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Project Gutenberg

Virginia Woolf Thought Katharine Mansfield Stank Like a “Civet Cat Taken to Streetwalking”

Gerri Kimber on the Literary Legacy of an Early Master of the Short Form

https://lithub.com/virginia-woolf-thought-katharine-mansfield-stank-like-a-civet-cat-taken-to-streetwalking/

Mansfield & Woolf at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/631
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89

##books #literature

Katherine Mansfield, a New Zealand-writer of short stories. Picture taken 1912.

A 1912 photograph of Katherine Mansfield, the acclaimed New Zealand short story writer. The formal portrait shows Mansfield during her early literary career, before she became one of the modernist movement's most influential voices in short fiction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Mansfield#/media/File:Mansfield1.jpg

Portrait of Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941), a British author and feminist, with her chignon. By George Charles Beresford.

The 1902 portrait by George Charles Beresford captures Virginia striking image, with her famous chignon, reflecting her distinctive style and the aesthetics of the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf#/media/File:George_Charles_Beresford_-_Virginia_Woolf_in_1902_-_Restoration.jpg

Dave Dawkins

When you're reading and someone assumes that means you're doing nothing and they can interrupt you.

#books #reading #writing

When you're reading and someone assumes that means you're doing nothing and they can interrupt you.

#books #reading #writing

At Vespers by Halle. A young woman looks up from reading a book. It's probably some religious thing, but I've cropped out the cross and I just like the intensity on her face.

Nick East (Indie Writer)

I want things that are above my reading level, that's how I get better at reading 🤔😁

@reading @bookstodon @books @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop

#ReadingMemes #Memes
#ReadAllTheBooks #Humor #Humour
#Reading #Readers #ReadersOfMastodon #ReadingCommunity
#Book #Books #Novel #Novels #Fiction
#Bookwyrm #Bookworm #Bookstodon #BookLove #FantasyBooks #ReadingLevel #Level

I want things that are above my reading level, that's how I get better at reading 🤔😁

@reading @bookstodon @books @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop

#ReadingMemes #Memes
#ReadAllTheBooks #Humor #Humour
#Reading #Readers #ReadersOfMastodon #ReadingCommunity
#Book #Books #Novel #Novels #Fiction
#Bookwyrm #Bookworm #Bookstodon #BookLove #FantasyBooks #ReadingLevel #Level

Comic from Unshelved about a boy asking librarian about what books he can check out and the librarian telling him he can check out any book. The teacher says it's above the child's reading level and they have a policy. The librarian replies he loves the sound of a breaking policy breaking.

Not so happy. Financially, 2025 was probably the worst year I had since I started translating for a living. I lost most of my long time clients - retirement, sickness etc. - and new ones are hard to find.
So I am on self promotion now - anyone here who wants his English book translated into German? No option for you? Talk to me. Most of my authors are glad for the additional income.
References on my blog - see profile.
#translations #books #writing #author

Mark Wyner :vm:

I’m currently reading “Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Tortue,” by Angela Davis. If I used a highlighter in this book, about 90% of it would be yellow.

#Books #Reading #AngelaDavis #Abolition #Democracy #SystemicRacism #PrisonIndustrialComplex

Quote by Angela Davis that reads “the challenge of the twenty-first century is not to demand equal opportunity to participate in the machinery of oppression. Rather, it is to identify and dismantle those structures in which racism continues to be embedded. This is the only way the promise of freedom can be extended to masses of people.”

LordWoolamaloo

I do approve of Alan Moore's dedication in his upcoming novel :

"For Volodymr Zelenskyy and anti- fascists everywhere. Ils ne passeront pas"

.

#books #livres #Bookstodon #AlanMoore #IHearANewWorld

I do approve of Alan Moore's dedication in his upcoming novel :

"For Volodymr Zelenskyy and anti- fascists everywhere. Ils ne passeront pas"

.

#books #livres #Bookstodon #AlanMoore #IHearANewWorld

Global Museum

A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

Fedi.Tips

BookWyrm is a Fediverse alternative to Amazon's Goodreads. It lets people keep track of their books, publish reviews and discover new titles. Find out more about BookWyrm at:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-network-for-people-who-enjoy-reading

There's a list of servers you can sign up on at:

➡️ https://joinbookwyrm.com/instances

(The flagship is overcrowded, you might want to use a different server.)

You can import your data from Goodreads, LibraryThing, StoryGraph, OpenLibrary or Calibre:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/importing-your-data-into-bookwyrm-from-goodreads-librarything-storygraph-openlibrary-or-calibre

#FediTips #Books #Reading

BookWyrm is a Fediverse alternative to Amazon's Goodreads. It lets people keep track of their books, publish reviews and discover new titles. Find out more about BookWyrm at:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-network-for-people-who-enjoy-reading

There's a list of servers you can sign up on at:

➡️ https://joinbookwyrm.com/instances

(The flagship is overcrowded, you might want to use a different server.)

You can import your data from Goodreads, LibraryThing, StoryGraph, OpenLibrary or Calibre:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/importing-your-data-into-bookwyrm-from-goodreads-librarything-storygraph-openlibrary-or-calibre

#FediTips #Books #Reading

Project Gutenberg

Break out the calculators: November 23 is Fibonacci Sequence Day

The cornerstone of modern math wouldn’t be possible without the Hindu-Arabic numerical system.

by Andrew Paul

https://www.popsci.com/science/fibonacci-sequence-day-2025/

Fibonacci at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=fibonacci

#books #mathematics #old_manuscripts

A page of Fibonacci's Liber Abaci from the Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze showing (in box on right) 13 entries of the Fibonacci sequence: the indices from present to XII (months) as Latin ordinals and Roman numerals and the numbers (of rabbit pairs) as Hindu-Arabic numerals starting with 1, 2, 3, 5 and ending with 377.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Liber_abbaci_magliab_f124r.jpg

Project Gutenberg

Scientists found the key to accurate Maya eclipse tables

Eclipse tables in the Dresden Codex were based on lunar tables and adjusted for slippage over time.

by Jennifer Ouellette

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/11/study-how-the-maya-created-such-accurate-eclipse-tables/

Original article:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt9039

#books #old_manuscripts #astronomy

Pages of the Dresden codex on eclipses .

The image shows several adjoining pages of the Dresden Codex, an ancient Maya manuscript. The pages are filled with dense Maya hieroglyphs, numbers, and symbols arranged in horizontal rows and vertical columns. Much of the imagery uses black and red ink on a cream-colored, weathered surface.

Across the pages are repeating patterns of dot-and-bar numerals, used in Maya calendrical calculations. Interspersed among the glyph blocks are stylized drawings of deities and serpent-like figures, characteristic of Maya cosmology. These particular pages are known for containing astronomical tables related to eclipses, and the highly structured numerical sequences suggest predictive calculations.

Public Domain Image Archive

Detail from a page of Dufour’s *Usage du Caphé, du Thé, et du Chocolate* (1688) by Philippe Sylvestre Dufour, from Usage du caphé, du thé, et du chocolate
.

Source: Wellcome Collection

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/b4cdb4cc-c07d-48db-8bfe-2aaba3677bfb

#chocolate #books #dufour #mesoamerica #mexico #cacao #colmenero #cocoa #wadsworth #colonialism #art #publicdomain