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<p>📚 Outrage: Why the Fight for LGBTQ+ Equality Is Not Yet Won and What We Can Do About It by: Ellen Jones</p><p>An eye-opening and essential look at the discrimination still faced by LGBTQIA+ people today, woven throughout with moving and jaw-dropping personal accounts, plus practical steps anyone can take to help change things...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/Outrage-why-the-fight-for-LGBT" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/Outrage-why-the-fight-for-LGBT"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/Outrage-wh</span><span class="invisible">y-the-fight-for-LGBT</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/nonfiction/" rel="tag">#nonfiction</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtq/" rel="tag">#lgbtq</a> <a href="/tags/socialscience/" rel="tag">#socialscience</a> <a href="/tags/discrimination/" rel="tag">#discrimination</a></p>

Jane Birkin and the Art of Authenticity

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1836 (dated April)</p><p>The first monthly part of The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens is issued in London. On April 20, the original illustrator, Robert Seymour, shoots himself and Dickens has more freedom to develop the story in his own way.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pickwick_Papers" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pickwick_Papers"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pick</span><span class="invisible">wick_Papers</span></a></p><p>The Pickwick Papers at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=The+Pickwick+Papers&amp;submit_search=Search" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=The+Pickwick+Papers&amp;submit_search=Search"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=The+Pickwick+Papers&amp;submit_search=Search</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Chess Story. By Stefan Zweig, translated by Joel Roteberg.</p><p>The world chess champion, a man of low birth and somehow no imagination, is on a long voyage with you, and you finagle a game pitting him against a dozen random players, one of whom turns out to be an anonymous man of astounding chess abilities that were acquired through horrific circumstances.</p><p>3 of 5 library cats ♟️ ♟️ ♟️.</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/chess/" rel="tag">#chess</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/wwii/" rel="tag">#WWII</a></p>

<p>George Orwell called for a new way of thinking about science</p><p>In October 1945, George Orwell responded to a letter from Mr J. Stewart Cook in the leftwing weekly newspaper Tribune calling for more science education.</p><p>By Robert Colls</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/george-orwell-called-for-a-new-way-of-thinking-about-science-274447" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/george-orwell-called-for-a-new-way-of-thinking-about-science-274447"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/george-orw</span><span class="invisible">ell-called-for-a-new-way-of-thinking-about-science-274447</span></a></p><p>Science education at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=science+%2Beducation" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=science+%2Beducation"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=science+%2Beducation</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#education</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a></p>

<p>📚 Otherworldly by: Dwain Worrell</p><p>Cleo Xavier is a renowned astronaut and explorer, not an addict. At least, that&#x27;s what she tells herself. She&#x27;s always been able to navigate the isolation and loneliness that come with space exploration, which makes her a perfect candidate to join four other astronauts on a mission to Orbis Alius, the farthest planet in the ...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/otherworldly" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/otherworldly"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/otherworld</span><span class="invisible">ly</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/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/aliencontact/" rel="tag">#aliencontact</a></p>

<p>Strip the DRM from your Kindle books, simple effective, free, online <a href="https://dedrm.com/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>dedrm.com/</a></p><p><a href="/tags/kindle/" rel="tag">#Kindle</a> <a href="/tags/amazon/" rel="tag">#Amazon</a> <a href="/tags/drm/" rel="tag">#DRM</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

<p>Literary Genius: Who Was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?</p><p>Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is the most influential German literary figure in history. Learn more about his life, science, and philosophy.</p><p>By Maysara Kamal</p><p><a href="https://www.thecollector.com/literary-genius-who-was-johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/literary-genius-who-was-johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thecollector.com/literary-</span><span class="invisible">genius-who-was-johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/</span></a></p><p>Books by Goethe at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/586" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/586"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/586</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1862.</p><p>The first two volumes of Victor Hugo&#x27;s epic historical novel Les Misérables appear in Brussels, followed on April 3 by Paris publication, with the remaining volumes on May 15. The first English-language translations, by Charles Edwin Wilbour, are published in New York on June 7, and by Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall, in London in October.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%</span><span class="invisible">C3%A9rables</span></a></p><p>Les Misérables at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Les+Mis%C3%A9rables&amp;submit_search=Search" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Les+Mis%C3%A9rables&amp;submit_search=Search"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=Les+Mis%C3%A9rables&amp;submit_search=Search</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>📚 The Faith of Beasts by: James S. A. Corey</p><p>Release date April 14, 2026.<br> <br>The monstrous Carryx empire was built by subjugation and war. Thousands of species are bound to their Sovran&#x27;s command in an endless, blood-soaked test: be useful in the eternal conflict or be slaughtered.<br> <br>Dafyd Alkhor, highest among their human captives, is feare...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-faith-of-beasts" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-faith-of-beasts"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-faith-</span><span class="invisible">of-beasts</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/aliencontact/" rel="tag">#aliencontact</a></p>

Software Design for Flexibility : How to Avoid Programming Yourself Into a Corner - Anna’s Archive

<p>Time Interpolated</p><p>A companion essay to our partner podcast Proust Curious, hosted by Emma Claussen and Hannah Weaver.</p><p>via @lithub</p><p><a href="https://www.publicbooks.org/time-interpolated/?utm_source=Klaviyo&amp;utm_medium=campaign&amp;utm_id=01JZ8JEHVTREMXDDYHMPZ4W5ZA&amp;_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.publicbooks.org/time-interpolated/?utm_source=Klaviyo&amp;utm_medium=campaign&amp;utm_id=01JZ8JEHVTREMXDDYHMPZ4W5ZA&amp;_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.publicbooks.org/time-inter</span><span class="invisible">polated/?utm_source=Klaviyo&amp;utm_medium=campaign&amp;utm_id=01JZ8JEHVTREMXDDYHMPZ4W5ZA&amp;_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER</span></a></p><p>In Search of Lost Time at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=In+Search+of+Lost+Time" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=In+Search+of+Lost+Time"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=In+Search+of+Lost+Time</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a></p>

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - book of my choice for cross Atlantic trip

<p>A Journey Through Dante’s Inferno: A Brief Guide</p><p>by Thom Delapa</p><p>Dante’s Inferno is hailed as a medieval masterpiece and a precursor to the Renaissance, with T.S. Eliot having ranked it alongside Shakespeare.</p><p><a href="https://www.thecollector.com/journey-through-dante-inferno/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/journey-through-dante-inferno/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thecollector.com/journey-t</span><span class="invisible">hrough-dante-inferno/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/medieval/" rel="tag">#medieval</a></p>

<p>📚 Keeper of Lost Children by: Sadeqa Johnson</p><p>Ethel Gathers, the proud wife of an American Officer, is living in Occupied Germany in the 1950s. After discovering a local orphanage filled with the abandoned mixed-race children of German women and Black American GI’s, Ethel feels compelled to help find these children homes.</p><p>P...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/keeper-of-lost-children" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/keeper-of-lost-children"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/keeper-of-</span><span class="invisible">lost-children</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/historical/" rel="tag">#historical</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/womenfiction/" rel="tag">#womenfiction</a></p>

<p>📚 No Fixed Address by: Susin Nielsen</p><p>Twelve-and-three-quarter-year-old Felix Knutsson has a knack for trivia. His favorite game show is Who What Where When; he even named his gerbil after the host. Felix&#x27;s mom, Astrid, is loving but can&#x27;t seem to hold on to a job. So when they get evicted from their latest shabby apartment, they hav...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/no-fixed-address" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/no-fixed-address"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/no-fixed-a</span><span class="invisible">ddress</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/juvenilefiction/" rel="tag">#juvenilefiction</a> <a href="/tags/family/" rel="tag">#family</a> <a href="/tags/socialthemes/" rel="tag">#socialthemes</a> <a href="/tags/friendship/" rel="tag">#friendship</a></p>

<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&amp;q=https://reviewdb.app/book/7VSl63niVQI6M0jij8boyb" rel="nofollow">Record of a Spaceborn Few</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 <br>Centuries after sending colonies into space as insurance against Earth&#x27;s collapse, humans have integrated into alien civilisation. But now what purpose do those colonies serve, and what happens to their distinctive communal culture? Good premise &amp; great world-building but not much plot, with a few too many characters.</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/scifi/" rel="tag">#SciFi</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#SFF</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://aus.social/@wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>WildWoila</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://wyrms.de/user/wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>wildwoila@wyrms.de</span></a></span><br></p>

<p>My <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#bookreview</a> is brief/won&#x27;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>The family trauma that pervades THE DAY OF THE DOOR is horrifying, but coupled w the intensely creepy events that occur, this story encapsulates HORROR in a masterful, terrifying way. Laurel Hightower has written a beautiful, dark story about the Things that haunt our hearts. (Thunderstorm Bks &amp; Ghoulish Pub)</p><p><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>

<p>&quot;People are deeply imbedded in philosophical, i.e., grammatical confusions. And to free them presupposes pulling them out of the immensely manifold connections they are caught up in.&quot; </p><p>~Ludwig Wittgenstein (26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951)</p><p>Ludwig Wittgenstein at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1861" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1861"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1861</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/philosophy/" rel="tag">#philosophy</a></p>

Blaze it. Happy 420 c/books

<p>The Medieval Manuscript That Features “Yoda”, Killer Snails, Savage Rabbits &amp; More: Discover The Smithfield Decretals</p><p><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2025/04/the-medieval-manuscript-that-features-yoda-killer-snails-mischievous-devils.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.openculture.com/2025/04/the-medieval-manuscript-that-features-yoda-killer-snails-mischievous-devils.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.openculture.com/2025/04/th</span><span class="invisible">e-medieval-manuscript-that-features-yoda-killer-snails-mischievous-devils.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

<p>I&#x27;ve just finished Michiko Aoyama&#x27;s &quot;What You Are Looking for Is in the Library&quot; and quite enjoyed its series of vignettes about various people&#x27;s insights following their fateful visits to the local library. Definitely a cozy read. Though now that I&#x27;ve seen the title of the French translation (La bibliothèque des rêves secrets) I cannot help but wonder what the original Japanese title was.</p><p><a href="/tags/cozyreads/" rel="tag">#cozyreads</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</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>📚 This House Will Feed by: Maria Tureaud</p><p>County Clare, 1848: In the scant few years since the potato blight first cast its foul shadow over Ireland, Maggie O&#x27;Shaughnessy has lost everything—her entire family and the man she trusted with her heart. Toiling in the Ennis Workhouse for paltry rations, she can see no futur...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/this-house-will-feed" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/this-house-will-feed"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/this-house</span><span class="invisible">-will-feed</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/gothicfiction/" rel="tag">#gothicfiction</a> <a href="/tags/historical/" rel="tag">#historical</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/horror/" rel="tag">#horror</a></p>

<p>It occurs to me that I haven&#x27;t been talking up the audiobooks I&#x27;ve narrated in a while. Other more urgent projects are at the front of the queue at the moment and there are only so many hours in the day.</p><p>But! That said, if you ever have questions about the books I&#x27;ve narrated or you&#x27;d like a free review copy (I always need reviewers), ask away!</p><p>Also, if you&#x27;re curious about my voice, there are free samples of all the books in their store listings, too.</p><p><a href="https://adaraastin.ck.page/87de3a4c9f" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>adaraastin.ck.page/87de3a4c9f</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@audiofiction" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>audiofiction</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></p><p><a href="/tags/audiobook/" rel="tag">#Audiobook</a> <a href="/tags/audiobooks/" rel="tag">#Audiobooks</a> <a href="/tags/audiofiction/" rel="tag">#Audiofiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/romance/" rel="tag">#Romance</a> <a href="/tags/erotica/" rel="tag">#Erotica</a></p>