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<p>Then all of a sudden, with a joy that I had not known within myself, I said: “If you want to spend the rest of your life listening and watching this nonsense, that’s up to you, but just now I’ve realized I want to spend my life doing something beautiful.” -- from &#x27;The Gowkaran Tree in the Middle of Our Kitchen&#x27; by Shokoofeh Azar; (translator is anonymous for security reasons)</p><p><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="/tags/readingjournal/" rel="tag">#ReadingJournal</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>RE: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@patrickmfsd/116478883225077666" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mastodon.social/@patrickmfsd/116478883225077666"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@patrickmfsd/1</span><span class="invisible">16478883225077666</span></a></p><p>I’m looking for a few more beta testers for Readtivity before launch — a reading activity tracker focused on goals, stats, and building better reading habits</p><p><a href="/tags/iosdev/" rel="tag">#iosdev</a> <a href="/tags/indiedev/" rel="tag">#indiedev</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

<p>Groundbreaking Novel Ranked Among ‘Best Books of All Time’ Turns 307 Years Old</p><p><a href="https://parade.com/news/groundbreaking-novel-ranked-among-best-books-of-all-time-turns-307-years-old" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="parade.com/news/groundbreaking-novel-ranked-among-best-books-of-all-time-turns-307-years-old"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">parade.com/news/groundbreaking</span><span class="invisible">-novel-ranked-among-best-books-of-all-time-turns-307-years-old</span></a></p><p>Robinson Crusoe at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70841" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70841</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Does reading do us any good?</p><p>Stripped of easy moralising, literature makes us relish the search for truth in an age when many believe truth to be dead</p><p>by Flora Champy</p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/the-role-of-literature-as-the-key-to-personal-freedom" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="aeon.co/essays/the-role-of-literature-as-the-key-to-personal-freedom"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/essays/the-role-of-lit</span><span class="invisible">erature-as-the-key-to-personal-freedom</span></a></p><p>Classics of Literature at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/649" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/649"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/books</span><span class="invisible">helf/649</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>The 100 greatest British novels</p><p>BBC Culture polled book critics outside the UK, to give an outsider’s perspective on the best in British literature. (from the archives)</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20151204-the-100-greatest-british-novels" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20151204-the-100-greatest-british-novels"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/</span><span class="invisible">20151204-the-100-greatest-british-novels</span></a></p><p>Some of the are available in our catalog:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&q=https://reviewdb.app/book/6ipPgeHSuAHm6IjLoAqTy1" rel="nofollow">The Windup Girl</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 <br>by Paolo Bacigalupi.</p><p>In a dystopian future, Thailand has maintained independence despite rampant genetically-modified diseases destroying both humans &amp; crops and fossil fuels becoming near unattainable. Western capitalists connive to inflame internal tensions and trigger a favourable coup, but in a world under so much tension, chaos reigns. A great choice of alternative perspectives highlighting the complexity of a society under strain, and the lack of any good choices.</p><p><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/sff/" rel="tag">#SFF</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://aus.social/@wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>WildWoila</span></a></span> @wildwoila@wyrms.de<br></p>

<p>The many literary lives of Mary Wollstonecraft – author of novels, travel writing and children’s books</p><p>Wollstonecraft’s literary career was dedicated to questioning power, society and the roles assigned to women.</p><p>by Aditi Upmanyu</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/the-many-literary-lives-of-mary-wollstonecraft-author-of-novels-travel-writing-and-childrens-books-279885?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=The%20Weekender%20-%203747638388&amp;utm_content=The%20Weekender%20-%203747638388+CID_a5f7e1691899811906f2c3a5b8213e91&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&amp;utm_term=The%20many%20literary%20lives%20of%20Mary%20Wollstonecraft%20%20author%20of%20novels%20travel%20writing%20and%20childrens%20books" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/the-many-literary-lives-of-mary-wollstonecraft-author-of-novels-travel-writing-and-childrens-books-279885?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=The%20Weekender%20-%203747638388&amp;utm_content=The%20Weekender%20-%203747638388+CID_a5f7e1691899811906f2c3a5b8213e91&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&amp;utm_term=The%20many%20literary%20lives%20of%20Mary%20Wollstonecraft%20%20author%20of%20novels%20travel%20writing%20and%20childrens%20books"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/the-many-l</span><span class="invisible">iterary-lives-of-mary-wollstonecraft-author-of-novels-travel-writing-and-childrens-books-279885?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=The%20Weekender%20-%203747638388&amp;utm_content=The%20Weekender%20-%203747638388+CID_a5f7e1691899811906f2c3a5b8213e91&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&amp;utm_term=The%20many%20literary%20lives%20of%20Mary%20Wollstonecraft%20%20author%20of%20novels%20travel%20writing%20and%20childrens%20books</span></a></p><p>Mary Wollstonecraft at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/84" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/84"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/84</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/womeninart/" rel="tag">#womeninart</a></p>

<p>World&#x27;s largest collection of Olympiad-level math problems now available to everyone</p><p>by Rachel Gordon, edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Robert Egan</p><p><a href="https://phys.org/news/2026-04-world-largest-olympiad-math-problems.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="phys.org/news/2026-04-world-largest-olympiad-math-problems.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2026-04-world-la</span><span class="invisible">rgest-olympiad-math-problems.html</span></a></p><p>Mathematics at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/102" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/102"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/books</span><span class="invisible">helf/102</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/mathematics/" rel="tag">#mathematics</a></p>

<p>Robert Frost at Midlife</p><p>In his poems for The Yale Review, the poet reckoned with mortality, imperfection, and the limits of form</p><p>by Kamran Javadizadeh</p><p><a href="https://yalereview.org/article/kamran-javadizadeh-robert-frost?utm_source=Klaviyo&amp;utm_medium=campaign&amp;utm_id=01KNPFNHND5AN53W9YE3E0G0Z2&amp;_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="yalereview.org/article/kamran-javadizadeh-robert-frost?utm_source=Klaviyo&amp;utm_medium=campaign&amp;utm_id=01KNPFNHND5AN53W9YE3E0G0Z2&amp;_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">yalereview.org/article/kamran-</span><span class="invisible">javadizadeh-robert-frost?utm_source=Klaviyo&amp;utm_medium=campaign&amp;utm_id=01KNPFNHND5AN53W9YE3E0G0Z2&amp;_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER</span></a></p><p>Robert Frost at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1091" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1091"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1091</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>

<p>2025 Nobel Prize winner, Laszlo Krasznahorkai writes about collapse, fear, absurdity, and the strange comedy of human behavior when the world feels close to breaking apart.<br>His novels are famous for their long hypnotic sentences.</p><p>A perfect place to start is Satantango or The Melancholy of Resistance.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/writers/" rel="tag">#writers</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/krasznahorkai/" rel="tag">#Krasznahorkai</a> <a href="/tags/nobelprize/" rel="tag">#nobelprize</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</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> <a href="/tags/booksky/" rel="tag">#booksky</a> <a href="/tags/booktok/" rel="tag">#BookTok</a> <a href="/tags/booklovers/" rel="tag">#booklovers</a> <a href="/tags/bookish/" rel="tag">#bookish</a> <a href="/tags/absurdity/" rel="tag">#absurdity</a> <a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#novel</a> <a href="/tags/satantango/" rel="tag">#satantango</a> <a href="/tags/melancholy/" rel="tag">#melancholy</a></p>

<p>Books may do more than entertain us. </p><p>A large study using Health and Retirement Study data found that people who read <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> had a survival advantage compared with non-book <a href="/tags/readers/" rel="tag">#readers</a>, even after adjusting for factors like age, <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#education</a>, health, and wealth. </p><p>Strong evidence that <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> is associated with living better and longer.</p><p>Source: A chapter a day: Association of book reading with <a href="/tags/longevity/" rel="tag">#longevity</a>. <br><a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/booksky/" rel="tag">#booksky</a> <a href="/tags/booktok/" rel="tag">#BookTok</a> <a href="/tags/booklover/" rel="tag">#booklover</a> <a href="/tags/bookstagram/" rel="tag">#bookstagram</a><br><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>My <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#bookreview</a> is brief/won&#x27;t spoil, to spread good, great, and spectacular <a href="/tags/horror/" rel="tag">#horror</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> far and wide.</p><p>Illuminating, concise, and chock-full of fascinating details— with images of pages and ephemera pulled from King&#x27;s personal archives— this book provides a truly unique and one-of-a-kind window into the Writing World and Words of Stephen King. An absolute joy for any Constant Reader. (Hogarth)</p><p><a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#review</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/stephenking/" rel="tag">#StephenKing</a><br><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> <a href="/tags/mothersuspiriareview/" rel="tag">#mothersuspiriareview</a> <a href="/tags/msreview/" rel="tag">#MSReview</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://toot.community/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon@toot.community</span></a></span></p>

<p>Finished up GOOD AND EVIL AND OTHER STORIES, by Samanta Schweblin. I&#x27;ve rated it 4 out of 5 stars. MOUTHFUL OF BIRDS is still my favorite collection, that turned me on to her unique approach to horror stories. </p><p>The thing she does that is so different is that she makes the reader hyperaware of what *could* have happened, in addition to what actually happened. It adds a layer of unease. The characters feal real, and so does their panic.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</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> <a href="/tags/horror/" rel="tag">#Horror</a> <a href="/tags/shortstories/" rel="tag">#ShortStories</a></p>

<p>Owen Jones welcomes <a href="/tags/adamjohnson/" rel="tag">#AdamJohnson</a>, author of <a href="/tags/howtosellagenocide/" rel="tag">#HowToSellAGenocide</a>: The <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#Media</a>&#x27;s Complicity in the Destruction of <a href="/tags/gaza/" rel="tag">#Gaza</a> (all royalties from which go to Middle East Children&#x27;s Alliance) </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETJv8ggAFA0" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETJv8ggAFA0"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETJv8g</span><span class="invisible">gAFA0</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/gazacoverage/" rel="tag">#GazaCoverage</a> <a href="/tags/palestine/" rel="tag">#Palestine</a> <a href="/tags/israel/" rel="tag">#Israel</a> <a href="/tags/palestinecoverage/" rel="tag">#PalestineCoverage</a> <a href="/tags/usmedia/" rel="tag">#USmedia</a> <a href="/tags/americanmedia/" rel="tag">#AmericanMedia</a> <a href="/tags/westernmedia/" rel="tag">#WesternMedia</a> <a href="/tags/mediacriticism/" rel="tag">#mediaCriticism</a> <a href="/tags/msm/" rel="tag">#MSM</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</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>

The Bloodhounds of Zirth by Lloyd Palmer <br><br><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64527" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">http://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64527</a><br><br><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/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/scifiart/" rel="tag">#scifiart</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefictionart/" rel="tag">#sciencefictionart</a> <a href="/tags/retro/" rel="tag">#retro</a> <a href="/tags/retrofuturism/" rel="tag">#retrofuturism</a> <a href="/tags/pulpfiction/" rel="tag">#pulpfiction</a> <a href="/tags/pulp/" rel="tag">#pulp</a> <a href="/tags/bookart/" rel="tag">#bookart</a> <a href="/tags/bookcovers/" rel="tag">#bookcovers</a> <a href="/tags/coverart/" rel="tag">#coverart</a>

<p>My thoughts on PYTHON&#x27;S KISS: Stories, by Louise Erdrich. 4 out of 5 stars. </p><p>I first learned of Erdrich by reading the Pulitzter Prize winning THE NIGHT WATCHMAN, a novel about the fight against Native American dispossession. Erdrich is an Indigenous author who crafts purposeful storytelling. I was hooked. But then, I could not connect with her next novel. So, I figured I&#x27;d try again with PYTHON&#x27;S KISS, and Wow! These are some very inventive stories. I was mesmerized by nearly all of them. Only two seemed to lack the punch of the others. I can certainly live with that. </p><p>Erdrich knows how to create a setting that draws you in, with quirky characters whom you can care about, so their eventual anguish really resonates. The themes are dark, but they also feel real, even when the circumstances may feel utterly unfamiliar. A worthwhile read.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</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> <a href="/tags/shortstories/" rel="tag">#ShortStories</a></p>

<p>Today is (the very first) National Black Bookstore day!</p><p>Celebrate with a treat from a Black-owned indie bookstore.</p><p>Brittany Allen</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/today-is-the-very-first-national-black-bookstore-day/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/today-is-the-very-first-national-black-bookstore-day/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/today-is-the-very-f</span><span class="invisible">irst-national-black-bookstore-day/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/blacklivesmatter/" rel="tag">#blacklivesmatter</a> <a href="/tags/nationalblackbookstoreday/" rel="tag">#NationalBlackBookstoreDay</a></p>

<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/TymeStarwitch" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/TymeStarwitch</a><br>Audiobook: <a href="https://owentyme.bandcamp.com/album/the-book-of-newts-starwitch" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="owentyme.bandcamp.com/album/the-book-of-newts-starwitch"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">owentyme.bandcamp.com/album/th</span><span class="invisible">e-book-of-newts-starwitch</span></a></p><p>The undead queen of the space pirates kidnapped Amelia’s sisters and damaged her ship, leaving her with little fuel. Amelia’s a dead woman without her sisters, forced to attack the pirate’s mountain-sized star ship, despite how slim the odds are…</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> <a href="/tags/audiobook/" rel="tag">#audiobook</a></p>

<p>📚 Trouble with Lichen by: John Wyndham</p><p>Francis Saxover and Diana Brackley, two scientists investigating a rare lichen, discover it has a remarkable property: it retards the aging process. Francis, realizing the implications for the world of an ever-youthful, wealthy elite, wants to keep it secret, but Diana sees an oppo...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/trouble-with-lichen" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/trouble-with-lichen"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/trouble-wi</span><span class="invisible">th-lichen</span></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/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/geneticengineering/" rel="tag">#geneticengineering</a></p>

<p>This week&#x27;s <a href="/tags/newbooks/" rel="tag">#NewBooks</a> at the library: A toss-up of three different titles<br>- Having reviewed a biography about Edgar Allan Poe, I determined that Thomas Olive Mabbott&#x27;s version, originally published by Belknap Press, is probably one of the more authoritative collections of Poe&#x27;s work. I managed to find a 1979 hardback original of the first volume via eBay.<br>- I found a very affordable second-hand version of Cambridge University Press&#x27;s Meteoroids: Sources of Meteors on Earth and Beyond in their Cambridge Planetary Science series.<br>- One more book from my employer&#x27;s January clearance sale is Muhammad H. Zaman&#x27;s Biography of Resistance: The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens, published by Harper Wave.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/scicomm/" rel="tag">#Scicomm</a> <a href="/tags/gothic/" rel="tag">#Gothic</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#Poetry</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#Astronomy</a> <a href="/tags/astrodon/" rel="tag">#Astrodon</a> <a href="/tags/microbiology/" rel="tag">#Microbiology</a> <a href="/tags/disease/" rel="tag">#Disease</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>

Im looking for a book or an essay, I forget the title and author tho. It is about a failing economy and the only recourse is to eat the childeren. I want to say its Swift but can&#x27;t remember can u help <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.world/post/46058897">See Original Page</a> </small>

<p>Cover Reveal! Here is our next book, which opens for pre-orders soon, and it is a reprint of what some scholars say is a landmark publication, the first single-author collection of speculative stories from an African author (based on the continent and in contemporary times, we believe). First published in 2014, it went out of print when the original publisher folded. We are proud to bring it back to life!</p><p><a href="https://www.ododopress.com/blog/cover-reveal-a-killing-in-the-sun/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.ododopress.com/blog/cover-reveal-a-killing-in-the-sun/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.ododopress.com/blog/cover-</span><span class="invisible">reveal-a-killing-in-the-sun/</span></a><br><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#sciFi</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#blog</a></p>

<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>If you have read him, which book stays with you most?</p><p><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> <br><a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <br><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>Buzzwords or Phrases That Make Me Want to Read a Book: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-buzzwords-or-phrases-that-make-me-want-to-read-a-book/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-buzzwords-or-phrases-that-make-me-want-to-read-a-book/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesda</span><span class="invisible">y-buzzwords-or-phrases-that-make-me-want-to-read-a-book/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/toptentuesday/" rel="tag">#TopTenTuesday</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</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/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> can support mental health too. </p><p>A systematic review of randomized clinical trials found that <a href="/tags/bibliotherapy/" rel="tag">#bibliotherapy</a> (structured reading used in treatment) can reduce depressive symptoms and may have lasting benefits. </p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> are not a replacement for care when someone needs help, but they can be a real part of healing.</p><p><a href="/tags/mentalhealth/" rel="tag">#mentalhealth</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#readingcommunity</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/booksky/" rel="tag">#booksky</a> <a href="/tags/booktok/" rel="tag">#BookTok</a> <a href="/tags/booklovers/" rel="tag">#booklovers</a> <a href="/tags/bookstagram/" rel="tag">#bookstagram</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>