Monthly Archives: July 2025

My favorite story this month

Posted on July 31, 2025 by Brian D. Butler

It’s been a horribly depressing July here in the former colonies, but there was one story that lifted my spirits and gave me a moment of joy. Just ahead of the August fortieth anniversary of the release of the 1985 … Continue reading →

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Book Making

Posted on July 30, 2025 by Brian D. Butler

If you are a regular visitor to Travel Between The Pages, you will be well aware that I am enamored with books. I have been a bibliophile since I picked up my first book. By this I mean that I … Continue reading →

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Landlord’s Game

Posted on July 29, 2025 by Brian D. Butler

In 1904, Elizabeth Magie patented “The Landlord’s Game” the original version of what we now know as Monopoly. Her goal wasn’t entertainment. It was education. Magie designed the game to highlight the dangers of wealth inequality and unchecked capitalism, showing … Continue reading →

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Tourist Map of Literature

Posted on July 28, 2025 by Brian D. Butler

While not really a map this simple tool does map affinity based on user’s literary tastes. It allows you to plug in any author you like and then it  shows other writers whom readers of your literary choice also selected. … Continue reading →

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Flora and Fauna

Posted on July 27, 2025 by Brian D. Butler

The wonderful, eclectic webcomic site XKCD mapped the most observed plant and animal for all 50 US states as reported by iNaturalist users. I’m not surprised that bumble bees were such a popularly observed animal — the common eastern bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) … Continue reading →

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How well do you know your fairy tales

Posted on July 26, 2025 by Brian D. Butler

Most folks who grew up in the English-speaking know the fairy tale of “Goldilocks and the Three Bears.” In the story, an exasperating trespasser breaks into the home of three bears. The intruder eats their food and breaks furniture before … Continue reading →

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The house was quiet and the world was calm

Posted on July 25, 2025 by Brian D. Butler

The House Was Quiet and The World Was Calm By Wallace Stevens The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book. The house was quiet … Continue reading →

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Pictures of the floating world

Posted on July 24, 2025 by Brian D. Butler

Regular visitors to Travel Between The Pages are well aware of my fondness for Japanese woodblock prints. I recently found an old link to the Library of Congress page with over 2500 hi-resolution scans of Japanese woodcuts on their site. … Continue reading →

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Stranger Than Kindness

Posted on July 23, 2025 by Brian D. Butler

A major donation by Australian singer and writer Nick Cave to an Oxfam bookshop in Hove on England’s south coast has drawn fans to browse the items from his personal library. The 2,000 volumes come from the recent Stranger Than Kindness art … Continue reading →

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Don’t Get Lost

Posted on July 22, 2025 by Brian D. Butler

The Underground Electric Company in London published this series of posters in 1925. The set was designed by Kathleen Stenning. Each bold image promotes catching the Tube to escape the predictably unpredictable English weather.  

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