Blogs about Books and literature
57 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.” 🇬🇧Updated
Vincennes Big List of Books 2022 Vincennes Review of Books 2022 is here!Key:* = Excellent, highly recommend~ = Actively bad, do not recommendFirst readsThe Dinner — Herman Koch Their Eyes Were Watching God — Zora Neale Hurston Naples ’44 — Norman …
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Ana Ulin · Blog
“This is a grab bag of annotations accrued over the many years this site has existed.” 🇺🇸Updated
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.” By Patrick Kurt. 🇺🇸Updated
'What Is Called an Amateur' I recently encountered a choice example of academic snobbery, the lording of a tenured professor over lecturers, adjuncts and even “mere assistant professors.” Normally the perpetrator tries to disguise his snottiness or treat it as …
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Awful Library Books
“Hoarding is not collection development.”Updated
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.” By Nicholas Murray. 🇬🇧Updated
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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Russian Secret Tales, by Aleksandr N. Afanasyev Aleksandr Afanasyev was the major nineteenth-century collector of Russian folk and fairy tales. Unlike other collectors such as the Brothers Grimm, Afanasyev also collected bawdy folktales, though these are much less known that his fairy …
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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.”Updated
Bloom Creative Writing: Fiction and Poetry by Sarah Freligh With this work by Sarah Freligh, we continue to highlight original fiction and poetry from writers who either published their first book at 40 or after, or who have yet to publish a book. Writers …
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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. 🇬🇧 🇳🇱Updated
Arabic Hauntology: The Sound of Habibi Funk Records The twenty-third album by Habibi Funk Records was released on the 14th of July 2023. But it may as well have been the 14th of July 1973, another summer day in warm Beirut. The album …
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The Book Haven
“Cynthia L. Haven's blog for the written word.” 🇺🇸Updated
A hot fire on a cold night: Peter’s denial and “Mitsein” “Saint Peter’s Denial” by Caravaggio It’s hard to pick a favorite essay from my new anthology, All Desire Is a Desire for Being: Essential Writings – all of the pieces by French theorist René Girard …
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Book Jotter
“Reviews, news, features and all things books for passionate readers.” By Paula Bardell-Hedley. 🇬🇧Updated
Winding Up the Week #346 An end of week recap “The book itself is a curious artefact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and …
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Books and Pictures
“recording reading and pictures.” By Cassin. 🇬🇧Updated
Friend’s cat This is my friend’s lovely cat who died recently.
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Boris Dralyuk
“Essays, Translations, and Other Writings.” 🇺🇸Updated
“The Life We Led in Turkey”: Alexander Voloshin in Constantinople Last week I completed my translation of the second volume of Andrey Kurkov’s Samson Kolechko mysteries, which are set in Kyiv in 1919. As I confessed in my brief translator’s note to the US edition …
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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.” By Claire. 🇨🇦Updated
Library Loot: September 27 to October 3 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.” By sepoy. 🇺🇸Updated
Late Great Twitter My twitter journey started in May 2007 and it ends today, July 23, 2023, with 32.6K tweets. I cannot sustain Elon Musk’s nonsense. Sorry. I have archived my twitter on github (will update this link …
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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.” 🇬🇧Updated
Christie Catchup: Poirot's Early Cases Poirot’s Early Cases published 1974 The Affair of the Victory Ball I have embarked on a Christie catchup programme – I realized that I have blogged on almost all of Agatha Christie’s books (and there …
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Collected Essays of Craig Mod
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[RIDGELINE] The Last Summer Walk Hello Ridgeliners! I walked wonky alleys flanked by old wooden temples and stone walls that looked like they had been there for a few hundred years and, reader, I was sweating. Sweating so much I …
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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.” 🇺🇸Updated
New translation: On the Marble Cliffs by Ernst Jünger I just noticed where NYRB Classics has released a new translation of Ernst Jünger’s On the Marble Cliffs. My brief notes on New Directions’ 1947 translation by Stuart Hood can be found here. I highly …
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David's Book World
“Adventures in reading.” By David Hebblethwaite. 🇬🇧Updated
Czech Lit Month: The Cremator by Ladislav Fuks My second choice for Czech Lit Month is from 1967 (though it wasn’t translated into English until 2016, by Eva M. Kandler). I understand that Ladislav Fuks (1923-94) often wrote about the period of German …
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The Dusty Bookcase
“A journey through Canada's forgotten, neglected and suppressed writing.” By Brian Busby. 🇨🇦Updated
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Self-Improvement Pagan LoveJohn Murray GibbonToronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1922310 pagesThe start of this novel sees a suicide thwarted. Walter Oliphant awakens to the dawn of a day he'd determined would be his last. He walks leisurely, …
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Electric Literature - Home
“Reading into everything.” 🇺🇸Updated
In “Terrace Story,” a Closet Turns into Outdoor Space, But With a Cost Reading Terrace Story is finding yourself delighted to be in the fairytale, even when you know the witch is coming for you. Charming and devastating in equal measure, this slim trickster novel asks questions of …
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