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<p>Translators: unsung heroes of a multilingual web</p><p>Following the launch of the ‘World Wide Web’ (which became known as ‘the web’) – in 1990, users with a native language other than English reached 5 percent by 1994, 20 percent by 1998, 50 percent by 2000 and 75 percent by 2015.</p><p>By Marie Lebert</p><p><a href="https://ausit.org/blog/translators-unsung-heroes-of-a-multilingual-web/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="ausit.org/blog/translators-unsung-heroes-of-a-multilingual-web/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ausit.org/blog/translators-uns</span><span class="invisible">ung-heroes-of-a-multilingual-web/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/translation/" rel="tag">#translation</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

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<p>Rediscovered photograph sheds light on Jeanne Duval – Manet’s Lady with a Fan</p><p>by Maria C. Scott</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/rediscovered-photograph-sheds-light-on-jeanne-duval-manets-lady-with-a-fan-275051" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/rediscovered-photograph-sheds-light-on-jeanne-duval-manets-lady-with-a-fan-275051"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/rediscover</span><span class="invisible">ed-photograph-sheds-light-on-jeanne-duval-manets-lady-with-a-fan-275051</span></a></p><p>Manet (as illustrator) at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/6624" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/6624"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/6624</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/photography/" rel="tag">#photography</a></p>

Baudelaire's Mistress (Portrait of Jeanne Duval), 1862. By Manet.

Manet shows Jeanne Duval reclining on a green sofa or chaise lounge, wearing a voluminous white crinoline dress and holding a green fan. Her dark hair and direct gaze create a striking contrast with the white dress. The background features decorative wallpaper or fabric panels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Manet#/media/File:Portrait-of-jeanne-duval-1862.jpg!Large.jpg

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<p>📚 When the Cranes Fly South by: Lisa Ridzén</p><p>Bo is running out of time. Yet time is one of the few things he’s got left. These days, his quiet existence is broken up only by daily visits from his home care team. Fortunately, he still has his beloved elkhound Sixten to keep him company, though now his son, wi...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/when-the-cranes-fly-south" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/when-the-cranes-fly-south"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/when-the-c</span><span class="invisible">ranes-fly-south</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/familylife/" rel="tag">#familylife</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/friendshipfiction/" rel="tag">#friendshipfiction</a> <a href="/tags/animals/" rel="tag">#animals</a></p>

Bo is running out of time. Yet time is one of the few things he’s got left. These days, his quiet existence is broken up only by daily visits from his home care team. Fortunately, he still has his beloved elkhound Sixten to keep him company, though now his son, with whom Bo has had a rocky relationship, insists upon taking the dog away, claiming that Bo has grown too old to properly care for him. The threat of losing Sixten stirs up a whirlwind of emotion, leading Bo to take stock of his life, his relationships, and the imperfect way he's expressed his love over the years.

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE SWEDISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD • A profoundly moving debut novel that follows an elderly man’s attempts to mend his relationship with his son before it’s too late: an emotional story of love, friendship, fatherhood, dogs, and atonement that is already an international sensation.

One of those you'll laugh, you'll cry, you’ll want to buy twenty copies and give them to everyone you love books. Fredrik Backman, bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, in The New Yorker

A powerful, sneakily emotional meditation on life and death, and the foundational relationships in our lives. This is a book that will echo in your soul. Garth Stein, New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain

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<p>"Lost, yesterday, somewhere between Sunrise and Sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever."</p><p>'Lost, Two Golden Hours' in Common School Journal November 1844</p><p>~Horace Mann (May 4, 1796 – August 2, 1859)</p><p>Horace Mann at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70681" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70681</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Original daguerreotype of Rep. Mann (Mass.) from Mathew Brady's a studio, c. 1849

Mathew Benjamin Brady - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3g07396. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.

Horace Mann, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to right. Whig and Free Soil Congressman from Massachusetts, 1848-1853; President of Antioch College.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Mann#/media/File:HMann.jpg

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<p>The Voynich Manuscript revealed: five things you probably did not know about the Medieval masterpiece</p><p>Scholars have speculated for centuries about the meaning behind the 15th-century codex and its peculiar illustrations</p><p>By Garry Shaw</p><p><a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/05/the-voynich-manuscript-revealed-five-things-you-probably-did-not-know-about-the-medieval-masterpiece" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/05/the-voynich-manuscript-revealed-five-things-you-probably-did-not-know-about-the-medieval-masterpiece"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">5/05/the-voynich-manuscript-revealed-five-things-you-probably-did-not-know-about-the-medieval-masterpiece</span></a></p><p>More information:<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_</span><span class="invisible">manuscript</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/oldmanuscript/" rel="tag">#oldmanuscript</a></p>

A page from the mysterious Voynich manuscript, which is undeciphered to this day.

Page 175; f99r, of the pharmaceutical section

Unknown author - Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University.

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I didn't like animal farm that much

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<p>Ello sweet and lovely (reading) Friendos <img src="https://eggplant.place/media/emoji/beige.party/blobcatbook.png" class="emoji" alt=":blobcatbook:" title=":blobcatbook:"></p><p>The last two months, I've been caught up reading again! At times where my body needed to relax, recharge, but my brain was still looking to be entertained... I got back to reading more again. 😊</p><p>Halfway through November, I learned about the new Dan Brown book in his Robert Langdon series. It had been a while since I read his books, so I set off, starting with Angels & Demons.<br>At the end of December, I finished the 6th book, the Secret of Secrets. I read another Dan Brown book after that, Deception Point.</p><p>I finished it yesterday. But now... As I started it at the end of December, is this my last finished book of 2025? Or is it the first one of 2026?</p><p>I've never really tracked my reading, but I thought it may be nice to make a thread this year, pinning 📌 it to my profile, and adding the books that I've managed to finish in 2026.</p><p>Maybe Deception Point was the last of 2025, maybe it's the first of 2026... But this is the first post of my <a href="/tags/booksin2026/" rel="tag">#BooksIn2026</a>. <img src="https://eggplant.place/media/emoji/beige.party/blobcatbook.png" class="emoji" alt=":blobcatbook:" title=":blobcatbook:"></p><p>I've now started a re-read of the Hunger Game series, which I'll read in the order of their release.</p><p>Books 📚 of 2026:<br>*January*<br>1. Deception Point - Dan Brown<br>2. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins<br>3. Catching Fire (the Hunger Games series, book 2) - Suzanne Collins <br>4. Mockingjay (the Hunger Games series, book 3) - Suzanne Collins <br>5. Storm Front (the Dresden Files, book 1) - Jim Butcher <br>6. Fool Moon (the Dresden Files, book 2) - Jim Butcher <br>*February*<br>7. Grave Peril (the Dresden Files, book 3) - Jim Butcher <br>8. The Ritual Bath (Decker/Lazarus series, book 1) - Faye Kellerman<br>9. Sacred and Profane (Decker/Lazarus series, book 2) - Faye Kellerman<br>10. Milk and Honey (Decker/Lazarus series, book 3) - Faye Kellerman<br>11. Day of Atonement (Decker/Lazarus series, book 4) - Faye Kellerman<br>12. False Prophet (Decker/Lazarus series, book 5) - Faye Kellerman<br>13. Grievous Sin (Decker/Lazarus series, book 6) - Faye Kellerman<br>14. Sanctuary (Decker/Lazarus series, book 7) - Faye Kellerman <br>*March*<br>15. Justice (Decker/Lazarus series, book 8) - Faye Kellerman<br>16. Prayers for the Dead (Decker/Lazarus series, book 9) - Faye Kellerman<br>17. Serpent's Tooth (Decker/Lazarus series, book 10) - Faye Kellerman <br>18. Jupiter's Bones (Decker/Lazarus series, book 11) - Faye Kellerman <br>*April*<br>19. Stalker (Decker/Lazarus series, book 12) - Faye Kellerman <br>*May*<br>20. The Testament - John Grisham<br>21. The Street Lawyer - John Grisham<br>22. The Widow - John Grisham<br>23. The Innocent Man - John Grisham</p><p><img src="https://eggplant.place/media/emoji/beige.party/playstation.png" class="emoji" alt=":playstation:" title=":playstation:"> <img src="https://eggplant.place/media/emoji/beige.party/pixy_party.gif" class="emoji" alt=":pixy_party:" title=":pixy_party:"></p><p><a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

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<p>A Review of Love Bug: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-love-bug/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-love-bug/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-lo</span><span class="invisible">ve-bug/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/valentinesday/" rel="tag">#ValentinesDay</a> <a href="/tags/youngadult/" rel="tag">#YoungAdult</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#Fantasy</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>

ook cover for Love Bug by Zoe Tasia. Image on cover is a drawing of three light brown envelopes that have been dropped in a snowbank and have a few red hearts floating out of them.

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<p>📚 I Who Have Never Known Men (B&N Exclusive Edition) by: Jacqueline Harpman</p><p>As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl--the fortieth prisoner--sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/i-who-have-never-known-men-bn-exclusive-edition" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/i-who-have-never-known-men-bn-exclusive-edition"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/i-who-have</span><span class="invisible">-never-known-men-bn-exclusive-edition</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/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/literaryfiction/" rel="tag">#literaryfiction</a> <a href="/tags/dystopianfiction/" rel="tag">#dystopianfiction</a> <a href="/tags/feminist/" rel="tag">#feminist</a></p>

As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl--the fortieth prisoner--sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground.

Jacqueline Harpman was born in Etterbeek, Belgium, in 1929, and fled to Casablanca with her family during WWII. Informed by her background as a psychoanalyst and her youth in exile, I Who Have Never Known Men is a haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic novel of female friendship and intimacy, and the lengths people will go to maintain their humanity in the face of devastation.

Now available in a collectible hardcover edition, featuring an introduction by Carmen Maria Machado, Harpman's modern classic is an essential addition to the growing canon of feminist speculative literature.

THE RUNAWAY BESTSELLER, NOW AVAILABLE IN A SPECIAL COLLECTOR'S EDITION.
Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before.

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<p>Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is a dark parable about coercive control</p><p>By Katy Mullin and Hannah Roche</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/emily-brontes-wuthering-heights-is-a-dark-parable-about-coercive-control-253866?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%201%202025%20-%203359834264&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%201%202025%20-%203359834264+CID_13448bac8f25132d36fbf0c25b322159&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Emily%20Bronts%20Wuthering%20Heights%20is%20a%20dark%20parable%20about%20coercive%20control" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/emily-brontes-wuthering-heights-is-a-dark-parable-about-coercive-control-253866?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%201%202025%20-%203359834264&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%201%202025%20-%203359834264+CID_13448bac8f25132d36fbf0c25b322159&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Emily%20Bronts%20Wuthering%20Heights%20is%20a%20dark%20parable%20about%20coercive%20control"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/emily-bron</span><span class="invisible">tes-wuthering-heights-is-a-dark-parable-about-coercive-control-253866?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%201%202025%20-%203359834264&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%201%202025%20-%203359834264+CID_13448bac8f25132d36fbf0c25b322159&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Emily%20Bronts%20Wuthering%20Heights%20is%20a%20dark%20parable%20about%20coercive%20control</span></a></p><p>Wuthering Heights at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/768" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/768</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/movie/" rel="tag">#movie</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Photo of Sir Laurence Olivier knighted 1947-page 144 and Merle Oberon from the 1939 film Wuthering Heights.

Olivier, in rustic clothing and seated on a rocky outcrop, gazes into the distance with a pensive, determined expression. Oberon, draped in a shawl, looks upward beside him with a soft, luminous gaze, her hand resting lightly on his shoulder, symbolizing both connection and tragic yearning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights#/media/File:Laurence_Olivier_Merle_Oberon_Wuthering_Heights.jpg

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<p>Today's DP Blog shines a spotlight on the Noël Coward play, "Hay Fever"</p><p><a href="https://blog.pgdp.net/2025/05/01/hay-fever/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blog.pgdp.net/2025/05/01/hay-fever/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.pgdp.net/2025/05/01/hay-f</span><span class="invisible">ever/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/dp/" rel="tag">#dp</a> <a href="/tags/dpblog/" rel="tag">#dpblog</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/plays/" rel="tag">#plays</a></p>

Cover of Hay Fever: A Play in Three Acts by Noel Coward

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<p>Why Are There So Many Folk Songs About Maypoles?</p><p>Happy May 1st!</p><p><a href="https://wordsmarts.com/folk-song-maypole/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="wordsmarts.com/folk-song-maypole/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wordsmarts.com/folk-song-maypo</span><span class="invisible">le/</span></a></p><p>Books by Nathaniel Hawthorne by PG</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/28" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/28"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/28</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a></p>

Img. 2501 Schools, Maypole activity at Parks School ca. 1924. School girls around a Maypole in a classroom. - from the Internet Archive

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<p>Inside Switzerland's extraordinary medieval library</p><p>By Mike MacEacheran</p><p>The Abbey Library of St Gallen is a Baroque hall of globes, manuscripts and curiosities that has survived, improbably, for 1,300 years.</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/travel/article/20260202-inside-switzerlands-extraordinary-medieval-library" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.bbc.co.uk/travel/article/20260202-inside-switzerlands-extraordinary-medieval-library"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.bbc.co.uk/travel/article/2</span><span class="invisible">0260202-inside-switzerlands-extraordinary-medieval-library</span></a></p><p>Medieval library at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=medieval+library" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=medieval+library"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=medieval+library</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/library/" rel="tag">#library</a></p>

PLATE XXV
DUKE HUMFREY’S LIBRARY, OXFORD

The image captures the historic reading room with its magnificent barrel-vaulted wooden ceiling with decorative coffers, tall windows providing natural light at the far end, and rows of bookshelves lining both sides. Reading desks are positioned along the central aisle. Duke Humfrey's Library, the oldest reading room of the Bodleian, dates to the 15th century and was named after Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester (1390-1447), younger brother of Henry V, who donated his collection of manuscripts to Oxford University.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1615/pg1615-images.html

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<p>This Plaintive Song Is From a Land Without Lullabies</p><p>A rare tribe lacks music for dancing or soothing their young ones</p><p>By Kristen French </p><p><a href="https://nautil.us/this-plaintive-song-is-from-a-land-without-lullabies-1207655/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="nautil.us/this-plaintive-song-is-from-a-land-without-lullabies-1207655/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nautil.us/this-plaintive-song-</span><span class="invisible">is-from-a-land-without-lullabies-1207655/</span></a></p><p>Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/16" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/16"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/16</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a></p>

Lullaby by François Nicholas Riss .

The composition centers on a young mother seated beside a cradle suspended from the ceiling by ropes. She delicately dangles a lullaby above her infant, who lies nestled beneath a patterned cloth canopy, one tiny hand reaching upward. Her expression is gentle and attentive, conveying maternal affection and calm. In her lap, she holds knitting needles, suggesting the multitasking rhythm of caregiving.

To her left, a barefoot young boy leans against the window, absorbed in his own quiet activity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lullaby#/media/File:Fran%C3%A7ois_Riss_Lullaby.jpg

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<p>📚 Behind These Four Walls by: Yasmin Angoe</p><p>Isla Thorne had a rough start in life. Orphaned young, she spent her formative years in a group home where she met her best friend, Eden Galloway. At sixteen, they decide to run away to LA...but Eden never makes it.</p><p>It's been ten years since Eden vanished. And Isla...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/behind-these-four-walls" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/behind-these-four-walls"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/behind-the</span><span class="invisible">se-four-walls</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/suspensefiction/" rel="tag">#suspensefiction</a> <a href="/tags/psychologicalfiction/" rel="tag">#psychologicalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/domestic/" rel="tag">#domestic</a></p>

Isla Thorne had a rough start in life. Orphaned young, she spent her formative years in a group home where she met her best friend, Eden Galloway. At sixteen, they decide to run away to LA...but Eden never makes it.

It's been ten years since Eden vanished. And Isla's determined to find her.

She begins at the last place Eden visited: the Corrigan mansion in Virginia. Eden claimed to have unfinished business there. Posing as an aspiring journalist, Isla insinuates herself into the wealthy family's home and begins searching for the truth.

The more she digs, the more Isla discovers Eden isn't who she thought she was. Was she even a victim, or did Eden plan this all along? Desperate for answers and to keep her identity hidden, Isla finds an ally in one of the Corrigan sons. But as she wades deeper into this power-hungry family's secrets and lies, she finds herself in the crosshairs of a bloodline that's more lethal than loyal.

From the author of Not What She Seems, Yasmin Angoe's thriller explores revenge, morality, corruption, and wealth as a woman sets out to uncover the truth behind her friend's disappearance and expose the powerful family behind it.

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<p>What a Renaissance plate reveals about a woman who shaped literary history</p><p>The expression is, ‘handed to you on a silver plate’; but a recent breakthrough came to me on a painted ceramic one.</p><p>by Maria Clotilde Camboni</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/what-a-renaissance-plate-reveals-about-a-woman-who-shaped-literary-history-273654?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20February%209%202026%20-%203669637496&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20February%209%202026%20-%203669637496+CID_9bdfd4637bcdfe2ba7a398ba27e13331&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=What%20a%20Renaissance%20plate%20reveals%20about%20a%20woman%20who%20shaped%20literary%20history" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/what-a-renaissance-plate-reveals-about-a-woman-who-shaped-literary-history-273654?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20February%209%202026%20-%203669637496&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20February%209%202026%20-%203669637496+CID_9bdfd4637bcdfe2ba7a398ba27e13331&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=What%20a%20Renaissance%20plate%20reveals%20about%20a%20woman%20who%20shaped%20literary%20history"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/what-a-ren</span><span class="invisible">aissance-plate-reveals-about-a-woman-who-shaped-literary-history-273654?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20February%209%202026%20-%203669637496&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20February%209%202026%20-%203669637496+CID_9bdfd4637bcdfe2ba7a398ba27e13331&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=What%20a%20Renaissance%20plate%20reveals%20about%20a%20woman%20who%20shaped%20literary%20history</span></a></p><p>Renaissance art at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/3037" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/3037"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">ct/3037</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a></p>

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<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&q=https://reviewdb.app/book/3DNylg82ng5pe2W5O65tmU" rel="nofollow">Mind of My Mind</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 <br>by Octavia Butler.</p><p>The god-like mutant Doro finally breeds his race of super-powered telepaths. Can they hold it together, and can he tolerate them? Not much narrative tension or interesting characters, and not a lot happens.</p><p><a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#SFF</a> <a href="/tags/octaviabutler/" rel="tag">#OctaviaButler</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 Flightless Birds of New Hope by: Farah Naz Rishi</p><p>Upon the sudden deaths of their bird-obsessed parents, the three Shah siblings reunite.</p><p>Aliza has spent years holding their crumbling family together, caring for their younger brother, Sammy. And Aden, named executor of the estate, finds himself resentfully fa...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-flightless-birds-of-new-hope" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-flightless-birds-of-new-hope"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-flight</span><span class="invisible">less-birds-of-new-hope</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/familylife/" rel="tag">#familylife</a> <a href="/tags/siblingsfiction/" rel="tag">#siblingsfiction</a> <a href="/tags/muslimfiction/" rel="tag">#muslimfiction</a></p>

Upon the sudden deaths of their bird-obsessed parents, the three Shah siblings reunite.

Aliza has spent years holding their crumbling family together, caring for their younger brother, Sammy. And Aden, named executor of the estate, finds himself resentfully facing the one member of the family who always got their parents' undivided love: their famous Bollywood-bopping cockatoo, Coco.

One reckless night, Aden opens Coco's cage, letting her do what he did a decade ago--fly away from home.
In a panic, the siblings set off to recover her, armed with only Coco's tracking chip and the fragile hope they might set things right. What they think will be a quick search and rescue becomes a two-week cross-country road trip, where old grudges resurface, relationships are tested, and long-buried dreams stir awake.

As Coco, meanwhile, forges her own path to the past, Aden, Aliza, and Sammy follow--not just the bird, but the possibility of something more: a way back to each other.

Three estranged siblings--and a high-maintenance cockatoo--reunite in a luminous novel about forgiveness, connection, and the complexities of family by the author of Sorry for the Inconvenience.

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<p>Author to revive Shakespeare club after 300 years</p><p>An author is relaunching a ladies club that once revived William Shakespeare's reputation 300 years ago.</p><p>by Alice Cunningham</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c17887r0nyyo" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c17887r0nyyo"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1</span><span class="invisible">7887r0nyyo</span></a></p><p>Shakespeare at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/65" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/65"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/65</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/drama/" rel="tag">#drama</a></p>

William Shakespeare by John Taylor, edited

An oil portrait of Shakespeare shown from the chest up against a deep red-brown background. He has a high, balding forehead with hair at the sides, a short beard and moustache, and dark eyes with a calm, direct gaze. He wears a black doublet with a plain white falling collar tied with a lace string, and a small gold hoop earring in his left ear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare#/media/File:William_Shakespeare_by_John_Taylor,_edited.jpg

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Becky Chambers

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<p>Blood On the Page: On Jane Austen’s Period Drama</p><p>Devoney Looser Explores 19th-Century Attitudes About Menstruation and Women’s Health</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/blood-on-the-page-on-jane-austens-period-drama/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/blood-on-the-page-on-jane-austens-period-drama/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/blood-on-the-page-o</span><span class="invisible">n-jane-austens-period-drama/</span></a></p><p>"The Letters of Jane Austen" at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42078" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42078</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/film/" rel="tag">#film</a></p>

Drawing of Jane Austen by Cassandra Austen, 1870

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<p>Ebook omnibus: <a href="https://books2read.com/AshenBladesOpenWounds" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="books2read.com/AshenBladesOpenWounds"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">books2read.com/AshenBladesOpen</span><span class="invisible">Wounds</span></a></p><p>The arch-demon, Pride, leads demon-kind in an ancient plan to open a gate between worlds, so vast demon armies might march forth and conquer, but opening a portal requires both energy equivalent to a nuclear explosion and the cooperation of a half-demon, to stabilize it. However, the only half-demon available has made it her life mission to kill all demons.</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/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

$(Background) A fractal pattern of red and orange that resembles a demonic portal. (Center) Pride needs a half-demon to stabilize the portal between worlds. There’s just one hitch: she hates him. One stubborn half-demon vs. all of demon-kind? It could go either way... (Top Left) The cover of She Hunts Demons, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson. Sitting on the roof of a building in New York City is a teenage girl with a Japanese short sword. The image is black and white, aside from a few details in blue. (Bottom Left) The cover of She Goes to War, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson. Three people in tiger-stripe camouflage crouch in the jungle, including a teen girl, a soldier and a huge cat-man with black fur. (Bottom Right) The cover of the novel, Demon for President!, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson. Two politicians (Democrat and Republican) shake hands, as if for a photo-op, while a city burns behind them and the flag of the United States waves in the smoke. (Top Right) The cover of the book bundle, Ashen Blades: Open Wounds, by Owen Tyme, which includes a Japanese sword, a pistol and a pineapple grenade on a wooden surface.$

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<p>My <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#bookreview</a> is brief/won'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>Folk-horror tinged, strange stories of compulsions, sacrifices, and the uncanny, COME SING FOR THE HARROWING is filled with uniquely sinister, striking, & spooky tales. Dan Coxon masterfully weaves stories wrought with atmosphere and ambiguity that leave you pondering and unsettled. (Clash Books)</p><p><a href="/tags/folkhorror/" rel="tag">#FolkHorror</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#review</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <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>

Cover of paperback COME SING FOR THE HARROWING. A woodcut style of graphic art of a forest and strange, human-like being.

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<p>Lost for 400 Years: Researcher Discover Hidden Copy of Shakespeare Sonnet</p><p>By University of Oxford</p><p><a href="https://scitechdaily.com/lost-for-400-years-researcher-discover-hidden-copy-of-shakespeare-sonnet/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="scitechdaily.com/lost-for-400-years-researcher-discover-hidden-copy-of-shakespeare-sonnet/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">scitechdaily.com/lost-for-400-</span><span class="invisible">years-researcher-discover-hidden-copy-of-shakespeare-sonnet/</span></a></p><p>Full article by Leah S Veronese is available here:<br><a href="https://academic.oup.com/res/advance-article/doi/10.1093/res/hgaf002/7997398?login=false" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="academic.oup.com/res/advance-article/doi/10.1093/res/hgaf002/7997398?login=false"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">academic.oup.com/res/advance-a</span><span class="invisible">rticle/doi/10.1093/res/hgaf002/7997398?login=false</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/oldmanuscript/" rel="tag">#oldmanuscript</a></p>

Shake-Speare's Sonnets, quarto published by Thomas Thorpe, London, 1609, title page

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<p>Cicero’s Unsentimental Education</p><p>Making it in Ancient Rome</p><p>by Ryan S. Olson</p><p><a href="https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/humanism-in-a-posthumanist-age/articles/ciceros-unsentimental-education" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="hedgehogreview.com/issues/humanism-in-a-posthumanist-age/articles/ciceros-unsentimental-education"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hedgehogreview.com/issues/huma</span><span class="invisible">nism-in-a-posthumanist-age/articles/ciceros-unsentimental-education</span></a></p><p>Cicero at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/128" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/128"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/128</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>

The Young Cicero Reading by Vincenzo Foppa (fresco, 1464), now at the Wallace Collection in London.

A boy in pink and blue sits absorbed in a book beside a stone window, with stacked volumes nearby and a Latin inscription visible behind him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero#/media/File:The_Young_Cicero_Reading.jpg

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