https://www.booksns.com/59455/ Do non-Canadians read many Canadian books? #books Growing up in Canada, our teachers, libraries, and school boards did a lot to promote home grown literature to us kids. While I also read a lot of American, British, and even some Australian books growing up, reading “Canadian” is a habit that has endured into my adulthood (of course, I still mostly read American …
English poet, author and critic Edmund Gosse died #OTD in 1928.
Gosse's father, Philip Henry Gosse, was a renowned naturalist, and their complex relationship is detailed in Edmund Gosse's memoir, "Father and Son" (1907), which remains one of his most famous works. In addition to "Father and Son," he wrote numerous other works, including poetry collections, biographies, and literary criticism.
Finally finished The Great Game, which was superb. Moving onto something lighter. This writer is more my older brothers' age than me, so I may not know about the earlier stuff directly, but will have heard about it from them no doubt. 📖 #books#bookstodon@bookstodon
This is a stunning book about a repressive state and the personal and social disintegration that follows. It could be about horrors in the world now or in history and it makes it believable that the events could happen somewhere like Ireland where it is set or my own country the UK, given contemporary political processes. Rare example of where fiction matches up to the hype that it shakes you about the real world. https://oneworld-publications.com/work/prophet-song/#books
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The first modern performance of Claudio Monteverdi's opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria occurred in Paris.
Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria is an opera consisting of a prologue and five acts (later revised to three), set by Monteverdi to a libretto by Giacomo Badoaro. The opera was first performed at the Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice during the 1639–1640 carnival season. The story is taken from the second half of Homer's Odyssey.
I finished the audiobook edition of Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick. It is an excellent overview on how LLMs will likely evolve and be used in business, education, and more generally. The audiobook edition is fantastic. And at only 4.5 hours long. It's not much longer than some podcasts that get released these days! Highly recommended.
British poet Felicia Dorothea Hemans died #OTD in 1835.
Some of her most famous poems include "Casabianca," which begins with the memorable line "The boy stood on the burning deck," and "The Homes of England," which celebrates the virtues of home and family. Hemans also wrote historical and romantic poetry, drawing inspiration from literature, history, and mythology.
Natsume Sōseki's novel Light and Darkness (明暗, Mei An) begins to be serialized in the Tokyo and Osaka editions of the newspaper Asahi Shimbun, but will remain unfinished at the author's death on December 9, aged 49.
The fourth chapter of Stardust: Labyrinth is out! After the minor setback in the third chapter, the group ventures deeper into the eponymous labyrinth, and the sheer scale of the complex becomes apparent...