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 Contextless List of Books 2023 Vincennes Review of Books 2023 is here!Key:* = Excellent, highly recommend~ = Actively bad, do not recommendFirst readsThe Book of Form & Emptiness–Ruth OzekiLove in Idleness–Charlotte Mendelson Straight Man–Richard Russo *The Complete Magazine Stories of …
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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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'The Postmodern Pigeonhole Is a Shuck' With Tom Disch’s suicide in 2008 we lost not only one of our best poets, a fine writer of short stories and of one novel, Camp Concentration, but perhaps the most entertaining of our critics. …
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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 Wood at Midwinter, by Susanna Clarke I liked Clarke's previous novel, Piranesi (I reviewed it here on Jan. 12, 2022), so the idea of a new book by her attracted my attention. Disappointment after disappointment followed. First, I learned the book …
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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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Bloom Creative Writing: “Til It’s Gone,” by Alexis Levitin With this work by Alexis Levitin, we continue to highlight original fiction and poetry from writers who either published their first book of poetry or fiction at 40 or after, or who have yet to …
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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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Missiles fly during an Odessa poetry reading A letter from Alexander Deriev, husband of the late poet Regina Derieva. The Russian couple have a helluva back story. I wrote about her in “Writ on Water,” an 2014 essay for the Times Literary …
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Book Jotter
Reviews, news, features and all things books for passionate readers.
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Winding Up the Week #398 An end of week recap “I finally found a setting for despair…So I put it on my schedule for twice a month; I think that’s a reasonable amount of time to feel hopeless about everything…” …
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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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“On the Planet’s Edge”: Abram Katsnelson Sees Kyiv in Los Angeles Most of the émigré Angeleno poets whose work I’ve shared here over the years wrote in Russian, though some of them had roots in Ukraine and even identified as Ukrainian. Today I bring you a …
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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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“Discovering” Katherine Center I’m not sure someone can be said to be flying under the radar when they’ve published eleven books and had two of then turned into films but, having seen other people’s reading habits this year, …
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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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Phineas Finn and the course of true love Phineas Finn: The Irish Member by Anthony Trollope serialized 1867-88, published as a book 1868 Then Violet Effingham entered the room, rolled up in pretty white furs, and silk cloaks, and lace shawls (picture from …
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Collected Essays of Craig Mod
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[RIDGELINE] Why Kissas Intrigue (Places for People) Ridgeline subscribers — Hello from Kuwana, a post-town along the Tōkaidō where I’m about to hop on a boat and sail across the Nagoya Bay as part of this little tour. But I’m writing these …
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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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Fool by Peter K. Andersson Fool: In Search of Henry VIII’s Closest Manby Peter K. AnderssonPrinceton University Press, 2023 The posthumous image of him has been entangled with the real individual, and no one has really fully tried to disentangle …
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David's Book World
Adventures in reading.
By David Hebblethwaite. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
The Black Orb by Ewhan Kim (tr. Sean Lin Halbert): Strange Horizons review I am back at Strange Horizons with a review of The Black Orb by Ewhan Kim, translated from Korean by Sean Lin Halbert. This is the tale of an unusual apocalypse, as mysterious dark orbs …
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The Dusty Bookcase
A journey through Canada's forgotten, neglected and suppressed writing.
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Last Words of a Raconteur Yellow-Wolf & Other Tales of the Saint Lawrence [Divers]Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé [trans Jane Brierley]Montreal: Véhicule, 1990159 pagesPhilippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé follows Arthur Hailey, William C. Heine, Tom Alderman, Richard Rohmer, Bruce Powe, and Joy …