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<p>50% off @ <a href="/tags/smashwords/" rel="tag">#Smashwords</a>: <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1657116" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smashwords.com/books/view/1657116"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smashwords.com/books/view/</span><span class="invisible">1657116</span></a></p><p>After experiencing the death of his wife and child, destruction of his home world, an addiction forced on him by the one responsible and a third of the galaxy falling under the heel of that tyrant, Levi Jacobs, a wizard, seeks to unravel the secrets of time and fate.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefantasy/" rel="tag">#sciencefantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</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> <a href="/tags/eoysale25/" rel="tag">#EOYSale25</a> <a href="/tags/ebook/" rel="tag">#ebook</a> <a href="/tags/sale/" rel="tag">#sale</a> <a href="/tags/books2read/" rel="tag">#books2read</a> <a href="/tags/indiebooks/" rel="tag">#indiebooks</a></p>

(Left) The cover of The Inverted Glass, by Owen Tyme.

The Background is a pink and purple nebula in space.

The foreground is largely line art, in white, with a black shadow outline.

At the center is an hourglass. The bottom has black sand, with a white figure standing in it. The top has is an inverted mirror image of the bottom, with a black figure in white sand.

The hourglass serves as the balance point for a set of scales, which hold a heart and a feather. The heart is on the left and the feather on the right. The heart is lower than the feather.

(Right) Lying in blue sand is a heart made of the same sand, full of cracks. It glows from the inside in a warm, yellow color. Over that is the following quote:

Nicole felt an extreme kind of loss, realizing she’d been stolen away from the afterlife, just before finding out if she deserved punishment or not!

“How dare you do this to me? Why?”

“I’m always in need of strong spirits and I’ve seen none stronger. You have unique talents I refuse to see go to waste.”

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

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<p>The erotic poems of Bilitis</p><p>A lush translation of this late-discovered lesbian poet added to the legacy of Sappho, but there was a trickster at work</p><p>by Cat Lambert</p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/how-a-playful-literary-hoax-illuminates-classical-queerness" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="aeon.co/essays/how-a-playful-literary-hoax-illuminates-classical-queerness"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/essays/how-a-playful-l</span><span class="invisible">iterary-hoax-illuminates-classical-queerness</span></a></p><p>Les Chansons de Bilitis at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4708" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4708</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>

Title : Les chansons de Bilitis : traduit du grec / Pierre Louÿs ; ill. de G. Barbier, gravées sur bois par F. L. Schmied
Author : Louÿs, Pierre (1870-1925). Auteur du texte
Publisher : P. Corrard (Paris)
Publication date : 1922
Contributor : Barbier, George (1882-1932). Illustrateur
Contributor : Schmied, François-Louis (1873-1941). Graveur

The illustration is presented as a decorative page or bookplate, featuring a rectangular composition with elaborate framing. The entire design is set against cream-colored paper with a sophisticated multi-layered border treatment that creates depth and visual richness.

Across the top of the black panel stretches an arbor or trellis laden with grapevines. Standing gracefully on the left side is a woman in classical Greek or Roman dress. Crouched or kneeling on the right side is a striking figure rendered entirely in coral-red or terracotta tones. In the upper portion of the black space, four white bird silhouettes are visible.

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k15164019/f23.item.texteImage#

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<p>"[...] people always live for ever when there is any annuity to be paid them."</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1811.</p><p>Jane Austen publishes her first novel: Sense and Sensibility at her own expense in 3 volumes, priced at 15 s., in Thomas Egerton's Military Library.</p><p><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/161" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/161</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

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<p>Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive</p><p>The Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive contains over 3000 illustrations from significant editions of Shakespeare's plays in the Victorian period.</p><p>by Michael John Goodman (thanks <span class="h-card"><a href="https://digipres.club/@Ross" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Ross</span></a></span>)</p><p><a href="https://shakespeareillustration.org/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>shakespeareillustration.org/</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxpUqnmfcCA&t=14s" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxpUqnmfcCA&t=14s"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxpUqn</span><span class="invisible">mfcCA&t=14s</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/book_illustration/" rel="tag">#book_illustration</a></p>

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<p>Book Review: Making History by K. J. Parker<br>Another novella set in Parker's mainline secondary universe, about a group of academics tasked with a seemingly impossible task by a tyrant. <br>@princejvstin.com has our Boxing Day review<br><a href="http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/book-review-making-history-by-k-j-parker.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/book-review-making-history-by-k-j-parker.html"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/</span><span class="invisible">book-review-making-history-by-k-j-parker.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#review</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> @bookstodon</p>

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How a playful literary hoax illuminates Classical queerness

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<p>How Colette Was Inspired By Her Many Cats</p><p>Susannah Fullerton on the French Writer’s Feline Muses</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/how-colette-was-inspired-by-her-many-cats/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/how-colette-was-inspired-by-her-many-cats/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/how-colette-was-ins</span><span class="invisible">pired-by-her-many-cats/</span></a></p><p>Books by Colette at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2065" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2065"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/2065</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/animals/" rel="tag">#animals</a></p>

Photograph of Colette

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<p>📚 Learn A Lot While You Sit On The Pot by: Jack. Haynes</p><p>On average, humans will spend 92 days sitting on the toilet over their lifetime. To put this in perspective, that's about one-third of a year in the bathroom relieving yourself. That's where LEARN A LOT WHILE YOU SIT ON THE POT comes in. Since the average time spent on t...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/learn-a-lot-while-you-sit-on-the-pot" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/learn-a-lot-while-you-sit-on-the-pot"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/learn-a-lo</span><span class="invisible">t-while-you-sit-on-the-pot</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/humor/" rel="tag">#humor</a> <a href="/tags/form/" rel="tag">#form</a> <a href="/tags/triviareference/" rel="tag">#triviareference</a> <a href="/tags/trivia/" rel="tag">#trivia</a></p>

On average, humans will spend 92 days sitting on the toilet over their lifetime. To put this in perspective, that's about one-third of a year in the bathroom relieving yourself. That's where LEARN A LOT WHILE YOU SIT ON THE POT comes in. Since the average time spent on the toilet is ten minutes, we've provided you with bite-sized educational (and some not-so-educational) facts that you can read quickly and retain well after you've flushed.

Are you ready to learn about:
- The microbiome in your bathroom.
- Strange historical bathroom habits.
- Unusual facts about famous artists.
- Tech-related trivia.
- Strange psychological experiments.
- And so much more!

While you won't learn enough to get a degree or anything, you'll feel better about spending nearly four months in the bathroom over your lifetime.

The Perfect Gift for All Ages!

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<p>Ebook omnibus 25% off: <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1733647" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smashwords.com/books/view/1733647"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smashwords.com/books/view/</span><span class="invisible">1733647</span></a></p><p>Levi Jacobs always dreamed of being like his father, the greatest wizard in the world, but had no understanding what it would be like. Follow Levi’s journey from bumbling teen to a great hero, while the young wizard learns to master magical powers that are initially completely beyond him and barely under control.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefantasy/" rel="tag">#sciencefantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</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>

The ad flyer for the series The Wizard's Scion.

(Background) View of a planet from space.

(Top Center) A black flying saucer surrounded by this text:
Trolls, boogeymen and witches, oh my!
Just another day for a young wizard.

(Top Left) The cover of Troll Song displays a woman in battered, muddy armor with her two swords crossed against the neck of a dwarf.

(Lower Left) The cover of Forgotten Legends displays a child reading in bed as a black, smoky monster with red eyes peeks out from under the bed.

(Lower Center Left) The cover of The Third Wish displays a wizard on top of a mountain, looking to the sunset, over a city of sky scrapers that have plants growing on them. In his shadow is the red eyed creature from Forgotten Legends.

(Lower Center Right) The cover of Dark Moon displays a witch and wizard fighting back to back, holding pistols, while objects fall around them, with the moon behind their heads.

(Lower Right) The cover of The Inverted Glass displays a line art hourglass with a white figure in black sand at the bottom, with a black figure in white sand upside-down in the top. Balanced on a scale are a heart and a feather.

(Upper Right) The cover of The Wizard's Scion: The Complete Series displays several figures in silhouette representing the main characters, as they traverse a wormhole. Behind them is a red-eyed octopus.

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<p>All language is weird, but I sometimes wonder if English isn't the weirdest 🤔 </p><p>Also, does that technically make liguistics a Weird Science 😁 </p><p>P.S Never spell how it sounds 😜 </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@linguistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>linguistics</span></a></span> <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> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://lemmy.world/c/humor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>humor@lemmy.world</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://lemmy.world/c/aiop" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>aiop</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@writingcommunity" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>writingcommunity</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@writingbooks" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>writingbooks</span></a></span> <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/linguisticmemes/" rel="tag">#LinguisticMemes</a> <a href="/tags/meme/" rel="tag">#Meme</a> <a href="/tags/memes/" rel="tag">#Memes</a> <a href="/tags/linguistics/" rel="tag">#Linguistics</a> <br><a href="/tags/language/" rel="tag">#Language</a> <a href="/tags/words/" rel="tag">#Words</a> <a href="/tags/humor/" rel="tag">#Humor</a> <a href="/tags/humour/" rel="tag">#Humour</a> <a href="/tags/funny/" rel="tag">#Funny</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> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a></p>

A handwritten note on a marble countertop.

"How do you console an English teacher?"
"There, their, they're..."

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<p>In November 1848.</p><p>William Makepeace Thackeray's novel The History of Pendennis begins its serial publication. The publication was paused for 3 months following the author’s illness after the September 1849 part.</p><p>The History of Pendennis at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/7265" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/7265</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

First edition title-page with an illustration drawn by Thackeray himself (1850)

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<p>📚 The Mercy of Gods by: James S. A. Corey</p><p>How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is about to end.<br>The Carryx - part empire, part hive - have waged wars of conquest for centuries, destroying or enslaving species across the galaxy. Now, they are facing a great and deathless enemy. The ke...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-mercy-of-gods" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-mercy-of-gods"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-mercy-</span><span class="invisible">of-gods</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/spaceexploration/" rel="tag">#spaceexploration</a></p>

How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is about to end.
The Carryx - part empire, part hive - have waged wars of conquest for centuries, destroying or enslaving species across the galaxy. Now, they are facing a great and deathless enemy. The key to their survival may rest with the humans of Anjiin.

Caught up in academic intrigue and affairs of the heart, Dafyd Alkhor is pleased just to be an assistant to a brilliant scientist and his celebrated research team. Then the Carryx ships descend, decimating the human population and taking the best and brightest of Anjiin society away to serve on the Carryx homeworld, and Dafyd is swept along with them.

They are dropped in the middle of a struggle they barely understand, set in a competition against the other captive species with extinction as the price of failure. Only Dafyd and a handful of his companions see past the Darwinian contest to the deeper game that they must play to survive: learning to understand - and manipulate - the Carryx themselves.

With a noble but suicidal human rebellion on one hand and strange and murderous enemies on the other, the team pays a terrible price to become the trusted servants of their new rulers.

Dafyd Alkhor is a simple man swept up in events that are beyond his control and more vast than his imagination. He will become the champion of humanity and its betrayer, the most hated man in history and the guardian of his people.

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<p>New <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> on my <a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#blog</a>: "The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition." <br><a href="https://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/12/book-review-ferengi-rules-of-acquisition.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/12/book-review-ferengi-rules-of-acquisition.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.co</span><span class="invisible">m/2025/12/book-review-ferengi-rules-of-acquisition.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/itinerantlibrarian/" rel="tag">#ItinerantLibrarian</a> <a href="/tags/reviews/" rel="tag">#reviews</a> <a href="/tags/startrek/" rel="tag">#StarTrek</a> <a href="/tags/deepspacenine/" rel="tag">#DeepSpaceNine</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <br>💙📚<br>🪐📚</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>

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<p>“To Eat This Big Universe as Her Oyster”</p><p>Margaret Fuller and the First Major Work of American Feminism</p><p>By Randall Fuller via <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>publicdomainrev</span></a></span><br><a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/margaret-fuller-and-the-first-major-work-of-american-feminism/?utm_source=newsletter" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="publicdomainreview.org/essay/margaret-fuller-and-the-first-major-work-of-american-feminism/?utm_source=newsletter"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">publicdomainreview.org/essay/m</span><span class="invisible">argaret-fuller-and-the-first-major-work-of-american-feminism/?utm_source=newsletter</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

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Two Years After Cormac McCarthy’s Death, Rare Access to His Personal Library Reveals the Man Behind the Myth

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1612 (and 27 January 1613). Galileo Galilei became the first person to observe the planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star.</p><p>Because Neptune was only beginning its yearly retrograde cycle in Dec. 1612, the motion of the planet was far too slight to be detected with Galileo's small telescope.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune</a></p><p>Neptune at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/34991" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/34991"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">ct/34991</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#astronomy</a></p>

Portrait of Galileo Galilei.

A half-length portrait, in old age, of the Italian mathematician, philosopher and astronomer, who was appointed court mathematician to the Medici dukes of Tuscany at Florence in 1610. He is dressed in black, wears a white beard and is seated in a chair holding a telescope in his right hand. His left hand rests on the arm of the chair and he wears a ring with a clear stone on his fourth finger. He faces forward towards the viewer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Galileo_Galilei_(1564-1642)_RMG_BHC2700.tiff&page=1

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The Incredible Expandable Book

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Listening to the Text: The Medieval Speech Bubble

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<p>Not just a meme, but a masterpiece – why the Mona Lisa earns its exalted place in art</p><p>Ceaselessly flocked by tourists at the Louvre Museum in Paris, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa (1503-17) is perhaps the world’s most recognisable work of art.</p><p>by James Payne</p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/videos/not-just-a-meme-but-a-masterpiece-why-the-mona-lisa-earns-its-exalted-place-in-art?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=262f4f59e7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_04_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="aeon.co/videos/not-just-a-meme-but-a-masterpiece-why-the-mona-lisa-earns-its-exalted-place-in-art?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=262f4f59e7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_04_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/videos/not-just-a-meme</span><span class="invisible">-but-a-masterpiece-why-the-mona-lisa-earns-its-exalted-place-in-art?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=262f4f59e7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_04_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972</span></a></p><p>Monsa Lisa at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/25659" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/25659"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">ct/25659</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/culture/" rel="tag">#culture</a> <a href="/tags/aesthetics/" rel="tag">#aesthetics</a></p>

Mona Lisa, by Leonardo da Vinci

La Gioconda sits in a three-quarter pose, hands folded calmly in her lap, wearing a dark green-black dress with golden-brown sleeves and a translucent veil. Her expression is neither fully smiling nor neutral.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa#/media/File:Mona_Lisa,_by_Leonardo_da_Vinci,_from_C2RMF_retouched.jpg

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<p>In the public domain soon, in libraries now</p><p>The Penn Libraries, where I work, has first editions of many of the works featured in my <a href="/tags/publicdomaindaycountdown/" rel="tag">#PublicDomainDayCountdown</a> . From today through Public Domain Day, the Libraries social media will feature photos of some distinctive books from 1930.<br> <br>By John Mark Ockerbloom</p><p><a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/26/in-the-public-domain-soon-in-libraries-now/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/26/in-the-public-domain-soon-in-libraries-now/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everybodyslibraries.com/2025/1</span><span class="invisible">2/26/in-the-public-domain-soon-in-libraries-now/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/publicdomaindaycountdown/" rel="tag">#publicDomainDayCountdown</a></p>

Artistic Rendering of the Library of Alexandria, based on some archaeological evidence.

The scene shows a grand interior space with impressive classical Egyptian-influenced architecture. A massive column dominates the center of the composition, featuring what appears to be a Hathor capital (a column top with the face of the goddess Hathor), characteristic of ancient Egyptian temple architecture.

Several figures dressed in classical robes and togas are shown engaged in scholarly activities:

In the foreground left, two or three figures are seated around a table, appearing to read or discuss texts together;

In the center-right, a standing figure in robes appears to be studying or reading while standing near shelving;

Another figure is seated on steps or a platform in the middle distance;

A figure in the lower right foreground is bent over, possibly organizing or retrieving materials from lower storage

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

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1850.</p><p>Charles Dickens's novel David Copperfield concludes serial publication and on November 14 appears complete in book form from Bradbury and Evans in London.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/766" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/766</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Cover of serial, "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens

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<p>The 29 Best (Old) Books We Read in 2025</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/the-29-best-old-books-we-read-in-2025/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/the-29-best-old-books-we-read-in-2025/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/the-29-best-old-boo</span><span class="invisible">ks-we-read-in-2025/</span></a></p><p>"Wuthering Heights" at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Wuthering+Heights" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Wuthering+Heights"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=Wuthering+Heights</span></a></p><p>"The Country of the Pointed Firs" at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=The+country+of+the+pointed+firs" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=The+country+of+the+pointed+firs"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=The+country+of+the+pointed+firs</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

A stack of books.

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<p>This week's <a href="/tags/newbooks/" rel="tag">#NewBooks</a> at the library (the last one for 2025!): Three second-hand copies of Atlas of the Galilean Satellites from Cambridge University Press; the absolutely massive Fire and Mud: Eruptions and Lahars of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines from the University of Washington Press; and <a href="/tags/charlesdarwin/" rel="tag">#CharlesDarwin</a>, Geologist from Cornell University Press which I might well review sometime soon in the new year in light of an upcoming Darwin biography...</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/scicomm/" rel="tag">#Scicomm</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#Astronomy</a> <a href="/tags/cosmology/" rel="tag">#Cosmology</a> <a href="/tags/volcanoes/" rel="tag">#Volcanoes</a> <a href="/tags/volcanology/" rel="tag">#Volcanology</a> <a href="/tags/geology/" rel="tag">#Geology</a> <a href="/tags/earthsciences/" rel="tag">#EarthSciences</a> <a href="/tags/historyofscience/" rel="tag">#HistoryOfScience</a> <a href="/tags/sciencehistory/" rel="tag">#ScienceHistory</a> <a href="/tags/histsci/" rel="tag">#HistSci</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>

A photo of three books standing on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books and part of the beech-coloured laminate floor.

On the left, standing up, Atlas of the Galilean Satellites, showing a composite photo of four of Jupiter's large moons shown in crescent view, arranged left to right from small to large: Callisto, Ganymede, Europa, and Io, showing a tiny sulfur dioxide-rich volcanic plume in deep purple erupting from its surface.

In the middle, lying down, Fire and Mud, a very thick hardback book, showing a colour photo of an agricultural field with in the foreground the tiny figures of an ox pulling a plough, followed by a human holding the reins. The background shows various white-roofed buildings against a background of hills. The top 80% of the photo shows the sky in which an enormous eruption cloud blossoms skywards. The dust jacket explains this is an early pre-climactic eruption at 0851h, June 12, 1991. In the middle, towards the bottom, is an inset colour photo showing a house surrounded by felled trees, all covered in a thick layer of volcanic ash.

On the right, standing up, Charles Darwin, Geologist, showing a period black-and-white photo of a seated, middle-aged, balding Charles Darwin circa 1855, wearing a waistcoat. The bottom third of the photo shows a fold-out colour plate with three colourful cross-sections through the Cordilleras of the South American Andes mountains. The writing is too small to read.

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<p>📚 My Roommate from Hell by: Cale Dietrich</p><p>Owen is not going to college to have fun. Nothing is going to stop him from achieving his goals: study hard, get a good job, and set himself up for the rest of his life. The last thing he needs is to have a loud, obnoxious, and infuriatingly hot roommate. Especially since said roommate just so happens to be the prince of...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/my-roommate-from-hell" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/my-roommate-from-hell"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/my-roommat</span><span class="invisible">e-from-hell</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/romance/" rel="tag">#romance</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtq/" rel="tag">#lgbtq</a></p>

Owen is not going to college to have fun. Nothing is going to stop him from achieving his goals: study hard, get a good job, and set himself up for the rest of his life. The last thing he needs is to have a loud, obnoxious, and infuriatingly hot roommate. Especially since said roommate just so happens to be the prince of hell.

Prince Zarmenus has come to Point University for the first-ever Earth/hell exchange program, and he's determined to make the most of it. Which may or may not include wild parties, bringing in random boys to his and Owen's room, and accidentally setting Owen's furniture on fire. Sparks fly (literally) as Owen and Zar clash, but Zar's actions threaten to not only ruin Owen's peaceful college life, but demon-human relations as well. To clean up his image, he asks Owen to be his fake boyfriend and teach him how to be a better human in exchange for an internship that will secure Owen’s future. That, and Zar will consider being a better roommate.

A deal is struck, and the two start pretending to be in a relationship where they each have agendas of their own. Only Owen has a secret, dating his mortal enemy, even if it’s fake, is the most fun he's ever had.

Charming and fun, My Roommate from Hell is a rom com with a magical twist. Think just one bed, but that bed is in hell, surrounded by fire and brimstone.

A hilarious and charming descent into love, fake dating, and actual Hell. I couldn't stop grinning. Aiden Thomas, New York Times bestsellin

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1895</p><p>Thomas Hardy's last completed novel, Jude the Obscure is published by Osgood, McIlvaine, and Co. in London, dated 1896, on completion of an expurgated serialization under the title Hearts Insurgent in Harper's Magazine. </p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/153" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/153</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

original title page of Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

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