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<p>“From the chintz-covered drawing-rooms… straight into hell”</p><p>Evadne Price's "Not So Quiet...Stepdaughters of War," inspired by a real ambulance driver's diary, powerfully depicts war's horrors. Lucy Scholes calls it "a shattering denunciation of the jingoism that kept the war machine turning."<br> <br>By John Mark Ockerbloom</p><p><a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/11/29/from-the-chintz-covered-drawing-rooms-straight-into-hell/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everybodyslibraries.com/2025/11/29/from-the-chintz-covered-drawing-rooms-straight-into-hell/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everybodyslibraries.com/2025/1</span><span class="invisible">1/29/from-the-chintz-covered-drawing-rooms-straight-into-hell/</span></a></p><p>More about it:<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_So_Quiet:_Stepdaughters_of_War" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_So_Quiet:_Stepdaughters_of_War"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_So_Q</span><span class="invisible">uiet:_Stepdaughters_of_War</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/publicdomaindaycountdown/" rel="tag">#PublicDomainDayCountdown</a></p>

Cover of the book Not So Quiet: Stepdaughters of War is a 1930 novel by British author Evadne Price writing under the pseudonym "Helen Zenna Smith".

The image shows the cover of the novel Not So Quiet… by Helen Zenna Smith. The design uses a stark, graphic style in black and red on a cream background. At the top, the title is printed in large, bold, uneven lettering: “NOT SO QUIET…”, with quotation marks placed dramatically before and after.

The central illustration is abstract and wartime-themed: a silhouetted rifle hangs from the left, and concentric red arcs radiate outward like shock waves or explosions. Near the bottom right, small black silhouettes suggest figures or shapes caught in the blast zone. The landscape at the bottom is a jagged black horizon, evoking a battlefield.

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

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<p>I'm pinning the list of specifically sapphic (not just queer) fantasy (not sci-fi or urban fantasy) novels I've read and recommend, also because I'm starting to get trouble keeping track of this list myselves so I want it somewhere I can edit. Yes I will resurrect my bookworm account at some point ok, in the meantime I'm making a pinned.</p><p>S tier, top picks</p><p>Locked Tomb (series)<br>Landlocked in Foreign Skin<br>This Gilded Abyss<br>The Serpent Gates (series)<br>The Tensorate (series) </p><p>A tier, recommended</p><p>(no particular order)</p><p>When Women Were Warriors (series)<br>Spear (Nicola Griffith)<br>Their Bright Ascendency (series)<br>The Unbroken<br>Girls Made of Snow and Glass<br>Legends and Lattes<br>The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry</p><p>B tier, still OK</p><p>(no particular order)</p><p>The Priory of the Orange Tree (series)<br>Of Fire and Stars (series)<br>The Witch's Heart</p><p>To-read list</p><p>The Sapling Cage<br>Ash / Huntress<br>The Burning Kingdoms (series)</p><p>Literally cannot remember whether or not I've already read these</p><p>The Radiant Emperor duology<br>Girl, Serpent, Thorn</p><p>FAQ</p><p>"Gideon / Landlocked are sci-fi": not according to my definition</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

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<p>Let’s Not Forget Charles Dickens’s Other Christmas Ghost Stories!</p><p>He loved writing these. There are very many.</p><p>By Olivia Rutigliano</p><p><a href="https://crimereads.com/lets-not-forget-charles-dickenss-other-christmas-ghost-stories/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="crimereads.com/lets-not-forget-charles-dickenss-other-christmas-ghost-stories/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">crimereads.com/lets-not-forget</span><span class="invisible">-charles-dickenss-other-christmas-ghost-stories/</span></a></p><p>There are several editions of Christmas Carol in the PG collection:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46</a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19337" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19337</a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24022" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24022</a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30368" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30368</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

This image appears is an illustration from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. The scene features three central figures and a ghostly presence in the background.

The central figure on the right is an elderly man, depicted in a long robe and a nightcap, likely representing Ebenezer Scrooge. He stands hunched over, reaching out with a curious or concerned gesture, emphasizing his transformation and vulnerability.

On the left are two children, "Ignorance" and "Want," who are emaciated and ragged, symbolizing societal neglect. They cling to each other, their expressions reflecting desperation and suffering. These figures are allegorical, representing Dickens' critique of social inequality and the consequences of indifference.

Behind the children looms a spectral figure, likely the Ghost of Christmas Present. The spirit has an imposing, ethereal presence, guiding Scrooge to confront the harsh realities of the world. The transparency and faint details of the ghost emphasize its otherworldly nature.

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What's the weirdest typo/error you've seen in a book?

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<p>Ebook and print: <a href="https://books2read.com/SheGoesToWar" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/SheGoesToWar</a></p><p>With the return of her arch-nemesis to the world in 1972, the Hunter literally goes to war, finding herself drawn to Vietnam, once more backed up by her demon-hunting allies, but as all that faced the horrors of the Vietnam War, she finds her time there trying and emotionally difficult.</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/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>

(Left) The cover of She Goes to War, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

Three people dressed in tiger-stripe camouflage crouch near the edge of a jungle, in Veitnam. The jungle is a mixture of bamboo and ferns.

The first is a girl with brown hair and blue eyes. She wears a dress, top hat and elbow-length fingerless gloves. She points out of the jungle.

The second is a hispanic man and his skin is covered in greasepaint, to make him blend in even better. He wears a military uniform, including a hat with a round brim and leans on an AK-47 for support. His vest has pouches large enough for spare magazines for his weapon. He looks through a pair of binoculars at what the girl is pointing at.

The third is huge and has the head of a cat, with black fur and green eyes. He wears a military uniform.

(Right) The view from the back of a military cargo plane, with the rear hatch open, in flight, while cargo is dropped for descent via parachute, with the following quote over the top:

“Did you see that?”

“No! I officially *never* saw that crate! I *did not* see the flash of a sword cut the crate apart and *very specifically* didn’t see it explode into a shower of thousands of dinner rolls, with a teenage girl in the middle!”

“Good! I was afraid I was the only one that hadn’t seen that!”

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

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<p>New York Public Library, public library system in New York City. </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Public_Library" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Public_Library"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York</span><span class="invisible">_Public_Library</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/map/" rel="tag">#map</a></p>

A photo of or from a library from the linked website, overlaid on a cropped world map where it's located.

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<p>"A poet of one mood in all my lays,<br>Ranging all life to sing my only love,<br>Like a west wind across the world I move,<br>Sweeping my harp of floods mine own wild way."</p><p>British writer and poet Alice Meynell was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1847.</p><p>She was considered for the position of Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom twice, first in 1892 on the death of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and later in 1913 on the death of Alfred Austin, but was never appointed to the position.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/546" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/546"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/546</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Alice Meynell in 1912

Published by Herder, MO, USA - https://archive.org/details/poetschantry00bregiala

In the portrait, Meynell is depicted as an elegant woman in her early fifties, with a composed and introspective expression. Her features are soft yet defined, capturing her intellectual depth and delicate beauty. She has an oval-shaped face, with high cheekbones and expressive eyes that give her a thoughtful, almost meditative look.

Meynell’s hair is styled in the fashion of the time, pulled back neatly and coiled into a bun.

She is dressed in a high-collared blouse or dress, typical of early 20th-century women's fashion.

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<p>I’m Lauren, a creative professional and writer in Cape Town. </p><p>I love all things <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> & <a href="/tags/design/" rel="tag">#design</a> - I have a <a href="/tags/communications/" rel="tag">#communications</a> and <a href="/tags/graphicdesign/" rel="tag">#GraphicDesign</a> business & many <a href="/tags/creative/" rel="tag">#creative</a> interests</p><p>I’m <a href="/tags/selfpublishing/" rel="tag">#SelfPublishing</a> soon!</p><p>After connecting with the <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#IndieAuthor</a> community I made a series of <a href="/tags/canva/" rel="tag">#canva</a> <a href="/tags/tutorials/" rel="tag">#tutorials</a> to help them design and market their <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p><p>My flagrant use of tags here is a good representation of my approach - full enthusiasm at max speed 😂</p><p>I look forward to connecting! </p><p><a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#introduction</a></p>

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1802.</p><p>The Edinburgh Review, a reforming quarterly, is first published.</p><p>Among the most notable of the foreign publications it observed was Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality, which Adam Smith reviewed in the journal's second and final issue, published in March 1756.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Review" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Review"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburg</span><span class="invisible">h_Review</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/literarycriticism/" rel="tag">#literarycriticism</a></p>

The Edinburgh review

Related Names
Smith, Sydney, 1771-1845.
Language(s)
English
Published
Edinburgh : A. and C. Black, 1803-1929
Note
Sydney Smith, though not formally an editor, superintended the first three numbers. Cf. Dict. nat. biog., v. 53, p. 120
Imprint varies
Title from caption
Also issued online
Bancroft AQ E4: From the Reinhard S. Speck Collection of Harriet Martineau

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000530182

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<p>Book Review: Rumor Has It by Cat Rambo<br>The Disco Space Opera (a.k.a. You Sexy Thing) universe continues with more relationship-based SF, this time at an amazing space station</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@Princejvstin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Princejvstin</span></a></span> has our review!</p><p><a href="http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/book-review-rumor-has-it-by-cat-rambo.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/book-review-rumor-has-it-by-cat-rambo.html"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/</span><span class="invisible">book-review-rumor-has-it-by-cat-rambo.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#review</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> @bookstodon</p>

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1869.</p><p>Model, poet and artist Elizabeth Siddal (d. 1862) is exhumed at Highgate Cemetery in London in order to recover the manuscript of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poems buried with her.</p><p>Rossetti then published the contents in Poems (1870). These became part of Rossetti's sonnet sequence entitled The House of Life. </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Siddal#After_Siddal's_death" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Siddal#After_Siddal's_death"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabet</span><span class="invisible">h_Siddal#After_Siddal's_death</span></a></p><p>The House of Life at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3692" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3692</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>

Dante Gabriel Rossetti Portrait of Elizabeth Siddal 1854

Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Marsh, Jan (1996). The Pre-Raphaelites: Their Lives in Letters and Diaries. London: Collins & Brown

In the portrait, Siddal is shown with her characteristic long, flowing red hair, which became a hallmark of Rossetti's paintings. Her features are soft but marked by a melancholy or introspective expression, reflecting the delicate and enigmatic quality she embodied in much of Rossetti’s work. The artist’s use of line and color accentuates her pale complexion and ethereal beauty, while her elongated neck and serene posture give her an almost otherworldly grace.

Rossetti’s portrayal of Siddal in this piece emphasizes her as an idealized figure of beauty and fragility, embodying the Pre-Raphaelite ideal of the "tragic muse." Siddal was often depicted by Rossetti in this way, reflecting both her personal struggles with illness and her symbolic role in his artistic vision.

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<p>📚 The Ministry of Time by: Kaliane Bradley</p><p>In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she'll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering expats from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible for the body, but also for the fabric...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-ministry-of-time" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-ministry-of-time"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-minist</span><span class="invisible">ry-of-time</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/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a></p>

In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she'll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering expats from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time.

She is tasked with working as a bridge: living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as 1847 or Commander Graham Gore. As far as history is concerned, Commander Gore died on Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 expedition to the Arctic, so he’s a little disoriented to be living with an unmarried woman who regularly shows her calves, surrounded by outlandish concepts such as washing machines, Spotify, and the collapse of the British Empire. But with an appetite for discovery, a seven a day cigarette habit, and the support of a charming and chaotic cast of fellow expats, he soon adjusts.

Over the next year, what the bridge initially thought would be, at best, a horrifically uncomfortable roommate dynamic, evolves into something much deeper. By the time the true shape of the Ministry's project comes to light, the bridge has fallen haphazardly, fervently in love, with consequences she never could have imagined. Forced to confront the choices that brought them together, the bridge must finally reckon with how—and whether she believes—what she does next can change the future.

An exquisitely original and feverishly fun fusion of genres and ideas, Th

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<p>📚 The Electric State by: Simon Stålenhag</p><p>A teen girl and her robot embark on a cross-country mission in this illustrated science fiction story, perfect for fans of Fallout and Black Mirror.</p><p>In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her small yellow toy robot travel west through a strange American landscape where the ruins of gigantic battle drones...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-electric-state" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-electric-state"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-electr</span><span class="invisible">ic-state</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/conceptual/" rel="tag">#conceptual</a></p>

A teen girl and her robot embark on a cross-country mission in this illustrated science fiction story, perfect for fans of Fallout and Black Mirror.

In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her small yellow toy robot travel west through a strange American landscape where the ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the countryside, along with the discarded trash of a high-tech consumerist society addicted to a virtual-reality system. As they approach the edge of the continent, the world outside the car window seems to unravel at an ever faster pace, as if somewhere beyond the horizon, the hollow core of civilization has finally caved in.

The inspiration for Netflix blockbuster starring Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt.

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Nothing Better Than a Whole Lot of Books: In Praise of Bibliomania

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<p>📚 My Friends by: Fredrik Backman</p><p>Most people don’t even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it’s just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an aspiring artist herself, knows otherwise, and she is determined to fi...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/my-friends" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/my-friends</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/humorous/" rel="tag">#humorous</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/literaryfiction/" rel="tag">#literaryfiction</a> <a href="/tags/friendship/" rel="tag">#friendship</a></p>

Most people don’t even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it’s just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an aspiring artist herself, knows otherwise, and she is determined to find out the story of these three enigmatic figures.

Twenty-five years earlier, in a distant seaside town, a group of teenagers find refuge from their bruising home lives by spending long summer days on an abandoned pier, telling silly jokes, sharing secrets, and committing small acts of rebellion. These lost souls find in each other a reason to get up each morning, a reason to dream, a reason to love.

Out of that summer emerges a transcendent work of art, a painting that will unexpectedly be placed into eighteen-year-old Louisa’s care. She embarks on a surprise-filled cross-country journey to learn how the painting came to be and to decide what to do with it. The closer she gets to the painting’s birthplace, the more nervous she becomes about what she’ll find. Louisa is proof that happy endings don’t always take the form we expect in this stunning testament to the transformative, timeless power of friendship and art.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A Most Anticipated Book of 2025: Goodreads.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that

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<p>French illustrator, etcher, lithographer, caricaturist, and novelist Albert Robida died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1926.</p><p>He was an early pioneer of science fiction and founding father of science fiction art. He edited and published La Caricature magazine for 12 years. Through the 1880s, he wrote an acclaimed trilogy of futuristic novels. In the 1900s he created 520 illustrations for Pierre Giffard's weekly serial La Guerre Infernale.</p><p>Albert Robida at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1043" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1043"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1043</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/illustration/" rel="tag">#illustration</a></p>

Notre-Dame de Paris. Illustration by Albert Robida published in Le Rire, no. 382, “À l'occasion du centenaire de Victor Hugo”, March 1, 1902.

Albert Rodida - La Vie Electrique

Map flanked by vignettes of major cities. Includes notes. Published as a supplement of La Caricature. Map of Europe with cartoon-like allegorical and human figures representing individual countries.

Albert Robida — https://id.lib.harvard.edu/curiosity/scanned-maps/44-990142735370203941

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<p>Names for avid readers 📚 by language -</p><p>English: Bookworm</p><p>Danish: Reading horse (Lesehest)</p><p>French: Ink drinker (Buveur d'encre)</p><p>German: Read-rat (Leseratte)</p><p>Indonesian: Book flea (Kutu buku)</p><p>Romanian: Library mouse (Șoarece de bibliotecă)</p><p>Norwegian: Reading horse (Lesehest)</p><p>Serbian/Polish: Book moth (Knjiški moljac / Mól książkowy)</p><p>Finnish: Reading maggot (Lukutoukka)</p><p>Swedish: Read-louse (Läslus)</p><p>Vietnamese: Bookwormweevil (Mọt sách) </p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a></p>

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<p>📚 Famous: A Novel by: Blake Crouch</p><p>My name is Lancelot Blue Dunkquist, and the best thing about me is, when you doll me up right, I look just like the movie star, James Jansen. </p><p>Meet Lance. 38-years-old. Works a meaningless job. Still lives above his parents’ garage. By all accounts, a world-class loser. Except for one glaring exception… He has a million-dollar face. Lance has be...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/famous-a-novel" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/famous-a-novel"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/famous-a-n</span><span class="invisible">ovel</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>

My name is Lancelot Blue Dunkquist, and the best thing about me is, when you doll me up right, I look just like the movie star, James Jansen.

Meet Lance. 38-years-old. Works a meaningless job. Still lives above his parents’ garage. By all accounts, a world-class loser. Except for one glaring exception… He has a million-dollar face. Lance has been mistaken twenty-eight times for the Oscar-winning movie star, James Jansen, and for the last 10 years, he’s saved his money, studied Jansen’s films, his moves, his idiosyncrasies, even the way he speaks.

Now, after an unceremonious termination from his job, Lance has decided that the time has come to go after his dream. From New York’s ridiculous avant-garde, off-off Broadway scene, to the surreal glitter of Los Angeles, follow Lance on his madcap journey of self-abandonment to become his likeness.

Part comedy, part human tragedy, and part suspense, the world through the eyes of Lancelot Blue Dunkquist is like none you’ve ever seen.

About the Author: BLAKE CROUCH was born near the piedmont town of Statesville, North Carolina in 1978. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and graduated in 2000 with degrees in English and Creative Writing. Blake is the author of four novels and numerous short stories. He lives with his family in southwest Colorado, where he is at work on a new book. His website is www.blakecrouch.com.

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<p>📚 Broken Country (Reese's Book Club) by: Clare Leslie Hall</p><p>The farmer is dead. He is dead, and all anyone wants to know is who killed him.</p><p>Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, but their relationship relies on the past staying buried. But when Beth’s brother-in-law shoots a d...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/broken-country-reeses-book-club" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/broken-country-reeses-book-club"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/broken-cou</span><span class="invisible">ntry-reeses-book-club</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/romance/" rel="tag">#romance</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/suspensefiction/" rel="tag">#suspensefiction</a></p>

The farmer is dead. He is dead, and all anyone wants to know is who killed him.

Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, but their relationship relies on the past staying buried. But when Beth’s brother-in-law shoots a dog going after their sheep, Beth doesn’t realize that the gunshot will alter the course of their lives. For the dog belonged to none other than Gabriel Wolfe, the man Beth loved as a teenager—the man who broke her heart years ago. Gabriel has returned to the village with his young son Leo, a boy who reminds Beth very much of her own son, who died in a tragic accident.

As Beth is pulled back into Gabriel’s life, tensions around the village rise and dangerous secrets and jealousies from the past resurface, this time with deadly consequences. Beth is forced to make a choice between the woman she once was, and the woman she has become.

A sweeping love story with the pace and twists of a thriller, Broken Country is a novel of simmering passion, impossible choices, and explosive consequences that toggles between the past and present to explore the far-reaching legacy of first love.

Over 1 Million Copies Sold

A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK | A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall is an unforgettable story of love, loss, and the choices that shape our lives…but it’s also a masterfully crafted mystery that will keep you guessing until the very last page. Seriously, that ending?! I did not see it

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1893.</p><p>Finley Peter Dunne introduces the fictional character Mr. Dooley in the Chicago Evening Post.</p><p>Dunne's essays contain the bartender's commentary on various topics (often national or international affairs). They became extremely popular during the 1898 Spanish–American War and remained so afterwards; they are collected in several books. </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Dooley" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Dooley"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Dool</span><span class="invisible">ey</span></a></p><p>Books by Finley Peter Dunne at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1559" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1559"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1559</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Drawing of the fictional bartender Mr. Dooley and his customer Hennessy.

E. W. Kemble (1861–1933) - Mr. Dooley's Philosophy, frontispiece https://books.google.pt/books?id=yqhaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA241&dq=mr+dooley+hennessy&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

Dooley (right) and Hennessy, by E. W. Kemble (1900)

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<p>"Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it."</p><p>Danish physicist Niels Bohr was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1885.</p><p>Bohr made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr was also a philosopher and a promoter of scientific research.</p><p>The Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen was inaugurated March 3, 1921, by Bohr.</p><p>Niels Bohr at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Niels+Bohr&submit_search=Go%21" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Niels+Bohr&submit_search=Go%21"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=Niels+Bohr&submit_search=Go%21</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/physics/" rel="tag">#physics</a></p>

Niels Bohr, physicist.

The American Institute of Physics credits the photo to AB Lagrelius & Westphal, which is the Swedish company used by the Nobel Foundation for most photos of its book series Les Prix Nobel. - Niels Bohr's Nobel Prize biography, from 1922

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<p>English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist Isabella Bird died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1904.</p><p>Despite health problems in her youth, Bird became an avid traveler later in life. She authored several books about her travels: "The Hawaiian Archipelago," "Unbeaten Tracks in Japan," and "A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains." Bird was the first woman to be elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1892.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Bird" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Bird"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella</span><span class="invisible">_Bird</span></a></p><p>Isabella Bird at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/393" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/393"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/393</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Portrait of Isabella Lucy Bishop.

The image shows a black and white engraved portrait of a woman. She is wearing a high, dark-colored hat or headdress that appears to be textured or patterned. The woman's face is depicted in detail, showing sharp, attentive eyes gazing directly at the viewer. Her expression is serious and composed.

She is wearing a high-collared garment, possibly a coat or cloak, with what looks like a bow or scarf at the neck. The style of dress and portrait technique suggest this is likely from the 19th century.

The engraving style uses fine lines and cross-hatching to create shading and texture, giving the portrait a sense of depth and detail despite being a monochrome image.

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<p>"Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste."</p><p>Letter 8 - On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)</p><p>~Friedrich Schiller</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 by Ludovike Simanowiz (1794)

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On her own terms: Doris Lessing’s Golden Notebook remains shocking, necessary and imperfect – a dazzling experiment in living as a woman

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<p>Hey <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> - I am in a bit of a reading rut and need some <a href="/tags/recommendations/" rel="tag">#recommendations</a> to help me get out. Do you have any good recommendations for historical <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a>? I would even take some well-written <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> or <a href="/tags/travel/" rel="tag">#travel</a> books. My only restriction is that I would like recommendation not focused on the United States (but I am open if it is good). Thanks!</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/historicalfiction/" rel="tag">#historicalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/histodon/" rel="tag">#histodon</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#histodons</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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