mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Let’s build bookish community together. 📚 Book readers, Authors, Indie Writers, Book Clubs - welcome! 🤗
Dear #fediverse, please send more readers my way.
I’d love to connect with more people who read books, post about #books, write #reviews, share #recommendations, and enjoy thoughtful conversations about #literature.
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Don't Panic!
Remember, you are safe in this Galaxy, as long as you know exactly where your towel is.
Happy Towel Day!
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Happy National Limerick Day!
A limerick is a five-line humorous poem with a distinct AABBA rhyme scheme and a bouncy rhythm.
Edward Lear (born today) popularised the form in the 19th century, frequently using them in his #Book of Nonsense.
What is your favourite limerick? Feel free to share 😉
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Today is Daphne du Maurier’s birthday!
Few #writers could create an atmosphere like Daphne du Maurier. Her #stories begin elegantly, then something shifts. A beautiful house can become a prison, love can turn into possession, and silence can be more frightening than a scream. Suddenly you are #reading faster than you planned.
Have you read any of her #novels?
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Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923– December 12,1999)
Before writing Catch-22, Joseph Heller served as a bombardier in World War II and flew 60 combat missions over France and Italy.
That experience became the seed of one of the most famous anti-war novels of the 20th century - a book where war is shown not as noble glory, but as a terrifying system of fear, paperwork, commands, and absurd rules.
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Happy International Tea Day!
It's always tea time.
Lewis Carroll,
Alice in Wonderland
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Magic can give you just one thing. Choose wisely:
Knowledge?
Courage?
Love?
Or simply more time at home?
You will receive it today, because today is L.Frank #Baum’s birthday - the #author of The Wonderful #Wizard of #Oz.
Repost if you think the world needs a little more #magic & great #books
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May 22 is International Sherlock Holmes Day — the birthday of Arthur Conan Doyle, the man who created the world’s most famous detective.
Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, a real physician who could read a patient’s profession, habits, and character from tiny details: a walk, an accent, worn sleeves, mud on shoes.
Doyle later tried to kill Holmes at Reichenbach Falls… but readers refused to let him go.
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The English poet Roger McGough sends readers’ eyes travelling to and fro the way a tennis ball would across a net when they read 40-Love. Indeed, the poem itself – like the “middle aged couple” he writes about – is split by such a ‘net.’
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Today is Harper Lee’s 100th birthday.
Born in a small town in Alabama, where her father worked as a lawyer, Lee loved #books. One of her childhood friends was Truman Capote, who spent time in #Monroeville as a boy. Years later, she turned the world she knew into a novel about the difficult bravery of doing what is right when the world refuses to do so.
Do you like her novel To Kill a Mockingbird?
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A little patch of land.
Bread on the table.
A dear friend you can talk to.
A small house you can call Home.
Rabbits…
Such a modest dream. And yet so impossibly out of reach.
Which character from this story stayed with you the most?
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Bamboo can barely be seen for the first five years as it builds extensive root systems underground before exploding ninety feet into the air within six weeks.
James Clear
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Shel Silverstein is famous for his children’s poetry and illustrations.
In poem Lazy Jane the word "rain" hovers just above Jane’s open mouth, as the string of words above it seems to represent the trickle of water she longs for.
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“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
Carl Jung
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Why does fiction matter?
Because stories can sharpen the way we understand other people.
A meta-analysis found that reading fiction has a small but positive effect on social cognition. Including our ability to interpret emotions, motives, and inner lives.
In other words: novels may help us practice empathy.
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Today is Dracula Day.
Some monsters never die 🧛♀️
Bram Stoker gave the world more than a vampire. He created a shadow that still follows us through books, films, dreams, and nightmares.
#DraculaDay #Dracula #BramStoker #Stoker #books #vampire #literature #reading #today #onthisday #bookstodon @bookstodon@fedigroups.social #booksky #BookTok #readers #novel #horror #horrorbooks #bookstagram
What happens in the brain when we read #books?
In an fMRI study, #reading a #novel was associated with measurable changes in resting-state brain connectivity, with some effects persisting for several days.
A good #book does not just pass through us — for a while, it may actually change how the #brain is functioning.
Source: Short- and long-term effects of a novel on connectivity in the brain.
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Today is Omar Khayyam’s 978th birthday
(May 18, 1048 — December 4, 1131)
There is something beautiful about celebrating the birthday of a man who helped humanity measure time. Khayyam was a brilliant scholar, respected for his work in mathematics, astronomy, and calendar reform.
His rubaiyat are small poems with a long shadow — a reminder that life is too brief to waste.
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I write, erase, rewrite
Erase again, and then
A poppy blooms.
Katsushika Hokusai
#books #poetry #haiku #haikuday
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Finished reading Atomic Habits by James Clear.
A very practical book for anyone who wants to change something in their life or move closer to a goal.
The ideas are simple, clear, and easy to apply. Some of them I was already using intuitively, but a few insights felt genuinely fresh — and definitely worth much more than the time spent reading the book.
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Honoré de #Balzac (May 20, 1799 – August 18, 1850) wanted to do with the pen what Napoleon had done with the sword.
And in a way, he did. His influence reached #Dostoevsky, Zola, Flaubert, Proust, Dickens, Wilde, and Baldwin. Dostoevsky’s first published book was a Russian translation of Balzac’s Eugénie Grandet.
Books may do more than entertain us.
A large study using Health and Retirement Study data found that people who read #books had a survival advantage compared with non-book #readers, even after adjusting for factors like age, #education, health, and wealth.
Strong evidence that #reading is associated with living better and longer.
Source: A chapter a day: Association of book reading with #longevity.
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Finished The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, it was a difficult read for deeply personal reasons. Like Theo, I lost my mother and father at around the same age.
Tartt shows the aftermath of trauma - and the many ways people try to numb it: addiction, depression, lies, escape. None of it really heals the wound.
It’s a long, powerful, deeply human novel - the kind of book that stays with you. Perfect for #bookclub discussions, and maybe even for #bibliotherapy.
Apuleius was a 2nd-century Roman writer whose most famous work, The Golden Ass (also known as Metamorphoses), still feels vivid, and surprisingly modern.
It is the only ancient Roman novel in Latin to survive complete.
Inside the novel is also the famous tale of Cupid and Psyche, one of the most beautiful love stories to come down from antiquity.
The Golden Ass is one of the best gateways into the ancient world.
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Ian Fleming (May 28, 1908 — August 12, 1964) didn’t invent James Bond out of nowhere. During World War II, he worked in British Naval Intelligence and saw from the inside how real secret operations were planned.
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In The Defense, Nabokov’s language is, as always, rich, sharp, and full of vivid imagery and wordplay.
The characters, however, feel strangely soulless and do not inspire sympathy. It even seems that the author treats them with a kind of superiority bordering on contempt.
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