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<p>Fae Reviews makes video book reviews, especially about romantasy books (romantic stories with a fantasy setting). You can follow at:</p><p>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="[{&#x27;type&#x27;: &#x27;Link&#x27;, &#x27;href&#x27;: &#x27;https://makertube.net/a/faereviews/video-channels&#x27;, &#x27;mediaType&#x27;: &#x27;text/html&#x27;}, {&#x27;type&#x27;: &#x27;Link&#x27;, &#x27;href&#x27;: &#x27;https://makertube.net/a/faereviews&#x27;, &#x27;mediaType&#x27;: &#x27;text/html&#x27;}, {&#x27;type&#x27;: &#x27;Link&#x27;, &#x27;href&#x27;: &#x27;https://makertube.net/accounts/faereviews&#x27;, &#x27;mediaType&#x27;: &#x27;text/html&#x27;}]" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>faereviews</span></a></span> </p><p>They&#x27;ve already uploaded 17 videos, you can browse them all at <a href="https://makertube.net/a/faereviews/videos" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="makertube.net/a/faereviews/videos"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">makertube.net/a/faereviews/vid</span><span class="invisible">eos</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/featuredpeertube/" rel="tag">#FeaturedPeerTube</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookreviews/" rel="tag">#BookReviews</a> <a href="/tags/romantasy/" rel="tag">#Romantasy</a> <a href="/tags/romance/" rel="tag">#Romance</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#Fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/peertube/" rel="tag">#PeerTube</a> <a href="/tags/peertubers/" rel="tag">#PeerTubers</a></p>

<p>I didn&#x27;t know basic dickheads knew how to read, good for them! 😜😂 </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 <br> <br><a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#Book</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookmemes/" rel="tag">#BookMemes</a> <a href="/tags/meme/" rel="tag">#Meme</a> <a href="/tags/memes/" rel="tag">#Memes</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/readingmemes/" rel="tag">#ReadingMemes</a> <a href="/tags/readallthebooks/" rel="tag">#ReadAllTheBooks</a> <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/litterature/" rel="tag">#Litterature</a> <a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#Novel</a> <a href="/tags/novels/" rel="tag">#Novels</a> <a href="/tags/bookshelf/" rel="tag">#Bookshelf</a> <a href="/tags/mastobooks/" rel="tag">#Mastobooks</a> <a href="/tags/booksofmastodon/" rel="tag">#BooksofMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/bookworm/" rel="tag">#Bookworm</a> <a href="/tags/bookwyrm/" rel="tag">#Bookwyrm</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/booklove/" rel="tag">#BookLove</a></p>

<p>Replicating Shakespearean-era printing brings its own dramas and comedy</p><p>This video from the London Review of Books (LRB) celebrates the Folio’s 400th anniversary by documenting an audacious attempt to replicate the methods used to print the book at the time of its original release.</p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/videos/replicating-shakespearean-era-printing-brings-its-own-dramas-and-comedy" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="aeon.co/videos/replicating-shakespearean-era-printing-brings-its-own-dramas-and-comedy"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/videos/replicating-sha</span><span class="invisible">kespearean-era-printing-brings-its-own-dramas-and-comedy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Folio" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Folio"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Fo</span><span class="invisible">lio</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/oldprinting/" rel="tag">#oldprinting</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1824.</p><p>The first issue of a radical quarterly founded by Jeremy Bentham, The Westminster Review, is published in London.</p><p>It was published from 1824 to 1914. James Mill was one of the driving forces behind the liberal journal until 1828. Some notable contributors: George Eliot, Harriet Martineau, John Stuart Mill, Mary Shelley, Herbert Spencer, John Tyndall, Caroline Cornwallis, Julia Wedgwood, Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme Elmy. </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Westminster_Review" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Westminster_Review"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_West</span><span class="invisible">minster_Review</span></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!</p><p>Books which will enter the US public domain:</p><p>William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury<br>Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms<br>Virginia Woolf, A Room of One&#x27;s Own<br>Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest and The Maltese Falcon (as serialized in Black Mask magazine)<br>John Steinbeck, Cup of Gold (Steinbeck&#x27;s first novel)<br>Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica<br>Oliver La Farge, Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story<br>Patrick Hamilton, Rope</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><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1818.</p><p>Mary Shelley&#x27;s novel Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus first appears anonymously in London. </p><p>Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankens</span><span class="invisible">tein</span></a></p><p>1818 edition at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/41445" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/41445</a><br>1831 edition<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/42324" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/42324</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 1873.</p><p>Louisa May Alcott&#x27;s family satire &quot;Transcendental Wild Oats&quot; is published in the newspaper The Independent.</p><p>The work was first published in a New York newspaper in 1873, and reprinted in 1874, 1876, and 1915 and after. Alcott&#x27;s view of male arrogance and female exploitation in this piece is paralleled in her novel Work, published in the same year as Transcendental Wild Oats.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Wild_Oats" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Wild_Oats"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcen</span><span class="invisible">dental_Wild_Oats</span></a></p><p>Transcendental Wild Oats at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34920" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34920</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Lost Federico García Lorca verse discovered 93 years after it was written</p><p>Eight-line poem found on the back of a manuscript sheds light on Spanish poet’s preoccupation with time</p><p>by Sam Jones</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/apr/18/lost-federico-garcia-lorca-verse-discovered-93-years-after-it-was-written" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/apr/18/lost-federico-garcia-lorca-verse-discovered-93-years-after-it-was-written"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/culture/20</span><span class="invisible">26/apr/18/lost-federico-garcia-lorca-verse-discovered-93-years-after-it-was-written</span></a></p><p>Lorca at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/56772" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/56772"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/56772</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>J. J. Thomson, who was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1856, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1906 for his discovery of the electron, the first subatomic particle to be found.</p><p>Thomson was also a teacher, and seven of his students went on to win Nobel Prizes: Ernest Rutherford, Lawrence Bragg, Charles Barkla, Francis Aston, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Owen Richardson and Edward Victor Appleton.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._Thomson" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._Thomson"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._Th</span><span class="invisible">omson</span></a></p><p>Books by J.J. Thomson at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/38322" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/38322"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/38322</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/physics/" rel="tag">#physics</a></p>

<p>&quot;Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.&quot;</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1921.</p><p>World premiere of the science fiction play R.U.R. (Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti) by the Czech writer Karel Čapek in a theater in Hradec Králové. It introduced the word &quot;robot&quot; to the English language and to science fiction as a whole.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R</a>.</p><p>R.U.R. at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/59112" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/59112</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>Most Anticipated Books Releasing in the First Half of 2026: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-most-anticipated-books-releasing-in-the-first-half-of-2026/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-most-anticipated-books-releasing-in-the-first-half-of-2026/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesda</span><span class="invisible">y-most-anticipated-books-releasing-in-the-first-half-of-2026/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/amreading/" rel="tag">#AmReading</a> <a href="/tags/tbr/" rel="tag">#TBR</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>&quot;Every human institution (Justice included) will stretch a little, if you only pull it the right way.&quot;</p><p>From January 4 till August 8 1868.</p><p>Wilkie Collins&#x27; epistolary novel The Moonstone: a Romance is serialised in All the Year Round (U.K.), being published in book format in July by Tinsley Brothers of London. It is seen as a precursor of full-length mystery fiction and the psychological thriller.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moonstone" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moonstone"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon</span><span class="invisible">stone</span></a></p><p>The Moonstone at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/155" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/155</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Alexander the Great, Ancient Gay Icon</p><p>Harry Tanner Explores Queerness and Homophobia in the Hellenistic Period</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/alexander-the-great-ancient-gay-icon/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/alexander-the-great-ancient-gay-icon/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/alexander-the-great</span><span class="invisible">-ancient-gay-icon/</span></a></p><p>Alexander the Great at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/3864" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/3864"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">ct/3864</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>

<p>New review: A nicely balanced collection of essays with long-lived trees from around the globe that provides ten different answers to the question: &quot;And what else can you learn from tree rings?&quot;</p><p><a href="https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2026/01/14/book-review-in-the-circle-of-ancient-trees-our-oldest-trees-and-the-stories-they-tell/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="inquisitivebiologist.com/2026/01/14/book-review-in-the-circle-of-ancient-trees-our-oldest-trees-and-the-stories-they-tell/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquisitivebiologist.com/2026/</span><span class="invisible">01/14/book-review-in-the-circle-of-ancient-trees-our-oldest-trees-and-the-stories-they-tell/</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/dendrochronology/" rel="tag">#Dendrochronology</a> <a href="/tags/trees/" rel="tag">#Trees</a> <a href="/tags/wood/" rel="tag">#Wood</a> <a href="/tags/forests/" rel="tag">#Forests</a> <a href="/tags/plants/" rel="tag">#Plants</a> <a href="/tags/botany/" rel="tag">#Botany</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>I&#x27;m no expert on Dostoevsky, but from what I have read I have to say this is accurate 😂 </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/meme/" rel="tag">#Meme</a> <a href="/tags/memes/" rel="tag">#Memes</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/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#ReadingCommunity</a><br><a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#Novel</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#Fiction</a> <br><a href="/tags/bookwyrm/" rel="tag">#Bookwyrm</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1893.</p><p>The first story featuring the private detective character Sexton Blake, &quot;The Missing Millionaire&quot;, appears in Alfred Harmsworth&#x27;s new boys&#x27; story paper The Halfpenny Marvel, written by Harry Blyth under the pen-name Hal Meredeth.</p><p>Sexton Blake adventures were featured in a wide variety of British and international publications from 1893 to 1978, comprising more than 4,000 stories by some 200 different authors.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexton_Blake" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexton_Blake"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexton_B</span><span class="invisible">lake</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Blyth" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Blyth"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Bl</span><span class="invisible">yth</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/pulpfiction/" rel="tag">#pulpfiction</a></p>

<p>&quot;There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.&quot;<br>Torvald Helmer, Act I</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1879.</p><p>The first production of Henrik Ibsen&#x27;s controversial &quot;modern drama&quot; A Doll&#x27;s House takes place at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen, after publication there on December 4.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Doll%27s_House" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Doll%27s_House"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Doll%2</span><span class="invisible">7s_House</span></a></p><p>A Doll&#x27;s House at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2542" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/2542</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>English author Agatha Christie died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1976.</p><p>She is best known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world&#x27;s longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap.</p><p>Watch our podcast about The Big Four:<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoKUX5a7T0Y&amp;t=74s" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoKUX5a7T0Y&amp;t=74s"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoKUX5</span><span class="invisible">a7T0Y&amp;t=74s</span></a></p><p>Books by Agatha Chrissie at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/451" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/451"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/451</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>📚 Cursed Daughters by: Oyinkan Braithwaite</p><p>When Ebun gives birth to her daughter, Eniiyi, on the day they bury her cousin Monife, there is no denying the startling resemblance between the child and the dead woman. So begins the belief, fostered and fanned by the entire family, that Eniiyi is the actu...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/cursed-daughters-a-read-with-jenna-pick" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/cursed-daughters-a-read-with-jenna-pick"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/cursed-dau</span><span class="invisible">ghters-a-read-with-jenna-pick</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/familylife/" rel="tag">#familylife</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/womenfiction/" rel="tag">#womenfiction</a> <a href="/tags/literary/" rel="tag">#literary</a></p>

<p>Another notable &amp; interesting title mentioned in our April&#x27;s newsletter:</p><p>A brief outline of the history of libraries by Justus Lipsius<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78256/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78256/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78256</span><span class="invisible">/</span></a></p><p>Written in 1602, Lipsius&#x27;s Syntagma de Bibliothecis is a short Latin scholarly treatise tracing the history of libraries from antiquity. It surveys the great libraries of the ancient world — Egyptian, Greek, and Roman — describing their origins, collections, and fates.</p><p>PG&#x27;s April newsletter:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/newsletter/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/newsletter/</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bibliography/" rel="tag">#bibliography</a></p>

<p>&quot;What remains?&quot; cried Ivanhoe; &quot;Glory, maiden, glory! which gilds our sepulchre and embalms our name.&quot;</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1819.</p><p>Walter Scott&#x27;s popular Waverley Novel Ivanhoe is published anonymously in 3 volumes by Archibald Constable in Edinburgh, dated 1820. A chivalric romance set in 12th-century England, it represents a move away from Scott setting his fiction in Scotland.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanhoe" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanhoe</a></p><p>Ivanhoe at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/82" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/82</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>📚 Call Me Ishmaelle by: Xiaolu Guo</p><p>I must work on a ship as a man... I must find freedom on the seas.<br>1843. Ishmaelle is born in a small village on the stormy Kent coast where she grows up swimming with dolphins. After her parents and infant sister die, her brother, Joseph, leaves to find work as a sailor. Abandoned and de...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/call-me-ishmaelle" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/call-me-ishmaelle"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/call-me-is</span><span class="invisible">hmaelle</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/feministfiction/" rel="tag">#feministfiction</a> <a href="/tags/historical/" rel="tag">#historical</a> <a href="/tags/19thcentury/" rel="tag">#19thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/general/" rel="tag">#general</a></p>

<p>The Ebook of Sky Children is now available for purchase! Print copies will be available on Friday, January 3rd!</p><p>You can learn more at my website:<br><a href="https://owentyme.us/books/sky-children/sky-children.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="owentyme.us/books/sky-children/sky-children.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">owentyme.us/books/sky-children</span><span class="invisible">/sky-children.html</span></a></p><p>Or go straight to the store links:<br><a href="https://books2read.com/SkyChildren" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/SkyChildren</a></p><p><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</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/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a></p>

<p>On Henry James and the Enduring Lessons of Love</p><p>Katherine J. Chen Rediscovers James (and Falls in Love)</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/on-henry-james-and-the-enduring-lessons-of-love/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/on-henry-james-and-the-enduring-lessons-of-love/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/on-henry-james-and-</span><span class="invisible">the-enduring-lessons-of-love/</span></a></p><p>Books by Henry James at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/113" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/113"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/113</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>