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<p>In July 1866.</p><p> Anthony Trollope's novel Nina Balatka: The Story of a Maiden of Prague is initially published anonymously (serialisation in Blackwood's Magazine July 1866–January 1867). Trollope is interested in discovering whether his books sell on their own merits or as a consequence of the author's name and reputation.</p><p>Nina Balakta at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8897" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8897</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

First edition title page of Nina Balatka by Anthony Trollope.

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<p>"Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will."</p><p>In July 1862.</p><p>George Eliot's historical novel Romola begins serialization in Cornhill Magazine, the first time she has published a full-length book in this format. George Murray Smith of the publishers Smith, Elder & Co. has agreed a £7,000 advance for it. It was first published as a book, in three volumes, by Smith, Elder & Co. in 1863.</p><p>Romola at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/24020" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/24020</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

First edition of Romola bye George Sand.

The novel first appeared in fourteen parts published in Cornhill Magazine from July 1862 (vol. 6, no. 31) to August 1863 (vol. 8, no. 44), and was first published as a book, in three volumes, by Smith, Elder & Co. in 1863.

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<p>This week I've been mainly reading, no. 264. </p><p>Claire Baglin's novella, On the Clock (2022/25) is a mediation on being working-class in France, told through the narrators childhood experiences of her father's working life, and her subsequent work at a fast-food restaurant. Its a melancholy but telling read of the relentlessness of working class labour & the explorative manner of work for the low paid. While short it packs quite a (subtle) punch.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> @bookstodon <a href="/tags/workers/" rel="tag">#workers</a> <a href="/tags/france/" rel="tag">#France</a></p>

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<p>"And they talked about the mediocrity of provincial life, so suffocating, so fatal to all noble dreams."</p><p>Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert was published <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1857. It tells the story of Emma, a doctor’s wife bored with provincial life. She seeks escape through affairs and overspending, leading to ruin. The novel caused scandal but became a major work of French literature.</p><p>Madame Bovary at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2413" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2413</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Emma Bovary and Rodolphe. Composition by Alfred de Richemont, etched by Carlo Chessa for Gustave Flaubert’s novel "Madame Bovary", Paris: A. and F. Ferroud, Librairie des Amateurs, 1905.

A woman stands beside a seated man on a sofa, and they hold hands while looking at each other. The man gazes up at her with affection or intensity, while she appears reserved or contemplative.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Madame_Bovary_(roman)?uselang=fr#/media/File:Alfred_de_Richemont_-_Madame_Bovary_-_Emma_Bovary_et_Rodolphe.jpg

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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? November 4

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Nobody's Girl A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice PDF Ebook

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<p>How quickly this moment would pass, how deeply it impressed itself on both their hearts.</p><p>The love of a mother for a child is profound; the trust of that child in the mother is unyielding.</p><p>Isn't this what matters, what really, really matters? Our love for one another, our determination to be there, our relationships that hold and hug us tight?</p><p>Seaside Story canvas print -- <a href="https://stevehendersonart.com/featured/seaside-story-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="stevehendersonart.com/featured/seaside-story-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stevehendersonart.com/featured</span><span class="invisible">/seaside-story-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/artwork/" rel="tag">#artwork</a> <a href="/tags/mastoart/" rel="tag">#mastoart</a> <a href="/tags/fediart/" rel="tag">#fediart</a> <a href="/tags/buyintoart/" rel="tag">#buyintoart</a> <a href="/tags/ayearforart/" rel="tag">#ayearforart</a> <a href="/tags/family/" rel="tag">#family</a> <a href="/tags/love/" rel="tag">#love</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

Canvas print of an original oil painting depicting a mother and child reading at the beach.

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<p>How a misread Arabic tale misled generations of historians about the Black Death's rapid spread<br>by University of Exeter</p><p>by Stephanie Baum & Robert Egan</p><p><a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-11-misread-arabic-tale-misled-generations.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="phys.org/news/2025-11-misread-arabic-tale-misled-generations.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-11-misread-</span><span class="invisible">arabic-tale-misled-generations.html</span></a></p><p>Black death at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/698" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/698"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">ct/698</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/archeology/" rel="tag">#archeology</a> <a href="/tags/humanhealth/" rel="tag">#humanhealth</a></p>

Pieter Bruegel's The Triumph of Death reflects the social upheaval and terror that followed the plague, which devastated medieval Europe.

A moral work depicting Death's triumph over worldly things, symbolized by a great army of skeletons ravaging the Earth. In the background is a barren landscape where scenes of destruction continue to unfold. In the foreground, Death, riding a red horse at the head of his armies, destroys the world of the living, who are led to an enormous coffin with no hope of salvation. All social classes are included in the composition, with neither power nor devotion able to save them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death#/media/File:The_Triumph_of_Death_by_Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder.jpg

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<p>book talk: <a href="/tags/raidingtheheartland/" rel="tag">#RaidingTheHeartland</a></p><p>"Author <a href="/tags/williamlopez/" rel="tag">#WilliamLopez</a> documented the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (<a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a>) raids on small and rural towns -- and the fallout for families and local economies. The book is based on his own field work in communities and workplaces." </p><p><a href="https://www.c-span.org/program/book-tv/raiding-the-heartland/666302" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.c-span.org/program/book-tv/raiding-the-heartland/666302"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.c-span.org/program/book-tv</span><span class="invisible">/raiding-the-heartland/666302</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USpolitics</a> <a href="/tags/iceraids/" rel="tag">#ICEraids</a> <a href="/tags/icedetentions/" rel="tag">#ICEdetentions</a> <a href="/tags/immigrantrights/" rel="tag">#immigrantRights</a> <a href="/tags/immigrantworkers/" rel="tag">#immigrantWorkers</a> <a href="/tags/staterepression/" rel="tag">#stateRepression</a> <a href="/tags/familyseparation/" rel="tag">#familySeparation</a> <a href="/tags/racializedcommunities/" rel="tag">#racializedCommunities</a> <a href="/tags/racializedpolicing/" rel="tag">#racializedPolicing</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>I need this machine really badly.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/picture/2024/aug/17/tom-gauld-on-how-to-manage-your-unread-books-pile-cartoon" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/books/picture/2024/aug/17/tom-gauld-on-how-to-manage-your-unread-books-pile-cartoon"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/books/pict</span><span class="invisible">ure/2024/aug/17/tom-gauld-on-how-to-manage-your-unread-books-pile-cartoon</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/comics/" rel="tag">#comics</a> <a href="/tags/humour/" rel="tag">#humour</a></p>

A cartoon with woman holding a book next to a Rube Goldberg contraption. If she puts that book on a shelf that is already full of unread books, the shelf will slide down, activating a set of gears, rods and pulleys that will switch off an internet router and hide a credit card, library card and bookshop loyalty card. Below the cartoon a text reads: "When the quantity of unread books reaches a specific weight, the mechanism restricts the reader's ability to add to their stockpile until the backlog has been reduced."

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<p>What Did Sigmund Freud Have to Say About Leonardo da Vinci?</p><p>According to Sigmund Freud, Leonardo da Vinci’s early life experiences as a child raised by a single mother shaped his art and research.</p><p>by Anastasiia Kirpalov</p><p><a href="https://www.thecollector.com/what-sigmund-freud-say-leonardo-da-vinci/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/what-sigmund-freud-say-leonardo-da-vinci/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thecollector.com/what-sigm</span><span class="invisible">und-freud-say-leonardo-da-vinci/</span></a></p><p>Freud and Da Vinci 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><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1629" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1629"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1629</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

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

Freud is shown from the waist up and turned slightly toward the viewer’s left.

He wears a three-piece suit with a waistcoat, crisp white shirt and tie.

He holds a cigar in his right hand. The cigar is held away from the body.

His face shows a contemplative look: his hair is thin and combed back, his beard neatly trimmed, and his gaze direct and thoughtful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud#/media/File:Sigmund_Freud,_by_Max_Halberstadt_(cropped).jpg

Self-portrait by Leonardo, ~1510–1515, red chalk, Turin, Royal Library, inv. no. 15571

The drawing presents the head and shoulders of Leonardo in three-quarter view, turned slightly to his left.

He has long, wavy hair falling to his shoulders, a full beard and moustache, and a furrowed brow. The hair and beard are depicted with flowing lines of chalk.

The face shows signs of advanced age: deeper lines, pronounced cheekbones, bags beneath the eyes, and sagging of features.

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci#/media/File:Leonardo_self.jpg

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Nobody's Girl A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice PDF Ebook

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<p>Another book list to tempt you, this one thanks to the excellent journal, World Literature Today, of their choice of seventy-five notable translations into English published in 2025. <br><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/translations/" rel="tag">#translations</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</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://worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/lit-lists/world-literature-todays-75-notable-translations-2025-michelle-johnson" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/lit-lists/world-literature-todays-75-notable-translations-2025-michelle-johnson"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/</span><span class="invisible">lit-lists/world-literature-todays-75-notable-translations-2025-michelle-johnson</span></a></p>

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<p><a href="https://communitymedia.video/w/h1jdbHm8xTj5VEDuCWAbBW" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="communitymedia.video/w/h1jdbHm8xTj5VEDuCWAbBW"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">communitymedia.video/w/h1jdbHm</span><span class="invisible">8xTj5VEDuCWAbBW</span></a><br><a href="/tags/lispygopherclimate/" rel="tag">#lispyGopherClimate</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a> <a href="/tags/weekly/" rel="tag">#weekly</a></p><p>featuring <span class="h-card"><a href="https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kentpitman</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fe.disroot.org/users/ramin_hal9001" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ramin_hal9001</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.linkerror.com/@jns" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jns</span></a></span> <br>Longterm <a href="/tags/reliability/" rel="tag">#reliability</a> , the <a href="/tags/climatecrisis/" rel="tag">#climateCrisis</a> , technology and knowledge</p><p>Kent has found the source to his Cross referenced editing facility from Open University <a href="/tags/lisp/" rel="tag">#lisp</a> <a href="/tags/lispm/" rel="tag">#lispm</a> example.</p><p><a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> with this theme? Ending of Cats Cradle?</p><p>On the <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> side check, @prahou 's <a href="/tags/unix_surrealism/" rel="tag">#unix_surrealism</a>, <a href="https://photronic.art" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>photronic.art</a></p><p>Happy <a href="/tags/lambdamoo/" rel="tag">#lambdaMOO</a> year! 35 years! <a href="https://lambda.moo.mud.org" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>lambda.moo.mud.org</a> as always.</p>

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<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/TrollSong" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/TrollSong</a></p><p>Having an abusive assassin for a sister was bad enough, but when Lyra’s older sister, Nicole, becomes obsessed with killing the teenage troll, her life becomes a special kind of nightmare. Will she escape, or become just another victim of the unstoppable woman?</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>

(Left) The cover of Troll Song, by Owen Tyme, Illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

There's a woman in mud spattered white, leather armor crossing a pair of short swords against the neck of a terrified, shirtless dwarf.

The woman has white hair and a darker skin tone on the left side of her face. Her left eye is green and her right eye is blue.

The dwarf's hair and beard are blond.

The background is a green forest, with some flowers among the tall grass.

(Right) Text over a background of a woman in a parka standing near the exit of an ice cave.

The text lists traits of the woman from the cover, including green check marks and red 'x' marks, to mark qualities she does and does not possess:

✓ Amazing reflexes
✓ Regeneration
✓ Telepathy
✓ Incredible persistence

x Loving sister
x Sanity
x Any measure of mercy
x Stoppable

Oh, dear…

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/TrollSong

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<p>43 of the Most Iconic Short Stories in the English Language</p><p>From Washington Irving to Kristen Roupenian</p><p>by Emily Temple</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/43-of-the-most-iconic-short-stories-in-the-english-language/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01K79MGEGZH9P99XV5TYYXXQ4V&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/43-of-the-most-iconic-short-stories-in-the-english-language/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01K79MGEGZH9P99XV5TYYXXQ4V&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/43-of-the-most-icon</span><span class="invisible">ic-short-stories-in-the-english-language/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01K79MGEGZH9P99XV5TYYXXQ4V&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER</span></a></p><p>Short stories at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/634" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/634"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/books</span><span class="invisible">helf/634</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Cover page

Title: Rip Van Winkle

Author: Washington Irving

Illustrator: Arthur Rackham

Caption: “He used to console himself by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the sages, philosophers and other idle personages, which held its sessions before a small inn.”

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/60976/pg60976-images.html

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<p>One of my favourite romance books out of all the audiobooks I've narrated is Scar by Kelsie Calloway. (I narrated this one as Eden Cavell.)</p><p>Scar's a reclusive mountain man who's given up on love. Marilyn's the natural disaster he didn't see coming. When they face an Alaskan avalanche together, she turns his world upside-down!</p><p>Scar is a 6'6", rugged Alakan outdoorsman and I am a petite woman. I love that audiobook narration means I got to voice such a gruff, manly character -- who I would never be cast to play in a normal acting situation.</p><p>This story is a classic grumpy-sunshine pairing and it's also an Experienced Older Man + Younger Woman age gap romance. It's both sweet and spicy.</p><p>There's one particular spicy story element that deserves a content warning (you'll love it or hate it), so I'll put that under a content warning below so you only see the spoiler if you want to.</p><p>Available in audiobook on Apple Books, Amazon and Audible, plus in ebook on Amazon.</p><p><a href="https://geni.us/scarh" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>geni.us/scarh</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@audiofiction" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>audiofiction</span></a></span> <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/romance/" rel="tag">#Romance</a> <a href="/tags/audiobook/" rel="tag">#Audiobook</a> <a href="/tags/audiobooks/" rel="tag">#Audiobooks</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/ebooks/" rel="tag">#Ebooks</a> <a href="/tags/audible/" rel="tag">#Audible</a> <a href="/tags/amazon/" rel="tag">#Amazon</a> <a href="/tags/applebooks/" rel="tag">#AppleBooks</a> <a href="/tags/romancebooks/" rel="tag">#RomanceBooks</a> <a href="/tags/romancelandia/" rel="tag">#Romancelandia</a></p>

Square audiobook cover, showing a muscular, bare-chested man with a dark beard. He is pulling the hood of his unzipped grey hoodie up over his head. Text says "Scar: The Men of Devil's Peak. Kelsie Calloway. Now in Audio."

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<p>Why not both?</p><p>There is some international overlap. Swiss composer Arthur Honegger (1892-1955) published his first symphony in 1930, a commission for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. <br> <br>By John Mark Ockerbloom</p><p><a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/10/why-not-both/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/10/why-not-both/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everybodyslibraries.com/2025/1</span><span class="invisible">2/10/why-not-both/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/publicdomaindaycountdown/" rel="tag">#publicDomainDayCountdown</a></p>

Arthur Honegger (1892-1955), Swiss composer. Picture taken in 1928 : glass negative, restored and cropped print.

Agence de presse Meurisse - This file comes from Gallica Digital Library and is available under the digital ID btv1b9041196z

The formal black and white image shows Honegger in his mid-30s wearing a dark suit with patterned tie, his distinctive wavy hair and intense gaze capturing the serious demeanor of this prominent 20th-century composer. From the Gallica Digital Library collection.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Arthur_Honegger#/media/File:Arthur_Honegger_b_Meurisse_1928.jpg

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<p>Settling accounts</p><p>Before he was famous, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was Louise Dupin’s scribe. It’s her ideas on inequality that fill his writings</p><p>by Rebecca Wilkin</p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/inequality-was-a-feminist-idea-before-it-was-rousseaus?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=860692e0f7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_10_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="aeon.co/essays/inequality-was-a-feminist-idea-before-it-was-rousseaus?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=860692e0f7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_10_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/essays/inequality-was-</span><span class="invisible">a-feminist-idea-before-it-was-rousseaus?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=860692e0f7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_10_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972</span></a></p><p>Rousseau at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1286" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1286"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1286</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

The Declaration of Love (c1724) by Jean François de Troy.

The painting depicts an intimate and elegant moment of courtship in an 18th-century refined interior or garden setting. At its centre, a young gentleman kneels before a seated young lady: he extends a small bouquet of flowers with one hand while placing his other hand to his heart.

The lady, dressed in sumptuous silk‐embroidered attire, receives the gesture with composed modesty: she looks somewhat downward and sideways.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Declarationoflove.jpg

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<p>50% off @ <a href="/tags/smashwords/" rel="tag">#Smashwords</a>: <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1899894" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smashwords.com/books/view/1899894"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smashwords.com/books/view/</span><span class="invisible">1899894</span></a></p><p>Amelia and The Book of Newts are in conflict. She wants to explore her feelings. It wants to explore space, taking back the gift for mathematics it gave her. She’s unable to plot a course home, but desperate to see the man she loves, lest she lose him forever…</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> <a href="/tags/eoysale25/" rel="tag">#EOYSale25</a> <a href="/tags/ebook/" rel="tag">#ebook</a> <a href="/tags/sale/" rel="tag">#sale</a> <a href="/tags/books2read/" rel="tag">#books2read</a> <a href="/tags/indiebooks/" rel="tag">#indiebooks</a></p>

(Left) The cover of The Next Horizon, by Owen Tyme.

The black silhouette of a man and woman hugging and kissing. The woman has lifted one leg, while the man leans toward her. They stand atop the dark side of a planet or moon in space, which has a slim crescent along the right side. The background in the stars of space, but some have been highlighted with a heat shape that surrounds the kissing couple. Everything is in shades of blue.

(Right) Deep space, displaying the edge of an orange and blue gaseous cloud from a nebula, while most of the stars appear golden in color. Floating in space is a square, red leather book with the image of a newt stamped on the cover. Over the top of everything is the following text:

“You can back down and cooperate, right now, or Marta will hit you so hard, you should reach a tenth the speed of light…”

“No one will ever find you again, but even if someone does, there’s no way they’ll have the capacity to safely slow you down, before you’re gone to them!”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/TheNextHorizon

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<p>Celebrating Sir Tim Berners-Lee, 2025 Internet Archive Hero Award Recipient <a href="https://blog.archive.org/2025/11/05/celebrating-sir-tim-berners-lee-2025-internet-archive-hero-award-recipient/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blog.archive.org/2025/11/05/celebrating-sir-tim-berners-lee-2025-internet-archive-hero-award-recipient/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.archive.org/2025/11/05/ce</span><span class="invisible">lebrating-sir-tim-berners-lee-2025-internet-archive-hero-award-recipient/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

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<p>Pepper Basham on How The Secret Garden Inspired Her Love for British Literature</p><p>"I can still find my way there through these pages. Some gardens, it turns out, are always in season."</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/pepper-basham-on-how-the-secret-garden-inspired-her-love-for-british-literature/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/pepper-basham-on-how-the-secret-garden-inspired-her-love-for-british-literature/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/pepper-basham-on-ho</span><span class="invisible">w-the-secret-garden-inspired-her-love-for-british-literature/</span></a></p><p>The secret garden at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17396" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17396</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/literarycriticism/" rel="tag">#literarycriticism</a></p>

"IT SEEMED SCARCELY BEARABLE TO LEAVE SUCH DELIGHTFULNESS"

A girl in a grey-blue dress and hat, and a red-haired boy in a white shirt — sitting cross-legged on the grass beneath a spreading tree, facing each other with absorbed attention. Between them, a small fox lies curled on the ground, apparently tame or injured, the focus of their gentle care. A red squirrel perches on the boy's shoulder. High in the branches above, a magpie watches the scene.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/17396/pg17396-images.html#Page_231

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<p>Ebook 25% off on Itch.io: <a href="https://owentyme.itch.io/legacy-of-newts" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="owentyme.itch.io/legacy-of-newts"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">owentyme.itch.io/legacy-of-new</span><span class="invisible">ts</span></a><br>Also in other stores: <a href="https://books2read.com/LegacyOfNewts" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/LegacyOfNewts</a></p><p>The undead witch that rules the space pirates, known as the Dead Queen, has finally been defeated. That only makes it worse for the witches that pulled it off. She's livid and coming for them, at least once she gets her star ship back under control…</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> <a href="/tags/itchio/" rel="tag">#itchio</a> <a href="/tags/sale/" rel="tag">#sale</a></p>

(Left) The cover of Legacy of Newts, by Owen Tyme.

In the background dawn, as seen from space, above a blue world.

In the foreground is a line drawing of a red spotted newt, in white. The lines of the newt are outlined in black, to help it stand out. The interior of the line drawing has been filled with the image of a spiral galaxy in red, orange and yellow, with a blue color that shades to white at the center, which lines up with the newt's head. The galaxy almost looks like fire.

(Right) The background is a blue and orange nebula, with the following text over it:

“You gotta be real strong, real bright, real quick, or real lucky to survive drawing *attention*. Which are you?”

“I’m quick, Amelia is bright, Marta is strong and all three of us have been lucky, after a fashion: if we didn’t have bad luck, then I suppose we wouldn’t have any luck at all.”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/LegacyOfNewts

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<p>"The dusk crept out across the fields wiping out the day's light."<br>Black April (1927)</p><p>American author Julia Peterkin died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1961.</p><p>In 1929 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Novel/Literature for her novel Scarlet Sister Mary. She wrote several novels about the plantation South, especially the Gullah people of the Lowcountry. She was one of the few white authors who wrote about the African-American experience.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Peterkin" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Peterkin"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Pe</span><span class="invisible">terkin</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72611" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72611</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Doris Ulmann and Julia Peterkin.

Julia Peterkin, an author who focused on similar themes in her writing, might be seen standing or sitting beside Ulmann, engaged in conversation or simply sharing a moment of quiet reflection. Peterkin might also be dressed in a similar style, with her hair possibly pinned up. The background of the photograph is likely simple, perhaps a natural outdoor setting or a rustic interior, consistent with the subjects of their work.

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<p>I'm a fan of 4A games and the Metro franchise, but I've never read the books. Finally, now I have one, I've wanted to read it for a long time, because I really love the Ukrainian game Metro. But first I'll read The Murderbot Diaries books, and then Metro.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/scifibooks/" rel="tag">#scifibooks</a></p>

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