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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1920.</p><p>The Salzburg Festival in Austria is inaugurated with a performance of Hugo von Hofmannsthal&#x27;s play Jedermann (Everyman, 1911) in front of Salzburg Cathedral, directed by Max Reinhardt.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedermann_(play)" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedermann_(play)"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jederman</span><span class="invisible">n_(play)</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salzburg_Festival" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salzburg_Festival"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salzburg</span><span class="invisible">_Festival</span></a></p><p>Jedermann: Das Spiel vom Sterben des reichen Mannes by Hugo von Hofmannsthal at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28949" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28949</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/theatre/" rel="tag">#theatre</a></p>

<p>Norwegian author Amalie Skram was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1846.</p><p>She gave voice to a woman&#x27;s point of view with her naturalist writing. Skram&#x27;s most famous works include the novels &quot;Constance Ring&quot;, &quot;Lucie&quot;, and the four-volume series &quot;Hellemyrsfolket&quot;, which provides a stark and realistic depiction of life in 19th-century Norway.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalie_Skram" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalie_Skram"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalie_S</span><span class="invisible">kram</span></a></p><p>Books about Amalie Skram at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68655" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68655</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1850 writer Robert Louis Stevenson was born.</p><p>Robert Louis Stevenson’s Art of Living (and Dying)</p><p>&quot;Trenton B. Olsen Explores How the Author Navigated a Lifetime of Chronic Illness&quot;</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/robert-louis-stevensons-art-of-living-and-dying/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/robert-louis-stevensons-art-of-living-and-dying/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/robert-louis-steven</span><span class="invisible">sons-art-of-living-and-dying/</span></a></p><p>Stevenson at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/35" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/35"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/35</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>I’ve enjoyed all of her other books, but Michelle Obama’s “The Look” was a DNF for me because fashion isn’t something I find interesting other than making sure my clothes and shoes are neat, clean, and comfortable to wear. </p><p>If you do like that topic, there are plenty of pictures of the fancy outfits she’s worn over the years in it. </p><p>There is something to be said for trying new stuff sometimes, though. </p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/fashion/" rel="tag">#Fashion</a> <a href="/tags/michelleobama/" rel="tag">#MichelleObama</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>Now Available: “On Web Development II”!:</p><p>A comprehensive ebook marking another 10 years of meiert.com, featuring 180 curated articles on web development from 2015 to 2025.</p><p><a href="https://meiert.com/blog/on-web-development-2/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="meiert.com/blog/on-web-development-2/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">meiert.com/blog/on-web-develop</span><span class="invisible">ment-2/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/webdev/" rel="tag">#webdev</a> <a href="/tags/html/" rel="tag">#html</a> <a href="/tags/css/" rel="tag">#css</a> <a href="/tags/management/" rel="tag">#management</a></p>

<p>&quot;On a memorable morning of early December London opened its eyes on a frigid gray mist...&quot;</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1891.</p><p>Israel Zangwill&#x27;s The Big Bow Mystery, the first classic full-length locked room mystery, begins serialization in The Star (London), before being published as a novel the following year.</p><p>It has been almost continuously in print since 1891 and has been used as the basis for three movies.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bow_Mystery" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bow_Mystery"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_</span><span class="invisible">Bow_Mystery</span></a></p><p>The Big Bow Mystery at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28164" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28164</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Alexander von Humboldt: the groundbreaking naturalist who bankrupted himself to share his life’s work.</p><p>By Bienvenido León via <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@ConversationUS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ConversationUS</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/alexander-von-humboldt-the-groundbreaking-naturalist-who-bankrupted-himself-to-share-his-lifes-work-237279" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/alexander-von-humboldt-the-groundbreaking-naturalist-who-bankrupted-himself-to-share-his-lifes-work-237279"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/alexander-</span><span class="invisible">von-humboldt-the-groundbreaking-naturalist-who-bankrupted-himself-to-share-his-lifes-work-237279</span></a></p><p>Books by Alexander von Humboldt at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1995" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1995"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1995</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/archeology/" rel="tag">#archeology</a></p>

<p>Ah, yes... a fresh stench of GOP control back where I used to live. 🤮 😠 Greenville County, <a href="/tags/southcarolina/" rel="tag">#SouthCarolina</a> stops all book fairs for all schools, since &quot;It is not possible for school personnel to vet all book fair content after it arrives, nor can vendors provide accurate content information far enough in advance for it to be vetted through the District prior to the start of fall book fairs.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.wyff4.com/article/greenville-county-schools-no-book-fairs/61945606" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.wyff4.com/article/greenville-county-schools-no-book-fairs/61945606"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.wyff4.com/article/greenvil</span><span class="invisible">le-county-schools-no-book-fairs/61945606</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/censorship/" rel="tag">#censorship</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a></p>

<p>Are you an Australian author of SFF with a book published this year? You have until the end of the month to enter it for the Aurealis Awards.</p><p><a href="https://aurealisawards.org/entry-forms/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="aurealisawards.org/entry-forms/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aurealisawards.org/entry-forms</span><span class="invisible">/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/amwriting/" rel="tag">#amwriting</a></p>

<p>Music and Musicians in the Medieval Persianate World</p><p>From royal courts to wine-filled gatherings, music played a vital role in medieval Persianate culture. Two remarkable texts — one practical, one theoretical — reveal how musicians lived, performed, and understood their art.</p><p>By Timur Khan</p><p><a href="https://www.medievalists.net/2025/11/music-and-musicians-in-the-medieval-persianate-world/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.medievalists.net/2025/11/music-and-musicians-in-the-medieval-persianate-world/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.medievalists.net/2025/11/m</span><span class="invisible">usic-and-musicians-in-the-medieval-persianate-world/</span></a></p><p>Music at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/677" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/677"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/books</span><span class="invisible">helf/677</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>📚 Flesh by: David Szalay</p><p>Teenaged István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. Shy and new in town, he is a stranger to the social rituals practiced by his classmates and is soon isolated, drawn instead into a series of events that leave him forever a stranger to peers, his mother, and himself. In the y...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/flesh" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/flesh</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/literaryfiction/" rel="tag">#literaryfiction</a> <a href="/tags/familylife/" rel="tag">#familylife</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/friendship/" rel="tag">#friendship</a></p>

<p>ICYMI </p><p>My zines and ebooks as pdfs.</p><p>Yes, Frankenstein, the Post ModerN Autism Mom is there too</p><p><a href="https://mepabsurdist.com" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>mepabsurdist.com</a></p><p><a href="/tags/frankenstein/" rel="tag">#frankenstein</a> <a href="/tags/zines/" rel="tag">#zines</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a></p>

<p>Belgian lawyer and bibliographer Paul Otlet was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1868.</p><p>He developed the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) system, an innovative and highly detailed method for cataloging information. Otlet envisioned a global network of information that could be accessed remotely, which he described in his writings as a &quot;réseau&quot; or network of knowledge.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Otlet" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Otlet"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Otl</span><span class="invisible">et</span></a></p><p>Books by Paul Otlet at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/50172" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/50172"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/50172</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>A particular genre. <a href="/tags/grickledoodle/" rel="tag">#grickledoodle</a> <a href="/tags/library/" rel="tag">#library</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/horror/" rel="tag">#horror</a> <a href="/tags/haunted/" rel="tag">#haunted</a> <a href="/tags/ghost/" rel="tag">#ghost</a> <a href="/tags/cartoon/" rel="tag">#cartoon</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/drawing/" rel="tag">#drawing</a> <a href="/tags/funny/" rel="tag">#funny</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/americanprestige/" rel="tag">#AmericanPrestige</a> pod welcomes <a href="/tags/omarzahzah/" rel="tag">#OmarZahzah</a>, author of <a href="/tags/termsofservitude/" rel="tag">#TermsOfServitude</a>: Zionism, <a href="/tags/siliconvalley/" rel="tag">#SiliconValley</a>, and Digital <a href="/tags/settlercolonialism/" rel="tag">#SettlerColonialism</a>. Discussion includes the <a href="/tags/sheikhjarrah/" rel="tag">#SheikhJarrah</a> uprising, the repressive weaponizing of <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> and <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> against <a href="/tags/palestinians/" rel="tag">#Palestinians</a>, and Palestinian use of <a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#socialMedia</a> to change the narrative of their struggle. </p><p><a href="https://americanprestige.supportingcast.fm/listen/american-prestige-1/e334-silicon-valley-and-the-israeli-occupation-w-omar-zahzah" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="americanprestige.supportingcast.fm/listen/american-prestige-1/e334-silicon-valley-and-the-israeli-occupation-w-omar-zahzah"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">americanprestige.supportingcas</span><span class="invisible">t.fm/listen/american-prestige-1/e334-silicon-valley-and-the-israeli-occupation-w-omar-zahzah</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/digitalmedia/" rel="tag">#digitalMedia</a> <a href="/tags/mediacriticism/" rel="tag">#mediaCriticism</a> <a href="/tags/bigtech/" rel="tag">#BigTech</a> <a href="/tags/opt/" rel="tag">#oPt</a> <a href="/tags/censorship/" rel="tag">#censorship</a> <a href="/tags/digitalcensorship/" rel="tag">#digitalCensorship</a> <a href="/tags/cyberharassment/" rel="tag">#cyberharassment</a> <a href="/tags/digitalrights/" rel="tag">#digitalRights</a> <a href="/tags/gaza/" rel="tag">#Gaza</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>

<p>&quot;We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead.&quot;</p><p>~Philips Gibbs. In : The Pageant of the Years</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1918 - Armistice Day</p><p>The Soul of a Nation by Philip Gibbs is available at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41308" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41308</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/armistice/" rel="tag">#armistice</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>&quot;There are no stars so lovely as Edinburgh street-lamps...&quot; </p><p>Happy birthday to local lad, &amp; one of our favourite storytellers, Robert Louis Stevenson (portrait by Nerli, in the National Galleries of Scotland collection) </p><p>.</p><p>.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/livres/" rel="tag">#livres</a> <a href="/tags/robertlouisstevenson/" rel="tag">#RobertLouisStevenson</a> <a href="/tags/edinburgh/" rel="tag">#Edinburgh</a> <a href="/tags/edimbourg/" rel="tag">#Edimbourg</a> <a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/auteur/" rel="tag">#auteur</a> <a href="/tags/birthday/" rel="tag">#birthday</a> <a href="/tags/anniversaire/" rel="tag">#anniversaire</a> <a href="/tags/scottishliterature/" rel="tag">#ScottishLiterature</a> <a href="/tags/scotland/" rel="tag">#Scotland</a> <a href="/tags/ecosse/" rel="tag">#Ecosse</a> <a href="/tags/litteratureecossaise/" rel="tag">#LitteratureEcossaise</a></p>

<p>📚 The Emperor of Gladness: Oprah&#x27;s Book Club by: Ocean Vuong</p><p>The hardest thing in the world is to live only once…</p><p>One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-emperor-of-gladness-oprahs-book-club" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-emperor-of-gladness-oprahs-book-club"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-empero</span><span class="invisible">r-of-gladness-oprahs-book-club</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/literaryfiction/" rel="tag">#literaryfiction</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtq/" rel="tag">#lgbtq</a> <a href="/tags/general/" rel="tag">#general</a></p>

<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/SheHuntsDemons" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/SheHuntsDemons</a></p><p>She’s small and cute, but this half-demon New Yorker lives to exterminate demons, because they murdered her parents. The demonic curse preventing her from saying anything but “it’s a secret” only fuels her desire for revenge.</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>

<p>Tutivillus Is Watching You</p><p>For medieval scribes, mistakes couldn’t be easily shrugged off, as Tutivillus, the stickler demon, was always looking over their shoulders.</p><p>By: Amelia Soth </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/tutivillus-is-watching-you/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/tutivillus-is-watching-you/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/tutivillus-is-</span><span class="invisible">watching-you/</span></a></p><p>Medieval manuscripts at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=medieval+manuscripts" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=medieval+manuscripts"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">cts/search/?query=medieval+manuscripts</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/old_manuscripts/" rel="tag">#old_manuscripts</a></p>

<p>English novelist and playwright Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1797.</p><p>She wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction. She also contributed five volumes of Lives of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and French authors to Dionysius Lardner&#x27;s Cabinet Cyclopaedia.</p><p>Books by Mary Shelley at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/61" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/61"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/61</span></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>

<p>I&#x27;m going to Vietnam and would like to read up on it. </p><p>I&#x27;m looking for a non-fiction book that will tell me about Vietnam, not about the americans or the french. </p><p>About Vietnamese history and culture, preferably going beyond the wars.</p><p>A book about who they are not about what was done to them. </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> <a href="/tags/vietnam/" rel="tag">#vietnam</a> <a href="/tags/bookrec/" rel="tag">#BookRec</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

<p>“Don’t get me wrong, I can’t do anything to change the way things are. That’s not why I went into politics, to make changes for the better for people like you. I went into politics to make sure things stay the same for people like me.” ~~ from &#x27;Clown Town&#x27; by Mick Herron (spoken by Peter Judd, a very Boris Johnson-like character)</p><p><a href="/tags/wednesdaybookquote/" rel="tag">#WednesdayBookQuote</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</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>