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<p>The ecstatic swoon</p><p>As Stendhal knew, the reason for art is to make you feel. Do not try to grasp the artwork: allow it to grasp you instead</p><p>by Robert D Zaretsky</p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/what-stendhal-says-about-the-purpose-and-promise-of-art?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=048e2ed722-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_12_16&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="aeon.co/essays/what-stendhal-says-about-the-purpose-and-promise-of-art?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=048e2ed722-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_12_16&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/essays/what-stendhal-s</span><span class="invisible">ays-about-the-purpose-and-promise-of-art?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=048e2ed722-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_12_16&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972</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>

<p><a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <br>I&#x27;ve been regularly reading fiction type books for more than 50 years. And in that time, I never knew the definition of the genre called Literary Fiction. </p><p>Today that changed. And yes, I have read some books that would be in the literary fiction category. </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_fiction" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_fiction"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary</span><span class="invisible">_fiction</span></a></p>

<p>📚 Seveneves by: Neal Stephenson</p><p>A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in a hastily built space ark.</p><p>But the complexities a...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/seveneves" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/seveneves</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/thrillers/" rel="tag">#thrillers</a> <a href="/tags/technologicalfiction/" rel="tag">#technologicalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/suspensefiction/" rel="tag">#suspensefiction</a></p>

<p>OH MY GOD 🤣 </p><p>A novel just came out in which a tradwife influencer wakes up in 1805 and suddenly has to live the real life she&#x27;s been selling online, raw milk and all!</p><p>All hail YESTERYEAR by Caro Claire Burke.</p><p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/238226942-yesteryear" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.goodreads.com/book/show/238226942-yesteryear"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.goodreads.com/book/show/23</span><span class="invisible">8226942-yesteryear</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> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

<p>&quot;Call me Ishmael.&quot;</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1851.</p><p>Herman Melville&#x27;s Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.</p><p>In the October 1851 issue of Harper&#x27;s New Monthly Magazine &quot;The Town Ho&#x27;s Story&quot; was published, with a footnote reading: &quot;From &#x27;The Whale&#x27;. The title of a new work by Mr. Melville, in the press of Harper and Brothers, and now publishing in London by Mr. Bentley.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dic</span><span class="invisible">k</span></a></p><p>Moby-Dick at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/15" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/15</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Book Review: Will This Be a Problem? The Anthology: Issue V (edited by Somto Ihezue and Olivia Kidula)<br>A unique collection of hauntingly engaging and imaginative stories<br> <br>Ann Michelle Harris has our review at the NOAF blog:<br><a href="http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/01/book-review-will-this-be-problem.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nerds-feather.com/2026/01/book-review-will-this-be-problem.html"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nerds-feather.com/2026/01/</span><span class="invisible">book-review-will-this-be-problem.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#bookreview</a> <a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#review</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> @bookstodon</p>

<p>Are there any book clubs on Mastodon? The in-person ones around me keep petering out or are hard to get to, and the ones I’ve seen online are toooo big for my tastes. I have a slight preference for fantasy/sci-fi, but any genre is good. I just want to talk about books! <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a></p>

<p>Someone should make a virtual tickler for e-books, otherwise it&#x27;s discrimination 😜😂 <br> <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="https://lemmy.world/u/books" rel="nofollow">@books</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@humor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>humor</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://lemmy.world/c/humor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>humor@lemmy.world</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://lemmy.world/c/aiop" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>aiop</span></a></span> <br> <br><a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#Book</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookmemes/" rel="tag">#BookMemes</a> <a href="/tags/memes/" rel="tag">#Memes</a> <a href="/tags/humor/" rel="tag">#Humor</a> <a href="/tags/humour/" rel="tag">#Humour</a><br><a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#Novel</a> <a href="/tags/novels/" rel="tag">#Novels</a> <a href="/tags/bookshelf/" rel="tag">#Bookshelf</a> <a href="/tags/mastobooks/" rel="tag">#Mastobooks</a> <a href="/tags/booksofmastodon/" rel="tag">#BooksofMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/bookworm/" rel="tag">#Bookworm</a> <a href="/tags/bookwyrm/" rel="tag">#Bookwyrm</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/booklove/" rel="tag">#BookLove</a> <a href="/tags/fantasybooks/" rel="tag">#FantasyBooks</a></p>

<p>📚 We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse) by: Dennis E. Taylor</p><p>There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it&#x27;s a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street. Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. </p><p>He has been uploaded into computer ...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/we-are-legion-we-are-bob-bobiverse" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/we-are-legion-we-are-bob-bobiverse"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/we-are-leg</span><span class="invisible">ion-we-are-bob-bobiverse</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a></p>

<p>Virginia Woolf Thought Katharine Mansfield Stank Like a “Civet Cat Taken to Streetwalking”</p><p>Gerri Kimber on the Literary Legacy of an Early Master of the Short Form</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/virginia-woolf-thought-katharine-mansfield-stank-like-a-civet-cat-taken-to-streetwalking/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/virginia-woolf-thought-katharine-mansfield-stank-like-a-civet-cat-taken-to-streetwalking/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/virginia-woolf-thou</span><span class="invisible">ght-katharine-mansfield-stank-like-a-civet-cat-taken-to-streetwalking/</span></a></p><p>Mansfield &amp; Woolf at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/631" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/631"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/631</span></a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/89</span></a></p><p>#<a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Rare public display for Mary Queen of Scots&#x27; final letter</p><p>The public are to be given a rare chance to see the last letter by Mary Queen of Scots, which was written just hours before she was beheaded.</p><p>by Cara Berkley</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4nzy3r5zyo" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4nzy3r5zyo"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg</span><span class="invisible">4nzy3r5zyo</span></a></p><p>Mary Queen of Scots at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=Mary+Queen+of+Scots" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=Mary+Queen+of+Scots"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">cts/search/?query=Mary+Queen+of+Scots</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Our latest newsletter listed a selection of March’s notable and interesting titles. Among them, we can highlight &quot;1066 and All That&quot; by Walter Carruthers Sellar and Robert Julian Yeatman.</p><p>It&#x27;s a comic parody of English history, mocking how schoolchildren misremember facts. It reduces centuries of events to &quot;Good Things,&quot; &quot;Bad Things,&quot; and memorably mangled kings, battles, and causes — hilariously unreliable by design.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78124/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78124/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78124</span><span class="invisible">/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Medieval Self-Portraits: Ten Artists Who Put Themselves in the Picture</p><p>Medieval artists did not just paint saints and kings—they sometimes slipped themselves into the scene, leaving behind portraits that can be devotional, witty, and surprisingly personal. </p><p><a href="https://www.medievalists.net/2026/01/medieval-self-portraits-ten-artists-who-put-themselves-in-the-picture/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.medievalists.net/2026/01/medieval-self-portraits-ten-artists-who-put-themselves-in-the-picture/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.medievalists.net/2026/01/m</span><span class="invisible">edieval-self-portraits-ten-artists-who-put-themselves-in-the-picture/</span></a></p><p>Medieval artists at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=medieval+artists" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=medieval+artists"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=medieval+artists</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/painting/" rel="tag">#painting</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1911.</p><p>German novelist Hans Fallada, kills his best friend in a suicide pact staged as a duel.</p><p>Fallada made a pact with a friend, Hanns Dietrich von Necker, to stage a duel to mask their suicides, feeling that the duel would be seen as more honorable. However, because of both boys&#x27; inexperience with weapons, it was a bungled affair. Dietrich missed Fallada, but Fallada did not miss Dietrich, killing him. </p><p>Hans Fallada at Projekt Gutenberg-DE<br><a href="https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/autoren/namen/fallada.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.projekt-gutenberg.org/autoren/namen/fallada.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.projekt-gutenberg.org/auto</span><span class="invisible">ren/namen/fallada.html</span></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 1771.</p><p>Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Mozart at age 15.</p><p>This is a pastoral opera in two parts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Parini. It was commissioned by the Empress Maria Theresa for the wedding of her son, Archduke Ferdinand Karl, to Maria Beatrice d&#x27;Este on 15 October 1771.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascanio_in_Alba" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascanio_in_Alba"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascanio_</span><span class="invisible">in_Alba</span></a></p><p><a href="https://imslp.org/wiki/Ascanio_in_Alba,_K.111_(Mozart,_Wolfgang_Amadeus)" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="imslp.org/wiki/Ascanio_in_Alba,_K.111_(Mozart,_Wolfgang_Amadeus)"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">imslp.org/wiki/Ascanio_in_Alba</span><span class="invisible">,_K.111_(Mozart,_Wolfgang_Amadeus)</span></a></p><p>Books about Mozart at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=mozart&amp;submit_search=Go%21&amp;start_index=26" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=mozart&amp;submit_search=Go%21&amp;start_index=26"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=mozart&amp;submit_search=Go%21&amp;start_index=26</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/opera/" rel="tag">#opera</a></p>

<p>I do like both, and I&#x27;ve never understood why this is an issue, is it not the content of the book that matters? Not how that content is delivered? 🤔😁 </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@reading" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>reading</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> <a href="https://lemmy.world/u/books" rel="nofollow">@books</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@humor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>humor</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://lemmy.world/c/humor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>humor@lemmy.world</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://lemmy.world/c/aiop" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>aiop</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@joinin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>joinin</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/readingmemes/" rel="tag">#ReadingMemes</a> <a href="/tags/memes/" rel="tag">#Memes</a> <a href="/tags/readallthebooks/" rel="tag">#ReadAllTheBooks</a> <a href="/tags/humor/" rel="tag">#Humor</a> <a href="/tags/humour/" rel="tag">#Humour</a><br><a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> <a href="/tags/readers/" rel="tag">#Readers</a> <a href="/tags/readersofmastodon/" rel="tag">#ReadersOfMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#ReadingCommunity</a><br><a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#Book</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#Novel</a> <a href="/tags/novels/" rel="tag">#Novels</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#Fiction</a> <br><a href="/tags/bookwyrm/" rel="tag">#Bookwyrm</a> <a href="/tags/bookworm/" rel="tag">#Bookworm</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/booklove/" rel="tag">#BookLove</a> <a href="/tags/fantasybooks/" rel="tag">#FantasyBooks</a></p>

<p>The Elusive Poet of Desire</p><p>Why biographers can’t pin Cavafy down</p><p>by Langdon Hammer</p><p><a href="https://yalereview.org/article/langdon-hammer-the-elusive-poet-of-desire" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="yalereview.org/article/langdon-hammer-the-elusive-poet-of-desire"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">yalereview.org/article/langdon</span><span class="invisible">-hammer-the-elusive-poet-of-desire</span></a></p><p>Cavafy at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/51261" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/51261"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/51261</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>&quot;The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.&quot;</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1847.</p><p>Charlotte Brontë&#x27;s Jane Eyre is published (as &quot;an autobiography, edited by Currer Bell&quot;) in London by Smith, Elder &amp; Co. in 3 volumes.</p><p>The first American edition was published the following year by Harper &amp; Brothers of New York.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyr</span><span class="invisible">e</span></a></p><p>Jane Eyre at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1260" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/1260</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>New review fresh in for <a href="/tags/fossilfriday/" rel="tag">#FossilFriday</a>: Bringing to life two palaeontological expeditions and excelling at explaining scientific concepts, The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt goes deeper into the tragic history behind Spinosaurus and resurrects the forgotten Ernst Stromer.</p><p><a href="https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/12/19/book-review-the-lost-dinosaurs-of-egypt/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/12/19/book-review-the-lost-dinosaurs-of-egypt/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/</span><span class="invisible">12/19/book-review-the-lost-dinosaurs-of-egypt/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/dinosaurs/" rel="tag">#Dinosaurs</a> <a href="/tags/theropods/" rel="tag">#Theropods</a> <a href="/tags/spinosaurs/" rel="tag">#Spinosaurs</a> <a href="/tags/spinosaurus/" rel="tag">#Spinosaurus</a> <a href="/tags/fossils/" rel="tag">#Fossils</a> <a href="/tags/paleontology/" rel="tag">#Paleontology</a> <a href="/tags/palaeontology/" rel="tag">#Palaeontology</a> <a href="/tags/scicomm/" rel="tag">#Scicomm</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="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1917.</p><p>The 51-year-old poet W. B. Yeats marries 25-year-old Georgie Hyde-Lees at Harrow Road register office in London, with Ezra Pound as best man, a couple of months after Yeats&#x27; proposal of marriage to his ex-mistress&#x27;s daughter, Iseult Gonne, is rejected.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._B._Yeats#Marriage_to_Georgie_Hyde-Lees" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._B._Yeats#Marriage_to_Georgie_Hyde-Lees"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._B._Ye</span><span class="invisible">ats#Marriage_to_Georgie_Hyde-Lees</span></a></p><p>Books by W. B. Yeats at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1719" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1719"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1719</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>

<p>Polish composer and virtuoso pianist Frédéric Chopin died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1849.</p><p>To this day, Chopin&#x27;s music remains one of the most widely performed, and an indispensable part of the universal piano repertoire. Along with Franz Liszt, he is the father of modern piano technique and influenced a whole line of modern composers, including Claude Debussy, Alexandre Scriabine, Maurice Ravel and Sergei Rachmaninov.</p><p>Books by or about Frédéric Chopin at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric+Chopin&amp;submit_search=Go%21" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric+Chopin&amp;submit_search=Go%21"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric+Chopin&amp;submit_search=Go%21</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a></p>

<p>&quot;Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody&#x27;s face but their own.&quot;</p><p>Irish writer Jonathan Swift died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1745.</p><p>Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, Gulliver&#x27;s Travels, &amp; A Modest Proposal. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms—including Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M. B. Drapier—or anonymously. </p><p>Books by Jonathan Swift at PG<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/326" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/326"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/326</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&amp;q=https://reviewdb.app/book/08QU3am6XzC5FGQQgLcOYO" rel="nofollow">A Room of One’s Own</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 <br>by Virginia Woolf.</p><p>A classic that is actually good! An essay on women &amp; fiction (thus, feminism) that rambles along in a relaxed fashion without losing any of its coherency or piercing insight. And damn she can write. Sadly still relevant, nearly 100 years on. (For reference her £500/yr is A$55k/yr today.)</p><p><a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/nonfiction/" rel="tag">#NonFiction</a> <a href="/tags/feminism/" rel="tag">#Feminism</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://aus.social/@wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>WildWoila</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://wyrms.de/user/wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>wildwoila@wyrms.de</span></a></span><br></p>

<p>Things from the Flood. By Simon Stalenhag. Translated by Martin Dunelind.</p><p>You are a young Swedish teen, growing up in the aftermath of a failed industrial project that may have opened a portal to another world, but the poisoned and destroyed landscape is your playground, and the agonies of adolescence find a comfortable home there.</p><p>4 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈.</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/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/sweden/" rel="tag">#sweden</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/adolescence/" rel="tag">#adolescence</a> <a href="/tags/graphicnovel/" rel="tag">#graphicnovel</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a></p>