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<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&q=https://reviewdb.app/book/4U0w0xMtfU2FD3x56LaKkB" rel="nofollow">Anne of Windy Willows</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 <br>by LM Montgomery.</p><p>Now a respectable and well-behaved adult (but still with her whimsy), Anne spends three years as school principle away from her one true love Gilbert Blythe, keeping him updated via regular letters on the madcap happenings of her town life. Lots of eccentric widows and hopeless maidens with thorny problems that Anne manages to resolve, either through meddling or accident. Not much plot but an enjoyable array of fancies. Grown-up Anne is a bit too perfect. </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/anneofgreengables/" rel="tag">#AnneOfGreenGables</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>Ooh <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.art/@NickEast_IndieWriter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>NickEast_IndieWriter</span></a></span> 's book is 99p on Kobo. <a href="https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the-last-philsopher-part-one" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the-last-philsopher-part-one"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the-l</span><span class="invisible">ast-philsopher-part-one</span></a> <br>It would be rude not to<br><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a></p>

Screen shot of the kobo app. The book is The Last Philsopher by Nick East. Nothing is Everything #1
The book cover is dark and mysterious with a hooded cloaked figure on a dark red skyline

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<p>Lost copy of seventh-century poem in Old English discovered at Rome library</p><p>Dublin scholars find 1,200-year-old manuscript of Caedmon’s Hymn composed by Northumbrian cattle herder</p><p>by Rory Carroll</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/29/lost-copy-of-seventh-century-poem-old-english-discovered-rome-library-dublin" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/29/lost-copy-of-seventh-century-poem-old-english-discovered-rome-library-dublin"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/books/2026</span><span class="invisible">/apr/29/lost-copy-of-seventh-century-poem-old-english-discovered-rome-library-dublin</span></a></p><p>Caedmon's Hymn by Caedmon as an audio file at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19677" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19677</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a> <a href="/tags/old_manuscripts/" rel="tag">#Old_Manuscripts</a></p>

One of two candidates for the earliest surviving copy of Cædmon's Hymn is found in the Moore Bede (Northumbria, ca. 737)

Manuscript fragment of Cædmon's Hymn in Old English, written in early medieval script. This is the Moore Bede version (c. 737 AD), one of the oldest surviving examples of written Old English poetry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A6dmon%27s_Hymn#/media/File:Caedmon's_Hymn_Moore_mine01.gif

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<p>A Reader’s Guide to Poetry for National Poetry Month</p><p>By The Editors</p><p>Read poems, learn poetic forms, and discover writers in this National Poetry Month roundup.</p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/editors-picks-national-poetry-month/?utm_source=mcae&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jstordaily_04022026" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/editors-picks-national-poetry-month/?utm_source=mcae&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jstordaily_04022026"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/editors-picks-</span><span class="invisible">national-poetry-month/?utm_source=mcae&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jstordaily_04022026</span></a></p><p>Poetry at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/637" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/637"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/books</span><span class="invisible">helf/637</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>

Poetry: A Magazine of Verse.

A small black and white decorative vignette — a quill pen thrust diagonally through a curling scroll or sheet of paper.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/43224/43224-h/43224-h.htm

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<p>Today at the NOAF blog, THE SUBTLE ART OF FOLDING SPACE author <span class="h-card"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@john_chu" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>john_chu</span></a></span> tells <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> the answers to his Six Books questions. </p><p><a href="http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/04/6-books-with-john-chu.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nerds-feather.com/2026/04/6-books-with-john-chu.html"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nerds-feather.com/2026/04/</span><span class="invisible">6-books-with-john-chu.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> @bookstodon</p>

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<p>A Poet of Science Who Shook Faith in God</p><p>Biographer Richard Holmes reveals how Tennyson predated Darwin and speaks to us today</p><p>By Kevin Berger</p><p><a href="https://nautil.us/a-poet-of-science-who-shook-faith-in-god-1279489" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="nautil.us/a-poet-of-science-who-shook-faith-in-god-1279489"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nautil.us/a-poet-of-science-wh</span><span class="invisible">o-shook-faith-in-god-1279489</span></a></p><p>Tennyson at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2987" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2987"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/2987</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>

Portrait of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Samuel Laurence, 1840.

Tennyson is portrayed with abundant dark chestnut hair swept back from a strong, angular face, gazes slightly to his left. The features are sharply defined — a prominent nose, firm jaw, deep-set eyes — and a loose dark coat with white collar.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_Lord_Tennyson_1840.jpg

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> In 1860, George Eliot’s novel The Mill on the Floss is published by John Blackwood in three volumes. </p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/lit-hub-weekly-march-30-april-3-2026/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/lit-hub-weekly-march-30-april-3-2026/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/lit-hub-weekly-marc</span><span class="invisible">h-30-april-3-2026/</span></a></p><p>"The Mill on the Floss" at PG: </p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Mill+on+the+floss" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Mill+on+the+floss"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=Mill+on+the+floss</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Portrait of George Eliot by the Swiss artist Alexandre-Louis-François d'Albert-Durade - picryl.com. She is facing front.

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<p>Ebook omnibus: <a href="https://books2read.com/TheWizardsScion" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/TheWizardsScion</a></p><p>Levi Jacobs always dreamed of being like his father, the greatest wizard in the world, but had no understanding what it would be like. Follow Levi’s journey from bumbling teen to a great hero, while the young wizard learns to master magical powers that are initially completely beyond him and barely under control.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefantasy/" rel="tag">#sciencefantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

The ad flyer for the series The Wizard's Scion.

(Background) View of a planet from space.

(Top Center) A black flying saucer surrounded by this text:
Trolls, boogeymen and witches, oh my!
Just another day for a young wizard.

(Top Left) The cover of Troll Song displays a woman in battered, muddy armor with her two swords crossed against the neck of a dwarf.

(Lower Left) The cover of Forgotten Legends displays a child reading in bed as a black, smoky monster with red eyes peeks out from under the bed.

(Lower Center Left) The cover of The Third Wish displays a wizard on top of a mountain, looking to the sunset, over a city of sky scrapers that have plants growing on them. In his shadow is the red eyed creature from Forgotten Legends.

(Lower Center Right) The cover of Dark Moon displays a witch and wizard fighting back to back, holding pistols, while objects fall around them, with the moon behind their heads.

(Lower Right) The cover of The Inverted Glass displays a line art hourglass with a white figure in black sand at the bottom, with a black figure in white sand upside-down in the top. Balanced on a scale are a heart and a feather.

(Upper Right) The cover of The Wizard's Scion: The Complete Series displays several figures in silhouette representing the main characters, as they traverse a wormhole. Behind them is a red-eyed octopus.

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<p><a href="/tags/speakingoutofplace/" rel="tag">#SpeakingOutOfPlace</a> welcomes <a href="/tags/victorialaw/" rel="tag">#VictoriaLaw</a>, author of "<a href="/tags/corridorsofcontagion/" rel="tag">#CorridorsOfContagion</a>: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of <a href="/tags/incarceration/" rel="tag">#Incarceration</a>." </p><p>Law describes in harrowing detail how state neglect and <a href="/tags/carceralabuse/" rel="tag">#carceralAbuse</a> amplified the ravages of <a href="/tags/covid19/" rel="tag">#Covid19</a> in the US prison system</p><p><a href="https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/18960148-amplifying-the-violence-of-incarceration-victoria-law-on-prisons-during-pandemic" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/18960148-amplifying-the-violence-of-incarceration-victoria-law-on-prisons-during-pandemic"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.</span><span class="invisible">com/2084729/episodes/18960148-amplifying-the-violence-of-incarceration-victoria-law-on-prisons-during-pandemic</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/usprisons/" rel="tag">#USprisons</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/prisons/" rel="tag">#prisons</a> <a href="/tags/prisonindustrialcomplex/" rel="tag">#prisonIndustrialComplex</a> <a href="/tags/socialmurder/" rel="tag">#socialMurder</a> <a href="/tags/covid19usa/" rel="tag">#Covid19USA</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>

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<p>Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is an early exploration of ‘romance fraud’</p><p>Although romance fraud is a 21st-century term, through the character of Havisham, Dickens clearly demonstrated its often-devastating effects.</p><p>by Emma Linford</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/great-expectations-by-charles-dickens-is-an-early-exploration-of-romance-fraud-241820?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2027%202026%20-%203749638391&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2027%202026%20-%203749638391+CID_7fa3584856c204abae960b4c1211e00d&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Great%20Expectations%20by%20Charles%20Dickens%20is%20an%20early%20exploration%20of%20romance%20fraud" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/great-expectations-by-charles-dickens-is-an-early-exploration-of-romance-fraud-241820?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2027%202026%20-%203749638391&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2027%202026%20-%203749638391+CID_7fa3584856c204abae960b4c1211e00d&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Great%20Expectations%20by%20Charles%20Dickens%20is%20an%20early%20exploration%20of%20romance%20fraud"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/great-expe</span><span class="invisible">ctations-by-charles-dickens-is-an-early-exploration-of-romance-fraud-241820?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2027%202026%20-%203749638391&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2027%202026%20-%203749638391+CID_7fa3584856c204abae960b4c1211e00d&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Great%20Expectations%20by%20Charles%20Dickens%20is%20an%20early%20exploration%20of%20romance%20fraud</span></a></p><p>Great Expectations at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1400" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1400</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a></p>

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

Caption: Estella defends herself

A woman in dark dress stands by a fireplace facing an elderly woman in white veil seated in a chair, with a young man nearby. Interior setting with shelved plates visible.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1400/1400-h/images/0295.jpg

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<p>But technically free wifi can mean free books in places where no other free books are available 🤔 <br>It always surprises me how many places there are to read for free online! 😊 </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@reading" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>reading</span></a></span> <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="https://lemmy.world/u/books" rel="nofollow">@books</a> <br> <br><a href="/tags/bookmemes/" rel="tag">#BookMemes</a> <a href="/tags/meme/" rel="tag">#Meme</a> <a href="/tags/memes/" rel="tag">#Memes</a> <br><a href="/tags/readingmemes/" rel="tag">#ReadingMemes</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> <a href="/tags/readers/" rel="tag">#Readers</a> <a href="/tags/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#ReadingCommunity</a><br><a href="/tags/litterature/" rel="tag">#Litterature</a> <a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#Novel</a> <a href="/tags/novels/" rel="tag">#Novels</a> <a href="/tags/bookshelf/" rel="tag">#Bookshelf</a> <br><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/fantasybooks/" rel="tag">#FantasyBooks</a></p>

Drawing of two doors one packed with people and the other empty.
Empty door: Free Books
Full door: Free Wifi

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<p>“Without <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a> what have we? We have no past and no future.”<br>-Ray Bradbury</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/writers/" rel="tag">#writers</a> <a href="/tags/raybradbury/" rel="tag">#RayBradbury</a> <a href="/tags/quotes/" rel="tag">#quotes</a> <a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#quote</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/booksky/" rel="tag">#booksky</a> <a href="/tags/booktok/" rel="tag">#BookTok</a> <a href="/tags/booklovers/" rel="tag">#booklovers</a> <a href="/tags/bradbury/" rel="tag">#Bradbury</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>This week, I completed Piranesi. I could have been a fan but this style of storytelling just wasn't my cup of tea. Accept my apologies if you're a fan of this book. Then again, perhaps I was biased, having moved to this right after finishing The Blacktongue Thief.</p><p>I know each book is different and its author has a vastly different, unique and creative liberty to present their world. And for that, I commend Susanna Clarke. She has done a remarkable job in that aspect. It is not that I didn't enjoy the book for it is admittedly a short read. And there were moments where the writing really shines, perhaps most for me, was the ending quarter of the book when the protagonist finally comes home after the police rescue him. The most vivid parts of the book lie towards the climax, both in imagery and then in contemplation. When the protagonist considers himself different from both the Piranesi persona the 'other' gave him and from Matthew Rose Sorensen - the man he was before he walked in the 'house'. That ending, where he navigates the world a changed man, is perhaps the book's strongest and shortest part. </p><p>However, the journal style, the overtly detailed descriptions of statues, halls and pathways and lengthy, often repetitive tropes were not something I really had fun going through, felt more like a chore to finish this one and books should never feel that way. It's all subjective after all. </p><p>The Midnight Library is next on my list.</p><p>If you have recommendations, please feel free to message me 😊✨</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/blacktonguethief/" rel="tag">#blacktonguethief</a> <a href="/tags/midnightlibrary/" rel="tag">#midnightlibrary</a></p>

image credit: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (Mary Martin Bookshop)

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1667, John Milton sells the copyright to Paradise Lost for only 10 pounds. </p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-april-27-2026/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-april-27-2026/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-april</span><span class="invisible">-27-2026/</span></a></p><p>Works of John Milton at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/17" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/17"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/17</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>

"Hall portrait" of John Milton. The work is attributed to either Mary Beale or Peter Lely. He wearing a dark doublet with a prominent white lace collar. His hair is long and wavy.

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<p>Why the Temple of Artemis Was the Greatest Wonder of the World</p><p>The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus was so magnificent that it was considered one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.</p><p>by Kieren Johns</p><p><a href="https://www.thecollector.com/ephesus-temple-of-artemis/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/ephesus-temple-of-artemis/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thecollector.com/ephesus-t</span><span class="invisible">emple-of-artemis/</span></a></p><p>Temple of Artemis at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=temple+of+artemis" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=temple+of+artemis"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=temple+of+artemis</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>

From the 1572 Octo Mundi Miracula, the earliest known representation of the temple in modern times. The engraving was by Martin Heemskerck.

The temple of Artemis is represented by a colonnaded façade richly decorated with relief sculpture, statues in niches, a pediment with figural groups, and a long stepped platform.

Workers, architects and figures labour in the foreground: cutting stone, rolling columns, consulting plans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Artemis#/media/File:Philips_Galle,_Dianatemplet_i_Efesos,_1572,_KKSgb10001-5,_Statens_Museum_for_Kunst_(cropped).jpg

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<p>I read this in a *lot* shorter time than I thought I would. When I was younger I remember the book being, bigger? Perhaps? <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2397" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2397</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/memoir/" rel="tag">#Memoir</a></p>

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<p>How often do you use the interlibrary loan system for library books? Nearly every book I read has to come from another library. Luckily, we have a statewide network. Multiple choice poll</p><p><a href="/tags/library/" rel="tag">#Library</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> <div class="poll"> <h3 style="display: none;">Options: </h3> <ul> <li> <label class="poll-option"> <input style="display:none" name="vote-options" type="checkbox" value="0"> <span class="poll-number" title="1 votes">10%</span> <span class="poll-option-text">All the time</span> </label> </li> <li> <label class="poll-option"> <input style="display:none" name="vote-options" type="checkbox" value="0"> <span class="poll-number" title="2 votes">20%</span> <span class="poll-option-text">Frequently</span> </label> </li> <li> <label class="poll-option"> <input style="display:none" name="vote-options" type="checkbox" value="0"> <span class="poll-number" title="4 votes">40%</span> <span class="poll-option-text">Occasionally</span> </label> </li> <li> <label class="poll-option"> <input style="display:none" name="vote-options" type="checkbox" value="0"> <span class="poll-number" title="1 votes">10%</span> <span class="poll-option-text">Rarely</span> </label> </li> <li> <label class="poll-option"> <input style="display:none" name="vote-options" type="checkbox" value="0"> <span class="poll-number" title="0 votes">0%</span> <span class="poll-option-text">Never</span> </label> </li> <li> <label class="poll-option"> <input style="display:none" name="vote-options" type="checkbox" value="0"> <span class="poll-number" title="0 votes">0%</span> <span class="poll-option-text">Not available</span> </label> </li> <li> <label class="poll-option"> <input style="display:none" name="vote-options" type="checkbox" value="0"> <span class="poll-number" title="0 votes">0%</span> <span class="poll-option-text">Don't use library</span> </label> </li> <li> <label class="poll-option"> <input style="display:none" name="vote-options" type="checkbox" value="0"> <span class="poll-number" title="2 votes">20%</span> <span class="poll-option-text">Only read e-books</span> </label> </li> <li> <label class="poll-option"> <input style="display:none" name="vote-options" type="checkbox" value="0"> <span class="poll-number" title="0 votes">0%</span> <span class="poll-option-text">Don't care for reading</span> </label> </li> </ul> <div class="poll-footer"> <span class="vote-total">10 votes</span> — <span class="vote-end">Ended 51d ago</span> <span class="todo">Polls are currently display only</span> </div> </div>

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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? April 28

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<p>This week's <a href="/tags/newbooks/" rel="tag">#NewBooks</a> at the library: Two more books bought in my employer's January clearance sale. Drew Harvell's Ocean Outbreak: Confronting the Rising Tide of Marine Disease from the University of California Press, and Benjamin von Brackel's Nowhere Left to Go: How Climate Change Is Driving Species to the Ends of the Earth from The Experiment.</p><p>In the middle is another of Jack Yeovil's Dark Future novels, Route 666, that I bought off eBay after listening to Jordan Sorcery discussing it. I put your theory to the test, Jordan, but it seems your podcast did not drive the price up, as I was the sole bidder and paid a tenner for this.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/scicomm/" rel="tag">#Scicomm</a> <a href="/tags/marinebiology/" rel="tag">#MarineBiology</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/warhammer/" rel="tag">#Warhammer</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>

A photo of three books standing on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books and part of the beech-coloured laminate floor.

On the left, standing up, Ocean Outbreak, showing a hardback with a colour photo of a diseased red starfish lying on coastal rocks. In the background, you can see the surf breaking on the rocks against a clear blue sky.

In the middle, lying down, Route 666, showing a small red paperback with a colour illustration of a woman with short-cropped blonde hair in a blue jumpsuit with a yellow shawl around her neck. She is holding a shotgun in her right hand and is cradling a helmet in her right hand. A convoy of trucks can be seen behind her, while a gunslinger with a wide-brimmed black hat can be seen behind her right shoulder. She is looking directly at the viewer. Her picture is framed by a concrete-grey gothic frame studded with skulls, eagles, and bolts.

On the right, standing up, Nowhere Left to Go, showing a yellow hardback with a graphic of half a wireframe globe with a range of animal illustrations in different colours drawn along the globe's periphery.

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<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/JigsawCity" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/JigsawCity</a></p><p>Nicole’s brain is slowly being taken over by an ancient, magical artifact, a small fragment of a magic city. She seeks a cure, before the city can destroy her sanity and then eventually, take her life by replacing her mind. Racing against time, she gathers pieces of the city, hoping to find an answer among them.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefantasy/" rel="tag">#sciencefantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

(Left) The cover of Jigsaw City, by Owen Tyme.

The background is a futuristic city of sky scrapers covered in greenery, with water ways in place of some streets. The background has been divided by dark lines that cut it up, into a jigsaw puzzle.

The foreground is a hexagonal coin with an indentation in the center that follows the same shape, with raised lines forming a hexagram in the center, which has a smaller one turned at a ninety-degree angle inside the hexagon at the center of it. The smaller hexagram has another inside it, a pattern that repeats until the lines become so fine and indistinct, they blend together.

(Right) There's a pool of lava at the base of a rocky slope, with some sharp rocks sticking upward out of it and the following text over the top:

“I’m immune to heat and fire. I can easily carry and protect one of you…”

“Ye’d need to deliver an army to make a difference, not one person!”

“I *am* an army.”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/JigsawCity

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<p>Book Review: This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me<br>Ilona Andrews expands their fantasy and romance talents into the burgeoning realm of isekai in English<br><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> has our review at the NOAF blog:</p><p><a href="http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/06/book-review-this-kingdom-will-not-kill.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nerds-feather.com/2026/06/book-review-this-kingdom-will-not-kill.html"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nerds-feather.com/2026/06/</span><span class="invisible">book-review-this-kingdom-will-not-kill.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/isekai/" rel="tag">#isekai</a> <a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#review</a> @bookstodon</p>

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<p>The <a href="/tags/kobo/" rel="tag">#Kobo</a> US & Canada Spring Sale runs from 1-30 April.</p><p>My latest book, Grace & Favour, a friends-to-lovers m/m romance set at haunted Hampton Court Palace in the early Victorian era, will be featured…</p><p>…but ALL my books are on sale for the whole month (including for Australia but nowhere else, sorry).</p><p><a href="https://www.kobo.com/au/en/search?query=wendy+palmer&ac=1&acp=wendy+palmer&ac.author=wendy+palmer" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.kobo.com/au/en/search?query=wendy+palmer&ac=1&acp=wendy+palmer&ac.author=wendy+palmer"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.kobo.com/au/en/search?quer</span><span class="invisible">y=wendy+palmer&ac=1&acp=wendy+palmer&ac.author=wendy+palmer</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/koboplus/" rel="tag">#koboPlus</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/booksale/" rel="tag">#bookSale</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a></p>

Purely decorative 3x3 grid of my book covers.

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<p>Where love rules, there is no will to power; <br>And where power predominates, love is lacking. <br>The one is the shadow of the other.<br>Carl Jung</p><p><a href="/tags/quotes/" rel="tag">#quotes</a> <a href="/tags/carljung/" rel="tag">#CarlJung</a> <a href="/tags/power/" rel="tag">#power</a> <a href="/tags/love/" rel="tag">#love</a> <a href="/tags/psyche/" rel="tag">#psyche</a> <a href="/tags/psychology/" rel="tag">#psychology</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#quote</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</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> <a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#readingcommunity</a> <a href="/tags/booksky/" rel="tag">#booksky</a> <a href="/tags/readers/" rel="tag">#readers</a> <a href="/tags/booklover/" rel="tag">#booklover</a> <a href="/tags/booklovers/" rel="tag">#booklovers</a> <a href="/tags/bookstagram/" rel="tag">#bookstagram</a> <a href="/tags/writers/" rel="tag">#writers</a> <a href="/tags/booktok/" rel="tag">#booktok</a> <a href="/tags/bookwyrm/" rel="tag">#bookwyrm</a> <a href="/tags/booktwt/" rel="tag">#booktwt</a></p>

Carl Jung

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<p>The Testaments. By Margaret Atwood.</p><p>You are a teen girl, living in Canada after the Christo-fascist takeover of the US, when you learn that your true identity is that of a famously “abducted” US baby; and so you are thrust into a role you never asked for, and have to understand anew what ‘family’ means.</p><p>3 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈.<br>Note: sequel to The Handmaids Tale</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> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/women/" rel="tag">#women</a> <a href="/tags/sexism/" rel="tag">#sexism</a> <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#fascism</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/handmaidstale/" rel="tag">#handmaidstale</a></p>

Book cover featuring a green and white illustration of a woman in a cowl

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<p>Winners of the 2025 Baifang Schell Book Prize for the best books about China or the Sinophone World</p><p>Fiction: The Running Flame: A Novel by Fang Fang<br>Non-fiction: Daughters of the Bamboo Grove by Barbara Demick </p><p><a href="https://chinabooksreview.com/2026/04/23/2025-winners/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="chinabooksreview.com/2026/04/23/2025-winners/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">chinabooksreview.com/2026/04/2</span><span class="invisible">3/2025-winners/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/china/" rel="tag">#China</a></p>

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