded to publish sparingly. Her additional works, though few, have been the subject of considerable attention and worthwhile debate.Check it out in our last newsletter: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/newsletter/" rel="nofollow">https://www.gutenberg.org/newsletter/</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a>

Truman Capote's photo portrait of Harper Lee from the back cover of the first-edition dust jacket for Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird.

She gazes downward, wearing a light shirt, photographed outdoors through grass and a mesh screen, creating a layered, atmospheric effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_Lee#/media/File:Photo_portrait_of_Harper_Lee_(To_Kill_a_Mockingbird_dust_jacket,_1960).jpg

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Inside The Contested Origins Of The ‘Jack And Jill’ Nursery RhymeBy Kaleena Fraga From the executions of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to a satirization of King Charles I's liquor tax, there are countless theories about the true meaning of "Jack and Jill."<a href="https://allthatsinteresting.com/jack-and-jill-nursery-rhyme" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="allthatsinteresting.com/jack-and-jill-nursery-rhyme">https://allthatsinteresting.com/jack-and-jill-nursery-rhyme</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/rhymes/" rel="tag">#rhymes</a> Jack and Jill from the book "Denslow's Mother Goose" at PG:<a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18546" rel="nofollow">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18546</a>

Jack and Jill falling down the hill. Jack has the pail flying in the air above him.

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‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’ TV Series From Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door, Chris Yost Lands at Peacock (EXCLUSIVE)

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<a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> I've been regularly reading fiction type books for more than 50 years. And in that time, I never knew the definition of the genre called Literary Fiction. Today that changed. And yes, I have read some books that would be in the literary fiction category. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_fiction" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_fiction">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_fiction</a>

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After less than a month on Threads, I finally got banned.Permanently, with no right to appeal.I genuinely don’t understand what for - just occasional posts about books and writers, same as here and across nine other social networks.Their AI could not even explain the exact reason, only vague generic wording… so I can only assume my IQ was slightly above what the platform is built to tolerate.<a href="/tags/threads/" rel="tag">#threads</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/booksky/" rel="tag">#booksky</a> <a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#socialmedia</a> <a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a>

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"Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall they be saved."First-Ever ‘Jane Goodall Day’ Will Take Place on April 3 To Honor the Late Conservationist’s MissionBy Regina Sienra <a href="https://mymodernmet.com/jane-goodall-day/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mymodernmet.com/jane-goodall-day/">https://mymodernmet.com/jane-goodall-day/</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/nature/" rel="tag">#nature</a> <a href="/tags/animal_welfare/" rel="tag">#animal_welfare</a>

Photo of Jane Goodall.

Image despicts Jane Goodhall with silver-grey hair pulled back loosely, wearing a camel turtleneck sweater beneath a teal cardigan. Around her neck she wears a small pendant in the shape of the African continent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall#/media/File:Deputy_Secretary_Higginbottom_Poses_for_a_Photo_With_Dr._Jane_Goodall_and_the_State_Department's_Global_Health_Diplomacy_Director_Jordan_in_Washington_(22365513310)_(2)_(cropped_2).jpg

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Thirty previously unpublished verses by Empedocles discovered on a papyrus from Cairoby University de Liegeedited by Stephanie Baum, reviewed by Robert Egan<a href="https://phys.org/news/2026-04-previously-unpublished-verses-empedocles-papyrus.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="phys.org/news/2026-04-previously-unpublished-verses-empedocles-papyrus.html">https://phys.org/news/2026-04-previously-unpublished-verses-empedocles-papyrus.html</a>Empedocles at PG: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Empedocles" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Empedocles">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Empedocles</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/old_manuscripts/" rel="tag">#old_manuscripts</a>

The Strasbourg Empedocles papyrus contained over 50 lines from Empedocles' work On Nature that were not published until 1999.

Multiple torn, irregular fragments of ancient papyrus, dark brown with age, bearing neat columns of Greek uncial script in black ink.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empedocles#/media/File:Empedokles_fragment_Physika_I_262%E2%80%93300.jpg

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Earlier: "I entered this profession just as the storm clouds of the current book-banning push were starting to gather, but I enrolled in a librarian certification program hoping it would pass over me as if lamb’s blood were painted on my doorframe." <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/abilene-isd-librarian-book-ban/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.texasobserver.org/abilene-isd-librarian-book-ban/">https://www.texasobserver.org/abilene-isd-librarian-book-ban/</a> <a href="/tags/censorship/" rel="tag">#censorship</a> <a href="/tags/library/" rel="tag">#library</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a>

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Space Dragons: Cosmic Survivors by <a href="https://mastodon.art/@vicorva" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@vicorva</a> is a great book! I enjoyed returning to the imaginative setting and the lovable characters. Also, the representation of queer and other marginalized identities is really good.Also: dragons in space! 🐉 <a href="https://mastodon.art/@vicorva/116436562534532783" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mastodon.art/@vicorva/116436562534532783">https://mastodon.art/@vicorva/116436562534532783</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a>

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finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&q=https://reviewdb.app/book/4U0w0xMtfU2FD3x56LaKkB" rel="nofollow">Anne of Windy Willows</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 by LM Montgomery.Now a respectable and well-behaved adult (but still with her whimsy), Anne spends three years as school principle away from her one true love Gilbert Blythe, keeping him updated via regular letters on the madcap happenings of her town life. Lots of eccentric widows and hopeless maidens with thorny problems that Anne manages to resolve, either through meddling or accident. Not much plot but an enjoyable array of fancies. Grown-up Anne is a bit too perfect. <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/anneofgreengables/" rel="tag">#AnneOfGreenGables</a><a href="https://aus.social/@wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@WildWoila</a> @wildwoila@wyrms.de

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