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What is the problem to which cognitive outsourcing is the solution?

This paper by Thomas Corbin et al reports on a pilot study of philosophy undergraduates exploring their use of AI-reading tools. Their analysis of half of students using generative AI tools in some way for reading. Interestingly, the vast majority (79.1%) recognised the importance of this reading while also citing limited time (65.7%) and intellectually difficulty (33.3%) with the texts. They suggest a positive trend underlying the familiar fears about cognitive outsourcing. From pg 6:

The strong positive sentiment toward GenAI availability (76.2%) suggests these tools are making students more comfortable with challenging content, potentially lowering anxiety barriers to engagement with complex reading material. By providing alternative entry points to challenging texts, GenAI tools may help democratise access, particularly for students who face epistemic barriers to traditional engagement with reading materials. However, this optimistic interpretation must be balanced against potential risks. While GenAI may help students overcome initial barriers, over-reliance on AI-generated summaries could potentially impede the development of critical reading and interpretive skills that are essential to philosophical education.

This is what I mean about the need to respond diagnostically to student AI use. There are real problems in teaching and learning being surfaced by developing trends in student AI-use. What is the problem to which cognitive outsourcing is the solution for students? In asking this question it becomes possible to diagnose the underlying challenges which pre-existed generative AI, as well as to better understand student use in a manner which enables us to steer them towards active rather than passive use of AI.

Ayşegül Savaş Reads “Many Worlds”

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-writers-voice/aysegul-savas-reads-many-worlds

Weike Wang Reads “The Dreamdrive”

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-writers-voice/weike-wang-reads-the-dreamdrive

It’s Weekend, Let’s Read: Who is the author with more works in the Guardian’s list of 100 greatest novels of all time?

The Guardian made a list of the 100 greatest novels of all time. You can see the list here, with links to how Guardian’s made it. First place of the list is George Eliot with Middlemarch, but I thought to check which authors had more works in this list. And it’s Virginia Woolf with five books!

Second place in the number of the novels in the list are Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, both with four books.

Best part? There all in public domain, so you want to start with any of these four authors, right here, right now, head to Project Gutenberg and let’s read!

Books by George Eliot – https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/90

Books by Virginia Woolf – https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89

Books by Jane Austen – https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/68

Books by Charles Dickens – https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37

It’s Weekend, Let’s Read: Who is the author with more works in the Guardian’s list of 100 greatest novels of all time?

The Guardian made a list of the 100 greatest novels of all time. You can see the list here, with links to how Guardian’s made it. First place of the list is George Eliot with Middlemarch, but I thought to check which authors had more works in this list. And it’s Virginia Woolf with five books!

Second place in the number of the novels in the list are Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, both with four books.

Best part? There all in public domain, so you want to start with any of these four authors, right here, right now, head to Project Gutenberg and let’s read!

Books by George Eliot – https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/90

Books by Virginia Woolf – https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89

Books by Jane Austen – https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/68

Books by Charles Dickens – https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37

It’s Weekend, Let’s Read: Who is the author with more works in the Guardian’s list of 100 greatest novels of all time?

The Guardian made a list of the 100 greatest novels of all time. You can see the list here, with links to how Guardian’s made it. First place of the list is George Eliot with Middlemarch, but I thought to check which authors had more works in this list. And it’s Virginia Woolf with five books!

Second place in the number of the novels in the list are Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, both with four books.

Best part? There all in public domain, so you want to start with any of these four authors, right here, right now, head to Project Gutenberg and let’s read!

Books by George Eliot – https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/90

Books by Virginia Woolf – https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89

Books by Jane Austen – https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/68

Books by Charles Dickens – https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37

It’s Weekend, Let’s Read: Who is the author with more works in the Guardian’s list of 100 greatest novels of all time?

The Guardian made a list of the 100 greatest novels of all time. You can see the list here, with links to how Guardian’s made it. First place of the list is George Eliot with Middlemarch, but I thought to check which authors had more works in this list. And it’s Virginia Woolf with five books!

Second place in the number of the novels in the list are Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, both with four books.

Best part? There all in public domain, so you want to start with any of these four authors, right here, right now, head to Project Gutenberg and let’s read!

Books by George Eliot – https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/90

Books by Virginia Woolf – https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89

Books by Jane Austen – https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/68

Books by Charles Dickens – https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37

It’s Weekend, Let’s Read: Who is the author with more works in the Guardian’s list of 100 greatest novels of all time?

The Guardian made a list of the 100 greatest novels of all time. You can see the list here, with links to how Guardian’s made it. First place of the list is George Eliot with Middlemarch, but I thought to check which authors had more works in this list. And it’s Virginia Woolf with five books!

Second place in the number of the novels in the list are Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, both with four books.

Best part? There all in public domain, so you want to start with any of these four authors, right here, right now, head to Project Gutenberg and let’s read!

Books by George Eliot – https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/90

Books by Virginia Woolf – https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89

Books by Jane Austen – https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/68

Books by Charles Dickens – https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37

Friday, May 15, 2026
Friday of the Sixth Week of Easter
#faith
#readings
#easter2026

Misunderstood Acceptance

https://telinartho.wordpress.com/2026/05/15/misunderstood-acceptance/

#MurderEveryMonday Cover with a Zoo animal Elephants can Remember: Is it good?

I know, I know: my choice to this #MurderEveryMonday is probably again too obvious, but it also gives me the opportunity to talk about this book. Check Kate’s blog to know more about the hashtag.

Agatha Christie was 82 years old when she wrote Elephants Can Remember. This is the last novel she wrote with Poirot as the detective and it was published in November of 1972. Poirot’s Early Cases (1974) and Curtain (1975), both published afterwords, were written in the 1920s and 1930s, for the short stories, and for the last case of Poirot in the 1940s, the book being kept unpublished in a bank vault.

Even at the time of publication, the book received some less kind reviews, with some pointing out inconsistencies about times and ages, which quite frankly could (and should) have been avoided by the editors and publisher of the book. Still, many today consider this a lesser work, but I find several reasons to like it.

The book starts with Mrs. Ariadne Oliver going to a literary luncheon. Oliver is the alter-ego of Agatha Christie: she likes apples, she is always trying hair styles, writes crime fiction, and complains about her Finn detective, lamenting inventing him, since she doesn’t know anything about Finland. It’s always a delight to have her as a character in a book. In the first chapter, Mrs. Oliver tell us about her problems with making speeches, the questions people always ask her, the letters she receives from her readers, and how she tries to deal with all of this. And I found this a delight because it seems clear we’re given a glimpse of something Christie also struggled with and knew first hand.

At that lunch, a woman asks Mrs. Oliver if she is the godmother of Celia Ravenscroft and after corroboration, the woman continues: “Did her mother kill her father or was it the father who killed the mother?”.

And I still remember, when I first read this book (which is more than I can say for so many other books), I was as puzzled as Mrs. Oliver. I mean, why would it matter if it was the father or the mother? Why would it be so important to know? But this also tell us something about the beliefs and obsessions of the people in the past (in this case, in the 1970s). I think Agatha Christie was more observant than a talkative person, and because of that she noticed things more. And I love her books have these snippets she took from her observations: it can be something she heard someone saying, or it can be something being discussed in a newspaper, some new advance in science, something she remembers her family doing when she was a child, etc.

This is also a book about a murder in the past and deals with the people’s memory (the elephants), sometimes people remember certain things, but not others, or they remember things differently. And it’s Poirot job to make sense of all this.

I didn’t re-read this one for some time now, but I remember liking it. And now that I’ve talked about what I liked about it, I’ll be re-reading it again shortly. So, tell me, did you read Elephants Can Remember? Did you like it or not? And why?

#MurderEveryMonday Cover with a Zoo animal Elephants can Remember: Is it good?

I know, I know: my choice to this #MurderEveryMonday is probably again too obvious, but it also gives me the opportunity to talk about this book. Check Kate’s blog to know more about the hashtag.

Agatha Christie was 82 years old when she wrote Elephants Can Remember. This is the last novel she wrote with Poirot as the detective and it was published in November of 1972. Poirot’s Early Cases (1974) and Curtain (1975), both published afterwords, were written in the 1920s and 1930s, for the short stories, and for the last case of Poirot in the 1940s, the book being kept unpublished in a bank vault.

Even at the time of publication, the book received some less kind reviews, with some pointing out inconsistencies about times and ages, which quite frankly could (and should) have been avoided by the editors and publisher of the book. Still, many today consider this a lesser work, but I find several reasons to like it.

The book starts with Mrs. Ariadne Oliver going to a literary luncheon. Oliver is the alter-ego of Agatha Christie: she likes apples, she is always trying hair styles, writes crime fiction, and complains about her Finn detective, lamenting inventing him, since she doesn’t know anything about Finland. It’s always a delight to have her as a character in a book. In the first chapter, Mrs. Oliver tell us about her problems with making speeches, the questions people always ask her, the letters she receives from her readers, and how she tries to deal with all of this. And I found this a delight because it seems clear we’re given a glimpse of something Christie also struggled with and knew first hand.

At that lunch, a woman asks Mrs. Oliver if she is the godmother of Celia Ravenscroft and after corroboration, the woman continues: “Did her mother kill her father or was it the father who killed the mother?”.

And I still remember, when I first read this book (which is more than I can say for so many other books), I was as puzzled as Mrs. Oliver. I mean, why would it matter if it was the father or the mother? Why would it be so important to know? But this also tell us something about the beliefs and obsessions of the people in the past (in this case, in the 1970s). I think Agatha Christie was more observant than a talkative person, and because of that she noticed things more. And I love her books have these snippets she took from her observations: it can be something she heard someone saying, or it can be something being discussed in a newspaper, some new advance in science, something she remembers her family doing when she was a child, etc.

This is also a book about a murder in the past and deals with the people’s memory (the elephants), sometimes people remember certain things, but not others, or they remember things differently. And it’s Poirot job to make sense of all this.

I didn’t re-read this one for some time now, but I remember liking it. And now that I’ve talked about what I liked about it, I’ll be re-reading it again shortly. So, tell me, did you read Elephants Can Remember? Did you like it or not? And why?

#MurderEveryMonday Cover with a Zoo animal Elephants can Remember: Is it good?

I know, I know: my choice to this #MurderEveryMonday is probably again too obvious, but it also gives me the opportunity to talk about this book. Check Kate’s blog to know more about the hashtag.

Agatha Christie was 82 years old when she wrote Elephants Can Remember. This is the last novel she wrote with Poirot as the detective and it was published in November of 1972. Poirot’s Early Cases (1974) and Curtain (1975), both published afterwords, were written in the 1920s and 1930s, for the short stories, and for the last case of Poirot in the 1940s, the book being kept unpublished in a bank vault.

Even at the time of publication, the book received some less kind reviews, with some pointing out inconsistencies about times and ages, which quite frankly could (and should) have been avoided by the editors and publisher of the book. Still, many today consider this a lesser work, but I find several reasons to like it.

The book starts with Mrs. Ariadne Oliver going to a literary luncheon. Oliver is the alter-ego of Agatha Christie: she likes apples, she is always trying hair styles, writes crime fiction, and complains about her Finn detective, lamenting inventing him, since she doesn’t know anything about Finland. It’s always a delight to have her as a character in a book. In the first chapter, Mrs. Oliver tell us about her problems with making speeches, the questions people always ask her, the letters she receives from her readers, and how she tries to deal with all of this. And I found this a delight because it seems clear we’re given a glimpse of something Christie also struggled with and knew first hand.

At that lunch, a woman asks Mrs. Oliver if she is the godmother of Celia Ravenscroft and after corroboration, the woman continues: “Did her mother kill her father or was it the father who killed the mother?”.

And I still remember, when I first read this book (which is more than I can say for so many other books), I was as puzzled as Mrs. Oliver. I mean, why would it matter if it was the father or the mother? Why would it be so important to know? But this also tell us something about the beliefs and obsessions of the people in the past (in this case, in the 1970s). I think Agatha Christie was more observant than a talkative person, and because of that she noticed things more. And I love her books have these snippets she took from her observations: it can be something she heard someone saying, or it can be something being discussed in a newspaper, some new advance in science, something she remembers her family doing when she was a child, etc.

This is also a book about a murder in the past and deals with the people’s memory (the elephants), sometimes people remember certain things, but not others, or they remember things differently. And it’s Poirot job to make sense of all this.

I didn’t re-read this one for some time now, but I remember liking it. And now that I’ve talked about what I liked about it, I’ll be re-reading it again shortly. So, tell me, did you read Elephants Can Remember? Did you like it or not? And why?

#MurderEveryMonday Cover with a Zoo animal Elephants can Remember: Is it good?

I know, I know: my choice to this #MurderEveryMonday is probably again too obvious, but it also gives me the opportunity to talk about this book. Check Kate’s blog to know more about the hashtag.

Agatha Christie was 82 years old when she wrote Elephants Can Remember. This is the last novel she wrote with Poirot as the detective and it was published in November of 1972. Poirot’s Early Cases (1974) and Curtain (1975), both published afterwords, were written in the 1920s and 1930s, for the short stories, and for the last case of Poirot in the 1940s, the book being kept unpublished in a bank vault.

Even at the time of publication, the book received some less kind reviews, with some pointing out inconsistencies about times and ages, which quite frankly could (and should) have been avoided by the editors and publisher of the book. Still, many today consider this a lesser work, but I find several reasons to like it.

The book starts with Mrs. Ariadne Oliver going to a literary luncheon. Oliver is the alter-ego of Agatha Christie: she likes apples, she is always trying hair styles, writes crime fiction, and complains about her Finn detective, lamenting inventing him, since she doesn’t know anything about Finland. It’s always a delight to have her as a character in a book. In the first chapter, Mrs. Oliver tell us about her problems with making speeches, the questions people always ask her, the letters she receives from her readers, and how she tries to deal with all of this. And I found this a delight because it seems clear we’re given a glimpse of something Christie also struggled with and knew first hand.

At that lunch, a woman asks Mrs. Oliver if she is the godmother of Celia Ravenscroft and after corroboration, the woman continues: “Did her mother kill her father or was it the father who killed the mother?”.

And I still remember, when I first read this book (which is more than I can say for so many other books), I was as puzzled as Mrs. Oliver. I mean, why would it matter if it was the father or the mother? Why would it be so important to know? But this also tell us something about the beliefs and obsessions of the people in the past (in this case, in the 1970s). I think Agatha Christie was more observant than a talkative person, and because of that she noticed things more. And I love her books have these snippets she took from her observations: it can be something she heard someone saying, or it can be something being discussed in a newspaper, some new advance in science, something she remembers her family doing when she was a child, etc.

This is also a book about a murder in the past and deals with the people’s memory (the elephants), sometimes people remember certain things, but not others, or they remember things differently. And it’s Poirot job to make sense of all this.

I didn’t re-read this one for some time now, but I remember liking it. And now that I’ve talked about what I liked about it, I’ll be re-reading it again shortly. So, tell me, did you read Elephants Can Remember? Did you like it or not? And why?

#MurderEveryMonday Cover with a Zoo animal Elephants can Remember: Is it good?

I know, I know: my choice to this #MurderEveryMonday is probably again too obvious, but it also gives me the opportunity to talk about this book. Check Kate’s blog to know more about the hashtag.

Agatha Christie was 82 years old when she wrote Elephants Can Remember. This is the last novel she wrote with Poirot as the detective and it was published in November of 1972. Poirot’s Early Cases (1974) and Curtain (1975), both published afterwords, were written in the 1920s and 1930s, for the short stories, and for the last case of Poirot in the 1940s, the book being kept unpublished in a bank vault.

Even at the time of publication, the book received some less kind reviews, with some pointing out inconsistencies about times and ages, which quite frankly could (and should) have been avoided by the editors and publisher of the book. Still, many today consider this a lesser work, but I find several reasons to like it.

The book starts with Mrs. Ariadne Oliver going to a literary luncheon. Oliver is the alter-ego of Agatha Christie: she likes apples, she is always trying hair styles, writes crime fiction, and complains about her Finn detective, lamenting inventing him, since she doesn’t know anything about Finland. It’s always a delight to have her as a character in a book. In the first chapter, Mrs. Oliver tell us about her problems with making speeches, the questions people always ask her, the letters she receives from her readers, and how she tries to deal with all of this. And I found this a delight because it seems clear we’re given a glimpse of something Christie also struggled with and knew first hand.

At that lunch, a woman asks Mrs. Oliver if she is the godmother of Celia Ravenscroft and after corroboration, the woman continues: “Did her mother kill her father or was it the father who killed the mother?”.

And I still remember, when I first read this book (which is more than I can say for so many other books), I was as puzzled as Mrs. Oliver. I mean, why would it matter if it was the father or the mother? Why would it be so important to know? But this also tell us something about the beliefs and obsessions of the people in the past (in this case, in the 1970s). I think Agatha Christie was more observant than a talkative person, and because of that she noticed things more. And I love her books have these snippets she took from her observations: it can be something she heard someone saying, or it can be something being discussed in a newspaper, some new advance in science, something she remembers her family doing when she was a child, etc.

This is also a book about a murder in the past and deals with the people’s memory (the elephants), sometimes people remember certain things, but not others, or they remember things differently. And it’s Poirot job to make sense of all this.

I didn’t re-read this one for some time now, but I remember liking it. And now that I’ve talked about what I liked about it, I’ll be re-reading it again shortly. So, tell me, did you read Elephants Can Remember? Did you like it or not? And why?

Find Your Safe Space: Gentle Support for Overwhelming Moments

https://angelblessings11.com/2026/05/05/find-your-safe-space-gentle-support-for-overwhelming-moments/

Find Your Safe Space: Gentle Support for Overwhelming Moments

https://angelblessings11.com/2026/05/05/find-your-safe-space-gentle-support-for-overwhelming-moments/

Find Your Safe Space: Gentle Support for Overwhelming Moments

https://angelblessings11.com/2026/05/05/find-your-safe-space-gentle-support-for-overwhelming-moments/

Find Your Safe Space: Gentle Support for Overwhelming Moments

https://angelblessings11.com/2026/05/05/find-your-safe-space-gentle-support-for-overwhelming-moments/

Find Your Safe Space: Gentle Support for Overwhelming Moments

https://angelblessings11.com/2026/05/05/find-your-safe-space-gentle-support-for-overwhelming-moments/

🇫🇷 L'homme en rouge de Julian Barnes

Partant du portrait de Samuel Pozzi, célèbre gynécologue et chirurgien français de la "belle époque", peint par Sargent en 1881, Julian Barnes offre un livre dense qui présente la vie parisienne de la fin du XIXème siècle jusqu'à la grande guerre.

Outre le Comte de Montesquiou, un homosexuel notoire et un des nombreux dandys, qui caractérisent l'époque qui est es omniprésent, on croise pêle-mêle Sarah Bernhardt, Flaubert, Daudet, Wilde, ... pour n'en citer que quelques-uns...

Ce n'est pas un roman mais plutôt une série de petits articles (il n'y a pas de chapitres ni de sous-titres) qui relatent des aspects de la vie de la "bonne" société à Paris à cette époque.

C'est une lecture qui m'a paru par moment assez ardue du fait qu'il n'y a pas vraiment de structure mais qui est intéressante malgré tout.

Samuel Pozzi est ce qu'on appelle un "Don Juan" et n'inspire ni sympathie, ni antipathie... En fait, il m'a laissé assez indifférent pour dire la vérité.

Une lecture à réserver à ceux que l'époque intéresse, époque qui n'avait pas grand chose de "belle" d'ailleurs, contrairement au nom donné à cette période de l'histoire de France. C'est quand même à cette période qu'a lieu l'affaire Dreyfus, les assassinats de Jaurès et de Carnot.

L'ouvrage est illustré de nombreuses reproductions de chromos "Félix Potin" que l'on trouvait dans les tablettes de chocolat et aussi de la reproduction de quelques tableaux présentant de quelques uns de ces personnages rencontrés au fil des pages.

🇬🇧 The Man in the red Coat by Julian Barnes

Starting from the portrait of Samuel Pozzi, famous French gynecologist and surgeon of the "belle époque", painted by Sargent in 1881, Julian Barnes offers a dense book which presents Parisian life from the end of the 19th century until the Great War.

Besides Pozzi, we meet a large gallery of personalities from those years and among them the Comte of Montesquiou, a notorious homosexual and a real dandy, like the many we could have meet then. Sarah Bernhardt, Flaubert, Daudet, Wilde, ... to name just a few... are also present in the book.

The Man in the red Coat is not a novel, nor a biography but a small articles (there are no chapters or subtitles) which relate aspects of the life of "good" society in Paris at that time.

I must admit, I had some difficulties sometimes to get into the book for that reason. Nevertheless, it is an interesting reading for readers interested in art, science and history.

Samuel Pozzi is what we call a "Don Juan" and inspired me neither sympathy nor antipathy... In fact, he left me indifferent indeed.

A portrait of a era in Paris, called the "Belle époque", which is already funny to call it "belle" as during this period, the Dreyfus affair took place as the assassination of Jaurès and President Carnot.

The work is illustrated with numerous reproductions of the "Félix Potin" images that could be found in chocolate bars and also with the reproduction of some paintings presenting some of the characters encountered throughout the pages.

#mardiLecture #Lectures #Readings

🇫🇷 L'homme en rouge de Julian Barnes

Partant du portrait de Samuel Pozzi, célèbre gynécologue et chirurgien français de la "belle époque", peint par Sargent en 1881, Julian Barnes offre un livre dense qui présente la vie parisienne de la fin du XIXème siècle jusqu'à la grande guerre.

Outre le Comte de Montesquiou, un homosexuel notoire et un des nombreux dandys, qui caractérisent l'époque qui est es omniprésent, on croise pêle-mêle Sarah Bernhardt, Flaubert, Daudet, Wilde, ... pour n'en citer que quelques-uns...

Ce n'est pas un roman mais plutôt une série de petits articles (il n'y a pas de chapitres ni de sous-titres) qui relatent des aspects de la vie de la "bonne" société à Paris à cette époque.

C'est une lecture qui m'a paru par moment assez ardue du fait qu'il n'y a pas vraiment de structure mais qui est intéressante malgré tout.

Samuel Pozzi est ce qu'on appelle un "Don Juan" et n'inspire ni sympathie, ni antipathie... En fait, il m'a laissé assez indifférent pour dire la vérité.

Une lecture à réserver à ceux que l'époque intéresse, époque qui n'avait pas grand chose de "belle" d'ailleurs, contrairement au nom donné à cette période de l'histoire de France. C'est quand même à cette période qu'a lieu l'affaire Dreyfus, les assassinats de Jaurès et de Carnot.

L'ouvrage est illustré de nombreuses reproductions de chromos "Félix Potin" que l'on trouvait dans les tablettes de chocolat et aussi de la reproduction de quelques tableaux présentant de quelques uns de ces personnages rencontrés au fil des pages.

🇬🇧 The Man in the red Coat by Julian Barnes

Starting from the portrait of Samuel Pozzi, famous French gynecologist and surgeon of the "belle époque", painted by Sargent in 1881, Julian Barnes offers a dense book which presents Parisian life from the end of the 19th century until the Great War.

Besides Pozzi, we meet a large gallery of personalities from those years and among them the Comte of Montesquiou, a notorious homosexual and a real dandy, like the many we could have meet then. Sarah Bernhardt, Flaubert, Daudet, Wilde, ... to name just a few... are also present in the book.

The Man in the red Coat is not a novel, nor a biography but a small articles (there are no chapters or subtitles) which relate aspects of the life of "good" society in Paris at that time.

I must admit, I had some difficulties sometimes to get into the book for that reason. Nevertheless, it is an interesting reading for readers interested in art, science and history.

Samuel Pozzi is what we call a "Don Juan" and inspired me neither sympathy nor antipathy... In fact, he left me indifferent indeed.

A portrait of a era in Paris, called the "Belle époque", which is already funny to call it "belle" as during this period, the Dreyfus affair took place as the assassination of Jaurès and President Carnot.

The work is illustrated with numerous reproductions of the "Félix Potin" images that could be found in chocolate bars and also with the reproduction of some paintings presenting some of the characters encountered throughout the pages.

#mardiLecture #Lectures #Readings

🇫🇷 L'homme en rouge de Julian Barnes

Partant du portrait de Samuel Pozzi, célèbre gynécologue et chirurgien français de la "belle époque", peint par Sargent en 1881, Julian Barnes offre un livre dense qui présente la vie parisienne de la fin du XIXème siècle jusqu'à la grande guerre.

Outre le Comte de Montesquiou, un homosexuel notoire et un des nombreux dandys, qui caractérisent l'époque qui est es omniprésent, on croise pêle-mêle Sarah Bernhardt, Flaubert, Daudet, Wilde, ... pour n'en citer que quelques-uns...

Ce n'est pas un roman mais plutôt une série de petits articles (il n'y a pas de chapitres ni de sous-titres) qui relatent des aspects de la vie de la "bonne" société à Paris à cette époque.

C'est une lecture qui m'a paru par moment assez ardue du fait qu'il n'y a pas vraiment de structure mais qui est intéressante malgré tout.

Samuel Pozzi est ce qu'on appelle un "Don Juan" et n'inspire ni sympathie, ni antipathie... En fait, il m'a laissé assez indifférent pour dire la vérité.

Une lecture à réserver à ceux que l'époque intéresse, époque qui n'avait pas grand chose de "belle" d'ailleurs, contrairement au nom donné à cette période de l'histoire de France. C'est quand même à cette période qu'a lieu l'affaire Dreyfus, les assassinats de Jaurès et de Carnot.

L'ouvrage est illustré de nombreuses reproductions de chromos "Félix Potin" que l'on trouvait dans les tablettes de chocolat et aussi de la reproduction de quelques tableaux présentant de quelques uns de ces personnages rencontrés au fil des pages.

🇬🇧 The Man in the red Coat by Julian Barnes

Starting from the portrait of Samuel Pozzi, famous French gynecologist and surgeon of the "belle époque", painted by Sargent in 1881, Julian Barnes offers a dense book which presents Parisian life from the end of the 19th century until the Great War.

Besides Pozzi, we meet a large gallery of personalities from those years and among them the Comte of Montesquiou, a notorious homosexual and a real dandy, like the many we could have meet then. Sarah Bernhardt, Flaubert, Daudet, Wilde, ... to name just a few... are also present in the book.

The Man in the red Coat is not a novel, nor a biography but a small articles (there are no chapters or subtitles) which relate aspects of the life of "good" society in Paris at that time.

I must admit, I had some difficulties sometimes to get into the book for that reason. Nevertheless, it is an interesting reading for readers interested in art, science and history.

Samuel Pozzi is what we call a "Don Juan" and inspired me neither sympathy nor antipathy... In fact, he left me indifferent indeed.

A portrait of a era in Paris, called the "Belle époque", which is already funny to call it "belle" as during this period, the Dreyfus affair took place as the assassination of Jaurès and President Carnot.

The work is illustrated with numerous reproductions of the "Félix Potin" images that could be found in chocolate bars and also with the reproduction of some paintings presenting some of the characters encountered throughout the pages.

#mardiLecture #Lectures #Readings

#MurderEveryMonday Cover with a series sleuth

For today’s #MurderEvryMonday I decided to start with Miss Marple, here with The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side and A Crime is Announced (a favorite).

Then, we continue with Lord Peter Wimsey (also a favorite). The Portuguese edition being the short story collection Lord Peter Views the Body.

And finally a depiction of Father Brown.

It’s quite interesting to see how characters are depicted in book covers and how/if they differ from our own imagination.

If you want to know more about #MurderEveryMonday check Kate Jackson’s blog, see the next themes, and share your covers using the hashtag.

#MurderEveryMonday Cover with a series sleuth

For today’s #MurderEvryMonday I decided to start with Miss Marple, here with The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side and A Crime is Announced (a favorite).

Then, we continue with Lord Peter Wimsey (also a favorite). The Portuguese edition being the short story collection Lord Peter Views the Body.

And finally a depiction of Father Brown.

It’s quite interesting to see how characters are depicted in book covers and how/if they differ from our own imagination.

If you want to know more about #MurderEveryMonday check Kate Jackson’s blog, see the next themes, and share your covers using the hashtag.

#MurderEveryMonday Cover with a series sleuth

For today’s #MurderEvryMonday I decided to start with Miss Marple, here with The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side and A Crime is Announced (a favorite).

Then, we continue with Lord Peter Wimsey (also a favorite). The Portuguese edition being the short story collection Lord Peter Views the Body.

And finally a depiction of Father Brown.

It’s quite interesting to see how characters are depicted in book covers and how/if they differ from our own imagination.

If you want to know more about #MurderEveryMonday check Kate Jackson’s blog, see the next themes, and share your covers using the hashtag.

#MurderEveryMonday Cover with a series sleuth

For today’s #MurderEvryMonday I decided to start with Miss Marple, here with The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side and A Crime is Announced (a favorite).

Then, we continue with Lord Peter Wimsey (also a favorite). The Portuguese edition being the short story collection Lord Peter Views the Body.

And finally a depiction of Father Brown.

It’s quite interesting to see how characters are depicted in book covers and how/if they differ from our own imagination.

If you want to know more about #MurderEveryMonday check Kate Jackson’s blog, see the next themes, and share your covers using the hashtag.

#MurderEveryMonday Cover with a series sleuth

For today’s #MurderEvryMonday I decided to start with Miss Marple, here with The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side and A Crime is Announced (a favorite).

Then, we continue with Lord Peter Wimsey (also a favorite). The Portuguese edition being the short story collection Lord Peter Views the Body.

And finally a depiction of Father Brown.

It’s quite interesting to see how characters are depicted in book covers and how/if they differ from our own imagination.

If you want to know more about #MurderEveryMonday check Kate Jackson’s blog, see the next themes, and share your covers using the hashtag.

#MurderEveryMonday Crime fiction cover with a village on

For today’s #MurderEveryMonday I’m sharing a cover of a book I want to read, Murder before Evensong, the first in the Canon Clement series, and a book I’ve read before (one of my 2023 favorite reads). Serpents in Eden is a short story collection with both known crime fiction authors and others less known, with extra points for the introduction by Martin Edwards. By the way, if you want to read the 1948 article The Guilty Vicarage – Notes on the detective story, by an addict by W. H. Auden, you can do so here.

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “Process of Elimination”

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-writers-voice/said-sayrafiezadeh-reads-process-of-elimination

Happy Birthday, Anthony Trollope! It’s Weekend, Let’s Read! & A New Series by Katie Lumsden

Anthony Trollope was born on this day in 1815. I’ve only read five novels and a short story collection. I’m on the fifth volume of Chronicles of Barsetshire and I’m loving it so much that my recommendation for this weekend goes for the first volume in the series.

The Warden – Read or download at Project Gutenberg, if you have a Kobo, I recommend the Standard Ebooks version. Librivox also has three versions in audiobook, if you prefer. It’s the smallest of the series and maybe not the most loved, but I do recommend starting with it.

If you like satirical dystopian, you can go for The Fixed Period, that I recommended before.

Katie Lumsden is making a new series about Trollope, after reading all the 47 novels and the first episode (10 Reasons to Read Anthony Trollope) is out now on her YouTube channel. I watched it yesterday and it was a delight. And although I didn’t read much Trollope yet, I can relate with all these reasons (just from the Barsetshire Chronicles).

Happy Birthday, Anthony Trollope! It’s Weekend, Let’s Read! & A New Series by Katie Lumsden

Anthony Trollope was born on this day in 1815. I’ve only read five novels and a short story collection. I’m on the fifth volume of Chronicles of Barsetshire and I’m loving it so much that my recommendation for this weekend goes for the first volume in the series.

The Warden – Read or download at Project Gutenberg, if you have a Kobo, I recommend the Standard Ebooks version. Librivox also has three versions in audiobook, if you prefer. It’s the smallest of the series and maybe not the most loved, but I do recommend starting with it.

If you like satirical dystopian, you can go for The Fixed Period, that I recommended before.

Katie Lumsden is making a new series about Trollope, after reading all the 47 novels and the first episode (10 Reasons to Read Anthony Trollope) is out now on her YouTube channel. I watched it yesterday and it was a delight. And although I didn’t read much Trollope yet, I can relate with all these reasons (just from the Barsetshire Chronicles).

Happy Birthday, Anthony Trollope! It’s Weekend, Let’s Read! & A New Series by Katie Lumsden

Anthony Trollope was born on this day in 1815. I’ve only read five novels and a short story collection. I’m on the fifth volume of Chronicles of Barsetshire and I’m loving it so much that my recommendation for this weekend goes for the first volume in the series.

The Warden – Read or download at Project Gutenberg, if you have a Kobo, I recommend the Standard Ebooks version. Librivox also has three versions in audiobook, if you prefer. It’s the smallest of the series and maybe not the most loved, but I do recommend starting with it.

If you like satirical dystopian, you can go for The Fixed Period, that I recommended before.

Katie Lumsden is making a new series about Trollope, after reading all the 47 novels and the first episode (10 Reasons to Read Anthony Trollope) is out now on her YouTube channel. I watched it yesterday and it was a delight. And although I didn’t read much Trollope yet, I can relate with all these reasons (just from the Barsetshire Chronicles).

Happy Birthday, Anthony Trollope! It’s Weekend, Let’s Read! & A New Series by Katie Lumsden

Anthony Trollope was born on this day in 1815. I’ve only read five novels and a short story collection. I’m on the fifth volume of Chronicles of Barsetshire and I’m loving it so much that my recommendation for this weekend goes for the first volume in the series.

The Warden – Read or download at Project Gutenberg, if you have a Kobo, I recommend the Standard Ebooks version. Librivox also has three versions in audiobook, if you prefer. It’s the smallest of the series and maybe not the most loved, but I do recommend starting with it.

If you like satirical dystopian, you can go for The Fixed Period, that I recommended before.

Katie Lumsden is making a new series about Trollope, after reading all the 47 novels and the first episode (10 Reasons to Read Anthony Trollope) is out now on her YouTube channel. I watched it yesterday and it was a delight. And although I didn’t read much Trollope yet, I can relate with all these reasons (just from the Barsetshire Chronicles).

Happy Birthday, Anthony Trollope! It’s Weekend, Let’s Read! & A New Series by Katie Lumsden

Anthony Trollope was born on this day in 1815. I’ve only read five novels and a short story collection. I’m on the fifth volume of Chronicles of Barsetshire and I’m loving it so much that my recommendation for this weekend goes for the first volume in the series.

The Warden – Read or download at Project Gutenberg, if you have a Kobo, I recommend the Standard Ebooks version. Librivox also has three versions in audiobook, if you prefer. It’s the smallest of the series and maybe not the most loved, but I do recommend starting with it.

If you like satirical dystopian, you can go for The Fixed Period, that I recommended before.

Katie Lumsden is making a new series about Trollope, after reading all the 47 novels and the first episode (10 Reasons to Read Anthony Trollope) is out now on her YouTube channel. I watched it yesterday and it was a delight. And although I didn’t read much Trollope yet, I can relate with all these reasons (just from the Barsetshire Chronicles).

Happy World Book Day 2026!

As a celebration of World Book Day, I finished creating itens in Wikidata for all the books and editions by Dean Street Press that I have by Elizabeth Fair. There’s a seventh one, but it seems it is more difficult to get.

This is also part of #EveryBookItsReader Wikimedia campaign, which I talked here before (you can still join in). I’m linking here the rest of the itens I created, so if you know more info about them, please go there and add it and/or correct if you see something wrong.

Landscape in Sunlight – The work and the edition

The Native Heath – The work and the edition

Seaview House – The work and the edition

The Mingham Air – The work and the edition

The Marble Staircase – The work and the edition

Elizabeth Fair has already a page on Wikipedia, if you want to improve it.

Happy World Book Day 2026!

As a celebration of World Book Day, I finished creating itens in Wikidata for all the books and editions by Dean Street Press that I have by Elizabeth Fair. There’s a seventh one, but it seems it is more difficult to get.

This is also part of #EveryBookItsReader Wikimedia campaign, which I talked here before (you can still join in). I’m linking here the rest of the itens I created, so if you know more info about them, please go there and add it and/or correct if you see something wrong.

Landscape in Sunlight – The work and the edition

The Native Heath – The work and the edition

Seaview House – The work and the edition

The Mingham Air – The work and the edition

The Marble Staircase – The work and the edition

Elizabeth Fair has already a page on Wikipedia, if you want to improve it.

Happy World Book Day 2026!

As a celebration of World Book Day, I finished creating itens in Wikidata for all the books and editions by Dean Street Press that I have by Elizabeth Fair. There’s a seventh one, but it seems it is more difficult to get.

This is also part of #EveryBookItsReader Wikimedia campaign, which I talked here before (you can still join in). I’m linking here the rest of the itens I created, so if you know more info about them, please go there and add it and/or correct if you see something wrong.

Landscape in Sunlight – The work and the edition

The Native Heath – The work and the edition

Seaview House – The work and the edition

The Mingham Air – The work and the edition

The Marble Staircase – The work and the edition

Elizabeth Fair has already a page on Wikipedia, if you want to improve it.

Happy World Book Day 2026!

As a celebration of World Book Day, I finished creating itens in Wikidata for all the books and editions by Dean Street Press that I have by Elizabeth Fair. There’s a seventh one, but it seems it is more difficult to get.

This is also part of #EveryBookItsReader Wikimedia campaign, which I talked here before (you can still join in). I’m linking here the rest of the itens I created, so if you know more info about them, please go there and add it and/or correct if you see something wrong.

Landscape in Sunlight – The work and the edition

The Native Heath – The work and the edition

Seaview House – The work and the edition

The Mingham Air – The work and the edition

The Marble Staircase – The work and the edition

Elizabeth Fair has already a page on Wikipedia, if you want to improve it.

Happy World Book Day 2026!

As a celebration of World Book Day, I finished creating itens in Wikidata for all the books and editions by Dean Street Press that I have by Elizabeth Fair. There’s a seventh one, but it seems it is more difficult to get.

This is also part of #EveryBookItsReader Wikimedia campaign, which I talked here before (you can still join in). I’m linking here the rest of the itens I created, so if you know more info about them, please go there and add it and/or correct if you see something wrong.

Landscape in Sunlight – The work and the edition

The Native Heath – The work and the edition

Seaview House – The work and the edition

The Mingham Air – The work and the edition

The Marble Staircase – The work and the edition

Elizabeth Fair has already a page on Wikipedia, if you want to improve it.

Thomas McGuane Reads “Ordinary Wear and Tear”

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-writers-voice/thomas-mcguane-reads-ordinary-wear-and-tear

Why Women Grow #book & #podcast by Alice Vincent

Alice Vincent goes through different places meeting different women in search of what makes them work the soil, plant seeds, and grow plants. In doing so, Vincent shares with us these women’s stories about loss and grief, but also about celebration, motherhood, power, protest, and so much more mixed with descriptions of the gardens, in a beautiful writing.

The book came out in 2023, but only recently I realised there is also a podcast with new episodes (you can also access the old ones), which I’m adding to my subscriptions. You can search for the title in your player of choice or going to Alice Vincent”s website here.

If you’re looking for a podcast player, I find AntennaPod the best one.

Why Women Grow #book & #podcast by Alice Vincent

Alice Vincent goes through different places meeting different women in search of what makes them work the soil, plant seeds, and grow plants. In doing so, Vincent shares with us these women’s stories about loss and grief, but also about celebration, motherhood, power, protest, and so much more mixed with descriptions of the gardens, in a beautiful writing.

The book came out in 2023, but only recently I realised there is also a podcast with new episodes (you can also access the old ones), which I’m adding to my subscriptions. You can search for the title in your player of choice or going to Alice Vincent”s website here.

If you’re looking for a podcast player, I find AntennaPod the best one.

Why Women Grow #book & #podcast by Alice Vincent

Alice Vincent goes through different places meeting different women in search of what makes them work the soil, plant seeds, and grow plants. In doing so, Vincent shares with us these women’s stories about loss and grief, but also about celebration, motherhood, power, protest, and so much more mixed with descriptions of the gardens, in a beautiful writing.

The book came out in 2023, but only recently I realised there is also a podcast with new episodes (you can also access the old ones), which I’m adding to my subscriptions. You can search for the title in your player of choice or going to Alice Vincent”s website here.

If you’re looking for a podcast player, I find AntennaPod the best one.

Douglas Stuart Reads “A Private View”

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-writers-voice/douglas-stuart-reads-a-private-view

Catherine Lacey Reads “Rate Your Happiness”

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-writers-voice/catherine-lacey-reads-rate-your-happiness

Poetry Reading in Honor of Sibylla Schwarz

Lettura poetica per Sibylla Schwarz

#Sibyl #poetry #readings #youtubeshorts #youtube #translation #books #graphicnovel #baroque #germanliterature #videolessons

https://youtube.com/watch?v=sffsU8ljenc&is=GAufgLkDvYK2bQMD

Poetry Reading in Honor of Sibylla Schwarz

Lettura poetica per Sibylla Schwarz

#Sibyl #poetry #readings #youtubeshorts #youtube #translation #books #graphicnovel #baroque #germanliterature #videolessons

https://youtube.com/watch?v=sffsU8ljenc&is=GAufgLkDvYK2bQMD

Poetry Reading in Honor of Sibylla Schwarz

Lettura poetica per Sibylla Schwarz

#Sibyl #poetry #readings #youtubeshorts #youtube #translation #books #graphicnovel #baroque #germanliterature #videolessons

https://youtube.com/watch?v=sffsU8ljenc&is=GAufgLkDvYK2bQMD

Poetry Reading in Honor of Sibylla Schwarz

Lettura poetica per Sibylla Schwarz

#Sibyl #poetry #readings #youtubeshorts #youtube #translation #books #graphicnovel #baroque #germanliterature #videolessons

https://youtube.com/watch?v=sffsU8ljenc&is=GAufgLkDvYK2bQMD