<p>George R.R. Martin has co-authored a physics paper</p><p>"I couldn't help but wonder if a simple underlying model might tidy up the canon.”</p><p>By Jennifer Ouellette </p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/01/george-r-r-martin-has-co-authored-a-physics-paper/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="arstechnica.com/science/2025/01/george-r-r-martin-has-co-authored-a-physics-paper/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/science/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">1/george-r-r-martin-has-co-authored-a-physics-paper/</span></a></p><p>Ergodic Lagrangian dynamics in a superhero universe<br>By I. L. Tregillis and George R. R. Martin</p><p><a href="https://pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/article/93/2/127/3331568/Ergodic-Lagrangian-dynamics-in-a-superhero" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/article/93/2/127/3331568/Ergodic-Lagrangian-dynamics-in-a-superhero"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/article/</span><span class="invisible">93/2/127/3331568/Ergodic-Lagrangian-dynamics-in-a-superhero</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/physics/" rel="tag">#physics</a></p>
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<p>This is really cool! Last year I read William Dalrymple's "The Golden Road" and central to its narrative are these trade routes. This was an experiment to reconstruct a lost 5th century CE ship design based on drawing in the Ajanta Caves. According to Dalrymple, images in the Ajanta Caves provide some of the best info for the period. </p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyn15110gvo" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyn15110gvo"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyn</span><span class="invisible">15110gvo</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/india/" rel="tag">#India</a> <a href="/tags/mastindia/" rel="tag">#MastIndia</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/ancienthistory/" rel="tag">#AncientHistory</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/ocean/" rel="tag">#Ocean</a> <a href="/tags/ships/" rel="tag">#Ships</a> <a href="/tags/sailing/" rel="tag">#Sailing</a> <a href="/tags/archeology/" rel="tag">#Archeology</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> <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>For someone who greatly prefers stand-alone reads, I have accrued a phenomenal list of mostly fantasy and/or mystery sequels/continuations I’m looking forward to this year:</p><p>- The Raven Scholar continuation<br>- The Sorcery and Small Magics continuation<br>- The Stranger Times continuation<br>- The Tainted Cup continuation <br>- Cursed in the Lost City, sequel to Cursed Under London (I feel like Gabby Hutchinson Crouch is massively underrated in the light fantasy arena)<br>- The Exquisite Torment of Loving Your Enemy, sequel to The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy (even if it is Dramione fanfic)<br>- The Tapestry of Fate, sequel to the Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi<br>- Father Material, final (I assume) in the Boyfriend Material series<br>- the Helle and Death continuation<br>- the Blanchard Twins continuation</p><p>And that’s just what occurred to me off the top of my head.</p><p>What big sequels are you anticipating in 2026?</p><p><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> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/series/" rel="tag">#series</a></p>
<p>A Review of Homeless: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-homeless/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-homeless/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-ho</span><span class="invisible">meless/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="/tags/postapocalyptic/" rel="tag">#PostApocalyptic</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</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>The strange tale of Sigmund Freud’s begonia</p><p>How the gift of a plant helped Emma Freud finally get to know her great-grandfather</p><p>by Emma Freud</p><p><a href="https://observer.co.uk/news/first-person/article/emma-freud-sigmund-freuds-begonia" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="observer.co.uk/news/first-person/article/emma-freud-sigmund-freuds-begonia"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">observer.co.uk/news/first-pers</span><span class="invisible">on/article/emma-freud-sigmund-freuds-begonia</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/botany/" rel="tag">#botany</a></p>
<p>This week's <a href="/tags/newbooks/" rel="tag">#NewBooks</a> at the library:<br>- I bought a second-hand copy of <a href="/tags/isotopes/" rel="tag">#Isotopes</a>: Principles and Applications, published by Wiley. Isotopes are hugely important in various branches of science, and I have it in mind to get to grips with the finer details at some point.<br>- I found a copy of Simon Lamb's Devil in the Mountain: A Search for the Origin of the Andes at a local charity shop, a classic from <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><br>- And I bought a copy of Paul Thagard's Bots and Beasts: What Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart? from <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.mit.edu/@themitpress" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>themitpress</span></a></span> for basically the price of a packet of crisps.<br><a href="/tags/chemistry/" rel="tag">#Chemistry</a> <a href="/tags/physics/" rel="tag">#Physics</a> <a href="/tags/geology/" rel="tag">#Geology</a> <a href="/tags/earthsciences/" rel="tag">#EarthSciences</a> <a href="/tags/orogeny/" rel="tag">#Orogeny</a> <a href="/tags/cognitivescience/" rel="tag">#CognitiveScience</a> <a href="/tags/cognition/" rel="tag">#Cognition</a> <a href="/tags/intelligence/" rel="tag">#Intelligence</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/scicomm/" rel="tag">#Scicomm</a> <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></p>
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<p>The Man Who Stole Infinity</p><p>In an 1874 paper, Georg Cantor proved that there are different sizes of infinity and changed math forever. A trove of newly unearthed letters shows that it was also an act of plagiarism.</p><p>By Joseph Howlett</p><p><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-man-who-stole-infinity-20260225/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.quantamagazine.org/the-man-who-stole-infinity-20260225/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.quantamagazine.org/the-man</span><span class="invisible">-who-stole-infinity-20260225/</span></a></p><p>Cantor at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/34168" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/34168"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/34168</span></a></p><p>Cantor in Principia Mathematica:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78050" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78050</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/mathematics/" rel="tag">#mathematics</a></p>
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<p>So I guess it's time for an <a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#introduction</a>. Well, I'm a 30 something <a href="/tags/black/" rel="tag">#Black</a> <a href="/tags/queer/" rel="tag">#queer</a> woman. I love to read <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a>. I love the <a href="/tags/nyknicks/" rel="tag">#NYKnicks</a>. I like <a href="/tags/bicycles/" rel="tag">#bicycles</a> even though, it's not my primary mode of transportation. I like refurbishing and upgrading old electronics, specifically <a href="/tags/ipods/" rel="tag">#iPods</a> and <a href="/tags/laptops/" rel="tag">#laptops</a>. <a href="/tags/tv/" rel="tag">#TV</a> and music have kept me going more than anything else. I'm branching into <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a> and getting more familiar with <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#FOSS</a>. I am a <a href="/tags/blogger/" rel="tag">#blogger</a> and I have linked my blog in my bio.</p>
<p>Who Was the Inspiration Behind the ‘Gibson Girl’ Illustrations? The Artist Said She Was Every Woman</p><p>Charles Dana Gibson’s archetype became the original American “it girl” in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and helped transform fashion and beauty</p><p>by Michelle Mehrtens</p><p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/who-was-the-inspiration-behind-the-gibson-girl-illustrations-the-artist-said-she-was-every-woman-180988014/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/who-was-the-inspiration-behind-the-gibson-girl-illustrations-the-artist-said-she-was-every-woman-180988014/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smithsonianmag.com/smithso</span><span class="invisible">nian-institution/who-was-the-inspiration-behind-the-gibson-girl-illustrations-the-artist-said-she-was-every-woman-180988014/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550</span></a></p><p>Charles Dana Gibson at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/26456" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/26456"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/26456</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/illustrations/" rel="tag">#illustrations</a></p>
<p>Stumbled across an interesting <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> challenge from the Boston Public Library—to read a book by an author from each of six geographic regions: Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania. It looks easy enough to do independently, and there’s some great stuff on the rec lists for each region. <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><a href="https://www.bpl.org/winter/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.bpl.org/winter/</a></p>
<p>Join the Texas Observer in conversation with author Jessica Pishko on February 5th for this FREE event at Alienated Majesty Books.</p><p>We'll discuss Pishko's provocative and important book about the dangers posed by extremist sheriffs in the United States. </p><p>RSVP: <a href="https://buff.ly/4gzkA5r" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>buff.ly/4gzkA5r</a> </p><p><a href="/tags/events/" rel="tag">#events</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> @bookstodon <a href="/tags/austin/" rel="tag">#Austin</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> <a href="/tags/police/" rel="tag">#police</a> <a href="/tags/extremism/" rel="tag">#extremism</a> <a href="/tags/criminaljustice/" rel="tag">#CriminalJustice</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a></p>
<p>📚 Little Bosses Everywhere by: Bridget Read</p><p>Companies like Amway, Mary Kay, and Herbalife advertise the world’s greatest opportunity: the chance to be your own boss via an enigmatic business model called multilevel marketing, or MLM. They offer a world of pink Cadillacs, white-columned mansions, tropical vacations, and most precious of all fin...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/little-bosses-everywhere" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/little-bosses-everywhere"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/little-bos</span><span class="invisible">ses-everywhere</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/businesseconomics/" rel="tag">#businesseconomics</a> <a href="/tags/marketing/" rel="tag">#marketing</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1815.</p><p>Jane Austen's novel Emma is published anonymously by John Murray in London dated 1816. About 1500 copies sell over the next 5 years. Murray offered Austen £450 for this plus the copyrights of Mansfield Park and Sense and Sensibility, which she refused. Instead, she published two thousand copies of the novel at her own expense, retaining the copyright and paying a 10% commission to Murray.</p><p>Emma at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/158" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/158</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>So here's the first of the <a href="/tags/mysteryauthors/" rel="tag">#MysteryAuthors</a> from our <a href="/tags/winter/" rel="tag">#Winter</a> issue.</p><p>Nice trees, somewhat obscured by the <a href="/tags/blankpage/" rel="tag">#BlankPage</a></p><p>But who could it be?</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/shortstories/" rel="tag">#ShortStories</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/comics/" rel="tag">#comics</a> <a href="/tags/translation/" rel="tag">#translation</a> <a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#blog</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a></p>
<p>Ebook omnibus: <a href="https://books2read.com/AshenBladesOpenWounds" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="books2read.com/AshenBladesOpenWounds"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">books2read.com/AshenBladesOpen</span><span class="invisible">Wounds</span></a></p><p>The arch-demon, Pride, leads demon-kind in an ancient plan to open a gate between worlds, so vast demon armies might march forth and conquer, but opening a portal requires both energy equivalent to a nuclear explosion and the cooperation of a half-demon, to stabilize it. However, the only half-demon available has made it her life mission to kill all demons.</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/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>
<p>After Failing Math Twice, a Young Benjamin Franklin Turned to This Popular 17th-Century Textbook</p><p>A 19th-century scholar claimed that “Cocker’s Arithmetick” had “probably made as much stir and noise in the English world as any [book]—next to the Bible”</p><p>By James Fox</p><p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/after-failing-math-twice-a-young-benjamin-franklin-turned-to-this-popular-17th-century-textbook-180985664/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smithsonianmag.com/history/after-failing-math-twice-a-young-benjamin-franklin-turned-to-this-popular-17th-century-textbook-180985664/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smithsonianmag.com/history</span><span class="invisible">/after-failing-math-twice-a-young-benjamin-franklin-turned-to-this-popular-17th-century-textbook-180985664/</span></a></p><p>1716 edition of Cocker's Arithmetick is available at <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>internetarchive</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_cockers-arithmetick-be_cocker-edward_1716/page/n4/mode/1up?view=theater" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_cockers-arithmetick-be_cocker-edward_1716/page/n4/mode/1up?view=theater"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/bim_eighte</span><span class="invisible">enth-century_cockers-arithmetick-be_cocker-edward_1716/page/n4/mode/1up?view=theater</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>
<p>My favourite story from Russian writer Leonid Kostyukov, whose seminar I attended in the 2000s: once, in the 90s, he was asked to read and review a novel, and then the author asked his advice on a title.</p><p>“Not a word about Yeltsin,” said Kostyukov (still the Yeltsin era).</p><p>— But there’s nothing about Yeltsin in it!<br>— Exactly, — Kostyukov replied.</p><p>The title, oddly enough, was never used — even with another name in Yeltsin's stead.</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/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>
<p>📚 Dungeon Crawler Carl by: Matt Dinniman</p><p>You know what’s worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being stuck with her prize-winning show cat. And you know what’s worse than that? An alien invasion, the destruction of all man-made structures on Earth, and the systematic exploitation of all the survivors for a sadistic intergalactic game ...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/dungeon-crawler-carl" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/dungeon-crawler-carl"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/dungeon-cr</span><span class="invisible">awler-carl</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/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a></p>
<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&q=https://reviewdb.app/book/285jz09giIlViRRSkhMEBA" rel="nofollow">I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 <br>by Ed Yong.</p><p>Delves into the many varied & amazing ways humans & animals have evolved to depend upon microbes. Most of this was familiar to me already, though told in the author's excellent clear & awed way. New was the incredible nesting of microbes within high-order animal cells, with each doing distinct jobs, such that none can survive without the others. Yong is always good for a celebration of life & its complexity.</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/sciencewriting/" rel="tag">#ScienceWriting</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>New Media, Old Anxieties:<br>Why is “Brain Rot” the Word of the Year?</p><p>Josh Abbey Considers “Savage Torpor” and Other Nice Things</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/new-media-old-anxieties-why-is-brain-rot-the-word-of-the-year/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/new-media-old-anxieties-why-is-brain-rot-the-word-of-the-year/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/new-media-old-anxie</span><span class="invisible">ties-why-is-brain-rot-the-word-of-the-year/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/dictionaries/" rel="tag">#dictionaries</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1879.</p><p>During construction of an extension to Birmingham Central Library in England, a fire destroys 50,000 books and the original manuscript of the Coventry Mystery Plays (including the "Coventry Carol").</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_Mystery_Plays" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_Mystery_Plays"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry</span><span class="invisible">_Mystery_Plays</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_Carol" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_Carol"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry</span><span class="invisible">_Carol</span></a></p><p>Coventry Carol at PG (as audio book):<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20603" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20603</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 1818.</p><p>Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "Ozymandias" appears in Leigh Hunt's weekly The Examiner (London; p. 24) under the pen name "Glirastes". Horace Smith's contribution to the same informal sonnet-writing competition, "On a Stupendous Leg of Granite, Discovered Standing by Itself in the Deserts of Egypt, with the Inscription Inserted Below" is published on February 1 under his initials.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandi</span><span class="invisible">as</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>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/TrollSong" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/TrollSong</a></p><p>Having an abusive assassin for a sister was bad enough, but when Lyra’s older sister, Nicole, becomes obsessed with killing the teenage troll, her life becomes a special kind of nightmare. Will she escape, or become just another victim of the unstoppable woman?</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>
<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1868.</p><p>John William De Forest, writing for The Nation, calls for a more specifically American literature; the essay's title, "The Great American Novel", is the first known use of the term. In 1880, writer Henry James simplified the term with the initialism "GAN".</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_Novel" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_Novel"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Am</span><span class="invisible">erican_Novel</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_Novel#Notable_candidates" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_Novel#Notable_candidates"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Am</span><span class="invisible">erican_Novel#Notable_candidates</span></a></p><p>Books by John William De Forest at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4323" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4323"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/4323</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>American novelist, journalist and activist Jack London was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1876.</p><p>London wrote several works dealing with animal welfare, workers' rights and socialism, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam. His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_London" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_London"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Lon</span><span class="invisible">don</span></a></p><p>Books By Jack London at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/120" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/120"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/120</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
