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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'Humour Is Reason Itself' The saddest man I know wishes more than anything to be thought of as a comedian, a jokester, the reliably funny guy at the party. The sadness derives from his inability to say or do …
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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 Modern Fairies, by Clare Pollard The idea of a novel set in and around the late 17th century Paris salon meetings of Madame d'Aulnoy, where modern fairy tales came to life, seems like a good idea. Or at least an …
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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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“There is no art that I love more than opera,” says Dana Gioia. And he’s written a book to prove it. Poet and former National Endowment for the Arts chairman Dana Gioia has been busy. He’s just published a spate of new books: Poetry as Enchantment and Other Essays (Paul Dry Books); Dana Gioia: Poet & …
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Book Jotter
Reviews, news, features and all things books for passionate readers.
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Winding Up the Week #403 An end of week recap “I think that the popular notion of the writer as a person hiding away in a garret, unable to face reality, is probably perfectly true.” – Shirley Jackson (born 14th …
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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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Voloshin Speaks! Over a month has passed since my last post here, and you can blame that on the pleasures of my “day job” at the University of Tulsa. I’ve greatly enjoyed being back in the classroom, …
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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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A Trio of Comedies by George S. Kaufman and Friends One of the biggest surprises of A Century of Books this year has been how few plays I’ve read: when I did it the first time, I think I read 15. This year, it was …
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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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Children’s Christmas Party in the Golden Age... We are in the middle of the annual Clothes in Books trope of Christmas in Books: seasonal scenes from random books, for no better reason than I like looking for the pictures, and I and …
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Collected Essays of Craig Mod
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[RIDGELINE] Launching Japanese Kissa by Kissa Ridgeline subscribers — I was confused, I was exhausted, I was operating on autopilot. But I was also having fun. I mean, this was to be expected. I was in Morioka to launch Kissa by …
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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
Stories from Taiwan: ká-sióng, Part 1 Strangers Press is a publishing project based at the University of East Anglia, specialising in sets of strikingly designed chapbooks, with stories in translation. Their latest project is ká-sióng, a collection of five tales from …
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The Dusty Bookcase
A journey through Canada's forgotten, neglected and suppressed writing.
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Elinor Glyn's Christmas Ghost Story (and others) The Contrast and Other StoriesElinor GlynLondon: Duckworth, 1913312 pagesAs is typical of short story collections, this book is overshadowed by the author's longer works. The Contrast and Other Stories was published in the very same …