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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>Thought of the day by Robert Frost (misattributed to): 'The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.'</p><p>By Gandharv Walia</p><p><a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/thought-of-the-day-february-21-thought-of-the-day-by-robert-frost-the-brain-is-a-wonderful-organ-it-starts-working-the-moment-you-get-up-in-the-morning-and-does-not-stop-until-you-get-into-the-office-/articleshow/128651821.cms?from=mdr" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/thought-of-the-day-february-21-thought-of-the-day-by-robert-frost-the-brain-is-a-wonderful-organ-it-starts-working-the-moment-you-get-up-in-the-morning-and-does-not-stop-until-you-get-into-the-office-/articleshow/128651821.cms?from=mdr"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">economictimes.indiatimes.com/n</span><span class="invisible">ews/international/us/thought-of-the-day-february-21-thought-of-the-day-by-robert-frost-the-brain-is-a-wonderful-organ-it-starts-working-the-moment-you-get-up-in-the-morning-and-does-not-stop-until-you-get-into-the-office-/articleshow/128651821.cms?from=mdr</span></a></p><p>Frost at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1091" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1091"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1091</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

ROBERT FROST

Photo by Doris Ulmann

In: Robert Frost
A study in sensibility and good sense
by Gorham Bert Munson

A black-and-white portrait photograph of Frost with light, swept-back hair, wearing a dark suit, white shirt, and tie. He gazes slightly to one side against a dark background

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/78076/pg78076-images.html

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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>U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs: The Arguments That Shaped America, Now Freely Available</p><p>Thanks to a generous gift of materials from the Wolf Law Library at the William & Mary Law School, and the Internet Archive’s mission to digitize and provide universal access to knowledge, we are pleased to share more than 125,000 U.S. Supreme Court records and briefs.</p><p>by Merrilee Proffitt via <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="https://blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u-s-supreme-court-records-and-briefs-the-arguments-that-shaped-america-now-freely-available/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u-s-supreme-court-records-and-briefs-the-arguments-that-shaped-america-now-freely-available/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u-</span><span class="invisible">s-supreme-court-records-and-briefs-the-arguments-that-shaped-america-now-freely-available/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/publicdomain/" rel="tag">#publicdomain</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> @wildwoila@wyrms.de<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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<p>Books With Rainy Titles: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-april-showers" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-april-showers"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesda</span><span class="invisible">y-april-showers</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/toptentuesday/" rel="tag">#TopTenTuesday</a> <a href="/tags/rain/" rel="tag">#Rain</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

Book cover for Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years With a Midwife in Mali by Kris Holloway. Image on cover shows Monique smiling. She’s wearing a blue dress that reveals her shoulders and a colourful head wrap.

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<p>"Several recent <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> paint a stark portrait of the uniquely expansive regime of <a href="/tags/uspolicing/" rel="tag">#USpolicing</a> and punishment, revealing what conventional wisdom gets wrong about its origins and scale and clarifying the obstacles to changing it." </p><p>Marie Gottschalk reviews <a href="/tags/themigrantsjail/" rel="tag">#TheMigrantsJail</a>, <a href="/tags/thehighestlawintheland/" rel="tag">#TheHighestLawInTheLand</a>, <a href="/tags/theminneapolisreckoning/" rel="tag">#TheMinneapolisReckoning</a>, & <a href="/tags/copaganda/" rel="tag">#Copaganda</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-making-of-the-deportation-machine/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-making-of-the-deportation-machine/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.bostonreview.net/articles/</span><span class="invisible">the-making-of-the-deportation-machine/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USpolitics</a> <a href="/tags/staterepression/" rel="tag">#stateRepression</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/police/" rel="tag">#police</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#immigration</a> <a href="/tags/migrants/" rel="tag">#migrants</a> <a href="/tags/deportations/" rel="tag">#deportations</a> <a href="/tags/massdeportations/" rel="tag">#massDeportations</a> <a href="/tags/carceralindustry/" rel="tag">#carceralIndustry</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>

[rubrics] LAW, POLITICS

The Making of the Deportation Machine
The pillars aren’t new. They were built over decades, with bipartisan consensus.

Marie Gottschalk

image (photo, at left): Outside New Mexico’s Torrance County Detention Facility in March 2025. Image: courtesy of Daniel J. Chacón / Sante Fe New Mexican

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<p>In Defense of Difficult Reading</p><p>The tomes of the past cultivate the lost art of sustained attention</p><p><a href="https://theamericanscholar.org/in-defense-of-difficult-reading/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theamericanscholar.org/in-defense-of-difficult-reading/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theamericanscholar.org/in-defe</span><span class="invisible">nse-of-difficult-reading/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Bookshelves with books in a library. There are four bookshelves facing each other with four shelves in each. A gray carpet is in between them and lights hang over each bookshelf and over the carpet. Another bookshelf is in the distance facing the viewer.

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<p>Book Review: The Language of Liars by S. L. Huang<br>Linguistics science fiction that isn't just the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis redux...Hook it to my veins.<br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@chloroform_tea" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>chloroform_tea</span></a></span> has our release-day review of the book at the NOAF blog<br><a href="http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/04/book-review-language-of-liars-by-s-l.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nerds-feather.com/2026/04/book-review-language-of-liars-by-s-l.html"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nerds-feather.com/2026/04/</span><span class="invisible">book-review-language-of-liars-by-s-l.html</span></a><br><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#review</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> @bookstodon</p>

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<p>Seriuosly, <a href="/tags/kidlit/" rel="tag">#kidlit</a> goes so hard...</p><p>"People try to create order. Discipline. Rules. It gives them peace. A sense of regulation. Of strength. It makes them feel in control. But life is chaos, reader. The sooner you learn this, the better."<br>― Cory Anderson, What Beauty There Is</p><p><a href="/tags/ya/" rel="tag">#YA</a> 📚💙📚 <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> @bookstodon@a.gup.pe <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/amreading/" rel="tag">#amreading</a></p>

The cover of WHAT BEAUTY THERE IS by Cory Anderson, shows a couple of teens, sitting under the canopy of a forest in the night. A shining mot flies by.

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<p>One great short story to read today: Franz Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony”</p><p>By Emily Temple</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/one-great-short-story-to-read-today-franz-kafkas-in-the-penal-colony/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/one-great-short-story-to-read-today-franz-kafkas-in-the-penal-colony/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/one-great-short-sto</span><span class="invisible">ry-to-read-today-franz-kafkas-in-the-penal-colony/</span></a></p><p>In der Strafkolonie at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25791" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25791</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/translation/" rel="tag">#translation</a></p>

Kafka as a Doctor of Law, around 1906.

A young Franz Kafka is shown posed with composed seriousness, wearing formal academic attire. His hair is neatly combed, and his face bears the thoughtful, introspective expression often associated with his later literary persona.

Kafka is dressed in a dark academic robe or formal suit, possibly accompanied by a white collar or shirt, denoting his recent graduation. The formal wear and subdued tone of the image mark the ceremonial significance of the occasion.

Atelier Jacobi: Sigismund Jacobi (1860–1935) - http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/news/2008_july_02 Franz Kafka: Pictures of a Life by Klaus Wagenbach (1984), p. 58; sourced to Klaus Wagenbach Archiv, Berlin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka#/media/File:Kafka1906.jpg

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<p>RE: <a href="https://mastodon.scot/@scotlit/116442704246019176" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mastodon.scot/@scotlit/116442704246019176"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.scot/@scotlit/1164427</span><span class="invisible">04246019176</span></a></p><p>Soillse air Alasdair MacIlleathain, ùghdar fìor shoirbheachail eadarnàiseanta le Gàidhlig</p><p>MacLean thought he could have written better in Gaelic than English. Originally broadcast on BBC Alba, “Alistair MacLean – An Sgeulaiche” celebrates his work & laments his loss to Gaelic literature (in Gaelic with English subtitles).</p><p>@bookstodon </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIAUeLOIEoY" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIAUeLOIEoY"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIAUeL</span><span class="invisible">OIEoY</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/20thcentury/" rel="tag">#20thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/thriller/" rel="tag">#thriller</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/gaidhlig/" rel="tag">#Gaidhlig</a> <a href="/tags/gaelic/" rel="tag">#Gaelic</a></p>

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<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&q=https://reviewdb.app/book/2UYemQHbkm5z7dvJVk934c" rel="nofollow">Anxious People</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 <br>by Fredrik Backman.</p><p>A bunch of charming idiots (i.e. everyday people) get thrown together and muddle their way through a crisis in the only way humans can: messily, and hilariously. Occasionally heavy-handed but the portrayal of people and their idiosyncrasies is a joy.</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>

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<p>Fires in Berlin Destroyed Hundreds of Paintings During World War II. Now, a Museum Will Publish Photo Archives of the Lost Artworks Online</p><p>by Christian Thorsberg</p><p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/fires-in-berlin-destroyed-hundreds-of-paintings-during-world-war-ii-now-a-museum-will-publish-photo-archives-of-the-lost-artworks-online-180988621/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/fires-in-berlin-destroyed-hundreds-of-paintings-during-world-war-ii-now-a-museum-will-publish-photo-archives-of-the-lost-artworks-online-180988621/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-n</span><span class="invisible">ews/fires-in-berlin-destroyed-hundreds-of-paintings-during-world-war-ii-now-a-museum-will-publish-photo-archives-of-the-lost-artworks-online-180988621/</span></a></p><p>About Gemäldegalerie at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59097" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59097</a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60502" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60502</a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55740" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55740</a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59275" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59275</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#Art</a> <a href="/tags/culture/" rel="tag">#Culture</a> <a href="/tags/digitalart/" rel="tag">#DigitalArt</a></p>

The eastern hall in the south wing of the Picture Gallery, featuring works from the 17th-century Dutch and Flemish schools.

19th-century engraving of a crowded museum gallery, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. Elegantly dressed visitors browse floor-to-ceiling paintings while others study prints at a central table. Lively, salon-style hanging.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gem%C3%A4ldegalerie_(Berlin)#/media/Datei:Gg_altesmuseum2.jpg

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Becky Chambers

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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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Here Are the Finalists for the 2026 Hugo Awards <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://literature.cafe/post/30993095">See Original Page</a> </small>

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<p>How a reading group helped young German students defy the Nazis and find their faith</p><p>By Peter Nguyen</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/how-a-reading-group-helped-young-german-students-defy-the-nazis-and-find-their-faith-254774" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/how-a-reading-group-helped-young-german-students-defy-the-nazis-and-find-their-faith-254774"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/how-a-read</span><span class="invisible">ing-group-helped-young-german-students-defy-the-nazis-and-find-their-faith-254774</span></a></p><p>More information:<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rose" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rose"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Ro</span><span class="invisible">se</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Monument to Hans and Sophie Scholl and the "White Rose" (German: Die Weiße Rose) resistance movement against the Nazi regime, in front of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

The monument is embedded directly into the ground in the university's atrium or entrance plaza. It features bronze replicas of the group's leaflets scattered across the pavement—frozen mid-motion as if freshly dropped or blown by the wind.

The fliers are detailed with reproductions of the original texts used by the White Rose group—typed or mimeographed calls for freedom, democracy, and opposition to Hitler’s rule. Some are half-unfolded or overlapping, evoking urgency and clandestine action.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rose#/media/File:Scholl-Denkmal,_M%C3%BCnchen.jpg

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