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<p>Oh, there's something like <a href="/tags/portfolioday/" rel="tag">#portfolioDay</a> ! Okay, so, I'm an <a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a>, <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a> host and data privacy expert with a strong focus on <a href="/tags/itsecurity/" rel="tag">#ITsecurity</a> awareness. I write <a href="/tags/nonfiction/" rel="tag">#nonfiction</a>, crime and <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> in German and English. The last two years I mainly spent with making <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> and podcasts for others, like the lovely Eltville <a href="/tags/weinschreibereien/" rel="tag">#WeinSchreibereien</a> anthology and podcast.</p><p><a href="https://www.zotzmann-koch.com/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.zotzmann-koch.com/</a></p>

Photo of a shelf of books that were either entirely written by me or have short stories or articles by me inside, sorted chronologically from left to right.

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<p>Swedish mathematician Niels Fabian Helge von Koch was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1870.</p><p>He gave his name to the famous fractal known as the Koch snowflake, one of the earliest fractal curves to be described. It is based on the Koch curve, which appeared in a 1904 paper titled "On a Continuous Curve Without Tangents, Constructible from Elementary Geometry."</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Fabian_Helge_von_Koch" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Fabian_Helge_von_Koch"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Fa</span><span class="invisible">bian_Helge_von_Koch</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/mathematics/" rel="tag">#mathematics</a></p>

Portrait of Nils Fabian Helge von Koch.

In the image, he is shown as an older gentleman, with neatly combed hair, a mustache, and a composed, intellectual expression.

His attire would be formal, typical of late 19th- and early 20th-century European academics—a suit with a high-collared shirt.

von Koch, Helge (1904). "Sur une courbe continue sans tangente, obtenue par une construction géométrique élémentaire" [On a continuous curve without tangent, obtained by an elementary geometric construction]. Arkiv för Matematik (in French). 1: 681–704. JFM 35.0387.02.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000100114564&view=1up&seq=691

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<p>A most interesting chart. And most revealing.<br><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a></p>

Bar chart.
Title: Number of Toronto Public Library in-person visits versus attendance at games (home and away) of major sports teams, 2023.
The chart shows that there were 12.5 million library visits, versus attendance of 3 million for Blue Jays games, 1.7 million for Maple Leafs games, and 0.8 million for Raptors games.

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<p>Hi guys! </p><p>I’m new to mastodon and the fediverse. I’m still trying to figure things out but so far this seems pretty cool! </p><p>Here is a list of my interests: <br><a href="/tags/kpop/" rel="tag">#kpop</a> <br><a href="/tags/kdrama/" rel="tag">#kdrama</a><br><a href="/tags/anime/" rel="tag">#anime</a> <br><a href="/tags/manga/" rel="tag">#manga</a> <br><a href="/tags/genshinimpact/" rel="tag">#genshinimpact</a><br><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <br><a href="/tags/nonfiction/" rel="tag">#nonfiction</a> </p><p>I am also a part of the <a href="/tags/lgbtq/" rel="tag">#lgbtq</a> community and came here because of <a href="/tags/tiktok/" rel="tag">#tiktok</a> </p><p>I hope to find lots of friends so if you follow me i’ll follow you back! </p><p><a href="/tags/newhere/" rel="tag">#newhere</a> <a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#introduction</a></p>

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<p>"Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race."</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1916.</p><p>James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is first published complete in book form, in New York by B. W. Huebsch.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Portrait_of_the_Artist_as_a_Young_Man" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Portrait_of_the_Artist_as_a_Young_Man"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Portra</span><span class="invisible">it_of_the_Artist_as_a_Young_Man</span></a></p><p>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/4217" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/4217</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Front cover of the first edition, published by B. W. Huebsch in 1916

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<p>A light from the periphery</p><p>The life of Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose illuminates how scientific genius can emerge from the most unexpected quarters</p><p>by Somaditya (Soma) Banerjee</p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/why-satyendra-nath-bose-was-more-than-einsteins-sidekick?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=fbc94eca5e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_01_13_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="aeon.co/essays/why-satyendra-nath-bose-was-more-than-einsteins-sidekick?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=fbc94eca5e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_01_13_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/essays/why-satyendra-n</span><span class="invisible">ath-bose-was-more-than-einsteins-sidekick?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=fbc94eca5e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_01_13_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972</span></a></p><p>More about Nath Bose;<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyendra_Nath_Bose" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyendra_Nath_Bose"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyendr</span><span class="invisible">a_Nath_Bose</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/physics/" rel="tag">#physics</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a></p>

Bose at Dhaka University in the 1930s.

It shows Bose seated outdoors on a wooden chair, facing the camera directly. He is dressed in formal academic attire typical of the period: a light-colored suit jacket, matching trousers, a collared shirt, and a neatly knotted tie. A pen is visible tucked into the breast pocket of his jacket, suggesting a scholarly or professional role.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyendra_Nath_Bose#/media/File:Satyendra-nath-bose.jpg

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<p>📚 I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom: A Novel by: Jason Pargin</p><p>Outside Los Angeles, a driver pulls up to find a young woman sitting on a large black box. She offers him $200,000 cash to transport her and that box across the country, to Washington, DC.</p><p>But there are rules:</p><p>He cannot look inside the box.<br>He cannot ask question...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/im-starting-to-worry-about-this-black-box-of-doom-a-novel" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/im-starting-to-worry-about-this-black-box-of-doom-a-novel"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/im-startin</span><span class="invisible">g-to-worry-about-this-black-box-of-doom-a-novel</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>

Outside Los Angeles, a driver pulls up to find a young woman sitting on a large black box. She offers him $200,000 cash to transport her and that box across the country, to Washington, DC.

But there are rules:

He cannot look inside the box.
He cannot ask questions.
He cannot tell anyone.
They must leave immediately.
He must leave all trackable devices behind.

As these eccentric misfits hit the road, rumors spread on social media that the box is part of a carefully orchestrated terror attack intended to plunge the USA into civil war.

The truth promises to be even stranger, and may change how you see the world.

THE INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER

A standalone darkly humorous thriller set in modern America's age of anxiety, by New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin.

Source: Publisher

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<p>What Role Did Women Play in the Scientific Revolution?</p><p>The Scientific Revolution was characterized by a major shift in the way of thinking. Historically, women’s contributions, however, were largely overlooked.</p><p>By Mike Cohen</p><p><a href="https://www.thecollector.com/role-of-women-in-scientific-revolution/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/role-of-women-in-scientific-revolution/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thecollector.com/role-of-w</span><span class="invisible">omen-in-scientific-revolution/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/womeninstem/" rel="tag">#womeninStem</a></p>

Gabrielle Émilie du Châtelet at Her Work Table, by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, 18th century.

Émilie du Châtelet is depicted seated at a richly adorned table, engaged in her work, likely involving mathematical or scientific writings.

She wears an opulent yet tasteful gown with delicate lace and fine fabrics, reflecting both her aristocratic status and the refined elegance of the Rococo period.

She is holding a compass, a tool for drawing, measuring, and copying accurate circles.

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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? January 20

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<p>📚 The Strange House (Manga) Vol. 4 by: Uketsu, Kyo Ayano</p><p>As Yuzuki and I investigate the Katabuchi family home, our unease grows. What dark secrets has her family been hiding? The mysteries deepen, but at least one has been solved: the identity of You-chan's murderer. Yet that is only the beginning of the strange, disturbing truth...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-strange-house-manga-vol-4" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-strange-house-manga-vol-4"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-strang</span><span class="invisible">e-house-manga-vol-4</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/manga/" rel="tag">#manga</a> <a href="/tags/horror/" rel="tag">#horror</a></p>

As Yuzuki and I investigate the Katabuchi family home, our unease grows. What dark secrets has her family been hiding? The mysteries deepen, but at least one has been solved: the identity of You-chan's murderer. Yet that is only the beginning of the strange, disturbing truth...

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<p>When <a href="/tags/shtf/" rel="tag">#SHTF</a>, I'm sure you will need <a href="/tags/community/" rel="tag">#community</a>, <a href="/tags/solidarity/" rel="tag">#solidarity</a> and stable <a href="/tags/relationships/" rel="tag">#relationships</a> at a local level a little more than you'll need a 2y supply of freeze-dried meals.</p><p>Though it can't hurt to download <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> and <a href="/tags/information/" rel="tag">#information</a> now that you once believed would be treasured as heritage of humankind – and never be burned, or rewritten to suit the needs of fanatics with fragile egos.</p><p>Start here:</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>gutenberg_org</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@kiwix" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kiwix</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>internetarchive</span></a></span></p>

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1789.</p><p>William Hill Brown's anonymous sentimental epistolary novel The Power of Sympathy: or, The Triumph of Nature, usually considered the first American novel, is published in Boston.</p><p>The novel was first published anonymously, but was popularly attributed to poet Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton because of the resemblance between the plot and a scandal in her family; Brown was not correctly identified as the author until 1894.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Sympathy" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Sympathy"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Powe</span><span class="invisible">r_of_Sympathy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69250" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69250</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

The Power of Sympathy by William Hill Brown (1789), title page.

The title page of the original edition is formal and typical of 18th-century publications, with a long, descriptive subtitle. It reads:

The Power of Sympathy: or, The Triumph of Nature. Founded in Truth.

It is followed by the publication details, which state that it was printed in Boston by Isaiah Thomas and Company in 1789.

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<p>From January till September 1905.</p><p>L. Frank Baum's Animal Fairy Tales appear in The Delineator magazine.</p><p>For several decades in the twentieth century, the collection was a "lost" book by Baum; it resurfaced when the International Wizard of Oz Club published the stories in one volume in 1969.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Fairy_Tales" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Fairy_Tales"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_F</span><span class="invisible">airy_Tales</span></a></p><p>The Animal Fairy Tales at Delineator:<br><a href="https://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=hearth1891092_64_2#page/106/mode/1up" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=hearth1891092_64_2#page/106/mode/1up"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">reader.library.cornell.edu/doc</span><span class="invisible">viewer/digital?id=hearth1891092_64_2#page/106/mode/1up</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Animal Fairy Tales published in Vol. 64, No. 2, August, 1905: The Delineator.

Drawings by Charles Livinstone Bull.

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<p>📚 Fauves by: Melissa Da Costa</p><p>Je veux jouer avec le feu, trembler, sentir la morsure de la mort. Défier les instincts les plus brutaux, les plus sauvages, et les dépasser.</p><p>Comment s'échapper de sa cage ? C'est l'obsession des fauves mais aussi celle de Tony, dix-sept ans, lorsqu'il rejoint un cirque itinérant après avoir fui la violence de son père. Faire face aux bê...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/fauves" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/fauves</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/general/" rel="tag">#general</a></p>

Je veux jouer avec le feu, trembler, sentir la morsure de la mort. Défier les instincts les plus brutaux, les plus sauvages, et les dépasser.

Comment s'échapper de sa cage ? C'est l'obsession des fauves mais aussi celle de Tony, dix-sept ans, lorsqu'il rejoint un cirque itinérant après avoir fui la violence de son père. Faire face aux bêtes, affronter ses propres démons...

Le nouveau roman de Mélissa Da Costa nous propulse au coeur de l'arène, où l'ivresse du danger fait oublier la mort. Une fresque magistrale, portée par une écriture tendue et charnelle.

Mélissa Da Costa relève hautement le défi de cet audacieux roman. Le Parisien WE

C'est tout un univers de brutes et d'audacieux, de femmes endurantes et bouleversantes, l'envers du chapiteau que conte brillamment Mélissa Da Costa. Adrénaline garantie. Elle
Fauves séduit par la complexité de ses personnages, rendant le roman addictif et difficile à lâcher. Huffington Post

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<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&q=https://reviewdb.app/book/1onVykHO8cWR9T8KXDwYXB" rel="nofollow">Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 <br>by Gabrielle Zevin.</p><p>Two friends become productive creative partners in computer game design, but their emotional blocks cause regular estrangements (gets a bit frustrating - grow up already!). I enjoyed the nostalgia of old-school gaming, but would probably still be enjoyable for non-gamers. Now, off to play Oregon Trail ... <a href="https://oregontrail.run/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>oregontrail.run/</a></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> </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> @wildwoila@wyrms.de<br></p>

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<p>Three women translators who bridged cultures</p><p>Stories of Birgitte Thott, Sarah Austin, and Émilie du Châtelet</p><p>by Małgorzata Szynkielewska via <span class="h-card"><a href="https://glammr.us/@europeana" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>europeana</span></a></span> (from the archives)</p><p><a href="https://www.europeana.eu/en/stories/three-women-translators-who-bridged-cultures" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.europeana.eu/en/stories/three-women-translators-who-bridged-cultures"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.europeana.eu/en/stories/th</span><span class="invisible">ree-women-translators-who-bridged-cultures</span></a></p><p>Books by or translated by Émilie du Châtelet at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=%C3%89milie+du+Ch%C3%A2telet&submit_search=Search" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=%C3%89milie+du+Ch%C3%A2telet&submit_search=Search"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=%C3%89milie+du+Ch%C3%A2telet&submit_search=Search</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/translators/" rel="tag">#translators</a> <a href="/tags/womeninart/" rel="tag">#womeninart</a></p>

Birgitte Thott (1610–1662) used her remarkable linguistic abilities to bring foreign knowledge to her native Denmark.

Sarah Austin (1793–1867) was an English translator and editor who played a pivotal role in introducing British audiences to German authors. Sarah’s translations were linguistic accomplishments and also acts of cultural mediation, helping to bridge intellectual divides between Britain and continental Europe.

Émilie du Châtelet (1706–1749) was a French natural philosopher and mathematician.

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<p>Wit, courage and guile: ten literary heroines to inspire you on International Women’s Day</p><p>Whether courageous and confident or quietly subversive, literary heroines can inspire us in our everyday lives.</p><p>by Amy Wilcockson</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/wit-courage-and-guile-ten-literary-heroines-to-inspire-you-on-international-womens-day-277607?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=International%20Womens%20Day%202026&utm_content=International%20Womens%20Day%202026+CID_03740b2982c8e57598d1dcb20bdec6c2&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Wit%20courage%20and%20guile%20ten%20literary%20heroines%20to%20inspire%20you%20on%20International%20Womens%20Day" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/wit-courage-and-guile-ten-literary-heroines-to-inspire-you-on-international-womens-day-277607?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=International%20Womens%20Day%202026&utm_content=International%20Womens%20Day%202026+CID_03740b2982c8e57598d1dcb20bdec6c2&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Wit%20courage%20and%20guile%20ten%20literary%20heroines%20to%20inspire%20you%20on%20International%20Womens%20Day"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/wit-courag</span><span class="invisible">e-and-guile-ten-literary-heroines-to-inspire-you-on-international-womens-day-277607?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=International%20Womens%20Day%202026&utm_content=International%20Womens%20Day%202026+CID_03740b2982c8e57598d1dcb20bdec6c2&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Wit%20courage%20and%20guile%20ten%20literary%20heroines%20to%20inspire%20you%20on%20International%20Womens%20Day</span></a></p><p>Women fiction at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=women+fiction" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=women+fiction"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">cts/search/?query=women+fiction</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/womenhistorymonth/" rel="tag">#womenhistoryMonth</a></p>

The Wife of Bath's Tale in the Ellesmere manuscript of The Canterbury Tales, c. 1405–1410.

A illuminated manuscript page with dense Gothic cursive text in two sections, separated by a decorative rubric line in red. The left and bottom margins are bordered by an elaborate acanthus and ivy-leaf vine decoration in blue, gold, and red, with small coloured flowers and curling tendrils. A small miniature illustration in the right margin depicts a figure in a wide-brimmed hat riding a horse, rendered in warm reds, blues, and browns. A large decorative initial capital begins the lower text block. The rubric midpage reads "Heere endeth the Wyf of Bathe hir prologe and biginneth hir tale." The page is cream-coloured with age, and a folio number is visible in the upper right corner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wife_of_Bath%27s_Tale#/media/File:Wife-of-Bath-ms.jpg

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<p>📚 Cibola Burn by: James S. A. Corey</p><p>An empty apartment, a missing family, that's creepy. But this is like finding a military base with no one on it. Fighters and tanks idling on the runway with no drivers. This is bad juju. Something wrong happened here. What you should do is tell everyone to leave.<br> <br>The gates have opened the way to a thousand new worlds and the rush to colonize has beg...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/cibola-burn" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/cibola-burn"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/cibola-bur</span><span class="invisible">n</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>

An empty apartment, a missing family, that's creepy. But this is like finding a military base with no one on it. Fighters and tanks idling on the runway with no drivers. This is bad juju. Something wrong happened here. What you should do is tell everyone to leave.

The gates have opened the way to a thousand new worlds and the rush to colonize has begun. Settlers looking for a new life stream out from humanity's home planets. Ilus, the first human colony on this vast new frontier, is being born in blood and fire.

Independent settlers stand against the overwhelming power of a corporate colony ship with only their determination, courage, and the skills learned in the long wars of home. Innocent scientists are slaughtered as they try to survey a new and alien world.

The struggle on Ilus threatens to spread all the way back to Earth. James Holden and the crew of his one small ship are sent to make peace in the midst of war and sense in the midst of chaos. But the more he looks at it, the more Holden thinks the mission was meant to fail. And the whispers of a dead man remind him that the great galactic civilization that once stood on this land is gone. And that something killed it.

The ExpanseLeviathan WakesCaliban's WarAbaddon's GateCibola BurnNemesis GamesBabylon's AshesThe Expanse Short Fiction The Butcher of Anderson StationGods of RiskThe ChurnThe Vital Abyss.

The explosive fourth novel in James S.A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series. Now a m

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<p>Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 2002.</p><p>She is best known for several children's book series, featuring Pippi Longstocking, Emil of Lönneberga, Karlsson-on-the-Roof, and the Six Bullerby Children (Children of Noisy Village in the US), and for the children's fantasy novels Mio, My Son; Ronia the Robber's Daughter; and The Brothers Lionheart.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrid_Lindgren" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrid_Lindgren"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrid_L</span><span class="invisible">indgren</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Astrid Lindgren around 1960.

She is typically seen with short, slightly wavy hair, characteristic of her later years, and a kind yet intelligent expression that reflects her deep connection with storytelling and children’s literature.

Lindgren is dressed in modest yet elegant attire, wearing a collared blouse or a cardigan.

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<p>I've read that the fourth <a href="/tags/dune/" rel="tag">#Dune</a> novel is quite good and perhaps I will read it one day.</p><p>[End of transmission] </p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a></p>

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The Death of Washington Post Book World and Why Criticism Still Matters <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.ml/post/45885052">See Original Page</a> </small>

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<p>I read a lot. Mostly SF and fantasy. Something which has been 'taking over' a lot of online communities about those genres (probably also in other genres) in recent years is the concept of <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> challenges.</p><p>I finally figured out something which bothers me about them. They turn reading specific <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> into something which you do because you're extrinsically motivated!</p><p>For me, reading has always been something I do because I'm intrinsically motivated, but I recently caught myself thinking far too much on how to make books fit into such challenges, including picking up books which I didn't actually feel like.</p><p>I'm all in favor of people reading more - and more broadly - than they would've done without these challenges, but I already was reading exactly as much as I want to!</p><p>Going forward, I'm going to stay far away from the inherent reward-loop from these challenges, and just read what I feel like, when I feel like it. Much healthier for my brain, which is far too susceptible to such things.</p>

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How Lord of the Flies was crerated and published. <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://sh.itjust.works/post/53762245">See Original Page</a> </small>

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<p>Man Finds Rare Trove of Winnie-the-Pooh Drawings and Manuscripts in His Father's Attic</p><p>By Sarah Kuta</p><p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/man-finds-rare-trove-of-winnie-the-pooh-drawings-and-manuscripts-in-his-fathers-attic-180985907/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/man-finds-rare-trove-of-winnie-the-pooh-drawings-and-manuscripts-in-his-fathers-attic-180985907/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-n</span><span class="invisible">ews/man-finds-rare-trove-of-winnie-the-pooh-drawings-and-manuscripts-in-his-fathers-attic-180985907/</span></a></p><p>Books by A. A. Milne at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/730" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/730"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/730</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/lost_manuscripts/" rel="tag">#lost_manuscripts</a></p>

Photograph of A. A. Milne.

Emil Otto Hoppé - Shadowland, September 1922 (page 62)

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<p>"And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor<br>Shall be lifted — nevermore!"</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1845.</p><p>Edgar Allan Poe first publishes the narrative poem "The Raven", under his own name in The Evening Mirror of New York, of which he is a staff critic until February. It is rapidly reprinted across the United States and appears in book form by the end of the year.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raven" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raven"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rave</span><span class="invisible">n</span></a></p><p>The Raven at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/14082" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/14082</a><br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/17192" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/17192</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>

The raven perches on a bust of Pallas Athena, a symbol of wisdom meant to imply the narrator is a scholar.

Illustration by Édouard Manet for Stéphane Mallarmé's translation, Le Corbeau (1875).

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