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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1862.</p><p>Charles Dodgson sends the handwritten manuscript of Alice&#x27;s Adventures Underground to Alice Liddell.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27</span><span class="invisible">s_Adventures_in_Wonderland</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Liddell" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Liddell"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Li</span><span class="invisible">ddell</span></a></p><p><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/19002" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/19002</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>HAPPY PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY! And Happy New Year!</p><p>Books published in 1930 will enter the U.S. public domain, such as:</p><p>The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett: This novel introduced the world to the famous detective Sam Spade.<br>As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner: A masterpiece of American literature.<br>The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie: This was the first novel to feature the beloved character Miss Marple.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/publicdomain/" rel="tag">#publicdomain</a><br>1/</p>

<p>British Library Exhibit Reveals Lives of Medieval Women</p><p>By Madeleine Muzdakis </p><p><a href="https://mymodernmet.com/british-library-medieval-women/?utm_campaign=daily-digest&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_source=convertkit&amp;utm_term=11212024&amp;utm_medium=email" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mymodernmet.com/british-library-medieval-women/?utm_campaign=daily-digest&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_source=convertkit&amp;utm_term=11212024&amp;utm_medium=email"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mymodernmet.com/british-librar</span><span class="invisible">y-medieval-women/?utm_campaign=daily-digest&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_source=convertkit&amp;utm_term=11212024&amp;utm_medium=email</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>The Inquisitive Biologist looks back at 2025 and picks his five favourite books. Palaeontology, aerobiology, speleology, degrowth, and geomicrobiology top this year&#x27;s list.</p><p><a href="https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/12/31/year-list-the-inquisitive-biologists-top-5-reads-of-2025/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/12/31/year-list-the-inquisitive-biologists-top-5-reads-of-2025/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/</span><span class="invisible">12/31/year-list-the-inquisitive-biologists-top-5-reads-of-2025/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookoftheyear/" rel="tag">#BookOfTheYear</a> <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/scicomm/" rel="tag">#Scicomm</a> <a href="/tags/paleontology/" rel="tag">#Paleontology</a> <a href="/tags/palaeontology/" rel="tag">#Palaeontology</a> <a href="/tags/aerobiology/" rel="tag">#Aerobiology</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> <a href="/tags/speleology/" rel="tag">#Speleology</a> <a href="/tags/caves/" rel="tag">#Caves</a> <a href="/tags/lechuguilla/" rel="tag">#Lechuguilla</a> <a href="/tags/economics/" rel="tag">#Economics</a> <a href="/tags/degrowth/" rel="tag">#Degrowth</a> <a href="/tags/microbiology/" rel="tag">#Microbiology</a> <a href="/tags/geology/" rel="tag">#Geology</a> <a href="/tags/geomicrobiology/" rel="tag">#Geomicrobiology</a> <a href="/tags/edgarallanpoe/" rel="tag">#EdgarAllanPoe</a> <a href="/tags/eapoe/" rel="tag">#EAPoe</a> <a href="/tags/biography/" rel="tag">#Biography</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a> <a href="/tags/goth/" rel="tag">#Goth</a> <a href="/tags/gothic/" rel="tag">#Gothic</a> <a href="/tags/horror/" rel="tag">#Horror</a> <a href="/tags/scienceconvention/" rel="tag">#ScienceConvention</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefair/" rel="tag">#ScienceFair</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://sauropods.win/@markwitton" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>markwitton</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@princetonupress" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>princetonupress</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@princetonnature" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>princetonnature</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Carl_Zimmer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Carl_Zimmer</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@timparrique" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>timparrique</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://sauropods.win/@TetZoo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>TetZoo</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></p>

<p>One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. By Ken Kesey.</p><p>You’re a half-Native guy in a mental hospital (it’s the 1950s) for 20 years, when a complete asshole conman white dude shows up thinking he can control everything; since he has little regard for his own life or that of others he succeeds in the way a wrecking ball succeeds in its task.</p><p>2 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈</p><p>CW: hate speech, racism, misogyny, cultural appropriation </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/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/mentalhealth/" rel="tag">#mentalhealth</a></p>

<p>📚 The Midnight Train by: Matt Haig</p><p>When your life flashes before your eyes, where would you stop?</p><p>No one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there.</p><p>The chance to re-live the moments that meant most.</p><p>To see what kind of person you really were.</p><p>For Wilbur his best days were with Maggie, the lov...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-midnight-train" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-midnight-train"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-midnig</span><span class="invisible">ht-train</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/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/literaryfiction/" rel="tag">#literaryfiction</a> <a href="/tags/visionarymetaphysical/" rel="tag">#visionarymetaphysical</a></p>

<p>My favorite books published in 2025: </p><p>Gliff - Ali Smith<br>One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad<br>Audition - Pip Adam<br>Dusk - Robbie Arnott<br>Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng - Kylie Lee Baker<br>The Buffalo Hunter Hunter - Stephen Graham Jones<br>Sour Cherry - Natalia Theodoridou<br>The Hymn to Dionysus - Natasha Pulley<br>Eternal Summer - Franziska Gansler (tr. Imogen Taylor)<br>The Silver Book - Olivia Laing<br>We Pretty Pieces of Flesh - Colwill Brown<br>Woodworking - Emily St. James</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a></p>

<p>2025 in <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a>, a thread, inspired by (but not limited to) <a href="https://shereads.com/traci-thomas-best-books-of-2025/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="shereads.com/traci-thomas-best-books-of-2025/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">shereads.com/traci-thomas-best</span><span class="invisible">-books-of-2025/</span></a> :</p><p>Two books I loved, part 1: <br>Gliff - Ali Smith</p><p>A fable about survival in a totalitarian surveillance state. A reflection on childhood, siblinghood, and the cost and worth of kindness. A dance with language and memory. I was torn between the impulse to read it all in one sitting and the urge to savor every single sentence.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a></p>

<p>What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?</p><p>Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein is today lauded as the first science fiction novel as well as a seminal work of Gothic horror. </p><p>By Lauren Jones</p><p><a href="https://www.thecollector.com/mary-shelley-wrote-frankenstein-novel/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/mary-shelley-wrote-frankenstein-novel/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thecollector.com/mary-shel</span><span class="invisible">ley-wrote-frankenstein-novel/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/gothic/" rel="tag">#Gothic</a></p>

My review 2025 <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.world/post/40993882">See Original Page</a> </small>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1877.</p><p>Anna Sewell&#x27;s animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published. It was written from a horse as main character&#x27;s perspective. Sewell wrote it in the last years of her life, during which she was bedridden and seriously ill.</p><p><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/271" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/271</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>📚 Crossroads by: Kaleb Dahlgren</p><p>On April 6, 2018, sixteen people died and thirteen others were injured after a bus taking the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team to a playoff game collided with a transport truck in a rural intersection. The tragedy moved millions of people to leave hockey sticks by their fron...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/crossroads" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/crossroads</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/biographyautobiography/" rel="tag">#biographyautobiography</a> <a href="/tags/wintersports/" rel="tag">#wintersports</a> <a href="/tags/hockeyselfhelp/" rel="tag">#hockeyselfhelp</a> <a href="/tags/motivationalinspirational/" rel="tag">#motivationalinspirational</a></p>

<p>📚 Unlikely Story by: Ali Rosen</p><p>As a relationship therapist, Nora helps patients explore their feelings honestly. But she&#x27;s hiding an embarrassing relationship secret of her own: she&#x27;s in love with someone she&#x27;s never even met.</p><p>J edits the advice column Nora&#x27;s been writing anonymously for the last seven years. He&#x27;s in London, she&#x27;s in New York, a...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/unlikely-story" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/unlikely-story"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/unlikely-s</span><span class="invisible">tory</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/romance/" rel="tag">#romance</a> <a href="/tags/contemporaryfiction/" rel="tag">#contemporaryfiction</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1891.</p><p>Maurice Maeterlinck&#x27;s play The Blind (written in 1890) is premièred. Les Aveugles is, along with L&#x27;Intruse, one of Maurice Maeterlinck&#x27;s first two plays.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blind_(play)" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blind_(play)"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blin</span><span class="invisible">d_(play)</span></a></p><p>Les Aveugles is available at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48368" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48368</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/theatre/" rel="tag">#theatre</a></p>

<p>In December 1876.</p><p>The first United States edition of Mark Twain&#x27;s first individual extended work of fiction, the Bildungsroman The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, illustrated by True Williams, is published by the American Publishing Company. An authorised non-illustrated British edition has appeared in early June from Chatto &amp; Windus in London (with the first review appearing on June 24 in a British magazine) and pirated editions have appeared in Canada and Germany.</p><p><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/74" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/74</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

<p>Going to the Moon: Early Cartography of the Lunar Surface</p><p>The lunar maps shown in this post were created long before satellite images became available. The topography is highly detailed and the historical backgrounds of the astronomers who created them are compelling.</p><p>by: Cynthia Smith (from the archives)</p><p><a href="https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2020/03/going-to-the-moon-early-cartography-of-the-lunar-surface/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blogs.loc.gov/maps/2020/03/going-to-the-moon-early-cartography-of-the-lunar-surface/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blogs.loc.gov/maps/2020/03/goi</span><span class="invisible">ng-to-the-moon-early-cartography-of-the-lunar-surface/</span></a></p><p>Galileo at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/39014" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/39014"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/39014</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#astronomy</a></p>

<p>Happy New Year!</p><p>This month&#x27;s Distributed Proofreaders&#x27; Blog takes time out to talk about the Minute Boys juvenile series.</p><p><a href="https://blog.pgdp.net/2026/01/01/the-minute-boys/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blog.pgdp.net/2026/01/01/the-minute-boys/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.pgdp.net/2026/01/01/the-m</span><span class="invisible">inute-boys/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/dp/" rel="tag">#dp</a> <a href="/tags/dpblog/" rel="tag">#dpblog</a></p>

<p>A Review of New Year: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-new-year/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-new-year/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-ne</span><span class="invisible">w-year/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/fivestars/" rel="tag">#FiveStars</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="/tags/newyear/" rel="tag">#NewYear</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>

Here’s my 2025 review! <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://sh.itjust.works/post/52631932">See Original Page</a> </small>