<p>Alphabets From The Zanerian School of Penmanship, c.1910</p><p>These satisfying handwritten alphabets are from the 1900 and 1910 editions of penmanship guides, The New Zanerian Alphabets.</p><p>by Sheldon D.</p><p><a href="https://flashbak.com/alphabets-by-the-zanerian-school-of-penmanship-478686/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=alphabets-by-the-zanerian-school-of-penmanship" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="flashbak.com/alphabets-by-the-zanerian-school-of-penmanship-478686/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=alphabets-by-the-zanerian-school-of-penmanship"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">flashbak.com/alphabets-by-the-</span><span class="invisible">zanerian-school-of-penmanship-478686/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=alphabets-by-the-zanerian-school-of-penmanship</span></a></p><p>Alphabets at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=alphabets" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=alphabets"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">cts/search/?query=alphabets</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/alphabet/" rel="tag">#alphabet</a> <a href="/tags/calligraphy/" rel="tag">#calligraphy</a></p>
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<p>📚 Mr. Wrong Number by: Lynn Painter</p><p>Things get textual when a steamy message from a random wrong number turns into an anonymous relationship in this hilarious rom-com by Lynn Painter.</p><p>Bad luck has always followed Olivia Marshall...or maybe she's just the screw-up her family thinks she is. But when a "What are you wearing?" text from a ra...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/mr-wrong-number" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/mr-wrong-number"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/mr-wrong-n</span><span class="invisible">umber</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/contemporaryfiction/" rel="tag">#contemporaryfiction</a> <a href="/tags/women/" rel="tag">#women</a></p>
<p>Bird Grove review – George Eliot’s true story embellished in a tender drama</p><p>Elizabeth Dulau is terrific in Alexi Kaye Campbell’s new play as the young woman set to become a daring pioneer in fiction and real life</p><p>by Arifa Akbar</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/feb/25/bird-grove-review-hampstead-theatre-londong-eorge-eliot" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/feb/25/bird-grove-review-hampstead-theatre-londong-eorge-eliot"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/stage/2026</span><span class="invisible">/feb/25/bird-grove-review-hampstead-theatre-londong-eorge-eliot</span></a></p><p>George Eliot at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/90" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/90"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/90</span></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>
<p>📚 Fahrenheit 451 by: Ray Bradbury</p><p>Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. </p><p>Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who ...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/fahrenheit-451" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/fahrenheit-451"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/fahrenheit</span><span class="invisible">-451</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/classicsfiction/" rel="tag">#classicsfiction</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/politicalfiction/" rel="tag">#politicalfiction</a></p>
<p>📚 The Berry Pickers by: Amanda Peters</p><p>A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a mystery that will haunt the survivors, unravel a family, and remain unsolved for nearly fifty years</p><p>"A stunning debut about love, race, brutality, and the balm of forgiveness." —People, A Best New Book<br>...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-berry-pickers" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-berry-pickers"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-berry-</span><span class="invisible">pickers</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/indigenousfiction/" rel="tag">#indigenousfiction</a> <a href="/tags/familylife/" rel="tag">#familylife</a> <a href="/tags/siblings/" rel="tag">#siblings</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1140. The French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy at the Council of Soissons. </p><p>This council was convened by the Church to examine his book "Theologia Summi Boni", which was seen as challenging orthodox Christian doctrine. Abelard's rational approach to theology and his emphasis on applying logic to faith led to suspicions among church authorities. </p><p>Books by Peter Abelard 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></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1788, Sarah Josepha Hale was born.</p><p>"Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (October 24, 1788 – April 30, 1879) was an American writer, activist, and editor of the most widely circulated magazine in the period before the Civil War, Godey's Lady's Book.[1] She was the author of the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Hale famously campaigned for the creation of the American Thanksgiving holiday...."</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Josepha_Hale" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Josepha_Hale"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Jo</span><span class="invisible">sepha_Hale</span></a></p><p>Hale's works at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Sarah+Josepha+Hale" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Sarah+Josepha+Hale"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=Sarah+Josepha+Hale</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/magazines/" rel="tag">#magazines</a></p>
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<p>American writer, historian and poet Elizabeth Fries Ellet died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1877.</p><p>She is best known for her works on women’s contributions to American history, particularly during the American Revolutionary War. Her extensive research and writings helped to highlight the often overlooked roles that women played in significant historical events.</p><p>Books by Elizabeth F. Ellet at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/45321" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/45321"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/45321</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>
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<p>It's here!! THE SECRET OF THE SAPPHIRE SENTINEL is now available! Written by me as J. Dianne Dotson, this is the sequel to my Nebula & BSFA finalist novel, THE INN AT THE AMETHYST LANTERN. Order from your favorite bookseller! <br><a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/newbooks/" rel="tag">#newbooks</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <br><a href="https://jendiagammon.com/the-secret-of-the-sapphire-sentinel/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="jendiagammon.com/the-secret-of-the-sapphire-sentinel/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jendiagammon.com/the-secret-of</span><span class="invisible">-the-sapphire-sentinel/</span></a></p>
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<p>Here are a few thoughts on Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin, 1978. This was the perfect change of pace for me after a dark read, with touching scenes, sharp observations, and plenty of witty dialogue <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/audiobooks/" rel="tag">#audiobooks</a> <a href="/tags/storygraph/" rel="tag">#Storygraph</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <br><a href="https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/2a6b271f-ff49-433b-b4e0-87d24c964db4" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/2a6b271f-ff49-433b-b4e0-87d24c964db4"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/</span><span class="invisible">2a6b271f-ff49-433b-b4e0-87d24c964db4</span></a></p>
<p>"And they talked about the mediocrity of provincial life, so suffocating, so fatal to all noble dreams."</p><p>Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert was published <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1857. It tells the story of Emma, a doctor’s wife bored with provincial life. She seeks escape through affairs and overspending, leading to ruin. The novel caused scandal but became a major work of French literature.</p><p>Madame Bovary at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2413" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2413</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>"It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them."<br>Daddy-Long-Legs</p><p>American writer Jean Webster (pen name of Alice Jane Chandler Webster) died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1916.</p><p>Webster's first novel, "When Patty Went to College" (1903), was based on her experiences at Vassar and reflected her humor and insight into college life. Her most known novels are "Daddy-Long-Legs" (1912) and its sequel "Dear Enemy" (1915).</p><p>Books by Jean Webster at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/99" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/99"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/99</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>I’m currently reading “Born: A History of Childbirth ” by Lucy Inglis and thought you all might find this amusing. </p><p>There is a section in the book that talks about how some ancient Egyptian physicans believed that migraines were caused by wandering wombs. </p><p>The treatment: rub oil on the patient and blow incense smoke at her to encourage her womb to move back into proper position. 😂</p><p><a href="/tags/nonfiction/" rel="tag">#NonFiction</a> <a href="/tags/migraine/" rel="tag">#Migraine</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#Medicine</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</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>
<p>📚 Roadkill by: Dennis E. Taylor</p><p>Jack Kernigan is having a bad day…a bad year…a bad life. After being booted out of MIT, he’s back in his Ohio hometown, working for the family business, facing a life of mediocrity. Then one day, out on a delivery, his truck hits…something. Something big…furry…invisible. And, it turns out, something not of this Earth.</p><p>Fate can play funny tricks. ...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/roadkill" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/roadkill</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a></p>
<p>"All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between them by the attempt."</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1924.</p><p>E. M. Forster's novel A Passage to India is published in the U.K. He will write no further fiction in the remaining 46 years of his life. </p><p>A Passage To India at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/61221" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/61221</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1917.</p><p>The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first for biography (for Julia Ward Howe), Jean Jules Jusserand the first for history with With Americans of Past and Present Days, and Herbert B. Swope the first for journalism for his work for the New York World.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38648" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38648</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39954" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39954</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&q=https://reviewdb.app/book/2ewVge8BQU6X82TcfJkLIF" rel="nofollow">Enemy of God</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 <br>by Bernard Cornwell.</p><p>The Saxons threaten to overrun Briton; a search for a legendary artifact to bring back the Old Gods; a little blissful romance; Lancelot is a backstabbing, cowardly bastard; oaths, what are they good for? A touch more magic than in the first book, but just as hard, dirty & cynical.</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/historicalfiction/" rel="tag">#HistoricalFiction</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#Fantasy</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://aus.social/@wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>WildWoila</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://wyrms.de/user/wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>wildwoila@wyrms.de</span></a></span><br></p>
<p>For his first trick…</p><p>"The art of the murderer… is the same as the art of the magician," is a line in John Dickson Carr's first novel It Walks by Night.<br> <br>By John Mark Ockerbloom </p><p><a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/07/for-his-first-trick/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/07/for-his-first-trick/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everybodyslibraries.com/2025/1</span><span class="invisible">2/07/for-his-first-trick/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/publicdomaindaycountdown/" rel="tag">#publicDomainDayCountdown</a></p>
<p>Why Jane Austen's works still resonate, 250 years after her birth</p><p>Why do the works of Jane Austen still hold so much appeal 250 years after her birth? We ask members of the Jane Austen Society of North America as well as writers Sandra Cisneros and Brandon Taylor.</p><p>By Melissa Gray</p><p><a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/12/07/nx-s1-5567131/why-jane-austens-works-still-resonate-250-years-after-her-birth" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.npr.org/2025/12/07/nx-s1-5567131/why-jane-austens-works-still-resonate-250-years-after-her-birth"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.npr.org/2025/12/07/nx-s1-5</span><span class="invisible">567131/why-jane-austens-works-still-resonate-250-years-after-her-birth</span></a></p><p>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>
<p>British poet and literary critic Lascelles Abercrombie died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1938.</p><p>He was a prominent member of the Georgian poets. He was particularly known for his verse dramas & dramatic monologues such as The Sale of Saint Thomas and Deborah.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3649" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3649"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/3649</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>
<p>American writer William Sydney Porter died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1910.</p><p>O. Henry's stories are known for their memorable characters, vivid descriptions, and especially their surprise endings. Some of his most famous stories include "The Gift of the Magi," "The Ransom of Red Chief," "The Last Leaf," and "The Cop and the Anthem."</p><p>Books by O. Henry at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/634" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/634"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/634</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>French science writer Amédée Guillemin was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1826.</p><p>Guillemin presently started writing books of physics and astronomy which became very popular. He wrote "The Sky" and "The Physical World" (5 vols.). He also wrote a series of booklets about astronomy and physics under the title "Small popular encyclopaedia", a scientifically sound but accessible collection about sciences and their applications.</p><p>Books by Amédée Guillemin at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/9614" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/9614"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/9614</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/physics/" rel="tag">#physics</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#astronomy</a></p>