Good morning! Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday filled with sunshine, love, laughter, high energy and positivity! Plans for the day include the usual chores, reading and listening to an audio book. If I have time, I’ll work on a quilt block.

Be kind to yourself and those around you, hug tight those you love most and smile, you are loved and appreciated! #GoodMorning #Positivity #quilting #reading

edit: A huge thanks to everyone who came to listen tonight
Even if you missed it, the stream remains as a video you can watch

Come let this succubard read you to sleep with more Elder Scrolls books~

[Twitch] https://www.twitch.tv/octaviaconamore
[Youtube] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3moszGVq1lI

I have some new books lined up for tonight, as well as a glance back at a book about the historical legacy of the Lusty Argonian Maid

#Vtuber #ENVtuber #Bard #Games #Gaming #LGBTQ #Queer #Trans #TransFem #VoiceOver #Fantasy #Reading #Bookstodon #Books #ElderScrolls #Skyrim #Oblivion #OblivionRemastered

I only buy non-DRM books from Kobo (or any other ebook store) to avoid getting into situations like this: trying to download a DRM book and reading it in a different app.

https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114461681904704386

This one is next on my bedtime reading list. I want to know ActivityPub in more depth for designing and building my own project.

Folklore read live!

One eye, bad teeth, and a tendency to be lured off cliffs:
It's tales of the cyclops!

Hear the Basque Fairy Tales LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/jkNf2aA0rPU

https://damonthomas.bandcamp.com/track/some-want-to-suffer-now #writing #reading #poetry #SpokenWord #bandcamp

"House of Huawei" made me interested in the history of Chinese tech industry - and also because, in order for European countries to catch up on sovereign tech industry, it's important to know the enemy (yes, Chinese gov't is an enemy that doesn't share democratic views) - so the journey to learn about that continues

#Kiwis what #book would you recommend that's set in #NewZealand?

One of the #reading #challenges I'm doing has a prompt for a book set in #Aotearoa, and as I don't know much about the literature from down there... I'd be particularly interested in any #books on #Māori culture.

I know that every person and their canine has probably already read #NorthangerAbbey , but I'm #Reading it for the first time, and it's freakin' hilarious! The LONG '4th wall' rant about the contempt for novelists had me in stitches. #bookstodon
#JaneAusten @bookstodon

Journalist Jackie Snow wrote this amazing article for the Los Angeles Review of Books about #reading behind bars:
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/reading-behind-bars-and-beyond-barriers/

It touches on so many aspects of #books in #prisons, from why books on yoga are okay but books on tai chi are not, to concerns about whether Colin Powell's autobiography complied with #prison rules.

“Empathy. Identity with perspectives outside our own. The liberating, sympathetic vibrations of fellow-feeling. Only those incapable of empathy are truly caged.” ― Ray Nayler, The Mountain in the Sea

https://www.raynayler.net/mountain.html

Timothy Garton Ash — Homelands: A Personal History of Europe

https://www.timothygartonash.com/homelands.php

This short book has sound, practical advice (the author is a clinical psychologist and activist) for people struggling to come to terms with the climate emergency, if that sounds like something you'd like to read

**A Fifth of American Adults Can’t Read. Here’s How to Teach Them.**

https://www.thefp.com/p/a-fifth-of-american-adults-cant-read-i-teach-them.

Do you like epic worldbuilding?

Amazing worlds with magical systems in fantasy? Expansive universes in Sci-Fi?

If so, I have something for you:

A list of almost 100, carefully selected books that all offer incredible worlds the characters roam in - free in exchange for your email:

https://books.bookfunnel.com/worldbuilding/4i452e55lx

Have fun and enjoy!

#FreeBooks
#EpicFantasy
#EpicSciFi
#Reading
@bookstodon

The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year - Book 85 #reading #goodreads

http://weewritinglassie.home.blog/2025/05/05/the-wee-writing-lassies-300-books-in-a-year-book-85/

All The Tings Theu Said We Couldn’t Have is a little memoir of Trans Joy and just wanted to share a little quote:

“Even in the worst and bleakest material circumstances, there can be joy. Even under great threat, at the hands of systemic violence and harm, while suffering deep personal trauma and pain, joy manages to make space for itself.”