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<p>Swedish author and illustrator Elsa Beskow died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1953.</p><p>Beskow's first book, "Sagan om den lilla, lilla gumman", was published in 1897. It was followed by "Tomtebobarnen" (1910), "Pelles nya kläder" (1912) and "Tant Grön, tant Brun och tant Gredelin" (1918). In her honor, the Elsa Beskow Award was established in 1958 by the Swedish Library Association. This award is given annually to the best Swedish picture book illustrator.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Beskow" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Beskow"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Bes</span><span class="invisible">kow</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Elsa Beskow in 1901

Image scanned from the book "Svenskt Porträttgalleri XX - Arkitekter, Bildhuggare, Målare m.fl. " ("Swedish Portrait Gallery XX - Architects, Sculptors, Painters, ") published 1901.

A vintage photo of a woman with a bun hairstyle, captured in black and white.

Elsa Beskow - Tomtebobarnen, color poster for the 3rd spread - Google Art Project

Illustration from Children of the Forest (Tomtebobarnen, 1910) by w:Elsa Beskow (1874 – 1953). ISBN 08-631-5049-7

The accompanying caption in Swedish explains that the elves (älvorna) lives behind a huge mossy boulder and come out at night to dance in the moonlight. The children of the forest (lit. the "w:tomte children") are trying to play w:seesaw with them, but the elves are so light and tender that even though they are eight and the children only two, they don't weight even.

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My brothers copy of X-Wing - Solo Command was torn and folded before cutting.

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<p>"Science is nothing without generalisations... The suggestion of a new idea, or the detection of a law, supersedes much that had previously been a burden upon the memory, and by introducing order and coherence facilitates the retention of the remainder in an available form."</p><p>In: William C. McC. Lewis, A System of Physical Chemistry (Volume 1) (p. iv), Longmans, Green and Company. 1918</p><p>~John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919)</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/physics/" rel="tag">#physics</a></p>

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh

Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.

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<p>📚 The King's Captive by: K. M. Shea</p><p>I can turn into a housecat.It's a fun magic, except in a world filled with vampires and werewolves, it doesn't exactly make me a powerhouse. Instead, the supernatural community has classified me as an outcast, which means one thing: picking on me is open season all day, every day.The local fae a...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-kings-captive" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-kings-captive"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-kings-</span><span class="invisible">captive</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/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/romance/" rel="tag">#romance</a> <a href="/tags/general/" rel="tag">#general</a></p>

I can turn into a housecat.It's a fun magic, except in a world filled with vampires and werewolves, it doesn't exactly make me a powerhouse. Instead, the supernatural community has classified me as an outcast, which means one thing: picking on me is open season all day, every day.The local fae are the worst of all, and it's during one of their regular "capture the cat-girl" sessions that I shift into my cat form and meet HIM for the first time.Noctus is so powerful his magic radiates off him like a sun, and my fae captors can barely look in his general direction. And then my life gets even more terrifying when Noctus decides to take me with him. As a pet.Why did he pick today to "adopt don't shop" a cat?It gets worse when I realize he's an elf, a ruling race of supernaturals that was supposedly killed off centuries ago.But he's not just any elf, no. He's an elven king, with heaps of secrets to protect. Secrets that I am quickly learning since he includes his new pet in everything from breaking into buildings to inspect classified paperwork to tracking down sketchy supernaturals.All this means if he gets even a hint that I'm not a real cat, I'm going to find out firsthand how elves treat their prisoners.So, escaping Noctus is priority #1. How hard can it be? (Answer: very.)

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<p><a href="/tags/coverreveal/" rel="tag">#CoverReveal</a> : We're obviously always delighted to celebrate one of our (very!) local literary stars, Muriel Spark, and Hodder has James Bailey's Like a Cat Loves a Bird, "a spiky and delicious new literary biography", coming next April.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/livres/" rel="tag">#livres</a> <a href="/tags/murielspark/" rel="tag">#MurielSpark</a> <a href="/tags/edinburgh/" rel="tag">#Edinburgh</a> <a href="/tags/edimbourg/" rel="tag">#Edimbourg</a> <a href="/tags/likeacatlovesabird/" rel="tag">#LikeACatLovesABird</a> <a href="/tags/jamesbailey/" rel="tag">#JamesBailey</a> <a href="/tags/biography/" rel="tag">#Biography</a> <a href="/tags/biographie/" rel="tag">#biographie</a> <a href="/tags/scottishliterature/" rel="tag">#ScottishLiterature</a> <a href="/tags/bookshops/" rel="tag">#bookshops</a> <a href="/tags/librairies/" rel="tag">#librairies</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a></p>

Orange and pink cover for Like a Cat Loves a Bird, a forthcoming biography of Muriel Spark, with a black and white photo of Spark holding a black cat on the cover

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What are all reading this week? [27/2/26]

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<p>📚 Bad Bad Girl by: Gish Jen</p><p>My mother had died, but still I heard her voice...</p><p>Gish’s mother, Loo Shu-hsin, is born in 1924 to a wealthy Shanghai family whose girls are expected to restrain themselves. Her beloved nursemaid far more loving to than her real mother is torn from her even as she is constantly reprimanded: Bad bad girl! You don’t kno...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/bad-bad-girl" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/bad-bad-girl"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/bad-bad-gi</span><span class="invisible">rl</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/womenfiction/" rel="tag">#womenfiction</a> <a href="/tags/biographical/" rel="tag">#biographical</a></p>

My mother had died, but still I heard her voice...

Gish’s mother, Loo Shu-hsin, is born in 1924 to a wealthy Shanghai family whose girls are expected to restrain themselves. Her beloved nursemaid far more loving to than her real mother is torn from her even as she is constantly reprimanded: Bad bad girl! You don’t know how to talk! Sent to a modern Catholic school by her progressive father, she receives not only an English name Agnes but a first-rate education. To his delight, she excels. But even then he can only sigh, too bad. If you were a boy, you could accomplish a lot. Agnes finds solace in books and, in 1947, announces her intention to pursue a PhD in America. As the Communist revolution looms, she sets sail never to return.

Lonely and adrift in New York, she begins dating Jen Chao-Pe, an engineering student. They do their best to block out the increasingly dire plight of their families back home and successfully establish a new American life: Marriage! A house in the suburbs! A number one son! By the time Gish is born, though, the news from China is proving inescapable; their marriage is foundering; and Agnes, confronted with a strong-willed, outspoken daughter distinctly reminiscent of herself, is repeating the refrain 'Bad bad girl! You don’t know how to talk!' as she recapitulates the harshness of her own childhood.

Spanning continents, generations, and cultures, Bad Bad Girl is a novel only Gish Jen could have written: genre-bending, courageous, wis

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<p>Book Review: The Subtle Art of Folding Space<br>A story of two sisters and their tangled relationship, plus maintenance of the laws of the universe<br>A <span class="h-card"><a href="['https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/princejvstin.com', 'https://princejvstin.com/', 'http://bsky.social/']" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>princejvstin.com</span></a></span> <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> review at the blog:<br><a href="http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/book-review-subtle-art-of-folding-space.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/book-review-subtle-art-of-folding-space.html"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/</span><span class="invisible">book-review-subtle-art-of-folding-space.html</span></a></p><p>@bookstodon <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#review</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a></p>

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<p>Some of the earliest written notes in western musical history discovered in Pennsylvania</p><p>Ninth-century manuscript for Easter services remained ‘out of sight’ for years in hands of private collector</p><p>by Richard Luscombe</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/28/pennsylvania-historic-latin-music" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/28/pennsylvania-historic-latin-music"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/us-news/20</span><span class="invisible">25/oct/28/pennsylvania-historic-latin-music</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a></p>

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<p>Looking for your next favorite Kickstarter to back? Fantasy and dark fantasy books over here: <a href="https://books.bookfunnel.com/fantasydarkkickstarter/3mvyoi29id" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="books.bookfunnel.com/fantasydarkkickstarter/3mvyoi29id"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">books.bookfunnel.com/fantasyda</span><span class="invisible">rkkickstarter/3mvyoi29id</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/kickstarter/" rel="tag">#kickstarter</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://newsmast.community/@books" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>books</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@Books" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Books@mstdn.social</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

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90 years of Penguin Books: The origin myth that may not be true

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StoryGraph Add-o-Rama

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<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&q=https://reviewdb.app/book/17yZahP7EddajMFND6xQbU" rel="nofollow">A Court of Thorns and Roses</a> 🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑 <br>by Sarah Maas.</p><p>My first foray into <a href="/tags/romantasy/" rel="tag">#romantasy</a>. The plot is so-so (humans vs faeries, love & intrigue) but finishes strongly. The romance is weak - it's never clear why she loves the faerie lord, except for his sexy man-beastiness. Hopefully this is not the best the genre has to offer.</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/fantasy/" rel="tag">#Fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/romance/" rel="tag">#Romance</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>The Americas’ oldest book is an intricate work of Maya astronomy</p><p>Created in the 11th or 12th century, the Códice Maya de México (the Maya Codex of Mexico) is the oldest of these works and the only one to predate the arrival of the conquistadors in the 16th century.</p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/videos/the-americas-oldest-book-is-an-intricate-work-of-maya-astronomy" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="aeon.co/videos/the-americas-oldest-book-is-an-intricate-work-of-maya-astronomy"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/videos/the-americas-ol</span><span class="invisible">dest-book-is-an-intricate-work-of-maya-astronomy</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#astronomy</a></p>

Page 9 of the Grolier Codex, a supposedly pre-Columbian Maya screenfold book, the authenticity of which is disputed.

A standing deity figure dominates the page, facing left, highly stylized with elaborate headdress and glyphic adornment.

To the left margin is a column of Maya day-signs or numerals — a vertical series of repeating glyph blocks, likely used for calendrical or Venus-cycle notation.

The deity holds or is interacting with what appears to be a stone projectile or weapon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Codex_of_Mexico#/media/File:Grolier_Codex,_page_9.jpg

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<p>📚 Dark Matter by: Blake Crouch</p><p>Are you happy with your life?</p><p>Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the kidnapper knocks him unconscious. </p><p>Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits.</p><p>Before a man he’s never met smiles down at him and says, “W...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/dark-matter" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/dark-matter"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/dark-matte</span><span class="invisible">r</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/thrillers/" rel="tag">#thrillers</a> <a href="/tags/technologicalfiction/" rel="tag">#technologicalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/suspensefiction/" rel="tag">#suspensefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a></p>

Are you happy with your life?

Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the kidnapper knocks him unconscious.

Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits.

Before a man he’s never met smiles down at him and says, “Welcome back, my friend.

In this world he’s woken up to, Jason’s life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college professor but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible.

Is it this life or the other that’s the dream? And even if the home he remembers is real, how will Jason make it back to the family he loves?

From the bestselling author Blake Crouch, Dark Matter is a mind-bending thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we’ll go to claim the lives we dream of.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! NOW STREAMING ON APPLE TV+

A “mind-blowing” (Entertainment Weekly) speculative thriller about an ordinary man who awakens in a world inexplicably different from the reality he thought he knew—from the author of Upgrade, Recursion, and the Wayward Pines trilogy

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<p>American author and journalist Rebecca Harding Davis was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1831.</p><p>"Life in the Iron Mills" (1861): Davis´s most famous work, originally published anonymously in the Atlantic Monthly, is considered one of the earliest examples of American realism. It depicts the harsh realities of life for industrial workers and is noted for its empathetic portrayal of the working class.</p><p>Books by Rebecca Harding Davis at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/186" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/186"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/186</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

American novelist Rebecca Harding Davis.

A monochrome photograph featuring a woman with long hair, from the past.

Cover page of Life in the Iron-Mills; Or, The Korl Woman by Rebecca Harding Davis.

"Life in the Iron Mills; or, The Korl Woman" is a novella by Rebecca Harding Davis, first published in 1861 in the Atlantic Monthly. It is considered a pioneering work of American realism and is notable for its social critique and empathetic portrayal of the working class during the Industrial Revolution.

The novella is set in a dreary industrial town and revolves around the lives of Hugh Wolfe, a furnace tender in an iron mill, and his cousin Deborah, who works in a cotton mill. The story is narrated by an unnamed observer who provides a grim depiction of the industrial environment and the dehumanizing conditions faced by the workers.

"Life in the Iron Mills" remains a seminal work in American literature, celebrated for its empathetic portrayal of the working class and its pioneering role in the development of literary realism.

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<p>Victorian Horror and the Search for Truth</p><p>by Emily Erwin</p><p><a href="https://www.wordonfire.org/articles/victorian-horror-and-the-search-for-truth/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.wordonfire.org/articles/victorian-horror-and-the-search-for-truth/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.wordonfire.org/articles/vi</span><span class="invisible">ctorian-horror-and-the-search-for-truth/</span></a></p><p>The Woman in White at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/583" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/583</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Walter Hartright's first encounter with 'The Woman in White'. Illustration by Thomas Eyre Macklin.

Illustration for The Woman in White, a lithograph by Thomas Eyre Macklin RBA (1867–1943), a British artist, illustrator and sculptor.

It depicts the haunting nighttime meeting between the young drawing master Walter Hartright and the mysterious woman dressed entirely in white, from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.

The scene shows the two figures standing on a dimly lit country road. Walter, dressed in formal Victorian attire with a tall hat and cloak, looks toward the woman with a mix of surprise and concern. The woman in white, her expression anxious and imploring, gestures toward the distance as she asks, “Is that the road to London?” Her light gown and bonnet stand out against the shadowed background and cloudy night sky, enhancing her spectral presence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_in_White_(novel)#/media/File:Illustration_by_Thomas_Eyre_Macklin_for_The_Woman_in_White_(1).jpg

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<p>Scary Books I’ve Recommended and Why: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-scary-books-ive-recommended-and-why/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-scary-books-ive-recommended-and-why/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-week</span><span class="invisible">ly-blogging-challenge-scary-books-ive-recommended-and-why/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/wednesdayweeklybloggingchallenge/" rel="tag">#WednesdayWeeklyBloggingChallenge</a> <a href="/tags/halloween/" rel="tag">#Halloween</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>

Black and white sketch of a ghost who is floating through the air with their arms outstretched. They look like a cartoon ghost covered in a white sheet with two eye holes cut into the sheet. Very cute.

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<p>Release day!! Space Trash is Trash You'll Want to Bring In! Off the curb and into your hands. <a href="https://books2read.com/u/mYJlro" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/u/mYJlro</a><br><a href="/tags/kindle/" rel="tag">#Kindle</a> <a href="/tags/kobo/" rel="tag">#Kobo</a> <a href="/tags/nook/" rel="tag">#Nook</a> <a href="/tags/apple/" rel="tag">#Apple</a> <a href="/tags/googleplay/" rel="tag">#GooglePlay</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/readers/" rel="tag">#readers</a> <a href="/tags/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#readingcommunity</a> <a href="/tags/mustread/" rel="tag">#mustread</a> <a href="/tags/humor/" rel="tag">#humor</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a></p>

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<p>It's the Fedi Book Fair this weekend. Follow the hashtag for book posts from lots of fediverse indie authors (or filter it to avoid the posts).</p><p>My books are mostly low-key fantasy with queer romance. Find out more at <a href="https://wendypalmer.au" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>wendypalmer.au</a></p><p>You’ll find them at all your favourite ebook retailers and online bookstores. And also at libraries, Hoopla, or your Kobo or Everand subscriptions.</p><p>This weekend, the ebooks are 25% off direct from me (via Payhip):<br><a href="https://payhip.com/WendyPalmer" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>payhip.com/WendyPalmer</a></p><p>And at Smashwords:<br><a href="https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/wendylpalmer" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smashwords.com/profile/view/wendylpalmer"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smashwords.com/profile/vie</span><span class="invisible">w/wendylpalmer</span></a></p><p>***</p><p>As as a special bonus just for the <a href="/tags/fedibookfair/" rel="tag">#FediBookFair</a>, I've made my new release, officially released 16 November, available direct:<br><a href="https://payhip.com/b/A3P2i" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>payhip.com/b/A3P2i</a></p><p>It comes with a free 2026 calendar featuring relevant public-domain nineteenth-century artworks :)</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/gayromance/" rel="tag">#gayromance</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieAuthor</a> <a href="/tags/historicals/" rel="tag">#historicals</a> <a href="/tags/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#ReadingCommunity</a> <a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="/tags/selfpromo/" rel="tag">#SelfPromo</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>

Cover of Grace & Favour. Blue and brass-yellow colours predominant. The title is in fancy font at the top, and there's what looks like a photo portrait in an ornate frame, of two men, one in a top hat, one holding a pocket watch, and a large white dog. In the background of the photo (actually a daguerreotype, but anachronistically in colour), there is the faint impression of a woman, transparent...you could say, almost ghostly...

Mood board for Grace & Favour. Has a painting by Turner (a watercolour of Hampton Court Palace from across the river), a daguerreotype in a case, a ghost postcard, a Scots phrasebook, and a big picture of Max, a Maremma livestock guard dog, big, white and fluffy.

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<p>“That’s Why We Become Witches”: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes (1926)</p><p>"A novel about a woman who throws off the yoke of patriarchy to become a witch."</p><p><a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/lolly-willowes/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="publicdomainreview.org/collection/lolly-willowes/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">publicdomainreview.org/collect</span><span class="invisible">ion/lolly-willowes/</span></a></p><p>The book at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72223" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72223</a></p><p><a href="/tags/witches/" rel="tag">#witches</a> <a href="/tags/supernatural/" rel="tag">#supernatural</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Halloween: illustration shows a witch riding on a broom with a black cat.

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1905, O. Henry’s short story “The Gift of the Magi” is first published in The New York Sunday World. </p><p>The story at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7256" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7256</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Photograph of O. Henry

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<p>Wordsworth Revolutionized Poetry But His Life Was Equally Interesting</p><p>"Who was William Wordsworth, and what made his poetry so revolutionary? Read about the life and works of this major Romantic poet."</p><p><a href="https://www.thecollector.com/william-wordsworth/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/william-wordsworth/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thecollector.com/william-w</span><span class="invisible">ordsworth/</span></a></p><p>Books by Wordsworth at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2879" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2879"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/2879</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 William Wordsworth, by William Shuter, 1798.

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<p>📚 Because It Is My Blood by: Gabrielle Zevin</p><p>Since her release from Liberty Children's Facility, Anya Balanchine is determined to follow the straight and narrow. Unfortunately, her criminal record is making it hard for her to do that. No high school wants her with a gun possession charge on her rap sheet. Plus, all the people in her life have moved on: Natty ...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/because-it-is-my-blood" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/because-it-is-my-blood"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/because-it</span><span class="invisible">-is-my-blood</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/romance/" rel="tag">#romance</a> <a href="/tags/general/" rel="tag">#general</a></p>

Since her release from Liberty Children's Facility, Anya Balanchine is determined to follow the straight and narrow. Unfortunately, her criminal record is making it hard for her to do that. No high school wants her with a gun possession charge on her rap sheet. Plus, all the people in her life have moved on: Natty has skipped two grades at Holy Trinity, Scarlet and Gable seem closer than ever, and even Win is in a new relationship.

But when old friends return demanding that certain debts be paid, Anya is thrown right back into the criminal world that she had been determined to escape. It's a journey that will take her across the ocean and straight into the heart of the birthplace of chocolate where her resolve--and her heart--will be tested as never before.

In this thrilling novel about a reluctant mobster, Anya tries to shatter the ties that bind--with deadly consequences. Because It Is My Blood is the second stunning novel in Gabrielle Zevin's Birthright series.

Every time I think I'm out, they pull me back in.
Michael Corleone, The Godfather

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<p>Here comes another spicy audiobook for spooky season! 🎃</p><p>The Mirror by Amber Collins is a red-hot story of erotic revenge!</p><p>When Nick and Katy inherit a haunted mirror, they can make their biggest wishes come true. But will they go too far to humiliate the hot couple that torments them?</p><p>If you have ever wanted to put a bully in their place, this story is for you. </p><p>Content advisory follows in the next post! </p><p>Get yourself in the Halloween spirit with this spicy story. 💋</p><p>Available in audiobook format on Amazon, Audible an Apple Books. Also available in ebook format on Amazon. </p><p><a href="https://geni.us/TMir" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>geni.us/TMir</a></p><p>1/n</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@audiofiction" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>audiofiction</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="/tags/nsfw/" rel="tag">#NSFW</a> <a href="/tags/audioook/" rel="tag">#Audioook</a> <a href="/tags/audioobooks/" rel="tag">#Audioobooks</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/halloween/" rel="tag">#Halloween</a> <a href="/tags/erotica/" rel="tag">#Erotica</a> <a href="/tags/sizefantasy/" rel="tag">#SizeFantasy</a> <a href="/tags/shrinking/" rel="tag">#Shrinking</a> <a href="/tags/magic/" rel="tag">#Magic</a> <a href="/tags/witch/" rel="tag">#Witch</a> <a href="/tags/halloween/" rel="tag">#Halloween</a></p>

On the left, an antique oval mirror with an ornate silver frame displays a spooky skull made of smoke, the drifts out of the frame.

On the right, text says: "The Mirror. By Amber Collins. Narrated by Adara Astin. A Size Erotica Revenge Story. Revenge is a dish best served... big."

A diagonal yellow banner across the bottom right corner says: "Now in audio."

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