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<p>Jane Austen was a satirist – why isn’t she treated like one?</p><p>By Adam J Smith</p><p>Although many women writers were critiquing society in the 18th century, hardly any of them were considered satirists.</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/jane-austen-was-a-satirist-why-isnt-she-treated-like-one-262274?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20August%204%202025%20-%203474435381&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20August%204%202025%20-%203474435381+CID_11a7064190437d6047887b31fe5798d3&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Jane%20Austen%20was%20a%20satirist%20%20why%20isnt%20she%20treated%20like%20one" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/jane-austen-was-a-satirist-why-isnt-she-treated-like-one-262274?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20August%204%202025%20-%203474435381&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20August%204%202025%20-%203474435381+CID_11a7064190437d6047887b31fe5798d3&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Jane%20Austen%20was%20a%20satirist%20%20why%20isnt%20she%20treated%20like%20one"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/jane-auste</span><span class="invisible">n-was-a-satirist-why-isnt-she-treated-like-one-262274?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20August%204%202025%20-%203474435381&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20August%204%202025%20-%203474435381+CID_11a7064190437d6047887b31fe5798d3&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Jane%20Austen%20was%20a%20satirist%20%20why%20isnt%20she%20treated%20like%20one</span></a></p><p>Jane Austen at PG<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/68" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/68"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/68</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

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<p>Life, Work & Adoration</p><p>Becoming George: The Invention of George Sand</p><p>review by Lucasta Miller</p><p><a href="https://literaryreview.co.uk/life-work-adoration" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="literaryreview.co.uk/life-work-adoration"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">literaryreview.co.uk/life-work</span><span class="invisible">-adoration</span></a></p><p>George Sand at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/851" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/851"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/851</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Portrait of George Sand (cropped)
Part of: Portrait of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand
By Eugène Delacroix

George Sand depicted:

In masculine attire (white collar visible)
With dark hair and intense gaze
Holding what appears to be a small bird or flower
Against a rich, dark background with reddish-brown tones
Delacroix's characteristic loose, colorful brushwork
Contemplative, serious expression

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sand#/media/Fichier:Eug%C3%A8ne_Ferdinand_Victor_Delacroix_041.jpg

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<p>📚 The Universe Box by: Michael Swanwick</p><p>Discover the vast worlds and pocket universes of Michael Swanwick (Stations of the Tide), the only author to win science fiction's most prestigious award five times in six years. </p><p>In his dazzling new collection, the master of speculative short stories returns with tales in which magic and science improbably c...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-universe-box" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-universe-box"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-univer</span><span class="invisible">se-box</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/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/general/" rel="tag">#general</a></p>

Discover the vast worlds and pocket universes of Michael Swanwick (Stations of the Tide), the only author to win science fiction's most prestigious award five times in six years.

In his dazzling new collection, the master of speculative short stories returns with tales in which magic and science improbably coexist with myth and legend. With two stories original to this collection, Swanwick aptly demonstrates with poignant humor why he is widely respected as a master of imaginative storytelling.

In engaging stories, Mischling the thief races through time to defeat three trolls before the sun rises for the first time and turns the inhabitants of her city into stone. A scientist is on the run from assassins, because her research in merging human intelligence with sentient AI is too dangerous. An aging veteran obtains a military weapon from his past: a VR robotic leopard in which he rediscovers the consequences of the hunt. In the biggest heist in the history of the universe, a loser Trickster (and the girlfriend who is better than he deserves), sets out to violate every trope and expectation of fiction possible.

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<p>“Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.” </p><p>Honore de <a href="/tags/balzac/" rel="tag">#Balzac</a> </p><p><a href="/tags/fathergoriot/" rel="tag">#FatherGoriot</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</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/booksky/" rel="tag">#booksky</a> <a href="/tags/bookstagram/" rel="tag">#bookstagram</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/writers/" rel="tag">#writers</a> <a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/quotes/" rel="tag">#quotes</a> <a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#quote</a> <a href="/tags/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#readingcommunity</a></p>

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in1960 Zora Neale Hurston died. She "was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou."</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zora_Neale_Hurston" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zora_Neale_Hurston"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zora_Nea</span><span class="invisible">le_Hurston</span></a></p><p>Books by Hurston at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/6368" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/6368"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/6368</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Photograph of Zora Neale Hurston by Carl Van Vechten. She is sitting and wearing a top (dress?), belt, necklace of beads, and stylish hat. She is looking to the right away from the camera.

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<p>Luckily Bert is right, you don't HAVE to read Dostoyevsky 😂 But you can if you want 😊 </p><p>@bookstodon @bookbubble @humour @reading</p><p><a href="/tags/song/" rel="tag">#Song</a> <a href="/tags/evita/" rel="tag">#Evita</a> <a href="/tags/dostoyevsky/" rel="tag">#Dostoyevsky</a><br><a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#Book</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookmemes/" rel="tag">#BookMemes</a> <a href="/tags/memes/" rel="tag">#Memes</a> <a href="/tags/humor/" rel="tag">#Humor</a> <a href="/tags/humour/" rel="tag">#Humour</a><br><a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#Novel</a> <a href="/tags/novels/" rel="tag">#Novels</a> <a href="/tags/bookshelf/" rel="tag">#Bookshelf</a> <br><a href="/tags/mastobooks/" rel="tag">#Mastobooks</a> <a href="/tags/booksofmastodon/" rel="tag">#BooksofMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/bookworm/" rel="tag">#Bookworm</a> <a href="/tags/bookwyrm/" rel="tag">#Bookwyrm</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/booklove/" rel="tag">#BookLove</a> <a href="/tags/boostingissharing/" rel="tag">#BoostingIsSharing</a></p>

Picture of a blackboard sign with colourful chalk writing:
Bert's Books
Don't cry for me Dostoyevsky
The truth is I never read you
All through your chapters
Your epic fiction
You kept on writing
I kept my distance

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Where are the writers at now? (social media)

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<p>📚 Stolen in Death by: J. D. Robb</p><p>A blow to the head with a block of amethyst has left multibillionaire Nathan Barrister dead while nearby, a vault, its door ajar, sits filled with priceless paintings, jewelry, and other treasures. Lieutenant Eve Dallas’s husband, Roarke who misspent his youth in Ireland as a scrappy ...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/stolen-in-death" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/stolen-in-death"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/stolen-in-</span><span class="invisible">death</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/mysterydetective/" rel="tag">#mysterydetective</a> <a href="/tags/thrillers/" rel="tag">#thrillers</a> <a href="/tags/crimefiction/" rel="tag">#crimefiction</a> <a href="/tags/womensleuths/" rel="tag">#womensleuths</a></p>

A blow to the head with a block of amethyst has left multibillionaire Nathan Barrister dead while nearby, a vault, its door ajar, sits filled with priceless paintings, jewelry, and other treasures. Lieutenant Eve Dallas’s husband, Roarke who misspent his youth in Ireland as a scrappy thief—recognizes at least two stolen pieces among the hoard. The crime scene suggests a burglar caught in the act. But only one item seems to be missing.

Then it’s revealed that the vault had actually belonged to the victim’s late father—and no one in the household knew it was there until a recent remodeling project exposed it. To protect the family name and business, they explain to Eve, they’d been looking for a way to return the ill-gotten gains anonymously and avoid the police. But now the police are all over their elegant house, and have a bigger, bloodier mystery to solve.

By all accounts, Nathan Barrister was a good man, a generous employer, a devoted husband and father. As for his father—he clearly had secrets. Now it’s up to Eve and her team to find out if those secrets got Nathan killed—and if it was a crime of passion or revenge.

A violent death and a vault of stolen treasures has Eve Dallas struggling to solve crimes old and new in the next thriller in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series.

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<p>British actress Lena Ashwell died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1957.</p><p>She is known as the first to organise large-scale entertainment for troops at the front, which she did during World War I. After the war she created the Lena Ashwell Players.</p><p>Ashwell herself travelled to the front and became involved in fundraising and logistics of the concerts, as she believed in 'uplifting & therapeutic' power of music.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_Ashwell" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_Ashwell"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_Ash</span><span class="invisible">well</span></a></p><p>A preface written by Lena Ashwell at PG<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18530" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18530</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Rotary postcard featuring a photograph of actress Lena Ashwell.

Lena Ashwell is captured in a half-length pose, looking directly at the camera with a composed and serene expression.

She is wearing a delicate gown adorned with floral embellishments and a long beaded necklace.

Her hair is styled in soft waves, framing her face gracefully.

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<p>Books I Wish I Could Read Again for the First Time: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-books-i-wish-i-could-read-again-for-the-first-time/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-books-i-wish-i-could-read-again-for-the-first-time/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-week</span><span class="invisible">ly-blogging-challenge-books-i-wish-i-could-read-again-for-the-first-time/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/nonfiction/" rel="tag">#Nonfiction</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="/tags/wednesdayweeklybloggingchallenge/" rel="tag">#WednesdayWeeklyBloggingChallenge</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>

Book cover for A Short History of the World According to Sheep by Sally Coulthard. Image on cover is a photo of a shepherd herding his sheep while they stand on a mountain. There are much larger, snowier mountains in the background.

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<p>So here's <a href="/tags/spring/" rel="tag">#Spring</a> with exclusive <a href="/tags/shortstories/" rel="tag">#ShortStories</a> from Diana Evans, Takiguchi Yūshō, translated by Jesse Kirkwood, Bruna Martini, Holly Edwards and Joel Cox, plus Lucy Caldwell on the long and short of <a href="/tags/shortfiction/" rel="tag">#ShortFiction</a> </p><p>Check them all out at <a href="https://fictionable.world" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>fictionable.world</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/comics/" rel="tag">#comics</a> <a href="/tags/shortstories/" rel="tag">#ShortStories</a> <a href="/tags/translation/" rel="tag">#translation</a> <a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#blog</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a></p>

The fantastic contributors to Fictionable Spring 2026. From top left to bottom right: Bruna Martini, Diana Evans, Holly Edwards, Joel Cox, Takiguchi Yūshō, Jesse Kirkwood and Lucy Caldwell

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<p>The first <a href="/tags/concentrationcamp/" rel="tag">#concentrationcamp</a>. Decades from now this <a href="/tags/photo/" rel="tag">#photo</a> will (hopefully) be in the <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

The first concentration camp. Decades from now this photo will (hopefully) be in the history books

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why i wrote the final exodus and how 2026 is closer than u think

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<p>One of my biggest regrets from the past few years was losing the habit of reading books. All the usual excuses: child to look after, too tired, not enough time…</p><p>I didn’t read a ton, but I had an average of 30 books a year. Last year I must have read 6. This year in early April I was at 0… and the realization shook me to my core.</p><p>Something had to be done.</p><p>I found out about KOreader and SimpleUI - having on an e-reader homepage a bar with reading stats would be an incredible motivator… I thought.</p><p>Jailbroke my <a href="/tags/kindle/" rel="tag">#Kindle</a>, installed <a href="/tags/koreader/" rel="tag">#KOreader</a> and <a href="/tags/simpleui/" rel="tag">#SimpleUI</a>. And 18 days later I have… an 18 day reading streak and I’m averaging 43 minutes of reading time per day. I’m just so happy! 😊</p><p>(Unrelated but <a href="/tags/technofeudalism/" rel="tag">#Technofeudalism</a> is REALLY GOOD - off to go resume reading it for another 20 minutes or so).</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/habits/" rel="tag">#habits</a> <a href="/tags/kindlejailbreak/" rel="tag">#KindleJailbreak</a></p>

A photo of a hand holding a Kindle e-reader. The screen displays the SimpleUI interface with the hour on top (9:31), date, battery stats… and below a widget about the book I’m currently reading (Technofeudalism, I’m 58% in) and below another widget with reading stats: 18 days streak (with a flame symbol), 21 minutes of reading time today and 43 minute daily average over the past 7 days

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<p>From Authors Against Book Bans:</p><p>"H.R. 8705 is the latest legislation in the GOP’s crusade to try to erase entire communities from the story of the United States, and it will have a suppressive and damaging effect on our schools and libraries." [1/3]</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</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>

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<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/JigsawCity" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/JigsawCity</a></p><p>Nicole’s brain is slowly being taken over by an ancient, magical artifact, a small fragment of a magic city. She seeks a cure, before the city can destroy her sanity and then eventually, take her life by replacing her mind. Racing against time, she gathers pieces of the city, hoping to find an answer among them.</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>

(Left) The cover of Jigsaw City, by Owen Tyme.

The background is a futuristic city of sky scrapers covered in greenery, with water ways in place of some streets. The background has been divided by dark lines that cut it up, into a jigsaw puzzle.

The foreground is a hexagonal coin with an indentation in the center that follows the same shape, with raised lines forming a hexagram in the center, which has a smaller one turned at a ninety-degree angle inside the hexagon at the center of it. The smaller hexagram has another inside it, a pattern that repeats until the lines become so fine and indistinct, they blend together.

(Right) There's a pool of lava at the base of a rocky slope, with some sharp rocks sticking upward out of it and the following text over the top:

“I’m immune to heat and fire. I can easily carry and protect one of you…”

“Ye’d need to deliver an army to make a difference, not one person!”

“I *am* an army.”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/JigsawCity

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<p>Historians recently discovered a hidden fragment of the Bible.</p><p>A part of the book of Matthew was found under two other layers of text.</p><p><a href="https://historyfacts.com/world-history/fact/historians-recently-discovered-a-hidden-fragment-of-the-bible/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="historyfacts.com/world-history/fact/historians-recently-discovered-a-hidden-fragment-of-the-bible/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">historyfacts.com/world-history</span><span class="invisible">/fact/historians-recently-discovered-a-hidden-fragment-of-the-bible/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/bible/" rel="tag">#bible</a></p>

View of someone holding a copy of the Holy Bible.

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<p>Liebes <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> ,</p><p>unser neues Kulturprogramm für 2026 ist draußen! 🎉 <br>Mehr Infos findet ihr hier: <a href="https://buchhandlung-am-bruehl.de/aktuelle-veranstaltungen/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="buchhandlung-am-bruehl.de/aktuelle-veranstaltungen/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">buchhandlung-am-bruehl.de/aktu</span><span class="invisible">elle-veranstaltungen/</span></a></p><p>Wir hoffen, dass für jede*n was dabei ist. :)</p><p>Gedruckt liegt das neue Programm Ende der Woche bei uns aus.</p><p>Liebe Grüße<br>Tina und Max<br>von der Buchhandlung am Brühl in <a href="/tags/chemnitz/" rel="tag">#Chemnitz</a> </p><p><a href="/tags/veranstaltungen/" rel="tag">#Veranstaltungen</a> <a href="/tags/kultur/" rel="tag">#Kultur</a> <a href="/tags/lesung/" rel="tag">#Lesung</a> <a href="/tags/konzert/" rel="tag">#Konzert</a> <a href="/tags/tacheles/" rel="tag">#tacheles</a> <a href="/tags/buch/" rel="tag">#buch</a> <a href="/tags/krimi/" rel="tag">#krimi</a> <a href="/tags/literatur/" rel="tag">#Literatur</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bucher/" rel="tag">#bucher</a> <a href="/tags/livres/" rel="tag">#livres</a> <a href="/tags/dielinke/" rel="tag">#dielinke</a> <a href="/tags/leipzig/" rel="tag">#leipzig</a> <a href="/tags/dresden/" rel="tag">#dresden</a> <a href="/tags/erzgebirge/" rel="tag">#erzgebirge</a> <a href="/tags/mittelsachsen/" rel="tag">#mittelsachsen</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/lesen/" rel="tag">#lesen</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a></p>

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1889.</p><p>Henrik Ibsen's symbolic drama The Lady from the Sea (1888) receives simultaneous first performances in Oslo (in Norwegian) and Weimar (in German). The drama introduces the character of Hilde Wangel who is again portrayed in Ibsen's later play The Master Builder.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_from_the_Sea" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_from_the_Sea"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady</span><span class="invisible">_from_the_Sea</span></a></p><p>The Lady from the Sea at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2765" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/2765</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>

Dining room in the house of Dr. Vangel. 1905 Sketch of the scenery for Ibsen's drama “Daughter of the Sea” State Central Theater Museum named after A.A.Bakhrushin. A.A.Bakhrushin State Central Theater Museum.

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<p>📚 Love and Other Brain Experiments by: Hannah Brohm</p><p>Neuroscientist Dr. Frances Silberstein has success on the brain. As a grad student, she was offered a job by her brilliant boyfriend, but determined to make it on her own, she turned it—and him—down. Now, stuck in postdoc purgatory with no job security and no personal life to speak ...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/love-and-other-brain-experiments" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/love-and-other-brain-experiments"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/love-and-o</span><span class="invisible">ther-brain-experiments</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/fakedating/" rel="tag">#fakedating</a></p>

Neuroscientist Dr. Frances Silberstein has success on the brain. As a grad student, she was offered a job by her brilliant boyfriend, but determined to make it on her own, she turned it—and him—down. Now, stuck in postdoc purgatory with no job security and no personal life to speak of, Frances is desperate to make a breakthrough. Her best shot is a summer conference packed with her field's leading scientists. The only problem? It's organized by her ex, who has found the success that’s eluded her. But backing out is not an option, because Frances desperately needs to network to save her career.

Enter Dr. Lewis North: her perceptive, meticulous, and inconveniently attractive rival. When their academic sniping gets mistaken for flirtatious chemistry, Frances doesn't deny it—putting her integrity and career on the line. As soon as her prefrontal cortex is operational again, Frances realizes she needs to keep up the charade, or risk everything she’s worked for. Faking data is out of the question, but fake dating? That might just be the solution she needs.

But as Lewis starts to make her reward centers spark and a major setback has Frances questioning everything, she must confront what she's willing to chase for love, for science, and for the future she thought she wanted.

An academic-rivals-to-lovers rom-com set at a New York conference about two neuroscientists who are forced to pretend they're dating, leading to unexpected chemistry and a heartfelt journey of

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<p>"Conscience is but a word that cowards use,<br>Devis'd at first to keep the strong in awe;<br>Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law."<br>King Richard, scene iii</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1817.</p><p>Junius Brutus Booth makes his stage debut in the title role of Shakespeare's Richard III at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_III_(play)" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_III_(play)"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_</span><span class="invisible">III_(play)</span></a></p><p>Richard III at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1503" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/1503</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>

Junius Booth, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left, in theatrical costume, ca. 1850

Daguerrotype by Mathew Brady. Library of Congress, Daguerrotype Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-110129.)

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<p>Letter From Minnesota: Vigil in a Besieged City</p><p>FOR POET JIM MOORE, ECHOES OF 1970 AND BEYOND</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/letter-from-minnesota-vigil-in-a-besieged-city/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/letter-from-minnesota-vigil-in-a-besieged-city/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/letter-from-minneso</span><span class="invisible">ta-vigil-in-a-besieged-city/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

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<p>📚 Carl's Doomsday Scenario by: Matt Dinniman</p><p>The aliens have come, and they've transformed Earth into a multilevel, video game–like dungeon. It's the newest season of the galaxy's most watched game show, Dungeon Crawler World. Now on the third floor, Carl and Donut have to fight harder than ever. They've already proven that a Coast Guard ve...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/carls-doomsday-scenario" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/carls-doomsday-scenario"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/carls-doom</span><span class="invisible">sday-scenario</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/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a></p>

The aliens have come, and they've transformed Earth into a multilevel, video game–like dungeon. It's the newest season of the galaxy's most watched game show, Dungeon Crawler World. Now on the third floor, Carl and Donut have to fight harder than ever. They've already proven that a Coast Guard vet and once-and-forever feline royalty are an almost unstoppable team. Their ratings are off the charts. Viewers can't get enough. But the dungeon gets more dangerous each day, and now there’s a whole new problem to deal with: Quests.

They call it the Over City. A sprawling, once-thriving metropolis devastated by a mysterious calamity. But these streets are far from abandoned. An undead circus trawls the ruins. Murdered women rain from the sky. An ancient spell is finally ready to reveal its dark purpose. Can Carl and Donut solve the mystery in time?

And can Carl finally find some pants?

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, Join Carl and his ex-girlfriend’s cat, Princess Donut, as they fight fantastical creatures and deadly mobs to make it to the next level and build the kind of fan following the dungeon masters can’t ignore in the second book in the smash-hit Dungeon Crawler Carl series—now with bonus material exclusive to this print edition.

"Greetings, Crawlers! The training levels have concluded. Now the games may truly begin".

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1851.</p><p>The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the 1832 play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigoletto" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigoletto"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigolett</span><span class="invisible">o</span></a></p><p>Le Roi s'amuse at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29549" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29549</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>

Set design for act "IV" (III as normally counted) of Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto. (For the production of the Théâtre national de l'Opéra at the Palais Garnier that opened 27-02-1885).

A rustic, slightly decrepit inn or house by a lakeside or riverbank, surrounded by dense trees. The building is shown in a cross-section, revealing two levels.

A warmly lit bedroom where a woman stands holding a torch or candle near a reclining figure on a bed—suggestive of the characters Maddalena and the Duke in Rigoletto.

A dimly lit interior room with a few figures around a table—possibly representing Sparafucile (the assassin) and other characters in the plot’s unfolding.

The scene is bathed in moonlight with dark clouds, creating a dramatic chiaroscuro between the natural night and the warm indoor light.

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<p>10 Myths About the Greek Goddess Artemis</p><p>Fascinating stories about the goddess Artemis from Greek myth. The twin sister of Apollo, the chaste goddess, represents the wild wilderness and the hunt.</p><p> by Daniel Soulard</p><p><a href="https://www.thecollector.com/myths-about-artemis-greek-goddess/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/myths-about-artemis-greek-goddess/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thecollector.com/myths-abo</span><span class="invisible">ut-artemis-greek-goddess/</span></a></p><p>There are two interesting books about Artemis at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14576" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14576</a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9283" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9283</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>

Scene from sacrifice in honour of Artemis-Diana who is accompanied by a deer. Fresco from the triclinium of the house of Vettii in Pompeii, Italy, between 62 CE and 79 CE (Destruction of Pompeii).

An ancient Fourth-Pompeian-Style Roman wall painting depicting a scene of sacrifice in honor of the goddess Diana; she is seen here accompanied by a deer. The fresco was discovered in the triclinium of House of the Vettii in Pompeii, Italy.

As with the other frescoes in this house, the painting dates between the time of the earthquake of Pompeii in 62 AD and the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD that destroyed Pompeii, killing its inhabitants, but preserved many ancient works of art.

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