29 October The literary calendar
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Thought for the day
[T]o be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people.
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Published on this day
- 2019 Blue Moon by Lee Child
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Photo credits
- Anne Dawson: Unidentified photographer, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Lee Child: Mark Coggins at Flickr, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Frederick Chamier: Samuel Freeman, published by Henry Colburn, after L. Schmitz, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Frances Hodgson Burnett: Herbert Rose Barraud (1845-1896), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized