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<p>English writer & humourist Jerome K. Jerome was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1859.</p><p>He is best known for his comic masterpiece, Three Men in a Boat, which continues to be celebrated for its vivid depiction of pre-World War I Britain and its light-hearted & humorous examination of the British temperament. Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, Three Men on the Bummel.</p><p>Books by Jerome K. Jerome @ PG<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/173" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/173"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/173</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Photograph of Jerome published in the 1890s
National Media Museum from UK - Jerome K. Jerome

By William and Daniel Downey

English writer, dramatist and wit, Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927), was most famed for his comic novel, Three Men and a Boat (1889). This photograph appears in 'The Cabinet Portrait Gallery' series of celebrity portraits and biographies published in the 1890s. The series includes royalty, actors, academics and authors.

Cover of Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome

Illustrations by A. Frederics.

BRISTOL
J. W. Arrowsmith, 11 Quay Street

LONDON
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Limited

1889
All rights reserved

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<p>The Cat’s Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century)</p><p> <a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/tamra-maew/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="publicdomainreview.org/collection/tamra-maew/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">publicdomainreview.org/collect</span><span class="invisible">ion/tamra-maew/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/animals/" rel="tag">#animals</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

Tamra Maew (The Cat-Book Poems) thought to originate from the Ayutthaya Kingdom (1351 to 1767 AD). Over a dozen are now kept in the National Library of Thailand." - picryl.com

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<p>English writer and poet Edith Nesbit died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1924.</p><p>She published over 60 books for children, including novels, collections of stories, and picture books. Among her most famous works are "The Railway Children," "Five Children and It," and "The Phoenix and the Carpet." Her work is seen as a precursor to the modern children's fantasy literature genre, influencing later writers such as C.S. Lewis and J.K. Rowling.</p><p>Books by Edith Nesbit at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/407" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/407"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/407</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Nesbit, c. 1890

Black and white portrait of Edith Nesbit with stern expression, short curly hair, wearing a dark high collar dress with a decorative frill.

Red cover of "The Enchanted Castle" by E. Nesbit featuring an embossed illustration of three children and a castle behind a fountain, with gold lettering.

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<p>English novelist and poet Charlotte Smith was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1749.</p><p>Smith's first significant literary success came with the publication of "Elegiac Sonnets" in 1784. In addition to her poetry, Smith wrote several novels: her first novel, "Emmeline, or The Orphan of the Castle" (1788), was followed by others such as "Ethelinde" (1789), "The Old Manor House" (1793), and "Desmond" (1792). </p><p>Books by Charlotte Smith at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/41281" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/41281"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/41281</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></p>

Portrait of Charlotte Smith by George Romney.

Portrait of Charlotte Smith wearing a large, frilly bonnet, depicted with soft facial features and looking slightly to her right. The artwork uses a mix of fine detail in the face and looser strokes in the hat and background, with predominantly neutral and earthy tones.

The Young Philosopher was Smith's last novel and a piece of "outspoken radical fiction".

Charlotte Turner Smith - Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Smith, Charlotte Turner. The young philosopher. Vol. 1. London: Printed for T. Cadell, Jr. and W. Davies, 1798.

Title page of the book "The Young Philosopher: A Novel" in four volumes by Charlotte Smith, featuring an excerpt of poetry, indicating it was printed in London by T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies in the Strand, 1798.

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<p>📚 The Grey Wolf by: Louise Penny</p><p>Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Though the tiny Québec village is impossible to find on any map, someone has managed to track down Armand Gamache, head of homicide at the Sûreté, as he sits with his wife in their back garden. Reine-Marie watches with in...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-grey-wolf" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-grey-wolf"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-grey-w</span><span class="invisible">olf</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/traditionalfiction/" rel="tag">#traditionalfiction</a></p>

Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Though the tiny Québec village is impossible to find on any map, someone has managed to track down Armand Gamache, head of homicide at the Sûreté, as he sits with his wife in their back garden. Reine-Marie watches with increasing unease as her husband refuses to pick up, though he clearly knows who is on the other end. When he finally answers, his rage shatters the calm of their quiet Sunday morning.

That's only the first in a sequence of strange events that begin THE GREY WOLF, the nineteenth novel in Louise Penny's #1 New York Times-bestselling series. A missing coat, an intruder alarm, a note for Gamache reading "this might interest you", a puzzling scrap of paper with a mysterious list—and then a murder. All propel Chief Inspector Gamache and his team toward a terrible realization. Something much more sinister than any one murder or any one case is fast approaching.

Armand Gamache, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, his son-in-law and second in command, and Inspector Isabelle Lacoste can only trust each other, as old friends begin to act like enemies, and long-time enemies appear to be friends. Determined to track down the threat before it becomes a reality, their pursuit takes them across Québec and across borders. Their hunt grows increasingly desperate, even frantic, as the enormity of the creature they’re chasing becomes clear. If they fail the devastating consequences would reach into t

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Any people writing books here? Do you use AI to edit?

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<p>Polish Physicist Albert A. Michelson died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1931</p><p>His most famous experiment - Michelson-Morley experiment, was conducted in 1887 in collaboration with Edward Morley. Their experiment for the expected motion of the Earth relative to the æther, the hypothetical medium in which light was supposed to travel, resulted in a null result. Their results leaded H. Lorentz to devise his Lorentz contraction equations as a means of explaining the null result.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4093" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4093"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/4093</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a></p>

Photograph of Nobel Laureate Albert A. Michelson.

Black and white photograph featuring A.A. Michelson with a well-groomed mustache.

This diagram illustrates the folded light path used in the Michelson–Morley interferometer that enabled a path length of 11 m. a is the light source, an oil lamp. b is a beam splitter. c is a compensating plate so that both the reflected and transmitted beams travel through the same amount of glass (important since experiments were run with white light which has an extremely short coherence length requiring precise matching of optical path lengths for fringes to be visible; monochromatic sodium light was used only for initial alignment). d, d' and e are mirrors. e' is a fine adjustment mirror. f is a telescope.
Albert Abraham Michelson (1852 – 1931) with Edward Morley (1838 - 1923) - aip.org
Fig. 4 from "On the Relative Motion of the Earth and the Luminiferous Ether".

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Newly unearthed Virginia Woolf stories to be published <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.ml/post/37029708">See Original Page</a> </small>

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<p>📚 Enshittification by: Cory Doctorow</p><p>Enshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.</p><p>We’re living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit. It’s frustra...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/enshittification" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/enshittification"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/enshittifi</span><span class="invisible">cation</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/businesseconomics/" rel="tag">#businesseconomics</a> <a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/popularculture/" rel="tag">#popularculture</a></p>

Enshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.

We’re living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit. It’s frustrating. Demoralizing. Even terrifying.

Enshittification identifies the problem and proposes a solution.

When Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification, he was not just finding a funner way to say “things are getting worse.” He was making a specific diagnosis about the state of the digital world and how it is affecting all of our lives (and not for the better).

The once-glorious internet was colonized by platforms that made all-but-magical promises to their users—and, at least initially, seemed to deliver on them. But once users were locked in, the platforms turned on them to make their business customers happy. Then the platforms turned to abusing their business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. In the end, the platforms die.

Doctorow’s argument clearly resonated. Once named, it became obvious that enshittification is everywhere, so much so that the American Dialect Society named it its 2023 Word of the Year, and was cited as an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror.

Here, now, in Enshittification the book, Doctorow moves the conversation beyond the overwhelming sense of our inevitably enshittified fate. He shows us the sp

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Caliban and the Witch: Women, The Body And Primitive Accumulation - Silvia Federici (AK Press) <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://slrpnk.net/post/28277552">See Original Page</a> </small>

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1921.</p><p>The première of Luigi Pirandello's Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore at the Teatro Valle in Rome divides the audience.</p><p>An absurdist metatheatric play about the relationship among authors, their characters, and theatre practitioners, it premiered at the Teatro Valle in Rome to a mixed reception, with shouts from the audience of "Manicomio!" and "Incommensurabile!", a reaction to the play's illogical progression.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18457" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18457</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>

In April 1923 Luigi Pirandello traveled to Paris to attend the staging of "Six Characters in Search of an Author."

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The dark brilliance of Daphne du Maurier <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.ml/post/37031841">See Original Page</a> </small>

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<p>📚 The Handmaid's Tale by: Margaret Atwood</p><p>In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate “Handmaids” under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibi...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-handmaids-tale" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-handmaids-tale"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-handma</span><span class="invisible">ids-tale</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/dystopianfiction/" rel="tag">#dystopianfiction</a> <a href="/tags/feministfiction/" rel="tag">#feministfiction</a> <a href="/tags/women/" rel="tag">#women</a></p>

In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate “Handmaids” under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offred’s persistent memories of life in the “time before” and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. Provocative, startling, prophetic, and with Margaret Atwood’s devastating irony, wit, and acute perceptive powers in full force, The Handmaid’s Tale is at once a mordant satire and a dire warning.

An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times). Now an award-winning series starring Elizabeth Moss.

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<p>Happy book birthday to <span class="h-card"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@voidcricket" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>voidcricket</span></a></span>'s THE LEGEND LIMINAL, a surreal found-family road trip novella, is now available. Order from your favorite bookseller or find purchasing links at: <a href="https://www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-legend-liminal/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-legend-liminal/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.starsandsabers.com/books/t</span><span class="invisible">he-legend-liminal/</span></a><br><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/newbooks/" rel="tag">#NewBooks</a> <a href="/tags/newrelease/" rel="tag">#NewRelease</a><a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#Scifi</a> <a href="/tags/surreal/" rel="tag">#Surreal</a> <a href="/tags/family/" rel="tag">#Family</a></p>

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<p>I am rereading "The Inn at the Amethyst Lantern" now in preparation for its sequel. I wanted something fun to read before bed. If you are looking for a imaginative Lunarpunk YA adventure, I highly recommend it!! </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> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/lunarpunk/" rel="tag">#lunarpunk</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> </p><p>From: <span class="h-card"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@jendiagammon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jendiagammon</span></a></span><br><a href="https://wandering.shop/@jendiagammon/115300837241530734" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="wandering.shop/@jendiagammon/115300837241530734"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wandering.shop/@jendiagammon/1</span><span class="invisible">15300837241530734</span></a></p>

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Starleaf on Epsilon-9 (2025) – Guy d'Andigné

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<p><a href="/tags/élénachoquette/" rel="tag">#ÉlénaChoquette</a> discusses her book <a href="/tags/landandtheliberalproject/" rel="tag">#LandAndTheLiberalProject</a>: <a href="/tags/canada/" rel="tag">#Canada</a>'s Violent Expansion</p><p>Choquette 'investigates the liberal concept that underpinned land appropriation and legitimized violence: <a href="/tags/indigenous/" rel="tag">#Indigenous</a> territory and people were to be “improved,” the former by agrarian capitalism, the latter by so-called protection and enforced schooling.'</p><p><a href="https://newbooksnetwork.com/land-and-the-liberal-project" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="newbooksnetwork.com/land-and-the-liberal-project"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newbooksnetwork.com/land-and-t</span><span class="invisible">he-liberal-project</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/cdnhist/" rel="tag">#CdnHist</a> <a href="/tags/canadianhistory/" rel="tag">#CanadianHistory</a> <a href="/tags/firstnations/" rel="tag">#FirstNations</a> <a href="/tags/métis/" rel="tag">#Métis</a> <a href="/tags/settlercolonialism/" rel="tag">#settlerColonialism</a> <a href="/tags/colonialviolence/" rel="tag">#colonialViolence</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>📚 The Let Them Theory by: Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins</p><p>A Life-Changing Tool Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About</p><p>What if the key to happiness, success, and love was as simple as two words?</p><p>If you've ever felt stuck, overwhelmed, or frustrated with where you are, the problem isn't you. The problem is the power you give to other peo...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-let-them-theory" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-let-them-theory"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-let-th</span><span class="invisible">em-theory</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/selfhelp/" rel="tag">#selfhelp</a> <a href="/tags/personalgrowth/" rel="tag">#personalgrowth</a> <a href="/tags/motivational/" rel="tag">#motivational</a></p>

A Life-Changing Tool Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About

What if the key to happiness, success, and love was as simple as two words?

If you've ever felt stuck, overwhelmed, or frustrated with where you are, the problem isn't you. The problem is the power you give to other people. Two simple words—Let Them—will set you free. Free from the opinions, drama, and judgments of others. Free from the exhausting cycle of trying to manage everything and everyone around you. The Let Them Theory puts the power to create a life you love back in your hands—and this book will show you exactly how to do it.

In her latest groundbreaking book, The Let Them Theory, Mel Robbins—New York Times bestselling author and one of the world's most respected experts on motivation, confidence, and mindset—teaches you how to stop wasting energy on what you can't control and start focusing on what truly matters: YOU. Your happiness. Your goals. Your life.

Using the same no-nonsense, science-backed approach that's made The Mel Robbins Podcast a global sensation, Robbins explains why The Let Them Theory is already loved by millions and how you can apply it in eight key areas of your life to make the biggest impact. Within a few pages, you'll realize how much energy and time you've been wasting trying to control the wrong things—at work, in relationships, and in pursuing your goals—and how this is keeping you from the happiness and success you deserve.

Written as an easy-t

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<p>American author of fantasy fiction and belles-lettres James Branch Cabell died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1958.</p><p>His career took a significant turn with the publication of "Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice" (1919), which is part of a larger series called "The Biography of the Life of Manuel". Although largely overlooked today, James Branch Cabell was highly regarded in his time, with admirers such as H.L. Mencken and Sinclair Lewis. </p><p>Books by James Branch Cabell at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/166" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/166"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/166</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

James Branch Cabell photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1935.

A black-and-white photo of a middle-aged man (James Branch Cabell) with round glasses, holding a pipe close to his mouth. He wears a dark suit and tie, and is seated in front of a wallpapered background with a floral pattern.

Vintage book cover titled "Chivalry" by James Branch Cabell, featuring ornate red and gold embossing with a central emblem.

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<p>📚 Tout le bleu du ciel by: Mélissa Da Costa</p><p>Petitesannonces.fr : Jeune homme de 26 ans, condamné à une espérance de vie de deux ans par un Alzheimer précoce, souhaite prendre le large pour un ultime voyage. Recherche compagnon(ne) pour partager avec moi ce dernier périple.</p><p>Émile a décidé de fuir l’hôpital, la compassion de sa famil...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/tout-le-bleu-du-ciel" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/tout-le-bleu-du-ciel"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/tout-le-bl</span><span class="invisible">eu-du-ciel</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/literaryfiction/" rel="tag">#literaryfiction</a> <a href="/tags/general/" rel="tag">#general</a></p>

Petitesannonces.fr : Jeune homme de 26 ans, condamné à une espérance de vie de deux ans par un Alzheimer précoce, souhaite prendre le large pour un ultime voyage. Recherche compagnon(ne) pour partager avec moi ce dernier périple.

Émile a décidé de fuir l’hôpital, la compassion de sa famille et de ses amis. À son propre étonnement, il reçoit une réponse à cette annonce. Trois jours plus tard, devant le camping-car acheté secrètement, il retrouve Joanne, une jeune femme coiffée d’un grand chapeau noir qui a pour seul bagage un sac à dos, et qui ne donne aucune explication sur sa présence.

Ainsi commence un voyage stupéfiant de beauté. À chaque détour de ce périple naissent, à travers la rencontre avec les autres et la découverte de soi, la joie, la peur, l’amitié, l’amour qui peu à peu percent la carapace de douleurs d’Émile.

Un livre aux dialogues impeccables et aux personnages touchants d’humanité. Psychologies magazine.

Bouleversant. Version femina.

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<p>"Jiryis is a scholar; he witnessed the start of the Nakba and its consequences, and is not writing for those who won’t listen. If the anomalists appease the colonizer as they demean the colonized, Jiryis faces the colonized as he dissects the colonizer." </p><p><a href="/tags/maryturfah/" rel="tag">#MaryTurfah</a>'s reviews the first English edition of <a href="/tags/sabrijiryis/" rel="tag">#SabriJiryis</a>'s <a href="/tags/thefoundationsofzionism/" rel="tag">#TheFoundationsOfZionism</a></p><p><a href="https://thebaffler.com/latest/given-this-reality-turfah" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="thebaffler.com/latest/given-this-reality-turfah"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thebaffler.com/latest/given-th</span><span class="invisible">is-reality-turfah</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/palestine/" rel="tag">#Palestine</a> <a href="/tags/palestinequestion/" rel="tag">#PalestineQuestion</a> <a href="/tags/gaza/" rel="tag">#Gaza</a> <a href="/tags/colonialviolence/" rel="tag">#colonialViolence</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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Where to Find Public Lists of Banned Books in US States?

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<p>Scottish astronomer Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1857.</p><p>Fleming's most significant contributions came in the field of stellar classification. She developed a system for classifying stars based on their spectra, which became known as the Harvard Classification Scheme. In 1890, she published the first catalog of stellar spectra, which contained over 10,000 stars classified according to her system.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classification#Harvard_spectral_classification" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classification#Harvard_spectral_classification"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_</span><span class="invisible">classification#Harvard_spectral_classification</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#astronomy</a> <a href="/tags/womeninscience/" rel="tag">#womeninscience</a></p>

Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming (1857-1911), circa 1890s. (Courtesy Curator of Astronomical Photographs at Harvard College Observatory.)

Unknown author - http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/lib/online/almanac/0300c.htm

Harvard Computers working in a room in the new brick building, built in 1892. According to the information of a calendar shown in the image, this photo taken in March 1898. Williamina Fleming is standing. Immediatly in front of her are Evelyn Leland (back row center) and Ida E. Woods to the right. The rest are unknown, but the woman closest to the camera could be Annie Jump Cannon.

This description is based on
http://heawww.harvard.edu/~fine/Observatory/eleland.html#ComputersBrickBuilding

Photo credit: UAV 630.271 (E4116), olvwork432388. Harvard University Archives.

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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, October 2025 | Climate & Capitalism <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.ml/post/37684238">See Original Page</a> </small>

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