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<p>📚 Tout le bleu du ciel by: Mélissa Da Costa</p><p>Petitesannonces.fr : Jeune homme de 26 ans, condamné à une espérance de vie de deux ans par un Alzheimer précoce, souhaite prendre le large pour un ultime voyage. Recherche compagnon(ne) pour partager avec moi ce dernier périple.</p><p>Émile a décidé de fuir l’hôpital, la compassion de sa famil...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/tout-le-bleu-du-ciel" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/tout-le-bleu-du-ciel"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/tout-le-bl</span><span class="invisible">eu-du-ciel</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/literaryfiction/" rel="tag">#literaryfiction</a> <a href="/tags/general/" rel="tag">#general</a></p>

Petitesannonces.fr : Jeune homme de 26 ans, condamné à une espérance de vie de deux ans par un Alzheimer précoce, souhaite prendre le large pour un ultime voyage. Recherche compagnon(ne) pour partager avec moi ce dernier périple.

Émile a décidé de fuir l’hôpital, la compassion de sa famille et de ses amis. À son propre étonnement, il reçoit une réponse à cette annonce. Trois jours plus tard, devant le camping-car acheté secrètement, il retrouve Joanne, une jeune femme coiffée d’un grand chapeau noir qui a pour seul bagage un sac à dos, et qui ne donne aucune explication sur sa présence.

Ainsi commence un voyage stupéfiant de beauté. À chaque détour de ce périple naissent, à travers la rencontre avec les autres et la découverte de soi, la joie, la peur, l’amitié, l’amour qui peu à peu percent la carapace de douleurs d’Émile.

Un livre aux dialogues impeccables et aux personnages touchants d’humanité. Psychologies magazine.

Bouleversant. Version femina.

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<p>"Jiryis is a scholar; he witnessed the start of the Nakba and its consequences, and is not writing for those who won’t listen. If the anomalists appease the colonizer as they demean the colonized, Jiryis faces the colonized as he dissects the colonizer." </p><p><a href="/tags/maryturfah/" rel="tag">#MaryTurfah</a>'s reviews the first English edition of <a href="/tags/sabrijiryis/" rel="tag">#SabriJiryis</a>'s <a href="/tags/thefoundationsofzionism/" rel="tag">#TheFoundationsOfZionism</a></p><p><a href="https://thebaffler.com/latest/given-this-reality-turfah" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="thebaffler.com/latest/given-this-reality-turfah"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thebaffler.com/latest/given-th</span><span class="invisible">is-reality-turfah</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/palestine/" rel="tag">#Palestine</a> <a href="/tags/palestinequestion/" rel="tag">#PalestineQuestion</a> <a href="/tags/gaza/" rel="tag">#Gaza</a> <a href="/tags/colonialviolence/" rel="tag">#colonialViolence</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>

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<p>Scottish astronomer Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1857.</p><p>Fleming's most significant contributions came in the field of stellar classification. She developed a system for classifying stars based on their spectra, which became known as the Harvard Classification Scheme. In 1890, she published the first catalog of stellar spectra, which contained over 10,000 stars classified according to her system.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classification#Harvard_spectral_classification" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classification#Harvard_spectral_classification"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_</span><span class="invisible">classification#Harvard_spectral_classification</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#astronomy</a> <a href="/tags/womeninscience/" rel="tag">#womeninscience</a></p>

Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming (1857-1911), circa 1890s. (Courtesy Curator of Astronomical Photographs at Harvard College Observatory.)

Unknown author - http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/lib/online/almanac/0300c.htm

Harvard Computers working in a room in the new brick building, built in 1892. According to the information of a calendar shown in the image, this photo taken in March 1898. Williamina Fleming is standing. Immediatly in front of her are Evelyn Leland (back row center) and Ida E. Woods to the right. The rest are unknown, but the woman closest to the camera could be Annie Jump Cannon.

This description is based on
http://heawww.harvard.edu/~fine/Observatory/eleland.html#ComputersBrickBuilding

Photo credit: UAV 630.271 (E4116), olvwork432388. Harvard University Archives.

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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, October 2025 | Climate & Capitalism

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<p>A Review of October Omen: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-october-omen/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-october-omen/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-oc</span><span class="invisible">tober-omen/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#Fantasy</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>

Book cover for October Omen by Holly Schindler. Image on cover is a black and white drawing of a feather whose uppermost leaves gradually transforms into about a dozen little white birds that are flying away from the feather.

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<p>📚 Run by: Blake Crouch</p><p>5 D A Y S A G O...A rash of bizarre murders swept the country...Senseless. Brutal. Seemingly unconnected. A cop walked into a nursing home and unloaded his weapons on elderly and staff alike. A mass of school shootings. Prison riots of unprecedented brutality. Mind-boggling acts of violence in every state. </p><p>4 D A Y S A G O...T...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/run" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/run</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/thrillers/" rel="tag">#thrillers</a> <a href="/tags/suspensefiction/" rel="tag">#suspensefiction</a> <a href="/tags/general/" rel="tag">#general</a></p>

5 D A Y S A G O...A rash of bizarre murders swept the country...Senseless. Brutal. Seemingly unconnected. A cop walked into a nursing home and unloaded his weapons on elderly and staff alike. A mass of school shootings. Prison riots of unprecedented brutality. Mind-boggling acts of violence in every state.

4 D A Y S A G O...The murders increased ten-fold...

3 D A Y S A G O...The President addressed the nation and begged for calm and peace...

2 D A Y S A G O...The killers began to mobilize...

Y E S T E R D A Y...All the power went out...

T O N I G H T...They're reading the names of those to be killed on the Emergency Broadcast System. You are listening over the battery-powered radio on your kitchen table, and they've just read yours. Your name is Jack Colclough. You have a wife, a daughter, and a young son. You live in Albuquerque, New Mexico. People are coming to your house to kill you and your family. You don't know why, but you don't have time to think about that any more.

You only have time to....R U N.

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<p>周六睡了个懒觉，十一点才爬起来，随手一搜发现旁边镇的图书馆在搞两年一届的 book sale，而图书馆星期六下午一点就关门了，赶快拉上娃们上路。去到发现又是这家“不讲理”的图书馆，售卖模式竟然是书尽管拿，然后按心情捐款！最后搞了一箱三十本书，捐了二十刀。其中比较喜欢的是下面这几本：<br>1）浅野一二〇的虹之原 holograph<br>2）Hans Rosling 的 Factfulness，因为他的 TED 演讲 <br>3）R. Crumb 画的创世论</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/library/" rel="tag">#library</a></p>

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This professor and author just chased a nazi out our her U of W classroom.

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<p>📚 Saltcrop by: Yume Kitasei</p><p>In Earth's not too distant future, seas consume coastal cities, highways disintegrate underwater, and mutant fish lurk in pirate-controlled depths. Skipper, a skilled sailor and the youngest of three sisters, earns money skimming and reselling plastic from the ocean to care for her ailing grandmother.</p><p>But then her eldest...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/saltcrop" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/saltcrop</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/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a></p>

In Earth's not too distant future, seas consume coastal cities, highways disintegrate underwater, and mutant fish lurk in pirate-controlled depths. Skipper, a skilled sailor and the youngest of three sisters, earns money skimming and reselling plastic from the ocean to care for her ailing grandmother.

But then her eldest sister, Nora, goes missing. Nora left home a decade ago in pursuit of a cure for failing crops all over the world. When Skipper and her other sister, Carmen, receive a cryptic plea for help, they must put aside their differences and set out across the sea to find—and save—her. As they voyage through a dying world both beautiful and strange, encountering other travelers along the way, they learn more about their sister's work and the corporations that want what she discovered.

But the farther they go, the more uncertain their mission becomes: What dangerous attention did Nora attract, and how well do they really know their sister—or each other? Thus begins an epic journey spanning oceans and continents and a wistful rumination on sisterhood, friendship, and ecological disaster.

From the acclaimed author of The Stardust Grail comes the epic tale of two sisters who sail across oceans to find their missing third sister—and Earth’s environmental salvation.

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<p>German Poet, Playwright, Historian Friedrich Schiller died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1805.</p><p>Initially intended for the priesthood, in 1773 he entered a military academy in Stuttgart and ended up studying medicine. His first play, The Robbers, was written at this time and proved very successful. His major plays include "Don Carlos", and the Wallenstein trilogy, which delves into the tumultuous period of the Thirty Years' War.</p><p>Books by Friedrich Schiller at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/289" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/289"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/289</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/theatre/" rel="tag">#theatre</a></p>

Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright in 1793 or 1794. Portrait by Ludovike Simanowiz (1794).

Sepia portrait of Friedrich Schiller, with curly hair down to his neck, wearing a formal dress shirt with a high collar, a scarf as a tie and a military-style jacket with wide collars. The writer stands with his head tilted slightly to the right, looking as if he's lost in infinity.

Cover of The Thirty Years War — Complete by Friedrich Schiller

Translator: A. J. W. Morrison

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<p>Austrian Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1856.</p><p>He is considered the father of psychoanalysis. Freud's main contributions lie in his theories of the unconscious mind, the mechanisms of repression, and the role of sexuality in human psychology, which he discussed in major works like The Interpretation of Dreams, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, and Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. </p><p>Books by Sigmund Freud at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/391" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/391"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/391</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/psychology/" rel="tag">#psychology</a></p>

Photographic portrait of Sigmund Freud, signed by the sitter ("Prof. Sigmund Freud")

Black and white portrait of Sigmund Freud with a beard, wearing a suit with a pocket watch chain, holding a cigarette.

Cover of the book "The Interpretation of Dreams" by Prof Sigmund Freud, I.L.D, displayed in gold lettering on a textured dark grey background.

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<p>American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher Henry David Thoreau died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1862.</p><p>In addition to "Walden," Thoreau is well-known for his essay "Civil Disobedience," which was inspired by his 1846 arrest for refusing to pay poll taxes as a protest against slavery and the Mexican-American War. His political writings later influenced many political leaders, including Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.</p><p>Books by Henry David Thoreau at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/54" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/54"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/54</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Portrait photograph from a ninth-plate daguerreotype of Henry David Thoreau. Calvin R. Greene was a Thoreau “disciple” who lived in Rochester, Michigan, and who first began corresponding with Thoreau in January 1856. When Greene asked for a photographic image of the author, Thoreau initially replied: “You may rely on it that you have the best of me in my books, and that I am not worth seeing personally – the stuttering, blundering, clodhopper that I am.” Yet Greene repeated his request and sent money for the sitting. Thoreau must have kept this commitment to his fan in the back of his mind for the next several months. On June 18, 1856, during a trip to Worcester, Massachusetts, Henry Thoreau visited the Daguerrean Palace of Benjamin D. Maxham at 16 Harrington Corner and had three daguerreotypes taken for fifty cents each. He gave two of the prints to his Worcester friends and hosts, H.G.O. Blake and Theophilius Brown. The third he sent to Calvin Greene in Michigan. “While in Worcester this week I obtained the accompanying daguerreotype – which my friends think is pretty good – though better looking than I,” Thoreau wrote.

B. D. Maxham - National Portrait Gallery

Original title page of Walden, with an illustration from a drawing by Thoreau's sister Sophia.

Title page of the book "Walden; or, Life in the Woods" by Henry D. Thoreau, featuring an illustration of a small cabin surrounded by trees. The page includes a quotation and the publication details, "Boston: Ticknor and Fields. MDCCCLIV (1854)."

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<p>📚 Better Than the Movies by: Lynn Painter</p><p>Perpetual daydreamer Liz Buxbaum gave her heart to Michael a long time ago. But her cool, aloof forever crush never really saw her before he moved away. Now that he’s back in town, Liz will do whatever it takes to get on his radar—and maybe snag him as a prom date—even befriend ...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/better-than-the-movies" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/better-than-the-movies"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/better-tha</span><span class="invisible">n-the-movies</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/romance/" rel="tag">#romance</a> <a href="/tags/socialthemes/" rel="tag">#socialthemes</a> <a href="/tags/friendship/" rel="tag">#friendship</a></p>

Perpetual daydreamer Liz Buxbaum gave her heart to Michael a long time ago. But her cool, aloof forever crush never really saw her before he moved away. Now that he’s back in town, Liz will do whatever it takes to get on his radar—and maybe snag him as a prom date—even befriend Wes Bennet.

The annoyingly attractive next-door neighbor might seem like a prime candidate for romantic comedy fantasies, but Wes has only been a pain in Liz’s butt since they were kids. Pranks involving frogs and decapitated lawn gnomes do not a potential boyfriend make. Yet, somehow, Wes and Michael are hitting it off, which means Wes is Liz’s in.

But as Liz and Wes scheme to get Liz noticed by Michael so she can have her magical prom moment, she’s shocked to discover that she likes being around Wes. And as they continue to grow closer, she must reexamine everything she thought she knew about love—and rethink her own ideas of what Happily Ever After should look like.

A USA TODAY and New York Times bestseller

Perfect for fans of Kasie West and Jenn Bennett, this “sweet and funny” (Kerry Winfrey, author of Waiting for Tom Hanks) teen rom-com follows a hopelessly romantic teen girl and her cute yet obnoxious neighbor as they scheme to get her noticed by her untouchable crush.

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1940.</p><p>John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.</p><p>The book was first published in April 14, 1939. The book won the National Book Award & Pulitzer Prize for fiction, & it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. When preparing to write the novel, Steinbeck wrote: "I want to put a tag of shame on the greedy bastards who are responsible for this [the Great Depression and its effects]." </p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Cover of "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck, depicting a man standing and facing a rural landscape with mountains, beside him a seated woman and two children, all next to an old car.

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<p>📚 Butter by: Asako Yuzuki</p><p>There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine.<br>Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Centre convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, who she is said to have seduced with her delicious home cooking. The case has captured the nation’s i...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/butter" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/butter</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/literaryfiction/" rel="tag">#literaryfiction</a> <a href="/tags/psychologicalfiction/" rel="tag">#psychologicalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/crimefiction/" rel="tag">#crimefiction</a> <a href="/tags/womenfiction/" rel="tag">#womenfiction</a></p>

There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine.
Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Centre convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, who she is said to have seduced with her delicious home cooking. The case has captured the nation’s imagination but Kajii refuses to speak with the press. That is, until journalist Rika Machida writes a letter asking for her recipe for beef stew and Kajii can’t resist writing back.

Rika, the only woman in her news office, works late each night, rarely cooking more than ramen. As the visits unfold between her and the steely Kajii, they are closer to a masterclass in food than journalistic research. Rika hopes this gastronomic exchange will help her soften Kajii but it seems that she might be the one changing. With each meal she eats, something is awakening in her body. Might she and Kaji have more in common than she once thought?

Inspired by the real case of the convicted con woman and serial killer, 'The Konkatsu Killer', Asako Yuzuki’s Butter is a vivid, gripping exploration of misogyny, obsession and the transgressive pleasures of food in Japan.

**Hooked, the latest novel from Asako Yuzuki is available now**
'It isn’t entirely clear whether to read the novel or devour it’ OBSERVER
‘Readers around the world are finding themselves utterly captivated’ DAILY MAIL
‘I really enjoyed it’ MEERA SYAL, on BBC Between the Covers
'Compelling, delightfully weird' PANDO

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<p>American physicist Richard Feynman was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1918.</p><p>He developed the Feynman diagrams, a pictorial representation of the mathematical expressions governing the behavior of subatomic particles, which provided a powerful tool for calculating complex interactions among particles. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 jointly with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga for their fundamental contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics (QED).</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/physics/" rel="tag">#physics</a><br>1/3</p>

Richard Phillips Feynman (1918–1988)

The Nobel Foundation - http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1965/feynman-bio.html

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<p>English writer of adventure fiction romances H. Rider Haggard died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1925.</p><p>Haggard's most famous work is "King Solomon's Mines," published in 1885. Haggard's other works include "Allan Quatermain" (1887), "Jess" (1887), "Nada the Lily" (1892), "The People of the Mist" (1894), and "The Brethren" (1904), among many others.</p><p>Books by H. Rider Haggard at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/365" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/365"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/365</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

English writer Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925).

Black and white photo of a man sporting a beard.

Cover of The People of the Mist by H. Rider Haggard.

"The People of the Mist" is an adventure novel written by H. Rider Haggard, first published in 1894. Set in the late 17th century, the novel follows the journey of Leonard Outram, a young Englishman who travels to the wilds of Africa in search of adventure and fortune.

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<p>📚 The Martian Chronicles by: Ray Bradbury</p><p>Mars was a distant shore, and the men spread upon it in waves. Each wave different, and each wave stronger.<br>Ray Bradbury is a storyteller without peer, a poet of the possible, and, indisputably, one of America’s most beloved authors. The Mars he imagines in these masterful chronicles is a place...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-martian-chronicles" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-martian-chronicles"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-martia</span><span class="invisible">n-chronicles</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/psychological/" rel="tag">#psychological</a></p>

Mars was a distant shore, and the men spread upon it in waves. Each wave different, and each wave stronger.
Ray Bradbury is a storyteller without peer, a poet of the possible, and, indisputably, one of America’s most beloved authors. The Mars he imagines in these masterful chronicles is a place of hope, dreams, and metaphor—of crystal pillars and fossil seas—where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles is a classic work of twentieth-century literature whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time’s passage. In connected, chronological stories, a true grand master once again enthralls, delights, and challenges us with his vision and heart—starkly exposing in brilliant spacelight our strength, weakness, folly, and poignant humanity in a strange and breathtaking world where humanity does not belong.

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<p>Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1861.</p><p>Tagore wrote poetry, short stories, novels, and plays. He is best known for his poetry, and his collection "Gitanjali" is particularly renowned. This work earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. By way of translations, Tagore influenced Pablo Neruda, Gabriela Mistral, Octavio Paz, José Ortega y Gasset, Zenobia Camprubí, and Juan Ramón Jiménez.</p><p>Books by Rabindranath Tagore at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/942" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/942"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/942</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

A photographic portrait of Rabindranath Tagore, date unknown.

Black and white portrait of an elderly Rabindranath Tagore with long white hair and a full beard, wearing a draped shawl. He looks off to the side with a thoughtful expression.

Title page of the 1913 Macmillan edition of Tagore's Gitanjali.

Cover of the 1913 edition of "Gitanjali" by Rabindranath Tagore, published by Macmillan and Co., Ltd., featuring the title, author's name, and an introduction by W. B. Yeats.

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<p>Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1840.</p><p>Some of his most famous works include the ballets Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, & Sleeping Beauty; his operas such as Eugene Onegin & The Queen of Spades; & his symphonies, particularly the 4th, 5th, & the 6th, known as the "Pathétique". His "1812 Overture", written to commemorate Russia's defense against Napoleon's Grande Armée in 1812, is also incredibly popular.</p><p>Tchaikovsky at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Tchaikovsky&submit_search=Go%21" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Tchaikovsky&submit_search=Go%21"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=Tchaikovsky&submit_search=Go%21</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a></p>

Cabinet card portrait of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Émile Reutlinger - NYPL Digital Gallery — Image ID: 1158492

Black and white portrait of elderly Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky with white hair and a full beard, wearing a dark suit with a white handkerchief in the pocket and a neat bow tie under a stiff collar.

Book cover of "The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" by Modeste Tchaikovsky, edited from the Russian with an introduction by Rosa Newmarch, illustrated edition published by John Lane Company in 1906, featuring white and red text blocks on a decorative dark floral background.

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<p>Shout out to people who love ebooks but hate Amazon:</p><p>Bookshop.org has started doing eBooks! They have an app! They have classics for free! They have daily 99p deals!</p><p>Much excite!</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a></p>

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<p>Audible realities and phonic fantasies: The first major book on acoustics.</p><p>By Corinne Mona, Assistant Librarian at The Niels Bohr Library & Archives</p><p>Before there were walkie talkies, there was Athanasius Kircher. In 1673, Kircher published Phonurgia nova : sive Conjugium mechanico-physicum artis & naturae paranympha phonosophia concinnatum (1673), which is chock-full of inventive ways to transmit sound.</p><p><a href="https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/ex-libris-universum/audible-realities-and-phonic-fantasies?utm_source=email%2CNBLA&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign%20=monthly_emails&dm_i=1ZJR,8M71P,4FGHXK,ZPUOX,1" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/ex-libris-universum/audible-realities-and-phonic-fantasies?utm_source=email%2CNBLA&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign%20=monthly_emails&dm_i=1ZJR,8M71P,4FGHXK,ZPUOX,1"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.aip.org/history-programs/n</span><span class="invisible">iels-bohr-library/ex-libris-universum/audible-realities-and-phonic-fantasies?utm_source=email%2CNBLA&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign%20=monthly_emails&dm_i=1ZJR,8M71P,4FGHXK,ZPUOX,1</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/acoustics/" rel="tag">#acoustics</a></p>

A building very subtly designed for eavesdropping. From the Niels Bohr Library & Archives’ copy of Phonurgia nova by Athanasius Kircher. (Book 1 Section IV page 90)

Engraved illustration depicting an architectural structure with arched ceilings and multiple columns, featuring people engaged in various activities under the archways. The building is detailed with windows and textured shading, and labeled with letters at several points.

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<p>A Lost Chapter Of The World’s First Novel Discovered In A Japanese Home</p><p>It's one of 54 chapters from a transcription of The Tale of Genji, written in the 11th century.</p><p>By Natasha Ishak</p><p><a href="https://allthatsinteresting.com/tale-of-genji-lost-chapter?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=atinewsletter&utm_email=lnatal55@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="allthatsinteresting.com/tale-of-genji-lost-chapter?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=atinewsletter&utm_email=lnatal55@gmail.com"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">allthatsinteresting.com/tale-o</span><span class="invisible">f-genji-lost-chapter?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=atinewsletter&utm_email=lnatal55@gmail.com</span></a></p><p>The Tale Of Genji at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=The+Tale+Of+Genji" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=The+Tale+Of+Genji"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=The+Tale+Of+Genji</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Portrait-Icon of Murasaki Shikibu (Murasaki Shikibu zu), 17th century, by Tosa Mitsuoki.

Murasaki Shikibu appears poised to begin writing her tale, pausing as if in mid-thought. Her head tilts away from her desk, while her trancelike stare is directed slightly upward, toward the calligraphy sheets in the upper portion of the painting.

The inscriptions list the four stages of Tendai Buddhist contemplation (shimon) that Murasaki was said to have mastered, along with two of her waka (thirty-one-syllable poems) that speak to life’s impermanence (mujōkan).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Genji#/media/File:Tosa_Mitsuoki%E2%80%94Portrait_of_Murasaki_Shikibu.jpg

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<p>Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist James George Frazer died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1941.</p><p>He is best known for his influential work "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion," which explores the similarities among magical and religious beliefs across diverse cultures. Frazer proposed that human belief progressed through three stages: primitive magic, replaced by religion, and finally replaced by science.</p><p>Books by James George Frazer at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1241" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1241"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1241</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/anthropology/" rel="tag">#anthropology</a></p>

Black-and-white portrait of elderly James George Frazer with a full beard, looking slightly to his left with a serious expression. He is wearing a dark suit and tie.

Cover of "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion" by James George Frazer, Volume II, from 1894, displaying title and author's name on a textured grey background.

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Recommend some series or authors please! There's a big massive book fair in my city tomorrow.

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