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amberage , to histodons
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and fediverse, help me out here, please.

A while ago, I saw a comment somewhere (not necessarily fedi) that boiled down roughly to this:

"The British aristocracy made their (edit: male) servants recognisable as such by dressing them in formal clothes, but in mismatched combinations (i.e. tailcoat with a black bowtie, long tie with a wing collar)."

This was (roughly speaking and to the best of my knowledge) about the Victorian through Edwardian and early Modern periods, i.e. when formalwear as we know it (morning coat, tailcoat, etc.) already existed in roughly the form we know it.

I can't find that comment anymore, and I don't expect I ever will, but it would be fascinating to read more about this subject, very specific and niche as it is. I've tried googling around for it (i.e. "historical british servant dress codes"), but found very little.

If anyone has some reading material on that (preferably online or books buyable online, if not I'll have to see if my library can get foreign (english) literature), I would be super grateful for any links or the likes.

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negative12dollarbill ,
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@amberage @histodons

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Schnuckster , to bookstodon
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Bit tired and bored, so I'll probably just carry on with Islands in the Stream, then have an early night. I can see why Hemingway ditched this one, but at least the first part must've been good practice for The Old Man and the Sea. @bookstodon 📖

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@Schnuckster @bookstodon Did he "ditch" it?

Da_Gut , to bookstodon
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Dracula Daily?
While browsing my local library's online items, I stumbled on this. I had never heard of Dracula daily - did anyone participate? What did you think? I expect it will take place this year..

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Let's read Dracula together! We'll start on May 3rd and each day, read only what happens to the characters on that day. Sound good? Let’s go. Bram Stoker’s Dracula is an epistolary novel—it’s made up of letters, diaries, telegrams, newspaper clippings—and every part of it has a date. The whole story happens between May 3rd and November 6th. Dracula Daily, however, is a lightly remixed adaptation. I've rearranged Dracula to be strictly chronological, divided into days, so we can get all the characters experiences as the story happens. It was originally started in 2021 as an email newsletter. You sign up at draculadaily.com and get an email each day that something happens to the characters in the same timeline that it happens to them. Some days theres a lot of activity, some days just a few sentences, and many days nothing at all. You only get an email when there’s action taking place in Dracula. But this book is a handy way to get the same experience on paper. You can read along with Jonathan and Mina and Jack and the crew in ‘real time; using the innovative technology of a ribbon bookmark. Start on May 3rd. Stop when you get to the end of that day. Place your bookmark there, and pick up the book again on May 4th. Voila! The stretched-out reading cadence of Dracula Daily—some days with only a few paragraphs, some days a whole <...> You'll feel the distances and durations the characters traverse. Fair warning: you'll need to set aside a lot of time for October 3rd.

negative12dollarbill ,
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@Da_Gut @bookstodon
I signed up for the emails, but to be honest after a while I stopped reading them. I think the community/commentary thing will be interesting.

But in the end, what does it matter that the dates in the original novel get matched to dates in 2024? It's a nice gimmick, that's all.

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@Da_Gut @bookstodon
There will be gaps in the reading because there are gaps in the book, then tons of stuff to read in one day?

Also I'm in Australia so it's not like the weather will match up, like the characters will be huddled over a fire in the cold in January but I'll be on the beach.

KitMuse , to bookstodon
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I need your help . One of the classes I'm taking at the graduate level this semester is Religion & Science Fiction. I read more fantasy, and would like to do my research paper on something that's not obvious (like ST/BS5/Matrix/etc.) & I'd love to use more modern sf rather than the golden age classics.

Anyone have any interesting ideas for my research paper on regarding the intersection of religion and science fiction?

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negative12dollarbill ,
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@KitMuse @bookstodon Bit late but this book set in India has some interesting religious themes:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_of_Gods

TheCozyCat , to bookstodon
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Halfway through by and I am pleasantly surprised how much I enjoy it! Haven't even gotten to the romance yet and the story alone has completely pulled me in and the characters are so endearing 🥰. I think I'm slowly starting to expand on the genres I enjoy. I'm excited to have found another author I think I'll easily return to again and again.

Has anyone else read Legends & Lattes? 🥰

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@TheCozyCat @bookstodon
I really enjoyed it too.

I'd stayed away because I thought it would be a) too cute and b) a Pratchett pastiche but it was neither. I really liked the … I want to say "competence porn" of it all. A story about good people who were good at their jobs.

DocCarms , (edited ) to bookstodon
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There was a poll that stated—Rowling’s opening line in the HP series is one of best in the world. Someone posted about how there are a bunch of other opening statements that are better.

Here’s one of my personal favorites, from Gabriel Garcia Marquez (in English):
“It is inevitable — the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.”

What are some of your favorite opening lines in literature? 😊
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@DocCarms @bookstodon
This article is great. It's neither a first line nor a novel, but it argues for one single comma being the author's "favorite comma in all of literature".

https://medium.com/@penguinrandomus/shirley-jacksons-sublime-first-paragraph-in-hill-house-annotated-14834632fc61

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@Kay @Montaagge @bookstodon

Surely if they read all the books in a row then all the books had been published already?

negative12dollarbill ,
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@shaedrich @Montaagge @bookstodon I think you're missing the point a little? If you want kids to eat fruit and they love only one type — they will only eat mangoes when they're in season — your kids eat less fruit overall.

ronsboy67 , to bookstodon
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A question prompted by "Crime Wave at Blandings", the first story in "Lord Emsworth and Others, which I currently . PGW has Lord Emsworth saying "dooce" a lot. In my quasi-literate ignorance, that seems like an Americanism, the sort of thing PGW might have picked from living there. Would a very English Earl of the era have said "deuce" as "dooce" , or would he have been more like to say /djuːs/ ? @bookstodon

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@ronsboy67 @bookstodon
Are you reading an American edition perhaps? Maybe someone has a U.K. edition and can compare?

ChrisMayLA6 , to bookstodon
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Meanwhile in ..... having been subjected to a infestation & a problem in the , now the organisers are picking a fight with Paris' riverside stalls that they want to absent themselves from the banks while the opening ceremony as their stock boxes are apparently a security risk...

How this will play out for the Paris mayor & Olympics management remains to be seen

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@riggbeck @ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon
Last I checked, Montreal still had a tax on the books which they added in 1976 for their Olympics.

Bibliothecarmen , to bookstodon German
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Somehow I missed this trend: When did trivial medical romance become trivial romance?

Dieser Trend ist irgendwie an mir vorbeigegangen: Wann wurde aus dem trivialen Arztroman der triviale :in-Roman?

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@SemAntiKast @Bibliothecarmen @bookstodon
https://www.pulpinternational.com/pulp/entry/Vintage-cover-of-Nympho-Librarian-painted-by-Paul-Rader.html

evanpeterjones , to bookstodon
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Dan Brown only sucks if you're more pretentious about his books than his books are, lol. They're just corny and fun little adventures and I'm convinced it's just jealous authors who drive the Dan Brown hate.

Not every book has to drive you into an existential crisis to be enjoyable.

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@CommonMugwort @evanpeterjones @bookstodon

If you haven't read this, check it out—Brown's writing is bad at the sentence level … and the subclause level and the word level.

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000844.html

ramblingreaders , to bookstodon
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Do you know there's a alternative to Amazon-owned ? is a social network for tracking your reading, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next. You can follow and interact with users on different instances and on . You can import from a Goodreads CSV export. You can create private shelves and curated lists. Join us at https://ramblingreaders.org or choose one of the other instances available @bookstodon

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@ramblingreaders @danialbehzadi @bookstodon
This is correct.

There aren't only two kinds of software, fully open source vs. proprietary.

So to say “it's not open-source therefore it's proprietary” is like saying a crocodile is an insect because it's not a mammal. It's a category error.

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