After weeks of waiting I got "Under a Pannonian Sky" today and immediately started reading and could barely stop. It's a superb anthology of Hungarian poetry (by women), edited by @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social :

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JM Synge’s The Aran Islands is a rare example of a Penguin Classic whose introduction (by Tim Robinson) is also deserving of Penguin Classics status, in which case perhaps it warrants an introduction of its own, which ideally could become a Penguin Classic in its own right too, and so on and so on.

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My favourite sentence today or perhaps even this year: “The audiobook is set to publish on the 27th April 2027, to line up with the US publication.” It certainly beats “you are considered to be at risk of redundancy.” #Letters

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Fun thing! I'm looking at a copy of a book of summaries of Aristotle’s natural philosophy (Naturalis totius philosophiae paraphrases (1538)), and the book has a semi-circle mirror set into the backboard. Has any one seen this elsewhere? What's going on? A device to connect up with the Aristotle?

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