So I guess it's time for an #introduction. Well, I'm a 30 something #Black #queer woman. I love to read #books. I love the #NYKnicks. I like #bicycles even though, it's not my primary mode of transportation. I like refurbishing and upgrading old electronics, specifically #iPods and #laptops. #TV and music have kept me going more than anything else. I'm branching into #Linux and getting more familiar with #FOSS. I am a #blogger and I have linked my blog in my bio.
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#OTD in 1826.
In the Mexican Republic, lithographer Claudio Linati inaugurates El Iris, a "pocket sized" bi-weekly. It is in print until August 2, when its popularization of liberal ideas prompts the intervention of state censors.
It was founded as an illustrated literary review, with topics of interest to women. It included articles on poetry, theater and fashion, as well as portraits and biographies of heroes of the recent war of independence.
#OTD in 1859.
German scholar Constantin von Tischendorf identifies portions of the mid-4th century Codex Sinaiticus (an uncial manuscript of the Greek Bible) at Saint Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai in the Khedivate of Egypt and arranges for its presentation to his patron, Tsar Alexander II of Russia at Saint Petersburg.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Sinaiticus
Tischendorf.IV.Monumenta Sacra Inedita. 1857-1870 at TIA:
https://archive.org/details/Tischendorf.iv.monumentaSacraInedita.newcollection.subscript.6vols.1857-1870/01.MonumentaSacraInedita.NCVA.FragEvangLucLibGen.v1.Tischendorf.Subsc.1857./mode/1up
#OTD in 1856.
Lewis Carroll chooses his pseudonym; on May 1 he takes up photography as a hobby. A romantic poem called "Solitude" appeared in The Train under the authorship of "Lewis Carroll". This pseudonym was a play on his real name: Lewis was the anglicised form of Ludovicus, which was the Latin for Lutwidge, and Carroll an Irish surname similar to the Latin name Carolus, from which comes the name Charles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll
From March 1 to October 15, 1919.
Publication runs of the American pulp magazine The Thrill Book are oriented towards the fantasy genre or science fiction. It includes the serialization of The Heads of Cerberus, written by Gertrude Barrows Bennett as Francis Stevens, with its early thematic use of an alternate time-track, or parallel worlds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thrill_Book
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heads_of_Cerberus
The Thrill Books is available at LibriVoX:
https://librivox.org/group/676?primary_key=676&search_category=group&search_page=1&search_form=get_results&search_order=alpha
#OTD in 1616.
Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair#Inquisition_and_first_judgment,_1616
Galileo Galilei at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=galileo+galilei&submit_search=Search
How George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four predicted the global power shifts happening now
Orwell is feted for the farsightedness of his geopolitical vision as long ago as the 1940s. But a lot of writers were thinking along similar lines.
by Emrah Atasoy
Dystopias at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/3316
📚 Bald-Faced Liar by: Victoria Helen Stone
Traveling nurse Elizabeth May has a promising new home in Santa Cruz. And another new identity. It's a pattern of reinvention for a woman escaping her traumatic childhood and hiding from the decades of notoriety and destruction that followed.Invisibility has kept Eliza...
https://bookblabla.com/book/bald-faced-liar
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #psychologicalfiction #thrillers #suspensefiction #psychological
Is This the Best of All Possible Worlds? Leibniz vs. Voltaire
What does it mean for this world to be the “best possible world,” even with the obvious existence of evil? Leibniz and Voltaire weigh in.
By Mirjana Jojić
https://www.thecollector.com/is-this-best-all-possible-worlds-leibniz-voltaire/
I recently finished The Will of the Many. this story follows an orphaned prince surviving in the Republic that invaded his country in a Romanesque world that uses will based magic in all things. Vis finds himself stuck between a plot to tear down the Republic and a senator that adopts him to attend a school to solve the murder of his brother. This was a fun read but there were issues with the grammar that were frustratingly repetitive. ⭐⭐🌟 @bookstodon @fantasy #books #fantasy #books
Ebook: https://books2read.com/TheWizardsScion
Levi Jacobs always dreamed of being like his father, the greatest wizard in the world, but had no understanding what it would be like. Follow Levi’s journey from bumbling teen to a great hero, while the young wizard learns to master magical powers that are initially completely beyond him and barely under control.
@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #sciencefantasy #scifi #actionadventure #fiction #books
One good thing about life these days are the number of independent and small press publishers that have sprung up. The majority of the most interesting books published now come from them, and in this piece six editors whose presses specialize in finding and reissuing engaging backlist titles talk about why they publish the books they do and how they find them.
#books #publishing #indies #SmallPress #reading @bookstodon
https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2026/01/08/literature-small-press-editors-out-of-print-books/
This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- I finally bought #TerryGoodkind's "The Children of D'Hara" bundle from Head of Zeus to replace the individual novellas I had.
- Plus a second-hand copy of James Delbourgo's "Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of #HansSloane" from Allen Lane.
- and a second-hand copy of "Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose?" by the ever-thoughtful Michael Ruse, published by Harvard University Press.
#Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #Fantasy #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology @bookstodon
'The truth is she did the right thing': The mystery of why Jane Austen's letters were destroyed – by her own sister
By Neil Armstrong
Books by Jane Austen at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/68
📚 Pines by: Blake Crouch
One way in. No way out.
Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho, with a mission: locate two federal agents who went missing in the bucolic town one month earlier. But within minutes of his arrival, Ethan is involved in a violent accident. He comes to in a hospital, with no ID, n...
https://bookblabla.com/book/pines
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #thrillers #technologicalfiction #horror #generalfiction
Finnish priest, lyric and epic poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg was born #OTD in 1804 (Runeberg Day).
He is the author of the lyrics to Vårt land (Our Land, Maamme in Finnish) which became the Finnish national anthem. Runeberg was also involved in the modernization of the Finnish Lutheran hymnal and produced many texts for the new edition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Ludvig_Runeberg
Books by Johan Ludvig Runeberg at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2842
#OTD in 1913.
Claudio Monteverdi's last opera L'incoronazione di Poppea was performed theatrically for the first time in more than 250 years.
Two versions of the musical score of L'incoronazione exist, both from the 1650s. The first was rediscovered in Venice in 1888, the second in Naples in 1930. The Naples score is linked to the revival of the opera in that city in 1651.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27incoronazione_di_Poppea
Books about Monteverdi at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=monteverdi&submit_search=Search
📚 Pachinko by: Min Jin Lee
Yeongdo, Korea, 1911. Teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a fisherman, falls for a wealthy yakuza. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant, and that her lover is married, she refuses to be bought.
Facing ruin, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle minister passing thro...
https://bookblabla.com/book/pachinko
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #familylife #generalfiction #romance #historical
#OTD in 1920.
An inaugural meeting of the Bloomsbury Group's Memoir Club is arranged by Mary MacCarthy in London.
Among the people involved in the group were Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, Vanessa Bell, and Lytton Strachey.
Virginia Woolf at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89
John Maynard Keynes:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/6280
E. M. Forster:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/975
Lytton Strachey:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/576
"Years of not fitting in and being afraid of being busted takes it's toll. I have had a lifetime of being unsure of how to conduct myself and being baffled by others' behaviour. For many years I thought my only choice was to be constantly on the move. I have lost track of the times I have given all my belongings away and melted into the night."
#AnissaLjanta, Wild of Brain, 2024
OMG this is so me!
I find books in the strangest places. This one I found, because I was listening to the latest episode of the bookfast club podcast wherein the hosts were scolding their Black listeners because their listeners were calling them a racial word that rhymes with noon, because they didn’t like the book. I don’t think I’m gonna continue the podcast because they seem to constantly shit on romance including romantasy and Black romances but even though the episode was a rant, at least I found this out of it. The book immediately looks far more interesting than the podcast! https://share.libbyapp.com/title/12137233 #Books #Romance #Romantasy #RomanceLandia
"The only thing that we know is that we know nothing — and that is the highest flight of human wisdom."
Book V, Ch. I
In February 1865.
Publication of Leo Tolstoy's "1805", an early version of War and Peace, begins in the magazine Russkiy Vestnik. The version that was published in Russkiy Vestnik had a very different ending from the version eventually published under the title War and Peace in 1869.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Peace
War and Peace at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2600
#OTD in 1936.
Charlie Chaplin's film Modern Times opened in New York City.
During a European tour promoting City Lights, Chaplin got the inspiration for Modern Times from both the lamentable conditions of the continent through the Great Depression, along with a conversation with Mahatma Gandhi in which they discussed modern technology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Times_(film)
Books about or by Charlie Chaplin at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=charlie+chaplin&submit_search=Search
📚 The Mountain in the Sea by: Ray Nayler
The transnational tech corporation DIANIMA has sealed off the remote Con Dao Archipelago, where a species of octopus has been discovered that may have developed its own language and culture. The marine biologist Dr. Ha Nguyen, who has spent her life researching c...
https://bookblabla.com/book/the-mountain-in-the-sea
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #sciencefiction #generalfiction #thrillers #technologicalfiction
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