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Anyone read REAMDE? I've been re-reading, and would love to see another sequel, one focused on Csongor and Marlon. Anyone else want a Neal Stephenson buddy story?

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<p>Now is the time, through March 31st, to nominate a book of imaginative fiction for this year's Ursula K. Le Guin prize, which anyone is encouraged to do. To find out what kind of books are considered, see what has been shortlisted in previous years, and find the form to make your nomination, here's further information.<br><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/ursulakleguin/" rel="tag">#UrsulaKLeGuin</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><a href="https://www.ursulakleguin.com/prize26" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.ursulakleguin.com/prize26</a></p>

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<p>The Captivating Saga Behind the Only Known Portrait of the Brontë Sisters</p><p>The only known painting of the three Brontë sisters together was painted by their brother, Branwell, and was long thought lost.</p><p>by Katie White</p><p><a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/bronte-sisters-portrait-history-2748843" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="news.artnet.com/art-world/bronte-sisters-portrait-history-2748843"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.artnet.com/art-world/bron</span><span class="invisible">te-sisters-portrait-history-2748843</span></a></p><p>Brontë sisters at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=bront%C3%AB+sisters" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=bront%C3%AB+sisters"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=bront%C3%AB+sisters</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 Brontë sisters, painted by Branwell Brontë (in order: Anne, Emily and Charlotte).

An oil portrait of the Brontë sisters grouped closely together against a dark background, with a pale yellowish column or pillar visible behind the central figure. All three have dark auburn curly hair and pale complexions with direct, serious expressions. Anne wears grey-blue; Emily, set slightly back, wears green; Charlotte wears dark brown-black with a grey collar. A book or papers rest on a surface in the foreground.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB#/media/File:The_Bront%C3%AB_Sisters_by_Patrick_Branwell_Bront%C3%AB_restored.jpg

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<p>What Is the Dominant Emotion in 400 Years of Women’s Diaries?</p><p>A new anthology identifies frustration as a recurring theme in journals written between 1599 and 2015</p><p>by Sarah Gristwood</p><p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-is-the-dominant-emotion-in-400-years-of-womens-diaries-180983834/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-is-the-dominant-emotion-in-400-years-of-womens-diaries-180983834/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smithsonianmag.com/history</span><span class="invisible">/what-is-the-dominant-emotion-in-400-years-of-womens-diaries-180983834/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550</span></a></p><p>Women literature at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=women+literature" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=women+literature"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">cts/search/?query=women+literature</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>

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<p>RE: <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/@FediFollows/116303274173990292" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="social.growyourown.services/@FediFollows/116303274173990292"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">social.growyourown.services/@F</span><span class="invisible">ediFollows/116303274173990292</span></a></p><p>In case you missed it, here's a very long thread of accounts about <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> to follow for <a href="/tags/worldbookday/" rel="tag">#WorldBookDay</a> </p><p>Click the thread below to open it in full 🙂</p>

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<p>A Review of Hearth Stories, Springtime Fare: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-hearth-stories-springtime-fare/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-hearth-stories-springtime-fare/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-he</span><span class="invisible">arth-stories-springtime-fare/</span></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> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#Fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtq/" rel="tag">#LGBTQ</a> <a href="/tags/romance/" rel="tag">#Romance</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 Hearth Stories, Springtime Fare by B. Morris Allen, Erin Keating, Em Harriett, Erin France, and JM Cyrus. Image on cover is a painting of wild flowers growing in a meadow. There are tiny little pink, white, and blue flowers everywhere.

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<p>There can be no sin committed from love – the radical ethics of Héloïse</p><p>by Prashanti Aswani, Adam D’Arpino, Abigail Tulenko</p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/videos/there-can-be-no-sin-committed-from-love-the-radical-ethics-of-heloise?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=b64a312493-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_05_27_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="aeon.co/videos/there-can-be-no-sin-committed-from-love-the-radical-ethics-of-heloise?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=b64a312493-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_05_27_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/videos/there-can-be-no</span><span class="invisible">-sin-committed-from-love-the-radical-ethics-of-heloise?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=b64a312493-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_05_27_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972</span></a></p><p>Books by Abelard and Heloïse at PG<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5441" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5441"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/5441</span></a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/38039" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/38039"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/38039</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/philosophy/" rel="tag">#Philosophy</a></p>

Transcription: Wherein are written how the scholar Peter Abelard forgot his learning and became a lover, altho the price he paid was great: and how the beautiful Heloise in desiring to acquire knowledge from Abelard learned of all lessons the greatest, from the greatest master of all, to wit, Love: and how she prized it most highly, altho it brought her both shame and sorrow.

The love letters of Abelard and Heloise

by Peter Abelard and Héloïse

Other: Ralph Fletcher Seymour

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/40227/pg40227-images.html

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<p>A Review of Mendala: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-mendala/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-mendala/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-me</span><span class="invisible">ndala/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</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 Mandela By Rudolph Kohn. Image on cover shows a white, slightly square-shaped dodo egg sitting on the floor of a forest filled with ferns and trees.

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<p>📚 Lost Lambs by: Madeline Cash</p><p>The Flynn family is coming undone. Catherine and Bud's open marriage has reached its breaking point as their daughters spiral in their own chaotic orbits: Abigail, the eldest, is dating a man in his twenties nicknamed War Crime West Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an onlin...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/lost-lambs" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/lost-lambs</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/literaryfiction/" rel="tag">#literaryfiction</a> <a href="/tags/familylife/" rel="tag">#familylife</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a></p>

The Flynn family is coming undone. Catherine and Bud's open marriage has reached its breaking point as their daughters spiral in their own chaotic orbits: Abigail, the eldest, is dating a man in his twenties nicknamed War Crime West Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an online terrorist; the brilliant youngest, Harper, is being sent to wilderness reform camp due to her insistence that someone—or something—is monitoring the town’s citizens.

Casting a shadow across their lives, and their small coastal town, is Paul Alabaster, a billionaire shipping magnate. Rumors of corruption circulate, but no one dares dig too deep. No one except Harper, whose obsession with a mysterious shipping container sends the family hurtling into a criminal conspiracy—one that may just bring them closer together.

Irreverent and addictive, pinging between the voices of the Flynn family and those of the panorama of characters around them, Madeline Cash’s Lost Lambs is a debut novel of quick-witted observation and surprising tenderness. With it, Cash has crafted a family saga for the twenty-first century, all held together with crazy glue.

National bestseller. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by Vulture, Bustle, Good Housekeeping, Playboy, The Times (UK), Our Culture, Vol. 1 Brooklyn and Harper's Bazaar. A Book Club Pick from Belletrist, Bustle, and Good Housekeeping.

"If the Royal Tenenbaums were middl

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Neo-nazi Nato’s Proxy War Against Russia – Good book on what actually happening in Ukraine

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<p>Female writers and readers have been challenging the patriarchy for more than 200 years</p><p>by Roberta Garrett</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/female-writers-and-readers-have-been-challenging-the-patriarchy-for-more-than-200-years-276231" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/female-writers-and-readers-have-been-challenging-the-patriarchy-for-more-than-200-years-276231"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/female-wri</span><span class="invisible">ters-and-readers-have-been-challenging-the-patriarchy-for-more-than-200-years-276231</span></a></p><p>Suffrage at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/72" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/72"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/books</span><span class="invisible">helf/72</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>

Line luplau seen in the foreground on her daughter Marie Luplau's large group portrait painting From the Early Days of the Fight for Women's Suffrage (1897).

An oil painting depicting a large indoor gathering of men and women in late 19th-century dress. A central standing figure — an older woman in a long dark dress with a white lace collar — commands attention, appearing to address or preside over the assembled group. To her left sits a younger woman at a table with papers and a glass vessel. The crowd behind and around them is densely arranged, faces rendered individually. The setting appears to be a meeting hall with gas lamps visible on the wall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage#/media/File:Marie_Luplau_-_Fra_Kvindevalgretskampens_f%C3%B8rste_dage_(1897),.jpg

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<p>The Short But Magical Life of John Keats</p><p>Poet John Keats, in his short life, wrote some of the most beloved poems in the English language.</p><p><a href="https://www.thecollector.com/john-keats-english-poet/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/john-keats-english-poet/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thecollector.com/john-keat</span><span class="invisible">s-english-poet/</span></a></p><p>Books by Keats at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/935" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/935"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/935</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Image of John Keats shows him sitting at a desk with an open book and his chin in his hand.

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<p>Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë is free to download. You don't have to buy it. <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/emily-bronte/wuthering-heights" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="standardebooks.org/ebooks/emily-bronte/wuthering-heights"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">standardebooks.org/ebooks/emil</span><span class="invisible">y-bronte/wuthering-heights</span></a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#Book</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</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 omnibus 25% off: <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1742997" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smashwords.com/books/view/1742997"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smashwords.com/books/view/</span><span class="invisible">1742997</span></a></p><p>The arch-demon, Pride, leads demon-kind in an ancient plan to open a gate between worlds, so vast demon armies might march forth and conquer, but opening a portal requires both energy equivalent to a nuclear explosion and the cooperation of a half-demon, to stabilize it. However, the only half-demon available has made it her life mission to kill all demons.</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/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

$(Background) A fractal pattern of red and orange that resembles a demonic portal. (Center) Pride needs a half-demon to stabilize the portal between worlds. There’s just one hitch: she hates him. One stubborn half-demon vs. all of demon-kind? It could go either way... (Top Left) The cover of She Hunts Demons, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson. Sitting on the roof of a building in New York City is a teenage girl with a Japanese short sword. The image is black and white, aside from a few details in blue. (Bottom Left) The cover of She Goes to War, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson. Three people in tiger-stripe camouflage crouch in the jungle, including a teen girl, a soldier and a huge cat-man with black fur. (Bottom Right) The cover of the novel, Demon for President!, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson. Two politicians (Democrat and Republican) shake hands, as if for a photo-op, while a city burns behind them and the flag of the United States waves in the smoke. (Top Right) The cover of the book bundle, Ashen Blades: Open Wounds, by Owen Tyme, which includes a Japanese sword, a pistol and a pineapple grenade on a wooden surface.$

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<p>Climate change to identity: The vital lessons in Metamorphoses, Ovid's 2,000-year-old poem</p><p>You might think that Ovid's Metamorphoses, an ancient compendium of the greatest Greek myths, would hold little relevance today. But its tales of desire and deceit reveal surprising parallels with contemporary concerns, from climate change and the refugee crisis to gender-based violence and identity.</p><p>by Cath Pound</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260317-metamorphoses-ovids-2000-year-old-poem-says-a-lot-about-2026" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260317-metamorphoses-ovids-2000-year-old-poem-says-a-lot-about-2026"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.bbc.com/culture/article/20</span><span class="invisible">260317-metamorphoses-ovids-2000-year-old-poem-says-a-lot-about-2026</span></a></p><p>At PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21765" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21765</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/culture/" rel="tag">#culture</a></p>

Lycian farmers changed into frogs: Latona changes Lycian farmers into frogs, because while they were weeding a marsh, they prevented her and her children from quenching their thirst (Ovid, Metamorphoses VI 369)

Claude Du Bosc / After Jean Jouvenet - Leto verandert de boeren in kikkers, Claude DuBosc, after Jean Baptiste Jouvenet, 1714 - Rijksmuseum

The scene depicts the goddess Leto — mother of Apollo and Artemis by Zeus — fleeing the wrath of Hera after giving birth. Exhausted and thirsty, she stops at a pond in Lycia to drink, but local peasants cruelly prevent her and her infant children from reaching the water, stirring up the mud to make it undrinkable. In fury, she calls upon Jupiter and transforms the peasants into frogs.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Metamorphoses_(Ovid)#/media/File:Claude_Du_Bosc_after_Jean-Baptiste_Jouvenet,_Leto_and_the_Lycian_Peasants,_1714,_Rijksmuseum_RP-P-1905-2842.jpg

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<p>Happy International Women's Day! To celebrate it, Project Gutenberg created a new bookshelf titled Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/706" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/706"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/books</span><span class="invisible">helf/706</span></a></p><p>More information about these magnificent women can be foud in PG´s March Newsletter:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/newsletter/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/newsletter/</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/womeninstem/" rel="tag">#womeninstem</a> <a href="/tags/womenhistorymonth/" rel="tag">#womenhistoryMonth</a></p>

Mary Somerville [Fairfax]. Lithograph after J. Phillips.

A lithograph portrait of Mary Somerville shown from the chest up, in early 19th-century dress. She has elaborately styled curly hair piled high with ringlets framing her face. She wears a ruffled white lace collar and a dress with feathered or fur trimming at the shoulders, fastened with a circular brooch. Her expression is calm and self-possessed, her gaze slightly averted.

https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/9200579/mraqxra2

Maria Gaetana Agnesi. Line engraving by E. Conquy after M. Longhi.

A line engraving portrait ofMaria Gaetana Agnesi shown bust-length within a softly shaded oval vignette. She has powdered or light curly hair loosely styled, small drop earrings, and wears a fur-trimmed garment over a light dress with a ribbon bow at the shoulder. Her expression is composed and direct.

https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/9200579/pmfug8sg

A portrait from the Welsh Portrait Collection at the National Library of Wales. Depicted person: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne – English aristocrat, prolific writer, and scientist. By George Kellaway

A stipple or line engraving portrait of a woman shown from the chest up against a densely cross-hatched dark background. She has long, loosely curled hair falling to her shoulders, a small decorative crown or coronet at the top of her head, and wears a pearl necklace and a low-cut dress with a draped sash. Her expression is placid and direct. The caption below reads Margaret, D. of Newcastle. The engraver's name Kellaway sc. appears at lower right.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Margaret,_D._of_Newcastle_(4670217).jpg

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<p>A Review of The Visitor: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-the-visitor/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-the-visitor/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-th</span><span class="invisible">e-visitor/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtq/" rel="tag">#LGBTQ</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 The Visitor by Neil Shooter. Image on cover is a photo taken of a one-story ranch-style house after dusk. You can see the road bend in front of the house, some trees on the left, and the house itself sitting quietly, but all of this is shrouded in the darkness of night that obscures most details about any of them.

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<p>Radcliffe Acquires a Black Feminist’s Archive</p><p>An architect of Black women’s studies, Barbara Smith introduced the concepts of “identity politics” and “intersectionality.”</p><p>by Lydialyle Gibson</p><p><a href="https://www.harvardmagazine.com/museums-collections/barbara-smith-papers-harvard-radcliffe-institute?utm_source=email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_term=weekly&utm_content=one-of-harvards-oldest-structures-is-hiding-behind-a-beer-garden&utm_campaign=032026" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.harvardmagazine.com/museums-collections/barbara-smith-papers-harvard-radcliffe-institute?utm_source=email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_term=weekly&utm_content=one-of-harvards-oldest-structures-is-hiding-behind-a-beer-garden&utm_campaign=032026"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.harvardmagazine.com/museum</span><span class="invisible">s-collections/barbara-smith-papers-harvard-radcliffe-institute?utm_source=email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_term=weekly&utm_content=one-of-harvards-oldest-structures-is-hiding-behind-a-beer-garden&utm_campaign=032026</span></a></p><p>Black fiction & Feminism at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=black+fiction" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=black+fiction"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=black+fiction</span></a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=feminism" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=feminism"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=feminism</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>

Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote about feminism for the Atlanta Constitution, 10 December 1916, page 4.

Articles about feminism by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a photo of her as printed in the Atlanta Constitution, December 10, 1916

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism#/media/File:Articles_by_and_photo_of_Charlotte_Perkins_Gilman_in_1916.jpg

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<p>The Real Count of Monte Cristo Was Alexandre Dumas’ Father, a Trailblazing Black General</p><p>Ahead of the March 22 premiere of a new TV adaptation, learn about the life of Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, the French Army officer who inspired the beloved novel</p><p>by Joel Sams</p><p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-real-count-of-monte-cristo-was-alexandre-dumas-father-a-trailblazing-black-general-180988347/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-real-count-of-monte-cristo-was-alexandre-dumas-father-a-trailblazing-black-general-180988347/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smithsonianmag.com/history</span><span class="invisible">/the-real-count-of-monte-cristo-was-alexandre-dumas-father-a-trailblazing-black-general-180988347/</span></a></p><p>The Count of Monte Cristo at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1184" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1184</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Painting of general-in-chief Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (1762-1806), he played a pivotal role in the French Revolutionary Wars. By
Olivier Pichat

Pichat captures Alexandre Dumas grand-père rearing black horse, drawn sabre, tricolour cockade in his bicorne hat, and cannon smoke billowing behind fortress walls.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Alexandre_Dumas_-_Olivier_Pichat.jpg

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<p>📚 Margarettown by: Gabrielle Zevin</p><p>It could be about anyone - you, your parents, your best friends. But it's not. It's about a woman called Margaret Towne, and the man who falls in love with her...</p><p>The day he meets Maggie for the first time is the day he understands what it is to be in love. Deeply, wildly, terminally in love.</p><p>What he doesn't know is that loving Maggie means loving ma...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/margarettown" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/margarettown"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/margaretto</span><span class="invisible">wn</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>

It could be about anyone - you, your parents, your best friends. But it's not. It's about a woman called Margaret Towne, and the man who falls in love with her...

The day he meets Maggie for the first time is the day he understands what it is to be in love. Deeply, wildly, terminally in love.

What he doesn't know is that loving Maggie means loving many women at once.
After a brief, intense courtship the two young lovers set off to meet Maggie's family: Margaret, Maggie, Marge, Mia and May - five women of different ages, all living together in a house called Margaron, in a place called Margarettown. Nothing in Maggie's world is quite like anywhere else.

Part memoir, part fable, part journey through the many worlds of one woman, MAGARETTOWN is a novel about how love takes us over and changes our lives; how it makes lies out of truth and truth out of lies. It is the story of what it takes to love the same person for a lifetime - and about the impossibility of really knowing anything about who it is we have come to love.

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<p>What Would Happen if the Sun Stopped? Part 2: Kelvin and Helmholtz at the Ready</p><p>By Paul Sutter </p><p><a href="https://www.universetoday.com/articles/what-would-happen-if-the-sun-stopped-part-2-kelvin-and-helmholtz-at-the-ready" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.universetoday.com/articles/what-would-happen-if-the-sun-stopped-part-2-kelvin-and-helmholtz-at-the-ready"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.universetoday.com/articles</span><span class="invisible">/what-would-happen-if-the-sun-stopped-part-2-kelvin-and-helmholtz-at-the-ready</span></a></p><p>About Kelvin-Helmholtz mechanism:<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin%E2%80%93Helmholtz_mechanism" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin%E2%80%93Helmholtz_mechanism"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin%E</span><span class="invisible">2%80%93Helmholtz_mechanism</span></a></p><p>Books by Baron Kevin and Helmholtz at PG<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/48139" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/48139"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/48139</span></a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/59039" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/59039"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/59039</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#astronomy</a></p>

William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, whose famously wrong answer for the Sun's age turns out to be exactly the calculation we need.

A black-and-white studio portrait of Lord Kelvin with white hair and a full white beard, wearing a formal suit, waistcoat, tie, and watch chain. He has a serious expression and is looking slightly away from the camera.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Kelvin-1200-scale1000.jpg

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<p>"The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose."<br>The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire</p><p>The Chronicler of Decline</p><p>Is it too late for our republic to learn from Gibbon’s epic history of Rome’s collapse?</p><p>by Ed Simon</p><p><a href="https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/the-chronicler-of-decline" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/the-chronicler-of-decline"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hedgehogreview.com/web-feature</span><span class="invisible">s/thr/posts/the-chronicler-of-decline</span></a></p><p>Gibbon at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/375" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/375"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/375</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a></p>

Portrait of Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)

An oil portrait of a heavyset middle-aged man shown from the chest up against a dark background. He wears a bright red coat with large gold buttons over a waistcoat, with a white ruffled lace cravat at the neck. His grey powdered wig has a long queue tied with a black ribbon falling over his shoulder. He faces slightly left with a composed, somewhat self-satisfied expression.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Gibbon#/media/File:Edward_Emily_Gibbon.jpg

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<p>Elizabeth Gaskell: The Unsung Author Jane Austen And Brontë Fans Will Love</p><p>The Victorian writer had the wit of one, and the friendship of the other.</p><p>By Amy Glover</p><p><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/read-gaskell-if-you-like-bronte-austen_uk_69aaaff3e4b0bda876a8b99a" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/read-gaskell-if-you-like-bronte-austen_uk_69aaaff3e4b0bda876a8b99a"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry</span><span class="invisible">/read-gaskell-if-you-like-bronte-austen_uk_69aaaff3e4b0bda876a8b99a</span></a></p><p>Gaskell at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/220" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/220"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/220</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>

Elizabeth Gaskell: 1851 portrait by George Richmond.

A chalk portrait drawing of a Gaskell, shown from the chest up against a plain light background. She has dark hair parted centrally and drawn back smoothly, with loose strands falling at the sides. Her features are delicate and her expression gentle and slightly smiling. She wears a light dress with a dark brooch or bow at the neckline.

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

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1892, Vita Sackville-West is born. </p><p>"Sackville-West was a successful novelist, poet and journalist, as well as a prolific letter writer and diarist. She published more than a dozen collections of poetry and 13 novels during her life.... She was the inspiration for the protagonist of Orlando: A Biography, by her friend and lover Virginia Woolf."</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vita_Sackville-West" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vita_Sackville-West"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vita_Sac</span><span class="invisible">kville-West</span></a></p><p>Books by Sackville-West at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/34850" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/34850"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/34850</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

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

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