This Plaintive Song Is From a Land Without Lullabies
A rare tribe lacks music for dancing or soothing their young ones
By Kristen French
https://nautil.us/this-plaintive-song-is-from-a-land-without-lullabies-1207655/
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/16
📚 Behind These Four Walls by: Yasmin Angoe
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...
https://bookblabla.com/book/behind-these-four-walls
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #thrillers #suspensefiction #psychologicalfiction #domestic
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.'
By Gandharv Walia
Frost at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1091
What a Renaissance plate reveals about a woman who shaped literary history
The expression is, ‘handed to you on a silver plate’; but a recent breakthrough came to me on a painted ceramic one.
by Maria Clotilde Camboni
Renaissance art at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/3037
finished reading Mind of My Mind 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
by Octavia Butler.
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.
Author to revive Shakespeare club after 300 years
An author is relaunching a ladies club that once revived William Shakespeare's reputation 300 years ago.
by Alice Cunningham
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c17887r0nyyo
Shakespeare at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/65
Books With Rainy Titles: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-april-showers
Seriuosly, #kidlit goes so hard...
"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."
― Cory Anderson, What Beauty There Is
#YA 📚💙📚 #Books @bookstodon @bookstodon@fedigroups.social #amreading
One great short story to read today: Franz Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony”
By Emily Temple
https://lithub.com/one-great-short-story-to-read-today-franz-kafkas-in-the-penal-colony/
In der Strafkolonie at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25791
finished reading Anxious People 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
by Fredrik Backman.
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.
Fires in Berlin Destroyed Hundreds of Paintings During World War II. Now, a Museum Will Publish Photo Archives of the Lost Artworks Online
by Christian Thorsberg
About Gemäldegalerie at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59097
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60502
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55740
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59275
Blood On the Page: On Jane Austen’s Period Drama
Devoney Looser Explores 19th-Century Attitudes About Menstruation and Women’s Health
https://lithub.com/blood-on-the-page-on-jane-austens-period-drama/
"The Letters of Jane Austen" at PG:
Ebook omnibus: https://books2read.com/AshenBladesOpenWounds
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.
@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #actionadventure #fiction #books
Lost for 400 Years: Researcher Discover Hidden Copy of Shakespeare Sonnet
By University of Oxford
https://scitechdaily.com/lost-for-400-years-researcher-discover-hidden-copy-of-shakespeare-sonnet/
Full article by Leah S Veronese is available here:
https://academic.oup.com/res/advance-article/doi/10.1093/res/hgaf002/7997398?login=false
How a reading group helped young German students defy the Nazis and find their faith
By Peter Nguyen
More information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rose
Just won a copy of Livonia Chow Mein, by Abigail Savitch-Lew! Has anyone read it already?
April is School Library Month and this week is National Library Week! Librarians are some of our favorite people. Thank you for the incredible contributions you make to our schools and communities. 💝
It's a great time to watch The Neighborhood Storyteller. This short documentary follows Asmaa Rashed, a young Syrian mother and refugee, as she establishes vibrant reading circles, transforming a humble act into a powerful tool for social change. The film celebrates the importance of reading and sharing stories to find one’s voice.
Our Discussion Guide for this film also connects with "Muzoon: A Syrian Refugee Speaks Out" by Muzoon Al-Mellehanan with Wendy Pearlman, for an exciting film-book teaching combination.
Learn more!
#NationalLibraryWeek #Libraries #Librians #SchoolLibraryMonth #Education #Reading #Homeschooling #Syria #Movies #Documentary #Refugees #Bookstodon #Books
Why Do We Keep Telling the Same Stories? Archetypes in Pop Culture
"Archetypes aren't just storytelling tools—they're reflections of us. We keep retelling them because they help us feel understood."
https://www.thecollector.com/archetypes-pop-culture/
Books by Jung at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/44679
Odysseus und Nausicaa
Found an amazing web site with impressive catalog of poetry and literature in Farsi.
I used to have a very large library when I was in Sweden, and took them with me to US when my company moved me there, but I had to gave them away when I went back to take care of my parents, I only kept a few books of Khayyam and Hafez with me.
Finding this site is like a dream come true. It has search function too and sorting the poets based on the timeline, from 11th century to 21st.
finished reading My Father and Other Animals: How I Took on the Family Farm 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
by Sam Vincent.
After an unsettled life of freelance writing, the author takes on the family farm. A memoir of his father and the land, an ode to regenerative agriculture, and an example of how to connect with Traditional Owners. The author is only two degrees of separation from me, so I found it easy to imagine myself in his shoes, going down a route that appeals but was not available.
#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #Autobiography #Farming #RegenAg
“A Mystery Novel Like No Other Before.” On Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time
Sarah Weinman in Praise of an Innovative and Timeless Work of Detective Fiction
@queerromanceclub #QueerRomanceClub
I just finished In Spite of You by Patrick Lenton
https://www.kobo.com/au/en/ebook/in-spite-of-you-1
I took one look at Mr Sultry Eyes on the cover and thought it was going to be traumatic literary fiction — in actual fact, it’s a perfectly lovely gay contemporary romcom set in Sydney (though the blurb is also not overly accurate, leaning too hard into tropes that aren’t really there).
Hints of Alexis Hall for me, and I appreciated the Australian author and setting. Highly recommended, just wish both cover and blurb positioned it better to find its audience.
