Eggplant.place

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A neat website for creating a virtual bookshelf

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Book Review: Green City Wars
Uplifted raccoon investigator solves mysteries
Christine Baker has our review at the NOAF blog

http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/05/book-review-green-city-wars.html

#bookstodon #books #review @bookstodon

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A Beginner’s Guide to Gothic Literature

"Gothic literature began as a reaction to the Enlightenment and was influenced by medieval architecture. This article explores the origins of the Gothic literary genre."

https://www.thecollector.com/gothic-literature-beginner-guide/

#books #literature

Image shows darkness, the moon(?), a bird's eyes reflecting light, and a skull

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Exploring the life and work of 'reclusive' writer

by Emma Ruminski

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj3g7zyrzjdo

More about Daphne du Maurier:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_du_Maurier

#books #literature

Young Daphne du Maurier (about 1930).

A sepia-toned portrait photograph of a young woman with a short bobbed hairstyle, wearing a pearl necklace and an embroidered top.

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New Author Interview - today on the blog we welcome Stefan Mohamed to talk about their surreal and smart detective tale The House on Utopia Way https://www.runalongtheshelves.net/interviews/2025/9/3/interviewing-stefan-mohamed

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Leonardo da Vinci: Renaissance Artist, Inventor… and Wedding Planner?

by Verity Babbs

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-bites-leonardo-da-vinci-wedding-planner-2667830

Da Vinci at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1629

#books #art #culture

The Last Supper Restored - Leonardo Da Vinci

Depicted people:
Jesus Christ
Bartholomew the Apostle
James, son of Alphaeus
Andrew the Apostle
Judas Iscariot
Saint Peter
John the Apostle
Thomas the Apostle
St. James the Elder, Apostle
Philip the Apostle
Matthew the Apostle
Jude the Apostle
Simon the Zealot

Date: from 1495 until 1498
Medium tempera on gesso, pitch and mastic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Last_Supper_-_Leonardo_Da_Vinci_-_High_Resolution_32x16.jpg

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20th Century Queer Women of Means
by Cathy Pegau

"Cathy Pegau, author of A Murderous Business: A Mystery, shares with The History Reader how some queer women of means in the United States were able to push boundaries more so than women in poor or middle, working-class families."

https://www.thehistoryreader.com/historical-figures/20th-century-queer-women-of-means/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=20th-century-queer-women-of-means

#books #lgbtqia

1925, Nov 21, Louisa Carpenter, The Windsor Star cropped. Dressed in man's suit with a top hat.

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给前两天说的花了一倍价钱淘旧书补充个说明，我应该属于花钱比较节俭的人，但购物欲一点也不低，上班几天就得通过消费抚慰一下，在抠搜与花钱之间最终找到淘二手书这条途径，也就是不管怎么说钱花在书上不冤。当然，钱花得越少就能存得越多，多年下来关注各种淘旧书的途径（跟关注股价指数似的），发现是 Thrift Shop 的价格最划算，本地的一间店里软皮 $0.50 一本，硬皮近年来升到了 $1.25 一本；邻镇的店里更便宜，软皮 $0.25 一本，硬皮 $0.50 一本，缺点是镇上人口不多，书源较少；而本地图书馆处理书的价钱最近调整为无论软硬皆为 $0.50 一本，但书更新得没有 Thrift Shop 的勤；而我前两天淘的书来源于 Goodwill，这家非营利公司好像统一了书的定价，软皮 $0.99 一本，硬皮 $1.99 一本，Amazon 上热销书还要更贵一些，$2.99 起跳，我如果不是特别喜欢就不会在 Goodwill 里买了。现在的淘书频率大概是一周一次，平均每周能淘个一到两本，所以一年也就是一百来本，加起来也贵不到哪里去，但购物欲就轻易地被满足了，就算买回来不读（喂！）也觉得是赚了。现在读书的频率大概一年也能到一百本，但问题是读的那一百本跟淘的这一百本不大重合，所以想读未读那个列表越来越长，今年是不是要往这个方向努力努力（到现在还在问这个问题估计就是没戏）？

#books #reading

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It’s Okay to Hate The House of Mirth

Carlo Rotella on Reading (and Learning) from Books We Dislike

https://lithub.com/its-okay-to-hate-the-house-of-mirth/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01K455MNE7FGVP60QQ77KYY6ZB&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER

The House of Mirth at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=The+House+of+Mirth

#books #literature #literarycriticism

The tragic heroine of The House of Mirth (1905), Lily Bart, lingers at the broad staircase, observing the high-society people gathered in the hall below.

By A. B. Wenzell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_Mirth#/media/File:House_of_Mirth_1.jpg

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An Animal’s History of Humanity: A Brief History on the Exploitation of Animals

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Anne Shakespeare: Toward a Biography

Let’s check in with Anne Shakespeare, née Hathaway, about whom so little is known.

By: Matthew Wills

https://daily.jstor.org/anne-shakespeare-toward-a-biography/?utm_source=mcae&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jstordaily-09042025

#books #art #culture

The only surviving image that may depict Anne Hathaway (1555/56 - 6 August 1623), the wife of William Shakespeare, is a portrait line-drawing made by Sir Nathaniel Curzon in 1708, referred to as "Shakespear's Consort". It was drawn on the verso of the original title page in the Third Folio (1663) of Shakespeare's works located in the Colgate University Libraries, Special Collection and University Archives, Hamilton, NY.

It shows a woman in bust-length, facing slightly to one side. Her attire is plain but proper: she wears a gown with a square neckline and a headdress or cap, consistent with early 17th-century fashions. The lines are clean but not highly detailed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Hathaway_(wife_of_Shakespeare)#/media/File:AnneHathaway_CUL_Page4DetailB.jpg

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English author, poet, and gardener Vita Sackville-West was born #OTD in 1892.

She published more than a dozen collections of poetry and 13 novels during her life. She was twice awarded the Hawthornden Prize for Imaginative Literature: in 1927 for her pastoral epic, The Land, & in 1933 for her Collected Poems. She was the inspiration for the protagonist of Orlando: A Biography, by her friend & lover Virginia Woolf.

Vita Sackville-West at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/34850

#books #literature #poetry

Sackville-West around 1915, from The Life of V.Sackville-West by Victoria Glendinning

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Cover page of Knole and the Sackvilles by V. Sackville-West

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An Animal’s History of Humanity: A Brief History on the Exploitation of Animals

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German physicist Albert Einstein was born #OTD in 1879.

Best known for developing the theory of relativity, he also made important contributions to quantum mechanics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect, which contributed significantly to the foundation of quantum theory. He was also a prominent public figure & advocate for pacifism, civil rights, and social justice.

Albert Einstein at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=einstein&submit_search=Go%21

#books #physics

Albert Einstein during a lecture in Vienna in 1921

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Einstein's 1905 dissertation, Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensione ("A new determination of molecular dimensions").

Cover image of the Ph.D. dissertation of Albert Einstein defended in 1905 at ETH Zürich.

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Zelda Fitzgerald died #OTD in 1948.

She was an American novelist, socialite, and the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Zelda Fitzgerald herself was an important figure in the cultural scene of the 1920s and 1930s, known for her own writing, her artistic talents, and her tumultuous relationship with her husband. She struggled with mental health issues throughout her life and has been the subject of much fascination and analysis in literary and cultural circles.

#books #literature

Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald circa February 1920. According to Arthur Mizener's 1972 biography "Scott Fitzgerald and His World," page 43, this photograph was taken in February 1920 shortly before Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald were married.

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A sketch by Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald for The Beautiful and Damned drawn in 1921. She died in 1948.

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When you just can't decide what to read this morning. #Cats #Books

A tabby cat pulling books from the bottom shelf of a bookcase in order to see what might be hiding behind them.

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#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #MaryAnneFranks, author of #FearlessSpeech: Breaking Free from the #FirstAmendment

"As the title of the book indicates, this is a fearless and iconoclastic critique of the ways that the First Amendment has been interpreted and mobilized in ways that protect and extend #racism, #misogyny, religious fundamentalism, and corporate self-interest."

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/17974202-breaking-free-from-the-first-amendment-to-make-fearless-speech-and-counterpublics-a-conversation-with-mary-anne-franks

#USpol #USpolitics #justice #hateSpeech #harassment #lawfare #wokebashing #books @bookstodon

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Newly discovered portrait may depict ‘fair youth’ of Shakespeare’s sonnets

Earl of Southampton may have given writer the miniature by Nicholas Hilliard, which has defaced heart on its reverse

By Dalya Alberge

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/sep/04/newly-discovered-portrait-of-shakespeares-patron-suggests-he-is-the-fair-youth-of-the-sonnets

Shakespeare’s sonnets at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/4285

#art #books #history

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Kevin A. Young at the Binghamton Upstate Anarchist Book Fair

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[Possible spoiler] Just finished The Stand.......and I’m wrecked

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Glory Edim on Jessie Redmon Fauset’s Remarkable—and Forgotten—Plum Bun

Remembering the Work of “The Crisis” Editor and Harlem Renaissance Writer

https://lithub.com/glory-edim-on-jessie-redmon-fausets-remarkable-and-forgotten-plum-bun/

Harlem Renaissance at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=Harlem+Renaissance

#books #literature

From The New York Public Library:

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "Jessie Redmon Fauset." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1923. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/70706be0-c6dc-012f-dd26-58d385a7bc34

Fauset is posed in a straightforward, composed manner, facing slightly toward the camera.

She wears refined clothing typical of the early 20th century. Her dress is modest yet elegant, with soft fabric at the collar.

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/70706be0-c6dc-012f-dd26-58d385a7bc34?canvasIndex=0

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Kevin A. Young at the Binghamton Upstate Anarchist Book Fair

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What it is like to read Proust - an experiment

by Henry Oliver

https://www.commonreader.co.uk/p/what-it-is-like-to-read-proust

Books by Marcel Proust at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/987

#Books #Literature

MARCEL PROUST IN 1890.

The doctor looks at literature
Psychological studies of life and letters

Author: Joseph Collins

An oval-cropped black-and-white photograph of Proust with dark, close-cropped hair and a thin moustache, wearing a three-piece suit with a patterned cravat and a small boutonnière.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/75230/pg75230-images.html#Page_116

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The back page of *La Recherche*.

A densely covered manuscript page captioned "La dernière page du Temps retrouvé" — the final page of Marcel Proust's Time Regained, the last volume of In Search of Lost Time. The page is covered in Proust's characteristic cramped, heavily revised handwriting, with interlinear additions, crossed-out passages, and marginal insertions spilling into every available space, making it nearly illegible.

Possible transcription:

Je venais de comprendre pourquoi le duc de Guermantes, dont j’avais admiré, en le regardant assis sur une chaise, combien il avait peu vieilli bien qu’il eût tellement plus d’années que moi au-dessous de lui, dès qu’il s’était levé et avait voulu se tenir debout, avait vacillé sur des jambes flageolantes comme celles de ces vieux archevêques sur lesquels il n’y a de solide que leur croix métallique et vers lesquels s’empressent les jeunes séminaristes, et ne s’était avancé qu’en tremblant comme une feuille sur le sommet peu praticable de quatre-vingt-trois années, comme si les hommes étaient juchés sur de vivantes échasses grandissant sans cesse, parfois plus hautes que des clochers, finissant par leur rendre la marche difficile et périlleuse, et d’où tout d’un coup ils tombent...

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k56794150/f508.item#

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Proust#/media/Fichier:Derniere_proust.jpg

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Johannes Gutenberg & the Invention of the Printing Press

Johannes Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press in the 15th century was one of the most important technological developments of the early modern period.

by Anisia Iacob

https://www.thecollector.com/johannes-gutenberg-printing-press/

Johannes Gutenberg at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=Johannes+Gutenberg

#books #printingdevices