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<p>This Week in Literary History: Edna St. Vincent Millay Loses Her Manuscript in a Hotel Fire</p><p>Did She Ever Truly Recover?</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/this-week-in-literary-history-edna-st-vincent-millay-loses-her-manuscript-in-a-hotel-fire/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/this-week-in-literary-history-edna-st-vincent-millay-loses-her-manuscript-in-a-hotel-fire/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/this-week-in-litera</span><span class="invisible">ry-history-edna-st-vincent-millay-loses-her-manuscript-in-a-hotel-fire/</span></a></p><p>Her works at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/70" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/70"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/70</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>

<p>My <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#bookreview</a> is brief/won&#x27;t spoil, to spread good, great, and spectacular <a href="/tags/horror/" rel="tag">#horror</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> far and wide.</p><p>The tropes and subtext in THE NIGHT SHIP could be both trite &amp; unceasingly grim but Alex Woodroe&#x27;s deft &amp; elegant writing makes this weird, cosmic horror tale of survivors battling the forces of darkness a suspenseful, thrilling, life-affirming adventure of determination &amp; grit. (Flame Tree)</p><p><a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#review</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/cosmichorror/" rel="tag">#CosmicHorror</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span>  <a href="/tags/mothersuspiriareview/" rel="tag">#mothersuspiriareview</a> <a href="/tags/msreview/" rel="tag">#MSReview</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://toot.community/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon@toot.community</span></a></span></p>

<p>📚 The Strange House (Manga) Vol. 4 by: Uketsu, Kyo Ayano</p><p>As Yuzuki and I investigate the Katabuchi family home, our unease grows. What dark secrets has her family been hiding? The mysteries deepen, but at least one has been solved: the identity of You-chan&#x27;s murderer. Yet that is only the beginning of the strange, disturbing truth...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-strange-house-manga-vol-4" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-strange-house-manga-vol-4"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-strang</span><span class="invisible">e-house-manga-vol-4</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/manga/" rel="tag">#manga</a> <a href="/tags/horror/" rel="tag">#horror</a></p>

<p>Meaning beyond definition</p><p>In science our concepts have neat, hard edges. In poetry our concepts stretch and expand. Both are necessary for knowledge</p><p>by James Camien McGuiggan</p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/in-poetry-clarity-comes-through-ambiguity-not-definitions?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=765c91975b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_04_17&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="aeon.co/essays/in-poetry-clarity-comes-through-ambiguity-not-definitions?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=765c91975b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_04_17&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/essays/in-poetry-clari</span><span class="invisible">ty-comes-through-ambiguity-not-definitions?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=765c91975b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_04_17&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972</span></a></p><p>Poetry &amp; Knowledge at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=poetry+%2B+knowledge" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=poetry+%2B+knowledge"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=poetry+%2B+knowledge</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> <a href="/tags/knowledge/" rel="tag">#knowledge</a></p>

<p>When <a href="/tags/shtf/" rel="tag">#SHTF</a>, I&#x27;m sure you will need <a href="/tags/community/" rel="tag">#community</a>, <a href="/tags/solidarity/" rel="tag">#solidarity</a> and stable <a href="/tags/relationships/" rel="tag">#relationships</a> at a local level a little more than you&#x27;ll need a 2y supply of freeze-dried meals.</p><p>Though it can&#x27;t hurt to download <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> and <a href="/tags/information/" rel="tag">#information</a> now that you once believed would be treasured as heritage of humankind – and never be burned, or rewritten to suit the needs of fanatics with fragile egos.</p><p>Start here:</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>gutenberg_org</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@kiwix" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kiwix</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>internetarchive</span></a></span></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1789.</p><p>William Hill Brown&#x27;s anonymous sentimental epistolary novel The Power of Sympathy: or, The Triumph of Nature, usually considered the first American novel, is published in Boston.</p><p>The novel was first published anonymously, but was popularly attributed to poet Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton because of the resemblance between the plot and a scandal in her family; Brown was not correctly identified as the author until 1894.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Sympathy" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Sympathy"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Powe</span><span class="invisible">r_of_Sympathy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69250" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69250</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

<p>&quot;Prose is a museum, where all the old weapons of poetry are kept.&quot;</p><p>In January 1909.</p><p>T. E. Hulme&#x27;s poems &quot;Autumn&quot; and &quot;A City Sunset&quot; are included in the Poets&#x27; Club anthology For Christmas MDCCCCVIII, as the first examples of Imagism.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._E._Hulme" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._E._Hulme"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._E._Hu</span><span class="invisible">lme</span></a></p><p>Canzoni &amp; Ripostes at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39783" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39783</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>

<p>From January till September 1905.</p><p>L. Frank Baum&#x27;s Animal Fairy Tales appear in The Delineator magazine.</p><p>For several decades in the twentieth century, the collection was a &quot;lost&quot; book by Baum; it resurfaced when the International Wizard of Oz Club published the stories in one volume in 1969.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Fairy_Tales" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Fairy_Tales"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_F</span><span class="invisible">airy_Tales</span></a></p><p>The Animal Fairy Tales at Delineator:<br><a href="https://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=hearth1891092_64_2#page/106/mode/1up" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=hearth1891092_64_2#page/106/mode/1up"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">reader.library.cornell.edu/doc</span><span class="invisible">viewer/digital?id=hearth1891092_64_2#page/106/mode/1up</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Keep good company, <br>Read good books, <br>Love good things, <br>and cultivate soul and body <br>as faithfully and wisely as I can.</p><p>Louisa May Alcott</p><p><a href="/tags/quotes/" rel="tag">#quotes</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/writers/" rel="tag">#writers</a> <a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/louisamayalcott/" rel="tag">#LouisaMayAlcott</a> <a href="/tags/littlewomen/" rel="tag">#LittleWomen</a> <a href="/tags/soul/" rel="tag">#soul</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#quote</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/booktok/" rel="tag">#booktok</a> <a href="/tags/bookstagram/" rel="tag">#bookstagram</a> <a href="/tags/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#readingcommunity</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/booksky/" rel="tag">#booksky</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/alcott/" rel="tag">#Alcott</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

<p>German poet and novelist Achim von Arnim was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1781.</p><p>He is best known as one of the key figures of German Romanticism. His works were collected, with an introduction by Wilhelm Grimm, in twenty volumes (1839–48). He influenced late Romantics and Realists such as Eduard Mörike, Heinrich Heine, Ludwig Uhland and Theodor Storm, particularly through the Wunderhorn.</p><p>Books by Achim von Arnim at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/848" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/848"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/848</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>📚 Fauves by: Melissa Da Costa</p><p>Je veux jouer avec le feu, trembler, sentir la morsure de la mort. Défier les instincts les plus brutaux, les plus sauvages, et les dépasser.</p><p>Comment s&#x27;échapper de sa cage ? C&#x27;est l&#x27;obsession des fauves mais aussi celle de Tony, dix-sept ans, lorsqu&#x27;il rejoint un cirque itinérant après avoir fui la violence de son père. Faire face aux bê...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/fauves" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/fauves</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/general/" rel="tag">#general</a></p>

<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/TheThirdWish" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/TheThirdWish</a></p><p>Spies, aliens, trolls, wizards and a disowned prince use a time machine, to improve their place in history, but Levi Jacobs stands in their way, despite having just lost his parents in war. Will he stop them or will the time travelers kill his father at a pivotal moment, on which the fate of the galaxy hangs?</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>

<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&amp;q=https://reviewdb.app/book/1onVykHO8cWR9T8KXDwYXB" rel="nofollow">Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 <br>by Gabrielle Zevin.</p><p>Two friends become productive creative partners in computer game design, but their emotional blocks cause regular estrangements (gets a bit frustrating - grow up already!). I enjoyed the nostalgia of old-school gaming, but would probably still be enjoyable for non-gamers. Now, off to play Oregon Trail ... <a href="https://oregontrail.run/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>oregontrail.run/</a></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> </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://aus.social/@wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>WildWoila</span></a></span> @wildwoila@wyrms.de<br></p>

<p>&quot;Poet, never chase the dream.<br>Laugh yourself and turn away.<br>Mask your hunger, let it seem<br>Small matter if he come or stay;...&quot;</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1918.</p><p>The English poet Robert Graves marries the painter Nancy Nicholson in London. The wedding guests include Wilfred Owen, whose first nationally published poem appears three days later (&quot;Miners&quot; in The Nation). He will die by the end of the year.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Graves" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Graves"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_G</span><span class="invisible">raves</span></a></p><p>Robert Graves at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/628" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/628"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/628</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1902.</p><p>The first example of a Sherlockian game – a study of inconsistencies of dates in Arthur Conan Doyle&#x27;s The Hound of the Baskervilles (the serialisation of which in The Strand Magazine concludes in April) by publisher Frank Sidgwick – appears in The Cambridge Review.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_of_Sherlock_Holmes" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_of_Sherlock_Holmes"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_of</span><span class="invisible">_Sherlock_Holmes</span></a></p><p>Arthur Conan Doyle at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/69" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/69"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/69</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Three women translators who bridged cultures</p><p>Stories of Birgitte Thott, Sarah Austin, and Émilie du Châtelet</p><p>by Małgorzata Szynkielewska via <span class="h-card"><a href="https://glammr.us/@europeana" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>europeana</span></a></span> (from the archives)</p><p><a href="https://www.europeana.eu/en/stories/three-women-translators-who-bridged-cultures" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.europeana.eu/en/stories/three-women-translators-who-bridged-cultures"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.europeana.eu/en/stories/th</span><span class="invisible">ree-women-translators-who-bridged-cultures</span></a></p><p>Books by or translated by Émilie du Châtelet at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=%C3%89milie+du+Ch%C3%A2telet&amp;submit_search=Search" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=%C3%89milie+du+Ch%C3%A2telet&amp;submit_search=Search"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=%C3%89milie+du+Ch%C3%A2telet&amp;submit_search=Search</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/translators/" rel="tag">#translators</a> <a href="/tags/womeninart/" rel="tag">#womeninart</a></p>

<p>American journalist Nellie Bly died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1922.</p><p>She was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days in emulation of Jules Verne&#x27;s fictional character Phileas Fogg, &amp; for an exposé in which she worked undercover to report on a mental institution from within. Bly was also an inventor, receiving U.S. patent 697,553 for a novel milk can &amp; U.S. patent 703,711 for a stacking garbage can.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_B</span><span class="invisible">ly</span></a></p><p>Nellie Bly at PG<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/9648" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/9648"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/9648</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Wit, courage and guile: ten literary heroines to inspire you on International Women’s Day</p><p>Whether courageous and confident or quietly subversive, literary heroines can inspire us in our everyday lives.</p><p>by Amy Wilcockson</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/wit-courage-and-guile-ten-literary-heroines-to-inspire-you-on-international-womens-day-277607?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=International%20Womens%20Day%202026&amp;utm_content=International%20Womens%20Day%202026+CID_03740b2982c8e57598d1dcb20bdec6c2&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&amp;utm_term=Wit%20courage%20and%20guile%20ten%20literary%20heroines%20to%20inspire%20you%20on%20International%20Womens%20Day" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/wit-courage-and-guile-ten-literary-heroines-to-inspire-you-on-international-womens-day-277607?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=International%20Womens%20Day%202026&amp;utm_content=International%20Womens%20Day%202026+CID_03740b2982c8e57598d1dcb20bdec6c2&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&amp;utm_term=Wit%20courage%20and%20guile%20ten%20literary%20heroines%20to%20inspire%20you%20on%20International%20Womens%20Day"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/wit-courag</span><span class="invisible">e-and-guile-ten-literary-heroines-to-inspire-you-on-international-womens-day-277607?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=International%20Womens%20Day%202026&amp;utm_content=International%20Womens%20Day%202026+CID_03740b2982c8e57598d1dcb20bdec6c2&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&amp;utm_term=Wit%20courage%20and%20guile%20ten%20literary%20heroines%20to%20inspire%20you%20on%20International%20Womens%20Day</span></a></p><p>Women fiction at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=women+fiction" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=women+fiction"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">cts/search/?query=women+fiction</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/womenhistorymonth/" rel="tag">#womenhistoryMonth</a></p>

<p>📚 Cibola Burn by: James S. A. Corey</p><p>An empty apartment, a missing family, that&#x27;s creepy. But this is like finding a military base with no one on it. Fighters and tanks idling on the runway with no drivers. This is bad juju. Something wrong happened here. What you should do is tell everyone to leave.<br> <br>The gates have opened the way to a thousand new worlds and the rush to colonize has beg...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/cibola-burn" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/cibola-burn"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/cibola-bur</span><span class="invisible">n</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></p>

<p>Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 2002.</p><p>She is best known for several children&#x27;s book series, featuring Pippi Longstocking, Emil of Lönneberga, Karlsson-on-the-Roof, and the Six Bullerby Children (Children of Noisy Village in the US), and for the children&#x27;s fantasy novels Mio, My Son; Ronia the Robber&#x27;s Daughter; and The Brothers Lionheart.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrid_Lindgren" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrid_Lindgren"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrid_L</span><span class="invisible">indgren</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>I&#x27;ve read that the fourth <a href="/tags/dune/" rel="tag">#Dune</a> novel is quite good and perhaps I will read it one day.</p><p>[End of transmission] </p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a></p>

The Death of Washington Post Book World and Why Criticism Still Matters <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.ml/post/45885052">See Original Page</a> </small>

<p>I read a lot. Mostly SF and fantasy. Something which has been &#x27;taking over&#x27; a lot of online communities about those genres (probably also in other genres) in recent years is the concept of <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> challenges.</p><p>I finally figured out something which bothers me about them. They turn reading specific <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> into something which you do because you&#x27;re extrinsically motivated!</p><p>For me, reading has always been something I do because I&#x27;m intrinsically motivated, but I recently caught myself thinking far too much on how to make books fit into such challenges, including picking up books which I didn&#x27;t actually feel like.</p><p>I&#x27;m all in favor of people reading more - and more broadly - than they would&#x27;ve done without these challenges, but I already was reading exactly as much as I want to!</p><p>Going forward, I&#x27;m going to stay far away from the inherent reward-loop from these challenges, and just read what I feel like, when I feel like it. Much healthier for my brain, which is far too susceptible to such things.</p>