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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Thirty previously unpublished verses by Empedocles discovered on a papyrus from Cairo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a href="https://phys.org/news/2026-04-previously-unpublished-verses-empedocles-papyrus.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="phys.org/news/2026-04-previously-unpublished-verses-empedocles-papyrus.html"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ly-unpublished-verses-empedocles-papyrus.html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>Space Dragons: Cosmic Survivors by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.art/@vicorva" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>vicorva</span></a></span> 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.</p><p>Also: dragons in space! 🐉 </p><p> <a href="https://mastodon.art/@vicorva/116436562534532783" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mastodon.art/@vicorva/116436562534532783"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.art/@vicorva/11643656</span><span class="invisible">2534532783</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a></p>

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<p>"Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall they be saved."</p><p>First-Ever ‘Jane Goodall Day’ Will Take Place on April 3 To Honor the Late Conservationist’s Mission</p><p>By Regina Sienra </p><p><a href="https://mymodernmet.com/jane-goodall-day/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mymodernmet.com/jane-goodall-day/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mymodernmet.com/jane-goodall-d</span><span class="invisible">ay/</span></a></p><p><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></p>

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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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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<p>Lost copy of seventh-century poem in Old English discovered at Rome library</p><p>Dublin scholars find 1,200-year-old manuscript of Caedmon’s Hymn composed by Northumbrian cattle herder</p><p>by Rory Carroll</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/29/lost-copy-of-seventh-century-poem-old-english-discovered-rome-library-dublin" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/29/lost-copy-of-seventh-century-poem-old-english-discovered-rome-library-dublin"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/books/2026</span><span class="invisible">/apr/29/lost-copy-of-seventh-century-poem-old-english-discovered-rome-library-dublin</span></a></p><p>Caedmon's Hymn by Caedmon as an audio file at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19677" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19677</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>

One of two candidates for the earliest surviving copy of Cædmon's Hymn is found in the Moore Bede (Northumbria, ca. 737)

Manuscript fragment of Cædmon's Hymn in Old English, written in early medieval script. This is the Moore Bede version (c. 737 AD), one of the oldest surviving examples of written Old English poetry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A6dmon%27s_Hymn#/media/File:Caedmon's_Hymn_Moore_mine01.gif

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<p>'A remarkable time capsule': The enchanting history of Oxford University's 750-year-old medieval library</p><p>Predating the Aztec Empire, Merton College Library in Oxford has been used by everyone from celebrated 14th-Century mathematicians to JRR Tolkien. </p><p>By Christian Kriticos</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20260423-the-enchanting-story-of-oxfords-medieval-library" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20260423-the-enchanting-story-of-oxfords-medieval-library"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/</span><span class="invisible">20260423-the-enchanting-story-of-oxfords-medieval-library</span></a></p><p>A couple of very interesting books are available in our catalogue:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13245" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13245</a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1615" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1615</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/librarians/" rel="tag">#Librarians</a> <a href="/tags/publiclibrary/" rel="tag">#PublicLibrary</a></p>

Plate VII. Merton College : The Library Interior

In: The Charm of Oxford

Author: J. Wells

Black-and-white engraving of a historic library interior. An ornate wooden archway frames a long corridor of bookshelves under a vaulted ceiling. A decorative globe stands to the left.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/13245/13245-h/13245-h.htm#MertonC

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<p>Today at the NOAF blog, THE SUBTLE ART OF FOLDING SPACE author <span class="h-card"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@john_chu" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>john_chu</span></a></span> tells <span class="h-card"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@Princejvstin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Princejvstin</span></a></span> the answers to his Six Books questions. </p><p><a href="http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/04/6-books-with-john-chu.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nerds-feather.com/2026/04/6-books-with-john-chu.html"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nerds-feather.com/2026/04/</span><span class="invisible">6-books-with-john-chu.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> @bookstodon</p>

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<p>A Poet of Science Who Shook Faith in God</p><p>Biographer Richard Holmes reveals how Tennyson predated Darwin and speaks to us today</p><p>By Kevin Berger</p><p><a href="https://nautil.us/a-poet-of-science-who-shook-faith-in-god-1279489" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="nautil.us/a-poet-of-science-who-shook-faith-in-god-1279489"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nautil.us/a-poet-of-science-wh</span><span class="invisible">o-shook-faith-in-god-1279489</span></a></p><p>Tennyson at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2987" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2987"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/2987</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>

Portrait of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Samuel Laurence, 1840.

Tennyson is portrayed with abundant dark chestnut hair swept back from a strong, angular face, gazes slightly to his left. The features are sharply defined — a prominent nose, firm jaw, deep-set eyes — and a loose dark coat with white collar.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_Lord_Tennyson_1840.jpg

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<p>But technically free wifi can mean free books in places where no other free books are available 🤔 <br>It always surprises me how many places there are to read for free online! 😊 </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@reading" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>reading</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://lemmy.world/u/books" rel="nofollow">@books</a> <br> <br><a href="/tags/bookmemes/" rel="tag">#BookMemes</a> <a href="/tags/meme/" rel="tag">#Meme</a> <a href="/tags/memes/" rel="tag">#Memes</a> <br><a href="/tags/readingmemes/" rel="tag">#ReadingMemes</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> <a href="/tags/readers/" rel="tag">#Readers</a> <a href="/tags/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#ReadingCommunity</a><br><a href="/tags/litterature/" rel="tag">#Litterature</a> <a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#Novel</a> <a href="/tags/novels/" rel="tag">#Novels</a> <a href="/tags/bookshelf/" rel="tag">#Bookshelf</a> <br><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/fantasybooks/" rel="tag">#FantasyBooks</a></p>

Drawing of two doors one packed with people and the other empty.
Empty door: Free Books
Full door: Free Wifi

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<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&q=https://reviewdb.app/book/4U0w0xMtfU2FD3x56LaKkB" rel="nofollow">Anne of Windy Willows</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 <br>by LM Montgomery.</p><p>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. </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/anneofgreengables/" rel="tag">#AnneOfGreenGables</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> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://wyrms.de/user/wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>wildwoila@wyrms.de</span></a></span><br></p>

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<p>A Reader’s Guide to Poetry for National Poetry Month</p><p>By The Editors</p><p>Read poems, learn poetic forms, and discover writers in this National Poetry Month roundup.</p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/editors-picks-national-poetry-month/?utm_source=mcae&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jstordaily_04022026" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/editors-picks-national-poetry-month/?utm_source=mcae&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jstordaily_04022026"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/editors-picks-</span><span class="invisible">national-poetry-month/?utm_source=mcae&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jstordaily_04022026</span></a></p><p>Poetry at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/637" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/637"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/books</span><span class="invisible">helf/637</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>

Poetry: A Magazine of Verse.

A small black and white decorative vignette — a quill pen thrust diagonally through a curling scroll or sheet of paper.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/43224/43224-h/43224-h.htm

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> In 1860, George Eliot’s novel The Mill on the Floss is published by John Blackwood in three volumes. </p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/lit-hub-weekly-march-30-april-3-2026/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/lit-hub-weekly-march-30-april-3-2026/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/lit-hub-weekly-marc</span><span class="invisible">h-30-april-3-2026/</span></a></p><p>"The Mill on the Floss" at PG: </p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Mill+on+the+floss" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Mill+on+the+floss"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=Mill+on+the+floss</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Portrait of George Eliot by the Swiss artist Alexandre-Louis-François d'Albert-Durade - picryl.com. She is facing front.

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<p>Ebook omnibus: <a href="https://books2read.com/TheWizardsScion" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/TheWizardsScion</a></p><p>Levi Jacobs always dreamed of being like his father, the greatest wizard in the world, but had no understanding what it would be like. Follow Levi’s journey from bumbling teen to a great hero, while the young wizard learns to master magical powers that are initially completely beyond him and barely under control.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefantasy/" rel="tag">#sciencefantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

The ad flyer for the series The Wizard's Scion.

(Background) View of a planet from space.

(Top Center) A black flying saucer surrounded by this text:
Trolls, boogeymen and witches, oh my!
Just another day for a young wizard.

(Top Left) The cover of Troll Song displays a woman in battered, muddy armor with her two swords crossed against the neck of a dwarf.

(Lower Left) The cover of Forgotten Legends displays a child reading in bed as a black, smoky monster with red eyes peeks out from under the bed.

(Lower Center Left) The cover of The Third Wish displays a wizard on top of a mountain, looking to the sunset, over a city of sky scrapers that have plants growing on them. In his shadow is the red eyed creature from Forgotten Legends.

(Lower Center Right) The cover of Dark Moon displays a witch and wizard fighting back to back, holding pistols, while objects fall around them, with the moon behind their heads.

(Lower Right) The cover of The Inverted Glass displays a line art hourglass with a white figure in black sand at the bottom, with a black figure in white sand upside-down in the top. Balanced on a scale are a heart and a feather.

(Upper Right) The cover of The Wizard's Scion: The Complete Series displays several figures in silhouette representing the main characters, as they traverse a wormhole. Behind them is a red-eyed octopus.

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<p><a href="/tags/speakingoutofplace/" rel="tag">#SpeakingOutOfPlace</a> welcomes <a href="/tags/victorialaw/" rel="tag">#VictoriaLaw</a>, author of "<a href="/tags/corridorsofcontagion/" rel="tag">#CorridorsOfContagion</a>: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of <a href="/tags/incarceration/" rel="tag">#Incarceration</a>." </p><p>Law describes in harrowing detail how state neglect and <a href="/tags/carceralabuse/" rel="tag">#carceralAbuse</a> amplified the ravages of <a href="/tags/covid19/" rel="tag">#Covid19</a> in the US prison system</p><p><a href="https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/18960148-amplifying-the-violence-of-incarceration-victoria-law-on-prisons-during-pandemic" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/18960148-amplifying-the-violence-of-incarceration-victoria-law-on-prisons-during-pandemic"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.</span><span class="invisible">com/2084729/episodes/18960148-amplifying-the-violence-of-incarceration-victoria-law-on-prisons-during-pandemic</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/usprisons/" rel="tag">#USprisons</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/prisons/" rel="tag">#prisons</a> <a href="/tags/prisonindustrialcomplex/" rel="tag">#prisonIndustrialComplex</a> <a href="/tags/socialmurder/" rel="tag">#socialMurder</a> <a href="/tags/covid19usa/" rel="tag">#Covid19USA</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>

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<p>Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is an early exploration of ‘romance fraud’</p><p>Although romance fraud is a 21st-century term, through the character of Havisham, Dickens clearly demonstrated its often-devastating effects.</p><p>by Emma Linford</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/great-expectations-by-charles-dickens-is-an-early-exploration-of-romance-fraud-241820?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2027%202026%20-%203749638391&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2027%202026%20-%203749638391+CID_7fa3584856c204abae960b4c1211e00d&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Great%20Expectations%20by%20Charles%20Dickens%20is%20an%20early%20exploration%20of%20romance%20fraud" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/great-expectations-by-charles-dickens-is-an-early-exploration-of-romance-fraud-241820?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2027%202026%20-%203749638391&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2027%202026%20-%203749638391+CID_7fa3584856c204abae960b4c1211e00d&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Great%20Expectations%20by%20Charles%20Dickens%20is%20an%20early%20exploration%20of%20romance%20fraud"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/great-expe</span><span class="invisible">ctations-by-charles-dickens-is-an-early-exploration-of-romance-fraud-241820?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2027%202026%20-%203749638391&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2027%202026%20-%203749638391+CID_7fa3584856c204abae960b4c1211e00d&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Great%20Expectations%20by%20Charles%20Dickens%20is%20an%20early%20exploration%20of%20romance%20fraud</span></a></p><p>Great Expectations at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1400" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1400</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a></p>

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

Caption: Estella defends herself

A woman in dark dress stands by a fireplace facing an elderly woman in white veil seated in a chair, with a young man nearby. Interior setting with shelved plates visible.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1400/1400-h/images/0295.jpg

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1667, John Milton sells the copyright to Paradise Lost for only 10 pounds. </p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-april-27-2026/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-april-27-2026/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-april</span><span class="invisible">-27-2026/</span></a></p><p>Works of John Milton at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/17" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/17"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/17</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>

"Hall portrait" of John Milton. The work is attributed to either Mary Beale or Peter Lely. He wearing a dark doublet with a prominent white lace collar. His hair is long and wavy.

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<p>Why the Temple of Artemis Was the Greatest Wonder of the World</p><p>The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus was so magnificent that it was considered one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.</p><p>by Kieren Johns</p><p><a href="https://www.thecollector.com/ephesus-temple-of-artemis/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/ephesus-temple-of-artemis/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thecollector.com/ephesus-t</span><span class="invisible">emple-of-artemis/</span></a></p><p>Temple of Artemis at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=temple+of+artemis" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=temple+of+artemis"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=temple+of+artemis</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>

From the 1572 Octo Mundi Miracula, the earliest known representation of the temple in modern times. The engraving was by Martin Heemskerck.

The temple of Artemis is represented by a colonnaded façade richly decorated with relief sculpture, statues in niches, a pediment with figural groups, and a long stepped platform.

Workers, architects and figures labour in the foreground: cutting stone, rolling columns, consulting plans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Artemis#/media/File:Philips_Galle,_Dianatemplet_i_Efesos,_1572,_KKSgb10001-5,_Statens_Museum_for_Kunst_(cropped).jpg

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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? April 28

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<p>This week's <a href="/tags/newbooks/" rel="tag">#NewBooks</a> at the library: Two more books bought in my employer's January clearance sale. Drew Harvell's Ocean Outbreak: Confronting the Rising Tide of Marine Disease from the University of California Press, and Benjamin von Brackel's Nowhere Left to Go: How Climate Change Is Driving Species to the Ends of the Earth from The Experiment.</p><p>In the middle is another of Jack Yeovil's Dark Future novels, Route 666, that I bought off eBay after listening to Jordan Sorcery discussing it. I put your theory to the test, Jordan, but it seems your podcast did not drive the price up, as I was the sole bidder and paid a tenner for this.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/scicomm/" rel="tag">#Scicomm</a> <a href="/tags/marinebiology/" rel="tag">#MarineBiology</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/warhammer/" rel="tag">#Warhammer</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>

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, standing up, Ocean Outbreak, showing a hardback with a colour photo of a diseased red starfish lying on coastal rocks. In the background, you can see the surf breaking on the rocks against a clear blue sky.

In the middle, lying down, Route 666, showing a small red paperback with a colour illustration of a woman with short-cropped blonde hair in a blue jumpsuit with a yellow shawl around her neck. She is holding a shotgun in her right hand and is cradling a helmet in her right hand. A convoy of trucks can be seen behind her, while a gunslinger with a wide-brimmed black hat can be seen behind her right shoulder. She is looking directly at the viewer. Her picture is framed by a concrete-grey gothic frame studded with skulls, eagles, and bolts.

On the right, standing up, Nowhere Left to Go, showing a yellow hardback with a graphic of half a wireframe globe with a range of animal illustrations in different colours drawn along the globe's periphery.

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<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/JigsawCity" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/JigsawCity</a></p><p>Nicole’s brain is slowly being taken over by an ancient, magical artifact, a small fragment of a magic city. She seeks a cure, before the city can destroy her sanity and then eventually, take her life by replacing her mind. Racing against time, she gathers pieces of the city, hoping to find an answer among them.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefantasy/" rel="tag">#sciencefantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

(Left) The cover of Jigsaw City, by Owen Tyme.

The background is a futuristic city of sky scrapers covered in greenery, with water ways in place of some streets. The background has been divided by dark lines that cut it up, into a jigsaw puzzle.

The foreground is a hexagonal coin with an indentation in the center that follows the same shape, with raised lines forming a hexagram in the center, which has a smaller one turned at a ninety-degree angle inside the hexagon at the center of it. The smaller hexagram has another inside it, a pattern that repeats until the lines become so fine and indistinct, they blend together.

(Right) There's a pool of lava at the base of a rocky slope, with some sharp rocks sticking upward out of it and the following text over the top:

“I’m immune to heat and fire. I can easily carry and protect one of you…”

“Ye’d need to deliver an army to make a difference, not one person!”

“I *am* an army.”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/JigsawCity

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<p>Book Review: This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me<br>Ilona Andrews expands their fantasy and romance talents into the burgeoning realm of isekai in English<br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@Princejvstin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Princejvstin</span></a></span> has our review at the NOAF blog:</p><p><a href="http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/06/book-review-this-kingdom-will-not-kill.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nerds-feather.com/2026/06/book-review-this-kingdom-will-not-kill.html"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nerds-feather.com/2026/06/</span><span class="invisible">book-review-this-kingdom-will-not-kill.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/isekai/" rel="tag">#isekai</a> <a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#review</a> @bookstodon</p>

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<p>The <a href="/tags/kobo/" rel="tag">#Kobo</a> US & Canada Spring Sale runs from 1-30 April.</p><p>My latest book, Grace & Favour, a friends-to-lovers m/m romance set at haunted Hampton Court Palace in the early Victorian era, will be featured…</p><p>…but ALL my books are on sale for the whole month (including for Australia but nowhere else, sorry).</p><p><a href="https://www.kobo.com/au/en/search?query=wendy+palmer&ac=1&acp=wendy+palmer&ac.author=wendy+palmer" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.kobo.com/au/en/search?query=wendy+palmer&ac=1&acp=wendy+palmer&ac.author=wendy+palmer"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.kobo.com/au/en/search?quer</span><span class="invisible">y=wendy+palmer&ac=1&acp=wendy+palmer&ac.author=wendy+palmer</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/koboplus/" rel="tag">#koboPlus</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/booksale/" rel="tag">#bookSale</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a></p>

Purely decorative 3x3 grid of my book covers.

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<p>The Loneliness of A Room of One’s Own</p><p>Virginia Woolf put forward an enduring vision of women with the space and financial stability to write. But it’s also a sad vision—of isolated writers, cut off from peers or mentors.</p><p>by Joanna Scutts</p><p><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/206731/loneliness-room-one-virginia-woolf-hold-up" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="newrepublic.com/article/206731/loneliness-room-one-virginia-woolf-hold-up"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newrepublic.com/article/206731</span><span class="invisible">/loneliness-room-one-virginia-woolf-hold-up</span></a></p><p>Virginia Wooldf at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/89</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/literarycriticism/" rel="tag">#literarycriticism</a></p>

First edition cover of A Room of One's Own by Vanessa Bell..

The central image shows a clock on a stepped mantelpiece or plinth, framed within a dark arched alcove, bordered by a dotted semicircle and a decorative repeating pattern of small arches along the base.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ARoomOfOnesOwn.jpg

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<p>As a ‘book scientist’ I work with microscopes, imaging technologies and AI to preserve ancient texts</p><p>by Christina Dinh Nguyen</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/as-a-book-scientist-i-work-with-microscopes-imaging-technologies-and-ai-to-preserve-ancient-texts-278154" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/as-a-book-scientist-i-work-with-microscopes-imaging-technologies-and-ai-to-preserve-ancient-texts-278154"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/as-a-book-</span><span class="invisible">scientist-i-work-with-microscopes-imaging-technologies-and-ai-to-preserve-ancient-texts-278154</span></a></p><p>Old manuscripts at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=old+manuscripts" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=old+manuscripts"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=old+manuscripts</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/culturalheritage/" rel="tag">#culturalHeritage</a> <a href="/tags/old_manuscripts/" rel="tag">#old_manuscripts</a></p>

Incomplete manuscript of the Dhammapada in Gandhari and in Kharosthi characters. It may have been copied between the end of the 1st century CE and the end of the 3rd century CE, which makes it the one of the oldest known Indian language documents.

Its sheets, in birch bark, reinforced in the direction of the height by a string sewn on each side, are about 20 cm wide. Here fragmentary, originally at least 1.23 m long, they were, after reading, folded in on themselves, thus forming notebooks about 20 cm long and 4 to 5 cm thick. Acquired by the Dutreuil de Rhins mission (1891-1894) in Central Asia. Bibliothèque nationale de France, département des Manuscrits, pali 715-A

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandh%C4%81ran_Buddhist_texts#/media/File:Manuscrit_BnF_pali_715-A.jpg

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