Blogs about Books and literature
62 blogs about Books and literature.
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Alex Mitchell – Medium
Collected the Complete Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Edits the Feminist Friday newsletter. Also I’m a data analyst.
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Vincennes Big List of Books 2024 Vincennes Review of Books 2024 is here!Key:* = Excellent, highly recommend~ = Actively bad, do not recommendFirst readsNobber-Oisín Fagan Turn Life’s Milkshakes into Lemonade-Flynt Flossy How to Do Nothing-Jenny Odell A Net for Small Fishes-Lucy …
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Amy Smith Literature
Teaching and studying English Literature and Language at Key Stages 3, 4, and 5.
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Historical fiction reading recommendations (Summer 2024) Reflecting on my reading over the past year, I have found that I have been drawn to a considerable amount of historical fiction, most of which takes the lives of marginalised women as a starting …
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Ana Ulin · Blog
This is a grab bag of annotations accrued over the many years this site has existed.
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Book Notes: Light From Uncommon Stars Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki Read Apr 4, 2022 - Apr 10, 2022 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is a lovely book, filled with lovable characters and feeling. It is a novel about food, music, and …
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Anecdotal Evidence
A blog about the intersection of books and life.
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'A Great or Wonderful Thing' “Too greedy of Magnalities, we are apt to make but favourable experiments concerning welcome Truths.” Sir Thomas Browne in Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646), also known as Vulgar Errors, dismisses such notions as the existence of unicorns …
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Awful Library Books
Hoarding is not collection development.
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Not Goodbye, but See Ya Later Hi everyone! You may have noticed that we’ve slowed down a bit on posting, approving comments, and, well, pretty much our whole end of the deal. We’d like to say we’re just too busy and …
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The Bibliophilic Blogger
"A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short" - Schopenhauer.
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New Poetry Collection My new poetry pamphlet from Melos Press, The Dictionary Speaks, is now out and can be ordered post-free via this link.From the publisher’s blurb:-NICHOLAS MURRAY’S many books include poetry, two novels, critically acclaimed biographies of …
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Bibliopolitan: Brief Notes on Books
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The Woman Who Fell to Earth, by R.B. Russell The ingredients used to make this novel promise something delectable. There is a deceased and disreputable writer, Cyril Heldman, who wrote weird and occultish tales and who died under very strange circumstances. His literary executor, …
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Bloom | "Late" According to Whom?
Where you’ll encounter authors whose first books were published when they were 40 or older; who bloomed in their own good time.
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Liminal Characters and the Puzzle of the Short Story: Q&A with Sara Reish Desmond Sara Reish Desmond’s debut collection, What We Might Become (out now from Cornerstone Press), has been hailed as both “vivid” and “haunting.” Filled with complex and riveting characters, her stories will stay with you for …
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Blue Labyrinths
An online magazine focusing on literature, philosophy, and a collection of interesting ideas.
By Matt Bluemink, Jens Branum, Alba Noguera, et al. 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 More infoUpdated
Self-Tracking: Why We Love Seeing Ourselves in Data ‘Listen to your body: all you have to do is wear it’This is the promise of the FitBit Inspire 3, launched in 2022. This is a product, the ad tells us, that ‘makes fitness so …
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The Book Haven
Cynthia L. Haven's blog for the written word.
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Stanford’s William Mahrt, the champion of chant, dies at 85 Stanford’s William Mahrt, a leading scholar in early music, died today at 85. He conducted Gregorian chant for more than 60 years and inspired and guided generations of scholars. He directed Stanford’s Early Music Singers …
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Book Jotter
Reviews, news, features and all things books for passionate readers.
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Winding Up the Week #407 An end of week recap “If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.” – Jasper Fforde (born 11th …
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Books and Pictures
recording reading and pictures.
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Friend’s cat This is my friend’s lovely cat who died recently.
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Boris Dralyuk
Essays, Translations, and Other Writings.
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“I Felt I’d Paid Fat Cupid Plenty”: Vernon Duke Falls in Love A new year has begun and, despite the many tragedies unfolding across the globe, I cannot help but be hopeful. One future prospect buoying my spirits is the publication of Vernon Duke‘s Passport to Paris …
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The Captive Reader
20th Century middlebrow fiction, domestic Victorian novels, volumes of correspondence, gossipy diaries, books about European history, and almost anything having to do with Jane Austen.
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Library Loot: January 15 to 21 Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Sharlene from Real Life Reading that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like …
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Chapati Mystery
a "quaint blog" established in April 2004. It focuses on histories and cultures of Hindustan.
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Slow Burn Lahore Ends The journey is over, gentle readers. Today is the publishing birthday for Disrupted City: Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore from The New Press. This book answers (to my satisfaction, if no …
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Clothes In Books
Description of clothes taken from a book, a picture suggested by (rather than illustrative of) the words, plus some observations.
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The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope published as a serial 1871-72 the lady on the left might be wearing them... I very much like a Becky Sharp character, a young woman who is definitely on …
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Collected Essays of Craig Mod
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[RIDGELINE] Nytimes Pick 2025: Toyama and Noto Ridgeline subscribers — A new year, a new city. My pick for New York Times’ “52 Places to Go 2025” is Toyama City of Toyama Prefecture. It is placed at 30 on this year’s list …
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A Common Reader
A way to sort through my thoughts about what I read and organize my notes. I hope it can provide readers a resource for classics, hard-to-find books, and non-fiction works.
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Mikhail Shishkin interview at Asymptote I finally got around to reading Mikhail Shishkin’s interview at the Asymptote journal. He goes into some depth on his writing of Maidenhair, his view of Russian politics, and the launch of a new literary …
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David's Book World
Adventures in reading.
By David Hebblethwaite. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
Touring the Land of the Dead by Maki Kashimada (tr. Haydn Trowell) 2025 has begun, and we are starting the year in Japan. This is the first book by Maki Kashimada to appear in English translation, and it collects together two novellas. I would say the main …
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The Dusty Bookcase
A journey through Canada's forgotten, neglected and suppressed writing.
By Brian Busby. 🇨🇦 More infoUpdated
The Weird Covers of Wes Beattie Two weeks into 2025 and I'm only now starting in on my first novel of the New Year... and so late in the day!I've wanted to read The Weird World of Wes Beattie for some …