<p>📚 Crossroads by: Kaleb Dahlgren</p><p>On April 6, 2018, sixteen people died and thirteen others were injured after a bus taking the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team to a playoff game collided with a transport truck in a rural intersection. The tragedy moved millions of people to leave hockey sticks by their fron...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/crossroads" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/crossroads</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/biographyautobiography/" rel="tag">#biographyautobiography</a> <a href="/tags/wintersports/" rel="tag">#wintersports</a> <a href="/tags/hockeyselfhelp/" rel="tag">#hockeyselfhelp</a> <a href="/tags/motivationalinspirational/" rel="tag">#motivationalinspirational</a></p>
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<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>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>
<p>"Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel."</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>
Mildly interesting. The receipt that was stashed in the cover, I assume from the purchase in Jan or Jun of 96, kept the cover from being faded.
<p>📚 It by: Stephen King</p><p>Welcome to Derry, Maine. It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real.</p><p>They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But the promise they made twenty...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/it" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/it</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/fic015000fiction/" rel="tag">#fic015000fiction</a> <a href="/tags/horror/" rel="tag">#horror</a> <a href="/tags/thrillers/" rel="tag">#thrillers</a></p>
<p>Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do:..."</p><p>Lewis Carroll’s Personal Copy of ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ Returns to its ‘Spiritual Home’ in Oxford</p><p>The book has been donated jointly to Christ Church and the Bodleian Library, which are both part of the University of Oxford</p><p>by Sarah Kuta </p><p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/lewis-carrolls-personal-copy-of-alices-adventures-in-wonderland-returns-to-its-spiritual-home-in-oxford-180987910/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/lewis-carrolls-personal-copy-of-alices-adventures-in-wonderland-returns-to-its-spiritual-home-in-oxford-180987910/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-n</span><span class="invisible">ews/lewis-carrolls-personal-copy-of-alices-adventures-in-wonderland-returns-to-its-spiritual-home-in-oxford-180987910/</span></a></p><p>Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11</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 1859</p><p>Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, an early example of mystery fiction, begins serialisation in All the Year Round.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_in_White_(novel)#" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_in_White_(novel)#"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woma</span><span class="invisible">n_in_White_(novel)#</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Year_Round" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Year_Round"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_</span><span class="invisible">Year_Round</span></a></p><p><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/583" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/583</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>4 Forgotten Female Authors Who Inspired Jane Austen</p><p><a href="https://www.mentalfloss.com/literature/authors/forgotten-female-authors-who-inspired-jane-austen?utm_source=RSS" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.mentalfloss.com/literature/authors/forgotten-female-authors-who-inspired-jane-austen?utm_source=RSS"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.mentalfloss.com/literature</span><span class="invisible">/authors/forgotten-female-authors-who-inspired-jane-austen?utm_source=RSS</span></a></p><p>Books at PG by:</p><p>Frances Burney</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2010" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2010"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/2010</span></a></p><p>Maria Edgeworth </p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/630" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/630"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/630</span></a></p><p>Charlotte Smith</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/41281" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/41281"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/41281</span></a></p><p>Elizabeth Inchbald</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1305" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1305"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1305</span></a></p><p>Maria Edgeworth </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 1919.</p><p>The Großes Schauspielhaus opens as a theater in Berlin, with an interior designed by Hans Poelzig. It begins with the director Max Reinhardt's production of the Oresteia.</p><p>The House of Atreus at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8604" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8604</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>Is beauty natural?</p><p>Charles Darwin was as fascinated by extravagant ornament in nature as Jane Austen was in culture. Did their explanations agree?</p><p>By Abigail Tulenko via @aeonmag </p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/how-austen-and-darwin-converged-on-the-question-of-beauty" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="aeon.co/essays/how-austen-and-darwin-converged-on-the-question-of-beauty"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/essays/how-austen-and-</span><span class="invisible">darwin-converged-on-the-question-of-beauty</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/TymeStarwitch" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/TymeStarwitch</a><br>Audiobook: <a href="https://owentyme.bandcamp.com/album/the-book-of-newts-starwitch" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="owentyme.bandcamp.com/album/the-book-of-newts-starwitch"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">owentyme.bandcamp.com/album/th</span><span class="invisible">e-book-of-newts-starwitch</span></a></p><p>The undead queen of the space pirates kidnapped Amelia’s sisters and damaged her ship, leaving her with little fuel. Amelia’s a dead woman without her sisters, forced to attack the pirate’s mountain-sized star ship, despite how slim the odds are…</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/audiobook/" rel="tag">#audiobook</a></p>
<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&q=https://reviewdb.app/book/2G3htL7jOiEzcAHQtNoYuw" rel="nofollow">The Shadow of the Wind</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 <br>by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.</p><p>A rare book sets a teenage boy on a path of mystery, love & revenge. This was nearly great, with an intriguing setup, smooth prose, vibrant characters and an evocative sense of time & place (mid-century Barcelona). But it ran out of steam with repetitive storytelling and too much exposition. And nearly all the men were incorrigible womanisers.</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/historicfiction/" rel="tag">#HistoricFiction</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>This week's <a href="/tags/newbooks/" rel="tag">#NewBooks</a> at the library: An early review copy of the 3-volume The Princeton Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs. What will you be doing with your January? Well...</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/fossilfriday/" rel="tag">#FossilFriday</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/dinosaurs/" rel="tag">#Dinosaurs</a> <a href="/tags/scicomm/" rel="tag">#Scicomm</a> <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://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
<p>"The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present."</p><p>Swedish writer Ellen Key was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1849.</p><p>She on many subjects in the fields of family life, ethics and education and was an important figure in the Modern Breakthrough movement. She was an early advocate of a child-centered approach to education and parenting, and was also a suffragist.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Key" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Key"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Ke</span><span class="invisible">y</span></a></p><p>Ellen Key at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/502" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/502"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/502</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>
<p>Fimbulvetr: When the Medieval World Saw the Sun Go Dark</p><p>In the medieval world, strange signs in the sky were rarely ignored. In AD 536, when the sun seemed to lose its light and the climate turned harsh, that catastrophe may have been remembered in the terrifying Norse legend of Fimbulvetr.</p><p>By Andrea Maraschi</p><p><a href="https://www.medievalists.net/2026/01/fimbulvetr-medieval/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.medievalists.net/2026/01/fimbulvetr-medieval/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.medievalists.net/2026/01/f</span><span class="invisible">imbulvetr-medieval/</span></a></p><p>Norse mythology at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/4932" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/4932"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">ct/4932</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/mythology/" rel="tag">#mythology</a></p>
<p>10,000 books were tossed at a London school. Librarians say there are other ways to give books a second life</p><p>The province says it is halting all current and future school library reviews</p><p>by Kendra Seguin </p><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/beal-library-old-book-purge-9.7040273" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/beal-library-old-book-purge-9.7040273"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/</span><span class="invisible">beal-library-old-book-purge-9.7040273</span></a></p><p>Librarians at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=librarians" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=librarians"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">cts/search/?query=librarians</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/librarians/" rel="tag">#librarians</a></p>
<p>As today is the re-opening of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, this is a good reason to re-read Victor Hugo's masterpiece. There is also an interesting book on the restoration of Notre-Dame (1843). </p><p>Notre-Dame de Paris - Tome 1 by Victor Hugo:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70891" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70891</a></p><p>Notre-Dame de Paris - Tome 2:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71445" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71445</a></p><p>The Hunchback of Notre Dame:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6539" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6539</a></p><p>Projet de restauration de Notre-Dame de Paris by Lassus and Viollet-le-Duc:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18920" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18920</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>Yay! So the news is finally out, and my first novel will be published in 2028. I started writing this book in 2017, before I fully understood the <a href="/tags/solarpunk/" rel="tag">#solarpunk</a> genre, but I poured my dreams and fears into this work and it has many elements of the egalitarian world I dream about, without capitalism. I think you will love it too. </p><p>"Dilman Dila Signs With Luna For His New Solarpunk Novel, Dreams of a Yellow Balloon" <br><a href="https://www.lunapresspublishing.com/post/dilman-dila-s-signs-with-luna-for-his-new-solarpunk-novel-dreams-of-a-yellow-balloon?utm_campaign=2721a5de-d9df-4454-8300-121bbf97c96b&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail&cid=2278d4dd-86d1-43d2-9c56-5cda1fd4bd97" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.lunapresspublishing.com/post/dilman-dila-s-signs-with-luna-for-his-new-solarpunk-novel-dreams-of-a-yellow-balloon?utm_campaign=2721a5de-d9df-4454-8300-121bbf97c96b&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail&cid=2278d4dd-86d1-43d2-9c56-5cda1fd4bd97"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.lunapresspublishing.com/po</span><span class="invisible">st/dilman-dila-s-signs-with-luna-for-his-new-solarpunk-novel-dreams-of-a-yellow-balloon?utm_campaign=2721a5de-d9df-4454-8300-121bbf97c96b&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail&cid=2278d4dd-86d1-43d2-9c56-5cda1fd4bd97</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#writingcommunity</a></p>
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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1884.</p><p>The first London publication of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn occurs.</p><p>Twain initially conceived of the work as a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer that would follow Huckleberry Finn through adulthood. He worked on the manuscript off and on for the next several years, ultimately abandoning his original plan of following Huck's development into adulthood. </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventur</span><span class="invisible">es_of_Huckleberry_Finn</span></a></p><p>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/76" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/76</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>📚 Quicksilver by: Callie Hart</p><p>Do not touch the sword. Do not turn the key. Do not open the gate.</p><p>Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has been picking pockets and stealing from the Undying Queen’s reservoirs for as long as she can...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/quicksilver" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/quicksilver"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/quicksilve</span><span class="invisible">r</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/fantasyfiction/" rel="tag">#fantasyfiction</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/romancefiction/" rel="tag">#romancefiction</a></p>