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<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>

The cover of a collection of short stories. It's blue, with the main image being a creature that looks like an octopus with a human face, and two of its tentacles are human hands. It is coming out of what looks like the circular hatch of a spherical vehicle. The title, at the top of the page, is A Killing In the Sun, above that is a blurb. "Well worth reading" Strange Horizons. Below the image is another blurb "So loving these sci-fi short stories... each one is memorable" Zukiswa Wanner. At the bottom of the image is the name of the author, Dilman Dila.

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<p>This week'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's version, originally published by Belknap Press, is probably one of the more authoritative collections of Poe'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's Meteoroids: Sources of Meteors on Earth and Beyond in their Cambridge Planetary Science series.<br>- One more book from my employer's January clearance sale is Muhammad H. Zaman'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>

A photo of three books standing on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books and part of the beech-coloured laminate floor.

On the left, The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 1: Poems, showing a hardback with a faded red dust jacket with a drawing of a black crow with wings outstretched.

In the middle, Meteoroids: Sources of Meteors on Earth and Beyond, showing a casebound hardback showing an aerial photo of a cloud-covered pine forest with a meteor streaking across the sky.

On the right, Biography of Resistance, showing a hardback with a slate-grey dust jacket with a stylised drawing of a bacterium. Numerous yellow dots are encircling a red globular structure that has many spiky arms sticking out in all directions. A circle drawn in a dashed line is all that is keeping the two apart.

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<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>

John Fowles

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<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>

Bibliotherapy

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<p>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. </p><p>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.</p><p>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! </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></p>

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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<p>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/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-week</span><span class="invisible">ly-blogging-challenge-favourite-book-bloggers/</span></a></p><p><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> </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>

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

Access Denied Page · mitpress.mit.edu <p><a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052061/hot-connections/" rel="nofollow">Meta</a>.</p><p><a href="https://direct.mit.edu/books/book-media/6108/epubviewer/2590893" rel="nofollow">Web viewer</a>.</p><p><p>A rethinking of “the social” in social media which includes the sexual.</p><p>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?</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p></p>

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<p>Reformation of science</p><p>Protestantism didn’t hold back science – it revolutionised its methods, its theoretical content and its social significance</p><p>by Peter Harrison</p><p><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"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/essays/how-protestanti</span><span class="invisible">sm-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</span></a></p><p>Protestantism at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/4381" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/4381"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">ct/4381</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a></p>

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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Anthony Horowitz Says He Uses ChatGPT in Writing - Kirkus

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

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<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Since April’s overdue utilities and internet were already handled, the remaining $185 is the groceries gap. That shortfall now carries into May.</p><p>Total needed: $560</p><p>🗒️ Breakdown:<br>$185 — April groceries gap carrying into May<br>$375 — May basic necessities<br>• $250 groceries<br>• $90 utilities + water<br>• $35 internet + phone data</p><p>Monthly pledges are preferred due to disability and the constraints that come with it. However, one-off support also helps greatly.</p><p>Aside from Ko-fi, other support options and social profiles are here:<br><a href="https://wrzky.com/links" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>wrzky.com/links</a></p>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.<p>This support helps keep me fed, connected, and able to continue sustaining a global mutual-aid network with comrades organising across borders.</p><p>Every bit helps keep it going. Thank you.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://ovo.st/club/mutualaid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mutualaid</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@mutualaid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mutualaid</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://ovo.st/club/disability" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>disability</span></a></span><br>@autistics@chirp.social<br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@autistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>autistics</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@actuallyadhd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>actuallyadhd</span></a></span></p>

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<p>Happy 100th birthday to Harper Lee! Let's celebrate it.</p><p>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.</p><p>Check it out in our last newsletter:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/newsletter/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/newsletter/</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

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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<p>Thirty previously unpublished verses by Empedocles discovered on a papyrus from Cairo</p><p>by University de Liege</p><p>edited by Stephanie Baum, reviewed by Robert Egan</p><p><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"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2026-04-previous</span><span class="invisible">ly-unpublished-verses-empedocles-papyrus.html</span></a></p><p>Empedocles at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Empedocles" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Empedocles"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=Empedocles</span></a></p><p><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></p>

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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<p>After less than a month on Threads, I finally got banned.</p><p>Permanently, with no right to appeal.</p><p>I genuinely don’t understand what for - just occasional posts about books and writers, same as here and across nine other social networks.</p><p>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.</p><p><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> <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>

Stupid Ban on Threads

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Andy Weir Supports AI, Says it Will Replace Authors

How to Create an Alien | Los Angeles Review of Books Andy Weir discusses the pleasures of world-building, the promise of AI, and the coolness of humanity. Page · lareviewofbooks.org <p>In two recent interviews, Andy Weir stated his support for AI. The first is in this interview with LA Review of Books, in which he says: “It’s only a matter of time before AI is able to write more entertaining, compelling, and exciting stories than any human.”</p><p><p>“Train an AI on all the great works of literature, all the great books that people have loved, and it’ll figure out the commonalities and put together stories that are really awesome, in the same way that it can make art that’s really pretty when properly prompted.”</p></p><p>He then said “I’m going to be out of my job eventually.” When the interview challenges him on this, asking “isn’t a lot of what people enjoy about art the community experience and the person behind it? The human creator?” he responded:</p><p><p>“Take a tool like Photoshop. It can do all sorts of really cool things, but nobody wants to talk to the program. Nobody wants to talk to Google SketchUp about its process in rendering 3D models. People accept that there are tools that do this.”</p></p><p>You can read the full interview here:<a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/andy-weir-project-hail-mary-novel-film-interview/" rel="nofollow">lareviewofbooks.org/…/andy-weir-project-hail-mary…</a></p><p>In a second interview with Tom Bilyeu on YouTube, he went even further. It’s a long interview, but he says that AI can already make great art and that human graphic artists will go away and be replaced by people who can “refine” AI generated art, that AI is just a tool and that it shouldn’t be ridiculed, and that AI will be creating whole movies in the future that’s better than what humans can make.</p><p>You can watch that interview here:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrdVpioZ5dU" rel="nofollow">www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrdVpioZ5dU</a></p><p>Pretty abhorrent stuff, in my opinion. I enjoyed The Martian and Project Hail Mary, but coming out so in favor of art as to say it’s going to be better than human created art is just gross. And to not care that it’s “trained” on stealing work is ridiculous.</p>

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<p>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/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.texasobserver.org/abilene-</span><span class="invisible">isd-librarian-book-ban/</span></a> </p><p><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></p>

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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't remember can u help

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<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>

Grey stones in a stone garden. The stone closest to the viewer has the word “hope etched onto it. The stone right behind it has the world “charity” etched onto it.

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<p>📚 About to Fall Apart by: Ashley Hickson-Lovence</p><p>This is the story of one man's weekend, a weekend in which everything could change</p><p>These lines could change everything.<br>He sips more of his tinny.<br>Imagines a new life.</p><p>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...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/about-to-fall-apart" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/about-to-fall-apart"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/about-to-f</span><span class="invisible">all-apart</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/literary/" rel="tag">#literary</a></p>

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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<p>Days</p>:<p>Hours</p>:<p>Minutes</p>:<p>Seconds</p><p>We tried our best :'(</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Since April’s overdue utilities and internet were already handled, the remaining $185 is the groceries gap. That shortfall now carries into May.</p><p>Total needed: $560</p><p>🗒️ Breakdown:<br>$185 — April groceries gap carrying into May<br>$375 — May basic necessities<br>• $250 groceries<br>• $90 utilities + water<br>• $35 internet + phone data</p><p>Monthly pledges are preferred due to disability and the constraints that come with it. However, one-off support also helps greatly.</p><p>Aside from Ko-fi, other support options and social profiles are here:<br><a href="https://wrzky.com/links" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>wrzky.com/links</a></p>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.<p>This support helps keep me fed, connected, and able to continue sustaining a global mutual-aid network with comrades organising across borders.</p><p>Every bit helps keep it going. Thank you.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://ovo.st/club/mutualaid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mutualaid</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@mutualaid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mutualaid</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://ovo.st/club/disability" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>disability</span></a></span><br>@autistics@chirp.social<br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@autistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>autistics</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@actuallyadhd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>actuallyadhd</span></a></span></p>

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<p>"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</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> <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>

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<p>Charles Dickens Searched the Streets of London and Found Inspiration for His Evocative Fiction</p><p>A 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.</p><p>by Ryley Graham</p><p><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/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-n</span><span class="invisible">ews/charles-dickens-searched-the-streets-of-london-and-found-inspiration-for-his-evocative-fiction-180988451/</span></a></p><p>Dickens at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/37</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

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<p>Did Geoffrey Chaucer invent April Fool’s Day?</p><p>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.</p><p><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"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/tag/chaucer/?utm_so</span><span class="invisible">urce=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KMVKDFT18P2CKKD0MVH2TF5N&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER</span></a></p><p>Chaucer at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/144" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/144"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/144</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

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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<p>Why Is the Aeneid Important? Key Lessons and Impact of the Ancient Epic</p><p>"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?"</p><p><a href="https://www.thecollector.com/aeneid-importance-founding-rome/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/aeneid-importance-founding-rome/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thecollector.com/aeneid-im</span><span class="invisible">portance-founding-rome/</span></a></p><p>The Aeneid at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Aeneid" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Aeneid"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=Aeneid</span></a></p><p>Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus and Octavia</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

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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<p>Silence: a brief literary history</p><p>by Kate McLoughlin</p><p>Without silences, we wouldn’t have the exquisite hush of medieval lullabies, the suspenseful secrets of the realist novel, or jagged modernist poetry.</p><p><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"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/silence-a-</span><span class="invisible">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</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

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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