The strong man waits for justice, with lifted soul and eyes,
As a sturdy oak will face the storm, and does not break or bow.
But listen, my brothers, listen; the child is a child for a day;
If a merciless foot treads down each shoot, how can the forest rise?
We are robbing the race when we rob a child; we must rescue the children NOW;
We must…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
https://palimpseste.vercel.app/#text/b61bc955-1be9-430d-9eea-29d5b284fb3d
#theatre #love #nature #bookstodon #books #literature

I just finished my first read that was published in 2026!

#Bookstodon

https://oylenshpeegul.gitlab.io/blog/posts/20260409/

If I esteemed you less, Envy would kill
Pleasure, and leave to Wonder and Despair
The ministration of the thoughts that fill
The mind which, like a worm whose life may share
A portion of the unapproachable,
Marks your creations rise as fast and fair
As perfect worlds at the Creator's will.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley
https://palimpseste.vercel.app/#text/8de05198-20f9-496b-9490-a28f7eebeab2
#lit #bookstodon #books #literature

#Bookthreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon A Very Irish Story - my #bookreview for "Shibby Magee" by Carrie Kabak, on my #bookblog here. Thanks Corbyn Books and Carrie for offering me the ARC of this truly lovely book. #histficreadingchallenge
#2026NewReleaseChallenge #FridayFiction #FictionFriday

http://tcl-bookreviews.com/2026/04/10/a-very-irish-story/

Stephen Graham Jones - The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

“What I am is the Indian who can’t die.
I’m the worst dream America ever had.”

Set mostly in the final stages of the genocide that birthed the empire of blood, the horrorstory Graham Jones has crafted is great writing.

I won’t spoil but heaps of praise and highly recommended.

Even to people who are not into supernatural horror. Because in a way, from a certain perspective it is no supernatural horror, but a true crime story of that despised empire.

Just look for Marias Massacre, for instance here:
https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/jan/23

Up there with his best, which for me are ‘Growing Up Dead in Texas’ and ‘The Least of My Scars’.

Really. Read this book.

#WatWouterLas26 #LezenIsLeuk #Horror #StoodisReadathon2025 #Reading #Bookstodon #Boekstadon

We've been looking at Robert Swain Gifford's illustrations for Edgar Allen Poe's stories today. His Usher house is a curious representation, less off kilter and grandly gloomy than most, almost a quietly overgrown cottage, but very, very lonely.

#ArtThisHouse recommends this one be hung in your study, where you can contemplate the isolation of the home (and whether or not you should add a turret to yours).

(source: pafa.org)

#Bookstodon #Illustration #art

Meanwhile, "deep in the heart of Texas..." 🎶

> Public university professors in Texas say a new law restricts their academic freedom
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/08/nx-s1-5561690/public-university-professors-in-texas-say-a-new-law-restricts-their-academic-freedom

Sample FTA: "American literature professor Sara Spurgeon told rallygoers that the English department had been told they could no longer teach texts written by gay authors."

#TexasFriendly #BannedBooks #books #reading #censorship #LGBTQ #academia #HigherEd #Bookstodon #GOP #PartyOfStupid

This was sort of really good, sort of a bit of a meh.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8461358231

#reading #comic #manga #NagataKabi #bookstodon