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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1853.</p><p>Charles Dickens gives the first of his public readings of his own works, in Birmingham Town Hall (England) to the Industrial and Literary Institute, repeated three days later to an audience of working people and including an adaptation of A Christmas Carol; these are very successful and Dickens continues public readings until the year of his death.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_A_Christmas_Carol" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_A_Christmas_Carol"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptati</span><span class="invisible">ons_of_A_Christmas_Carol</span></a></p><p>Christmas Carol at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46</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 1904.</p><p>J. M. Barrie&#x27;s play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn&#x27;t Grow Up premières at the Duke of York&#x27;s Theatre in London with Nina Boucicault in the title rôle and Gerald du Maurier as Captain Hook and Mr Darling; du Maurier is the uncle of the Llewellyn Davies boys, who inspired the story.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pan" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pan"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pa</span><span class="invisible">n</span></a></p><p>Peter Pan at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/16" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/16</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Hello Fediverse! (as we&#x27;ve learned :) )</p><p>Thank you for your warm welcome.</p><p>In our shop there is a display-window for which we pick a topic that is important to us. There we place all kinds of books beside each other. Poetry and prose, fiction and non-fiction, childrens&#x27; books and essays. There only has to be an association which connects them. We call this our &quot;Wabe&quot;, our honey-comb.</p><p>We&#x27;ll start posting on it next week. Are there and important hashtags we should use? <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a></p>

<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 &quot;On a Continuous Curve Without Tangents, Constructible from Elementary Geometry.&quot;</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>

<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>

<p>There’s an historic home downtown from the 1800’s that had a ginormous old cottonwood tree growing in front of it. Unfortunately, the tree got badly damaged in a storm a few years ago and had to be cut down. But they left the huge stump in place and recently turned it into a free library with a full-sized door, plus the same style cupola and slate roof tiles as the house. It’s pretty cool. 📚🌳</p><p><a href="/tags/streetphotography/" rel="tag">#streetphotography</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/library/" rel="tag">#library</a> <a href="/tags/colorado/" rel="tag">#Colorado</a></p>

<p>📚 I&#x27;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>

<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>

<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&amp;q=https://reviewdb.app/book/1KhQnLjrX6LRwHtctt8rAF" rel="nofollow">Just One Damned Thing After Another</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 <br>by Jodi Taylor.</p><p>A shameless rip-off of Connie Willis&#x27; time travelling historian concept, but with much more chaotic excitement. A bit too much, perhaps, and not enough historic immersion. Don&#x27;t think too hard, just enjoy the ride.</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/sff/" rel="tag">#SFF</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>My <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#bookreview</a> is brief/won&#x27;t spoil, to spread good, great, and spectacular <a href="/tags/horror/" rel="tag">#horror</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> far and wide.</p><p>The tropes and subtext in THE NIGHT SHIP could be both trite &amp; unceasingly grim but Alex Woodroe&#x27;s deft &amp; elegant writing makes this weird, cosmic horror tale of survivors battling the forces of darkness a suspenseful, thrilling, life-affirming adventure of determination &amp; grit. (Flame Tree)</p><p><a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#review</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/cosmichorror/" rel="tag">#CosmicHorror</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>  <a href="/tags/mothersuspiriareview/" rel="tag">#mothersuspiriareview</a> <a href="/tags/msreview/" rel="tag">#MSReview</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://toot.community/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon@toot.community</span></a></span></p>

<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&#x27;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>

<p>The Case for Aesthetic Education</p><p>Why Friedrich Schiller believed art belongs at the heart of education—and why it matters for equal opportunity today.</p><p>By: Marco Elvis Joven Domínguez </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/the-case-for-aesthetic-education/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/the-case-for-aesthetic-education/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/the-case-for-a</span><span class="invisible">esthetic-education/</span></a></p><p>Books by Friedrich Schiller at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/289" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/289"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/289</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/pedagogy/" rel="tag">#pedagogy</a></p>

<p>Meaning beyond definition</p><p>In science our concepts have neat, hard edges. In poetry our concepts stretch and expand. Both are necessary for knowledge</p><p>by James Camien McGuiggan</p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/in-poetry-clarity-comes-through-ambiguity-not-definitions?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=765c91975b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_04_17&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="aeon.co/essays/in-poetry-clarity-comes-through-ambiguity-not-definitions?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=765c91975b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_04_17&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/essays/in-poetry-clari</span><span class="invisible">ty-comes-through-ambiguity-not-definitions?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=765c91975b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_04_17&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972</span></a></p><p>Poetry &amp; Knowledge at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=poetry+%2B+knowledge" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=poetry+%2B+knowledge"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=poetry+%2B+knowledge</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> <a href="/tags/knowledge/" rel="tag">#knowledge</a></p>

<p>Revisiting Vonnegut, who satirised *right now* back in the mid-60s:<br>Fascism, racism, communism &amp; absurd, confused ideas of patriotism in contemporary USA.<br>And how ruthless lawyers and the establishment try to frame a billionaire as insane because he wants to help people and share his wealth.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a></p>

<p>When <a href="/tags/shtf/" rel="tag">#SHTF</a>, I&#x27;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&#x27;ll need a 2y supply of freeze-dried meals.</p><p>Though it can&#x27;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>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1789.</p><p>William Hill Brown&#x27;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>

<p>&quot;Prose is a museum, where all the old weapons of poetry are kept.&quot;</p><p>In January 1909.</p><p>T. E. Hulme&#x27;s poems &quot;Autumn&quot; and &quot;A City Sunset&quot; are included in the Poets&#x27; Club anthology For Christmas MDCCCCVIII, as the first examples of Imagism.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._E._Hulme" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._E._Hulme"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._E._Hu</span><span class="invisible">lme</span></a></p><p>Canzoni &amp; Ripostes at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39783" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39783</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>From January till September 1905.</p><p>L. Frank Baum&#x27;s Animal Fairy Tales appear in The Delineator magazine.</p><p>For several decades in the twentieth century, the collection was a &quot;lost&quot; 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>

<p>Keep good company, <br>Read good books, <br>Love good things, <br>and cultivate soul and body <br>as faithfully and wisely as I can.</p><p>Louisa May Alcott</p><p><a href="/tags/quotes/" rel="tag">#quotes</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/writers/" rel="tag">#writers</a> <a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/louisamayalcott/" rel="tag">#LouisaMayAlcott</a> <a href="/tags/littlewomen/" rel="tag">#LittleWomen</a> <a href="/tags/soul/" rel="tag">#soul</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#quote</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/booktok/" rel="tag">#booktok</a> <a href="/tags/bookstagram/" rel="tag">#bookstagram</a> <a href="/tags/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#readingcommunity</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/booksky/" rel="tag">#booksky</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/alcott/" rel="tag">#Alcott</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>German poet and novelist Achim von Arnim was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1781.</p><p>He is best known as one of the key figures of German Romanticism. His works were collected, with an introduction by Wilhelm Grimm, in twenty volumes (1839–48). He influenced late Romantics and Realists such as Eduard Mörike, Heinrich Heine, Ludwig Uhland and Theodor Storm, particularly through the Wunderhorn.</p><p>Books by Achim von Arnim at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/848" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/848"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/848</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<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&#x27;échapper de sa cage ? C&#x27;est l&#x27;obsession des fauves mais aussi celle de Tony, dix-sept ans, lorsqu&#x27;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>

<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/TheThirdWish" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/TheThirdWish</a></p><p>Spies, aliens, trolls, wizards and a disowned prince use a time machine, to improve their place in history, but Levi Jacobs stands in their way, despite having just lost his parents in war. Will he stop them or will the time travelers kill his father at a pivotal moment, on which the fate of the galaxy hangs?</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></p>

<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&amp;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> <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>