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<p>Medieval Self-Portraits: Ten Artists Who Put Themselves in the Picture</p><p>Medieval artists did not just paint saints and kings—they sometimes slipped themselves into the scene, leaving behind portraits that can be devotional, witty, and surprisingly personal. </p><p><a href="https://www.medievalists.net/2026/01/medieval-self-portraits-ten-artists-who-put-themselves-in-the-picture/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.medievalists.net/2026/01/medieval-self-portraits-ten-artists-who-put-themselves-in-the-picture/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.medievalists.net/2026/01/m</span><span class="invisible">edieval-self-portraits-ten-artists-who-put-themselves-in-the-picture/</span></a></p><p>Medieval artists at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=medieval+artists" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=medieval+artists"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=medieval+artists</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/painting/" rel="tag">#painting</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1911.</p><p>German novelist Hans Fallada, kills his best friend in a suicide pact staged as a duel.</p><p>Fallada made a pact with a friend, Hanns Dietrich von Necker, to stage a duel to mask their suicides, feeling that the duel would be seen as more honorable. However, because of both boys&#x27; inexperience with weapons, it was a bungled affair. Dietrich missed Fallada, but Fallada did not miss Dietrich, killing him. </p><p>Hans Fallada at Projekt Gutenberg-DE<br><a href="https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/autoren/namen/fallada.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.projekt-gutenberg.org/autoren/namen/fallada.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.projekt-gutenberg.org/auto</span><span class="invisible">ren/namen/fallada.html</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 1771.</p><p>Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Mozart at age 15.</p><p>This is a pastoral opera in two parts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Parini. It was commissioned by the Empress Maria Theresa for the wedding of her son, Archduke Ferdinand Karl, to Maria Beatrice d&#x27;Este on 15 October 1771.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascanio_in_Alba" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascanio_in_Alba"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascanio_</span><span class="invisible">in_Alba</span></a></p><p><a href="https://imslp.org/wiki/Ascanio_in_Alba,_K.111_(Mozart,_Wolfgang_Amadeus)" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="imslp.org/wiki/Ascanio_in_Alba,_K.111_(Mozart,_Wolfgang_Amadeus)"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">imslp.org/wiki/Ascanio_in_Alba</span><span class="invisible">,_K.111_(Mozart,_Wolfgang_Amadeus)</span></a></p><p>Books about Mozart at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=mozart&amp;submit_search=Go%21&amp;start_index=26" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=mozart&amp;submit_search=Go%21&amp;start_index=26"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=mozart&amp;submit_search=Go%21&amp;start_index=26</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/opera/" rel="tag">#opera</a></p>

<p>I do like both, and I&#x27;ve never understood why this is an issue, is it not the content of the book that matters? Not how that content is delivered? 🤔😁 </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@reading" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>reading</span></a></span> <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="https://lemmy.world/u/books" rel="nofollow">@books</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@humor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>humor</span></a></span> @humor@lemmy.world @aiop <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@joinin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>joinin</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/readingmemes/" rel="tag">#ReadingMemes</a> <a href="/tags/memes/" rel="tag">#Memes</a> <a href="/tags/readallthebooks/" rel="tag">#ReadAllTheBooks</a> <a href="/tags/humor/" rel="tag">#Humor</a> <a href="/tags/humour/" rel="tag">#Humour</a><br><a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> <a href="/tags/readers/" rel="tag">#Readers</a> <a href="/tags/readersofmastodon/" rel="tag">#ReadersOfMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#ReadingCommunity</a><br><a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#Book</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#Novel</a> <a href="/tags/novels/" rel="tag">#Novels</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#Fiction</a> <br><a href="/tags/bookwyrm/" rel="tag">#Bookwyrm</a> <a href="/tags/bookworm/" rel="tag">#Bookworm</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/booklove/" rel="tag">#BookLove</a> <a href="/tags/fantasybooks/" rel="tag">#FantasyBooks</a></p>

<p>The Elusive Poet of Desire</p><p>Why biographers can’t pin Cavafy down</p><p>by Langdon Hammer</p><p><a href="https://yalereview.org/article/langdon-hammer-the-elusive-poet-of-desire" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="yalereview.org/article/langdon-hammer-the-elusive-poet-of-desire"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">yalereview.org/article/langdon</span><span class="invisible">-hammer-the-elusive-poet-of-desire</span></a></p><p>Cavafy at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/51261" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/51261"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/51261</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>&quot;The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.&quot;</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1847.</p><p>Charlotte Brontë&#x27;s Jane Eyre is published (as &quot;an autobiography, edited by Currer Bell&quot;) in London by Smith, Elder &amp; Co. in 3 volumes.</p><p>The first American edition was published the following year by Harper &amp; Brothers of New York.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyr</span><span class="invisible">e</span></a></p><p>Jane Eyre at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1260" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/1260</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>New review fresh in for <a href="/tags/fossilfriday/" rel="tag">#FossilFriday</a>: Bringing to life two palaeontological expeditions and excelling at explaining scientific concepts, The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt goes deeper into the tragic history behind Spinosaurus and resurrects the forgotten Ernst Stromer.</p><p><a href="https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/12/19/book-review-the-lost-dinosaurs-of-egypt/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/12/19/book-review-the-lost-dinosaurs-of-egypt/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/</span><span class="invisible">12/19/book-review-the-lost-dinosaurs-of-egypt/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/dinosaurs/" rel="tag">#Dinosaurs</a> <a href="/tags/theropods/" rel="tag">#Theropods</a> <a href="/tags/spinosaurs/" rel="tag">#Spinosaurs</a> <a href="/tags/spinosaurus/" rel="tag">#Spinosaurus</a> <a href="/tags/fossils/" rel="tag">#Fossils</a> <a href="/tags/paleontology/" rel="tag">#Paleontology</a> <a href="/tags/palaeontology/" rel="tag">#Palaeontology</a> <a href="/tags/scicomm/" rel="tag">#Scicomm</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="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1917.</p><p>The 51-year-old poet W. B. Yeats marries 25-year-old Georgie Hyde-Lees at Harrow Road register office in London, with Ezra Pound as best man, a couple of months after Yeats&#x27; proposal of marriage to his ex-mistress&#x27;s daughter, Iseult Gonne, is rejected.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._B._Yeats#Marriage_to_Georgie_Hyde-Lees" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._B._Yeats#Marriage_to_Georgie_Hyde-Lees"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._B._Ye</span><span class="invisible">ats#Marriage_to_Georgie_Hyde-Lees</span></a></p><p>Books by W. B. Yeats at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1719" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1719"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1719</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>

<p>Polish composer and virtuoso pianist Frédéric Chopin died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1849.</p><p>To this day, Chopin&#x27;s music remains one of the most widely performed, and an indispensable part of the universal piano repertoire. Along with Franz Liszt, he is the father of modern piano technique and influenced a whole line of modern composers, including Claude Debussy, Alexandre Scriabine, Maurice Ravel and Sergei Rachmaninov.</p><p>Books by or about Frédéric Chopin at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric+Chopin&amp;submit_search=Go%21" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric+Chopin&amp;submit_search=Go%21"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric+Chopin&amp;submit_search=Go%21</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a></p>

<p>&quot;Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody&#x27;s face but their own.&quot;</p><p>Irish writer Jonathan Swift died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1745.</p><p>Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, Gulliver&#x27;s Travels, &amp; A Modest Proposal. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms—including Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M. B. Drapier—or anonymously. </p><p>Books by Jonathan Swift at PG<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/326" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/326"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/326</span></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&amp;q=https://reviewdb.app/book/08QU3am6XzC5FGQQgLcOYO" rel="nofollow">A Room of One’s Own</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 <br>by Virginia Woolf.</p><p>A classic that is actually good! An essay on women &amp; fiction (thus, feminism) that rambles along in a relaxed fashion without losing any of its coherency or piercing insight. And damn she can write. Sadly still relevant, nearly 100 years on. (For reference her £500/yr is A$55k/yr today.)</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/nonfiction/" rel="tag">#NonFiction</a> <a href="/tags/feminism/" rel="tag">#Feminism</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> @wildwoila@wyrms.de<br></p>

<p>Things from the Flood. By Simon Stalenhag. Translated by Martin Dunelind.</p><p>You are a young Swedish teen, growing up in the aftermath of a failed industrial project that may have opened a portal to another world, but the poisoned and destroyed landscape is your playground, and the agonies of adolescence find a comfortable home there.</p><p>4 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈.</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> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/sweden/" rel="tag">#sweden</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/adolescence/" rel="tag">#adolescence</a> <a href="/tags/graphicnovel/" rel="tag">#graphicnovel</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a></p>

<p>Physicists and philosophers have long struggled to understand the nature of time: Here’s why</p><p>The nature of time has plagued thinkers for as long as we’ve tried to understand the world we live in. Intuitively, we know what time is, but try to explain it, and we end up tying our minds in knots.</p><p>By Daryl Janzen</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/physicists-and-philosophers-have-long-struggled-to-understand-the-nature-of-time-heres-why-269762" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/physicists-and-philosophers-have-long-struggled-to-understand-the-nature-of-time-heres-why-269762"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/physicists</span><span class="invisible">-and-philosophers-have-long-struggled-to-understand-the-nature-of-time-heres-why-269762</span></a></p><p>Time measurements at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/27824" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/27824"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">ct/27824</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/philosophy/" rel="tag">#philosophy</a> <a href="/tags/physics/" rel="tag">#physics</a></p>

<p>Among the Sleuths: Looking for Answers at the Nancy Drew Convention</p><p>Jadie Stillwell and Nicole Blackwood on the Mystery of the Missing Discernible Character Traits</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/among-the-sleuths-looking-for-answers-at-the-nancy-drew-convention/?utm_source=Klaviyo&amp;utm_medium=campaign&amp;utm_id=01KE5W7XNRXXS2MZDKNH70YJS5&amp;_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/among-the-sleuths-looking-for-answers-at-the-nancy-drew-convention/?utm_source=Klaviyo&amp;utm_medium=campaign&amp;utm_id=01KE5W7XNRXXS2MZDKNH70YJS5&amp;_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/among-the-sleuths-l</span><span class="invisible">ooking-for-answers-at-the-nancy-drew-convention/?utm_source=Klaviyo&amp;utm_medium=campaign&amp;utm_id=01KE5W7XNRXXS2MZDKNH70YJS5&amp;_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER</span></a></p><p>Carolyn Keene at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/58985" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/58985"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/58985</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>📚 Oona Out of Order by: Margarita Montimore</p><p>It’s New Year’s Eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study economics, or remain at home in Brooklyn to pursue her passion for music and be with her ...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/oona-out-of-order" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/oona-out-of-order"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/oona-out-o</span><span class="invisible">f-order</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/womenfiction/" rel="tag">#womenfiction</a> <a href="/tags/timetravel/" rel="tag">#timetravel</a></p>

<p>Book Review <a href="/tags/1/" rel="tag">#1</a> for 2016 is Edmund Morris&#x27; Colonel Roosevelt. This is the third volume in a 3 volume set on President Theodore Roosevelt. I read the first two several years ago and listened to this volume. It covers his life after his Presidency. I think Morris provides an honest look at what TR accomplished in the final 6 years of his life. ☕☕☕☕☕ review. <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/potus/" rel="tag">#POTUS</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/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#bookreview</a> <a href="/tags/biography/" rel="tag">#biography</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span></p>

<p>Argentinian poet and author Alfonsina Storni died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1938. </p><p>Her first book, La inquietud del rosal, brought her recognition from the literary circles in Buenos Aires; but it was her volume El dulce daño that won her popular success. </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonsina_Storni" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonsina_Storni"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonsin</span><span class="invisible">a_Storni</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

<p>I finally read &quot;I, Robot&quot; by Asimov. I think it is good, and especially with <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#Ai</a> and <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a> here now, so many tech-bros citing stuff like the three laws, think it is worthwhile to go read the actual book. It is not about robot crimes, at all. It feels astonishingly up to date for something written during and shortly after WW2. I guess because people now aren&#x27;t that different from people who lived 100 years ago. <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/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a></p>

<p>In November 1873.</p><p>The children&#x27;s periodical St. Nicholas Magazine begins publication by Scribner and Company in New York under the editorship of Mary Mapes Dodge. </p><p>Books by Mary Mapes Dodge at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/402" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/402"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/402</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>&quot;It’s as if the landscape, first pushed and puckered up like velvet trim embroidered in luxuriant green, before falling away to flat and endless yellow, fundamentally rejects a clear perspective. And as if this is also true of its inhabitants, whose behaviour is similarly contradictory: observing everything, understanding nothing. Commenting on everything, explaining nothing.&quot; ~~ &#x27;Darkenbloom&#x27; by Eva Menasse, trans. Charlotte Collins </p><p><a href="/tags/bookquote/" rel="tag">#BookQuote</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</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>The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgeson Burnett was an early work of climate fiction</p><p>by Davina Quinlivan (from the archives)</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/the-secret-garden-by-frances-hodgeson-burnett-was-an-early-work-of-climate-fiction-250338" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/the-secret-garden-by-frances-hodgeson-burnett-was-an-early-work-of-climate-fiction-250338"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/the-secret</span><span class="invisible">-garden-by-frances-hodgeson-burnett-was-an-early-work-of-climate-fiction-250338</span></a></p><p>The Secret Garden at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17396" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17396</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Available from 1 November: another thriller I translated, by the same author as the last one, Catherine Cooper.</p><p>This time we&#x27;re going skiing in the French Alps, but there&#x27;s another storm, which means nobody can leave the chalet... 🏠 🇫🇷 🏔️ ⛷️ 🍷 🍄 🌨️ 😱</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/thriller/" rel="tag">#thriller</a> <a href="/tags/hetchalet/" rel="tag">#hetchalet</a> <a href="/tags/booktranslation/" rel="tag">#BookTranslation</a> <a href="/tags/translation/" rel="tag">#translation</a> <a href="/tags/xl8/" rel="tag">#xl8</a> <a href="/tags/boeken/" rel="tag">#boeken</a> <a href="/tags/boekvertaling/" rel="tag">#BoekVertaling</a> <a href="/tags/vertaalddooreenmens/" rel="tag">#VertaaldDoorEenMens</a> <a href="/tags/translatedbyahuman/" rel="tag">#TranslatedByAHuman</a></p>

<p>Dutch author and poet Isabelle de Charrière, known as Belle van Zuylen, was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1740.</p><p>She is now best known for her letters and novels, although she also wrote pamphlets, music and plays. She took a keen interest in the society and politics of her age, and her work around the time of the French Revolution is regarded as being of particular interest.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle_de_Charri%C3%A8re" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle_de_Charri%C3%A8re"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle</span><span class="invisible">_de_Charri%C3%A8re</span></a></p><p>Books by Isabelle de Charrière at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Isabelle+de+Charri%C3%A8re&amp;submit_search=Go%21" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Isabelle+de+Charri%C3%A8re&amp;submit_search=Go%21"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=Isabelle+de+Charri%C3%A8re&amp;submit_search=Go%21</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>

<p>&quot;<a href="/tags/karenhao/" rel="tag">#KarenHao</a> joins Scientific American to discuss her new book <a href="/tags/empireofai/" rel="tag">#EmpireOfAI</a>, exploring how companies like <a href="/tags/openai/" rel="tag">#OpenAI</a> wield power that is reminiscent of historical empires. From ideological quests for artificial general intelligence to the environmental toll of massive <a href="/tags/datacenters/" rel="tag">#dataCenters</a>, Hao reveals the hidden forces shaping our technological future—and the reasons we should all be paying attention.&quot; </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd8ZTI2Ft0w" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd8ZTI2Ft0w"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd8ZTI</span><span class="invisible">2Ft0w</span></a><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/agi/" rel="tag">#AGI</a> <a href="/tags/artificialintelligence/" rel="tag">#artificialIntelligence</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/bigtech/" rel="tag">#BigTech</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>

<p>📚 The Librarians by: Sherry Thomas</p><p>In the leafy suburbs of Austin, Texas, a small branch library welcomes the public every day of the week. But the patrons who love the helpful, unobtrusive staff and leave rave reviews on Yelp don&#x27;t always realize that their librarians are human, too.</p><p>Hazel flees halfway across the...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-librarians" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-librarians"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-librar</span><span class="invisible">ians</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/thrillers/" rel="tag">#thrillers</a> <a href="/tags/domesticfiction/" rel="tag">#domesticfiction</a> <a href="/tags/mysterydetective/" rel="tag">#mysterydetective</a> <a href="/tags/amateursleuth/" rel="tag">#amateursleuth</a></p>