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<p>Plato and the Poets</p><p>The centuries-old debate should be settled: an intellectual world bereft of poetry is a damaged one.</p><p>by Elaine Scarry</p><p><a href="https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/plato-and-the-poets/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.bostonreview.net/articles/plato-and-the-poets/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.bostonreview.net/articles/</span><span class="invisible">plato-and-the-poets/</span></a></p><p>Plato at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/93" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/93"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/93</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/philosophy/" rel="tag">#philosophy</a></p>

Parts of P.Oxy. LII 3679, 3rd century, containing fragments of Plato's Republic.

The visible portion of the papyrus displays Greek text in several lines of uncial script, with some variation in the size of the letters and some spacing between columns or lines.

There are holes, tears, frayed edges and missing sections. Some of the text is missing or worn away, and there are irregular boundaries where pieces have broken off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato#/media/File:P._Oxy._LII_3679.jpg

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<p>Some <a href="/tags/peertube/" rel="tag">#PeerTube</a> video accounts you might want to follow about <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#Writing</a> & <a href="/tags/authors/" rel="tag">#Authors</a> :</p><p>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="[{'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://spectra.video/a/kerry_ferrand/video-channels', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}, {'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://spectra.video/a/kerry_ferrand', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}, {'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://spectra.video/accounts/kerry_ferrand', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}]" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kerry_ferrand</span></a></span> - In-depth book reviews and book hauls</p><p>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="[{'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://makertube.net/a/faereviews/video-channels', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}, {'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://makertube.net/a/faereviews', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}, {'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://makertube.net/accounts/faereviews', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}]" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>faereviews</span></a></span> - Brief reviews & shorts about romantic fantasy books</p><p>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="https://spectra.video/accounts/weirdwriter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>weirdwriter</span></a></span> - Blind author posting videos on writing, accessibility, gaming etc</p><p>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="[{'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://spectra.video/a/mcoorlim/video-channels', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}, {'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://spectra.video/a/mcoorlim', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}, {'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://spectra.video/accounts/mcoorlim', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}]" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mcoorlim</span></a></span> - Steampunk novelist, retro game fan</p><p>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="[{'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://tilvids.com/a/athenaproductions/video-channels', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}, {'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://tilvids.com/a/athenaproductions', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}, {'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://tilvids.com/accounts/athenaproductions', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}]" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>athenaproductions</span></a></span> - Irreverent sweary videos about history, philosophy, literature</p><p>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="[{'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://fedi.video/c/audiobooks/videos', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}, {'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://fedi.video/c/audiobooks', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}, {'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://fedi.video/video-channels/audiobooks', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}]" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>audiobooks</span></a></span> - Well-performed public domain audiobooks</p>

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<p>In December 1894.</p><p>An abridgement of Stephen Crane's American Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage is first published as a serial in The Philadelphia Press. This version of the story, which was culled to 18,000 words by an editor specifically for the serialization, was reprinted in newspapers across America, establishing Crane's fame.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Badge_of_Courage#" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Badge_of_Courage#"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_</span><span class="invisible">Badge_of_Courage#</span></a></p><p>The Red Badge of Courage at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/73" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/73</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Stephen Crane in 1894; print of a portrait by artist and friend Corwin K. Linson.

This portrait captures Crane at a pivotal moment in his life, just as his literary career was beginning to take shape with works like Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and The Red Badge of Courage on the horizon.

The artist has rendered Crane in formal attire, likely a dark suit and tie, fitting for the era, but the overall effect is understated, focusing more on his character than his clothing. Linson's technique—subtle shading and fine lines—gives the portrait a contemplative mood, drawing attention to Crane's intellect and introspection.

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<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@queerromanceclub" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>queerromanceclub</span></a></span> <a href="/tags/queerromanceclub/" rel="tag">#QueerRomanceClub</a> </p><p>I apologise, I’ve let the ball drop for the Queer Romance Club November read (got ever so slightly frantically busy the last few weeks…).</p><p>The theme is classics/old favourites, and I thought maybe instead of running a vote and picking a single book, queer romance fans can drop their recommendations in the comments:</p><p>- maybe the first romance you ever read that wasn’t just straight m/f (even if it was m/f with a bisexual character etc)<br>- nostalgic reads which might not hold up today but which you still have a soft spot for<br>- a classic of the genre which you think is the gold standard (I don’t know, like LoTR is for fantasy)<br>- even just books that are a few years old now that you think did not get the attention they deserved when they were released.</p><p>No need to be a regular participant in the QRC, this is just about blowing up those TBR lists :)</p><p>(But more about it here, FYI:<br><a href="https://mastodon.au/@wendypalmer/113144943004145104" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mastodon.au/@wendypalmer/113144943004145104"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.au/@wendypalmer/11314</span><span class="invisible">4943004145104</span></a>)</p><p><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> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtqbooks/" rel="tag">#LGBTQBooks</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtqromance/" rel="tag">#LGBTQRomance</a> <a href="/tags/romancelandia/" rel="tag">#romancelandia</a> <a href="/tags/romancereads/" rel="tag">#RomanceReads</a></p>

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<p>This week's <a href="/tags/newbooks/" rel="tag">#NewBooks</a> at the library:<br>- I adopted a damaged copy of David Farrier's Nature's Genius: Evolution's Lessons for a Changing Planet, published by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://bookish.community/@canongatebooks" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>canongatebooks</span></a></span>.</p><p>The other two are cases of the more I read, the more I go down rabbit holes.<br>- After reviewing Mysteries of the Deep, I bought an ex-library copy of the classic 1995 Paleoclimate and Evolution, with Emphasis on Human Origins, published by Yale University Press, to read more on the work of Elisabeth Vrba and colleagues (this one came from the holdings of the University Library of Durham)</p><p>- After reviewing Every Living Thing, I wanted to know more about Cuvier and tracked down an ex-library copy of the classic 1987 The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate: French Biology in the Decades Before Darwin, published by Oxford University Press (this one came from the holdings of the University of Saint Katherine Library) </p><p><a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/evolution/" rel="tag">#Evolution</a> <a href="/tags/palaeoclimate/" rel="tag">#Palaeoclimate</a> <a href="/tags/humanevolution/" rel="tag">#HumanEvolution</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> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/scicomm/" rel="tag">#Scicomm</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>

A top-down photo of three books lying on a small, brown, wooden table. The background shows part of the beech-coloured laminate floor.

On the left, Nature's Genius, showing a photo of a tree against a blue sky. The tree is impossibly clinging on with its root system to the very tip of a rocky outcrop, seemingly growing sideways out of the rock.

In the middle, decidedly bigger than the books on either side, is Paleoclimate and Evolution, with Emphasis on Human Origins, showing a collage of two photos that are diagonally stacked against each other. On the left is a black-and-white aerial photo of a glacial landscape, printed in blue tones (specifically showing the confluence of Beardmore and Mill Glaciers in Antarctica, credited to George H. Denton). On the right is a black-and-white photo of an open grassland savannah with some trees, printed in yellow tones (specifically showing savannah in the Serengeti in Tanzania, credited to Elisabeth S. Vrba). Overlain on the right photo is a drawing of the head and shoulders of a bearded and hairy hominin (specifically Homo habilis).

On the right, The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate, showing a plain hardcover bound in dark blue cloth with gilded lettering debossed in the cover.

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<p>The weather (in the Northern Hemisphere) is getting chilly, so it's a great time to warm up with a Mountain Man! </p><p>My best-selling romance audiobook of 2024 was Taken by the Mountain Man by Kelsie Calloway, which I narrated as Eden Cavell.</p><p>Lily is a divorced single mom starting over in a small mountain town… hoping for a second chance at romance with her brother's hot best friend Beckett! She can't forget their kiss under the mistletoe last Christmas. Maybe this is the year she can make her dreams come true.</p><p>Kelsie Calloway writes big-hearted, high heat romances with determined female leads, sweetheart male love interests, and sizzling sex scenes. Lily is a protagonist you can cheer for and Beckett is the kind of guy you'd hook up with your sister (if you weren't single yourself). </p><p>If you like second chance romance, brother's best friend romance, mountain man romance, or just plain spicy romance, this is a bestseller for a reason. </p><p>At 42 minutes, you can listen to this in one go and it makes a good bedtime story. </p><p>Available in audiobook on Apple Books, Amazon and Audible, plus in ebook on Amazon.</p><p><a href="https://geni.us/TBTMM" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>geni.us/TBTMM</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/audiobook/" rel="tag">#Audiobook</a> <a href="/tags/audiobooks/" rel="tag">#Audiobooks</a> <a href="/tags/audiofiction/" rel="tag">#Audiofiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/romance/" rel="tag">#Romance</a> <a href="/tags/romancebooks/" rel="tag">#RomanceBooks</a> <a href="/tags/romancelandia/" rel="tag">#Romancelandia</a></p>

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<p>Just hit pg 179 of the “remastered, full-color edition” of Mark Z. Danielewski’s “House of Leaves” and I need to gush about it somewhere. Obviously some (mild) spoilers on my end, but I’d appreciate no spoilers in the discussion below. </p> <p>I went into this mostly blind. I knew it was a horror novel, experimental; that it had inspired several cool “non-Euclidean” video games, and I knew it was about a house that’s “bigger on the inside”. I was also prepped for weirdness, as it’s often included in weird/horror fiction lists alongside the likes of Lovecraft & “The King in Yellow”. </p> <p>Honestly, I was ready to ditch this, but now I’m fully invested. </p> <p><details><summary>SPOILERS<br/></summary><p>I did <em>not</em> know about the footnotes. Or the formatting. Or the fonts. Or the meandering. Folks, last night I was ready to put this book down. Expedition #3 was underway, and I found myself having to hunt for each footnote. Back and forth, back and forth. Sometimes they’d go on for pages, and often they’d wander far away from the ongoing story. I’m pretty sure some didn’t exist. Then came Footnote #142. Completely blank. “What the hell? Just a dead en–” and that’s when it hit me - it’s a labyrinth. The book mimics the house. The <em>book</em> is a labyrinth. I’m bouncing between footnotes & story, between fonts/voices & tone. Sometimes it’s a dead end and I have to backtrack. Sometimes I feel a little progress. It’s a maze, and I’m suddenly excited & apprehensive to explore more of it. </p> <p>I mean… <em>damn</em>, Danielewski. I’m hooked. You got me.<br/></p></details> </p> <p>None of my friends have read it, so I had to release some excitement somewhere. Thanks for reading. </p> <p>Without spoiling anything, have you read / enjoyed House of Leaves? What’s your favorite “experimental” book?</p>

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<p>Step into 19th-century Ireland!</p><p>Forbidden love, family secrets, and a sweeping saga await in A Scarlet Woman. </p><p>Start reading The Fitzgeralds of Dublin series today in Kindle Unlimited. </p><p>Amazon - <a href="https://mybook.to/ascarletwoman" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>mybook.to/ascarletwoman</a></p><p><a href="/tags/thefitzgeraldsofdublinseries/" rel="tag">#TheFitzgeraldsOfDublinSeries</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/booksbylornapeel/" rel="tag">#BooksByLornaPeel</a> <a href="/tags/ireland/" rel="tag">#Ireland</a> <a href="/tags/bookseries/" rel="tag">#BookSeries</a> <a href="/tags/historicalfiction/" rel="tag">#HistoricalFiction</a> <a href="/tags/kindleunlimited/" rel="tag">#KindleUnlimited</a> <a href="/tags/romance/" rel="tag">#Romance</a> <a href="/tags/historicalromance/" rel="tag">#HistoricalRomance</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>

Promotional image for the Irish historical fiction novel A Scarlet Woman by Lorna Peel, book one in The Fitzgeralds of Dublin series, a 19th-century Irish family saga. The image shows a Kindle device displaying the book cover, which shows a late 19th-century woman with dark hair and a pink flower on her white dress, looking down pensively. Text on the ad reads: “Love that defies society. Secrets that shape a family.” and “Step into 19th-century Ireland and meet the Fitzgeralds of Dublin. Start the series today! Free to read with Kindle Unlimited.” The background is a faded image of Georgian townhouses on Merrion Square in Dublin, Ireland.

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

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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>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>

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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>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>Belle da Costa, the woman who concealed her origins in 1905 and ended up running New York’s most legendary library</p><p>The Morgan Library in New York pays tribute to its first director, who navigated a racist society and went on to lead the cultural institution for over two decades</p><p>by Use Lahoz</p><p><a href="https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-12-09/belle-da-costa-the-woman-who-concealed-her-origins-in-1905-and-ended-up-running-new-yorks-most-legendary-library.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="english.elpais.com/culture/2025-12-09/belle-da-costa-the-woman-who-concealed-her-origins-in-1905-and-ended-up-running-new-yorks-most-legendary-library.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">english.elpais.com/culture/202</span><span class="invisible">5-12-09/belle-da-costa-the-woman-who-concealed-her-origins-in-1905-and-ended-up-running-new-yorks-most-legendary-library.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/librarians/" rel="tag">#librarians</a> <a href="/tags/publiclibrary/" rel="tag">#publiclibrary</a></p>

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<p>Space travel is the lifeblood of the Sol system, connecting colonies scattered across planets, moons, and the far reaches of the Oort Cloud. Find out more! <a href="https://www.mpaxauthor.com/worldbuilding-spotlight-space-travel-in-the-sol-system/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.mpaxauthor.com/worldbuilding-spotlight-space-travel-in-the-sol-system/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.mpaxauthor.com/worldbuildi</span><span class="invisible">ng-spotlight-space-travel-in-the-sol-system/</span></a> <br><a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/readers/" rel="tag">#readers</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/worldbuiling/" rel="tag">#worldbuiling</a></p>

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<p>📚 The Chrysalids by: John Wyndham</p><p>David lives in a tight-knit community of religious and genetic fundamentalists, who exist in a state of constant alert for any deviation from what they perceive as the norm of God’s creation—deviations broadly classified as 'offenses' and 'blasphemies'. Offenses consist of plants and animals tha...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-chrysalids" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-chrysalids"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-chrysa</span><span class="invisible">lids</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/dystopianfiction/" rel="tag">#dystopianfiction</a> <a href="/tags/literary/" rel="tag">#literary</a></p>

David lives in a tight-knit community of religious and genetic fundamentalists, who exist in a state of constant alert for any deviation from what they perceive as the norm of God’s creation—deviations broadly classified as 'offenses' and 'blasphemies'. Offenses consist of plants and animals that are in any way unusual, and these are publicly burned to the accompaniment of the singing of hymns. Blasphemies are human beings—ones who show any sign of abnormality, however trivial. They are banished from human society, cast out to live in the wild country where, as the authorities say, nothing is reliable, and the devil does his work. David grows up surrounded by admonitions: KEEP PURE THE STOCK OF THE LORD; WATCH THOU FOR THE MUTANT.

At first, he hardly questions them, though he is shocked when his sternly pious father and rigidly compliant mother force his aunt to forsake her baby. It is a while before he realizes that he too is out of the ordinary, in possession of a power that could doom him to death or introduce him to a new, hitherto-unimagined world of freedom.

The Chrysalids is a perfectly conceived and constructed work from the classic era of science fiction. It is a Voltairean philosophical tale that has as much resonance in our own day, when genetic and religious fundamentalism are both on the march, as when it was written during the Cold War.

THE COLD WAR SCI-FI CLASSIC: Following a global nuclear war, a telepathic young boy searches for freedom in a fu

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<p>📚 All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by: Bryn Greenwood</p><p>As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations,...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/all-the-ugly-and-wonderful-things" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/all-the-ugly-and-wonderful-things"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/all-the-ug</span><span class="invisible">ly-and-wonderful-things</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></p>

As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house, until one night her star gazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck, she forms an unusual friendship with one of her father's thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold.

By the time Wavy is a teenager, her relationship with Kellen is the only tender thing in a brutal world of addicts and debauchery. When tragedy rips Wavy's family apart, a well-meaning aunt steps in, and what is beautiful to Wavy looks ugly under the scrutiny of the outside world. A powerful novel you won’t soon forget, Bryn Greenwood's All the Ugly and Wonderful Things challenges all we know and believe about love.

- A New York Times and USA Today bestseller
- Book of the Month Club 2016 Book of the Year
- Second Place Goodreads Best Fiction of 2016

A beautiful and provocative love story between two unlikely people and the hard-won relationship that elevates them above the Midwestern meth lab backdrop of their lives.

31 Books Bringing the Heat this Summer —Bustle

Top Ten Hottest Reads of 2016 —New York Daily News

Best Books of 2016 —St. Louis Post Dispatch

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<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@neve" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>neve</span></a></span> thank you for hosting the <a href="/tags/writephant/" rel="tag">#writephant</a> bi-monthly check-in, very useful timing for me at the transition from one project to the next 😊 </p><p><a href="/tags/selfpromo/" rel="tag">#SelfPromo</a> </p><p>I write fantasy with romance, mostly queer. My next book is out November 16 and features the ghosts of Hampton Court Palace, a Maremma named Max, and a friends-to-lovers gay romance.</p><p>Might be on preorder at your favourite retailer, definitely will be available on <a href="/tags/koboplus/" rel="tag">#KoboPlus</a>, <a href="/tags/everand/" rel="tag">#Everand</a> and <a href="/tags/hoopla/" rel="tag">#Hoopla</a>, and you can always ask for it at your library.</p><p>Or you can get it right now directly from me: <a href="https://payhip.com/b/A3P2i" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>payhip.com/b/A3P2i</a></p><p>And receive a free 2026 calendar featuring public-domain nineteenth-century artworks illustrating relevant book quotes.</p><p>Read about all my books here: <a href="https://wendypalmer.au/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>wendypalmer.au/</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/gayromance/" rel="tag">#gayRomance</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieAuthor</a> <a href="/tags/historicals/" rel="tag">#historicals</a> <a href="/tags/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#ReadingCommunity</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>

Cover of Grace & Favour. Blue and brass-yellow colours predominant. The title is in fancy font at the top, and there's what looks like a photo portrait in an ornate frame, of two men, one in a top hat, one holding a pocket watch, and a large white dog. In the background of the photo (actually a daguerreotype, but anachronistically in colour), there is the faint impression of a woman, transparent...you could say, almost ghostly...

Mood board for Grace & Favour. Has a painting by Turner (a watercolour of Hampton Court Palace from across the river), a daguerreotype in a case, a ghost postcard, a Scots phrasebook, and a big picture of Max, a Maremma livestock guard dog, big, white and fluffy.

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