I had to choose these for today's #MurderEveryMonday title with a word denoting finality.
The Portuguese title is an expression used at the end of a theatrical play meaning the curtain drops (although a literal translation would be the cloth drops). The cover uses a Magritte painting and a drawing of Poirot. It seems depicting Albert Finney as Poirot from the 1974 film The Murder in the Orient Express, but I can't be sure. What do you think?
I bought the English edition second hand many years ago and it came with two newspaper clips, there's a date by hand, but no indication of the newspapers titles.
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It's weekend, books you can read for free right now:

If you want to do #JaneAustenJuly, but don't/can't have the books, here are the links to the ebooks thanks to @gutenberg_org

https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/2024/07/09/janeaustenjuly-reading-jane-austen-by-publication-date-with-links-to-the-ebooks-thanks-to-project-gutenberg/

For today's #MurderEveryMonday (facial hair)

• More or less at the same time #colecçãovampiro there was another collection of crime fiction in Portugal called #ColecçãoXIS and now and then they would published some numbers as anthologies of short stories
• While searching for moustaches I found this three books with similar covers. It seems Biggers books were made into movies with Warner Oland as Charlie Chan (depicted in the covers)
• Finally, a facsimile of a Poirot (because that's the first I thought of when knowing about today's theme)

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Were you hoping to see @emilymbender in conversation with @Kobotic in Melbs at #RMIT courtesy of #Readings but they were sold out?

Good news, they've moved to Storey Hall which is 4 x the capacity.

Get your tix

#StochasticParrots #LLMs #BenderRule

https://www.readings.com.au/events/emily-m-bender-and-kobi-leins-discuss-ai

It’s Friday, Let’s Read: Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome follows three friends (and their dog) in a boating trip on the Thames, full of adventures and misadventures and much humour. If you need a lighthearted, funny reading, it’s this one.

You can read it right now whatever the device you’re using by downloading the book at Project Gutenberg.

#ilovefs Thank you Calibre

e-book management and reader: https://calibre-ebook.com/

Open Mic Night
sponsored by SFWA
October 26th at 11am
https://events.sfwa.org/upcoming-events/

Featuring Horror Poet Sumiko Saulson
Hosted by Wendy Van Camp

Sumiko Saulson is the Elgin Award and Bram Stoker Nominated author of The Rat King: A Book of Dark Poetry. Their novel Somnalia: The Metamorphoses of Flynn Keahi is available on Mocha Memoirs Press, and their latest book of verse, Melancholia: A Book of Dark Poetry is out on Bludgeoned Girls Press.

I've finished #reading Alfie, a French #scifi #thriller novel about the #ai of an home automation system.

https://zedas.fr/posts/alfie/

#books @bookstodon #readings @scifi

I think this use is a different reading of "actually" than the normal one: "Was the Titanic actually unsinkable?" #semantics #readings #actually #linguistics
https://aus.social/@MattHatton/111023009098077003

Question to lecturers: Have you ever decided to include a text of yours? If so, how did you handle it in class to foster productive & critical discussions? I've never done it but considering it for the 1st time as one of my co-authored papers is a perfect fit for the syllabus