My favourite kind of penguins on world penguin day!

Orange is the new black & white.

"It is because he is a romantic, and he has a picture of the world in his head, and when the world doesn't conform in any respect to the picture, he wants to throw the world away. Even if that means throwing out the baby with the bath. Which, it always does mean."

A masterpiece of American literature, All the King's Men explores political corruption and tortured idealism better than most books I have read. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Penn Warren was born on this day. An acclaimed poet as well as a novelist, his magnum opus is arresting in its depiction of political immorality and beautiful in its prose.

Happy birthday to Charlotte Brontë, great author (from a family of great authors) in the 19th Century acclaimed for works like Jane Eyre, a beautiful masterpiece.

April 11th is the birthday of Kira Argounova, the protagonist of Ayn Rand's We the Living. A harrowing and moving book, it dramatizes the unfortunate individuals forced to live under Communism in the early Soviet Union. Yet through all the despair, corruption and vicious brutality of the totalitarian system, Kira stays true to her conviction that life is worth fighting for. Her head may be bloody but it is defiantly unbowed.

Diligent, enterprising, industrious. With a laser focus on her career, can a dynamo be sidetracked because of blindspots in her personal life? Where does fulfillment come with all of her eggs in one basket?

Meet Iris Madding in Spectrum

Agatha Christie's sequel, a thriller featuring the diabolical railroad tycoon Archibald Snodtraxx, wasn't nearly as popular as the original ;)

Usually dated April 1st is the birthday of Russian author Nikolai Gogol, fitting as he wrote many darkly comic, satirical and surreal works. If you know you nose.

Today is the birthday of American playwright Tennessee Williams, one of the most esteemed 20th Century dramatists.

How easy is it to deceive and direct a person down a dark path?

The revered playwright Henrik Ibsen was born #OnThisDay

Excellent dramatist of many captivating plays. An Enemy of the People remains one of my favourite.

Lions, and Tiger, and Bears, oh Pi!

Happy 3.14 day (to mathematicians who celebrate it?)