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<p>&quot;Colour! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.... Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.&quot;<br>The writings of a savage </p><p>French painter and sculptor Paul Gauguin was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1848.</p><p>Paul Gauguin at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=gauguin" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=gauguin"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=gauguin</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/painting/" rel="tag">#painting</a> <a href="/tags/sculpture/" rel="tag">#sculpture</a></p>

<p>In July 1917</p><p>Siegfried Sassoon issues a &quot;Soldier&#x27;s Declaration&quot; against prolonging World War I. He is sent by the military (with assistance from Robert Graves) to Edinburgh&#x27;s Craiglockhart War Hospital, where Wilfred Owen introduces himself on August 18. At Sassoon&#x27;s urging, Owen writes his two great war poems, &quot;Anthem for Doomed Youth&quot; and &quot;Dulce et Decorum est&quot;, although like almost all his poetry they remain unpublished until after his death in action next year. </p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Medieval Inventions We Still Can’t Fully Recreate Today</p><p>The Middle Ages were a time of remarkable innovation, when new technologies flourished. Yet the knowledge behind many of these inventions has been lost. Here are several medieval technologies that remain impossible to fully recreate, even with modern science.</p><p><a href="https://www.medievalists.net/2025/10/medieval-inventions-we-still-cant-fully-recreate-today/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.medievalists.net/2025/10/medieval-inventions-we-still-cant-fully-recreate-today/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.medievalists.net/2025/10/m</span><span class="invisible">edieval-inventions-we-still-cant-fully-recreate-today/</span></a></p><p>Medieval science at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=medieval+science" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=medieval+science"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">cts/search/?query=medieval+science</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/inventions/" rel="tag">#inventions</a></p>

<p>The Lessons of Due Process in Julius Caesar</p><p>Shakespeare’s tragedy offers a telling parable about the administration of justice—and rife mishandling thereof—in our day.</p><p>By: Philip Goldfarb Styrt </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/the-lessons-of-due-process-in-julius-caesar/?utm_source=Klaviyo&amp;utm_medium=campaign&amp;utm_id=01K87ETKMS0EZD48BZ10CE3FVQ&amp;_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/the-lessons-of-due-process-in-julius-caesar/?utm_source=Klaviyo&amp;utm_medium=campaign&amp;utm_id=01K87ETKMS0EZD48BZ10CE3FVQ&amp;_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/the-lessons-of</span><span class="invisible">-due-process-in-julius-caesar/?utm_source=Klaviyo&amp;utm_medium=campaign&amp;utm_id=01K87ETKMS0EZD48BZ10CE3FVQ&amp;_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER</span></a></p><p>Julius Caesar at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1522" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1522</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Italian philosopher, poet, essayist, and philologist Giacomo Leopardi died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1837.</p><p>Around 1816, Leopardi experienced what he called his &quot;literary conversion,&quot; shifting his focus from philological studies to poetry and philosophical reflection. His early lyrical poems, or &quot;canti,&quot; began to reflect his developing philosophical ideas. In 1816 the idylls Le rimembranze and Inno a Nettuno were published.</p><p>Books by Giacomo Leopardi at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/8593" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/8593"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/8593</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1822.</p><p>Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society.</p><p>The difference engine is based on the method of divided differences, a way to interpolate or tabulate functions by using a small set of polynomial co-efficients. Some of the most common mathematical functions are built from logarithmic &amp; trigonometric functions, which can be approximated by polynomials, so a difference engine can compute many useful tables.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71292" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71292</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

<p>📚 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by: Stieg Larsson</p><p>The disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden, gnaws at her octogenarian uncle, Henrik Vanger. He is determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. </p><p>He hires crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist, recently at the wrong end of a lib...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-girl-w</span><span class="invisible">ith-the-dragon-tattoo</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></p>

<p>New release coming! Ebook available June 12 and paperback on June 19.</p><p><a href="https://books2read.com/PrincessOfKurg" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/PrincessOfKurg</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><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefantasy/" rel="tag">#sciencefantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

What are some good books on Emotional Intelligence? <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.world/post/37843401">See Original Page</a> </small>

<p>I think I can</p><p>In 24 days, we can finally reuse a more familiar version of The Little Engine That Could, as retold by Watty Piper and illustrated by Lois Lenski.<br> <br>By John Mark Ockerbloom</p><p><a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/08/i-think-i-can/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/08/i-think-i-can/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everybodyslibraries.com/2025/1</span><span class="invisible">2/08/i-think-i-can/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/publicdomaindaycountdown/" rel="tag">#publicDomainDayCountdown</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1893.</p><p>The Shelley Memorial is inaugurated at University College, Oxford, from which the poet was expelled in 1811. It is designed by Basil Champneys, with a reclining nude marble statue of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Edward Onslow Ford. Although Shelley was expelled from the college, he remains one of its most famous alumni and is now held in high honour there.</p><p>Shelley Memorial all washed up?<br>By Josh Pull via @Cherwell </p><p><a href="https://www.cherwell.org/2005/04/22/shelley-memorial-all-washed-up/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.cherwell.org/2005/04/22/shelley-memorial-all-washed-up/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.cherwell.org/2005/04/22/sh</span><span class="invisible">elley-memorial-all-washed-up/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>New <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> on my <a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#blog</a>: &#x27;This book is yours and free to keep&#x27; <br><a href="https://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/10/book-review-this-book-is-yours-and-free.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/10/book-review-this-book-is-yours-and-free.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.co</span><span class="invisible">m/2025/10/book-review-this-book-is-yours-and-free.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#review</a> <a href="/tags/itinerantlibrarian/" rel="tag">#ItinerantLibrarian</a> <a href="/tags/appalachia/" rel="tag">#Appalachia</a> <a href="/tags/prison/" rel="tag">#prison</a> <a href="/tags/literacy/" rel="tag">#literacy</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> <br>@bookstodon@a.gup.pe</p>

<p>Published in 1986, &quot;INTERLISP: The Language and Its Usage&quot; by Stephen Kaisler was the only book on Interlisp printed by a publisher. It extensively covers the Interlisp language and environment with many code snippets and examples.</p><p><a href="https://interlisp.org/documentation/1986-interlisp-language-book-1.pdf" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="interlisp.org/documentation/1986-interlisp-language-book-1.pdf"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">interlisp.org/documentation/19</span><span class="invisible">86-interlisp-language-book-1.pdf</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/interlisp/" rel="tag">#interlisp</a> <a href="/tags/lisp/" rel="tag">#lisp</a> <a href="/tags/retrocomputing/" rel="tag">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

<p>&quot;Our national epic has yet to be written.&quot;</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1904.</p><p>Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called &quot;Bloomsday&quot; in honour of the novel&#x27;s main character Leopold Bloom.</p><p>Happy Bloomsday Day!</p><p>Ulysses is available at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4300" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4300</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>More on school book bans from Kelly Jensen for BookRiot:</p><p>&quot;There are now 19 books prohibited in any Utah public school. Of them, 16 are written by women, and their average publication date is 2011. This means that most of these books have been on shelves and available for many years and caused no issues until this manufactured crisis.&quot;</p><p>&quot;There are 42 public school districts in Utah, but two districts account for nearly 80% of the books banned statewide&quot;</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/writersofmastodon/" rel="tag">#writersofmastodon</a> <a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</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><p><a href="https://bookriot.com/utah-bans-thirteen-reasons-why/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookriot.com/utah-bans-thirteen-reasons-why/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookriot.com/utah-bans-thirtee</span><span class="invisible">n-reasons-why/</span></a></p>

<p>Ovid’s Metamorphoses is all about mothers</p><p>Mothers don’t normally belong in Latin epics, which were meant to be devoted to warriors and warfare.</p><p>by Frances Myatt</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/ovids-metamorphoses-is-all-about-mothers-266383?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%208%202025%20-%203610136859&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%208%202025%20-%203610136859+CID_dd5bfffedf1c121cf798264446dd13b0&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&amp;utm_term=Ovids%20Metamorphoses%20is%20all%20about%20mothers" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/ovids-metamorphoses-is-all-about-mothers-266383?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%208%202025%20-%203610136859&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%208%202025%20-%203610136859+CID_dd5bfffedf1c121cf798264446dd13b0&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&amp;utm_term=Ovids%20Metamorphoses%20is%20all%20about%20mothers"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/ovids-meta</span><span class="invisible">morphoses-is-all-about-mothers-266383?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%208%202025%20-%203610136859&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%208%202025%20-%203610136859+CID_dd5bfffedf1c121cf798264446dd13b0&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&amp;utm_term=Ovids%20Metamorphoses%20is%20all%20about%20mothers</span></a></p><p>Metamorphoses at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21765" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21765</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>This week&#x27;s <a href="/tags/newbooks/" rel="tag">#NewBooks</a> at the library: I bought several second copies of<br>- How the Mind Changed: A Human History of our Evolving Brain<br>- Kate Raworth&#x27;s Doughnut <a href="/tags/economics/" rel="tag">#Economics</a>: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist. We had hoped to get this signed when she recently spoke in London, but, alas, failed.<br>- An ex-library copy of an older classic on <a href="/tags/buffon/" rel="tag">#Buffon</a>: From Natural History to the History of Nature: Readings from Buffon and His Critics, of which I made a note after reviewing Every Living Thing some time back.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/scicomm/" rel="tag">#Scicomm</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/neurobiology/" rel="tag">#Neurobiology</a> <a href="/tags/degrowth/" rel="tag">#Degrowth</a> <a href="/tags/historyofscience/" rel="tag">#HistoryOfScience</a> <a href="/tags/sciencehistory/" rel="tag">#ScienceHistory</a> <a href="/tags/histsci/" rel="tag">#HistSci</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>

<p>Looking for a new ebook? My novel THE EXPERT OF SUBTLE REVISIONS is on sale now! Just 1.99, wherever you buy ebooks.</p><p>&quot;In this &#x27;appealing intellectual mystery&#x27; (Publishers Weekly) spanning continents, Hase knows exactly what to do when her dad goes missing: Go to the library, find a specific book, and follow instructions. &#x27;Brilliant, uplifting… I was swept away&#x27; (New York Times bestselling author Janet Skeslien Charles).&quot;</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/writersofmastodon/" rel="tag">#writersofmastodon</a> <a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</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><p><a href="https://www.bookbub.com/books/the-expert-of-subtle-revisions-by-kirsten-menger-anderson-2025-10-22?ebook_deal" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.bookbub.com/books/the-expert-of-subtle-revisions-by-kirsten-menger-anderson-2025-10-22?ebook_deal"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.bookbub.com/books/the-expe</span><span class="invisible">rt-of-subtle-revisions-by-kirsten-menger-anderson-2025-10-22?ebook_deal</span></a></p>

<p>The waitlist for “A Man Called Ove” Fredrik Backman at my local library has shrunk from about a year to about a month, so I finally requested a copy.</p><p>Isn’t it nice when libraries are able to dramatically increase their supply of popular titles? </p><p>It’s a title I’ve been hemming and hawing about for ages. We’ll see if I like it! In the meantime, maybe I should finally watch the film. </p><p><a href="/tags/amreading/" rel="tag">#AmReading</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/tbr/" rel="tag">#TBR</a> <a href="/tags/filmmastodon/" rel="tag">#FilmMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/library/" rel="tag">#Library</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>Italian mathematician, astronomer and engineer Giovanni Domenico Cassini was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1625.</p><p>His observations &amp; calculations helped to confirm &amp; refine Kepler’s laws of planetary motion. He formulated Cassini’s Law, describing the rotational behavior of the Moon, which was crucial for understanding the Moon&#x27;s synchronous rotation with the Earth. He was involved in measuring the meridian arc of Paris, contributing to the accurate determination of the shape of the Earth.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#astronomy</a></p>

<p>📚 Crying in H Mart by: Michelle Zauner</p><p>In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother&#x27;s particular, high expec...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/crying-in-h-mart" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/crying-in-h-mart"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/crying-in-</span><span class="invisible">h-mart</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/biographyautobiography/" rel="tag">#biographyautobiography</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/apeoplesclimate/" rel="tag">#APeoplesClimate</a> welcomes <a href="/tags/leahpenniman/" rel="tag">#LeahPenniman</a>, founder of <a href="/tags/soulfirefarm/" rel="tag">#SoulFireFarm</a> and author of <a href="/tags/farmingwhileblack/" rel="tag">#FarmingWhileBlack</a> </p><p>&quot;From the legacy of <a href="/tags/blackfarmers/" rel="tag">#BlackFarmers</a> in the U.S. to the ongoing exploitation of agricultural workers, this conversation reveals how land is not only the foundation of sustenance but the basis of revolution, independence, and justice.&quot; </p><p><a href="https://www.thenation.com/podcast/environment/peoplesclimate-10252025/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thenation.com/podcast/environment/peoplesclimate-10252025/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thenation.com/podcast/envi</span><span class="invisible">ronment/peoplesclimate-10252025/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/blackhistory/" rel="tag">#BlackHistory</a> <a href="/tags/decolonialstruggles/" rel="tag">#decolonialStruggles</a> <a href="/tags/afroindigenousfarming/" rel="tag">#AfroIndigenousFarming</a> <a href="/tags/sustainablefarming/" rel="tag">#sustainableFarming</a> <a href="/tags/agriculture/" rel="tag">#agriculture</a> <a href="/tags/environmentaljustice/" rel="tag">#environmentalJustice</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>