Blogs about Books and literature
51 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
'The Price for Biting Wit' The best conversations are unscripted and without agenda. As to content, they start from zero. Both parties spark and connect like neurons firing in the brain. No dead zones, no echoing silences. I spent almost …
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Awful Library Books
“Hoarding is not collection development.”Updated
Planet X will destroy us…in 2003 Blindsided: Planet X passes in 2033: Earthchanges! Hazlewood (2nd Ed.) 2001 Submitter: This amazing conspiracy rant explains how the media, all the governments (except Putin’s Russia) and society in general suppress the truth that Planet …
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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
What Happened to the Poetry? The Guardian 2023 New Poetry Choices: A Found PoemA bold debut collectiondelving into Blackness,trauma, sexuality and the divine;poems of gender, transformationand the body in a collection aboutauthenticity and conformity;the personal is political in a collectionreckoning …
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Bibliopolitan: Brief Notes on Books
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Pictures of Apocalypse, by Thomas Ligotti Thomas Ligotti, as a prose writer, is one of the best post-Lovecraftian horror writers. He has also published a small number of poem cycles, and Pictures of Apocalypse is I think the fifth of these. …
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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
Oldest Female Debut Novelist Tells All by Bobbie Jean Huff I was 12 when I wrote my first novel. It was four pages long, and in it Martha, the butt of bullying by her eighth-grade classmates, graduates top of her class. …
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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
The Story-Creature Anomaly: Jeff Vandermeer and Digital Ecosystems There’s an argument to be made about how narratives shape our perception of many things. A story can go beyond its stated power and intent through means of being seen with a different perspective, interpreted …
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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 #324 An end of week recap “It was an American who said that while a Frenchman’s truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman’s truth was more in the nature of a curve, and it …
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Books and Pictures
“recording reading and pictures.” By Cassin. 🇬🇧Updated
A hot black cat and a ferociously-groomed white dog Cat is mine, dog is not.
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Book Snob
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Boris Dralyuk
“Essays, Translations, and Other Writings.” 🇺🇸Updated
“The Unkillable Poor”: Dana Gioia and Alexander Voloshin at the Crossroads Last week saw the publication of Dana Gioia’s Meet Me at the Lighthouse, a perfect collection of poems. Dana has been a mentor and a friend to me, but had he and I never met, …
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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
Notes from New Zealand – the North Island View of Russell, in Bay of Islands on my very first morning in New Zealand My first month in New Zealand has flown by. It’s been a fantastic trip so far and literally every place …
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Chapati Mystery
“a "quaint blog" established in April 2004. It focuses on histories and cultures of Hindustan.” By sepoy. 🇺🇸Updated
Slow Burn Lahore Redux Much earlier, as in 2012, I wrote a series of small things that were meant for a book that I was then planning and researching. My intention was to write a cult(ur)o-geography of Lahore, a …
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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
Fox 8 by George Saunders published 2018 Who knows where George Saunders’ head is coming from? I loved his Lincoln in the Bardo, which resembles no other book. And I love this short story, Fox 8 – beautifully tricked out …
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Collected Essays of Craig Mod
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[RIDGELINE] Walking Around Kan Yasuda's Sculptures Ridgeliners — I made a little trip to Hokkaido the other week. It had two purposes: To hang out with a good friend (which is what 90% of all my non-walk-related travel is centered around; …
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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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The Dusty Bookcase
“A journey through Canada's forgotten, neglected and suppressed writing.” By Brian Busby. 🇨🇦Updated
By Any Other Name: Onoto Watanna's Hyacinth The Heart of HyacinthOnoto Watanna [Winnifred Eaton]New York: Harper, 1903251 pagesRead last month, I've put off writing about The Heart of Hyacinth because I still don't know what to think. To begin with, this is …
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Electric Literature - Home
“Reading into everything.” 🇺🇸Updated
Queer Villains Are Vital to Understanding Queer History Whether or not you’ve watched season 2 of The White Lotus, Mike White’s anthology series, you’ve witnessed Jennifer Coolidge’s frenzied intonations onboard a yacht: “These gays, they’re trying to murder me!” Coolidge plays Tanya, a …
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Current Reading Regeneration Pat Barker 1917 Siegfried Sassoon at Craiglockhart. What to do with one of theirs who protests the war. With Wilfred Owen. The Eye in the Door Pat Barker The next in the series. I …
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