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<p>Endre Ady was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1877.</p><p>Some of his notable poetry collections include &quot;Új versek&quot; (New Poems, 1906), &quot;A Holnap&quot; (Tomorrow, 1908), and &quot;A halottak élén&quot; (At the Head of the Dead, 1918).</p><p>Books by Endre Ady at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/39489" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/39489"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/39489</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><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1862.</p><p>Charles Dodgson sends the handwritten manuscript of Alice&#x27;s Adventures Underground to Alice Liddell.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27</span><span class="invisible">s_Adventures_in_Wonderland</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Liddell" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Liddell"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Li</span><span class="invisible">ddell</span></a></p><p><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/19002" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/19002</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>“Open Me Carefully.” Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson</p><p>&quot;A Look Inside the Poet’s Personal Life and the Making of Her Mythical Reclusiveness&quot;</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/open-me-carefully-emily-dickinsons-intimate-letters-to-susan-huntington-dickinson/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/open-me-carefully-emily-dickinsons-intimate-letters-to-susan-huntington-dickinson/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/open-me-carefully-e</span><span class="invisible">mily-dickinsons-intimate-letters-to-susan-huntington-dickinson/</span></a></p><p>Books by Dickinson at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/996" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/996"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/996</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>Book Review: The Gryphon King by Sara Omer<br>A monster-filled secondary-world fantasy that takes its cues and worldbuilding inspirations from points east of the Bosporus Strait<br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@Princejvstin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Princejvstin</span></a></span> has our review<br><a href="http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/01/book-review-gryphon-king-by-sara-omer.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nerds-feather.com/2026/01/book-review-gryphon-king-by-sara-omer.html"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nerds-feather.com/2026/01/</span><span class="invisible">book-review-gryphon-king-by-sara-omer.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#review</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#bookreview</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> @bookstodon</p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1924.</p><p>The New York Times published evidence from Edwin Hubble stating that the Andromeda Nebula, previously believed to be part of the Milky Way, is in fact another galaxy.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hubble" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hubble"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hu</span><span class="invisible">bble</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/54776" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/54776"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/54776</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#astronomy</a></p>

<p>In November 1909.</p><p>E. M. Forster&#x27;s science fiction short story &quot;The Machine Stops&quot; is published in The Oxford and Cambridge Review. The story was republished in Forster&#x27;s The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928.</p><p>The Eternal Moment at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/72890" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/72890</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>You can never have enough cat manuals 😻</p><p><a href="/tags/catsofmastodon/" rel="tag">#CatsOfMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a></p>

<p>The Inquisitive Biologist looks back at 2025 and picks his five favourite books. Palaeontology, aerobiology, speleology, degrowth, and geomicrobiology top this year&#x27;s list.</p><p><a href="https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/12/31/year-list-the-inquisitive-biologists-top-5-reads-of-2025/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/12/31/year-list-the-inquisitive-biologists-top-5-reads-of-2025/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/</span><span class="invisible">12/31/year-list-the-inquisitive-biologists-top-5-reads-of-2025/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookoftheyear/" rel="tag">#BookOfTheYear</a> <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/scicomm/" rel="tag">#Scicomm</a> <a href="/tags/paleontology/" rel="tag">#Paleontology</a> <a href="/tags/palaeontology/" rel="tag">#Palaeontology</a> <a href="/tags/aerobiology/" rel="tag">#Aerobiology</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/speleology/" rel="tag">#Speleology</a> <a href="/tags/caves/" rel="tag">#Caves</a> <a href="/tags/lechuguilla/" rel="tag">#Lechuguilla</a> <a href="/tags/economics/" rel="tag">#Economics</a> <a href="/tags/degrowth/" rel="tag">#Degrowth</a> <a href="/tags/microbiology/" rel="tag">#Microbiology</a> <a href="/tags/geology/" rel="tag">#Geology</a> <a href="/tags/geomicrobiology/" rel="tag">#Geomicrobiology</a> <a href="/tags/edgarallanpoe/" rel="tag">#EdgarAllanPoe</a> <a href="/tags/eapoe/" rel="tag">#EAPoe</a> <a href="/tags/biography/" rel="tag">#Biography</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a> <a href="/tags/goth/" rel="tag">#Goth</a> <a href="/tags/gothic/" rel="tag">#Gothic</a> <a href="/tags/horror/" rel="tag">#Horror</a> <a href="/tags/scienceconvention/" rel="tag">#ScienceConvention</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefair/" rel="tag">#ScienceFair</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://sauropods.win/@markwitton" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>markwitton</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@princetonupress" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>princetonupress</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@princetonnature" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>princetonnature</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Carl_Zimmer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Carl_Zimmer</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@timparrique" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>timparrique</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://sauropods.win/@TetZoo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>TetZoo</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/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1930.</p><p>American novelist Sinclair Lewis is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was the first writer from the United States to receive the award.</p><p>Sinclair Lewis Nobel Lecture:<br><a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1930/lewis/lecture/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1930/lewis/lecture/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lite</span><span class="invisible">rature/1930/lewis/lecture/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/nobelprize/" rel="tag">#nobelprize</a></p>

<p>One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. By Ken Kesey.</p><p>You’re a half-Native guy in a mental hospital (it’s the 1950s) for 20 years, when a complete asshole conman white dude shows up thinking he can control everything; since he has little regard for his own life or that of others he succeeds in the way a wrecking ball succeeds in its task.</p><p>2 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈</p><p>CW: hate speech, racism, misogyny, cultural appropriation </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> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/mentalhealth/" rel="tag">#mentalhealth</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1878.</p><p>Henry Irving&#x27;s production of Hamlet, with himself in the title rôle playing opposite Ellen Terry as Ophelia, opens at the Lyceum Theatre, London (of which they have taken over the management). The tendency of actor-managers to emphasise the importance of their own central character did not always meet with the critics&#x27; approval.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet</a></p><p>Hamlet at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1524" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/1524</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> <a href="/tags/drama/" rel="tag">#drama</a></p>

<p>My favorite books published in 2025: </p><p>Gliff - Ali Smith<br>One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad<br>Audition - Pip Adam<br>Dusk - Robbie Arnott<br>Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng - Kylie Lee Baker<br>The Buffalo Hunter Hunter - Stephen Graham Jones<br>Sour Cherry - Natalia Theodoridou<br>The Hymn to Dionysus - Natasha Pulley<br>Eternal Summer - Franziska Gansler (tr. Imogen Taylor)<br>The Silver Book - Olivia Laing<br>We Pretty Pieces of Flesh - Colwill Brown<br>Woodworking - Emily St. James</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a></p>

<p>What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?</p><p>Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein is today lauded as the first science fiction novel as well as a seminal work of Gothic horror. </p><p>By Lauren Jones</p><p><a href="https://www.thecollector.com/mary-shelley-wrote-frankenstein-novel/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/mary-shelley-wrote-frankenstein-novel/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thecollector.com/mary-shel</span><span class="invisible">ley-wrote-frankenstein-novel/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/gothic/" rel="tag">#Gothic</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1877.</p><p>Anna Sewell&#x27;s animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published. It was written from a horse as main character&#x27;s perspective. Sewell wrote it in the last years of her life, during which she was bedridden and seriously ill.</p><p><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/271" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/271</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>📚 Unlikely Story by: Ali Rosen</p><p>As a relationship therapist, Nora helps patients explore their feelings honestly. But she&#x27;s hiding an embarrassing relationship secret of her own: she&#x27;s in love with someone she&#x27;s never even met.</p><p>J edits the advice column Nora&#x27;s been writing anonymously for the last seven years. He&#x27;s in London, she&#x27;s in New York, a...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/unlikely-story" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/unlikely-story"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/unlikely-s</span><span class="invisible">tory</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/romance/" rel="tag">#romance</a> <a href="/tags/contemporaryfiction/" rel="tag">#contemporaryfiction</a></p>

<p>In December 1876.</p><p>The first United States edition of Mark Twain&#x27;s first individual extended work of fiction, the Bildungsroman The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, illustrated by True Williams, is published by the American Publishing Company. An authorised non-illustrated British edition has appeared in early June from Chatto &amp; Windus in London (with the first review appearing on June 24 in a British magazine) and pirated editions have appeared in Canada and Germany.</p><p><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/74" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/74</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

<p>Going to the Moon: Early Cartography of the Lunar Surface</p><p>The lunar maps shown in this post were created long before satellite images became available. The topography is highly detailed and the historical backgrounds of the astronomers who created them are compelling.</p><p>by: Cynthia Smith (from the archives)</p><p><a href="https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2020/03/going-to-the-moon-early-cartography-of-the-lunar-surface/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blogs.loc.gov/maps/2020/03/going-to-the-moon-early-cartography-of-the-lunar-surface/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blogs.loc.gov/maps/2020/03/goi</span><span class="invisible">ng-to-the-moon-early-cartography-of-the-lunar-surface/</span></a></p><p>Galileo at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/39014" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/39014"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/39014</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#astronomy</a></p>

<p>Happy New Year!</p><p>This month&#x27;s Distributed Proofreaders&#x27; Blog takes time out to talk about the Minute Boys juvenile series.</p><p><a href="https://blog.pgdp.net/2026/01/01/the-minute-boys/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blog.pgdp.net/2026/01/01/the-minute-boys/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.pgdp.net/2026/01/01/the-m</span><span class="invisible">inute-boys/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/dp/" rel="tag">#dp</a> <a href="/tags/dpblog/" rel="tag">#dpblog</a></p>

<p>A Review of New Year: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-new-year/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-new-year/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-ne</span><span class="invisible">w-year/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/fivestars/" rel="tag">#FiveStars</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="/tags/newyear/" rel="tag">#NewYear</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>

Here’s my 2025 review! <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://sh.itjust.works/post/52631932">See Original Page</a> </small>

<p>&quot;Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.&quot;</p><p>Jack London died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1916.</p><p>A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/120" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/120"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/120</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>