Why it pays to be bored
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<p>Is <a href="/tags/thephantomtollbooth/" rel="tag">#ThePhantomTollbooth</a> good? I've never read it. At least I don't think I have. Is it a fun read? <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/kidslit/" rel="tag">#KidsLit</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#SciFi</a>?</p>
<p>‘The Tibetan Book of the Dead’ is actually not just about death</p><p>The Tibetan Book of the Dead,” arguably is the most well-known Tibetan Buddhist text outside Tibet.</p><p>by Jue Liang</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/the-tibetan-book-of-the-dead-is-actually-not-just-about-death-247174" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/the-tibetan-book-of-the-dead-is-actually-not-just-about-death-247174"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/the-tibeta</span><span class="invisible">n-book-of-the-dead-is-actually-not-just-about-death-247174</span></a></p><p>Buddhist literature at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/37455" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/37455"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">ct/37455</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/buddhism/" rel="tag">#buddhism</a></p>
<p>Charles Darwin Drawings and Doodles</p><p>At some point the Darwin children found their father's masterpiece, On the Origin of Species and drew all over it.</p><p>by Sheldon D.</p><p><a href="https://flashbak.com/charles-darwin-drawings-and-doodles-481760/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=charles-darwin-drawings-and-doodles" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="flashbak.com/charles-darwin-drawings-and-doodles-481760/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=charles-darwin-drawings-and-doodles"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">flashbak.com/charles-darwin-dr</span><span class="invisible">awings-and-doodles-481760/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=charles-darwin-drawings-and-doodles</span></a></p><p>Illustrations in Darwin Online:<br><a href="https://darwin-online.org.uk/graphics/illustrations.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="darwin-online.org.uk/graphics/illustrations.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">darwin-online.org.uk/graphics/</span><span class="invisible">illustrations.html</span></a></p><p>Darwin Correspondence Project at University of Cambridge:<br><a href="https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letters/diagrams-and-drawings-letters" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letters/diagrams-and-drawings-letters"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter</span><span class="invisible">s/diagrams-and-drawings-letters</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookillustration/" rel="tag">#bookillustration</a></p>
<p>The Dante Map: Mary Hensman’s Masterpiece</p><p>Posted by: Cynthia Smith</p><p>"In celebration of Women’s History Month, I am featuring the map below. It was designed by the 19th century scholar and mapmaker Mary Hensman. The map is a detailed guide to the places that the Italian poet Dante Alighieri visited as well as the locations mentioned in his literary works."</p><p><a href="https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2026/03/the-dante-map-mary-hensmans-masterpiece/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blogs.loc.gov/maps/2026/03/the-dante-map-mary-hensmans-masterpiece/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blogs.loc.gov/maps/2026/03/the</span><span class="invisible">-dante-map-mary-hensmans-masterpiece/</span></a></p><p>Books by Dante at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Dante+Alighieri" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Dante+Alighieri"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=Dante+Alighieri</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/cartography/" rel="tag">#cartography</a> <a href="/tags/womenshistorymonth/" rel="tag">#womenshistorymonth</a></p>
Bookworms rejoice: Kobo to get StoryGraph integration in June
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<p><a href="/tags/naomiklein/" rel="tag">#NaomiKlein</a> on <a href="/tags/trumpism/" rel="tag">#Trumpism</a> and Our Age of ‘Unlikely Bedfellows’ </p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-naomi-klein.html?unlocked_article_code=1.VFA.F2f6.2-NayTObdyEi&smid=url-share" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-naomi-klein.html?unlocked_article_code=1.VFA.F2f6.2-NayTObdyEi&smid=url-share"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/opi</span><span class="invisible">nion/ezra-klein-podcast-naomi-klein.html?unlocked_article_code=1.VFA.F2f6.2-NayTObdyEi&smid=url-share</span></a><br><a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USpolitics</a> <a href="/tags/farright/" rel="tag">#farRight</a> <a href="/tags/altright/" rel="tag">#altRight</a> <a href="/tags/conspiracism/" rel="tag">#conspiracism</a> <a href="/tags/doppelgänger/" rel="tag">#Doppelgänger</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</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>Happy π Day! And Albert Einstein was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> 147 years ago!</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi</a></p><p>Isaac Newton used infinite series to compute π to 15 digits, later writing "I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these computations".</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi#cite_note-Newton-60" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi#cite_note-Newton-60"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi#cite_</span><span class="invisible">note-Newton-60</span></a></p><p>"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."</p><p>Einstein at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1630" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1630"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1630</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/mathematicsday/" rel="tag">#mathematicsDay</a></p>
<p>“The more time you spend here in the Highlands, the more you recognise and realise and come to feel yourself part of the different layers of the land [… people] see it as wild and untameable, when in actual fact it is very much a human landscape”</p><p>—Annie Worsley recommends her best five books on the Scottish Highlands</p><p><a href="https://fivebooks.com/best-books/scottish-highlands-annie-worsley/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="fivebooks.com/best-books/scottish-highlands-annie-worsley/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fivebooks.com/best-books/scott</span><span class="invisible">ish-highlands-annie-worsley/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/naturewriting/" rel="tag">#naturewriting</a> <a href="/tags/memoir/" rel="tag">#memoir</a> <a href="/tags/nanshepherd/" rel="tag">#NanShepherd</a> <a href="/tags/normanmaccaig/" rel="tag">#NormanMacCaig</a> <a href="/tags/highlands/" rel="tag">#Highlands</a> <a href="/tags/scottishhighlands/" rel="tag">#ScottishHighlands</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1869 writer Algernon Blackwood was born. He "was an English broadcasting narrator, journalist, novelist and short story writer, and among the most prolific ghost story writers in the history of the genre."</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algernon_Blackwood" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algernon_Blackwood"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algernon</span><span class="invisible">_Blackwood</span></a></p><p>Books by Blackwood at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1370" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1370"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1370</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>This week's <a href="/tags/newbooks/" rel="tag">#NewBooks</a> at the library: three more books from my employer's January sale<br>- The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush: Museums and Paleontology in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Paul D. Brinkman from the University of Chicago Press;<br>- Shaping Humanity: How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins, a wonderfully illustrated book by John Gurche from Yale University Press;<br>- Rethinking Human Evolution edited by Jeffrey H. Schwartz, a volume in the Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology from <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.mit.edu/@themitpress" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>themitpress</span></a></span>.</p><p><a href="/tags/fossils/" rel="tag">#Fossils</a> <a href="/tags/paleontology/" rel="tag">#Paleontology</a> <a href="/tags/palaeontology/" rel="tag">#Palaeontology</a> <a href="/tags/dinosaurs/" rel="tag">#Dinosaurs</a> <a href="/tags/historyofscience/" rel="tag">#HistoryOfScience</a> <a href="/tags/sciencehistory/" rel="tag">#ScienceHistory</a> <a href="/tags/histsci/" rel="tag">#HistSci</a> <a href="/tags/anthropology/" rel="tag">#Anthropology</a> <a href="/tags/humanevolution/" rel="tag">#HumanEvolution</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/scicomm/" rel="tag">#Scicomm</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</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>le ultime copie rimanenti di Benedetto il falegname ora sono disponibili anche nel negozietto di aleguora su vinted! <a href="https://www.vinted.it/member/3139748423" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.vinted.it/member/3139748423"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.vinted.it/member/313974842</span><span class="invisible">3</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/libri/" rel="tag">#libri</a> <a href="/tags/livros/" rel="tag">#livros</a> <a href="/tags/libros/" rel="tag">#libros</a> <a href="/tags/vinted/" rel="tag">#vinted</a></p>
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<p>📚 The Last Contract of Isako by: Fonda Lee</p><p>Isako is a legendary swordswoman, but every legend must come to an end. When her long-time client unexpectedly retires, she plans to follow—to walk out into the frozen wasteland of their planet with her head held high and her family enriched by her dea...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-last-contract-of-isako" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-last-contract-of-isako"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-last-c</span><span class="invisible">ontract-of-isako</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/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/cyberpunkfiction/" rel="tag">#cyberpunkfiction</a> <a href="/tags/dystopianfiction/" rel="tag">#dystopianfiction</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a></p>
<p>I made an audiobook trailer! My second one ever. And I am so, so tired. 😅</p><p>Speak of the Devil’s audiobook releases in ten days! In celebration, the first two ebooks in the series are going to be on a deep discount just about everywhere. So, if you’ve been considering getting any of my ebooks, HANG TIGHT! The big sale is in five days. </p><p>On the first of May:<br>🩵 Godhunter will be $0.99.<br>🧡 Speak of the Devil will be $2.99. </p><p><a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/amreading/" rel="tag">#AmReading</a> <a href="/tags/romance/" rel="tag">#romance</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> @bookstodon</p>
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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>
Haruki Murakami has a new novel coming out—and for the first time, it features a female main character
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<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&q=https://reviewdb.app/book/7DHaQ7SHstVFF2Ul0Q3I6s" rel="nofollow">Enter the Aardvark</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 <br>by Jessica Anthony.</p><p>Two parallel stories connected across time by, of all things, a taxidermied aardvark. The ""Not Gay"" congressman is amusing in his superficiality and Reagan-esque pretensions. The Victorian-era taxidermist (also ""not gay"") is boring & obsessive. Quirky & original, and enjoyable enough.</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>
My people are on the streets again in Indonesia. Everywhere the state decides certain people's survival is not a priority, the same infrastructure gap opens. The only thing that fills it is people deciding to fill it for each other. The full list is at the link. Some requests are urgent, some are overdue, and all of them need movement. Show up however possible, financially or by amplifying so someone who can give financially finds the request. Both matter.
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<p>Characters Who Share My First Name: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-characters-who-share-my-first-name/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-characters-who-share-my-first-name/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesda</span><span class="invisible">y-characters-who-share-my-first-name/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/toptentuesday/" rel="tag">#TopTenTuesday</a> <a href="/tags/name/" rel="tag">#Name</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>
<p>What happens in the brain when we read <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a>? </p><p>In an fMRI study, <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> a <a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#novel</a> was associated with measurable changes in resting-state brain connectivity, with some effects persisting for several days. </p><p>A good <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> does not just pass through us — for a while, it may actually change how the <a href="/tags/brain/" rel="tag">#brain</a> is functioning. </p><p>Source: Short- and long-term effects of a novel on connectivity in the brain.</p><p><a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</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/booksky/" rel="tag">#booksky</a> <a href="/tags/bookstagram/" rel="tag">#bookstagram</a> <a href="/tags/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#readingcommunity</a></p>
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<p>New review! As this handsomely illustrated book shows, the evolutionary history of mammals in Africa is far more interesting than you would think at first blush.</p><p><a href="https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2026/05/26/book-review-the-rise-of-mammals-in-africa/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="inquisitivebiologist.com/2026/05/26/book-review-the-rise-of-mammals-in-africa/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquisitivebiologist.com/2026/</span><span class="invisible">05/26/book-review-the-rise-of-mammals-in-africa/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/evolution/" rel="tag">#Evolution</a> <a href="/tags/paleontology/" rel="tag">#Paleontology</a> <a href="/tags/palaeontology/" rel="tag">#Palaeontology</a> <a href="/tags/fossils/" rel="tag">#Fossils</a> <a href="/tags/mammals/" rel="tag">#Mammals</a> <a href="/tags/biogeography/" rel="tag">#Biogeography</a> <a href="/tags/scicomm/" rel="tag">#Scicomm</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>Why ‘little red dots’ pose a big mystery about the Universe</p><p>by Jenny Greene</p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/why-little-red-dots-pose-a-big-mystery-about-the-universe?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=0315165529-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_04_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="aeon.co/essays/why-little-red-dots-pose-a-big-mystery-about-the-universe?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=0315165529-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_04_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/essays/why-little-red-</span><span class="invisible">dots-pose-a-big-mystery-about-the-universe?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=0315165529-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_04_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972</span></a></p><p>Original paper here:<br><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07320" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>arxiv.org/abs/2306.07320</a></p><p>Astronomy at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/101" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/101"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/books</span><span class="invisible">helf/101</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#astronomy</a></p>
<p>Are Shakespeare’s Commas Really That Important?</p><p>Daniel Hahn on Different Translations of Shakespeare</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/are-shakespeares-commas-really-that-important/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/are-shakespeares-commas-really-that-important/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/are-shakespeares-co</span><span class="invisible">mmas-really-that-important/</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/literarycriticism/" rel="tag">#literarycriticism</a></p>
<p>📚 Strange Buildings by: Uketsu</p><p>A lonely hut in the woods.<br>A murder house.<br>A hidden chamber.<br>A mysterious shrine.<br>A home in flames.<br>A nightmarish prison.</p><p>After receiving multiple tips from his devoted readership, a writer fascinated by the occult put together eleven case files, each featuring its very own strange building...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/strange-buildings" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/strange-buildings"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/strange-bu</span><span class="invisible">ildings</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/mysterydetective/" rel="tag">#mysterydetective</a> <a href="/tags/thrillers/" rel="tag">#thrillers</a> <a href="/tags/domesticfiction/" rel="tag">#domesticfiction</a> <a href="/tags/cozy/" rel="tag">#cozy</a></p>
<p>Today at the blog, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@Princejvstin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Princejvstin</span></a></span> asks <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/@RJBarker" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>RJBarker</span></a></span> author of the forthcoming Mortedant’s Peril, about his Six Books</p><p><a href="http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/04/6-books-with-rj-barker.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nerds-feather.com/2026/04/6-books-with-rj-barker.html"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nerds-feather.com/2026/04/</span><span class="invisible">6-books-with-rj-barker.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> @bookstodon</p>