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US book business faces challenges including AI slop, but print sales and e-book and audiobook revenue were stable in 2025, and 422 stores joined the ABA
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finished reading The Shadow of the Wind 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.
A rare book sets a teenage boy on a path of mystery, love & revenge. This was nearly great, with an intriguing setup, smooth prose, vibrant characters and an evocative sense of time & place (mid-century Barcelona). But it ran out of steam with repetitive storytelling and too much exposition. And nearly all the men were incorrigible womanisers.
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This week's #NewBooks at the library: An early review copy of the 3-volume The Princeton Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs. What will you be doing with your January? Well...
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"The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present."
Swedish writer Ellen Key was born #OTD in 1849.
She on many subjects in the fields of family life, ethics and education and was an important figure in the Modern Breakthrough movement. She was an early advocate of a child-centered approach to education and parenting, and was also a suffragist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Key
Ellen Key at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/502
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: The Woman Who Unraveled the Stars
By: Akshita Singh
Her PhD thesis is available at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73996
Fimbulvetr: When the Medieval World Saw the Sun Go Dark
In the medieval world, strange signs in the sky were rarely ignored. In AD 536, when the sun seemed to lose its light and the climate turned harsh, that catastrophe may have been remembered in the terrifying Norse legend of Fimbulvetr.
By Andrea Maraschi
https://www.medievalists.net/2026/01/fimbulvetr-medieval/
Norse mythology at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/4932
10,000 books were tossed at a London school. Librarians say there are other ways to give books a second life
The province says it is halting all current and future school library reviews
by Kendra Seguin
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/beal-library-old-book-purge-9.7040273
Librarians at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=librarians
As today is the re-opening of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, this is a good reason to re-read Victor Hugo's masterpiece. There is also an interesting book on the restoration of Notre-Dame (1843).
Notre-Dame de Paris - Tome 1 by Victor Hugo:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70891
Notre-Dame de Paris - Tome 2:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71445
The Hunchback of Notre Dame:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6539
Projet de restauration de Notre-Dame de Paris by Lassus and Viollet-le-Duc:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18920
#OTD in 1884.
The first London publication of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn occurs.
Twain initially conceived of the work as a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer that would follow Huckleberry Finn through adulthood. He worked on the manuscript off and on for the next several years, ultimately abandoning his original plan of following Huck's development into adulthood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/76
📚 Quicksilver by: Callie Hart
Do not touch the sword. Do not turn the key. Do not open the gate.
Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has been picking pockets and stealing from the Undying Queen’s reservoirs for as long as she can...
https://bookblabla.com/book/quicksilver
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#OTD in 1908.
Cuala Press, set up at Churchtown, Dublin, as a private press independent of the former Dun Emer Press in connection with the Irish Literary Revival and Arts and Crafts movement by Elizabeth "Lolly" Yeats with editorial support from her brother W. B. Yeats, produces its first publication, Poetry and Ireland: Essays by W. B. Yeats and Lionel Johnson (died 1902).
"I saw you - and from that day
I see only you in the world."
Johan Henric Kellgren, born #OTD in 1751, was a Swedish poet and critic.
Kellgren began as a tutor and later worked as a journalist and editor for Stockholms Posten, where he gained a reputation as a sharp and influential critic. Notable works include "Mina Löjen", which blends satire with lyrical beauty, and "Den nya skapelsen", which highlights themes of renewal & enlightenment.
"A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas."
Godfrey Harold Hardy, who died #OTD in 1947, was an English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory & mathematical analysis.
In biology, he is known for the Hardy–Weinberg principle, a basic principle of population genetics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._H._Hardy
Books by G.H. Hardy at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/39236
"Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies."
#OTD in 1860.
Charles Dickens's Bildungsroman Great Expectations begins serialization in All the Year Round. Although intended for weekly publication, Great Expectations was divided into nine monthly sections, with new pagination for each.
Great Expectations at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1400
![With Estella after all.
Great Expectations
[1867 Edition]
by Charles Dickens
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1400](/proxy/post_attachment/531410/604c689fba.jpg "With Estella after all.
Great Expectations
[1867 Edition]
by Charles Dickens
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1400")
#OTD in 1892.
George Bernard Shaw's first play Widowers' Houses has its first performance, at the Royalty Theatre in London under the auspices of the Independent Theatre Society. The author is booed.
This is one of three plays Shaw published as Plays Unpleasant in 1898. The other plays in the group are The Philanderer and Mrs. Warren's Profession.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widowers%27_Houses
Books by Bernard Shaw at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/467
#OTD in 1812.
Leigh Hunt is tried and convicted of libel for calling the Prince Regent "a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in debt and disgrace" in The Examiner on March 22.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Hunt
Original files (with links) are available at @internetarchive
Books by Leigh Hunt at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3612
"Was that, then, the way we do things? "Not knowing"— was that the way the most profound things happened? ... Was the secret of never escaping from the greater life the secret of living like a sleepwalker?"
The Passion According to G.H.
~Clarice Lispector (December 10, 1920 – December 9, 1977)
![Uma coletânea de contos de Clarice Lispector (1920-1977), publicada em julho deste ano nos Estados Unidos com o título "The complete stories", entrou na lista dos 100 melhores livros de 2015 feita pelo jornal americano "The New York Times". A editora Rocco planeja publicar a versão nacional de "The complete stories" em abril de 2016. O título da versão nacional ainda não foi definido. Clarice Lispector nasceu em Tchetchelnick, na Ucrânia. Seu nome de batismo era Haia. Ela se mudou com a família para o Brasil em 1922 e aqui ganhou o nome de Clarice. Em sua lista de melhores do ano, o "New York Times" escreve que "a brasileira foi uma das verdadeiras [vozes] autênticas da literatura latino-americana". O jornal cita como exemplos desses "inovadores" o argentino Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), o mexicano Juan Rulfo (1917-1986) e o também brasileiro Machado de Assis (1839-1908).](/proxy/post_attachment/540680/26a8fa37f9.png "Uma coletânea de contos de Clarice Lispector (1920-1977), publicada em julho deste ano nos Estados Unidos com o título \"The complete stories\", entrou na lista dos 100 melhores livros de 2015 feita pelo jornal americano \"The New York Times\". A editora Rocco planeja publicar a versão nacional de \"The complete stories\" em abril de 2016. O título da versão nacional ainda não foi definido. Clarice Lispector nasceu em Tchetchelnick, na Ucrânia. Seu nome de batismo era Haia. Ela se mudou com a família para o Brasil em 1922 e aqui ganhou o nome de Clarice. Em sua lista de melhores do ano, o \"New York Times\" escreve que \"a brasileira foi uma das verdadeiras [vozes] autênticas da literatura latino-americana\". O jornal cita como exemplos desses \"inovadores\" o argentino Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), o mexicano Juan Rulfo (1917-1986) e o também brasileiro Machado de Assis (1839-1908).")
#OTD in 1822.
French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, in a memoir read to the Academy of Sciences, coins the terms linear polarization, circular polarization, and elliptical polarization, and reports a direct refraction experiment verifying his theory that optical rotation is a form of birefringence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustin-Jean_Fresnel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarization_(waves)
The wave theory of light is available at @internetarchive
https://archive.org/details/wavetheoryofligh00crewrich
I started reading Slayers of Old by Jim C. Hines this weekend and will share what I thought of it after I finish it. So far I’m enjoying the fact that the three protagonists are all between the ages of about 56 and 99. That’s cool.
It reminds me a little of what Buffy the Vampire Slayer might have been like after Buffy retired from saving the world and grew old enough to have some health troubles.
If you’ve read it, did you like it?
"It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none."
#OTD in 1817.
Walter Scott's historical novel Rob Roy, written from this spring, is published anonymously by Archibald Constable in Edinburgh, while a shipload of copies is carried from Leith to London for simultaneous publication there by Longman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Roy_(novel)
Rob Roy at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/7025
The consolations of philosophy
In my latest blog post I talk about three books that help me to understand, resist and find hope: The Unaccountability Machine, Stories Are Weapons, and The Dispossessed.
