LOL! Boooooooks

[Innula Zenovka]

Via Brian Klaas, Tutivillus, the typo demon and the original of the language police

Tutivillus Is Watching You - JSTOR Daily

For medieval scribes, mistakes couldn’t be easily shrugged off, as Tutivillus, the stickler demon, was always looking over their shoulders.

daily.jstor.org

My Old Nemesis Titivillus - Lost Art Press

Back in 2016 while working on blog posts about the woodworkers depicted in misericords I encountered a devilish creature holding a scroll of paper. At the

blog.lostartpress.com

https://homepages.uc.edu/~martinj/Mediaeval%20Logic%20&%20Philosophy/Misc%20Texts%20and%20Secondary%20Sources/Jennings%20-%20The%20Literary%20Career%20of%20the%20Recording%20Demon.pdf

 

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Somehow, naming it Tutivillis seems appropriate. Titivillus on the other hand...

 

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The next installment of Martha Well's Murderbot series comes out on May 5th (take that, Star Wars!).

Platform Decay

torpublishinggroup.com

Wells says she has another book on contract for Murderbot, and that may be the last one.

One of sci-fi’s best modern series may be coming to an end

Murderbot may have run its course, as Martha Wells shares that the next book may be the last

www.polygon.com

 

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Proving it's all about the racism.

Tennessee schools bans Pulitzer Prize-winning book 'Roots'

One of the most renowned novels in Black American culture — Alex Haley’s Roots: The Saga of an American Family — has been banned from school libraries in the Tennessee county of Knox. Published in 1976, a New York Times bestseller and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the title is one of 11 that...

www.alternet.org

 

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Jane Yolen, Author of 450 Books Including The Devil's Arithmetic, Dies at 87

Prolific author Jane Yolen died in Hatfield, Mass., on Thursday, June 11. She was 87.

Yolen's daughter, Heidi Stemple, announced in an Instagram post on June 11 that the author had died. "Please know that she passed gently with no pain or stress," Stemple wrote.

The author, known for her work in children's literature, began her career in 1963 with Pirates in Petticoats. From that point on, she would go on to write and publish 450 books. Her final book, Terror Birds, is set to be released posthumously on July 14.

I must have read a lot of Yolen's work early in my life, especially as I worked my way through the children's section of my local library. But I bypassed her fantasy work.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Financial Times Classicist Emily Wilson: ‘Odysseus is a different kind of conman’ (Evernote link because paywall)

The acclaimed translator who helped to inspire Christopher Nolan’s new film on the resonance of Homer’s epics — and which Greek hero Donald Trump most resembles

 

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I know Hamlet is a play, but I didn't perform it. I read it . So it goes here.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

The moral of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is don't visit your college friends and get involved in their family drama.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Tell me you've never played a Zelda game without telling me you've never played a Zelda game.

 

[Khamon]

Tell me you've never played a Zelda game without telling me you've never played a Zelda game.

Yeah but it would be funnier to the older older crowd if it said "rabbit."

 

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"Today is August 4, 2026."

 

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Boomers Can’t Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop Books

Parents are getting fed up with garbled bedtime stories that feature characters based on actual photos of their children.

www.wired.com

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

The only problem is that people near the Ringbearer Chicken might still feel the lure of the Ring. And being a chicken, it would be easy to take the Ring from the Chicken.