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A Classic Book Reading List: 101 Timeless Masterpieces You Must Read Before You Die by Legacy Creative Press, 2025

With bite-sized summaries and just enough info, you’ll know exactly which classics are right for you—no sweat!

101 Must-Reads, Made Easy: This isn’t a dense academic textbook—it’s a fun, approachable list to help you explore the classics at your own pace.

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“Aeneas helps historians interpret, attribute and restore fragmentary Latin texts,” said Dr Thea Sommerschield, a historian at the University of Nottingham. “That’s the grand challenge that we set out to tackle.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jul/23/google-ai-tool-roman-inscriptions-aeneas

Dune by Frank Herbert

Very good right up until the end, where it felt like Frank suddenly realized he had to actually finish the book. Definitely worth the read though.

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Classics librarian job: The University of Cincinnati Libraries seek to fill the position of Head of the John Miller Burnam Classics Library. The Head of the Classics Library provides services to the internationally recognized Classics Department, researchers, faculty, and students. The successful candidate for this tenure track position will continue to enhance the library’s reputation as a world-class, top-ranking research library for Classics scholars at UC and globally.

(On a personal note, I can vouch that this is one of the top Classics libraries in the US. It has an individual endowment that has enabled it to maintain a vigorous acquisition policy in an era of library funding cuts.)

More information at the link below.
https://jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinnati-Head-of-the-John-Miller-Burnam%2C-UCL-Classics-Librarian-OH-45201/1281640300/

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"The legendary arcade and family entertainment brand Chuck E. Cheese has just announced that it has launched a new set of arcades across the US geared specifically towards adults."
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https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/07/iconic-arcade-chain-chuck-e-cheese-launches-new-locations-aimed-at-nostalgic-adults

This is a series of stories based on a famous real-life judge in China during the Song dynasty. It was written centuries ago, and one of the defining memories of my childhood is my dad giving me these very books to read. It has pictures but also Chinese and English writing. Rereading them and am amused by the fact that as a kid, I was reading about tortures, poisonings and how every story's "happy" ending ends with a decapitation of a bad guy. We Chinese kids have quite a morbid and grim diet for bedtime stories, looks like

In that sense, I think we have something in common with the Germans

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#TheGreatDictator is an anti-Nazi satire. It's also 85 years old and as relevant as ever. #review #movies #Classics
https://oldaintdead.com/the-great-dictator-1940-charlie-chaplins-first-talkie/