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French writer Juliette Adam was born #OTD in 1836.

She gave an account of her childhood, rendered unhappy by the dissensions of her parents, in Le roman de mon enfance et de ma jeunesse. She published in 1858 her Idées antiproudhoniennes sur l'amour, la femme et le mariage, in defense of Daniel Stern (pen name of Marie d'Agoult) and George Sand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliette_Adam

Books by Juliette Adams at PG:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliette_Adam

#books #literature

Photograph of Juliette Adam (1836–1936) French author and feminist.

Nadar — Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Estampes et photographie

In this photograph, Adam is captured in a dignified, poised manner that reflects her strength and intellectual presence. Her attire and posture convey a sense of elegance and authority, which was typical of portraits of prominent women during this time period. Nadar, famous for his portraits of notable individuals, captured her with a soft focus and lighting that emphasizes her facial features, giving her an air of wisdom and intensity.

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Did you hear about David Carrico’s book about the Orthodox Jewish vampire and think, “I really hope he wanders around in the weeds of Halacha”? If so, my book might be for you! Check out ME on Nice Jewish Books:

https://jewishlibraries.org/immortal-gifts-tales-of-a-jewish-vampire-with-katherine-villyard/

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I’m Lauren, a creative professional and writer in Cape Town.

I love all things #reading #writing & #design - I have a #communications and #GraphicDesign business & many #creative interests

I’m #SelfPublishing soon!

After connecting with the #IndieAuthor community I made a series of #canva #tutorials to help them design and market their #books

My flagrant use of tags here is a good representation of my approach - full enthusiasm at max speed 😂

I look forward to connecting!

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#OTD in 1802.

The Edinburgh Review, a reforming quarterly, is first published.

Among the most notable of the foreign publications it observed was Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality, which Adam Smith reviewed in the journal's second and final issue, published in March 1756.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Review

#books #literature #literarycriticism

The Edinburgh review

Related Names
Smith, Sydney, 1771-1845.
Language(s)
English
Published
Edinburgh : A. and C. Black, 1803-1929
Note
Sydney Smith, though not formally an editor, superintended the first three numbers. Cf. Dict. nat. biog., v. 53, p. 120
Imprint varies
Title from caption
Also issued online
Bancroft AQ E4: From the Reinhard S. Speck Collection of Harriet Martineau

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000530182

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Books About Seasonal Affective Disorder: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-books-about-seasonal-affective-disorder/

#TopTenTuesday #Books #SeasonalAffectiveDisorder #WinterBlues #SeasonalAffective

A person’s hand holding up a very bright lightbulb that does not appear to be attached to any power source!

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#OTD in 1893.

Jerome K. Jerome founds To-Day, "A weekly magazine-journal", in London. However, he had to withdraw from both publications (The Idler) because of financial difficulties and a libel suit.

Books by Jerome K. Jerome at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/173

#books #literature

Advertisement poster by Dudley Hardy for Jerome`s magazine "To Day"

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📚 1929 by: Andrew Ross Sorkin

In 1929, the world watched in shock as the unstoppable Wall Street bull market went into a freefall, wiping out fortunes and igniting a depression that would reshape a generation. But behind the flashing ticker tapes and panicked traders, another drama unfolded—one of visionaries and fraudsters, titans and dreamers, e...

https://bookblabla.com/book/1929

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In 1929, the world watched in shock as the unstoppable Wall Street bull market went into a freefall, wiping out fortunes and igniting a depression that would reshape a generation. But behind the flashing ticker tapes and panicked traders, another drama unfolded—one of visionaries and fraudsters, titans and dreamers, euphoria and ruin.

With unparalleled access to historical records and newly uncovered documents, New York Times bestselling author Andrew Ross Sorkin takes readers inside the chaos of the crash, behind the scenes of a raging battle between Wall Street and Washington and the larger-than-life characters whose ambition and naïveté in an endless boom led to disaster. The dizzying highs and brutal lows of this era eerily mirror today’s world—where markets soar, political tensions mount, and the fight over financial influence plays out once again.

This is not just a story about money. 1929 is a tale of power, psychology, and the seductive illusion that this time is different. It's about disregarded alarm bells, financiers who fell from grace, and skeptics who saw the crash coming—only to be dismissed until it was too late.

Hailed as a landmark book, Too Big to Fail reimagined how financial crises are told. Now, with 1929, Sorkin delivers an immersive, electrifying account of the most pivotal market collapse of all time—with lessons that remain as urgent as ever. More than just a history, 1929 is a crucial blueprint for understanding the cycles of sp

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German scholar Johann Albert Fabricius was born #OTD in 1668.

He produced several significant bibliographies, such as Bibliotheca Graeca, Bibliotheca Latina, Bibliotheca Ecclesiastica, and Bibliotheca Latina mediae et infimae aetatis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Albert_Fabricius

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Making Sense of Middle Earth: Exploring the World of J.R.R. Tolkien

Michael D.C. Drout Remembers the Impact of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit on His Childhood

https://lithub.com/making-sense-of-middle-earth-exploring-the-world-of-j-r-r-tolkien/

#books #literature

Photograph of J. R. R. Tolkien in the 1920s on leaving Leeds University.

Tolkien is photographed from the chest up in a three-quarter view, with his body angled slightly to the left while his face turns toward the camera.

He appears clean-shaven with a strong jawline and refined features. His hair is dark and neatly combed, parted on the side.

Tolkien wears formal professional clothing befitting an academic of the era: a dark tweed or wool jacket with a visible texture, a crisp white dress shirt with a high starched collar, and what appears to be a dark tie or cravat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien#/media/File:J._R._R._Tolkien,_ca._1925.jpg

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The debut of a dramatic duo

Moss Hart wrote the first draft of Once in a Lifetime, a comedy about Hollywood's transition to "talkies", as a 25-year-old unknown.

By John Mark Ockerbloom

https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/24/the-debut-of-a-dramatic-duo/

More information about it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_in_a_Lifetime_(play)

#books #literature #publicDomainDayCountdown

Front cover of the dustjacket of the first edition of Once in a Lifetime (1930).

The artwork shows a simplified, almost abstract human figure at the top with arms raised upward in a celebratory or theatrical gesture. The figure has a circular head with a simplified face. Below this figure is a series of concentric semi-circular arcs in blue, cream, and gray tones that suggest either a rainbow, theater curtains, or radiating energy. At the bottom of these arcs are simplified cloud or wave-like shapes, creating a layered, tiered effect.

At the top of the cover, there's a quote from the New York Times praising the work as "a hard, swift satire, fantastic and deadly and full of highly charged comedy lines."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_in_a_Lifetime_(play)#/media/File:Once-in-a-lifetime.jpg

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Hey Fedi I recommend books at the end of all my blog posts but I would love to recommend some more Fedi authors. Put your DRM Free link below if you don’t have an audiobook link. I listen to audiobooks exclusively and only get DRM free Ebooks. If you have audiobooks, put them in the replies. #Author #Writer #Books @bookstodon

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Tonight I’m wishing that Becky Chambers would add more books to the Monk and Robot Series. I’d love to learn more about that calm, hopeful world.

#Books #BeckyChambers #ScienceFiction #MonkAndRobot #HopePunk #SolarPunk

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I’m enjoying listening to The Gentleman and his Vowsmith by Rebecca Ide, one of the new crop of murder-mystery/fantasy mixed-genre books, with a good amateur investigatory team and a slow(ish)-burn gay romance.

But I did get very immature about this line: “…with a moan that emanated straight from his groin”.

…ah, chatty little fellow, is he? 😂

#books #fantasy @bookstodon

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Yeats and the Occult Imagination

Beneath his poems lay a lifelong devotion to magic, divination, and a visionary system that shaped his most prophetic work.

By: Gus Mitchell

https://daily.jstor.org/yeats-and-the-occult-imagination/

Yeats at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1719

#books #literature #poetry

William B Yeats.

The photograph shows Yeats as a young man, likely in his twenties or early thirties, photographed from the chest up in a formal studio portrait style. He faces the camera directly with a serious, contemplative expression.

Yeats has distinctive features including dark, wavy hair swept back from his forehead. He wears small, round wire-rimmed spectacles (pince-nez style, which appear to be clipped to his nose with a cord or chain visible). His face is clean-shaven, revealing refined, angular features with a strong jawline and thoughtful expression.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/WB_Yeats_nd.jpg

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📚 This River Awakens by: Steven Erikson

A coming-of-age tale set in a small Canadian town in which a twelve-year-old boy discovers the hard truths about life, death and love over a summer break.

In the spring of 1971, Owen Brand and his family move to the riverside town of Middlecross in a renewed attempt to escape poverty. For twelve-year-old Owen, ...

https://bookblabla.com/book/this-river-awakens

#books #reading #libraries #fiction #familylife #general

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50% off @ #Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1559436

Spies, aliens, trolls, wizards and a disowned prince use a time machine, but Levi Jacobs stands in their way, despite having just lost his parents in war. Will he stop them or will they kill his father at a pivotal moment, on which the fate of the galaxy hangs?

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(Left) The cover of The Third Wish, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

A wizard in a black robe that glitters with hints of gold stands on a mountain and looks down at a city of sky scrapers covered in greenery. In his shadow lurks a creature with glowing red eyes.

In the background, the sun is setting and stars are becoming visible.

(Right Background) Four images separated by black lines, with the silhouette of a woman wielding two swords laid over them. She's outlined in black and her interior is yellow clock-based imagery that spirals outward from the center.

The upper left quarter is a queen in a red, furred robe, wearing a gold and diamond crown. She has dark eyebrows and blond hair.

Upper right is a planet seen from orbit.

Lower left is a symbolic wire frame representation of the view inside a wormhole, in green and yellow.

Lower right is dandelions among grass.

The angle of the planet, one of the woman's swords, the yellow highlights of the wormhole and some of the dandelions form a line that draws the eye along a sweeping curve.

(Right Foreground) The following quote:

He admired the flawless beauty of the insane swordswoman’s fluid movements as Ida took desperate step after step, backwards!

He felt waves of mental energy pour off the panic-stricken troll, but the energy bounced right off of Nicole’s mind, as though she’d shut herself inside a solid, red-hot, steel box of rage!

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

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Three women translators who bridged cultures

Stories of Birgitte Thott, Sarah Austin, and Émilie du Châtelet.

by Małgorzata Szynkielewska via @Europeanaeu

https://www.europeana.eu/en/stories/three-women-translators-who-bridged-cultures

#books #literature #translator

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How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?

As a royally appointed playwright, Shakespeare was deeply affected by the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, as is clear in the writing of the great tragedy Macbeth less than a year later.

https://www.thecollector.com/how-did-guy-fawkes-influence-shakespeare/

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Franz Kafka’s papers metamorphose into National Library exhibit.

Wide-ranging exhibition ‘Kafka: Metamorphosis of an Author’ features the institution’s singular archives and marks 100 years since the Czech author’s death

By Jessica Steinberg

https://www.timesofisrael.com/franz-kafkas-papers-metamorphose-into-national-library-exhibit/

#books #art #literature

Last known photograph of Franz Kafka. Most likely taken in 1923.

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In December 1891.

Thomas Hardy writes "The Son's Veto" (collected in Life's Little Ironies), which he regards as his best short story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%27s_Little_Ironies

Life's Little Ironies at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3047

#books #literature

First edition (publ. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co.)

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Banned in Texas

Struggle over academic freedom in Texas state universities has a long history. Today it's often over race and gender; in the 1940s, it was over things like John Dos Passos's USA trilogy.

By John Mark Ockerbloom

https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/27/banned-in-texas/

John Dos passos at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2015

#books #literature

First complete edition (1937) of the U.S.A. trilogy is a series of three novels by American writer John Dos Passos.

The cover features a bold, modernist design with strong horizontal color blocking that evokes the American flag. The layout is striking and graphic, reflecting the ambitious scope of this major American literary work.

At the top, "U.S.A." appears in large, cream-colored sans-serif letters against a black background, with periods between each letter emphasizing the acronym nature of the title.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.A._(trilogy)#/media/File:Dos_Passos_USA.jpg

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#OTD in 1675.

Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus. He adapted the integral symbol, ∫, from the letter ſ (long s), standing for summa (written as ſumma; Latin for "sum" or "total").

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7168

#books #mathematics

Christoph Bernhard Francke - Portrait of the philosopher Leibniz (ca. 1695) Christoph Bernhard Francke - Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum.

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Working to Preserve The Man Who Weighed the World

By Corinne Mona

https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/ex-libris-universum/working-preserve-man-who-weighed-world

#books #science #history

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Science history: Sophie Germain, first woman to win France's prestigious 'Grand Mathematics Prize' is snubbed when tickets to award ceremony are 'lost in the mail' — Jan. 9, 1816

By Tia Ghose

https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/mathematics/science-history-sophie-germain-first-woman-to-win-frances-prestigious-grand-mathematics-prize-is-snubbed-when-tickets-to-award-ceremony-are-lost-in-the-mail-jan-9-1816

More about Sophie Germain:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Germain

#books #mathematics #science #womeninstem

Portrait of Sophie Germain (April 1, 1776 - June 27, 1831).

Sophie Germain is depicted with refined, classical features: a straight, elegant nose, well-defined lips, a curved chin and a graceful neck. Her hair is pulled up and back from her face, arranged in what appears to be a bun or chignon at the back of her head and it shows curls arranged in horizontal bands around the crown.

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Germain#/media/Ficheiro:Germain.jpeg

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