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rockislandadultreads · 6 months

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Libby Spotlight: New eAudiobook Additions

A Holly Jolly Ever After by Julie Murphy & Sierra Simone (read by Chris Brinkley)

Kallum Liebermanis the funny one. As the arguably lesser of the three former members of the boy band INK, he enjoyed his fifteen minutes of fame and then moved home where he opened a regional pizza chain called Slice, Slice, Baby! He’s living his best dad bod life, hooking up with bridesmaids at all his friends’ weddings. But after an old one-off sex tape is leaked and quickly goes viral, Kallum decides he’s ready to step into the spotlight again, starring in a sexy Santa biopic for the Hope Channel.

Winnie Baker did everything right. She married her childhood sweetheart, avoided the downfalls of adolescent stardom, and transitioned into a stable adult acting career. Hell, she even waited until marriage to have sex. But after her perfect life falls apart, Winnie is ready to redefine herself—and what better way than a steamier-than-a-steaming-hot-mug-of-cider Christmas movie?

With decade old Hollywood history between them, Winnie and Kallum are both feeling hesitant about their new situation as costars…especially Winnie who can’t seem to fake on screen pleasure she’s never experienced in real life. She’s willing to do the pleasure research—for science and artistic authenticity, of course. And there’s no better research partner than her bridesmaid sex tape hall of fame costar, Kallum. But suddenly, Kallum’s teenage crush on Winnie is bubbling to the surface and Winnie might be catching feelings herself. They say opposites attract, but is this holly jolly ever after really ready for its close-up?

This is the second volume of the "A Christmas Notch" series.

Hercule Poirot's Silent Night by Sophie Hannah (read by Julian Rhind-Tutt)

It’s 19 December 1931. Hercule Poirot and Inspector Edward Catchpool are called to investigate the murder of a man in the apparent safe haven of a Norfolk hospital ward. Catchpool’s mother, the irrepressible Cynthia, insists that Poirot stays in a crumbling mansion by the coast, so that they can all be together for the festive period while Poirot solves the case. Cynthia’s friend Arnold is soon to be admitted to that same hospital and his wife is convinced he will be the killer’s next victim, though she refuses to explain why.

Poirot has less than a week to solve the crime and prevent more murders, if he is to escape from this nightmare scenario and get home in time for Christmas. Meanwhile, someone else – someone utterly ruthless – also has ideas about what ought to happen to Hercule Poirot . . .

This is the fifth volume of the "New Hercule Poirot Mysteries" series.

In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren (read by Patti Murin)

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…but not for Maelyn Jones. She’s living with her parents, hates her going-nowhere job, and has just made a romantic error of epic proportions.

But perhaps worst of all, this is the last Christmas Mae will be at her favorite place in the world—the snowy Utah cabin where she and her family have spent every holiday since she was born, along with two other beloved families. Mentally melting down as she drives away from the cabin for the final time, Mae throws out what she thinks is a simple plea to the universe: Please. Show me what will make me happy.

The next thing she knows, tires screech and metal collides, everything goes black. But when Mae gasps awake…she’s on an airplane bound for Utah, where she begins the same holiday all over again. With one hilarious disaster after another sending her back to the plane, Mae must figure out how to break free of the strange time loop—and finally get her true love under the mistletoe.

Maybe Next Time by Cesca Major (read by Clare Corbett)

It is an ordinary Monday and harried London literary agent Emma is flying out of the door as usual. Preoccupied with work and her ever growing to-do list, she fails to notice her lovely husband Dan seems bereft, her son can barely meet her eye, and her daughter won’t go near her. Even the dog seems sad.

She is far too busy, buried deep in her phone; social media alerts pinging; clients messaging with “emergencies”; keeping track of a dozen WhatsApp groups about the kids’ sports, school, playdates, all of it. Her whole day is frantic—what else is new—and as she rushes back through the door for dinner, Dan is still upset. They fight, and he walks out, desolate, dragging their poor dog around the block. Just as she realizes it is their anniversary and she has forgotten, again, she hears the screech of brakes.

Dan is dead.

The next day Emma wakes up… and Dan is alive. And it’s Monday again. And again. And again.

Emma tries desperately to change the course of fate by doing different things each time she wakes up: leaving WhatsApp, telling her boss where to get off, writing to Dan, listening to her kids, reaching out to forgotten friends, getting drunk and buying out Prada. But will Emma have the chance to find herself again, remember what she likes about her job, reconnect with her children, love her husband? Will this be enough to change the fate they seem destined for?

#audio fiction #audiobooks #libby #library resources #reading recommendations #reading recs #book recommendations #book recs #library books #tbr #tbr pile #to read #booklr #book tumblr #book blog #library blog #readers advisory

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An Early History of Detective Fiction (Part 3)

Agatha Christie ‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’

While it is true to say that Agatha Christie never approached her work from a feminist viewpoint, or indeed never seemed to ‘buy in’ to the feminist doctrine, her mark on the canon of detective fiction cannot be understated.

Again, the historical context of the release of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, and its subsequent reception can be considered as important to an understanding of the text, and the conventions of detective fiction in this era. The novel also constituted a remarkable break in form and convention, which I’ll look at in due course.

Between Collins and Christie, there is a tremendous leap forward both in time and the conventions of the genre. This was what Julian Symons calls ‘The First Golden Age[i]’, which was dominated, as in the late Victorian era, by the short story, and by male authors such as GK Chesterton and R Austin Freeman.

From this point we can chart the rise of the novel as opposed to dependence on the short story, which can be attributed, as with the Victorian sensation novels, with a rise in availability of literary works to the masses, and with the time available to read them. Says Symons

‘The emancipation of women, which took place during the [First World] War played a large part in the creation of a new structure in domestic life, particularly in Europe, through which women had more leisure, and many of them used it to read books’.[ii]

Christie’s first novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) was published at just the right time to capitalise on the availability of this demographic. It was also the first novel to feature her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. In his fastidiousness, he was neither a Dupin nor a Cuff. But Martin Priestman, in Crime Fiction: From Poe to the Present (2013), notes that ‘while traditional British attitudes could be relied on to regard a French accent as inherently absurd, the role of the gallant little Belgium in the recent Great War added a more positive element.’ [iii]

It can be considered that Christie’s career continued without much distinction until the appearance of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd in 1926. She was one of a group of detective story writers publishing books at this time, all based around the same conventions, notably Dorothy L Sayers with her Lord Peter Wimsey stories, and Anthony Berkeley with his Roger Sheringham tales.

The mystery writer and Catholic priest Ronald Knox even went so far as to devise a list of ‘ten detective story’ commandments in the early part of the twentieth century, which writers of detective fiction should follow as an informal framework to protect the ‘purity’ of the genre. Among these were the commands ‘no accident should ever help the detective’ and ‘The stupid friend of the detective, the Watson, must not conceal any thoughts which pass through his mind.’ With The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie tore straight through the fabric of this convention, and set a new standard for innovation in the genre.

The beauty of the moment of revelation in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is that it is entirely unexpected and really set a template for writers to be unconstrained in terms of structure, and of form. Readers up to this point felt familiar with the detective novel format – the country setting, the consulting detective, the locked room mystery, the conservativeness of the characters. The reader above all trusts the man of position, the doctor who is narrating our tale, and has earned his position of trust via his positioning as an agent of good in his profession. As Martin Priestman says

‘The ‘least-likely’ game took a step forward which, for some critics, threatened the whole basis of the genre by breaking one of its cardinal rules: that the narration itself should be free of suspicion.’[iv]

Christie is very careful – at no point does Dr Sheppard lie to the reader. The reader, with perhaps an overfamiliarity with detective story conventions, such as those laid out by Knox, are taken in completely.

In her introduction to the set text edition of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, the writer Laura Thompson states that Christie detractors, those seeking to diminish the powers of her innovation are missing the point entirely. It is her very simplicity that makes these moments so devastatingly impactful.

‘For they fail to grasp the essential point about Christie’s simplicity, which is that it is entirely intentional, and indeed as deceptive as the narrator of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

Dr Sheppard never outrightly lies in his narrative, but he leaves us certain trails of breadcrumbs as clues, which are the parts we instantly reread once we’ve learned the secret to see how the facts of the case passed us by completely, particularly this passage

‘The letter had been brought in at twenty minutes to nine when I left him [Ackroyd], the letter still unread.’[v]

The evidence is in plain sight, now we know the secret, but this was a work of such originality at the time that it would never have occurred to us to pursue the thread.

Conclusion

Although I stated at the beginning of this essay that I was going to have to be careful not to recite a full history of the development of the detective novel in the English language, it has been necessary to provide a decent amount of historical context to highlight the achievements of each writer I have explored. With Edgar Allen Poe, I had to look at the ways he had innovated, by comparing his achievements with what had gone before – including the examples of Oedipus the King and John Godwin’s Caleb Williams. The detective force was in its infancy when Poe was writing, and he deserves credit for working largely blind of what the force would be capable of and what the police would bring to the table in terms of skills and direction, which seemingly wasn’t much, judging by the way police investigation in The Murders in the Rue Morgue is floundering until Dupin involves himself in it

The bumbling official force is something that was a common thread from Poe, through the local inspector in The Moonstone, and the local police in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

An area where the texts differ is in their engagement with social issues of the day. Collins is by far the most socially engaged of the three writers I’ve explored. At least directly. He infuses The Moonstone with issues of Empire (represented by the three Brahmin), with an exploration of class difference (the storyline between Franklin Blake and the unrequited Rosanna Spearman) and even feminism in the strong-willed Rachel Verinder.

Indirectly though, it’s possible to read The Murder of Roger Ackroyd as a commentary of a ‘lost generation’ as a legacy of the First World War, as some critics have discussed. Though we can’t read Christie as a feminist, it doesn’t mean that she wasn’t conscious of issues of equality in the wider world.

It has been interesting to see how historical context has shaped three very different authors, and my exploring the texts in date order has allowed me to engage my reader in the narrative development of the genre, and how historical context has shaped and guided convention, form and structure, rather than being divorced from it as in the premise of the initial question. The narrative approach has been useful to me in presenting my ideas on how texts are conceived, and how they are brought to the market. All of the texts I have explored have benefitted from changes in society around the time of publishing – the expansion of lending libraries, and the socioeconomic factors that have enabled the dissemination of works of fiction on a mass scale to previously untapped markets – women readers and the working classes.

By engaging with the social issues and the historical context of each of the works – such as the Industrial Revolution and how that changed society and its reading habits - I’ve been able look in detail at how these details give extra life and meaning to the work, and how these changes feed into elements of form and context, and helped shaped the detective novel throughout history.

[i] Symons, p. 90

[ii] Symons, p. 116

[iii] Martin Priestman, Crime Fiction from Poe to the Present, Northcote House, 2013, p. 21

[iv] Priestman, p.21

[v] Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Harper Collins, 2013, p.44

Bibliography

Ackroyd P, Poe: A Life Cut Short, Vintage, (2009)

Christie P, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Harper Collins, (2013)

Collins W, The Moonstone, ed. by Francis O'Gorman, Oxford World’s Classics (2019)

Knight Stephen, Crime Fiction 1800-2000: Detection, Death, Diversity, Palgrave Macmillan, (2004)

Poe E.A, The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, ed by G.R Thompson, Norton Critical Editions, (2004)

Priestman M, Crime Fiction: From Poe to the Present, Northcote House Publishers, (second edn 2013)

Pykett L, The Sensation Novel: From The Woman in White to the Moonstone, Northcote House Publishers, (1994)

Symons J, Bloody Murder, Pan Books Ltd, (1994)

Towheed S, Reading Wilkie Collins ‘The Moonstone: Readership, Form & Context, p. 11, (2022)

Whalen T, Average Racism: Poe, Slavery, and the Wages of Literary Nationalism, from The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, ed by G.R Thompson, Norton Critical Editions, (2004) pp. 921 - 941

#literature #english literature #essay #critical thinking

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2023: Books

January 1. The Wall (1938) Mary Roberts Rinehart + 2. Fallen Into the Pit (1951) Ellis Peters ** 3. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman (2022) Lucy Worsley 4. Death on the Cherwell (1935) Mavis Doriel Hay # 5. A Death in Tokyo (麒麟の翼) (2011) Keigo Higashino 6. The Twyford Code (2022) Janice Hallett 7. Checkmate to Murder (1944) E.C.R. Lorac #

February 8. The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929) Anthony Berkeley + # 9. Death and the Joyful Woman (1961) Ellis Peters ** 10. Bodies from the Library, 2 (2019) Tony Medawar (Editor) 11. Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun (2023) Elle Cosimano ^ 12. Flight of a Witch (1964) Ellis Peters ** 13. Murder in the Basement (1932) Anthony Berkeley # March 14. Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris (1958) Paul Gallico 15. A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs (1965) Ellis Peters ** 16. These Names Make Clues (1937) E.C.R. Lorac # 17. House of Many Ways (2008) Diana Wynne Jones ^ 18. Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (2023) Jesse Q. Sutanto 19. The Decagon House Murders (十角館の殺人) (1987) Yukito Ayatsuji + 20. Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World (2020) Mark Aldridge + 21. Death of Jezebel (1948) Christianna Brand # 22. The Spite House (2023) Johnny Compton 23. The Cask (1920) Freeman Wills Crofts April 24. The Piper on the Mountain (1966) Ellis Peters ** 25. Crossed Skis (1952) Carol Carnac # 26. The Wintringham Mystery (1927) Anthony Berkeley 27. Wrong Place Wrong Time (2022) Gillian McAllister 28. Smallbone Deceased (1950) Michael Gilbert # 29. Heads You Lose (1941) Christianna Brand May 30. Black is the Colour of my True Love's Heart (1967) Ellis Peters ** 31. Murder of a Lady (1931) Anthony Wynne # 32. The Lake District Murder (1935) John Bude # 33. The Mill House Murders (水車館の殺人) (1988) Yukito Ayatsuji 34. Green for Danger (1944) Christianna Brand * # 35. The Case of the Howling Dog (1934) Erle Stanley Gardner June 36. Identity (2023) Nora Roberts 37. A Will To Kill (2019) R.V. Raman 38. The Grass-Widow's Tale (1968) Ellis Peters ** 39. The Enigma of Garlic (2022) Alexander McCall Smith ^ 40. Miss Pym Disposes (1946) Josephine Tey 41. The Seat of the Scornful (1941) John Dickson Carr # 42. Fell Murder (1944) E.C.R. Lorac # 43. The House of Green Turf (1969) Ellis Peters ** July 44. The Westing Game (1978) Ellen Raskin * 45. The Case of the Gilded Fly (1944) Edmund Crispin 46. Mourning Raga (1969) Ellis Peters ** 47. Grave Intentions (A Dire Isle) (2022) R.V. Raman 48. Weekend at Thrackley (1934) Alan Melville # 49. The Singing Sands (1952) Josephine Tey ^ 50. The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books (2017) Martin Edwards + 51. The Only One Left (2023) Riley Sager 52. Death of an Airman (1934) Christopher St. John Sprigg # 53. The Knocker on Death's Door (1970) Ellis Peters ** August 54. A Disappearance in Fiji (2023) Nilima Rao 55. The Mistress of Bhatia House (2023) Sujata Massey ^ 56. Tour de Force (1955) Christianna Brand ^ 57. The Colour of Murder (1957) Julian Symons # 58. Post After Post-Mortem (1936) E.C.R. Lorac # 59. Death to the Landlords (1972) Ellis Peters ** 60. Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep (1997) Patricia H. Rushford * 61. The Plague and I (1948) Betty MacDonald ^ September 62. City of Gold and Shadows (1973) Ellis Peters ** 63. Red Sky in Mourning (1997) Patricia H. Rushford 64. Twice Round the Clock (1935) Billie Houston # 65. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (2023) Benjamin Stevenson 66. Please Don't Push Up the Daisies (2023) Diane Vallere ^ 67. Laughing Gas (1936) P.G. Wodehouse 68. The Black Spectacles (1939) John Dickson Carr # 69. The Last Devil to Die (2023) Richard Osman ^ 70. Rainbow's End (1978) Ellis Peters ** October 71. Thirteen Guests (1936) J. Jefferson Farjeon # 72. Ghosts From the Library (2022) Tony Medawar (Editor) 73. Black Rainbow (1982) Barbara Michaels ^ 74. The Stranger Diaries (2018) Elly Griffiths 75. Where Are the Children? (1975) Mary Higgins Clark + 76. It Walks by Night (1930) John Dickson Carr # 77. Jane-Emily (1969) Patricia Clapp 78. The Woman in Black (1983) Susan Hill 79. Midnight Bayou (2001) Nora Roberts November 80. The Progress of a Crime (1960) Julian Symons # 81. Just Another Missing Person (2023) Gillian McAllister 82. The Running Grave (2023) Robert Galbraith ^ 83. Murder by Matchlight (1945) E.C.R. Lorac # December 84. The Santa Klaus Murder (1936) Mavis Doriel Hay # 85. The Christmas Guest (2023) Peter Swanson 86. The Busy Body (2024) Kemper Donovan + 87. Murder After Christmas (1944) Rupert Latimer # 88. The Twelve Days of Murder (2023) Andreina Cordani 89. Trojan Gold (1987) Elizabeth Peters + read what I already own challenge ^ finished or caught-up in series * re-reads ** re-read series challenge (Felse Investigations) # British Library Crime Classics

#yearly list #books

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eternal--ouroboros · 1 year

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Pokemon AU

In the Pokemon AU Julian comes from Kalos, he has 3 pokemon.

An Espurr named Poirot

A Drifloon named Holmes

An Espeon named Marple

#*snake eats tail*#*ekans eats tail*#pokemon rp #pokemon oc

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brookston · 1 year

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Holidays 1.8

Holidays

Argyle Day

Around the World Day

Babinden (Old Midwives' Day; Bulgaria)

Bowiemas

Bubble Bath Day

Colorism Awareness Day

Commonwealth Day (Northern Mariana Islands)

Earth’s Rotation Day

Emperor Norton Day

International Choreographers Day

It All Adds Up Day

Jackson Day (Louisiana)

Man Watcher's Day

Mercenaries Day (Nigeria)

Midwives’ Day

National Butcher’s Day (Cambodia)

National Career Coach Day

National JoyGerm Day

National Labrador Retriever Day

National Snuggle a Chicken Day

National Vision Board Day

National Winter Skin Relief Day

Nymph Guzom (Sikkim, India)

OA Day of Action

Old Hickory Day

Rationing Day (UK)

Redistribution of Wealth Day

Rock 'n' Roll Day

Show and Tell At Work Day

TRP Day

Vomit Day

War on Poverty Day

Women's Day (a.k.a. Midwife's Day; Greece)

World Literacy Day

World Typing Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

English Toffee Day

Milk Carton Day

National Cassoulet Day

National Eat Something Raw Day

2nd Sunday in January

Baptism of the Lord [Sunday after Epiphany]

Blessing of the Sea (Margate, UK) [Sunday after 6th]

Meitlisunntig (Switzerland) [2nd Sunday]

National Sunday Supper Day [2nd Sunday]

No Pants Subway Ride [2nd Sunday]

Volunteer Fireman's Day [2nd Sunday]

Independence Days

Caddia (a.k.a. Federal Republic of Caddia; Declared; 2018)

Monaco (Declared, 1297)

Feast Days

Abo of Tiflis (Christian; Saint)

Apollinaris Claudius (Christian; Saint)

Belus (Positivist; Saint)

Bubble Bath Day (Pastafarian)

Dakini Day (Vajrayana Buddhism; Tibet)

Eurosia Fabris (Christian; Blessed)

Flitzpizzle (Muppetism)

Gauchito Gil (Folk Catholicism)

Gudula (Christian; Saint) [Brussels]

The Haloa (Fertility Festival for Demeter & Dionysos; Ancient Greece)

Harriet Bedell (Episcopal Church US)

Jimi Hendrix Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Justitia (Roman Goddess of Justice)

Lawrence Giustiniani (Christian; Saint)

Lucian of Beauvais (Christian; Saint)

Maximus of Pavia (Christian; Saint)

Our Lady of Prompt Succor (Roman Catholic Church)

Pega (Anglican and Roman Catholic churches)

Sacrifices to Janus (Ancient Rome)

Severinus of Noricum (Christian; Saint)

Stephen Hawking Remembrance Day (Pastafarian)

Thorfinn of Hamar (Christian; Saint)

Toka Ebisu Matsuri begins (Festival of Ebisu; Japan) [thru 11th]

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Premieres

All Creatures Great and Small (UK TV Series; 1978)

Blackstar, by David Bowie (Album; 2016)

House of Lies (TV Series; 2012)

Leap Year (Film; 2010)

Leprechaun (Film; 1993)

Lupin (TV Series; 2020)

A Memory of Light, by Robert Jordan (Novel; 2013) [Wheel of Time #14]

Pirates of Penzance (Broadway Musical Revival; 1981)

Poirot (UK TV Series; 1989)

(Sittin’ On” The Dock of the Bay, by Otis Redding (Song; 1968)

Vessel, by Twenty One Pilots (Album; 2013)

Youth in Revolt (Film; 2010)

Today’s Name Days

Erhard, Gudula, Severin (Austria)

Bogoljub, Severin, Teofil (Croatia)

Čestmír (Czech Republic)

Erhardt (Denmark)

Gunnar, Kunder, Kunnar (Estonia)

Hilppa, Titta (Finland)

Lucien (France)

Erhard, Gudula, Heiko, Severin (Germany)

Agathon, Dominiki, Kelsios, Parthena, Theofilos, Vasilissa (Greece)

Gyöngyvér (Hungary)

Massimo, Severino (Italy)

Erhads, Gatis, Gundabis, Ivanda (Latvia)

Apolinaras, Gintė, Teofilis, Vilintas (Lithuania)

Torfinn, Turid (Norway)

Erhard, Mścisław, Seweryn (Poland)

Domnica, Gheorghe (Romania)

Severín (Slovakia)

Luciano, Severino (Spain)

Erland (Sweden)

Alvis, Elvis, Severin, Severina, Severne (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 8 of 2023; 357 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 1 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Beth (Birch) [Day 15 of 28]

Chinese: Month 12 (Dōngyuè), Day 17 (Bing-Yin)

Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)

Hebrew: 15 Teveth 5783

Islamic: 15 Jumada II 1444

J Cal: 8 Aer; Oneday [8 of 30]

Julian: 26 December 2022

Moon: 97%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 8 Moses (1st Month) [Belus]

Runic Half Month: Eihwaz (Yew) [Day 15 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 19 of 90)

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 18 of 30)

#calendar #Holidays

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brookstonalmanac · 1 year

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Holidays 1.8

Holidays

Argyle Day

Around the World Day

Babinden (Old Midwives' Day; Bulgaria)

Bowiemas

Bubble Bath Day

Colorism Awareness Day

Commonwealth Day (Northern Mariana Islands)

Earth’s Rotation Day

Emperor Norton Day

International Choreographers Day

It All Adds Up Day

Jackson Day (Louisiana)

Man Watcher's Day

Mercenaries Day (Nigeria)

Midwives’ Day

National Butcher’s Day (Cambodia)

National Career Coach Day

National JoyGerm Day

National Labrador Retriever Day

National Snuggle a Chicken Day

National Vision Board Day

National Winter Skin Relief Day

Nymph Guzom (Sikkim, India)

OA Day of Action

Old Hickory Day

Rationing Day (UK)

Redistribution of Wealth Day

Rock 'n' Roll Day

Show and Tell At Work Day

TRP Day

Vomit Day

War on Poverty Day

Women's Day (a.k.a. Midwife's Day; Greece)

World Literacy Day

World Typing Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

English Toffee Day

Milk Carton Day

National Cassoulet Day

National Eat Something Raw Day

2nd Sunday in January

Baptism of the Lord [Sunday after Epiphany]

Blessing of the Sea (Margate, UK) [Sunday after 6th]

Meitlisunntig (Switzerland) [2nd Sunday]

National Sunday Supper Day [2nd Sunday]

No Pants Subway Ride [2nd Sunday]

Volunteer Fireman's Day [2nd Sunday]

Independence Days

Caddia (a.k.a. Federal Republic of Caddia; Declared; 2018)

Monaco (Declared, 1297)

Feast Days

Abo of Tiflis (Christian; Saint)

Apollinaris Claudius (Christian; Saint)

Belus (Positivist; Saint)

Bubble Bath Day (Pastafarian)

Dakini Day (Vajrayana Buddhism; Tibet)

Eurosia Fabris (Christian; Blessed)

Flitzpizzle (Muppetism)

Gauchito Gil (Folk Catholicism)

Gudula (Christian; Saint) [Brussels]

The Haloa (Fertility Festival for Demeter & Dionysos; Ancient Greece)

Harriet Bedell (Episcopal Church US)

Jimi Hendrix Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Justitia (Roman Goddess of Justice)

Lawrence Giustiniani (Christian; Saint)

Lucian of Beauvais (Christian; Saint)

Maximus of Pavia (Christian; Saint)

Our Lady of Prompt Succor (Roman Catholic Church)

Pega (Anglican and Roman Catholic churches)

Sacrifices to Janus (Ancient Rome)

Severinus of Noricum (Christian; Saint)

Stephen Hawking Remembrance Day (Pastafarian)

Thorfinn of Hamar (Christian; Saint)

Toka Ebisu Matsuri begins (Festival of Ebisu; Japan) [thru 11th]

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Premieres

All Creatures Great and Small (UK TV Series; 1978)

Blackstar, by David Bowie (Album; 2016)

House of Lies (TV Series; 2012)

Leap Year (Film; 2010)

Leprechaun (Film; 1993)

Lupin (TV Series; 2020)

A Memory of Light, by Robert Jordan (Novel; 2013) [Wheel of Time #14]

Pirates of Penzance (Broadway Musical Revival; 1981)

Poirot (UK TV Series; 1989)

(Sittin’ On” The Dock of the Bay, by Otis Redding (Song; 1968)

Vessel, by Twenty One Pilots (Album; 2013)

Youth in Revolt (Film; 2010)

Today’s Name Days

Erhard, Gudula, Severin (Austria)

Bogoljub, Severin, Teofil (Croatia)

Čestmír (Czech Republic)

Erhardt (Denmark)

Gunnar, Kunder, Kunnar (Estonia)

Hilppa, Titta (Finland)

Lucien (France)

Erhard, Gudula, Heiko, Severin (Germany)

Agathon, Dominiki, Kelsios, Parthena, Theofilos, Vasilissa (Greece)

Gyöngyvér (Hungary)

Massimo, Severino (Italy)

Erhads, Gatis, Gundabis, Ivanda (Latvia)

Apolinaras, Gintė, Teofilis, Vilintas (Lithuania)

Torfinn, Turid (Norway)

Erhard, Mścisław, Seweryn (Poland)

Domnica, Gheorghe (Romania)

Severín (Slovakia)

Luciano, Severino (Spain)

Erland (Sweden)

Alvis, Elvis, Severin, Severina, Severne (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 8 of 2023; 357 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 1 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Beth (Birch) [Day 15 of 28]

Chinese: Month 12 (Dōngyuè), Day 17 (Bing-Yin)

Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)

Hebrew: 15 Teveth 5783

Islamic: 15 Jumada II 1444

J Cal: 8 Aer; Oneday [8 of 30]

Julian: 26 December 2022

Moon: 97%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 8 Moses (1st Month) [Belus]

Runic Half Month: Eihwaz (Yew) [Day 15 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 19 of 90)

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 18 of 30)

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