📘 #LiteraryFunFact: The Oxford English Dictionary was built by volunteers—thousands mailed in word examples on slips of paper for decades.
The first edition took over 70 years to complete!
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📘 #LiteraryFunFact: The word “robot” was coined in 1920 by Czech writer Karel Čapek in 𝘙.𝘜.𝘙., from robota meaning “forced labor.”
It didn’t take long for fiction to make them self-aware. 🤖
#BooksOnBsky #ScienceFiction #ReadersOfBsky #LiteraryFunFact
📘 #LiteraryFunFact: The first “cliffhanger” came from Thomas Hardy’s 𝘈 𝘗𝘢𝘪𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘌𝘺𝘦𝘴 (1873), where the hero literally hangs from a cliff.
Some endings just grab you. 😉
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📘 #LiteraryFunFact: “The Raven” (1845) made Edgar Allan Poe famous overnight—yet he was paid only $9 to $15.
Fame came swiftly, fortune nevermore.
#Poe #TheRaven #BooksOnBsky #ClassicLiterature #WritersLife
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📘 #LiteraryFunFact: Sense and Sensibility (1811) was published anonymously as “By a Lady.”
Jane Austen’s words introduced her long before her name did.
#JaneAusten #ClassicLiterature #BooksOnBsky #WomenWriters
📘 #LiteraryFunFact: Proust’s In Search of Lost Time holds the Guinness World Record for longest novel—over 1.2 million words in seven volumes. 🕰️
It’s the ultimate literary marathon.
#Proust #BooksOnBsky #ClassicLiterature #ReadersOfBsky #EpicReads
📘 Fun fact: In 1935, Penguin Books launched sixpenny paperbacks—affordable, sturdy editions sold in places like train stations and Woolworths.
They put literature in everyone’s hands and changed publishing forever.
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📘 Fun fact: Dr. Seuss wrote Green Eggs and Ham using only 50 unique words—after a bet with his publisher.
That playful restriction gave us one of the best-selling children’s books of all time.
#BooksOnBsky #DrSeuss #GreenEggsAndHam #ChildrensBooks #LiteraryFunFact
📘 #LiteraryFunFact: Shakespeare coined or popularized about 1,700 words in English.
Think of everyday gems like eyeball, cold-blooded, or in a pickle. His creativity expanded the language in ways we still feel today.
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#LiteraryFunFact: Over 1,000 years ago, Murasaki Shikibu wrote The Tale of Genji, often considered the world’s 1st novel.
Though the original manuscript is gone, her story survives in many copies. In Japan, she’s revered as highly as Shakespeare is in the West.
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This book was really well written! Covers aside, this series is great! #books #booksonbsky #booksonbluesky #readingaddiction #jeanjohnson #sonsofdestiny
Book 4 was really good! #jeanjohnson #books #reading #addictedtoreading #booksonbsky #bookreview #sonsofdestiny
Finally received and read the first book in the series. It did not disappoint! I loved it! Now onward to the 3rd book! #jeanjohnson #books #addictedtoreading #sonsofdestiny #booksonbsky #booksonbluesky
I ordered a whole series of 9 books. I had the 2nd one and ordered the rest on the same day that I read the 2nd one. Wouldn't you know it, book 1 in the series, is the last to arrive?... sigh #addictedtoreading #usedbooks #books #reading #booksonbsky #booksonbluesky
My vacation reading list (a short prep course for 2025, with a side of gossip 😁)
- On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- Bound For The Promised Land by Kate Larson
- Capote's Women by Laurence Leamer
- Fight Like A Mother by Shannon Watts
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