J’ai adoré jouer mon nouveau projet de reprises de classiques de jazz à la guitare dimanche, pour "Autumn Leaves" ou "Les feuilles mortes", je me suis amusé à intégrer plusieurs styles de guitare différents avec une première partie ou j'imite une contrebasse ;-) #jazz #guitar #classics #live #music https://youtu.be/UQlwyxLbOKU?feature=shared
Review - Carmilla, by J. Sheridan Le Fanu: I read this mostly to better appreciate modern retellings, when I get round to reading them! But it has a lot of atmosphere, and was a quick read. Rating: 3/5 ("liked it").
Full review: https://breathesbooks.com/2025/05/12/review-carmilla/
How the Ancient Greeks Invented the First Computer: An Introduction to the Antikythera Mechanism (Circa 87 BC) | Open Culture #archeology #classics
https://www.openculture.com/2023/07/how-the-ancient-greeks-invented-the-first-computer.html
and here a classic of the authentic #Ska that never should be missing of any collection, it has many covers but nothing like this original version... 
Day 6 novel #book scene.
The stone Drapano bridge built 1813 and almost 690 m long, #Argostoli, #Kefalonia #Greece. Catching a glimpse of #loggerhead #turtles is not an uncommon sight.
"Rome will exist as long as the Colosseum does." - Venerable Bede
Based on a photo from a trip to Rome many years back.
Find out about prints here:
Etsy (US,UK,IE): https://marktisdaleart.etsy.com/listing/1749955658/ancient-rome-print-colosseum-wall-art
Pixels (most locations, added options): https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/colosseum-ruins-rome-art-mark-tisdale.html?product=art-print
"Stairway to Heaven" - Heart 
I see a lot of talk about #oligarchy (as, recently, Monbiot), and am reminded yet again of Herodotus' so-called "Debate on the Constitutions", whereby in a three-way shootout between monarchy, oligarchy and democracy, it will come down to a fight between #monarchy and #democracy. In this account, oligarchy will always reduce to monarchy (=tyranny).
'A treat for the international army of Janeites.'
Later this month, the illustrator Isabel Greenberg teams up with expert Janine Barchas to give us The Novel Life of Jane Austen:
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/janine-barchas/the-novel-life-of-jane-austen
#books #reading #writing #comics #classics #austen #JaneAusten #bookstodon @bookstodon
I've started a cool online short story club as an antidote traditional in-person book clubs that make members read books that are too long, too expensive, and just not worth the effort.
The first selection: "The Bishop" by Anton Chekhov, the father of the modern short story. Please join us!
#shortstories #fiction #literature #reading #classics
https://jansplaining.substack.com/p/chekhovs-great-short-story-the-bishop
#GeoffreyChaucer fans, #medievalists , #EnglishLanguage and #linguists
Around 10 years ago, a Geoffrey Chaucer parody account on ye olde Twitter (Chaucer Doth Tweet) promoted “Whan That Aprille Day” on April 1st (but it perhaps should be 17th?)
“On the first daye of Aprille, lat us make tyme to take joye yn alle langages that are yclept ‘old,’ or ‘middel,’ or ‘auncient,’ or ‘archaic,’ or, alas, even ‘dead.’ ...
Yn thys celebracioun we shal reade of oold bokes yn sondrye oold tonges. We shal singe olde songes. We shal playe olde playes. Eny oold tonge will do, and eny maner of readinge. All are welcome. We shal make merrye yn the magical dreamscape of 'social media,' and eke, yf ye kan do yt, yn the 'real worlde' too. ... ”
https://houseoffame.blogspot.com/2015/03/maken-melodye-on-whan-that-aprille-day.html?m=1
#WhanThatAprilleDay 2025 anyone?
I just acquired the Penguin Little Black Classics Boxed set. It's truly beautiful. I'm planing to read one or two of these a week and will be making a lot of posts about these in the near future.
… turns out the French novelist Victor Hugo was also a talented artist.
An exhibition of his drawings opens today at London's Royal Academy:
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/start-here-victor-hugo
#books #reading #writing #novels #classics #art #bookstodon @bookstodon
Here's the 'wisest' and 'most just' centaur & mythological creator of surgery and medicine teaching lil Achilles (of 'oops my ankle' fame) how to... shoot a bow and arrow ... 
Learn more about the #myths of Chiron (the #constellation #Centaurus) & how we'd retell them in our latest #podcast episode here: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/centaurus-myths-and-retconstellations/
Favorite quotes from favorite books,
"Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway."
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
@bookstodon@a.gup.pe @bookstodon@fedigroups.social #books #classics #writingcommunity #amreading
When the Richest Man in the World Loves #Classics
"Musk’s posts about #antiquity do not overtly engage in hate speech but they tread the same ideological paths as #fascism."
#musk #history #LogicalFallacies
https://pharos.vassarspaces.net/2025/01/31/elon-musk-nazi-salute-classics-roman-empire-latin/
'If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.'
Miriam Balanescu on how Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa captured an era of collapse in The Leopard:
#books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #classics #bookstodon @bookstodon
Acclaim is back!
Acclaim Is Coming Back As Game Publisher Focused On Reviving Classic Franchises
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