Book Review: Self-Portrait with Nothing by Aimee Pokwatka
Of all the versions of you in all universes, can you live with being this one?
@carturo222 has our review
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/01/book-review-self-portrait-with-nothing.html
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Norwegian folklorist, writer, and zoologist Peter Christen Asbjørnsen was born #OTD in 1812.
He and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe were collectors of Norwegian folklore. The most famous collection, "Norske Folkeeventyr" ("Norwegian Folktales"), was co-published with Moe starting in 1841. He worked as a zoologist and forestry expert, publishing writings on nature and the environment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Christen_Asbj%C3%B8rnsen
Books by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/34177
📚 The Love Wager by: Lynn Painter
Hallie Piper is turning over a new leaf. After belly-crawling out of a hotel room (hello, rock bottom), she decides it’s time to become a full-on adult. She gets a new apartment, a new haircut, and a new wardrobe, but when she logs onto the dating app that she has determined will find her new love, she s...
https://bookblabla.com/book/the-love-wager
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #romance #contemporaryfiction #women
The Explorer Who Faked His Way Through the Hajj
Englishman Richard Burton wore several disguises, ranging from merchant to doctor to pilgrim in the holy city of Mecca.
By Kayla Johnson
Richard Burton at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/898
Massacre in the Clouds : An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History - Anna’s Archive
Virginia Woolf poems, written for niece and nephew, have been discovered
By Andrew Limbong
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/17/nx-s1-5260964/virginia-woolf-poems-niece-nephew
Books by Virginia Woolf at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89
Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply
Who could use a laugh?
Space Worms is here. Chaos is inevitable. Space Squad 51 is unstoppable. Get it now! https://buff.ly/N02v1f5
#Kindle #Kobo #Nook #Apple #GooglePlay
#books #sciencefiction #readers #WritingCommunity
#OTD in 1904.
J. M. Barrie's play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up premières at the Duke of York's Theatre in London with Nina Boucicault in the title rôle and Gerald du Maurier as Captain Hook and Mr Darling; du Maurier is the uncle of the Llewellyn Davies boys, who inspired the story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pan
Peter Pan at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/16
"#GabrielRockhill’s polemic against #WesternMarxism seeks to condemn a set of postwar left-wing intellectuals such as #HerbertMarcuse. Heavy on innuendo but light on evidence, the result is more like a show trial than a serious political indictment."
#RussellJacoby's withering review of #WhoPaidThePipersOfWesternMarxism
https://jacobin.com/2026/04/review-rockhill-western-marxism-cold-war/
#Marxism #FrankfurtSchool #NewLeft #snitchjacketing #hacks #campism #Rockhill #books @bookstodon
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#OTD in 1853.
Charles Dickens gives the first of his public readings of his own works, in Birmingham Town Hall (England) to the Industrial and Literary Institute, repeated three days later to an audience of working people and including an adaptation of A Christmas Carol; these are very successful and Dickens continues public readings until the year of his death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_A_Christmas_Carol
Christmas Carol at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46
Hello Fediverse! (as we've learned :) )
Thank you for your warm welcome.
In our shop there is a display-window for which we pick a topic that is important to us. There we place all kinds of books beside each other. Poetry and prose, fiction and non-fiction, childrens' books and essays. There only has to be an association which connects them. We call this our "Wabe", our honey-comb.
We'll start posting on it next week. Are there and important hashtags we should use? #books #bookstodon
"Didn't I tell you, Don Quixote, sir, to turn back, for they were not armies you were going to attack, but flocks of sheep?"
#OTD in 1605.
The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid, Spain. It was originally published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote
Don Quixote at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/996
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2000
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/42524
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/35181
Hey, @bookstodon folx:
I suggest you go ahead and put Scott Hawkins' book, Blacktail, on hold, if your library carries it. It's not an easy story, but it's the one we deserve, and that's the only spoiler I will give about it.
In January 1864.
Anthony Trollope's Can You Forgive Her?, the first of his Palliser novels, begins to appear in monthly parts in London. Trollope completes it on April 28 and the first volume is published as a book in September by Chapman & Hall. In April, The Small House at Allington concludes publication in the Cornhill Magazine and is published in book form by George Smith.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can_You_Forgive_Her%3F
Can You Forgive Her? at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/19500
A lesson in coexistence
The 17th-century town Cacheu was a hub of West African and European cultures, languages and beliefs (and run by women)
by Toby Green
Guinea at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=guinea
Communication Has Taken Flight Since The Days of Carrier Pigeons
Science and technology have transformed the world with a global network that relays information at the speed of light.
by Joe Schwarcz
There is an interesting book on this subject (The Homing Pigeon by United States. Army. Signal Corps et al.) at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55084
#OTD in 1817.
English painter Benjamin Haydon introduces John Keats to William Wordsworth and Charles Lamb at a dinner in London to celebrate progress on his painting Christ's Entry into Jerusalem, in which all feature.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Haydon
Book about Benjamin Hydon at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6756
I never thought about it, but this is so spot-on:
"None of us are writers because we fell in love with our own writing; we fell in love with other people’s writing, and we keep on falling in love with it." ~alix e. harrow
Swedish mathematician Niels Fabian Helge von Koch was born #OTD in 1870.
He gave his name to the famous fractal known as the Koch snowflake, one of the earliest fractal curves to be described. It is based on the Koch curve, which appeared in a 1904 paper titled "On a Continuous Curve Without Tangents, Constructible from Elementary Geometry."
![von Koch, Helge (1904). "Sur une courbe continue sans tangente, obtenue par une construction géométrique élémentaire" [On a continuous curve without tangent, obtained by an elementary geometric construction]. Arkiv för Matematik (in French). 1: 681–704. JFM 35.0387.02.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000100114564&view=1up&seq=691](/proxy/post_attachment/592616/16ad6e4e88.jpg "von Koch, Helge (1904). \"Sur une courbe continue sans tangente, obtenue par une construction géométrique élémentaire\" [On a continuous curve without tangent, obtained by an elementary geometric construction]. Arkiv för Matematik (in French). 1: 681–704. JFM 35.0387.02.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000100114564&view=1up&seq=691")
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This Census Taker. China Mieville.
You are 7 years old, and you live way up the hill above the village, who’s residents mistrust your family, but need your father’s arcane skills, which he seems to sustain via animal sacrifices; but then your mother disappears.
CW: animal cruelty.
2 of 5 library cats 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛.
Irish astronomer Agnes Mary Clerke died #OTD in 1907.
During her career she wrote reviews of many books, including some written in French, German, Greek, or Italian. In 1885, she published her best known work, A Popular History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century. This book became commonly used for its discussion of the spectroscope.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Mary_Clerke
Books about or by Agnes Mary Clerke at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Agnes+Mary+Clerke&submit_search=Search
Suggest me fiction book(s) where character(s) world that they live in is an actual book/movie/TV show/video game/etc.
What I mean is books that have characters live in settings that are, in-universe, fictional in some way or the like. I don’t mean books that have adaptations in other mediums
Preferably the story has at least one of the following:
the world has its own laws of physics;
shows how the world works;
explores the setting’s implications;
explores how it affects characters; or
the world is under threat.
Thanks for your help👍
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What I mean is books that have characters live in settings that are, in-universe, fictional in some way or the like. I don’t mean books that have adaptations in other mediums
Preferably the story has at least one of the following:the world has its own laws of physics;shows how the world works;explores the setting’s implications;explores how it affects characters; orthe world is under threat.
Thanks for your help👍
Suggest me fiction book(s) where character(s) world that they live in is an actual book/movie/TV show/video game/etc.
The Life and Legacy of Natsume Sōseki, Modern Japan’s Greatest Novelist
"A celebrated literary figure, Natsume Sōseki was widely credited for pioneering modern Japanese literature in the late 19th and early 20th century."
https://www.thecollector.com/natsume-soseki/
Books by Sōseki at PG:
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