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Apr. 17: How far beyond the local home of your MC does your story extend?

According to Google Maps, Lysandra's journey from Korinth to Mt. Olympos was 388 km. It would have been longer had she been able to use a car, but it would only have taken about 6 hours one way instead of 4+ days.

Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/TheThirdWish

Spies, aliens, trolls, wizards and a disowned prince use a time machine, to improve their place in history, but Levi Jacobs stands in their way, despite having just lost his parents in war. Will he stop them or will the time travelers kill his father at a pivotal moment, on which the fate of the galaxy hangs?

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(Left) The cover of The Third Wish, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson. A wizard in a black robe that glitters with hints of gold stands on a mountain and looks down at a city of sky scrapers covered in greenery. In his shadow lurks a creature with glowing red eyes. In the background, the sun is setting and stars are becoming visible. (Right Background) Four images separated by black lines, with the silhouette of a woman wielding two swords laid over them. She's outlined in black and her interior is yellow clock-based imagery that spirals outward from the center. The upper left quarter is a queen in a red, furred robe, wearing a gold and diamond crown. She has dark eyebrows and blond hair. Upper right is a planet seen from orbit. Lower left is a symbolic wire frame representation of the view inside a wormhole, in green and yellow. Lower right is dandelions among grass. The angle of the planet, one of the woman's swords, the yellow highlights of the wormhole and some of the dandelions form a line that draws the eye along a sweeping curve. (Right Foreground) The following quote: He admired the flawless beauty of the insane swordswoman’s fluid movements as Ida took desperate step after step, backwards! He felt waves of mental energy pour off the panic-stricken troll, but the energy bounced right off of Nicole’s mind, as though she’d shut herself inside a solid, red-hot, steel box of rage! (Bottom) https://books2read.com/TheThirdWish

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Opening of the chapter: Escape from Zig-Zig A map of the continent of Sojurut. "What came first, the Philosophy or the philosopher?" -An ingenious rock

Not just a meme, but a masterpiece – why the Mona Lisa earns its exalted place in art

Ceaselessly flocked by tourists at the Louvre Museum in Paris, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa (1503-17) is perhaps the world’s most recognisable work of art.

by James Payne

https://aeon.co/videos/not-just-a-meme-but-a-masterpiece-why-the-mona-lisa-earns-its-exalted-place-in-art?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=262f4f59e7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_04_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972

Monsa Lisa at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/25659

Mona Lisa, by Leonardo da Vinci La Gioconda sits in a three-quarter pose, hands folded calmly in her lap, wearing a dark green-black dress with golden-brown sleeves and a translucent veil. Her expression is neither fully smiling nor neutral. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa#/media/File:Mona_Lisa,_by_Leonardo_da_Vinci,_from_C2RMF_retouched.jpg

OH MY GOD 🤣

A novel just came out in which a tradwife influencer wakes up in 1805 and suddenly has to live the real life she's been selling online, raw milk and all!

All hail YESTERYEAR by Caro Claire Burke.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/238226942-yesteryear

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Apuleius was a 2nd-century Roman writer whose most famous work, The Golden Ass (also known as Metamorphoses), still feels vivid, and surprisingly modern.

It is the only ancient Roman novel in Latin to survive complete.

Inside the novel is also the famous tale of Cupid and Psyche, one of the most beautiful love stories to come down from antiquity.

The Golden Ass is one of the best gateways into the ancient world.

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