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62 blogs about Books and literature.

  1. Alex Mitchell – Medium
    Collected the Complete Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Edits the Feminist Friday newsletter. Also I’m a data analyst. 🇬🇧 More info

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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 …
    By Alex Mitchell, 266 words
  2. Amy Smith Literature NEW
    Teaching and studying English Literature and Language at Key Stages 3, 4, and 5. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Poem in a Page 11: “Walking Away”
    In this lyrical and poignant poem, the speaker recalls taking his son to boarding school eighteen years ago – and reflects on the fact that the pain of this separation is still present in his …
    By Amy Smith, 454 words
  3. Ana Ulin · Blog
    This is a grab bag of annotations accrued over the many years this site has existed. 🇺🇸 More info

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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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  4. Anecdotal Evidence
    A blog about the intersection of books and life. By Patrick Kurt. 🇺🇸 More info

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    'Not At All Reliable for Climbing On'
    Decades ago I interviewed a guy who had climbed all forty-six of the high peaks in New York’s Adirondack Mountains in his bare feet. Surprisingly, he completed the shoeless stunt without serious injury. It was …
    By Patrick Kurp, 189 words
  5. Awful Library Books
    Hoarding is not collection development. More info

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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 …
    By Holly, 204 words
  6. The Bibliophilic Blogger
    "A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short" - Schopenhauer. By Nicholas Murray. 🇬🇧 More info

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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 …
    By Nicholas Murray, 190 words
  7. Bibliopolitan: Brief Notes on Books
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    The Imagination Chamber, by Philip Pullman
    In addition to Philip Pullman's substantial fantasies, His Dark Materials (three volumes) and The Book of Dust (two volumes published, the third, at present, forthcoming), Pullman has published some short companion volumes to the series. …
    By Bibliopolitan, 244 words
  8. 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. More info

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    Bloom Creative Writing: “Out” by Nathan Cover
    With this short story by Nathan Cover, 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. …
    By mctking96, 1,474 words
  9. 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 info

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    James Joyce’s Real-Life Hero
    Leopold Bloom is the fictional hero of Joyce’s Ulysses but it was Paul Léon who embodied heroic qualities for real and the story of their friendship was first recorded by his wife, Lucie, in an …
    By Sean Sheehan, 1,618 words
  10. The Book Haven
    Cynthia L. Haven's blog for the written word. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Leading poetry critic Marjorie Perloff has died at 92: “Her passion was brilliant.”
    Marjorie Perloff, one of America’s leading poetry critics, has died at 92. At Stanford, she was the Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities emerita. There will be many tributes in the days and weeks to …
    By Cynthia Haven, 782 words
  11. Book Jotter
    Reviews, news, features and all things books for passionate readers. By Paula Bardell-Hedley. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Winding Up the Week #370
    An end of week recap “Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict — alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.” – Dorothy Thompson …
    By Paula Bardell-Hedley, 2,201 words
  12. Books and Pictures
    recording reading and pictures. By Cassin. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Friend’s cat
    This is my friend’s lovely cat who died recently.
    By cassincork, 11 words
  13. Boris Dralyuk
    Essays, Translations, and Other Writings. 🇺🇸 More info

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    “That Old Life of Ease”: Light Reading with Alexander Voloshin
    Cover of “Captain” Mayne Reid’s The Headless Horseman With the arrival of spring break, I’ve managed to find time for a little light reading—purely for the sake of entertainment, no edifying strings attached. This is …
    By bdralyuk, 760 words
  14. 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. 🇨🇦 More info

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    A Slow Spring Sunday
    The Artist’s House in Paris – T.F. Simon After several hectic work weeks and a flurry of socializing, today has been a wonderful chance to be lazy. It is a gorgeous spring day here, with …
    By Claire (The Captive Reader), 505 words
  15. Chapati Mystery
    a "quaint blog" established in April 2004. It focuses on histories and cultures of Hindustan. By sepoy. 🇺🇸 More info

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    XQs XXXII - A Conversation with Hafsa Kanjwal
    The XQs (Ten Questions) series is a conversation with the authors of new and exciting works in South Asian Studies, whose aim is not to “review” but to contextualize, historicize, and promote new scholarship. We …
    By {"display_name"=>"sepoy"}, 4,141 words
  16. Clothes In Books
    Description of clothes taken from a book, a picture suggested by (rather than illustrative of) the words, plus some observations. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Dead Wrong by Stewart Sterling
    Dead Wrong by Stewart Sterling published 1947 Her hat, a ridiculous bonnet, resembled an apple dumpling on a plate 'She wore a grey and dull-pink tweed that was either English tailored or carefully copied to …
    By Clothes In Books, 1,241 words
  17. Collected Essays of Craig Mod
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    [RIDGELINE] Back to the Peninsula
    Ridgeline subscribers! Hello, it is still I, Craig Mod, still writer of this newsletter. I went walking last week. It had been fifteen months since I had visited the Kii Peninsula, and this was the …
    By Craig Mod, 91 words
  18. 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. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Dante: Inferno to Paradise (PBS)
    Picture source Dante: Inferno to Paradise is a two-part, four-hour documentary film chronicling the life, work and legacy of the great 14th century Florentine poet, Dante Alighieri, and his epic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, one …
    By Dwight, 906 words
  19. David's Book World
    Adventures in reading. By David Hebblethwaite. 🇬🇧 More info

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    #InternationalBooker2024: Lost On Me by Veronica Raimo (tr. Leah Janeckzo)
    My journey through this year’s International Booker longlist begins with an Italian novel. Veronica Raimo’s narrator – also Veronica, or Vero, or Verika – starts by introducing her parents: her mother, who’s convinced that, if …
    By David Hebblethwaite, 265 words
  20. The Dusty Bookcase
    A journey through Canada's forgotten, neglected and suppressed writing. By Brian Busby. 🇨🇦 More info

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    Here's to Absent Chums
    The Missing ChumsFranklin W. Dixon [Leslie McFarlane]New York: Grosset & Dunlop, [c. 1960]214 pagesThe fourth Hardy Boys book, I read The Missing Chums for the title alone. "Chums" is so dated a word that I'm …
    By Brian Busby, 1,057 words